Posts by Paul Campbell
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I think that someone has to tell Key that "I was misquoted" is a bit like "the dog ate my homework" - you might get away with it once - after that you're blaming the very people who you depend on to get your message across
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sadly I put out bigger buck 3 years ago for a TV and explicitly asked about HDMI - no one had any idea what I was talking about so we had to go without - now we're stuck with a bunch of scart stuff
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sigh - MHEG-5 - not defining a middleware is the BEST thing to do - you want to be able to buy cool boxes from people who want to innovate (MythTV!) not have your UI projected at you and controlled by the TV stations or freeview themselves - this is the US cable company-centric sort of world view where they want to control your viewing experience.
Instead document your protocols, provide a free-to-air EPG feed with month-ahead data and let people get creative!
that way people can make boxes that do freeview PVR, manage your torrents, feed the kids ipod video fix, store your CDs, etc etc
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we prefer Paul Henry up where he is .... you could take him off the telly though, you may not have noticed but he's very annoying
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actually I already pay Orcon over $70/month without ADSL2 - looking at their web site changes I'll apparently keep paying that whether I get ADSL2 or not ...
So Paul .... will Vodaphone give me a static IP at home? (the only reason I went to Orcon ....)
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sigh - we in Dunedin get forgotten again - maybe I should start shovelling my $$ to someone other than Orcon
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At Auckland International Airport, who do they worry about most?
(e) who stole all the clocks?
last few times I passed thru the domestic terminal it would seem that they are now too cheap for clocks - which is tough if you just got of an international flight and haven't had a chance to set your phone yet .... -
well as I said this morning's ODT seems to think otherwise and it's a good 25 years since the ODT was the cities lefty newpaper - now days it seems to represent the entrenched powers that be - the same mob that used to the the 'citizens party' way back when
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well reading this morning's ODT commentary they seem to think that is has in at least part to do with that being on the liberal side of the Nats she would have been out of step with the rather more rightist Auckland mob who still have agendas left over from the Shipley years (the same ones who had her booted out of the shadow cabinet after resisting some of Brash's Orewa promises)
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I have an Indian (but looks middle-eastern) friend with a plate in his arm, born and always lived in the US - travel for him can be really really annoying