[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Oct 22 03:14:18 UTC 2007


On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 12:23:54PM +1000, Peter Schachte wrote:
> Tony Godshall wrote:
> > On 10/19/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> 
> >> Still a little high, but you get what you pay for.
> > 
> > People always say that, but I've paid plenty for stuff that turned out
> > to be crap.
> 
> I think that's one of those English sayings that don't quite mean what
> sound like they mean, like: "all that glitters is not gold." What
> people usually really mean is more like "you get at most what you pay
> for." Which is also not true, as anyone who's used Myth (or Linux, or
> Firebird, or...) could point out.

Indeed.  I always, purposefully, say "You don't get what you don't pay
for."  You don't always, as you note, get what you *do* pay for."

Cheers,
-- jra
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