Re: Which market segment will they go for?
Range Rover now runs air suspension which means.
Lowered for more stable on road behaviour.
Raised for superior off road ability.
Anyway was it a FFRR or an Ejoke?
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Iconic Land Rover Defender may make a comeback by 2019
BT splurges £1.2bn on securing Champions League rights, Sky heads for an early bath
Monday 6th March 2017 15:11 GMT 
Re: Ban exclusive rights
Better game?
Is it?
I don't think so.
Local teams used to be able to do well, now they are lucky if they even own a ground.
How can your local team being unable to achieve anything when a small number of companies get all the money and splurge it around often abroad buying up the best footballists there are. They should be nurturing their local talent.
Your local city/town being stuffed is not good football.
BTW my local team has gone from FA Cup giant killers to homeless.
Hopefully Rugby does not go down this route. It would ruin the small teams.
Monday 6th March 2017 13:49 GMT
Re: Ban exclusive rights
Cutting the money sport gets from TV rights could help sports immensly in the long term.
Look at the Footballists. A money hungry upper tier with very lttle going to the lower tier.
Grass roots sports (the next generation) do not benefit.
Look at all the top end football companies, all full of Foreign staff, need a new ball kicker, buy one from abroad.
Less money they will have to try training their own like they used to. That will help grass roots.
Cricket is suffering already from not being on TV some kids do not know anything about the sport and some bloke mentioned on the news a few times a year is meaningless to them.
F1 will go the same way eventually.
Money ruins sport in the long run
Sir Tim Berners-Lee refuses to be King Canute, approves DRM as Web standard
Tuesday 7th March 2017 10:18 GMT
Re: Here is my problem with DRM
Blu Ray
I will admit I took the console route as it was firstly cheaper, secondly quicker, thirdly more likely to be supported.
Mine still works OK and it is from 2009, replacing a 2007 YLOD.
I haven't used my latest console for BluRay but streaming from Amazon and BBC I player is great, trivially easy.
As to Smart TV, mine is more like Village Idiot.
Tuesday 7th March 2017 10:13 GMT
Re: Here is my problem with DRM
I have been forced to pirate on a few occasions, often due to attempts to stop people easily watching.
A few were of course DRM related, but others were locking down of content to force adverts, and some were format issues.
I put a DVD in my DVD player and I could not get to the film, everything was locked down, even the home menu button, so ripped it, burnt a DVD-R, watched the copy.
After a few of these I learnt my lesson and stopped buying DVDs
Then there was the aborted attempt by one producer to kill BluRay, so of course I obtained a rip of the HDDVD version and copied it to the hard disk of my Blu Ray player. I was so pleased that HDDVD was broken so easily as it helped to kill off that format war.
But then I find that when doing it legally is much easier I will. If I want a BluRay I will buy it and it WILL PLAY or I will obtain it. DVD I only get if someone gives them to me, as so many of the producers are obsessed with forcing you to watch the "would you use a Policemans hat as a toilet thingy", followed by 500 locked adverts of films I am not interested in, so if I have to rip and burn I may as well obtain it rather than rip it.
TV is fair game, but Amazon make it so easy I prefer to hand over for Prime membership. I am the only person at work who has actually paid to watch The Grand Tour. And I would also consider Netflix in the future.
So as you can see if you make it difficult we will work around the issue, make it easy and we will play along.
I cannot see any reason to get 4k Blurays due to the lockdowns, if I can stream in similar quality without lots of do this or do that.
Two-thirds of TV Licensing prosecutions at one London court targeted women
Thursday 2nd March 2017 16:44 GMT
Anything to ruin crapita
BBC is pretty good, best we have as a traditional broadcaster in the UK, general taxation would be better for me financially and also worse for Crapita (good) but it is independant of the government and is more or less neutral.
As above left wingers say right wing and right wingers say left, means they must be in the middle.
they also keep ITV and C4 honest.
The idea of all channels like ITV fills me full of horror
Lap(top) of luxury: Porsche Design revs up 2-in-1 Windows 10 slab
Wednesday 1st March 2017 09:58 GMT
Porsche
Actually it is easy to sort through Porsche stuff.
Is it an ugly SUV? - Don't buy it!
Is it a strange looking saloon? - Don't buy it!
Does it run on tractor juice? - Don't buy it!
Is it a two seat sports car with flat 6 behind the driver? - Buy it!
Is it a classic car designed by someone called Ferdinand? - Buy it!
Is it NOT a car? - NOPE!
Anything else? - Nope!
So buy your 1950s classics, your 911s, even the Boxster, but anything else - just no.
The saloon, easy, buy BMW M5, the new Alfa, Jaguar.
The SUV, (it is a VW under the skin), either Something from Solihull (RR Sport) or the original VW Toerag V10.
I do like the 911s, solid and very competent cars.
You're Donald Trump's sysadmin. You've got data leaks coming out the *ss. What to do
Wednesday 1st March 2017 09:37 GMT
Re: seriously Trevor
Newzoids is like a modern Spitting Image Light.
There is a ginger cat involved!
Spitting Image was good, non British may think that the puppet of the Queen was disrespectful or nasty, but it is funny how you can joke about them without insulting them.
Actually there was not much real nastiness in it, it was just everything exagerated.
The Queen never goes to toilet (but I can't find the song)
Margaret Thatcher and the vegetables
I suppose Mandelson as a snake is .... no it is accurate.
Presidents Brain is missing
The long held British tradition of taking the p155
Linux on Windows 10: Will penguin treats in Creators Update be enough to lure you?
Gov wants to make the UK the 'safest place in the world to go online'
Monday 27th February 2017 16:21 GMT
Safer internet
Until people can open emails without getting crypto blackmailed.
Until people can surf without the fictional Cheshire Police page internet is dangerous.
Unpleasant pages are not dangerous.
Cryptoworms are.
Viruses are.
GET THE PRIORITIES RIGHT GOVERNMENT
GET GCHQ tracking the cryoto virus teams, then send in the SAS to clean up the mess. They are supposed to be world class so I am not asking too much.
Ad men hope blocking has stalled as sites guilt users into switching off
Monday 27th February 2017 10:21 GMT
Re: integrated marketing
Actually I did have an advert once for an XBox exclusive on 4OD.
Very funny as it was wasted on me.
Surely they know what clients are running on the end user hardware when not a PC.
If you are going to send customised adverts make sure they are relevant!
Multiplatform or PS4 would be relevant!!!!!
Monday 27th February 2017 10:13 GMT
We do already
This year I have watched a few series in HD, no adverts, no logos. A couple of examples
Death in Paradise (funny)
Taboo (very weird)
Portillos various railway journeys
Found them on my Humax hard drive where it nicely collected them from my satellite dish.
Well I knew they were recording and I was watching a few minutes behind live.
By careful avoidance of ITV and C5 I can also avoid onscreen logos.
'At least I can walk away with my dignity' – Streetmap founder after Google lawsuit loss
Monday 20th February 2017 16:52 GMT
Re: Disgustingly Evil
Google maps are pretty poor, their USP are the easy linking, street view, and route calculation, their weak spot, is the rather poor grey on grey map, and lack of national standard map features.
Google do not even support the grid reference, what kind of map is it without the grid?
This is the UK, we have the best mapping agency there is, we expect to see maps of similar quality, only Streetmap and Live have easy use of OS maps.
FAKE BREWS: America rocked by 'craft beer' scandal allegations
Friday 17th February 2017 10:27 GMT
Re: Tesco hate
Well Tesco have gone the wrong way.
They used to sell a number of ciders from a local producer, now they don't, and of course more imported and mass produced by non cider company ciders are on the shelf.
The local producer BTW is a biggish one - Westons!
A year ago I got all of my cider there, Westons, Healeys, Henneys ect
Now I go to Waitrose who are actually a little cheaper.
Two words, Mozilla: SPEED! NOW! Quit fiddling and get serious
Wednesday 15th February 2017 17:00 GMT
Re: You await some decision?
I don't care if people oppose it, but I do think they are a bit silly when they obsess so much over it they spend a lot of their own money to try to get something legal which harms nobody overturned.
People who obsess like that are often deranged.
I settle for thinking it is a bit icky, not something I would want to do, but why should I stop someone else doing it?
They are not harming me, they are not hurting my marriage*, why bother trying to overturn it?
* over 20 years as well!
Wednesday 15th February 2017 12:29 GMT
Firefox install can be a nightmare
That horrible period between installing it and making it look like Firefox should.
I hate bare boned GUIs, mobile GUIs on desktops, I am used to a simple file edit style gui and want to keep it.
So when I had to reinstall Firefox (HDD hammering) that horrible period between installing FF and enabling Classic Theme Restorer is like a punishment.
If CTR gets stopped I will go Pale Moon for main browser.
USMC: We want more F-35s per year than you Limeys will get in half a decade
Who's behind the Kodi TV streaming stick crackdown?
Wednesday 8th February 2017 14:02 GMT
Sport
To be honest it is much cheaper to give up watching and do something else when a sport goes pay TV.
To watch F1 live a few years ago, included in my licence, now could be around £1000. (not sure on fees).
So I just gave up, ony took a couple of races to totally lose interest, the cars getting more boring helped.
Wednesday 8th February 2017 10:48 GMT
You need to ask why people do it?
As usual it is punish and not learn.
As usual the major reasons are ease of access, and value for money.
People normally go for the easiest route as long as they are not being ripped off.
Of course there are people who would obtain to avoid giving Murdoch money, that is perfectly understandable. But most people will pay for content if it is easy and good value.
I do not consider a restricted satellite receiver with limited channel selections forcing users to pay more than they would like to watch what they would like easy nor good value.
Streetmap loses appeal against Google Maps dominance judgement
Wednesday 8th February 2017 13:46 GMT
Just tested aerial views
Home
Google shows my last car, pre write off, so over 3 years ago
Live shows not at home
Work
Not detailed enough to tell and goes streetview at the wrong time, no zoom option any more
Live shows not at work
Live uses same aerial views as zoom.earth!!!!!
Any more I can play with?
Tuesday 7th February 2017 13:03 GMT
Tool for the job
Google can do a route on a URL, but its street maps are difficult to read (grey on grey)
maps.live.com have OS overlays, but search broken.
Streetmap can do OS references but positioning is slightly out
Anyway I have reported the broken search on maps.live.com, Google requires signing in.
No mapping site is that good, and all have some serious flaws.
Last Concorde completes last journey, at maybe Mach 0.02
BBC and Snap. But, why?
For $deity's sake, smile! It's Friday! Sad coders write bad code – official
Guess who's suffering an email outage. Go on, it's as easy as 123-Reg
Saturday 4th February 2017 17:08 GMT
This morning we suffered a technical outage that affected some of our customers’ services.
I would like to take a moment to apologise to each of you for any inconvenience this caused you and your businesses.
We are investigating this incident to make sure we understand exactly what went wrong and minimise any future risk of this happening again.
Over the past year we have been working to upgrade all of our hardware and redundancy systems to ensure that in events such as this, we are able to get your services up and running as quickly as possible. This, along with the hard work of our support teams, has meant that we have been able to restore your services with no loss of data or email.
We will be continuing to improve our systems to make sure you receive the best service possible from 123 Reg.
Kind regards,
Richard Winslow
123 Reg Brand Director
Tablets become feebleslabs as sales spiral down
Who do you want to be Who? VOTE for the BBC's next Time Lord
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