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Tesla Partners With Airbnb, Subsidizes Chargers 59

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 23, 2015 @04:02PM from the wanna-sleep-over-tonight? dept.

Fortune reports that Tesla and Airbnb have teamed up; certain Airbnb properties will get Tesla chargers as a perk. There are 12 locations already equippped with chargers, but expect to see more soon, because Tesla is willing to pay for some of them, at least in California. To get on the list from which Tesla is drawing takes more than an air mattress in a spare room: An existing Airbnb host who lists an entire home, has had more than more than five bookings, and has an average overall star rating of 4+ is eligible to receive a free Tesla charger, which cost $750. The host must pay for the installation, which costs between $200 and $900 depending on the layout of the home.

Linux Kernel Benchmarks, 2.6.24-2.6.29 38

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @05:30PM from the impressive-span dept.

Ashmash writes "Phoronix has posted benchmarks of the Linux kernel from versions 2.6.24 to 2.6.29. They ran a number of desktop benchmarks from the Phoronix Test Suite on each of the six kernels on an Ubuntu host with an Intel Core 2 processor. The points they make with the new Linux 2.6.29 kernel are 1. there's a regression with 7-Zip compression 2. OpenSSL has improved significantly 3. a regression drastically impacting the SQLite performance has been fixed 4. the OpenMP GraphicsMagick performance is phenomenally better with this new kernel. In all of their other tests, the kernel performance was the roughly the same."

Vim 7.2 Released 106

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @03:39PM from the vigor-too dept.

sanguisdex writes "After fifteen months of work: a brand new Vim release! This is a stable version. There are many bug fixes and updated runtime files. The only new feature worth mentioning is support for floating point. Upgrading from a previous version is highly recommended: a few crashing bugs and several security issues were fixed. For the details see the announcement or go directly to the download page."

The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast 279

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @05:29AM from the but-you-have-actual-competition dept.

Barence writes "The deplorable speed of British broadband connections has been revealed in the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics, which show that 42.3% of broadband connections are slower than 2Mb/sec. More worryingly, the ONS statistics are based on the connection's headline speed, not actual throughput, which means that many more British broadband connections are effectively below the 2Mb/sec barrier. Better still, a separate report issued yesterday by Ofcom revealed that the majority of broadband users had no idea about the speed of their connection anyway."

Comment Was there, nearly gone (Score 4, Informative) 143

by Jo Deisenhofer on Friday July 11, 2008 @08:20AM (#24151269) Attached to: Hardware-Based Video Acceleration Coming To Linux

XvMC does only accelerate MPEG-2, and not many use it, because the de-interlacing you can get sucks. And for MPEG-2, you usually don't need hardware acceleration anyway.
nVidia, like ATI, are moving away from video overlays and have some pretty nice GPU-based video decoding built into their cards using the GPU (most of it probably implemented as shader programs).
But you can't use any of that with linux, you are basically down to hardware video scaling, which the newest cards no longer really support.
It is high time for a new, industry standard API for video. I hope that's what they are doing.

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