{"id":730,"date":"2006-09-27T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamusutaa.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2006-09-27T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T00:32:00","slug":"fighting-my-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/27\/fighting-my-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting my programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve always tossed around the idea of making a second PC so I could do other things while playing FFXI that I couldn&#8217;t do on my Mac (like play FFXI on a second account, but I don&#8217;t know how likely that would be now).  I started thinking about it again, as I found that a Ventrilo server that I&#8217;m about to start using isn&#8217;t using the one single codec that allows the Mac version to connect, so I&#8217;d have to connect to it in the background.  That&#8217;s not really a big issue, but it got my mind turning again, I started thinking&#8230; it&#8217;s only $50 for a cheap processor, $70 for a motherboard, $80 for a hard drive, $70 for a video card, $5 for a keyboard, I already have a case, monitor, mouse, optical drive.<\/p>\n<p>Then I do the math, and realize that for only $200 more I could buy a Mac Mini with a Core Duo processor and just use Boot Camp.  Then I have to fight the years of brainwashing that Apple has invested in me.  I don&#8217;t need a fourth Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s me.  The Manchurian Consumer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve always tossed around the idea of making a second PC so I could do other things while playing FFXI that I couldn&#8217;t do on my Mac (like play FFXI on a second account, but I don&#8217;t know how likely that would be now). I started thinking about it again, as I found that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/27\/fighting-my-programming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fighting my programming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}