BBC Offers iPhone Version of iPlayer, Accessible to Linux Users Too

smallfries writes "After a long battle with Linux users in the UK, the BBC was forced into releasing a flash version of the iPlayer streaming service to fulfill their obligations to license-fee payers. After claiming that development of Linux and Mac versions of the iPlayer would take two years, Auntie Beeb has rushed to support the iPhone. iPhone users 'can be trusted' because their platform is locked down ... so the beeb opened a non-DRM hole in the iPlayer to support them. This was guarded by the extreme security of User Agent strings! Long story short, Linux and Mac users have made their own non-DRM, non-Microsoft platform from firebug and wget. UK users can now watch (and keep) their favorite BBC shows."

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Re:Nokia E65

[o'davy]

Can we please stop hearing about Nokia? Every time we try to have a discussion involving the iPhone, a bunch of people chime in with this business about Nokia. I'm just so tired of it! Please let us drink our Kool-Aid® in peace.

Re:hooray....

[d3ac0n]

Meant to include this link in my original post: http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=4&x_outlet=12&x_article=1464

Re:Nokia E65

[EdelFactor19]

lol, excellent point, but replace half with 1/3 or less..
bentleys > 100K
don't know the integra type R sticker price (and it may be much higher because of import problems) but at last release
Acura RSX Type S U(y) [utility of]
the problem is that people calculate the Utility function differently.
you'd probably have something like U(x) = a*Power(x) + b*Luxury(x) - d*Price(x) + e*GasEfficiency(x) + f*Cargo(x) + g*Towing(x)
the values of a-g not only vary widely, but their relative ordering will as well.
further more the functions themselves vary as different people have different threshholds to diminishing return.

i think im far enough off topic that i should stop tho :-D