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Comment Re:Upload or download? (Score 1) 35

TFA says "uploaded" multiple times. Doesn't it seem like advertisers would download (not upload) your info from Facebook?

AFAIK, one of the advertising method available on facebook is that advertisers can upload a list of contact info (phone numbers, email addresses) to facebook, and facebook will match these info to their corresponding accounts, and voila, ads are served to you. I remember this when I review what facebook has on me, and they showed me which advertisers has my email address and upload them to facebook

Comment Re:free and open (Score 2) 215

Does anyone know of a website like Slashdot but without all the whiny little bitches? Seriously, where are the people that enjoy life and actually thrive? People that are grateful for what they have and see each day as a gift. WHERE ARE THEY?

You're clicking an article about politics and net neutrality expecting those?

Comment Re:The list... (Score 3, Informative) 146

Calorie Counter - MyFitnessPal Duolingo: Learn Languages Free Family Locator - GPS Tracker Indeed Job Search Instant Heart Rate: HR Monitor & Pulse Checker KAYAK Flights, Hotels & Cars King James Bible (KJV) Free Muslim Pro - Prayer Times, Azan, Quran & Qibla My Talking Tom / My Talking Hank etc Period Tracker Clue: Period & Ovulation Calculator Qibla Connect® Find Direction- Prayer, Azan, Quran Shazam Skyscanner - Cheap Flights, Hotels and Car Rental (Ad Personalisation = Off) Skyscanner - Cheap Flights, Hotels and Car Rental (Ad Personalisation = On) Spotify Music Super-Bright LED Flashlight The Weather Channel: Local Forecast & Weather Maps TripAdvisor Hotels Flights Restaurants Attractions VK (vkontakte) Yelp Salatuk (Prayer time)

Bible - Audio, Daily Verse, Study & Offline, Free BMI Calculator & Weight Loss Tracker Candy Crush Saga Clean Master - Antivirus, Cleaner & Booster Dropbox HP ePrint (No Longer in Google Play Store) Opera Browser Period Tracker, My Calendar Phone Tracker By Number Security Master - Antivirus, VPN, AppLock, Booster Skater Boy Speedtest by Ookla WeChat

According to the article, the list of offending apps stopped at Salatuk. The rest, starting from Bible up to wechat do not or no longer share infos to facebook

Comment Re:Thank god for AMD (Score 1) 130

Oh, and another source of confusion: what is a Ryzen 3? Is that zen-3-formerly-known-as-zen-2 or is it the cheap budget PC bin?

I think that is actually why they formally use the over complicated "2nd Generation Ryzen" instead of Ryzen 2 or Ryzen+. Intel do this as well. To make things worse the first gen mobile and APU parts were based on the 14nm Zen instead of 12nm Zen+ and name 2xxxH and 2xxxG respectively

Of course, I meant to write "they will reimagine it as Zen 5 skipping Zen 4", there's that confusion at work. To make that seem somewhat legit, they can go with "5nm means Zen 5, right?" Then just grin and go with Zen 6 for the 3nm generation.

Or introduce yet another code name.

Comment Re:Thank god for AMD (Score 1) 130

Yes, perhaps you should do that, I already did (2xxx).

I'm just going to have to go ahead and point out that your retort qualifies as kind of snippy, considering that you actually said "Ryzen 2 (2xxx)" which is wrong, or at best adds to the confusion.

Well, I do kind of already using the thousand terminology that you have pointed out above and AMD website refers to the series as 2nd Generation Ryzen Processors, while many publications have dubbed them as either Ryzen 2nd Gen, Ryzen+, or Ryzen 2. Asking me to use the thousand terminology without addressing your own use of "Ryzen 2 on 7nm" is well.. not fair. What exist today is Zen 2 architecture on 7nm, and whatever product that uses it is not yet named

Comment Re:Thank god for AMD (Score 1) 130

Zen+ is Ryzen 2000 series, Zen 2 will be Ryzen 3000. It's a bit confusing. Ryzen+ means Zen+ mainstream desktop. I think AMD intended Ryzen 2 to mean Zen 2, not Zen+, but there's so much confusion about that now that it's better to stick to the thousands terminology.

Yes, perhaps you should do that, I already did (2xxx). What is clear is that the 7nm process is named Zen 2, while the product using the architecture is yet to be named

Comment Re:Thank god for AMD (Score 1) 130

Actually, i9-9900K is 90% more expensive than Ryzen 2700X. And Intel had to fiddle the gaming benchmarks to make it look faster than it really is. These are on Intel's 14nm process, they were hoping to be on 10nm by now but that isn't happening until some time next year. Meanwhile Ryzen 2 on 7nm will be out while Coffee Lake is still shipping, oops. .

Ryzen 2 (2xxx) series is based on 12nm process, which are already in the market. You are referring to Zen 2 architecture (Probably will be released as Ryzen 3 series)

Comment Re:Just let the opensource foks (Score 1) 196

I suspect that with Valve involved the turn around time will be a lot shorter. Besides, no sane person buys a game when it comes out. It's expensive and buggy, no thanks. I'll wait a year for them to get the bugs fixed and in that time Valve can get it working on Linux.... double bonus. Plus, waiting a year is a good litmus test of if the game is any good. If after a year it's still almost full price, it's a good game. If it's 95% off, it's probably not worth your time to play.

Capcom got Valve involved for Street Fighter V on Linux/SteamOS. That was in 2015.

Comment Re:What is the reasoning (Score 0) 233

At least you can just buy an i9 and youre not screwed over.

microsoft one upped intel on this. Windows 7 professional and ultimate - the best versions of windows 7 and fit for use in corporate offices, became another version of windows 10 home - a crap edition designed for low-computer-use home users. The real Windows Professional meant for corporate users, got renamed to windows 10 enterprise.

Enterprise version of Windows has always been there since XP to 10, available only through volume licensing or enterprise agreement.Win10 Pro is still available through retailer, and it can join a domain just fine, and even come with bitlocker, while Win7 Pro doesn't. What kind function that are you looking for and is missing from 10Pro?

Comment Re:Run Windows under Linux (Score 1) 95

I'm actually really interested in giving this a go. I'm currently running Windows, with linux in virtualization, and it works very well.

But I'd love to turn it inside out. I'm not sure where to start. What linux virtualization solution would you recommend for hosting Win10 + games with gpu virtualization?

You say its 'good enough' to run AAA games. What sort of performance hit am I really facing? Do some games "just-not-work" What sort of stability loss am i looking at?

I've got an i7 and a gtx1080, if that's a factor.

What's the situation with multi-monitor support with something like this? And peripheral pass through? (usb headsets, usb controllers).

If you can point me at a current resource that covers the setup and configuration and pitfall; that would be terrific.

Before plunging to GPU passtrough, you should test your games with Wine and DXVK. I've been playing No Man's Sky and Fallout 4 with Wine+DXVK in 1440p for a quite a while now, on i7-6700 and GTX1080. Expect some graphic glitch here and there

Comment Re:Two sides to that (Score 1) 101

The reality is public cloud is easy, relatively reliable, and despite your assertion, it is usually significantly cheaper than on-premises, I noticed you didn't include rack space, building power, air con, maintenance, staff etc to run the hardware when you mentioned your comparison, when you do unless you are incredibly efficient it is nearly impossible to match AWS or Azure prices.

On top of that you've got to deal with infrastructure lifecycle, dealing with EOSL appliances, refreshing your infrastructure and phasing out the old ones, upgrading hypervisors, and proposing budget for those things to managements who don't understand that infrastructure lifecycle is a never ending process, who don't understand unless you sync their business projects the year before so that we can invest in hardware before hand, hardware delivery would take 4 to 6 weeks With cloud, assuming it's applicable, you just need to make sure that the business people factor in the cloud opex into each of their projects.

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