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ASCII World Cup
Richard writes to tell us that the web is bringing you the next step up from watching those world cup matches in high-def. As the self-proclaimed "best, most ridiculous, most redundant graphical implementation of ASCII", ascii-wm.net brings you the 2006 World Cup live via your telnet window.
I tried it. It says, "eam starts 10min before game."
So when's the next game?
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And I get espn360 through whatever deal is worked out between my ISP and fifa. Damn, I was really looking forward to how "ridiculous" it really is
"Something's wrong with you...and I hope we never do meet again." - Deftones When Girls Telephone Boys
This is about 100x better than ASCII Goatse, which is much more common :(
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So much for reporting on ASCII art. *sigh* Where do I find that bunny sig virus?
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
... something for me to enjoy :-)
There are two types of people in the world: those who divide people into two types and those who don't.
You know it strikes me that probably 90% of the Internet audience these days would have no clue what ASCII is, much less how to telnet into the server.
On one hand, that's slightly sad - I remember being able to type faster on a C-64 than the modem could transmit - on the other it's amazing how far technology has come in only a decade.
My other thought is to ask the likelihood that FIFA will shut them down as an infringing activity.
Three Squirrels
When is the next game to watch via telnet? This sounds cool. I would like to see examples too.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I guess I'll just keep playing Text Mode First Person Shooters while I wait
Even people that believe in pre-destiny look both ways before crossing the street.
As somebody already said, there are no games played right now, but even if there were, nobody would be able to enjoy it because "Too many connections" was the error I got during all but the first few matches.
telnet.exe is no longer included with Windows starting with Vista.
Luckily we still have putty.exe. :)
Isn't it easy enough to whip this up easily with aa and a TV decoder in *nix? Now that it's been /.'d. good luck watching now.. so do it yourself ;-)
Death by snoo-snoo!
I once coded a DICOM Part 10 image (CT data, MRI data, etc.) viewer in ASCII. It did panning, zooming, measurements, regions of interest, cine'ing a stack of images - you name it. All of the image rendering went through an ASCII filter before being thrown onto the screen. And the images were surprisingly detailed even for a fairly large font size.
In other words, it was possible to do actual medical diagnosis with ASCII-rendered images. Terrifying, huh? Well don't worry, it never made its way into a Radiologist's hands.
Education is the silver bullet.
Where I first heard about the ASCII WM someone asked if it worked offline aswell...
How may I circumvent^wavoid^wwork around the web proxy at work? Is there a, I dunno, telnet web portal somewhere? Obviously I'm asking Google the wrong thing. BTW, AussieAussieAussie! OiOiOi!
I tried it yesterday. When I first connected I had an ASCII plan view of a football pitch, so I was expecting an "O" to appear for the ball and move about during the game.
:-)
It wasn't that at all. It was the live picture converted to ASCII. It was impossible to see what was going on when it had a wide shot of the field (i.e. most of the time), but when it cut to a close up, you could quite easily make out the people moving around. You could also see the on-screen captions appear.
Totally useless, but brilliant in a geeky way
BTW, games start at 14:00, 17:00 and 20:00 BST (I'll let you convert that to your own time).
you're just one sick bastard... ...do you still have the source code ?
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
I think I'll watch this tonight on my high-def TV!
No, I will not work for your startup
I have a mythtv server, to make it work at home you need to:
/dev/video0 device
Stop the mythbackend processes from using the dvb capture cards.
Make sure that ~/.mplayer/channels.conf exists from a previous dvbscan.
In your xterm, - the mouse and choose a small font, then drag the window back to a suitable size
Run the following command: DISPLAY="" mplayer -vo aa -framedrop -menu "dvb://five"
As this was a quick hack I stopped there, but for added bonuses here are some projects:
Run esoundd locally and pipe the sound over the network to your workstation.
Tie the command to inetd, to display tv across the network without having to log in.
Work out some way of sharing the
Compile mplayer with the coco libraries, so you can get colour ascii.
Put a telnet client on your ipaq/phone, and watch TV whilst on the move through GPRS.
-- Don't believe everything you read, hear or think
It's a great way to watch while at work. I especially like the subtitles. They obviously use a quick and dirty translation of a german newsticker. Most of the time the gibberish only makes sense if you re-translate it back to german. :-)