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I don't know why I am wasting my bandwidth still downloading this crap, but what can I say, I like YouTube.

Don't you love some of this logic: "Adolf hitler once said "Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state"". THEREFORE, we have reason to believe this textbook is a lie.

Anyway while I hate to bring myself to the level of argument with a religious nutter, I just ... couldn't ... resist ... researching on whales to find out that these "crazy evolutionists" didn't in fact claim that Whales evolved into Cows - rather that land mammals evolved into whales. Which is why the article he himself quotes states that leg bones are "retained as useless appendages".

Whoa, after the 5 minute mark his logic just goes insane. "Evolution is the opposite of the bible - they are diametrically opposed. In fact this is proof that the Bible is right, because evolution is the exact opposite of the bible".

To summarise this in a simple logical equation: A is not equal to B. Therefore A. :?

Again, I'm really sorry to even be arguing with this guy but it's just so stupid...

Moyers spent an hour on PBS discussing this problem and how US telecommunications companies have already been paid (by the government - i.e. by us) to provide 'last mile' fiber service, but have been stonewalling for over a decade.

Heres the URL to watch a video of the program: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/inde x.html (click Watch at upper right of page)

For a transcript: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/print/ne tatrisk_transcript_print.html

To whet your appetite:

RICK KARR: The United States is the birthplace of the Internet and the home of high-tech, but we're no longer tops in the world in high-speed online connections. In fact, the U.S. has dropped below tenth place and compared to some other countries, we're pretty much crawling along the information superhighway.

BRUCE KUSHNICK: America's screwed. I mean we basically are becoming technologically deficient.

RICK KARR: Telecom analyst Bruce Kushnick says that the only thing the U.S. is doing quickly is falling behind.

BRUCE KUSHNICK: Right now what we have basically is sort of like, you know, still pictures versus what's really going to happen next which is full motion video everywhere. We're close to the dinosaurs compared to what these other countries are going to be developing in the next couple years.

RICK KARR: Kushnick says that's because telephone companies back in the 1990s promised that they'd hook us up to the information superhighway, but then reneged on that promise.

RICK KARR: The network that they promised to build, what could it do? Give us a sense of had they actually built this network what could we have on our homes today?

BRUCE KUSHNICK: Video basically allows us to do, for example, high-level video conferencing. Multi-video conferencing basically is the ability to have four or five or six people, with large screens, not these small little things, but large screens sitting around, seeing each other. What we have now is these little screens on the TV's, you know, on your computer that are about this big and everything is jerky. Everything would be smooth, everything would look like as if we were in the middle of STAR TREK. ...

RICK KARR: According to Teletruth, phone companies took $25 billion in tax write offs while revenues soared 128%. But they didn't build the fiber network they promised.

BRUCE KUSHNICK: So, with all this cash cow, what do you do with the money? They should have said, "Why don't we build the best network we can and therefore it'll basically, the infrastructure, and basically make our infrastructure the best in the world." And they didn't do that. They basically took the money and ran.

BILL MOYERS: When we began our reporting, my colleagues Peter Bull and

RICK KARR: wanted to call this story "David versus Goliath." They were struck by the fact that after the phone companies failed to build the information superhighway they had promised, several towns and cities across the country took matters into their own hands and decided to build their own fiber optic networks. That has landed almost every one of them in a David versus Goliath battle as phone and cable giants push back, determined to outlaw what they call "unfair competition" from municipalities. For a case study, Peter and Rick traveled to Lafayette, Louisiana, the heart of Cajun country.

JOEY DUREL: We have an out-migration problem with our young people from Louisiana, and I felt it was time for politicians to quit talking and do something.

RICK KARR: Something like building every home and business in town its own fiber optic connection to the information superhighway.

DON BERTRAND: We see telecommunications in the way of Internet, in the way of fiber connectivity as something that should be available to everyone.

Moyers spent an hour on PBS discussing this problem and how US telecommunications companies have already been paid (by the government - i.e. by us) to provide 'last mile' fiber service, but have been stonewalling for over a decade.

Heres the URL to watch a video of the program: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/inde x.html (click Watch at upper right of page)

For a transcript: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/print/ne tatrisk_transcript_print.html

To whet your appetite:

RICK KARR: The United States is the birthplace of the Internet and the home of high-tech, but we're no longer tops in the world in high-speed online connections. In fact, the U.S. has dropped below tenth place and compared to some other countries, we're pretty much crawling along the information superhighway.

BRUCE KUSHNICK: America's screwed. I mean we basically are becoming technologically deficient.

RICK KARR: Telecom analyst Bruce Kushnick says that the only thing the U.S. is doing quickly is falling behind.

BRUCE KUSHNICK: Right now what we have basically is sort of like, you know, still pictures versus what's really going to happen next which is full motion video everywhere. We're close to the dinosaurs compared to what these other countries are going to be developing in the next couple years.

RICK KARR: Kushnick says that's because telephone companies back in the 1990s promised that they'd hook us up to the information superhighway, but then reneged on that promise.

RICK KARR: The network that they promised to build, what could it do? Give us a sense of had they actually built this network what could we have on our homes today?

BRUCE KUSHNICK: Video basically allows us to do, for example, high-level video conferencing. Multi-video conferencing basically is the ability to have four or five or six people, with large screens, not these small little things, but large screens sitting around, seeing each other. What we have now is these little screens on the TV's, you know, on your computer that are about this big and everything is jerky. Everything would be smooth, everything would look like as if we were in the middle of STAR TREK. ...

RICK KARR: According to Teletruth, phone companies took $25 billion in tax write offs while revenues soared 128%. But they didn't build the fiber network they promised.

BRUCE KUSHNICK: So, with all this cash cow, what do you do with the money? They should have said, "Why don't we build the best network we can and therefore it'll basically, the infrastructure, and basically make our infrastructure the best in the world." And they didn't do that. They basically took the money and ran.

BILL MOYERS: When we began our reporting, my colleagues Peter Bull and

RICK KARR: wanted to call this story "David versus Goliath." They were struck by the fact that after the phone companies failed to build the information superhighway they had promised, several towns and cities across the country took matters into their own hands and decided to build their own fiber optic networks. That has landed almost every one of them in a David versus Goliath battle as phone and cable giants push back, determined to outlaw what they call "unfair competition" from municipalities. For a case study, Peter and Rick traveled to Lafayette, Louisiana, the heart of Cajun country.

JOEY DUREL: We have an out-migration problem with our young people from Louisiana, and I felt it was time for politicians to quit talking and do something.

RICK KARR: Something like building every home and business in town its own fiber optic connection to the information superhighway.

DON BERTRAND: We see telecommunications in the way of Internet, in the way of fiber connectivity as something that should be available to everyone.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/inde x.html

Don't confuse population density with decentralization. More than 90% of Canada's population lives within 200km of the US, and 41% of actual Canadian soil contains less than .3% of the population.

Canada's actually got a considerably more centralized population than the US. You've got the vast majority of your people living in a narrow strip of land.

Reference:
Canada
Canada

Well, the subpoena was sort of a formality. If he showed up they would have simply tossed him in jail when he refused to identify his sources.

This case has a long and storied history but basically it's part of an emerging pattern by the US DOJ of eliminating confidentiality for journalism sources. Say what you will about whether journalists have a legal privilege to protect sources or not, the fact remains that this is a deliberate break from 35 years of tradition dating back to (and this is not a coincidence) Watergate. The reason this case is troubling is because the Feds shouldn't even be involved--their argument is that because a city squad car which was partially funded by federal dollars was damaged during the protest, it's a federal case. In other words, they have no other reason to butt in other than to fuck with this kid. To me that's disturbing.

Moreover, even if you feel that this is an acceptable practice for national security matters (Judy Miller, Matt Cooper), the government is doing the same thing in cases that have no national security purview whatsoever. You might have heard about the two SF reporters who were jailed for refusing to identify their sources in the steroids/BALCO case? Same deal. To me that's really disturbing.

If anyone is interested, there's a 4-part series on PBS frontline which discusses all these issues, including this specific case.

Assuming this lone gunmen actually has more insight than the rest of the establishment--possible
but not frickin' likely since he mistakenly believes that cooler local temperatures (CA cold snap)
are in conflict with our notions of global warming--this single aspect is not really enough to go
once way or another. There are still a number of variables in current climate models with unclear
implications i.e; aerosols. This is one of the reasons that you get "wide" ranges of possible average
global temperature increases. Maybe the cosmos really is cooking us, but then its also possible
that global dimming offset that.

Do what you want for whatever reasons, of course, but Wal-Mart does a lot of things far worse to larger numbers of people. There was a Frontline episode about Wal-Mart and how they basically leave American towns as smoking holes (RCA and Rubbermaid were brands used as examples). One tactic targets areas with lots of local business, runs all the mom-and-pops out of business by opening a Wal-Mart, and then when the area's resources are tapped they close the Wal-Mart.

Not behavior entirely unique to Wal-Mart, and arguments about shopping there can be made in either direction (competitive pricing, world economy, blah blah). I personally won't shop at Wal-Mart for these reasons, but I do think it would be presumptuous to expect that kind of boycott from everyone, particularly people in areas where business has gone away for whatever reason and Wal-Mart offers the best prices for feeding and clothing your family. Check out the link above, though -- I personally think it's quite alarming how much they'll do to people here and overseas to shave as little as a couple cents per unit off of a product. I'd prefer to pay the extra nickel, but I can only speak for my own nickels. And live in an area with ample choices.

They acted completely appropriately for the first one. What they did next is what infuriated everyone.

They found the first one at 9 (story). At noon they announced to the public that it was a false alarm. Consequently, we can infer that they likely knew it was a false alarm no later than 11. Then they find another at 1pm. Might you expect the bomb squad to notice a trend and act accordingly - maybe tone down the paranoia? They had 2 hours to think about it! THAT's the thinking that I expect public officials, the ones in the know, to do. Call the chief of police and say, "hey, let everyone know that these things are harmless."

Instead, they scream their heads off comparing Turner Broadcasting's Lite-Brite stunt to actual terrorist bombings that actually kill people, and that they got SCARED (by Lite-Brites), and that they spent $750,000 (blowing up Lite-Brites) and ohmygod who's gonna pay for it?

Land of the brave, indeed.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/art/graph3.gif

Here's a couple (the second covers from 400,000 years ago to today)

http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/02.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/etc/graphs.html

Your Google must be broken...

OK, I understand how being autistic can give people neurological advantages, but deafness? If they're deaf from birth and the brain never developed to understand sound, then I can see wanting to be cautious, but if that setback can be fixed, how is the person not better off for having the capacity of hearing?

Meaning, the girl was a direct descendant of that woman who lived around 2,000 years ago.

Strikingly well preserved mummies from the Takla Makan desert region have strongly European characterstics such as red hair and blue eyes dating from as far back as 3800 BP. DNA analysis on these mummies indicates Indo/European origin. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/taklamakan.h tml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies

Just read the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change Report/Summary For Policy Makers for 2007. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. I don't know who is behind all the FRAMING (Google: George Lakoff); but it's a clear case of GARBAGE IN = GARBAGE OUT. There is not one ... one mention that the Earth's MAGNETIC SHIELD is starting to disappear RIGHT NOW. And as the MEGNETIC SHIELD DISAPPEARS more RADIATION from the SUN will make this PLANET very very warm. As well the POLES will shift North will rotate to the SOUTH POLE. Think I am nuts? Then go to the USA's Public Broadcast System's web site and read all about or watch a NOVA documentary "MAGENETIC STORM". It's at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3016_magn etic.htm/

My guess is that the INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR COMPLEX is behind the GLOBAL WARMING "debate"; so that "we" don't discuss all the disease and death caused by chemical/nuclear pollution in our air , food and water - which causes ALL cancers, all lukemia, all asthma, much heart disease, skin disease and tens of thousands of deaths each week.

""Only LEMMINGS would need a scoring system (in Slashdot) to decide what they want/need to read. Scoring was brought into the American schooling system to replace whipping for getting the wrong answer.""

How about when Hillary, an unelected non-representative person with 0 government power, as first lady requested Craig Livingstone to obtain the FBI records of 707 political enemies? High ranking political enemies, and not just doctors, will have access to your medical history and, I dunno about you, but my medical history is the most private of all my papers.

Or my interest in it, anyway. Once upon a time, PCs were huge, but had lots of wasted space. You could put them into a smaller box, or make them really tiny once motherboards were all integrated and you could do the whole thing without PCI cards sticking out. I used several SFF Compaq Deskpros over the years and they've all been great--fast, small, cheap, and bulletproof. Then along come tiny ATX boards and neat machines can be made even smaller.

Then along comes the Mac Mini and in the last two years I've seen lots of "We took a Mac Mini and stuck it in something bigger" and I'm like, what's the point? I've got two Minis and they're great. (Though I'll buy a Mac Pro next time they're revved because I need a little more juice (mine are G4s) and a lot more disk than these little guys can hold.) I also plan to play around with a PC mini clone I saw somewhere, or maybe one of these little guys that Cringley recently had some fun with.

I thought this article was going to talk about floating wires up into your brain through the bloodstream. http://www.pbs.org/22ndcentury/story_brain.html

I caught the show the other night but PBS has it online, as well.

It would be great; a harkonen heartplug and a datajack all-in-one.

From: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_200 70105_001440.html:

8) Speaking of Microsoft, Windows Vista SP1 ships in June despite the fact that Vista structurally shouldn't require service packs. Except it will.

In other news, Microsoft's Zune is out and, as predicted, hardly anyone is taking it as a serious threat to Apple. But if it isn't a threat to Apple, then why do we keep writing about it? To a certain extent we do so because anything from Microsoft gets a lot of press, but some pundits are convinced there is another shoe to drop -- some deal or feature with which Microsoft will turn this sow's ear into a silk purse. I don't see this as likely for the first Zune version. Apple has established a 6-9 month iPod product cycle. If Microsoft hopes to continue the trend of doing the job right the third time around, then the clock is ticking toward that time, which will be 12-18 months from now. THIS Zune is a placeholder meant to start the clock ticking at best. Two Zunes from now is when the game really begins.

The music companies seem to think that by making online music without DRM, they will help their sagging sales. I don't think that what plagues the industry. Like all industries, the music industry wants growth every year. But they compare sales today to what it was in the boom days. Back then, sales were booming because the CD was replacing tape and vinyl as the preferred medium. The industry didn't seem to see that some sales were people replacing their collection as opposed to buying new music. There are other reasons too (some which were self-inflicted), and it was covered in a Frontline episode called The Way the Music Died that chronicles the music industry today.

http://www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/aboutpbs_whatisthis.ht ml

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At first, I thought this was going to be similar to the method of generating hires images from a small number of sensors utilized by jumping spiders. Basically, they vibrate their retinas, recording datapoints from the in-between locations to get in-between pixels.

Don't bother, I dug a few up for you. A tad more recent event than your link I'm sorry to say. An incident that came to be known as "The Turkey Shoot" or also "The Highway of Death".
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt_index.ht ml
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=126&ar ticle=14772&archive=true

In case you'd like to brush up on some of our other activities in the area before the recent wars, here's another good place to start.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/

Strange, I didn't see any civilians, much less women and children in those pictures. I was thinking more along the lines of these pictures.

Your comparing the deaths of fleeing uniformed Iraqi soldiers to mass graves filled with civilians is like comparing a German machine gunner on D-Day to Anne Frank!

If you need links to mass graves and the real torture that went on before both of these wars, I guess I could dig those up too.

It shouldn't necessarily be about fairness but truth in advertising. These networks should not masquerade as "news" outlets. They are propaganda machines, selling machines, entertainment etc. not news. They should just have classifications of such so that people would know (even if they like it) that they are not actually watching news, but boxed propaganda made to get them to think a certain way, back a certain position or consume merchandise.

The only way people are going to get real "news" is through independantly funded, independant groups that are funded by individuals, a few sources I can think of that do quite well in this model and remain more independant than the others are PBS, NPR and in print the CS Monitor.

Not mentioned yet is Bob Cringely's theory that the reason Apple didn't put in 3G is because Cingular and Apple are both competing in the Video download market. And Apple won't let 3G on to the phone until Apple wins total control.

This sounds far more plausible than the original story saying that 3G is "Not Ready Yet" and so we use Edge. Apple loves setting standards and being early to market. Being late on 3G must have a business reason, not a techincal one. Conflict with Cingular on video makes a lot of sense. Apple will crush Cingular on this.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_200 70111_001476.html

Well, at least we know that North Korea is now safe from Jimmy Carter. ;)

If this checks out, Youch! Everyone was wondering what was behind Apple so brazenly using the iPhone trademark. Cringely wrote a whole piece on it http://pbs.org/cringely but no one guessed something as simple as this!

Memo to self: Don't play Poker with Steve Jobs.

Aren't you being a little too harsh on a person who spent more than 1/3rd of his life's savings in philanthropy

Aren't you being too forgiving of a man who tried to steal his partners Microsoft shares:


During one of those last long nights working to deliver DOS 2.0 in early 1983, I am told that Paul Allen heard Gates and Ballmer discussing his health and talking about how to get his Microsoft shares back if Allen were to die.

Read here http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_200 60330_000890.html

Bill Gates is no angel and does not deserve anyones respect or admiration.

Cringely suspects that the whole thing is a marketing stunt. They had 2 major announcements at mac world:

1) iPhone
2) iTV

They both had trademark issues. iPhone was with Cisco and iTV was with eyeTV. They changed the iTV to Apple TV. They could have just as easily changed iPhone to Apple Phone or something else. Why didn't they do it? Cringely writes that he thinks it's for its marketing value. It guarantees that iPhone and the lawsuit will stay in the news long enough for everyone in the country to have heard of it. I don't know if this is the real reason but it does fit the facts. I wonder if the cost of a lawsuit is less than a TON of commercials and other advertisements.

Robert X. Cringely talks about this in his weekly post today. He points out that Apple already conceded the "i"-prefixed name from the iTV to Elgato, makers of the "EyeTV":

So Apple changed its marketing, diluting its whole "iThis" and "iThat" naming strategy in deference to Elgato, a company they could buy with a weekend's earnings from the iTunes Store, but chose to go toe-to-toe with Cisco, a company that's bigger, richer, and just as mean as Apple any day.

He says it all boils down to big publicity stunt, wherein Apple will get a big, free publicity boost when they finally back down and rename it the "Apple Phone". He also goes on to give his explanation for why the iPhone^H^H^H^H^H^HApple Phone won't support Cingular's 3G network.

Cringely points out that the original Jobs MacIntosh bombed because he locked out third-party hardware vendors. Now Jobs is doing the same with the iPhone, but this time locking out third-party software vendors. The only real question here is "Will this stop people from buying the iPhone?" Won't worry Grandma or little Bobby, but would it bother your tech savy user? Jobs is betting it won't.

Cringely also predicts it'll be renamed the 'Apple Phone', and says Apple was negotiating with Cisco over the iPhone name before the announcement so it's not like they didn't know. He suggests its a publicity play.

And ofcourse according to the Bush administration those people didn't have any freedom and couldn't enjoy the things we had here. Amazing how much of the official stories turn into pure falsified information whenever you're coming into contact with information residing from someone who actually lives in the region itself...

Well said. As many on Slashdot know, there are few things more important, or a greater demonstration of freedom, than playing games like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty, unless it is playing soccer or other sports. It is difficult to call Iraq during Saddam's rule anything but a "paradise" for everyone, from children to those of privilege, and even to Saddam's own family, like son-in-law Hussein Kamel . I don't know why everyone on Slashdot doesn't understand that. Maybe with a bit more education....

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cyberspace/july-dec 97/apple_8-6a.html this artical only references one of many deals made that year. I remeber the SEC going over every penny making sure that all the transactions were legal. Microsoft also did a coulple other things in good faith that year becasue it was in deep poo poo, and around the time microsoft monopoly ruling. and wanted it to look like apple was a viable competitor, which at the time apples market share was a joke, as was its balance sheet. (no offense to you mac people, PLEASE REALIZE THIS IS NOLOGER THE CASE, just stating facts to the best of my recolection) Im actually impressed that i remembered this 10 years later, wow.

PBS has been struggling for years to figure out how to compete against the Discovery nonfiction channels (TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, and their lesser siblings) in science programming, and to a lesser extent, National Geographic and other comers. PBS has also struggled to see how the long-form documentary can continue to hold market share in a world that won't watch YouTube videos that run longer than two minutes.

The old guard in television cannot fully grok the mindset of those who've come of age during the internet age and its panoply of media choices. But they do understand that without adaptation, they will die. So they tend to focus on acquiring the look-and-feel of new media (but not the vital essences), hoping that will make them seem relevant to new-media users. Lipstick on a pig, and all that. Very nice lipstick, sometimes, but....

NOVA wisely invested early in web programming, and their science websites are superb examples of what can be done with Web 1.0. (Heh heh, I should disclose I wrote one of those to go along with the film I made. You can see it here. Check out the "Dispatches" section for some old-skool science blogging.)

NOVA on television has resisted surrendering its brand identity against immense financial pressure, as well as cultural pressure to "liven up," "get hip," and other assorted me-too thinking that says no one will sit and watch a quality hour anymore. NOVA hasn't quite caved, but you can see the difference when comparing latest product against films from earlier years. Still, once you see what they've been up against, NOVA is still a marvel of principle and plain old stubbornness.

As for the purported modern lack of an audience for high-quality single-subject programs...I don't buy it.

I'm part of the PBS advisory panel that's "focus-grouping" these new shows. (They don't even know I'm one of their past producers...and I ain't sayin'.) Trust me, PBS has marshaled extraordinary user input throughout the development of this new programming. They have done their homework. Nonetheless, I've been thinking it was the wrong homework assignment.

IMO, focus-group design by consensus can yield good quality, but not brilliance. Can anyone imagine focus-grouping The Secret Life of Machines? The Day the Universe Changed? (Or to stretch it a bit, even Mystery Science Theater 3000?) Those shows, and other greats, rely on irrepressible characters who, like the author of a great book, slowly but surely make you realize they're in on a great secret. And that they want to let you in on it.

Ok, some of these people are not poster children for The Seven Habits of Successful People, and could probably use a better haircut, but you just know they'd be doing this show for free (or maybe they did). It's not their panache but their passion that infects you like a Russian hacker's virus and absorbs you into their conspiracy. Their world is more full of dynamite and diamond pipes and Tesla coils and grizzly bears taking sunbaths and...and...they seem to have figured out how one thing connects to another. Their world is equal parts revealed truth and grand fun. Maybe even more grand fun than revealed truth. They make you realize the riches of the world lie around your feet like November leaves in such abundance that you haven't even noticed them as you kick your way forward each day.

They open your eyes. They make you stay awake in your bed way too late and dream about the places you really can't wait any longer to go...and damn it, someday you will...then you fall asleep.

I love Wired magazine, and have all kinds of cool electronica, and download books off Demonoid while I'm TiVoing BBC docs while I'm walking the stacks at the library while I'm listening to a podcast. But that doesn't mean I want a science show modeled on Entertainment Tonight's magazine format. I don't want hip poseurs, even if they've been coached not to seem like poseurs. I don't want beautiful people

just copy and paste into your console:

mplayer mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/ge neral/windows/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_384.wmv;mpla yer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/ge neral/windows/kcet/wiredscience/wired-pilot-full_4 80.wmv;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov

just copy and paste into your console:

mplayer mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/ge neral/windows/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_384.wmv;mpla yer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/ge neral/windows/kcet/wiredscience/wired-pilot-full_4 80.wmv;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov

just copy and paste into your console:

mplayer mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/ge neral/windows/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_384.wmv;mpla yer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/ge neral/windows/kcet/wiredscience/wired-pilot-full_4 80.wmv;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov

just copy and paste into your console:

mplayer mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/ge neral/windows/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_384.wmv;mpla yer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/ge neral/windows/kcet/wiredscience/wired-pilot-full_4 80.wmv;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov

just copy and paste into your console:

mplayer mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/ge neral/windows/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_384.wmv;mpla yer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/ge neral/windows/kcet/wiredscience/wired-pilot-full_4 80.wmv;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov

just copy and paste into your console:

mplayer mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/ge neral/windows/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_384.wmv;mpla yer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/ge neral/windows/kcet/wiredscience/wired-pilot-full_4 80.wmv;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov;mplayer -vo gl2 -ao sdl -stereo 0 -hardframedrop -fs http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov

Actually, the QuickTime versions seem to work better.

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_3 84.mov
mplayer 22ndcentury_384.mov

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/kcet/wiredscience/wired-p ilot-full_480.mov -O wired_pilot_full_480.mov
mplayer wired_pilot_full_480.mov

wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov -O ch1.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov -O ch2.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov -O ch3.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov -O ch4.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov -O ch5.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov -O ch6.mov
mplayer ch*.mov

They don't seem to have that last one as one big file.

Actually, the QuickTime versions seem to work better.

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_3 84.mov
mplayer 22ndcentury_384.mov

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/kcet/wiredscience/wired-p ilot-full_480.mov -O wired_pilot_full_480.mov
mplayer wired_pilot_full_480.mov

wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov -O ch1.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov -O ch2.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov -O ch3.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov -O ch4.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov -O ch5.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov -O ch6.mov
mplayer ch*.mov

They don't seem to have that last one as one big file.

Actually, the QuickTime versions seem to work better.

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_3 84.mov
mplayer 22ndcentury_384.mov

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/kcet/wiredscience/wired-p ilot-full_480.mov -O wired_pilot_full_480.mov
mplayer wired_pilot_full_480.mov

wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov -O ch1.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov -O ch2.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov -O ch3.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov -O ch4.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov -O ch5.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov -O ch6.mov
mplayer ch*.mov

They don't seem to have that last one as one big file.

Actually, the QuickTime versions seem to work better.

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_3 84.mov
mplayer 22ndcentury_384.mov

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/kcet/wiredscience/wired-p ilot-full_480.mov -O wired_pilot_full_480.mov
mplayer wired_pilot_full_480.mov

wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov -O ch1.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov -O ch2.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov -O ch3.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov -O ch4.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov -O ch5.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov -O ch6.mov
mplayer ch*.mov

They don't seem to have that last one as one big file.

Actually, the QuickTime versions seem to work better.

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_3 84.mov
mplayer 22ndcentury_384.mov

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/kcet/wiredscience/wired-p ilot-full_480.mov -O wired_pilot_full_480.mov
mplayer wired_pilot_full_480.mov

wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov -O ch1.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov -O ch2.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov -O ch3.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov -O ch4.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov -O ch5.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov -O ch6.mov
mplayer ch*.mov

They don't seem to have that last one as one big file.

Actually, the QuickTime versions seem to work better.

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_3 84.mov
mplayer 22ndcentury_384.mov

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/kcet/wiredscience/wired-p ilot-full_480.mov -O wired_pilot_full_480.mov
mplayer wired_pilot_full_480.mov

wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov -O ch1.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov -O ch2.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov -O ch3.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov -O ch4.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov -O ch5.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov -O ch6.mov
mplayer ch*.mov

They don't seem to have that last one as one big file.

Actually, the QuickTime versions seem to work better.

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/22ndcentury/22ndcentury_3 84.mov
mplayer 22ndcentury_384.mov

wget http://www.pbs.org/media/kcet/wiredscience/wired-p ilot-full_480.mov -O wired_pilot_full_480.mov
mplayer wired_pilot_full_480.mov

wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_1_300. mov -O ch1.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_2_300. mov -O ch2.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_3_300. mov -O ch3.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_4_300. mov -O ch4.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_5_300. mov -O ch5.mov
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/si/video/chapter_6_300. mov -O ch6.mov
mplayer ch*.mov

They don't seem to have that last one as one big file.