How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
>>> ... I got a mini displayport to composite adapter.  *bzzt*.  ....
>>> ... the mini just works for everything I want to do. ...
>>
>>  Reality Distortion Field is in effect, I see.
>
> Nope.  I wanted ... While I waited to get the HDTV, it didn't work with
> the old TV ...

  The fact remains that everything "just worked" only after you
adjusted your definition of "just worked".  This appears to be a
common symptom of RDF exposure: Repeated claims of "it just works",
but careful attention notices that any scenario in which it does not
or would not "just work" is excluded by changing the terms of the
test.  It becomes impossible for things to not "just work" by careful
manipulation of the scenario.

-- Ben