Big Brother III
Posted by Mr magoo on 29 May 2002 - 17:12 · 19 comments & 177 views
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On Friday 24 May, Big Brother 3 was launched. In previous years Channel 4 have provided free access to live streams from the house on their website. However, this year, with little prior warning, they have decided to charge a fee of £9.99 a month to view the streams.
This has made many fans extremely angry. The official Big Brother forum has been inundated with posts from fans about the situation. Many wanted to know how they could complain to Channel 4 about the matter. With that, I decided to set up a campaign site for either free or reduced cost access to the streaming feeds.
Not only has the cost become an issue, but I have had complaints from many people who have in fact paid the £9.99 monthly fee to watch the streams. After paying for the service, no instructions are provided as to how to watch the streams, and many fans have experienced many technical problems when attempting to view the video.
It just seems to me as if the whole operation has been set up for financial gain, to make as much money as possible from enthusiasts of the popular show.
You can show your support at: http://www.bigbrotherlive.tk As of 12.20pm, Wednesday 29th, the site has had over 2,500 votes.
At the time Mozilla 1.0-RC1 was released there were 533 "crash" bugs listed in Mozilla's Bugzilla bug-tracking database, 561 "crash" bugs listed when Mozilla 1.0-RC2 was released, and 585 "crash" bugs listed when Mozilla 1.0-RC3 was released. The "crash" bugs count is up to 589 open crash bugs today. Additionally there were some 150 "dataloss" bugs listed in the Mozilla bug-tracking database, Bugzilla, today.
Lots of Bugs for Mozilla 1.0
Release of Mozilla 1.0-RC1 signaled that finally after four-years in development, Mozilla 1.0 is on its way soon. However, some in the Mozilla community question whether Mozilla 1.0 is ready for show time. One major concern is that there are too many open bugs in Mozilla. Another is that Mozilla 1.0 still does not have enough polish.
However, there has been lots of bug squashing and product polishing during the Mozilla 1.0 release candidates process. Nevertheless, if the Mozilla people want Mozilla 1.0 to be a clear success, they ought to have done some more bug-squashing and product-polishing before releasing Mozilla 1.0.