That's just wrong, considering you have another substitute for “the dishes need to be washed“ - it's “the dishes need washing” rather than “the dishes need washed”

This is participle country, boy. Why don't you take your yankee gerunds and ride on outta here?

The systems belong to the PHBs.

I dunno, sounds like the admin owned it for quite a while

I personally think there should be a constitutional amendment protecting privacy.

Indeed. I've been saying this for a while now. I have no idea what it would look like, though. Could it pass constitutional muster? Would it have teeth?

No, it doesn't. It means they have the option (or perhaps duty) to block content they KNOW is unlawful, as determined by a party authorized to investigate, ie, law enforcement armed with a subpoena. This thing about how forced neutrality equals government takeover is specious at best and intentionally misdirecting wharggarbl at worst. It means ISP's are allowed, and in some ways encouraged, NOT to use DPI at all.

Where are you shopping? Pricewatch shows the 920's best price at $275, and Newegg has it at $279. Add in an expensive motherboard and expensive RAM, and you have an expensive system, that 95% of users wouldn't be able to tell the difference. At 130 watts, btw. On the other hand, the 3.0ghz AMD 95 watts at $169, 785g motherboard with infinitely better onboard video, multi-media crap onboard, etc, and you have a killer all around system for like 400 bucks. I do wish AMD had an answer to triple channel ram, though. Intel definitely dominates the high end right now. I'm still kicking around an AMD 939 2.2ghz dual that I wish would get hit by lightning or something so I could muster up an excuse to replace it. I'm on an AMD 2.8 quad (45nm) with 8 gigs of 1066 ram and raid 0, and for most tasks, I can't tell a bit of difference. I suspect upgrading to an Intel 920 would be similar.

What's up with Newegg, btw? They're either getting hit with a dos, or it's really time to upgrade.

1. Using the faster ram is a feature of the chip
2. XPS is supposed to be high performance line
3. You're obviously a threadshitter or a troll of some kind... how... unique

Does it really use ddr2-800 instead of ddr-1066? Seems like an odd oversight, unless I'm missing something. TFA says "The processor is connected to 4 GB of DDR2-800 memory, which gives theoretical memory bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s".. Anybody know for sure based on that 12.8g/s measurement? The 800 runs at 200x4 while 1066 runs at 266x4. The article doesn't even mention 1066 at all, ie, "it doesn't use 1066 because" or anything.. Actually, I just checked wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddr3 and it seems 12.8 gig is associated with ddr3/1600 ram.. now I'm really confused.

Use FLV like youtube, just don't compress them as much. The question you'll have to face is whether to allow users to skip ahead in the video or they can only watch the portion that has downloaded. If you want users to be able to skip ahead, that will require a streaming server. If you don't mind making users download the whole video to skip to the end, then any old web server will do it with no special add-ons. But yeah, basically just take high quality video and convert it to FLV. The converter program should allow you to specify the quality to use. I like FLV because it is so well supported. All the others seem to have too many gotchas, but damn near anyone can play an FLV as long as they have Flash, and almost everyone has Flash these days. And if you use the simple streaming method I mentioned above, you can host it basically anywhere you want.