Live from a Sunspot

In this week's episode, we talk about tanning, the Microsoft trial, and many things we probably shouldn't. Many thanks to TheSync for hosting this for us. Also, if everything goes well, we should be broadcasting next week from COMDEX, which should be interesting, to say the least.

Comments

So which is it?

[BaronCarlos]

Is CowboyNeal Tom Servo?
Or is he a Muppet?

Or is he both?

In reguards to alter egos, I think BaronCarlos has enough of them to keep his dysfunctional mind occupied for the rest of the millenium.

Great Show guys, keep it up.

Perhaps in next week's show you could use the background noise in MST3K format and really go.

Hemos: Joel
CmdrTaco: Crow
CowboyNeal: Tom Servo

T'would be great laughs.


*Carlos: Exit Stage Right*

"Geeks, Where would you be without them?"

How do you lose an episode?

[David Gould]

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Re: lost episodes

First, don't take this the wrong way, but I have to wonder, how do you manage to lose episodes? I can see screwing up on any of the various post-processing stages, especially with all the "new-fangled equipment", but I would think that you wouldn't delete the copy from each earlier stage, at least until you've verified the next one. Is the problem that they haven't been getting recorded in the first place? How hard is it to press "Record" at the beginning, whatever "new-fangled equipment" you're using?

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I also started saving spam a while back, and I have two copies of the above. I also have about half a dozen of the "Bullseye Gold Marketing" one on my home machine, which I would have posted but I don't have it here on my 'Book.

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Re: Wolfenstein

A few months ago, a friend and I were bored enough to pull up the old version of Wolfenstein 3D on my G3. Even with the speed governor on, it was just too fast. It was playable, but it felt weird -- it was almost too smooth! As he pointed out, though, the old games are a lot of fun, and not just for nostalgia: Since they didn't have all the extraneous detail of the newer games, it is like "main-lining" pure action. With the speed governor off, of course, it was just insane. Like you said, 150 frames per second. The problem is, I guess it treats each frame as a constant interval of game time, instead of rendering more intermediate states. As a result, the brown guys' pistol sounded like a chaingun, and it was impossible to maneuver, since tapping the turn key made you do at least a full circle and tapping forward bumped you into a wall instantly.

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Re: distributed computing projects

I, too, am sticking with my RC5-64 until it is finished. After that, I was considering SETI@Home, and maybe I'll do it if the problem you mentioned (more processors than data available) changes, but more likely I'll switch to the OGR (Optimal Golomb Ruler) project, since that one is actually doing something useful -- I don't know all the math, but Golomb Rulers have lots of practical applications, and finding optimal ones is incredibly compute-intensive, so this project could actually contribute useful results to various scientific fields.

As for putting your laptop in "suspend", I leave mine on around the clock. But then, maybe yours has one of those overheating Intel chips. I try to put my 'Book on something that'll dissipate heat reasonably well, but as long as I do that, it's cool.

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Re: muppets

I already voted for CowboyNeal the day the poll went up. You wouldn't want me to cheat and vote again (though I'm on a dynamic IP, so I could), would you? Basically, this was one of the few times that I've just had to go with the fake answer, because I just couldn't make myself care enough about the actual question.

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Re: music

What is that?! Please, just stick with the GiS:SR theme from the first fifteen seconds.


David Gould