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  1. Art Bell 1996 Podcasts on Patent Issued For Podcasting · · Score: 1

    http://web.archive.org/web/19961219235234/www.artbell.com/art/audio.html
    Found some stuff from 1996. Art Bell from AM radio fame use to put his shows and parts of his shows up on the internet where you could download or stream them.

    I think at some point you had to pay for some of the "podcasts". Though I never did.

    But if this wasn't podcasting I don't know what is.

  2. Art Bell on Patent Issued For Podcasting · · Score: 1

    Hate to admit to it, but Art Bell use to do this with his radio show back in the 90s. I remember getting RA streams running on my Amiga 1200. It was so awesome.

  3. AmigaOS users UNITE!!! on Google Releases Source To Chromium OS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hard disks are banned

    But not floppies!!
    I new sticking with the Amiga all these years would pay off!! I finally have a use for all these "Floppy" disks!!

  4. IP log at http://www.barbrastreisand.com/?? on Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, not those kind of Pirates.

  5. IE9 Frame on Microsoft Aims To Close Performance Gap With Internet Explorer 9 · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. I'm gonna guess MS will, as usual, rip off someone elses ideas.

    That's right, IE9 Frame, you can replace your Chrome, Firefox, Opera engine with IE9 Frame!!
    If you don't install it you are choosing not to be compatible!

  6. Re:BestBuy sells GoldPlated Fiber Optics on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1
    Yeah, I'm pretty sure that is Gold plated plastic ;-)

    This one I haven't seen before, a "Negative Ion Generator":
    http://www.acoustic-revive.com/english/rio5/rio5_01.html

    Place the RIO-5 II in your listing room. Once you switch it on, the natural negative ion is releases by the halogen lamps ray and heat. This ion will purifies the air in the room. The result is, sound waves travels the room well and sound improve remarkably!

    AmigaHeretic bows at the feet of Mr. Haynie!

  7. BestBuy sells GoldPlated Fiber Optics on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 5, Funny
    I always love when a audiophile thread comes up.

    Check out this link to BestBuy. This is a fiber optic cable, meaning it transfers LIGHT not electrical signal.

    Now read the descritpion:

    24K gold-plated connectors help protect the cable's optical lens to ensure consistent signal transfer

    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Rocketfish%26%23153%3B+-+8'+Digital+Optical+Cable/8315147.p?id=1174694191675&skuId=8315147&st=optical

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

  8. Re:First result is for Mavs?? on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    >>You don't need a search engine. You need a nameserver.

    What's a nameserver? ;-)

    But look at that Google search. You can view all the available options of the Mav's website. You can purchase licensed Mav products like Jerseys, Shirts & Hats , purchase Mav Tickets, you can become a Jr. Mav fan so that someday when you grow up and have money you can spend your money on your favorite team- the Mavs.

    All that from a simple single Google search. Would it be a wise business decision for the Mavs franchise to remove itself from Google? For a million bucks?

  9. First result is for Mavs?? on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if they will give themselves $1 million to take their own team off Google.

    Wow! Look who the first result is for!?!? Mark Cuban's teams website! Shame Shame!!

    http://tinyurl.com/yefvopu

    Maybe it's not a bad idea after all, if he can get every website off google except his own, then then no matter what you search for, Google will only return the Mavs website as a result!!

    /me SLAPS Mark Cuban with a giant trout!

  10. Re:humm on 2 Companies Win NASA's Moon-Landing Prize Money · · Score: 5, Funny

    >>It's almost as easy to click the link and RTFA as it is to complain about the summary...

    Holy crap there are links to articles in the summaries?!?

  11. Re:OB: Unbreakable. on Dissolvable Glass For Bone Repair · · Score: 1

    Yeah, as I recall Glass Bones didn't work out too good for him.

  12. Re:What about Interstate Highways? on Legal Group Says Unlimited Broadband Promotes Piracy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have to agree with this.

    Take torrents, people use them for sharing data. Now probably 90% of the traffic is illegal in some way.

    Now take the roads on my way to work. 90% of the people are doing something illegal on the roads. Usually that is speeding, of course some people are transporting drugs etc.

    So 90% of the population breaks the law when using the road. 90% of people break the law when using torrents.

    Does that mean we should get rid of roads?

  13. TV, Lightbuld, etc on New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second · · Score: 1

    >>I don't understand the obsession with short boot times.

    What if peoples TV's took 60+ seconds to "turn on"? People would consider the unit broken and take it back.

    Why shouldn't a computer turn on fast? I mean no flying cars and it's almost 2010, we should at least get the amazingness of hitting the "Turn On" button of our PC and it being ready to use.

  14. Bottled Moon Water... on Unambiguous Evidence of Water On the Moon · · Score: 1

    ...and you thought Evian was expensive.

    BTW I patent Bottled Moon Water!!!

  15. Patent Idea on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    >>by holding the Alt key.

    Crap. That's gonna suck. I hope somebody comes up with a type of "Alt-CapsLock" key to free up our fingers.

  16. 1,000,000,000,000?? on Finding the First Trillion Congruent Numbers · · Score: 1

    ...1,000,000,000,001 Ha ha!!

  17. Re:Fly part way. on Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight · · Score: 1

    Of course those were rocket planes, so guess it probably doesn't make much sense. ;-)

  18. Re:Fly part way. on Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight · · Score: 1

    Well, I was thinking more like 100 km. I mean in 1963 we could fly that high (X15), just seems like in nearly 50 years we'd have better technology. At that heigh (67 miles) up your almost 1/3 of the way to the ISS. Now I know you'd be talking about more weight than the X15 was obviously (in the form of the solid rockets to get you the rest of the distance/speed to orbit), but still I always thought if we can get that high lets kick on the after burners and hit space!

    Obviously there major flaws in my thinking. Damn physics. ;-)

  19. Re:Atari on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    This new coding approach was then adopted by Lawyers everywhere which is why everyone now clearly states they have a "TOS" for their website/software/whatever.

    Over beer in 1993 an Atari developer was asked by someone what TOS stood for and jokingly said "Terms of Service". This name stuck, particularly with the lawyers and hence TOS now dominates as the underlying operating system for legal documents.


    lol!!

  20. Re:Fly part way. on Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking that maybe escape velocity would be less if you started at say 5-8 miles above the earth. But I'm sure I'm wrong. "If" that was the case, lower escape velocity and less distance to orbit, I was thinking that would mean less solid rocket booster weight. How we'd fly it up there etc etc of course I have no idea, but you're right probably not a 747. ;-)

  21. Atari on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 2

    TOS. Enough said!

    /me ducks and covers in preparation for a massive flaming form all the ST users out there! ;-)

  22. This is not news! on Student Designs Cardboard Computer Case · · Score: 1
  23. Fly part way. on Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight · · Score: 1

    Is there a reason we don't fly up to 30,000 ft and then turn the rockets on and go the rest of the way? It seems like a lot of fuel is wasted going straight up when we could use the air in the atmosphere to "fly" up at least part of the way. Maybe get a good % decrease in fuel? (I would think even 5% or 10% would be significant)

    I'm sure there are good reasons, but as a lay person watching a shuttle launch it seems like a waste of energy just "brute forcing" our way off the planet.


    As far as these gravitational currents, does this mean I should only weighing myself when there is full moon over my house?

  24. != Radiation Overdose on Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight · · Score: 1

    Build it in smaller pieces and then put the vehicle together in orbit.

    What? No! I didn't get the idea from watching Star-Trek movies. I'm just smarter than all the guys at NASA. ;-)

  25. Is that a finger cot? on Google Buys reCAPTCHA For Better Book Scanning · · Score: 1

    Check out this Google book.... about the 7th page down.

    http://www.google.com/books?id=Y0OOlnDFUM8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Le+Morte+d'Arthur&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

    I thought these were scanned in by robots? If so it looks like it has well kept fingernails.