Posts by Alex Hayton

California's green-leccy price system will stifle plug-in cars

Or grow your own?

Or generate your own leccy to charge the car? It's a shame there are so few microgeneration options available. Has anyone looked at the feasibility of solar panels + a big battery in the garage?

Mozilla and Opera call for Google open codec in HTML5 spec

Broken analogy

@austin: The analogy you're using is wrong here - things are different to the bad old days of early video adoption for a few reasons!

Firstly, users of the iPhone (and possibly other embedded devices) have no way of installing an alternative codec, so all video sites end up having to encode things twice, with no guarantees that a particular format will work everywhere, and secondly the terms of the license prevent anything that is GPLv3 licensed from working with h.264 video due to the patent restrictions.

This means that it's quite important that an open codec becomes the de facto standard (whether this happens by spec or by industry consensus doesn't really matter).

Hunt for MPs' expenses leaker hots up

Amateurish?

Either that or the seller of the information didn't trust the 'Mail' to actually fact-check and analyse the data properly before beginning the witch-hunt? There's a reason that most of the UK knows the negative connotations of the phrase "Daily Mail journalism".

Not that the Telegraph is well-known for being impartial either...