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ssjonizuka posted:CSB, can we just once skip referencing your penis in a thread? Yes, we know it's "big" Man I wish it were a sleek piece of black aluminum wrapped with gorilla glass II.
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Brigdh posted:Yes. Everyone knows octa core is the new crazy Honestly I didn't mind android as an operating system when I had a note 2. What I hated was the phone, it was garbage, and the App Store, full of loving awful apps and a few good ones here and there. I also don't really get why people enjoy tinkering and janitor img their phone when it's annoying enough to do that with PC's. The main thing that bothers me is the people who are defined by their phone. For me, my iPhone was best for me and what I wanted and it's really just a phone. For many android enthusiasts, it's a way of life and anyone who doesn't use android is either an idiot, a sheeple, or their parents/grandparents. That annoys the poo poo out of me, like dude, be yourself and don't define people by their phone preferences. So I like to be an rear end about it because I know it drives many android fans up the wall 
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Raluek posted:I think we can all agree that, no matter what your preference, your OS is a piece of poo poo. BeOS was the best OS ever made and I hope everyone who ignored it and never gave it a chance to shine is forever plagued with never ending problems caused by their use of inferior operating systems. 
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HotCanadianChick posted:BeOS was the best OS ever made and I hope everyone who ignored it and never gave it a chance to shine is forever plagued with never ending problems caused by their use of inferior operating systems. Correct, though I offer the further point that NeXTSTEP can suck it.
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Powershift posted:doesn't seem that bad here, but jesus tittyfucking christ is it cold. it's that perfect combination of super cold and super windy and super humid that makes it feel like the wind is ripping your skin off. -35 Friday morning. -7 today, dropping to -10 and snowing 15-20 cm overnight. Then dropping to -15 by morning, with another 5 cm of snow, then down to -33 for Monday morning. I love being Canadian, but ffs winter, eat a bag of moosecock this year.
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So Elite: Dangerous looks like a pretty awesome game. Except that it's also hilariously confusing with all of the different controls and poo poo you can do and also I don't have a joystick 
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T-Square posted:So Elite: Dangerous looks like a pretty awesome game. Except that it's also hilariously confusing with all of the different controls and poo poo you can do and also I don't have a joystick  Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS. Relatively cheap, solid, and it's been working great for me. Also, the Flight Sim Megathread can probably recommend you a decent stick setup too if you give them a price range.
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Last year I found a thrustmaster HOTAS cougar setup at goodwill for 8.99. Fixed the fire button, listed on eBay for $500, and it sold within hours.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:A real compressor owns. Bitches. Bachelor life owns. Bitches. 
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Siochain posted:-35 Friday morning. -7 today, dropping to -10 and snowing 15-20 cm overnight. Then dropping to -15 by morning, with another 5 cm of snow, then down to -33 for Monday morning. Rode the scooter to work in shorts and a t shirt today  gently caress that cold weather bullshit.
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leica posted:Rode the scooter to work in shorts and a t shirt today ATGATT amirite? 
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:Oh also Oh man, now I'm hungry for some hijiki.
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:Bachelor life owns. Bitches. Is your kitchen table littered with car parts? Because if not your doing it wrong.
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Well its not in the kitchen and not technically a table but I think this counts
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OK. It counts. Nice work. For ultra bachelor status, you have to rebuild an automatic transmission in the tub.
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Hotcanadianchick I can't say this in that garbage thread because it got gassed so I'm saying it here: 6000 SUX 
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:Oh also Not looking forward to traveling with my hosed up tailbone. Sitting hurts, walking hurts and if I move wrong I get a nice spike of pain. All my good pain medications are in Tennessee. Today was spent alternating a heat pad and ice on my rear end.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:OK. It counts. Nice work. Guilty. I've fingered a tranny or two in a tub.
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Tusen Takk posted:Honestly I didn't mind android as an operating system when I had a note 2. What I hated was the phone, it was garbage, and the App Store, full of loving awful apps and a few good ones here and there. I also don't really get why people enjoy tinkering and janitor img their phone when it's annoying enough to do that with PC's. Much of the same can be said for the Cult of Apple. However if you really want to be a hipster, find a QNX phone.
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Today was a good day, I got the beater 540i retinted and it looks phenomenal. Took my dad's Z to the dyno (with the boost issue) and did this: http://youtu.be/2ZpNjrv3i7w I'll post the plot tomorrow, you can see my 3 stage boost
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Late Christmas presents are sometimes the best. I got a funky Stanley Fatmax tripod light thing from a friend and and Xbox One Kinect from another! And finally found a nice winter coat that isn't horribly bulky, great day all around.
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Geirskogul posted:ATGATT amirite? Actually I wasn't wearing flip flops this time so I guess I hosed up? I did have sunglasses on tho. Also I seem to be having horrible luck with electronic devices, anyone happen to know why the brand new JBL Charge speaker I bought seems to not like certain non bluetooth MP3 players through the aux input? My old Sandisk Sansa is barely audible with both devices turned all the way up.
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Hang on, Brigdh posted:the ARM reference designs are limited in power management ...I thought this was ARM's biggest plus point?
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BrokenKnucklez posted:OK. It counts. Nice work. My roommates right after I graduated barely blinked when they came home to me working on an AW4 on the coffee table while watching a movie, beer in hand. Good roommates. Too bad one moved to california and the replacement we found was an only child and an utterly spoiled, self centered douchebag who nearly got us evicted within a month of moving in. Funny thing is, she (the one that moved to california, not the douchebag who replaced her) is marrying an AIer.
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Got some new fancy Osram bulbs for the Polo's headlights, such an improvement, seriously. Brights off:  Brights on: 
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mafoose posted:Today was a good day, I got the beater 540i retinted and it looks phenomenal. And here it is: 
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ssjonizuka posted:That could certainly be part of it. My tab is the larger one (12"?) There are just some behaviors that irk me. I tend to browse reddit lazily when not on the forums, so the tendency for gifs to be full screen (and then some) is a major annoyance. It also has some memory leaks somewhere - network traffic just gets bogged down and responses are slow if it's been on for a week plus. And the chrome browser seems gimpy at best even on a "high power" tablet like this. I know it's not a full x86/64 architecture, but for it to be so unpolished is a let down. Re: your problem with network traffic getting bogged down, that's not exclusively due to a memory leak, although that is probably a factor as well. The main problem is that the network stack in Android is very bad at handling multiple connections at the same time. If you want to see it really struggle, try running a Bittorrent client. It'll bring everything to a grinding halt. I agree 100% about the gimped browsing experience. I used to have a Transformer Infinity, but I just couldn't stand the limitations. Now I have a Chromebook instead, which is ~1 million times more pleasant for browsing, since it runs actual full-blown Chrome instead of the useless mobile version. meltie posted:Hang on, Low power consumption is a big selling point for ARM architectures, but they're not nearly as flexible when it comes to power management as current x86 designs. This is why you see stuff like big.LITTLE setups and dedicated low-power cores and so on. For instance, my Chromebook has an Nvidia Tegra K1 processor. It's a quad-core 2.3GHz ARM Cortex-A15 chip, but it also has a dedicated "battery saver" low-power core that it can switch to and disable the main four cores in order to conserve power. The main ARM cores can't throttle very well, so they had to add the battery saver core as a workaround. Cat Terrist posted:It's a wank that gives hypercars "green" credentials while being nothing of the sort. The green credentials are what they use to justify still building ridiculous supercars, but the real reason is torque fill. The electric motors work to help initial acceleration where the main engine isn't quite into the powerband yet, and they fill in during gear changes or on sudden acceleration as well. Engines need a little bit of time to react to throttle inputs, but electric power has no such limitation. It gives the P1, 918 and LaFerrari instant throttle response. It's not all bullshit when they mention the green credentials, though. When driven around normally, the P1 supposedly averages 25mpg. That's the same as my 160hp family sedan. If that's not impressive, I don't know what is.
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meltie posted:Hang on, Different metric. The ARM architecture is quite efficient per Watt, which is what you are thinking of. ARM is not the most powerful architecture. If you need to crunch some numbers as fast as possible, x86 is probably your best bet. However, in general, an ARM chip will consume less total power to crunch those same numbers, though it may take a bit longer to do. In the phone space, this translates to a longer battery life. In the server space, it means lower power bills and less cooling. ARM (the company) doesn't really make any products. Other companies (ie Apple, Nvidia, Samsung, etc) license ARM's IP (intellectual property) technology and create the chips that go into products. Generally speaking, there are two "types" of licensing deals. A company can license the rights to a reference design (such as the A9, M0, or A53 for example) and then the company can "copy and paste" that design into whatever product they are designing and have a fab create the silicon. The licensee is allowed to do some customization of the reference design (such as remove a crypto feature that isn't needed). The other type of license is an architecture license. The licensee in this case gets the rights to produce their own designs from scratch which implement the ARM instruction set. This is comparable to the arrangement between Intel and AMD in the x86 world. Intel owns the x86 instruction set and produces chips which implement it. AMD licenses the x86 instruction set, and designs their own chips which implement it. The designs and implementations are unique, but they both adhear to the x86 instruction set standard which allows programs compiled to x86 to run on both. The ARM reference designs are really just that, a reference. You can make a product with them without changing the design, but the design won't be optimized. ARM doesn't provide different variants of a particular design, and to an extent they don't have the experience to exactly know what each individual field needs. In many ways a company can produce a better design than what ARM can, but not every company has the expertise or budget to customize the reference designs, and a rare few companies can design their own ARM chips from scratch. Power management is the set of knobs you have to change the power consumption for different scenarios. A phone, for example, isn't using 100% of the processor's capabilities at all times. When your phone is in your pocket, its generally not doing a whole lot. When you check your email, the phone is doing some thing, but not as much as if you were playing Angry Birds. To get maximum battery life, you want to tune your power consumption to the current processing demand. So when you are playing Angry Birds, your phone processor is probably running at a higher clock frequency (aka "faster") than when you are checking email. When your phone is in your pocket, the processor is probably in a hibernation or suspend state. Generally power management involves running something faster/slower, or turning something off. The slower something runs, the less power it consumes. In a simple world, when you turn something off, it consumes no power. So, if you are checking email, and have a quad core processor, you probably want to turn off 3 of those cores and run the 4th one at a low to medium speed. This way, the phone consumes only enough power to provide a reasonable experience for the task of checking email, and hopefully no more. Circling back to the original point, ARM reference designs generally don't provide as much power management options. A quad core reference design from ARM may require that all 4 cores be powered on, ie you can't have just one or two on. Some of their reference designs require that all cores run the same clock frequency (speed). This can be very limiting in how efficiently your phone is able to manage its power consumption for any particular scenario. In general the reference designs are not terrible, but there can be a ton of optimization done for the phoen space, which is why Apple (for example) designs their own processors instead of using a "off the shelf" solution. KozmoNaut posted:Low power consumption is a big selling point for ARM architectures, but they're not nearly as flexible when it comes to power management as current x86 designs. This is why you see stuff like big.LITTLE setups and dedicated low-power cores and so on. For instance, my Chromebook has an Nvidia Tegra K1 processor. It's a quad-core 2.3GHz ARM Cortex-A15 chip, but it also has a dedicated "battery saver" low-power core that it can switch to and disable the main four cores in order to conserve power. The main ARM cores can't throttle very well, so they had to add the battery saver core as a workaround. Architectural licensees (generally speaking Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung) have designed in power management options comparable to x86 designs to their homegrown designs
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T1g4h posted:Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS. Relatively cheap, solid, and it's been working great for me. Also, the Flight Sim Megathread can probably recommend you a decent stick setup too if you give them a price range. Yeah, but I'm still getting hilariously confused by watching videos of Elite: Dangerous and seeing everyone flipping and scrolling through different screens on-board in the middle of dog-fights and how the poo poo are you supposed to keep track of all the systems out there, holy poo poo.
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