and Java support, the Neo1973
from FIC should be available in the UK at about the same
time as Apple's effort :-)
- Richard
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it.
Providing intuitive, interactive feedback is *good* design, great
business sense and extremely good manners.
:-)
(As is writing code that degrades gracefully.)
Cheers,
- Richard
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On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 22:53 +0100, Frank Wales wrote:
I'll be intrigued to see what the iPhone turns into by the time
it lands on these shores, and indeed whether or not the Linux
phone from FIC actually gains more traction that the rest of
the promising-but-discontinued Linux-based handhelds
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 00:50 +0300, Martin Belam wrote:
Yeah, mostly Pipes to process the RSS feeds, and the Google Custom
Search Engine. There's also some very crude Perl of my own to add
Newspaper: Some newspaper headline into the RSS before it gets
passed to Feedburner, and to make the
autograph (on a cheque that you will most
likely frame [1]).
- Richard
[1] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/abcde.html
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On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 08:45 +, Peter Bowyer wrote:
However that's not always the case. Turnham Green is actually a hell of a
lot closer to Chiswick Park tube station, than Turnham Green tube station.
... and if you get a 27 bus to Turnham Green, it stops at the real
Turnham Green,
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:59 +, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Various parts of its non-DRM on demand radio proposals
(book readings,
classical music) failed the Public Value Test due to the
BBC Trust's
fears over the negative market impact of non-DRM
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 08:52 +, Michael Sparks wrote:
I'd assumed that people would understand the concept of analogy and
meme.
A generation brought up on Reithian values would, but now it's all
East Enders, and other reality shows :^/
- Richard
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a podcast:
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/podcast.asp
Me - I'll stick to live music, shellac, and vinyl :^)
- Richard
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On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 18:00 +, Christopher Woods wrote:
I buy probably one or two CDs a year, if that, but I buy a barrowload of
vinyl every year. I'm a bit odd though. ;)
Maybe - I get more vinyl every month, but I haven't
bought a CD for ages. SACDs are tempting, sounding
far better than
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 23:39 +, Christopher Woods wrote:
Maybe - I get more vinyl every month, but I haven't bought a
CD for ages. SACDs are tempting, sounding far better than
CDs, but there are few new releases, so rather than buying a
player this year, I think I'll invest in a
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:55 +, Jason Cartwright wrote:
Pretty much all display advertising on the web is done in
Flash (where rather a lot of money is spent, apparently)
Yes, I'd noticed other people's computers seemed to
carry umpteen more ads than mine on most websites
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 22:11 +, Tim Dobson wrote:
Michael wrote:
I thought it was utter tripe myself. Tried so hard it was unfunny. But then
humour is incredibly subjective.
What mainstream tv with a tech edge, do you find funny?
I think HHGTTG was the last, wasn't it?
- Richard
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 00:03 +, Fearghas McKay wrote:
On 24 Mar 2008, at 23:07, Richard Smedley wrote:
I think HHGTTG was the last, wasn't it?
Nope that was Radio :-)
:-)
Well I didn't find the TV as amusing, but then maybe I am being a tad
old crusty ;-)
Well, if we're speaking
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 19:39 +0100, Richard Lockwood wrote:
If I go to Morrisons this evening to buy four bottles
of Timothy Taylor Landlord (other supermarkets and
beers are available), do they ask me at the checkout
how much I
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 09:58 +0100, Morris, Nat wrote:
Is someone able to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] taken off the list to
stop their autoresponder bot flooding the list?
Its replying to every post and itself!
I thought the reply-to-itself really made this one
special ;o)
I wonder how many other
.
So think local. How many schols are there within
40 miles of you?
- Richard
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On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 19:15 +, Dave Crossland wrote:
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
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 23:15 +, Christopher Woods wrote:
different in its model, aiming itself as it does as a social enterprise for
the voluntary and educational sectors. How many schools do you serve in
your
locality? (just curious...) Your model obviously works exceptionally well
for
A postscript:
Anyone interested in helping to improve the
IT situation in schools (through FOSS) may be
interested in membership of Schoolforge-UK.
http://groups.google.com/group/sf-uk-discuss/about
The website contains many case studies, and the
(low traffic) mailing list a number of
Alex Mace wrote:
I compressed the run time on my toaster and now it won't shut up about
grilled bread products.
Lister
Waffles, anyone?
- Richard
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Gareth Davis wrote:
Frankie,
I can't speak for the domestic BBC, but no online World Service
content is transcoded from broadcast transport streams. All our radio
comes straight out of the audio router at Bush House into our
encoders, with a touch of limiting applied to prevent clipping if an
Phil Lewis wrote:
If you ever watch the iPhone iPlayer streams they are not the same edits
as the flash based iPlayer, they always appear to be from broadcast -
Ah - that explains it. I use get_iplayer, which grabs
the iPhone offerings :)
you sometimes even get completely the wrong
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