Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a wingsuit.

#1

Post by oliland » Wed, May 23, 2012, 11:50 AM UTC

Friends who are with him at the moment who are assembling the cardboard boxes which he will try to land in. It will be very interesting to see if he can pull it off!

Edit 1: Non-silverlight link - http://news.sky.com/home/sky-live-tv

Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a wingsuit.
news.sky.com

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#2

Post by oliland » Wed, May 23, 2012, 11:57 AM UTC

Friends of mine are currently assembling the boxes that he will land in: http://imgur.com/iKwmX

Interview with Gary Connery and his wife: http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16233460

Unfortunately it's live from the house of commons at the moment, but a lot of skydivers will be watching with eager eyes to see if he can arrive at the landing area safely and uninjured!

Edit 1: Flash only link - http://news.sky.com/home/sky-live-tv

Edit 2: The jump has been rescheduled to 3pm GMT.

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#3

Post by nodata » Wed, May 23, 2012, 12:11 PM UTC

Watch Live: At 1pm...

"Install Microsoft Silverlight"

Guess I won't be watching live then.

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#4

Post by MonkeyMarcel » Wed, May 23, 2012, 12:13 PM UTC

nodata wrote: post #3

Watch Live: At 1pm... "Install Microsoft Silverlight" Guess I won't be watching live then.

Use Chrome...

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#5

Post by oliland » Wed, May 23, 2012, 12:15 PM UTC

nodata wrote: post #3

Watch Live: At 1pm... "Install Microsoft Silverlight" Guess I won't be watching live then.

This should work with Flash on Windows, but requires Flip4Mac on OSX: http://news.sky.com/home/sky-live-tv

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#6

Post by nodata » Wed, May 23, 2012, 12:21 PM UTC

MonkeyMarcel wrote: post #4

nodata wrote: post #3

Watch Live: At 1pm... "Install Microsoft Silverlight" Guess I won't be watching live then.

Use Chrome...

I'm not going to yum install chrome just to watch a video. If they want me to watch they should support a format that the rest of the world already uses.

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#7

Post by antr » Wed, May 23, 2012, 12:46 PM UTC

Good luck to Sky on making me install Silverlight

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#8

Post by paulhauggis » Wed, May 23, 2012, 2:21 PM UTC

nodata wrote: post #6

MonkeyMarcel wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use Chrome...

I'm not going to yum install chrome just to watch a video. If they want me to watch they should support a format that the rest of the world already uses.

The world has been using Silverlight for a long time.

Re: Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a wingsuit.

#9

Post by nodata » Wed, May 23, 2012, 4:51 PM UTC

paulhauggis wrote: post #8

nodata wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not going to yum install chrome just to watch a video. If they want me to watch they should support a format that the rest of the world already uses.

The world has been using Silverlight for a long time.

The world has not.

What percentage of big name sites use Silverlight exclusively? Even Microsoft doesn't, and they wrote it!