One of the default options in Winamp's Shoutcast plugin is to broadcast from the sound card mixer. Wether it's microphone, line in, or WAV, it encodes and broadcasts it. Install the server, install the plugin, start streaming, then play whatever station you want to hear through whatever player you need to use. Shoutcast/Winamp handles the rest.
I was recently a teenager (i'm 21 now) who spent 8 to 10 hours a day online, and I can't say that it was a bad thing. I mean, as long as they're getting their schoolwork done and still helping out around the house, is it really that big a deal that they spend their free time online? Do what my mom did: no computer until homework and chores are done.
Read the fine print. Any host offering "unlimited" bandwidth for that price is only counting HTML and images. Throw in any media file, and your account is closed. I run a site that has lots of video files, and have gotten kicked off of every unlimited bandwidth host that I tried for under $30 a month.
OpenOffice runs on my P1/150mhz system with 48 megs of RAM. It starts up a little slow (30 seconds or so) but once it's going, has no problems. You can do a custom install so that you can use only the spreadsheet program without taking up the HD space on the word processor and presenation programs.
I run a website where I produce lots of video and audio clips. I can't afford the bandwidth to have them all downloaded from my server. So I use DirectConnect (and soon, Bit Torrent) to distribute the higher quality, and therefore larger file size, content. At worst, the visitor downloads the file at the speed of my connection. And when other people are around sharing, things speed up. Completely legal and very inexpensive. Please explain to me how this is not a legitimate use.
Obviously, I understand that the majority of P2P traffic is illegal in nature. But by saying "has yet to have any legitimate use" (emphasis mine) implies that all of it is illegal. Which is not the case.
Is 500k really that fast nowadays? I don't know about your city specifically, but Cox seems to cover most of the state for cable (i'm from Norfolk myself) and they recently upgraded their regular service to 4mbps down, 512kbps up... I think we're paying $40 a month for that, $50 if you don't subscribe to cable. So unless ZPlug is really freakin' cheap, i'd say you're getting ripped off.
I'm 20, and as I was growing up, my parents were always taking in foster kids. They stopped that a few years back and adopted a few. I have to babysit, on average, 20 hours per week, every week, since I was 12 years old. I've done more parenting than many of the parents on slashdot have. I'd consider someone like myself, who's been a major part of raising nearly 20 kids, much more of an expert than someone who's had one kid for two years and has the mother do most of the parenting, which is the category that most slashdotters seem to fall in to.
I don't have my own kids, but I have six younger siblings. At one point, I had 2 and 3 year old sisters, and a 4 year old brother. So basically, I do have kids. And still have never had problems with scratched discs, even the kids' movies. If you're a parent and have problems with your children scratching your discs, it isn't the fault of the disc itself, it's your fault for not keeping them out of reach of children. If you don't keep valuable and easy to break objects away from your kids, then you're a bad parent, plain and simple.
Uh... yeah... you clearly have no clue how to keep things away from your children.
I don't have my own kids, but I have many younger siblings. At one point, I had 2 and 3 year old sisters, and a 4 year old brother. The obvious solution is to keep the discs in a cabinet to which the child does not have access. Kid wants to watch a movie? Put it in the DVD player yourself. Problem solved.
[i]Dare I ask why you're on your 7th DVD player?[/i]
Well, my family. Right now, I have two (one standalone hooked up to my TV, one DVD burner in my computer). Before I upgraded my computer a few months back, I had a DVD-ROM (3). Before I bought a new standalone DVD player a year ago, I had one with fewer features (4). My parents own a standalone (5). My oldest brother has a DVD-ROM (6). And my younger brother owns a PS2 (7).
"Also, since you are packing ALOT more data is the same space, wouldn't scratches and surface damage be even more crippling potentially?"
Search Google for pictures of Blu-Ray discs. They come in little plastic cartridges, much like MiniDiscs and floppies. Unless you grossly mistreat them, you won't have problems with scratching.
Is scratching even that big a problem now, on DVDs? Assuming you put them back in their cases when you're done, the things never seem to scratch. At least i've never had that problem.
Pick up an older model Minidisc recorder from ebay, but make sure it has a standard analog microphone input. Plug in a mic and record your audio with that. Syncing it up later is a lot easier than it sounds, you just line up the audio and video tracks as closely as you can then nudge the audio back and forth until the words line up with the mouth movement of your on-camera talent. Takes maybe a minute at most, and if you record one whole DV tape in one shot, that's a minute per hour of video of extra work. If you start and stop recording a lot, however, it'll take significantly longer; however, not very much more difficult.
That's a load of bullshit. Doom II played just fine on a 486/24mhz system with 4 megs of RAM. That's the system I had, and played with no problems. Plus it was a DOS game, so the Windows swap file wasn't needed. Did you just pull those stats out of your ass or what?
If you're touching something conductive inside the car when the strike occurs, then there's a chance you'll get fried. If you're just sittin' there driving along with both hands on the wheel, you should be fine. Or so i've been told.
I did upgrade to 2k once, and the machine runs fine overall, but insists on using 32 bit PCMICA drivers, when my slots are all 16 bit. So I had to downgrade back to 98SE to get my cards working. It's a 150 mhz P1 with only 48 megs of RAM, so XP is out of the question. Tried Linux too (Redhat 7.2 was the only distro out of the 4 or 5 that I tried that would work well with it) but I couldn't get my wireless card working with that setup either.
That's a big mistake, in my opinion at least. I've been waiting for 0.4 for months, because the Prism2 chipset was only working on the XP/2k version of 0.3, and I can't upgrade my laptop beyond 98SE. Now that 0.4 is finally out, they change the requirements to XP/2k. Just my luck.
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You thought wrong. 16 bit, 44.1 khz.
One of the default options in Winamp's Shoutcast plugin is to broadcast from the sound card mixer. Wether it's microphone, line in, or WAV, it encodes and broadcasts it. Install the server, install the plugin, start streaming, then play whatever station you want to hear through whatever player you need to use. Shoutcast/Winamp handles the rest.
Because DV is 720 pixels wide, only 480 tall. Whereas the 720p HD standard is counting the height of 720 lines.
I was recently a teenager (i'm 21 now) who spent 8 to 10 hours a day online, and I can't say that it was a bad thing. I mean, as long as they're getting their schoolwork done and still helping out around the house, is it really that big a deal that they spend their free time online? Do what my mom did: no computer until homework and chores are done.
Yeah, that'll help... I mean, it's not like you can write an ISBN on a piece of paper!
I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. Although I do intend to move into that field as my schooling nears an end.
Read the fine print. Any host offering "unlimited" bandwidth for that price is only counting HTML and images. Throw in any media file, and your account is closed. I run a site that has lots of video files, and have gotten kicked off of every unlimited bandwidth host that I tried for under $30 a month.
OpenOffice runs on my P1/150mhz system with 48 megs of RAM. It starts up a little slow (30 seconds or so) but once it's going, has no problems. You can do a custom install so that you can use only the spreadsheet program without taking up the HD space on the word processor and presenation programs.
I run a website where I produce lots of video and audio clips. I can't afford the bandwidth to have them all downloaded from my server. So I use DirectConnect (and soon, Bit Torrent) to distribute the higher quality, and therefore larger file size, content. At worst, the visitor downloads the file at the speed of my connection. And when other people are around sharing, things speed up. Completely legal and very inexpensive. Please explain to me how this is not a legitimate use.
Obviously, I understand that the majority of P2P traffic is illegal in nature. But by saying "has yet to have any legitimate use" (emphasis mine) implies that all of it is illegal. Which is not the case.
What if I put IE on my USB drive? I could really do some damage then.
Is 500k really that fast nowadays? I don't know about your city specifically, but Cox seems to cover most of the state for cable (i'm from Norfolk myself) and they recently upgraded their regular service to 4mbps down, 512kbps up... I think we're paying $40 a month for that, $50 if you don't subscribe to cable. So unless ZPlug is really freakin' cheap, i'd say you're getting ripped off.
"knowing when it's on a channel that is showing nothing or one I'm not subscribed for, *And Not Recording It*?"
"an easy way of deleting channels"
Standalone TiVos do these with ease. I guess you'll have to complain to DirecTV about these issues.
I'm 20, and as I was growing up, my parents were always taking in foster kids. They stopped that a few years back and adopted a few. I have to babysit, on average, 20 hours per week, every week, since I was 12 years old. I've done more parenting than many of the parents on slashdot have. I'd consider someone like myself, who's been a major part of raising nearly 20 kids, much more of an expert than someone who's had one kid for two years and has the mother do most of the parenting, which is the category that most slashdotters seem to fall in to.
I don't have my own kids, but I have six younger siblings. At one point, I had 2 and 3 year old sisters, and a 4 year old brother. So basically, I do have kids. And still have never had problems with scratched discs, even the kids' movies. If you're a parent and have problems with your children scratching your discs, it isn't the fault of the disc itself, it's your fault for not keeping them out of reach of children. If you don't keep valuable and easy to break objects away from your kids, then you're a bad parent, plain and simple.
Uh... yeah... you clearly have no clue how to keep things away from your children.
I don't have my own kids, but I have many younger siblings. At one point, I had 2 and 3 year old sisters, and a 4 year old brother. The obvious solution is to keep the discs in a cabinet to which the child does not have access. Kid wants to watch a movie? Put it in the DVD player yourself. Problem solved.
[i]Dare I ask why you're on your 7th DVD player?[/i]
Well, my family. Right now, I have two (one standalone hooked up to my TV, one DVD burner in my computer). Before I upgraded my computer a few months back, I had a DVD-ROM (3). Before I bought a new standalone DVD player a year ago, I had one with fewer features (4). My parents own a standalone (5). My oldest brother has a DVD-ROM (6). And my younger brother owns a PS2 (7).
"Also, since you are packing ALOT more data is the same space, wouldn't scratches and surface damage be even more crippling potentially?"
Search Google for pictures of Blu-Ray discs. They come in little plastic cartridges, much like MiniDiscs and floppies. Unless you grossly mistreat them, you won't have problems with scratching.
Is scratching even that big a problem now, on DVDs? Assuming you put them back in their cases when you're done, the things never seem to scratch. At least i've never had that problem.
You must have some shitty DVD players, because the seven that I either own now or have owned in the past never had that problem.
Pick up an older model Minidisc recorder from ebay, but make sure it has a standard analog microphone input. Plug in a mic and record your audio with that. Syncing it up later is a lot easier than it sounds, you just line up the audio and video tracks as closely as you can then nudge the audio back and forth until the words line up with the mouth movement of your on-camera talent. Takes maybe a minute at most, and if you record one whole DV tape in one shot, that's a minute per hour of video of extra work. If you start and stop recording a lot, however, it'll take significantly longer; however, not very much more difficult.
That's a load of bullshit. Doom II played just fine on a 486/24mhz system with 4 megs of RAM. That's the system I had, and played with no problems. Plus it was a DOS game, so the Windows swap file wasn't needed. Did you just pull those stats out of your ass or what?
Want to "save" me a monitor or two? ;)
If you're touching something conductive inside the car when the strike occurs, then there's a chance you'll get fried. If you're just sittin' there driving along with both hands on the wheel, you should be fine. Or so i've been told.
People who are under 21, most likely.
I did upgrade to 2k once, and the machine runs fine overall, but insists on using 32 bit PCMICA drivers, when my slots are all 16 bit. So I had to downgrade back to 98SE to get my cards working. It's a 150 mhz P1 with only 48 megs of RAM, so XP is out of the question. Tried Linux too (Redhat 7.2 was the only distro out of the 4 or 5 that I tried that would work well with it) but I couldn't get my wireless card working with that setup either.
That's a big mistake, in my opinion at least. I've been waiting for 0.4 for months, because the Prism2 chipset was only working on the XP/2k version of 0.3, and I can't upgrade my laptop beyond 98SE. Now that 0.4 is finally out, they change the requirements to XP/2k. Just my luck.