David Tomlinson wrote:
The costs of publishing a specification (as a text document or pdf) on a
web site are low, comparable with the costs associated with handling
individual complaints, about discrimination and lack of access.
Earlier there was mention made of a 'cost recovery'.
The
Glyn Wintle wrote:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consumer/2010/06/ofcom-opens-debate-on-net-neutrality/
What is net neutrality?
Net neutrality is a concept based on the internet being a level playing field
for internet traffic. There are several definitions, but all share a concern
that traffic
Mo McRoberts wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:13, Ian Stirling backstage...@mauve.plus.com wrote:
Proritising classes of traffic can be less bad than the alternatives.
No, they're a bloody stupid way of doing it.
And other possible alternatives.
What, you mean like the sensible one
Richard Lockwood wrote:
I'm not a lawyer either, but I can at least translate what David's saying;
ME ME ME ME ME!!! I WANT IT ALL! FOR NOTHING!!! ME ME! GIVE IT TO ME!
I DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR ANYTHING, EVER!!! ME ME ME!!! IT'S MY RIGHT TO
HAVE EVERYTHING FOR NOTHING FOR EVER AND EVER,
Alex Cockell wrote:
Hi folks,
Any idea when or if the N900 could have a native iPlayer client? Just
that Flash is VERY sluggish...
IF you click 'pop out' - in the iplayer to take it to fullscreen, it's
not bad - with the low bandwidth version.
Slightly jerky, and a much lower fps than the
Paul Webster wrote:
Ok - I admit it ... I have one.
Any chance of adding iPad Safari user-agent to the list of things that look
like an iPhone so that iPlayer works?
Here are examples:
iPad:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10
(KHTML, like Gecko)
Tim Dobson wrote:
Thoughts on postcard?
My postcard only has tickboxes for 'wish you were here', 'having a
lovely time' and 'Had a lovely time at iDisney', all the rest of the
card is too slippery to write on, what do I do?
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Rupert Watson wrote:
A Haynes manual won't help you with a modern car. You need an engine monitoring
system and connection to the manufacturer
Megasquirt.info - for the hardcore - that won't accept that.
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Kieran Kunhya wrote:
For 720p25 you might need more than 3.5Mbps for more
demanding scenes. (Except increasing the bitrate or using a
better encoder will make iPlayer look better than the
broadcast...)
You do get an awful lot better results when you
are not compressing in real time, of course,
Mo McRoberts wrote:
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 16:41, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote:
I like the way Ofcom have totally missed the point about Linux/Open Source
presuming it refers to STBs running Linux.
The reality is, STB manufacturers don't really have the luxury of being able to:
Mo McRoberts wrote:
Of course, from an anti-piracy perspective, as soon as ONE person leaks the tables, all bets are off.
As much as the BBC will claim the tables are its “intellectual property”, from what I know of copyright law
it would be difficult to claim that they were © BBC; no other
Adam wrote:
Hi,
Nokia have released the Nokia N900 phone based on their Maemo operating
system.
As it doesn't support S60 WRT that the current Nokia phones iPlayer app
is written in is there anyway i can access the iPlayer videos directly.
I can access the current videos and play them,
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Another way of looking at TV is that is the delivery of audio visual
services using high capacity omnidirectional technology.
I think you mean broadcast.
Clearly, in 1980, you absolutely cannot do 'video on demand' for everyone.
The playback technology diddn't
Mo McRoberts wrote:
Discuss.
TV is live simultaneous transmission of pictures, where you can have a
large number of people over a significant distance watching one event.
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Ian Stirling wrote:
Mo McRoberts wrote:
Discuss.
TV is live simultaneous transmission of pictures, where you can have a
large number of people over a significant distance watching one event.
Or to be more accurate, simultanenous reception of a television program
service licenced under
Brian Butterworth wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/17/ordnance-survey-maps-online
The online maps would be free to all, including commercial users who,
previously, had to acquire expensive and restrictive licences at £5,000
per usage, a fee many entrepreneurs felt was too
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