Re: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

2008-02-22 Thread Michael
offered to do that. I don't seem to recall that ever happening with the wreckage from any other technology war... Mind you, this really is the wrong place to ask that question - why don't you mail them and ask? (they are a commercial entity run seperately from the rest of the BBC after

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-26 Thread Michael
mean that they don't think about the ethical aspects of their work. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-27 Thread Michael
t allows for multiple reimplementations. (the simplest way of course there to be to define an open definition for access to said service which can then evolve into and open standard) Dogmatically going around *judging* other people's views on a very simplist narrow view of freedom smacks to m

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-27 Thread Michael
them in the trash. Despite using usenet for over 15 years, and having been on numerous mailing lists and fora I've only ever "plonked" one person. (though not publically, I see little point in making a statement out of it). I don't think Dave's reached that stage

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-28 Thread Michael
On Thursday 28 February 2008 15:58:08 Dave Crossland wrote: > >  Even if I choose to use a proprietary program on a open source operating > >  system. Sorry, I'm not wrong, > > Sorry, you agree not to share with me, which is wrong. *plonk* Michael. - Sent via

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-28 Thread Michael
s an interesting technology. From what I've heard from others though they seem to like it. I'd also be interested in hearing people's opinions of using & developing for it. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://b

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Gnash-dev] EFF: Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash

2008-03-03 Thread Michael
ff. If people choose to only read one link out of these, I'd suggest reading the MASCOT one :-) Regards, Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [backstage] Business Reasons To Support Gnash

2008-03-05 Thread Michael
feel that's measurable and testable as right or wrong based on past experience. Could that be an alternative reason to look at Gnash? Dunno - depends on how large this specific risk is. I can see other issues with Gnash as well, which I don't feel relevant here, but this change probably

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

2008-03-13 Thread Michael
, creating a plugin to mozilla to mask as the iPhone for the purposes of interoperability with the BBC website would almost certainly be legal) There are direct parallels here with the BitKeeper debacle (where the heinous haxxor tool was known as "telnet"). Michael. - Sent via th

Re: [backstage] BBC Three Live Arena

2008-03-15 Thread Michael
then > the ITV logos started appearing on the screen. Oh dear. It still seems to be showing ITV1 at the moment... (or "3" as we called it when I was a wee kiddie) Michael. (no idea who to tell...) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visi

Re: [backstage] Re: iPlayer DRM is over?

2008-03-18 Thread Michael
sible - in the past. Indeed, for Digital Radio Mondiale (the other DRM :), it can be fairly common). Michael. (personal opinions only. other opinions are available) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mail

[backstage] Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-03-18 Thread Michael
multicore systems natively (ie use all the CPUs) with very light touch changes to top level code. (this is a bit experimental :) Have fun! Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Snr Research Engineer, BBC Future Media Research & Innovation, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kamaelia Project Lead, http://kamaelia

Re: [backstage] Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-03-18 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 13:43:02 Michael wrote: > This just a short note to say that BBC Research has been accepted as a > mentor organisation for Google Summer of Code again this year (third > year!). Also Dirac applied seperately along with the Schroedinger project > and as a

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

2008-03-24 Thread Michael
Tried so hard it was unfunny. But then humour is incredibly subjective. Michael. (goes back to watching his DVDs of Heidi) :-) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list

Re: [backstage] Embracing the torrent of online video

2008-03-25 Thread Michael
ourceforge.net/Cookbook/SimpleBitTorrentExample (contributed by a nice chap who was distributing content over a rendering/ post-production farm :) The biggest barrier to online distribution has always been rights IMO. There are many others, but rights is the hardest to deal with... Michael.

[backstage] Google Appengine

2008-04-08 Thread Michael
gh to frameworks like django & pylons), which is pretty cool IMO. Interestingly it looks like they're providing sandboxing, which I'm guessing uses the facilities from pypy, but that's a pure guess. Anyone got any experiences they wish to share? Michael. -- http://

Re: [backstage] BBC tells ISPs to get stuffed

2008-04-10 Thread Michael
ast ... :) That said, it still doesn't help with the problem David mentions above. Regards, Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [backstage] iPlayer in Wii

2008-04-12 Thread Michael
since it's a really, really, good idea, but it's just worth remembering we're looking at outlying values regarding a non-HTTP protocol. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_

Re: [backstage] iPlayer in Wii

2008-04-13 Thread Michael
On Sunday 13 April 2008 05:43:50 Brian Butterworth wrote: > On 12/04/2008, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:57:49 Brian Butterworth wrote: > > > If it were all doing using HTTP it would be easily cached, of course, ... > > Ignores

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

2008-04-14 Thread Michael
On Monday 14 April 2008 10:25:52 Ivan Pope wrote: > The move was reported in this morning's Financial Times and is expected to > be confirmed by the BBC today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2008/04_april/ashley_highfield_kangaroo.shtm

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

2008-04-15 Thread Michael
Sean, I think we'll have to agree to disagree. I'd rather post-judge (if at all) rather than pre-judge. I did write a longer reply, but I don't see the point sending it. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://back

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

2008-04-16 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 16:14:03 Steve Jolly wrote: > Michael Sparks wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 April 2008 14:32, Mr I Forrester wrote: > >> Although we laugh about this stuff, Google's policy on free food is > >> actually well reasoned. But I don'

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

2008-04-16 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:15:41 Gareth Davis wrote: > Michael Sparks wrote: > > I've got a kettle up here and tea bags and coffee you know. :-) > > Show off! > > I hope it's passed a safety test, or facilities will be on to you now :) It has been properly PA

Re: [backstage] full posts in BBC rss feeds?

2008-04-17 Thread Michael
On Thursday 17 April 2008 05:09:20 Brian Butterworth wrote: >  ADML (Attention Deficit Mark-up Language) is an XML-based format > for capturing a person's madness and insomnia. +1 Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please

Re: [backstage] Anyone got a Eee PC 2G Surf/Linux CD?

2008-04-18 Thread Michael
t you put a small linux on the flash > stick and get going from there? > > KIS KIT GSOH lol http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ on a USB stick is your friend. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005

Re: [backstage] Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-04-21 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 14:14:02 Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2008 13:43:02 Michael wrote: > > This just a short note to say that BBC Research has been accepted as a > > mentor organisation for Google Summer of Code again this year (third > > year!). Also Dirac app

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer, loved by millions, disliked by a single US citizen

2008-05-01 Thread Michael
und something they have *zero* (or next to zero) interest in? Whilst TV matters to a lot of people (including me :-) it is however *just* TV. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_lis

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer, loved by millions, disliked by a single US citizen

2008-05-02 Thread Michael
a television channel. If you're going to attack me, when asked to justify your (bizarre) idea I'm not playing. Goodbye. Michael - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.

[backstage] PyCon UK 2008 - Call for Papers, Talks and Tutorials

2008-05-06 Thread Michael
have something valuable to contribute, twist their arms to tell us about it! Please also forward this Call for Papers to anyone that you feel may be interested. For more information about PyCon UK 2008, please visit our homepage at http://www.pyconuk.org/ Regards, Michael. -- [ In my own tim

Re: [backstage] Build a (nothing to do with Dr Who or knitting) Mashed Monster

2008-06-12 Thread Michael
BBC Staff are not able to enter the competition" Awww. (not the least bit surprised :-) ) Mind you, we're planning a beta release for that weekend of the next release of Kamaelia, so I'd be busy enough as it is :-) Michael. -- Kamaelia Project Lead/Project dust pup

Re: [backstage] Build a (nothing to do with Dr Who or knitting) Mashed Monster

2008-06-15 Thread Michael
On Friday 13 June 2008 12:05:05 Matthew Cashmore wrote: > I'm seriously just considering dressing up. You want to do the monster mash? Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_l

Re: [backstage] Cool Accessibilty Hacks and Subtitles using BBC Redux @ Mashed

2008-06-17 Thread Michael
te for Mashed. Personally I'm planning on using it to write a modern version of speak and spell using it based on handwriting recognition and speech synthesis -- if I get a chance :) Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.

Re: [backstage] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP

2008-06-19 Thread Michael
On Thursday 19 June 2008 12:41:38 Alia Sheikh wrote: > so we're currently flapping a bit sorting that > out... Are you really /flapping/ ? :) Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archi

[backstage] Kamaelia 0.6.0 Release Candidate

2008-06-26 Thread Michael
meone. :-) (had some good feedback at mashed & post-mashed) The new packaging, release and "landing page" was welcomed :) Have fun :) Michael -- Michael Sparks, Snr Research Engineer, BBC Future Media Research & Innovation, [EMAIL PROTECTED], New Broadcasting House, BBC Manches

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-04 Thread Michael
On Thursday 03 July 2008 21:46:16 Richard Lockwood wrote: .. > > But it tramples our freedom and community, which are more important. >   > No Dave, you're thinking of Godzilla. +1 QOTW Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, p

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-04 Thread Michael
n which case we probably couldn't... (cf competition rules in even things like Doctor Who Adventures magazine :-) That said, any competition is better than none - after all, its the taking part and having fun that matters... :-) Regards, Michael. (all personal thoughts) - Sent via the ba

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-04 Thread Michael
views on freedom are "wrong". I don't expect it back, so I took Dave's suggestion of "deploying filters". Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-04 Thread Michael
On Friday 04 July 2008 15:50:29 Adam Hatia wrote: > I wish I could be excluded from this banal tit-for-tat kids game! There's the backstage-developer mailing list as well, for what it's worth. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, pleas

[backstage] Bar Camp Leeds - August 16/17

2008-07-10 Thread Michael
with introductions :) (I'm being a bit fast an loose with my analogy there :) Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [backstage] Google launches second life killer?

2008-07-10 Thread Michael
equirement for hardware accelleration. Not a huge surprise really. [1] http://www.virtualbox.com/ Pity really given video playback (eg iplayer) works fine in virtualbox. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc

Re: [backstage] Google launches second life killer?

2008-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2008 20:35:50 Arkham.p77 wrote: > Michael, FWIW > > that virtualbox link should be .ORG > as the .com is squatted :) Oops, sorry. My bad. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/arch

Re: [backstage] Bar Camp Leeds - August 16/17

2008-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2008 22:31:55 Barry Carlyon wrote: > May seem a silly question but it doesn't say on the website. > Do you have to pay for tickets? Nope - normally organisers of barcamps/etc find generous and gracious sponsors to help cover the basic costs of running them. Mich

[backstage] [announce] PyCon UK 2008 Talks and Tutorials List Up

2008-07-29 Thread Michael
welcome. Please do forward this to whomever you think would be interested! Michael (on behalf of the Pycon UK committee (nothing to do with the day job :-) ) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailin

Re: [backstage] Boxee.net

2008-08-05 Thread Michael
ent > XBMC. But has a simpler interface and could be pushed to a mainstream > audience. Its Mac and Ubuntu only right now and doesn't support live TV > through a tuner card just like xbmc, but who cares when everything's going > ip right? I could't find a download link - what le

[backstage] Google Chrome

2008-09-01 Thread Michael
le of cartoons/drawing) The use of a comic to introduce the features reminds me of the cartoon guide to computer science (by Larry Gonick). Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list

Re: [backstage] Manchester Free Software Talk: Dave Crossland - Free as in Profit

2008-09-11 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 00:19:38 Ian Forrester wrote: > Would love to be there but I'm in London on the 16th. > > Anyone else going to go? Sadly it's not practical for me to go either, though for other reasons :) Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk di

[backstage] Slides from Kamaelia Presentations at Pycon UK this weekend

2008-09-16 Thread Michael
ink the first is a better presentation than the second, but then I've had more experience explaining the contents of the first than the second. (Got some great feedback in the q&a though and will feed it into any later re-explanation, and redo the slides accordingly :) Hoping someone f

Re: [backstage] Android UK launch set for Tuesday

2008-09-25 Thread Michael
nds, will be a shift of developers to the Gphone - a bit like what happened when the BBC bought H2G2, coinciding with wikipedia being founded... Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.

Re: [backstage] Android UK launch set for Tuesday

2008-09-25 Thread Michael
ds or so. Unlike current multitouch things, its vision is far further than what we have today. (through including things like projection onto a real desk and scanning in things on the desk as a result) (ever since seeing this, I've only ever gotten desks with white surfaces, to leave opti

Re: [backstage] Questions for upcoming interviews

2008-10-01 Thread Michael
Without that, such a stamp would be trivial to remove. The creation of a perfect (and completely general) DRM scheme is an exercise for the reader. It is perhaps easier to prove that such a perfect and completely general DRM scheme is unworkable where end users have access to a universal copying and p

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-14 Thread Michael
bbcinternet/2008/10/mobile_drm.html >   > drm isn't going to go away - but we are doing our best! For people who haven't seen this, today's xkcd seems serendipitous: * http://xkcd.com/488/ (not commenting on content beyond being serendipitous :-) Michael. - Sent via the b

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-16 Thread Michael
On Thursday 16 October 2008 11:31:56 Andrew Bowden wrote: > You are a Channel 4 shareholder.  In essence.  Channel 4 is a publicly > owned corporation, and as such, is owned by the population of the UK. Isn't the government's stake 51% or something? Michael. -- http://www.k

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-16 Thread Michael
On Thursday 16 October 2008 14:21:18 Andrew Bowden wrote: > Nope.  It's fully public - the Channel 4 Television Corporation officially. Ahh, maybe I'm thinking of a discussion in 2004 where it mooted having a share release then, leaving it at 51%. Obviously that never happen

[backstage] ANN: Kamaelia 0.6.0, Axon 1.6.0 Released

2008-10-27 Thread Michael
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/kamaelia New website: http://www.kamaelia.org/Home Reference: http://www.kamaelia.org/Components Cookbook: http://www.kamaelia.org/Cookbook (for those missing the relevance, this is a project from BBC Research :) Regards, Michael.

Re: [backstage] BNP mashups

2008-11-19 Thread Michael
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. Michael - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe,

Re: [backstage] Two questions: Comment Blogs and EU proposals

2008-11-21 Thread Michael
doesn't get bombarded repeatedly by other helpful people on this list :-) Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Senior Research Engineer, BBC Research [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kamaelia Project Lead, http://www.kamaelia.org/GetKamaelia BBC Manchester - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group.

Re: [backstage] Microsoft says it 'has always preferred' DRM-free content

2008-11-23 Thread Michael
ow effective that affect is. After all, DVDs seem to be doing OK, and one of the more amusing aspects about that is that some people prefer DVD because "it doesn't have any DRM". Michael. -- http://yeoldeclue.com/blog http://www.kamaelia.org/Home - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co

Re: [backstage] Microsoft says it 'has always preferred' DRM-free content

2008-11-23 Thread Michael
free, since some people *think* they already are (since it doesn't impede their actions). As for the rest you've decided to lecture me, and I've decided to delete it, since I don't see the relevance to me. Have fun :) Michael. -- http://yeoldeclue.com/blog http://www.kamael

Re: [backstage] Microsoft says it 'has always preferred' DRM-free content

2008-11-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday 23 November 2008 22:07:20 Michael wrote: > You obviously can't read. This should read as "can't read what I meant". Sorry for how that comes across otherwise. I'll step away from email for a while methinks until I start typing sentences with all the wo

Re: [backstage] Iplayer the best video experience online?

2008-12-12 Thread Michael
this Mac running flash 8 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer asta la vista DRM debate - does it work with gnash, i wonder? """ See also: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/msg06982.html Michael -- http://yeoldeclue.com/blog http://www.kamaelia.org/Home - Sent

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-05 Thread Michael
simply do not, and should not have to, care about, ever. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-08 Thread Michael
is sort of thing could be extended. (Oh, if anyone *does* by the way, I'd be happy to include the extensions in Kamaelia, obviously :-) Regards, Michael. -- http://yeoldeclue.com/blog http://www.kamaelia.org/GetKamaelia - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubsc

Re: [backstage] Make the primary operating system used in state schools free and open source

2009-02-09 Thread Michael
chool. If a tool undermines the teaching then it moves from a force for good into a force for bad. This goes as much for proprietary systems as it does for open systems. ie the reasons for change should be pedagogical rather than political. Michael. -- (personal views only) - Sent via the bac

Re: [backstage] Google homepage module

2005-12-15 Thread Michael Pritchard
server) On 15/12/05, Michael Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: just beat me to it, although my system for now and next is more convulted (although you can choose from all the bleb.org channels with my module).Generate a selection of channels @ http://tv.blueghost.co.uk/nn.php using the goog

Re: [backstage] TV-Anytime feed failure

2006-05-05 Thread Michael Pritchard
via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group.  To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.  Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- --Michael PritchardWeb  :: http://www.blueghost.co.ukGMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--

Re: [backstage] TV-Anytime feed failure

2006-05-10 Thread Michael Pritchard
Also,the tar.gz file used to store the files as follows:/todaysdate/file.xml , eg /20060426/20060425BBCOne_pl.xmlit is now/file.xml , eg /20060425BBCOne_pl.xml On 08/05/06, Andrew McParland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Michael,Good idea.  I've put the XML Schema (and the XML Cla

Re: [backstage] An API to our schedules

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Pritchard
http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >-Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group.  To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html .  Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/-- -- Michael PritchardWeb  :: http://www.blueghost.co.ukGMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--

Re: [backstage] Finally, that bloody BBC Weather feed - here it is...

2006-07-27 Thread Michael Pritchard
appoint or AFD locally for UK places.thats probably because the google geocoder doesn't work in the UK yet :)-- ------ Michael PritchardWeb  :: http://www.blueghost.co.ukGMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--

[backstage] Feeds & APIs page down again

2006-08-03 Thread Michael Pritchard
The feeds and APIs page seems to be broke again ( i think it was broke ages ago) :http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/Data-- -- Michael PritchardWeb  :: http://www.blueghost.co.ukGMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--

[backstage] iCal EPG demo

2006-10-16 Thread Michael Ferenduros
Hello, I noticed the idea on backstage.bbc.co.uk for iCal publishing of the 7day TV/radio feed, so I did a quick prototype. Please check it out, iCals available here: http://mike260.dyndns.org/~mikef/bbc_ical/ It's only tested with iCal, and likely broken for other apps. The server will come and

Re: [backstage] iCal EPG demo

2006-10-16 Thread Michael Ferenduros
On 16/10/06 23:08, "Duncan Barclay" wrote: > Interesting, and looks like it could potentially be useful. The next > thing I would do is go on to have customised listings so that you don't > see all the shows that you aren't interested in, although that could be > potentially hard to implement dep

Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Pritchard
also the url is a bit deceiving, seeing '5day' in the url made me think that it would contain a 5 day forecast, but it only seems to be 1 day. Is there any chance this could have 5 days like the url suggests? On 18/10/06, Michael Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: what would be

Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Ferenduros
Title: Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy! Hello, Are there any plans to include the full 5-day forecasts in the feed? Ta, Mike On 18/10/06 15:26, "Kathryn Schmitt" wrote: Greetings Backstagers, I am very pleased to inform you that BBC Weather's first RSS feeds are now live.

Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Pritchard
M: 0771 7582482 www.bbc.co.uk/weather www.bbc.co.uk/climate -- ------Michael PritchardWeb  :: http://www.blueghost.co.uk GMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--

Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-20 Thread Michael Ferenduros
ED] On Behalf Of Michael  Pritchard Sent: 18 October 2006 19:40 To:  backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Official BBC  Weather feeds ahoy!   what would be useful would be some sort of listing of all areas,  such as an opml file. I don't fancy manually finding out what each of the 7379

Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-24 Thread Michael Ferenduros
Hello, Pedantic bug-report: There's an 'é' in world/4026.xml that I don't _think_ is valid XML (because eacute isn't a predefined entity). I wouldn't mention it otherwise, but it causes the parser I'm using to barf. Tarra, Mike - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscri

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

2006-11-16 Thread Michael Pritchard
p. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- -- Michael Pritchard Web :: http://www.blueghost.co.uk GMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

[backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC

2007-01-24 Thread Michael Smethurst
the modelling of classical music, live music, sessions etc without alienating his community. If there's enough interest it might be an excuse for a musicbrainz/backstage/bbc meetup later this year Sorry to be quite so open ended but if you've got an opinion on any of this (or anything in a

RE: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC

2007-01-26 Thread Michael Smethurst
provide the many to one relationship that would be more semantically correct, imho. Although my thoughts generally tend to verge towards the 'finding new music' angle, I'd most likely be up for points 7 & 8 :-) Cheers Dave PS First post n'all. And I should probably come

RE: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC

2007-01-26 Thread Michael Smethurst
nuary 2007 16:55 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC Michael, Ignoring for a while the question of why the BBC is now looking at putting third-party music information services out of business, and being constructive: The major pro

RE: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC

2007-01-26 Thread Michael Smethurst
te.com/prof_home.html They seem to have the Song ID database sown up. RichE On 25 Jan 2007, at 16:55, James Cridland wrote: Michael, Ignoring for a while the question of why the BBC is now looking at putting third-party music information services out of business, and

RE: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC

2007-01-26 Thread Michael Smethurst
16:55 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC Michael, Ignoring for a while the question of why the BBC is now looking at putting third-party music information services out of business, and being constructive: The major problem we've fou

RE: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC

2007-01-30 Thread Michael Smethurst
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RE: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC

2007-01-30 Thread Michael Smethurst
It shouldn't be forgotten that we (and the BBC) regularly don't play CDs at all, using playout systems, minidiscs (eurgh), or other more esoteric things from multiple studios. and again the problems of live performance... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

RE: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC

2007-01-30 Thread Michael Smethurst
hard P Edwards Sent: 26 January 2007 15:30 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC Hi Michael, The label's prefix is always in the ISRC code this may explain further... http://www.riaa.com/issues/audio/isrc_faq.asp My understandin

RE: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC

2007-01-30 Thread Michael Smethurst
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael Smethurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > They should never be the exact same audio object with > > different [isrc] codes. I'm just not sure this happens in > > practice. According to our producti

RE: [backstage] BBC Trust "reaches Provisional Conclusions on BBC on-demand proposals"

2007-02-02 Thread Michael Sparks
es from there. However I can't see how your model of "only expired copyright media" or having content providers *pay* the BBC would result in a service that people would want to watch. I personally like shows like Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, Backyardigans and so on. None of which are cheap. How do they get made if they have to pay for space? What's their income? Michael. -- All opinions above are mine, and no-one elses, certainly not my employers.

RE: [backstage] BBC Trust "reaches Provisional Conclusions on BBC on-demand proposals"

2007-02-02 Thread Michael Sparks
able. Maybe. Depending on space.) -- http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/msg03135.html I clearly misunderstood your intent there, my apologies, so I'll be quiet :-) If you can articulate the economics better so I can understand, I might pipe up again, but otherwise, I just can't understand your economic model. Michael. -- These views are mine, and mine alone, don't confuse them with my employers :) <>

Re: [backstage] BBC Trust "reaches Provisional Conclusions on BBC on-demand proposals"

2007-02-05 Thread Michael Sparks
a really fancy shared printer) [1] http://goldfndr.home.mindspring.com/urw.html [2] Lulu requires the books to stipulate a license. I know Cafepress do this as well, although I've found Lulu easier to work with. (eg for making personalised notebooks) Regards, Michael. -- Michael Sparks

RE: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes

2007-02-09 Thread Michael Sparks
implementation issue, since you just virtualise the entire platform including TCPA module - which would of course happen if you provide people with a sufficient incentive...) Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Senior Research Engineer, BBC Research, Future Media & Technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes

2007-02-10 Thread Michael Sparks
ing the /technology/ is broken. After all, using the same technology you can make things like secure personal storage are more secure and trustable by the user: * http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6633 Michael. -- All the above are my opinions only. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discu

Re: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes

2007-02-10 Thread Michael Sparks
utside the realms of your average developer, but it's not outside the capabilities of a commercial company. All clearly hypothetical examples, with varying levels of likelihood, but since you say you work in the area, I'm curious as to the answer or pointers since I suspect there is :) Feel

[backstage] [BTW] Kamaelia

2007-02-10 Thread Michael Sparks
erged into a release. * http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/KamaeliaProjectProcesses - basic project processes. If people are interested in previous history to date, we've held generally weekly meetings online on #kamaelia on freenode's IRC network (as per processes above)

Re: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes

2007-02-10 Thread Michael Sparks
I'll read up on the references, you never know when the positive uses of the technology will be handy. Regards, Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes

2007-02-11 Thread Michael Sparks
for the user, scenarios. Anyway, thanks for the pointers Tim, I'll keep on pondering them, and feel free to point out where I've oversimplified to the point of misinforming or simply misunderstood some points. Regards, Michael. -- Kamaelia Project Lead http://kamaelia.sourc

Re: [backstage] First BBC Backstage Podcast: DRM and the BBC

2007-02-14 Thread Michael Sparks
uld be: * http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/KamaeliaMacro The code (since its just timeshifting) is here: http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kamaelia/trunk/Code/Python/Kamaelia/Examples/DVB_Systems/Macro.py?revision=2257&view=markup Michael - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To u

Re: [backstage] HD-DVD " how DRM was defeated"

2007-02-24 Thread Michael Sparks
ink it is, just a note to say that if people are interested in discussing Kamaelia related issues, I'd prefer that to happen on the Kamaelia mailing lists (cf the "contact" part of the kamaelia website). (sad really, since Kamaelia really does fall under the heading of "user ou

[backstage] BBC Research, Kamaelia & Google's Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-23 Thread Michael Sparks
is the deadline ? Monday midnight. * URL? http://code.google.com/soc/ Please feel free to forward this to any students or student groups you would find this interesting ! :-) Regards, Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Senior Research Engineer, BBC Research, Technology Group [EMAIL PROTECTED], K

[backstage] new prototype, geoRss feeds for travel data

2007-04-10 Thread Michael Pritchard
ncludes details on adding them to google maps. all data available from http://bbc.blueghost.co.uk/travel_data/ any comments freely accepted. Thanks, Michael -- ------ Michael Pritchard Web :: http://www.blueghost.co.uk GMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [backstage] new prototype, geoRss feeds for travel data

2007-04-10 Thread Michael Pritchard
thanks for all the comments, i'll do my best to work on these comments when i get some free time On 10/04/07, mapperz . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael, Excellent work, have tracked your blueghost projects and like the mapping integration with the new services from Google Maps

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