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[Ken VanDine <ken AT biZrace.com>]

My wife just corrected my lousy spelling :-)

s/allot more that/a lot more than/g

--Ken

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 20:59, Ken VanDine wrote:
> If you are Linux savvy, you could try out MythTV, www.mythtv.org...
> 
> I love it, it is allot more that a DVR.  It also has a music app,
> gallery, video (for recorded videos), weather, DVD player, Mame for
> playing games, and a web interface...  And will work in a distributed
> environment, server+client+client+client... you get the picture.
> 
> --Ken
> 
> On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 20:48, David R.Matusiak wrote:
> > i knew i had seen this and i thought it came from this list.  had been  
> > pruned from my saved messages tree, but wonderful google found it in an  
> > instant:
> > 
> > http://www.google.com/
> > search?q=certain+amount+tolerance&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF- 
> > 8&safe=off&edition=us&sa=N&tab=nw
> > 
> > or more simply:
> > 
> > https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/internetworkers/2002-June/005817.html
> > --
> > (quote)
> > 
> > In an interview with [INSIDE] Magazine, Turner Broadcasting CEO Jamie  
> > Kellner
> > voiced this opinion on the issue: "[T]he ad skips . . .. It's theft.  
> > Your
> > contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to  
> > watch the
> > spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis.  
> > Any time
> > you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the
> > programming."
> > 
> > When prompted, Kellner did admit that "there's a certain amount of  
> > tolerance
> > for going to the bathroom."
> > 
> > (end quote)
> > --
> > from Josep; who also said "Kill Your Television."  i couldn't agree  
> > more.
> > 
> > On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 07:43  PM, Gina Norman wrote:
> > 
> > > > In the minds of the people who provide you with Television  
> > > programming,
> > > > skipping the commercials equals Theft.  You are "stealing" the shows  
> > > if
> > > > you do this.
> > >
> > > Really?  I hadn't heard that ... I am sure they don't *like* it, but I  
> > > didn't know they equated it with stealing.  If they (the cable  
> > > providers) do think it's stealing though, it's kinda funny that I can  
> > > fast forward through commercials on the DVR that Time Warner is  
> > > leasing me (for a couple bucks a month, so it's not like they're  
> > > making up for potentially lost advertising revenue that way).  You'd  
> > > think they'd disable that, if they found it hateful...
> > 
> > 
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