Hans: You mean if we wrote a test-detection and -subversion routine into the car's firmware?
Why would he sound so surprised, when *every* maker already does this? The cars are run on a dyno with the front and rear wheels running independently. This requires a "test-detection and subversion" routine built into the car. Otherwise, the cars will not test properly.
They didn't lie about passing the test without these mechanical parts. The car actually passed the tests, as sold. The only difference between the car that passed the tests in the EPA lab and the ones sold in dealerships is a bit of code.
That they passed the test indicates it is quite possible to pass the test. They didn't cheat the test. They passed the test without the "expected" hardware being necessary. Nobody has taken the car, put it in test mode, and tested it out on a track to see what the actual "loss" in performance is while it's passing emissions.
Cadillac cheated on the EPA tests in the '90s. GM paid a fine on the condition that the matter was treated as non-criminal. So they paid a fine for something they admitted to, under the condition that what they did was stated to be not illegal.
So the precedent here is that it's not illegal. That's what the government did when it was GM in the '90s.
What, we hold "foreign" comanies to a higher standard? That's a violation of a variety of treaties we've signed on to.
The software controlling what the emissions control computer reports is a pretty simple concept: pull readings from the on-board sensors and push them onto the output bus. Anything that deviates from that would need to have been driven explicitly by somebody. Code that detects emission testing equipment and conditions doesn't just get added by a couple of engineers on a whim.
It's possible (and likely) that engineering teams were given tasks to make things that would never be used in production. Team A told to optimize power, ignoring efficiency and emissions. Team B to optimize emissions, ignoring power and efficiency. Team C optimizing efficiency. The rationale is that you define the envelop, the maximums for each, with the hardware that's headed to production. Then in software you can tweak for markets (where the US is more strict on some things than Europe, and Europe more strict on different things). Team D optimizes between the code for the best overall performance. But the US market is harder on different things, and Team D isn't hitting the numbers they need, so someone modifies the code in the test program to call map B, rather than D while being tested, and map D at all other times.
What's the minimum number of people that would need to be in on it to get a few lines of code in the test program changed to call a different (and existing) ECU program? I think it'd be quite small. It may or may not include a manager.
Cached means used, not used as a disk cache. Notice your numbers don't add up. Cached = "in use" + modified. Available = standby + free. Use Resource Monitor (that little button at the bottom of task manager) to get a more detailed usage.
Where you'll see more performance without using the memory is when free is small. Standby is the OS's guesses as to what will end up in Cached. When it guesses right, you get better performance. This is closer to a "cache" in the way I think you are thinking of it. So as "free" shrinks, the OS shrinks standby to ensure you don't run out. This leads to fewer standby hits, making for a worse performance.
That's why in Windows (up to 7, have't tested with 8 and 10) Windows will if you have a page file page used memory, making the system slow as dirt. Leave your computer on overnight, and nearly everything will be paged, to maximize "Free" and "Standby", optimizing the system for new applications opened, and greatly punishing a user who locks his computer overnight with Chrome open with 20 tabs.
That's why someone with 16G should disable a paging file in Windows, for better performance.
It's all part of the Republican War on Drugs (started by Nixon, most escalated under Reagan).. The gun free zones were designed to give the police extra powers, back when we still pretended there were limits on the police.
Yeah, if a faggot wants to work construction, the faggot had better get used to all he faggot jokes told. Or, the inconsiderate bigots could just keep their mouths shut, but I can see how the inconsiderate bigots everywhere would object to that.
The dog needs petting only after you kick it. I generally see emotional petting only come after an insulting and inappropriate comment. A woman who politely asserts her opinion, in exactly the same way as a guy, is likely to be met with a comment like "your time of the month?" And yes, after that, she leaves the group, and petting is required to get her to reconsider playing with such a collection of people.
All it takes is having the men not be deliberately rude, and the need for emotional petting disappears.
Sometimes if you call out the bully you end up in the hospital. Sometimes if you call them out, they end up on the ground and you walk away. More often than you accept, the former happens.
The first hit for a Panasonic got a result for a $30k 30 inch monitor. That's got a few specialized uses, but I have QHD in a 5" screen for under $500 on my phone, to think that it's almost 100x as much to get the same DPI in a 4x larger screen seems insane. 4k laptop screens should be the norm, but I have trouble finding a laptop that matches my 5" phone, in any screen size.
Old Windows was not as bad at setting text sizes better in the OS. But it was ugly, and the new ways got worse. Last time I tried, zooming in the OS and the application left the tool bars and menus tiny, and everything else huge. I have a 30" 2560 x 1600 I sit too far away from, based on OS sizing. But a good distance and resolution for games.
AMOLED is supposed to be brighter and lower power than the alternatives. My current phone is 2560x1440 and lasts much much longer than my S3 with much lower resolution. The problem may be TouchWiz, not the resolution.
It wouldn't be hard for purpose-built hardware to fake a lower resolution. Don't make the GPU drive an 8k monitor, if the source is 720. Have the GPU drive 720, and either in the GPU or monitor, upscale to fit the monitor. Tricks like that, which work fine in a laptop where you are guaranteed which monitor will be plugged into the video card shouldn't be hard to keep down power usage.
Nope, the wife, who loves Apple, got one on discount. No mention of "discontinued" at the time. 6 months support on a new device. That's my experience with Apple. Funny how so many here try to convince me that reality is wrong.
Your particular iPhone 3G situation is an admitted Outlier.
It's just one I happened to live through. Screw *ME* once, shame on you... Apple did screw me with that one. It wasn't a hypothetical. It actually happened to me. So it matters more to me than the examples you bring up.
And if you compare that sort of support with the Russian Roulette style of "Updating through Random ROMS" you are advocating for Android, you are either a liar or are delusional.
Yeah, the forums filled with complaints on iOS9 wiping devices didn't happen. And if you close your eyes and update random ROMs, you'l have bad results. Most people find one they like, and stick to regular updates from a popular and well supported line of ROMs.
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Hans: You mean if we wrote a test-detection and -subversion routine into the car's firmware?
Why would he sound so surprised, when *every* maker already does this? The cars are run on a dyno with the front and rear wheels running independently. This requires a "test-detection and subversion" routine built into the car. Otherwise, the cars will not test properly.
They didn't lie about passing the test without these mechanical parts. The car actually passed the tests, as sold. The only difference between the car that passed the tests in the EPA lab and the ones sold in dealerships is a bit of code.
That they passed the test indicates it is quite possible to pass the test. They didn't cheat the test. They passed the test without the "expected" hardware being necessary. Nobody has taken the car, put it in test mode, and tested it out on a track to see what the actual "loss" in performance is while it's passing emissions.
Cadillac cheated on the EPA tests in the '90s. GM paid a fine on the condition that the matter was treated as non-criminal. So they paid a fine for something they admitted to, under the condition that what they did was stated to be not illegal.
So the precedent here is that it's not illegal. That's what the government did when it was GM in the '90s.
What, we hold "foreign" comanies to a higher standard? That's a violation of a variety of treaties we've signed on to.
The software controlling what the emissions control computer reports is a pretty simple concept: pull readings from the on-board sensors and push them onto the output bus. Anything that deviates from that would need to have been driven explicitly by somebody. Code that detects emission testing equipment and conditions doesn't just get added by a couple of engineers on a whim.
It's possible (and likely) that engineering teams were given tasks to make things that would never be used in production. Team A told to optimize power, ignoring efficiency and emissions. Team B to optimize emissions, ignoring power and efficiency. Team C optimizing efficiency. The rationale is that you define the envelop, the maximums for each, with the hardware that's headed to production. Then in software you can tweak for markets (where the US is more strict on some things than Europe, and Europe more strict on different things). Team D optimizes between the code for the best overall performance. But the US market is harder on different things, and Team D isn't hitting the numbers they need, so someone modifies the code in the test program to call map B, rather than D while being tested, and map D at all other times.
What's the minimum number of people that would need to be in on it to get a few lines of code in the test program changed to call a different (and existing) ECU program? I think it'd be quite small. It may or may not include a manager.
Yeah, and if they used the bolt cutters to get out, they'd end up in a real prison.
If you are the driver in a car and are doing anything other than driving, my advice is to stop it and drive.
If the kids moved it to the parents cars, the parents would be livid with their kids over their horrible driving.
Not according to Windows Resource Monitor.
Cached means used, not used as a disk cache. Notice your numbers don't add up. Cached = "in use" + modified. Available = standby + free. Use Resource Monitor (that little button at the bottom of task manager) to get a more detailed usage.
Where you'll see more performance without using the memory is when free is small. Standby is the OS's guesses as to what will end up in Cached. When it guesses right, you get better performance. This is closer to a "cache" in the way I think you are thinking of it. So as "free" shrinks, the OS shrinks standby to ensure you don't run out. This leads to fewer standby hits, making for a worse performance.
That's why in Windows (up to 7, have't tested with 8 and 10) Windows will if you have a page file page used memory, making the system slow as dirt. Leave your computer on overnight, and nearly everything will be paged, to maximize "Free" and "Standby", optimizing the system for new applications opened, and greatly punishing a user who locks his computer overnight with Chrome open with 20 tabs.
That's why someone with 16G should disable a paging file in Windows, for better performance.
It's all part of the Republican War on Drugs (started by Nixon, most escalated under Reagan).. The gun free zones were designed to give the police extra powers, back when we still pretended there were limits on the police.
The choices come down to the Republican flavor of big government or the Democratic version. There is no option that isn't big government.
Yeah, if a faggot wants to work construction, the faggot had better get used to all he faggot jokes told. Or, the inconsiderate bigots could just keep their mouths shut, but I can see how the inconsiderate bigots everywhere would object to that.
The dog needs petting only after you kick it. I generally see emotional petting only come after an insulting and inappropriate comment. A woman who politely asserts her opinion, in exactly the same way as a guy, is likely to be met with a comment like "your time of the month?" And yes, after that, she leaves the group, and petting is required to get her to reconsider playing with such a collection of people.
All it takes is having the men not be deliberately rude, and the need for emotional petting disappears.
Sometimes if you call out the bully you end up in the hospital. Sometimes if you call them out, they end up on the ground and you walk away. More often than you accept, the former happens.
Yes, contributions will correlate with aggressiveness more than skill or ability. The code and quality will suffer, and eventually be extinguished.
Why are you using a microscope on a display, rather than sizing up the image on the display?
The first hit for a Panasonic got a result for a $30k 30 inch monitor. That's got a few specialized uses, but I have QHD in a 5" screen for under $500 on my phone, to think that it's almost 100x as much to get the same DPI in a 4x larger screen seems insane. 4k laptop screens should be the norm, but I have trouble finding a laptop that matches my 5" phone, in any screen size.
Old Windows was not as bad at setting text sizes better in the OS. But it was ugly, and the new ways got worse. Last time I tried, zooming in the OS and the application left the tool bars and menus tiny, and everything else huge. I have a 30" 2560 x 1600 I sit too far away from, based on OS sizing. But a good distance and resolution for games.
Smoother fonts reduce eye strain. Your eye doesn't see the pixels at all, but the image the represent.
AMOLED is supposed to be brighter and lower power than the alternatives. My current phone is 2560x1440 and lasts much much longer than my S3 with much lower resolution. The problem may be TouchWiz, not the resolution.
It wouldn't be hard for purpose-built hardware to fake a lower resolution. Don't make the GPU drive an 8k monitor, if the source is 720. Have the GPU drive 720, and either in the GPU or monitor, upscale to fit the monitor. Tricks like that, which work fine in a laptop where you are guaranteed which monitor will be plugged into the video card shouldn't be hard to keep down power usage.
I can't wait for this in a laptop. I'm tired of horrible resolution and smaller laptop screens.
Nope, the wife, who loves Apple, got one on discount. No mention of "discontinued" at the time. 6 months support on a new device. That's my experience with Apple. Funny how so many here try to convince me that reality is wrong.
Your particular iPhone 3G situation is an admitted Outlier.
It's just one I happened to live through. Screw *ME* once, shame on you... Apple did screw me with that one. It wasn't a hypothetical. It actually happened to me. So it matters more to me than the examples you bring up.
And if you compare that sort of support with the Russian Roulette style of "Updating through Random ROMS" you are advocating for Android, you are either a liar or are delusional.
Yeah, the forums filled with complaints on iOS9 wiping devices didn't happen. And if you close your eyes and update random ROMs, you'l have bad results. Most people find one they like, and stick to regular updates from a popular and well supported line of ROMs.
He gave a bad example. I gave a better one. Apple has done it as well. That was his point. I supported his point, even if I didn't address his facts.