ASCII World Cup 52
Richard writes to tell us that the web is bringing you the next step up from watching those world cup matches in high-def. As the self-proclaimed "best, most ridiculous, most redundant graphical implementation of ASCII", ascii-wm.net brings you the 2006 World Cup live via your telnet window.
Won't start until 10 minutes before game. (Score:1)
So when's the next game?
Re:Won't start until 10 minutes before game. (Score:2)
Re:Won't start until 10 minutes before game. (Score:2)
Re:Won't start until 10 minutes before game. (Score:4, Informative)
I tried earlier during match time only to be told it'd maxed out on connections.
Whats needed is a replay of a previous match.
Re:Won't start until 10 minutes before game. (Score:1)
Re:Won't start until 10 minutes before game. (Score:4, Interesting)
This is Slashdot. Surely somebody here can whip up a network of mirrors in time for tomorrow's game...
("netcat ascii-wm.net 2006 | netcat -u 224.0.0.1 5555" to bridge it to a local multicast stream, an inetd-launched daemon to handle client connections, round-robin DNS for load balancing, etc.)
Re:Won't start until 10 minutes before game. (Score:2)
("netcat ascii-wm.net 2006 | netcat -u 224.0.0.1 5555" to bridge it to a local multicast stream, an inetd-launched daemon to handle client connections, round-robin DNS for load balancing, etc.)
Sounds good. Let us know when your mirror is up.
Re:Won't start until 10 minutes before game. (Score:2)
Re:Won't start until 10 minutes before game. (Score:1)
Re:Won't start until 10 minutes before game. (Score:2)
From google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=world+cup+2
Too bad theres no game airing right now... (Score:2)
Better than the standard ASCII we see. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Better than the standard ASCII we see. (Score:1, Informative)
In case of slashdotting... (Score:2)
Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
So much for reporting on ASCII art. *sigh* Where do I find that bunny sig virus?
Re:In case of slashdotting... (Score:2)
You can thank the Goatse assholes -- literally -- for that.
Schwab
Re:In case of slashdotting... (Score:2, Informative)
I thought there was only one Goatse asshole...
Back in my day..... (Score:5, Interesting)
On one hand, that's slightly sad - I remember being able to type faster on a C-64 [c64.com] than the modem could transmit - on the other it's amazing how far technology has come in only a decade.
My other thought is to ask the likelihood that FIFA [fifa.com] will shut them down as an infringing activity.
Re:Back in my day..... (Score:5, Funny)
On one hand, that's slightly sad
Actually, I remember the days when we didn't have telnet. We actually had to go to the game, and we were grateful for it!
Re:Back in my day..... (Score:1)
Wait? do girls like soccer?
HELL YEAH GO BRAZIL!!!
Re:Back in my day..... (Score:2)
Swedish babes [aftenposten.no]
Trinidad & Tobago babes [aftenposten.no]
Italian babes [aftenposten.no]
Re:Back in my day..... (Score:2)
Interesting you say that: "ASCII" was an answer to a clue in a crossword in Saturday's Sydney Morning Herald.
Offline telnet (Score:2)
Re:Back in my day..... (Score:2)
When is the next game? (Score:1, Redundant)
No Game Right Now (Score:5, Informative)
Re:No Game Right Now (Score:1)
Won't work (Score:2)
Re:Won't work (Score:3, Interesting)
I can't view it. (Score:2)
telnet.exe is no longer included with Windows starting with Vista.
Luckily we still have putty.exe. :)
aa in linux? (Score:2)
Re:aa in linux? (Score:2)
mplayer dvb://"bbc one" -vo aa
i cant remember exactly
DICOM Part 10 image viewer - in ASCII (Score:2)
In other words, it was possible to do actual medical diagnosis with ASCII-rendered images. Terrifying, huh? Well don't worry, it never made its way into a Rad
Re:DICOM Part 10 image viewer - in ASCII (Score:3, Funny)
Re:DICOM Part 10 image viewer - in ASCII (Score:1)
Re:DICOM Part 10 image viewer - in ASCII (Score:1)
Do you have the algorithm in a form I might be able to use?
Re:DICOM Part 10 image viewer - in ASCII (Score:3, Informative)
Select a mono-space font, like Courier. This makes things infinitely easier.
Figure out the size of a character in pixels, in the font size you're going to render at.
The next thing you do is to make an array of every single ASCII character that you want to use, and order it based on intensity of the characters in the font you're going to render in. (Start with space, period, little-o, capital-X, to make things easy for yourself.)
Figure out your display area, say 1280
Re:DICOM Part 10 image viewer - in ASCII (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:DICOM Part 10 image viewer - in ASCII (Score:2)
It's not fair... I can't work up enough motivation to even write simple games or chat clients or dynamic webpages.
Ascii art MRI ? (Score:2)
Lame work proxy (Score:1)
Re:Lame work proxy (Score:2)
i'd do it and hook it up to my girlfriends dvb card using mencoder and netcat, and write change channel buttons into the webpage, but i just cant be bothered.
Re:Lame work proxy (Score:1)
Re:Lame work proxy (Score:2)
Better than I thought it would be (Score:3, Interesting)
It wasn't that at all. It was the live picture converted to ASCII. It was impossible to see what was going on when it had a wide shot of the field (i.e. most of the time), but when it cut to a close up, you could quite easily make out the people moving around. You could also see the on-screen captions appear.
Totally useless, but brilliant in a geeky way
BTW, games start at 14:00, 17:00 and 20:00 BST (I'll let you convert that to your own time).
Slashdotted? (Score:4, Funny)
I think I'll... (Score:2)
Doing this at home - heres how (Score:1)
Stop the mythbackend processes from using the dvb capture cards.
Make sure that ~/.mplayer/channels.conf exists from a previous dvbscan.
In your xterm, - the mouse and choose a small font, then drag the window back to a suitable size
Run the following command: DISPLAY="" mplayer -vo aa -framedrop -menu "dvb://five"
As this was a quick hack I stopped there, but for
Subtitles (Score:1)