Nomad was wondering whether people have given up on the licence fee issue. It seems not. Here is as cutting and succinct an explanation of what is wrong with the TV licence as you are likely to find.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/janetdaley/100005659/alan-yentob-hits-back-for-the-bbc-and-misses-the-point/
Thursday, 6 August 2009
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Hyperthreading, what the ..... ?
So back to the high resolution video saga. At this point it is worth asking why Timo (whoever he is) cant provide video in slightly less high resolution. Unless you own an enormous plasma screen, there really is not much benefit.
It seems that Nomad's last post on this topic was a little 'previous'. Installing an ethernet over mains link made a significant improvement. However on some of the high resolution videos, sound continues to drop out. Interestingly, for a particular video, the point at which it drops out is repeatable. This is obviously a hardware performance issue, not a software compatability one.
Surely video format conversion is the sort of processor intensive task where hyperthreading would improve performance? So Nomad thought. He had a suspicion that his PC did not have hyperthreading turned on. So he rooted around in the BIOS, selected hyperthreading on and rebooted the machine 27 times as you do. Did this make any difference? Errrr ... no. But surely it must have made some difference? Ummm....no. No difference whatsoever. Nada. The sound dropped out at exactly the same point as before (to the second).
Possible lines of attack from here:
It seems that Nomad's last post on this topic was a little 'previous'. Installing an ethernet over mains link made a significant improvement. However on some of the high resolution videos, sound continues to drop out. Interestingly, for a particular video, the point at which it drops out is repeatable. This is obviously a hardware performance issue, not a software compatability one.
Surely video format conversion is the sort of processor intensive task where hyperthreading would improve performance? So Nomad thought. He had a suspicion that his PC did not have hyperthreading turned on. So he rooted around in the BIOS, selected hyperthreading on and rebooted the machine 27 times as you do. Did this make any difference? Errrr ... no. But surely it must have made some difference? Ummm....no. No difference whatsoever. Nada. The sound dropped out at exactly the same point as before (to the second).
Possible lines of attack from here:
- Hyperthreading is all a con, just turn it off
- Hyperthreading will work better with Windows 7, give yet more money to Mr Gates
- Processor loading is not really the problem, try a faster disk drive.
At the moment that last option looks like the best one. A fresh round of funding for the project is under review.
More biased than ever
Just to prove that Nomad has not given up on this project, here are a couple of excellent recent postings about 'the corporation'.
Ed West on coverage of the Arab/Israeli conflict:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100005573/how-impartiality-rules-allow-the-bbc-to-sideline-conservative-opinions/
Daniel Hannan on the Norwich North by-election:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100004661/anti-ukip-and-pro-green-the-bbc-at-its-most-blatantly-biased/
and in case you need reminding what this is all about, here is an older article from Dan on Charles Moore's boycott:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/5869815/The_BBC_could_be_brought_down_by_a_popular_boycott/
Ed West on coverage of the Arab/Israeli conflict:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100005573/how-impartiality-rules-allow-the-bbc-to-sideline-conservative-opinions/
Daniel Hannan on the Norwich North by-election:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100004661/anti-ukip-and-pro-green-the-bbc-at-its-most-blatantly-biased/
and in case you need reminding what this is all about, here is an older article from Dan on Charles Moore's boycott:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/5869815/The_BBC_could_be_brought_down_by_a_popular_boycott/
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