Submission + - Remotely Connecting Two Machines for Audio

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TFGeditor

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @08:17PM

TFGeditor writes: "Thanks to /. readers' advice from a previous Ask Slashdot ahref=http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09 /28/2153212rel=url2html-31469http://ask.slashdot.o rg/article.pl?sid=06/09/28/2153212> , I now have a PC system optimally configured to produce professional on-air radio programs. Now I have a new problem. My radio co-host and I are in different cities located a few hundred miles apart. In order to give the show a real-time (i.e. "live") sound, we need to somehow connect him and me over the net so that we can produce a show complete with co-host banter, real-time interaction, etc. as if we were both in the same studio. How can we do this? Will Skype or other VOIP applications do this without the result sounding "tinny" (like a phone connection), or are there other apps that will do a better job? Need your advice/help."

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Submission + - No HD in US voucher Set-Top Boxes

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pcjjman

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @07:37PM

pcjjman writes: "On Tuesday the NTIA (National Telecommunications & Information Administration) released the requirements and recommendations for ATSC digital set-top boxes that wish to be valid for the $40 vouchers every US household will receive early next year. Guess what? None of the valid boxes will actually display HD signals. S-video's the best video output you'll find, and even that's optional. For more info read my post about it, or look at the actual guidelines themselves, straight from the NTIA."

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Planet Discovered Using Telephoto Camera Lenses 74

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday May 21, 2006 @07:34AM from the shot-in-the-dark dept.

[rvr] writes "The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) reports the discovery of an extra-solar planet called XO-1b, which orbits a dim star in Corona Borealis every 4 days. To find it, the brightness of several thousand stars were regularly scanned using two mini-telescopes in Hawaii. This equipment was built using commercial hardware: two digital cameras, attached to telephoto camera lenses on a robotic equatorial mount. A team of amateur astronomers helped with their own equipment to discard or confirm dozens of suspected transits."

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New Possible SIDS Genes Identified 88

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday May 21, 2006 @05:05AM from the sudden-discoveries dept.

ScienceDaily is reporting that researchers at the Mayo Clinic have identified two more cardiac genes that could contribute to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). From the article: "In the two recent separate studies, researchers examined caveolin-3 (CAV3) and the cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2) and found molecular and functional evidence in both to implicate them as SIDS-susceptibility genes. Researchers examined the tissue of 135 unrelated cases of SIDS -- in infants with an average age of 3 months old -- that had been referred to Mayo Clinic's Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory for molecular autopsy. In each study, two of the 135 cases possessed mutations in either CAV3 or RyR2."

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Choosing Careers in Technology? 107

Posted by Cliff on Sunday April 02, 2006 @12:20AM from the tech-without-the-math-and-science-bits dept.

Salandarin asks: "Until recently, I was convinced that my destiny involved a degree in CS, stemming from my love of video games. I've really enjoyed what I've found so far, and I enjoy the art of programming and the study of algorithms. However, from what I'm told, more advanced study requires a strong knowledge of mathematics. Mathematics, much like the hard sciences, are not my interest. Although I'm not ready to abandon CS just yet, I'm starting to examine other options. I enjoy the world of technology more than any other, and as such I would really like to stay here, no matter what field I choose. I am specifically curious about jobs that involve some form of journalism, writing, and/or communication, but I'm open to everything at this point. What other careers are available in technology, for a person like me?"

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Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 177

by Currawong on Thursday November 24, 2005 @08:41PM (#14110139) Attached to: Copy Machines At Greater Risk During Holidays

Makes one wonder in horror when one sees the dark smudge marks around the "Copy" button.

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Journal Journal: Some people will toss a friendship for nothing....

Journal by Currawong on Monday May 19, 2003 @03:30AM

In an act of total irony, a friend said to me about a web page I had written, "What drugs were you on when you wrote that page?". Considering he'd just come out of hospital for a repeat episode of drug psychosis and I don't drink, smoke, take drugs (not even prescription ones)....

...and then toss the friendship in the bin over an IRC channel...that has to be the downer of the week. I'd hate to take things too seriously on the net.

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Journal Journal: /. lets me mod. Damn, I'll have to think.

Journal by Currawong on Sunday April 27, 2003 @12:22AM

I must have good karma or something, I twice got mod points, possibly the consequence of a bunch of crappy comments, and a heap of accepted stories in the Apple section, with the icing being ultra-frequent meta-moderation.

Turning down the threshold to -1, i noticed some of the OT stuff is quite funny.

If anyone reads this, come and chat to me on IRC (irc.oz.org #macintosh) - same nick as here.

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