TiVo to Aim for PC Desktop

Dave writes "Ars Technica has reported on TiVo's fourth quarter earnings call, and I was interested to see that the company is looking at providing some kind of desktop service for computers." The details are pretty sparse, so it'll be intriguing to see what they've got planned.

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michael

[icantbelievebushwon]

For public distribution (13 Feb 2005):

Anti-slash confirms: Slashdot's editors are dying.

In another devistating blow to slashdot's editors, it was learned that Michael was fired as an editor on slashdot. We at anti-slash are proud to have brought about this partial victory by our unrelenting jihad of bringing their injustices to light.

The specifics of this case are documented in this post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138099&cid=115 70041
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I got this from a verified source who's in the know:

Long story short, michael was canned for his abusive and egotistical personality.

Rob's been building a list of complaints by users about michael's abusive patterns but he never acted on it. Well, michael managed to bitchslap one of Rob's old college buddies' accounts along with a couple of paid accounts, word eventually filtered down to Rob, and he had kittens. He convinced michael's OSTG manager to track him down and drag him into a conference call.

Rob laid down the law and started reading off complaints and michael raised his voice, saying that if Rob had a personal problem with him that he didn't need to go over his head and involve his manager in it.

During the shouting match, michael's editor flag was revoked. He was in the admin area at the time and he noticed.

At this point he went totally ballistic and started screaming about how this was why he moved, to get away from "arrogant elitist bullshit". (this is a direct quote.. michael actually did move from New York to Canada to protest George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001. Andover kept him on since it was only an all-remote job anyway.)

michael's manager ducked out of the call to page (read: wake up) Hemos (overseas on business) to three-way him into the call, to try and calm everyone down.

There was some more shouting, and michael's manager told him that things aren't working out well, and that he's going to recommend that his employment be terminated.

michael just hung up, and that was the end of the call as well as michael's employment with OSTG.

This can be confirmed by visiting http://slashdot.org/authors.pl. Michael is not listed.

Fact: Slashdot's editors are dying

Re:michael

[Anonymous Coward]

Collary fact: klerck is now dead.

Re:What are they after?

[Anonymous Coward]

To prevent those grammar nazis from flaming me..

I meant "have cause to cream .... pants!"

Re:What are they after?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's OK. As it happens I actually own a large brown leather case in which I often cream my pants.

If more content provider were doing this...

[Anonymous Coward]

Air Farce Productions, Inc. is making all their recent Royal Canadian Air Farce shows available for download on their website. It's remarkable that they are doing this because they are selling DVD of the show as well. And for those wondering, these are not DRM protected files. (Don't miss the episodes where they shoot Bush with the chicken canon [Episode 11-NYE]!) If more producers where doing this, this would end the all the piracy of TV shows on the net. And I would not mind if they left the commercials in their downloadable version.

Please fix Tivo software v7.1

[Anonymous Coward]

All I want from Tivo is for them to fix the recent software upgrade that they sent everyone that had a series 2 box. The pro is that it gives you Tivo-to-go. The con, and in this case the con is much bigger than the pro, is that now when you're browsing menus and selecting items its *extremely* slow. This results in you sometimes making the wrong selection when you're trying to do something.