I believe the personality and compatibility tests at eharmony and Match.com qualify as online apps.
Thing is eHarmony relies solely on this method to match you up and match.com relies more on pictures - guess where the ugly but cool people go? Guess where the pretty but clueless people go?
Invalid point: Most if not all Buy One Get One Free offers ring up as half price at the register, meaning Buy one get one free items at $1 are actually 50 cents each. Try it next time you are at the grocery store.;-) - don't worry - lot's of people don't know that.
Fuji/Olympus promised by the end of 2004, we'd have 1GB XD cards and assured their buyers that they wouldn't be abandoned by the format [in terms of space], like they were with smartmedia cards. A 4GB was promised by summer 2005. It looks like neither will materialize.
Who would pick up this format? It seems Fuji/Olympus would be their only buyers on the digital camera market. I suppose this will be aimed more at Mp3 players and possibly computers/laptops/PDAs, if it's fast enough.
Concerning XD cards - if anyone is interested - I'm trying a mod project for smartmedia cards - see my journal
... industries for NOT using power reclemation and "free source" power generation (wind, solar, brake regenerative)
I wonder if there will be any cities that will ever require buildings to have such technologies in the new construction, just as say Germantown Tenneesee requires no backlit signs above a certain height and at that can't diplay food items. They also have restrictions about trees and shrubs having to be every few feet in a parking lot and cobble stone or brick pavers instead of concrete or black tar paving.
Reclamation and regeration could EASILY revoltionalize the tax system in my opinion. One of the number one costs to most cities is paying for the power for stoplights, government buildings, and sign illumination. If this cost were significantly reduced or eliminated, it could be extra money in the taxpayers hands and therefore less tax increases or maybe even a rollback.
I run a BLOG related to an editorial site. I have had to delete several anonymous troll posts and I have to delete posts that attacked my character and credibility on a personal level.
The site isn't about me, and my credibility has nothing to do with the facts of the stories I present. They are MY editorials, I'm not purporting to be a journalist. I am merely writing. Do I want to shape an opinion? If you want to look at it that way. Ok.
Here's my beef : I make it clear what my affiliations and biases are by letter. I am not a site without a direction. However, Slashdot, by nature, should use ambiguity in political beliefs. This site is "news for nerds, stuff that matters". It's news for all us geeks that get along. Some of us ARE Republican, some of us are Democrat. (And socialist, libertarian, communist, anarchist, etc)
I don't agree with Slashdot being moderated for political or religious affiliation. But hey, it's Rob Malda and company's site. They can do what they want, when they want to, I just wish they'd make it known IN WRITING in the FAQs section about their political or opinion background - I wish they would just admit that what you described does occasionally go on.
Personally I think you should have to moderate 2 fold. Moderate: Interesting, Insighful, Troll, Flamebait, Overated and then a short sentence WHY if it is negative moderation. These comments would appear if the 30% or greater of the moderation is positive.
Very good post. It was certainly pertaining to this conversation. I only hope we are not modded offtopic or troll. I am very interested in the posting here because of my website.
The original PowerBook G3 line (still very capable and even upgradeable) had two battery bays - the expansion bays could fit batteries or media devices. You can get high capacity batteries for these units and actually the g3 and G4 upgrades for these PB's increase battery life.
Dimming your screen always helps - you can dim it and get some privacy by buying A HOODMAN
And I relize you said you didn't want extra bulk, but adding a solar battery extender and sitting near the window is a definite possibility - I could eaily get 7 hours from one battery with an iBook or G3 laptop.
I couldn't agree more - eventhough I'm a Mac person, I disagree with Jobs political affiliations and religious beliefs, but that has never superceded his amzing abilities as an idea man and leader and a very dedicated CEO of two VERY important media & technology companies.
He IS A FATHER and a relative and a friend to many. Shame on those that would mock his situation (eventhough they will do the same when he dies)
My front page to my websites is dedicated to him this week.
Sounds Interesting... just wish ...
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Primer
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...there were places to see it.
The website has not really been updated since June for additional screenings. Is it still being circulated?
It says on the site that ThinkFilm acquired the distribution but it doesn't say if Primer will be circulatiing their typical distribution of coffe house independent film venues or not.
Does anyone know where I can find an up to date showing list?
From what I've read the XD card is nothing but encapsulated smartmedia. The majority of a smartmedia card is unused/dead space/plastic
You can get an adapter to use with media readers for the compact flash slot (what I use) or you can even get one for the smartmedia slot - kinda cool but flimsy, its a smartmedia card with a pocket for the XD.
I love my Fuji 40i - I wish I could havea greater capacity though - uses Smartmedia. I've been thinking trying to hack an XD card into a smartmedia to see if it works or either dremeling a slot where my media fits so I can use the smartmedia to XD adapter.
The only thing I'm worried about is - will the camera support media beyond 128MB
Just because you work for a manufacturer doesn't mean YOU know what your company produces phones for.
Saying such is like an Apple store employee trying to leak rumors about products - they don't know.
NOKIA lost marketshare and profitability because they suck as of late - no other reason.
Can you say multimillion dollar failure? NGage
Can you say poor design? All this strange button layout.
Can you say poor integration? Bluetooth implementation is slightly different and doesn't work properly with iSync
Sony Ericcson on the other hand reported RECORD sales and profits from their phones. Wow and whatta you know, just the opposite.
"As a fashion accessory, phones are now in the bargain-bin only a couple of months after we finished them! The ability to make money in this environment is almost zero, and the work soul-destroying."
Untrue, The t610 Sony Ericcson is a best seller... why?... because it's a good design, it works well, and all of it's feature set is relatively accessible to the laymen. It also is the single most useful piece of equipment next to my Apple Laptop I have EVER owned due to Salling Clicker and Bluetooth. It still costs $90 to the cell service providers (T616) - costs $38 to make - Sony produces a VERY big portion of the phone in house (whereas Nokia is a component combiner for the most part) and makes a pretty big profit.
I agree that margins may be thin on SOME phones, but manufacturers are getting an average of 7%-20% on total cell phone sales. IT HAS ALWAYS been the carriers that are taking the loss.
Now, the cell phone manufacturers might be squeezing the component manufacturers a little as another post has suggested.
Most cellular services providers take the loss on phones NOT the manufactuer - they make this up by locking you into a contact and hoping you either go over in minutes or buy a plan that makes them money - which 75% + do.
I know this because I had a girlfriend that worked for phone acquistion and deployment for Cingular. THEY almost ALWAYS paid full wholesale price for the phones. The Ericcsons they used to give away cost them $45 each. They cost Ericcoson something close to $19 to make.
"you can buy the same mouse elsewhere for less" I say "show me where." I've seen similar mice to "the mouse" but no mouse exactly like it.
I do say, distributors should buy them directly from Adomax which DOES sell them in Asia under another name.
So, if my understanding is correct, as long as you like a product it's ok to support intellectual property theft and pathological liar owners/CEOs. It's ok for him to claim patent rights on products he doesn't have an iota of design effort into? It's ok for him to sell AND develop products for items which he does not have the licensing rights to develop for?
You need to seriously examine your ethics and integrity.
I also have NEVER, ever said that there were a lot disatisfied MacMice customers. In fact, I would say the opposite. Jack Campbell knows that with his questionable business practices, he MUST make customer service paramount.
I'll give you a quick lesson on the mouse though:
It is not that great of a mouse. If you think it feels or acts anywhere close to the quality of the Apple Mouse - you are just plain weird. It feels cheap and clicks cheap. It feels "thin" in the hand. That said, it is a mouse of a relatively standard shape, it performs like a mouse should. And, I will add that the majority of his products are nice looking and perform well.
At the initial time it was sold, which was this past Christmas, The Mouse was touted as having a better tracking DPI (AND CPI) as the Apple Mouse - it was even promoted as being one the highest CPIs in the ENTIRE "mousing market". No, Logitech's low end brand has a cheaper mouse than the MacMice Mouse that has an EVEN HIGHER resolution.
The Mouse Box is very nice looking. Notice the (TM) - Jack Campbell wants you to think he has something registered or patented. He owns NO intellectual property. He takes for granted that most people don't know you can stick (TM) on anything.
The Mouse (and other products) instructions, advertisement, and description wreak of a lack of proper footnoting and patent/trademark recognition of Apple, Griffin, and dozens of other manufacturers and designers.
If you actually READ my story on the site, you could see that there are serious offenses elsewhere - you can also read why nothing has been done about it, and why I IN PARTICULAR, have a beef with him.
I suspect you are a lackey of his. He has lots of people he's sent free products to or has buddied with him to troll the web looking for posts. If you aren't a lackey - then either you're integrity is that of SPAMHaus CEO or you lack intelligence to comprehend the grossness and perversion of business MacMice represents.
Has anyone ever heard of Jack Campbell and MacMice? This guy does the same thing. He says one thing in a forum, then says something completely different in another forum concerning his actions and his companies actions.
He's been caught on the internet several times misrepresenting an attorney, stealing patented products, and making claims about his products that are just insane.
If any of you are interested and like this kind of story. I've done two stories on my website about this kind of scammer.
One story is similar to this one and is about eBay. (Titled: Scamming Scammers & The Scheming Scammers Who Scam Them Back)
The other is about Jack Campbell as mentioned above. (Titled: Catch Me If You Can Part II: The True Story Behind MacMice)
I think it's interesting to read stories like this and I wish more people read or were interested in them. If you can understand how pathological narcissitic people work - you can learn to avoid them.
as an addendum - if you got a chargeback from your credit card (which the majority do - even though Paypal says you can't) you don't qualify
There will be a lot of fraudulent claims where people will try to get double - they will have already been reimbursed but they will try to seek reimbursement from this settlement too.
You are going to get your percentage of the 9.5 million based on the amount of claims made and the amount you claim and can legally prove was stolen from due to neglect on paypal's part.
For instance I had a loss of $80 + over $100 in collection costs/subpoenas in 2002. If there are claims for OVER 9.5 million, the claims will start to be divided into the percent that you made it up to 9.5 million.
Griffin demoed the PodMate at the 2002 MacWorld Expo. They were controlling a Sony TV and Stereo at their booth with one of these devices. Apple asked them not to develop it further for some reason.
They scrapped the plans and then made it part of their Griffin Mobile division - selling it for the iPaq originally.
I don't know why this couldn't be the iPhone. Co-branding is in Apple's past.
Then again, one could read that this announcement came from Motorola's web site as an indication that it won't be the last deal with a phone manufacturer. Maybe the iPhone is just further down the road.
Apple has done this before.
The Quicktake 200 Camera was a Fuji DS7 camera - they were no different. The Apple Quicktake however used a better JPEG compression technology (read as quicktime) - that was especially developed for the Quicktake. Apple also created it's own system level camera reading and editting software.
I think this could represent a possible new hardware direction and unlike many have suggested I think this DOES possibly mean an Iphone from Apple could be in the works. Except this time, unlike the iPod that is Windows and Mac; the iPhone will be for Macs ONLY, the Moto version will be for everyone else.
Semi unrelated - a smaller footprint of iTunes would also be easier to emulate - possibly giving Linux a better shot at a quality iTunes solution.
I have always had my suspicions about SpyMac. It's just too much eyecandy to be perfect.
Compare SpyMac: It's like the shiniest used car in the used car parking lot - you know the one that's usually a lemon!
Am I reading the parent right? Someone harvested SpyMac email accounts?
I've done a few editorial articles on my website about this very thing. One on SpyMac problems and prediction that this kind of thing would happen and then another on how the SpyMac Community really latched on to a recent vigilante justice story concerning a PowerBook.
I gave G4 TechTV a few eeks before deciding to take it completely off my dial. Both networks were already lacking, but at at least TechTV had shows I cared to see.
The G4 content is a bore. It's a fill of porn stars and games and how the two relate.
I ended my extended cable tier three weeks ago and wrote Charter a letter about my thoughts.
Anybody know of a way to get this - other than G4 - because I'm mildly interested if I run out of Tivo content.
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Hey, please email me at adzoox@YOURMOMMASadzoox.com
remove your mommas
I won a fuji 40i camera on eBay and I'm ready to do my 40i mod that you expressed interest in helping out fund wise with.
XD to smartmedia adaptation
[sorry this was the only way I knew to contact you]
I believe the personality and compatibility tests at eharmony and Match.com qualify as online apps.
Thing is eHarmony relies solely on this method to match you up and match.com relies more on pictures - guess where the ugly but cool people go? Guess where the pretty but clueless people go?
Invalid point: Most if not all Buy One Get One Free offers ring up as half price at the register, meaning Buy one get one free items at $1 are actually 50 cents each. Try it next time you are at the grocery store. ;-) - don't worry - lot's of people don't know that.
Fuji/Olympus promised by the end of 2004, we'd have 1GB XD cards and assured their buyers that they wouldn't be abandoned by the format [in terms of space], like they were with smartmedia cards. A 4GB was promised by summer 2005. It looks like neither will materialize.
Who would pick up this format? It seems Fuji/Olympus would be their only buyers on the digital camera market. I suppose this will be aimed more at Mp3 players and possibly computers/laptops/PDAs, if it's fast enough.
Concerning XD cards - if anyone is interested - I'm trying a mod project for smartmedia cards - see my journal
... industries for NOT using power reclemation and "free source" power generation (wind, solar, brake regenerative)
I wonder if there will be any cities that will ever require buildings to have such technologies in the new construction, just as say Germantown Tenneesee requires no backlit signs above a certain height and at that can't diplay food items. They also have restrictions about trees and shrubs having to be every few feet in a parking lot and cobble stone or brick pavers instead of concrete or black tar paving.
Reclamation and regeration could EASILY revoltionalize the tax system in my opinion. One of the number one costs to most cities is paying for the power for stoplights, government buildings, and sign illumination. If this cost were significantly reduced or eliminated, it could be extra money in the taxpayers hands and therefore less tax increases or maybe even a rollback.
I run a BLOG related to an editorial site. I have had to delete several anonymous troll posts and I have to delete posts that attacked my character and credibility on a personal level.
The site isn't about me, and my credibility has nothing to do with the facts of the stories I present. They are MY editorials, I'm not purporting to be a journalist. I am merely writing. Do I want to shape an opinion? If you want to look at it that way. Ok.
Here's my beef : I make it clear what my affiliations and biases are by letter. I am not a site without a direction. However, Slashdot, by nature, should use ambiguity in political beliefs. This site is "news for nerds, stuff that matters". It's news for all us geeks that get along. Some of us ARE Republican, some of us are Democrat. (And socialist, libertarian, communist, anarchist, etc)
I don't agree with Slashdot being moderated for political or religious affiliation. But hey, it's Rob Malda and company's site. They can do what they want, when they want to, I just wish they'd make it known IN WRITING in the FAQs section about their political or opinion background - I wish they would just admit that what you described does occasionally go on.
Personally I think you should have to moderate 2 fold. Moderate: Interesting, Insighful, Troll, Flamebait, Overated and then a short sentence WHY if it is negative moderation. These comments would appear if the 30% or greater of the moderation is positive.
Very good post. It was certainly pertaining to this conversation. I only hope we are not modded offtopic or troll. I am very interested in the posting here because of my website.
Apple Laptops run Linux with full hardware upport VERY nicely and have over a broad generation of laptops.
try here
I thought I would add that if money isn't a concern replacing the IDE drive with a flash based disk also significantly increases battery time.
If money is an object you might want to consider a tweaking utility that better manages the power of the hard drive.
These laptops run 8.6 to 9.2.2 and X VERY WELL - they also run Linux PPC and YellowDog well.
The original PowerBook G3 line (still very capable and even upgradeable) had two battery bays - the expansion bays could fit batteries or media devices. You can get high capacity batteries for these units and actually the g3 and G4 upgrades for these PB's increase battery life.
Dimming your screen always helps - you can dim it and get some privacy by buying A HOODMAN
And I relize you said you didn't want extra bulk, but adding a solar battery extender and sitting near the window is a definite possibility - I could eaily get 7 hours from one battery with an iBook or G3 laptop.
I couldn't agree more - eventhough I'm a Mac person, I disagree with Jobs political affiliations and religious beliefs, but that has never superceded his amzing abilities as an idea man and leader and a very dedicated CEO of two VERY important media & technology companies.
He IS A FATHER and a relative and a friend to many. Shame on those that would mock his situation (eventhough they will do the same when he dies)
My front page to my websites is dedicated to him this week.
ADZOOX.COM
...there were places to see it.
The website has not really been updated since June for additional screenings. Is it still being circulated?
It says on the site that ThinkFilm acquired the distribution but it doesn't say if Primer will be circulatiing their typical distribution of coffe house independent film venues or not.
Does anyone know where I can find an up to date showing list?
Actually the XD is smartmedia.
From what I've read the XD card is nothing but encapsulated smartmedia. The majority of a smartmedia card is unused/dead space/plastic
You can get an adapter to use with media readers for the compact flash slot (what I use) or you can even get one for the smartmedia slot - kinda cool but flimsy, its a smartmedia card with a pocket for the XD.
I love my Fuji 40i - I wish I could havea greater capacity though - uses Smartmedia. I've been thinking trying to hack an XD card into a smartmedia to see if it works or either dremeling a slot where my media fits so I can use the smartmedia to XD adapter.
The only thing I'm worried about is - will the camera support media beyond 128MB
Just because you work for a manufacturer doesn't mean YOU know what your company produces phones for.
Saying such is like an Apple store employee trying to leak rumors about products - they don't know.
NOKIA lost marketshare and profitability because they suck as of late - no other reason.
Can you say multimillion dollar failure? NGage
Can you say poor design? All this strange button layout.
Can you say poor integration? Bluetooth implementation is slightly different and doesn't work properly with iSync
Sony Ericcson on the other hand reported RECORD sales and profits from their phones. Wow and whatta you know, just the opposite.
"As a fashion accessory, phones are now in the bargain-bin only a couple of months after we finished them! The ability to make money in this environment is almost zero, and the work soul-destroying."
Untrue, The t610 Sony Ericcson is a best seller... why?... because it's a good design, it works well, and all of it's feature set is relatively accessible to the laymen. It also is the single most useful piece of equipment next to my Apple Laptop I have EVER owned due to Salling Clicker and Bluetooth. It still costs $90 to the cell service providers (T616) - costs $38 to make - Sony produces a VERY big portion of the phone in house (whereas Nokia is a component combiner for the most part) and makes a pretty big profit.
I agree that margins may be thin on SOME phones, but manufacturers are getting an average of 7%-20% on total cell phone sales. IT HAS ALWAYS been the carriers that are taking the loss.
Now, the cell phone manufacturers might be squeezing the component manufacturers a little as another post has suggested.
Most cellular services providers take the loss on phones NOT the manufactuer - they make this up by locking you into a contact and hoping you either go over in minutes or buy a plan that makes them money - which 75% + do.
I know this because I had a girlfriend that worked for phone acquistion and deployment for Cingular. THEY almost ALWAYS paid full wholesale price for the phones. The Ericcsons they used to give away cost them $45 each. They cost Ericcoson something close to $19 to make.
I actually DON'T SAY THIS ANYWHERE:
"you can buy the same mouse elsewhere for less" I say "show me where." I've seen similar mice to "the mouse" but no mouse exactly like it.
I do say, distributors should buy them directly from Adomax which DOES sell them in Asia under another name.
So, if my understanding is correct, as long as you like a product it's ok to support intellectual property theft and pathological liar owners/CEOs. It's ok for him to claim patent rights on products he doesn't have an iota of design effort into? It's ok for him to sell AND develop products for items which he does not have the licensing rights to develop for?
You need to seriously examine your ethics and integrity.
I also have NEVER, ever said that there were a lot disatisfied MacMice customers. In fact, I would say the opposite. Jack Campbell knows that with his questionable business practices, he MUST make customer service paramount.
I'll give you a quick lesson on the mouse though:
It is not that great of a mouse. If you think it feels or acts anywhere close to the quality of the Apple Mouse - you are just plain weird. It feels cheap and clicks cheap. It feels "thin" in the hand. That said, it is a mouse of a relatively standard shape, it performs like a mouse should. And, I will add that the majority of his products are nice looking and perform well.
At the initial time it was sold, which was this past Christmas, The Mouse was touted as having a better tracking DPI (AND CPI) as the Apple Mouse - it was even promoted as being one the highest CPIs in the ENTIRE "mousing market". No, Logitech's low end brand has a cheaper mouse than the MacMice Mouse that has an EVEN HIGHER resolution.
The Mouse Box is very nice looking. Notice the (TM) - Jack Campbell wants you to think he has something registered or patented. He owns NO intellectual property. He takes for granted that most people don't know you can stick (TM) on anything.
The Mouse (and other products) instructions, advertisement, and description wreak of a lack of proper footnoting and patent/trademark recognition of Apple, Griffin, and dozens of other manufacturers and designers.
If you actually READ my story on the site, you could see that there are serious offenses elsewhere - you can also read why nothing has been done about it, and why I IN PARTICULAR, have a beef with him.
I suspect you are a lackey of his. He has lots of people he's sent free products to or has buddied with him to troll the web looking for posts. If you aren't a lackey - then either you're integrity is that of SPAMHaus CEO or you lack intelligence to comprehend the grossness and perversion of business MacMice represents.
PayPal Ain't My Buddy
Has anyone ever heard of Jack Campbell and MacMice? This guy does the same thing. He says one thing in a forum, then says something completely different in another forum concerning his actions and his companies actions.
He's been caught on the internet several times misrepresenting an attorney, stealing patented products, and making claims about his products that are just insane.
If any of you are interested and like this kind of story. I've done two stories on my website about this kind of scammer.
One story is similar to this one and is about eBay. (Titled: Scamming Scammers & The Scheming Scammers Who Scam Them Back)
The other is about Jack Campbell as mentioned above. (Titled: Catch Me If You Can Part II: The True Story Behind MacMice)
I think it's interesting to read stories like this and I wish more people read or were interested in them. If you can understand how pathological narcissitic people work - you can learn to avoid them.
as an addendum - if you got a chargeback from your credit card (which the majority do - even though Paypal says you can't) you don't qualify
There will be a lot of fraudulent claims where people will try to get double - they will have already been reimbursed but they will try to seek reimbursement from this settlement too.
I did a story on paypal payback fraud on my website.
You are going to get your percentage of the 9.5 million based on the amount of claims made and the amount you claim and can legally prove was stolen from due to neglect on paypal's part.
For instance I had a loss of $80 + over $100 in collection costs/subpoenas in 2002. If there are claims for OVER 9.5 million, the claims will start to be divided into the percent that you made it up to 9.5 million.
I am hoping that I will get at least $100.
The 35 cents was a stupid quip the editor made.
Griffin demoed the PodMate at the 2002 MacWorld Expo. They were controlling a Sony TV and Stereo at their booth with one of these devices. Apple asked them not to develop it further for some reason.
They scrapped the plans and then made it part of their Griffin Mobile division - selling it for the iPaq originally.
Apple has actually prototyped two phone systems in the past. One was in conjunction with Seimens and was a dock for the Newton.
The other was called The Paladin
I don't know why this couldn't be the iPhone. Co-branding is in Apple's past.
Then again, one could read that this announcement came from Motorola's web site as an indication that it won't be the last deal with a phone manufacturer. Maybe the iPhone is just further down the road.
Apple has done this before.
The Quicktake 200 Camera was a Fuji DS7 camera - they were no different. The Apple Quicktake however used a better JPEG compression technology (read as quicktime) - that was especially developed for the Quicktake. Apple also created it's own system level camera reading and editting software.
I think this could represent a possible new hardware direction and unlike many have suggested I think this DOES possibly mean an Iphone from Apple could be in the works. Except this time, unlike the iPod that is Windows and Mac; the iPhone will be for Macs ONLY, the Moto version will be for everyone else.
Semi unrelated - a smaller footprint of iTunes would also be easier to emulate - possibly giving Linux a better shot at a quality iTunes solution.
I have always had my suspicions about SpyMac. It's just too much eyecandy to be perfect.
Compare SpyMac: It's like the shiniest used car in the used car parking lot - you know the one that's usually a lemon!
Am I reading the parent right? Someone harvested SpyMac email accounts?
I've done a few editorial articles on my website about this very thing. One on SpyMac problems and prediction that this kind of thing would happen and then another on how the SpyMac Community really latched on to a recent vigilante justice story concerning a PowerBook.
You've Not Mail
AND
Scamming Scammers & The Scheming Scammers Who Scam Them Back
Not tooting my own horn, but these articles give a clearerer picture of SpyMac and the problems it poses.
I gave G4 TechTV a few eeks before deciding to take it completely off my dial. Both networks were already lacking, but at at least TechTV had shows I cared to see.
The G4 content is a bore. It's a fill of porn stars and games and how the two relate.
I ended my extended cable tier three weeks ago and wrote Charter a letter about my thoughts.
Anybody know of a way to get this - other than G4 - because I'm mildly interested if I run out of Tivo content.