(it was only this morning that I saw an advert for Sky+ which crowed
about the fact you can record an entire series and keep it around for
as long as you like...)
Until the box crashes and loses all of your recordings, natch.
Alex
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Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To
I think it is a kind of slippery slope - one day you're making a personal
archive of a TV programme, the next you are publishing it all on the internet
for your friends - even this which might seem harmless might prevent a rights
holder setting up their own website to do the same thing
and claim that they were put there by gay asylum seekers who got into by BBC
through the back door...
On 3 Jun 2010, at 17:03, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
I reported this a few weeks ago, on a different story.
It never got
fixed, and the problem keeps happening.
Forward your complaint to
So if you're not an expert, it's probably not wise to rush a bill through
wash-up without proper scrutiny.
Alex
On 9 Apr 2010, at 10:57, Gordon Joly wrote:
On 09/04/2010 08:22, Brian Butterworth wrote:
That wasn't the first time the poor old dears got IP and IP mixed up, I
heard it on
Is this the Judean People's Front?
Alex
On 17 Mar 2010, at 11:18, vijay chopra wrote:
Just a minor nitpick:
It's the Pirate Party UK, not the UK pirate party...
/me is a member.
/pedant :p
regards,
Vijay
On 17 March 2010 00:37, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote:
Hi there,
I've
So we're just ignoring WebKit, Darwin, Grand Central and the rest of the stuff
on this list?
http://www.apple.com/opensource/
On 5 Feb 2010, at 14:29, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 13:17, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
Since Jobs' return to the helm, Macs have
If you want to run Mac OS X on Dell hardware, go right ahead, Apple won't stop
you. I don't see why Apple, with a minority share in the computer market,
should officially support you doing that.
Alex
On 5 Feb 2010, at 15:09, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 14:49, Alex
and stop moaning about it.
On 5 Feb 2010, at 16:57, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 15:16, Alex Mace a...@hollytree.co.uk wrote:
If you want to run Mac OS X on Dell hardware, go right ahead, Apple won't
stop you. I don't see why Apple, with a minority share in the computer
FUD.
Other browsers are available for the iPhone, through the App Store:
http://www.macworld.com/appguide/article.html?article=138409
Microsoft also deliberately participated in various nefarious anti-competitive
practices to achieve market domination, which AFAIK, Apple has not yet done.
The
Actually I thought it was Gary Kildall was out flying his plane when IBM rang
that made Gates rich :-p
Alex
On 29 Jan 2010, at 09:11, Brian Butterworth wrote:
OS/2 PM was a trick Microsoft played on IBM, wasn't it?
Windows v3.0 was cooperative multitasking, not pre-emptive which was why
It is an OS. It just doesn't allow you to do all the stuff that us power users
(and I would suggest membership of this list marks someone out as such) want to
do. The closed app ecosystem is similarly only really an issue for us. I
suspect a bigger issue for your normal user will be the lack of
I'm sure some would argue that saving money by staying on an old, insecure and
hard to support browser is something of a false economy.
Alex
On 14 Dec 2009, at 16:18, Peter Bowyer wrote:
2009/12/14 Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk:
I'll be sure to tell the Secretary of State for
It all seems moot to me anyway. No one is required to enforce or
protect their copyright. If David or whoever wants to live in a
copyright free world, then go right ahead.
The greater problem is that copyright has been abused both by end
users and corporations. The Associated Press's
Hmm, not sure it doesn't doesn't Moore's law actually say that the
density of transistors will double every 18 months?
Alex
On 3 Sep 2009, at 09:08, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Very nice. You could store 29 days of everything transitted on
Freeview (23 after switchover).
Moore's law says
iPlayer itself seemed to be down eariler today...
Alex
On 3 Sep 2009, at 14:52, Paul Battley wrote:
The iPlayer feeds seem to be broken today. They currently have a blank
line before the XML declaration, making them invalid.
E.g. (Firefox will also complain if you load it up)
://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2002/12/04#1039028640
Rhys
2009/9/3 Alex Mace a...@hollytree.co.uk:
Hmm, not sure it doesn't doesn't Moore's law actually say that
the density
of transistors will double every 18 months?
Alex
On 3 Sep 2009, at 09:08, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Very nice. You could store
No, they're using conditional comments, which only IE recognises.
Basically it allows you to put in HTML that IE will understand but
other browsers will ignore because they are specially formatted HTML
comments.
I generally use similar stuff to include an IE only stylesheet for
fixing
I compressed the run time on my toaster and now it won't shut up about
grilled bread products.
Lister
On 5 Aug 2009, at 10:16, John Styles wrote:
We seem to have drifted off topic, can we not go back to complaining
that the BBC won't let me run iPlayer on my Tesco Value Toaster and
store
Mere users don’t stand a chance with anything Linux based. It’s far
too geeky to use still.
Well, obviously. You don't see any mere users using Android based
phones, Tivos, routers, etc, etc. do you?
Excuse my ignorance, but what is TED? A quite look at the website
tells me plenty about signing up and events going on, but nothing at
all about what it is...
On 20 Jul 2009, at 09:35, Alia Sheikh wrote:
Registration being free and available here:
I presume someone has tried the old trick of extracting the pictures
from PDF to make sure they didn't just apply the redaction over the
top of the pictures? Sounds unlikely, but it's been done before...
On 19 Jun 2009, at 16:23, Brian Butterworth wrote:
2009/6/19 John O'Donovan
Is there a demand for this service though? IIRC the BBC was providing
local news channels through the website but they've since been
removed, I presume because of lack of people watching it.
On 18 Jun 2009, at 12:28, Brian Butterworth wrote:
2009/6/18 Andrew Bowden
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