Sam Berlin wrote:
(And re selling the machine -- the idea is that it shouldn't require a
new machine. I don't want to have to swap my entire machine just to
update Java.)
I often encounter things I don't want to have to do. But when it comes to
business assets, I look at it as a business decision: Return On Investment.
This is not simply a theoretical exercise for me. I have bought Macs (and
peripherals) at points when I needed them to do something that had a
business return (generate income), even though I didn't want to have to buy
new equipment at that time. I've had to do the same thing with software, too.
In business, as in life, you don't always get what you want when you want it.
If you don't have a workable strategy for dealing with this fact, you will fail,
either in business or in life.
I understand the idea, and what you want, quite well. Ideas and wants,
however, sometimes conflict with reality. When that happens, reality wins.
You then have two options: change your idea to match reality, or change
reality to match your idea. Well, a third option is to live with the
conflict, but that carries its own costs: embitterment.
