Re: [backstage] Fwd: Slashdot| Apple's Trend Away From Tinkering

2010-02-05 Thread Darren Stephens
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Re: [backstage] iPad

2010-01-29 Thread Darren Stephens
seemingly designed to cater for people who aren't particularly interested in computers appears to be a device for people who aren¹t particularly interested in computers. -- Darren Stephens MBCS CITP School of Arts and New Media University of Hull Scarborough Campus Filey Road Scarborough t

Re: [backstage] iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Darren Stephens
/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Darren Stephens MBCS CITP School of Arts and New Media University of Hull Scarborough Campus Filey Road Scarborough t: +441723357360 e: darren.steph...@hull.ac.uk

RE: [backstage] Internet TV without streaming is like

2008-07-21 Thread Darren Stephens
Hmm. Although my mobile phone (a series 40 Nokia 6500s) does indeed support Flash Lite, I remain to be convinced that it's really an entirely appropriate platform to do heavy duty Flash development upon. And that's before we even start on the whole text/screen reader issue. From: [EMAIL

[backstage] RE: [backstage] Re: Is it OK for BT Vision to char ge £3 per month for the iPlayer?

2008-06-09 Thread Darren Stephens
I would suspect so, as they would likely claim that it is like any number of satellite channels bundled on sky, provided at zero cost, but only available as part of a package which includes other chargeable services. Marketing drones, don't you just love them... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backs tage] RE: [backstage] Re: Is it OK for BT Vi sion to charge £3 per month for the iPlayer?

2008-06-09 Thread Darren Stephens
of it and then transmit it via satellite and charge a fee for it. Could I? Or could I? 2008/6/9 Darren Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would suspect so, as they would likely claim that it is like any number of satellite channels bundled on sky

RE: [backstage] iPlayer and the ISPs - a solution

2008-04-15 Thread Darren Stephens
Just a few thoughts (some of which may be emanating from my posterior, but no matter): From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 5:38 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] iPlayer and the ISPs - a solution

RE: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

2008-02-22 Thread Darren Stephens
at least see the Murdoch festering box squatting in the corner From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:47 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray On 21/02/2008, Darren Stephens

RE: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

2008-02-21 Thread Darren Stephens
All of this is true enough, but (and there's always a but) you still have the physical artefact, don't you? Even if it's gaffer taped with a hundred others, you still have the physical object you shelled out your money for. The digital stuff is, by your own admission, descended from the objects.

RE: [backstage] BBC News

2008-01-25 Thread Darren Stephens
Check to see what MIME types your browser is sending out in HTTP Accept when you make a request (Firebug might help). It could be that you are sending accept application/xml+html which is letting you get mobile HTML (WML 2.0 XHTML) back instead of the vanilla type. From: [EMAIL

RE: [backstage] New BBC customisable homepage

2007-12-18 Thread Darren Stephens
First impressions: Generally not bad, though I think the masthead takes up slightly too much screen real estate (and I'm viewing at 1280x1024). Also , I find the colour change on the interface when clicking the options under the lead picture incredibly jarring and I'm not sure what purpose

RE: [backstage] New BBC customisable homepage

2007-12-18 Thread Darren Stephens
Yeah, I forgot the clock. Nice little retro touch that brought back some childhood memories of waiting for Dr Who on a Saturday night (and schools programmes!) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Barber Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:27 AM To:

RE: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Darren Stephens
There was a great Adam Curtis piece about this on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe on BBC4 a couple of weeks back. And then it cropped up again during the Register's Beeb Week series of articles. Curtis's reasoning about the presents and future role of both journalists and citizen journalists

RE: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-25 Thread Darren Stephens
For a given value of popular of course. There are many open source projects which are extremely popular in their own contexts. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:34 AM To:

RE: [backstage] iPhone SDK news

2007-10-18 Thread Darren Stephens
Which, oddly I find works better on Gran Paradiso alpha 4 than it does on Safari (both on Windows XP). The latter manages to mangle the text in the lists as soon as graphics get loaded. Nice app though, and nice use of canvas for something vaguely useful From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

2007-10-09 Thread Darren Stephens
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Gyford Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 10:01 AM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee On 10/8/07, Gavin Montague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: [backstage] O2 wins Apple iPhone deal - at a hefty price

2007-09-17 Thread Darren Stephens
They're nuts to pay that much. Apple are nuts to try to control it. Clearly not, seeing as both they've both done it: demand for the iPhone is likely to be fairly strong and both think it may be proitable, at least in the short to medium term. It may not work as a long term model, but nuts? No.

RE: [backstage] Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:46:04 +0100

2007-09-14 Thread Darren Stephens
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RE: [backstage] data streaming into video

2007-08-21 Thread Darren Stephens
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RE: [backstage] From Private Eye - BBC Shock!

2007-08-16 Thread Darren Stephens
But as the Homeopathic League know, watering down the research just makes it even more potent ;-) * To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to

RE: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Stephens
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RE: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Stephens
it? ;-) (my bet is on the one with the best URLs, frankly...) best-- --cs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Stephens Sent: 17 July 2007 12:01 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Links to video/audio

RE: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Stephens
Now, I might have this wrong - but you're suggesting that there should be a standard way of... describing data suggested by the BBC, so that all systems structure their data in the same way? Not quite. There should be one or more standards for appropriate applications suggested by a