Uncompressed: Episode Nine
Sometimes the best intentions get muddled by the human body’s need for sleep. Tony and Thom crank out a late night podcast for your listening pleasure. This week, they wrap up some discussion on the Nintendo DS and Club 977, and reminisce how in the 80’s rock musicians looked like chicks. Other topics include instant-on laptops, PS3 pricing, and the end of XP home support.
http://uncompressed.org/podcasts/uncompressed_ep9.mp3
For those that make it though the whole show, we here at Uncompressed have officially banned “Top 10 Lists” unless they contain overwhelmingly important information — and look for a bit of a format change for the big episode X release. 
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Nintendo DS
VoIP - That doesnt really work
Tetris - New DS Wi-Fi hotness!
80’s hair metal was the coolest!
CES Coverage
We mentioned it in passing but the new MacBook looks hot!
Other topics:
The last top 10 list to ever appear on Uncompressed
Applebees new hangout for underage drinkers everywhere
Microsoft is ending XP Home support
Windows Vista hardware requirements
…and finally, the federal government wants to put you in prison for being annoying
Thanks for listening!
January 12th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
If you had an issue where episode 8 was redownloaded from our feed with the text from episode 9, we apologize. We had a feed issue earlier today and it has since been corrected.
January 16th, 2006 at 12:11 am
Worst episode, ever!
But I loved every minute of it.
It doesn’t matter what you guys are talking about, I always find it entertaining.
BTW, I don’t know what Thom was pining about the “Instant On” laptops for, don’t you use Standby? I never turn my laptop off, I just put it in standby, which takes 9 seconds from the time I hit the button to when I can type my password on the login screen. I suppose you could shave a good 7 seconds off that if you used flash memory…
What would be cool, and maybe this is how it will work, in which case I retract my previous statement, is if you could take a “snapshot” of your machine, complete with which applications are running, and use that as your “instant on” state. So you would power on your machine and have Outlook open, AIM running, PhotoShop open, and a browser window open to yahoo all immediately. Now that would save some time.
-Floyd
January 16th, 2006 at 12:22 am
As a repair tech, I constantly deal with all kinds of problems with standby and hibernate. If it works for you, great — I am not trying to knock your post at all — I just see so many machines that have issues with standby. Usually its not the machine itself, its usually some program with a memory leak that although doesnt drain memory away while IN standby, going in an out thereof causes it to hemmorage even more.
Im glad to hear you liked the show. Honestly, the next day when Thom and I listened to it back we both said to each other “That wasnt nearly as bad as it seemed when we were recording it!” We both had a long day, and were really tired and it really felt a lot worse at the time we were recording it. I think we both just felt drained and thought it was reflecting in the show. Actually, in hindsight, some of the funniest parts of the show were when we were half alseep going on about Wendy’s and whatnot.
January 16th, 2006 at 12:52 am
I do use Standby on my PC, but on a laptop I think that would probably kill the battery if it wasn’t plugged in. I’ve never tried this — but if you go into Standby and yank the power cord, does the system only take a couple seconds to get going again, or does it cold boot? I’m betting it wouldn’t work.
January 16th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
I guess I am fortunate that Standby works reliably on my Dell. I haven’t tried hibernate, bust Standby. If it has a full charge when I put it in standby, it will sleep for a couple days. The only thing I have to remember is to save my work on Friday afternoon before I go home, in case I don’t plug it in all weekend. By Mon morning I am right at the limit if its battery. If it runs out of juice while in standby, you lose everything you were working on. When I am running around a client’s house programming their AV system, I am running on batteries, so I sleep and wake it all the time. It will wake from Standby just as fast whether it is plugged in or not.
January 16th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
That’s what I thought Floyd.
I was going to go home tonight, put my PC in Standby and yank the cord — now I don’t have to!
January 16th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
you’re right. that was the worst podcast
but on the other hand, the website looks darn pretty….
you know what they say, it’s better to look good than to …sound good…no, wait, that’s not right…
well, anyway…