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mentando

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    mentando reacted to cj09beira in AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Review: The New King of Price To Performance Ratio   
    here is a nice graph i made from silicon lottery's data
     
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JmupyJ7NaVUevjYxUY-KNllKn6HwP4cG2XCuowrnTzg/pubchart?oid=2002362242&format=interactive
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    mentando reacted to 8-Bit Ninja in GTX 1080ti AIB partners card designs   
    I don't care about any of those, just this monster from Evga 
     
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    mentando reacted to The Benjamins in Forza Horizon 3 PC requirements revealed! DX 12 and Windows 10 required!   
    your at recommended so should be all good. I know forza apex had dynamic visual settings so it should be very easy to get a good experience with out fiddling with it. all I would do it set the FPS target and lock the res and leave the rest on dynamic.
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    mentando reacted to LAwLz in Here’s How Your Battery Status Is Being Used To Track You Online   
    They don't extract your entire browsing history. What they do is place a piece of code on multiple websites and then use that to see which sites you visit.
     
    Let's take Facebook as an example. I am sure you have seen this button before:

     
    Every time you see that Facebook share button (same goes for Twitter, LinkedIn, etc), it's because your browser makes a request to Facebook. The website tells your browser "hey, ask Facebook for how many people has shared this page, and also tell Facebook which site sent you". When your browser makes that request it also sends a bunch of other info such as which browser you are using, which version, which OS you are using and so on. This is important information for displaying the webpage properly. But Facebook can (and probably does) collect all this data to create a unique fingerprint.
     
    To make things simple, let's say that I am the only person in Sweden using a particular version of Firefox. Facebook will see this and go "oh, this person from Sweden is using this special version of Firefox. Every time we see a request from this browser in Sweden we will know that it is the same person". This particular fingerprint is unique.
     
    So let's say LinusTechTips had a Facebook share button, Facebook would know that I visited LinusTechTips because they would see my browser fingerprint making a request when I load LinusTechTips. After browsing LinusTechTips I might visit YouTube, and once again that Facebook button might be there. Now Facebook knows that I visited YouTube.
    Then I go to The Huffington Post and once again, Facebook sees that unique fingerprint making a request from The Huffington Post.
     
     
    This battery indicator is another variable they can use to make the fingerprint more unique. So instead of identifying me as "this person in Sweden using Firefox version 47.0a2" they can say "this person in Sweden using Firefox version 47.0a2, and has 83% battery".
    More variables = more likely that your fingerprint is unique.
     
    I posted a link to a site (created by the EFF) which measures how unique your browser fingerprint is.
     
     
    In the Facebook example it is even worse because if you are logged into Facebook they will be able to link it to your profile (which is why you might see "XXXX people shared this. Be the first of your friends").
     
    Also, the piece of code used for tracking might not be something as obvious as a Facebook share button. It can be an ad service (like Google Adsense), or an API used by multiple websites.
    Basically, the more sites a particular service runs on (like the Facebook share button being everywhere, even on some porn sites), the more sites that service knows you visit.
     
     
    A very long-winded explanation but hopefully it made things more clear.
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    mentando reacted to Master Disaster in How Elon Musk Stole My Car   
    To be technical he doesn't actually own the car until he accepts delivery of it. He put a down payment on the item but until it was in his possession it was still the property of Tesla. Now of course Tesla have obligations to him, they owe him either a promised car or a full refund but they didn't STEAL anything from him, they just failed to deliver a promised good.
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    mentando got a reaction from GoodBytes in Google Chrome bypass ad blocker extentions for YouTube. Adds a bit of revenge too.   
    If you are affected, you can try to go to "chrome://apps" and remove youtube from there.
     
    The reason is apparently that the extensions cannot access the traffic that is handled over "apps".
     
    Here is a source on that, since it was like that in ChromeOS:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/3jvzqk/solution_youtube_ads_not_blocked_with_chrome_45/
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    mentando reacted to szomeret in nVidia's Tom Petersen raises a good point in AMD vs GameWorks issue   
    Well, it is possible, but unlikely.
    1. AMD optimize shaders for popular games. (The driver calculates the shader's checksum, if it is one they know, then they load the specialized version instead). No surprise, Nvidia does this too.
    2. Usually, AMD contacts the developers for the shaders' source code, if they are shipped in compiled form, in order to make their optimization process possible. The developers see no loss: AMD will improve your games performance on their hardware for free in their upcoming driver, what luck!
    3. In this case, Nvidia wrote the shaders. AMD may contact the developer, but they cannot distribute the source of some shaders to AMD due to Nvidia's licensing.
    4. Now AMD has to optimize the shader program from the compiled form, which looks something like this:

    imul null, r1.x, cb0[r1.x+2].y, cb0[r1.y+2].xitof r1.x, r1.xadd r0.x, r0.x, r1.xmul o0.z, r0.x, l(0.2)utof r0.x, r0.zadd o0.w, r0.x, l(0.5)itof o0.x, r0.witof o0.y, r0.yret5. Good fucking luck. The fact they got it out so soon only speaks to the skill of the poor bastards who have to maintain the wretch that is any modern graphics driver.
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    mentando reacted to SteveGrabowski0 in [WCCF][NO Rumour it seems] AMD Fury(all variants) specs confirmed?   
    It wasn't that low anywhere near that low. The GeForce 7800 GTX from 2005 was an 86 W card, while the Radeon X1800XT was a 113W card.
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    mentando reacted to Proesterchen in HTC One M9   
    I don't think the sponsor stickers look any good on this. In fact, while I understand they provide your review units, I truly hope you test the devices without the stickers applied because it's simply not fair to the manufacturer to mess with its original surfaces and design and then have that be part of the evaluation.
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    mentando reacted to madknight3 in 'image' is not a member of 'System.Drawing.Image'   
    This line is confusing.
    Dim PictureBox1 As System.Drawing.Image System.Drawing.Image is an abstract class so it needs to be initialized. You need to assign something to it before you use it.
    Dim PictureBox1 As System.Drawing.ImagePictureBox1 = ...//or simplyDim PictureBox1 As System.Drawing.Image = ...// this is invalid due to it being an abstract classDim PictureBox1 As New System.Drawing.Image// and it doesn't have an Image property so // PictureBox1.Image// is invalid// you'd use it in the select case by just the nameSelect Case PictureBox1 Case My.Resources.Serach_1... However, because you name it PictureBox1 and try to access an Image property, that leads me to believe what you want is a System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox control.
     
    If you added a PictureBox to your form by the designer, then you can remove the Dim PictureBox1 As System.Drawing.Image line from your code as it's already been created for you by the designer.
     
    That leaves you with
    Public Class Help1 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Select Case PictureBox1.Image // Fixed this Case My.Resources.Serach_1 ... End Select End SubEnd Class If you don't have a PictureBox added to your form from the designer, then you need to create one. Either add it to the designer or manually create it in code behind with Dim PictureBox1 As New System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox
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    mentando got a reaction from i_build_nanosuits in Low end PC   
    Here is a build for 278€, but i would not recommend that as a gaming PC. Also it does not include any OS.
     
    CPU: AMD A10-6800K 4.1GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€114.90 @ Caseking) 
    Motherboard: ASRock FM2A55M-VG3+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  (€41.84 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
    Memory: Kingston 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (€32.49 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
    Storage: Hitachi Travelstar Z5K500 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€39.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
    Case: BitFenix Shinobi ATX Mid Tower Case  (€11.90 @ Caseking) 
    Power Supply: Cooler Master 400W ATX Power Supply  (€36.98 @ Pixmania DE) 
    Total: €278.01
     
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