and we're live and only five minutes late today that's not bad well okay it's
not good and we're sorry we apologize very much for being terrible people but
in our defense we actually had no audio
five minutes ago and or uh no I guess it
must have been about 10 minutes ago 5 minutes before Showtime we had no audio
whatsoever and now we're live and it
works and everything is working
hopefully we're making a lot of assumptions here we are yes okay there's
one thing that isn't can't even connect to Twitch chat so I can't sign into the
dock see your dock not up I can't see if
we're actually working cuz twitch chat's all bugged I was in the dock when we
filmed the show introduction I know I know I was in the dock like two minutes
ago and the stupid thing is oh
man I'm not getting the what's the o You're
beautiful actually it's been really inconsistent lately and have you noticed
they don't give you other options anymore there's no option for send me a
text again unless you wait a 100 years and then there's no option to call you
with it so it's like send a text to your backup phone which is my wife's phone
not going to be super helpful we're talking about a backup not like I should
need to use this all the time yeah yeah
and then the other option is use a backup code why I use my backup codes
all the time you know what twostep service is is ungodly though ungodly bad
or good good okay sure V yeah it seems
like the emails like been received before you actually press the button to
send it but it isn't but it like it feels that way actually hot mails is
pretty good too hot mails saved me from having my account hijacked because it's
proactive about it it communicates with you if it thinks there's a problem via
your other communication methods and it's like yo dog if you don't think this
is okay then you need to let us know right away like how credit card
companies are supposed to do stuff yeah yeah actually they've they don't even
call me like when I leave the country anymore it used to be like I went and
bought like a you know something expensive like ring ring and my credit
card wouldn't work I I called them up to tell them I was going on a trip once and
they're like why are you why are you telling us and I was like what wouldn't
you want to know if there's like these weird charges from another country
they're like no it's fine it's like um
okay like if there's local purchases on a card that I have only ever used for
online purchases for four years and they local purchases in like Korea you're not
going to think that's weird and they're like no it's okay I was like okay I need
to pay more attention to what transactions go through my credit card
cuz you're not okay well you're the only one with the dock up because I just
requested two text messages and they haven't come through so let's start with
the Apparently leaked specs of the iPhone we supposed to start with the
thing then do the intro Oh I thought we already did that for some reason nope
NOP we haven't done that all right well call outs that we have are Chrome is
wasting power on your computer mainly notable for people with laptops but
we'll talk about that more later Microsoft has cut 18,000 jobs including
Barnacle sorry buddy we tried to get him on the show but I think he's dealing
with other things at the point at this point in time which makes total sense
stuff to do ESPN will be broadcasting the Dota 2 tournament they'll be
broadcasting it on ESPN 3 with a highlight pre-show kind of thing on ESPN
2 at like 8:30 of the day before or something and Google+ is withdrawing its
real name required policy right after they made everyone merge their accounts
thanks guys um yeah I guess we'll talk
about that later too Eno
time
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fourth
10 10 four no all right good
work anyways moving on we have the
Apparently supposedly leaked specs supposedly one thing in it makes me
really think that's probably not true actually I'm going to disagree with you
so this is post by I fear Z On The Forum but I'm going to let you go ahead first
oh I guess screen size uh anyways I'll just run through specs because there's
not a lot other than specs but iPhone
Air oh whatever it's iPhone 6 we call it
yeah uh 4.7 in 1280x 800 resolution a 32
gig 64 gig or 128 gig capacity yeah no 16 gig um A8 chip with 64bit
architecture and M8 motion co- processor eyesight camera with like like I sight
camera um with 12 megapixels and 4K video recording fingerprint second gen
identity sensor iOS 8 and it'll come in
colors of silver gold and space gray I don't know why gray needed its own
little well space gray I mean it's different from like you know gunmetal
gray or Battleship Gray but then there's different versions of silver and gold
Gray's Anatomy 50 Shades of
Gray well 50 Shades of Gray would be 50 different right so that could include
space gray okay so the point is um I
don't know this looks perfectly right to me especially if they're going to have a larger version and Marcus's video as
well as the bajillion copycat videos showing off the sapphire glass um it
actually kind of drove me crazy in his video I should probably I should
probably you can see through it no well okay that drove me a little bit crazy
too because I he says right in his video
that he's never held a piece of Gorilla Glass and then he's kind of marveling at
how amazing the sapphire crystal glasses and I'm kind of like uh dude Gorilla
Glass is like actually pretty similar I mean it was not going to have quite the
same degree of scratch resistance but in terms of being really flexible being
very clear you know if you hold it in front of your eye and don't hold it in front of your eye uh the human eye is
not going to be able to differentiate between something like Gorilla Glass 3
and sapphire crystal glass just like holding them up and trying to look
through them you're going to need actual equipment for that but no the thing that
kind of bugged me was he kept calling it a panel and right it's not a panel of
glass that you don't have a panel of glass you have an LCD panel and you have
a glass cover over top of it um so
anyway anyway anyway anyway the whole point is that if iPhone 6 in its 4.7 in
version ends up also having a bigger brother which Marcus's video um which
did a great job of just showcasing how amazing that piece of glass is if
Marcus's video is true and that's a piece for a bigger one then I think it
makes perfect sense that this one is going to be a mere 1280 by 800
resolution display and I just jumped into this assuming only one I actually
even forgot about the fact that that thing was bigger because they always
just release one but Steve Jobs doesn't exist anymore so maybe they'll release
more than one yeah and I mean the thing too for me is that at 4.7 in or even at
5 in or even at even at sort of yeah at
almost any size for a phone I don't
actually find 720p to be not enough I
don't think it's I I think I can can still tell the difference between 720p
and 1080p but it doesn't bother me I mean you're using a Moto X now this
isn't going to be that's a pretty small screen what is it 4.5
4.3 I can't remember that's a fair amount of
difference screen size 4.7 inch let's
just have a really small bz so there you go um I and does it make a difference to
you yeah it's not bad but I can definitely
tell the difference doesn't look as good as my G2 did right like it's fairly I
don't know makes a noticeable difference for sure the flip side of that or not
the flip side buying a premium cost phone the extension of that is that LG's
G3 with its 1440p screen really didn't
make that much of a difference that's a different you can't compare that necessarily because you're you're
comparing lower resolution difference versus higher resolution difference that's not fair you can't compare the
noticeable difference between lower resolutions to the noticeable difference between higher
resolutions what do you you talking about I'm saying okay I'm saying 720p
versus 1080p is a noticeable leap but
doesn't make that much of a difference to me whereas beyond that it makes no
difference to me at all that's all I'm trying to say okay that's not how you worded it so I mean I don't mind that
Apple's not giving us a higher resolution display I understand why they're doing it because the way that
their whole ecosystem works with every app just works every app looks right on
every phone every time they change something like that I mean when the iPhone 5 first launched with the taller
play it was disaster town for a long
time in terms of app compatibility everyone had to run out an update so if
they were to all of a sudden be supporting three different resolutions
now it's becoming more like an Android like experience for the app developers
so I I I totally get that it's just um I
like I'd like to see 1080p I just don't think it's the end of the world yeah I think it'll still be pretty Sim uh no
okay not similar but I think it will still be a lot easier for people to
develop on iPhone than Android just because
you have these different resolutions but at least you don't have all these different devices with crazy different
Hardware in them like I know the the bounding guys had tons of issue with uh
like getting their balancing correct across all devices right because you
have to move it around right because you're moving the phone around so they'd
have certain things where like they put it down on the table Yeah they can't see
the table so put it down put it down on the table and with their default code
it's sitting there still but it's showing the thing just flying all over
the place right because it didn't make sense so they had to write adaptive code
to manage all the different devices which is interesting but with apple
you'll have much less differences in ter
of that but then resolution will be yeah I I don't know oh one thing that we
missed there giving the Renown of the specs is they're going to have a touch
id2 fingerprint identity sensor so it looks like they're improving it already
oh did you did you cover that oh okay I was probably just wasn't paying attention so the the one they have right
now though is really good didn't you say yeah I I really like it I mean it's not
the most secure thing in the world but it was never expected to be no um and
it's still going to be more secure than most just like T passwords
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people yeah all right so let's go ahead
and uh move on to actually a really
amazing little piece of uh piece of
articl over on Forbes here so here's the original article written by Ian Morris
Google's Chrome web browser and this is a very sensationalist title Ian Google's
Chrome web browser is killing your laptop battery he needed he needed to
just there were a couple things there were a couple things Ian over here
needed to do to make this not sensationalist so could have put life at
the end killing your laptop's battery life or not use the word killing so is
no just yeah life battery life it's not
killing the batter okay you could make the argument that it is killing the
battery because the battery does have a finite number of charge and discharge Cycles but it's not the primary concern
here so what's going on why does your
laptop battery and it's not just running
Chrome and doing things in Chrome having
Chrome open is enough do you want to run through the details here uh which if
you're a chrome user you're going to have Chrome open all the time especially
because Google wants you using Chrome as
like a desktop application replacement
yeah in a lot of different places in a lot of different places so like they're
going to try to make you keep it open all the time which I'd really rather not
but either way so how this works is your
where is it system clock tick rate which is normally set at about 64 times per
second is being ramped up to 1,000 times per second so your processor tries to go
to sleep in these little intervals so that you save power when it's not doing
things um so with most web browsers if you're doing something heavy like
watching a YouTube video it will do this but when you stop watching the YouTube
video it will stop and it'll go back to 64 ticks uh instead of a th ticks but
Chrome explain what a tick is I just did
not kind of tick I think I did it pretty well oh okay i' said it's your your
processor goes to sleep in between these ticks okay sure but what in between
ticks but what what is the tick then it's like let it's it's a Timing System
pro programs can use it to so they keep up to date and keep up to speed get to
process things so so the tick rate is how often it's checking basically yeah I
said okay but fine whatever your explanation was great here you go no not
at all um anyways continuing forward
this can effectively apparent ly cause your laptop's batteries to die 25%
faster and I don't remember where the note is but it's somewhere in his uh
chart here on a desktop it can go from about 12 to 15 watts to I think it was
20 watts at idle anywhere from 15 to 20
watts of power consumption at idle not doing anything just having the Chrome
browser open on the screen so 15 to 20 watts with chrome 12 to 15 watts with
nothing else so kind of brutal I mean I guess that
performance has got to come from somewhere I mean there's the uh you know
those commercials they have where they have like the machine that fires thing
and the potato thing that's actually pretty cool it is really cool and it's
I'm glad that Chrome is faster than that but I wish that uh I wish that they
didn't have to make my battery life not
go for as long um to achieve it wish I
wish if one of the requirements was that it was at least your Focus window yeah
like if it's what you were clicked on at that point in time I can kind of get
that sense that would maybe help a little bit but like if it's in the
background and maybe you're not watching YouTube videos which are doing it in all
other browsers anyways it would be nice if it kind of slowed down a little bit
because I don't really need my processor being uh my uh web browser able to very
effectively play those super Annoying video ads that are on places like tweak
town and a few other websites going to keep on TW and still remove so annoying
oh my God every single time I see an article from them I'm like okay I got to
do this one as fast fast as possible so I can close this damn
website anyways um anyway Google has
acknowledged the issue and they're working on a fix for it um it has been
acknowledged internally like they're they're looking at it now they've acknowledged it as a bug it's on the
it's been assigned so apparently the only Annoying part of that is that
they've known about this for an extremely long time and it's been being
reported for an extremely long time and then like the Forbes and a couple other
people are like hello and then they're finally like oh yeah okay we'll do it
but no timeline has been given for the fix no so they haven't been working on
it yet I suppose no not at all they're probably it's probably like buried at
the bottom of some overworked programmer's queue it's just like okay
I'll do it at some point all right maybe who knows so we do this from time to
time we always kind of have this debate
but this is an amazing piece of news for
pro gaming and any hope that it has of
becoming an acceptable mainstream thing the international 2
will be on ESPN did I say two I meant four the
International Tournament four so this is the fourth International Tournament Dota
2 tournament yes uh will be broadcast on
ESPN so there's going to be a couple of different there's going to be couple
different streams so it's going to be featured on their digital channel ESPN 3
with a preview of Monday's final this will be an ESPN exclusive preview of
Monday's Final on ESPN 2 at 8:30 p.m.
Pacific Time on the preceding Sunday
they are going to have Gabe new on they are going to be like giving it the
actual treatment we're talking the streams have got like liveaction you
know instant replay something that I'm not entirely sure makes a ton of sense
for a mode but it kind of does you just don't play
them well okay hold on a second though because I mean okay do you need an
instant replay of an attack being executed unless it's something that's
particularly exciting like oh oh my God he almost made it but he didn't quite I
think that's more the point and like if someone is if if say say there's an
attack that's like a skill shot so it's a free flying thing that has to collide
yes if someone shoots that and then someone use uses an evasion thing and
like just jumps over it that could be something cool to show or if someone
just Nicks I think it's going to be a lot of skill shot based stuff or if someone hits spectacularly hard some
crazy critical and just crushes someone they could show that because it would look cool I don't know it would look
cool to gamechanging parts of Team battles yeah like if something kind of
happens but they want to show you the whole team battle then they can snap back and be like this was very important
this is where the tide turned blah blah blah for analysis and whatnot I guess
that's more like that's more like during a commercial break thing and that's what
I was seeing as kind of the issue because you won't be able to show that
very effectively with an instant replay not really because you're going to want
to kind of draw the X's and O's and kind of go okay yeah here's what went down
pause it for a second here's what went down this is that's more of an analysis
thing that's not an instant replay thing instant replay here's the battle a
couple people died it's like yeah I was watching that a little bit slower but hold on a second I didn't follow because
the thing about a Sports Broadcast is think about who it's catering to the
hardcore guys who really get you know
League of Legends or Dota 2 or these these mob type games these guys are
already watching on Twitch they're already aware of this if the objective
of broadcasting on ESPN which it damn well is is to appeal to a more
mainstream audience there's going to be no benefit to that they're going to look
at that and go hold on a second I think it would be a benefit to that if they
were a lot further down the line like if this was already mainstream like
football yeah because they do that in football it makes more sense but then
they're not they're not worried about what you're talking about which they
should be worried about and you're right um that's interesting so I would see it
being more like I was talking about the skill shot stuff y the the exciting this
was close this barely missed like you can do it really slow and watch the
skill shot missed by like a pixel or something like that would be cool I mean
is that actually okay here I'm going to I'm going to reveal a little bit of my
ignorance here in instant replays of a game like Dota 2 do you have alternate
camera angles that you can control as a
broadcaster if we were talking about League I would know um that's another
thing they're there have spectators I'm I'm pretty freaking
sure it has spectator ability so their casters would be able to have The
Spectator camera which that's what I find exciting about an instant replay is
you kind of like you you okay let's take hockey for example because I'm Canadian
I it's probably the only sport I watch actually yeah so hockey for example um
you saw the slap shot from the point and it's in the back of the net and you're
just like okay but then the instant replay shows you what actually happened
to make that happen so maybe there was a tip where where someone kind of yes it
does slid in front of the goal camera's free okay so that makes a ton more sense
it's just going to depend on how well they can execute it and right now
there's a little bit of okay it's not quite perfect because they have the the
streams that are designed for the more experienced viewers and then they actually have what are supposed to be
more Noob accessible streams that are
supposed to sort of take away from the or not use as much of the term
terminology that a casual Observer might not understand but right now it's a bit
of a mixed bag so there's talk of you know ganking when my mother's not going
to understand what ganking what ganking is but then the flip side is they're
dumbing it down a little bit too much sometimes explaining what the green bar above the character means which I but
you know what the funny thing is what honestly they should probably do that but then they should also explain what
ganking is it should be super Baseline they should explain what everything is
but the problem is that where are you going to find a basic DOTA two cast
yeah yeah yeah because those guys are
not going to be accustomed to to Casting
the game as if someone who doesn't understand what's going on is watching
but they they should try and find like coaches there's coaches so they should
try and find coaches that will stream it because it's not as important about
being like the hype guy because often times there's the the technical guy and
the hype guy if you're doing a two cter setup if you're doing a three cter setup
a lot of times it's the technical guy the hype guy and then the guy that's mainly just controlling the camera
because if you want to make it super cool you have someone control the camera what I'm hoping is that they have like a
small army of people that are all controlling separate cameras so they can
get those really cool instant replays that like you were talking about
um but yeah like on a educational stream
you wouldn't need the hype guy really just have two have two coaches
that can be like oh well this is what they were thinking here and this is why
they thought that these characters can do these different things so this is why they're using them in these different
ways by the way he hits him with that giant spell his green bar goes down that
represents his HP and when he casts that spell his blue bar you can't even say HP
see as Gamers we catch I'm not a coach yeah fair enough yeah all right so guys
I have a straw poll for you because in
okay in outside of North America this kind of
thing wouldn't be that big of a deal a televised game tournament it's like yeah
okay whereas here this is this is a huge
huge deal like huge deal this kind of thing doesn't happen over here so I'm
posting a straw pull in the twitch chat if I could get the thing to load there
we go here we go straw pole guys need to
know what you think does a televised North American broadcast of a top tier
gaming tournament like this I mean we're talking over $10 million of prize money
with the compendium and valve's contribution does this validate gaming
as a mainstream and let's let's not use the word sport let's say competition
because I think there's a lot of people kind of get H up on the sport personally
I get hung up on the sport it's not a sport we can call it an ort we can call
it a a competition we can call it a whatever else but we can't really call
it a sport at least opinion um so guys I'd love for
you guys to hit hit us up on this straw pole and I want to see what you think in
the meantime we'll move on to the next topic while you guys weigh in on this
but uh you know I I don't know it's funny because as much as TV
like broadcast television is a a dying
Medium as opposed to a growing medium or at least not an explosive grow medium
Twitches huge yes it's got a long tail
on it it's going to be a long time before it's completely irrelevant and
you know what's funny about it is even
though you know I look at something like
YouTube my my primary distribution platform or I look at something like
broadcast television and I go okay if someone casted me in a TV commercial the
actual reach of that the impact that that has on on my personal
notoriety not a whole lot in terms of actual eyeballs looking at it but for
some reason they've done such a good job over the years of being the prestigious
thing compared to web and it's going to be a long time before that shifts even I
still View tv as a bigger deal than
being a big deal on YouTube when you're on YouTube You're internet famous yeah
and the implication like the the tongue and cheek internet famous term comes
from the lack of respect we have for people who are internet famous compared
to people who are real famous because there's internet and then there's TV and
then there's Silver Screen and it's going to be that way for a long
time apparently apparently Josh from
fractal is trying to buy air conditioning units for the office anding
to check my not realizing that I'm still going to have to pay for the electricity which is
not happening so he can buy the AC units
wow but they're going to they're going to they're going to go wherever it is that they
go W if we do AC here it'll be Central
AC not those stupid window Mountain won't even pay for the electricity for a
paid for AC unit all right my boss so so
here you go here's what you guys said about the straw pole um I'll give you
guys one more chance to to uh to weigh in right now let's just fire up the uh
this guy right here people are asking me
if I'm going to hire Barnacles what makes people think I can afford
Barnacles what makes people think Barnacles lives here what makes people
think Barnacles wants to move himself and his
family there's been a lot of Twitter chatter about when I'm going to hire
Barnacles I'm not going to hire Barnacles he's got his own YouTube
channel that's actually growing at a reasonable rate he's got his own things
to do anyway does a North American TV broadcast mean gaming is going
mainstream we've got 60% of you saying yes but not for a while 20% of you
saying yes now and the final 20% of you
saying no that's ridiculous you know
what I I would have said no that's ridiculous a year
ago I'm going to agree with the 62% 61%
yeah I'm going to go with those guys I don't think this is I think once once
like all the major matches are cast on ESPN 2
and I mean you got to look at you got to look at it like any sport the acceptance
is going to come down to stuff that goes Way Beyond being broadcast on TV the NHL
is broadcast on TV in the United States that doesn't change the fact that
outside of maybe a dozen to a couple
dozen areas that doesn't mean that the NHL really has any penetration compared
to how widely accepted and how widely viewed it is in Canada yeah so watching
the water usage statistics for the
Olympic Games is hilarious during hockey matches yeah it was the uh it was I
think the the gold medal the gold medal Canada game or something like that where
basically nobody used the bathroom in the entire country while the game was on
and then the the water pressure of the entire
country got destroyed and as as as it went into overtime or something I forget
what game this was exactly I think it was it was an Olympic game but as it
went into overtime it got worse and worse cuz people would be kind of
holding out holding out no I really need to go and then they'd wait for an overtime
period oh hilarious all right ESPN to cast Dota 2
tournament that's extremely exciting though I mean it's a turning point it's
I think it's slightly like it's not I don't think it's enough because saying
ESPN is casting it I think is almost a
little bit sensationalist just because it's ESPN 3 yeah it's it's they well
hold on they have that pregame cover on ESPN 2 that's the important part though
is the pregame coverage and that's why I was saying once it's like once it's once
that pregame coverage is all the major matches and once it's not the pregame
once it's the final once it's like that kind of stuff I think that's more
important but this is still extremely cool it's I just think it's it's like
the first stone in the like walk that we need to create and it's not even that
big of one right it's just very cool
that it's actually there so this is a post from Builder on the Forum Google+
now lets you use any name you
want okay thank you Google I still wish
late yeah it's it's a little late and it's a little frustrating I've already
created you know my using a page for
Linus Tech tips as opposed to just having a normal person account um I've
already like I've already done all this stuff I've already gone through all this
stress of every time I merge any Google
service or create any new one or rename
anything worrying about oh my God is it
permanent now oh my god do I have to
completely junk this YouTube account
because instead of Techquickie with two capitals I forgot to make the second
queue a capital and I cannot change that because thank you Google uh
so to me it's just too a little too late it's got 4,300 pluses on the on the post
that's shared on go+ of course and one thing that I thought was really cool
about it is that their um their development lead is actually in the
Google+ comments check this out replying
to individual people's concerns about the change because the reality of it is
not everyone's happy about it some people liked the real name policy on go+
and were users of Google because they felt like the real name policy took some
of the trolling out of it I don't know is there
anything uh he he said specifically at one point um where some people are
saying it's come out in play time for trolls but he said one of the reasons it
is safe to do at this launch is their troll smashing department has gotten
very good at their jobs which is that's cool and all but I don't necessarily
what are you doing don't worry about it carry on okay um that's cool and all but
I don't necessarily know if that'll help I'm sure there will be what was it Bob
and his tank or whatever I'm sure they will come back um but I don't even know
if I care I would much rather have personally at least much rather be able
to have an account which doesn't have my name on it I never had an account that
have my name on it right I I once once they were like trying to force you to
merge your accounts I just stopped using my personal account on YouTube and
started using my work one so I didn't have to merge them so I could keep them
separate and now I might merge my old personal account right just cuz like
that's stupid I don't want to do that for me it's frustrating because I don't
go by my by my real name really like Austin Evans goes by his real name
across the board on the YouTube channel on Twitter everywhere whereas I don't go
by that I go by Linus Tech or Linus Tech tips or whatever else not because I
think it's better but because I think
it's it just is what I did in the first place and I can't change it thanks
Google so that's where we're at how I've always used the internet and like
including Forum sign up and everything that I've always done until fairly
recently when I've had a public Persona is I've used this thing which is called
fakenamegenerator.com and all you have to do is put in a
gender a name set which there's a lot of different name sets to choose from and a
country which there's also tons of different countries to choose from and
it gives you like all the form fill inable information wow that you could
like possibly need it even gives you a fake job job it even gives you a fake
SSN it gives you a fake vehicle it gives
you like you I drive a 2004 Lexus LFC
what do you drive badass apparently a 1995 Hyundai at Lantra
yeah my name is apparently Stacy B Warner wow that's interesting mine's
Justin M Anderson you got something to tell
me mind you you're 29 and I'm 68 so as
much cooler than you as I am right now I'll be dead soon yeah yeah I haven't
like I don't know I haven't put in any yeah the gender set to random and stuff
but um that's what I used to do mainly
when I was younger because I just didn't want to give my information to people
and I still don't normally like I think
I have my real information filled in and just a few main services that I'm really
worried about it would be very damaging if I lost them right so that if I called
up and they're like what is all your information I could be like well I know
that I don't have to make this stuff up because yeah and if they're like oh we need to
see like an ID right because there's a few a few different Services that'll do
that then I can actually show my real ID and it's fine you know the funny thing
about that whole thing is I'm not I'm not sure how I feel about people being
people using a real identity online for certain things for some stuff I like I
don't okay again so my problem is that I wanted to go buy an alias because my
Alias is much more wellknown than my actual name but but elas is your I mean
but well it's part of my name and there aren't that many luses so it's really
not very private yeah um compared to if I went by you know uh Bob the PC Builder
as if that wasn't going to result in a loss Tech Builder TV something something
like that I for some things online I still don't mind people using their real
names because removing that anonymity does remove a little bit of Butthead
yeah but then at the same time if if someone even if you're saying something
that isn't butt head and someone takes offense to it
somehow there are there are 100,000
legitimate really great reasons to not have to reveal your identity online
totally get it I think there would be interesting places like uh like the FCC
Forum but then that's also scary because government could be pissed at you
exactly so I just I just don't think it's that cut and dried and apparently neither does Google they're still
defending their old position of asking for people's real names while as they
continue so originally they what allowed nicknames and then now they're just
removing the whole thing entirely so as they've stepped back from that Hardline
policy they're still saying that the old one was what it was yeah um which I
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seconds and I sat on one question for a while and then remembered that I was
timed and then kept going so there you go it actually doesn't take very long
but you still have to enter your email and password so maybe that's your extra 12 seconds but anyway the point is we
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something I think and everyone went there the website went down we have
never been able to take down a Squarespace website with the w show
flooding it so as much as the plans are
affordable they can also scale depending on your needs your portfolio you can do
a Blog you can do a store lots and lot it will take naturally because it's a
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take like a second to catch up but we've never taken one down yes we've slowed it
down at the beginning and then it'll go like okay I'm good and then it'll be able to manage it we've never actually
taken one that was actually pretty funny because we that was a live demo where
I'd never tested it before and I was like let's see if we can take down minus
Medi group.com this will be a benchmark cuz I do all kinds of stuff my sponsors
hate on my show I think or have the potential to hate misquoting making them
agree to give even more people clothes stress testing them without them knowing
it's coming and what happened was it just kind of for about 5 Seconds 10
seconds it was like and then it was fine yeah all right
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sites because you can get a twoe trial for free at any time and I said last
week in two weeks or two weeks ago whatever the point is is Brandon Olen
you won hooray hooray yay Brandon so
here's Brandon's website you can go ahead and you can check out the
different pictures of stuff I don't actually know what any of this stuff is
apparently some of it is like cutting hair and other stuff oh I guess it's
probably a photography yeah I was just going to say if he's a photographer he
takes really good photos yes photography if he's a barber shop so we got some
Street stuff here's like a market look
at the way it works and it actually works according oh what are these oh I
don't know if he set all this stuff oh okay cool so it just takes that and it rotates it I haven't actually played
around with all their different templates they have about 20 different templates depending on what kind of a
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there you go Brandon Olsen enjoy and
thank you very much for participating in our little giveaway here speaking of
giveaways I am aware that we're doing the G550 draw on the show today and we
will do it but it will be later it will be at the end end of the show so if you
guys want to peace out and come back at the end of the show that's fine if you
want to watch it in the archive later that's fine too it's not going to affect your chances to win or anything but I'm
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and Squarespace for making making this show possible without sponsors we can't
make this show I mean we could but we'd have no money and then we wouldn't be
able to make the show anymore would be like in the crage wearing Paras because
it's so cool okay you should not say stuff like that because of how many
people have been like I really liked the show when you were in the garage with
parz it was we were legitimately uncomfortable not not
good it's like that actually sucked it did we were cold we weren't wearing them
because we were Canadian and making a joke yeah now it's the opposite now
we're like what the hell Canada why is it so hot I know it's so hot in this
room I'm not buying air conditioning though we're paying for the electricity
for air conditioning that is purchased for you that's right ridiculous anyways
I'm basically a terrible person all right so we've got our next
story here the LG G3
beat really why I mean when I when I
heard this look at this is ads for the Highlander shirt all over my
internet that's so funny okay does anyone else get those like is anyone
else I'm asking the oh no I've I've heard from people on The Forum and stuff
yeah yeah yeah that's so cool yeah and people on Twitch chat last week were
like yeah yeah it's all over my internet just like that's awesome so that's for
the Teespring campaign to get a commemorative Highlander shirt there's four days left um actually we upgraded
the hoodies is that done now yeah it's done so we didn't change the price of
the hoodies but they're now canvas something hoodies instead of Gilden
hoodies so I'm I'm picking up a hoodie when I at least one then cuz those those
those look a fair bit I love how it's an out of number that makes no sense yeah
346 sold out of 150 so it's teespring.com Highlander land if you
guys want to check that out we already hit the target so no pressure we are
definitely shipping them and I'm super excited about that anyway so the LG g3b
when I first heard this name I kind of went okay LG G3 beat so it's probably
like like a music optimized version of it cuz HTC did that where they had like
it was just a software layer or something um I thought it was
legitimately um like they're like oh yeah there's some phone that's better
than the LG G3 I didn't even think it was an LG phone you thought beat sounded
better oh3 beat oh cuz you know you know how
sometimes people title things they they there's like there's a news way of
titling something and you can say LG3 beat as in something this headline if
you miss the capitalized B it reads LG
G3 beat with 5 in HT display laser
autofocus camera goes official it's like what does that actually it sounded kind
of weird but I thought it was something had beat the LG3 and I started reading
it I was like oh what and cuz the the photo they look so similar yeah they
look I thought it might have just been a zoom out of the same phone or something
right I yeah did not catch on right away all right so here we go it's got a 5 in
HD so that is 720p IPS display and again back back to
the iPhone 6 I don't mind that I don't
think it's perfect but it's so much better than not 720p so whatever we were
using before something by 480 it's so much better than that that yeah that
distance or that difference sorry is extremely dress I'm okay with it they're
talking about the screen to body ratio although I think they mean percentage of
74.1% screen to the rest body so it's
very much about the screen experience just like the G3 three with its very
slim bezels the specs have been significantly downgraded so you still
get the laser focus camera but you don't get a 13 megapixel rear camera anymore
it's 8 megapixels now and the processing power is like in the Bas basically in
the toilet 1.2 GHz cortex A7 adreno 305
GPU only 1 gig of RAM compared to two or three depending on the storage capacity
of the bigger one and only 8 gigs of internal memory with a 2540 Mah hour
battery that is fortunately also still user removable it still has a micr SD
expansion slot and basically I guess what I have to say here is this either
validates HTC's strategy with the One
Mini and the One Mini 2 where they take that same high-end build quality and
look and that aluminum design and in order to cost it down enough to really
make any difference especially for someone buying on contract they put way
lower in specs because honestly those chips are not that much of the cost of a
phone like it it it's a factor but you just by downgrading the CPU like in a in
a computer for example downgrading the CPU and GPU alone you can reduce the
price of a PC by half yep depending on what you're looking at versus like a
very high NPC versus a low and one easy with a phone that's not the case we're
talking about maybe they shave you know 20 30 40 bucks off the bomb cost that's
not the difference between an $800 flagship phone and a399 phone so when
they keep that build quality in there they can't really drive the price down
that much that's why low-end phones are plastic and stuff so this either
validates HTC strategy of delivering much lower specs but still a really nice
feel or it's LG going down that same
disastrous path I guess yeah it remains to be seen you had a really interesting
note here though should jump into the skin performance yeah with the one the
one mini2 uh one of the articles I was looking at I think it was The Verge
article pointed out that the One Mini 2 is I I don't
okay whoever it was don't remember if it was The Verge I was reading up on it and they basically made an interesting point
they said the One Mini 2 is still a good
phone even older smartphone specs and we've gotten to that point now can still
deliver a really good experience but the issue that I worry
about here is that LG's skin is not as
lightweight as since or or just a stock
Google Experience like what you have on the Moto G which is also a very lows
speec phone that still performs okay my wife's been using one for the
last few months now and she does complain about it but it's not that it's
usable it's not like her old phone or anything like that so I worry based on
that LG skin is not that lightweight if performance is going to
be okay on the G3 beat that is pretty
interesting whoa that was a loud knock um that I I don't know the skin is
interesting but then at the same time they could have a lighter weight skin I
doubt it I doubt it they could cuz there certain things that are significantly
lower like in my G3 review I show multitasking on HTC versus LG and their
multitasking is really versatile like you can zoom in and zoom out and stuff
depending on how many things you want to see but it's heavy it takes a while to
load like it's it's something that I noticed before I did a side-by-side
comparison like that's never a good sign yeah it's a big difference yeah
interesting I don't I don't know it's something that they said in here though
is the smartphone manufacturers cannot ignore this growing segment of consumers
who want the best balance of looks features performance and of course price
um I like how he says that while his company is jumping on that bandwagon at
the same time basically we cannot ignore
this growing segment of consumers yes either way it's it's I
think I think they're right it's getting to the point where a lot of people don't
need the flagship phones for a while there you basically needed to get a
flagship phone or else you're getting a piece of crap that's true but the issue
is that that's not even true anymore so now consumers are being forced to choose
between something with okay build quality something like a Nexus 5 but
bleeding edge specs versus something that's going to have LG G3 or HTC1 type
aluminum backing like that kind of stuff that really does cost a lot of money and
much much lower end specifications I mean the killer for me is the 8 gigs of
onboard storage I can live with 16 gigs as long
as I have SD expansion yeah yeah a lot
of apps are not going to want to live off that SD card yeah and even and yeah
exactly and games are getting bigger and bigger all the time on Android y I mean
there's that rumor on the street about
uh you know some Android gaming device
that may or may not be surfacing at some point in the near future I I I can't say
anything because um when I don't know
anything I can speculate uh so anyway
something that may or may not be coming at some point um I mean andro is a valid
gaming platform you look at I I do most of my gaming on Android even if I'm
using gamestream I was just going to say no not on not Android games yeah but
what needs to happen is game developers need to get on board the whole Android
thing but we need devices that are really delivering a great Android gaming
experience and it's that whole chicken and egg thing speaking of chicken and
egg things Mozilla is attempting to improve jpeg how you like that I like
that that was a very interesting segue but I like what they're doing here a lot
because um this is so much better than
Google's approach it is so much better than Google's approach it makes so much
more sense because Google's promoting something that is only kind of kind of
we should say what Mozilla is doing first then we'll then we'll like slam
Google for being dumb so what's Mozilla doing Mozilla is making a new
compression library for jpeg so where is it called Moz jpeg 2.0 Moz jpeg 2.0
which will work for when you're compiling jpegs but then it's read in
the exact same way so everything that reads jpegs right now can read it just
totally fine it'll take a slightly longer amount of time to create that
JPEG but then reading it is faster so
that's awesome because it takes like no time to create one right now at all so
so should be fine if it takes ever so slightly longer than basically
non-existent I think it's okay and if it's making uh where is it 30% smaller
or something I think to 15% smaller
which isn't as good as Chrome uh approach but it actually works with
everything yeah which is pretty important and I mean making images
smaller on the web isn't the end of the world these days anymore like it used to
be that loading images was the bulk of
you know web traffic where not video yes
and but at the same time we're running into things like uh imer imager whatever
you want to say where instead of having a few images on the website and that
being an issue now it's the whole website is just images so that I can
actually take a little so even another let's take the average even another 10%
faster another 10% less bandwidth used by those images is all going to be
really positive stuff this can really help people that are in say Australia
that have terrible craptastic internet or other random areas around the world
like We complain about our internet all the time then mods that I have in the
mod chat post a screenshot of their speed speed test and I'm just like sad
face my internet is Godlike compared to yours so yeah so by comparison Google's
been pushing their uh webp which is a still image derivative of their web M
Cod codec which actually is better I
mean technically it's better we looking at up to 30% smaller images with webp
but the problem and Facebook did an experiment Facebook the kings of
experimenting with things just randomly did an experiment where they started
serving up pages with webp and the problem was that no browsers other than
Chrome or Opera supported it and then number two is that a lot of people use
Facebook as cloud storage so they actually upload their photos because
they don't care about Pixel Perfect quality being preserved forever so
they're just uploading their photos to Facebook and then downloading them as they need them they were downloading
these webp photos and none of their local file viewers were able to look at
them that's a big issue in my opinion because I don't necessarily use Facebook
as web photo storage I never have but I
have downloaded images off Facebook when I'm like say I need a new Twitter banner
and the Facebook thing is really wide so
like my brother's Facebook thing or my mom's Facebook thing if she wants a
Twitter banner I can be like yeah just go to your Facebook one right click on
it view image save image upload it again to Twitter and it's probably
fine considering so many different websites are moving to this like wide
big banner kind of style you can just bounce them across each other and you
can do that from any location if you have them on one of those services so
being unable to download them again is kind of dumb so I mean maybe a long time
in the future but you look at how long it takes to really move the dial on a
web standard I mean flash is still here
why it's still causing browser crashes
for me on a regular basis remember when I was like uh wow maila is screwing up
right now and then I was like wow no it's not I'm just at like 98% or 95% RAM
usage uh a gig of that was Flash it's like w
really why go away I have like one
YouTube video open what are you doing yeah so I mean I I I see something
like the jpeg improvements as a much more feasible way to actually achieve
something versus so Milla is trying to achieve something real and Google's
trying to achieve something that will hopefully be like in the future maybe or
something maybe so I'm sure they could make photo viewer work with webp
speaking of things that right now are uh
right now are not really a thing but could be really important in the future
project see another segue bam got Segways Project Ara Dev board ships
later this month so the sign up is actually closed now uh yesterday was the
last opportunity to sign up and Google is evaluating who gets the equipment
based on how interesting their idea is
as well as uh something else so basically they're actually going through
all these submissions but for those of you who need a refresher Project Ara is
the modular smartphone concept now this is a concept image right here of like
remember phone blocks so this is the the real version of that so this concept
image right here shows backings of something that looks like a fablet with
these modules that plug into it and are going to communicate via um a
standardized interface so that whatever type of module you're plugging in
they'll all be able to communicate with each other and they'll all be able to communicate ultimately with you here's a
smaller one here's some just random modules well I mean this is the state
it's in now um so we're not there yet
but but they'll be shipping the second
round of Hardware sometime in the fall I
believe yes first round is in first
round is soon and then second Hardware release with multiple application
processors will be in the fall right now it's not even close to ready so this is
very much like plug things in and see if they work stage but it shows that they
are still working on the project they are still serious about this and I mean
okay initially what I said about this was it's not going to make sense for
anything but the low end by the time it actually sees the
light of day I might be totally wrong
because we're getting to the point where like the spec bumps don't feel them as
much we're getting to the point where we can continue to miniaturize things but a
phone is largely fast enough for most of the things you're going want to do with
it today which I mean if we're talking about walking around with a phone in 3D
mapping an environment yeah and stuff like gaming is always going to get
harder but when when you talk about it's fast enough to do things you want to do
today a lot of people when you reference that is calling texting um very basic
kind of text applications and photo applications like Facebook um Twitter
Instagram that kind of stuff so when I said basic I I think I had the wrong
Concept in my mind I was thinking basic today basic
whereas basic by then will probably be this basic high-end today basic and so
I'm I'm a lot more excited about it especially if we see Technologies like
um that uh that second that however many seconds it was they could charge a
Galaxy S4 like if we see improvements in charging technology improvements in
Battery Technology to the point where you can make something that isn't that
bulky and really is legitimately modular
that isn't so slow that it's only usable for basic calling and texting fun
I'm a lot more excited about it now than I was before so right now it's running
on a fork of Android like it doesn't even run on regular Android because they
had to Frankenstein it to allow hot swapping of components I mean that's the
kind of thing guys your phone freaks out if you unplug a Micro SD card
unexpectedly it's like yo dog please don't do that um whereas if we're
talking about unplugging your camera I mean the amount of app dependencies on
any piece of Hardware like a camera I mean you install any app it goes this
app has access to this this this this this this this you start pulling out
your GPS module in the middle of right
it's going to be like there's a lot of stuff that needs
to be figured out before this really happens but I'm a lot more excited about it than I was before speaking of things
that are designed to generate hype Sony and Microsoft are talking about Early
Access game sales on consoles now
neither of them is announcing that
they're doing it now that's not what's happening right now what they've
basically said is look we're having serious internal discussions about this
we've seen what a big deal this has been on the PC with steam allowing games to
allow early allow players to pay for early access to them but I think they
recognize like hopefully everyone recognizes that there are still some
serious problems with this model
so the benefits are obvious I guess the
developer gets feedback back I mean even
EA is recognizing the benefits okay hold on let's one step back you look at Star
Citizen where they're being extremely open about the development process
here's the like roadblock we're stuck with right now here's the Milestone that
unfortunately we keep not hitting because we're actually sharing the
internal targets with you guys instead of you know padding it the way that it
game developer would normally do okay so there's there's that completely like
crowdfunded project and then crowd interactive development process then
there's the next step there's what EA finally has opened their eyes to what
they did with the Battlefield Hardline Beta where they went okay we want people
to play this game we want to know that it works properly before we ask for
people's money then there's what then
there's Early Access and so the benefits
of developers getting feedback before they release a game are great especially
especially on the PC where so many gamebreaking buttons can have to do with
obscure Hardware configurations but the problem is asking
for people to pay for beta software paying for Early Access is a
big problem to me it used to be so cool
yes like I used to like when when you had to sign up for a beta it was like this huge resume process and one of the
sections which was always extremely important was what games have you done
betas for before yeah and like how engaged are you in betas and like all
this kind of stuff and it was a big deal and if you got into a beta for something like it was a it was cool you know like
you were a cool dude yeah and people were like oh holy crap you've baed for
all these different games and it's like yeah yeah and you you learn like how to
test things and it was actually kind of interesting there was one point in time
where beta testing games could have gone on a
resume right like the fact that you were accepted into all these different betas
could could have gone on a resume now you buy into it like
what what what what what what we we took that hype of like yeah I got into a beta
this is super cool and turned it into it's just generally cool to be into
betas which made it so that betas weren't betas anymore which made it so
that Gmail beta yeah Gmail with Minecraft Beta where things last forever
and it makes no sense and then they started charging you for it and it
devalues the beta word like it's it's taken the meaning out of the beta word
beta used to mean it's not finished now beta seems to mean it's well it's mostly
finished we're just not quite ready to call it finished we're we're getting
we're done but we're getting your feedback and we're going to tweak things so that when we release it everyone sees
it as being and the problem with that actually the problem with that with
beta's working too well is it changes
the the customers perception of what a beta is and it changes their
expectations of what a beta is so all of a sudden they kind of expect a beta to
be mostly there like a beta sure beta software Works no big deal I'll run beta
software on my PC all day long and then then developers recognize this change in
perception and go oh well why don't we just charge them for it then and I mean
valve has warnings like look if you buy into Early Access you should buy it
because you're really excited about the title or something I forget the wording exactly but they basically go look they
might not ever get finished but why is that acceptable yeah and I mean okay
okay okay why is it acceptable yeah but then the the flip side of that is is it
really any different from what we have today where the development process is
mostly closed they released the game and you pay for it and it wasn't done so
basically we're just giving them our money at the same point in the
development cycle we're just calling it something different that that's why I
often don't buy release games anymore I used to be all about buying release
games and pre-ordering stuff I know that sounds weird but honestly at one point
in time that was fine we need to do a shirt that's like I paid for this and
then this just needs to like Trail off
that's actually not a bad yeah okay guys let us know maybe we'll do another
Teespring C campaign instead of throwing up on buy like the the oh you could oh
what if you did like a release and I I
paid for this and have part at the end a different color and then have like an
index and have it be like release and
DLC yeah we got we got to come up with something let us know in twitch chat if
you need us to do a if you need us to do a beta shirt because I think that would
be pretty freaking awesome I funded this beta I funded this beta
so said Luke's shirts are getting smaller and smaller no this shirt has just consistently been small
yeah cuz you're bigger than well you've
been kind of getting kind of jacked lately so there's that um okay I don't
think there's anything else I had to say on the beta thing I think the punchline was what it was it was is anything
really changing if we just get people to pay for Betas no not really nope cuz
it's going to be broken or it's going to be broken speaking of things never
changing it's like the isps want us to keep
having negative things to say about them this is brutal it's on the register guys
you have to listen to this at some point
you know what's the funny thing about it is Comcast is backpedaling and saying oh
we're very upset that the customer was treated in this manner this is a
recording of about an 8 minute customer support call where someone tried to call
in and cancel their service and they're like oh we're really embarrassed about
this they've said nothing about discipl the employee because as listening to the
recording I am sure the employee was
100% doing everything right they were
probably instructed to work that way they were probably instructed to work in
exactly this way because the employee doesn't tell the customer he doesn't
call the customer an or something like the employee is polite
sort of throughout the whole thing other than talking over the customer and
repetitively asking the same stupid questions like like well you know if our
if our service is superior and faster are you saying that you'd like to have an inferior service and then when the
guy just tries to say like no I just want to cancel the service I don't have
to answer this question well what so then you're saying you want an inferior
service our competitor can't give you what we give you and he kind of goes
okay sure I want an inferior service and and and the customer service the CSR is
like oh well why would you want an inferior service I mean look listen to
what you're saying like like you know
please and thank you are all in there but talking over the customer in this
disrespectful manner is not cool no but
that's I'm certain what they were instructed to do I don't like RPS but I
don't think it would have been that bad they'll push you yeah I've cancel
service with RPS in our Telos it's nothing like that no no they'll push you
they'll ask you why but if you're like just I just I just don't want it I just don't want it they'll be like oh okay
really aggressive and they'll cancel it and just the like one of the highest
pressure sales techniques that I've ever encountered
and uh yeah so like Shaw okay Shaw
called me yeah cuz I used to have Shaw and then where I'm living now I the
landlord has internet already so they're like oh you cancel a cha was there like
a reason do you not like it do you have too many outages like what why did you
cancel Shaw I was like oh I moved somewhere and they have it already like
oh so you don't want it anymore I was like well I moved somewhere and I have it already I have it already like it I'm
using it I'm just not paying for it because the the person that owns the
building is already paying for it they're like oh okay hopefully you use
this in the future I was like yep okay bye like it was really not a big deal
they didn't try to push and be like no you have to like get your own blah blah
blah blah blah which I don't know but whatever it it felt just like the worst
thing about you know trying to shop for a car or trying to shop for insurance or
like those kinds of things it felt like I had a Primerica presentation in my
kitchen when I was listening to this
thing that's which I did recently long story why they were there but I I I'll
have to tell you offline cuz yeah OU
yeah it was really annoying I've lost a couple friends to that yeah not like I I
went to a presentation I've gone to one as well but I got tricked into going to one no I
knew where I was going I didn't I had no idea I was uh I had a weird idea that it
might have been something to do with that but I had no idea yeah I was fresh out of high school and someone was like
blah blah blah you know there's this thing and fresh out of high school sounds right I hadn't got I hadn't
caught on to the whole if they won't if they refuse to tell you what you're
selling then you probably shouldn't be selling it yet so they were just like no
no no we can't tell you anything you have to just come with the presentation so I kind of sat through the presentation I kind of went okay it's
PID scheme and then that was about the end of that I got my I I contacted a
friend that I hadn't talked to since high school and I was like we should hang out sometime and they're like yeah
you should come to like my work we're having a a work thing and we're allowed
to bring plus ones we're we're encouraged to bring plus ones like it's
it's good I should be bringing people I'm like okay sure and then day up they're
like oh yeah like wear something nice like it's fairly fairly formal I was
like okay so that's when I had that like one red and black suit you remember that
so I put that on which is like super way over the top oh yeah like way over the
top because it's the only thing I have and I show up and like I'm Miss they've
they haven't told me what they do I just and I've asked them multiple times what
it's about all this kind of stuff and I I show up and then I'm like oh this is
your work this is weird it's in like a storage unit
complex this is really odd which ironically isn't as bad as your old
office in my house
Gage um but yeah and then I sit down and
I realized that it's not like just some work the there's there's the reception
desk and then there's the like presentation room there's no working
area and I'm like oh God I'll just sit through this and then go home yeah yeah
um okay so SanDisk apparently is reporting that their SSD sales have
soared um that in that alone isn't
really that newsworthy there's an article on the register so bloop bloop
there's the one um that to me is is the
huge thing about it but what is interesting to me about it is the way
that we're finally seeing capacities take another jump SanDisk is talking
about 4 terabyte and 2 terabyte like terabyte class multi-terabyte class ssds
that might be very very expensive right now but prices are continuing to fall
they're talking about how their volumes are increasing so their actual revenues
are up even though profits are not really sort of increasing in the same
manner so we're seeing it become commod sized we're seeing it become more
affordable so that's the whole point of this is it's getting more affordable
it's really really exciting ssds are the
maybe they're not the future but they're at least the immediate sort of
transitional phase between hard drives and whatever the future ends up being
and that's pretty much all that I have to say about that next big oh this is
this is this really sucks oh Microsoft
cutting or cut 18,000 jobs which is
14% of their Global Workforce holy crap
I mean that's basically like me cutting one
employee no not to make light of the situation that is absolutely in I mean I
understand so this was originally posted on the for by jle and the original
articles from the BBC there's a number of sources on it I understand um you
know right sizing or streamlining or or
whatever the case may be but I just find it interesting that they kind of
shoveled a whole bunch of it under the Nokia thing so they're like yeah we're
getting rid of people because of the Nokia merger actually a lot of other
people as well yeah so I I guess that's
really that's really all there is to say about it so they um they're kind it's
18,000 over the next year uh so it's not all like everyone's job is gone today
the mass majority of it is going to be over the next six months though but it's one of those things where it's easy for
us to kind of see these kinds of job cuts and go oh okay well you know they
they did this or they did that but it's a lot harder to look at it and go okay well someone we know and like and
respect uh lost their job so uh Barnacle
is one of our fellow YouTubers this was posted by The Double Y gamer on the
Forum just a series of tweets from him kind of going holy cow I got blindsided
by this um didn't expect this at all but Barnacles was one of the one of the
casualties in Microsoft cutting all these jobs so you should definitely
check him out on YouTube Barnacles one numerical one on YouTube or if you just
search for Barnacles that should be a secondary account then Barnacle
numerical one numerical one no if you
had a secondary account it should be Barn too n that's stupid that's the
stupidest thing you've said today stupidest isn't even a word which some
people will go no the person calling something the stupidest thing ever is
stupid because they're using not even a word but actually I'm saying it very
intentionally to emphasize how stupid it is it's so stupid it shouldn't even be
real there done that was very well put
uh the millennium bug returns so this is this is pretty funny I can't believe
this posted on the Forum by but this is this is great theel service
system mistaken s notices to more than 14,000 psyl men born between 1893 and
1897 ordering them to register for the nation's military draft and warning that
a failure to do so is punishable by a fine and imprisonment what they actually
meant was uh 1993 to 1997 so uh y 2K
strikes again oh like I can't even
believe I love how they're like yeah the they accepted that it was wrong and they
just told people just to ignore it if it shows up I'm like that's actually going
to be possibly traumatic for certain people yeah I would think so yeah like
that's going to be not good at
all cuz I I wouldn't even be surprised
if there's people in that group that possibly passed away in
Duty that are now getting drafted yeah I
mean it's it's and like their spouses might still be alive or something it's
super not cool I mean the error occurred because the state uses a twood digigit
code to indicate um to indicate the date
and digital systems go back far enough that those people were alive when this
code was implemented like all this stuff I I I still I don't understand I I still
see stuff that uses two-digit date codes
and it's like haven't we figured out that this is a problem yet we all just
need to stop doing this use real dates
we have really big storage now it's okay it's fine the extra two characters take
the two more characters probably fine it'll be okay speaking of two characters
the last of us have remastered on the
PS4 is going to allow you to lock the
frame rate at 30fps now to be clear by
default it will run at 1080 60p and I am
definitely a huge advocate for consoles
giving the user the option to control
the graphical Fidelity settings so that they can choose whether they want you
know more particles to kick around on the floor or whether they prefer to run
at a more consistent frame rate or at a higher resolution or whatever else the
case may be but the one concern that
this brings up so this was posted by dri W in the Forum the one concern that this
raises for me is if you're at
60fps and they're acknowledging that and
they're there they're giving you the option to lock at 30fps because there is no cinematic gameplay reason to play a
game at 30 FPS there that put put that out of your mind if they're giving us
that option are they basically saying well it could be dipping below 60 FPS
often enough that it might bother some people to the point where they'd rather play at a lower frame rate I I rebuttal
this a little bit um by saying that the one of the lead developers was talking
about how amazing it was to play it in 60 FPS so I I don't really think it's
going to be that big of an issue it could be but then I've always been one of those deat tastic people who
basically dials in my graphic settings based on worst case scenario yep and and
people people will often make this argument well you don't need to run your
game at 95 frames per second because your monitor only Sports 60 frames per
second that's not really the point the point is those times when it dips are
usually the times when a bunch of dudes jump out at you that's how it works when
there's more objects on screen that's when your frame rate dips so that's why
it's important to run at an average frame rate of 100 FPS so that when
gets real not and everything runs at 60
even though like never dips below so that's that's why in Star seon when
you're staring at the floor you can get like 150 and if you look up in a deluxe
hanger that has a bot ton of ships in it you can go down to like 10 or 15 like it
can be a lot harder to run different parts of different games and g-sync will
alleviate this quite a lot more than I expected 40 FPS looks pretty good on a
g-sync monitor when you're not dealing with any stuttering or tearing yeah but
well maybe 4 yeah 40 might be a little bit on the low side 45 looked pretty
good though so it's still yeah yeah it's interesting and then
the yeah let's not what just no carries
and did you we rejected the Tesla Model 3 that's exciting we talked about it
last week oh did we yeah yeah but we called it the model e oh so we can talk
about that yeah so we can talk about how Elon Musk is like so yeah Ford like um
ruined our whole plan to have the sex lineup of cars with the model S the
model e and the model X by threatening a lawsuit over the model e naming or
something so we're calling it The Three so is like close enough he so funny I
think he found some way to still make it work or something or was it yeah the S
S3 which is three eyes and then an
X yeah I don't know what a funny guy I
mean who does that cuz you you can't
someone that smart who's paying that much attention to everything there's no
way he didn't know that the letters weren't going to spell sex mhm
awesome guaranteed I love it I think he's hilarious me too I like musk a lot
he's kind of awesome I think that's pretty much it from my side there's
other stuff but it's just yeah I don't know none of it seems that exciting
so totally not great totally not a Dr
for the laptop oh that's okay the laptop
that's like trying really hard to keep
itself alive I may replace this laptop
with what 4 gig of RAM isn't enough and you can't upgrade I might just get a new
no no solder on I might just get a new Gen X ps12 speaking about solder on what
no nothing soldered onto that laptop no
I didn't mean that I meant the the blade the blade that's why oh that's why I'm
no I already shipped the blade back yeah I was tempted to just not ship it back
and just be like what are you going to do what are they going to do stop seing
me like review samples no what they could have done was they could have
turned that into like an advertising C it's like our laptop is so good that
this guy won't send it back but but if they publicized what I did then they'd
be opening up the floodgates for other reviewers to just not send things back
back yeah or also saying they could send like the razor SWAT
crew not real SWAT could show up with
like water guns that would and raid the house that would actually be kind of
hilarious except it could cause real problems because like yeah I yeah that
would that would I mean fake swatting is never funny even if they're armed with
water guns so I would definitely see if you call the head like if if they called
the head and like informed the police and like it was set up and we probably
knew they would have to inform us they would it would basically a whole thing
would just have to be completely everyone would have to know it would have to be like realistic looking SWAT
uniforms with like bright yellow and orange water guns so everyone knows it's
fake yeah but then you're it's not even that funny any okay anyway so speaking
of things that aren't that funny anymore making you guys wait any longer for the
drawing of the signed Rog G550 JK gaming
notebook so it's signed by all the Highlander video personalities that were
the tops of me Logan Kane Luke um Austin
Paul and Kyle all signed the bottom of this unit and it can be yours so we are
going to draw it live random.org so we have 6111 pages
will oh okay whatever we draw live here guys if we find that your entry wasn't
valid so we go back and make sure that your entry was valid I'll be inspecting
accounts I'll be inspecting he'll be digging don't tell them what you're inspecting because we don't want them to
know what we're looking for tell them how oh okay basically we have a process
you won't get away with it so uh we may do a redraw stay tuned on Twitter if the
original winner ends up not being valid but here we go guys drum roll so the way
that we do it is first we draw a random
page on random.org then we draw a random
poster on said random page so it's I think it's 20 post per page yep 20 posts
per page here we
go page 341 up give give everyone like a
little bit of time so they can figure out if they're on page 341 sure so we
can make everyone super anxious okay I'm just terrorizing everybody right now
okay all right we will do that okay so it could be Tony Tang 66 pinnon fery
faran Cameron Schultz legol
ladex slonski oh won't be
slunky sorry dude uh Mr Mosh Pit 101
shoate
Ren Aiden eor light cam Nick 45101
better not be our Nick yeah seriously I can check that victory cler or Joe 11
34206 there is so many Joe's yeah so
many all the Jo incredible amount of Joe's okay so now we will go from 1 to
20 nine okay so let's let's count them
one two three four five 6 78 nine do you
double count the guy that was in there twice I guess we already picked yeah
because we're picking a random one based on post count then we're going to valid 20 on a page good point so that that way
the double entries don't affect anyone else's chance to win yeah yeah yeah so
there it is you won good
job yeah so I'll send a PM through the Forum which is how our giveaways work
all right congratulations what are we going to do if that person doesn't respond to respond to what the PM on the
for uh then we'll redraw it okay yeah
okay so stay on Twitter I was more asking for like I can't believe how many
people are watching W show today thank you so much guys we peaked near 6,000
broke yeah we broke a record our last record was about 5,500 wow you guys are
incredible thank you so much for watching I think that's pretty much it
for the show um for those of you upset that it's someone who only posted once
the giveaway is for lonus TAC tips
YouTube viewers we are using the Forum
as a mechanism for hosting the the giveaway someone who has one post on the
Forum could be a longtime loyal viewer
of our videos even a big commenter on the YouTube instead of on Facebook yeah
so just because they don't post a lot on lists.com doesn't mean they're not a
member of our community so let's try not to be all butur about that and if
they're not logging on to the community that much you have a higher chance that they won't answer the PM and that
there's going to be a redraw that's right so we did think of this all right
peace out guys thanks for watching we'll see you again same bat Time same bat
Channel next week bye
everyone why is that still there there we
go yeah someone's comment the International's on and there's like
6,000 people watching us winner you guys
are awesome that multi
twitch yeah yeah I know
right for us to make the assumption that they're all just watching this would be
um maybe not super accurate