Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-27 Thread ST
Dave Crossland wrote: For a certain value judgement of 'good' that is? It tramples users' freedom and their friendships since we can't know how it works or redistribute it. That's not good. Conversely, it allows SMEs to enter market places with the knowledge that their intellectual

Re: [backstage] iPhone Apple opens up iPhone to app developers - I told you so

2008-02-27 Thread Brian Butterworth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/26/apple.apple Apple is rumoured to have delayed the launch of the software tools that will help third party developers produce independent applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The Californian technology giant said last October that the software

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-27 Thread Alia Sheikh
Hi Rupert, I appear to have duplicated your comment on Prism. Didn't mean to ignore your message, it just got a bit lost in the noise. Have you used it at all? Or anyone else on this list for that matter. I'd be interested in an opinion. Alia Rupert Watson wrote: Ian I think it is

[backstage] GNU+Linux on the Wii as of this week

2008-02-27 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi, We can now boot GNU+Linux on Wii computers: And last but not least, we have finally run natively Linux on the Nintendo Wii through Team Tweezers' twilight-hack (http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Twilight_Hack). We have released a small usbgecko-enabled Proof of Concept

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-27 Thread rob
Quoting ST [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When was the last time you had the feeler guage out to re-tappet your car? I personally wouldn't know how. But if I fill up at a petrol station and they tell me that as a result I am forbidden from hiring a mechanic to fix my car, I know that is an

Re: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

2008-02-27 Thread Billy Abbott
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard P Edwards wrote: I would love to know who it was that decided to make the two systems incompatible.. I found the Wikipedia pages on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD quite informative when I was trying to find out the answer to the same question a couple of weeks back:

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Lockwood
I find filtering his mail directly into trash helps. That is a mature approach to dealing with mailing lists; thanks :-) It's a mature way of dealing with trolls on mailing lists, yes. R. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] GNU+Linux on the Wii as of this week

2008-02-27 Thread Tim Dobson
sounds interesting does anyone have a link for that video which used the wiimote etc to create a 3d environment which changed perspective from where one was. someone showed me a video of it on youtube - it looked pretty cool. pity i can't afford a wii, though by the time development has got to a

Re: [backstage] GNU+Linux on the Wii as of this week

2008-02-27 Thread Paul Dixon
Tim Dobson wrote: sounds interesting does anyone have a link for that video which used the wiimote etc to create a 3d environment which changed perspective from where one was. someone showed me a video of it on youtube - it looked pretty cool. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Re: [backstage] GNU+Linux on the Wii as of this week

2008-02-27 Thread Iain Wallace
Search for Johnny Chung Lee - he's done a few really cool projects using the wiimote. On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Tim Dobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sounds interesting does anyone have a link for that video which used the wiimote etc to create a 3d environment which changed perspective

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26/02/2008, Alia Sheikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Air is proprietary, that it runs on GNU+Linux is not good. For a certain value judgement of 'good' that is? It tramples users' freedom and their friendships since we can't know how it works or redistribute it. That's not

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-27 Thread Rupert Watson
Alia It is on all platforms now I think; http://wiki.mozilla.org/WebRunner#Latest_version Rupert Watson Www.root6.com +44 7787 554 801 On 26/02/2008 21:43, Alia Sheikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: windows only for the moment but open ROOT 6 LIMITED Registered in the UK at 4 WARDOUR

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-27 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 17:13:41 Dave Crossland wrote: Software freedom is very tightly defined - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Actually that is just one definition of software freedom. Just because you don't agree with others doesn't mean there is only one definition. You

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-27 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 14:00:18 Richard Lockwood wrote: It's a mature way of dealing with trolls on mailing lists, yes. I tend to try ask people to accept that other people have differing views and to ask them politely not to impose their views on everyone first before dumping them in the