Chris,
Finally, remember that the noise *is *the signal. You can't post too much.
Deploy filters.
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html
On 15/08/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that description of a shill is fairly accurate myself (but then, I
Sorry guys, I thought I was deploying debating skills... I really hope
no-one took offense.
On 15/08/07, Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Enough on this now please chaps – let's keep this nice.
m
On 15/8/07 11:32, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 15/08/07, *Simon
Hurah, we are back to non-zero sum!
On 15/08/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 15/08/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If a drinks company is giving away a can of drink free at a railway
station (which happens), does that entitle you to go into Sainsburys and
On 16/08/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris,
Finally, remember that the noise is the signal. You can't post too much.
Deploy filters.
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html
... which has been taken retrospectively to mean 'post what you like
about
On 15/08/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If a drinks company is giving away a can of drink free
at a railway station (which happens), does that entitle you to go into
Sainsburys and take one without paying
Does iPlayer contain Silverlight? I've not seen anything to suggest it does.
What the hell does all this matter anyhow, there is no lock in. The tech is
just being used to deliver the content as per spec, which it seems to be
doing. Nothing is stopping the BBC ditching MS products for iPlayer at
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
Sent: 16 August 2007 08:47
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: When are we going to get another list? (was: RE:
[backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th,
On 16/08/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems the anti-DRM protests are misdirected. Why is the yellow jump-suit
brigade talking to the people who actually have the power to change it? The
rights holders.
The BBC is being very sneaky about responsibility for the DRM:
It doesn't
On 16/08/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems the anti-DRM protests are misdirected. Why is the yellow
jump-suit brigade talking to the people who actually have
the power to
change it? The rights holders.
The BBC is being very sneaky about responsibility for the DRM:
It
I can't imagine it would be difficult to get hold of a list of suppliers of
BBC programming (in the annual report? FOI act request? Phone the
commissioning dept?), then you could just ask the companies themselves (or
their PR?) what their opinion on iPlayer and DRM is.
FOI act won't help you here
At 09:09 +0100 16/8/07, Jason Cartwright wrote:
[...]
iPlayer installation numbers will be tiny compared to Flash installations -
you know YouTube gets many, many more visitors that bbc.co.uk?
J
And so it should. YouTube is commercial, part of Google, and hip.
The BBC is a corporation,
Andrew,
Please don't take it the wrong way, but you seem to have a strange idea of
what a discussion is about Have you not been sent to BBC re-education
camp yet?
By saying That's all I'm going to stay. There is no point in even debating
the subject you make Auntie seem like Fox News!
On
Hey all was going to announce this when it was actually working but I¹ve
set up a new list called backstage-developer; it¹s a list totally devoted to
developers and technical issues around BBC feeds and APIs it will be
policed to ensure this is the main aim of that list. You¹ll still be able
From last weeks Private Eye - http://www.private-eye.co.uk/
THE BBC has announced today radical new plans to show TV programmes on
television sets.
³While these television sets will never replace seeing your favourite shows
streamed on the internet, beamed directly to your mobile phone, or
Matthew Cashmore wrote:
From last weeks Private Eye - http://www.private-eye.co.uk/
THE BBC has announced today radical new plans to show TV programmes on
television sets.
While these television sets will never replace seeing your favourite
shows streamed on the internet, beamed directly
Forums?... Forums???
Please let this be a typo, don't move to forums, they're horrid and
yucky and smell and take far too much time to wade through the dross to
get to anything of interest and people will start tagging each of their
posts with bl00dy great big images of their PC systems
And the British Homeopathic League accused government boffins
of watering down official research in order to hide the harmful
effects of the new TV broadcasts.
Wait - surely the British Homeopathic League would water down research
in order to make it more effective?
-- Tom
-
Sent via the
But as the Homeopathic League know, watering down the research just
makes it even more potent ;-)
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On 16/08/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The general population have an interesting respect laws and rules -
demand complete and total implementation of the ones they really like,
whilst ignoring the ones they don't. You only have to look at how many
people break the speed limit
On 16/08/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does iPlayer contain Silverlight? I've not seen anything to suggest it does.
It might not today, but its very clear what Microsoft's web-video strategy is.
There was an article in The Register today about this:
On 16/08/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16/08/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does iPlayer contain Silverlight? I've not seen anything to suggest it
does.
It might not today, but its very clear what Microsoft's web-video strategy
is.
There was an article
Tom Scott wrote:
Wait - surely the British Homeopathic League would water down research
in order to make it more effective?
The BHL don't understand the meaning of the word 'irony', but they do
know that whatever it means, the more subtle it is, the more effective it is.
And Debby Mengele
It's a bit late for the ISPs to moan, as Ofcom and the BBC have spent two
years consulting!
The BBC Trust approval noted:
3.16 Broadband costs
One industry stakeholder raised concern about the impact of the BBC's
proposals on broadband networks and costs. It was said that the PVT barely
I guess the idea is Microsoft use the BBC content (that created
from licence fees) and use it to leverage their PlayReady system on
multiple platforms, so the BBC can claim that the system is
cross-platform, whereas people are actually asking for something that
isn't owned by Bill Gates'
On 16/08/07, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess the idea is Microsoft use the BBC content (that created
from licence fees) and use it to leverage their PlayReady system on
multiple platforms, so the BBC can claim that the system is
cross-platform, whereas people are actually
Brian Butterworth wrote:
It might be me...
I tried using the Windows XP Media Center Edition's BBC News
application last week and it worked fine (apart from crashing the XBox
360's extender software...) but the same application only lists the
RSS feeds as a menu under Vista's Media Center,
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