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Timeshifting: Cram More Into Life
jimharris writes "The VCR started it - and then the DVR improved it, so now I want to apply the concept of timeshifting in other ways. I've always wanted an audio cassette player that worked like a VCR so I could listen to more radio talk shows. This morning's NY Times stirred my interest with After TiVo, Radio Rewound about a MP3 device that does just that. Better yet, is Replay Radio - software that is more flexible and you can download the results to a portable player.
I already use Audible.com to squeeze in more books in my life, by listening, rather than reading. I've completed 8 unabridged books in two months just by carrying around my Otis player when I get dressed in the morning, driving to and from work, doing housework, or when I exercise.
Now I'm wondering how I can timeshift even more."
...or else people will be time-shifting sex, and God only knows that that will result in. ;)
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Tivo2 is supposed to add support for XM Radio in the 2nd half of 2004. Digital quality radio recording sounds like a great combination.
Just figure out how to live forever and this will not be and issue.
God forbid we sit and do nothing. It may cause us to think about our lives. Best to just keep ourselves busy all the time; flooding our ears with sound and our eyes with images. We must all do our part to keep introspection at bay, lest we realize things are not as perfect as they seem.
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Save more time by using software to strip out the pauses and slightly speed up the audio.. up to about 1.5x... That way you can watch an hour show in 30 minutes.. once you strip out the commercials, pauses and laugh track...
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Thanks for this article. I was going to write an "Ask Slashdot" asking if there were any Tivo like services for streaming web radio. I just wanted to do a bit of research on my own first. If one of these works for me, I'll be able to record all my favorite NPR weekend shows and perhaps avoid "car moments."
So is this like uh... a thinly disguised advert, or what?
(Yes, I checked out the site)
Dontcha think it's possible to go a bit too far with the cramming?
In a related story, the IRS has recently ruled that the cost of Windows upgrades can NOT be deducted as a gambling loss.
I'd like to be able to timeshift my /. posts. Then I can always have "First Post"!
I have a Creative Nomad Jukebox 3. One of the things I like about it is it has an effect to change the speed of the audio/mp3 you are listning to, up to 1.5x. I think it works by playing it faster, but it also lowers the pitch at the same time, so you don't get chipmunk voices. I also had a winamp plugin that did this awhile ago.
Someone is going to complain about cramming more stuff into life, so it may as well be me. Dead time is sweet time. There's nothing wrong with lying around, ignoring the phone, staring out the windows and contemplating your navel. Time shifting makes every waking moment seem like work. Chill.
I've completed 8 unabridged books in two months just by carrying around my Otis player when I get dressed in the morning, driving to and from work, doing housework, or when I exercise.
Does the Otis player have headphones, or external speakers? If headphones, it is illegal in some areas to listen to headphones while driving. I have tried using external speakers with portable devices. They are usually terrible in the car. Or do you have an in-dash player of some sort?
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you mention that you listen to books while getting dressed, etc. this is not a good method. remember that speed reading fad a few years back? well it turns out that if you don't concentrate on the book's subject you will miss out details and simply forget everything but the most important facts.
like someone said after "speed reading" War and Peace when asked if he could review it.. "um.. it's about some war, and things."
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if you're a howard stern listener just use newsgroups.
alt.binaries.howard-stern has commercial free shows everyday. you can also find other popular radio talk shows on newsgroups daily. just have to look.
Ooold tech: we college students have been taping and timeshifting lectures for years.
iPod missed a great bit, though -- if they'd included the mp3-recording capabilities (something like the iRiver's hd recorder, or the Ripflash) then I bet that would've caught on VERY quickly. (You go to class today, I'll go tomorrow, we'll exchange mp3s tonight.)
I'd love to record my lectures, but I don't have $400 for an iRiver, and I can't find a minitape recorder that will last for 1.5 hours without stopping and flipping...
Now I'm wondering how I can timeshift even more.
25 hour days would be a good start I say
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I should be a snap to incorporate ad filtering for NPR programs, too, since they are pretty much every 10 minutes through the hour.
What i would like is a good eText to audio manager and a facility to covert my books easily from paper to electronic without having to use an OCR raeder page by page.
I wish the copy right law could be made more sensible so that Project gutenberg can have more and more of contemprorary literature.
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I have been enjoying the hell out of my Slim Devices SLIMP3 for nearly 3 years..
I have been thinking about a project to archive multiple internet radio stations simultaneously. It should file the content according to MP3 headers, etc. The ability to quickly skip forward in NPR news stories, etc, would also be nice, etc.
Does an OSS project to do this exist?
Isn't that kind of what mp3's end up doing? I don't watch television anymore unless I download the show.
I listen to old radio programs on mp3.
I download everything when I want it, deleting it a couple days later. This is as much on demand as I've ever wanted. It's great.
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You're being so 'Type A' about your leisure time. It's leisure time... the whole point is to relax, not to 'squeeze in more'.
Make it for a car radio, and enable multiple station recording. Would hit the RIAA though, as then there's no more need for CD players...Wait, ClearChannel took care of that problem!
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
>>so I could listen to more radio talk shows
There is something very, very wrong about this.
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Does make me wish that the ipod had some more interactive features, though. Like, say, a wireless sync. That way I could just keep sending it new info (such as a text-to-speech version of an RSS feed) all day. Unlike an audio book, I wouldn't mind so much if the news turned into a background drone and I missed some of it.
The idea of taking off my ipod headphones when I set down at the desktop and putting a different set on (and then swapping everytime I want to get up from the machine) is not a good one. I dont even like putting it in the cradle because it's yet another thing I have to do before getting up and walking away.
A good Tivo timeshift trick somebody pointed out to me is to record the early news on a channel where they do one of those crawlers across the bottom of the screen. Then, watch on fast forward.
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Step 1: Obtain DeLorean.
Step 2:: Invent Flux Capacitor.
Step 3: Timeshift.
"so I could listen to more radio talk shows"
Radio talk shows? I'd say the issue isn't having more time but how you are using the time you have already.
Replay "Radio", huh? I wonder if the nice folks at DNNA might see this as trademark infringement?
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Don't know if this has been released yet. It's been in development for quite a while.
I'm waiting for a Tivo unit with a DVD/R built-in.
My favourite radio station, BBC Radio 4 has most of it's programmes available on line to listen to at any time. In fact most of the BBC radio stations have such facilities. Then my digital satelite feed has countless radio stations available all of which can be recorded on the PVR.
The audio books available on cassette are great for listening to in the car when driving distances. I also MP3 radio plays and play them from my PDA which is then plugged in to the car stereo.
Books tend to be read in the bath or on the train. Skimming through text books in the bath after work is a good time saver. The books read on the train are usually novels.
"I've completed 8 unabridged books in two months just by carrying around my Otis player when I get dressed in the morning, driving to and from work, doing housework, or when I exercise. Now I'm wondering how I can timeshift even more."
Do you really absorb as much listening to something while you do other things as sitting down and reading? I have enough trouble getting it all to sink in and not skimming boring parts with a good ol' mass market paperback
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Mac users have a new timeshift option (if Griffin ever ships it); check out RadioShark. It records AM, FM, and Internet broadcasts into AIFF format. Upload to your MP3 player and away you go!
(Now just SHIP the darned thing, Griffin.)
After TiVo, Radio Rewound
Somewhat related to the topic. Before the internet, I wanted to record long radio programs in the morning/afternoon while I was away at work and was not allowed to listen to the radio. I needed a way to record radio programs that were 4-6 hours long, a cassette deck didn't cut it...
Ghetto engineering! I jacked my stereo through the back of a VCR's audio in, used a VHS tape set on SLP, program the VCR to start and stop recording at a predetermined time, and abracadabra: 6 hours of hassle free recording.
Glad to know that there are less ghetto ways of doing it now, the Griffin Technology RadioSHARK looks promising for OSX. www.griffintechnology.com
Now I'm wondering how I can timeshift even more
If you keep this up you'll end up like Wesley Crusher when he left for those 'other plains of existence'.
And did he wrap up warm? NO!
I am an avid NPR listener, and whenever Klick and Klack, the Tapper brothers are on when I get home, I invariably end up sitting in the driveway. I would love to be able to automagically tape these shows and play them back in my car (while driving to/from work) at the push of a button.
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Stay the hell away from your parents!
Once you get rid of that annoying sleep habit, you find the possibilities are limitless. I finished the entire "A la recherche du temps perdu" in 18 hours in the original and I don't even speak French. I think. Except for these damn spiders crawling up my arms, this is great. Just great!
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You really want to listen to more radio talk shows? You don't need that. What you need, is a life!
Now I'm wondering how I can timeshift even more.
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You must be illiterate if you think that is a big achievement, or do you have dislexia or other reading disorders? 8 books in 2 months is less then a book per week. If I take more than 1 week to finish a book it is just not interesting.
But if you use as a backgroundnoise with added bonus to be able to claim literacy: Sure, go right ahead.
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Another option would be to read books because you find it enjoyable. You're bound to have an ulcer by 35 if you keep up like this. Sometime I worry that I spend too much of my day ingesting data because I read so many websites, newsgroups, message boards, mailing lists, etc. and I certainly don't need to cram any more in while putting on my socks in the morning.
It's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out. We're the first generation to have this much data available to us at all times, but I don't think we've really started to see the true effects of it yet. Just think about how much more media (music, movies, books, etc) we're exposed to than previous generations-- I wonder what the implications of that will be.
I can already, as a musician, see a very big change to music and to how people interact with it. People spend so much less time actually appreciating music than they used to. Just think that, not that long ago, people used to sit down together and listen to a record and do nothing else. You rarely see anybody do anything like that anymore. Hell, most people I know barely finish listening to songs anymore now that they have access to MP3 players.
If you examine other areas of media (news, books, movies, etc), all of this is happening in much the same way. I digest easily 100 times the news in a day that somebody would've 50 years ago, I see at least five movies a week (thank you, Netflix and Suprnova!), etc. Not to mention how many ads I see in any given day.
I think that having all of this information at our fingertips is going to be a double-edged sword. Just like having MP3s around commoditized music, the same will go for all media. And just as search engines/data collection sites (say, for example, Slashdot or Metafilter-- sites that find data for you) became the "killer app" for the web, I guess these "timeshifting" devices, like TiVo, which allow you to collect the data you wish to collect from a given source (i.e. record all episodes of "Arrested Development," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and "The World Series of Poker"), will become the "killer app" of their respected medium. I just have to wonder how it will affect us as people and our society as a whole.
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I've often wondered how much detail folks who consume books on tape/CD/PAD actually retain. Sitting down and concentrating only on listening to an audio recording in one thing, but I'm wondering how much information actually sticks when you're engaged in other simultaneous actvities like driving, flossing the dog, etc.
I've timeshifted my whole life ahead by 6 days and now I can't get back. Someone please help me! I'm trapped in the future!
Men are that they might have joy, not to be so crammed with information that they lose their sense of beauty and wonder.
Seriously. You need some perspective.
Once a year for a week I just force myself to unplug. I yank the network cards and modems out of my machines, unplug the controllers on my game systems, take my tv remote, monitor power cord, PDA and cel phone - put it all in a box and drop it off at a friend's house.
No radio, no news, no newspapers, no magazines, no tv, no nothing. I allow myself books, but only stuff that I've been planning to read for at least a year and putting off. The first few days are a little stressing, I start to get jittery and keep panicking that I'm missing something important. But by the end of the week I've got more perspective on life, more perspective on all those little electronic leashes that I impose on myself and generally a much much much lower tolerance for most of the info-garbage that I regularly consume.
Someone who's unironically posting a message seeking help on ways to more efficiently consume more media than he already does has to step back and think about that for a second. I don't mean to sound judgemental at all - really - but damn man, if your problem is that you can't figure out how to cram a little more media into your life then you need to step back for a minute and really give your life a good hard ponder.
I don't mean to sound all hippy zen on you, but when was the last time you felt grass on your bare feet? Best of luck, but no one ever said on their death bed, "If only I had listened to more talk radio..."
I know this is slashdot and none of us will be satisfied until we can immerse our brains in media 24/7 while having an AI walk our bodies to and from our cars and work.. but honestly, i think you should all learn the value of sitting in silence and thinking for a few minutes a day without distraction. I know our society of advanced capitalism is pushing to cram entertainment into every femtosecond of our lives and eventually that plugging of holes will be complete, but seriously.. take a step back, and take some deep breaths and please do it often.. for the rest of us:)
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No matter how thin you slice it, its still baloney.
Seriously, if you want more meaningful time in your life, shouldn't you address the fact that you're spending much of it watching OTHER people do stuff?
Published in 1970, yet still insightful today:
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler.
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Rearrange your work schedule so you start at 7am and get off at 3pm or 4pm. By hitting the streets at semi- off hours you will cut your commute time by possibly half (less traffic.) Time saved : 1 hour per day on the average.
By hitting your seat at 7am when the office is empty and quiet you can get more productive sooner, and get more done between 7am and 9am than most people have done by noon.
Let a woman take you clothes shopping, throw out everything in your closet and replace it with whatever she suggests. Make sure everything matches everything else. Time saved : none, but nobody will know you got dressed in the dark before you had caffeine in your system.
Don't sleep in on weekends. Get up at your regular time instead of 11am and you have effectively doubled the number of hours of daylight you get on each weekend day. God I love to sleep in so I hate this one.
Get your news from FARK (www.fark.com) In the hour it takes to watch the news on TV you could have a synopsis of the important events around the globe from a hundred different news sources. If it is newsworthy, it's on FARK.
Cancel your MMORPG accounts (stop playing Everquest). This will give you back 1000 hours per year. Maybe more.
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I did the same thing, and it's still the easiest way to do it. I *already* have a VCR, and it's *already* plugged in to a stereo input, and I spend most of my leisure time *in my house*.
J.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
Damn, I've been talking about this as a while. It really would be a great feature. Go read my old comment about it.
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When I'm on a plane I load up my laptop with things to read, as I can't really get any work done crushed into the kid's-table-sized chairs.
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1. I suck down a few news websites, the kernel traffic, cryptome (carefully) and some mailing list archives with wget.
2. I download a few free radio shows, like Off The Hook (2600 Radio) or This American Life (A bit harder, you have to, um, rip it
3. I grab the mailing list traffic from my mailing-list-only account and compose replies for later sending.
4. That pinball game is really addicting. Thanks Maxis!
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It was even on SLASHDOT...oh wait...thats pretty much /. style...when short of stories well just talk about things from the past!
Its called a PoGo and i have one on my desk. Records radio and allows time shifting.
Wow. But hey this is news right....OLD NEWS...but news
. I love the sound of burning women and screaming rubber....
You can use xmms to record mp3 streams out of the box. Just use the -dumpaudio function and it will go to a file, in raw mp3, rather than to your speakers. Most NPR stations provide streams of one sort or another. You can also choose from available streams on Icecast and Shoutcast. http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/radio/ has a much more involved discussion of how to record other stream types, or audio fed to a soundcard.
If you come home late TiVO's new iSpouse product will save your dinner in small plastic containers. This can then be re-heated and eaten at any time! Of course storage capacity (FridgeXT) limits the total amount of meals you can shift in this fashion.
Come play Moral Decay!
I think it's fair-use...
I dont always have the time or inclination to go to the movie rental store, and face the possibility that a movie I want to see has been rented by someone else already.
So whenever I happen to be near the store, I go browse the movies that interest me, and rent a few.
When I get home, if I dont have time to watch them within the rental time frame, I rip them to my HD until I can watch them, then I delete the rip.
Clearly you don't value "quiet time" in your life.
Stress is a major factor in heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, cancer, and a list of other issues including even impotence.
When you're constantly "plugged in" - book while getting dressed, music in the car, music on headphones at work, book on tape on the way going home, Tivo to watch all evening, etc - when do you get to resolve or even consider stressful issues in your life?
When you make time to be alone with your thoughts, you'd be surprised at the results. You have time to mull over and address those issues in your life, and allow what is important to occupy your mind, rather than some mind numbing song or droning book filling your ears.
Of course, there are plenty of people in the world that would hear nothing at all in their heads if their iPod was ever turned off, but that's another issue.
Um... now to be obtuse or anything, but...
Your brain *is* split down the middle.
I have 25.6 seconds to write this before the next context switch, takes getting used to but boy DO I GET A LOT OF STUFF DONE, within the next hour I will be writing a novel, flying a plane, learning 3 foreign languages and so many other things I don't have time to write about, you should try this amazing technique, I think its called multitasking or something, I am living at a rate of 15.2 lives in the space of one but my average is getting higher all the time the more I practice, jeez if I had time to breathe I might know if this was worthwhile - hey what's that on the 3rd monitor from the left? I-
"It's, er, really quite fun in it's way," he concluded. "Certainly better than television and a great deal easier to use than a video recorder. If I miss a programme I just pop back in time and watch it. I'm hopeless fiddling with all those buttons." ... watching television?"
Dirk reacted to this revelation with horror.
"You have a time machine and you use it for
will this make our heads explode?
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I definitely want one of these for the same reason, but also because the majority of USB radios (and regular plugin/battery radios) are FM only.
This unit promises AM and FM and is powered from the USB port, plus it looks cool - but *sigh* vaporware.
I had done a story on my website about this product back in January.
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I saw a very funny and insightful study that was done.
/. while "taking care of business" in the bathroom in the morning, whatever. And if that allows you to better enjoy life, power to you!
People have been complaining about "not having enough free time - we used to have so much free time, but we don't anymore. We have too much work!" The theory was that we don't have as much leisure time as we once did - that work was somehow consuming it all.
So, they had these people record what they were doing for a few weeks.
They found that the people were correct in that the didn't have as much "free" (i.e. uncommitted) time. However, they had VASTLY more leisure time - it was just crammed full of leisure activities!
Yes, you can time shift/time compress TV and radio, listen to books on tape while you drive, read
But please, should you do this, don't bitch about not having enough "free" time - you chose to live that way, you have the problem with knowing what activities you cannot do without, YOU CONSUMED ALL YOUR FREE TIME!
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Instead of turning on the TV to watch whatever BS is on, I find it much more effective to record and watch the shows i actually want to see later on. That way you can speed or skip commercials. You get the same feeling of satisfaction if you watch an hour-long show in 40 minutes than sitting through the commercials and stuff.
I don't follow most if not all of these recommendations, but I've at least thought about them at one point.
speedread - If you pronounce words in your mind as you read them, you are forced to read much slower than if you learn to read without that habit. Supposedly one can read and fully comprehend a few thousand of words a minute.
abridged books - You claim to read unabridged books, but if you're wanting to absorb more, why not read the versions that get to the point quicker?
read/listen/watch only shows/stories/articles recommended by trusted sources - People you know recommend that you should read/watch/listen to certain things. Some turn out to be a waste time, but some turn out to be truly enjoyable. Only listen to those who have usually recommended the latter.
ask for paraphrasings of stories - Maybe you don't need to read/watch a story. Maybe it's not worth your time/interest to go through every word. Just get someone who's good at summarizing to explain the story to you within 2 minutes. Maybe that will be entertaining enough.
fast forward - If you liked Alvin and the Chipmunks, then try this. A friend of mine watches all of his anime at double speed. I think he's nuts, but it works for him.
switch to cell phone-only - Here's something I follow. If you only have a cell-phone, you have an excuse to hang up on people who talk too much, "Sorry, using up too much airtime. Gotta go."
pay someone else to do housework - A maid can clean your house for a reasonable fee once a week. Please don't hire an illegal alien though.
carpool - You might have to drive to work and do your Otis listening routine sometimes, but othertimes, you can sit in the back while you speedread. This works best if you can ignore your talkative buddies and maintain focus.
drink more coffee - Just make sure it doesn't interfere with the sleep you need. Most people need enough sleep to maintain most of their ability to pay attention to what they read/listen to/watch.
work less hours - depends on your priorities in life. If you're an independent contractor who's being paid a lot, maybe you can take off a day every other week to get more reading in.
become financially independent - or maybe you don't have to work at all after you've saved your money enough or started a business that runs itself.
raise your slashdot filter - Most of the posts here are crap. You shouldn't bother with anything less than a rating of 4 unless you're moderating.
Someone searching for a way how to have a burn-out 20 yrs earlier...
if you really want to learn about time management go to a hard college(how does engineering sound for ya, you wanted a new job anyways). at college you have so many great oppotunitues to do everything, you are bound to find things to keep you busy 24 hours a day. slightly off topic, mabey, but you he wants ways that he can make himself more productive... its very simple... just SLEEP LESS im a college student and i live on less than 5 hours of sleep a night 24 hrs - 5 hrs = 19 WAKING Hours you know how much stuff you can do in 19 hours? say 5 hours of sleep aint enough for ya? mabey the first awake hour will be kinda rough, but after some caffeine you will be all set. example... 2 days a week, i get up at 6am, play some CS till 7, then grab breakfast and head to class for 8. Im wide awake by that point, its great. (added benefit is the network is much less congested at 6 in the mornin :-)... oooh the ping times)
I use TotalRecorder www.highcriteria.com. It records any sound stream on your computer to hard disc as mp3 or uncompressed. It has a built in scheduler and costs about $12.
I'm waiting for a Tivo unit with a DVD/R built-in.
wait no longer: pioneer makes one
Multitasking would be doing several things at once, such as listening to an audio book while jogging. This is pretty common, and anybody who has a busy job knows what it's like. A coworker follows you into the men's room to chat at the urinal. You print something out before getting up to go get coffee so that you can use the time while you wait for the printout to finish. And so on. Hardly a new idea.
Timeshifting would be manipulating one of those tasks that you might not have been able to in the past. Besides Tivo and ReplayRadio, I'd suggest that the whole RSS aggregator phenomenon fits into that category. You used to spend X minutes visiting Y sites every day. Now you spend 1/10th that time by putting them all under your nose simultaneously. It's not like you're doing 10 things at once, you're not visiting 10 sites at the same time -- you're cramming more valuable info into your web browsing time.
Or how about those elevators that have a CNN newsfeed in them? Sure, technically it's multitasking, giving you something to do with otherwise down time (or I suppose up time depending on which floor you're going to :)). But it's also time manipulation in that you used to be limited to "Watch news in the morning before going to work." Now you get to take it with you up to the office. Of course I could make the opposite argument that you're not manipulating it, as anybody that's seen this setup knows. It asks a trivia question, then you have to wait 30 seconds, and you end up on your floor before you see the answer and you get all cranky.
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realplayer for linux will run from the command line with a url, not like it's nagging and obtrusive windows relative.
Trap the realplayer output using vsound. Squish the resulting wav file to mp3 with lame and then bung it on yer iPod/whatever to hear at your leisure.
Drive it all from cron.(Found that tip somewhere out on the web)
The tricky bit for me was working out the URLs for the programs. Radio 4 hides everything behind cute popup windows on their site, but the page source reveals all.
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I don't understand you people, who feel guilty for doing what they like to do. What the hell?
This guy asks an interesting question. Yet the majority of replies don't offer anything but a didactic as to why he shouldn't be asking the question. Why not just answer the question or mod up the first person who questioned him ? The same polemic repeated gets kinda screws up the comments for the rest of us.
Why are we trying to cram all this stuff into our lives? When you multitask your entertainment, all it does is take some of the pleasure out of it. I'd rather *read* a single book in two months and really take it in than squeeze 8 of them into the little gaps of time during the day.
I subscribe to the field of thought that it's better to make priorities of what makes you happiest and go after a few of them full bore in the spare time you have, rather than spend a little time with each of them and get nowhere. Accept the fact that you can't possibly do everything you want, and take seriously the things you *can* do.
There are certain drugs you can take to eliminate the down time usually wasted sleeping each night. I don't know about anything stronger then no-doze myself, but I know there are drugs out there that can help you cram an extra 8 hours a day. Eventually after not sleeping for a week or so, time shifting will begin to happen nauturally, you'll suddenly wonder where you are or what your doing, kind of like skipping commercials on the TiVo. Don't worry though, blackout periods are most likely not important or else you would remember then.
Of course I'm of the rather backward opinion that cramming more into life has to do with how much you can do or give rather then absorb. By spending every waking moment reading/listening/watching new things, you lose the ability to effectively create new things yourself.
I just picked up an ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 9600 Pro it has both a built in TV tuner and an FM Radio tuner. You can time shift both TV and RADIO programs with the included ATI software.
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There have been a number of recent advances in concept-to-speech synthesis, which incorporates a sort of map (I'm being very general here) of the semantic concepts in a text and uses that to determine where emphasis should go to make speech sound more natural.
I think there's a lot of promise in fusing this approach with the discourse-representation work of people like Daniel Marcu -- automatically extract the discourse representation, then use that to assign prosody.
Sorry if this is a bit technical -- I do something very similar to it for a living, so it's easy to geek over.
Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like you're in the shower. Fuck like you're being filmed.
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It's been working now for about a week, and already I love it. I can listen to Car Talk and Marketplace whenever I please. I'm saving up a bunch of Fresh Air interviews to listen to on a car trip.
Since a modern hard drive can store about 5 years of compressed talk radio, I don't think I'll need to "change the tape" any time soon. ;-)
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Another nice tool (Windows only, sorry) is Total Recorder from High Criteria. It installs an audio driver shim and can record audio from any source. Essentially, if you can hear it on your PC's speakers, you can record it. I use it for time-shifting and for converting RealAudio and other streams into MP3 for my portable player.
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
Now I'm wondering how I can timeshift even more
Simply fly around the earth rapidly in a direction opposite that that of Earth's rotation. It worked for Superman...
In theory one could wait until after work to read the day's articles on Slashdot. Instead of having three minute interruptions spread throughout your workday, you can compress that into one geek-binge at the end of the day.
Of course, given the time I'm posting and that I'm in a US timezone, you can see that this is not based on practical experience - only a working theory.
Stop-Prism.org: Opt Out of Surveillance
If you come home late TiVO's new iSpouse product will save your dinner in small plastic containers. This can then be re-heated and eaten at any time!
New improved iSpouse 1.1 will save your sex life in small plastic containers. This can then be re-heated and, um, consumed at any time!
-kgj
-kgj
It seems you could do some minor changes to MythTV to accomplish this. It does everything else under the sun.
Prospective station wagon buyer: "I know what you say is true...but...er...I don't know how to maintain a tank!"
looks like it does what you want.
not out til april
but the itrip works well enough so does the powermate
i'd trust them
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
I personally have been using the scripts found at the Linux Radio Timeshift HOWTO for a few months now, and it does the job perfectly. You can listen to a freshly created MP3 as it's still being recorded. Used in combination with a script such as this, you can stream them shoutcast-style from anywhere.
Since there was only one AM radio tuner for a PC that I could find (and it was USB), I installed an external tuner. It ends up looking really cool to have a 1u rackmount tuner in your rack. Of course if I ever wish to tune to another station, a robotic arm must be built, but I'm content for now.
--falz
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TOSS THAT TUBE OUT THE WINDOW, TWITS! THE WORLD'S NOT GOING TO END IF YOU DON'T WATCH 'FRIENDS' EVER AGAIN!
And when the office gossip turns to what happened on last nights episode, you can start talking how you went scuba diving or rock climbing or participated in an AID walk or something. And all the cathode-ray-tube-crack-addicts around you will wonder where you got the time to do all that!
>>I already use Audible.com to squeeze in more books in my life, by listening, rather than reading.
Here's a hint: if you learn to read without moving your lips, you'll find that you can get through a book in a fraction of the time it would take to listen to it.
>>I've completed 8 unabridged books in two months
I'm starting to wonder if the poster's age is in double digits. Apart from the puerile boasting (you know, it's not how much you read that counts, it's what you read), what's this 'unabridged' thing? Call me a metropolitan intellectual snob if you like, but the last time I saw an abridged book was in kindergarten. In the age of Harry Potter, even 8 year olds read 600-page books.
The author of this post asserts his moral rights.
The Military is starting to use it. Business men use it. No crashing, or anything. Stay up for days and then just goto sleep just as normal.
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it's that or a pricey crack habit (as one poster suggested)
yeah, i'm now ad addict of audible.com...books like Al Franken's lying liars, and steve martin's Pure drivel...and aubscription to NPR fresh air. great way to spend commute time
You could just use an old VCR, and hook up the audio in to your tuner or receiver, the audio out to your amp. Granted video tapes are more expensive than audio tapes, but you could reuse 'em.
try sleep learning with the Neurophone
If you want to cram EVEN MORE CRAP into your life (as I do) you are probably already timeshifting everything you can. So, what to do now to squeeze more episodes of "My Life as a Teenage Robot" into your busy life of sci-fi novels, gameboy programming and gamecube games?
Timestretching!! By cranking up the speed at which you watch something while keeping the audio pitch sane, you can drop a good 25% (or more, if you feel *X-TREME*) from your viewing time. And if you think I'm joking, check out this winDVD page where they outline their timestretching tech. Pop in a DVD, and use your choice of "finish by a specific time" or "finish within a certain amount of time." And voila, suddenly everything takes 25% less time. Which leaves you able to catch up on all those anime reruns your tivo has been accumulating while you were busy watching the Daily Show.
It's important, or something. Who knows.
I've been playing with this idea myself. My commute is about 1 hour 15 minutes each way, and morning dj radio drives me nuts.
One idea I'm still working on implementing is getting non-audio news sources to my audio player. It's actually not that difficult to get software to read text for you -- I'm personally a fan of the Festival program.
It's RealAudio, not Shoutcast, but hey, you can't have everything.
This kind of power gives you interesting abilities. For instance, on my friends mailing list we were joking around pinpointing the exact second at which ex-minister Clare Short realised quite what she'd done by exposing UK spying activity against the UN on the Radio 4 interview this morning.
Andrew Oakley - www.aoakley.com
I am getting rather alarmed by the wave of neo-puritanism here. Open segregation of the homosexuals, abstinence-only sex-ed (leading to this when the kids don't know/don't dare to ask about contraceptives), breaking down the separation between the church and the state, xenophobia, religious wars (Iraq) and so on.
And timeshift your gaming.
Once you get rid of that annoying sleep habit... Just last week that thought occured to me: when humanity masters the workings of the brain and we unravel the regeneration secrets that sleep provides, you can bet your pillow that we'll start seeing "sleep supplements" or sleep substitutes to make our days longer and more productive. People will object to having a truly elongated 24hr day and being awake at night, but we could see radical changes in our job shifts, television schedules and even schools. Just so you remember you heard it here first.
So in those days when our descendants won't have to sleep to stay alive, what will they REALLY do with all the extra hours?
"Wireless : LAN
If you don't have time to sit down and enjoy a book, maybe you need to "timeshift" some free time so you can take another look at your priorities.
My lack of God, it's Trotsky!
That's when a lot of people watch TV. And as far as modern scientific instrumentality can tell, only the Neilsen families watch Friends.
To put it more succinctly, you're being an elitist prat. No one is impressed by you "I don't even own a TV" people.
--- Ban humanity.
If it weren't for the whole godawful obsession with time and deadlines and the whole ratrace thing, people would leave much healthier stress-free lives. Timeshifting is a great convenience, but it still is just a delay so the "megacorps" can use us as tools to their ends for longer hours, and with the timeshifted media to watch/listen to, we spend less and less times developing and nurturing relationships with other humans. And also.... is a book still a book if it's a tape? I think not. I think that a story is still a story, but a Book has a front and back cover, and pages, and is WAY WAY WAY better than any book on tape, because reading takes more concentration, therefore the imagery in your mind will be more detailed and vivid. Just listening can provoke the imagination, too, but for me stories on tape just don't quite have the same effect. Anyway, enough rambling on at the fingers.
If you can read this, you are most likely close enough.
What you should be researching/demanding from the medical community is immortality. Then you'd have all the time you need.
--- Ban humanity.
... or just hitch a ride with this guy!
"Creativity is allowing ones self to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep" - Scott Adams
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$30 rebate until 2/28/04 brings it down to $300. Friend picked one up and I'll be snagging one Saturday.
I've been wanting a way to record LoveLine for the longest time. It's not available in my market, so I end up listening to an online stream ... but I haven't figured out a way to rip that particular streaming format. Anyone know of an online rippable stream that I could record, and listen to a day later? I can't keep staying up until 1:00am just for a silly radio show.
Sometimes it is better to focus on quality rather than quantity...
You need to install an RTFM interface.
I like to watch movies but can only have time to catch the best of the best in the theater.
I find Netflix to be a cheap way of shifting all those movies I always meant to see. The service allows you me to load up my queue with 100's of movies in any order I like. Then they send me the movies. After I watch one and mail it back they send me another one. I am catching up on 10 - 20 movies a month this way.
The best aspects of time shifting in using netflix are that I can rent blockbusters and bombs at the same low cost. If I saw a trailer for a movie I thought would be good but never got around to, I can watch it while coding or eating dinner. I can also watch the bad movies in fast forward just to see what made it so bad. That saves alot of time (and money) compared to trying to catch every movie in the theater.
In 6 months with the service I have caught up on golden era classics, AFI top 100 flicks, explored anime titles oft mentioned on Slashdot, and seen all those big budget flops from recent years. And best of all, I saw them when I wanted to.
OK, I answered my own question (with a tiny bit of help from Google). Media Forte makes a couple of FM-tuner PCI cards and bundle software that records, too. The description says Linux-compatible (drivers?), though the bundled software looks Windows-only.
A post a day keeps productivity at bay.
IMHO people think they are better multitaskers than they are. Sure, I could listen to a pre-recorded talk show I enjoy while at work but either 1 of 2 things are going to happen. I'm going to be concentrating on the show and not get any work done or my brain is going to be pre-occupied with work and i'm not going to hear half of the show. Sure, if your work is mindless like mowing a lawn (opps, lawn care professional) then it might make sense....
I don't know what the fasination with fitting more in is. There's nothing wrong with sleeping in, playing an MMORPG, listening to a book or watching the simpsons. As long as you enjoy the free time you have then thats all that matters. A quote on a popular gaming board website says, "A moment enjoyed is not wasted." Thats all that needs to be said.
"Thanks to the remote control I have the attention span of a gerbil."
You can schedule a program to be recorded on a one-time, daily, or weekly basis (or more generically using iCal). And you can save programs in a Library. After they are recorded, the streams are converted to mp3 or aac in itunes and moved to a special playlist. All ready to upload to the ipod. I use it to have the latest broadcasts of several npr programs that I like on my ipod. Unfortunately, cartalk just went wma, which I don't yet support.
The source is included and is public domain. The latest version is here. There is also a beta that has a revised and simpler interface - but which has a couple of interface glitches.
Hope someone enjoys it.
i think the author's point was not that you save time by taking a woman shopping but that one time sacrifice like that (a trip to the mall) will make sure that when you dress in the dark in the morning, things will match.
I spend enough time multitasking at work. I would prefer to do less with my free time - not more...
Stop and smell the roses...sit in one place and daydream...meditate...lay in the sun streaming in through the screen door on a warm day and take a nap...watch an ant mound...observe the wind through the trees, and the fall of leaves.
I was far more creative and energetic when I spent more time doing those things than I am now, every waking moment crammed with some activity - either work or family oriented.
It is not the quantity, but the quality of the life you live that counts.
Lodragan Draoidh
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. - Mark Twain
I find that for spoken word (such as audiobooks), I can increase the playback rate to as much as 150% and can understand and enjoy the material for an extended amount of time. If I am really paying attention, I can play back at 200% for shorter lengths of time & if I'm feeling "distracted," I may have only a ver small increasae in the rate.
I don't know what hardware currently has this feature (I'm sure other /.ers will know & hope they post it, as I'm in the market for a player), but the winamp plugin pacemaker works quite well in winamp or Xaudio.
Pick out your clothes the night before.
Do your homework the night before it is due, instead of the morning it is due.
And use a VCR to record the radio, it is possible, just leave the radio tuned to the right station and on, and program the VCR to record the Line in if possible.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
I listen to timeshifted radio programs on the way to work (via my iPod). I have a cron job that launches a streaming audio player (when the appropriate shows are on), the audio out then leads back to the audio in, and the show is recorded and coded as an MP3 using lame. Works great. (More elegant solutions that wiring in & out exist, but they are fragile.)
It's free, and can do scheduled MP3 recording of whatever audio your machine happens to be spitting out.
http://www.dago.pmp.com.pl/messer/
From the description of Replay Radio, it sounds like it would make for a neat project to add stream buffering and TiVO-like pause/replay/ff to Winamp or XMMS.
Let's see... implement the goback button as a skip back one MP3 frame... buttons to jump to beginning and last frame of buffer...
Anybody up for writing this?
Given our obsession with cramming more life into our lives, sleep seems like an obvious source of extra hours. I'm waiting for this to be the abused drug of choice for geek entrepreneurs. What geek doesn't want more time for projects? Search for Provigil and you'll find numerous Google ads for sleazy online pharmacies that would like to help you get more into your day the modern chemical way.
My productivity enhancement is less chemical. Some caffeine in Mt Dew (is 9 a day too many?), and some electronics. I ignored the MP3 craze for years, then finally gave in recently and bought a 20 GB Rio Karma so I could record library books-on-CD and listen to them while I work on the more mindless stuff.
I've been reading too much /. lately and my productivity has been in the toilet.
>> My ultraviolent Linux switch video.
I've been doing that for two months now, together with stuff from audible.
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Why do you want to cram more stuff into an already busy schedule? They key to a happy life is to SIMPLIFY! When you're not at work, do less, not more. Also, a very busy life virtually eliminates the opportunity for self-reflection. Are you just a mouse in an exercise wheel, or are you truly making a difference in the world? Third, if you are always plugged in to some sort of listening device, your opportunities for interactions with real people go way down.
"He who thinks time is money understands neither time nor money"
How do you save time? How do you set aside 10 minutes a day to save for a summer holiday? Where do you deposit it? How can you make a redrawal?
"Saving time" means usually just how to make more things in same amount of time ie. to be more efficient. But do you have more time? I don't think so. With all the timesaving gadgets and tips people just feel busier than ever and that they don't have enough time. We westerners often consider time to be something that is useful only if it is spent some how productively. In some other culture time is something we create by doing nothing.
I recommend reading Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
"The turn of the millennium is characterized by exponential growth in everything related to communication - from the Internet and email to air travel. "The Tyranny of the Moment" deals with some of the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age. Who would have expected that apparently timesaving technology results in time being scarcer than ever? And has this seemingly limitless access to information led to confusion rather than enlightenment?
Thomas Eriksen argues that slow time - private periods where we are able to think and correspond coherently without interruption - is now one of the most precious resources we have, and it is becoming a major political issue. Since we are now theoretically "online" 24 hours a day, we must fight for the right to be unavailable - the right to live and think more slowly. It is not only that working hours have become longer - Eriksen also shows how the logic of this new information technology has, in the space of just a few years, permeated every area of our lives. This is equally true for those living in poorer parts of the globe usually depicted as outside the reaches of the information age, as well as those in the West.
Exploring phenomena such as the world wide web, WAP telephones, multi-channel television and email, "Tyranny of the Moment" examines this new, nonlinear and fragmented way of communicating to reveal the effect it has on working conditions in the new economy, changes in family life and, ultimately, personal identity. Eriksen argues that a culture lacking a sense of its past, and therefore of its future, is effectively static. Although solutions are suggested, he demonstrates that there is no easy way out. " - Book description from Amazon
When you are going to stop consuming, and start producing? Stop sucking at the teat of pop culture.
You could get a Palm or PocketPC and record webcasts from various University colloquim presentations and watch them on the go. You need some special software to capture the video, but it's damn cool when you get it to work. And the small PDA screen are perfect for the crappy video resolutions.
thaen
Now I'm wondering how I can timeshift even more.
By eliminating that wasteful period of time called "sleep" from your life?
Seriously, think more about valuing rest and quiet time to think as part of your life.
(Reminds me of my brother-in-law who can't fall asleep without the TV blaring.)
"Provided by the management for your protection."
I had hoped that 'new paradigming' was an art that had died with the other vaporings of the dot-com boom. But I see some still cling to it tenaciasly.
I'm looking for a player that can be installed in my car, integrated with the exiting stereo in place of the CD changer, that will have WiFi, so when it's in the Garage I can schedule internet radio, and other audio to be uploaded, and old content deleted.
Who's going to be the first person to sell me one of these?
I really need ideas for a FM -> mp3 recording scheme (hw/sw) for Linux. There is stuff out there, and I can always write cron jobs, etc. But, often, I need to record more than one show at a time.
(Example: Sunday nights KUT runs the World Music Show at the same time that KGSR runs the The Sunday Night News -- and I usually have time to listen to neither. Not to mention that KOOP is always running shows that conflict with other shows that I want to listen to, but have no time for).
So, what do I need to do to be able to record more than one FM radio station to mp3 at the same time? Any ideas?
In the course of every project, it will become necessary to shoot the scientists and begin production.
Well, the basic concept of time shifting is to put yourself in the control of when you want to do things. So, in that regard, it shouldn't be to difficult to move some of the more restrictive items to times when they're convenient for you. Work It's a pain in the ass, we all know it. Ask your supervisor for flex time, or work from home If that doesn't work, start your own business, so that you can set your own hours Commute This is basically related to work, so see above. Alternatively, you can move closer to work, or just start sleeping under your desk. School For you, assuming you're an adult, you can attend distance learning classes in place of the regular college curriculum, or you can look to see if there are schools in your area that focus in adult education. You could start working for a university, as they tend to be flexible in allowing staff members to attend classes, and they're nearby, saving you from the need for seperate travel time. [you'll have to coordinate with your potential manager to make sure it's okay] For your children, you can use home schooling, so you don't have to worry about when their tests and vacations are when you're planning family trips. Relationship Let's face it, dating, marriage, or whatever is another major waste of time. You have two major options -- make enough money so that your SO doesn't have to work, and can be at your every beck and call, or soliciting prostitutes. Shopping With Amazon and other online retailers, there's no reason to go out shopping anymore. If you're not in an area supported by Peapod or a similar organization, you're going to have to find some place online that sells MREs. Food Between Shwanns, MREs, and a microwave, meal perperation shouldn't take more than a few minutes. Consumption, however, is another waste of time, and so I would suggest only buying mushy foods, to save on chewing. You may wish to switch to a diet high on Ensure, Carnation Instant Breakfast, and/or Slimfast [is there anyone still reading this?] Bathroom Breaks MREs prove salt peter which may allow you to time shift your bathroom breaks. You can also try Depends, or other incontience aids. [not quite to the punchline yet] Sleeping Doctors may recommend 10 hrs per night, but let's be serious -- 3L of Mt. Dew per day, and you can easily cut that back to 4hrs, so long as you perform relatively sedentary tasks for those 6 hrs that you lose, such as watching TV or playing video games. [are you still reading?] Friends Provided that you started your own company, you can then hire your friends to work with you, so you can get all of that companionship crap done while you're still at work, eliminating the need to waste time with extraneous interaction. [It's not that good of a joke] If you're an extrovert, and still have a need for other interaction, you're their boss, and can pressure them to do whatever you want, and/or hire extra yes-men to replace them. [it's rather dark humor, too] Life Unfortunately, I don't have a solution for this one, other than hoping that there really is reincarnation, and when you want a break, killing yourself, so that you can just come back to it later, when you have more time. However, if that one doesn't work, you're pretty much SOL, but the bright side, is you won't really notice that it didn't work, as you'll be dead. [hey, I told you it was dark, damnit] Now for the real advice -- get a life. Take up a hobby. Quit your job. Do something, but don't try to burn out early. I've already done that -- twice. There are things you can do to remove wasted time, but there are times when we really just need to relax, and do nothing important. [and that's what we have American sitcoms for -- no thought required, and no redeeming qualities]
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
How about instead of trying to do a bajillion things and worry so much about your time, you just simmer down and enjoy living in the now. Everybody is so uptight anymore. It's always gotta be GO GO GO. Nobody ever seems to want to take the time to just do NOTHING. I guess it's just embedded in our culture to try and be super-efficent and get as much done as possible. But maybe we need to change that and just learn how to relax a bit, and if we miss a radio or TV show, who cares. You're going to burn yourself out if you keep trying to do EVERYTHING, and then you will be hating life. Try time-shifting some time where you aren't doing anything.
For Mac OSX, I am the author of iRecordMusic (aka RAW). If you want to cram even MORE into your life, you can record multiple streams of content, be it Real, Win, MP3, QT, etc. at the same time! Check it out here: RAW LINK. The software works like a web browser - a web page with audio content can be recorded with a simple click.
I have a Nomad Zen, and it will speed up or slow down MP3 and WMA files. The speeds are 0.5, 0.75, 1.00, 1.25, 1.50 times the original speed.
How does dressing in the dark save time, except for the maybe 2 seconds it takes you to find and flip the light switch? And really, do you waste a LOT of time matching your clothes in the morning? While I like the idea of having all of my shirts match all of my pants, I don't see how it is much of a time saver.
"... simply press the 'off' button and go outside."
Am I the only one who thinks modding up of comments like this is ignorant? "Don't do what you enjoy doing, instead, go outside because it's automatically better than using a computer for reasons I won't go into."
"Derp de derp."
You're quite right -- I was hasty about hitting the Submit button.
Future Shock is about accelerating rate of change -- technological change, social change -- and how people experience the effects of rapid change.
The insightful part is a fair number of Toffler's prognostications circa 1970 have since come true
In Toffler's own words, from an interview (Nov. 99):
-kgj
-kgj
Multiple-stream recording is fantastic. My directivo already records twice as much as I could watch with its two tuners.
Now, if only audio and video *players* could play back multiple streams!! I could listen to two things at once WHILE timestretching and trimming commercials and intro/credit crap, thus bringing my watching capability to something like 300 or 400% of normal human "realtime" limitations.
Of course, it would suck... but at least I'd be able to keep up with my Tivo, right?
Oh, and it's already available.
Next you will be asking what to do about all of the information overload that you got yourself into...
It looks it is only being developed for the Macintosh but it still looks nice. Griffin RadioSHARK
-- For love of family, code, and carpentry
I've been thinking about this lately quite a bit, as I enjoy the benefits of a household equipped with TiVo. What I'd like is not just the magic of TiVo and similar systems in *scheduling* programs I want to see, and skipping commercials; I'd also like to watch them faster.
:)
A typical "hour" of telvision these days is probably about 40 minutes; if I could squeeze those 40 minutes to 90% of their current running time, I could watch an episode of Law and Order but leave slightly more time for non-television pursuits
Cassette recorders with speed and pitch control have been out for a long time, and VCRs obviously have a (constrained) range of playback speeds, but has anyone created a speed-up function for encoded video, complete with pitch correction?
timothy
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Also, when I was more into audio books I often found that I had to pause them so I could just sit and think about what I had just learned. Biological brains are not like PC's, if you don't allow time for the chemistry to work, if you just continue to throw in more raw data without interspersing some time to reflect, cogitate, and relate new material to old, then recall goes all to hell.
(C) Kaki Sain, 2011. By reading this, you have illegally copied my property to your brain.
If you want to try the life on for size, take some modafinil. Miltary is looking into it for soldiers. It probably needs further testing though.
Let us know how it goes. Personally, I like my naps.
"Hi - I post and slashdot and tell people to feel the grass under their feet"
I put these people in the same category as people who say they "only watch CNN and EPSN" on their TV. BS - since when did denial of enjoyment become some sort of self-help plan?
Face it - the sense of joy I feel when I discover a Real World marathon on a Saturday afternoon is far great than I would get standing in the grass. Sorry - its true for me and for most of us - its just that you refuse to admit it.
.. I stopped making trips to the restroom. Instead, I just go in my pants. I use the new found time to read slashdot.
Or you could get a radio or TV/radio card for your PC, and get Sagebrush's VCRadio software.
ReplayRadio only records online streams, and apparently only those ones that they care to list (???)
Terrorists can attack freedom, but only Congress can destroy it.
I'd love to record my lectures, but I don't have $400 for an iRiver
Neither do I, that's why I've been waiting for this little analog/digital recording gem to turn up in my Gold Box.
Regular price is $130 (after rebate). You can get a $30 coupon from Amazon for signing up for a credit card. Apparently the Gold Box Archos Offer takes another $20 off the price.
So the total cost for a 20GB analog/digital mp3 recorder/player would be around $70. It's electrical digital, not optical like the iRiver.
Now I just have to figure out why all I get in my Gold Box are lame kitchen appliances.
Da Blog
I grab copies of my favorite radio shows, or just grab a few hours of music off any one station. Streamripper's ability to separate title tracks falls apart slightly at the beginning of the song, but it'll numerically order them.
Thus, any show, just about any format, can be sucked off a stream and stored for your listening convenience. And I'll stuff them onto a flash or hard disk player and haul them home. I'd guess someone else can figure out how to timeshift an mp3, I'm sure it's in here somewhere.
... grumble, grumble, grumble, mutter, mutter, Millenium... Hand... Shrimp, I tol' 'em, I tol' 'em.
Cheers,
Tom
Easy, automatic testing for Perl.
I view all these things as bonuses. So, if I can add things to a business trip (like visiting a gallery nearby), I will. But I don't get worried if I don't, or just forget.
Other than that...
1. Go against the flow. I prefer to, and can get to work in about 2/3rds of the time if I don't go with everyone else. Also, stress is lower, accident rates are probably lower and fuel consumption goes up. Sometimes I food shop at 10pm. I can get to the store, shop and be home quickly. No problem parking, no queues.
2. Minimise journeys. A lot of people will take many trips to pick things up when they really don't need them right now, and could wait. If you want something from the east side of town but don't need it for a week, save it and get it when you are over there, or save it for then. Time and petrol saved.
3. Shop online. Save all that hassle of travelling to shops. Of course, sometimes it is pleasant to have a trip.
4. Deal with reliable suppliers and stick with them. I spend little of my life arguing with suppliers (whether repairmen or computer shops). If they mess me around, I don't deal with them again. If they're good, they get plenty of repeat trade. The extra 5% spend on someone I know is reliable (although sometimes they can be cheaper) can be worth it in the time it frees me to do other things.
I don't want an out of control-super fast paced
life whose end result is a heart attack, or a
stroke.
Since listening is the same as reading, just read the book out loud to yourself and listen as you go. By the time you get to the end of the book, you'll have read it twice.
quality time???
You mean like a... VCR? It's been 20 years since I first hooked my shortwave radio up to the audio input on my VCR so that I could record BBC World Service programs overnight. Alas, I fear I am not as serious as you; the need to listen to dramatisations of P.G. Wodehouse stories was the mother of invention for me.
Jeff
You do all these things so you can spend several hours a day reading slashdot.
:)
I mean, think of how much time you spend reading this thing.
Easily thousands of hours saved in a year.
There is a Universal Life Value Check it
Anyone seen this for mac? Can you dial into any ram stream?
Woods: Hey, you're Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, aren't you? I mean, you're
the -- you're like _the_ guy, you're a legend around here. Can I
ask you, is it true you once worked 96 hours straight?
Apu: Oh yes, it was horrible I tell you. By the end I thought I was a
hummingbird of some kind.
Woods: Oh yeah, you know, I studied your old security tapes.
[On tape, Apu imitates a hummingbird, flying back and forth
across the screen and emitting a high-pitched humming noise]
Apu: In a few minutes, I tried to drink nectar out of Sanjay's head.
Environmentalism is the new Victorianism. Everyone ties on a green corset and pretends we're virtuous.
Parents.
;)
Simple conditioning. Let's say you play games instead of studying. They scold you. You learn to hide the fact that you are playing. Next time they catch you, you feel guilty, because you cheated and because by now you already feel that playing games is wrong. The same reasoning can be applied to any situation, like, say, browsing porn at work.
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
Yes.
No.
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.