On 2 June 2011 13:50, Giacomo Shimmings giacomo.shimmi...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
It would be rather nice if people could say who they are and
what they're up to when they reply.
After much hot air passing over this mailing list from me about the
libre software imperative, I did an MA in Typeface
On 2 June 2011 15:32, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote:
a web forum it ain't.
A mailing list with a decent web-front-end in ADDITION to real email
is useful, I think - permalinks to messages, search engine indexing of
knowledge, all very useful.
Web is just not good for actually
On 15 April 2010 14:10, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
this is no means of going about getting that changed…
What do you suggest?
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Hi,
Could you provide URLs about that?
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On 9 Apr 2010, 10:46 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
Word is that the D E Bill will hit schools quite hard.
Gordo
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Good stuff.
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Date: 16 Mar 2010, 11:56 AM
Subject: [IP] C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web
To: ip i...@v2.listbox.com
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2010/1/28 Daniel Morris daniel.mor...@bbc.co.uk:
Sorry, I didn't realise we were back in the 1970s where the software that
runs on the iPhone can be called an operating system.
Am I missing something - how is it not an OS? :)
Apple actively oppose you installing whatever you want to, and
2010/1/28 Tom Morris bbtommor...@gmail.com:
A quote from Apple COO Tim Cook: We believe that we need to own and
control the primary technologies behind the products we make
Err, no thanks.
No more Macs. I'm done feeding this beast - for the same reason I was
done feeding the Microsoft
2010/1/28 Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:49, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote:
2010/1/28 Daniel Morris daniel.mor...@bbc.co.uk:
Sorry, I didn't realise we were back in the 1970s where the software that
runs on the iPhone can be called an operating system.
Am I
Well exactly, there are THREE main desktops, and one doesn't and wont have
h264 preinstalled.
This wouldn't be a problem if The Guardian and other news broadcasters
stopped bystanding and made the videos they publish available in Xiph
formats earlier; they continue to squander their significant
Hi,
I used to live there, try the BUNIX or dotDorset mailing lists :-)
Regards, Dave
On 12 Jan 2010, 7:01 AM, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Would anybody be able to have a quick chat, off list, about dommestic
connectivity in the Bournemouth area? In particular, has anyone
2010/1/1 Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net:
it was suggested initially that GNU/Linux was pretty much irrelevant
Only by ignorant assholes. :-)
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2009/12/15 Ian Stirling backstage...@mauve.plus.com:
Mo McRoberts wrote:
Discuss.
TV is live simultaneous transmission of pictures,
I'm not sure live transmission is definitional; most TV isn't live,
although it started off that way AIUI.
where you can have a large
number of people over a
2009/12/2 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
seeing isn't wave at all. Its simply a rough cut
implementation of what's possible with the wave protocol.
Right; the protocol seems sound enough, and I expect that (like
Novell) it will get picked up by projects that would have had to have
...on the PyGoWave website ;-)
http://pygowave.net/
More seriously, I thought all you Wave fans might like to hear about
this if you didn't already.
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Hi,
Haw haw.
Regards, Dave
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Date: 25 Oct 2009, 4:33 PM
Subject: [IP] BBC are planning to launch a global iPlayer
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From: Brian Randell brian.rand...@ncl.ac.uk
Date:
Hi,
Yeah Mailman with Gmane/etc is good IMO; mailman is undergoing a slow heavy
rewrite atm, and I think they are taking donations, and live at list.orgiirc!
Regards, Dave
On 19 Oct 2009, 9:11 PM, Tom Morris bbtommor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 18:54, Ian Forrester
David,
Your mention of His Dark Lordship and the Magna Carter made me wonder,
perhaps you should declare yourself a 'Freeman On The Land' -
www.fmotl.com- and become exempt from copyright, council tax -
www.nocounciltax.com - and all other statutory laws.
Regards, Dave
On 9 Oct 2009, 11:21 AM,
Hi,
Id like to suggest that referring not to 'copy protection' but to 'copy
restriction' is an effective way of adding clarity to this kind of
discussion.
I prepared a more emotive (angry) post about this issue but didn't allocate
time to finish it as I figured an unemotive and level headed
I get a strange sense of the BBC pushing DRM down the throats of the public,
AGAIN, so, yes.
On 3 Oct 2009, 10:27 AM, Nick Reynolds-FMT nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk
wrote:
i do get this strange sense of deja vu
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Hi, Id like to suggest that referring not to 'copy protection' but
to 'copy restriction' is...
-- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web:
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Scot,
You can't see how it is in the public interest BECAUSE IT ISN'T. The BBC are
very clear that they are willing to cut their own charter up to pander to
the special interests of their suppliers; there is no need for conspiracy
theories about this, they are very up front about admitting what
Hi Cisnky,
Could you kindly elaborate? Adobe's recent aquisition makes me wonder if
they are really behind Flash for the long term; that and the lack of
engineering quality they put into it recently. I suspect HTML5 is going to
pancake it, because there is a lot more money behind it than Adobe
Hi,
Thought this list might find this thoughtful post on the FSFE-UK list
to be of interest :-)
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Date: 2009/8/19
Subject: [Fsfe-uk] Educating Ashley: was it wasted time?
To: fsfe...@gnu.org
After BBC's DRM Iplayer windows
2009/8/19 Richard P Edwards re...@mac.com:
For sure, peaked my interest.
To balance out AH's bullshit, I enjoyed Dirk Riehle's The Commercial
Open Source Business Model which explains how a company can
profitably develop free software:
Hi,
BBC Canvas. Very nice. But will it be 100% free software? And will I have
root access to my private property?
Pickets at the ready, folks.
Regards, Dave
Hi,
XBMC port ahoy!
Regards, Dave
On 6 Aug 2009, 2:35 PM, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
2009/8/6 Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com
Hi, BBC Canvas. Very nice. But will it be 100% free software? And
will I have root access t...
I've looked at the code and there's a special
?
On 3 Aug 2009, at 20:14, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: Hi,
What about the case fo...
Alun Rowe Pentangle Internet Limited 2 Buttermarket Thame Oxfordshire OX9
3EW Tel: +44 8700 33...
Maybe you should be more specific so we know what to picket?
On 4 Aug 2009, 6:40 PM, Stephen Jolly st...@jollys.org wrote:
On 4 Aug 2009, at 12:23, Deirdre Harvey wrote: My 90+ year old
Grandmother (also non-geeky) al...
I've acted as Windows and MacOS tech support for enough relatives over
2009/8/4 Alun Rowe alun.r...@pentangle.co.uk:
Preaching open standards is fine AS LONG as you understand the deep economic
issues behind them
Why should economics trump freedom?
Would you scrap free elections if it was better for the economy? China
is proving that free elections are not
2009/8/4 Alun Rowe alun.r...@pentangle.co.uk:
Yes I have but it is fairly unique.
RHAT is the only free software company in the SP500, but there are
several direct competitors and many smaller and very different free
software companies.
How would you obtain funding for an idea which had no IP
Proprietary software and centtalised network services strike again...
Regards, Dave
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Date: 3 Aug 2009, 4:05 PM
Subject: [Autonomo.us] Skype, out?
To: autonomo.us discussion mailing list disc...@lists.autonomo.us
it.
Also Skypes network has been around for a longtime!
On 3 Aug 2009, at 17:10, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote:
Proprietary software and centtalised network services strike again...
Regards, Dave ...
*Alun Rowe*
*Pentangle Internet Limited*
2 Buttermarket
Thame
Oxfordshire
OX9
Hi,
I hadn't seen http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/ mentioned here so I
thought I would.
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2009/7/8 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
From reading the link above, it seems like it will be something like I
saw at Minibar a while back but can't find now ...
I was hoping it would be a X11 environment to
2009/6/17 Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org:
Can anyone recommend an alternative to Virmin in Peterborough?
I'm with ukfsn.org
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2009/6/16 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
The Final Digital Britain Report
http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/6216.aspx
So what do people think? Time to leave the country or dig a hole and stick
our heads into it?
Maybe just time to get a
Sounds good to me.
It is quiet on this list too, though.
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I live in Poole :)
Regards, Dave
On 23 May 2009, 10:23 PM, Gavin Pearce gav...@tbs.uk.com wrote:
Tech + sailing does the trick. Laser (classic) plus quite a keen cat
sailor.
Tacking this off the list as way off topic. ; - )
Gav
Trinity Belmann Scott Limited t/a TBS. Registered in England ,
2009/4/7 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
Any more feedback on the beta BBC Backstage site?
Stop shilling for Microsoft? :-)
Cheers,
Dave
Personal opinion only.
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2009/4/7 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
explain how we're shilling for Microsoft,
bearing in mind we went to a large conference and
would post the same if it had been Etech, FOWA, etc. :)
I spy with my little eye 5 out of the 10 latest posts beginning with...
Maybe you just had a bad
2009/4/7 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
Ah not seen how it looks on IE7 or IE8 (take note Dave)
I look forward to the Silverlight version.
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2009/4/7 Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com:
2009/4/7 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
Ah not seen how it looks on IE7 or IE8 (take note Dave)
I look forward to the Silverlight version.
More helpfully:
Try http://browsershots.org/ :-)
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2009/3/18 John O'Donovan john.odono...@bbc.co.uk:
A blog reader does not replace all the things people buy a newspaper for in
my criteria. If it did, Newspapers would be dead already,
This strikes me as fallicious. Just because it hasn't collapsed yet
doesn't mean that it won't peter out.
2009/3/29 James Ockenden james.ocken...@gmail.com:
I think this is a false dilemma. Guys in my office have phones with
8MP cameras. My 18-month old phone has a 5MP camera. I suspect a good
lens and skill with photoshop is vastly more important than the
photographer being professional.
Sure,
2009/3/29 Richard Lockwood richard.lockw...@gmail.com:
Dave C will have you believe that a 'blogger is more trustworthy because
he's free - but he's unaccountable to anyone.
That's not what I am saying.
I don't say that any random blogger is more trustworthy than a random
journalist. I say
2009/3/17 John O'Donovan john.odono...@bbc.co.uk:
[those] in the newsroom should go get another job
to pay the bills so that they can support their journalism in their spare
time, sort themselves out and learn up about internet marketing and the
brave new world.
Seriously?
Yes.
2009/3/17 Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv:
That was quick of them...
Monday 12 May? Looks like you've been stealing others' intellectual
property, Brian! :)
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Bingo :)
Regards, Dave
On 16 Mar 2009, 11:45 AM, Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net wrote:
Kevin Anderson wrote: funding - the licence fee. Commercial newspapers
are finding their reade...
I think that news.bbc.co.uk is already a public service newspaper -
albeit one without a print
2009/3/16 Kevin Anderson global...@gmail.com:
Going back to some of the previous comments though, the resistance to the
change wasn't just in the boardrooms, it was also in the newsrooms.
It strikes me as exceedingly likely that the bastards in the boardroom
will be joined in the dole queue by
2009/3/16 Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv:
One thing I am wondering, will News International realise that The Times
brand needs a TV channel more than BSkyB does?
Hopefully not, because that would be an excellent idea for them to do so :)
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2009/3/15 Kevin Anderson global...@gmail.com:
As for Clay's piece, it's one of the best of a kind. I would say that much
of the discussion here is confusing public funding with a business model.
I think the phrase business model is colloquially used as funding
model for people for whom the
2009/3/15 Andy Halsall andyhals...@ictsc.com:
On Sunday 15 March 2009 14:55:43 Dave Crossland wrote:
2009/3/15 Kevin Anderson global...@gmail.com:
As for Clay's piece, it's one of the best of a kind. I would say that
much of the discussion here is confusing public funding with a business
2009/3/15 Andy Halsall andyhals...@ictsc.com:
I concur with his viewpoint that business models are being broken
faster than new ones can be invented.
Business models and distribution methods, the demand for high quality content
however remains constant, as long as that doesn't change there
2009/2/23 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7899602.stm
Via Glyn, just wondered what everyone else thought?
Isn't this an old story? I thought the Ars Technica article from
December was much better ;-)
2009/2/23 Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net:
Some of them have no pensions and need this money, he said.
Perhaps builders who built buildings in the 1950s should be paid rights
on the labour they used to build the building as long as the buildings
still stand. Or Doctors whose patients
Hi,
I thought the collaboration stuff is especially interesting:
http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/02/introducing-bespin/
I think its funny how Emacs ends up as a design pattern in all kinds
of places :-)
Cheers,
Dave
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2009/2/9 Richard Lockwood richard.lockw...@gmail.com:
If something as simple as a petition will make
Windows free and open source, why has no-one thought of it before?
That is not what the petition is about! :-)
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2009/2/9 Phil Whitehouse phil.whiteho...@gmail.com:
Maybe I'm a poor deluded misguided fool who needs showing the error of my
ways?
We're training our kids to give money to vendors for their entire lives.
And, more importantly IMO, to not consider the value of freedom in
relation to the parts
2009/2/9 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
The really cool kids are on both right?
Given that identi.ca can now supply Twitter and Facebook with messages
automatically itself - just pop in your login details - this isn't as
cool as it sounds. ;p
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2009/2/9 Richard Smedley r...@m6-it.org:
curriculum areas - this can easily be delivered through
500 - 600 web apps. The whole curriculum. A small investment from
government (less than 1% of the UK's annual school IT spend) would get all
of these apps written. Released under the GNU GPL,
2009/2/9 Richard Smedley r...@m6-it.org:
Good point. Although I had in mind putting the apps on the school's
intranet server, in which case GPL would be adequate. However there would
doubtless be a market for remote delivery.
Affero is still important for intranets; The plain GPL does not
Hi,
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
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2009/2/2 Frank Wales fr...@limov.com:
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?
Quite sure.
http
Hi,
This is neat:
http://www.advogato.org/article/981.html
Cheers,
Dave
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2009/1/26 Dogsbody d...@dogsbody.org:
Mozilla Firefox 3.1 will include native support for video in the browser and
they have chosen Theora as the format of choice.
Great news! :-)
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Hi,
Thought this was an interesting annoucement,
http://cc.aljazeera.net/content/launch-press-release
especially when contrasted with
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/22/gaza-charity-appeal
Cheers,
Dave
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2009/1/21 Michael Walsh michael.wa...@digitalrightsmanifesto.com:
If you have digital material you can release for remixing purpose - then I
would contend that along with distributing it via some channel or another,
you should also consider hosting the content on a BBC server and make tools
2009/1/21 Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org:
And ensuring that the results can be used by commercial organizations
(by not making it NC) would help defuse any competition concerns.
And boost Wikipedia et al :-)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update
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2009/1/21 Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update
Ugh. Dual licencing. ;-)
Not for long, I expect.
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2009/1/20 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
The reason why we would like to Tar the files together is because of things
like subtitles, artwork, cuts of music,
other metadata pieces, etc. We're not just talking a collection of video
files.
What does Tar add to the ability to organise
2009/1/20 Steffan Davies st...@steff.name:
Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote at 16:50 on 2009-01-20:
2009/1/20 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
The reason why we would like to Tar the files together is because of
things like subtitles, artwork, cuts of music,
other metadata
2009/1/19 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
1. Package it?
File formats:
Packaging: None. Direct files on...
2. Distribute it?
BitTorrent clients are now wide spread enough for a mass market
audience. But I would sadly still expect that even in 2009 a BBC
programme which we owned all
2009/1/19 Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com:
2009/1/19 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
1. Package it?
File formats:
File formats: Whatever is closest to original.
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2008/11/19 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If you've not heard about the BNP member leak, you've obviously not reading
Techcrunch UK
I have decided to take down the map
Good.
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2008/11/19 Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
And it was published, by an ex-member of the BNP. (Obviously despite
a high court injunction, but when it comes to little things like, say,
the law, you don't think it applies to you when copying stuff, do
you?)
So where's your problem? It's
Hi,
More on topic:
It seem free software for cloud computing is starting to appear -
think Google AppEngine without lockin!
http://reasonablysmart.com/
http://www.10gen.com
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2008/11/19 Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 16:18:17 Richard Lockwood wrote:
So where's your problem? It's published, it's in the public domain.
I personally think this is rather tasteless.
Privacy matters.
Just to clarify: I do not support the BNP, do not agree
2008/10/30 David McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
this looks like wonderful progress from the BBC
Totally!
I'm very happy to see this - and hope the iPlayer will one day be
available like this :-)
Regards,
Dave
(Personal opinion only)
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2008/10/28 Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Odd I'll look into the submit problem, I think it might be permissions
again.
The link is to
http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/ideatorrent/user?destination=submit/
and that 404s, and when logged in with the normal user account I have,
if I access
2008/10/15 Phil Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yes, the fact that this will run on all the Linux PCs in
both my houseand office is a shockingly pro-Microsoft
move and must be stopped!
The fact that this will run only with proprietary software is
continuing the BBC's discriminatory policy against
2008/10/6 Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://blip.tv/file/get/Bbc_backstage-BBCBackstageInterviewWithJonathanSchwartzCEOOfSunMicros368.ogg
- Ogg Vorbis version
Thanks! :-)
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On 01/10/2008, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ian,
My question...
When, after waiting thirty years, will I and others, be able to truly
own our digital files on computers and over the internet?
Where every file is stamped with digital ownership. A stamp that is
integrated to
2008/9/30 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi All,
Those who are subscribed to the Backstage Calendar
http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/q7frqh0v016rki1769l9d7jlro%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
- XML
2008/9/30 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What bugs me about the Stallman interview (and oracle's
comments) is cloud computing is already here and many
users are already using it. Call it gibberish and marketing
hype isn't going to help solve the real problem of cloud-based lock-in.
I
2008/9/25 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Shall I carry on?
Okay, I agree that for the UI it seems Microsoft has similar features
to Apple and Google.
Ah, the Windows, Icons, Mouse and Pointer invented so very long ago by
Xerox
Xerox didn't invent touchscreens with
2008/9/29 Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd like to hear any suggestions or comments.
Out of your price range and needs, but the Red ONE is fun to know about :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RED_Digital_Camera_Company
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2008/9/25 Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thursday 25 September 2008 16:22:26 Dave Crossland wrote:
Xerox didn't invent touchscreens with (pseudo) 3D accelerated
interaction models AFAIK ;p
Circa 1991 - Xerox Europarc's Digital Desk.
Wow! Awesome - thanks Michael! :-)
projection onto a real
2008/9/24 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/9/24 Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2008/9/24 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Touchflo 3D - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbzVuhzdCFkfeature=related
TouchWiz UI - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Ky6nwR8ms
Shall I carry on?
Okay
2008/9/25 Matt Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
* greater egalatarianism between apps - ie. you can replace functionality of
built in apps - such as messaging/phone (though if an operator chooses to
lock it down?...)
Quite. That Android is Apache and not GPL is a serious bug IMO,
because I mistrust
2008/9/24 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dave - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukh5jXjoQBY
Out of the box?
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2008/9/24 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Touchflo 3D - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbzVuhzdCFkfeature=related
TouchWiz UI - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Ky6nwR8ms
Shall I carry on?
Okay, I agree that for the UI it seems Microsoft has similar features
to Apple and Google.
I wonder
2008/9/22 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I still don't see why a non developer or non geek would want the google
phone over windows mobile?
Maybe its just me?
I'm totally ignorant, but I hadn't seen a WinMo do anything like the
gPhone/iPhone's animated UI.
(Apple doesn't even allow the
2008/9/11 Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I can't go - but will there be a pod/webcast?
I think Tim is going to bring a video camera, so hopefully, yes
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2008/9/7 Tim Dobson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dave Crossland wrote:
There is also the secondary technical issue of CPU muscle - can puny
embedded devices like the iPhone and OpenMoko handle Java? ;p
Good question, I'll give it a go.
The FR can cope with debian so perhaps java isn't out
2008/9/2 Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I see this is for Windows users only. I for one want to register my
outrage etc etc.
If they are making GTK work properly on Mac OS X and Windows, I don't
mind the wait.
Cheers,
Dave
Personal opinion only.
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2008/9/1 Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html
Unknown if it's real at the moment, but getting Scott McCloud to do a 38
page comic describing things in detail etc, does make me think the contents
are plausible. (certainly his style of cartoons/drawing)
Hi,
Aaron Swartz has written a nice summary of the history and issues of
software freedom in the age of web applications:
http://autonomo.us/2008/07/software-freedom-and-web-applications/
With small proof-of-concept projects like http://identi.ca/ and large
Web 2.0 artifices like Ma.gnolia.com
2008/8/27 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7582197.stm
- seems The Internet must include Flash and Java, according to the ASA,
of all people. Just wondered what Dave C makes of it...
The BBC journalist makes the important distinction between free
For the trial we're linking to our own content as well as relevant
external sources, including Wikipedia articles, YouTube and Flickr
content. We wanted to include these sources because they promote
sharing of content
What else could the BBC do to promote sharing of content? License some
of the
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