my prediction: Intel will continue to win in top-end performance, but AMD's will be much more competitive (though, not enough to be a clear winner) on perf per watt
my prediction #2: AMD's GCN 1.1 inside those APUs is going to be beastly and will soundly beat Iris Pro
and then Broadwell will render AMD's new toys obsolete ;p
AMD's current procs do run a bit hot, but they've been reasonably competitive in a multi-threaded benchmark. They take the biggest hit with the single-threaded stuff.
I'm not convinced that this will catch them up significantly in the single-thread benches, but they'll definitely stop requiring 105 Watts (or more) to compete with a ~65 Watt Ivy Bridge i5
many types of physics simulation don't have to be done on a single thread; the Bullet physics engine makes heavy use of threads, and in fact, some of its algorithms have OpenCL ports that can run on thousands of GPU cores
KSP should either use Bullet, or do their own thing that's similar
I'd say the 20nm APU is going to give any GPU made on a process larger than 28nm a real run for its money, regardless of how much the MSRP of your GPU was at launch (even the high-end parts are in trouble)
guaranteed, the R9 290X / GTX 780 / GTX 780 Ti / the new GTX 980 Maxwell2 release are going to absolutely obliterate this new 20nm APU... however, mid-grade, first-gen 28nm parts, and basically all 40nm parts are going to be hard-pressed to beat it, IMO. but we'll see when it's out :P
the GTX 560 looks to be from the same generation as the Radeon 5870... yeah, this APU is going to beat your 560, I'm afraid... I mean I'm not 100% sure, but pretty damn sure :P
@Bob the lack of the TSMC 20nm process's availability has held down the GPU market from being able to do more than incremental perf increases for about twice as long as the other process node steps
Well, although I haven't written my cool embedded browser that fakes out MLB yet, the individual pieces I've put together have at least enabled me to listen to Spotify at work lol
@Mokubai sorry for ignoring you, I was in the middle of talking about memory and GPUs :O
@Bob Get this. Adobe Flash ignores the proxy your browser sets, even if you set it as the "global" system proxy in IE. It ignores your proxy in Firefox, Chrome, and IE. But Proxifier injects code into the winsock32 library that forces it through a SOCKS5 proxy. It's none the wiser because SOCKS5 proxies TCP.
And best of all, every OpenSSH client<->server has a builtin SOCKS5 proxy :D
I guess it's a little inefficient doing it this way, since the alternative of doing OpenVPN over TCP is probably more efficient (and my Work Computer #2 doesn't do application-layer filtering on port 443, and I have permanent admin rights to install what I want)
right now I have stunnel out to the SSH port, then push the SSH socks5 proxy through the stunnel (using RC4 because it's less CPU overhead and we're already encrypted with TLS 1.1)
@allquixotic Aye, I was looking to see if I could get any of her stuff but all I can find is CD imports that cost 5x what a CD should costs. Amazon didn't have any of her older stuff.
One CD was £55 which is like a million of your American monies...
@allquixotic Not when you use my patent-pending Infinite Compressor Algorithm! All the compressed data is stored in the filename so the file size is compressed to 0!!!111!!!oneoneone!!
I don't think any legally licensed media outlets aside from perhaps Amazon MP3 or iTunes that are available in the US and Australia would carry it -- the easiest way to get it would be to import the CDs
my favorites from her include (these are song titles): Ryuuseigun, Gekkou, Infection, Shadow, and Crow
all in the tar though
some of the tracks are of dubious quality because they're a hundred years old (I was a minor when I got some of those) and have likely been lossily recompressed
My cat is demanding food. When asked why he can't just eat the biscuits that are down for him I get the stare that says "Human, you know that biscuits are not food. Now get on with it and feed me."
He could be related to the plant from little shop of horrors...
@Bob ugh, I just got our mutual most hated GUI ever... it shows up in 7-zip when you browse... someone needs to teach Igor Pavlov about that improved browse for folder dialog
eh, I've been maintaining my music collection okay -- I keep my Amazon MP3 purchases synced between local and my dedicated server, and Crashplan has a full backup also
I have over 1,000 songs which are not on any of the streaming music services
oh, I just figured out that the song names starting with a number (no Chihiro Onitsuka) are significantly better in quality than the ones with the song name starting with Chihiro Onitsuka), so if you have the same song in both, delete the one that starts with her name
a college buddy from early on in my college years introduced me to Chihiro Onitsuka
the other neat thing about music I learned from college is that not all headphones are made equally... when my DJ buddy (he DJed for the college radio station) convinced me to buy some Sennheiser studio monitoring headphones
first time I had headphones that weren't pathetically bad
I had a condition I wanted to put there, but then realized it was pointless or something, and was too lazy to remove the conditional and the braces and bump the indentation back
I am wondering exactly what happens internally in TShark when I use a capture filter. Specifically, let's say I have the following filter to capture multicast data:
host 224.0.26.3 && port 12345
Does wireshark:
Ask the OS to copy all packets on the interface to its local buffer
Apply the ca...
@Bob well, sure. if the OS side of the house is doing conditional jumps to determine whether to copy the data or not, it can avoid some kind of cross-process activity (probably even involving a user<->kernel context switch) involving the copying of the data over into wireshark's process space.
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economists who have anything to do with the stock market are usually going after (a); socialists and people who promote the general welfare are generally going after (b)
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problem 1: user keeps getting her cat picture (desktop background) as part of screenshots on newly upgraded dual-monitor system problem 2: user doesn't know what to do, so user printed out screenshots after editing them in paint, and scanned them in black & white, then pasted into Excel... 62 MB Excel file
solution to problem 1: use Alt + Printscreen
solution to problem 2: use images with less entropy (solid gray background of large GUI screenshots is much smaller than the grainy scans)
so... is it cross-platform hardware that runs fine with either OS (in which case you could switch, or even dual-boot?! :D :D :D) or they have separate hw for Microsoft?
still, seems odd that they would brand it the same for Windows Phone
up til now, Windows Phone has usually been relegated to low-end devices
I think Microsoft was trying to take over the budget segment of the market. Or they just had difficulty getting hardware partners to be OK with shipping flagship-quality hardware, and mass produce it, for such a sucky OS
Microsoft actually had the smartphone market in its pocket from the time the word "smartphone" existed (around the advent of 3G data plans, at least in the US), up until Android and iOS started to gain traction
if you wanted a smartphone in 2004, you bought Windows Mobile -- Palm had nothing modern
Palm really failed to make the jump from the "PDA" market to the data-equipped device market, by being late to ship wifi and 3G phones, and by that time Microsoft had taken over
and Microsoft's brand recognition and desktop adoption was much higher then than it is now
remember, their best and most enduring OS ever -- XP -- was still kinda new
Windows Phone is a joke, though, mainly due to lack of traction with developers making apps for it -- things are bad enough on Android, with several major apps being iOS-only, but at least it's "hit or miss", with some major apps being Android-only to counterbalance it
with Windows Phone, there's just no comparison
the only people who'd make WP-only apps are people who are in Microsoft's pocket, and Microsoft themselves
if money is at all a factor in your motivations for making an app, you'd be a fool not to port it to one of (at least) Android or iOS
@Bob not sure I buy that -- but even if that's true, it's likely owing to the fact that it runs on a slightly less enormous variety of hardware -- Android runs on just about anything, whereas Windows Phone has explicit minimum system requirements, and pre-canned device form factors, etc
@Bob the other night, I considered for about 5 minutes whether I'd be better off with an iPhone 6 than an Android, considering that I primarily don't root, and mobile hotspot works fine on iOS 8 now
but I'm pretty sure it has terrible battery life
the killer apps for me on Android: Gmail, Firefox, ChatSEy, Tapatalk, Blizzard and SWTOR two-factor auth apps, Yubico two-factor auth app (for Yubikey authenticating Google and Microsoft accounts), Google Docs and Sheets, Softcard, Google Maps, Lastpass, JuiceSSH, my credit union's app, Spotify, GPS Status, Amazon's apps, Youtube, and the MLB At Bat app.
actually, if iOS allowed installing programs from other sources than the App Store, even if those programs were restricted to the same permissions as apps from the App Store, I would probably buy an iPhone.
It's having the ability to either just write or just install your own random third-party app, without it having to be blessed by a company that "wants" it on their app store, which is a feature I can't live without.
There's always the question of what if Apple decides they don't want a certain app in their store, and you really, really need that app. They can pull it at any time. Google does it all the time for the play store, but you know what? IDGAF. I just install it side-load.
That's why I only considered getting an iPhone for 5 minutes. I realized I just can't live with being that locked down.
Sideloading is an even more powerful feature than being rooted.
I do not mind the weight since they usually do not get moved
I just wish for the ability to connect a third monitor, for some more RAM (IT gave it to me with only 4GiB and I keep getting popups that it is out of memory) and some more other expansion options (e.g. room for a pair nice full sized PCI-e cards)
Portability is quite optional for me. Drag/luggability is enough.
Not sure if the out of memory, please close some programs is about main memory or about graphical memory (usually several programs are run from a citrix server and I heard vagely that that uses some of the graphics memory)
However in this job I am a plain user and I did not spent much time looking at it. Just close outlook, IE7 and a few other programs and cancel the out of memory messages every hour.
I am wondering exactly what happens internally in TShark when I use a capture filter. Specifically, let's say I have the following filter to capture multicast data:
host 224.0.26.3 && port 12345
Does wireshark:
Ask the OS to copy all packets on the interface to its local buffer
Apply the ca...
