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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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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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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likely to get yourself written off as
being crazy than make real headway in affecting change. Softly softly
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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 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
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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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 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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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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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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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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[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.
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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
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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Broadband TV, in that case?
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I wonder how true it is :)
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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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-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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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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richer titles are helpful (you’ve already told the SE what it is you’re looking
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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
for it all…)
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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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/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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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”
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.
.
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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basis, all I
can say is: no, it definitely isn‘t, and please don’t come back.
Browser wars where the participants are all pretty much standards-compliant and
pushing regular releases are A Good Thing; it’s proper competition.
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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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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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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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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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So presumably the upgrade to IE8 will happen in about 2017? ;)
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On 15-Dec-2009, at 10:40, Ian Forrester wrote:
2017 right after the Vista upgrade right?
I heard a report† that 37.6% of sales of Windows Vista were in fact Siemens
stockpiling supplies so that there would still be copies around near the end of
the next decade.
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of pushing events to the client from the server (with appropriate handling such
that if you hear nothing from the server after a while, you open a new polling
connection—I’d maybe have the server send a null packet every 15 seconds or so
just to indicate that it’s still alive).
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 17:41, Brendan Quinn brendan.qu...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
We have been asked if we know some people who are doing interesting things
with the NoSQL family of databases… CouchDB, Tokyo Cabinet, Voldemort,
etc etc.
Any ideas or stories to tell? We have some people
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:25, Nicholas Humfrey
nicholas.humf...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
For most content it will fail if you try and embedded on a page outside of
.bbc.co.uk.
Er, really?
http://nevali.net/post/148482403/embedding-iplayer
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On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 19:17, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
Why the Flash iPlayer client can't use the hardware acceleration. I get
lots of dropped frames watching through the iPlayer Desktop.
Flash’s abysmal video decoder is a longstanding bone of contention
amongst those
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:11, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote:
This is windows-only right now (presumably because Apple won't give Adobe
access to the necessary APIs).
Er, what? Where did that presumption come from?
Nothing else on the Mac or Linux has a problem with video
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 20:50, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote:
2010/1/1 Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net:
it was suggested initially that GNU/Linux was pretty much irrelevant
Only by ignorant assholes. :-)
Making it a “GNU/Linux” issue misses the point, really: the OS itself
is fairly
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 13:25, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote:
This is windows-only right now (presumably because
Apple won't give Adobe access to the necessary APIs).
Er, what? Where did that presumption come from?
Nothing else on the Mac or Linux has a problem with video
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 13:19, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote:
a) VLC, when _not_ using the GPU, doesn’t struggle
remotely as much as Flash
b) VLC also overlays text and graphics over video
Again using the GPU for compositing.
On which platforms? As I said, I’m not talking about
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:59, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
A new proposal from Ofcom on the Freeview HD CMS:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/content_mngt/condoc.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/01/freeview_hd_content_management.html
I love the fact
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 16:13, Georgi Kobilarov
georgi.kobila...@uberblic.com wrote:
Dear backstage team,
I have a question regarding the backstage data license:
How does the BBC define non-commercial use? Do you consider a free web
service or website from which no income is generated, but
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 16:41, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote:
I like the way Ofcom have totally missed the point about Linux/Open Source
presuming it refers to STBs running Linux.
Well, it would, and that's the easiest way to make the point about it.
The fact it'll affect people
On 22-Jan-2010, at 17:42, Ian Stirling wrote:
There is a third alternative.
B) obtain the decoded tables from a third party in a country where this
decryption is not illegal.
I am unsure of the legality of this. It would of course imply that the device
would need an internet connection -
On 22-Jan-2010, at 17:58, Steffan Davies wrote:
Or use the usual open source DVB stack, read the raw EPG stream into a
closed source userspace blob and de-huff it there with licensed
tables? The LinuxTv stack appears to be under GPLv2, so no GPLv3 keys
with the source worries.
For now, and
On 22-Jan-2010, at 18:55, Steffan Davies wrote:
Oh, definitely. I wasn't saying that would be a good implementation,
just that it might permit appliance makers to comply without having to
reinvent the wheel entirely (which typically leads to square or
triangular wheels).
To a point, yes, I
the developers?
(Or even if they’re aware of this)
[I’m guessing we’d have heard about it if the former answer was “yes”, but I’m
curious about the latter]
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too happy to try to reach some sort of… mutual understanding, as it were.
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On 22-Jan-2010, at 16:50, Rob Myers wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:33:18 +, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
CC actually ran a consultation on it, and were going to
do... something, at some point.
…
CC have run a consultation on this -
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 15:07, Steffan Davies st...@steff.name wrote:
Couldn't agree more - the idea is daft and my suggestion was purely a
implementation suggestion in the light of that daftery. Quite HD is so
intrinsically different from standard DVB-T that it needs to be
encumbered in this
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:43, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
I agree but there was no clear idea what we should do except maybe move the
whole thing to Mailman?
There was a consensus for Mailman, although I don't think anybody
hates Majordomo enough to stamp feet over it!
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 16:57, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Web video has never really been open, unencumbered and free. We've had Real
Networks RM format, Apple's QuickTime, Microsoft's Windows Media Video (now
standardised as VC-1), the DivX and XviD codecs, and Adobe Flash
On 25-Jan-2010, at 18:59, Barry Carlyon wrote:
Surely tho some clever person will write a plugin for Firefox to enable the
H.264 codec, assuming they can get a version that will plugin/addon nicely
As far as I know, FF provides no plugin interface for video and audio
codecs.
It’s been
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:48, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
I've always been interested how x.264 and h.264 related to each other and
co-exist. Is its simply a case like how Divx and Xvid work together or is
there more ?
[the question wasn't directed at me, but...]
I'm not
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 13:01, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/is-the-world-ready-for-the-successor-of-the-mp3/
This is meant to make music piricay less tempting, so they say.
Yes, cut off your remaining source of revenue for people who don't
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 15:41, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
Storage and bandwidth is almost getting to the point where we could use raw
PCM...
Well, there's not a lot of point when there's lossless compression
which can contain metadata (FLAC[0], ALAC, etc) :)
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 15:58, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote:
People might be interested that in the ORG perspective:
For what it's worth, I was in discussions with Jim prior to that
meeting, and put together a document for him outlining the situation
and the issues that I'd turned up
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 16:26, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
Out of interest, has anyone done a proper legal search on the proposals?
I'm under the impression that the mandate that puts all public service
content out without any form of proection is in primary legislation,
On 26-Jan-2010, at 17:20, Brian Butterworth wrote:
It should be noted that the content management approach implemented for
Freeview HD will frequently enable far more extensive copying and
distribution of broadcast content than is likely to be considered acceptable
to the majority of
On 26-Jan-2010, at 16:20, Mo McRoberts wrote:
If I remember later, I'll dig it out and post it to this thread. It
made for a reasonable semi-executive summary, even if it wasn't quite
as diplomatic as it might be if it were addressed to BBC senior
management, for example ;)
And without
On 26-Jan-2010, at 20:19, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
Older macs without H.264 hardware acceleration also have a very basic version
of the spec through Quicktime because Apple don't seem to fix any bugs with
it.
It’s not just older Macs. Basically, if you don’t restrict yourself to Baseline
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:20, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
You do get an awful lot better results when you are not compressing in real
time, of course, because you can use all the MPEG4 forward references, the
ones you don't get when you real time encode.
that's a good
So, what does everyone think?
(and how much effect will it have on the video situation over the
next 18 months or so, do we reckon?)
M.
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:03, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
Underwhelming. It's a big iPhone. It's named after the Star Trek PADD.
Might be good it if ran an operating system and had a keyboard.
It does, both.
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:32, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
It does, both, what?
it runs an operating system.
it has a keyboard.
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:03, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv
wrote:
Underwhelming. It's
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:06, Rupert Watson rup...@root6.com wrote:
Did he say whether iBooks will run on existing iPhones?
Not seen it mentioned.
iBooks is US-only for the moment, though.
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:56, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
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.
And it clearly doesn't have a keyboard.
Not just an operating system, but a very close
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 missing something - how is it not an OS?
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:20, Michael Kraskin michael.kras...@bbc.com wrote:
I think the no-Flash means that it a seriously crippled web browser. Hardly
the best way to browse the internet, and thus will be a serious
disappointment, not only to power users, but to casual internet surfers as
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 17:43, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
Apologies for inflammatory language, I found out this morning someone has
stolen by external terrabyte drive. Lost a decade of TV recordings...
Oh cripes, my condolences :(
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 14:53, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
But tinkerers are a limited market; there are lots of people who like to soup
up their cars, but there are lots more who don't. If Apple is wise—and I'm
betting it is—it'll build a tablet for the large majority of
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 22:55, Jim Tonge jim_d_to...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
And iStore lock-in? For those without a computer, they have but one store to
buy content from, no?
The hardware supports several scenarios not yet exposed by the OS. The
iPad can operate as a USB host *or* a USB client;
On 31-Jan-2010, at 18:31, Christopher Woods wrote:
That said, the curated shop / marketplace experience will always hold sway
with the 'just want it to work' segment of the userbase, so the lightbulb
moment will only happen for most users when someone/some company manages to
devise a
On 27-Jan-2010, at 16:19, Dave Crossland wrote:
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
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