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Racing Discussion => Racing Discussion => Topic started by: spyderchick on August 15, 2004, 10:14:47 AM

Title: eBay is funny
Post by: spyderchick on August 15, 2004, 10:14:47 AM
I bid and lost on the Sliderphoto calendar, so I'm asked if I wasnt to bid on similar items, just like this one...http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2487132116&ssPageName=ADME:B:RECO:MT:2 ;) ;D

Maybe if I put a big picture of me on a race bike it would be "similar"...LOL

Title: Re: eBay is funny
Post by: Burt Munro on August 15, 2004, 11:54:32 AM
LOL!!

It's amazing how computer programs can be so 'logically illogical' !

It's kind of like Tivo suggesting programs that it thinks I might like.

If you start off  recording a movie with any kind of even a bi-sexual tone Tivo starts making assumptions. After that TiVo thinks you would enjoy a steady stream of gay programming.  Then you try and counteract it by recording the Playboy Channel and MTV's spring-break bikini coverage. It works,  TiVo doesn't look at you funny anymore!

But then you have to deal with your wife, who has a hard time understanding when she sees all the half-naked women ordered through TiVo. She doesn't quite accept that you're just trying to convince the Tivo into not thinking that you're gay!  ;D

Title: Re: eBay is funny
Post by: ceesthadees on August 15, 2004, 05:22:23 PM
Yeah, Tivo can make some strange choices. However, I placed "motorcycle" in a wish list and put it at the top of the priority list. Tivo rocks for race viewing ;D