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Halloween episode of the land show cap badass yeah I'm the Caped badass well if
you need to cover your face like that why wouldn't you just have a scarp scarf
why would you have AAR because I have a cape it's it's not
for conceal are you going to fight like you can
that's so stupid you don't want to get punched in the mouth do
you I think I think Jane would beat up the Caped bad okay we should probably
both explain our costume so uh the Caped badass fights crime basically he ran out
of time tattooed arms grabbed stuff out of a costume closet and was like sure
how know this exactly what I did and
wears a cape in green and purple to
symbolize his badassness Ninja Turtles do something
can did you notice that it smells no I have owned this cape since kind of smell
here hold on I have actually it just smells like old though it doesn't smell
bad I have owned this cape which goes down to kind of my thighs since I was
small enough that it touched the ground when I walked wow yep I have owned this
for like 20 years oh you can tell by like the the threading and stuff at the
top wow it's like it's like it's pretty
old but uh it has served me well through
many Halloweens and uh I forget where I
was going with this right so that's the history of my what what are you supposed
to be lonus has never seen Firefly or Serenity so I'm Jane um from Firefly
really you bring a weapon on my show yeah man that's not all I also have a
grenade that probably sounds amazing wow
the kinds of explosions that that grenade will set off
so I have a gun and a grenade and I have my Jam's hat and I have a brown coat so
there's yeah there's some symbolism that you wouldn't understand but it's there
all right so we've got a great show for you guys today I don't know what the topics are cuz I forgot my laptop I'm
going to go get those while we roll the intro ah yes Tesla is in trouble again
not because they did anything wrong but because other people are basically
buttholes um also 18 core xeons are on
the way so prepare your buttholes because that is going to be pretty
fantastic I mean we're already blown away with the kind of performance we're
getting from our 12 core zeeon well that's like six more cores than a 12
core zeeon oh yeah oh yeah baby Alienware GPU Graphics amplifiers we'll
explain what exactly that is later Graphics amplifier and unsurprisingly
yet again an Ubisoft developer doesn't understand extremely basic concepts and
opens his mouth about it we're not even going to give any more information than
that but we'll talk about it really is there anything else for us to even say
is there really that should just be a pull a permanent bullet point and then
we can just swap out the word Ubisoft for whatever game developers is being
stupid yeah and the name and like what title they're working
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going to let you do the first topic here because I need to go get my laptop
because I forgot it so super ready for the show today caped badass
away
ow I'm sorry he tripped on his headphone
cable when he was trying to leave the room and like actually fell over while
doing the Caped badass thing which was absolutely perfect sorry that was that
was really funny anyways Tesla runs into trouble again as we were talking about
earlier the US government is giving GM and other manufacturers and automakers
in general preferential treatment which is quite
um they're doing that because they're setting a law in I believe Michigan yeah
where you have to sell your car through an independent dealership you can't do
the showroom thing that Tesla likes doing we've been talking about this kind
of stuff all over the states for a long time um but but this is more a targeted
experience so the Michigan law forbids having galleries like I was just
discussing and Michigan customers would still be able to buy the vehicles online
or travel out of state to a corporate owned store out of state which I think
is ridiculously silly you don't want them to be able to go to a gallery
showroom where they would actually at least be able to sit in and see the car
before buying it but you're totally okay with them buying it
online what that makes no sense at all
like there's like the the the the
independent dealership part al already doesn't make sense because I hate
dealing with independent dealerships every single time I have to which has
been once but still um it suck I've done
it too and it sucked for me too so that's a sample size of at least two oh
man absolutely fantastic this is definitely all the sample size you would
need for running an actual study of these things I mean the issue is that I
I like I get independent dealerships when they have a specific value ad yes
beyond what the manufacturer is able to do for some reason but if the
manufacturer chooses not to work through an independent dealership then that be
fine that should be their right you shouldn't you shouldn't mandate
middlemen if you could do that you should be able to mandate out Apple
Stores I mean the merchant the merchant class sprung up because their entire job
was to facilitate the movement of goods
from one place to another so they were actually they you you would actually get
you know silk from here and then you would take it over there and you would
sell the silk and you would buy gems and you take it over there Buy Low sell High
the whole you know being a merchant thing moving it around yeah being a
merchant isn't about sitting on your butt in one place with the regulatory
bodies just telling you telling telling
consumers and telling manufacturers that they all have to go be routed through
you so you can take a cut like how does that how does that make any sense how
does that help us progress how does the rest of the world not completely leave
the us behind in the Dark Ages I I don't
understand like I would I would understand way more if say Tesla was like an non-american company I don't
care where they're from if they were just a non-american company in general so these laws were to try to help
American companies Tesla is an American company they manufacture in the states
you're barring uh a company that manufactures their cars in the states
against companies that you're not barring which in a lot of cases
don't which is so stupid a lot of cars are manufactured in Mexico I don't know
a ton about car manufacturing but um I know that there's a lot of cars
manufactured in Mexico that are not going to have to go through the Hoops
that Tesla has to go through and they're manufacturing designing everything in
the States they're even making their batteries in the States they're planning on putting that battery manufacturing
plant in Nevada so like what are you trying to accomplish here this is a new
really exciting company that's coming out of the states um and it's like
they're determined to make them not want to stay there yeah like I I think the
only reason why they're staying there is cuz like Elon likes the state
so kind of does as he pleases doesn't he yeah he pretty much does all right have
we already talked about Apple versus retailers the waron NFC payment
technology so Apple pay is not exactly
revolutionary or groundbreaking I mean Google wallet's been available for
something like four years yeah or something like that but I don't think
it's been super widely used no no it hasn't been super widely used it hasn't
been super widely publicized it's one of those things where Google introduced the
tech and basically went yeah use it or don't or whatever yeah and and that's
and that's fine but Apple pay pretty much just for those of you who aren't
familiar uses an NFC chip in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in order to enable and I
think uh the new iPads also really also
have it as well yeah trying to pay with this giant iPad could be wrong about
that one I hope I'm wrong about that one cuz that's going to that's going to be a
whole new level of pad hole like you can
take your pictures of your food in the restaurant iPad selfie yeah yeah and
like iPad tap to pay you you could take your selfie with your iPhone as you pay
with your iPad just to show how stupid it is that would be fantastic ah so so
anyway so it's it uses the NFC chip unfortunately for what is the least
useful thing possible for me because Apple pay isn't even rolled out in
Canada there is no timeline for Canada and I really wish we were able to do
simple things like file file trans and stuff like that um but no no apple needs
to forge their own path don't they so so basically uses your NFC chip at those
same terminals that if you're in an enlightened country like Australia of
all places for some reason is like way ahead of the rest of the world on this
stuff allows you to Simply tap your device authenticate using a a pin code
or your touch ID even and then pay for something with a debit or credit card
without ever actually giving the retailer access to those credit card
numbers or anything like that so that huge Target breach that huge Home Depot
breach we're talking 40 and 56 million
customer credit cards that were compromised in each of those ones
respectively if I have those numbers correct don't quote me on that there
there would be no potential for that if you used Apple pay for everything
because the idea is that it actually stores the information in the same place
on the phone as your touch ID information which is not sent to Apple
servers very freaking cool stuff of course you have to register the bank
accounts and credit cards and all that but the point is the idea is that it
will be more secure and app's taking a fairly small cut on top of what uh a
credit card would already be taking I
think it's shoot now this is this is a detail that I actually forget um I think
it's 0.15% I'm not sure Apple pay fee 0.15
I'm going to try searching for that yeah apple gets 0.15% cut of the purchase so
actually they're not trying to go and be
a credit card with credit card like margins I mean often credit cards are in
the three plus% range range I hope you
guys realize that when you buy something with a credit card every retailer in the
world that accepts credit cards is basically just increasing their prices
by three and a half 4 and a half% in order to compensate for that because
they take those rewards that you get that are from that air miles cash back
they're just giving you back some of what they already took from you the reason why they're pushing people to use
credit cards and giving them these reward programs is cuz they skim money off it all the time y it's not even
necessarily because of the interest they get from you not paying it because you
don't understand compound interest but so anyway Apple's pitch to the banks in
the States was look we're going to increase security we're going to reduce credit card fraud which should reduce
your insurance premiums because every time someone fraudulently uses your
credit card to buy a Hummer either kind of course anytime
yeah I went there anytime someone uses your credit card to make some kind of a
purchase and that item doesn't get tracked down and
returned well somebody has to pay for that and because of credit card fraud
prevention and the way that most credit card issuers will protect the consumer
you're going to get a refund As Long as You Follow the proper steps in order to
report that stuff so someone has to pay for that so if Apple kind of goes well look any of our customers who use your
card through Apple pay will reduce the potential for fraudulent use making life
easier for you guys well hey that's worth the 0.15% isn't it we're making
life better for everyone well retailers are butt hurt
now apparently which is pretty
frustrating to me and it looks like even though we're not getting uh we're not
getting statements from companies like CVS and Right Aid in the US that have
stopped accepting Apple pay I mean we're talking some retailers you actually
Apple pay was working yeah and then they stopped was working and then they shut
it off yeah and it will you'll get an error message on the on the cashier you
can actually see the error message it says Apple pay not supported or something like that and they're not
issuing statements necessarily but the speculation is that they're developing
their own NFC payment software in order
to save the 2 to 3% per transaction that
they would normally have to pay to now apple plus a credit card company or bank
or whatever else the case may be um I
mean normally I'm not a huge fan of any
kind of proprietary standard but the thing about Apple's proprietary standard
here is all you really have to do is give them a fee that is going to save
you money and effort in the in the big picture in order to manage this this
system that really anyone as long as they cooperate can bu wouldn't you have
to pay the Apple fee and the credit card fee m so wouldn't it not save you money
in the future wouldn't it cost you not for the retailer yes but the retailer
should be more concerned about the customer experience in my mind the
retailer is going to want to be as appealing as possible I mean I I forget
what the number is but I think they've got over a million people activated on
Apple pay already like massive massive
numbers so if you're if you're a retailer and you kind of sit there and
go oh well gee I guess I want 3% of the
population who are evidently all interested in this easier more secure
way to pay for things I guess I want them to not shop at my store because I'd
rather release my own competing standard I mean at least the thing about Apple is
that their standard will not help a
direct unless you directly compete with the Apple Store their standard paying
Apple to use it will not directly help a competitor whereas if we have every
Pharmacy chain and every clothing chain
coming up with their own NFC payment systems that you have to have your own
app and you have to enter the payment information and you have to have separate management tools well that is
much more fragmented than even Apple's still relatively closed Garden system I
I don't know if it's actually going to stop people from shopping at certain stores CU I'm sure they'll still carry
their debit or Andor credit cards with them so I don't know if it'll actually
stop them at least yet but it could be a future thing where you want to stop
carrying Cards entirely when a lot more stores are picking it up and a lot more
people are using this type of Technology that's exactly what we want okay so two
things first of all I disagree I think that for certain people for Tekken
enthusiasts who are like into that they
will look if it's if it's like I'm standing here and there's Walgreens and
there's CVS and one of them takes Apple pay and one of them doesn't I think the
tech geek and me goes I'm going to go to Walgreens really yeah for sure why not I
could not give a crap the pricing is basically similar so so let's say all
other things equal they both carry you know XL size condom the kind I
need right so it doesn't matter which one I go into
ohz I'll be safe either way okay I love
how it's not like brand or reliability it's just like sizing yeah my gun just
fell out that was pretty good timing your gun fell out did it make did it
leave a mess in your pouch there yeah it's yeah this show is awful yeah
speaking of this show is awful my mom watched the mineral oil video oh yeah
and was like oh it was so awesome and stuff didn't bring up like the endless
amount of inuendos it's like thanks Mom I mean you
know what here I I want to hear I want to hear from you guys let's let's do a
Twitter blitz so hit me at would it would it change your purchasing decision
would it change your purchasing decision and let's not let's not lock it into
Apple pay I don't want this to be about Apple pay necessarily I want this to be
about more more Progressive payment Technologies so let's say the shop
supports Google wallet or Apple pay or some kind of cool touchless smartphone
enabled payment technology that that you care about I just see my thing is um I
care care less like I still think it's cool but I care less about that than
other metrics now if if it's going with what you're saying where the stores are
exactly identical yeah other than the NFC pay thing like sure I'll go there um
but like the the the the store I buy video games from because I really like
that store and I want to be able to support them because they're cool um I'm
not going to stop going there because they don't have an NFC payment system
cuz they probably wouldn't be the first ones to adopt that CU they're this
little store and changing things like their debit machines is probably not
something they're super worried about so this might come down to more like 5
years from now eight years from now when everyone has NFC payment systems but
it's going to come down on the debit machines that you buy right so it's
going to come down to do they support the system that you use most in your
daily life like if you're a Google Wallet user or you're a you know Apple
pay user do you go to the one that supports the one that you generally use
or do you do you go to the one that's a pain in the butt because they have their
own stupid proprietary thing so as it happens the retailers um that that we
were talking about are members of the of MCX and they're working on their own
mobile payment system current C haha
currency get it but modern currency actually I think it's kind of clever
which is in beta and expected to launch next year requires you to scan a barcode
though there's like a QR code involved as well I think in order to make
payments and it's something that's been proven is not not being as secure as
nearfield communication and other encrypted technologies that are used by
Apple pay and Google Wallet so here we go uh Twitter Blitz
time Apple pay and Google Wallet are just Niche services so they can tick off
boxes on their marketing PayPal should be introduced first interesting point I
would I would use PayPal yeah I would I would use a PayPal
app to pay for things yeah I would I would probably be interest I generally like PayPal I I think it should have
been making more progress in last few years um it feels like PayPal had such
an opportunity to do a Bitcoin type thing where they or something or
something like there there was room for Innovation there um Elon the guy who
like co- started it or whatever has has publicly talked about how they've been
kind of disappointing right lately okay a little off topic but if a store
supports Google Wallet will they automatically support Apple pay in some
cases yes Apple pay was just working
even though they weren't on Apple's list of retailers actually the ones we're
talking about are great examples of that and the funny thing about these guys is
they've also turned off Google Wallet at the same time even though Google
wallet's been working now for years wow yeah um okay honestly no one can hack
cash so that's what I use well there are other issues with cash you can hack cash
in real life you know like where's that gun in that crowbar that gun that
crowbar do we look like people who could hack
cash hack your cash bro we need a shirt
we do cash hackers have grenade too cash hackers just cuz it makes no
sense anyways um if if your credit card's stolen they can reverse a lot of
the charges that happened on it if your cash is stolen you're screw your cash is
just gone yeah uh that's actually in line with Josh's comment here cash is
always going to be there no I don't care about any of them
because no one accepts them here good point and it's the same in Canada but we
should still look to this technology as an indication of what's coming in the
future um I would go to the store that supports the technology because I want
to spread the tech and make it more pervasive and that is a very that's always a thing that's a compelling
reason to do that's a voting with your wallet that's like literally V your
wallet your Google wallet or voting with your pay your Apple
pay see this is even more badass fist bump because it's got the cat sleeves
and the Jack anyway um name here
it would totally sway my choice not really in O it is 50/50 to get paywave
as it is when they do have it is so much easier yeah so paywave is their NFC
thing I think we call it pay pass here in Canada yeah but never works and every
single deit machine you see has little sticker on it pay pass not working or
something if I had it I would use it like a boss um S Oliver says cash or
cards are obsolete but NFC payments are still too scary or sketchy to me
although I know how they work very interesting we should probably do a fastest Possible episode on NFC payments
probably just try and cut through some of the garbage information that's out
there about it yes all else being equal I would go to the place with the more
Progressive payment style says joou uh Josh says nope it's just another
iteration of something like PayPal or Bitcoin which is not really anything
actually it's not really anything like PayPal or Bitcoin because you're still
just using your debit account or your credit account it's just another way of
accessing it without a card electronically hi Jack
would you oh everything else being equal sure I'd take the store that makes
buying things easier I mean I think the web here we're g to uh we're going to D
Twitter Blitz ify this here I think the web has proven that look at Amazon's
model do they have the lowest price not
necessarily EAS to deal with in fact a lot of the times they don't why are they
so big because they make shopping easy
and brainless they have everything and you can order with one click and their
customer services like very well known everywhere yep talked about widely and
you don't have to do any thinking you don't have to think about oh how much is
the shipping going to cost and you don't usually have to worry about it being late usually more often than not they're
early if it has to be late or early they're usually early I had I had a
shipment that was supposed to show up in like I think it was 7 to 10 business
days and it was there the next day I like what that that to me is is the
biggest thing that retailers should be looking at if they're trying to decide
should we support Apple pay or Google wallet or MCX is upcoming standard or
whatever else and the answer should be
yes because you want your store to be easy to shop at that being said Amazon
doesn't accept Paypal Amazon doesn't accept Paypal which is actually
continues to be a frustration for me and if someone were to rise up and be
otherwise equal to Amazon in every other way I would choose the one that takes
PayPal person what's that what's that thing from the Wall-E movie buy and buy
and large byy and large I'm waiting for Costco to go etail cuz I just have a
feeling that would be aw bad I love Costco I'd be down for Costco etail all
right so our next actually have we called out the people who posted these
on the Forum okay so that was LJ LJ K
snow that posted the Apple versus retailers topic and Victorious secret
that posted the Tesla one and our original articles were from finance.
yahoo.com and washingtonpost.com so let
let's move on to some good news some exciting news this was posted by X XA
CRA on the Forum the original article here is from Digi times and this looks
freaking awesome when I heard the announcement for this I'm not even going
to say what it is yet but when I heard the announcement for this I assumed it was coming way further in the future
than it is I didn't expect quarter 2 2015 according to digi times now this is
rumor there's no content from it comment
not content comment from Intel yet yeah Intel won't say anything about it
apparently as we said in the like topic call out the 18 core Zeon E7 V3 Haswell
D3 is coming so do we have more videos on
edel's processor coming don't we uh yes we do so the whole room water cooling
Loop thing we'll talk about temperatures and stuff a little bit and we have a
video upcoming where we got our hands on 128 gig kit of RAM and edel's actually
spent most of this week benchmarking various numbers of cores and ious
amounts of RAM in Premiere and after effects to have a look at where the
sweet spot is for processing course and RAM and how those relate to each other
so that should be a really cool video for Content creators there we go my
screen sharing so this one's actually the article on kit Guru but this bad boy a
Zeon E7 V3 Haswell ex chip with 18
hyperthreaded cores quad Channel ddr4
memory support integrated PCI Express 3.0 and rumored according to digi times
to be available in Q2 2015 however the digi Times article is
down and this one specifically says Intel is not commenting on it so I
wonder if interesting uh I wonder if our link to the digi times one is bad for
some reason or whatever else is happening yeah so I I don't know there
isn't a ton of groundbreaking stuff here other than the fact that it has a but
ton of cores yeah there's not really a lot else going on other than that we're
talking like a Nicki Minaj worth of course yeah yeah yeah Anaconda wants
some of that does it well CPU course not really Nicki Minaj she's a little old
for me is she yeah how old is she she's
like I think she nothing well into her 30s or something oh Nikki I don't even
know how to spell her name oops Nicki Minaj
age she's 31 oh never mind okay she's not as old as I thought she was never
mind she would still be an older lady for me though Cougar
Town uh that I'm married I guess that
might be an issue so okay this is this is not this is not a tech topic but uh
one of my one of my old co-workers got
married didn't tell me didn't have any ceremony has no ring went to the
courthouse because uh he lives in
Toronto and he and his his now wife I
guess both work in the IT industry and they were both in Vancouver on travel
and when you're in Toronto I think it's like an 8we process to get a civil union
marriage certificate thing and when you're in Vancouver I think it's 3 weeks
to get everything pushed through and make it official so while they were here
they were they're trying to move to the US and I think she has a green card and
he doesn't or something and citizenship or whatever so they they had to contact
someone they contacted you so what no no no no no no no he was just telling me he
got married oh by the way I got married I'm like thanks for the invitation to
your your wedding jackass and he was like well there wasn't a wedding or a
honeymoon our honeymoon was like we drove down to to Seattle and both met
with clients and I'm just like no you're
terrible you're a bad person so anyway apparently they they they just
spontaneously and it was her idea apparently she was just like oh hey
we're both in Vancouver we should probably get that marriage thing
done so that everything goes through more quickly and he's like yeah I guess
I should go to London drugs and like get the paperwork
form I can you imagine if you could find
a lady who is so pragmatic that you could get away with something like that
that's that's probably who I'm going to is that your dream lady yeah probably I
don't I I don't know where I don't know where you find these ladies cuz I mean
okay my wife is pretty practical and she's pretty down to Earth but she
wanted a wedding man she wanted a wedding she wanted a ring Big Ring big
wedding honeymoon you don't get out of
that stuff I don't know I don't know how you pulled this off I don't know as
Generations get younger weddings and rings and stuff are slowly becoming less
and less of a thing uh marriage is even becoming less
and less of a thing this isn't a tech topic we should probably move on all
right so Apple watch OS running on an
iPhone is this is kind of a speculative article from uh 9 to5 Mac actually did a
really great job of this was this was originally posted on the Forum by Deo 26
so let's go ahead and pop this up and I love this article one quick thing it's
not Apple watch OS yeah it's not at all
we're talking slightly thank you we're not talking about Apple watch OS running
on iPhones in the future we're talking about the the the UI design with the
apps being just kind of in this this kind of scatter array versus the Tidy
less dense grid we're talking about that potentially coming to the iPhone I was
amazed at how well this worked this is brilliant because this is what I was in
my iPhone 6 review my biggest criticism
of the phone was the way that Apple just
didn't innovate when they had to they
should they should have ios8 should have
come with this already so I'm still going to be critical even if they do
roll this out because the device has outgrown the way that Apple expects you
to interact with it the the app ecosystem I back when the and this
article does a great job great article on 9 to5 Mac because when the app when
the iPhone first launched with iPhone OS which is what we used to call it there
weren't really many third party apps you didn't need to organize things into
folders there there wasn't that much to do and because every phone could be
operated one-handed by most people stuff
that you you know High priority stuff could automatically go to the top left
corner and you could actually reach that but nowadays it's the bottom right to
center of the screen that's actually easiest to access and I love what
they've done here now I I don't even necessarily like this because you've
seen how I use things my my desktop on my phone is blank um not even kidding my
default like the first page you go to on my phone is blank my desktop on all of
my computers are uh view do not show
icons so that I have no icons including no recycle bin because I don't like any
being there um I like extremely clean
for all of my devices so this looks incredibly messy to me and I don't want
it but I think it's extremely cool that it exists because I do know a lot of
people that will want it and it opens the door to other various themes and
maybe slight adaptations of this whole idea which is actually really cool and
how well it works how you can zoom out to see the whole picture and then jump to a different area can make navigation
really fast y much faster than swiping
three pages or even pages over and then going into a
folder a horrible combination going over a few pages then going into a folder
would take forever when you can just tap in between some of the icons which will
Zoom it all the way out and then tap on an icon which will Zoom it in and then
tap on the icon again which will open the actual app and the the article makes
some great Arguments for how easy this would be to to adopt like folders
wouldn't have to go away it could just work like this icons wouldn't even
necessarily have to be redesigned oh yeah and they they make the same complaint about Apple's stupid
accessibility double tap thing that I did where it's like what what is that
that's just the clgi thing ever and they even looked at this and went well hold on a second what if we just take
existing icons now and make them all circles actually it kind of looks like
you don't have to change much doesn't it no no like not at all loving it that's
cool I would really like to see this happen which what I'm assuming this is
some travel thing that one doesn't look super great but the most of the other
ones look fine some of them don't work particularly well but the reality of it
is is app developers are going to have to have a round icon anyway if they want
their app to show up on on the watch so
I guess why don't we just all move to I wonder if when the watch launches will
get like kind of because I I can't imagine iOS has operated exactly the
same way for like 7even years now okay you got your grid maybe you get more
rows maybe you get folders maybe they're
slightly larger icons but basically you swipe left and right you access the
icons and you press the thing and open the app um for them to change something
this fundamental I would okay two two
two ways of looking at this number one is I think they kind of have to allow
people to use classic navigation or new
navigation yeah why not themes are a thing that's that's one thing I really
liked about this is just having options is going to be good but number two is I
think if Apple can validate internally that this is
legitimately better and faster in every way I hope that they have the coonies to
just force everyone to switch to it because that's what Apple does they
figure out what's better for you whether you like it or not and they put it in
front of you and make you use it and that's how they innovate one of the
biggest reasons why I've never wanted iPhones though is the fact that I don't
think you can have a blank default screen no I don't think you can yeah and
I really like that yeah there's there's even stuff that you can't delete from
the that comes straight from Apple like a lot of it and stuff that not everyone
needs like bookstand yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly so like how I like using mine is
I just go into the app View Window every time essentially I just press the app
button at the bottom of Android and then that opens up my viewer and then I use
it kind of like an iPhone viewer right or you just flip pages and I know where
everything is I used to do that I've started being more of a home screen user
um but I I I I have some alternate screens that have things on them that
aren't my home screen so if I swipe left once or right once there's some there
I I actually unless I'm on an HTC device
and I have blink feed so I'll keep that on the left but then other than blink
feed I go one home screen yeah so that way it does a couple of things number
one is it means that I'm never navigating between home screens so I only use folders and then I'll have
quite large folders for all the main stuff that I do and then number two it
means that that whole Android Behavior where whenever you install a new app it
dumps it on one of your home screens if you only have one home screen and you
delete all of your other ones it just says it's full and then leaves it in the
tray there you go so I have to manually add something to my desktop if I
actually want to have it so that's that's why I do it that way yeah uh
Jared gumowski asks us not to make fun of Nicki Minaj she's my ba okay J what
does that mean I have no idea I think if he adds an e then it means in some form
of relationship but I'm not super down with the kids lingo right now so I might
be wrong kid lingo you're like what 23 ba I'm almost 24 had enough your crap
now people know how old I am all right posted no one knew before I'm sorry no
one knew how old I was before they didn't well now they do okay so posted
originally by benediction on the Forum this is freaking awesome Ana Richard
Noble the gentleman behind the last two
land speed records in 1983 and 1997 is
spearheading a project called bloodtown SSC it's been in the works for 30 years
already and we are not talking like speed of sound you know like that's
that's wussy that's like that's like your dad's land speed record we're
talking a, miles an hour and this
article on wired is fantastic here's the view inside the cockpit I mean is that
so epic Tesla could learn a thing or two about futuristic car design right there
those also look fake as hell no no this is not fake this is this is it those
look like like they were p there in okay
so to augment the digital ones in case they fail these are state-ofthe-art
Rolex analog meters yeah yeah yeah dog
that's so badass so the brake pedal only works at 200 mph or
less and beyond that there's like a complicated set of like air brakes and
hydraulics and all that kind of crap to slow it down they have a pilot driving
it yeah so this is the this is the pilot right here uh his name is Andy green and
he was actually uh he actually piloted I
think it was uh the last one I thought he's a I think
he flies planes as well yeah yeah yeah he flies planes as well and what's cool
about about you know sort of his involvement with the project is that the
cockpit of the of the car can we even call it a car I guess sort of a car
rocket car rocket land rocket sure I don't know the cockpit of the car is
actually specially shaped to his body
wow so like he's the guy he's going to drive it that's it that's all there is
don't get fat in the next couple months yeah or two years or whatever dude do
not put on some weight because you will compromise the whole project yeah um so
it's got a rollsroyce ej200 jet engine
taken out of a Euro Fighter um we're talking 120 DB of sound most of which
will be caused by shock waves um caused by the air running over the canopy of
the cockpit and into the jet engine intake and the shock waves
counterintuitively will slow down air as it passes over the car and this is to
ensure that the Air does not hit the jet engine at 1,000 mph in fact 1 meter
before the intake of the of the jet engine it slows down to 600 mph to
ensure that it's uh that it's not going to be
damaged that's crazy there's there's some stuff like the the salt I think
it's the Salt Flats where they driving it with the the flats that they're driving it on in general this one's
going to be in Africa yeah I know um but they're they're they're like laser
etching the the whole Runway that they're going to be driving the thing on
so that there will be nothing larger than a marble in the way because if he
drove over something with the aluminum like solid aluminum wheels yeah I think
they're going to be spinning with the same Force required to separate DNA from
cells yeah and what were they 200 lb aluminum wheels yeah I think so um if he
ran over something that large it it would feel like he was a bullet went
through his entire body speaking of bullets going through his entire body
the cockpit is reinforced so just in case you know a rock like this thing is
armored basically in case a rock goes flying or whatever else it's not going
to go in and kill him because yeah at that kind of speed it would definitely
you you would be done pretty exciting and to put 1,000 mph in perspective this
actually this was what drove it home for me me that is the length of three
football pitches per
second it's 400 and something me so um a
football pitch is I believe a little longer than an American football field
which is 100 yards so I'm sure someone's going to destroy
me in the comments for not knowing how long a football pitches but whatever the
point is three football pitches per second real I think someone someone in
the comments must have figured it out someone probably
onls someone will have converted to meters per second it's going to be here
come on oh 447 447 meters per second apparently
yeah or 1600 km there you go so so 447
m/ second unreal all right that's incredibly fast
oh yeah I never I think we never said the name of the uh so the vehicle is
called The Blood Hound SSC epic all right so let's talk about some
other high performance stuff here that's totally back to back to actual computers
people were laughing at you because you said football pitch why that's what
they're called I know I'm no I'm not going to
call it soccer it's not called soccer like one
small fraction of the world calls it soccer yes that's true but the origins
weren't from the states and the name of football is stupid here in the States
because you do not you used your foot a lot more when it was first started right
so what when they when they when they invented the game you lose you use your
foot a lot more right so then change the name I mean if if if baseball if they
remove the bases are they still if they remove the base of the
ball I mean they do kind of play ball
that's implied the Bas that's true that's true but if basketball if they
take away the baskets ring ball ring
ball you can't keep calling it basketball you can't call American and
soccer came from Association though it's not even an American thing I believe
it's from Oxford or something something like that either way where the sport is
not called soccer I refuse to call it soccer it is called football and
football in North America is called American football so that's it that's
how I'm going to do it and you guys can all deal with it because I am the Caped
badass I really feel like you need to have like a bandana over your face so
you don't have like this SM it's been in my attic it just yeah it just smells
like old forever yeah all right so let's move on to this topic posted by rock
with original articles from the verge.com and Gadget and Digital Trends
I'm mad at The Verge right now though so we're not bringing up their uh their
article they there is a really stupid piece on the verge right now about
gamergate like just phenomenally
stupid like the like the dumbest thing I've read since that don't do
that edgy come on it's a freaking it's
this I know anyway um him a duck yeah it's it's
it's the dumbest thing I've read since that uh that critique of um Shadow of
Mordor where you learn the sneak attack tactic by kissing your life that was so
dumb I remember who did that I didn't say it was dumber than that I said it
was the dumbest thing I've read since then since then okay all right so here's
the article on digitaltrends.com and they have a Hands-On of the Alienware
Graphics amplifier turbocharger laptop
with a desktop GPU Alienware now makes a
box for that so basically what this does is it connects via an unfortunately
proprietary cable so it only works with Al Alienware Laptops only works with
select Alienware Laptops even then which is sort of a bummer but basically it's a
power supply and a PCI Express slot inside let's see if they yep there we go
so it's a power supply and a PCI Express slot inside that um allows you to
basically have external PCI Express and
plug it into your laptop um I think the only models it works with right now are
ones that probably don't even really need an external graphics card for the
moment but if you want to be able to upgrade in the future then oh hold on
here we go the Alienware 13 will only ship with GeForce GTX 86 M uh Graphics
it's disappointing that the blah blah blah but that does give you more of a
reason to upgrade to the whatever the thing okay blah blah blah something
something something something whatever the thing super helpful information on
the stream blah blah blah yeah there's actually not a lot of info about it here
and I didn't do much reading about this um I'll be interested to see it's going
to be hard to like I wonder if you could spend a
while and find clock speeds for a mobile GPU and a desktop GPU that would be
comparable of performance and then test
what frame rates you can get having a GPU and a desktop machine and the GPU in
the laptop machine like you mean like benchmarking
mobile CPUs that way like try to Benchmark a mobile CPU and then clock
back your desktop CPU to try and find an equivalency and then once you found a
CPU level equivalency then bench the graphics card on each one and see what
the performance difference is you can play around with it a fair bit but the issue that I ran into when I was doing
my uh my 980 versus 980m video not that
long ago was that even though um motherboards do let you play around with
your CPU multiplier a fair bit many of them don't let you turn it down no turn
down the desktop one yeah they don't let you turn it down enough oh enough yeah
so you can turn it down a little bit but you can't turn it down enough to be
equivalent to a same architecture mobile CPU yeah we'd have to get a much older
architecture one I guess and so and once you're doing that it becomes an Apple
store just comparison so so that was the challenge that I ran into uh supports
any GPU up to 375 watts and works for now only with the Alienware 13 so that
one does have an 860m so hopefully I
guess that gives people a compelling reason to uh to buy one of these it
costs 300 bucks though so you'll pay you you have to buy a new laptop you have to
buy a graphics card and you have to buy 300 bucks for the privilege of using the
box and consider yeah considering how much like how long those boxes have
existed in various forms um and how much
is really going into that box it's pretty expensive I mean this standard
makes no sense until it runs on Thunderbolt so yeah and it will at some
point we will get Thunderbolt boxes that allow external gpus in fact the only
reason they don't work now is that AMD and NVIDIA haven't enabled it so all
alien wear's done here is they've exposed a direct PCI Express link
through a proprietary cable so that the GPU can't tell that it's you know in an
external box that's all they've done there's no reason that Thunderbolts
bandwidth couldn't support external G is just like sure whatever cool yeah so
they're just kind of hiding it from everybody yeah all right now I love I
love mechanical keyboards I love Cherry but this is I still don't think this
makes a ton of sense this is nuts originally posted by nagby on the Forum
I'll pull up the original article here the most redonkulous looking
laptop in a long time I can't say ever cuz there's some old school ones that
look absolutely hilarious but like what
I'm G let that sink in for a
moment so you know how I've talked about
this in the past how the way that technology is miniaturizing and power
consumption and heat output are going down not only enables smaller devices
but also devices that are the same size
where we pack all that Hardware into a small part of it and build in additional
functionality bigger batteries or whatever else the case may be this is
not what I had in mind no so you want to cover this one what is
this thing I don't okay so it's it's all all the main components for the laptop
go into that super uninteresting looking
other than the dragon I guess but like kind of useless area above the keyboard
I got to say this if they have to have a brushed aluminum panel that's where to
put it it's better to have it above the above the Palm rest rather than as the
Palm rest definitely they get points for that and that Dragon looks pretty cool
but still um that's a huge blank area which is essentially unusable I like
that they even move the buttons closer to the keyboard so like the the power
button is closer to the keyboard not at the top so again with the brush aluminum
thing you're probably not going to be dragging your fingers over it very often
but essentially the keyboard area is just Blank Space because the switches
and everything are so tall and you need the um electrical base for the keyboard
under that as well so that whole area is just the keyboard and then above that is
where the whole rest of your laptop goes and for those of you wondering well hold
on a second where's the touchpad ah yes MSI does have that taken care of they
have a touchpad over here on the right
yeah that also serves as a number pad if
you want to put it in so that's going to be a super weird place to have a
touchpad yeah I mean it didn't work for the razor blade nope it's not going to
work for this touchpad on the right is a bad idea because especially if you use
your touchpad two-handed like a lot of people do one hand for movement one hand
for clicking having it over on the right like that is actually pretty darn
inconvenient sup sorry don't worry about it talk about it later cool um yeah it's
just it's just silly and like uh just
leave I like the mechanical keyboards in there there's not a good way to
implement it and I don't think there is a good way to implement it I would
rather it was just a good laptop and I could just take one with me I'll just
take a 10 keyless with me okay hold on a second let's see if we can okay would
you prefer this design if the mechanical
keyboard was in the more traditional keyboard location at the top of the
laptop no I think I would why because if
you just have this giant blank space under do it no no because okay okay okay
hold on a second no I still don't okay so here here here here's a more
traditional laptop if they could put the
mechanical keyboard here and then they
used all all this space for internals
and they could keep the touchpad here would you would you tolerate kind of an
empty space here with a mechanical keyboard and all the guts here and then
just I mean basically all you would need is small pcbs down the sides for iio so
nothing really changed and then you would need wiring up to the screen like
would that have been a better way to do it well nothing really changed in that aspect yeah other than that there's a
mechanical keyboard in it with the added weight and added thickness that does
come with the territory I worry if there's maybe other issues with
that I don't really know what they could be like that it's just dumb overall or
maybe I don't know uh I don't actually make laptops I don't I don't feel like
it should be that big issue I you know I
tried to make a laptop it was a Friday it was raining
outside no um I was like well if Apple
can do it then that's probably fine probably not that hard I'm chane it's
all right um yeah I I don't know it should be fine I
I would have definitely preferred they did it that way the first thing I thought of when I saw this was why is
the keyboard there that makes no sense and then they're like space for hardware
and cooling um but yeah just move and
like I get it it's probably back exhaust yep rear so having the keyboard
in the way of that you'd have to have like side exhaust right which could get
in the way of IO but then I don't think anyone's really complaining that much
about having io on the back of the laptop yeah that's a good point rear iio I
would be I would be probably okay with that maybe if you had like like a few on
the side that the the keyboard is on not the blank side that you were talking
about you could have a couple like maybe one or two USB ports and that's it y
just so you don't have to run a ton of stuff there um and then have your iio at
the back and then exhaust out the sides that's probably fine you know I used to
use the the side exhaust on my bamboo to heat things
up I've got uh I'm just changing the T
I've got people in the twitch chat pointing out that if the entire um heat
if the heat generating components of a laptop bearing in mind that this is a gaming machine so we've got a
powerful it would be right under your touchpad however what I will point out
is that assus seems to have that problem
kicked because on their um on their 750
series and they're 751 both the bottom
and the top of the laptop are cool enough for you see yeah but this is this
is the thickest part of the laptop is at the back which is the best way to do it
and then they have big heat sinks here way to do yeah man at the back is the
okay you know what I think we should move on so our next topic here is the
Motorola Droid Turbo basically sorry I'm
I'm going to keep going for a sec basically having your heat sinks at the front would drastically decrease how big
they are yeah how be an issue unless we
unless we went with like the classic like brick Style laptop with no natural
you know angle angled design to it just you could you could use the rubber feed
on the bottom just rectangular prism
style yeah all right moving on to the
Motorola Droid Turbo is it the phone
that I was asking for a mere two weeks ago with two-day battery life they claim
it is we're talking up to 48 Hours battery life 8 hours of charge in 15
minutes with that new quick charging technology can't remember what it's
called at the moment but we're going to do it fast as possible on it later um then I'll hopefully remember got a 21
megapixel camera if you shoot in 4x3 or 15.5 megapixels if you sho in 16 by9 but
Pro tip for uh those of you out there who want to take the best possible
pictures just take a square picture and crop it later
um yeah yeah um f2.0 aperture so that's
a very wide open aperture uh it shoots 4K 24 FPS video 1080P 30fps and 720p
slowmo it's got a qualcom Snapdragon 805 processor with 2.7 gahz quad car and an
adreno 420
GPU you might say it has high
performance oh my god um 3 gigs of RAM
5.2 in that I should have 5.2 in 1440
piece AMOLED screen uh
3900 milliamp hour battery water resistant NFC 32 2 gig and 64 gig models
uh the back is made like fine woven materials and mono front ported speakers
so I don't like the mono do like the front Port I don't think anyone likes
the mono no no no it makes you real sick
um unfortunately sorry go ahead no keep
going oh this was posted by MC mad 358 on the Forum by the way thank you for
posting and there's articles from everywhere in the entire internet so why
don't we just pull up droidlife.com um un fortunately some of
the some of the um reports of the Droid
turbos real world battery life are not
well aligned with the 48h hour battery life claim
ooh that's super disappointing I actually didn't read that part um I I
really like their their web view thing
you can directly compare it against other phones which is pretty cool um I
don't remember I think that was on Motorola's actual website you could you
could uh pair up other phones to compare
it against and then it had a direct compare thing which is actually really helpful uh one thing I'm not impressed
with is they ditched the ring flash which they've been doing recently I
don't know why they did that why I bother I don't I don't get it
yeah there's a lot of Buzz around it I've requested a review unit but Motorola mostly ignores me these days so
I don't know we'll see maybe maybe we'll cover it maybe we won't yeah hopefully
that 48 hour thing is actually true yeah
I mean i' I still think that the thing
about Android is that if it gets bogged down enough you could have a 6,000
milliamp hour battery and you could still find a way to drain it in 8 hours that's true that's the problem with
Android that's true I've I've got a buddy that runs uh a lot of widgets and
stuff on his note what is it new one four Note 4 yeah um and almost Max Z his
round capacity idling right so like people can do that
for sure and he's not even doing a ton like it doesn't seem too ridiculous on
his phone and he's he's using that much of his RAM automatically which is pretty
intense um okay so hold on a second I
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stream number two in particular I thought was awesome Our Guest was
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talking to her particular ularly about um women women in in the programming
space because she basically said yeah
great yeah you know what I noticed that when I did my Ubisoft studio tour in
Montreal there were so many women working there Y and not just as
secretaries like uh one like their um
the the lady who uh was talking to us about their state-of-the-art motion
capture for example there you go yeah yeah like and
like okay when I was taking software engineering it was a very low percentage
when I was taking uh like computer sciencey it databas e courses it was 25
30% which is a lot more than what I think a lot of people would expect all
right so let's go ahead and uh move on we've once again around during
the first two-thirds of the show and have very little time left So Far Cry 4
Dev resolution doesn't sell games this
was posted by rap on the Forum and the original article is from
neoaf 1080P or not 1080p isn't an
interesting question it is certainly not something I care about in a game said
Alex Hutchinson Far Cry 4 creative director good for you said this after
confirming the target resolution and frame rate of 1080p 30 FPS it feels
weird to me that people are cool about playing a sort of retro pixel game and
yet the resolution somehow matters it's like is it fun is it interesting is it
new is it freshh are are there interesting questions Hinson things
enthusiasm for high-end visuals is waning and these things are not mutually
exclusive yeah you can have a fun game that also looks great and and it's not
like we're asking for every game to come out like 4K we're asking for like a very
reasonable am we're asking for not
immersion breaking aliasing we're trying to not go backwards we're not trying to
shove you and push you incredibly hard to go forwards you should be doing that
on your own yeah this isn't this isn't
yeah we're not even saying that and of course it's important to have new things
in games um like he says a new spin on
an evolution I think is more interesting like new new topics new asking new
questions all that kind of stuff yeah do that you can do that while having a
reasonable amount of resolution and a reasonable frame rate you don't have to
have God they make my brain hurt why don't they just stop talking yeah you've
probably let's just stop talking about that speaking of things that I can't understand even us they need to stop
talking they just keep digging every single time speaking of things that I
can't figure out why anyone actually cares about Apple CEO Tim Cook comes out
and says I am proud to be gay the original article is from money.cnn.com
and I think that's about all the attention that this topic deserves
because who gives Uh crap nobody should
care yeah at all although one thing that I am kind of
kind of happy to see though is that you know we we live in a time when we can
have a non-white dude in the White House and the CEO of the most valuable company
in America be openly gay so I guess
that's that's pretty cool isn't it yeah all right been yeah uh X-Wing and Tie
Fighter oh my I'm going to jump a you we
have to have that speaking of pixelated
games I I have you already bought them no oh I didn't know it was a thing until
like pretty close to before the show okay and there's a there's a guide on um
crap I have it bookmarked I can't remember what site it is but they've got a guide on updating the graphics of
X-Wing haven't looked into it for TIE fighter yet TIE fighter was actually my
favorite of the games I actually never even finished the campaign of X-Wing but
TIE fighter is one of my favorite games of all time and it has stood up to the
test of time surprisingly well great
story great music score great game
playay Fant fantastic gameplay the missions are challenging in a way that
new games really aren't like you can be out there flying for 45 minutes and like
some shuttle takes off from somewhere that you need to intercept and you're in
the wrong part of the battlefield you don't get over there you don't divert
everything away from weapons and Shields and get the crap over there and disable
that thing you failed the mission you start over like great game and uh so
they're on good old gam the resolution for the time it was released was probably probably just fine Ubisoft uh
you need a joystick to play I think the original 1994 release like the one that
I had uh you could play with a mouse but it was stupid it was bad was like super
super bad I specifically bought a joystick for TIE fighter and it was
worth every penny in fact that joystick is here at the office and I've been
meaning to take it home forever because I finally bought a USB to game port
adapter so I am planning to go home this
weekend and play TIE fighter with my Top
Gun joystick I'm actually going to go get that so I can show it off right now
you want to set up hooked up I'm sorry do you have your streaming setup hooked
up so you can stream that um yeah I don't need to take my webcam away
anymore so I have my webcam at home so maybe maybe I should stream some
time I don't even oh not going to trip on this again no not happening there you
go good work I'm jumping back to the dock that's like the the last thing that
I really want to nope there's a few other things that are really good what
should I tackle YouTube 60 FPS is finally here um you need to select the
1080p60 or 720p60 options in your
quality settings for it to work I know some people have uh apps for like
Firefox or Chrome which will automatically select the highest end
possible thing um you might need to disable that for certain people that are
releasing uh certain videos for it to be able to actually work properly I don't
know but I'm sure they they'll they'll fix those options at some point this
YouTube Oh 60 FPS yeah people keep asking if we're going to do 60 FPS
videos the answer is no um unless we're we're talking like
gameplay videos or something that really benefits from it product showcases and
reviews and like that do not benefit in
any tangible way from 60fps and I would
rather shoot in 4k and right now it's one or the other for us with our filming
equipment and yeah and and data storage
and that too yeah 4K is already killing us the fastest possible we shot today 80
gigs with the new recording format pretty insane fortunately we'll
be doing an updated ultimate NZ with eight seag 6 terab Enterprise grade
drives so yeah that's 48 terab awesome
yeah rusin server getting an upgrade there baby um okay so what else we got I
can't wait till we get a lonus Media Group paby oh T-Mobile
CEO this guy is crazy he's nuts he's
insane I love him every time he opens his mouth it's solid gold don't buy your
iPad from us new iPads from major US
carriers are network locked and he basically says look we didn't ask for
this we didn't want this we don't want
these iPads to be locked but they're they're locked out of the factory don't
buy your iPad from us go buy it from the Apple store and then bring it to
us which is great so the Sims are
pre-lock just to be clear so he just says why what what what is this this is
stupid he said so he tweeted out my advice to everyone and I'll get in
trouble for this buy it from the Apple Store love it he's great absolutely
fantastic uh IBM is fighting Ebola with
a supercomputer so they teamed up with um Cambridge University Africa's voices
project TCO firm okay so they teamed up with a bunch of wow a bunch of really
important stuff uh they developed a system that lets people report Ebola
related issues and concerns Via SMS or voice calls and basically what they had
to say about it is for us to tackle Ebola it is crucial to maintain an open
dialogue between the government and the people so uh creating opinion-based heat
maps that show areas of worry and areas of infection and has already highlighted
regions with growing numbers of suspected infections also working with
Nigeria uh so they've been cleared of disease to support preparedness for
future outbreaks you can play Plague Inc with real life cool AMD is going to be
launching the or relaunching the R9 29 x
with 8 gigs of memory we actually have a
pretty exciting project coming up with that yeah three 34in curved LG monitors
running off of triple R9 290x 8 gig
cards we're talking like 15 I think it's like 14 megapixels and change of
resolution surround gaming curve what's the dollar value in that in just gpus in
monitors uh six grand is
yeah like we're talking we're talking some badass stuff that'll look really
cool currently only available from Sapphire but Club 3D power color I think
MSI is coming out with one um and this will be available for the holiday season
in order to better compete presumably with the GTX 980 these will be custom
cooled cards with higher clock rates than reference and to be clear guys even
AMD is not going to be like yeah 8 gigs of memory it's going to like do things
you know it's more of a future proofing thing it's more of an if you're running
in crossfire and you're running games at 4K it's more it's more of a be ready for
higher resolution textures because we are finally getting games that are able
to use a 4 gig frame buffer so if you want something that's going to be able
to continue to keep up with higher resolution textures it might be worth
considering I personally hate the FW future proofing but there you go that's
what it is um I did hear a rumor though that NVIDIA is planning to launch 8
versions of the 980 and 970 to counter this card so we'll have to see how that
all shakes down happy to see that at the same like because as long as they have
the lower RAM amount cheaper cards as well because not everyone will need them
I think it'll be really good cuz some people will but not
everybody all right so what else we got
here I guess we don't really have much more time so maybe we'll do some uh
maybe we'll do some rapid fire topics speaking of LG and there curved 34in
monitor LG releases 31in Cinema 4K IPS
monitor so rather than being 3840 by 2160 this is the full 4K not
Ultra HD to be clear they are different I believe it's
4160 by 2160 or 41 oh crap now I forget
4096 by 2160 there we go the article on
redmondpie tocom saved me here and they
are saying that it is suitable for
professional use and considering that it's coming in at a mirror
$1,400 wow that's actually cheaper than I thought that's a lot cheap but it's
it's it's not as expensive as I expected for that product yeah I mean compared to
other professional grade displays I mean this is a prograde resolution and
they're saying it's going to be suitable for uh for color work and for
professional video editors and all that kind of stuff this looks absolutely fantastic nice
thin bezel it's uh got Thunderbolt capability so you'll be able to connect
it to your Mac Pro nice professionall looking uh stand that will look
completely at home in an office environment looks like it's got some
ergonomic adjustments I don't know if we're going to get pivot here but it
looks like we should at least have swivel height adjust and tilt and it
does have a Vasa Mount so you could mount it to another ARM if you wanted
one thing we need to do is build logs and there's a new format for that I
don't know if you've seen that that's fine okay um also Reddit is launching
their own crowdfunding site they do seem to be a little late to the party here
but it's called Reddit made this was actually posted by uh Tech dreamer on
the Forum it's going to focus more on physical Goods like t-shirts and the
company will take a small cut of the campaign to cover the costs of its
platform I mean Reddit has so much potential they just have they have so
much mind share and they have such a large audience it's just I me don't know
that they're ever going to reddit.com intoit but they could turn spinoffs like
this spin-offs like this could be the future of of that company and and could
be the thing that allows them to really turn into a massively profitable company
daily gold Reddit Gold thing has been very helpful for them I believe and the
PC master racee in general actually the amount of gold that goes through that
subreddit is insane I don't know if you've ever seen that they're like one
of the most I think they are the or one of the most gilded subreddits like ever
and they're fairly small compared to other relative subreddits so I think
it's only around 250,000 members I'm not even sure but they're they're pretty
impressive in terms of helping out Reddit which is actually pretty cool to see so this is cool uh Project Ara just
got an update um there is a a real live
honest to goodness functioning test phone that boots into Android um Google
plans to hold its second AA Conference on January 14th so that's right around
CES time and uh here it is so there's a
this is on the phone blocks blog Project Ara update look at that
okay let's go ahead and actually skip to the part where we get to see it there we
go so you can oh dang it there we go so
don't move it hey hey hold still all right so you can see that the modules
are going to be different sizes here um
that's something that I think a lot of people were not hoping for they were
kind of hoping for just a grid based system on the back and you could
rearrange things Tetris style if you wanted to but I think that as a first
step this probably makes a ton of sense because not everything needs to be as
large as a battery or CPU and cooling module um but yeah look at that it boots
into Android so that happens uh hold on
there go that's really cool yeah and it's not as it's not as chunky here but
profile view hey it's not not chunky
yeah it's not not chunky but it's also not that big either but it's also not
nearly as chunky as I was expecting and given that we're not going to see a commercial produ product for another
generation or two of other smartphones
it could continue to catch up when is the release date for Project Ara I okay
hold on a second it could be sooner I
think I don't think they've actually January 2015 $50 no I think this was a
fairly fairly certain thing the $50 January 2013 thing or I mean January
2015 not 13 I'm in the past uh first
modular smartphone we'll call April 15
2014 okay well I don't I'm not okay if
it's the size that it is now I mean that doesn't actually look that much chunkier
than something like an Xperia Z2 I would be very very very excited to check this
one out and I will definitely order one yeah for sure uh announced today at the
Project Ara developers conference that it is the first modular smartphone will
go on sale in January 2015 for the low price of $50 and it will be a boring
grade design uh device by Design so to
get people to customize it themselves
interesting I don't know if that's still kind of the plan or what but yeah all
right so PS4 slim and Xbox One are both
or PS4 slim is Al is a rumored thing but the PS4 and the Xbox One are both
rumored to be getting Hardware upgrades
sometime in 2015 wow if that's not an admission of
failure I mean what what it's it's funny
the whole PC Master race thing is kind of funny to me now when a console is
just a PC in every possible
way yeah you still have to download a patch for your game on launch day yeah
regardless a PC or console version you're still going to need system
updates you're still probably going to need an update when they release these
new systems so that you can play older games at high resolutions and frame
rates yep you're going to have to actually look at the back of the at the
back of the disc case in order to find out which system it works for and you're
actually you're not just going to buy a box and have that work for you for five
or eight years or whatever else you're actually going to have to upgrade except
instead of dropping in a new graphics card once in a while now you get to buy
a completely new box and the real the
really scary thing about Xbox One and
PS4 and the owners for those consoles is
that unlike previous generation consoles
like the 360 and the PlayStation 3 which I think retains some value because of
their game Library an Xbox One and a PlayStation 4 what value will they have
what value does a console that now and now developers that whole argument of oh
it's easier to develop for the console because it's one piece of Hardware ha
now those two consoles are going to be four pieces of Hardware so these those
original launch consoles aren't going to have disadvantages like smaller onboard
hard drives or you know HD DVD or
whatever it's it's not going to be like that it's going to be like you're going to be running the same games as your
buddy with his Xbox One Gen 2 but at
crappier details just like on the
PC just like if you had an older PC and no one is going to want that thing and
then I'm still laughing off in the corner with my Wii U and my PC combo cuz
that's the way to go so there you go saying anyway it is Halloween today and
I am going trick-or-treating with my kids we got to do the build log so we're
doing the build log now and then we're good all right here you handle this no
it's super easy I want you to do it click on the click on the link uh no
what here you do it no no go back go back go back go back go back you can do
this you can do this I hate you I believe you actually the log there you
go uhhuh I want to show you how this works yeah cuz it'll work can I screen
share now uh I might want to wait till
it why is it not loading really easy
no it's really easy though it just there
okay and then why is it so slow you're
slow a that was mean hasht get wrecked
no you're you can full screen this once it
loads full screen you speaking of full
screen we're on full screen now we actually changed YouTube Network so uh
we're still going to be doing all did I mention this already I don't think so oh
okay I think you mentioned that you were going to in the Afterparty last week I
don't think everyone saw it I could be wrong okay well whatever we're still
going to live stream on Twitch we still love twitch they're good guys uh but
we're on full screen for YouTube now yeah okay so I'll full screen this I
will get us the truck out of the frame yes I want to allow it all right so this
is the voters pick this is is Mr tough 2.0 which you can probably see why it's
called that cuz it has a sabertooth Sabertooth tough series motherboard
carbide a540 yeah 90 Gig Kingston hyperx that's
an older W and a 240 gig yeah lots of
water cooling gear so this is a progress shot oh very nice Definitely progress
shot keep going now it looks totally different
whoa that's a cool that's like carbon
fiber camo dig camo cool like thing
actually yeah the only thing I I do really like it overall the only thing I
was like what was the cable sleeving cuz everything is like even the rings on the
fans are green and all the tubing is green and then the motherboard's all
crazy and stuff and the cable sleeving is like there was an opportunity to do
camo sleeving here yes definitely that's the only thing it's amazingly cool
computer I love what he did with it love that love that this matches the inside
over here super super cool I really like
it I think you would just escape to get out of it and then there's one more then
there's the staff pick and the the the procedure is the same all right so I
wait for the slowest balls supposedly
easy to use sight to load here there we go that was a little bit better that one
was a lot faster all right so this is AR there you go AR of the Covenant by
IIM this is the staff pick you know they should remake r ERS with The Arc of the
Covenant being like Halo
themed no they shouldn't it's a different Covenant mind you but it's
funny because both of those things work but they should really not do that wow I
love this dual zons 64 gig SSD but then
three 120 gig ssds yeah two 7870 Hawk
editions so I'm thinking gaming is a lower priority than
crunching wow didn't expect that small of the case wow that is very cool so
this is in the beginning uhhuh some
tweaks liking it liking them them Tracer
memory modules all that
blue wow what a sexy rig super nice Lee
and Lee does such a great job of the designs of their cases y we actually
have a review for a PC q19 uh lean Lee
case coming out this uh this week
and I was I was I love the Aesthetics of
it I love the design but the performance of it is just not there I make some
suggestions though in terms of tweaks for the case that I want to see made and
I really hope that either lean Lee or maybe Silverstone I have some hope for
Silverstone or Cooler Master the ones that I originally pitched this idea to I
hope someone makes the case that I'm asking for because I think we could do a
fully custom ITX gaming rig in a case
the size of a PS four if we do it right y with a couple of expension D you've
been talking about that for a little while yeah uh yeah for a little while
for a little while I've been talking about that I really do want that to
happen yeah I completely agree all right
so I I I don't know here's I guess uh one really cool uh one really cool
update um EVGA has just confirmed that
they have shipped us uh GTX 980
classified so we will have a video coming out about that uh this is great
they figure out of the box the card should do around 15 70 MHz so see out of
the box yep and with some tweaks they figure
16600 plus that'll be fun I'm excited to
play with that that's cool yeah yeah so so yeah that should be that should be
pretty good also we are are we are already talking to other manufacturers
about doing more factory tours so a lot of you guys loved the cherrymx factory
tour we have the Sennheiser one coming still so it was uh cherry and Sennheiser
that sponsored us to to be over there and to do those factory tours I mean
honestly like between between you guys and me and the wall we did not make
money on the trip no so it was just a
matter of we had to pay for flights I had to pay for people to like work for
me and be there and stuff but but the company didn't didn't pull a profit on
that trip I just thought it would could be like a really cool experience and potentially really cool content it was
more of an experiment and we have heard you guys you you have spoken you want
more factory tours so we're talking to a couple of companies based in with their
manufacturing based in Taiwan about potentially doing some more we're trying
to like bundle up trips because then it makes a lot more financial sense yes
it's really hard to justify going somewhere individual trip every time one
company no so if we can get two or three on board then it becomes less of a
burden for the sponsors to pay for all of our travel expenses and all that and
it becomes more sensible for us to be out of the office for a week to you know
create more than one video hopefully yes
so lots of exciting stuff coming also we've got videos um oh mineral oil video
two is going to be coming next week so stay tuned for that and we will
hopefully do mineral oil three next week hopefully we'll film
mineral oil 3 next week yeah so that we keep it kind of rolling I'm hoping to
film x99 overclocking guide next week as well actually we've got lots of great
stuff coming over the next little bit the mother board vide
y I don't know when those will be ready right but yeah do you want to talk about
what you're working on though and should we do this in after party okay L show's
over bye I'm going to take this hat off cuz
it's making my nose itchy that made sense it's these things
yeah are you sure your nose is ity
because where you going with that