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2 hours ago, Mr. Swede said:

He looks at the "VIP experience" and think of what a old friend used to say, "Go big or go home". He Starts to look for flights Stockholm - Langley, what he finds is not what he wanted. There are no flights, no direct or with connections. He close down the ticket website and pretend like he thinks this whole event is stupid.

 

Stupid this is

Langley is a township in the Greater Vancouver area / Vancouver Metro - If you get a flight to Vancouver International (YVR), you can then get public transit to more or less anywhere in the area.

Langley Regional Airport (YLY) is exactly what it sounds like - A small regional airport that supports general aviation only, so you won't find any flights to or from there.

1 minute ago, DoctorWho1975 said:

Newfies aren't out of bed until noon:30

As a Newfie, I lol'd.

35 minutes ago, Enderman said:

But can it do 10 bit colour?

My point is that it is not the same thing as having an actual HDMI 2.0 device, like a decent graphics card.

GTX900, GTX1000, RX400, they all have HDMI 2.0 and it's better than using an adapter.

 

Stop trying to pretend that you can magically convert from one format to another as if all the circuitry in between doesn't exist

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Oh, that's a good point, I never thought of-

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(from Amazon)

color depths on 38402160 at60hz, - DP: RGB 6/8/10/12-bit per component (bpc) and YCbCr4:4:4, YCbCr4:2:2 bpc 8/10/12 bpc
color depths on 38402160 at60hz, - HDMI: RGB 8/10/12 bpc; YCbCr4:4:4, YCbCr4:2:2 and YCbCr4:2:0 8/10/12 bpc

 

... Oh.

I had a big long post done up here, but that's pretty pointless at this stage. If you persist, I'm just going to go ahead and tune out. The OP wasn't looking for FUD, the OP was looking for answers. These are the answers. Does the OP need a new GPU? No. For Skyrim at 4K60 running anywhere close to 60? Sure. But that's not what the question was. The question was, verbatim, "Is there a cable that will do Display port from my 290x to the HDMI 2.0 port in the TV". The answer is yes, there is, yes, it will work, and no, it will not induce a loss of quality. @AshleyAshes has first-hand proof of that.

Just now, Enderman said:

I would suggest you go read the reviews for that adapter, or other adapters, you might learn something.

Active adapter =/= proper HDMI 2.0 to 2.0 cable with HDMI 2.0 devices.

 

You're clearly not reading anything that's being said, nor have you read the product reviews. Nearly every single review explicitly says that, yes, they got 4K60, 4:4:4. Most of the people who have issues with these adapters are the same types of people who have issues getting 4K60 4:4:4 to work via PC output at all, which is to say many UHD TVs will not allow it unless the input is labelled as PC (or other hoops have been jumped through, like @AshleyAshes' mention of the UHD Color option on Samsung).

See also: AshleyAshes using this very setup.

Just now, Enderman said:

That's not true.

There have been many other DP 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 adapters before this one, and they all could not do 60hz because the adapter needs to be able to process the full bandwidth.

 

Just because it says DP1.2 on it or HDMI 2.0 on it does not mean that it can process 18gbps of information or whatever so a lot of the time features like 4:4:4 or HDR simply will not work.

 

This is not a simple "DVI-I to VGA" adapter that can do everything passively as if the adapter did not exist.

 

Got any examples of DP 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 adapters that do this? I mean, for that matter, the adapter you linked explicitly states that it is capable of all of the above, so the point is moot anyway and you're kind of arguing for the sake of arguing at this point.

Just now, Enderman said:

Oh, and this adapter which is the first to be able to do 4k 60hz took like two years to release, how about you try to guess how many years it will take to get one that can do HDR, 4:4:4, 10 bit, or any of the other quality features? If you even know what these things are, that is....

 

... What are you even talking about? It's an active adapter that converts DP 1.2 to HDMI 2.0. It doesn't do anything but convert the transport layer from DisplayPort (packet-based) to HDMI (TMDS). It doesn't give two shits what type of data is passing through as long as it can interleave the video and audio. It's hilarious that you even thought to mention this, because the Club3D adapter you yourself linked explicitly specifies support for all of the above except for HDR (but does specify support for DP 1.4, which does have HDR support).

DP 1.2 can do 4K, 4:4:4, and 10-bit, though not HDR; HDMI 2.0 is currently the only widely available standard that can do HDR 4K60. Converting from DP to HDMI does nothing to change the amount of bandwidth available on the link. You're still going to get everything DisplayPort 1.2 can do, which again includes 4K60, 4:4:4, and 10-bit. Not that much actually uses 10-bit to begin with, but there you go. Really the only thing you're missing out on versus a shiny new RX 4x0 or GeForce 10x0 is HDR. Considering not much uses that, either (certainly not Skyrim), it's not a big loss.

A note, 4:4:4 refers to the YUV colour system, not RGB. The 290X should be able to spit out both either way.

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Because the adapter adds latency, decreases quality, and is a workaround rather than a solution.

But you probably wouldn't be able to tell.

 

The latency such an adapter would cause is very likely to be less than a frame, and there is no loss in quality going from DisplayPort to HDMI (or DVI for that matter) or vice-versa. Shit be digital, yo.

2 minutes ago, oskarha said:

Or handbrake if ffmpeg is to complicated 

Handbrake will work, but will re-encode the file, which is time-consuming and reduces quality. There are frontends for ffmpeg out there, but it's easier to just grab it and run the command than it is to track down a decent one.

... Anyway, the solution to OP's request is to not use Adobe Media Encoder and instead use ffmpeg as described here. Not as elegant to use, but a far more elegant solution than re-encoding (and losing quality). It'll simply swap the container and leave the audio/video/subtitle data intact.

Fingers crossed hoping that they manage to get through everything before the new year.

5 hours ago, eLucid said:

Be thankful you don't. The cost of living is ridiculous over here.

Well, in Vancouver proper, sure. I've been digging into the cost of living in the greater Vancouver area like Surrey and Langley and it's not actually that bad at all. ... At least, it's pretty similar to here in St. John's.

20 minutes ago, PiGHamM3R said:

I'd suspect they've had a few thousand applications, with 3 million subscribers and all...

 

Probably, though the Google Forms application process would have weeded out a fair chunk of would-be applicants by virtue of not being legal to work in Canada. Then again, I wonder how many assumed they're legal to work in Canada?

25 minutes ago, PiGHamM3R said:

Eh, well I never got an e-mail  So I suspect me not having a Canadian work permit was the issue. Despite this, I will apply again; in the future when I get either Philippine residency or a Canadian work permit.

 

 

Yeah, from what I gather, LMG has basically had their fill of jumping through legal hoops after the Dennis work permit odyssey. It's not easy on the employer because they need to do a labour market impact assessment and basically get grilled by the government on why a Canadian couldn't fill the position instead. It seems like the "ideal point of entry" for a foreign worker looking to join LMG is to get a work permit and a job with a different employer first, or be an international student with a general work permit. As many Americans are finding, emigrating to Canada isn't exactly easy.

At any rate, I don't expect any of the applicants will have heard back definitively yet. I don't know how many applications they've received, but I imagine it's a non-zero number with at least three digits; That many scripts is a little more than a weekend read. I'm personally hoping for the next "round" to start before Christmas, but that's wishful thinking on my part; @nicklmg is on record saying it'll probably be a couple of months before the dust settles, but that's in total. We'll have to see how things play out from here.

At any rate, to everyone who applied, once again I wish you luck, and I wish @nicklmg and the rest of the team the least amount of sleep loss possible throughout this whole process. High-profile postings like this can't be easy to manage.

7 minutes ago, Amunak said:

I'm quite surprised they didn't go with a Skylake processor at least with the "Game on" build if just for the upradeability. The drop in performance will be marginal (and perhaps nonexistent with many games that just don't really use more CPU cores) with an i7-6700k, but you at least get to update it if needed when Intel releases their new processors. And you also get like 50$ to spend on something else, less heat, less power usage...

 

 

I'd have to disagree there; CPU upgrades are rarely worth it on a per-generation basis, and while the *lake series of CPUs are supposed to have the same socket for 3 generations this time around, most of the time you're not going to even want to upgrade your CPU within that timeframe. High-end Ivy Bridge is still relevant performance-wise today; Hell, so is Sandy Bridge. Really, the major reason to upgrade your CPU, especially in the case of a high-end CPU like a 6700K, is because you're upgrading the platform as a whole for new features, meaning you're grabbing a new board to go along with it.

20 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

Yeah there's always someone (everyone) who doesn't agree with my Holiday Buyer's Guides.

 

It is what it is.

 

 

 

Different priorities for different use cases, differing brand allegiances, day-to-day price changes (especially in the run-up to Black Friday) and all that. It's one of the beautiful things about building a PC, really; You get to choose exactly what goes into it and any given list online is more of a suggestion than a hard and fast rule. Disagreeing is totally fine and part of the process. If there were singular "best" configurations for each given price point, then there wouldn't be such a huge field of components to choose from in the first place.

You know, now that I think about it, working for LMG would necessarily mean being forever spoiled on upcoming LTT/TQ/CSF videos. A tragedy, but such sacrifices must be made.  

More seriously, I do wonder how many applications they actually received. I just keep having this mental image of Linus buried under a hundred reams worth of resumes.

Friendly reminder to my fellow applicants: The "soft deadline" is in two days, so be sure to finish up soon!

As is common among Mac OS utilities, you have a choice between free command line software, or paid graphical software. I have found one free piece of software called MacCheck that claims to do the job, but it requires free registration, and the serial that's supposed to be e-mailed back hasn't arrived (it should be "immediate" and it's been almost 15 minutes).

Anyway, Crystal Disk Info doesn't run on Mac OS. If you want to use a Mac-native tool, you'll want to use something like smartmontools with GSmartControl (a GUI for smartmontools) or pay for something like DriveDx. But if you've got Boot Camp set up and have access to Windows, you've got a ton of free utilities to use. My favourite is Passmark's DiskCheckup since it allows you to run self-tests, which CrystalDiskInfo does not do.

It's bizarre and frankly a little sad that a lot of developers seem to think that simply providing the SMART status is enough to tell if a drive is failing... And that they charge for the privilege when that's built into both System Information and Disk Utility. Preying on the naive, I suppose.

3 hours ago, Justin_ said:

--EDIT--

Ah ok on the applacation page at LinusMediaGroup.com says 

"NOTE: Only applicants that are currently legally permitted to work in Canada will be considered..."

And I am not currently eligible so I guess after the whole Dennis thing they didn't want to deal with filling out more paperwork, I can definitely understand that and I am sure they will find somebody grate for the job!

Aw man, that sucks. Are you eligible for one at least? Did you mention that in the field next to "Other"? It's possible they just filtered everything down to "Yes" in the spreadsheet, but it sucks that you're excluded like that. Something like "Am eligible and will have one if selected for interview" I would think is reasonable. But I don't know in what timeframe new work permits are issued, and I don't know what cost is associated with it.

You're probably right, though; After the Dennis debacle, they probably don't want to have to deal with handling that again, especially for a new hire they don't know.

Thanks for the info, @nicklmg, that makes things a lot clearer for us. Seems like I didn't need to hurry as much to submit my application, but I'd already had as many eyes on it as I was going to anyway, and edited it as much as I felt was necessary. As long as it's not rushed, right?

15 hours ago, amintha1992 said:

@nicklmg

quick question, 

 

Do I reply to the email i got with the instructions, or is there a different place to submit the application?

 

thanks.

Pending an official response, I would assume so, since the LMG job vacancies page says to send your resume, cover letter, etc via e-mail to info@linusmediagroup.com - The same e-mail address that sent our instructions and sample files.

Whatever the case, the situation has resolved itself for better or worse, and the best we can do is learn and move on. Let's not keep poking the bear on this one.

5 minutes ago, zanthros said:

I don't understand why you awarded yourself "Best Answer" as @Runefox gave you the answer. Kind of self serving don't you think? Maybe next time you come here with a problem you can have a conversation with yourself and fix it yourself with no help from anyone else and deserve giving yourself the best answer. 

Ehh, I kinda shotgunned my answer either way. @REDDEATH's more accurately describes the solution, so I think this is most correct for future generations looking for a solution, which is what the solved button is for.

1 hour ago, Azaroth said:

So I'm going to order new RAM to test, I want to go 2133 following the Asus QVL but I'll be honest, I'm super unsure of what to get. Does it matter if it's quad or single channel, does the CL number matter, do the timings matter (xx-xx-xx-xx-T#) 

It doesn't matter if it's quad or single channel; That's mostly marketing, but usually tends to ensure you get RAM from the same manufacturing batch (and thus having similar characteristics in testing).

As for the CL and timings, again, these are what the RAM is rated for at best. Lower numbers are better for timings, but like the RAM speed itself, they're only applied either with XMP or by manually entering them. High-speed RAM will run at the rated timings when using its full speed, while slowing that same RAM down will let the timings go lower.

6 minutes ago, Freezanator said:

Hmm, since this case is solved, which reply should I choose as the answer?  

That's a very good question. I'd say the one where you said it was booting up normally, since that doesn't contain any other recommendations other than resetting the UEFI boot setting.