"A company can only survive a crisis like this by..."
With literally zero precedent I'm not entirely sure why the author even bothered speculating. The sheer desire to GO TO SPACE is compelling enough to make this far from akin to, say, ocean voyages, or airships, or...anything really.
IF I had the money to have bought a ticket I can promise you these events would not stop me from going. As Branson said, this is the cost of space travel, we have known this for a long, long, time. And I would bet most of the people who bought tickets did so knowing that going into SPACE is not a guaranteed safe trip.
I can't remember the last time I owned a Tivo that didn't automatically push it's "recommendations" off the drive automatically to make room for things you have scheduled.
Not only that but since I've had my Series 3 I have consistently found new and worthwhile episodes of tv shows and movies recorded by tivo on its own based on what I watched. Matter of fact, in the last, oh, 4 years? I haven't been without TV for very long at all, and in those four years I've NEVER seen it fail to record something because it was out of space that was occupied by "recommendations", and in the same period of time I have very seldom gone into the recommendations (now handily in their own folder on the S3, thats nice!) and found nothing of interest.
I was watching the hell out of Man vs. Wild a couple months ago, then I stopped because I got busy, I had never put it in to record for some reason but lo and behold I go back to my tivo and in the recommendations are a bunch of episodes I hadn't seen! How handy!
Better still, Survivorman, hadn't watched that in awhile, but based on me watching man vs. wild, guess what was in my recommendations folder?
All of this on a day when I expected to have to hunt for something to watch because it was summer and all the shows I watch are off for now...how handy.
ProTip: use the Thumbsup and ThumbsDown buttons...seriously. I've used them like, 4 times, and it's recording nothing but greatness!
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"A company can only survive a crisis like this by..." With literally zero precedent I'm not entirely sure why the author even bothered speculating. The sheer desire to GO TO SPACE is compelling enough to make this far from akin to, say, ocean voyages, or airships, or...anything really. IF I had the money to have bought a ticket I can promise you these events would not stop me from going. As Branson said, this is the cost of space travel, we have known this for a long, long, time. And I would bet most of the people who bought tickets did so knowing that going into SPACE is not a guaranteed safe trip.
Actually, I spent $400 on my series 3 box. Not that your argument would be valid even if it was true. Thanks for being dismissive though. :)
I can't remember the last time I owned a Tivo that didn't automatically push it's "recommendations" off the drive automatically to make room for things you have scheduled. Not only that but since I've had my Series 3 I have consistently found new and worthwhile episodes of tv shows and movies recorded by tivo on its own based on what I watched. Matter of fact, in the last, oh, 4 years? I haven't been without TV for very long at all, and in those four years I've NEVER seen it fail to record something because it was out of space that was occupied by "recommendations", and in the same period of time I have very seldom gone into the recommendations (now handily in their own folder on the S3, thats nice!) and found nothing of interest. I was watching the hell out of Man vs. Wild a couple months ago, then I stopped because I got busy, I had never put it in to record for some reason but lo and behold I go back to my tivo and in the recommendations are a bunch of episodes I hadn't seen! How handy! Better still, Survivorman, hadn't watched that in awhile, but based on me watching man vs. wild, guess what was in my recommendations folder? All of this on a day when I expected to have to hunt for something to watch because it was summer and all the shows I watch are off for now...how handy. ProTip: use the Thumbsup and ThumbsDown buttons...seriously. I've used them like, 4 times, and it's recording nothing but greatness!