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Subject: Re: Ping Winged
Date: 20 Jun 2006 21:25:03 -0500
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In article <44988ef2.50105267.qmail@nym.alias.net>, ::KidHacker NP-b54
<kidhacker@nym.alias.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:44:44 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@Flying.high>
> wrote:
>
> :>Mephistopheles <no-fixed@address.net> wrote in
> :>news:0lgf929n8btl4qv8upq6fqja2p8maju5u0@4ax.com:
> :>
> :>> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:25:41 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@Flying.high>
> :>> wrote:
> :>>
> :>>>Mephistopheles <no-fixed@address.net> wrote in
> :>>>news:f1df92ljj8cqagm0f9bk1hq49ip4nqc7jg@4ax.com:
> :>>>
> :>>>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:18:22 -0700, The Bear NP-g13
> :>>>> <thebear@cave.com> wrote:
> :>>>>
> :>>>>>You may find this interesting
> :>>>>>
> :>>>>>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1654960951084547964&q=mozart
> :>>>>>
> :>>>>>
> :>>>> Thanks from me too. Delightful.
> :>>>>
> :>>>> Now, is there any way of actually saving this performance to disk?
> :>>>>
> :>>>> Mephi
> :>>>>
> :>>>
> :>>>I have tried without success. It seems only to open in the google
> :>>>thing I had to dl.
> :>>>
> :>>>Mercury.
> :>>
> :>> Aye, the frigging capitalist swines.
> :>>
> :>> They don't care a fig for the poor proles.
> :>>
> :>> There's this wonderful little kid doing it for free & they hog it to
> :>> themselves. To the Barricades, I say.
> :>>
> :>> Mephi
> :>>
> :>>
> :>
> :>To hell with the barricades, I say feed them all to the whales and let
> :>them get their own back LOL.
> :>Long Live the Proles (whatever a prole is), but I assume from the
> :>comments I am one!!!! never a day goes by without learning something new.
> :>And you can forget the figs my friend, I have better things to do than
> :>esconce myself in the small room for days one end LOL.
> :>
> :>Mercury.
>
> OK, ya buncha friggin' fig frottin' whale abusin' barricade bashin'
> anti-capitalist war mongering proles! (Whatever a prole is...)
>
> Chill out and put both hands on the desk. NOW!!
> ...
> ...
> ...
> ...
> ...
> There... That's better...
>
> Now... I'm attempting to discern just what the frok is going on here,
> and I seem to be missing something. Or maybe I've done something
> terribly wrong. Here's what I did, and I'd very much like to know how
> it differs from what y'all Yank (or is that yEnc) furriners did:
>
> I followed the Bear's link. (And THANKS, Bear!) It took me to a Google
> page with a very prominent "Download" button. I clicked the button.
> Opera then went through its usual little ritual of asking whether I
> wanted to "open" or "save," and when I chose "save," ascertained that
> I indeed wanted to stash it in my usual download directory. That done,
> it started downloading.
>
> chased the neighbor's damned rabbit outa the garden, threatened the
> damned neighbor with the potential of death via shovel, fired up the
> grill, cooked a chicken (wishing it was a rabbit...), ate the chicken
> (wishing it was a rabbit), cleaned up, and took a shower, the download
> was done, and the performance was saved to disk, in my download
> directory on drive d:.
>
> That done, I double-clicked on the file, named
> "MozartSonatainBFlatM.avi," and Media Player Classic popped up and
> played a gorgeous high-quality video of a remarkable performance of
> the Sonata by a really kewt li'l 7 year old dood. A li'l dood who's
> obviously been under formal tutelage for quite a while. (Just watch
> his fingering; it's classic, and natural; id est, he's been doing it
> for *way* more'n a year...) It's a great vid, and a keeper. And thanks
> again, Bear!!
>
> Sooooo... back up to the dialogue about the capitalists, the
> barricades, the proles, the whales, and the impending carnage, (Not
> mentioning the figs...), I'm a teeny bit in the dark. I saved the vid
> to disk with a click. I'm watching it with MPClassic. I didn't d/l
> anything from Google other than the vid itself. Wha' de fu'?
>
> I'm waaaay curious to find out why the downloading, saving, and
> viewing are so simple on this side of the great pond, and so difficult
> on your side. The point of this exercise is to figger out how to make
> it work for you as easily as it works for me.
>
> More input, please.
>
> R2D... uhhh... KH NP-b54
>
Hey, are you getting forgetful in your old age? You neglected to tell
them that a "Prole" is short for, and somehow singular of,
"proletariat". In Communist jargon, it means "worker", but in reality,
it translates to mindless robotic peasant.
Not that we know any, personally... :-)
Take care,
Y Not
"I was so poor growing up, I couldn't even pay attention.
Now they have medications for it..."
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