Tony Havelka wrote: > > > Limited budgets do have their drawbacks. But what most people forget to > factor into the overall price is the cost of their time to "hack". Your > time is not free since you could be doing other things: working, relaxing, > etc... therefore you have to place a value on your time. A good number to > use is $10/hour because it makes the math easy. $250 for a refurbed > product leaves you with 75 hours of hack time before buying a new product > would have been more economical. This does not include the cost of any > parts you may require. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way, but I *enjoy* hacking my wearable. In fact I get more pleasure out of plugging in my soldering iron and stipping wires than I do out of actually using my wearble. Like I said, maybe its just me, but I would actually pay to do this! 8) -Paul -- R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator // x52059 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Computers don't make errors; what they do, they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH
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