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Help with rockbox installation (ipod 80gb windows)

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MarcGuay:

--- Quote from: busta5000 on June 07, 2008, 07:39:54 AM ---seriously I mean when you come to a restaurant are you the one that is suppose to cook or is it the cook himself!!!.

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How many volunteer cooks do you know?  And would you complain if you didn't like the free food they offered you?

Llorean:
Not everyone can cook a hamburger without burning it either. They're both knowledge skills with minimal physical requirements. With encryption breaking, it requires an input/output stream with a computer. With cooking for a picnic it requires the means to manipulate the meat, and an apparatus for cooking said meat.

He picked the cooking metaphor, my point was merely "it's not our job, nobody gives us a paycheck to work on Rockbox." If he's dedicated and interested enough, he can learn the necessary skills. But saying "I can't be bothered to spend the time, it is the obligation of those who have the skills to use them for me" is silly. By that logic, I should be able to go up to anyone who's worked for Habitat for Humanity and tell them they should build me a house, because they've volunteered to do it in the past.

cool_walking_:
The "I can't be bothered" and "it is the obligation of others" points are separate.  Telling a user to get cracking on a port isn't going to be very productive when you pretty well know that he has no experience in programming.

Cooking is a general life skill.  By the time you get to the park, you already know how to cook.  Not everyone has the interest to learn how to program.

soap:
Locked, I believe the original question has been answered - we don't need to debate this in the install forum, do we?


EDIT:  Ok, NOT locked - just stay on subject - I trust everyone's better judgment not to take this further off-topic in the name of getting in the last word.

saratoga:

--- Quote from: cool_walking_ on June 07, 2008, 09:44:20 PM ---Telling a user to get cracking on a port isn't going to be very productive when you pretty well know that he has no experience in programming.

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Pretty sure that wasn't meant to be taken literally as a command to go out and port rockbox, and rather that the link to the NewPorts page was meant to underscore just how difficult the work is and explain why no one has been able to do it so far.

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