So it would appear that Channel 4’s new video on demand service doesn’t work on a mac either.
Their excuse is quite spectacularly pathetic:
“This is an industry-wide issue caused because the accepted Digital Rights Management (DRM) system used to protect online video content, which is required by our content owners, is not compatible with Apple Mac hardware and software. The closed DRM system used by Apple is not currently available for licence by third parties and there is no other Mac-compatible DRM solution which meets the protection requirements of content owners. Unfortunately, we are therefore unable to offer 4oD content to Mac users at this stage.”
When they say “the accepted”, what they mean is “the one we chose to use”. Which is another way of saying “We decided not to support the Mac. Tough”.
When they talk about “The closed DRM system used by Apple” they are just spouting spurious nonsense to try to confuse the issue. Apart from anything they are completely ignoring the fact that all such systems on the Mac are built on top of Quicktime, which would quite happily allow Channel 4 or anyone else to support their own DRM if they could be arsed. Which they can’t.
Idiots. <p style="font-size:10px;text-align:right;">Tags: channel4, video, drm. stupidity</p>
Apparently QPR have just sacked John Gregory - oh dear, here we go again.
I wasn’t a great fan of Gregory before he took over at Loftus Road, but I have to say that in the last year he has done nothing but good for the club, and has earnt my respect by the way in which he’s behaved. The signings he’s brought in haven’t all been perfect, but they’ve been of a different order from those that Waddock and Holloway managed before him, and whilst there have been a few turkeys there have also been a few gems - Nardiello, Ledgerwood, Walton, Bolder and Camp are all clearly better than the players they have replaced.
I do think he’s made some dubious selection decisions - sticking with Rehman and Moore, and largely ignoring Ward, Bignot and Timoska both seem strange to me.
However, considering the ridiculous conditions he’s been forced to work under, I think it’s completely stupid to sack him now. We’re finally in a position to buy a few better players in January, so why not give him a chance until then.
More to the point, what exactly is a new manager supposed to do differently between now and January? Unless they manage to bring in someone spectacularly well connected who has quality players flocking to come and work with him… hmm, that bloke Jose is free apparently.
QPR Today is a new site run by my friend Neil Dejyothin, who has the season ticket next to mine at Loftus Road.
There’s some great analysis on his site, well worth a read for any hoops fans out there.
As you may have noticed, I’ve been messing around with some new themes from Drupal’s site.
At the moment my favourites are:
- burnt
- blue_zinfandel
- kubrick
- itheme
- barron
The current default theme is a modified version of blue_zinfandel, which I’ve tweaked to use a right nav bar.
Very much work in progress…
Occasionally they can rise above that sort of stuff…