The development time for the project now called iPlayer has exceeded five years. Not being able to provide an ETA for other platform versions does not sync with the idea of creating content with public money, to the wider public benefit.
Oh, the BBC's content may be for free (but is not free), your access to it may not be. Besides another OS license you may have to pay for data traffic as well http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2 160454,00.html.
The contents of the government's 'response' is almost an exact copy of the BBC own press release from earlier this year. They announced in April that there would be a 6-month review, which should be around this time. However, both texts don't tell us anything, there is no time plan, nothing. I very much doubt that there will be an iPlayer for other platforms before the end of this year.
"the FBI shows up at your door, demands the document back and orders you to forget you ever saw it"
lol. Is there government funding available for professionally supported forgetting? I hope with other posters the guy did copy and distribute the stuff as it should be clearly in the public domain now.
You're right, it is, or was very close. In my anger, I had initially made direct references and comparisons as well, but thought it was wiser not to do so.
Economic benefits in return for social responsibility. Read: more profit if you apply (self-)censorship to ensure the restoration of Victorian values. The next step will be ofcourse to ban anything that is critical, obscene, rebellious or hurtful to the feelings of the majority. I can recall at least two other regimes from the last century that offered benefits to individuals, companies and organisations, when they would apply censorship and spy on family, friends, neighbours and employees.
This is all very much in-line with recent developments in the UK. Oher examples are: many in the UK think, supported by populist politicians, press and media, that there are terrorists and child molestors on every street corner (ofcourse all non-British). Consequently, there are more and more calls to ditch human rights legislation and to cut freedom of speech, all in the name of fighting terrorism and anti-social behaviour. People get political positions through cash donations (cash for honours). Police kill innocent people and no one gets charged. Two-year old in a pram cannot enter a supermarket wearing a hoodie. Fourteen-year old girl gets arrested for chalking love signs and butterflies on a pavement. Father gets arrested for making pictures of his son playing football, not having a license.
All social-economic problems here are caused by artists, scientists, immigrants, teenagers or the European Union, so they should and will be punished. The true culprits, politicians, laywers, the popular media and greedy business people walk free and get rewarded for their opportunism.
There is an 'e-petition' that can be signed by UK citizens or residents at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/ (9,058 signatures at the time of this posting)
Open source is not very popular in UK? Half of my open source stuff comes from UK.
What I meant to say is that you will not find a lot of support for OS in governments, businesses and particularly in the education sector. I work on a project in a secondary school which aims to receive a status as media school, where verything is 100% windows. For the project I want to run a local server, Linux, and asimple CMS to help pupils to advance their skills in web technology. Alas the technician who is in charge ofthe network says that he "doesn't like Linux. I am a Windows man." This is not unique, I have heard this from many colleagues. Secondly, there is hardly any government funding available for OS projects in gvernement, business or eductaion environments, but there is a lot of money for MS/Windows based projects, mainly because of the partnerships that I mentioned before.
The BBC has been offering video downloads on their website for quite a while now and it is still not available for other platforms. Trying to communicate with the BBC about ETA etc. is virtually impossible.
I live in the UK, where open source is not very popular, and often considered not to be reliable enough for business or education environments. Here, ICT education in secondary schools means learning MS Office applications. Many city councils and universities have partnership agreements with MS. Even learning how to make web pages seems not possible with MS Word if you follow the governement agencies' guidelines.
So the BBC's decision use with MS' DRM is very much in-line with everything else in this country.
Typical English hysteria that shows the total failure of the education system in our beloved country. Many schools even consider to close their Internet connections, because blogs and popular sites such as myspace and flickr are considered harmful and dangerous.
From the BBC News web site: "A group of youngsters has fallen foul of the law for playing hopscotch. (...) Several children were involved in the games resulting in several markings on the pavement. Police said they were also investigating complaints of anti-social behaviour."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/5 233262.stm
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn!
I'm not surprised. WoW outbeats all MMOGs in the 'market' simply because it is well written, well designed, very scriptable and fun for players of all sorts. Also the amount of support sites for WoW is staggering. And yes, with 6.5 million subscribers Blizzard is generating a lot of cash. With the paraphernalia and the planned movie it will only increase it's marketshare.
Pure Progaganda, but is it open source ? It probably means here that they didnt pay for it.
Article reads:
It's the same ''open source" principle that drove the successful development of the Internet and of powerful free software like the Linux operating system
Unfortunately we have to wait a few more years until we see the US documents released about their involvement in Iraq. As these are probably managed on a windows based solution, unlikely public release will ever happen.
"The news will be a shock for owners of Intel Macs who had hoped they would be able to dual-boot between Windows Vista and OS X"
As most owners will be 'traditional' mac users, I don't think this is a real issue.
The article also reads: Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is the modern and flexible successor to the 20-year-old PC BIOS. It just shows that Microsoft doesn't understand true concepts of usability, innovation and excellence. As most Windows users enjoy crippled systems, using Mac OS X will come as relief to those who dare to swap. Unless you're gaming all day...
Those benchmarks are impressive, but I agree, an MC or ZF raid would be a better test.
Now we only need better Blizz performance, at least in Europe. 182ms and rising...
Slashdot Mirror
The development time for the project now called iPlayer has exceeded five years. Not being able to provide an ETA for other platform versions does not sync with the idea of creating content with public money, to the wider public benefit. Oh, the BBC's content may be for free (but is not free), your access to it may not be. Besides another OS license you may have to pay for data traffic as well http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2 160454,00.html.
The contents of the government's 'response' is almost an exact copy of the BBC own press release from earlier this year. They announced in April that there would be a 6-month review, which should be around this time. However, both texts don't tell us anything, there is no time plan, nothing. I very much doubt that there will be an iPlayer for other platforms before the end of this year.
Check my honor tab in WoW.
Oh wait, you said IT Manager?
"the FBI shows up at your door, demands the document back and orders you to forget you ever saw it" lol. Is there government funding available for professionally supported forgetting? I hope with other posters the guy did copy and distribute the stuff as it should be clearly in the public domain now.
You're right, it is, or was very close. In my anger, I had initially made direct references and comparisons as well, but thought it was wiser not to do so.
Economic benefits in return for social responsibility. Read: more profit if you apply (self-)censorship to ensure the restoration of Victorian values. The next step will be ofcourse to ban anything that is critical, obscene, rebellious or hurtful to the feelings of the majority. I can recall at least two other regimes from the last century that offered benefits to individuals, companies and organisations, when they would apply censorship and spy on family, friends, neighbours and employees. This is all very much in-line with recent developments in the UK. Oher examples are: many in the UK think, supported by populist politicians, press and media, that there are terrorists and child molestors on every street corner (ofcourse all non-British). Consequently, there are more and more calls to ditch human rights legislation and to cut freedom of speech, all in the name of fighting terrorism and anti-social behaviour. People get political positions through cash donations (cash for honours). Police kill innocent people and no one gets charged. Two-year old in a pram cannot enter a supermarket wearing a hoodie. Fourteen-year old girl gets arrested for chalking love signs and butterflies on a pavement. Father gets arrested for making pictures of his son playing football, not having a license. All social-economic problems here are caused by artists, scientists, immigrants, teenagers or the European Union, so they should and will be punished. The true culprits, politicians, laywers, the popular media and greedy business people walk free and get rewarded for their opportunism.
There is an 'e-petition' that can be signed by UK citizens or residents at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/ (9,058 signatures at the time of this posting)
Good question. If MS has security researchers, they must have insecurity developers as well.
Open source is not very popular in UK? Half of my open source stuff comes from UK.
What I meant to say is that you will not find a lot of support for OS in governments, businesses and particularly in the education sector. I work on a project in a secondary school which aims to receive a status as media school, where verything is 100% windows. For the project I want to run a local server, Linux, and asimple CMS to help pupils to advance their skills in web technology. Alas the technician who is in charge ofthe network says that he "doesn't like Linux. I am a Windows man." This is not unique, I have heard this from many colleagues. Secondly, there is hardly any government funding available for OS projects in gvernement, business or eductaion environments, but there is a lot of money for MS/Windows based projects, mainly because of the partnerships that I mentioned before.
The BBC has been offering video downloads on their website for quite a while now and it is still not available for other platforms. Trying to communicate with the BBC about ETA etc. is virtually impossible. I live in the UK, where open source is not very popular, and often considered not to be reliable enough for business or education environments. Here, ICT education in secondary schools means learning MS Office applications. Many city councils and universities have partnership agreements with MS. Even learning how to make web pages seems not possible with MS Word if you follow the governement agencies' guidelines. So the BBC's decision use with MS' DRM is very much in-line with everything else in this country.
Typical English hysteria that shows the total failure of the education system in our beloved country. Many schools even consider to close their Internet connections, because blogs and popular sites such as myspace and flickr are considered harmful and dangerous.
From the BBC News web site: "A group of youngsters has fallen foul of the law for playing hopscotch. (...) Several children were involved in the games resulting in several markings on the pavement. Police said they were also investigating complaints of anti-social behaviour." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/5 233262.stm
Clearly, they raped the poor tree and should be put on the sex offenders list.
"The criteria for an appropriate mouse for each style of gaming are different..."
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn!
But it happened 43 days ago. Disappointing quality of the media.
Cannot compare fresh apples with old pears.
I'm not surprised. WoW outbeats all MMOGs in the 'market' simply because it is well written, well designed, very scriptable and fun for players of all sorts. Also the amount of support sites for WoW is staggering. And yes, with 6.5 million subscribers Blizzard is generating a lot of cash. With the paraphernalia and the planned movie it will only increase it's marketshare.
.. I need to spend 30% of the day to get rank 11 in a few weeks for a cheap epic mount.
Or this could mean that Vista will never be released. Lemme think of a new name: Windows DéjaVu
Article reads: It's the same ''open source" principle that drove the successful development of the Internet and of powerful free software like the Linux operating system
Unfortunately we have to wait a few more years until we see the US documents released about their involvement in Iraq. As these are probably managed on a windows based solution, unlikely public release will ever happen.
As most owners will be 'traditional' mac users, I don't think this is a real issue.
The article also reads: Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is the modern and flexible successor to the 20-year-old PC BIOS. It just shows that Microsoft doesn't understand true concepts of usability, innovation and excellence. As most Windows users enjoy crippled systems, using Mac OS X will come as relief to those who dare to swap. Unless you're gaming all day...
Those benchmarks are impressive, but I agree, an MC or ZF raid would be a better test.
Now we only need better Blizz performance, at least in Europe. 182ms and rising...
Or another Google project?
Why not give every rock a unique email address