On 14-Dec-2009, at 13:22, Jim Tonge wrote:
On 14 Dec 2009, at 12:42, Mo McRoberts wrote:
As somebody who still has to “fix” things for IE 6 on a regular basis, all I
can say is: no, it definitely isn‘t, and please don’t come back.
Just a joke :)
Sorry, reading my reply back, it looked
that.
Most web developers don’t have that luxury.
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to correct me if this is no longer the case!
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browser upgrade :( Can't it just be lumped onto the Capita
spend for the central database? It seems to have a blank cheque already
We can upgrade our nuclear weapons, but not a web browser, etc., etc.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/04/power_line_networking/), but kit
compliant with the standards is perfectly legal.
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networks to utilise multiple paths is
predicated on there being more than one; that’s why intersite connectivity
between universities probably would be maintained while many cheap and nasty
hostcos go to the wall).
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Discuss.
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On 14-Dec-2009, at 21:24, Brian Butterworth wrote:
That's what people who haven't bought a computer yet do, isn't it pops?
Where people wait to be provided what's given? Don't they use a tube or
something?
That’s “a TV”, the device. what is “TV” the medium?
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On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 13:35, Lee Ball l...@leenukes.co.uk wrote:
Seems like a good idea for me:
Facebook and other social networking websites are to install panic
buttons so children can alert the sites' operators if obscene or
inappropriate material is posted.
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And, in fact, on reading the TCs just there, I can’t actually see any
reference to a minimum age at all:
http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:20, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote:
Unless it sorts this out, and introduces a robust (and I mean properly
robust) contributor management model I'd actual recommend we don't use
it for work dialogues.
I’d recommend waiting for a self-hosted server for “proper”
/style.css comes back as something
that’s definitely not a stylesheet!
Working fine over here in both Safari and Chrome (and that resource is
definitely CSS for me).
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platforms, so it struck me as
perhaps a bit silly if Red Bee were doing that part of it. Mind you, I’m sure
there’s a very sensible reason for it if so ;)
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On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 15:51, backst...@gorge.org wrote:
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 03:11:28PM +, Frank Wales wrote:
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
Well, use of the
terribly, no matter what Neilson
reckons. So in fact, I’d actually prefer to see the longer headlines all of the
time (which does SEO no harm at all).
BBC headlines ‘lengthened’.
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-case is arriving at the page via a search engine—in which case
richer titles are helpful (you’ve already told the SE what it is you’re looking
for in any case).
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-to-license bits taken out).
So, what was he on about?
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On 10-Nov-2009, at 13:00, Mo McRoberts wrote:
On 10-Nov-2009, at 12:50, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Out of interest, does anyone have the new list of 20 Freeview HD
transmitters? My Freeview contact seems to be away.
Does digital.co.uk not tell you (in a slightly cubersome way)?
http
retires.
I wouldn’t count on that being much help. James, at the very least, is even
worse than he is (and has the current Shadow Culture Secretary on-side).
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).
coughs http://testtubetelly.channel4.com /coughs
Oh, I take it back, “prototype” though it is! Some listings
integration wouldn’t go amiss, but at least somebody’s doing
*something*.
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/metadata platform which already exists.
I wonder how true it is :)
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in the face, it doesn’t change the
reality of it).
Perhaps one day we’ll see an open source EMP. Who knows? It’d
certainly raise the bar where Flash media players are concerned.
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Hybrid Broadcast
Broadband TV, in that case?
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I think you’re onto something there.
Perhaps Freeview HD boxes should require a Facebook Connect login in
order to deliver personalised and tailored content (e.g., BBC1)?
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On 20-Oct-2009, at 15:26, Phil Lewis wrote:
[REDACTED]
I’m sorry, I would have replied to your message, but it required
quoting it, and I’m not sure I was granted the appropriate
redistribution rights.
M.
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On 20-Oct-2009, at 15:20, Tim Dobson wrote:
What do you think?
Good/Bad/Don't care?
Sensible.
http://nevali.net/post/218054190/back-of-envelope-analysis-bbc-trust-blocks-marquee
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 21:31, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote:
What is so important about the content/metadata ingest and delivery system
that is the iPlayer that it needs to be licenced as opposed to being
developed in-house at a broadcaster?
Possibly the fact that no other bugger is
wonder the same thing.
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Hey Nick,
Why don't you ask your boss Anthony?
That was me asking the questions, not Anthony ;)
(Unless you meant “why don’t you ask your boss, Anthony?”, in which
case “Anthony’s not my boss” :))
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On 14-Oct-2009, at 12:12, Stephen Jolly wrote:
On 14 Oct 2009, at 11:47, Mo McRoberts wrote:
Thus creating an (effective) two-tier system: those who work go the
whole hog within Canvas, or those who adhere to all of the
_technical_ specifications but need to come to separate
on a postcard to the usual address…
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On 14-Oct-2009, at 13:45, Stephen Jolly wrote:
On 14 Oct 2009, at 12:23, Mo McRoberts wrote:
I think the document I linked to implies a more flexible picture
than that.
It doesn’t.
There's stuff in section 2.7 that talks about the flexibility
manufacturers would have to change
anything
interesting or special, and gives me virtually no control over much at
all, but the DVB-T PCI card is a different matter altogether!
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except a paper proposal
when the first-stage responses on the (revised) consultation are yet
to come, let alone the four-week consultation and actual decision on
the project’s approval.
am I being dim?
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From the FT:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ba940c48-b6c5-11de-8a28-00144feab49a.html
Thoughts?
[My take: I’ve not great love for Sky (indeed, quite the opposite),
but on this one I agree with them, even if I suspect their motives are
far from altruistic, to say the least]
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On 12-Oct-2009, at 08:12, Mo McRoberts wrote:
From the FT:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ba940c48-b6c5-11de-8a28-00144feab49a.html
Responding to myself (it’s an exciting life I lead), I notice that the
FT says:
“The broadcaster wants the Trust to force the BBC to allow anybody -
not just
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 22:05, David Tomlinson
d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Is it safe to post ? As for following up your own posts ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/08/project_canvas/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/08/project_canvas/page2.html
To repeat, the technology
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:27, David Tomlinson d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Read Hat, SUSE etc all manage without a state sponsored monopoly,
Microsoft can do so too.
No thanks. I prefer the GPL, which derives its power from copyright
law - the concept that creators decide how their work
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 13:09, David Tomlinson d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
I'd like to see some hard numbers/evidence for this statement. How much
are the costs? In dollars and pounds? How much is the benefit? Not
statements of principle, but numbers.
My opinion is that is you had hard
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 15:43, David Tomlinson d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
The implication is that the BBC approved of the sharing of iplayer content,
of course it was subject to DRM.
No, it really didn’t.
That’s adding two and two together and getting pi.
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On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 17:16, David Tomlinson d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
iPlayer uses an application called Kontiki that manages your programme
downloads. The problem is Kontiki is a P2P application that not only
downloads content, but
likely to get yourself written off as
being crazy than make real headway in affecting change. Softly softly
catchy monkey :)
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to the
status quo, but it -does- have some significant flaws, and I say that
retaining the view that copyright as it exists today is flawed in some
fairly serious ways.
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 06:41, David Tomlinson d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
It's the people who can't break the law, the consumer electronics companies
who will be required to obtain a licence who will be affected.
It is a legal trigger.
Conditions placed on them (Consumer Electronics),
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:44, David Tomlinson d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Controlling the functionality of the Consumer Electronic product is seen (by
the rights holders) as key to restricting the public access to broadcast
content. No analog hole, HDMI only (encrypted, trusted) output
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:43, David Tomlinson d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
They don't want an open market, they have enjoyed a monopoly through
broadcasting (limited bandwidth/broadcasters) and through copyright.
They don't wish this to change. Regardless of the potential of new
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:04, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
How can they be compensated fairly for their work? A watermarking
scheme which counts downloads or views, and apportions revenues
accordingly? That would possibly mean a shift away from
overcompensation of big names and a
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:33, Chris Warren ch...@ixalon.net wrote:
Someone isn't going to finance content for you if you can't promise you'll
do your utmost, through agreements with 3rd parties (e.g. broadcasters) and
all the technical and legal measures available to you, to protect their
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:56, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
My understanding is that the BBC's strategy is to treat the UK and
rest-of-world markets differently, with a profit orientation on the
World side. Technical geolocalisation solutions are indeed doomed to
failure in my view.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 15:07, Alia Sheikh alia.she...@rd.bbc.co.uk wrote:
However, don't get me wrong - it would be nice if there were more
flexibility regarding the portability of protected content, but instead of
many very smart people expending huge amounts of effort demonising DRM,
maybe
at the moment, though).
I’m nevalic...@googlewave.com, should anybody feel the need. A search
for “with:public” is quite a good place to start for those who are new
to it.
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a number of (secondary) questions which are themselves
quite troubling, but I’ve covered all of the ones I could think of in
the comments on the blog post.
Worms, meet can.
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, of course.
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On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 20:05, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
And let's not forget that EU Legislation has to be enacted by the
UK Parliament.
It was, as far as I know, six years ago. Copyright and Related Rights
Regulations 2003.
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