Re: Huge Bandwidth Hog
"There is no setting in the app to specify quality - and therefore bandwidth consumption."
Sign in to the website. My Account >> Playback settings.
I have mine set to Medium; 0.7GB/h and that looks good on a tablet.
Posts by KroSha
350 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2009
Netflix's $1.81 billion Q1 disappoints markets
Web backup biz Monster Cloud monstered after monster price hike
Monster crowdfunding total raised for Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+
Only 12% of UK thinks Snoopers' Charter is 'adequately explained'
Obama: What will solve America's gun problem? What could it be? *snaps fingers* Technology!
WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg
Pirate MEP: Microsoft's walled garden is no consumer pleasure park
It's all Uber! France ends its love affair with ride-sharing app
Just WALK IN and buy an Apple Watch. Are you mad?
Snakes on a backplane: Server-room cabling horrors
Tuesday 31st March 2015 13:43 GMT
I had to get inside a comms cabinet once. The cables were everywhere; front, top, sides and even through the middle. I had to wriggle underneath the port panels and in behind to detangle some leads. Unfortunately, there was a 4-way on the floor (hidden under more cables) and I stepped on it, killing power to all the switches in the room.
Kickstarter folk pay $8 MEELLION for joys of EXPLODING KITTENS
Privacy? What privacy? EU's draft law on your data is useless, say digital rights orgs
Wednesday 4th March 2015 10:00 GMT
Some serious lobbying money has been spent here. I still say that the EP is a serious burden to Joe Public, except that most people don't know who their MEP is or what they do. Given that they dictate so much of our legislation, we need far more coverage on their activities and should be holding them to far higher standards.
El Reg regains atomic keyring capability
Intel, Apple and Cisco crossed off Chinese Gov's kit list
Ads watchdog: Er, what does woman in her undies have to do with ‘slim’ phone?
Wednesday 25th February 2015 16:31 GMT
Re: How many...
8 complaints.
http://asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2015/2/Kazam-Online-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_290315.aspx#.VO343lOsXGx
Generally, very few members of the public actually bother to contact the ASA. Back in 2011, the ASA released their top ten. No 10 had 840 complaints.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18243577
Google hooks up with group formerly known as ISIS to battle Apple Pay
(Re)touching on a quarter-century of Adobe Photoshop
Monday 23rd February 2015 13:57 GMT
I'm hazy on the dates, but I remember when the publisher I was supporting shifted away from Xpress. It was entirely Quark's fault too. All the Macs in the Studio had been transitioned to OSX 10.2 and Quark was the last package that was still running in OS9 Classic mode. The cost of upgrading everyone's Xpress was more than purchasing CS, and for some it was as much as 50% higher as they had the Passport edition.
Like working at IBM? Let Big Blue do the matchmaking
Now Samsung's spying smart TVs insert ADS in YOUR OWN movies
APT devs are LOUSY coders, says Sophos
EE squashes Orange UK: France Telecom's been 'destroying it for years'
Give ALL the EU access to Netflix, says Vince Cable
Web daddy Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Back off Putin, I'm no CIA stooge
Monday 15th December 2014 15:51 GMT
Re: No such thing @ KroSha
There is no such thing as a moral right. You're spouting magical fairy dust if you think that saying "I'm right" will do anything against someone who vehemently disagrees with you. Being right is very nice, but a bloody nose is a bloody nose. All your so-called rights are just words on paper that lots of people agree is a good thing. They don't actually exist.
All civil authority ultimately stems from the ability to commit violence; whether it's riot police with batons, or armed mobs storming the Bastille. That's why the last resort of a desperate Government would be to declare martial law and get armed soldiers patrolling the streets.
Parliament rules by the will of the people, but only if people are willing to get up off their behinds and loudly protest when things go bad. And politicos have got very good at mollifying enough of the populace to avert that.
Friday 12th December 2014 15:26 GMT
Re: No such thing
"Do you not think you should have any rights against the state?"
Um, no? You have no rights whatsoever, only privileges that the society that you live in has granted you. If you don't like the state / country that you live in, you have three options:
a) Leave and go live elsewhere, although you are then subject to the rules of a new society.
b) Try and do something about it, YMMV.
c) Bitch, whinge and complain about it. (the Liberals' favourite)
The only thing you can decide is how you face life, but cries of "Human Rights" generally mean that someone is feeling put upon and wants to have a tantrum.
The internet is not a right, it's an important tool, but one that you can live without if necessary.
Euro consumers have TOO MUCH choice – telco operators
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The Pirate Bay SUNK: It vanishes after Swedish data center raid
Apple lawyers fight to silence dead Steve Jobs: 'No right' to hear him from beyond the grave
UK national mobile roaming: A stupid idea that'll never work
Wednesday 3rd December 2014 09:46 GMT
Re: @Lee D
Maybe what we need is a Government owned player in these markets. Owned, but not run by Whitehall. With no shareholders, they shouldn't be interested in gouging the consumer too much, and the additional competition might make the other water/power/telecoms b*****ds sit up and take notice. Plus a nice addition to the Treasury income when the (small) profits get declared.
Netflix: Sacre vache! French resistance from the vestibuleurs de consommation
Star Wars: Episode VII trailer lands. You call that a lightsaber? THIS is a lightsaber
Monday 1st December 2014 14:06 GMT
Re: Cross Guard Important?, Really?
The cross guard, as shown, is indeed pointless. The emitters for the cross blades are exposed and thus vulnerable to a light blade. They'd just be chopped through. Given that the light sabre is based on the katana, a cross guard seems superfluous, as the fighting style evolved to consider the exposed nature of the hands in the fighting. As an inexperienced Luke could tell you.
Do you spend ages wasting time because of a bulging rack?
UK.gov biz dept: Youth apprentice? Get a degree while you're hired
iPhone sales set to PLUMMET: Bleak times ahead for Apple
Amazon bags control of .book and .pay domains – but NOT .cloud
Apple OSX Yosemite infested by nasty 'Rootpipe' vuln
Tuesday 4th November 2014 14:57 GMT
Re: Headline could be better
No. Only admins are members of the sudo-ers group; regular users cannot access it. I run as a normal user for my day to day stuff. If I quickly need to do something as root, I fire up the Terminal, use the login command to change to my admin user and then sudo from there.
Data protection laws come to the rescue of poor, underpaid UK MPs
One hard ghoulie: 1985's Ghosts 'n Goblins
How iPad’s soft SIM lets Apple pit carriers AGAINST each other
France to draft blacklist banning alleged piracy websites – what could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Friday 24th October 2014 15:09 GMT
Re: Theft/Piracy
"Hard working people have had their wages stolen from them by torrenting "
No, they don't. Studios lose money and jobs are cut. This is caused by falling sales, which are blamed on torrents. There's no proof. What if they made a film and nobody went to see it? Is it because everyone torrented it, or was it just utter shite? There is absolutely no proof that torrents remove money from workers' bank accounts.
Friday 24th October 2014 15:03 GMT
Re: Theft/Piracy
"The market defines the value, that market is made up of consumers and providers (demand/supply). It's not the one-sided bargain you make out."
In the black and white case that you make out, yes it is. If you eliminated all the people torrenting, copying DVDs and those who grey-import BDs (they still pay for it, but it's against the Studios' T&C), then you have a high-price product that not-enough people will pay full price for. How long do the Studios last then? They need mass ticket sales, otherwise the, to be frank, pap that makes up 90% of their output will make a loss.
There is even a case that, as with music, torrents INCREASE sales. Joe might not want to take his 3 little girls to the cinema, but they really want to watch Disney Princess 14. So he torrents it, they love it and he buys the DVD for their bedroom. Or they don't like it and he saves his cash.
Another case of the customer deciding (with the help of a torrent) the value of the content; less than £45 for cinema tickets, more than the £15 for a new release DVD, or no value because they don't want to see it again.
Friday 24th October 2014 13:28 GMT
Re: Theft/Piracy
Even so, this is not "theft", or "piracy". I would challenge you to find a single conviction for "stealing" a movie via download. Copyright infringement is a serious challenge for the creative industries, but it is still a civil, not criminal, matter. And taxpayer money should not be spent on curbing an invented economic problem.
Whether people want to pay the price the movie and music industries are asking for their content is an ongoing recalibration. The music industry is certainly further along the path. The movie guys still have their heads firmly in the sand. They still have to face the fact that the public just does not agree with the value they place on their output.
Most of my friends will only go to the cinema once or maybe twice a year. Otherwise, they might wait for the DVD or for it to be on streaming or even iTunes. A fair few of them will torrent it first and then buy it if it was good enough to justify wanting to watch it a second time.
Through any route, bums on cinema seats are falling, because people do not want to pay what the studios are demanding.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
