I worked for the first company to do on location, live, streaming media (video, audio). We started out with C-U-See-Me (about 3 years ago), Real, and then Windows Media (then called Netshow). I would have to say that Windows Media is by far the easiest to setup and administer. Before you flame me, yes I know it only runs on Windows, but I don't think your going to find to many options that just let you plug an 1/8in cable off of your mixer into the line in and be streaming immediately.
Another nice thing about WM is that it has several preconfigured stream settings. As anyone who has done this before knows. NO two codecs are comparable. Some work better with motion, some don't, some are better at music, some are better at speech.
Hope this helps
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
SourceXChange does something similar to this. Companies bring a spec or idea to sourcexchange offering to pay $x for certain milestones. If you register at sourcexchange and contribute to the milestones, you get cold hard cash (well, actually I bet it's direct deposited, or a cold hard check). The source remains open. I'm sure their site can explain it better than I.
-ryan
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
I don't have the text of the article in front of me but I remember that Joy made the point several times that; our extinction might not come from just a sentient assembler gone mad. The other option is that our gradual acceptance of a dependency upon technology would bring us to a point where we would be threatened by the technology surrounding us, but at the same time, unplugging it would be suicide.
I sense that the danger pondered in his article would not come so much as an attack (with seemingly good intentions or not) from AI constructs, or self-replicating nanos with a need for our resources. Rather, I see an event not to far in the future where the network itself becoming a *kind* of sentient "being". Consider technologies like Jini, and imagine a single seamless computing environment (possibly by Java). Everything from a toaster to your underwear having computing power, having some sort of decision making ability (ie. "turn up the heat cuz hemos likes his poptarts scalding", or "hemos just peed in his undies, notify the wearer"), and being networked. Essentially what we would have is a network of *machines* with memory that respond to stimuli. I think at some point or another every agent, every piece of houseware, every business machine, etc, and possibly every piece of military equipment would achieve a kind of network intelligence. I think that in some ways, these machines having complex dependencies and an interconnection similar to that of *nuerons* could produce a network that acts as if it were "intelligent".
What this intelligent network would do from there... is anyone's guess.
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
Chester has a good point. I don't doubt RMS made some contributions at one point. I think he is just someone we put up with... kind of like Scott McNeally.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
This is a phuqing joke. How many of us do not know that there have been js, activeX, and sadly even java, security vulnerabilities in web browsers? And how many of us have forgotten server vulnerabilities like::$DATA?
Is CERT just now getting around to figuring out the Navigator and IE, IIS.. et.al., are not 100% rock solid?
What's next? CERT Advisory on Malicious Computer Users known as h4XX0rZ???
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
read the elegant universe by brian greene. it covers this topic well (even for someone with little education in physics). i found the book easy to read and fascinating, however, the two PhD's i work with think string theory (or T.O.E.) is absolutely absurd.
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Just divide the number of ppl that respond by the number of ppl in the chan.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
Another nice thing about WM is that it has several preconfigured stream settings. As anyone who has done this before knows. NO two codecs are comparable. Some work better with motion, some don't, some are better at music, some are better at speech.
Hope this helps
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
-ryan
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
I sense that the danger pondered in his article would not come so much as an attack (with seemingly good intentions or not) from AI constructs, or self-replicating nanos with a need for our resources. Rather, I see an event not to far in the future where the network itself becoming a *kind* of sentient "being". Consider technologies like Jini, and imagine a single seamless computing environment (possibly by Java). Everything from a toaster to your underwear having computing power, having some sort of decision making ability (ie. "turn up the heat cuz hemos likes his poptarts scalding", or "hemos just peed in his undies, notify the wearer"), and being networked. Essentially what we would have is a network of *machines* with memory that respond to stimuli. I think at some point or another every agent, every piece of houseware, every business machine, etc, and possibly every piece of military equipment would achieve a kind of network intelligence. I think that in some ways, these machines having complex dependencies and an interconnection similar to that of *nuerons* could produce a network that acts as if it were "intelligent".
What this intelligent network would do from there... is anyone's guess.
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
oh, how could you. how hurtful. great way to start a flame war...
d00d j00 4r3 s0 31337!!! j00 |-|4XX0r3d /\/\Y |-|4|\|dL3!!! /. ???
c4|\| j00 +34c|-| m3 h0\/\/ +0 |-|4XX0r
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"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
ya got me there!
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
It's always been my dream to be featured in Wired. Rob, you are my hero! One day I'll be in there, .... oh yes, one day.. I WILL be in there....
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
Is CERT just now getting around to figuring out the Navigator and IE, IIS.. et.al., are not 100% rock solid?
What's next? CERT Advisory on Malicious Computer Users known as h4XX0rZ???
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
the cheaper one is only for NTSC signals (Composite, S Video, etc...). If the cheaper one had VGA in I would buy one tomorrow.
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
so much for that one....
-ryan