Is the cloud bad news for Developers?
Last week I was going through the process of designing a solution for a client and kept having a niggling doubt that I was either missing something or their was a major design flaw about to pop its head out of the woodwork and kneecap the current design. It turns out that the problem was more simple than that...
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Left hand, right hand, net neutrality
I spent the day yesterday at a Creative Industries KTN day in Manchester at the Bridgewater Hall. It was very pleasant and hopefully it was a worthwhile investment of my time. My major problem is that the whole process seems to encouraging businesses to develop solutions and ideas that work on closed or heavily restricted networks rather than the open internet.In and of itself that wouldn't be worth writing a blog entry, if another government organisation wasn't publishing a consultation document on Net Neutrality with the goal of making ISPs and other Communciations Service Providers leave their networks open and without restriction.
Ofcom's consultation is open until Sepetember and I'll be working on an ISPA Broadband Subgroup response over the coming month.
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New Blog Version
Upgraded to Pritlog 0.811, alas this has killed all the posts :( Managed to restore the last one and will try and get the rest back on hereTags: upgrade - Visits: 127 - No Comments
Misrepresentation by the content industry (again)
I was reading this article on the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8573162.stm about the impacts of file sharing and came across two key quotes:
- "The growth of illegal file-sharing could cost European countries 1.2m jobs and 240bn euros (£215bn) by 2015".
- "the UK's creative industries experienced losses of 1.4bn euros in 2008 because of piracy."
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