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The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM"
FuzzNugget writes "Apparently seeking to lock competitors out of the burgeoning single-serve coffee market, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, maker of the popular Keurig coffee machines, will make their new machines work with licensed pods only. GMCR's CEO confirmed this in a statement: 'The much-anticipated ‘Keurig 2.0’ single-cup brewing system with ‘interactive readability’ (that doesn’t work with unlicensed/copycat pods) will offer such “game-changing functionality” that consumers - and unlicensed players - will want to switch.'"
Coffee from pods is an affront dignity anyway. Get a proper espresso machine, or use a press.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
I only drink certified genuine OEM HP inkjet printer ink. It's much cheaper than Keuring.
Reminds me of when Microsoft attempted to make their own (proprietary, locked in) java.
Sorry Dave, I can't let you brew that.
I'd damn sure reprogram his memory banks with an very large axe for that kind of insubordination.
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That coffee is so bad, that it isn't legal in Europe anyway.
How much "game-changing functionality" can you really work into a fucking coffee machine?
It turns into a coffee fucking machine. See how I did that?
So that's where the cream comes from...
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Your forgetting the grinding of the fresh beans to put in that press.
I outsource the grinding of my coffee. I like to think it's brocken up into small pieces by an army of underpaid 3rd world seratshop labourers equipped with tiny mallettes. However, the blurb on the back of the many packets of ready-ground coffee do not confirm or deny this.
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Telling me I can't have my coffee in the morning is more of a fire hazard. I'll let you figure out why.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
> It is spelled *expresso* not *espresso*. I am from Italy. I would know.
The letter X isn't used in Italian. Seems like the kind of thing you would know.
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The way to avoid getting busted for having a coffee maker in your office is to put the coffee maker in an old computer case and run the plug out the back. One of my foreign coworkers has this setup in the server room he works in and in the 6 years I have known him no one in management or facilities maintenance has found it and no one else in the office will turn him in as they have started doing the same thing.
Time to offend someone