Error'd: Meat!

I remember when gasoline was under a dollar a gallon inthe US! And penny candy was only a penny! And a poundsterling could buy you a decent dinner, not just a fewounces of meat product! And the euro! Let me tell you about the euro!!
I mean, um. Yeah. Things have changed, and it seems latelyall our consumer goods and services have become suddenlymore expensive,or smaller, or inferior in some other way. Have you pricedairplane flights, even in middle seats with no luggage or food?
The lead submission this week isn't really a software Error'd.It's not even a wacky product offering from Amazon. But despitewhat seems an unconscionable price, the manufacturer hasdiscovered a revolutionary method to deliver extravalue by (apparently) literally altering the properties of the universe.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... MEAT!

Finally free from those awful EU restrictions,Michael R. now has access to 85% over-clocked pork sausages."Not bad to get 185g meat out of 100g product.", he grunts gluttonously. "I will take 2."

Mac user (maybe? Correct me if I'm wrong) Lily might need some of that over-clocked sausage sustenance while trying to make something like full use of her Core i5 heater. "I've never realized my 4 core CPU has such performance! Thank you, Intel!" Itreally makes you wonder why Apple bothered with new chips at all.

Jonathan Holmes, on the other hand, needs some over-clocked memory. Even in theseinflated days, a half-terabyte of RAM is a considerable investment."To be fair to Samsung, I can rent a 512GB Amazon instancefor under $5 an hour if I want to backup my mobile..." Gramps here recalls aproduct called "RAM Doubler" that might help a bit, especially if you couldexploit some of Lily's massive CPU for some really fancy compression algorithms.

Peter C. highlights a pernicious variant on inflation that the mass mediaare now calling "shrinkflation". If you don't want to raise prices, just reduce your product quantity instead. Seems like FedEx's web supplier has been sellingthem a bunch of diminished text boxes."I thought this form gave me 120 characters to work with, but then it cut me off after 35," he raged. "You can hardly say BOO in only 35 characters!!11!"

In another reminiscence on bygone days, unrelated to inflation, Unsightly P. regales us with a heroic tale."I was thrilled to log in to my plural sight account, andsee a real live NaN! Such sightings were common when theweb was young, but civilization has largely relegated themto forgotten myths. The search is on though, for NaN'solder brother, the great (K?)null." Ah, me, Mr. P. I assure you the mythical NaN is anything but. We here at Error'd see scores of NaNs with every mailbag. It's only the shockingubiquity of their existence that discourages more than a fortnightlyfeature. Next week, perhaps, we'll see a Pnull.

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