I'm in the UK, and I can name Ryan Giggs freely, because I am in Scotland. The arrogant English court system didn't realise that their injunction held no force here.
The point is that they want to sell the shows in other regions, and the TV companies will only buy them in those regions if they will bring eyeballs to their (and *only* their) advertisers.
A TV company can't be successful telling its advertisers "Oh, by the way, the folk *really* interested in seeing the show you're buying advertising in will already have seen it on YouTube".
Just FYI, here in the UK we get either the long or short version of "Confidential" depending on the scheduling; usually we get the full 40-45 minute version with the original showing of an episode, but only the 12-15 minute version with the repeat.
And, trust me, you're not missing much. When you compare a 45-minute "Confidential" to its 15-minute counterpart, the extra half hour feels like "filler" and archive stuff not actually directly related to the episode.
Yup. That is a phenomenally irritating habit of the BBC's.
They have a selection of websites each with its own font size, but because they're all "bbc.co.uk" most browsers will apply the same magnification to each.
So, if you have a site open in a tab, look at a different site and need to zoom the text up, when you return to the original tab the site is "broken". (New BBC "Design guidelines" mean that most of the sites have text enclosed in fixed-size panels, so if you zoom it up the bottom couple of lines disappears...)
Just FTI, the "Metatube" link doesn't seem to want to play for me. I'm outside the USA (Scotland) so that might be the problem. But if there's a copy on YouTube or any other less parochial site, I'd appreciate a link.
Aberdeen City Council once started demanding a £0.00 rent payment from me. They sent several reminders, but every time I 'phoned to query them I was told not to worry. Then came a "final reminder" followed by a letter telling me that they had contacted a debt collection agency and were taking steps to have me evicted.
They were most unhappy when I turned up at their payments desk with a cheque for £0.00 and demanded a receipt.
The problem with a request such as this is that the people making it have a different definition of "Porn" to the majority of people who actually watch porn. For example, from their POV, all the advertising revenue from a series of "Californication" would count as "Porn income", despite the fact that here in the UK it's shown on normal unencrypted broadcast TV.
A friend of mine used to run a BBS in Aberdeen that was quite popular in the USA. ("Dark Star", if anyone remembers it...) A couple of nights a week we'd all sit round at his place chatting to random Americans who dialed in. This would have been some five years before I got my first Internet connection... Happy days.
Oh, and it all ran on an early Amstrad "portable" computer, off two floppy drives, at 14.4kBaud. Not much file sharing...
I hope that in this context, by "BT" you mean BitTorrent and not British Telecom. The latter is extremely effective at slowing your downloads to a crawl.
"Cameras in your house"... Have you given any thought to these new "gestural interfaces" that are supposed to replace games controllers and remote controls? How do they work? Why, by putting a camera in your house, usually attached to a device connected directly to the web. What could possibly go wrong...?
Mandatory Shatner quote
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
A theory
Perhaps it's because the best comedians actually observe the real world around them, unlike the majority of politicians.
Re: In the UK today...
I'm in the UK, and I can name Ryan Giggs freely, because I am in Scotland. The arrogant English court system didn't realise that their injunction held no force here.
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The point is that they want to sell the shows in other regions, and the TV companies will only buy them in those regions if they will bring eyeballs to their (and *only* their) advertisers.
A TV company can't be successful telling its advertisers "Oh, by the way, the folk *really* interested in seeing the show you're buying advertising in will already have seen it on YouTube".
Re: Re: Nope, they still don't get it.
Just FYI, here in the UK we get either the long or short version of "Confidential" depending on the scheduling; usually we get the full 40-45 minute version with the original showing of an episode, but only the 12-15 minute version with the repeat.
And, trust me, you're not missing much. When you compare a 45-minute "Confidential" to its 15-minute counterpart, the extra half hour feels like "filler" and archive stuff not actually directly related to the episode.
Re: Re: BBC Kill Off
Yup. That is a phenomenally irritating habit of the BBC's.
They have a selection of websites each with its own font size, but because they're all "bbc.co.uk" most browsers will apply the same magnification to each.
So, if you have a site open in a tab, look at a different site and need to zoom the text up, when you return to the original tab the site is "broken". (New BBC "Design guidelines" mean that most of the sites have text enclosed in fixed-size panels, so if you zoom it up the bottom couple of lines disappears...)
Re: Re: Re: Backup copy
Apologies. I left it for an hour or so and this time it worked.
Re: Re: Backup copy
Just FTI, the "Metatube" link doesn't seem to want to play for me. I'm outside the USA (Scotland) so that might be the problem. But if there's a copy on YouTube or any other less parochial site, I'd appreciate a link.
One thing that may be skewing the figures...
If someone *admits* they were burgled because of a Facebook update their insurance is unlikely to pay out.
It's not just Comcast
Aberdeen City Council once started demanding a £0.00 rent payment from me. They sent several reminders, but every time I 'phoned to query them I was told not to worry. Then came a "final reminder" followed by a letter telling me that they had contacted a debt collection agency and were taking steps to have me evicted.
They were most unhappy when I turned up at their payments desk with a cheque for £0.00 and demanded a receipt.
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You';re very welcome. ;-D
Re: "The full report is below:"
Apologies for the double-post; it was a browser glitch. @'.'@
"The full report is below:"
No, it isn't.
"The full report is below:"
No, it isn't.
Re: Nospam@nospam.com
"And next, Polo will sue the band"
Yes. Because the CD is circular. And it has a hole in the middle.
Define "Porn"
The problem with a request such as this is that the people making it have a different definition of "Porn" to the majority of people who actually watch porn. For example, from their POV, all the advertising revenue from a series of "Californication" would count as "Porn income", despite the fact that here in the UK it's shown on normal unencrypted broadcast TV.
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A friend of mine used to run a BBS in Aberdeen that was quite popular in the USA. ("Dark Star", if anyone remembers it...) A couple of nights a week we'd all sit round at his place chatting to random Americans who dialed in. This would have been some five years before I got my first Internet connection... Happy days. Oh, and it all ran on an early Amstrad "portable" computer, off two floppy drives, at 14.4kBaud. Not much file sharing...
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I hope that in this context, by "BT" you mean BitTorrent and not British Telecom. The latter is extremely effective at slowing your downloads to a crawl.
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"Cameras in your house"... Have you given any thought to these new "gestural interfaces" that are supposed to replace games controllers and remote controls? How do they work? Why, by putting a camera in your house, usually attached to a device connected directly to the web. What could possibly go wrong...?
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And, of course, it'll all turn out to be Google's fault.
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html