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Is MOXI Toast?
onosko writes "Moxi Digital, one of the big hits of the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show in January, has bitten the dust, absorbed by one of Paul Allen's companies, Digeo. At CES, Moxi showed a Linux-based PVR and home entertainment server system that used Ethernet or 802.11a to distribute video, audio and JPEGs throughout a house. Last week, Digeo announced that it would not use Microsoft's interactive TV software."
This really looked liked the best of the upcoming PVRs. Bummed to see it
collapse. Here is a somewhat related and really entertaining short bit about Tivo turning 3
Feel sorry about people like me who are born in early September.
Daddy's sperm probably had a high alcohol content from the New-Years Champange. Perhaps that explains why my FETAL-ALCOHOL-FETUS-BODY only has FLIPPERS instead of arms and legs. Oh God HELP Me! I'm flipper in a monkey body. It HURTS! arrr... the bright light... make it stop....
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Of course I never drink the stuff. Have you ever tried Moxie?
(shudders at the memory)
It started off merely terrible, kind of like someone took the freakish creation of a terrible collision between two Dr. Pepper and Root Beer factories. Weird, overly sweet, and just...wrong - your brain gets two signals for two tastes at *same time*. It's what I imagine spicy ice cream would be like.
But it didn't stop there, oh no! Next came the aftertaste. I swallowed the stuff...the look of evil glee on my brother's face put me off a bit...and egad! It's like Moxie, rather than passing on quietly like an 18-Wheeler downshifting 20 feet away at 60 miles an hour, laughs and says, "Ha! You think I am rid of that easily??" and unleashs this hideous acidic taste sensation that coats your throat, mouth, tongue...and it won't go away! Five anonizing minutes, and two bottles of water, later it finally faded into ignorability.
Ahhh...Moxi not Moxie. Dang.