That's my point. 70% is far better than the OS X's ATi drivers, which are around 40-50% of those compared to Windows, at best. Yes, OpenGL stack may also need work, but so do the drivers.
Also with the UK, in the contract at sale is with the retailer, not the manufacturer. If the retailer can't get your product fixed, for example BFG have gone out of business, then you can claim for damages or a full refund.
If it's in the UK, all products have a lifetime for a minimum of 6 years.
"Goods are of satisfactory quality if they reach the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory, taking into account the price and any description."
Apple honoured a repair I had to my iMac that died when it was three and half years old when I stated the Sales of Goods Act. The machine required a new PSU and logic board. The repair would have been around £800.
Why don't you just buy a Red Rocket and some other hardware encoders? We use them on all our FCP edit suits and some Avid machines, far faster than the 8 core Macs we have, and I would think faster than a 12 core.
There is no need to push hardware developers, they already make DSP chips for mobile devices that will be able to do HW acceleration for WebM. We're just waiting for software to make this happen.
Just to clarify, the joke as used because we seem to be able to detect one thing which is tiny from a long distance, but the bigger thing (planets with life) we can't find.
I spend roughly £60/month for my landline. Broadband is £25 with BT Broadband for a 2.5Mb/s ADSL connection, £15 line rental (everyone has to pay this to BT unless you have cable), the rest is in call charges. I could lower my call charges, I know I'm on the wrong contract.
My exchange allows for LLU ISPs, however they only use ADSL2+ for broadband. My line to the exchange is poor, I can only get 2.5Mb/s ADSL, ADSL2+ is no go on my poor quality line. I'm forced to stick with BT because of their crappy twisted pair cables.
Well if you don't believe them, maybe ask Ars Technica. They say the per home of installation of broadband (via fiber) is between 850 and 1300 Euros. Not exactly cheap. IMHO this broadband plan would make more sense
Wow, that's cheap. My phone bill would pay that off in 1 year to 18 months, after that BT can take the money and invest it elsewhere or make a profit. To say that my current telephone twisted pair cables have been in pace since the 1940's, 18 month payback for fibre doesn't seem a costly thing to do for BT.
Virgin Broadband, the only cable supplier in the UK, want £3,500 to lay 50m of cable to my home. Their green box is at the bottom of my street, but they never laid any cable to my home. Everyone else in the area to where I live have cable to their homes already, they just need coax cable to run in to their homes from the kerb.
DAB is really, really inefficient to transmit. You need far higher power with DAB over FM. DAB is around 30% efficient in transmission, whereas FM is about 90%.
DAB is already transmitted at far greater power than FM, yet we still have trouble with reception on receivers.
It's a technology that needs to die before it really takes off.
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70% of the total performance of Catalyst/fglrx
That's my point. 70% is far better than the OS X's ATi drivers, which are around 40-50% of those compared to Windows, at best. Yes, OpenGL stack may also need work, but so do the drivers.
Open source drivers for OS X? Doubt it.
Mozilla are working hard with browser performance. From startup performance, I/O reduction to speed up some things, even a new caching system. I could name more, but you get the idea.
Why not sue Slashdot, it is owned by Geeknet.
Been going on for months.
Also with the UK, in the contract at sale is with the retailer, not the manufacturer. If the retailer can't get your product fixed, for example BFG have gone out of business, then you can claim for damages or a full refund.
If it's in the UK, all products have a lifetime for a minimum of 6 years.
"Goods are of satisfactory quality if they reach the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory, taking into account the price and any description."
Apple honoured a repair I had to my iMac that died when it was three and half years old when I stated the Sales of Goods Act. The machine required a new PSU and logic board. The repair would have been around £800.
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/consumers/fact-sheets/page38311.html
Perhaps it was this bill? http://www.theonion.com/video/proposed-classified-bill-will-defend-against-flesh,14175/
What's that in deci-Bels?
An ounce is a unit of weight, not mass.
Same here. :)
Or just apply it to a DVD-ROM, USB drive etc.
So I guess this makes all optical drives illegal too then.
Well, they haven't, but they may as well do it.
Why don't you just buy a Red Rocket and some other hardware encoders? We use them on all our FCP edit suits and some Avid machines, far faster than the 8 core Macs we have, and I would think faster than a 12 core.
There is no need to push hardware developers, they already make DSP chips for mobile devices that will be able to do HW acceleration for WebM. We're just waiting for software to make this happen.
At least in space, nobody will be able to hear your vuvuzela.
Just to clarify, the joke as used because we seem to be able to detect one thing which is tiny from a long distance, but the bigger thing (planets with life) we can't find.
Build some good karma, you then have the option to have /. with no ads.
I spend roughly £60/month for my landline. Broadband is £25 with BT Broadband for a 2.5Mb/s ADSL connection, £15 line rental (everyone has to pay this to BT unless you have cable), the rest is in call charges. I could lower my call charges, I know I'm on the wrong contract.
My exchange allows for LLU ISPs, however they only use ADSL2+ for broadband. My line to the exchange is poor, I can only get 2.5Mb/s ADSL, ADSL2+ is no go on my poor quality line. I'm forced to stick with BT because of their crappy twisted pair cables.
Well if you don't believe them, maybe ask Ars Technica. They say the per home of installation of broadband (via fiber) is between 850 and 1300 Euros. Not exactly cheap. IMHO this broadband plan would make more sense
Wow, that's cheap. My phone bill would pay that off in 1 year to 18 months, after that BT can take the money and invest it elsewhere or make a profit. To say that my current telephone twisted pair cables have been in pace since the 1940's, 18 month payback for fibre doesn't seem a costly thing to do for BT.
Virgin Broadband, the only cable supplier in the UK, want £3,500 to lay 50m of cable to my home. Their green box is at the bottom of my street, but they never laid any cable to my home. Everyone else in the area to where I live have cable to their homes already, they just need coax cable to run in to their homes from the kerb.
I hate it when papers just copy and past from press releases. I know plenty of papers that do this.
DAB is really, really inefficient to transmit. You need far higher power with DAB over FM. DAB is around 30% efficient in transmission, whereas FM is about 90%.
DAB is already transmitted at far greater power than FM, yet we still have trouble with reception on receivers.
It's a technology that needs to die before it really takes off.
BT managed to work out where I lived with my Twitter name, the BT account is in somebody else's name. How they put the two together is beyond me.
I had it as an app on my Sony Ericsson phone circa year 2000.