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It just so happened that both Nate and Hemos were back in town, and the result was yet another show. We talk about TiVo, Napster, and CmdrTaco and Hemos' recent trip to Japan.
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From TheSync's Geeks In Space Page (http://thesync.com/geeks/):
"Geeks in Space" is a nearly-weekly audio show...
There should be a law against putting that much emphasis on the word "nearly".
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six months is a long time, but still, thank you. i was getting sick of listening to old gis episodes.
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This is a good idea.
If everyone has broadband they should be able to ditch the telephone and chat in real time over one of those IP telephony thingys. (Roger Wilco or CCFaudio or something similar.) The latency should be low enough to keep everybody synced up nicely, and it makes the long distance charges go away.
When streaming the voices to hard drive (assuming there's enough space after all the pr0n^H^H^H^H Christmas photos), 16-bit, 22KHz mono should be plenty, which will consume roughly 2.5MB/min or 150MB/hour. There's reason to believe this will compress fairly well with bzip2 so you've got lossless compression but Nate doesn't have to deal with 150MB email attachments.
Or you could try FLAC, which I have no experience with, but it might work better than bzip2 since it's lossless compression designed specifically for audio. Or if you don't care that much about audio quality, compress the voice streams to a 256Kb MP3 for emailing. See if I care.
And ultimately it'd be nice to see some OGGs for download as the final product. It being free software and all that.
Just for the record, I spent way too long crafting this message that almost no one will read.
Graham "Teach" Mitchell, computer science teacher, Leander HS
Why was this not on the front page i think after that much of an absence it should have been if it had not been for my pretty GiS slahsbox i would have never known. Thanks for the show, I have been feinding for it for what six months now?
"We must not, my friend, be the bubbles of our own liberal sentiments"
--John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson
Serriously, that might work! I've thought about this. I know phone is too low fidelity to plug in to the mixer and record but what if you only record John and Rob on the mixer and have Nate and Jeff on the phone so you can talk in real time, have them record on semi-decent mics on their computers on either coast, convert their tracks to high quality mp3s (what-have-you), email them in and merge the tracks together. It's not quite as high fidelity as having you all on the mixer board but its 10x better than recording off the phone, not too much time shifting between tracks after 30 minutes and not too hard to do! Heck, I'll volunteer to merge the tracks together.
I LOVE GIS, it make the drive to work so enjoyable, other drivers stuck in LA traffic just stair at me as I bust up at the lame geek jokes. Keep up the good work!
--Let's hack root on 127.0.0.1 --panZ
See the "subscribe to the newsletter" thing on the sync? It's just an announce list for when an episode is posted. It tends to come a few days before it's posted on /. too (this episode's mail came on Wednesday).
isn't GiS supposed to be a weekly thing or something?
long week?
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
Greylisting is to SMTP as NAT is to IPv4
guys you should set up some kind of blinky light or email announcement for theses things coming out. I was about to go to another website (still in the osdn family mind you) when i shit a brick and saw something above turbo nitrous version. I thought that would never change.
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Well, if it makes you feel better, I read it. Just wanted to throw in my support. I mean, it's not like we're listening to an orchestra here, a loss in quality is perfectly acceptable.
Hey, Geeks, get on it.
My other
well considering I finnaly got out of high school, I've been up for 26 hours thanks to cerimonies and dry grads and such (I won a nice wooden chest for my dorm room) Ok heres a suggestion you guy should tape a show anytime you guys go to a convention. You can all get there and right it off as a business expense. We'll like listening to GIS. As for the easzil thing, I think they were named most likely to make money, because they guy somewhat saw it as a windows thing, the big thing people will want to have to make computing easier. Anyway must go and sleep. sleep sleeeepppppppppp. Me.
Theres one problem with reflecting your reality, sometimes your reality starts to reflect you.
The actual story is actually funnier:
First, the exploit... there is a bug in the damage routine that allows a player to avoid AoE damage if they are far enough off on the Z-axis(up/down).
Second, the clan... A high leveled guild decided to see attempt to kill a "god". The GM's found out about it.
Third, the takedown... the creature the guild set out to take down would only spawn after four watch-dragons had been destroyed, and after three of the four had been killed the GM's stepped in. The clarics were standing in an area that was far enough down to avoid the AoE spells, so they were busilly healing. The GM's tried to prevent the spawning of "the Sleeper" by despawning the fourth dragon, this caused the spawn of the Sleeper, whom they also dispelled. The GM's then moved on to BAN ALL PLAYERS in the zone, even those who just had corpse's in the zone, for using this exploit.
If people can connect to one another even the smallest of voices will grow loud.
If people can connect to one another even the smallest of voices will grow loud.
--Serial Experiments Lain
Why don't you guys just recorde yourselves individually and put everything together in post. Isn't that what you do anway. I'm sure mix master Pater can make it work.
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