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by Deanjo
Tue Jun 21, 2016 10:01 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: 16GB(15GB) usable RAM
Replies: 29
Views: 12367

Re: 16GB(15GB) usable RAM

jacky753 wrote:
But I don't have a GPU, but a APU.. does that mean, the APU is reserving 1GB?


YES! An APU reserves memory for its own use as it does not have any of its own like on a dedicated card.
by Deanjo
Tue Jun 21, 2016 5:52 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?
Replies: 110
Views: 15607

Re: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?

@Deanjo: There are very good life-and-limb reasons why farm and yard machinery should always stop as soon as seat pressure and/or a dead-man's switch is released. Not quite the same with passenger vehicles, which may be placed in neutral for a variety of scenarios where the vehicle needs to be both...
by Deanjo
Tue Jun 21, 2016 1:46 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?
Replies: 110
Views: 15607

Re: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?

Have you looked at the youth today? They are a bunch of bicycle riding hipsters and it doesn't look like it is getting better. Try putting them in an old pickup with three on the tree and no synchros, I bet all they can do is stall. In 20 years if you mention a phone cord, kids would look at you li...
by Deanjo
Tue Jun 21, 2016 12:25 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?
Replies: 110
Views: 15607

Re: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?

The preventative system might require new hardware, but even if it doesn't, the designers still have a lot of work on their hands doing failure mode analysis. The designers will also have a choice of how the system fails. If the brake defaults to "off", then they'll probably add some sort...
by Deanjo
Tue Jun 21, 2016 8:27 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?
Replies: 110
Views: 15607

Re: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?

Well people who build cars DO try to fix or prevent problems as much as possible, but there's only so much that can be done, and cars get wear and tear in ways that software won't. If something fails and the owner had to spend a ton of money to repair a seat sensor just so he can drive his car agai...
by Deanjo
Tue Jun 21, 2016 8:25 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?
Replies: 110
Views: 15607

Re: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?

Lane markers and traffic signs in parking lots are more like guidelines than code... But beyond that, imagine in 20 years when a kid born in 2019 learns to drive in a beat up Tesla and then he borrows a 2017 Jeep and totally relies on the car to put itself in park when he opens the door and takes o...
by Deanjo
Mon Jun 20, 2016 8:35 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?
Replies: 110
Views: 15607

Re: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?

Again, a manufacturer can't control the person using it, and if we can't prevent someone from doing a thing, all we can do is tell them not to do it. This can literally be the purpose of an alarm. If we could stop them from doing a bad thing (in the design), we would have, but we can't, so all we c...
by Deanjo
Mon Jun 20, 2016 1:11 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?
Replies: 110
Views: 15607

Re: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?

See above. There is at least one legitimate case where you would want to exit the vehicle while leaving it in neutral. Also, such a system would only apply to electric parking brakes (or electric brakes in general). Sure, but an override can easily be accommodated. If you run into that scenario, yo...
by Deanjo
Mon Jun 20, 2016 12:29 pm
Forum: Processors
Topic: Home-Grown Chinese Supercomputer #1 in Top 500
Replies: 17
Views: 3169

Re: Home-Grown Chinese Supercomputer #1 in Top 500

anotherengineer wrote:

Lies

you have friends on the "inside" ;)


I neither confirm nor deny said accusation.
by Deanjo
Mon Jun 20, 2016 10:59 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?
Replies: 110
Views: 15607

Re: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?

See above. There is at least one legitimate case where you would want to exit the vehicle while leaving it in neutral. Also, such a system would only apply to electric parking brakes (or electric brakes in general). Sure, but an override can easily be accommodated. If you run into that scenario, yo...
by Deanjo
Mon Jun 20, 2016 10:23 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?
Replies: 110
Views: 15607

Re: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?

Better than an alarm (alarms are ignored all to often), they should simply have the parking brake apply automatically when there is no pressure sensed in the drivers seat. They already do this for airbag activation on some vehicles. When there isn't anyone in the seat, that airbag is not enabled.
by Deanjo
Mon Jun 20, 2016 8:45 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?
Replies: 110
Views: 15607

Re: Anton Yelchin's death - What kind of car?

The speculation on the shifter reminded me of the infamous Ford sticker

http://www.fordification.com/tech/auto-trans_recall.htm
by Deanjo
Mon Jun 20, 2016 8:19 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: Home-Grown Chinese Supercomputer #1 in Top 500
Replies: 17
Views: 3169

Re: Home-Grown Chinese Supercomputer #1 in Top 500

It will be interesting to see how many existing supercomputers that are currently running Tesla systems upgrade to the new Tesla P100 since they are drop in replacements for older ones. I know the Swiss have already committed to upgrading theirs. How do you know that? I can read. http://www.anandte...
by Deanjo
Mon Jun 20, 2016 8:07 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: Home-Grown Chinese Supercomputer #1 in Top 500
Replies: 17
Views: 3169

Re: Home-Grown Chinese Supercomputer #1 in Top 500

It will be interesting to see how many existing supercomputers that are currently running Tesla systems upgrade to the new Tesla P100 since they are drop in replacements for older ones. I know the Swiss have already committed to upgrading theirs.
by Deanjo
Fri Jun 17, 2016 8:46 am
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Flatpak the future of Linux?
Replies: 38
Views: 6940

Re: Flatpak the future of Linux?

Yes and no. My hope is that a system-level standard for sandboxing catches on for applications, with a common virtualization platform. You have been around long enough to know that when it comes to computing, that when it comes to new computing technology, distill it down to the worst possible opti...
by Deanjo
Fri Jun 17, 2016 7:55 am
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Flatpak the future of Linux?
Replies: 38
Views: 6940

Re: Flatpak the future of Linux?

Yes, I think application virtualization will become more widespread. Given the ever-increasing sophistication of malware, sandboxing makes sense. It's already widely used (if not the norm) on the server side; as consumer hardware has become more powerful, it will trickle down to consumer applicatio...
by Deanjo
Thu Jun 16, 2016 10:14 am
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Flatpak the future of Linux?
Replies: 38
Views: 6940

Re: Flatpak the future of Linux?

Sounds a lot like what Ryan C Gordon proposed years ago with FatELF.
by Deanjo
Thu Jun 09, 2016 8:29 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: Zen/Kaby Lake delayed till Jan 2017
Replies: 23
Views: 4069

Re: Zen/Kaby Lake delayed till Jan 2017

The Egg wrote:
Deanjo wrote:
LMFAO, I called that sooooo damn well. If they are lucky, it might be out by summer of next year.


We should have listened, Deanjo, WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED!!!


I thought that was just common knowledge by now.
by Deanjo
Thu Jun 09, 2016 7:48 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: Zen/Kaby Lake delayed till Jan 2017
Replies: 23
Views: 4069

Re: Zen/Kaby Lake delayed till Jan 2017

LMFAO, I called that sooooo damn well. If they are lucky, it might be out by summer of next year.
by Deanjo
Tue Jun 07, 2016 6:06 pm
Forum: Processors
Topic: VIA Octa Core Benchmark Results & Kaby Lake/Zen Delayed
Replies: 15
Views: 3023

Re: VIA Octa Core Benchmark Results & Kaby Lake/Zen Delayed

whm1974 wrote:
Takeshi7 wrote:
If they make a new VIA CPU and bundle it with a new S3 GPU I'll be so happy.

And provide good Linux support.


Well you just crushed your own dream. VIA doesn't have the best track record when it comes to linux support (particularly the graphics).
by Deanjo
Tue Jun 07, 2016 5:54 pm
Forum: Processors
Topic: Would you buy a 16-core CPU for $600?
Replies: 117
Views: 11034

Re: Would you buy a 16-core CPU for $600?

The limitations you are seeing with Handbrake are decoding related, that is the bottleneck. If you were to try with either an uncompressed source you would see scaling well past what any consumer level cpu can fully saturate. But decode and encode together is typical workload for most folks, so the...
by Deanjo
Tue Jun 07, 2016 3:48 pm
Forum: Processors
Topic: Would you buy a 16-core CPU for $600?
Replies: 117
Views: 11034

Re: Would you buy a 16-core CPU for $600?

Which? x264 is fully capable of utilizing as many cores as you throw at it using CBR or CQ so anything like even handbrake can fully utilize the extra cores (and slam them to the max). Through in some filtering and effects and they will have plenty to do. Umm, handbrake...? http://techreport.com/re...
by Deanjo
Tue Jun 07, 2016 1:42 pm
Forum: Processors
Topic: Would you buy a 16-core CPU for $600?
Replies: 117
Views: 11034

Re: Would you buy a 16-core CPU for $600?

anotherengineer wrote:

:)

In another 60 million years we might be warm and tropical, wonder if the Leafs will win the cup before then?? ;)


Correction, the Canada turning tropical probably has better odds. ;D
by Deanjo
Tue Jun 07, 2016 1:37 pm
Forum: Processors
Topic: Would you buy a 16-core CPU for $600?
Replies: 117
Views: 11034

Re: Would you buy a 16-core CPU for $600?

anotherengineer wrote:
pfffff

I want Canada to be warm and tropical all year round!!


Why don't you just ask for the Leafs to win another cup? We are talking about even odds.
by Deanjo
Tue Jun 07, 2016 12:16 pm
Forum: Processors
Topic: Would you buy a 16-core CPU for $600?
Replies: 117
Views: 11034

Re: Would you buy a 16-core CPU for $600?

Heavy video encoding will be good for this. A lot of standard encoding software won't actually scale to 16 cores, for a variety of reasons. Which? x264 is fully capable of utilizing as many cores as you throw at it using CBR or CQ so anything like even handbrake can fully utilize the extra cores (a...
by Deanjo
Mon Jun 06, 2016 1:03 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: GTX-1080 linux review is up
Replies: 11
Views: 2308

Re: GTX-1080 linux review is up

You even list Windows 10 as installed on your rig. Huh... wonder why? LMFAO, what are you smoking? The only windows install I have resides in a VM and gets booted up maybe every 3-4 months just to do Windows updates. http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=117341&hilit=supermicro ...
by Deanjo
Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:04 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: GTX-1080 linux review is up
Replies: 11
Views: 2308

Re: GTX-1080 linux review is up

There are more benches coming. And BTW, lack of games isn't the issue. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Why-Test-Automation So... No. We won't be getting any benchmarks of games people actually play from Phoronix. I'm not even sure it matters, same for the review in general un...
by Deanjo
Mon Jun 06, 2016 11:27 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: GTX-1080 linux review is up
Replies: 11
Views: 2308

Re: GTX-1080 linux review is up

Neat-o. A single game covered that people actually play, Dota 2. Makes you wonder who in the world would buy a GTX 1080 and restrict themselves to only gaming on Linux... virtually no one. That's who. There are more benches coming. And BTW, lack of games isn't the issue. http://www.phoronix.com/sca...
by Deanjo
Mon Jun 06, 2016 11:16 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: GTX-1080 linux review is up
Replies: 11
Views: 2308

GTX-1080 linux review is up

As expected, the 1080 pretty much obliterates everything else in linux

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... 1080&num=1
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