Fresh from our adventures into the world of Skype for the fifth and penultimate episode of Sidepodpanel, we enter a new week. The big news over the weekend is all Red Bull related, of course, with Webber's accident and DC's baby boy. It seems like any other F1 news is few and far between, so here's what's on our minds.
- I don't think anyone has managed to guess my Sidepodspace I Spy correctly. Something beginning with S, if you want to have a go.
- We're coming up with potential names for Baby DC, so feel free to share any you have thought of.
- Having mentioned Racecar Engineering in the comments and on upcoming F1 Debrief, we're curious what magazines you read, and why. Also if there are any you'd like but can't get (either due to location or just the price of print these days!)
As ever, keep your own ideas coming. We don't want to limit you by the list above, this space is for you to discuss anything that comes into mind. Have fun, and I will see you in the comments.
first
I have never had the first comment before.
I must try and find Racecar Engineering. That sounds interesting but I have no idea where i am going to find the time to read it.
It is a lot of words. Too many words. Oh so many words.
If it is technical it must have pictures as well
lots and lots of lovely words too :)
replay video is now live.
damn, multithreaded conversations are tough :(
gosh this has got to be the longest game of i spy i've ever played...
It might be useful to have all of the suggestions that have been mentioned so far... So here goes
- space
- stars
- sun
- sea
- Saturn
- satellite
- Sputnik
- sillimess
- Sidepodcast
- Sidepodcake
- Spaceperson
- space door
- spanner (from the toolkit)
- spider
.... i think that's it so far...
They can see Sidepodcake in Space? :)
How about space shuttle? Is that it? :)
Yay. Your turn.
haha i love after hours we finally come up with the answer :D nice one Journeyer :) we should see how long we can keep this game going for :)
Woohoo! I got it!!!
Alright. I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with the letter... G.
This is from space, right? Assume it's from up there. :)
Thanks, Lou! Amazing what sleep can do to clear the mind. :)
also, i was meaning to ask earlier has anyone thought about what we are gonna do at the sidepodparty? maybe we should try and find some f1 games on the internet we have no yet tried? or we could just play eye spy? :)
you've been to sleep already? wow this time difference thing is confusing. :)
Yep. I slept at around the start of the show, which was 12:30 my time. It's now 8:30 over here.
Ahm, can I ask a favour?
Can somebody rip this video?
done:
http://www.mediafire.com/?im32mdwiun0
i didn't do it, just found the link on dark madien.
How did I miss that? I could have gone all night and never have thought of it.
erm... Greenland?
It's what a person on the space station can see. So for the purposes of the game you are an astronaut on the ISS
Thanks and good night
Hmmm... Interesting guess, but no. :)
Brilliant. :)
Golfball
ah ok... the ground?
Hahaha! What kind of eyes do I need to see that?
Erm, nope. A golfball on the ground... Anyway, try again. :)
A Ghost?
Looks like no-one had added anything to the Wiki page. I think we need a date and time so that we have a deadline to motivate people.
http://sidepodcast.wetpaint.com/page/Sidepodparty
Nope, no Caspers round here. :)
er.... how about the Great Wall of China? :D
How about a Sidepodparty for Christmas? And Christine can wrap it up by doing her Christmas address in person? :D
I couldn't think of anything begining with G and then the image of Alan Shepherd hitting a golf shot on the moon popped into my mind.
yeah it's meant to be the Sidepodcast Christmas party :D but i think Steven's right, a date might make people think about it more. :)
Maybe a glacier?
Christine has edited and posted the Debrief already. Congrats to mystic Lou
thank you :) watching Merlin twice this week payed off then :D
Tell me about it, I've had a static PodPanel page open in the background for ages
BINGO! Mystic Lou, indeed. Your turn. :)
Fore!
Ahh, nice one.
It's a myth that the great wall is visible from space
seriously? i was joking... erm ok...
I spy with my little eye something beginning with 'A'
lol yeah i thought so, but it was the only thing i could think of.
True, but it's a popular myth, so I figured it was something people got relatively quickly. :)
Antarctica?
Astronaut(s)
sorry, no.
nope.
Amsterdam?
Aurora
Astronomy-type things :)
hehe no
good answer! but no :)
Asteroid!
Armageddon :D
oo i hadn't thought of that... no it's not though.
Air?
Atlantic
no.
Alps! :D
Or maybe Arctic.
Annular eclipse
no... i'll give you a clue (otherwise i fear we may be playing this dor a looonnng time) it's not necessarily anything on the Earth.
:D
hehe no.
Atmosphere
^this game for a long time...
sadly no.
I'm going to bed. Hope you guys have figured it out by the morning :)
Amalthea, Ananke or Adrastea (Moons of Jupiter)
'night Christine
night Christine :)
or Atlas (Saturn's)
no.. they are a long way away of what i'm thinking about...
And why doesn't our moon have a funky name? :(
Why doesn't out planet have a funky name either?
I suppose it could be worse, it could be Belinda (Uranus)
we have 2 moons apparently. There is 'The Moon' and the Earth's second moon 'Cruithne'... but then technically it's not a moon cause it's not 'gravitationally bound' to the Earth. Feel free to correct me on that anyone.. it's been almost a year since i learnt that in Physics. I remember something about it might be an astoroid. Either way, it has a funky name.
Were they drunk once they got to the seventh planet or something?
how's it have moons when it's not even a planet?
oh, wait... that is still a planet?
what about button moon? that doesn't have a funky name either.
"Cruithne is an asteroid in orbit around the Sun in 1:1 orbital resonance with that of the Earth. Due to its unusual orbit relative to that of the Earth, it is a periodic inclusion planetoid and is sometimes called Earth's second moon, although it orbits the Sun, not the Earth."
Great call though
Don't diss Uranus (someone had to get it out of the way)
Uranus isn't a planet?
i mighta meant the small one, that was de-planetized recently.
Pluto ceased to be a planet, Uranus is massive
ah well... at least i spelt the name right. Thank god that wasn't part of my GCSE and was just a discussion we had in class.
Pluto? Pluto has a moon but a silly orbit.
oh right, Puto.. yeah that's no longer a planet.
Sharon isn't it :D
if it has a moon, why isn't it a planet?
1. The object must be in orbit around the Sun.
2. The object must be massive enough to be a sphere by its own gravitational force. More specifically, its own gravity should pull it into a shape of hydrostatic equilibrium.
3. It must have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit
Pluto fails to meet the third condition, since its mass was only 0.07 times that of the mass of the other objects in its orbit
Apparently
Something to do with it's moon being nearly the same size as the planet itself.
LOL @ "Plutoed" 2006 Word of the Year, defining "to pluto" as "to demote or devalue someone or something"
well who didn't read the rules properly and gave it planet status in the first place?
It's considered to be a dawf planet now. some info on why here http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060824-pluto-planet.html
basically it's not massively bigger than it's moon, and does not dominate it's neighborhood. plus according to the link it has an untidy orbit...
The rules were decided in 2006, it seems God is like the FIA and makes it up as he goes along
Clean up your Orbit or there'll be no supper Pluto
wasn't it all under a clarification of the rules?. basically there is a space version of the FIA that makes up rules as it goes along :P
ah Bassano beat me to it :(
I'm guessing they hadn't discovered the 4 other objects that were more similar to Pluto than the rest of the planets. All five were called dwarf planets.
right.
did pluto start tuning it's mass better than mars or something?
demoted and insulted. charming.
I used to have a fantastic powerpoint presentation that showed the planets in relation to each other, ending up with some megablastic stars making our sun look like a microbe
Mars is Red. Game over
hahaha XD
that sounds really cool.
If I find it I'll Drop.io it
Found it
http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm
Should be shooting off. See ya tomorrow (today).
See ya Dom
night Dom.
see ya mate :)
What I wanna know is, how did they get the planets in the same room for the 1st photo?
that's awesome! although i find it really hard to get my head around (so to speak) those kinda sizes.
Pic quality is quite low but the images look the same
Antares must be pretty hot
did they form a commitee, then attempt to screw up qualifying?
Just our planets http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.eiu.planetsize/
Alcor? Looking at Ursa Major, Lou?
hahahaa
Pluto must be Super Aguri then
Say everyone:
I am just wondering what are people's viewpoints about being able to purchase hydroxylic acid at supermarkets......
{starts whiatling to himself}.....
I prefer it fizzy
:) Hydroxylic acid is a vital component of acid rain. It is well known to cause diarrhea and vomiting, and even sometimes inhibits brain development in embryos
haha took me a while to get that. No that's not the right answer. never thought i would be pleased that i did latin :) we learnt that in latin for some reason... i think we were talking about a classic myth or something...
This must be what Max drinks before he opens his mouth some times...
There you go, he is proving my case. Even in it's carbonnated form it is dangerous.... :P ,em> :P .
Alpha Centauri?
I am sure you had some to Dave, after all, they sell it in bottles in supermarkets....
no... i'll give you another clue. it's closer to them than any star or planet is. ;)
I have only ever heard of that on QI
I keep thinking "Aircraft" Lou....
we talked about it in physics once... i think probably because someone saw it on QI. Although i watch QI but don't remember seening that episode. Must be one of the few i have not seen. I look forward to seeing that if i ever catch it repeated on Dave.
no sadly not, but a much closer guess than a planet :)
The problem is that since Pluto was identified all sorts of asteroids the same size as Pluto were discovered so it was easier and less embarrassing to de-classify Pluto and say that we have gone from 9 planets to 8 than classify al the others and say that we have gone from 9 to 374. I have no idea what the real number is but imaging having to do an interview to explain that there were several hundred planets no-one had ever heard of.
Auroaruas?
i don't even know what that is...
Astronaut?
Anti-matter!
Not to mention, moons called Belinda
nope.
erm... no.. stay on the lines of man made...
ahh, ok.
Damn it - we all know it is the Urine Recycler, we just can't figure out how to write that starting with the letter A!
Ollie posted a link a few weeks ago which showed planetary sizes when we were trying to figure out how round the earth was in reation to the gas giants and the sun. It was a quiet night on sidepodcast. Unfortunately I saved the link on my computer that refuses to work.
And I hope you are all following along on the live updating page, here http://www.sidepodcast.com/ria/ajax/
Just select today's post and you don't have to hit refresh/F5 all the time.
A big of misplaced tools? :D
Is one of the Astronauts called Alan?
Aliens!
no....
even if one was, that's not it...
they aren't man made :)
a urine recycler
I didn't realise this was gonna be hard...
XD no.
no
It's late and we're being silly
One last clue before i'm off to bed. - Steven has mentioned it a couple of times while talking about the space walks. :)
hehehe i thought so :P
Christine's lasted about 4 hours and that was the space shuttle.
a spacesuit?
haha true.
If we could have 'user signatures' this would be mine for all time.
no...
another spacesuit
:D
:D
:D
hahaha XD :D no, not another space suit
I think I might have seen that at the video store
I just checked the nominations and we have 86 and the eco-mentalists have 74.
I still think it's unethical for eco-mentalists to be online
Maybe I meant, hypocritical
ok it's really late now :/ i was gonna try and get an early night.. oh well.
Night everyone :) I'll pop by tomorrow morning to see if anyone has guessed it :)
The problem is that I don't listen to what i say. 'me' can't read and speak at the same time and I can't speak and listen at the same time.
Ha ha, maybe they have Wooden Mac icons
http://thvg.deviantart.com/art/Made-Of-Wood-95495113
oh and thanks to 'me' and christine (plus people in the comments) for putting up with my skype going all wrong again.
'night Lou
night lou. am about to do the same.
thanks to everyone this evening, your patience knows no bounds.
i would have thought you would have got this straight away. :) ah well.
night xx
Time I was off as well. Hopefully the night shift will get the right answer. Remember 'me' has Lou's number if you need to call her and check an answer.
Good night all.
'night Stephen & Me
An Airlock?
Now I did mention that a lot. Iam not here though.
Ferrari Mac icons http://www.modmyi.com/forums/downloads/summerboard-optimized-no-extras/111/revised-icons-ferrari-f1-theme-19501/
Love teh new header, BTW. Best of the three.
yay! that's it! :) your turn! :D
Hey all,
Not got much to say today. Getting ready for my trip to NZ on Friday ... looking forward to seeing the Family.
Thanks again for calling me up and inviting me on the 'panel - it was a nice surprise and I really enjoyed it (as always :-) )! We have a Skype Phone and my wife answered it - she just looked at me and said "Some guy called Andy wants to talk to you"!
I just listened to the debrief so thanks for putting that up so quickly - I thought my iPod Touch hadn't synced it as I updated the software and it's flipped the order of the podcasts over. But when I did find it I also enjoyed the debrief, so thanks for that :-)
Does anyone here know what other changes the v2.2 software for the iPod Touch are?
Also, I heard that Yvan Muller has joined the RoC roster - considering he was an Ice Racing Champion, it should be interesting to watch him as he always applys a 'dab of oppo' to his driving :-D
Hmm... looks like I did have a bit to say after all... I look forward to your replies, as always :-)
Oh god, don't get him started!
you can now update podcasts directly from the device... in theory. in practice however, it doesn't work very well.
you can also search for new podcasts in the mini store thing. you can't subscribe though, except when you sync back to itunes you'll get an option to subscribe. madness.
other than that, safari has gained a google box and two clicks on the button will always take you to the home screen. think that's all we've found so far.
sorry.
Don't know if it's been mentioned or not, but baby DC has been given the name 'Dayton Coulthard' and weighed in at 6lb 3oz
pretty sure we'd never have guessed that one :D
Dayton = Dayton(a)? Hehe.
Anyhoo, it IS another DC! :) Bouncy baby boy. I wonder if he'll have any F1 godparents... :D
Does that mean DC is going to NASCAR perhaps? He did say he was staying with RedBull next year...
Preferred the last one - I really liked it as it went so well with the rest of the site. This is better than the first one.
watched him in Macau last weekend, he was rather quiet during the WTTC race playing it safe like hamilton in Brazil, but his wife/girlfriend (am not sure here) was more excited than anyone else on and around the track :-) and bummer, he had to race another race 15 minutes later ...
Fair enough, he played it safe on a dangerous and narrow street track to ensure championship victory. But you watch him in low grip situations, or in a race for fun like RoC and he's mega to watch!
woah. what happened to drop.io?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast
I am really impressed by Scott in Italy. He said he was going outside to try and get a photo of the ISS flying overhead last night. I didn't think he would get a photo of the crew. That is some lens.
:D
Oh, Crap.
Alright. I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with the letter… P.
Planet, perhaps?
No.
Panda!!!
There is no "Carlos the ..." here. :P .
Any news Mr. Me?
Posted in the wrong one.
D'oh
sidepodspace update
Today's spacewalk preparations are well under way with the astronauts suited and going through some checks now. Apparently one of the astronauts had a problem with the waist ring of his suit so I don't knoe hoe long that took to fix or how much delay it will cause.
They have added an extra day to the mission which was always a planned option so that they could get a sample from the water recycling system back to the ground for analysis. So now the shuttle undocks on Friday and its scheduled first landing window is 1255 EST which should be 1755 GMT. Given how often I have managed to screw up time conversions all readers are reponsible for their own conversion. Normally if the first attempt is called off for weather or whatever they have a second window on the next orbit which is around an hour and a half later.
tis okay. am in realtime, watching all threads :)
damn you're keen. haven't seen the lady since we finished the live broadcast. she edited the debrief and went to sleep, i dismantled the studio and went sleep a bit later. by the time i woke up she'd been at work for hours.
will discuss later this evening ;)
Okay.
Keen would have been posting at 00:01 this morning in my eyes, but y'know.
I like the lclt
Awwww :)
erm... how about the Plough? as in the English name for Ursa Major/the great bear.
ooo i like it :)
C'mom guys. I have a sidepodsoace I spy startign with the letter P. Here's a hint.
It's unique.
pilot?
portakabin?
(i know very little about space)
No it is not the Plough. Good guess.
erm... Pluto?
peacefully floating toolbox?
November 24th, 2008 at 5:46 pmme said:
pilot?
portakabin?
No.
No.
LOu was closer.
November 24th, 2008 at 5:46 pmme said:
pilot?
portakabin?
No.
No.
LOu was closer.
It is luinch time for me.
Since when is a portakabin unique?
After Lunch. Just hold station.
I thought it was philosposphical Friday already.
2nd hint. If Romans, Greeks, Eygptians, Mayas, Aztecs and Chinese used Lou as a Giude, shouldn't you too?
used me as a guide?
oohhh you mean Polaris (is that right?)? or the Pole star?
sidepodspace update
The hatch has opened for the start of the fourth and final spacewalk of this shuttle mission.
Nice work Lou. Polearis is right. I thought I gave it away with unique.
Lou's turn for I Spy.
lol there are plenty of unique things in the universe though i should imagine ;)
ok.. something beginning with 'c'
how many do they need in space?
Comet?
nope :)
is it unique?
constellation ?
erm.... yep,
nope.
Is it Christine? me said she was "also visible from space" during last year's Chinese Grand Prix....
Is it the name of a star?
ooooo nice answer (and good memory) unfortunately that's not the answer.
no, it's not the name of a star.
sidepodspace lens envy:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/the_international_space_statio.html
Is it a constellion? (Aries, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor)
There are some fabulous pictures there. They have a whole pile of lenses on the ISS. There were some instructions sent up earlier maybe for the first spacewalk where they were told that 3 of the lenses were too big to be used in certain locations.
Canadarm 2 - which despite the name there is only one of
That's because it hsa nothing to do with the number but that it is the newer version model Canadarm Mark. 2. Now instead of being able to handle commands in just English or French, it can now Handle commands in English, French, German, Italien, Japanese, Chinese and very strange languages Like Cockney, Oxfordshire, Devon, Welish, Gaelic, Old English, as well as American.
But not any of the Scottish languages? Descrimination I say.
I think picture 27 proves the Americans don't understand metric. 116,000 kg is equivaent to a fully loaded bus? That is 116 tonnes. I know there are some heavy Americans but that is ludicrous. No wonder some NASA Mars missions have buried themselves rather than landed if they calculate weight like that.
some idle gossip for ya:
http://tinyurl.com/mixingbusinessandpleasure
"Nine months after announcing the end of his 22-year marriage, McLaren boss Ron Dennis is reportedly dating again."
apologies if you're in the middle of eating.
no. it's not.
no... (i actually have no idea what that is)
I bet Mika is gutted
oh this realtime comments this is confusing that was meant for Steven in reply to his Canadarm 2 comment.
All fake, like the Moon landing pics ;)
Can I assume that it was not the I spy with my little sidepodeye answer.
what, Canadarm 2? no. although good answer :)
I have had a new version of my problem with the realtime doohickey.That is the official name now since Christine used it last night? It stopped polling. Not sure why. So I unchecked and re-checked the box thing and it loaded all the missing posts. so far th problem is normal. But it still didn't poll as it should. I looked at it after a while as i don't use it all the time and unchecked/re-checked and it updated. I then tried F5 to clear the problem but it happened again as before so i closed the tab and opened a new tab and it is now working as it should.
Boy, Slavica not letting grass grow under her feet lining up the next sucker...
I wasn't, but I still feel sick.
I've got one thing to say - "Fernando?" ;)
just checkin, but you don't get this issue on lclt do you? mine polled fine the whole of yesterday, but it has happened to me once or twice.
It happens to me quite a lot.
that's cause you called it a doohickey.
i'd never poll for you again after that :)
It's not a bad thing.
Definition: "An unnamed gadget or trinket."
:D
oh.
Is thing you see with your sidepodeye starting with the letter "c" on the earth?
erm...i suppose so yes..
To the best of my knowledge I have never had any problem with the lclt and have not noticed any issues at all today. I have had 3 lclt tabs open on different threads for the past 3 or 4 hours and no issues at all.
Seems appropriate unless its name actually involves the word doohickey in which case it is confusing.
Is it clouds?
Just checked and the realtime doohickey is still working perfectly.
yay! your turn
fine. if it's gonna stick i've changed the title in the browser window :(
OK. I spy with my little sidepodeye something begining with C as well. It's not one that has been suggested already.
lou, i need a list!
I can't see it
ok :) ...a list of what?
Yay :)
haha.
yesterday, you gave us a list of previous suggestions, i think for the letter 's'. think we're gonna need the same for 'c'.
I assume a list of previous suggestions for things beginning with c
ah right! ok... gimme a few secs :)
need to do a hard refresh (shift key and reload), or clear you cache.
it's the bit right at the top, mind you. where it says "real time".
yeah, sorry it was a little bit of a silly question, ICT revision is slowly killing me inside.
The actual proper title in the browser window itself! Coool.
Just looked again and I can see doohickey now.
ok a list -
- Comet
- constellation
- Christine
- Canadarm 2
- clouds
i think that's it
I've just noticed something... as you narrow the window the real time page narrows too! that's sooo cool! :D
I just had to try that. Very cool. Could that be done with the lclt as well. I think it was Alianora who couldn't fit lclt and a video feed on the same screen. Maybe a skinny version of lclt could overome that.
On Answers.com, it says:
DooHickey - did you mean "placeholder name"?
What? That's not half as much fun, is it?
in preparation for sidepodcast 3.0. i think r.g. suggested it :)
yup, the only thing is lclt has pictures in the post content and the pics look bad / lost when the page resizes. working on it though.
Definition of Doohickey - to have sexual relations with Earl from "My Name is Earl" (or his brother).
erm... is it cable? as in a cable in the ISS?
they have cable in the iss? could they not tivo the simpsons until they return?
*sigh* ict revision is hard.. i'm trying my best. ;)
:D
hit us up a question.
tis revision... there are no questions ;( it's all revising and reading....
when you're done, will you be able to fix the realtime polling issue?
Is it natural or man-made, Steven?
am gonna say "camera". it's not my answer, just felt like saying it.
unless it has anything to do with health and safety, analysis, design of business solutions, selection and use of input devices and media, selection and usage of storage requirements, media and devices, output media, or software, i doubt it. :P
oh.
no
Software, surely?
Man made but that could decieve you
It is not 'the' answer
That doesn't begin with C so no
He does, but it appears he doesn't write the posts.
we are only studying types of software and the difference between certain packages, and what bespoke software is etc.... i doubt that would help...
Ah, in which case you must do as I do, and simply be a cheerleader whilst 'me' fixes it :)
hehehe
ah i can do that :D
it's bespoke alright :)
Is it a constellation, Steven? As a bunch of stars, it is a natural made objects. When man said that this group of stars looks like a Bear, or a scale, or a ram, that's when you get constellations.
I found that at space.com trying to find out what the names of the astronauts - in a hope that "mystery lou's" eyespy was one of them. It wasn't.
Your thinking allowing the right lines but not stars of any kind
Is the eyespy something abstract? Camaraderie?
Back row (left to right) Steve Bowen, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Don Pettitt
Middle row Shane Kimbrough, Chris Ferguson and Eric Boe
Front row Sandra magnus, Yuri can'tremember, Greg Chamitoff and Mike Fincke who someone on mission control keeps calling Spanky when he radios him. I thought Max had gone into space the first time I heard that.
Nothing abstract
:) It was good work, wasn't it. I actually pointed my lens at a top secret space satellite which reflected onto the ISS solar panel array which in turn pointed straight in through the window and all the spacetronaughts were all standing around together. Worked out pretty well I think. Thanks for the [misplaced] gratitute :)
Have just posted Dan's Sidepodpanel indiscretion to drop.io. Beware people, mild swear words ahoy.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/nsfw-guest-host-dan-b-in-swearing-shock
another question regarding realtime steven. does it stop working after you've commented a lot?
i can't believe you heard that word again!
I couldn't say whether the problems that I have had have been related to number of comments. I will look out for it in future.
It's okay, I put my fingers in my ears whilst editing it.
From James Allen's blog:
"I was the only person to attend every one of those [206] races , even managing to fit the birth of both my kids around the races!"
Quite an achievement which I think should be recognised. Thankfully he wasn't in the commentary box for all of them...
Looks like Bernie might get his way as usual.
so...
"I think it's probably some misunderstanding in translation. I would say it's likely it will stay after 2010."
do you think someone read bernie's smallprint and thought "damnit"?
have made a minor tweak. it may help but you'll have to reload the page. soz.
how about a computer? they must have computers of sorts in the ISS...
Not computer.
Can you imagine if they only had 1 toolkit on there, now that would have been funny. "Houston...we have a problem"
Just checked the doohickey and it hasn't polled for 30 minutes. I have spent the last hour wwatching the Dragons Den profile of Duncan Bannatyne on the iplayer so the failure is nothing to do with when I am commenting as there were at least 30 minutes between my last comment before and another 30 minumum between the fail and my next comment.
interestingly the server died again (doing it's flaky thing), which would've killed the polling. what's odd is that lclt appears to be resilient to the failures.
the main difference between the two pages is the checkbox. in lclt the checkbox stops the scrolling, but the polling continues. in the doo-da, the checkbox stops everything and then picks up once it's clicked.
That's the main reason I prefer the lclt. If I am away or doing something else I uncheck the box then when I get back I just scroll down reading all the comments till I catch up. With the doohickey I check the box and I have a screenful of new comments and I have to find where the new comments start. Then by the time I have read all the new comments I have to do the whole thing over again with any comments that have come in while I was reading.
I have been moderated for saying I prefer the lclt to the doohickey
Please can someone explain what the lclt is?
oops, sorry. live commenting, live... thing.
http://www.sidepodcast.com/ria/ajax/
:D
classic.
agreed. there's no solution to that though is there? other than to reverse the comments so they appear at the bottom of the list. and then you pretty much may as well stick with the live thing.
we'll continue to develop both pages, so you pick the one that suits you most.
Is what you ISpy, Steven, Cosmic Dust?
No. Cosmic dust isn't man made
Compounds (mxies of various elements?) H20 and all that?
Nope.
sidepodspace update
The two astronauts are back in the airlock after the final spacewalk of the mission. They still have to plug their suits in to the mains and re-pressurise the airlock but it all seems OK. One of the astronauts has a high carbon dioxide concentration in his suit but now they have stopped working it should drop OK.
Do you ISpy a Crater, Steven? Give me enough TNT and I can make you a decent man-made crater....
ehehe :D
I think you would need to provide oxygen to detonate the TNT but no crater
Sorry I can not control comets nor astroids to slam into moons or planets so I cannot generate natural craters.
Don't under-estimate yourself. Lou and Alianora have moved I spy to today's (25th) thread. You may pick up the odd clue.