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Testing disks: Lessons from our odyssey selecting replacement SSDs

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Re: Testing disks: Lessons from our odyssey selecting replacement SSDs

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Post by tankenmate »

have_faith wrote: post #3

Great article, easy to follow considering it's far away from my normal domain. I noticed they didn't mention any brands by name though, why is that?

The BBC has a very strong product prominence policy[0] (i.e. avoid naming brands when possible), being government funded is a large driver of this policy.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/editoria...

EDIT: fixed policy name and added link

Re: Testing disks: Lessons from our odyssey selecting replacement SSDs

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Post by dspillett »

have_faith wrote: post #3

Great article, easy to follow considering it's far away from my normal domain. I noticed they didn't mention any brands by name though, why is that?

> I noticed they didn't mention any brands by name though, why is that?

As a public service broadcaster in the UK, the BBC must be very careful about naming specific brands and products due to rules laid out in their legal remit (and fear of legal action if from a party that feels unfairly disadvantaged by a competitor getting a good mention or them getting a bad one).

This is way Blue Peter always use "sticky backed plastic" instead of "sellotape" or "scotch tape", and people on BBC shows "vacuum" where the common parlance is "to hoover" (hoover being a brand name that got verbed like Google -> to google).

Re: Testing disks: Lessons from our odyssey selecting replacement SSDs

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Post by keypress »

tankenmate wrote: post #4
have_faith wrote: post #3

Great article, easy to follow considering it's far away from my normal domain. I noticed they didn't mention any brands by name though, why is that?

The BBC has a very strong product prominence policy[0] (i.e. avoid naming brands when possible), being government funded is a large driver of this policy. [0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/editoria... EDIT: fixed policy name and added link

It's not Government funded. There's a mandatory TV tax (for TV viewers), the fee of which is set by Government.

Re: Testing disks: Lessons from our odyssey selecting replacement SSDs

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Post by tankenmate »

keypress wrote: post #7
tankenmate wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The BBC has a very strong product prominence policy[0] (i.e. avoid naming brands when possible), being government funded is a large driver of this policy. [0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/editoria... EDIT: fixed policy name and added link

It's not Government funded. There's a mandatory TV tax (for TV viewers), the fee of which is set by Government.

You are right, but considering that until recently not paying your TV license was a crime in effect it is government funded; ultima ratio regum and all that...

Re: Testing disks: Lessons from our odyssey selecting replacement SSDs

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Post by afandian »

dspillett wrote: post #6
have_faith wrote: post #3

Great article, easy to follow considering it's far away from my normal domain. I noticed they didn't mention any brands by name though, why is that?

> I noticed they didn't mention any brands by name though, why is that? As a public service broadcaster in the UK, the BBC must be very careful about naming specific brands and products due to rules laid out in their legal remit (and fear of legal action if from a party that feels unfairly disadvantaged by a competitor getting a good mention or them getting a bad one). This is way Blue Peter always use "sticky backed…

(This is almost too petty a point to reply, but "sticky backed plastic" is a sheet of adhesive transparent film, like you'd use to cover books. I think they probably would have said "sticky tape")
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