Andrew Bowden wrote:
It's also got to be said that the majority of people on a mailing list
don't post. I don't know the stats for this list, but I'm on a mailing
list of 300 people, about 20 of which post regularly. There's a lot of
readers, and occassionally some of them post, but mostly
Dave Crossland wrote:
The BBC's sack of money contains 3 billion pounds, which is a of sum
of money which can make a lot of things happen.
It does make lots of things happen. TV, Radio, internet, innforming,
educating and entertaining the nation.
What percentage of the production costs,
Kirk Northrop wrote:
Dave Crossland wrote:
The BBC's sack of money contains 3 billion pounds, which is a of sum
of money which can make a lot of things happen.
My apologies, it was in fact Stephen Deasey who wrote this.
It appears Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 STILL hasn't fixed all the bugs
Richard P Edwards wrote:
You are not alone I tried a couple of years ago to use the BBC RSS,
and just found it had little order. That does not just apply to the BBC,
I don't use RSS for anything apart from Wired.
It's in a good editorial order with the Mac OSX RSS Screen Saver, which
is
Andrew Bowden wrote:
I'm far better on visual artifacts I must say. Interestingly though a
colleague of mine from BBC News told me that surveys have shown people
are far more likely to put up with a dodgy video picture if the sound is
clean and crisp.
Yes, it's well known (and proved) that
Tim Cowlishaw wrote:
True but a slight exaggeration - A certain level of video quality still
qualifies as an acceptable threshold, IMO. In addition, crystal clear sound
and crystal clear vision are both pretty useless if they're not in sync.
Indeed. But as long as the glitches are small
Jason Cartwright wrote:
I've recently 'switched' [1] (damn you Apple marketing dept!) from an XP
desktop to a Macbook as my main computer. Its been almost flawless
(unlike all the Vista problems we keep hearing about), and a bit of
revelation after being a complete Windowsite since 3.0.
Sorry,
Kim Plowright wrote:
You'd pay $30 and up for an album on CD? Are you mad?
I suppose you do get a convenient hard copy backup too...
Apple won't be changing the album price.
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Andy wrote:
I can see how it got Netscape, FireFox is derived from the Netscape
code base, but how it got from the word Linux into the word Mac I
don't know. And this was for a user agent that was stating it's OS as
Linux.
Simple - Not Windows probably means Mac OS. In a tiny amount of cases
Matthew Lamont wrote:
I think that it depends on what your demographic is. If you are talking
about people who barely know how to switch on a computer, then you are
going to get windows users. For people who actually use a computer for
what it is intended, then, for instance in the
Mario Menti wrote:
I hope you don't mind a little self-promotion, but I recently set up
http://twitterfeed.com - a service that lets you take any RSS feed and post
its updates to twitter. So if anyone here wants specific BBC twitter
updates, as long as there's a feed for it, you should be able
Jason Cartwright wrote:
I just want to know the effect its going to have on my journey time.
Google's does this with a ridiciously-easy-to-visually-parse colour
coding of the traffic speed. This boils down all the one lane closed
due to barrier repairs crap into something far more usable.
This
Andrew Bowden wrote:
That means they won't come to my DVD store [2]. Boo!
They might never have come though.
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vijay chopra wrote:
As a final note, as a result of this conversation, I decided to check out
the subscription price at slashdot, at $5 (£2.62) I ended up buying one...
decide for yourself what that says about me.
It says I reply to every single e-mail on this list with an inane and
largely
Richard Hyett wrote:
He raises perhaps inadvertantly the old point about why we haven't
done many good 'Situation Comedies recently and when we do why they
only run for a fairly limited series. You can't imagine Friends or
Cheers or MASH closing after two series.
But Two series and out is a
I wonder if there is any update on the film times data?
Just that I really ought to get back to my contact one way or another.
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Robert Kerry wrote:
UCLAP has been put on hold after someone from the PA contacted me and
is currently looking to make their cinema listings available to us.
Apparently he's in talks with Ian or someone else at backstage,
although UCLAP can be restarted if the deal falls through.
Cool, let us
Kim Plowright wrote:
BTW - stumbled across this last night
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/ftvdb/
Might be useful, or at least somewhere to poke to open up their data,
too? (Did the Movies Data list get set up?)
Yes, the list was set up.
http://groups.google.com/group/uclap?hl=en
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Robert Kerry wrote:
I'll probably have to start off by crawling cinema websites - then
start emailing them and requesting some sort of feed or data source.
Would be helpful to start creating a list of cinema sites and cinema
contacts. If anyone's interested in this project, please email me
Peter Bowyer wrote:
Good luck with Odeon - having had the world's worst Flash-only
interface for several years, and had a well-publicised PR nightmare
when they leant on one of this list's members who got so fed up with
it he proxied it to produce a minimally accessible version, they've
replaced
Andrew Bowden wrote:
Re the Times/Listings - I'm 99% sure that it's PA data and
hence not available for redistribution, sorry - but I'll
still check the contract position.
I can add the extra 1% to the equation - it is data supplied to the BBC
by PA.
Ah well, fair enough. It's a pity,
Matt Chadburn wrote:
Would love to hear from anyone with interesting ideas on what they might do
with the information or any pointers on improvements we might make.
I presume the data on showing times at each cinema is provided by and
therefore under the licence of the PA?
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Brian Butterworth wrote:
Each line of teletext is broadcast on a line of the TV screen.
Do you mean magazine?
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Andrew Bowden wrote:
However, the stories do still move around ;0)
But do they move around more than they used to? I mean, in the olden
days, if a big story was on 104 and a bigger story came in, it wouldn't
necessarily go on 104 - but the big stories would be 104-110 and the
smaller ones
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Any page, therefore, that has dropped out of the Ceefax list could
comprise of a single line (with the 'double height' character in front of
it) with the message see news.bbc.co.uk/NNN.So even if there was 300
'pages' that hit (for Ceefax and Digital TV red button)
Tom Loosemore wrote:
if you want to play in private, and you're feeling quite hardcore,
you *could* extract the subtitles from a DVB-S MPEG2 stream (aka a
satellite stream) where they're still in there somewhere as ASCII. On
DTT (Freeview) the subtitles are transmitted as bitmaps, so are hard
Davy Mitchell wrote:
Looks a bit broken?
What's wrong with it?
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Adam Leach wrote:
This is another point of data collected and gathered using tax/license
fee payers money, yet we can't access it without paying substantial fees.
The BBC data seems to be fine, someone said. Remember the days when the
Radio Times had BBC and the TV Times had ITV? It's like
David Burden wrote:
Using the Nabaztag Wifi bunny to read out what's on TV tonight using
the new TV API (thank goodness I can finally stop downloading those
TV Anytime files).
What new TV API?
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David Burden wrote:
May 3rd I think it was launched. A lot easier than TVAnytime, and no files
to download.
Excellent, thanks. It seems I totally missed that announcement.
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vijay chopra wrote:
Yeah, I've seen the breaking news alerts thing, it's a bit bloated and
intrusive, that's why I like the look of this IM bot. When all the bugs get
ironed out, maybe the Beeb could look into making it official?
The bot doesn't seem to work for me - always offline?
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Mario Menti wrote:
That's odd, they all seem to be online OK.. which network are you trying,
and which client? The bots should be set to auto-authorise new contacts, and
should automatically show their status. If anyone else can't see them
online, please let me know..
It's the [EMAIL
Thomas Scott wrote:
Whew. Talk about cutting it fine. 40 minutes until the competition
deadline, but I've just managed to finish my first prototype!
That is a simply excellent idea! (And execution, I hasten to add)
Whether you win or not - you certainly get a massive pat on the back
from me!
Davy Mitchell wrote:
As MN is getting a fair number of hits for its early stage in
development, I have posted an update as it has moved on greatly. It's
using much the same rating system. I've spent the time on reorganising
the code, some DBase work, presentation and the client side stuff.
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