and we're live welcome to the W show sorry guys Luke couldn't join us yet
don't worry he'll be here in a little bit but for now Slender Man will be
taking his place while I introduce the topics for the day and all that good
stuff because Luke is actually finishing
up what will be tomorrow's video right
now we're going to be covering the ASUS Gladius Rog Mouse it was supposed to be
an Assassin's Creed Unity performance guide with a bunch of graphics cards and
benchmarking and all that stuff but I'll let him cover when he gets back why that
didn't happen H yeah it was it was pretty bad so we've got a lot of great
topics for you guys today aside from that an AMD has released the mantle
public SDK so they are pretty much inviting
everyone with some uh with some need to
have a super like bare Toth Metal Graphics API whether it's game
developers or say for example other Hardware manufacturers they're inviting
everyone to the party AT&T is acting
like a small child about the ongoing net neutrality debate in the US and uh
honestly this is just unreal so we'll give you more details on that and the
NVIDIA Shield tablet is going to be one of the first devices not made by Google
to feature the new Android 5.0 Lollipop
Os Oh also I guess you know grid gam streaming went out of beta so we'll talk
about that as well but for now now I got to roll the intro to buy myself some
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AMD releases public mantle SDK well th
this year so let's go ahead and um first give credit to our op so Tera flop
posted this on the lens Tech tips forum and the original article is from and I
know these guys aren't the most popular source of news on the Linus Tech chips
Forum but W wccf Tech posted that it is
coming this year and AMD has basically come out and said look NVIDIA and Intel
we want you guys to use it you can use it for free Now Intel has expressed some
interest in mantle apparently um NVIDIA
on the other hand has not been that warm
and has not been that uh friendly to the whole idea but I mean this was something
that we've talked about in the past as well it might not necessarily be about
mantle being the API for you know every
future game although they do have a surprising number of games on the list
of already released to be released soon
and currently in development that are supporting this technology but it might
not end up being mantle API that you know the game runs on ultimately 5 years
from now but what's great about them
opening up the kimono a little bit like this is Kronos and Microsoft so the
openg and direct X guys have already said that they're looking at mantle and
possibly implementing various parts of it in their own apis so I mean openg has
the advantage of its ubiquity I mean you can run openg games on a tablet or you
can run them on a PC um so that's really
cool direct X of course has that amazing backwards compatibility as well as that
enormous industrywide support on the PC side of things and so if either of those
get anything positive out of AMD's
public mantle SDK then that's uh that's
absolutely fantastic so that's I mean
it's it's incredible how much momentum it's gained and yet how it might not end
up being the winner but there's no question that mantle has pushed the
industry forward and we should definitely be thankful for
that all right I just you know let's do a straw
pull here I want to hear from you guys okay straw pole
will NVIDIA provide any kind of mantle
support yes no and let's go with apple fritter for
our third option because I know how much you guys love you know just not
contributing to the poll at all all right let's go ahead and spam the chat
with this bad boy boom boom
boom ah I missed that first time yeah no
matter where you click in that apparently the camera looks really bad
today I don't know what you're talking about all right there we go
all that's bam so we've already got uh who's this
in twitch chat one man Pizza in twitch chat already says it's not even a
question they will never I I don't necessarily think that's
true I mean it's not like NVIDIA is in a position where if some game comes out
that that ends up actually running you know 20 30% better on mantle compared to
directx12 which looks like it's going to offer many of the same benefits so this
kind of thing seems very un likely but if there was a game like a really key
game or a lots of games like a dozen games that run 20 30% faster on mantle
you really think NVIDIA's not going to leverage that if they can I I don't
think that's true at all but let's go ahead and see what you guys think let's
fire up these results here while I move on to the next topic wow we've got 51%
of you uh saying no 30% of you saying
apple fritter and a um tiny 19% of you saying yes so it looks
like you guys are pretty much on the same page about both apple fritters and
uh the chances that NVIDIA will provide any kind of support in their drivers for
metal all right our next topic actually
you know what this is a Ubisoft thing so I think I'm really just going to have to
wait until Luke gets here for this um so
first up is this was posted by Tech dreamer on the Forum let's go and the
original IAL here is from Ang Gadget but
Tom wheeler the FCC chairman says that he may ignore Obama on the topic of net
neutrality now he made it very clear
that even though he was appointed by Obama the FCC is a separate entity just
because the White House says something like you know oh we want to classify the
internet in the same way that we now classify telephone lines so there can be
there can be no no messing about with the way that traffic gets allocated and
and the way that bandwidth gets allocated so that you know large
corporations would have an advantage if they're able to afford to pay for
internet Fast Lanes so Obama's basically said look you know net neutrality is a
really good thing but the FCC chairman has come out and said that he thinks
that the solution while you know I I hopefully hopefully you know
the the solution that the internet service providers are offering up which
is that they should basically be able to do whatever they want as far as I can
tell he's saying he prefers a or he prefers a more nuanced solution so you
guys can interpret that however you want but it sounds like what we're likely to
end up with isn't going to be straight net neutrality and isn't going to be
straight the isps are allowed to do whatever they want but some critics and
Advocates are expressing their concern that a compromise between these two
might just end up with a muddy set of rules that doesn't actually have a whole
lot of meaning in the real world so guys
there are a thousand places that you can voice your opinion on the subject of net
neutrality but the only thing I really have to say about it at this point is go
voice it it's extremely important without net neutrality we could see
situations where let's say a company
like oh I don't know hypothetically Netflix were to try to start a let's say
hypothetically streaming service where they deliver video programming to
people's homes and let's say you know an
incumbent let's say Comcast whose business happens to be and these are
just examples these are hypothetical companies any semblance they bear to
existing companies it's purely coincidental so let's say for example
this company hypothetically named Comcast goes oh well you know we're in
the business of providing internet connections to people's homes but we're
also in the business of providing video content to people's homes and if these
guys are going to use our lines for that well they should be paying us a lot more
than necessarily the you know exact
amount we would normally charge for the amount of bandwidth that they're using
and if we don't maintain net neutrality we will be stuck in a situation where
they would be free to do that and we could rely on the courts to enforce any
kinds of you know anti- competitive laws or whatever else but we talked about
this last week where oh shoot and I
forget how long it took I think it was back in 2000 was the issue with Intel
misrepresenting the performance of their Pentium 4 processors against AMD's
competitor and so 14 years later last
week this was news people who bought that misrepresented processor got $15 I
mean that's how long this takes and that's how ineffective it is um so I
wouldn't I wouldn't rely on that we just need to make sure that we keep the the
freedoms that we already enjoy in the first place place if we want to have any
chance of of not living in a world where
our isps are in control cuz we know how
awesome they are speaking of how of how
awesome our isps are AT&T has publicly okay this was posted
by Dietrich W on the Forum the original article here is from The Verge I'll just
pull this up here but AT&T has oh that's
weird oops okay hold on a second let's
just change my screen share around here wow it just decided that it was going to
go into extend mode rather than
duplicate okay
what
ah sometimes I just don't even you know
like I just don't even get it so let's
just show desktop only on one let's try that first
okay keep changes sorry guys then let's
try uh oh okay and then that display is
completely not detected anymore which might explain some of why it's uh being
a little bit borked anyway the original article is from The Verge here and
AT&T's basically said well you know look
we're not going to invest in high-speed fiber connections and there were they're
in talks with something along the lines of 100 cities about getting high-speed
fiber rolled out and this looked very reactionary to Google Fiber starting to
roll out in selected cities and so they're saying okay look we're not going
to invest in any of that stuff until we know the lay of the land with the new
rules um so so basically how much money
they're going to be able to squeeze out of every you know foot of fiber that
they lay down in these cities and this is extremely disappointing to me not
only because they already got the money
to build a better infrastructure I mean this was this is this is well documented
at this point they got the money they did nothing with it so aside from that
they've already been paid um this is disappointing because it's not like
they're not doing just fine today the
plan to roll out this high-speed fiber networking is in place on the basis of
they're already doing just fine charging people as much as they're charging them
for internet connections that at some point they had to build the
infrastructure for and at some point that investment paid off from a business
standpoint investing in something that you can get someone to pay you 50 to $75
a month or whatever else for in densely populated areas is a winning proposition
and the only reason that they can afford to just sit on ass until presumably
sometime in early to mid 2015 when these
rulings get finalized I mean if it even happens then the only reason they're
able to do that is because it is so difficult for competitors to come in and
force them to step up their game so I I
I don't know how all this plays out I mean it's it's easy for me to say as a
Canadian well this is all kind of us nonsense so it will never affect me here
but the problem is that so much of what happens in the US does tend to become a
precedent that's been set for it now and it does tend to trickle down to other
places not everywhere but in the case of Canada that tends to happen a whole heck
of a lot and our isps are no less evil
than the American isps so they're going to look at what worked down there and
they're going to push real hard to have it you know work up here and they're
going to build case studies and they're going to Lobby our politicians and go oh
well look how successful this was it you know did this for the economy because
we're able to charge this much more to to whatever else
so what a childish thing to do we're just going to stop building any more
better infrastructure until you know we get and they haven't they haven't said
that it has to be a favorable ruling they've just said that they are going to
re-evaluate their plans once there's a ruling but I think we all kind of know
how this is uh how this is going to play
out got people asking where's Luke Luke is recording a video right now so as
soon as he's done he's going to jump up here and join me and then boot Slender
Man out of his spot all right so this is uh this is a really
unfortunate little piece of news this was posted by Victoria Secret on the
Forum and it is unusual for large
companies like NVIDIA to come and out and speak speak publicly to post on
their blog about you know something like an ongoing lawsuit but uh this is this
is really important not because of
really I straight up don't understand
where that's coming from that is oh I
know what it is that's a that's a screen
grab of the last thing that I was looking at it's not updating anymore I
see okay well you guys will just have to take my word for it it's on NVIDIA's
blog and uh basically I'm I'm going to kind of run through the whole thing here
because it's super it's super crappy and Samsung is behaving like a spoiled child
about this so they basically said look we filed patent lawsuits 2 months ago
against Samsung and Qualcomm alleging that they've used our patented GPU
technology without proper compensation to us when we filed those suits we fully
expected to be sued in response it's a predictable tactic so we weren't
surprised when earlier this week Samsung filed the lawsuit against us adding in
for good measure velocity micro I don't know if you guys are familiar with
velocity micro if you don't follow the boutique system builder space you know
the Falcon Northwest and uh you know pit
systems guys of the world you might never have heard of velocity micro but
they're a a pretty small company okay
they're not like a gigantic Mega corporation like a like a Dell where
there could be some kind of you know collusion between Dell and NVIDIA to
allegedly break some Samsung patent or
something they're just they're just a system integrator very similar to this
could have just as easily happened to any other shop that builds custom gaming
Rigs and sells them on their website so
they included velocity micro a small customer based in Virginia so their
action focuses on eight patents NVIDIA is alleged to have violated six and
included in the in the filing is a false advertising claim against NVIDIA um that
the statement about the Shield tablet with the K eger K1 processor is the
world's fastest mobile processor there saying it's fals and misleading so NVIDIA goes and like straight up puts
here's our benchmarks against the exos 54 433 that's in the Note 4 yeah you're
not faster yes NVIDIA did include a lot
of gaming focused benchmarks so are they spinning things a
little bit uh yes but they also included
some non-gaming Focus bench marks and it looks like if you were to just sort of
you fire a shotgun and if you hit sort
of you know the the Dozen or 15 or so
benchmarks that they ran you would hit more that NVIDIA wins than that Samsung
wins and uh pretty much here we go it's
unfortunate that Samsung sued velocity this isn't velocity's fight this is this
is just extremely this is just extremely crappy
a velocity and this isn't something that um that NVIDIA's put in their article
but it is something that I've seen in some of the articles about NVIDIA's blog
post but you know we got to consider when we shop a lot of different things
that often we don't we tend to look at a spec sheet we tend to look at a
benchmark Mar score and we tend to look at a price and then we go ahead and we
we make a purchasing decision but I
mean no one I shouldn't say no one I
think a lot of us are frustrated at times with the way that Apple behaves
with respect to its patents but is Samsung really being any less vindictive
and it's one thing if they're going to go after another big boy you know if
they're going to go after an apple or an NVIDIA but it's a whole other one if
they bring in a little company like velocity that didn't do anything other
than put NVIDIA graphics cards in their systems um just because and this is
NVIDIA's Theory this is allegedly just because Virginia tends to process these
filings extremely quickly and velocity had the bad luck to be located in
Virginia so just something to something to
consider oh there there is an open letter to the public from Randy Copeland
the CEO of velocity micro where he basically says look we know nothing
about thee previous issues between Samsung NVIDIA and we don't care you
know his response really had a very he had a very it had a very bitter tone to
it and he basically said we'll have to use company resources to defend
ourselves from Samsung and obviously
mismatched opponent and he says if this is how Samsung operates we want no part
of it and we hope others agree and we consider this during the upcoming
holiday shopping season can't say I disagree Mr cop who
I've actually never had the pleasure of meeting but seems like a nice enough guy
and doesn't deserve this kind of nonsense all right I've got another
Ubisoft thing here that I'm going to skip and wait for uh wait for Luke to
come in so he can weigh on but I have
the most hilarious thing that I probably
saw this entire week to show you guys here and I'm going to I'm going to fire
it up on on this computer so that I can screen share with you guys so you can
see this but this is freaking unreal gig
B releases a triple or show shows off I
don't think you can buy it yet I'd be surprised if you can ever buy it to be
perfectly honest um shoot where did it go I can buy you I'll buy your face oh
all right so the original article here is from tech power up let's go ahead and
do a quick screen share I don't know what's broken about my uh my stupid
thing here but I can't screen share again this week all right screen region
boom okay Gigabyte announces gtx980 water
Force Tri SLI all right so this is three
GTX 980s each with their own individual
120 mm radiator and 120 mm cooling fan
it features this massive like coolant
exos style external radiator system
thing and then presumably because Gigabyte wanted to use a prepackaged
solution um instead of going with a custom pump configuration and then
allowing one pump or even dual pumps to power the whole thing each of these is
its own separate allinone with its own
separate pump and then its own separate set of Inlet and Outlet lines into the
computer so you actually have to run all six of these tubes into your computer
with this box sitting next to it how are you even going to be able to do that
though uh because I could see like are they really really small tubing they
look like quarter inch to me oh man so they're not hyper small like you're
probably ripping a PCI like slot out of
the back gross on the back of your case cuz like you're not going to be able to
get through the included grommets and because it's pre-filled okay because
it's pre-filled you can't even like go through a grommet unless you could
thread your graphics card through your water cooling grommet
oh my God so this you wouldn't be able to go through one of the expansion card
slots either then oh yeah wait how's this even supposed to work I wonder if
they do have go through the maybe they have quick connects okay maybe I'm wrong
about this don't quote me on that the front you have to go through the
front no that's
horrible no they didn't even sleep the cable look look look look look this is
worse than I could have Poss
yeah they can yeah yeah they're looking at this right
now come on is that okay do they give
you a custom like B thing I guess so that is it isn't it
yeah wow just wow mind you mind you here
this is a value at it comes with this graphics card reinforcement cool bracket
doohickey bracket do hii and and so yeah
is that a custom that's a coolest lie Bridge yeah I'm not going to buy this to
get that SL hybridge mind you but um but I wouldn't buy that to buy the like
thing that looks like a BAL tire pump either so yeah welcome to the show thank
you um so I was saving the Ubisoft topics oh yeah so I should probably
finish up I should probably finish up that graphics card thing for you guys uh
each of the cards is going to be clocked at 1228 MHz core 1329 boost although of
course you'll be able to overclock them further at with 7 GHz on the memory
um the front panel can control fan speeds and coolant pressure of each of
the three Loops for whatever reason you wanted to
do that and I think that's pretty much
it it's fully assembled in the factory but I think that was implied when I said
these were these were pre-built yeah okay so let's start with uh let's start
with this article on PC pur.com and I
apologize for for this just being sort of a little bit cluggy this week I will
figure out what's wrong with the capture card um so here's the original article
from pcp.com it was post posted by obscure mammal on the Forum where um
Ryan had an article or had an opportunity to talk to the Ubisoft
development team about hey actually
didn't know about this article what the heck is what the heck is going on over
there um so basically the development team came back and said that Assassin's
Creed Unity is one of the most detailed games on the market it has a giant hold
on hold on just calm down Luke it has a giant open world city with tens of
thousands of objects visible on screen Paris is incredibly detailed for example
notredam is millions of triangles itself
it features Global illumination local Reflections realistic High dynamic range
lighting they talked about scaling down the quality to allow for lower system
requirements but decided against it because they were targeting existing PC
Hardware not future cards but high-end
existing PC hardware and this is a quote
our position always came back to us ensuring that Assassin's Creed Unity is
a nextg only game with breakthrough graphics with this Vision we did not
degrade the visual quality of the game
they are planning to continue working on optim oh I haven't been screen sharing
with you guys I'm sorry there's the article on PC per so yeah basically it's
it's just Ryan asking questions and
then a big long thing oh there's some updates since the last time I I had
uh okay so apparently okay okay okay so
there's updates we can actually chat about these updates very briefly but the
the the last part of what we originally sort of sort of knew about this was that
they're going to continue working on optimizations and you'll hear more details shortly so here's an update a
couple of other media Outlets have posted anonymous information that indicates that the draw call count for
Assassin's Creed uni is at fault for the poor poor performance of The Game on PCS
according to this quote unquote anonymous source while the consoles have
lowlevel API access to Hardware to accept and process several times the
number of draw calls that direct X11 can
um direct X11 is limited to 7 to 10,000
Peak draw calls while um the game is apparently pushing in
excess of 50,000 draw calls per
frame and then if this turns out to be true it would be a confir confirmation
that UBC didn't take the time to implement a direct directx11 Port
correctly and if it's not true or that's
only partially to blame then we're left with more meaningless finger pointing because people really want to point
fingers I've seen fingers pointed at NVIDIA Gameworks yeah I've seen fingers
pointed at Ubisoft um I actually don't
think I've seen anyone blame Microsoft for this one although you could make the
argument that if we're draw bound um the
overhead associated with DirectX 11 could be partially to blame given that
it's no secret that graphics card makers like AMD have been pushing for a lower
level API to the point where they went just went and created their own their
own for an awfully long time now um but
it makes a ton of sense especially
because even though we weren't able to do our own performance testing of
Assassin's Creed unity and I'll let you go on that very soon especially weren't
able to do our own today and yesterday which is what we wanted to do um it
makes sense given that we've looked at other people's performance analysis and
it just doesn't make any sense yeah we don't seem to be limited by the
traditional things like memory bandwidth
or you know fill rates or at the same
time though pretty much everyone that I've seen actually reporting numbers has
had like fairly blatant disclaimer being
like it's pretty spiky because like even even the amount
of times that I was able to get it live like I could be just staring at one
exact wall and like I lined up framings with like okay there's a Groove along
the wall here I put my screen exactly on that Groove stand on this I stand on
exactly the spot like I had the framing perfect and I'd look at it and get 63
FPS and I'd look away and come back and
now I'm at 52 and I'm
like wow bro I'm staring at the same wall like it should be the exact same
performance and it's just not like why not what is wrong with you so are we
actually here so why don't you give the update on your experience with
Assassin's Creed Unity so far okay so I'm sure they want to hear from
you it's awesome oh hold on hold on hold
on yeah there's a the little look I don't
know if we supposed to anyways um uh
that's my that's on my shirt I'll hold really still yeah there you go um so it
it started off I showed up to work quite early today cuz I was like I need to get
this testing done before the W show trying to be all good Samaritan and get
you guys a video Yeah didn't get a successful boot for what 2 and a half
hours yeah no you were talking to me at like4 to 9 the first message I sent to
you was I think you hadn't had it booted yet yeah I think the first message I
sent to you was before 7 cuz I got to work pretty early I don't think I
replied to that one no no not till later I was sleeping I I thought so I just
wanted to send that message before I forgot about it anyways um had tons of
issues like I I could load in and then
take like two steps and I'd lose connectivity to you play so the whole
game would just crash it wouldn't go like oh you're offline now you can't
open those stupid freaking chests no you actually can't play at all and it's not
like it just closes the game the whole thing just like gray screens and then
does that like uh Microsoft is trying to figure out what just happened to this
program we don't really know do you want to end it I like of course it's trash um
anyways so then eventually I'm like I I
messaged lonus and I was like should I just go offline mode or should I go
online mode like there's a noticeable performance increase when you go to
offline mode which is hilarious and I voted for offline mode because I figure
they've got to patch this I'm sure that if there's that much of a performance
disparity just between being
and being offline they can probably implement that fairly easily so I was
like okay test offline and then hopefully that'll represent what people
will be getting once the next patch shows up okay go ahead okay so so we're
going along it's it's it's kind of working now I still have a few issues
but I get over most of those and I I I get through it and I'm finally like okay
I need to finally find a benchmarking run I had planned to have a benchmarking
run way before now sorry of course it's
trash Luke 24 I had planned to have a benchmarking run
way before now I'm kind of worried cuz I need to get all these cards done but at
the same time I'm like 3/4 these cards aren't going to work anyways so whatever
probably won't be as hard as I'm expecting it to be um finally loaded to
the game and at this point I'm like okay I need at least at least a little bit of
a fighting scene and I need a little bit of free running and then I'll be happy I
don't need much like I just need something that'll work and I'll just say
in the video that it's not great because I ran time CU it was broken and a
benchmark run doesn't necessarily have to be representative of the most
demanding scene in the entire game in fact a lot of the time it's not because
we're looking for repeatability so a benchmarking run should should be
demanding enough that there isn't an obvious CPU bottleneck and you're going
to want to try and show some amount of variance so like explosions and wide
shots and close shots and lots of people and different things well like we want
to get a feel for how the engine performs and then we want to be able to
rank graphics cards against
perance quantif FPS will get if I'm
running a similar configuration to them in this spot in the game if I upgrade my
graphics card to this that's what we want you guys to
know anyways so I I found a spot that
was actually not too bad and it's pretty close to the beginning of the game you
spawn in I'm not going to give any spoilers but you spawn in you run forward and follow some dude there's a
fairly quick little sequence thing you run a little bit further you stab some
dude you run a little bit further there's a little quick sequence thing
you climb up some stuff you climb up some more stuff y y fairly straightforward and it captured the main
things that I wanted to find and I was like okay this can kind of work but
considering how fast I found that I actually have a little bit of extra time
let's see if I can push on forward and see if there's maybe a little bit more fighting scene because I literally just
ran past this dude poked him twice and then kept going that's all the fighting
I got and I knew people would have been like H this isn't Assassin's Creed you
have to stab more more people so I was like okay whatever I'll try to find something really quick run forward kill
some guy that I didn't really seem was I didn't think was super important in
hindsight like it kind of makes sense but it went into this crazy long stream
of annoyingly not skippable for a lot of them cutcenes which ended up being like
8 minutes or something which if I had any amount of sound might have been good
but I didn't cuz I'm on a benchmarking rig yeah so I'm just like sure I have no
idea what's happening you guys are talking that's cool anyways it goes to
the next sequence I'm like oh okay well how do I
get back to the last one cuz that's where my benchmarking run is you can't
you can't go back at least at this point in the game I don't know if maybe later
on you're able to go into the the thing that I'm going to not spoiler and go
back but at this point in the game you can't go back in sequences you also
can't delete your save file and you can't restart the game so you have your
one save file and you have the furthest progress you've gotten to in that save
file what so for the next little while I
was very surprised that you couldn't do that in game for one but then
immediately I'm like okay whatever I'll just do the super ghetto option and go
delete it from either I'm assuming my documents or app data or inside the game
folder not super likely that it's inside the game folder because you'd lose your
saves if you uninstalled the game but it's possible I start looking around and
I can't find Jack I can't find anything I I found a save games folder with
folders that were just extremely long random strings of characters and inside
those folders just files that were just random numbers I'm like sweet found a
couple that were from today but like I didn't want to delete the wrong stuff so
I started looking online and I started tweeting and I asked people and some
people shared some ideas someone was like oh it's file 740 or 720 or
something I don't remember so are looking for that F
420 um so I I but they can't be
high because you can only run the game on they keep on digging oh there's two
jokes there good one um anyways So eventually I fig okay
it was supposed to be a folder named 720 but there was no folder named 720 but I
found a file named 720 which was created
today so I was like oh awesome okay we found it successful delete load the game
save still there what what okay so I go and nuke like
every single file that's been created today like everything I can find just
destroy everything whatever like if I have to redownload a small part of the
game at least I have the bulk of it just go to like destroy everything mode it
takes a while to find everything delete it all launch the game file still there
I still have my progression file I'm like what the crap what is going on why
can't I get rid of you why won't you go away and then I'm like oh okay someone
posted online even if you're on offline mode maybe one of the things that keeps
functioning if you have internet is your Cloud saves right so I'm like actually
that kind of makes sense cuz maybe you go into offline mode to like hide from
people maybe it's their version of anonymous but you don't want to lose
your save files maybe like okay that's
actually not a horrible feature I'm down with that okay fine I
don't know how many people would I'd love it if we could just manage our save
files normally anyway exactly yeah but
or if it was like steam where you could be like I want to use the cloud SA or
don't yeah yeah options are good thanks
Ubisoft except no thanks steam um so I'm
like okay disable go back through I find those old files that I just deleted
again so I'm like oh they're Cloud syncing that totally makes sense cuz it
recreated them right right so I'm like all right right cool delete them all
loadad the game save file still there so basically in a nutshell we're
going to try and figure this out yeah uh but it's just it just might take some
time and normally finding an Assassin's Creed run is just a matter of me making
sure Luke gets provided with a review copy of the game that he doesn't have to
pay for and he just goes and plays it because he's going to play it anyway because he's the biggest fraking
Assassin's Creed Fanboy ever like have you 100% did every game up till now yes
yeah so there you go so usually finding an Assassin's Creed run is as simple as
Luke kind of having it in the back of his mind while he sits and like yeah
zombies out at his at his computer for 4 days after launch you know what I'm
trying to think Black Flag you were a zombie for about a week after launch cuz
as far as I can tell that was all you were doing outside of work time have you
even been tempted to touch Unity no and I haven't wow I've been working in my
spory time instead of playing and you've even played Assassin's Creed games 100%
at Assassin's Creed games that by your own admission weren't that great no I
hated three three sucked wow I was not a
fan of three at all so in the spirit of
keep on digging we are finally releasing
the keep on digging shirt are we yes
it's ready the campaign is ready we were supposed to have shirts to wear today
you get banned from spanning your own channel really I think so oh all right
well um just cuz that was that was just a lot I actually really want this shirt
so oh I am I am super stoked on this
shirt because the way we design the shirt it's not just to be used on
Ubisoft necessarily you can keep on digging
anything so the previous keep on digging even though we didn't use that
terminology would have been EA so now we're just it's now Ubisoft and whoever
e was brofist yeah that's true that's the origin of brofist that was the when
we started brofisting on the show yeah wow that was so all these gaming
companies start our memes I know thank you for being ter
and keep on keep on digging like I I know that I didn't invent the phrase
keep on digging but did did I popularize it yeah for Ubisoft yeah yes it's all
over the place cuz there have been some fantastic keep on digging me St on like
PC Master race on our own Forum um I've
seen a lot of gifs of me digging on the show so guys if you want to rep if you
want to rep just the keep on digging this the amount of hatred that this
morning that is that is going on right now show your support for Luke keep on
diing t-shirt um oh good we have hoodies oh I
might have to order a hoodie cuz the uh the the the Highlander
hoodie I have is awesome it's super nice is it the same kind yeah it's the same
one it's the it's the same Gilden one I wasn't sure about Gilden hoodies when we
first um there we go when we first
ordered our our Highlander stuff and I just kind of ordered one hoping it would
be nice and I was checking if there were better options and that was all they
really had but it's like super nice you saw it right yeah so I I definitely want
like a keep on digging hoodie yeah me too I'm going to buy
one every every winter season I get like a new hoodie this was last season so I
need a new one yeah so everyone was everyone was pretty darn stoked with the
uh with the quality of the Highlander shirts so that's why we're going ahead
with Teespring again cuz they did a great job of uh of that campaign I had
uh a guy on the Forum and stuff Str strore map had two shirts from I think
one from district lines and one from Teespring both show up with little holes
in them and he got both of them promptly replaced nice yeah so that's good all
right I feel like I had more crap to throw at e or Ubisoft oh no there
there's more like there's a there's a there's some crap going on with respect
to to Far Cry 4 review copies oh polygon
didn't get one really yeah they have
like a developer version that they can't use to actually review the game and then
they couldn't get it working on any of their PlayStation 4s and then they just
so they're just like so yeah we're other Publications got retail copies we don't
really understand why we don't have one so we're just going to go buy a retail
copy we'll have a review for you guys as soon as possible wow yeah they've got a
blog post up I was like really messed up oh jeez and then
what was it Assassin's Creed Unity the Embargo date was 12 hours after the
release um total actually this ties into
hold on let me just biscuit made a video for that didn't he I don't know if he
made a video about it but um okay I here
can I can I do our next news article first then um but this is great I'm so
happy with this I'm going to talk about total biscuits thing so Ubisoft stock
and I actually haven't looked at it today so this is the old headline but
Ubisoft stock fell 99.33% um direct immediately after the
Assassin's Creed Unity launch I mean we
are talking not inconsequential amounts of money and I am so glad because I I am
a huge advocate for gamers voting with
their wallets if you don't like it not
only don't play it or no excuse me not only don't buy it don't even play it
don't even give them the opportunity to look at like piracy you know seeds and
Torrance and and and try to extrap take those as positive metrics yes they can
interpret that positively even by downloading it you can be supporting
what they're doing if you ignore Far Cry
4 if every single one of you and all of your friends ignore Far Cry 4 and all of
their friends and all of their friends if you can make a difference to the
pocketbooks of these companies they will treat you like your voice actually
matters because because as long as you keep giving them money your voice doesn't matter not at all y the only
reason why we wanted to do and still kind of want to do an Assassin's Creed
Unity benchmarking video and the only reason we will want to do a Far Cry 4
video is that we can warn everyone essentially like look at this crap it
doesn't freaking work don't buy it we're not a we're not a gaming publication we
are a hardware publication so we're going to look at it from a hardware
perspective this is how well this piece of Hardware handles this game and then
we're going to do some investigation which is going to take a lot of detective work in this case to figure
out why this particular game doesn't run well on that particular hardware and
we're going to come to a conclusion that should be fairly obvious by this point in time because it's trash because we
want you guys to know this stuff but we're not going to be doing Let's Plays
of Assassin's Creed Unity no well exactly two minutes yeah in a way that
you probably shouldn't play the game unless you're so we're going to
have it open on our computers un unless you're very
specifically trying to B bench market so to be clear you know a stock dip like
this can be temporary it might not be indicative of a long-term struggle I
wouldn't be surprised if it bounced back at least a little bit but it can be a
warning sign and it can be and at least if nothing else it's going to be an
attention grabber because Executives and bean counters will notice that even if
they're not reading you know every comment in the twitch chat of the Linus
Tech W show stream you know yeah exactly
not watching which I feel very disconnected from cuz I don't have my laptop right now oh you don't have a
laptop wow you're like a you're like a
you're like a peasant of no laptop of
why don't you just um here why don't I message well no because the the the the
peasants are defined by their disbelief
of PCS being better that's true I didn't mean console peasant I just meant your a
wow peasant because glorious wow Master
race people have laptops so so okay yeah that's really
unfortunate I'll ask Nick to bring you one okay cool um okay so let's let's
sort of let's keep going here um right so it's it's probably going to bounce
back at least a little bit I hope it doesn't bounce back that much um I don't
want Ubisoft to die Ubisoft has been a good company at some points in time I
think they just need a like massive B slap to the face so they wake the hell
up and stop being idiots yeah let's just bring back our keep on
keep on digging lower third because we're still talking Ubisoft they're like half the show this week and it's not
like we want to talk about Ubisoft I'd love for us to be I'd love for us to
just be talking about what like what a great game Assassin's Creed Unity is and
how stoked we are for Far Cry 4 I would love that to be the topic that is the
conversation we love Black Flag was amazing and Far Cry 3 was really really
good and you know know what incredible okay what news did they get over last
week what news did they somehow get through I don't even remember something
really big last week that I don't remember oh yeah yeah they pulled
everything from uh from Steam yeah but no yeah but then it's it's back now
there was other news though that was really big and we were like I can't
believe you were even noticed like you made yourself no this was going on
either way oh blon BlizzCon right BlizzCon was going on and people still
heard about what the hell Ubisoft was doing because they were bcon was such a
big deal this year bcon was huge and then now there was just the uh warland
of dra or release and everyone's freaking out over U
soft what how are you that
bad I'm kind of tempted to pick again
really should I just not last time you got pretty I know last
time was bad okay forget it I'm not going to I'm just going to repair my joystick and play more xwing um okay
maybe wait till your kids are at like a minimum age so this was original
articles here this was posted by I'm the wallus by the way the Ubisoft stock
falling thing um original sources here were kit guru.net and finance. yahoo.com
um but there were also some other things that were that were brought up by these
other articles um we might not even need a charger I think it's charg right yeah
yeah just uh yay Luke will have a laptop thank you but um one of the other things
that was pointed out was that things are not looking that great for Far Cry 4
because some Publications didn't get review copies yeah so um yeah not
necessarily a great sign and then and like with with stuff like that uh that
polygon post like people are going to read that and that is going to be taken
as a negative review if people are reading into it properly yeah I would
yeah the fact that you for whatever reason are not enabling as many
Publications as possible to get their hands on this game so that they can Rave
about how great it is is a really really bad sign and I mean total biscuits
comment I think is is awesome about the way that the Assassin's Creed Unity
embargo was handled where the review embargo was not lifted until 12 hours
after the game's retail availability which is given the way that games cannot
be refunded anymore if you buy a physical copy or really any copy um is
is really telling I mean that really says something about how they might have
felt about how quickly they needed to cash in on the immediate launch sales
before the reviews go up and people start maybe considering whether to wait
for even Far Cry for or some other game to spend their money on
um not not good not good I I would lose
consumer confidence basically immediately if I had a Far Cry 4 uh
pre-order which I don't but if I did have one I honestly probably would have
canceled it once I read that polygon post cuz I'm I'm pretty skeptical
already there's very few things that I'll pre-order I'll pre-order stuff like
uh Smash Bros for Wii U you would have normally pre-ordered Assassin's Creed
actually yes I would have normally done that I have done that for every single other Assassin's Creed launch but this
one yeah so anyway total biscuit came out and said he is not going to accept
review copies of any game that has an embargo that is after the launch time of
the game which is awesome which is awesome and uh and I think I think
that's I think that's great I think that's a great way to handle it and it just I I actually responded to I think
it was that tweet or one of the related ones just cuz I was so blown away that
you could have a review embar after people are expected to drop their
money for the game I mean no one in the hardware industry does that no one and
you know what and and you know what John John TotalBiscuit has has actually
tweeted me as well saying that he has no
idea how we seem to kind of pull off this weird thing where our advertisers
are Hardware companies and yet we criticize these companies openly on our
shows and in our reviews and and some
somehow we've managed to take money from these companies for advertising maintain
the trust of our viewers and maintain the relationships with these companies
and do it all at the same time and he was just like how does this even work I
think it's because there's a much different mentality with like computer
hardware companies and gaming companies canuter Hardware companies seem like
infinitely humble and they'll take whatever you say and they're just like yes okay next time we do better and and
that's not true of all of them but that's true of many of them they just
seem to be so much more mature than these gaming companies like someone like
Corsair if I come out and I slam them about something I'll get an email but
they're not going to pull our funding they're not going to pull they're not
going to refuse to work with us they're not going to stop seing us review samples because they value the
input what a what a freaking concept right oh my God
amazing not really with gaming in gaming
they they they they tote their marketing muscles as as much as they possibly can
try to silence anyone that they possibly can that would say anything negative
about them at all and then just try to slam games down your throat and then and
it is a generalization pour the DLC water down not every gaming company is
like this no praise G Ben um praise gin
uh what is it super giant games does really well there's definitely developers and Publishers that are that
are good and there's ones that mostly seem to try to do the right thing but
sometimes screw up and we have to understand and respect that too and
that's fine people are human they make mistakes we make mistakes um but it just
feels Ubisoft screw up looks feels like some like Cartoon Network like where
they just keep falling forever it's like EA last year yeah where just every week
there they were doing something horrendous they they fall down the hill
and gather so much momentum because the hill is so large that they have enough
momentum to climb up the next one and then fall down it over again like
ridiculous stop screwing up hit a wall
at some point and then just be like no we will be better we're going to shut up
we're going to say nothing we're just going to make games that hopefully
people want to play yeah if they stop talking and start working some more
maybe they can fix some of their crap I am just I am I I got to say the whole
thing with the the draw call issue in Assassin's Creed Unity is so believable
yeah because their whole thing their whole defense of unity to Ryan from PC
per was is we weren't going to dumb down the level the detail and the objects in
the city it like and every object is a draw call yeah and and when uh when when
Call of Duty like massively outclasses you in every possible appearance aspect
that's bad you did something wrong I
know like Assassin's Creed is supposed to be the like holy crap this game looks
good I mean Advanced Warfare should have been taking all the headlines for crap
and instead I mean everyone's like oh it's pretty good you know it's probably
unfortunate that they didn't publish after Assassin's Creed in Far Cry 4 so
they could have cuz I suspect a lot of people because you know how it's always
whatsoever The Horizon you never look back at what was that thing I didn't buy
it's always like okay well Far Cry 4 is coming next or this is coming next or
whatever's coming next we coming get later I feel like if they had just kind
of waited for all the people who didn't spend their money on all the stuff that
came before them they could have gotten an even bigger payday probably I I doubt
they needed I'm sure they did fine yeah yeah I'm sure they did totally fine but
it's just it's just like how did you get
graphically outclassed whoa whoa Photoshop CS6 says lonus doesn't even
play video games lonus doesn't game as much as he'd like to that doesn't mean
lonus doesn't play video games he's starting to a lot more lately too yeah
I've been finding a little bit more time for it especially on my shield yeah
speaking of Shield um actually that leads us really well into not a Ubisoft
topic y um and Vidia just announced that their
grid streaming service and this was um this was posted by jper 10996 on the
Forum and the original source is the NVIDIA blog um but grid is coming out of
beta so grid has 20 titles right now
including actually I'm just going to fire up the grid game list here but they've got a Arkham Asylum Arkham City
they've got Allan Wake uh American Nightmare they've got Darksiders
Darksiders 2 Dead Island Psychonauts which is a freaking awesome game by the
way if you have a shield and you have an internet connection that's good enough
for grid go play Psychonauts if you haven't already Saints R II Trine 2
Witcher 2 Ultra Street Fighter 4 like there's some pretty great games on this
list what's the like payment plan stuff for this does it just come with a shield
or okay so the beta's been free for anyone with a shield and the non data is
free for anyone with a shield until June 2015 okay so you get about 6 months of
free access to the game pretty good actually that's a lot more than a trial
yes which considering the cost of something like a Shield tablet and and a
controller when you are when you look at the Shield tablet as oh it's also a very
competent 7in tablet um is actually a pretty darn compelling value yeah that
feels a lot like the I'm trying to remember the name of it but those HP
things yeah yeah yeah the um streams
yeah where you get so much stuff with them yeah where you get not just value
ad stuff that's like hey you got a 30-day trial of maca can I interest you
in paying us it's not even value ad just like where there's real value ads that
are relevant to the people who are using that device so so you get 6 months for
free if you buy if you buy a shield now um they're recommending 10 megabits per
second down and 60 millisecond second ping or less to your nearest grid server
but they're expanding their grid server Network so there's already the one in
California they've added one in Indiana
and EU and Asia are soon to come so
they're it looks like what they're building is and they're it looks like
it's meant to be about like Netflix for games yeah now you can say what you will
about the 60 millisecond additional latency that is not going to be
palatable for certain types of games are you going to play CSO with an extra 60
milliseconds of lag no no but you probably wouldn't have played that on a
controller but are you going to play Darksiders sure sure why not probably
that's probably fine cool yeah um all right they've also
got other news The Shield tablet is getting Android 5.0 Lollipop in a few
days yeah I they're going to be they're going to be I think I was on the phone
with someone from NVIDIA today actually and he was saying I don't remember if he
said they're going to be the first or one of the first uh one of the first
advice makers whose name is not Google to have lollipop on their device I mean
NVIDIA committed back when they launched Shield portable to prompt Android update
but come on we've heard that we've heard it over and over again how many prompt
Android updates have you gotten for your Galaxy Device one per device is usually about
the general rule yeah and then you might get an update but everyone else has been
using it for six months nine months by the time you get it if at all um whereas
NVIDIA's like on this yeah it's actually kind of absolutely fantastic if I do say
so myself it's nice to see that especially when you're getting a device
that like talking to people that aren't you
about Shield is like often they don't really know what it is or they're like H
is there really a lot of support for it like I don't really see anyone using it
now I see it around a fair amount when looking at stuff like the r forum and
like within the office and like these closed ecosystems but I got a message
from someone either on the for or Twitter where they told me how the
shield was kind of embarrassing to be out about with because people kept asking if it's a portable
Xbox sorry go on but yeah just to illustrate the point but yeah like it's
it's it's it's very new and it's very
different so people are a little bit skeptical about it so I think it's
actually really good for them that they're getting these like they're
pushing the update thing really really hard and they're actually repeatedly
getting these really early updates which is awesome because that's just going to
increase um confidence that they are interesting products and they are
they're really good would you buy an NVIDIA phone
actually probably cuz I know you're not into the tablet thing so much not really
and phones the only reason I'm not super into phones the only reason is because
most of them are trash that's a strong statement it's
true though like there's so like there's so many that have glaring issues that
you like know someone must have figured out and then the Droid Turbo is just not
coming to Canada at all in no form my
brother tweeted them and asked and they were like no the droid turbo or
variation Max are not coming to Canada officially from Motorola oh that's a
bummer awesome what the hell the one phone that's like that's super cool nope
god wow that's really sucky I mean it's
not going to happen with Tegra K1 because Tegra K 1's power consumption is
just straight up too high but if Tegra K2 or whatever they end up calling it
came to a phone would you consider it I mean they're not that far away they've
already got the the tablet 32 gig which has LTE and they did acquire that LTE
radio technology maker not that long ago so they can build their own radios I I
don't think it's that difficult to I don't think it's that difficult to I'd
be really interested to I would check it out I'd want to check it out for sure
definitely want to check it out uh if if they got the if they got the the battery
capacity right and they had a not trash
camera I would be definitely confident enough in the rest of the phone to be
like all right let's do this NVIDIA is one of those companies where I think the
camera could go one of two ways they could either have a bunch of Knowledge
from cuz they know a lot about image processing yeah that's interesting it's
not like they don't have experience when it comes to image filtering to make
things look better this is NVIDIA's
freaking wheelhouse but that doesn't necessarily
mean they know that much about sensor technology so so I I don't know which
way the camera would go and that's a huge part of any smartphone purchase um
one thing of just to note is that right now the 32 gig version of The Shield
tablet lvid is on fire with this announcement here comes with Portal
halflife 2 and halflife 2 episode one holy crap Android versions if you jump
up to that one in addition to the grid thing and those are all pretty good to
play on that device as well actually especially portal Portal's really good I
play portal on the shield portable yeah yeah um and shield portable is getting
lollipop support but we don't have an ETA for that yet so I'll have to wait
cuz I don't really use my Shield tablet much I mostly use my portable yeah all
right other NVIDIA news this was posted by big STS on the Forum the original
article is from techreport tocom the
gtx960 has been found in an India Import
and Export label or data or something the record States four GB of gddr5 a
256-bit bus 993 MHz core and 68 MHz
memory it's unclear whether that is a base or a boost clock speed and the
price translates to around 256 US Dollars although we don't know if that
will be a retail price or if that's like an NVIDIA to their board partner price
or a board partner to retailer price or just an invented number or if they're
going to flip it 18 times 3 days before it's out because they kind of do that
sometimes because they do do that sometimes um the speculation on the
internet right now is that this is going to be a GK 104 based card so actually
the same chip as the 980 and 970 just like we saw with the 680 670 and 660
Ti um we should probably do our sponsor spots actually so we're going to start
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these guys uh for any of the viewers who have watched before you know what the
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enough as it is the only reason that we started working with these guys was that
and it's just kind of a funny story The only reason I reviewed the product at
all was because the guy was Canadian because normally screen protectors I
don't we've only done two screen protector videos in the entire time lus
techtips has existed and they've both been like very oddly Innovative yes some
kind of real actual important thing that
happened with them so the only reason I would even listen to him was he was
Canadian and then the only reason I wanted to review unit was because I I
was like okay if this does what you say it
does I will like it but if it doesn't do
what you say it does then I'm going to throw it in the garbage and never talk about it again and he was like okay okay
okay send over the review unit and then the reason that we're doing advertising
with them is because it's freaking awesome basically it's a sheet of
Gorilla Glass 3 that sits over top of the existing pain of Glass on your phone
so if you already liked any kind of the
you know the the glare Clarity um touch
feel characteristics of your phone screen it will be exactly the same it
does add a little bit of thickness to the front of the phone but it's still compatible with other third party cases
and it has this like Nano coating on the bottom of it that actually works like it
actually does what they say it does it's I think you'd have to work pretty hard
to try to get a bubble under Phantom glass and if you apply it wrong you can
just pull it up reapply it I've actually done it and it goes on perfectly second
time around so pretty cool I mean if it's given that it's kind of expensive
it's nice to be able to reuse it because I actually had to RMA my HTC 1 M8 so I
had to pull my Fass off yeah you peeled it yeah so I put it in some Saran Wrap
to keep it safe cuz I don't really have the original packaging anymore and uh
there you go my One M8 is actually back as of yesterday and uh before we move
into our next sponsor spot just wanted to share my experience with that so I
was a little disappointed with HTC because the first custo I my one8 camera
lens cracked on my rear camera cracked and so rather than work through my HTC
rep I decided you know what just for fun I'm going to go have the regular
customer defective product experience because it just cracked out of the blue
there wasn't a single Mark anywhere on the entire phone other than a cracked
rear camera screen so I would have had to I would have had to literally take
like drop it on like a very point of a rock but then catch it before it
actually hits the ground yeah or like take a chisel and like whack it or
something in order to crack that thing so it in my mind this is not something
that could have been feasibly broken by accident and I see it as a design like
probably the one design flaw in that
phone that I really dislike is that they used a plastic cover on it there's
actual Flex to it okay maybe not actually it might not be plastic okay I
shouldn't say plastic maybe it's some kind of composite or glass or whatever
else but it's got some real Flex to it once it was broken and it has a coating
on it that scratches off very easily just taking it in and out of your pocket
and gives you blurry photos until you rub it off with toothpaste this is a documented problem so I talked to their
customer service and they basically the first person I talked to said seem to be
aware of the issue and said yeah that should be no problem to to for it to be
covered under warranty but they asked me to call my carrier to ask if they'll
deal with the RMA for me because I'm in Canada and that's the normal procedure I
kind of went yeah sure okay so I called my carrier they didn't deal with it because I didn't buy the device from
them I knew that was going to happen but I jumped through the hoop just to humor
them so I called back and they told me they couldn't guarantee anything about
the repair and then it turned out that they did want to charge me over $100 for
the repair even though and the repair center was not willing to Advocate to
HTC on my behalf or anything like that I basically said you guys are experts you
look at phones every day is it even
possible is it even conceivable in any way that I could have damaged the phone
in this way at all or does this seem like the
kind of cuz it just cracked out of the blue and they just went you have to talk
to HTC so I didn't pay the money I ended up just going through my HTC contact
telling them I was being jerked around and they got it taken care of within like an hour cuz that's normally the way
that that I get treated but I was I was disappointed in the way that an actual
customer um would would be treated in
that case yeah that's kind of that's kind of sad the problem the problem too
though is that like I get it physical damage is generally not not covered
under warranty yeah but if it's a known issue it generally is so it's a matter
of whether they're acknowledging the issue or not the internet knows about
the issue I don't know if the internet knows about a cracking issue but the
problem is that my my rear camera was scratched already before it even cracked
so I should have been eligible for a replacement had i r made it sooner and
it had not cracked on its own anyway so that's why I was so upset so I get it I
understand I'm just a little bit disappointed I've had to deal with very
few like very few uh customer service
for like ship out and repair stuff uh one of them was uh an Xbox 360 which was
hilarious um and that was actually super easy right because they were all red
ringing so I'm sure their whole Factory was just like in- and out in- and out
in- and out in- and out um because it was just a swap and then the other one
was uh evj when I was doing my mineral oil computer and that was like the best
on the phone experience with someone who is supposed to help me in any form Ever
right yeah EVGA is kind of Legend always liked them because of that their their
customer service was fantastic all right so let's move on to speaking of
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they are on fire L lately they recently
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they've redesigned the interface they've got integration with Google Apps which
is really cool for any businesses that use Google apps like say for example the
one that you're looking at right now we use can I help you oops we use Gmail for
uh for our internal email and all that kind of stuff um they've got their new
partnership with Getty Images so that you can have greatl looking images to
match your greatl looking site you know the the funny thing about Squarespace is
it feels like some of the stuff they do is more selfish than anything else it
feels like okay so the partnership with Getty Images is basically you can get
very reasonably priced beautiful images to put on your site but it seems like
they're just a bunch of Geeks care about websites looking really great yeah and
they're then they don't want to see people take their beautiful template and put some crap image on it so it's like
it's it's almost like and I'm not saying selfish in that it's not beneficial to
the user I'm just saying it seems like like they just kind of are like oh they
like don't screw their stuff in bad ways yeah take good images we really love our
product and we wish you wouldn't like make it ugly than it has to be so we're
going to get you guys this like great less expensive gy images thing and you
can get that get go get good images don't pay much for them um they've got
new templates they've got cover pages and
um yeah I guess that's isn't isn't that
it right yes um also I wanted to just cover the usual talking point so if you
guys don't know what Squarespace is it's a fast easy affordable way to build your
own beautiful website they've got uh
only $8 a month and you get a free domain for your trouble if you sign up
for Squarespace for a year they've got responsive design so basically that
means your website scales to look great on any device and they've got integrated
Commerce now that was actually one of the previous things that they rolled out
that is pretty freaking cool so if you want to build a store on Squarespace
then you can rock on and do that so you can start a trial with no credit card
required and start building your website today and you get 10% off if you use
offer code Linus and you decide to go ahead and use that website for your
store or blog or restaurant
or someone I don't know maybe you want to make a website dedicated to pictures
of your junk wow I don't
um preferably not please don't but you
could yeah you could it's technically possible it's possible um some someone
in the twitch yeah quite literally uh someone in the twitch chat was like
please tell Squarespace to fix their documentation for developers it's really
bad I've looked at it what are you
talking about for one and for two I'm sure you can just contact them I've had
to contact them about stuff before they've responded very well and very quickly so if you're having a problem
with something which I'm not sure what you're doing because I've looked at
actually a fair amount of their documentation for developers it was all
fine from what I've seen maybe there's something that isn't I don't know but
just them and it should be fine so this is the best way I think YouTube could
have possibly done this they have implemented YouTube music key and this
is the first subscription based YouTube
service that we're seeing and I think they did it absolutely brilliantly so it
was posted by Raph banan on the Forum and the original article is from
official Android. blogspot.com and basically it's going
out of beta so it's not like it didn't exist already it's a monthly
subscription service for $9.99 a month
but it is $7.99 a month right now which
happens to be exactly the same price as a Google Play music subscription so if
you sign up now if you happen to be a Google Play music subscriber already yo
then you can just sign up for this you get a full Google play music account for
exactly the same price if you sign up during the promo and then you also get
ad free music background play on music
which is pretty nice if you like to listen to music on YouTube and offline
viewing of Music on YouTube it's invite
only right now and those who get an invite get to try it out free for 6
months if I can get this for $7.99 I'm
sold done because I and even if I can get it for $9.99 you know what I will
probably buy it that's actually pretty sick I really
like the background play thing yep background play and to be able to listen
to playlists on Monster cat for example and not have the ads interrupt your
groove that would be really nice I I think they knocked it out of the
freaking park with the way that they implemented this that's actually really cool music was the one to go after first
and the way that they did it enabling it to be the same price as a streaming
service that they already offer that's already great I love Google play music
especially the curated playlists it's awesome Google play music is more for me
than just I feel like I'm doing another sponsor integration but it really is
amazing I'm just a paying customer it's just nothing special but the the way
that they that they manage it it's more than just just not pirating music is it
the same sorry I might not have heard that part is it the same thing as if you
have the Google music that you have right now is it the same do you get this
yeah yeah okay so they're together oh wait no no no no no no this is this is
going to be a a more expensive subscription but would okay but it will
also that one include that oneic yes and then for a promotional
period of time you can get it at the same price okay so you should buy this
one yeah yeah um but like I mean it's more than just not pirating music and
and saving money versus going and buying albums it's it's for me it's all about
the curated playlists um where I can it'll be like hey it's Tuesday afternoon
do you want to listen to like you know pickme up music or do you want to listen
to like Mello music and the I'm feeling lucky radio is is awesome and does a
really really great job interesting uh Sharp's latest iGo
prototype sets the stage for 4K faets as
if it matters uh the oral say like sounds surprisingly excited for this
what's happening obscure mammal posted on the Forum the original article is
from techreport tocom and they have they
have made a prototype 2560 x600 4.1 in
panel oh jeez that is some incredible
pixel density so we're talking
736 pixels per inch that is massively
more than the Galaxy Notes 515 pixels
per inch the Google NEX 6 is 493 pixels
per inch and Apple's iPhone 6 Plus is 401 pixels per inch which quite frankly
is already enough I should point out
that the Droid Turbo has I really like the display but
the issue is that I don't know if it's related to the fact that it's AMOLED and
I'm really enjoying the Deep blacks or if it's related to that it's 2560 by
1440 yeah because on the G3 I didn't
feel like there was a benefit to the higher density display but the contrast
wasn't very good yeah it was icky and contrast is more important once you
reach a certain point than you know I was really surprised at um Marcus MKBHD
he did a a collaborative thing with the Verge like ultimate smartphone like
dream smartphone like well I would take this one and then I would change this
and I would squeeze this and I would do this and it would have a bigger battery and all that kind of stuff and I was
really surprised he picked the screen from the G3 for his dream smartphone
yeah he's wrong oh well that's one way
of putting it I would have said I would have said to each his own but just
no what so the latest iGo prototype will
have 11.5 micrometer pixels that will
likely be impossible to see with the naked eye um when okay when when was
that article done which one was that uh was that done before like Note 4 came
out and stuff no no it just went up two days
ago okay I don't get it um okay so one
one okay so so that's really cool that we won't be able to see the pixels but
one potential drawback is that higher
density displays typically require more power to achieve the same brightness
because as you pack in more Electronics do hickory in order to actually get
light through it to your eyes you have to have a brighter backlight now Apple
seemed to figure out how to address this on their 5K iMac um and that thing is so
bright and they've achieved the same brightness they say I don't have a last gen one but they've achieved what they
say is the same brightness as their last gen one which is ridiculous I have it on
like 10% at all times I don't understand
why it needs to go that bright but um
just in case you need like a random Spotlight yeah I mean honestly I guess
here all I have to say about this uh mass production will reportedly begin in
2016 so all I have to say about this is by 2016 battery
technology better have caught up in some meaningful way and I still don't care
because I would still rather have a 1080P or if you have to have a higher
spec to make your competitor look stupid a 1440p panel that gives me better
battery life um on my device right and
better performance in and better performance at Native resolution in
games and other applications like I don't want to necessarily have a 4K
display on something that gives me no benefit and tanks my battery life and
means I'm I'm going to have to run interpolated resolutions in order to get
decent performance in in in mobile games I don't play a ton of mobile games but
I'm it's more of a I'm speaking on behalf of what you guys should be thinking if you do play mobile games
yeah there you go ah rumors
r9390x Fiji XT this is posted by Paragon
X on the Forum and this thing looks
banana hammers May feature
4,096 stream processor so 64 compute and
256 texture units with a
4,096 bit memory
bus oh my God this is due to the fact that AMD is rumored to be using a
completely new technology for the memory
on this particular card the more traditional way is we've got the chips
laid out on the card and then we've got contact points on the bottom of the GPU
that lead out to them so that's why it was so costly to implement wider memory
buses that's why we saw memory buses continue to increase on graphics cards
until we reached 512 bit and everyone kind of went whoa hold on a second this
is really expensive now in terms of the area that we need for the package in
terms of the contact pins that we need to create on the bottom of the of the
chip itself and in terms of the PCB design we need to lay out all those
traces to all those memory chips this sucks so NVIDIA just bailed and they
stopped at 384-bit and amds actually I
don't think NVIDIA has ever done a 512 bit GPU was 480 512 bit that was the only
one I could think of cuz 480 was an interesting card let's
see 512 bit or was it no I don't think it
was 285 was the
285 okay anyway I if NVIDIA ever had when they bailed and they started doing
384-bit for their high-end cards and then now we even have a 256-bit GTX 980
which is passing for DDR3 okay so that was GTX 285 um so so
it got really expensive but in it's in a
similar so an analogous technology to what Samsung is now doing on their 850
Pro SSD where they're not using the latest super tiny manufacturing process
and instead of trying to go wider with the design of their chips actually
stacking them on each other so it looks like this technology is going to enable
AMD to deliver massive massive memory
bandwidth we're talking like a 1024-bit interface per chip um without hopefully
a huge significantly much bigger incremental cost um One Challenge is
that right now we're going to be limited to 4 gig configurations because uh this
is this is a highx technology K highx technology and it's only the first
generation but um yeah we could be
looking at bandwidth for the memory bandwidth for the graphics card in the
640 Gigabyte per second range that's
nuts that is redonkulous I I I very
reportedly am not a huge fan of just rumor mill
stuff you very specifically hope this one comes through that would be really
exciting to see this card I wouldn't be surprised I mean it's uh makes sense the
the problem that I have with rumors is
if you've been around for a long time it would be really easy to fabricate a lot
of them yeah that's true CU you could be like these things would make sense rumor
printed and a lot of the times I even wonder if people are just like yeah this
is probably what it's going to be and just rumor drop and then they're like oh
yeah look it was accurate because usually it's going to be accurate cuz
you can look at things like road maps like if you know SK hinx says okay we're
going to be sampling it here we're going to be going into mass production here
and then you look at fairly credible rumors like when the 390x is rumored to
launch and you go well gee why would they be Mass producing it if not for X
yeah you know a lot of the time you can kind of guess yeah speaking of exciting
memory technology uh this was also posted by big stuns on the form original
article is from tweak Town SanDisk
releases memory mounted ssds these fit
in DDR3 memory slots and they're ailable
in up to 400 gab capacities so either
200 or 400 GB oh crap I need to set this
reminder for myself for uh for later
otherwise I will not remember oh good I I already have a reminder for five
minutes before it happens hooray yay back to the dock um yeah so 2 400
Gigabyte capacities and basically you'll
just slot ssds into memory
slots what I mean this is not a consumer
oriented technology you're not going to be putting this on your z97 Deluxe or
whatever this is this is more for servers but what it does is it removes
complexity components and cabling from server designs if you had a server where
you didn't actually need a ton of memory but you did need a lot of storage but
you wanted to be compact this could make a ton of sense and you need like crazy
fast storage mhm yeah maybe not a lot CU
these are actually very high drives well hold on a second 400 GB per drive on
something like a 16 dim
motherboard cost yeah it's expensive I didn't say it
wasn't expensive and it's not even going to help that much in terms of space
really like it's yeah it's largely going to be for
Speed okay well it offers 880 megabytes per second of sequential read speed and
600 megabytes per second sequential rights but the big one here is actually
the warranty so it's support it's got a 5year warranty at 10 full disc RS per
day so the application for this looks like it's more like caching and less
like mass storage which makes a ton of sense so you could build extremely
compact racks that are just designed to cash data and they can actually do full
fleshes of the entire for so we're talking four terabytes per day per drive
in this cache server that has all these drives in it and is Lightning Fast Very
responsive and has extremely low complexity and very small size
incredible technology I mean I would have said and for a stor for because
databases will need a lot of RAM but servers that aren't going to need a ton
of RAM which there's definitely some of them if you want to cash some of your drives and you can fill those slots with
these that would be sick because again the reducing complexity thing not having
those extra cables and stuff that's super super nice and to be clear they're
nonvolatile storage so they're not like memory and that as soon as the system
power's off the data is gone so they're they're just ssds they just just go in a
dim slot that that's freaking cool I want to see one is there a picture in
here yeah I think so it's just my screen sharing is not working so I'll check it
out later a BMW is developing street lights that can also charge your
electric car now the whole idea of
having roadside stations or parking stalls with electric Chargers in them
was kind of like yeah okay I guess we
slow this idea wow this is gamechanging
because the okay the idea is not to that
you would have to replace all the street lamps in your entire city the idea is
that you would be able to retrofit your existing Street lamps with chargers and
be able to monetize it brilliant What
city doesn't sign up for that they get to go Greener they get to have an
additional new Revenue stream in the longer term they can monetize things and
and I mean you'll see this I think we're going to see this in obviously more
densely populated urban areas first but all of a sudden the whole parking thing
maybe you can have like like you know a bundle thing where you buy your parking
for that spot and that also includes zapping your car for the time that
you're there and ends up making a ton of sense for electric electric vehicle
owners I think it's awesome yeah that's actually really cool um I don't think
Tesla has commented on it yet at least not at the time that we were working on
the dock but I would imagine Tesla and
musk would be very supportive of a technology like this down yeah anything
that expands the the infrastructure for electric vehicles is going to make a big
difference to people who are considering buying one the only thing I can imagine
musk being against is if he looks into
it and realizes that it's like I'm
completely hypothetical right so realizes isn't a fact I'm just saying
like if this happened uh realizes that it's crap like if he comes up with
something we didn't think of it's bad because of this reason or he tries it
and it's bad because he observed this thing or whatever that's the only real
reason why I could see him being against it cuz he a definite advocate for trying
to get more of that kind of stuff out there and if he can suddenly utilize all
of these things in that ever growing map that he's trying to do yeah which is you
can travel here to here to here to here if he can suddenly just go there's all
these spots now filled up of course we're going to keep putting superchargers y because those are going
to be the super fast ones but this will massively expand your network I'm sure
he'd be down for that yeah I I'm I'm I'm
super excited for for the whole for the future of that I think this makes a
whole lot more sense than uh than solar powered roadways in terms of how much
thought appears to have been put into it you know so any I don't think I don't
think musk doesn't seem like the kind of guy who gets all butt hurt because you
know someone else came up with a good idea I think if it's a good idea he has
no problem going Head to Head Tesla's EVS versus BMW's EVS he'll just try to
do a better thing I I I think that's uh
I think this I think this will happen this is the most sensible idea I've
heard yet for how this could be implemented and I'm really excited for
it yeah all right speaking of of bad
ideas Google did a fishing survey not this kind of fishing P pH fishing which
is a method of attack that actually gets you to give up your
information voluntarily Yeah Yeah by by
tricking the user similar to social engineering and you know how you know
you and I have conversations where we we'll get a particularly stupid spam
email or fishing email and we'll laugh it to each other trying to go really
could anyone fall for this yes I used to work in tech support places they do
Google's fishing survey revealed that 14% of people submit information to
hackers wow Google and UCSD looked at
100 fishing emails picked out of a random sample self-reported by Gmail
users the researchers also reviewed a random sample of 100 fishing websites
caught by Google's safe browsing system to further understand how the scams work
these websites were all created through Google forms which is how researchers
were even able to access the data and even the worst performing fishing
websites like think about some of the ones you've seen where it's just like
obviously not a real website full of typos like you click on any navigation
on the site and it doesn't go anywhere it just leads to a broken page like
we've all seen them even on the worst performing 3% of users still submitted
their data on the most effective sites
as many as40 5% submitted their dat I wonder if this
data took account for faked stuff
probably not
but I would speculate that most people
aren't going to go to the trouble of even because okay the techsavvy
user unless they're one of those super
techsavvy users who runs you know a virtual machine on their computer solely
for the purpose of opening up you know potentially malicious stuff you know
unless you're one of those I would I would venture that most moderately power
users are just not going to click it yeah yeah because you don't even want to
go to that site that's bad you just don't even want to go there I used to
okay when I used to work at certain shops uh depending on where it was
situated so like depending on the demographics of the area around me um I
could get from like one a week to maybe
two a month um so like 0. five a week
people coming in like oh I had this is
even worse this is just phone calls someone called me from Microsoft and
said that my computer was sending them messages saying that it was having
problems and they need me to go on my computer and type all this stuff and
then I'm like oh yeah you screwed up
it's such an awkward situation like how do I get my money back I'm like you
don't you don't like it's gone so according to
Google's resear search here um hackers spend an average of 3 minutes figuring
out how much an account is worth once they have access and will apparently
move on if the account doesn't seem valuable enough so there you go the
solution is to either avoid fishing websites entirely not give them your
data or not have any money yeah yeah oh
but then you okay you still need to not be a doofus because the hacker then
tries to get money from your account's contact list so you can be compromising
your friends and family members right yeah being dumb speaking of being dumb
gizmodo.com article about this website I
can't remember what it's called right now but this is just terrible so creepy
website um insam claims to feature feeds from IP
cameras all over the world including 11,000 in the us alone and uh Gizmodo
browsed some of the feeds finding people's living rooms um parking lots
porches and even bedrooms in these feeds and the site says that the way that they
did this was by exploiting people who haven't changed the default username and
password on their IP
camera um that's creepy I don't even
know if I should be saying this on stream but it's fairly widely known and
spreading the knowledge that exists might help get it fixed um there's
certain Google Search terms you can use to find uh open IP cameras
and you can get straight up into their control panels to the point where you can move them around like it's crazy I
was doing like a presentation in high school talking about like internet
security stuff this was a long time ago and I did a live demonstration from the
class and like moved the camera around and everything and it's like yep it's
really bad I mean it baffles me that more things don't require you to change
the password the first time that you log into them because anyone can be lazy
even someone who knows better can be lazy but maybe you're just spamming next
and you don't notice that one of them was whatever really important yeah H
anyway Assassin's Creed Creator launches new studio the original article is from
gamespot.com so following his reported firing from Ubisoft last year the
Assassin's Creed Creator uh has opened a new studio in Montreal called panach
digital games Pan's other co-founder another former Ubisoft veteran who was
fired in 2013 uh or yeah sorry pacha's other
co-founder um was another Ubisoft veteran so in June 2013 he sued Ubisoft
for 400,000 and the rights to purchase 1666 which he was working on at THQ
Montreal before its collapse cool interesting hopefully he
does good things yeah well based on how good Assassin's Creed is with his
involvement and how rubbish it apparently is without his involvement oh
I guess we need to uh okay so just just
just a I'm I I have to I have to kind of pitch this to you guys again because
Nick will give me a hard time if I don't uh but the keep on digging shirt
apparently has already sold like 40 shirts oh that's awesome because you
guys are pretty into repping the keep on the keep on digging so we have yet
another Ubisoft topic it's just a short one uh cuz they just can't stop can they
so check it out it's over on oh no this one oh yeah I
know okay brain's going to bleed before we're
done this uh hold on I'm just trying to I'm
just trying to post our uh our link here I don't know if that link is going to
work hey look at that it works so if you guys want one of these shirts check it
out I'mma spam my chat
boom Nick's like here's one link I will
do things the way that isn't obnoxious good job Nick and like says
what it's for and stuff you're just like B
no dog and it's funny because of the stream delay right yeah so just out of
nowhere just huge amounts of nothing all right so Ubisoft patches
microtransactions before frame rate issues so this is this is a post that
has actually been pulled down already let's just go ahead and uh and pull this
up here so this is on imer um there we
go a patch has been deployed and the issues with purchasing and receiving
Helix credits is now fixed on PS4 We are
continuing to work to solve the issue on PC and Xbox One 214 thumbs up from the
24 members of the Assassin's Creed team that were told to thumbs up that post
pretty much yeah
unbelievable I just want to make sure it's pulled down when was this supposed
to oh it just says 14 minutes that's not
helpful yeah W the rest of their Facebook is just we are aware of the
issues we are working on it yeah that's already November 11th so I
think we're we're done yeah wow yep it's
gone that post is gone they don't want us to they don't want us to talk about
that nope all right recked I think we
got not much El not much else Apple's chip suppliers are apparently gearing
Up Get It gearing up that's a different
company for mass production of the Apple watch I know it's a it's a competing
product that's true that works I think it's funny
I think it would have better or is my humor wearing on you oh there we go
except that's still a different company I know you got to like it's got to be
within the Apple ecosystem no it doesn't it does uh chip orders are estimated to
be around 30 to 40 million units for a debut in early 2015 stainless steel and
gold editions will reportedly retail for prices starting at
$54,000 respectively uh the the Lenovo S90 is
the most ridiculous phone I think I've ever seen speaking of patent trolling um
oh no if anyone was going to if Apple was going to go after anyone about
anything this oh right my screen sharing
isn't working right bloody balls right
uh this should have been this should have been it because this is absolutely
brutal here we go on the left the iPhone 6 on the right
the Lenovo S90 wow on the bottom the iPhone 6 no way on
the top the Lenovo S90 they even copied the promotional
images I mean the antenna band is the
same wow wait are those different those are
different oh
no that's it's not good isn't that horrible apparently this
phone is not going to be available in all regions and I'm guessing this has to
do with that Lenovo knows they have no
ground to stand on if they brought this thing to the US there would be a sales
embargo like that that's uh it looks
like it's a China only China only design
not surprising this posted by Shadow captain on the Forum though I tweeted
this out earlier this week rather I posted it on Facebook cuz I thought that
was hilarious like just embarrassingly
blatant copy that's funny all right so I
think that's pretty much it there's only one other thing that I wanted to call out um we did a couple live streams if
you guys are interested in programming so becoming a coder we actually did a
number of live streams they were sponsored by modus the same guys that we
partnered with for Geek Stakes uh earlier this year where they gave away a
bunch of really cool stuff they're a they're a Placement Firm for coders so
basically they work with companies that need coders and coders who need
placements andies connect them wow um not as
aggressively as that they're like pretty nice about it they're a little bit more
considerate of each other's needs yeah so anyway they sponsored a series of
interviews where we took some folks from code school which is um a video a video
tutorial online uh online site where you can
learn coding in a fun and engaging way and they had a few of those folks come
and interview with us about sort of how to how to become a coder and of
particular interest is number two um
that one was really excellent especially if you know any females who are thinking
about programming because she talked a little bit about what it's like as a
female learning to program and being involved in the developer Community I
thought that was really uh I thought that was really really cool and actually our third our third interviewee was um
was really cool as well because a lot of what we talked to him about was not
sitting in front of your computer you know Finding inspiration for your
programming projects in the real world by being a real person and doing real
things especially stuff um like apps or if you want to build a if you want to
build a program which is going to solve someone's real world problem you
probably need to get off your butt and go figure out what that problem is cuz
we see a lot of uh we see a lot of a lot
of solutions that are to problems nobody
has yeah yeah yeah which is great if you
like have a different job and you're just soling your own
solutions that other people might not have that's awesome that's a really good
way to program and actually most programmers that I know just do that
because they'll have other jobs and they'll program their own solutions to stuff um but if you want to like make
your job doing stuff like apps for phones you probably need to figure out
stuff to go do huh look at this okay well we've got
one more we've got one more news item hi lonus I'm sure you saw some news
floating around today about statements made by Richard huie in regards to
directx12 12 I wanted to provide comment from AMD to give some context around
what has been said thus far there have been reports based on a video of Richard
h of AMD making speculative comments about directx12 support on versions of
Windows Richard Hy does not speak for Microsoft he was unfortunately spec
speculating for Microsoft publication of key dates and milestones for Windows 7
life cycle and blah blah blah okay that's not very interesting never mind
boring email okay well I think that's pretty much it no longer interesting
goodbye all right all right so yeah I think that's pretty much it thank you
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