1st stage loader for IMSAI - need ascii to binary

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 18:12:36 CST 2008


Andrew Burton wrote:
> YouTube doesn't stream. It slowly downloads the flash video files to
>  the temporary internet files folder where it's usually named "FlaXX.tmp".
>  The XX is usually a hex  number depending on how many tmp files you
>  have in there. The file is also (99% of the time) deleted the second you
>  close the page it is linked to.
> 
> The good thing is that you can watch the video before it's fully
>  downloaded. A very good thing if you are on dial-up :)

So what is the difference between "streaming" and "downloading a file 
while being able to view it while downloading"?  The second is the 
definition I usually allow myself when discussing streaming.

Peace...  Sridhar


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