[Gllug] The IT crowd

[Dan Stevens (IAmAI)]

Having watched it now, I've got to say I enjoyed it, although it does
lack some of what I was hoping for. I think it has definetly written
to suit the mainstream in particular and I guess as a result it lacks
more 'technical' or 'jargonised' jokes that would appeal more (or only
understood by) real I.T. geeks/nerds. Potentially, I think there it
would be possible to include both mainstream and 'geeky' jokes, but
whether this is actually a good thing, I don't know.

On 29/01/06, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
>
> Congrats on making "the IT crowd" available online.  I'll be watching
> it again on Friday and looking forward to the next episodes.
>
> Unfortunately the file you've put online is in a heavily proprietary,
> undocumented and patented Microsoft-only format which the geeky IT
> characters in the series themselves wouldn't be able to view.
>
> Can I suggest that for extra credibility, you use an open, unpatented
> format such as Dirac [1] or Ogg Theora [2]?  If you can't use those,
> then simple MPEG2 [3], while patented, is at least usable on all sorts
> of exotic hardware and operating systems that your nerdish characters
> use.
>
> Rich.
>
> [1] http://dirac.sourceforge.net/
> [2] http://www.theora.org/
> [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2
>
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