Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Windows XP Home are not affected by this policy as they are licensed per installation and not per processor. Windows XP Professional can support up to two processors regardless of the number of cores on the processor. Microsoft Windows XP Home supports one processor.
The thing is, enterprise hardware is typically overengineered to handle extra heat+whatever that would come from overclocking, while, the average home user might try to use a stock heatsink+fan that defintely won't cut it...
There are quite a few mini-itx cases designed this way, where the case acts as a giant heatsink.
Another unexpected side benefit to this is that, if there's absolutely zero free space inside, and, it has to be exactly zero, there won't be space to put an internal modchip. An external modchip is going to be a pretty big turnoff for some people. Of course, this is more then a little unlikely, but, hey, it's possible, considering the formfactor.
Besides the "being out in the back country" thing, there's also "Fell off a cliff", "Got mauled by a bear", or "Got killed in a pile-up on the Interstate"...
Seriously, if the ask-/. submitter becomes incapacitated, what's going to happen to the servers? If the submitter is the only person who can fix the servers, the company is fucked! Someone needs to be hired! Someone needs to be taught how to fix the damn servers if something happens.
Oh, and wrt to the original question, hiring is still the answer. Even if it's just a third-party monitoring service (Can you say offshore Indian contractor?) They can keep trying to contact the submitter, (or, the secondary contact, as per above!!) until they actually reach someone...
Hmm, german hosting to avoid US laws?... That still might not be enough.
If I were in their shoes, this is what I would do: 1) Generate multiple fake IDs 2) Buy prepaid debit cards online with fake IDs (repeat as necessary.) 3) Buy webhosting in China with disposable debit cards, using fake ID 4) Run a BT-Site/Tracker in China 5) Profit? (from Ads, etc.)
I mean, if people fighting spam can't stop chinese servers from spamming, it's going to be equally impossible to prevent them from hosting torrents...
And even if the MPAA manages to convince a chinese company to shut down the site, you're still protected by hopefully several layers of obscurity.
The latency isn't going to be great, but, if that's what it takes to share my m0vies/tv/pr0n...
Hmm, according to this wiki, Section 31 was created as part of the original Starfleet Charter, which, timeline-wise would be about right for Enterprise
Oh, and according to the wiki, it turns out, the precursor to Section 31 had a role in the last few Enterprise eps that I missed. Wow. It's time to catch up.
Re: the penny arcade strip
Oh! Section 31!!!
I would love to see a new trek show based on Section 31... or, at least, they should show the origins of Section 31, in the current Enterprise series.
I can think of a few industries where SSN disclosure would be required for services.
Notably, Tax Preparation, which comes to mind because it's tax time in the US...
(Hmm, note to self: file taxes sooner rather then later.)
What's funny is, phones with VGA screens (larger then the PSP) are already on the market. It's onlu a matter of time until mobile phone graphic acceleration catches up.
Just to add more info to this... If we do a whois on welcometothescene.com, we find that it was registered by the Jun Group. Doing a simple google search turns up <a href="http://www.dcia.info/News/newsletter_2004-12 -06.htm">http://dcia.info/News/newsletter_2004-12- 06.htm</a>
<karmawhore> A DCIA Member made industry history last week by premiering the first-of-its-kind original peer-to-peer (P2P) video program series entitled "The Scene."
While other major entertainment industry representatives continued various actions around the world intended to curtail online file sharing, Jun Group took an enormous step forward in the commercial development of this exciting distribution channel.
Like theatrical motion pictures, broadcast television shows, and most recently cable programming, mass media outlets for video content have been able to mark the beginnings of their coming of age with the debuts of their first original made-for-the-medium content.
According to Jun Group president and show co-creator Mitchell Reichgut, "Most content that's available online was originally created for another medium. We created 'The Scene' specifically for file sharers. It's meant to be viewed on the computer."
On November 30th, Jun Group launched this first-ever TV-style series specifically for the global file-sharing community. "The Scene's" protagonist, Brian Sandro, is a fictional young NYU student who also happens to be one of the world's most avid file-swappers.
Sandro's desktop is at the heart of his social life, and viewers get to experience the online "Scene" just as he does - via Web cams, secret chat rooms, private websites, instant messages, and e-mails.
"The Scene" is financed entirely by sponsorships, which themselves exemplify the cutting-edge of creativity. Sandro visits the official website for the extreme sports equipment company that is one of its charter advertisers. He also listens to music on his computer and checks out the bands' websites - as college students typically do.
What makes the show most unique is the fact that it is being distributed solely through the P2P community. "File sharers have made it very clear that this is their preferred method of consuming content," Mitchell said. "We are the first ones who have found a way to truly meet that demand."
He added that the file-sharing audience is a highly desirable demographic of affluent and largely male young adults. Businesses pay for placement based on the number of people who are inspired by the show to visit a sponsor, which is both quantifiable and verifiable.
"Our sponsors will only be paying for the people who download the show or the people we drive to their websites," he noted. "They won't have to rely on outdated ratings systems."
There's no reason to copy-protect the shows, Mitchell said, because the whole idea is for people to copy and share them so that advertisers reach the highest possible number of consumers.
Executives at show sponsor Freebord phoned Jun Group two hours after the premiere to report that their website was "being swamped with traffic." Similarly, the website (http://welcometothescene.com/) that Jun Group created to promote the show temporarily went down due to the overwhelming amount of traffic it was receiving.
It's clear that hundreds of thousands of people downloaded the show in first few hours after its release. "The Scene" is now out on P2P, and on IRC, Usenet, and public FTPs - with no strings attached.
"The Scene" represents Jun Group's latest foray into file sharing. In 2003, the company released five files from Kevin Martin and the Hiwatts, a band featuring the former lead singer of Candlebox, on behalf of YooHoo Chocolate Drink.
The music was downloaded more than two million times over a four-week period, and helped YooHoo achieve the largest spi
Just to add more info to this...
If we do a whois on welcometothescene.com, we find that it was registered by the Jun Group.
Doing a simple google search turns up http://www.dcia.info/News/newsletter_2004-12-06.ht m.
A DCIA Member made industry history last week by premiering the first-of-its-kind original peer-to-peer (P2P) video program series entitled "The Scene."
While other major entertainment industry representatives continued various actions around the world intended to curtail online file sharing, Jun Group took an enormous step forward in the commercial development of this exciting distribution channel.
Like theatrical motion pictures, broadcast television shows, and most recently cable programming, mass media outlets for video content have been able to mark the beginnings of their coming of age with the debuts of their first original made-for-the-medium content.
According to Jun Group president and show co-creator Mitchell Reichgut, "Most content that's available online was originally created for another medium. We created 'The Scene' specifically for file sharers. It's meant to be viewed on the computer."
On November 30th, Jun Group launched this first-ever TV-style series specifically for the global file-sharing community. "The Scene's" protagonist, Brian Sandro, is a fictional young NYU student who also happens to be one of the world's most avid file-swappers.
Sandro's desktop is at the heart of his social life, and viewers get to experience the online "Scene" just as he does - via Web cams, secret chat rooms, private websites, instant messages, and e-mails.
"The Scene" is financed entirely by sponsorships, which themselves exemplify the cutting-edge of creativity. Sandro visits the official website for the extreme sports equipment company that is one of its charter advertisers. He also listens to music on his computer and checks out the bands' websites - as college students typically do.
What makes the show most unique is the fact that it is being distributed solely through the P2P community. "File sharers have made it very clear that this is their preferred method of consuming content," Mitchell said. "We are the first ones who have found a way to truly meet that demand."
He added that the file-sharing audience is a highly desirable demographic of affluent and largely male young adults. Businesses pay for placement based on the number of people who are inspired by the show to visit a sponsor, which is both quantifiable and verifiable.
"Our sponsors will only be paying for the people who download the show or the people we drive to their websites," he noted. "They won't have to rely on outdated ratings systems."
There's no reason to copy-protect the shows, Mitchell said, because the whole idea is for people to copy and share them so that advertisers reach the highest possible number of consumers.
Executives at show sponsor Freebord phoned Jun Group two hours after the premiere to report that their website was "being swamped with traffic." Similarly, the website (http://welcometothescene.com/) that Jun Group created to promote the show temporarily went down due to the overwhelming amount of traffic it was receiving.
It's clear that hundreds of thousands of people downloaded the show in first few hours after its release. "The Scene" is now out on P2P, and on IRC, Usenet, and public FTPs - with no strings attached.
"The Scene" represents Jun Group's latest foray into file sharing. In 2003, the company released five files from Kevin Martin and the Hiwatts, a band featuring the former lead singer of Candlebox, on behalf of YooHoo Chocolate Drink.
The music was downloaded more than two million times over a four-week period, and helped YooHoo achieve the largest spike in website traffic since the inception of its site.
Its more recent partnership with rock legend Steve Winwood and the television show Access Hollywood drove over 3 million downloads and well over 200,000 vis
Actually, I have a feeling that is hardware is not as "Enterprise-grade" as he thinks...
Million-dollar disk arrays tend to be built because storage is needed for data worth millions+. One doesn't build million-dollar disk arrays on a whim, of course, no one has the budget anymore...
So, one would hope that he would have heavily clustered and load-balanced servers to prevent these crash-reboot-crash cycles... All of our file servers at work, are on clustered in groups of 4+ servers... Heck, even our Legato backup cluster, well, is clustered...
I've known about this for a few years now, and I've always bought as a "Small Business", regardless of the resulting use of the hardware, just because it was often 10~20% cheaper.
The "gyros" in Wario-Ware Twisted, Kirby Twist-and-Tumble, and the new Yoshi game, are all accelerometers. They've done quite a lot of business with Analog Devices, in fact, that's who they get their accelerometers from...
It's almost definitely accelerometers, and not "gyroscopes". I agree with the grandparent, the article is definitely full of shit.
there's only two songs, so you don't need a backwards button.... in fact, you don't even need a 'power' button, all such a device needs is a single "next track" button, which you can press-and-hold-for-X-seconds to turn on/off.
You don't seem to know what uClinux is... It's designed to run on embedded microcontrollers, often with even less ram then the DS has.
There is already at least one port of uClinux to the gba. The DS can run gba cartridges, so, DS can already run this port (maybe requiring a few changes to accomodate the new bios, etc).
Of course, the gba port doesn't make use of any of the new DS hardware-bits such as touchscreen, second lcd, etc, but, the point is, linux is very much possible on DS with uClinux.
By ATA, I assume you mean a Cisco ATA 186 (which are no longer sold/made by Cisco anymore, and because of that, they are in fairly high demand now!).
Vonage stopped giving out Cisco ATA 186's sometime after November 2003, and now give out Motorola vt1000's instead.
Guess what? Quality is even worse with the newer Motorola hardware.:(
At least you got out fairly cheap. We had a few dozen lines we had to kill, because quality kept getting worse... You don't want to know the cancellation fee we had to pay:\
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The thing is, enterprise hardware is typically overengineered to handle extra heat+whatever that would come from overclocking, while, the average home user might try to use a stock heatsink+fan that defintely won't cut it...
It's funny how the kotaku's brian got RSVP'd into the press conference, but, Joel from gizmodo got barred from entering. :)
:)
Oh well, I think engadget's a better blog then gizmodo anyway
Speaking for myself, I switched to DragonFlyBSD because of one person - Matt Dillon.
I must assume it works the other way around too.
You do not like them?
So you say!
Try them! Try them!
And you may!
Try them and you may, I say!
There are quite a few mini-itx cases designed this way, where the case acts as a giant heatsink.
Another unexpected side benefit to this is that, if there's absolutely zero free space inside, and, it has to be exactly zero, there won't be space to put an internal modchip. An external modchip is going to be a pretty big turnoff for some people. Of course, this is more then a little unlikely, but, hey, it's possible, considering the formfactor.
Besides the "being out in the back country" thing, there's also "Fell off a cliff", "Got mauled by a bear", or "Got killed in a pile-up on the Interstate"...
Seriously, if the ask-/. submitter becomes incapacitated, what's going to happen to the servers? If the submitter is the only person who can fix the servers, the company is fucked!
Someone needs to be hired! Someone needs to be taught how to fix the damn servers if something happens.
Oh, and wrt to the original question, hiring is still the answer.
Even if it's just a third-party monitoring service (Can you say offshore Indian contractor?)
They can keep trying to contact the submitter, (or, the secondary contact, as per above!!) until they actually reach someone...
Hmm, german hosting to avoid US laws?...
That still might not be enough.
If I were in their shoes, this is what I would do:
1) Generate multiple fake IDs
2) Buy prepaid debit cards online with fake IDs (repeat as necessary.)
3) Buy webhosting in China with disposable debit cards, using fake ID
4) Run a BT-Site/Tracker in China
5) Profit? (from Ads, etc.)
I mean, if people fighting spam can't stop chinese servers from spamming, it's going to be equally impossible to prevent them from hosting torrents...
And even if the MPAA manages to convince a chinese company to shut down the site, you're still protected by hopefully several layers of obscurity.
The latency isn't going to be great, but, if that's what it takes to share my m0vies/tv/pr0n...
Hmm, according to this wiki, Section 31 was created as part of the original Starfleet Charter, which, timeline-wise would be about right for Enterprise
Oh, and according to the wiki, it turns out, the precursor to Section 31 had a role in the last few Enterprise eps that I missed. Wow. It's time to catch up.
Re: the penny arcade strip Oh! Section 31!!! I would love to see a new trek show based on Section 31 ... or, at least, they should show the origins of Section 31, in the current Enterprise series.
I can think of a few industries where SSN disclosure would be required for services. Notably, Tax Preparation, which comes to mind because it's tax time in the US... (Hmm, note to self: file taxes sooner rather then later.)
What's funny is, phones with VGA screens (larger then the PSP) are already on the market.
It's onlu a matter of time until mobile phone graphic acceleration catches up.
Just to add more info to this...
If we do a whois on welcometothescene.com, we find that it was registered by the Jun Group. Doing a simple google search turns up <a href="http://www.dcia.info/News/newsletter_2004-12 -06.htm">http://dcia.info/News/newsletter_2004-12- 06.htm</a>
<karmawhore>
A DCIA Member made industry history last week by premiering the first-of-its-kind original peer-to-peer (P2P) video program series entitled "The Scene."
While other major entertainment industry representatives continued various actions around the world intended to curtail online file sharing, Jun Group took an enormous step forward in the commercial development of this exciting distribution channel.
Like theatrical motion pictures, broadcast television shows, and most recently cable programming, mass media outlets for video content have been able to mark the beginnings of their coming of age with the debuts of their first original made-for-the-medium content.
According to Jun Group president and show co-creator Mitchell Reichgut, "Most content that's available online was originally created for another medium. We created 'The Scene' specifically for file sharers. It's meant to be viewed on the computer."
On November 30th, Jun Group launched this first-ever TV-style series specifically for the global file-sharing community. "The Scene's" protagonist, Brian Sandro, is a fictional young NYU student who also happens to be one of the world's most avid file-swappers.
Sandro's desktop is at the heart of his social life, and viewers get to experience the online "Scene" just as he does - via Web cams, secret chat rooms, private websites, instant messages, and e-mails.
"The Scene" is financed entirely by sponsorships, which themselves exemplify the cutting-edge of creativity. Sandro visits the official website for the extreme sports equipment company that is one of its charter advertisers. He also listens to music on his computer and checks out the bands' websites - as college students typically do.
What makes the show most unique is the fact that it is being distributed solely through the P2P community. "File sharers have made it very clear that this is their preferred method of consuming content," Mitchell said. "We are the first ones who have found a way to truly meet that demand."
He added that the file-sharing audience is a highly desirable demographic of affluent and largely male young adults. Businesses pay for placement based on the number of people who are inspired by the show to visit a sponsor, which is both quantifiable and verifiable.
"Our sponsors will only be paying for the people who download the show or the people we drive to their websites," he noted. "They won't have to rely on outdated ratings systems."
There's no reason to copy-protect the shows, Mitchell said, because the whole idea is for people to copy and share them so that advertisers reach the highest possible number of consumers.
Executives at show sponsor Freebord phoned Jun Group two hours after the premiere to report that their website was "being swamped with traffic." Similarly, the website (http://welcometothescene.com/) that Jun Group created to promote the show temporarily went down due to the overwhelming amount of traffic it was receiving.
It's clear that hundreds of thousands of people downloaded the show in first few hours after its release. "The Scene" is now out on P2P, and on IRC, Usenet, and public FTPs - with no strings attached.
"The Scene" represents Jun Group's latest foray into file sharing. In 2003, the company released five files from Kevin Martin and the Hiwatts, a band featuring the former lead singer of Candlebox, on behalf of YooHoo Chocolate Drink.
The music was downloaded more than two million times over a four-week period, and helped YooHoo achieve the largest spi
Just to add more info to this... If we do a whois on welcometothescene.com, we find that it was registered by the Jun Group. Doing a simple google search turns up http://www.dcia.info/News/newsletter_2004-12-06.ht m. A DCIA Member made industry history last week by premiering the first-of-its-kind original peer-to-peer (P2P) video program series entitled "The Scene." While other major entertainment industry representatives continued various actions around the world intended to curtail online file sharing, Jun Group took an enormous step forward in the commercial development of this exciting distribution channel. Like theatrical motion pictures, broadcast television shows, and most recently cable programming, mass media outlets for video content have been able to mark the beginnings of their coming of age with the debuts of their first original made-for-the-medium content. According to Jun Group president and show co-creator Mitchell Reichgut, "Most content that's available online was originally created for another medium. We created 'The Scene' specifically for file sharers. It's meant to be viewed on the computer." On November 30th, Jun Group launched this first-ever TV-style series specifically for the global file-sharing community. "The Scene's" protagonist, Brian Sandro, is a fictional young NYU student who also happens to be one of the world's most avid file-swappers. Sandro's desktop is at the heart of his social life, and viewers get to experience the online "Scene" just as he does - via Web cams, secret chat rooms, private websites, instant messages, and e-mails. "The Scene" is financed entirely by sponsorships, which themselves exemplify the cutting-edge of creativity. Sandro visits the official website for the extreme sports equipment company that is one of its charter advertisers. He also listens to music on his computer and checks out the bands' websites - as college students typically do. What makes the show most unique is the fact that it is being distributed solely through the P2P community. "File sharers have made it very clear that this is their preferred method of consuming content," Mitchell said. "We are the first ones who have found a way to truly meet that demand." He added that the file-sharing audience is a highly desirable demographic of affluent and largely male young adults. Businesses pay for placement based on the number of people who are inspired by the show to visit a sponsor, which is both quantifiable and verifiable. "Our sponsors will only be paying for the people who download the show or the people we drive to their websites," he noted. "They won't have to rely on outdated ratings systems." There's no reason to copy-protect the shows, Mitchell said, because the whole idea is for people to copy and share them so that advertisers reach the highest possible number of consumers. Executives at show sponsor Freebord phoned Jun Group two hours after the premiere to report that their website was "being swamped with traffic." Similarly, the website (http://welcometothescene.com/) that Jun Group created to promote the show temporarily went down due to the overwhelming amount of traffic it was receiving. It's clear that hundreds of thousands of people downloaded the show in first few hours after its release. "The Scene" is now out on P2P, and on IRC, Usenet, and public FTPs - with no strings attached. "The Scene" represents Jun Group's latest foray into file sharing. In 2003, the company released five files from Kevin Martin and the Hiwatts, a band featuring the former lead singer of Candlebox, on behalf of YooHoo Chocolate Drink. The music was downloaded more than two million times over a four-week period, and helped YooHoo achieve the largest spike in website traffic since the inception of its site. Its more recent partnership with rock legend Steve Winwood and the television show Access Hollywood drove over 3 million downloads and well over 200,000 vis
Solution? Three words. Point Defense Lasers. :)
Actually, I have a feeling that is hardware is not as "Enterprise-grade" as he thinks... Million-dollar disk arrays tend to be built because storage is needed for data worth millions+. One doesn't build million-dollar disk arrays on a whim, of course, no one has the budget anymore... So, one would hope that he would have heavily clustered and load-balanced servers to prevent these crash-reboot-crash cycles... All of our file servers at work, are on clustered in groups of 4+ servers... Heck, even our Legato backup cluster, well, is clustered...
But, UPX is open source under GPL, so you can just modify UPX itself to do whatever you need.
Exactly! New York State (where I live) has sales tax exemption for the hardware I buy for work. Not quite a refund, but, just as good.
I've known about this for a few years now, and I've always bought as a "Small Business", regardless of the resulting use of the hardware, just because it was often 10~20% cheaper.
The "gyros" in Wario-Ware Twisted, Kirby Twist-and-Tumble, and the new Yoshi game, are all accelerometers. They've done quite a lot of business with Analog Devices, in fact, that's who they get their accelerometers from...
It's almost definitely accelerometers, and not "gyroscopes". I agree with the grandparent, the article is definitely full of shit.
there's only two songs, so you don't need a backwards button. ... in fact, you don't even need a 'power' button, all such a device needs is a single "next track" button, which you can press-and-hold-for-X-seconds to turn on/off.
But, Speeding laws aren't designed to prevent speeding, only to generate revenue for state/local gov't. :-) Just like taxes on cigarette.
The solution I guess is to heavily tax violent games, and use the money raised to fund Anti-Violence programs.
Ingenious!!!
You don't seem to know what uClinux is...
It's designed to run on embedded microcontrollers, often with even less ram then the DS has.
There is already at least one port of uClinux to the gba.
The DS can run gba cartridges, so, DS can already run this port (maybe requiring a few changes to accomodate the new bios, etc).
Of course, the gba port doesn't make use of any of the new DS hardware-bits such as touchscreen, second lcd, etc,
but, the point is, linux is very much possible on DS with uClinux.
By ATA, I assume you mean a Cisco ATA 186 (which are no longer sold/made by Cisco anymore, and because of that, they are in fairly high demand now!).
:(
:\
Vonage stopped giving out Cisco ATA 186's sometime after November 2003, and now give out Motorola vt1000's instead.
Guess what? Quality is even worse with the newer Motorola hardware.
At least you got out fairly cheap. We had a few dozen lines we had to kill, because quality kept getting worse... You don't want to know the cancellation fee we had to pay