# The world needs a yellow "Streaming for dummies" book **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 19, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-needs-a-yellow-streaming-for-dummies-book/582517 "2011-05-19T23:41:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-needs-a-yellow-streaming-for-dummies-book/582517/1 "2011-05-19T23:41:51Z")
I was found a place that was streaming MSNBC and watched the show from 1100-1200 am daily for a couple of months. Then it froze up for a couple of days and disappeared. I went to Google and found another. Why? CSPAN is almost flawless every day. Some network programs are of fair to good audio and video quality most days. Discover and E! are unwatchable. Why? The world needs a yellow “Streaming for dummies” book ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-needs-a-yellow-streaming-for-dummies-book/582517/2 "2011-05-22T15:07:15Z")
Bandwidth and computer load–on both sides. If you have too slow a connection or too slow a computer, you can have problems with streams that have higher requirements… If they have too much bandwidth and server load, they can have problems with everyone. Unless you mean for the people who set up these things, there’s really no reason for a book, as there are only two things you can do about it–pay for more bandwidth or upgrade your computer. I personally can’t watch stuff from the WB. Luckily, there are other ways to watch stuff. But the dubious and outright black morality would make making a book nigh impossible. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-needs-a-yellow-streaming-for-dummies-book/582517/3 "2011-05-22T15:13:29Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > The world needs a yellow “Streaming for dummies” book Until I opened the thread, I thought you were complaining about people who pee on the toilet seat. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-needs-a-yellow-streaming-for-dummies-book/582517/4 "2011-05-22T16:00:41Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > I was found a place that was streaming MSNBC… What they do have, though, is “Sentence Construction for Dummies”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_umlaut_for_U)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-needs-a-yellow-streaming-for-dummies-book/582517/5 "2011-05-22T16:09:43Z")
Yellow? Ew! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-needs-a-yellow-streaming-for-dummies-book/582517/6 "2011-05-22T16:12:49Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Until I opened the thread, I thought you were complaining about people who pee on the toilet seat. 🙂 That would be “Yellow streaming for dummies”. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-needs-a-yellow-streaming-for-dummies-book/582517/7 "2011-05-22T20:14:04Z")
I know how the very first sentence of the book should go: Don’t buy a smart phone that can’t run Adobe Flash…:smack: ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-needs-a-yellow-streaming-for-dummies-book/582517/8 "2011-05-24T15:50:52Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Bandwidth and computer load–on both sides. If you have too slow a connection or too slow a computer, you can have problems with streams that have higher requirements.. If they have too much bandwidth and server load, they can have problems with everyone. > > Unless you mean for the people who set up these things, there’s really no reason for a book, as there are only two things you can do about it–pay for more bandwidth or upgrade your computer. > > I personally can’t watch stuff from the WB. Luckily, there are other ways to watch stuff. But the dubious and outright black morality would make making a book nigh impossible. So, if I can find some obscure low traffic site that is streaming _American Pickers_ it might come through better than the top of the Google search because it is hit less by persons like myself and using less bandwidth on their end?