No, you don't. Hearing the same thing in different ears is called "Mono". Hearing different things in each ear is called "Stereo".

I know. They make hearing aids that are smaller-than-earbud sized and have a very long battery life, yet they can't make a pair of wireless/bluetooth earbuds that work the same?

Isn't that what fret bars do?

Hmm. It seems to me that one of my favourite sci-fi books of modern times (The "Takeshi Kovacs" books from Richard K. Morgan) breaks most of these rules. It's written in 3rd person, it has a prologue, each book is standalone (Though admittedly the books also work as a trilogy, continuing the same story), it contains…

Let me fix that for you: Apple just came out with a fantastic new upgrade... O wait... Apple does not plan to support it on your iPhone 3G.

Exactly. Everything that's been asked of them, they've complied with to the full letter of the law. It seems the Feds are now becoming UMG's bitch for the whole "Mega Song" fiasco.

There is already a system for doing exactly this kind of thing. It's part of both IPv4 and IPv6, and reduces the load considerably, both for hosters, users and ISPs. It's called "Multicast" ([en.wikipedia.org]) and has been a IETF standard since 1986. Unfortunately, however, 99% of ISPs don't implement multicast, or…

uTorrent (When you click that button) will try it's best to both download the file from the beginning first, and build enough of a buffer to play it smoothly to it's end. This is not the same thing as a live stream, it's just reprioritising the order blocks are downloaded (From "any order is fine", to "prefer…

The entire background music for every single episode was written /from scratch/ by Christoph Franke. There were no pre-set stings or introduction stabs, it was all entirely unique (apart from the opening and closing credit music, obviously).

Eddie Izzard explains it all nicely (A little strong language)

If you park your car at the side of a divided highway (which is what this is meant for), you deserve to be smacked upside the head, and to have your abandoned car cleared out of the way. In fact, the police will probably have your "Parked" car towed for your convenience, as it's obviously broken down.

After it's been through that many sets of kidneys, it's GOT to be clean!

If you want REALLY unsung Sci-fi, may I humbly suggest "The Starlost" ([en.wikipedia.org]).

Like the fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

It's called Envy. Or perhaps Jealousy. It's one of a large range of human emotions. Perhaps they didn't teach you that one at the alien training camp.

He's referring to the last sentence in the summary: "Logical point of escalation: round whiskey stones."

Whisky is meant to be served at room temperature, with a (single) ice cube to cool it, or served chilled with a single teaspoon of cold water. When it is so cooled, the taste is crisper and more fully rounded, as some of the more bitter and undesirable compounds in cheaper (younger) Whisky tend to gravitate to the…

Isn't it great? Unfortunately, a lot of prepaid credit cards get around it by having an annual "maintenance fee" of 1/4rtr the amount on the card listed in the pages and pages of flyspeck print called "Terms & Conditions". That way, the card has been completely emptied before the (Visa/Mastercard) expiry date on the…

And vary greatly by Country/State/Province/County.

Is it just me, or are the roads around the south of that section, especially around Gary and Cicero, MUCH easier to see on the Nat Geo map than on this version?