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An Offer Tivo Owners Can't Refuse
An anonymous reader pointed us to this little tidbit. The BBC paid Tivo (company slogan: "TV Your Way") to force owners' boxes to record some new program they wanted to push, which looks incredibly exciting. UK Tivo owners seem a little upset.
Sattelites?
Is that like when Fent sat on taco's face?
P.S. EAT MY MILLSTONE
Not bad, not bad at all
He's got style.
Some stupid Sheryl Crow video showed up on my Tivo's main menu last week - I'm in the US. I can't get rid of it.
If TiVo knows that you are unwilling to purchase their product in light of this, then they may wake up. I highly doubt that many existing users will return their TiVos over this, but if they realize that they will lose future growth, then they could possibly stop before it gets too engrained in the system...
Anyone see that Pizza Hut Cheesy Bread commercial? You know, the one with the little girl in the back yard saying "You're free cheesy bread! You're free! Go Go!!"
... is RMS the same way? You know, does he go into his backyard with disks of GNU software and say "You're free software! Go Go!!"
I wonder
I guess what would piss me off is how come I can't use all of the hard drive I paid for? I mean, come on, I could of had an additional couple of hours of recording time, but noooooooo, TIVO had t o hide those bytes from me so they could pimp them out to the network... that's like Dell selling me a computer, but reserving part of the computer to run their distributed database...
I don't get it, please mod this as "Not Funny"
ha ha ha HAAA!!! that's about the funniest thing i've read today. you really think that the overpriced concessions are subsidizing your ticket? as if the poor theater would be forced to raise prices if i started smuggling in my own candy and soda?
sorry, but the popcorn costs $3.95 because that maximizes profit. if the could sell twice as much popcorn for half the price, they'd do it. however, so many people buy the overpriced popcorn that it just doesn't make sense to lower the price. halving the price would increase sales by, say, twenty percent. which would net them a loss.
so, point is that for the last several centuries the field of accounting has exploited the concept of multiple budgets in a single company. i assure you, the concession stand profits are maximized independently of the box office profits.
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