When your computer breaks....

[Sephex]

If something breaks, I fix it. If something on someone else's computer breaks I fix it. I hate them all with the passion a thousand monkeys have for flinging their trout about.

So THAT'S why you bring the monkeys over when you help me out!

(SPOILER)To be fair, no one from our group has asked you in a long time to my knowledge. We have learned from the master! MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

[DMKA]

I've never had a desktop computer break on me. Ever. I still have a 200mhz Gateway from 1996 that runs perfectly.

Honestly if my desktop computer broke now I'd probably just make due with my smartphone, because I'm hardly ever near my desktop long enough to use it anymore, and when I am all I do is web browse and listen to music, which I also do on my phone.

[Shlup]

There's no such thing as your PC just breaking

Although at one point my failserver's power supply just went kaput because a transistor melted.

Hmm.

Thank you for elaborating on my point. Your power supply broke, so I'm assuming you replaced that one piece of hardware for your computer.

If my operating system is fuxed I reformat.

I hope you meant "reinstall."

I can't tell if you're assuming I meant I reformat the operating system, or you're playing dumb to be an ass. I'll spell it out then: I reformat the drive, then reinstall the operating system.

[Mirage]

Well if you put it that way, cars never break either. Or anything else in the world. My wall didn't break, the bricks just stopped sticking together.

[Shlup]

When a computer part stops working, it's cheaper to replace that part than buy a whole new machine. When a part of a car breaks, it's usually cheaper to repair that part than buy a whole new car (especially if you do it yourself). I suppose a whole computer can break if it exceeds the speed limit in the rain and wraps itself around a tree.

Your wall analogy doesn't work--a wall isn't made up of many components where one is easily replaced; if a wall crumbles, you have to repair the entire wall. If my oven breaks, I don't have to remodel my kitchen.

[Madame Adequate]

P. sure you guys are talking across one another here.

[Shlup]

I'm not doing trout. I'm insightful and generally perfect and Mirage's analogies are stupid.

Basically it's the difference between seeing a machine as a whole or as the sum of its parts--the latter is clearly the superior viewpoint.

[edczxcvbnm]

If something breaks, I fix it. If something on someone else's computer breaks I fix it. I hate them all with the passion a thousand monkeys have for flinging their trout about.

So THAT'S why you bring the monkeys over when you help me out!

(SPOILER)To be fair, no one from our group has asked you in a long time to my knowledge. We have learned from the master! MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

You forget about family and there has been stuff in the last year with friends as well. I will never escape all of your vile clutches!

[Mirage]

Yeah the wall analogy was pretty dumb.

Anyway, I disagree. Cars can break, and computers can break too. Any item that is dependent on smaller building blocks to operate in the way that was intended can be "broken" if one of the important components inside it breaks. Your computer, as a device, is not functional if the RAM blew up. Why is it not functional? Because the RAM blew up.

At what treshold would you start calling a computer broken, anyway? The CPU, motherboard and RAM is broken, is the computer broken now? What if every component butthe PSU is broken, is the PC broken now? What if every component is broken, is the PC working, it just needs new RAM, motherboard, HDDs, video card, PSU, screen, chassis and keyboard? Do you have some sort of number of internal components broken treshold that things need to exceed before they are broken? Sounds kinda arbitrary to me.

If you have above average electronics skills, you could manually repair a broken capacitor inside your PSU. I would be able to fix that if I had access to the right component and a soldering gun, so PSUs aren't broken if a bunch of capacitors blow either. If my fancy new monitor (or TV, for that matter) breaks, I would be able to repair at least half of the potential issues within it if I have access to the right panel, cold cathodes, inverter, main circuit board or power transformer. If i woke up tomorrow and turned on my monitor and the only thing that happened was that I got a blue power LED lighting up while my secondary monitor worked, my monitor would be broken, even if it is easily repairable. After the component was replaced, it would be non-broken again.

[krissy]

oh honey, pornmonster-1 isn't broken, he's just sick. he'll get better once we have a cathode transplant done on him in the garage. pornmonster-2 is however ready for the long burial at the chinese electronics dump.