New Hitchhiker's Episodes Available Online

Michael Sheldon writes "The BBC is now offering the first of the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio episodes as either Real or WMP audio streams. Meaning listeners abroad can now hear the new series, which started playing on UK radio last Tuesday."

Comments

Re:RA and WMA?

[SpooForBrains]

They were working on broadcasting it on the Sub Ether Waveband but they didn't have the necessary rights.

Re:There's isn't a 42 joke in here, I swear!

[LordK2002]

I wish listening to American proprietary radio stations was always this easy.

Really? I would prefer it if listening to American proprietary radio stations were made as difficult as possible.

Re:HHGTTG Text Adventure

[Ford Prefect]

Dear moderators,

The above post actually comes just after my post on the subject, not before. 'Stephendl' obviously copied mine, only for it to be swept back through an eddy in the space-time continuum. Please moderate accordingly.

(Apologies!)

Eddies in the space-time continuum...

[Serious Simon]

Who's Eddy?

Re:Eddies in the space-time continuum...

[AndroidCat]

Hi there! I'm Eddy, your shipboard computer!

I'm sorry I am tooo depressed.....

[adsl]

...to listen to a radio programme. I think I will go and dismantle myself. Love Marvin:(

Re:RA and WMA?

[Ford Prefect]

Sure, just check your copy of the Guide.

Okay then...

BEEPcrkcrkcrk-BEEPcrkcrkcrk-KRCKaKRCK-BORP!

What to do if you find yourself with a computer that's unable to play Realaudio, and you're at your wits' end with no hope of HHGTTG:

Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far.

Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which, given your current circumstances is more likely:

Consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

Grr. Pile of rubbish.

Re:net transport

[slackerboy]

From their website:
"Net Transport is the faster, terrible (very many users call from feedback) and most powerful downloading tool that you ever saw"

I'm still trying to figure out if that's a glowing recommendation or not....

Re:RA and WMA?

[dasmegabyte]

Yeah, moderation is very simple. Somebody agrees with you, +1, Insightful even if it's the same, tired, flawed opinion that's been posted for years. Somebody disagrees with you, -1 Troll even if it's new, perceptive and well argued.

For example, you got a +5 for pointing out the same, tired argument that some people whine about OGG and get moderated for it. I will get modded -1 Troll, because of my vitriolic .sig.

You know what? Fuck Slashdot. I'm going to start reading Fark, which is just as retarded but shows me boobies.

Re:RA and WMA?

[Colonel Cholling]

not very much a fan of fantasy

And I, and probably most slashdot readers, am not very much a fan of people who can't distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. (Failure to distinguish between science fiction and real life is, sometimes, forgivable.) I thus offer the following quick guide:

If a story is set in some vague time period that can't figure out whether it's ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, or the Renaissance, and features wizards and lots of square-chinned guys with poor hygeine and names like Glorn Thundertrousers, it's probably fantasy.

If a story features spaceships, robots, time travel, lots of made-up technobabble, a high-school knowledge of physics, and lots of people in Spandex jumpsuits who are either green or have multiple heads, and have names that look like the result of a random banging on a keyboard, it's probably sci-fi.

If a story just has columns of abbreviations and numbers and words like "liquidity" and "divestiture," you're reading the financial reports by mistake.