First of 6 new HHGG episodes, Tonight! 306
Prof.Phreak writes "From HHGG: Twenty-five years after the original radio series of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy exploded into the public consciousness, the further exploits of its bewildered hero, Arthur Dent, are being brought to life in their original medium and with the (mainly) original cast. Episode 1- Tuesday 21 September 2004 6.30pm; In which Arthur wakes up, Trillian opts out, and Marvin is stuck fast..."
The choice... (Score:5, Funny)
Starts in less than an hour... (Score:2)
Re:bah! (Score:2, Funny)
It could work!
Re:bah! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:bah! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:bah! (Score:5, Funny)
Streaming (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Streaming (Score:5, Informative)
Liten Again: Each episode will be available for 7 days following the Thursday evening repeats.
So looks like we'll all be in luck.
RTF Web site. It got the fucking link right there (Score:4, Informative)
Oh and it is realplayer so it works fine under linux.
Re:Streaming (Score:3, Funny)
DNA as Agrajag (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:DNA as Agrajag (Score:3, Interesting)
ISTM this is one of the few cases where using modern technology to create a virtual performer would have been acceptable. There must be enough PJ from Just A Minute alone to form the basis of a voice.
Just think of all the Guide fans who would pay an arm and a leg to get the technology to have that voice. Use the money to set up a charity to research repetition, hesitation and deviation.
Re:DNA as Agrajag (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:DNA as Agrajag (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:DNA as Agrajag (Score:3, Funny)
Re:When will the movie come out? (Score:5, Informative)
BBC Radio Links (Score:5, Informative)
BBC Radio Player [bbc.co.uk]
It requires a Real player [real.com] of some kind.
Re:BBC Radio Links (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds great. Hey, what's that van doing parked outside with all the antennae?
Re:BBC Radio Links (Score:2, Funny)
Re:BBC Radio Links (Score:2)
Re:BBC Radio Links (Score:2)
I'm a Ham Radio operator and I probably have the equipment to receive the broadcast in the USA, depending on ionospheric propagation characteristics at the time of the broadcast. It's in the international shortwave broadcast bands somewhere...
Re:BBC Radio Links (Score:2)
Safe to say I won't be receiving it in the USA if that's the only frequency it's broadcast on. Oh, well, there's always the good old internet, I guess...
Re:BBC Radio Links (Score:2)
Re:BBC Radio Links (Score:3, Informative)
Re:BBC Radio Links (Score:5, Informative)
All I got to say... (Score:2, Funny)
42nd Post! (Score:5, Funny)
And available for a listen 7 days after... (Score:2, Informative)
Should appear there soon!
Rob.
Re:And available for a listen 7 days after... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:And available for a listen 7 days after... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:And available for a listen 7 days after... (Score:5, Informative)
Doug Adams (Score:5, Insightful)
Repeats/Listen Again (Score:2, Insightful)
So no need to destroy your mind with a homemade Total Perspective Vortex if you don't catch it first time. Though I'm sure a CD release will follow shortly.
Towel (and I) (Score:5, Funny)
Great Stuff ! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Great Stuff ! (Score:3, Informative)
Online in 5 4 3 2 1... (Score:2)
Is there an online option or any news of a CD/cassete release in the near future though?
Re:Online in 5 4 3 2 1... (Score:2)
You might be a bit lost on the general plot, then, since this is a ways into the story. Not that you shouldn't bother, just keep that in mind.
Re:Online in 5 4 3 2 1... (Score:2)
Re:Online in 5 4 3 2 1... (Score:2)
Listen to the trailer (Score:4, Informative)
Tonight? (Score:3, Informative)
Anyone have backup audio links in case BBC's is overwhelmed?
Re:Tonight? (Score:2)
I seriously doubt they'll be squashed by the demand - they've got a somewhat greater chance of survival than a whelk in a supernova [bbc.co.uk].
Although, I do have a stack of radios pre-tuned to 92.7MHz FM, just in case...
Oh no ! .. (Score:3, Funny)
That's BIG! (Score:3, Interesting)
So let's do the math...
The planet factory was 13 light/sec in circumferance. Light travels at approximately 3e8 m/s which puts the circumferance at 3.9e9 meters around.
3.9e9 / (2 * PI) ~= 6.2e8 meters which is the radius. That puts the diameter at 1.24e9 meters.
There is 6.2e-4 meters/mile, so 1.24e9 * 6.2e-4 = 7.7e5 miles. That's pretty close to the estimated 1 million mile diameter!
I really like the way this guy thinks.
I mean... (Score:2)
Previously (Score:2, Informative)
Dan
Re:Previously (Score:2)
Wrong timeline. I assume they're following the books, in which case the end of the second radio series doesn't apply. Although, to be honest, I haven't a clue...
Sirius Cybernetics in a Nutshell (Score:2, Funny)
Where will they stop? (Score:2, Insightful)
Will they stop at Fish, or continue on to Mostly Harmless?
I, for one, was deeply dissapointed with Mostly Harmless - it felt very mean-spirited, like DNA was saying "Alright, I want to do other work now, and you bastards won't let me, so I'll kill EVERYBODY off - THERE! Now can I write other stuff?"
Even Sir Conan-Doyle's termination of his main character wasn't so mean-spirited - Holmes died fighting Moriarity - he wasn't simply wiped from existance!
Re:Where will they stop? (Score:2)
Re:Where will they stop? (Score:3, Interesting)
Yes, but what I want to know... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes, but what I want to know... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yes, but what I want to know... (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, but you'll need to know where your towel is.
Best Way to capture this? (Score:2)
Windows or BSD options are welcome..
And please, no lecturing about 'copyright violations', i really dont care to hear about it, nor will i respond.. I have the rights to time-shift.
Re:Best Way to capture this? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Best Way to capture this? (Score:2)
I found that vsound, with some fiddling, works fine for recording real streams on Linux. I'd expect it would work on BSD too. Creates a virtual output that you can pipe to file. I'd recommend downloading the realcap script to drive vsound and automate the mp3 creation, etc. You'll probably want to make some changes to lame_parms to create variable bitrate mp3s.
Excerpted from the realplay script;
# This script is based on the vsound script from the
# Linux Radio Timeshift HOWTO:
# http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldh
Re:Best Way to capture this? (Score:3, Informative)
Gives:
Re:Best Way to capture this? (Score:3, Informative)
Mandrake maintain a src rpm, which could be unpacked into a source bundle and compiled elsewhere. I used the 0.5-5 version and it rebuilt fine for SuSE 9.1.
random mirror link [nsysu.edu.tw]BBC Archive (Score:2)
Have not heard about it since.. Must have died...
Download & Archive? (Score:2)
Xesdeeni
Re:Download & Archive? (Score:2)
Time difference (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Time difference (Score:3, Informative)
We certainly do - we invented it [greenwichmeantime.com]!
Time-Shifting (Score:2, Interesting)
You've got to love how easy some Mac software is to use. (and, no, I am in no way affiliated with them, other than I'm about to own their software.)
Re:Time-Shifting (Score:4, Informative)
where can you find these recordings digitally? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:where can you find these recordings digitally? (Score:2)
Stuff commented out on BBC HTML... (Score:5, Interesting)
If you view the HTML of the BBC page, you'll notice much longer introductions to each story, currently commented out...
Arthur Dent awakes to find that he has spent the last four years on prehistoric Earth, alone in all that time save for five minutes with an infuriating alien called Wowbagger who arrived, insulted him, and left. Reunited with Ford Prefect, Arthur discovers that the Hitchhikers Guide he threw in the river still works - and is being updated. Rescue appears in the form of a sofa caught in the Space-Time Continuum and Arthur and Ford disappear in a fashion which would cause stern looks from the Campaign For Real Time.
Aboard the Heart of Gold Zaphod Beeblebrox is nursing a large Pan Galactic Gargleblaster and two headaches. He believes that he survived the Total Perspective Vortex while pursuing a Hitchhikers Guide employee called Zarniwoop and that Arthur marooned him by stealing the Heart of Gold, which of course Zaphod himself stole (but then Zaphod thinks he alone has the right to indulge in excitement, adventure and really wild things).
His girlfriend Trillian (who, as Tricia McMillan, is the only human apart from Arthur to survive the Destruction of Earth by the Vogon Constructor Fleet) has no memory at all of these events and is therefore convinced that Zaphod has had a psychotic episode brought on by too many drinks. Tired of his selfishness she snaps and leaves him, having herself beamed by Eddie the shipboard computer in any direction but here.
Meanwhile in the swamps of Squornshellous Zeta, Marvin the Paranoid Android pivots helplessly in circles on an artificial leg, his only company a talkative mattress called Zem
Ayeee! Bobby Ewing syndrome! (Score:3, Insightful)
That really sucks. I wish they'd pick up at the end of the second season, where Arthur learns from the strange old man that the Earth was destroyed by an alliance of psychiatrists (who were afraid that the revelation of the ultimate answer would cause them to lose business) and Zaphod, and flees in the Heart of Gold.
Damn.
Re:Ayeee! Bobby Ewing syndrome! (Score:4, Informative)
That's the lot.
> are there six to a season or am I missing some?
The first season (Now widely referred to as "The Primary Phase") was six episodes (often referred to as "fits", as that's how they were billed in the BBC listings magazine way back then), there was a "one off special" (
Beeblebrox at the offices of the guide - "Don't try to outwierd me three eyes, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal"), and the Seconddary Phase season was five fits.
Glad to be of service!
While you're waiting... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:While you're waiting... (Score:3, Funny)
This is family entertainment, not a video nasty.
DOWNLOAD IT EARLY! (Score:2, Informative)
Took two attempts to guess this one [bbc.co.uk]
Though I don't have RealPlayer so can't listen to it
Re:DOWNLOAD IT EARLY! (Score:3, Informative)
In fact, if you had bothered to test further, you would have noticed that you can type whatever you want (with extension
Re:DOWNLOAD IT EARLY! (Score:3, Informative)
An extremely cool thing from the BBC (Score:3, Informative)
Can I have a copy? (Score:2)
mplayer -dumpstream rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radi
"Buffering"... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Who listens to radio plays? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Who listens to radio plays? (Score:2)
For you, I prescribe a serious dose of The Archers [bbc.co.uk]. That Lynda Snell - phwooar!
Re:Who listens to radio plays? (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously, they should make a movie or something. I dont even own a radio.
They should make a movie? Because you don't own a radio? Boy, if there ever was a need for the Total Perspective Vortex...
Re:Who listens to radio plays? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Who listens to radio plays? (Score:3, Funny)
The secret, my dear fellow, is that on the two channels here in Blighty one can actually find something worthy of watching...
It's five now, by the way, if you exclude satellite, cable, etc.
Re:Who listens to radio plays? (Score:2)
What? Oh.. Apparently he did and it's coming out June 3rd 2005, starring Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Anna Chancellor and Bill Nighy, and there's already a trailer for it, available here [hitchhikermovie.free.fr]!
Re:Who listens to radio plays? (Score:2)
just listen to it on that while surfing.
Re:Who listens to radio plays? (Score:3, Informative)
You might want to edit this list [wikipedia.org] then.
5 channels better than 100 (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:HHGTTG thing = new Harry Potter thing? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:HHGTTG thing = new Harry Potter thing? (Score:2)
You are never too old to enjoy fantasy, either. I live in Cambridge (as in the famous university) and it's safe to say that just about everybody I know here has read all the HP books, particularly all the students...
Re: (Score:2)
Re:HHGTTG thing = new Harry Potter thing? (Score:2)
Go read them again.
Re:HHGTTG thing = new Harry Potter thing? (Score:2)
I've met dogmatic positions on both sides of this issue :-
Once when I was posting to a fairly unfamiliar newsgroup I made some comment about how much I still liked the Hitch-Hikers books, radio shows, even TV shows. It was in response to someone else saying that Douglas Adams had been seriously outclassed by Terry Pratchett and his Discworld series.
Some bumptious "regular" on the newsgroup responded to me with some comment like "We've already been over this, Terry Pratchett is far superior to Douglas Ad
Re:HHGTTG thing = new Harry Potter thing? (Score:2)
Unless you were a particularly mature, cynical 4th grader, you probably missed some of the humor.
Re:Post torrents here: (Score:3, Funny)
If the editors were smart, Slashdot would Migrate to Windows Server 2003 [microsoft.com]!
The Windows platform offers a lower overall total cost than UNIX, and many companies are learning that Windows Server(TM) is an even better investment than "free" Linux.
Re:I NEED A BBC SHORTWAVE FREQ (Score:3, Informative)
BBC Radio 4 is on 198LW, 92-94FM, DAB Digital Radio, Digital Television and Online. Unless you're near the UK (I think the 198LW can be received in northern France etc.) then the Internet, through RealPlayer is the only option. It'll be on the live stream in a little under an hour (6:30pm BST (GMT+1)), and then available on demand after Thursday's repeat.
Re:Streaming, Repeats, Archives (Score:2)
I guess the BBC have some sort of automated system that records and encodes the programmes as they're transmitted, probably separately from th
We assimilated Bill (Score:2)
I'm not sure if it was for money or ego or he had an honest to goodness change of heart, but one thing is for sure... the trekkies assimilated him!
Re:After listening to the first 10 minutes of it.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Also, the weird flashbacks, and particularly the stuttering on the book, were to bring everything up to speed. It has been twenty years you know! Of course, the first episode was going to be slow going. Although, to be honest, I'm glad I recorded it because I found it as hard as ever to follow