On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 11:37:13AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > tomas@tuxteam.de [2021-05-12 09:42:33] wrote: > > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 03:28:18AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > >> The recent thread involving the mac G5's intrigues me though, so its war > >> story time: > >> > >> We bought a pair of them in a quite graphically capable editing kit for > >> commercial production, paid $25G's for the pair [...] > > > > This G is for "grand", not "giga", right? > > And here I was, thinking we were talking about the acceleration you > experience when the price finally hits you, ;-P Actually I have the feeling the price *is* part of the feature, along the lines "I can afford that. Can you?". Call it perhaps a Stockholm Feature [1] or something. Of course, a vendor can Stockholm you on dimensions other than price... Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome - t
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