Ohio miners forced to attend Romney rally without pay...

[kandrathe]

Dude, seriously. What are you -really- kvetching about.

We are talking about adjusting the price of goods to account for "increased utility" when factoring in inflation. Computers were the example. If your dad buys an average model $1500 computer this year that is speed X, and next year your dads evil twin buys the same average model computer that is $2000 and it's speed is 2X, the government counts that as a 33% decrease in price (1500/X > 2000/2X). Even though your dad and his evil twin will still only type 30 WPM. I'm saying a tool is a tool, and limited by the user.

They don't measure cars this way, but if they did treat cars like computers, if the top speed increased from 100mph to 200mph, and the price doubled --- they'd call it even.

Computing power is probably the most extreme case... In 1984, the cost per GFLOPS was $33,000,000, and today it's about $1.80. The change is so dramatic that the average user can't use the power they are buying.

It's like New Improved Tide is more expensive per ounce, but counted as less since it's "better". I still wash my clothes at the same rate, and it costs me more. But, the government doesn't think that is inflation. So, yes, the apples thing was my twisted sense of humor. Deebye values yummy apples, and I don't eat apples. When I'm crunching on a project, I sometimes do choose food more for its nutritional value than its taste.