The SB Live! does do 5.1. Through the SPDIF. Period.
You have to hook up speakers through the SPDIF, and the Cambridge Soundworks model you mentioned ($299 @ Best Buy) have a little AC-3 Decoder box with them.
I, for one, WANT THAT BOX. Read my top-level post if you want to know why...
Actually, you aren't off the mark that far. I don't really understand HOW it works, but most PCI disk interfaces don't tax the CPU. That's the whole point of SCSI. Then there are the mobo's that have builtin SCSI, but those still don't tax the CPU either. AFAIK, it has something to do with a special little processor just for disk. The Promise ATA/66 controllers do the same thing -- take the load off the CPU, as do the ABIT BE6 and BH6 (?) that have integrated ATA66 ports. They have extra chips to lighten things on the CPU.
are the children well-parented? This is what it all boils down to. If they have been taught well, they will be able to "handle" the movie, after a certain age. I saw R-rated stuff when I was 14-15 or so. I'm not a psycho killer. Don't get me wrong, I think there is a point at which the kids shouldn't see the movie. I saw South Park (the first time) in a rundown theater in Mansfield, OH. They were ID'ing people left and right. My friend and I sat in front of a married couple and their two 8-10 year old children, who OBVIOUSLY didn't belong in the theater. But these children had seen the TV show, because they knew the names and they danced to the "Kyle's mom's a b**ch" song.
On the topic of age restrictions, etc. They make me sick. the MPAA says, as a guideline, 17 and up, unless "accompanied by an ADULT." (quoted from the real guidlines...) Yet my girlfriend and I, who are both 18, got carded when buying tickets to American Pie. The reason for this was obvious to me - my girlfriend is 5'3" and could maybe pass for 14 or 15. The most annoying thing about this was the fact that they carded both of us, making her dig though her purse to get out her wallet & ID, holding up the humongous line behind us. All they should've needed was mine - seeing one ADULT, they should let both of us in, regardless of her age. It really pissed me off.
Even MORE annoying was the fact that she was in the bathroom when I approached the booth, and had she not returned, I would've been able to buy both tickets without even producing my ID - I can pass for 21 when I'm unshaven, being 6'4". I hate the MPAA. It is stupid. Let PARENTS be in charge of what their children see, not some agency. If the parents don't have the control over the children, that's a major problem on THEIR part.
This is NOT the way to go. I had to look up stuff for webcams/daycare last summer as an intern and I'll tell you that you don't want a computer if you don't need it...
We needed one or 2 cameras. The best way i could find to do it was with an ISDN line to the daycare center and an ISP, using an ISDN router. There is a webcam made by AXIS technologies (don't know the http, look it up). It's a thinserver -- you can browse the camera directly and grab pics, using different urls/filenames for different sizes and qualities. I think it could do up to one pic/sec... Not sure. If the daycare had a PC in there, they'd get almost live feeds off the cams, and it'd all be ethernet and easy. AXIS provides cgi scripts to grab pics and post them on a "real" www server if you like, or you could just provide links to the pics directly (although in my case, that would've saturated the daycare's planned ISDN link..."
Look into it, and if you want more input, mail me - remove the "nospam".
"Half of everything you know is wrong." - My physics teacher.
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The SB Live! does do 5.1. Through the SPDIF. Period.
You have to hook up speakers through the SPDIF, and the Cambridge Soundworks model you mentioned ($299 @ Best Buy) have a little AC-3 Decoder box with them.
I, for one, WANT THAT BOX. Read my top-level post if you want to know why...
Actually, you aren't off the mark that far. I don't really understand HOW it works, but most PCI disk interfaces don't tax the CPU. That's the whole point of SCSI. Then there are the mobo's that have builtin SCSI, but those still don't tax the CPU either. AFAIK, it has something to do with a special little processor just for disk. The Promise ATA/66 controllers do the same thing -- take the load off the CPU, as do the ABIT BE6 and BH6 (?) that have integrated ATA66 ports. They have extra chips to lighten things on the CPU.
are the children well-parented?
This is what it all boils down to. If they have been taught well, they will be able to "handle" the movie, after a certain age. I saw R-rated stuff when I was 14-15 or so. I'm not a psycho killer. Don't get me wrong, I think there is a point at which the kids shouldn't see the movie. I saw South Park (the first time) in a rundown theater in Mansfield, OH. They were ID'ing people left and right. My friend and I sat in front of a married couple and their two 8-10 year old children, who OBVIOUSLY didn't belong in the theater. But these children had seen the TV show, because they knew the names and they danced to the "Kyle's mom's a b**ch" song.
On the topic of age restrictions, etc. They make me sick. the MPAA says, as a guideline, 17 and up, unless "accompanied by an ADULT." (quoted from the real guidlines...) Yet my girlfriend and I, who are both 18, got carded when buying tickets to American Pie. The reason for this was obvious to me - my girlfriend is 5'3" and could maybe pass for 14 or 15. The most annoying thing about this was the fact that they carded both of us, making her dig though her purse to get out her wallet & ID, holding up the humongous line behind us. All they should've needed was mine - seeing one ADULT, they should let both of us in, regardless of her age. It really pissed me off.
Even MORE annoying was the fact that she was in the bathroom when I approached the booth, and had she not returned, I would've been able to buy both tickets without even producing my ID - I can pass for 21 when I'm unshaven, being 6'4". I hate the MPAA. It is stupid. Let PARENTS be in charge of what their children see, not some agency. If the parents don't have the control over the children, that's a major problem on THEIR part.
This is NOT the way to go. I had to look up stuff for webcams/daycare last summer as an intern and I'll tell you that you don't want a computer if you don't need it...
We needed one or 2 cameras. The best way i could find to do it was with an ISDN line to the daycare center and an ISP, using an ISDN router. There is a webcam made by AXIS technologies (don't know the http, look it up). It's a thinserver -- you can browse the camera directly and grab pics, using different urls/filenames for different sizes and qualities. I think it could do up to one pic/sec... Not sure. If the daycare had a PC in there, they'd get almost live feeds off the cams, and it'd all be ethernet and easy. AXIS provides cgi scripts to grab pics and post them on a "real" www server if you like, or you could just provide links to the pics directly (although in my case, that would've saturated the daycare's planned ISDN link..."
Look into it, and if you want more input, mail me - remove the "nospam".
"Half of everything you know is wrong." - My physics teacher.
Well, you could try their website at http://www.cmgi.com, for starters.