Hey there! Tivo must be good friends with Monster Cable. If your sales and profits start to drop because you offer nothing but over-priced, out-dated products, just sue the heck out of someone else and make your money that way! Quite the business model.
There are some problems with your analogy the foremost of which is that Monster Cable didn't patent and license anything that's truly unique, TiVo did. EchoStar stole it, was found guilty and should pay up.
Unless of course you feel like a DVR is out-dated.
So WebDev511, how do you respond when someone says, "knock, knock" to you?
Are you able to bring yourself down to the level of human comedy and reply, "who's there?"
Or do you say to them, "that is not very good onomatopoeia. You should attempt to make a sound that is closer to that of a person's knuckles repeatedly impacting the surface of a wooden door"?
when it's 4:30 am I usually don't respond, just return a half awake "what do you want" glare on my face as my sense of humor is the first first part of me that falls asleep.
So in tribute TiVo knocks on EchoStars door...
TiVo: "Knock Knock." EchoStar: "Who's there?" T: "Orange TiVo" ES:"Orange TiVo Who?" T: "Orange you going to turn off your DVRs and pay TiVo for your infringement like the court told you to?" Muffled sound on the other side of the door of EchoStar dropping to the floor followed by ES: "NO NO NO NO NO!"
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Hey there! Tivo must be good friends with Monster Cable. If your sales and profits start to drop because you offer nothing but over-priced, out-dated products, just sue the heck out of someone else and make your money that way! Quite the business model.
There are some problems with your analogy the foremost of which is that Monster Cable didn't patent and license anything that's truly unique, TiVo did. EchoStar stole it, was found guilty and should pay up.
Unless of course you feel like a DVR is out-dated.
So WebDev511, how do you respond when someone says, "knock, knock" to you?
Are you able to bring yourself down to the level of human comedy and reply, "who's there?"
Or do you say to them, "that is not very good onomatopoeia. You should attempt to make a sound that is closer to that of a person's knuckles repeatedly impacting the surface of a wooden door"?
when it's 4:30 am I usually don't respond, just return a half awake "what do you want" glare on my face as my sense of humor is the first first part of me that falls asleep.
So in tribute TiVo knocks on EchoStars door...
TiVo: "Knock Knock."
EchoStar: "Who's there?"
T: "Orange TiVo"
ES:"Orange TiVo Who?"
T: "Orange you going to turn off your DVRs and pay TiVo for your infringement like the court told you to?"
Muffled sound on the other side of the door of EchoStar dropping to the floor followed by
ES: "NO NO NO NO NO!"