A simple question about why adding memory dramatically boosted the performance of an AMD APU ultimately led me to write a highly-detailed technical answer:
TL;DR answer
The performance of any GPU, including those found in AMD APUs, is heavily dependent on memory bandwidth. The memory upgrade caused a dramatic performance increase because the system previously had only one memory module, and the upgrade added a second module which doubled memory ban...
@Bob it already did :PP my mod ion engine that requires no resources (or more technically, generates its own) :P
although technically a true ion engine is still a reaction engine (it has to expel mass out of the spacecraft to generate thrust), the way I designed it, the net mass of the ship remains a constant despite an unlimited amount of delta-V
it looks like an ion engine, but it behaves like an EmDrive
in the grand scheme of quantum mechanics, it's always seemed insanely limiting that we could only go anywhere by basically shitting baryonic particles (if we're lazy, we shit them at fairly low energy, as in chemical rockets; if we're efficient, we shit them at significant fractions of the speed of light, like high Isp ion engines)
the idea of translating about the universe simply using photons is awesome
receive photons from cosmic rays, solar radiation, etc. --> generate electricity --> propel craft
that's a very low-end Haswell CPU, and its single-thread performance is much faster; its multithreaded performance is pretty close (and you're not going to see the multithreaded benefits of that 6-core unless you have some magical game engine that can peg more than 2 threads); and given the price of buying that Phenom, the value proposition is enormously in favor of the i3
if you were actually considering buying one of those Phenoms, you could get a new motherboard and a new Haswell i3 for less money than buying a new Phenom
unless you have to also buy new RAM -- if your current mobo is DDR2, you'd need DDR3... and anyway, if you have DDR2, your total system performance will be lightyears slower than a Haswell system with DDR3, because DDR2 will easily bottleneck with 6 cores putting out that much raw performance
and if you don't need new RAM then the original analysis stands: the i3 plus a new mobo is cheaper than buying that Phenom
While hunting through some code I came across the arrow operator, what exactly does it do? I thought Java did not have an arrow operator.
return (Collection<Car>) CollectionUtils.select(listOfCars, (arg0) -> {
return Car.SEDAN == ((Car)arg0).getStyle();
});
Details: Java 6, Apache Comm...
@DragonLord Did anyone check to see if the UMA frame buffer size changed? speed can only account for about 20% at the max even, double rate for about 10% . Allocating more of the system ram to video ram would be how much? noise on the web suggest that the A10 APU UMA can be set to auto in the bios , allocating 128m to 1&2G of memory. IF that was true in this case, allocating 1gig when there is 4 there, and 2gig when there is 8 there , would be a natural for AUTO ? I dont Do amd or APU.
They were relating the APU shared memory ammount to the old AGP memory ammount, where you could set how much was shared , while this ammount was still usable by both if needed in the olf AGP. There also where the GPU itself benefitted from ram, the BIOS could be set for just how much was set out for it.
The old AGP, that i do remember :-) In that quetion the guy doesnt have enough memory for the 64bit OS itsefl :-) the pig that it is. Then he runs a high end game too, and he has some sort of "shared memory" that can exist. Plus he only uses 1600 memory anyways which your links themselves suggest would be a 10% decrease. so i believe that some attribution should be made to the idea that he was completly choked out on memory for a modern system, with a modern game.
It sounds like you receive a BitTorrent app from an untrusted source. Never install anything from a random web site, always use CNET or the official site, because they are liable to give you malware with your EXE install.
If you are on Windows, take a look at Installed Apps. Some "ethical" adw...
Argggg! must say something :-) Cnet was the only place i aquired a piece of malware from, in like 3 years.
Integer math can generate amazing patterns when laid out over a grid. Even the most basic functions can yield stunningly elaborate designs!
Your challenge
Write 3 Tweetable (meaning 140 characters or less) function bodies for the red, green, and blue values for a 1024x1024 image.
The input to ...
Well, this is a good course at a reputable university... it might be better than whatever crap edx offers. I dislike them just for their crappy site design :P
My. Mobile . Phone. Really.
20 million users per month?
= 1 million users per day on 20 business days
= 125000 visitors per hour on 8 business hours (realize am rounding up significantly to the end number)
= 35,78 vistitors per second. Ouch. Not a lot.
Ok, a lot for my mobile phone. But dependi...
gotta make this learning shit fun. They spend the first 3 hours of a strategy game, where your learning the mechanics of the game only. If that was somehow replaced by learning something useful?
how does a wireless card on the motherboard go bad? antenna disconnects? drivers flucked up, cant get control of it because dual software conflict of MS own and the adapters software
@HackToHell it happens just like bob says it happens, start trying to control what is on and off and the system has so many interdependencies it takes forever to figure out how to control it all.
did you know if you turn off "tabletinputservice" the screen snipping tool wont work, WTF , why MS no longer know how to program?
if you turn off aspects of "live" so the e-mail doesnt connect to MS to get your ISP e-mail, the e-rmail wont work, and it always checks with microsoft as it leaves anyways.
I have no idea how anybody steals the OS anymore and thinks that MS doesnt know, because there is at least 4 ways it connects that are not discussed when ripping off the OS, 2 of them require no DNS.
I can guarentee that MS has a big ass nice/naughty list on a server out there somehwere :-)
I do not rip off the OS, I got more licences for all this stuff than I need, but i also dont like things doing stuff that i didnt say it could. For a OS that has all that Stuff stopping ME from doing things with my own computer, it has balls to be doing stuff itself without me.
with obsolete win98se a person knew they had a virus is 20 seconds, only 4 things were running. With XP you could stop and close everything , if anything was still running at that point it Had To be a virus. With windows 7 there is so much stuff going on behind the scenes, a virus could take over steal all your data , leave a note on the side "thanks bud" and half the people using it wouldnt know anything even occured.
i guess making these comics isnt going to get much better.
@JourneymanGeek sure just needs a little kernel adjustment so it works with more than 1G of memory, then a little fix for accessing large hard drives. That would only leave finding all the software that was entirely obsoleted, and going back to playing Doom 1
I worked with a system that was still running win95 , and it was horrible, they had such a horribly small ammount of memory it was paging to disk prior to getting done booting even.
can you fix my computer that takes 5 minutes to boot? sure let me call up the vatican and see if there is an exorsist available. If that doesnt work we will keep the priest around to do last rights.
> Power and Search buttons on the Start screen. These buttons appear in the upper-right corner of the Start screen next to your account picture. You'll be able to quickly and easily shut down your PC or search for things right from Start. (Some types of PCs don't have the Power button on Start. You can shut down your PC using the Power button in the Settings charm instead.) For more info, see Shut down (turn off), sleep, or hibernate your PC and How to search.
that 3rd generation processor, with 60K memory , and 24x80 display is sure to not be outgrown. Moors law says that it will be decades before a computer rivaling it and costing less would exist :-)
@Psycogeek Some NAND cards are slow and some are fast when buying from China. Those that are fast are made of higher quality material? Is material quality what decides speed?
@Boris_yo i think you decide if the speed exists or not? There are sandisk class2 flash chips that are as fast as some china flash falsely classed as class 10
how many time more memory than these things , have they squished down and put into 2x2mm X.5mm thick on a cpu die?
@Boris_yo I think besides great advanacement made in the nand being smaller and working faster , they do things like this "Built-in ultra-high speed control chip, a 4-channel parallel processing technology, 4-way simultaneous operation flash " Basically a "raid0" controller. to get all the stuff that has to happen working simeltaniously in different blocks and cells and all at the same time.
@HackToHell well, if you completely ignore all the libraries (Boost, etc) and C++11 and such improvements, any book by Stroustrup will still be relevant for learning the fundamentals
yes it's Saturday, but I've been working 6 day weeks
Friday has been a black hole -- drive about an hour further south than I usually go and help some developers who are frankly sub-par learn to use Selenium
my company takes a lot of flak for having absolutely abysmal anti-employee HR practices -- and rightfully so! -- but the one that's perfectly reasonable is "if people work overtime, pay them straight time overtime, even if they're "exempt" from US labor laws that would mandate them by law to pay it"
I'm okay with straight time; I haven't gotten overtime (1.5x / 2x) since I was a Non-Exempt intern :P
if you're a "professional" in the US (the classification is sufficiently loose that some seriously non-professional jobs fall in) you are "exempt" from 99% of the labor laws that the government enacted
Hi guys... what if I buy a laptop from Dell or HP... the operating system is gonna be in English right? What if I need the operating system in German? Do I have to buy a new license for Windows 8 which is gonna be in German?
I mean when I buy it from Dell.com or HP.com... in US...
one of the big things is you are allowed to make a fixed amount of money per year irrespective of whether you work 2 hours or 24 * 365 hours, and the government doesn't give a fuck if you end up making like $3/hour as a result
non-exempt (people who are not "professional") are required by law to make overtime, with 1.5x their hourly wage for normal overtime, and 2 times their hourly wage for holiday work
It is not that I mind localised OS's. But I do mind improperly translated and utterly incompresensible translations.
Not sure for win8, but in win7 you could change the language for a few versions. (e.g. not for home or starter, but in ultimate and/or maybe enterprise you could)
Windows 8 Professional and Windows 8 Enterprise both allow you to buy the OS in language X and install a language pack for language Y, reboot, and bam your UI is in that language
not sure if the language packs are an additional $$$
if you're, say, a cashier, or a trash man, you are definitely not a professional, so you are "Non-Exempt"... this Non-Exempt status grants you employee rights that are comparable to, say, Western Europe's normal employee rights (overtime, etc)
if you work in an office and make a more lucrative wage with benefits etc, you are probably "Exempt", which means you are a highly paid Indentured Servant with no rights :P
I'm really pissed at PowerReviews demanding a transfer of rights when you post a review https://blog.fierydragonlord.com/index.php?/archives/21-PowerReviews-takes-away-your-rights-when-you-post-a-review!.html
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While hunting through some code I came across the arrow operator, what exactly does it do? I thought Java did not have an arrow operator.
return (Collection<Car>) CollectionUtils.select(listOfCars, (arg0) -> {
return Car.SEDAN == ((Car)arg0).getStyle();
});
Details: Java 6, Apache Comm...
Integer math can generate amazing patterns when laid out over a grid. Even the most basic functions can yield stunningly elaborate designs!
Your challenge
Write 3 Tweetable (meaning 140 characters or less) function bodies for the red, green, and blue values for a 1024x1024 image.
The input to ...
My. Mobile . Phone. Really.
20 million users per month?
= 1 million users per day on 20 business days
= 125000 visitors per hour on 8 business hours (realize am rounding up significantly to the end number)
= 35,78 vistitors per second. Ouch. Not a lot.
Ok, a lot for my mobile phone. But dependi...
