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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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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
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!
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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).
I believe his first album is self titled, but his new comp project DelTron 3030 is awesome. It's Del, KidKoala, and Dan the Automator... very very phat album. It's all about the future and space battles, virus', microsoft, corporations. A very fun album and I recommend it to people who aren't really into hiphop.. it's a good way to get into it.
- "Never let a computer tell me shit." - DelTron Zero
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.
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