When will people stop whining about iPlayer being XP only? There's no secret Microsoft alliance, and no great conspiracy.
When non-Windows players (Mac and Linux) don't have to pay a license fee and be excluded from services. Also, the worry is not about the Beeb management, but the iPlayer team many of whose senior figures are ex-Microsoft employees.
The main reason why iPlayer uses Windows DRM is because the companies who produce content for the BBC didn't want their shows streamed without some kind of rights management, because, god forbid, it should end up on bit torrent. The cause of this is most likely ignorance on their part, because, as we all know, DRM stops piracy, saves lives, cures cancar and ends world famine.
That a reason, if it is, to use DRM, not Microsoft DRM. Anyway, it's kind of silly---there are no digital rights management of broadcasts.
There has always been a plan for a Mac/Linux version of iPlayer, but the current DRM requirements being imposed on the iPlayer Core team make it somewhat difficult for them to actually get working on it
Well, sort of, there is plans for a streaming only version for Mac and Linux, but, again, that's unfair treatment to license payers.
Arrogant snob is a bit much even if you disagree...
The ending is akin to the ending of Mean Streets (although in that movie we know the protagonist survives given the opening). What's important is that he is shot, not whether or not he dies.
Even if people are too easily offended, I fail to see how this is even a problem at all. Do we really think that there is no degredation in data? Or that the formats in which digital information is stored won't change thus making inaccessable? Is it really plausible, say, that a document written in Word will be readable in fifty years time, let alone two centuries from now? I made the mistake of writing my dissertation in Word (in 1995) and can't even access it now. The problem seems rather the opposite, how to preserve our data. But even plain text and open standards, while the best we can do at present, is no guarantee. Sometimes I think we were better off with parchment.
Totally agree. Unfortunately, there aren't always alternatives. My bank, for example, (which I *have* to use for complicated reasons) provides online banking which is IE only. As soon as I can switch banks, I will...
Given the current level of investment in gaming, there is real economic pressure to sell and sell well. This is a disincentive to innovate (think of the effects of the comparative economic pressure in the music and movie industries).
I use web apps (not exclusively), but will they replace desktop apps? Not likely, at least not yet. One issue not mentioned yet is the UI limitations of working in a browser. I find the extant limitations frustrating at best. Do you really think that a web app could match the functionality and UI of your favorite text editor? Not presently and not in the near future.
AppleTV is a computer---it even has a perl plugin. And the iPhone runs OS X. It is less that Apple has abandoned computers and more that Apple has generalized what computers can do and how they fit into peoples lives. Call them computing devices rather than computers if you like, but they all use OS X which is why there was the delay. They pulled OS X softwarae engineers away from Leopard development to work on the iPhone.
One of the alleged death threats was clearly not a death threat. In response to KS deleting comments, someone posted a picture of her gagged. Tasteless yes, but its satirical intent was clear...
...especially given their attitude towards "citizen journalists". Instead of making blogging more respectable O'Reily and company manage to make it seem far worse than it really is.
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When non-Windows players (Mac and Linux) don't have to pay a license fee and be excluded from services. Also, the worry is not about the Beeb management, but the iPlayer team many of whose senior figures are ex-Microsoft employees.
That a reason, if it is, to use DRM, not Microsoft DRM. Anyway, it's kind of silly---there are no digital rights management of broadcasts.
Well, sort of, there is plans for a streaming only version for Mac and Linux, but, again, that's unfair treatment to license payers.
Arrogant snob is a bit much even if you disagree...
The ending is akin to the ending of Mean Streets (although in that movie we know the protagonist survives given the opening). What's important is that he is shot, not whether or not he dies.
Even if people are too easily offended, I fail to see how this is even a problem at all. Do we really think that there is no degredation in data? Or that the formats in which digital information is stored won't change thus making inaccessable? Is it really plausible, say, that a document written in Word will be readable in fifty years time, let alone two centuries from now? I made the mistake of writing my dissertation in Word (in 1995) and can't even access it now. The problem seems rather the opposite, how to preserve our data. But even plain text and open standards, while the best we can do at present, is no guarantee. Sometimes I think we were better off with parchment.
It is called structured procrastination
Totally agree. Unfortunately, there aren't always alternatives. My bank, for example, (which I *have* to use for complicated reasons) provides online banking which is IE only. As soon as I can switch banks, I will...
Given the current level of investment in gaming, there is real economic pressure to sell and sell well. This is a disincentive to innovate (think of the effects of the comparative economic pressure in the music and movie industries).
I use web apps (not exclusively), but will they replace desktop apps? Not likely, at least not yet. One issue not mentioned yet is the UI limitations of working in a browser. I find the extant limitations frustrating at best. Do you really think that a web app could match the functionality and UI of your favorite text editor? Not presently and not in the near future.
AppleTV is a computer---it even has a perl plugin. And the iPhone runs OS X. It is less that Apple has abandoned computers and more that Apple has generalized what computers can do and how they fit into peoples lives. Call them computing devices rather than computers if you like, but they all use OS X which is why there was the delay. They pulled OS X softwarae engineers away from Leopard development to work on the iPhone.
One of the alleged death threats was clearly not a death threat. In response to KS deleting comments, someone posted a picture of her gagged. Tasteless yes, but its satirical intent was clear...
...especially given their attitude towards "citizen journalists". Instead of making blogging more respectable O'Reily and company manage to make it seem far worse than it really is.
In the short term yes, of course. In the long term, however, M$ runs the risk of being the new Mac "Classic".