Posts by Glug 9 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jan 2010
Had a play with Google TV on an imported Logitech Revue box and was quite impressed with the UI and the experience of browsing the web from the couch using the bundled wireless Logitech K700 keyboard (will these work with these TVs?).
The platform is limited however, for example with no support for Silverlight you can't use Sky Go. Boxee also suffers from this.
Although Silverlight is proprietary and quite possibly on its deathbed, until an IPTV platform comes along that supports it I'll be forced to carry on hooking up a laptop to the TV.
Would there be some sort of whitelist attached to this?
Otherwise what's to stop some nasty spammers getting hold of my printer's email address, so I come home to find a rainforest's worth of viagra adverts waiting for me?
I wouldn't be happy if my elderly Auntie Flora was playing a nice game of Solitaire on my PC and a graphic penis enlargement ad suddenly appeared. She might be, mind you.
The Turkish government has moved the country towards the Iranian sphere of influence, which may be a move true to the ruling party's Islamist roots but is going to do nothing for those who see Turkey's future as EU membership, Westernisation and improvements to their human rights record. Their government can't have it both ways.
The military sees itself as the protector of the Kemalist constitution. It's a sign that Turkey (like Pakistan) is not a mature democracy when the military is required to keep the government in check, to uphold Western societal norms. The answer to this is to reform Turkish politics and society and then the military, not the other way round.
Paris, because the French recognise what could go wrong by allowing an increasingly Islamist Turkey (which allows Lebanese citizens, perhaps including Hezbollah, to cross the border freely) into the EU.
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