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Slyhawk reacted to Salv8 (sam) in Sony taken to court over PlayStation Store Refund Policy by ACCC
it's as simple as this, they didn't follow the law, they got punished, they are lucky that our government didn't fine them more
if you do business here, you follow the local laws, regardless where the fuck you come from, it doesn't matter if they are from the U.S or Africa, if you provide a service or product, you must follow the local laws while doing so.
fun fact: the most common ingredient used in cheeses in the U.S (usually used to preserve them for longer periods of time), is illegal in Australia due to the health concerns it poses on the Australian consumer.
our politicians may be useless arseholes but at least something good came out of their arse's they call a mouth.
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Slyhawk reacted to Skiiwee29 in AMD's new Radeon RX 3080 XT: RTX 2070 performance for $330?
The hype and expectations are our fault, not AMDs. its the fan boys out there and garbage sites reporting incorrectly on information.
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Slyhawk reacted to potoooooooo in Thieves Steal $27K Worth of Devices From California Apple Store
You guys have clearly never been in a situation like this before. I can literally guarantee you none of you would do anything either. The entire video is literally only 38 seconds. They were gone long before anything serious could happen, that's literally the entire point of moving so quickly. The fact that that big dude stood at the door is pretty impressive, and he did better than i would have expected given he was shoved by 4 people at the same time.
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Slyhawk reacted to Bananasplit_00 in Fornite is now earning close to 2 million dollars every day from iPhone users exclusively
its to keep it from being pay to win, so they add cosmetics so people can buy stuff anyway and support the devs. with such a huge player base as fortnite has this isnt that surprising id say, people spend money on skinns because they seem cheap and they are cool and stuff. kinda like buying brand clothing, only much much cheaper
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Slyhawk reacted to Streetguru in Best Monitor for about $350AUD
The part picker is terrible for monitors
So just look for either a 1080p 75hz IPS free-sync display LG makes some and Lenovo I think
Or a 1080p 144hz TN free-sync display
IF you want better colors just get an IPS display of some kind in any event.
I don't know if the R7 260X supports free-sync.
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Slyhawk reacted to Dabombinable in Tesla signs deal with Australia to turn 50,000 homes into power generators at no cost to residents
What we need is nuclear power. France is a good example of how safe and clean modern power plants are.
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Slyhawk reacted to AlTech in Adelaide's Channel 9 News spews Fabricated Fake News BS about an alleged "Grand Theft Adelaide" game encouraging violence
Adelaide's Channel 9 News recently have spewed fake news about a game they believed to be Grand Theft Adelaide and presented the game as encouraging violence and tried to paint the developers in the worst possible light.
Of Course, the journalists not giving a shit about factual correctness assumed this was a GTA game because it looked slightly similar to other GTA games (I use the word slightly here very carefully cos it is very slight), and of course they had no idea who Rockstar Games were.
The journalist contacted the indie developer on Facebook after finding their game on some random online internet forum. The journalists and producers of the show asked questions and didn't like the information they received since it conflicted with their theory. And they lied to the people by saying the developed declined to comment when in fact they were the ones who didn't present the comments because they didn't lineup with Channel 9's agenda.
They falsely presented the earliest possible prototypes of the game as violent and tried to link it to the London bombing and recent acts of violence around the world.
Did i mention how the journalists used the oldest possible video clips and screenshots of the game to make it look a lot worse than it actually was in it's current state at the time of their news report?
And of course the game had nothing to do with violence as the developer pointed out that they just wanted to recreate the city of Adelaide in a video game world.
The game itself is still a work in progress as the developer has pointed out.
This all came out when the developer of the games talked to the source listed online.
Whew. And now for my opinion. Channel 9, please just give up and find a new career. Fake news isn't welcome in journalism and bullying developers to make them look bad and to prove your point isn't your job. That's just nasty. I don't condone it and I don't anybody else here does either.
Oh and to top it all off, they showed the games to normies in the real world and they were horrified by what they saw.
So yeah, f*ch Channel 9 News.
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Slyhawk reacted to ScratchCat in Microsoft talks about performance loss from the Meltdown and Spectre patch
It arrived on the current patch Tuesday. It was part of a cumulative update.
I haven't found much of a performance difference in Python with heavy IO or general computing on an i5-540M.
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Slyhawk reacted to NumLock21 in Firefox installs sponsored extension without user knowledge or consent
I've checked my FF installs on both of my desktop and laptop and I don't see that "Looking Glass" add-on.
And yes I did read the whole fu*king post from the OP.
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Slyhawk reacted to mr moose in Greenpeace slammed Samsung for not being environment friendly. Samsung responded by introducing "Upcycling"
Me, Greenpeace do more damage to this planet and the human race than most people realise. They deeply oppose nuclear (one of, if not the, the greenest energy technologies we have) and they oppose GM food crops, which require less land, less water and less pesticides plus are nutrient enriched and drought hardy for third world countries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/29/more-than-100-nobel-laureates-take-on-greenpeace-over-gmo-stance/?utm_term=.f1391a6da688
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Slyhawk reacted to LAwLz in Vega 56 undervolting can beat GTX 1080 in benchmarks.
Please... No more hyping up future AMD products.
How many times do people need to get burned before they stop?
Even if we say that Raja is a super genius, designing a GPU is a massive undertaking which requires many people. One person getting replace won't make a company go from making bad cards to making great cards.
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Slyhawk reacted to ApolloFury in Logitech Buys Gaming Headset Company Astro for $85 Million
Well to be honest all gaming headsets are Beats-like, cheap construction, poor sound quality bundled with sound surround software to make it sound "better". The only decent gaming headsets are from HyperX Cloud series (rebranded Takstar Pro 80), Audio Technica (rebranded ATH-AD700/900X), Sennheiser (rebranded HD5xx?) and maybe some others, this is because they are just rebranded audiophile/studio headphones with a boom mic attached with some decoration, though it is much cheaper if you just get the originals and buy a mic separately.
What set "gaming headsets" and actual headphones apart is that these headphones can produce the illusion of surround sound on their own without software.
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Slyhawk reacted to The Benjamins in Vega FE benchmarked by random dude
Note he was using a below spec 550W PSU and was not able to get stable clocks due to power limits.
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Slyhawk reacted to AlwaysFSX in Vega FE benchmarked by random dude
Wait for actual gaming cards to be benchmarked by reputable third parties.
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Slyhawk reacted to Valentyn in Vega FE benchmarked by random dude
LOL No one noticed he's NOT using the Frontier Edition driver.
FE = 17.20
He's using 17.1.1
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Slyhawk reacted to tom_w141 in rumor has it both nVidia and AMD arel preparing dedicated crypto currency mining cards
You don't get it...
If I buy the gaming card and mine on it I can re sell it, yeah you wouldn't knowingly buy a card used for mining but good luck telling what I used it for when I just say "games and im upgrading to the next generation".
If I buy the mining card I have almost no warranty, I can't really resell it at all other than to another miner and I can't game on it if I decide I want to.
To be worth it these cards need to be heavily discounted.
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Slyhawk reacted to Jahramika in Intel X299 CPU's NOT soldered!
Come on all you Intel lovers got nothing bad to say about this crap from Intel? Shit if this was AMD you would all be spitting blood in your comments.
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Slyhawk reacted to themctipers in Exploding headphones - I guess no one "heard" it coming
oh god
spoiler it
also, #3.5mmmasterrrace
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Slyhawk reacted to The Sloth in nVIDIA GT 1030 pictures from MSI & Gigabyte
can't wait for Linus rant on low-end GPUs.
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Slyhawk reacted to mariushm in mp3 licensing ends for Music services
Your human ears won't hear anything above around 18kHz (unless you're a baby or very young or you recently went to the doctor to clean the wax from your ears) and your speakers can't accurately reproduce higher than maybe 20kHz .. majority of speakers are mid-range focused, they don't have tweeters capable of reproducing sound above 16-18kHz properly.
Everything about around 18kHz you mostly "feel" it, you don't hear it, just like with the bass.
The MP3 above was encoded with that filter enabled which reduces the "importance" of sounds above 15kHz in order to allocate more bits to more important parts of the sound. The filter can be disabled but at a fixed 256kbps bitrate, the quality of the sound would be reduced.
It's probably disabled automatically by the encoder if you choose to encode at VBR 320kbps.
IMHO it's smarter to apply that filter and use the bitrate to retain more quality where the majority of human ears would actually perceive the quality loss.
AAC and MP3 are psycho-acoustic encoders, they work by dropping "detail" from the sound where they assume human ears won't easily detect those losses, so in theory what mp3 encoder did in that picture is actually good.
It's the same as with h264 encoders like x264 vs hardware encoders .. if you use PSNR or SSIM measurement tools to measure the quality of the output, in some scenes x264 may score worse but humans watching the video will prefer the x264 output because human eyes are not computers, they have flaws, and x264 is simply better than a hardware encoder at determining where your eyes would focus on and what detail would be missed by your eyes if it's removed or degraded to save bits.
Indeed, it only matters in the context of streaming or when thinking how much music you'd be able to store on a hard drive or music player compared to the case when using other audio encoders.
Think of FLAC like a 7zip archive or RAR archive of the uncompressed wav file, but with some additional smartness inside like detecting if left and right channel have the same data and compressing that only once.
FLAC basically takes chunks of sound and compresses them losslessly into tiny "archives" that can be decompressed to recreate the sound. If there's no sound or just a person talking, that chunk of sound will compress better than let's say a second of hard rock music, which is more "random", harder to compress. That's why the bitrate of a FLAC file varies.
Typically, a FLAC's file will be around 60-75% of the original bitrate - for 44100 kHz 2 channels 16 bit , that's 2 bytes x 2 channels x 44100 = 176400 bytes x 8 bits = 1411200 bits or 1411 kbps.
For stuff like audio books where often both audio channels have the same data (and sometimes they're encoded at 22050 kHz because human voices don't go over 10kHz and you only need 2x the frequency to properly encode audio), it's not uncommon to have FLAC files with bitrate in the range of 150-400 kbps.
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Slyhawk reacted to Zodiark1593 in mp3 licensing ends for Music services
I rip to FLAC, for archival, then if desired for a mobile device, encode to a lossy format.
Where I work has a 20 KHz ultrasonic welder. Sounds very horrible, though those next to me tend not to be bothered. Like anything else, hearing frequency probably varies to an extent, though I also dislike loud noises and music (including concerts and such), so it's probably just that I haven't blasted my hearing.
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Slyhawk reacted to Eniqmatic in [3rd Update]WCry ransomwsre has possible links to Lazarus Group & PRNK
All the updates are here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx
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Slyhawk reacted to Stevoisboss in ESL Not Allowing Transgender CSGO Players Into Female Only Tournament
It doesn't matter what they feel. Facts are facts. If they want to pretend to be the opposite sex that is fine; other people don't have to pretend too. I know they can't help it and I have nothing against those people and I don't mean that in an offensive way. That doesn't change the fact that they are male or female though.
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Slyhawk reacted to tlink in Phone accelerometers can give away your password
yea banks should really strengthen their phone apps with a rolling code generator or for example by scanning the nfc chip in your card. (or both would be ideal)