People call throughout the week, and it's a radio show that is only a segment of the longer show, and only on Saturday [replayed Sunday on CBC 2 I think].
There's also The Hum Line. You phone a weekend radio show on CBC [Basic Black] and hum or sing a few lines of the song, and the pannel of 3 people has a week to come up with the name of the song, and some details about it, and they review the answers the next weekend.
"This comes at a price, though. 99 cents for your first 5 songs, and then 99 cents a song after that. However, Wouldn't this technology be great for fixing up all those ID3 tags?""
Ahh, yeah? Brilliant if you own stock in AT&T maybe...
No really, I do believe it, I wasn't being sarcastic.
"it's true -- many of you don't go a day without dishing out several doses of sarcasm. But some brain-damaged people can't comprehend sarcasm, and Israeli researchers think it's because a specific brain region has gone dark."
I also found that my friend from Iran had difficulty detecting sarcasm, but he's not brain damaged, it just comes from having Persian as a first language.
And then property values in certain neighbourhoods fall through the floor for almost no reason, leaving many people out thousands of dollars, AND living next to sexual offenders.
Mirror host? Why not a torrent, I made one in 2 minutes using BitComet and Mininova.org
http://mininova.org/tor/45884 For curiosity sake, over 4280 people have downloaded the torrent file of the video clip, and there was another torrent link below the one I posted, so who knows how many more GB were diverted to BitTorrent.
Isn't that the beauty of that joke though, it zings both groups?
I'm a vigin Star Wars fan, but I wasn't a [line-stander] and I laughed my butt off over it. One thing that sets the line-losers apart from those who would laugh at their fanaticism, is the ability to see the ridiculous for what it is: funny.
I use the free Quicktime Alternative that comes with Media Player Classic. It played the video clip fine, but it doesn't play QT 6.5 plugin videos on websites which I find is the only drawback.
Quirks and Quarks has been on the air as long as I can remember, first with another host that does CBC work still, but Bob McDonald has done the radio show for about the last decade. Before that you could find him hosting Wonderstruck, a science program for kids shown on CBC Saturday morning TV, and was definitely on par with Bill Nuye the Science Guy shows. Bob also does science segments on The National, Canada's nightly nationally broadcast news on CBC's primary station available to nearly anyone with a TV set.
Q&Q has been available online in Real Audio format since about 1997, and you can find a great deal of very interesting and informative stuff in the CBC archives. If you've not been listening to Q&Q for the last 15 years, you've got a lot of 1 hour, comercial free shows to catch up on.
Essentially, the client is now also a simple tracker. You still need a torrent file, you just don't have to set up a tracker now, just open your client, like you'd normally do for Kazaa or other file sharing programs.
Here is the bittorrent.com explanation:
*** BitTorrent Goes Trackerless: Publishing with BitTorrent gets easier!
As part of our ongoing efforts to make publishing files on the Web painless and disruptively cheap, BitTorrent has released a 'trackerless' version of BitTorrent in a new release.
Suppose you bought a television station, you could broadcast your progamming to everyone in a 50 mile radius. Now suppose the population of your town tripled. How much more does it cost you to broadcast to 3 times as many people? Nothing. The same is not true of the Web. If you own a website and you publish your latest video on it, as popularity increases, so does your bandwidth bill! Sometimes by a lot! However, thanks to BitTorrent the website owner gets almost near-broadcast economics on the web by harnessing the unused upstream bandwidth of his/her users.
In prior versions of BitTorrent, publishing was a 3 step process. You would:
1. Create a ".torrent" file -- a summary of your file which you can put on your blog or website
2. Create a "tracker" for that file on your webserver so that your downloaders can find each other
3. Create a "seed" copy of your download so that your first downloader has a place to download from
Many of you have blogs and websites, but dont have the resources to set up a tracker. In the new version, we've created an optional 'trackerless' method of publication. Anyone with a website and an Internet connection can host a BitTorrent download!
While it is called trackerless, in practice it makes every client a lightweight tracker. A clever protocol, based on a Kademlia distributed hash table or "DHT", allows clients to efficiently store and retrieve contact information for peers in a torrent.
When generating a torrent, you can choose to utilize the trackerless system or a traditional dedicated tracker. A dedicated tracker allows you to collect statistics about downloads and gives you a measure of control over the reliability of downloads. The trackerless system makes no guarantees to reliability but requires no resources of the publisher. The trackerless system is not consulted when downloading a traditionally tracked torrent.
Although still in Beta release, the trackerless version of BitTorrent, and the latest production version are available at http://www.bittorrent.com/
Maybe petition Sony to make it compatible with the XBox? I'm sure they'd consider it, if they COULD. They probably don't have the millions [or billions] that Microsoft would want them to pay to include that ability.
"A later manned mission will be both safer, cheaper, and better focused scientifically on things humans can uniquely do."
Precisely. What would have happened to the people, if their Mars rover they were in, became trapped in sand 3km away from their base? would they be able to walk back? Is there quick-sand on Mars? Would retractable skis on the rover get them out of this mess?
DOS was learned by me because it ran games. And it gave me more speed than booting into Windows did, for most things, and thus the DOS file system and commands are burned into my brain, before UNIX ones were.
Linux has to take this fact - people learn something one way, and don't like to learn how to do it a different way unless they are forced to or are very curious. Linux has to force people to move, by providing killer aps, that every kid wants. They need GAMES, and INSTANT MESSENGERS that blow the pants off of anything on a Windows box, and then we'll see mainstream Linux on the Desktops in 10 years when these kids are buying their own computers for University.
Obviously someone should send in a DVD with an EULA popup with fine print, saying that if they click it, they agree to give 10,000 shares of Microsoft to the author of the DVD. Then have the DVD phone home to confirm it's been clicked.
The smart way to look around a corner is of course to increase the mass of the corner to a point where it bends the light directly into your eye or camera.
I'll be REALLY impressed when MICROSOFT has their employees switch to using Firefox.
Yes I am kidding, but really I'm sure some if not a good chunks of they have it installed. I mean, most tech savvy people do, and even though most/.ers might not agree with Microsoft, you have to admit they are computer geeks too, even if they do work on "The Dark Side".
** "It would take intelligence to create and design a Universe, using just 3 elements... protons, neutrons, and electrons. That starts with a big bang originating from a singularity. "
First off, electrons protons, and neutrons are NOT elements, they are sub atomic particles. An element is made up of at a minimum a proton and electron.
Second you're tossing around mighty big words like 'singularity', which you obviously have no grasp of the meaning, or the ability to use it in your feable argument.
Third you said, "Well, when you find the first scientist that can create a Universe like the one we live in, let me know." Just before, you said, "That can spawn life and provide an evolutionary system for that life." Anyone can see this is comical ID flailing on your behalf, since you give God 8 Billion+ years to make our world, but a scientist, a mortal, has to provide you with empirical evidence of God-like abilities, before you'd give them any credit for discovering scientific facts upon which your life hinges upon every day.
Please, stop trying to bully scientists, high school is long over. It's time to admit that you don't know what you're talking about, and learn from the smart people, instead of telling them they're wrong about everything.
Slashdot Mirror
People call throughout the week, and it's a radio show that is only a segment of the longer show, and only on Saturday [replayed Sunday on CBC 2 I think].
There's also The Hum Line. You phone a weekend radio show on CBC [Basic Black] and hum or sing a few lines of the song, and the pannel of 3 people has a week to come up with the name of the song, and some details about it, and they review the answers the next weekend.
"This comes at a price, though. 99 cents for your first 5 songs, and then 99 cents a song after that. However, Wouldn't this technology be great for fixing up all those ID3 tags?""
Ahh, yeah? Brilliant if you own stock in AT&T maybe...
No really, I do believe it, I wasn't being sarcastic.
"it's true -- many of you don't go a day without dishing out several doses of sarcasm. But some brain-damaged people can't comprehend sarcasm, and Israeli researchers think it's because a specific brain region has gone dark."
I also found that my friend from Iran had difficulty detecting sarcasm, but he's not brain damaged, it just comes from having Persian as a first language.
And then property values in certain neighbourhoods fall through the floor for almost no reason, leaving many people out thousands of dollars, AND living next to sexual offenders.
Mirror host? Why not a torrent, I made one in 2 minutes using BitComet and Mininova.org
http://mininova.org/tor/45884
For curiosity sake, over 4280 people have downloaded the torrent file of the video clip, and there was another torrent link below the one I posted, so who knows how many more GB were diverted to BitTorrent.
I guess my Freudian brain just couldn't let me reveal my sexual history to slashdot.
Isn't that the beauty of that joke though, it zings both groups?
I'm a vigin Star Wars fan, but I wasn't a [line-stander] and I laughed my butt off over it. One thing that sets the line-losers apart from those who would laugh at their fanaticism, is the ability to see the ridiculous for what it is: funny.
I use the free Quicktime Alternative that comes with Media Player Classic. It played the video clip fine, but it doesn't play QT 6.5 plugin videos on websites which I find is the only drawback.
Just made ito v.torrent
http://mininova.org/get/45884/Ep3-TheLinePeople.m
Enjoy, although it's not very good in my opinion.
"P.S.S. to all Slashdot visitors: The Hamster has kindly provided ANOTHER DOWNLOAD LINK. Please don't kill my server... But thanks for the visit!"
HAHAHAHAH, begging for mercy is not a thing a respectable Jedi Knight would do.
Slashdotters charge up their Death Star of DoS Doom...
Quirks and Quarks has been on the air as long as I can remember, first with another host that does CBC work still, but Bob McDonald has done the radio show for about the last decade. Before that you could find him hosting Wonderstruck, a science program for kids shown on CBC Saturday morning TV, and was definitely on par with Bill Nuye the Science Guy shows. Bob also does science segments on The National, Canada's nightly nationally broadcast news on CBC's primary station available to nearly anyone with a TV set.
Q&Q has been available online in Real Audio format since about 1997, and you can find a great deal of very interesting and informative stuff in the CBC archives. If you've not been listening to Q&Q for the last 15 years, you've got a lot of 1 hour, comercial free shows to catch up on.
PETA's next project?
Somehow I don't think the Insect Rights movement is as strong in the world as it is for Cute Fuzzy Animal Babies.
There's a 50% chance Google will dissapear in 5 years - It either will, or it won't. /Corner Gas joke
Try googling: When will Google dissapear?
Essentially, the client is now also a simple tracker. You still need a torrent file, you just don't have to set up a tracker now, just open your client, like you'd normally do for Kazaa or other file sharing programs.
Here is the bittorrent.com explanation:
***
BitTorrent Goes Trackerless: Publishing with BitTorrent gets easier!
As part of our ongoing efforts to make publishing files on the Web painless and disruptively cheap, BitTorrent has released a 'trackerless' version of BitTorrent in a new release.
Suppose you bought a television station, you could broadcast your progamming to everyone in a 50 mile radius. Now suppose the population of your town tripled. How much more does it cost you to broadcast to 3 times as many people? Nothing. The same is not true of the Web. If you own a website and you publish your latest video on it, as popularity increases, so does your bandwidth bill! Sometimes by a lot! However, thanks to BitTorrent the website owner gets almost near-broadcast economics on the web by harnessing the unused upstream bandwidth of his/her users.
In prior versions of BitTorrent, publishing was a 3 step process. You would:
1. Create a ".torrent" file -- a summary of your file which you can put on your blog or website
2. Create a "tracker" for that file on your webserver so that your downloaders can find each other
3. Create a "seed" copy of your download so that your first downloader has a place to download from
Many of you have blogs and websites, but dont have the resources to set up a tracker. In the new version, we've created an optional 'trackerless' method of publication. Anyone with a website and an Internet connection can host a BitTorrent download!
While it is called trackerless, in practice it makes every client a lightweight tracker. A clever protocol, based on a Kademlia distributed hash table or "DHT", allows clients to efficiently store and retrieve contact information for peers in a torrent.
When generating a torrent, you can choose to utilize the trackerless system or a traditional dedicated tracker. A dedicated tracker allows you to collect statistics about downloads and gives you a measure of control over the reliability of downloads. The trackerless system makes no guarantees to reliability but requires no resources of the publisher. The trackerless system is not consulted when downloading a traditionally tracked torrent.
Although still in Beta release, the trackerless version of BitTorrent, and the latest production version are available at http://www.bittorrent.com/
Maybe petition Sony to make it compatible with the XBox? I'm sure they'd consider it, if they COULD. They probably don't have the millions [or billions] that Microsoft would want them to pay to include that ability.
"A later manned mission will be both safer, cheaper, and better focused scientifically on things humans can uniquely do."
Precisely. What would have happened to the people, if their Mars rover they were in, became trapped in sand 3km away from their base? would they be able to walk back? Is there quick-sand on Mars? Would retractable skis on the rover get them out of this mess?
DOS was learned by me because it ran games. And it gave me more speed than booting into Windows did, for most things, and thus the DOS file system and commands are burned into my brain, before UNIX ones were.
Linux has to take this fact - people learn something one way, and don't like to learn how to do it a different way unless they are forced to or are very curious. Linux has to force people to move, by providing killer aps, that every kid wants. They need GAMES, and INSTANT MESSENGERS that blow the pants off of anything on a Windows box, and then we'll see mainstream Linux on the Desktops in 10 years when these kids are buying their own computers for University.
Obviously someone should send in a DVD with an EULA popup with fine print, saying that if they click it, they agree to give 10,000 shares of Microsoft to the author of the DVD. Then have the DVD phone home to confirm it's been clicked.
;-)
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Profit
" It's not like they'll get to keep the money and use it for something else. Why bother."
They are tax payers too, and less money in the school budget in many places in the world means lower municipal or provincial taxes.
The smart way to look around a corner is of course to increase the mass of the corner to a point where it bends the light directly into your eye or camera.
I'll be REALLY impressed when MICROSOFT has their employees switch to using Firefox.
/.ers might not agree with Microsoft, you have to admit they are computer geeks too, even if they do work on "The Dark Side".
Yes I am kidding, but really I'm sure some if not a good chunks of they have it installed. I mean, most tech savvy people do, and even though most
It's good to be both. If all of the site is on one domain, all eggs are in one basket. The site is either all up, or all down.
"The idea was that while the software application was running, it drove a continuous 1khz tone out the audio port that kept a relay energized"
I get it, it's like the Everything's OK Alarm, that Homer invented. It sounds every 3 seconds, as long as everything is OK.
Here's my flame of an ID'er, tonight.
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"It would take intelligence to create and design a Universe, using just 3 elements... protons, neutrons, and electrons. That starts with a big bang originating from a singularity. "
First off, electrons protons, and neutrons are NOT elements, they are sub atomic particles. An element is made up of at a minimum a proton and electron.
Second you're tossing around mighty big words like 'singularity', which you obviously have no grasp of the meaning, or the ability to use it in your feable argument.
Third you said, "Well, when you find the first scientist that can create a Universe like the one we live in, let me know." Just before, you said, "That can spawn life and provide an evolutionary system for that life." Anyone can see this is comical ID flailing on your behalf, since you give God 8 Billion+ years to make our world, but a scientist, a mortal, has to provide you with empirical evidence of God-like abilities, before you'd give them any credit for discovering scientific facts upon which your life hinges upon every day.
Please, stop trying to bully scientists, high school is long over. It's time to admit that you don't know what you're talking about, and learn from the smart people, instead of telling them they're wrong about everything.
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