ear even boom wow how early are we 1 minute
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welcome to the WAN Show of uh the 28th
of April 2017 yeah uh we have some really cool topics one of them being
that Acer has announced their most badass gaming monitor yet which is
pretty sick the FCC announces a plan to
reverse title 2 of net neutrality which I don't personally know a ton about cuz
I'm a Canadian we were like no to that
um but John will have much better insights on that topic
Amazon's Alex with an a uh learns to talk like a
human which is cool Elon Musk at a Ted X
conference in Vancouver uh teases a little bit of the Tesla electric semi-
Tru which is pretty cool and four new gigafactory locations which is pretty
ridiculous um and yeah there was one
more thing oh my God I keep on double clicking with my touchpad and I'm a
super Noob Nintendo is launching a new 2DS XL which is like Flippy and stuff
which is what the 3DS probably should have been this whole time so it could have been cheaper and that 3D option
would have just never been there which would have been completely fine and
that's the show this week intro rolly intro look at it work look at that don't
you like that when you just press a button and something just happens it's
so fantastic
man weekly analysis sometimes sometimes we just
talk about reason make noises people oh my God the's not muted by the way and
I'm like yeah I know Spectrum glasses and cooling
master and move that back up there and go back all right so first things first
that crazy monitor let's get up to the top here let's do it um Acer's new
gaming monitor the notes in the dock say that it is 44 htz but my extremely techy
brain was like there's no way that's accurate thanks a lot James yeah yeah so
it's it's 144 Herz HDR 4K UHD monitor
super badass want to keep talking about it yeah uh basically Luke said um being
build as the nicest Acer gaming monitor
that Acer has ever made um it has a
local dimming for better contrast which is actually pretty cool yeah so that
that's part of the HD bit where there's all the different zones and it can like
turn off different zones to get better darkness and contrast and stuff Co one
of the better solutions to get better contrast uh four milliseconds of
response time um it doesn't say what kind of a panel it is but I believe it
will be with four millisecs it will be an IPS so like a little bit quicker IPS
and should look fairly nice which is cool mhm uh also has uh HDMI 2.0 um I
don't know if HDMI 2.1 has made its way onto any consumer devices yet but if you
want to run 4K 60 HZ on this monitor you can do it through HDMI
2.0 uh you probably shouldn't though it's 144 HZ monitor you're going to want
to ah yes run at 144 HZ so yeah maybe if
your graphics hard powered but yeah yeah
yeah I don't know if you want to like by for some reason have multiple inputs
plugged in at once yes and you want to run something that doesn't need the 4K
144 HZ you can totally do that which is cool um like like like right now if you
had say this thing the analog NT which you guys can't see but it's right off
camera you want to have that plugged in and your computer you could totally do
that yep and it also has uh Toby ey tracking built in so if you can scroll
back up a little bit there if you're wondering what that kind of bar on the
bottom there is that is what that would be it is an eye tracker so you've got
that interesting mhm Toby's been an interesting technology to follow because
I tried them out at a CES like quite a
few years years ago and like admittedly
it was not very good it was pretty bad
it was a little bit of a work in progress and I solid as well yeah but
it's it's kind of been a while uh I know seus if you guys know seus uh big
streamer he has it permanently mounted on the bottom of his monitor and he's
done some streams where he used it and he says that it was pretty cool and I
had him try it in front of me because I was like oh BS um and it worked well for
him so I'm assuming that it's gotten better over time which is cool um I also
want to say a couple more words about that local dimming this monitor has so
apparently it's 384 different back liing zones so the
amount of control the monitor can exert over one tiny little section is actually
pretty high uh but you do need um a you
do need a 10 series NVIDIA graphics card so a 1080 or 1070 something like that
with a DisplayPort 1.4 connector but that should not be very difficult to
find that's the Modern Standard so yeah yeah yeah yeah that's that's one thing
about HDR with all the individually controllable what the
heck is that like an accessory for hood on it let's see let's see yeah yeah
that's what it looks like so I wonder if that comes with it we'll see here I
didn't notice anything about that but if you guys can see this on screen there's
like like on on on a camera sometimes where I'm going to use totally the wrong
term I'm sorry Brandon if you can hear this but on a camera sometimes there's
like those things that come up past the lens to block certain light out from
getting in the lens that you don't want and it's kind of like the same deal but for the monitor there's a hood on the
top and there's two side sort of like horse blinders yeah so if you're not in
like a Optimum environment and you have glare or whatever else and you're like
this is an HD monitor with a whole bunch of individually controllable lighting
zones it needs to look perfect you know if you're going to sink that much money
into it I can actually understand attitude and speaking of which no
pricing or release information on this yet but hopefully soon I'm really
interested in the hood I want to get it in here and try it to see if it actually
really does you're really interested in the hood Luke yeah you you know I I get
that impression from you just all the time you know listening to your rap at
your desk super gangster super yeah anyways I thought that was pretty cool
it's fun to see Acer pushing more in the monitor segment wow someone just made a
big change to the dock thanks oh what is happening oh it looks like just to the
table of contents okay so this is very much more you John it is very much more
me the FCC announced his plan to reverse title 2 net
neutrality I know most of what those
words mean um and that's about it do you know what title 2 means no okay so
here's what's going on so the FCC has
tabled a proposal to undo the 2015 rules
that implemented net neutrality with a title to classification now here's what
this means so before 2015 net neutrality
was it had been implemented there were rules that the SEC had passed to say
okay here are some things that your ISP cannot do it and the big thing for net
neutrality Advocates was you couldn't have any sort of unreasonable um what's
the word I'm looking for there no unreasonable discrimination with network
tra so so that rule was already in place
prior to 2015 in 2015 they decided
to the best word to use here would be strengthen it I guess that depends point
of view but they decided to strengthen it by CL by classifying isps and
internet services under T the title to of the communications Act of 1934 and
what this means is they'll be regulated as what's as what's called a common
carrier and when you do this what ends up happening is the um the regulations
are a little bit more strict um as to like what they could do um it now I you
may have caught the fact I said the communications Act of 193 before it was
actually enacted a long time ago and it was originally sorry just let me mute my
laptop here that's very distracting there we go okay um it was originally
designed to regulate um landline telephone carriers all the way back in
the day it was amended in 1996 and so now we have we have the legal framework
that we have today so can you explain because like from a Canadian point of
view this came into our whatever and we shot it down like almost immediately so
I don't even know a ton about it um but
the Americans have gone through this a number of times before have they not
this is maybe like this is the third major action I can think of yeah CU I've
talked about this on W show since like
2013 yeah exactly what's going on why isn't this permanently blocked out
that's one thing that I super don't get okay it's been shot down every time has
it not what do you mean oh like you um
weakening net neutrality has been shot in every time is that weaking or okay
it's a it's a little bit complicated so back in I believe it was
2010 that maybe they first started to promulgate net
neutrality rules the secc so they first did it under um a a piece of legislation
called uh called section 706 so section
that's section 706 of the 1996 Communications Act and the SEC said okay
there is something in section 706 that allows us to say here's what your ISP
can't do it can't unreasonably discriminate between different forms of
traffic right uh so in 2015 that's when
they decided to bring in title to which is theoretically stronger and now they
want to roll roll back and kind of go back to the way it was before 2015 okay
so the concern here is so there's two sides to this the Telecommunications
industry is saying even if you want net
neutrality you don't want to under tile too because the way title 2 works is the
SEC can just kind of sit there and they can pick and choose what things in it
are applicable to broadband because not everything is going to be because like I
said this is an extremely old law that was orig designed for telephone so they
can pick and choose what's going to apply to broadband um the
Telecommunications industry for reasons I hope are obvious does not like this
because they could at some point they could legally do more onerous things
like rate regulation and actually tell Comcast or Spectrum or whoever else you
must charge this amount for Internet service they obviously don't want that
the other side of this is saying that well if you go back to regulating it
under Section 706 it's going to be very weak um I actually have the text of 706
right here in front of me oh my goodness and it's actually not very much um but
it says that uh the commission with regulatory jurisdiction blob blah um
shall encourage the deployment on a reasonable and timely basis of advanced
telecommunications capability to all Americans in the manner consistent with
the public interest convenience and necessity price regulation regulatory
forbearance measur me that promote competition in the local
telecommunications market and or other regulating methods that remove barriers
to infrastructure investment okay if you
can digest that for a second it's all kind of vague there's nothing in there
that says Thou shalt not discriminate
against different kind kinds of traffic right so the the argument from people
who are more concerned about net neutrality is that oh well this is very
wishy-washy and even that last bit or other regulating methods that remove
barriers to infrastructure investment so the head of the FCC who is pro scrapping
the title two things um people are
worried that this set people are worried that about the bit about infrastructure
investment because he he made a speech a couple days ago about this and he said
oh well ever since they did this title 2 thing where they put stricter
regulations on isps there's been less money spent on infrastructure investment
which is a bad thing because you have less you your investing Less in quality
services but that's a very easy way for
them to manipulate that cuz if they know that's one of the things that the FCC is
looking for they going to be like oh we don't like this law no more investment Get Wrecked yeah it's it's an easy thing
for them to do and you know there's there's some other there's some other
things in his speech I found a little bit eyebrow raising um one of them was
he was saying that oh people keep talking about like you know Fast Lanes
for certain kind of traffic and they were afraid this happening and he was
over here claiming that hasn't happened but already kind of has I think it was a
couple of years ago Netflix was forced to Pony up a bunch of money to Comcast
because com was it Comcast or I don't remember who it was I it was one of the
major isps I think it was Comcast but they ended up throttling Netflix's
speeds which for something like streaming HD video was super important
so that actually kind of has already happened he didn't mention anything in
his speech about net neutrality which was also a little bit concerning so
there's two sides to this um but basically the Crux the argument is which
law is this going to be is net neutrality going to be accomplished
under one is stricter than the other so someone has asked a question shouldn't
the FTC be the ones governing net neutrality instead of the FCC so that's
a difficult question to answer just for a little bit of background the FTC is
the Federal Trade Commission they have usually been the federal agency in the
US to regulate things like consumer protection and also privacy so the
argument for the people who were on the sort of the chairman of the FCC they're
on his side that want to scrap these rules and kind of go back to the way
things were prior to 2015 they're saying okay the FTC has been in charge of
consumer protection and consumer privacy for a very long time why do we want to
take take this out of their hands now and put it into the hands of the FCC
which the argument is is more ill equ equipped to deal with privacy issues and
consumer protection issues now whether you buy that or not it's a completely separate argument but there's you know
the question kind of comes down to what's the inner working of each agency like and I don't think I'm really
qualified to speak on that but okay yeah well if you live in the states and you
care about your internet follow up with the stuff John
said um sorry it was a lot in a short time period but you fired through it I'm
cool with it it's it's it's kind of a complicated issue because you're getting
down into the weeds of what the text of the law actually says so yeah um but
yeah that's that's not that's not a thing for me I don't want to tell you what to do I I I don't use the internet
down there so yeah follow it up on your own I think that would be if I was down
there and this was happening I would be very interested and I would be reading
up on it because I started to worry about it when it became a thing up here
but then it was shot down like immediately so it's like and I'm sure
I'm sure like the way your the framework of how your um Communications are
regular in Canada is probably very different than what we have in the US so
I don't know but that would make sense anyways moving on to a new topic Amazon
Alex I'm just going to call it Alex because I don't want to trigger it but
there's an uh at the end of this so it's Alex with an a yeah Alex with an a
Amazon's Alex with an a learns to talk like a human the reason why we're
talking like that and not saying the full name by the way is we just don't
want to trigger anyone's uh version of this thing at their home to start
searching for stuff we don't want has happened before so um so yeah Alex with
an a is going to be better it will be able to do things like whisper take a
breath to pause for emphasis adjust the
rate pitch and volume of her speech and more she'll even be able to bleep out
swear words which is pretty that's kind of interesting especially cuz she's
going to sound more human mhm be like
man what the bleep doesn't sound like something very human like most people
don't bleep out their own sentences you know what I mean mhm but I guess maybe
if it sounds like a recording of a human then it would be fine I don't know I kind of wish we could I think swear
words are actually funnier when they're bleep just start saying bleep instead of
a swear word well no like if if you
watch if you watch any kind of TV show where something gets bleeped out I think
it actually adds a little bit of comic effect maybe I'm crazy the sharpness of
the tone uh the new tools are being provided to thirdparty app developers
allowing them to control pronunciation annotation timing intonation wow I just
read that super terribly timing and emotion which is pretty cool I think
that's awesome because the more natural these things are paired with hopefully
the back end getting a little bit better it's going to be very awesome for
voice assisted support uh my main thing that I'm excited for is locally based
voice assisted support where not everything that I say has to go into
some permanently logged box somewhere that I don't have access to yeah follow
that one of are f for Fat Chance yeah I know I know I'll know about that I'm
just hoping that eventually some tertiary like these things get so good
at some point it's so easy to do this stuff that some side company just makes
one that you can buy I mean that would I think there would be
a that be way more down for that there would be like a I think a pretty big
segment of the market that would be interested than something like that so like like a personal Jarvis I had this
idea a really long time ago where I wanted to string all these mics
throughout my house um and have all of them at the same time permanently
recording onto this giant notepad that was going to automatically delete chunks
above and rewrite and all this kind of stuff and I was going to have Dragon Speaking permanently run
so that it tried to like dictate everything that was said within my house
under this notepad and then I was going to have another program watching the notepad and making actions based on what
was there and then I was like no what would be the ultimate point of
something like that my own Jarvis but I'm not I'm not nearly good
enough I see that's the problem is me yeah that last bit you kind of lost me
there because to me it almost sounded like you just wanted to transcribe your own speech no no cuz there would be
another bot watching the dog for like words that might show up mhm so if I
said like Jarvis or whatever else it would then pay proper attention to the
next few words that come up and then it would like do whatever I needed to do
yeah I'm just not I'm not if only you had a massive team of coders handy and
like a massive like machine learning apparatus yeah I'm working on getting a
massive team of coders ready so far I
have not enough but the ones that I have are awesome cuz we're doing good things
boiler boiler's been learning front end
really all right it's been great I I would rather he was able to work on the
stuff that he's particularly very good at it's good that he's learning
everything hi boiler um but yeah I need
more support for him I'm working on it Elon Musk at Ted Vancouver was teasing a
Tesla electric semit Tru up to four new
gigafactory locations as well which is pretty freaking cool um I this guy is
going to take over the world there was a picture of uh SpaceX and they had like
one of the
uh Rockets fuselage the fuselage of the
rocket the main body had one they had one of the fuselages of the Rockets they
had the giant boring machine and they had like one other thing and it was like
what is even happening here yeah it's so
awesome anyways uh Elon Musk on stage at 2017 Ted conference in Vancouver today
he showed a shadowy image which I will hopefully have I do not
have a source for you a smooth continuous design yeah way to go James a
smooth continuous design between the windshield and the upper facade so that
it would be very
a I don't know how else to describe
that uh I think it'll look very futuristic maybe can you try to find is
there pictures of this thing um Elon Musk
electric semi musk also said that there will likely be
four like I just said new gigafactory sites announced this year but none quite
yet the company said in its most recent earnings report that it plans to
finalize locations for up to three new gigafactory sites this year in addition
to the existing Nevada location it's just a teaser image but it looks kind of
cool I don't know but it looks like a semi-truck well the headlights are very
Tesla like but is that actually the one that was shown on the stream um that's
what it looks like yeah based on the caption here
give me one quick second to get this on screen yeah there you go just any of
those cool right there can I blow this
up a little bit maybe and new
tab there we go so it's kind of hard to
tell but yeah you can see there's a seam there where the windshield hits the top
but it's not like a major difference I don't know it looks it looks like a semi
Tru M um I'm excited for it but it are
you it looks like a sem are you planning to get your CDL and become a truck
driver Luke yeah I'm just I'm going to abandon Flo plan club I'm going to
abandon L Media Group I'm just going to drive a truck which is going to be
automated in a few years anyways I just I hate having a job so I
just want to go down a career where it will take
my job away you know there is a difference between hating your job and
hating having a job because I think most people the second thing is probably true
I don't hate having this job I didn't say a particular job I I would prefer to
come to work every day cuz I'm a weird person oh I'm I'm talking about like I'd
prefer to come to work late every day oh no I'm talking about worrying about like
living in a box is what I mean oh yes not not you know not the doing a certain
thing minor complications no big deal yeah also
there's apparently a UK Iron Man Who demonstrated a flying suit I'm going to
have to see this one he's a British inventor um apparently he flew it at the
Ted conference in Vancouver which is pretty sick you can see him right here
this is his
suit you can see him there as well how far off the ground did he get that's
what I would like to know uh he doesn't look like he's that far off the ground
but it looks like he's got some type of propulsion on his legs kind of like Star
Wars rocket boots there's a video there's a short video and he's got some on his hands which is actually pretty
cool yeah yeah I guess it's more of a proof of concept than anything like I
can hover above the ground so this is look at me
Mom the suit can fly uninterrupted for around 10 minutes that's actually pretty
good considering how slim line the suit is it doesn't seem that big on him it's
it's a decent size but it doesn't seem way too big I mean that's not bad
considering how long was the rght Brother's first flight how long that
last for like 15 seconds or something so I mean 10 minutes is looking pretty good
next to that there he goes so that's pretty sick whoa there's a bunch of
power on there I wonder how hard that is to
control he seems to be doing pretty good it looks like he is just keeping it
steady just using his arms alone like there's no cuz I was thinking like oh on
this well this one in other mockup models like the one right below it you
can see the rockets on his feet oh yeah this one it just seems like he has them
on his arms and possibly his back oh there we go there's something on his back as well yeah yeah but he doesn't
have the feet ones on so I I guess there's a few different iterations
that's pretty cool though that is pretty cool I want one of those a different
one he can move around pretty quick
mhm I just like the idea of like super extended
jumps like jump assist that's in a few different games or like you go to jump
something and you like blast this thing and it gives you a little bit more distance and height that would be super
cool in my opinion just trying to think of the possibilities of something like
this just like and glide to work you make a Slimline version of this mhm that
you can wear that just kind of looks like a normal backpack
and maybe the wrist and leg things aren't like way too big but they're like
nicely integrated I would be super down oh me too that would be so cool you know
like if that something like that ever does hit the market like what the early adopter tax is going to be on it oh yeah
but like it's you can float Casey neistat video comes out he's riding on a
boosted board and then there's like a big gap and he just like hops up and
floats over it damn all while filming
somehow he'll make it work 18 trillion views eight billions of views
all the views oh man there we go I thought that
was pretty sick there's also okay so you said you had something to say about this
please to scan soccer fans faces yeah so this is going to be at this year's uh
eifa Champions League final um in in Cardiff in Wales uh so there's going to
be cameras around the stadium and also with the main train station in Cardiff
and so the expected attendant is this says
170,000 I don't think Millennium Stadium and card can hold 170,000 people I think
it I think it was probably supposed to be 70,000 let me see I'm going to Google
this real quick Millennium Stadium Cardiff let's find out capacity 75,000
okay so I think I think that that that was supposed to be a little bit north of
70k they're going to compare it against a police database of 500,000 people of
Interest people of Interest so if there's if there's a match police will
get a heads up that could stop help them stop a terrorist or frequent hooligan
now in frequent well here's the thing so in European soccer there are if you get
banned from like one stadium for doing something particularly bad you can get
banned from a lot of them and hooliganism isn't as bad there as it
used to be but if you ever watch soccer English soccer European soccer uh you
can still see some of the legacies of the hooligan era back in the 1980s like
they still have Crow segregation um at all the Premier League game so if you
watch a Premier League game it's not like in the US or Canada where if you
are a fan of the visiting team just get a ticket sit wherever you want to cheer
for your team and hope nothing bad happens like that guy did through the cemy um yes that was okay that guy was a
jerk different story but um but in but
in Britain uh you will see so there will be a a specific section in every stadium
for visiting supporters and what will often happen is you'll see um stewards
um basically like Stadium workers in like really bright daylow jacket
standing all around the perimeter of where the opposing supporters are just to prevent any fights or any sort of
other unseenly Behavior so oh my goodness so uh so yeah there's there's
all these legacies of the hooligan era that you can still see in in European
soccer so is so obviously when one
person does something bad at one place if it's bad enough they'll just say okay
you're banned from every soccer venue in Europe for six months a year five years
for Life depending on how bad it is so I so I'm guessing this is why they want to
do that um so the F doesn't this sound a little
preemptive um yes and no some of the
instances are there having pretty bad I mean if you look at who's playing maybe
um it's going to be one of Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid versus one of
Juventus and Monaco so it's probably not going to be a huge rivalry in the final
but even so every big Club has a few people that are going to come and
they're going to try to cause trouble just because they can so um but there
obviously is a concern here uh it says southwales police will have to honor the
country's usage guidelines only harvesting as much information as they
really need and being transparent with the data they collect but there has already been evidence of
police forces both in the UK and abroad preserving face recognition data for
innocent people so how are they using that data yeah yeah and like like the
frequent Hooligans thing I get it but if you like if you screw around a bunch and
then you're like okay I'm going to not be a jerk anymore
mhm are you going to get blamed if something bad happens if a ride happens
in your area and you're just trying to flee that area cuz you're like I'm not
about that life anymore yeah um like are you going to get screwed anyways because
you got picked up by a facial scan oh man that's a good question like that I
mean because a lot of a lot of places do keep known hooligan databases so that is
that known hooligan that is actually a thing but um as far as what I don't know
like that's a good I guess that would be I guess that would be a little bit of a
risk but you know if they all captured on camera maybe that would exonerate you
too so who knows ah yeah I guess we'll see yeah no way to tell for now I don't
like it I don't like the preemptive stuff I'm trying to think of any of
those four clubs have like a large and active hooligan firm but then again you
know you also have to worry about individual people just having too much
to drink and causing problems too so yeah that's a good call now are you I
know you're a Nintendo fan in terms of Mario Kart are you a Nintendo fan for
their mobile stuff um what specifically
like 3DS 2DS oh yeah I I have a 3DS I have a number of games for it so so what
do you think about this they have a new 2DS XL I'm going to throw the video up
here here and mute it um but essentially
it's a 3DS XL without 2D capability as
far as I can really tell for $80 no no no no no for for like $150 US wait where
does it say oh oh oh that was I'm sorry
that was for the original 2DS okay well okay I think the price is a little bit
steep for what it is but as far as just you know that aside just looking at the
concept I think this is a really really good idea um the 3D on the 3DS I mean
it's pretty okay for what it is but it's
not it's not for everybody like like my wife has a 3DS as well never uses a 3D
feature I use I use it on mine but if
it's for if it one day just broke and I can never use it again I wouldn't miss
it very much what do you use it for for everything I try to turn it on when I
can because it's a feature which I paid for so I might as well try to use it and
get some kind of enjoyment okay but if but if you had the option to buy one or
the other and one's like how how much is a 3DS l in the states do you
know um I think they're a little bit cheaper than these it's closer to 200 so
I think you're I think you're saving about4 or $50 with this thing with with
the news yeah cuz in Canada I think these are like about 200 bucks and I
think the that original unibody design
was what turned a lot of people away from the original 2DS because it just it
wasn't as portable it wasn't very attractive and you just it's a very durable system I've had a 2DS in the
past I traded in and got a SXL eventually but it's a very durable
system but yeah it's it's not very wieldly now I'm going to do a straw pole
I'm interested for the Nintendo people out there um do you like um the 3D
option on your
3DS so yes no and indifferent um
yes and this is specifically for
Nintendo people out there don't press indifferent if you don't own one and you
don't care only press IND different if you do own one and you're like yeah I
turn it on sometimes but it's not amazing I I don't know now we're going
to get a bunch of indiffer spam from the PSV this Crow I don't know I don't know
yeah yeah absolutely we'll come back to that later cool um but yeah it's it's a
little bit different it can play 3DS games but without the 3d effect um they
can also play normal DS games um the the
main thing is unlike the 2DS instead of being flat it does fold now which is
very good I think it needs to be much cheaper um apparently it still packs the
same power as the 3dsxl
um they're they're they're claiming they're claiming that this addition to
the handheld Market uh demonstrates
their commitment to the handheld Market
um so yeah that's cool again it's $150
it launches in Australia and New Zealand on June 15th and and in the US on July
28th is the switch going to just cannibalize part of the market for this
thing this is why I'm saying it needs to be cheaper I think okay I think a little bit but this is something I've talked to
other people about the switch is kind of delicate yeah and it can't like fold and
it's pretty big like you can't just fit it in your pocket and if you get like
the case for it so you're actually protecting it properly it's like pretty
freaking big it's going to go in like a backpack well you can't fit a a 3DS XL
in your pocket a standard 3DS yeah what I can
in all of my pants and all of my shorts okay get
wrecked okay Luke but it's it's it's still I got big pockets it's still
rather Luke has large Pockets he he thinks it's very important that you know
not full of money they're empty in that regard most unfortun but they can fit a
3DS XL which is pretty cool I I think it needs to be closer to 100 bucks still I
I really think it a little bit cheaper I think like okay can you look up how much
a 3DS XL costs sure in us I think it's I
think it's 190 um I'll look on Amazon I guess I'm going to check on the straw
pole real quick you do that 3DS XL no
not 3s XL 3DS there we go so 51% of people said no oh goodness
29% of people said indifferent and only
20% of people said yes you know what on
Amazon it's it's closer to 250 which I
don't think is right maybe like they're like really expensive in can you know
what let me check um well I'm checking the us but let me check Walmart um like
if you just if you just want to go to Walmart and buy a 3 esxl like how much would that be enter come on 250 also
closer to 250 I could have sworn they were cheaper than that I don't think so
man I got mine for less than 200 I do remember that probably like a sale or
something like Walmart does really aggressive sales on these in holiday
season fa yeah so so right now they're closer to 20050 I still think they
should be a little bit cheaper because if you're saying the original 2DS was
has been dropped to 80 bucks you're paying almost twice that so you can get
one of the folds I think the 2DS didn't sell very well I bet you they're
dropping it to 80 bucks to try to kind of get rid of it cuz like I I I don't
think I've ever seen one in the wild no that wasn't like my brother's I think I
saw a small child on a 2DS one time
somewhere and that was it so they are pretty dang durable though that's the
thing like if you got a 3DS or a 2DS XL
or a normal 2DS are far more durable
than a switch mhm they just are um
absolutely now the switch has Zelda but
still anyways sponsor spot time oh here
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are pretty cool these are called Spectrum glasses um they say staring at
a monitor all day can be hard on your eyes over time and make it tougher to
fall asleep that's why things uh there's certain like applications that you can
put on your desktop um that will like change the color of your screen exist
but the idea is to reduce the blue light yeah yeah but then those are kind of
annoying because if you need to see like the true color of something just being able to do that is pretty cool instead
of something I think it's called Fleer no no that's a camera that's the um
f.lux it's it actually like changes color your screen which I'm not
personally a fan of now I have not been wearing these a ton lately but they seem
comfortable to me but we have someone in office who has been wearing them almost
since he got hired and he likes it a lot
um who James oh yeah James has been wearing them um if he hears this and
wants to come down here and be a model for the glasses that would be fantastic
um they they look good we have a whole bunch of different models I like these
ones John kind of a gray charcoal they're good 's yeah there's another
pair that don't look particularly that great on me but they look really good on
Dennis they're these or at least I don't think they look that good are those the
bbery style I believe so yeah yeah yeah
and what I actually do like these air ofit because um like if you have a
smartphone which of course vast majority of you do uh if you get like an app that
says it reduces blue light sometimes the effect can be too aggressive and
everything has like this really noticeable red twinge through these SC
computer screens and things they still look very natural there's obviously a
difference but if you put the glasses on it doesn't look like the color is super
off or unored it looks very natural it's just slight less blue so there go one of
the big things that James said he's one of the writers here so he's spends a lot
of time staring at like word docks and spreadsheets all day so with that much
bright light he said that it's helped a lot which is cool that's good M um they
they feel nice they come with a oneyear warranty um they say their product is
extremely durable um the low color Distortion they block high energy blue
light that's the whole point um but they do try to keep colors as similar as
possible that's something we just talked about it doesn't actually seem to change Chang that much which is cool if you're
interested uh go to Spectrum glasses.com
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local frust so go and I think it's cool that James has actually been using them
it says James has been wearing these non-stop for weeks weeks as in I think
above four like I think it's been quite a while and he likes them a lot
apparently he started wearing them so close to his actual start date of work
here that people thought that they were just his normal glasses um oh yeah so
that's why I didn't know who was wearing them cuz I thought he just wore glasses
so yeah yeah so those are those are his glasses which is cool that they're they
like actually kind of blend in you would think they were just normal glasses but
no they have technology um our other sponsor today is
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Pro keyboards come in different sizes I have the medium John has the the large
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just pick your switch color so this one is a blue is that one also a blue that
one is also a blue Cherry blue these were probably picked for me uh blue is
my favorite color although it does annoy people on my stream that's fine you like
blue what's your favorite color my favorite color my favorite color of switch
switch um that's a difficult question I like Greens Greens I'm a green guy I I
like I like my greens rare I know uncommon yes um the master keys Pro
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or check out the link in the video description on YouTube and there we go here we go I'll
take that back oh no at least you hit
the thing in front of it not I'm going to put these back on actually yeah
they're pretty good they're pretty good I like them you go I don't know if they
look that great on me but I like them
let's get Dennis out here they're Co Dennis can come out here denn yes Dennis
Dennis Dennis can he hear that I can hang out
with some cool yeah there we go there he
is there he is put these on in standad
you have to be our model W you okay so
this my glasses oh those are just regular glasses yeah let's see do I look
different not very no I think they look good they look so natural I can't I
can't see all I like this actually I actually like
this one here one second put them back on hold on hold
on okay I'll put your other glasses on oh
oh I think this one a little bit bigger
yeah but what do they do they filter out blue light so look at the screen and
then put the glasses on see how that works
yes yeah so it's supposed to be less harsh on your eyes you can fall asleep
easier afterwards all that kind of stuff am I going to sleep Edward if I what it
is makes it easier to fall asleep it's not going to put you asleep they're not
sleeping pills they're just glasses but it'll make it less harsh so you're not
forced to kind of stay up anyways back to normal content AMD puts two gpus and
32 gigs of RAM on a radon Pro Duo
graphics card so Brandon saw this down at NAB but decided not to wow this is
the RS Technica show apparently we have so many RS
Technica um news articles today which is
cool I like those guys uh but yeah Brandon saw saw this down at NAB but
they weren't showing really good demos
so it was hard to yeah I actually really like it yeah yeah
wait actually yeah cuz it filters out blue light so yeah but it still looks
solid this is the longest ad spot ever
yeah oh I I'm not even looking at twitch chat but I feel like oh my God probably
sorry that isn't even I was just interested um yeah the card combines two
Polaris gpus for one ,000 and it launches in May this is not targeted as
a gaming card no at all they launched it at a like camera and film show they
didn't even announce it to us at all like it's it's not a gaming card but it
is super cool regardless and you get what appears to be the Team Rocket logo
on the fan it's like almost exactly the same I really like the blue I really
like position of these power connectors especially with the types of systems
that it's probably going to go in um and the fact that that you might have a
bunch of them in a row if you're going to do something like that so yeah that's going to make it much easier if you have
type gaps between your uh between your graphics cards absolutely yeah AMD
claims 11.45 Tera flops of performance compared
to uh 16 for the older radon Pro but one
that is also substantially cheaper cooler and less power hungry and you get
dramatically more RAM 32
gigs that's crazy just think of how much
stuff you could holding your frame buffer with 32 gigs of RAM you would
never be wanting for a large frame buffer ever again a whole game basically
yeah let me just render this entire game first every possible scenario no that's
obviously way too much but still I don't know I think that's pretty cool it's not
it's not like it's not for us it's not for gamers here come over
here every time yeah I didn't work on my
chair positioning you know most people probably actually maybe there could be a
ton of H3 fans in the audience have you ever watched the H3 show when hea's like
oh and she just pushes Ethan out of the screen no she like goes out on her own
oh and I feel like whoever sits on this side cuz that normally happens to me and
lus is pulling me slanted or something every so slightly like I don't know I
don't know I think it's because you have to end up sitting like way on this side
of the table so everyone wants to naturally correct themselves where
supposed to be on the table I think there's something in that yeah so yeah
anyways uh moving on let's see what else
we have the show's technically been over for 13 minutes but I want to look at
this one too Fallout is bringing post-apocalyptic Warfare to your
tabletop actually not an ours Technic article this time the show been over for
15 minutes what no like like it's it's an
oh my twitch page just died I wanted to post the link in the chat come back
twitch no okay it's fine this um it's
about it's supposed to be about an hour long oh when we we still have we still
have 15 minutes then because we started at 4:30 so only 55 oh my goodness I
thought we started at 4 for some reason that was weird anyways Fallout 4
Miniatures game goes on sale this November don't worry about it it's cool
it's it's it's fine um apparently it was
possibly going to crowdfunding but it is not I'm not entirely sure if that's true
it just says it'll skip crowdfunding mhm
I don't know um anyways some of the Miniatures are detailed down here which
look pretty cool you guys can't see anything like paint it yourself
Miniatures again yeah so people other than me might be good at it which would
be pretty cool if I got into a Miniatures game I would definitely have
to fund someone else to paint my Miniatures or i' just be all gray all
the time one of the two what if you like 3D skin what if you like 3D printed like
a color scheme directly onto it would
that even work if you got like if you
got some filament that took a little bit longer to dry and you could just like
sort of so paint with plastic melted
plastic if you could get get a nozzle or
like a thing that had like fine enough control or something I don't know but
then it's I'm doing art it's still me doing art which is
bad but at at least you won't have to worry about like holding your hand super
steady you know yeah I would still really really really suck at it um but
there's some of the monster enemies which are pretty cool let me see if I
can blow this up who it's all transparent stuff good job polygon it
looks it looks neat it looks cool um I'd
be interested to see someone actually play it uh cuz I'm not a huge Miniatures
person myself I'm really into the Star Wars edge of the Empire role playing
game that's super fun and I'm really into like uh other tabletop games but
I've never gotten into a Miniatures game we should get Tyler on the show to talk about this maybe yeah uh the main reason
why I haven't is because uh the the cost scares the ever living crap out of me oh
yeah of course those things are so expensive my goodness we we started
playing um what is the name of that
football game we started playing blood bull we started playing blood bull we still haven't done the finals it's
Anthony versus me for the finals and we just haven't done it and the trophy
looks like the Lombardi trophy except the football has spikes on it and it's
gold instead of silver but yeah H let's see here more topics uh
Microsoft is completing their Windows Phone wind down by June okay this is
just this isn't even a tech topic it's just hilarious
um a Russian spy ship was sunk by a sheep
barge so I don't I don't know I don't
even really the circumstances just seem so Random because it was a toal ship it
was a ship with the Togo flag carrying
sheep between Jordan and Romania yeah
it's the most random thing and and a Russian ship hit it and the Russian ship
sunk yeah a spy a Russian spy ship so
the Russian ship was built in 1970 and was converted into an intelligence
collection vessel in 1989 that's it right there I guess
yep oh oh there there's the barge so that's a pretty big barge okay it was
when when you're reading the description for it the barge sounds like a raft it
does it sounds like that thing's ginormous it sounds like a pile of wood
they just put some sheep on to it to go float yeah okay that's a pretty intense
that's not like some random raft with a no it's not this is like this is like
inertia in action like you can't yeah so
it just got super wrecked that's far less interesting than I thought it
was anyway moving on oh my goodness okay
uh next topic uh we do have other topics
we do have other topics um the Windows Phone wind down
AMD AMD this topic was posted by Z mule
on the Forum we're going to jump over over on the Forum real quick make sure I'm not logged in that's
good uh AMD making money from ad revenue
from installing drivers so apparently when you install one of their new
drivers um yeah so Terry madon hopefully
I'm saying that right uh says that some of you didn't like game icons installed
so we updated the radon software package without one we heard you sorry so
without having an option for it it just linked game icons onto your desktop
which were shortcuts with monetized
tagged links to go get the game I guess
and I don't really I can't think of a demographic that has less tolerance for
bloat Weare than people who are really into PC gaming I'm amazed that like yeah
it was even a bitly tracking link so they weren't even like trying to hide
that it was happening it wasn't a direct link to the official page like I said it
was a bitly tracking like it had a referral ID included in the final URL
destination man first uh first they draw the capsa molecule the wrong way now
this okay do you want to explain that a little
bit oh okay you put me on the spot uh so
I believe in you so so the capson thing it was like what they were calling uh
some of their uh events surrounding uh
their their new radon stuff right because caps capsacin is the chemical
that makes hot peppers hot and hot peppers what color do you think of red
like AMD Radeon so capson but so they had like a whole branding package up for
this can you pull the logo up actually I this will me a second greatly just type
caps and cream and you'll find it um
Luca is going to pull up the logo of this thing here so image search will
probably help you there you go I'm I'm working okay there we go okay so can we
pull that up very good so that's the
that is purportedly the molecular structure of caps except there's a huge
problem here um that you're going to have to draw with your mouse here yes
this ring over here this ring this sort
of six uh Corner this hexagon here so
the thing about caps is this ring is actually aromatic which means you have
you should have a double bond here a double bond here and a double bond here
and they're not even real double bonds what would be what's actually happening is the electrons are sort of going like
that like all around these six these are all carbon atoms each each corner is a
carbon atom right so they neglect to put
in the double bonds or the aromaticity in this and so the molecule is actually
not capsacin it's something completely different I don't know what it is but
it's not caps it's not the same stuff that actually makes your hot peppers hot
and they went to the trouble of saying oh we're going to use this organic
chemistry model in our branding so if you do that you should really do it
correctly I mean this is a field where like if you know anything about like
Pharmaceuticals for example where if you have one molecule if you take it and you
make it a mirror image a change as small as that can completely change what it
does inside your body so this is not
correct and it bothers me so first this and now they're putting bloat war in
with their drivers just what next AMD
don't what next you going to turn your ice cream machines off past 2 a.m. I'm
monitor in chemistry in college that's why I know this yeah just to just to
explain yeah okay probably last cuz
we're just running out of AD topics to be completely honest ad topics show
topics um there is a 3D printer with tank
treads which is just blow up here in a second ad topics
I was thinking about the AMD ad thing M
I'm just going to post this in twitch
chat what didn't you minor in the college says twit chat well I minored in
chemistry and political science so everything that aren't those two two
things so there we go okay what's happening mit's mobile 3D printer built
the largest structure to date so you can kind of see it there here we go there's
a video which I will
mute so it's spraying out like a lot of
stuff at a time and it's sort of foaming up a little bit looks like Cool Whip
Cool Whip Cool Whip so that is a 3D printer that is driving around in order
to lay its I guess I don't know if you can call it filament to lay it stuff I
don't know what it starts as excretions yeah there you go look at it
Go looks like a big pot like a Potter that is super cool that is cool I feel
like the military would be super stoked with something like this oh like if you
could like quickly have some sort of like shelter for things yeah field
definitely seriously doubt whatever it just printed is like a defensible
structure but if you could just throw up something that people could Sheltering
absolutely exactly know this could be useful like or for like I don't
know disaster relief or something if you need a bunch of temporary shelters for
people but yeah I don't know I don't know um it looks I think that is pretty
sick it looks like a very it's like the universal Constructor from DX except
much more rudimentary but still very very cool because we don't live in a
fictional universe but MIT that is a wild I want to see
that gif again of it whoop okay here we
go so is Caltech going to make a slightly better one just to one up MIT I
feel like that might happen MIT or Caltech go I have to
choose one yep um no basis for comparison though I I used to live in
Boston and I kind of wanted to go to MIT when I was a kid so MIT I guess there
you go east coast done there you go a clear and definitive decision MIT is
better than Caltech I didn't say that if you're watching this from
Caltech I did not say that apparently antivirus uh software from Webroot uh
nukes a customers machine I I need to
dive into this a little bit more going to post this in the chat what is that
picture it is an it's a filled ice cream cone that's melted a little bit cool
good good again it's the the RS Technica
show so we keep going with ours Technica
news what's the scoop okay get it
understand where the ice cream cone thing came in on this false positive
issue that has crippled a quarter of my
customers wow brutal it's pretty bad
apparently Webroot just wrecked some stuff I haven't used any of their
software in a very very long time so yeah what do you use Defender um yeah
just whatever comes with Windows because I'm careful about like my browsing
habits so so many people these days just on Defender the the like Defender and
then every once in a while download the free trial sweep of malware bites yeah
that's like like like sometimes you might need something specialized to get
things off if you already have a problem but like you know I just reformat every
once in a while use Defender and be careful about rbrs apparently Webroot
was flagging Facebook as a fishing site
nice that's possibly accurate what is the fishing site sorry
a signature update that it had just nuked hundreds of benign files that were
needed to run Microsoft Windows as well as apps that run on top of the operating
system and it flagged Facebook as a fishing site where's the perfect the
delete uh system 32 meem like that would be appropriate right here you know what
the most secure computer is one that can't run yeah I was just about sayun
the most secure computer an abacus which and Colton doesn't know what that is I
think yeah I know sounds like a dragon do you know what an abacus is no the
geog guesser video I said overclocking an abacus and Colton was like what's
that that's the that's where I heard it it's the little thing that you have
beads on SL the beads around it's like no no no no no
crap you said straw pole after I start my explanation this is not my
fault do you know or did did you know
what an abacus do I know what a JPEG is
this one B
yes TI disc okay let's see this is going to be
the last thing on the show I want to see how how old I am that's what this poll
is all about do modern kids not know what abai are maybe no maybe okay is it
abai well it sounds like Latin and a plural us is I so I'm I I could be just
completely making that up but you know what let's let's search it let's Google it oh thank goodness I'm not too old
okay that is a thing that people the Abacus plural abai or abacuses whichever
you'd like abacuses I think AB sounds sexy abai sounds better how many those
abai over there I need to crunch some numbers that sounds like a really cool
name of a protagonist abai abai it
sounds almost biblical like abai in The Quest For Truth can someone make that
video game yeah let's make that let's make that happen or like band name like
if you're like an experiment like like experimental Rock
avakai okay yeah someone I want to look up if this is a
thing I spelled it
wrong wait would that actually be it it would be it Abba abaca yeah abai you got
abai netsuite Consulting abai abai Search like abai
band see if there's a band called abai Already watch Just Be A Nerd band I hope
they're experimental Rock no okay make a band call it abcai
and play experiment on the Rock W that's all we need thanks for watching the show
this week guys uh we didn't have a ton of crazy news topics a lot of what was
happening in the tech world this week was at NAB with all the cameras and cool
software stuff and things that happen at a photo video and movie show so I guess
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we've got some great stuff for you just today we posted a video on Floatplane
featuring this guy in what what I think is one of the funniest sketches that
we've done on Tech wiie basically ever
so that was fun to do we haven't done a ton of sketches on Tech wiie yeah um but
so it was kind of cool to like intro video that way and stuff yeah it's a
piece on the inherent nihilism of Modern Life yes but with tech so yeah which is
pretty cool so if you want to check that out and tons of other really cool line
of tip stuff like if you want to be a little preemptive about it because it's
not on there yet and I do not have a date for you at all uh if you want to be
able to see scrapyard Warriors before everybody else you can get on Flow plane
club and see it there again I do not have a date it is not on there yet edel
is trying to edit it right now yeah like as we speak I don't know when it's
coming out so yeah not a clue I don't know either I it's not even I'm not even
just not telling you guys I have no clue I don't think our CEO even knows when's
coming out we're all purposefully not asking him MH I've just been asking him
how it's going not when it's coming out cuz I don't I don't want to know and
notice how vague that is how's it going how's it going we we leave we give e one
out yeah how are how are you how are you the viewer how are you how are you Luke
I'm good we're g to end the show
okay same time next week hopefully well
we're on time this week and lus will be back next week
so not so maybe a half an hour later than it started this
P Spectrum those cool glasses that we wore
during the show and like go thow blue light and stuff Cooler Master master
keys those keyboards that we showed during the show and like you can type on
them and then stuff will go to your computer how about that sick that's sick
Bro sick keyboard bro sick board bro what am I supposed to
say sick Keys bro sick Keys bro sick key caps bro okay nice cable bro okay