{"id":155,"date":"2007-01-07T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/stupidest-software-packaging-ever\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:45","slug":"stupidest-software-packaging-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/stupidest-software-packaging-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupidest Software Packaging Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought I was buying this brand-new for $0.01 back around Black Friday, until I realized (after I had submitted the order and they had billed my card, aka “too late”) that one $20 rebate was actually an upgrade rebate. Oops. So Fry’s got $20 for it instead of $0.01. Oh well.<\/p>\n

None of that back-story can excuse this:
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Yes. That’s a hinged<\/em> computer software box. There is little more to say. I’m sad. : (<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought I was buying this brand-new for $0.01 back around Black Friday, until I realized (after I had submitted the order and they had billed my card, aka “too late”) that one $20 rebate was actually an upgrade rebate. Oops. So Fry’s got $20 for it instead of $0.01. Oh well. None of that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}