Muchas gracias, amigo
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[mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of jugjogee
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:52 PM
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband
I have an E172 which worked with a Mac
Thanks for all the replies from different people.
Yep, my feelings exactly - it is just a modem so it should work.
I know areas (e.g. right outside the Vodafone shop in Falmouth - where they
have a booster aerial) where the Vodafone will work on Windows, so I think
I'll go that route and give
VERY useful thanks
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[mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 11:16 AM
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband
You can find the mast and
Totally OT and self indulgent (APOLOGIES), but wondered if anyone knows from
experience of a mobile broadband product (PAYG) that works in Falmouth,
Cornwall. Needs to work on a Mac - MBP.
Thanks
Anyone know why the Book At Bedtime (Radio 4) feed in iPlayer for this
week's A Christmas Carol is missing? Monday's episode is available, but
not Tuesday's or Wednesday's.
Thanks
Many thanks
I was going from here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/book_bedtime.shtml
sans luck.
Can get it from the link you suggested. Much appreciated.
Festive wishes ;-)
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[mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of
Here we are exchanging festive wishes and we haven't even got to the last
redeeming episode yet ... we're still meant to be going bah! humbug! and
chasing carollers with rulers.
;-)
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[mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On
ditto
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Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:22 AM
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Cc: Libby Miller
Subject: Re: [backstage] Is news.bbc.co.uk broken?
On 26 Nov 2008, at 09:12, Dominic Burns wrote:
BBC.co.uk not working?
Can Flash be reduced to a controllable toolbar on your start bar, and can it
be told to stay on top of other windows
both features that I for one use a
lot with WMP and (OMG) RP as well.
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Sent:
Anything is possible, of course, but people want plain simple easy things
that work the way they expect them to work. Flash embedded BBC content isnt
really user friendly
I think. ;-)
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Sent: 13
I’d have to disagree. Not if it can’t easily be reduced to a controllable
item on the task bar, and not if it can’t be told to stay conveniently on
top of other windows. Having to have IE/FF open (with their physical screen
size) to watch something in flash is just a nuisance especially if you
I'd second that ...
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Hannen
Sent: 13 June 2008 15:46
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!
An option for the iplayer to pop-out to an always on top widow,
would
If BT can, why can’t you or anyone else?
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
Sent: 09 June 2008 15:31
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] RE: [backstage] Re: Is it OK for BT Vision to
charge £3 per month for
For Matts collection:
I was walking past a building the other day, and all the people were
shouting, 13...1313...13.
The fence was too high to see over, but I saw a little gap in the planks and
looked through to see what was going on.
Someone poked me in the eye with a stick and then they
Saying BBC News doesn't make much sense either as there are lots of BBC News
programme transmissions other than News 24 (notwithstanding the fact that so
many of the transmissions have more or less the same content, so it doesn't
really matter where you've seen it). BBC 24 would (IMO) have been a
I think the ISPs have a point ... the ADSL network is (currently) like a
collection of country roads (narrow and fairly slow) which the BBC is trying to
drive it's supersize juggernauts down. Think the ISPs should use some form of
traffic shaping for iPlayer traffic and that the BBC and other
Yep, am waiting for freesat to launch as there is no digi signal on our
transmitter until 2012. Though freesat wont give me radio reception ;-(
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
Sent: 09 April 2008 07:44
To:
The double mastheads (black then red) take up too much space and push the
main chunk of the site too far down the page. Apart from that, a very nice
design. Centred and wider.. at last. /applause/
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On so many levels, that's incredibly bizarre and effete.
Hello.
I'm a BBC senior manager; but posting personally as a fan of Backstage.
It puts us (those that care about Backstage) in a really difficult
position
if it's used to share information on ways to get around
content-restrictions
Indicative of BBC /management/. Erm.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dom Ramsey
Sent: 14 March 2008 12:50
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?
On 14 Mar 2008, at 11:13, James Cridland wrote:
I don't
Maybe the BBC is only paying lip-service to the notion of DRM knowing that
anything it puts in place can and will be broken.
Maybe everyone should just keep quiet and play along with this DRM charade?
Can't help but feel that the DRM supporters are the luddites of the 21st
century - people who
Wrong - the door is open with a welcome sign because all the progs are
broadcast first of all on TV without DRM. Adding DRM later on is just a
meaningless waste of money. If people want to get content online, they can
and they will. iTV will probably make it even easier if it records live TV
as
I'm happy to take the BBC's money and produce content for it without any DRM
clause. The BBC can find other suppliers. It doesn't have to stick with its
current suppliers/friends/former
employees-now-turned-private-production-companies. Break up the cartel and
get some new life and new thinking
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_727/newsid_7271000/7271098.stm?b
w=bbmp=wmnews=1bbcws=1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_727/newsid_7271000/7271098.stm?
bw=bbmp=wmnews=1bbcws=1
With ideas like this being touted by the BBC for people to get content on
different devices SANS
But how is the BBC protecting rights holders when it has online video
instructions telling you how to record progs without any DRM protection.
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Sent: 07 March 2008 15:52
To:
I agree with Tim Dobson and welcome getting views that make me think from
all parts of the thought spectrum. Consider may of posts I read to be
thought provoking. If other people feel they are trolled by Dave's views,
then that's their own feelings - but I welcome his comments and find the
Could be good marketing if they can make it cost effective. How many people
bought HD-DVD anyway... presumably not /that/ many or the format wouldn't
have gone belly up.
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Sent: 22 February 2008
Is that right? These days doesn't everyone store their still pics digitally?
Store their video camera clips digitally? Store their music digitally? I
think the only thing that gets in the way is DRM. Downloading a movie/song
often comes with DRM restricting usage to set players. With a CD/DVD you
What I /heart/ about the pre-2K bit of plastic is the way it takes control
over your TV/DVD and insists that you watch the copyright notices and it
tries to thrust the 'don't copy videos' advert on to you. Why should any
company have the right to stop you using your own DVD controls and force you
Journalists in terms of national newspapers and national broadcasters aren't
needed in modern society. We could easily and happily do without them.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Deirdre Harvey
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:48 AM
By ditching DRM, sales increase and copyright holders make more money
anyway:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/news/140652/uk-retailers-called-for-ditching-
of-drm.html
independent labels are outselling restricted downloads by four-to-one.
Better to have a larger slice of the cake than to have a
I agree with you - just got the same message and had the same thought.
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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 3:48 PM
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails
Hi,
I've just
That's just a personal preference amongst some people - it isn't wrong.
According to Michael Swan from Oxford University Press, Practical English
Usage:
British English: different from / different to
American English: different from / different than
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So - how, in your system when all media are free, do you reward
creativity? Or do you believe that creativity is not worth monetary
reward?
Most of what the media produces isnt creative: it is formulaic and
componentised in much the same way as any factory that assembles work on a
production
Here we go again with the there are plenty of other ways to make
money / loads of other business models argument.
Just for the sake of accuracy ... I didn't actually say either of the above.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard
Hey Rich
++
Oh. Right. Sorry. wouldn't struggle with how to make money from its
work.
I'm sure there's a distinction between that and would be able to come
up with a different business model
There is a distinction because I'm not saying that people would be able to
come up with
The vast majority of users are quite happy to use the content as it's
provided, and have no problems doing that.
(I ask this politely) On what basis do you say that?
I don't know anyone who is happy with DRM. My 70 year-old neighbour refuses
to buy DRM material just on the principle that rights
Me three ;-))
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kirk
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 5:45 PM
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Archive trial
I just received an e-mail which seemed to confirm I was part of the
trial -
Multicast with Zen.co.uk worked sporadically. When it worked, it worked
well. When it didn't, it didn't show anything other than a blank video
screen.
Just curious and apologies for being off topic, but have noticed, post Vista
launch, that quite a lot of people seem to be switching from Windows
I could add quite a few to that anecdotal tally: people who have switched to
Macs (Mac Book Pros, especially) and people who say they will switch once
Leopard is released. Know a lot of people who last year were planning on
switching to Vista - some did and have already gone back to XP or changed
Seems like a lot of Mac growth in a single month..
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:04 PM
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u me
Isn't the first,
I realised the error after sending the message ;-(
Still, a significant rise for the Macs and a further indication that the OS
ground does appear to be shifting. Would be interesting to know if that is
reflected in stats for other companies.
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It was called:
Capturing Celebrity...
Mon 5 Mar, 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm 30mins
...The Photographs of Angus McBean. A look at the career of the Newport-born
artist currently being celebrated in a major exhibition at the National
Museum of Wales. [S]
Looks like it was on Wales BBC 2. Could try:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/2w/content/contact.shtml
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Cartwright
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:15 AM
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage]
Would seem to weaken the case for any DRM - especially as the Beeb appears to
be condoning independent use of its material:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6411017.stm
The corporation will also get a share of the advertising revenue generated by
traffic to the new YouTube channels.
Mr
I fully respect Andrew's point of view as written below, but - with
respect - I struggle to agree with it.
Years ago, before PCs and printers, if people wanted anything copied they
had to go to the local shop or library where they could use a photocopier.
Today, they just use their own scanners
Free lunch? Nah. You've just destroyed the entire model that funded
the film. Thousands of people who would have had work, now have none.
Sure, some people /might/ buy the official DVD, but others won't. The
funding isn't there.
If a film company can't produce a film and make money from it
So, how do you propose to fund a multi-million pound film in a different
business model?
I don't propose funding a multi-million pound film, so it is not my concern.
If it can be made, it can be made. If it can't be made, it can't be made. If
people don't want to pay for films, then don't make
Of course it is about laissez-faire economics: business is, as business
always has been.
But if he somehow managed to find an investor to stump up the money for
just such a boat, with the idea that he would make a profit by selling
jaunts on the ship, would you and your mates refuse to pay for a
Please to no more sophomoric nonsense about broken business models and
how we need to walk into the shining future without a backward glance.
Cool. What you don't understand, you call sophomoric nonsense. Think you've
won the argument there, at least with yourself.
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I think Jason makes a very good point in his mail below: advertising does
work. This is especially true with the context based ads served by companies
like Google where when you visit websites you can usually find ads that are
relevant to what you are already looking at. They are just the same as
Try offering content that people want instead, and ask them to show
support by clicking on the ads
Most ad programs prohibit publishers from asking readers to click on ads as
a way of showing support.
Advertising pays for a lot of work on the net and it doesnt hurt to show a
bit of support by
Hello
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6353889.stm
DRM software like Apple's Fairplay or Microsoft's Windows Media DRM
should properly be called digital restriction management, since its primary
goal is to limit what purchasers can do with downloaded content. (from
Bill Thompson)
Isn't
If the ONLY distribution channel open to artists/record labels was a libre
channel sans DRM, would the artists/record labels (etc) stop producing and
distributing? I think not. They will still make more money out of such libre
publishing than they would:
(1) if they didnt publish at all
(2)
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