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Talkback I don't mind admitting I've been using it to keep up with programs from home I can't otherwise watch, such as Match of the Day. It'd just be nice to watch it live instead of having to wait a day or so for some kind person to upload it.
[March 16, 2008, 17:08]
Media Center Will Succeed, Just Not Yet
Talkback So while you can still watch a movie from your PC the extender is still useless for that unless you don't mind low quality video and two channel audio. They have taken the ability to watch high quality dvd's away from all extender devices.
[April 24, 2005, 7:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News I gamely struggle through the shopping basket registration, only to find that not only is the Watch -- Digital not Stock -- In and they can't give me a Date -- Delivery, but that they don't take credit cards.
[November 14, 1999, 18:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I gamely struggle through the shopping basket registration, only to find that not only is the Watch -- Digital not Stock -- In and they can't give me a Date -- Delivery, but that they don't take credit cards.
[November 14, 1999, 18:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News I've kept a mild watch on this during my days on PC Magazine, but it's much more to the fore with IT Week. With the number of cheap PC-based videocameras about to explode like a dynamite-eating dog in a microwave - and with nobody else trying to...
[March 14, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I've kept a mild watch on this during my days on PC Magazine, but it's much more to the fore with IT Week. With the number of cheap PC-based videocameras about to explode like a dynamite-eating dog in a microwave - and with nobody else trying to...
[March 14, 1998, 6:00]
IBM: A Wearable World Beyond Your Clamshell
News People are used to paying $59.95 for a watch, so $2,000 is a tough sell for a watch computer," Suarez said. Big Blue is experimenting with a number of unusual designs, including wearable PCs, watch computers and even a computer sewn into clothing...
[February 8, 2001, 10:11]
Skype Refuses To Comply With Ofcom 999 Ruling
Blog Windows Watch reports that Skype simply will not comply. Update: I like what Andy Abramson says in his VoIP Watch blog about this. We do as we please, we don't care what anyone else says, does or thinks.
[September 25, 2008, 10:03]
Do Video Games Make Children Violent?
Talkback If you don't agree with something on TV you don't just sit there and watch it, you turn it off or you don't watch it to begin with. This doesn't mean that kids are made violent by a game, but if you don't want them playing it, then get rid of it or...
[March 10, 2005, 20:11]
'Twas The Night Before 3G Iphone - Well Almost.
Blog Get a grip young sir, talk to your friends about something else, don't watch the Apple advert again and please how many times do you have to look at those pictures, no don't look at the WWDC launch of the phone again and what are you doing simply...
[July 9, 2008, 9:34]
Hacking Nature - News From The Silicon/carbon Interface
Blog Similarly, watch out for some stunning stuff coming out of the mix of high-performance computing and cognitive neuroscience. Half an hour of video to watch here, mostly of Kamen talking, but it's all worth it.
[September 14, 2008, 14:45]
Hollywood's War On Open Source: Linux In The Cross Hairs
News Robert McAughan, an intellectual property attorney with Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, said the movie industry could be overstepping its copyright authority by making viewers watch the DVD trailers. There is no guarantee of a copyright holder that...
[February 28, 2000, 9:23]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback I watch DVDs rather than TV to avoid the adverts. I have an ad blocker on my proxy so I don't have to put up with noisy, bouncing, jiggling, content disrupting crap. I read news papers and sometimes even look at the adverts
[June 28, 2005, 6:28]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback I watch shows on my Sonic Blue DVR because it reads the subcodes in the vertical blanking region and automatically skips recording commercials. I pay for satellite radio so I don't have to hear ads. And I surf with Firefox and a carefully crafted...
[June 23, 2005, 15:19]
Cherry Launches Keyboard For Linux Users
Talkback But if I don't watch it, Gates himself might come over here and replace my ALT key with one ^_^ cool, but considering that I just use an SGI-Unix keyboard, not every keyboard still an exsistance has the windows logo on it.
[August 24, 2004, 21:38]
Back In The World Of Infinite Free Energy...
Blog Comment The so-called quartly progress report video from Steorn is here: http://youtube.com/watch? I don't know if I can make a link-- here's a try: if it worked, click here. v=h3aaRrEIp-0
[April 15, 2007, 22:01]
Gartner Paints A Clearer Vista Picture
Talkback As to having to buy it to play movies .bah I'll just buy the ones that don't require it or if I really must watch something that is I'll not do it on a computer!
[November 24, 2005, 9:22]
Google Web Accelerator Sparks Privacy Fears
Talkback Microsoft Media Player, Real player and others watch and report back on usage and also on things like ripping and burning music and video. I don't think people realise just how many programs record information about their usage.
[May 8, 2005, 20:06]
Open Access Is A Two-Way Street
Blog Andy Abramson has an excellent post in his VoIP Watch Blog about a letter that was written by the founder of the Gizmo Project to Skype's Director of Government Affairs. In case you haven't heard (although I don't see how that would be possible...
[September 18, 2008, 9:12]
Peter Coffee: Forbodings About Y2K Weekend
News I expect to watch the world endure the first two weeks of the year 2000 the way I get through a bad case of the 'flu. International Y2K problems won't be The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI, pronounced "Tee-oh-twau-kee"), but on this...
[December 30, 1999, 6:05]
