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I'm not making that comparison. Not sure where you got that from. If you want me to make that comparison:

The net effect of taking that cash out and burning it or spending it on an Apple 1 assembly is the same. It devalued the moment you bought it as you have shrunk the market.

Could have thrown it at a charity.

I agree entirely. Perhaps they should be seen as wasteful here and it certainly shouldn't be beyond judgement.

For reference, I do practice such things. My entire computing and mobile outlay has been about $250 in the last 5 years.

You're right it's not your money to spend.

But if someone threw $900k at crack and whores then I'm sure you'd have a moral judgement to make?

This is no different to my opinion.

I'm certainly allowed an opinion and yes I will quite happily judge the validity of those things. Why shouldn't I?

The item has no inherent value to anyone other than the status of aquiring it.

This is a fine example of why the majority of people live in poverty, nothing more.

As I said elsewhere in the replies, if someone spent $900k on crack and whores, I'm sure you'd be right up there judging the purchaser and drawing arbitrary comparisons againt "you could have done X or Y with it" and I bet none of them were "buy an Apple 1 assembly"

Similar story. It started as a tidied up Debian fork. Then since about 12.04 LTS it turned into a tidied up Debian unstable fork with all the bugs in it. As a server only and LTS only user, I had no end of problems from there on with unstable kernels, duff and buggy packages, update roulette and terrible support.

We're on Debian 7 now and it's rock solid, relatively bug free in comparison and the support is good. Just where I want it to be.

The best outcome for me was that it caused Debian to rethink their release cycles a bit.

Yes. I had RadControls inflicted upon me once.

I, like many people here by the looks, spent a good deal of time removing them. We had one issue where the page response with an AJAX Manager (or whatever it was called) was 5x as slow than a full page refresh. Turns out it was POSTing 2Mb of crap for some reason.

I'd rather eat my own poop that use their software again.

Good stuff. Glad to hear!

I've been foraging for 25 years so that knowledge is sort of built in (at least in the UK) but I still won't touch mushrooms!

So you can read the "how not to be eaten by bears" section while being eaten by a bear?

If you're going to rely on stuff like that, its best to commit to knowledge and practice.

Most people I know buy second hand TIs which aren't expensive. They are around the $20-50 (GBP conversion) mark here in the UK.

The Pi is not exactly a good proposition for a calculator either based on form factor and power usage. Also you really do need a tactile input system for calculators as they help avoid costly and confusing mistakes.

I'm not sure why there is so much hate for TI to be honest; they are very functional, very robust, have very good battery life and good resale value. I myself however use a $20 Casio 115/991ES PLUS.