Posts by Jess 1239 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jul 2007
opt for a system that is significantly different from their existing one and has a shelf life of perhaps 18 months before it's replaced by something probably significantly different again?
If you are going to make a significant change in system better options would be either
A system that you can be reasonably sure will look and feel substantially the same for the foreseeable future.
Or one that is free and runs on your existing hardware too.
I know a lot of people who are using Windows 98 (or even 95) or Panther. They are locked out from Firefox 3.
I can understand why Microsoft or Apple lock them out from their latest Browsers, but why Mozilla? Surely Win 9x and older OS X users are a captive audience? (They support minority systems like Vista.)
It is quite ironic that it seems more likely I will be able to run Firefox 3 on my RISC OS machine than my Mac or PC. (unless I use linux.)
Captain Jack's regeneration power could be used instead of a regeneration. (There was something similar in an early Torchwood IIRC).
It would be good if they could bring the Brigadier back as the loyal companion who saves the day.
I hope they explain what caused the divergence in History between the "normal" reality and the Cyberman universe. (Presumably diverging a few months before Mickey's birth.)
it would be nice if they used the Torchwood show to explore what happened to some of the companions (eg Ace.)
And how did they miss the opportunity of bringing Bessie out of mothballs when they were looking for a Car without a sontaran device fitted?
Diverting any users with an agent string AVG uses to a simple CAPTCHA page which also contains an explanation, t&c of the website (ie no prefetching) and several links to AVG.
Failing the CAPTCHA would redirect to AVG.
Something like:
We apologise, but your system is using a browser agent string known to be used by AVG for automated prefetching in contravention of this sites terms and conditions. To prove you are human please answer the following...
I hope your husband successfully sues someone big time.
(Ideally it would be Microsoft for their Swiss cheese approach to security, but that would never succeed. The employers chose to such an insecure system and they failed to take the steps needed to properly secure it.)
Good luck.
I hope to see an article in the reg in a few months reporting a several million dollar settlement.
liam:
>> HD's 1080 lines is less than double PAL's 575 so PAL is not going to look ideal if I were to get a new screen"
> thats why you need a proper TV and not a monitor. also that res is 4:3 - wheras 1080p is 16:9 format. i must admit i dont use the video through my AV amp as sometimes i like to listen to music while watching tv etc...
My point was that there are not enough pixels in 1080 screen to display PAL really cleanly. (I specifically bought 1200 line screen to be comfortably over 2 x 575) Therefore all else being equal, a new screen would be a reduction in picture quality for my existing media. (Plus I have a monitor because I have no TV license and no tuner)
HD created content downscaled to my existing screen would be better than my existing picture, but HDCP means I won't be able to use it. So I didn't even bother to get one of the cheap HD DVD players.
Distance:
PAL TV was designed to be high definition. (to look as sharp as real life) but from a distance of something like 7 times the diagonal of the screen. (assuming the system delivers what it should). HDTV reduces this distance, so hence a wider view from the "correct" distance.
I have a 1600 x 1200 LCD panel with DVI and S-video inputs. The resolution is enough beyond double 720 x 575 to look good on PAL signals. (Nyquist and all that).
HD's 1080 lines is less than double PAL's 575 so PAL is not going to look ideal if I were to get a new screen.
My AV amplifier switches s-video only.
I'm not even sure bluray will work with my non-hdcp screen anyway. (I have a DVD player that will be being returned soon because it blanks the screen with CSS DVDs on non-hdcp displays.)
So I shall be sticking to my combi Laserdisk / DVD player for a little bit longer.
(Not using terms like unlimited in a different way to the normal meaning, for example).
They give the impression that they were selling a product that could be used like this, but when it costs them more money they moan.
It's their fault entirely.
Saying that, the BBC should provide a caching system, (a live CD, that would run on the ISP's own hardware) .
Paris, well why not?
I had the misfortune to deal with one of those.
A friends broadband packed up on thursday.
They were a nightmare. They couldn't deal with the fact he had a router. They seemed to think a router was just for wireless, not for the security benefits.
They even thought the operating system would make a difference (we could see the router admin page and it said there was no PPP connection).
One operative even inteneded to log that we had refused to help with diagnosis, despite the fact that I had explained to him that the point that the system was failing was the PPP connection (Not just the password/username), and we had confirmed the router worked and reflashed it to the latest firmware, just in case. My friend lost his temper with him at that point and had a really good go at him, (I'd already been pushed to the point of raising my voice earlier, which takes a lot.)
They tried to imply the router was at fault or incompatible, depite the fact that it was a decent make (Draytek), I had taken it to my house where it worked perfectly on talktalk, and that it had been working for months before.
My friend created such a fuss with Customer services the next day that they gave him a goodwill gesture of £30 (which we drank on friday night :) :) )
The service reappeared at the end of the weekend.
He gets about 2.5M connection, where his router gave 7.5M on my talktalk line just round the corner.
I assume many Pipex customers are making their escape plans.
> "filter IP addresses" in order to ensure that copyright was protected for 70 years after a composer's death for those in Europe and for 50 years after a composer's death in Canada.
Why wouldn't just not supplying any material from composers who died less that 70 years ago satisfy the lawyers?
> The letter demanded the removal of any score by any of UE's artists.
If they provided a list, why would that be difficult?
"And yet, withold your licence payment in protest and you'll be banged up for longer than a murderer."
Only if you carry on using your TV equipment.
I'm taking a few months off TV, partially because of this fiasco (it was certainly the final straw).
If everyone who disliked this situation took a month or three without TV, the BBC may just notice it in their wallet.
The issue isn't that the BBC should provide an iPlayer for other systems, (it doesn't provide TVs does it?)
It is the fact that it should provide the producers of other systems the means to produce their own BBC content players .
A firm can produce manufacture its own TV design. The same should be true for Computer operating system manufacturers.
Not doing this is supporting a monopoly (or Duopoly when a Mac iPlayer arrives, which it will, due to the popularity of the Mac in the media).
If they are unable to do this then they should stick to normal broadcast, or become a commercial organisation and drop the TV license.
Perhaps this could be achieved by creating DRM modules (for various processor types or maybe java, depending on whther its providing keys or doing the decription) for incorporation into programs.
Chris wrote: "From experience the only difference between SECAM and PAL is how the colours were encoded (or some such). You can quite easily watch SECAM signals on a PAL TV or vice versa it'll just be in B&W. I've tried this with videos bought in France."
That is the only differnce in the video signal. (Laserdisk players had PAL recorded on them and french players just converted the colour to SECAM)
The broadcast signal is modulated differently too. (Just as European PAL sound is different from UK sound.) Basically with french signals on a UK (only) TV you get a negative black and white image, which usually won't lock properly and no sound. (Other European signals would just give no sound)
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