Word: tivos
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...suggests, but Hollywood is hell on the Pacific, and the enemy is just as dangerous as the drug lords Speedman's squad runs into. The actor's agent, Rick Peck (Matthew McConaughey, who nearly ambles away with the picture), worries mainly that his client hasn't been perked with TiVo. But Peck is a baby seal next to studio boss Les Grossman (deliciously played by Tom Cruise as a bald, grotesquely hairy Moloch), whose obscene phone calls usually include the threat to put something big of his into something small of the other fellow's. When Peck learns that Speedman...
...never mind that even an adult needs only 2,350 to survive. Not only are adults and kids alike consuming far more calories than they can possibly use, but they're also doing less and less with them. The transformation of American homes into high-def, Web-enabled, TiVo-equipped entertainment centers means that children who come home after a largely sedentary day at a school desk spend an average of three more sedentary hours in front of some kind of screen. Schools have contributed, with shrinking budgets causing more and more of them to slash physical-education programs...
...Explain how ROWE works. How is ROWE like Tivo...
...Thompson: There was a time when TV controlled what you watched, when you watched. Tivo is time-shifting. You control your experience with the TV based on what makes sense, not what the clock says. Just like I don't have to watch my show at 6:30, I don't have to do my work at 8 in morning but at 10, after my kids are at school...
...TiVo, the nail-biting scene at NASA as controllers watched the descent had a curious familiarity to it. Engineers whooped at every milestone just as football fans cheer every pass in a prerecorded game--even though in both instances they know the end of the tale is already writ...