http://informitv.com/news/2010/09/16/youviewisconfirmed/
Personally, I think 'WeView' would have been a better follow-on
from 'iPlayer' and 'YouTube'. But that might suggest open
collaboration and public participation, so perhaps not. :-/
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Brian Butterworth wrote:
Did no one tell those stupid MPs that the whole Internet is peer-to-peer?
To most of them, peer-to-peer communication is what happens when
Lord Mandelson does a deal with Baroness Scotland.
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military, etc. None of us are experts in all fields
None of us are setting government policy, influencing public opintion
or writing laws in the fields we're inexpert in, though. I hope.
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and update my 12,000 tracks.
Never mind the potential for more Kindle-1984 scenarios.
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they're presiding over? Why, that's...inconceivable!
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, then we might have:
BBC wastes your money to shore up Hollywood's profits
This is quite separate from any debate on how content
management might support or hinder the BBC's public purposes,
which I will happily leave to others.
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Rain wrote:
Wot that pastime you only end up doing if you really, really have nothing
better to to do instead?
Oh, I know, I know! Is it: debate the meaning of 'TV'?
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best understood by university graduates
So, am I supposed to conclude that:
43.2 Floods body is missing policeman
is noticeably easier to read than:
22.6 Whisky body backs safe drinking
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So, am I supposed to conclude that:
43.2 Floods body is missing policeman
is noticeably easier to read than:
22.6 Whisky body backs safe drinking
I’d contend that in terms of sheer readability
BA are listing 'BBC Backstage' as a children's 'Music and Stories' selection on
their flights this month:
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/ifeoutavodlisting/public/en_gb?class=wt
My favourite is Goldilocks and the three APIs.
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Ant Miller wrote:
If you've got ideas and suggestions for improvement, or any further
questions, I'd be happy to pass them along to the team.
Completely geeky one: make iplayer.bbc.co.uk do something sensible.
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On 09/03/2009 11:28 AM, Tim Dobson wrote:
Ian Forrester wrote:
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-
cheap-cloud-storage/
Found via Frank Wales,
Haha. So Frank reads /. too! :)
Actually, I got it (and RTed it) in my twitter feed. So there *pththtb* :-P
Ant Miller wrote:
is www.welcomebackstage.com down for all you guys too?
It's down for me, and it's down for downforeveryoneorjustme.com:
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.welcomebackstage.com
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Alex Mace wrote:
I compressed the run time on my toaster and now it won't shut up about
grilled bread products.
Other hot flat snacks are available.
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Apparently, there are complaints about how much air time
twitter is being given by the BBC:
http://thenextweb.com/2009/02/09/bbc-radio-listeners-kick-fuss-twitter-time-bbc-create-microblogging-service/
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providers tend to stripe you up if you want to treat your
phone like a modem for your computer, while 3 seem quite happy
to let you do this, at least on this model.
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Dave Crossland wrote:
A nice example of someone running a business, with streaming and
torrent downloads and verbatim commercial redistribution permitted:
http://www.chrismartenson.com/make-your-own-crash-course-dvds
Er, you sure?
** server can't find chrismartenson.com: NXDOMAIN
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Nick Morrott wrote:
The Beeb could have used kiloponds as themetric force unit,
Kiloponds, eh? Why, that's very nearly a lake. Which brings us
back to the fish. I'd say more, but I'd be out of my depth.
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at home,
Well, there you go then. I'm on Be at home also. Problem characterized.
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where bbc.co.uk is unavailable, and twitter.com is responding well.
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Alison Young wrote:
Have spent most of the night cheering whenever the BBC broke out the
incredibly zoomy graphics. Fab.
Was is just a coincidence that Jeremy Vine appeared to repeatedly poke
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locations. Probably rats chewing on cables.
Obama won in case you were wondering :o)
Oh, I wasn't wondering -- BBC News on the televisual
gramophone still worked, despite Gore Vidal's best efforts
to stupefy everyone.
I notice I sent out several more tweets than I remember too.
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Andrew Bowden wrote:
Even for smaller channels, there are benefits to being encrypted, such
as reduced EPG listing fees.
It costs less to tell people about your programmes if you encrypt them?
The reason being...?
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John O'Donovan wrote:
Now that you know what happens I bet you won't do that again...
Actually, I think that behaviour is a bug, but as I'm now out of
scratch pantaloons to test with, I'll leave it for others more
versed in surprise linguo-tailoring incidents to investigate.
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!
Hey, look at that, my pants are still up.
They're on fire, but they're still up.
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commercials was stealing the
programmes,
since both of them seem to want the world to change so that their business
models can work.
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pissed off
with us when they learn how we've tricked them that they find
cause to sue us, or leave us for someone more honest(+).
(+) Small print small print: by someone more honest, I mean your Mom.
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He sounds like he'd be a hoot to have around, as long as you're not
one of those cheeseburger-eating, IDE-loving, PHP douchebags, as he
might call them.
(Which I'm not, by the way, if you're reading this, Zed. I'm more
your coffee-drinking, emacs-loving, meta-programming geezer.)
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that this is a nostalgic
touch, but I don't lose sight of the meaning of a BBC clock to Mr and Mrs
Punter.
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! An RSS feed of fixes and updates to the new page, too,
I'd like, please, thank you very much.
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which is also the charset specified in the respective Content-Type headers.
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, this is because it's from longer ago than yesterday,
since shows from this morning seem to be available.
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are more inclined to watch TV at work than
getting some work done, they have bigger problems than those that
can be fixed with some overly-broad firewall rules.
I don't think the BBC should be worried about such dysfunctional companies.
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they're doing, because I can't even think of use cases from
the porn business to support them, which can't be a good sign.
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anyway),
and are deciding what they want to watch, when, rather than organizing
their activities around a TV schedule.
Or worse, zillions of schedules.
Let's all watch TV like it's 1994! On the Internet!! In Korean!!!
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, there will not be a physical object
called 'a fiver'.
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over it, since I have more
confidence they'll be around.
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, iMbrella.
If you missed yesterday's weather, you can catch it again today.
Note that, because of the use of Digital Rain Management,
sunlight is not presently available through this new service.
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be
Matthew or Ian -- that they'll do it with good humour is a bonus.)
Personally, I was waiting to see whether anyone's irony fuse
was going to blow, since arguing in public about how good
your manners are is a fairly robust demonstration of
how good they aren't.
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mates' insane opinions show up, with hilarious consequences.
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playback on
my shiny video iPod bauble, thus allowing the computers to be
used for more computery purposes, such as accountancy, or sending out
advertisements for international criminal syndicates, or something.
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popular than it; other people
made the point better by referring to set-top boxes such as TiVo.
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concern is that because the process does not include users, it is
difficult for their needs to be met.
Which 'process' are you talking about?
Are you suggesting that software is too important to be left to programmers?
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rate between
internet pages, AJAX requests, MP3 files and e-mail messages; a limit
based on requests rather than total bytes transferred would be highly comical.
And is the limit a cap, or merely the threshold to the land of severely
enlarged bills?
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At least, I think that's the quote.
Anyway, here's a load of gear being flogged by the BBC, just in case
there are any people on this list who understand old technical stuff:
http://www.goindustry.com/en/speciallist.asp?SaleID=7658Track=AuctionScope=group
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, Dr Jeremy Paxman,
the union's ambassador to the BBC, just looked tired and sad.
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isn't standing behind me right now with a hose.
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it, let's listen
to You ain't bookmarkin' yet by Backstage-Browser Overdrive...
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, misleading, pornographic or many
other categories of material, and not in a way that would bring the
BBC's reputation for impartiality into question.
Actual terms and conditions of use:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediabank/documentation/guidelines.doc
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So, just like normal web development, then (except for all the differences).
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, by the way, breaks the device for me as a potential future
phone, since we use self-signed X.509 certs to authenticate to secure
web services, and we're certainly not the only people doing this.
(It doesn't help that I couldn't put an ssh client on the thing either.)
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or not the Linux
phone from FIC actually gains more traction that the rest of
the promising-but-discontinued Linux-based handhelds did.
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You could always try this:
http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2007/07/dude-releases-his-new-album-on-nes.html
Probably a bit extreme for the BBC to consider, though.
(P.S., don't mention using emulators to distribute copies; it'll only upset
people.)
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it differs from region coding, here:
http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#1.19
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confusing.
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on their definition of 'news'.
Perhaps it'll become newsworthy now that Michael Dell is running
Ubuntu Linux (and OpenOffice and Firefox) on his new laptop:
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/04/18/12261.aspx#comments
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and in customization, and this isn't a situation that's going to go
away any time soon, especially with the burgeoning of Ajax-like
interactivity and the use of mobile devices as browsers.
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loss of
confidence in Blu-Ray technology.
End of the exam -- or is it?
Exam Raider Anniversary Edition -- coming for Christmas 2008.
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blotted that one out, as it wasn't exactly the zenith
of writing for the new series.)
I'm sure it was no more of a coincidence that we had an Ally Pally
episode in 2006 than that the two-part episode about Satan
was broadcast on days that straddled the date 6/6/6.
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that position to promote free(libre) media.
The day the BBC sells its airwaves to the highest bidder in this way
is the day they betray the public's trust.
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with MP3 players, for example,
where there is a world-wide standard on how to go from bits to
audio that isn't hamstrung by history. Consequently, I think lessons
from DVD region coding have limited applicability to how DRM might
work out in other areas.
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to get through difficult growing pains; the trick is to make sure
it doesn't get dragged into adulthood, covered in drool and cat hair.
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Nic James Ferrier wrote:
Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the other, we're just a
natural resource to be harvested and sold off like so
many varieties of attentional baked-beans; any benefits
we might get are a side-effect of the process.
I realise you said it was very crude but I
about which year we'll
all be saying 'softwares' without flinching, the way we no
longer flinch about saying 'emails'?
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every week
(what day is it on again?)
All of them.
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required senior management to possess practical perl prowess,
ITV would surely demand rock'n'roll, drag'n'plop PowerPoint skilz, so
they can re-spiffify the sales demo of their attention-harvesting plans
before Big Ad notices just how ensweatened ITV's brow has become.
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, but I don't see it mentioned on yonder page;
something to do with those mobile newfangle-o-trons.
Is my memory playing poker with dogs again?
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Avoidance Copy
Kept Until Peacetime', and are apparently carried clandestinely
via the only route from London that avoids every bridge,
railway line and transport cafe.
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David Burden wrote:
Coming down from Birmingham it would be best to be mid-week so as to try
and dovetail in with a business meeting. Good idea though.
Perhaps Ian could stick a when-can-people-make-it poll
on www.doodle.ch with suggested dates?
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On 04/26/2006 03:05 PM, I inadvertently echoed Dave in asking:
Is this still implemented using Ruby-on-Rails?
Looks like this is answered on Matt's blog:
http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/81.html
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