Hmmm, I haven't done a good fisking in a while. I suppose it's time.
xyriin :
Color monitors not necessary? That's absurd.
Necessary for what? And just who are you to make that judgment and apply it to me or anyone else? But no, you're wrong. You don't need a color monitor to own or operate a computer.
xyriin :
Photo editing and production is a legitimate profession.
By which you're suggesting a game designer isn't a legitimate profession. Whay would the product of one be necessary and the other unnecessary? Once again, who are you to make that claim?
xyriin :
Similarly, so is conditional highlighting for spreadsheets, error tracking in databases, and syntax highlighting in programming.
How are any of these activities any more legitimate or necessary than anything else?
xyriin :
A mouse not necessary? Again, it's a tool that makes work function far more efficient. Have you ever tried using a graphics program without a mouse?
Any number of tools are more or less efficient than others. It doesn't mean they are required to do a job. Pneumatic nailers are great, but it doesn't mean you can't build a house with a hammer instead. If mice were absolutely necessary, how, oh, how did any work ever get done in the 60s or 70s? Ever hear of a tab key?
xyriin :
GUI not necessary? Have you ever had to the need to multitask...how advanced is the command line these days for multitasking?
Once again, you're missing the point entirely. I never said anything about multitasking.
xyriin :
but please don't be stupid about this. I made no errors
Actually, yes you have. I laid it out quite clearly how you misquoted me and ran with it. You've also made a few more here.
xyriin :
you're making a specious point at best.
Go ahead and ( try to ) use uncommon words if you want, but you might want to use them correctly. Specious means an idea that sounds plausible but is actually impossible. Nothing I've said is actually impossible. Perhaps you were exaggerating for effect, but words and definitions are very important to me.
xyriin :
Your whole basis was that spending money to 'style' a computer was a waste.
Once again, you're misquoting what I actually said. I said the idea of spending extra money ( meaning money above and beyond what I would normally have to spend ) on style didn't make sense to me and that I don't put fashion over function. Just because I don't choose to put money on something doesn't necessarily mean I think it is a waste for everyone. And I respect others having the right to make their own choice on the matter, even if it's not something I'd do.
xyriin :
You then compared that to a frivolous (not having any serious purpose) fashion over function.
Frivolous is your word, not mine. I didn't qualify fashion.
xyriin :
Yet you build computers to play games and do work, and playing computer games is also frivolous.
Who are you to deem what is and is not frivolous?
xyriin :
In both cases there is an extra expenditure of money on something frivolous yet you demonize one and happily accept the other.
That's some harsh language, saying I'm "demonizing" something. About the only thing being demonized here is me ( see, I can play the victim and make you look absurd too ). Check again with what I wrote. I stated what my opinion is and quite clearly followed that up by saying I didn't expect everyone else to agree with it. No where did I lay any accusation against those who disagree with me.
xyriin :
It doesn't make you a bad person, but it does make you a little short sighted and intolerant.
Hmm, looks like I ticked off a progressive, throwing around that "tolerant" word. These people never seem to understand the irony and hypocrisy. You want to call me intolerant for not agreeing with one point of view, but you spend many words telling me while my point of view is wrong. Yeah, think about that a little.
Now then, if I still have your attention, allow me to offer some advice. If you're going to try to pick an argument with someone, it helps to better understand the difference between stating an opinion and making a claim as though it were a fact. If you were to say, "I don't think gaming is a necessary function for a computer," then I can't argue with that because that's how you feel. However, making the statement "Games aren't necessary" is a problem. It has no qualifiers, therefore it's indefinite and includes every scenario. Blanket statements like that are of course very easy to be proven wrong.
Now before you go and say I did the same thing, remember first that I specifically said I was going off your own logic, therefore your own blanket statement. So, if you're done trying to argue against what I said, perhaps you can apply that to your own claim and realize its ridiculousness.
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