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terrible all right so we got a bunch of great topics today digital distribution
reigned Supreme in the PC market so in other words nothing has changed ever
also valve is the most desirable employer in the gaming industry because
nothing has has changed ever various ddr4 pricing news will be coming later
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think so very nice he sent me a YouTube link and was like hash slick hash slick
that's how it's going to be all right so speaking of how it's going
to be how it's always been and how it forever will be I think that was the
first thing I said but if you don't think about it too hard it won't make
your brain hurt valve is the number one
most desirable employer in the gaming
industry they surveyed 2,200 companies and people even ranked
uh working for valve above having their own
company oh man that's kind of well to be
clear having your own company ain't all it's cracked up to be but having your
own company always gets rated extremely highly does it usually yeah in almost
all Industries it gets rated pretty highly this is something I didn't know so this was a survey with 2200 game devs
this was posted on the Forum by lots of in unexplainable I think you're looking
for the word inexplicable unexplainable
I think technically that is grammatically correct I think so okay
well lots of unexplainable lag any anyway thank you for posting it on the
Forum however much your username has confused me sorry carry on um yeah I
think like in in a wide set of Industries having your own companies
rated very highly but then you also have to remember that this is coming from people that haven't run their own
company right yeah right so that's a
thing so as someone who has run their own company there are
benefits however it's not like I have a
hard time selling people on coming to work for me because I think that they
understand that it's not all just
benefits like like my both my parents have ran their own companies I did for a
very small period of time and I know you're running one right now and it's
it's it's yeah it's not easy there are good things about it there are
definitely good things about it I set my own hours but that's also one of the
worst things about it because you set because to to be very successful you
kind of need to set very large amount of hours I think there's this there's this
weird assumption that as a CEO you could just be like well I'm going to take 876
days of vacation like George Bush did in his term but um I think what it actually
turns into is you end up working usually double hours for like almost every week
yeah and I mean the thing too though is if you have a fantastic team that's able
to support you like I was able to take a week off where I was pretty much
completely unplugged for the birth of my new baby girl um if you have that then
that's great but most self-employed people work really long and really hard
in order to get to that point so I mean I I was lucky to be able to do it for a
week for me to take a two- week vacation it's probably going to be a little while
longer I'm going to have to add some more staff and so it's one of those
things where you can have a very small business like I've crunched the numbers
I've I've been honest with you guys about this I've crunched the numbers
what kind of money could I make as a YouTuber with my kind of following just
like like me and a chess tripod pumping
out videos that are completely unedited you know what I could pay myself a lot
more like multiples more but that's not
really the point because if you're trying to build a sustainable business
you have to invest and you have to spend a lot of money on people who can support
the business and actually help to grow it if you get really good people so
that's the thing that every business owner has to struggle with and you look
at you look at any industry so let's look at the gaming industry like an
indie dev has to decide crazy hours do I work crazy stupid hours to make the game
myself from scratch or do I pay crazy
money to build this team that then I'm
banking on being able to pay back and then you have all that stress and then
you're not sleeping anyway so it's it's not it's not the best thing ever even
though there are definitely benefits and I know Indie devs that have gone both
ways so I don't know
I do know that as well
actually all righty then now to be clear
valve internal structure is not universally praised I mean I don't think
anyone complains about the snack room but like no no no I think our snack room
isn't exactly amazing I actually have an upgrade to our snack room coming yes
it's a gumball machine that legitimately works but you have to put money in it oh
no of course oh man of course it was mine when I was
a kid my aunt brought it over to my house and I was just like oh sweet I
think it takes quarters okay yeah I had a uh my neighbor at one point in time
had this like old school pot machine that you had to put money into mhm but
then he had just cut a hole so the money just fell back out yeah that's not going
to happen I know great idea though I like the way you think now the gumball
machine that we got from super fun is broken to the point where to get
gumballs out of it you just take the top off reach in and pull gumballs out and
then put the top back on not very secure I wish I hadn't invested in that gumball
machine okay now to be clear guys not everything is perfect there they don't
have like a hierarchical hierarchy yeah
um but there's there's like the I don't
know what they exactly call it but there's like obviously Gabe is kind of
leading things and he has his his like right hand leftand kind of group of
people which he kind of has lead other people it's just it's not like a very
cleancut extreme structure but it's also not completely flat so it's been
criticized as being a little bit like high school because there will tend to
be people staking out their own claims and clicks and and stuff like that
although I mean there's some great stuff you know you there are no shareholders
it is a privately held company so you don't have to ship something unless you're happy with it um there's also the
fact that you can take as much vacation time as you want which sounds kind of
like being self-employed because that's just another way of saying you know we
have this loose culture where you can work however hard you want but like
other people are going to be working hard so you can just get fired it's
almost like a peer pressure system as opposed to just and I'm sure it'll come
down to like if you have some super crazy awesome trip you can be like oh
hey cool this is great and a lot of people are going to know what you're doing and you go do that and come back
and then work hard again as long as you continue to work hard it's probably fine
and the high school thing I think anytime you ever even try to have any
amount of a flat structure you're going to run with this many employees you're
going to run into that type of a situation I think anytime you try to add
more than a half a dozen employees to a company never mind the structure you're
going to end up with high school or daycare or both like have you ever
worked at a big box store of any sort ever it's just an extension of high
school it doesn't even matter how old the people are that worked there it's
just an extension of high school Best Buy was my best example for that I used
to work in Geek Squad when I was like really young I was in like grade 10 I
think I started working in Geek Squad and and yeah the whole store is just an
extension of high school it's redonkulous um so yeah again nothing has
really changed here Val has always been that like everyone wants to go work
there because it's awesome company and they're not EA woo
um and like cool they did a study about it but the yeah this has been this has
been known for a very long time so it's not exactly new I got a straw pull for
you guys want to hear from you what is your workplace like
so I'm going to hit up the hit up the twitch chat with this bad boy we'll run
that while we do our next topic here what do you
think spam spam spam I don't think we're
very high school like I mean part of it is that it's how you defend the I mean I
think it's how you define the High School Lake thing okay we're kind of
High School Lake and that we're very casual yeah but we all get along which
is not I think the connotation of high school like is the clicks and the
fighting and the the clicks and the pettiness I don't think we're very Petty
no I think we have the I think we might have some features of a possible High
School label though yeah there's like
the the Friday after work when everyone kind of like groups up in the main room
and just talks about like random crap I don't know right but I think we're more
that that bottom one which no one is voting for yeah mature cohesive and
teamwork focused yeah dog all right what's our next topic uh pretty much
some of the same whereas nothing things ever changed which is digital
distribution finally Reigns the PC market I think we've all kind of known
this for a long time even in the article they talk about how in Rec as recently
as 2010 there was only 48% of the game purchases were made digitally isn't that
amazing that's half in 2010 apparently it is now 92% as of
2013 it's not even 2013 anymore it was 92% and you know what you don't have to
be a crazy amazing mathematician to figure out that these are really big
numbers so you look at okay you look at a studio you look at someone like
Microsoft or did I say micos sorry
Ubisoft I got a lot of hate going on on Microsoft uh in this episode so maybe
you'll be you'll be catching more that so you look at something like someone like Ubisoft and how they're looking at
okay well 133% or whatever it was we talked about this last week are 17% I
think it was let's say about 15% and head our bets um so over a tenth of
their overall business was PC gaming
then you look at that and you go okay well ubisoft's a public company you can
look up exactly how much revenue they had in a given year so then you kind of
go okay well Ubisoft makes up whatever slice of the overall gaming industry
that there is and wow holy crap are we ever talking about
a lot of hundreds of millions of dollars that has shifted to digital and
so kind of a really big deal um one one
thing that I have to say about this though time yeah yeah is that they're
saying as like as recently as 2010 only 48 only 48% of the PC game purchases
were made digitally that only is kind of hilarious but yeah I know right uh even
since then and before then it got to the point where it was difficult to buy PC
games physically y like there was there's been a lot of stuff where there
was no option well you like to buy gamesys I and I try and it's been hard
since before 2010 and now it's n impossible for a lot of different games
in the last 10 years actually it's it's kind of neat cuz I'm coming up on 10
years of having known my wife so I can kind of like I can say okay I can talk I
can talk about a 10year period very easily when I met her and we'd go to the
mall it was entertaining for me to go to the EB Games and browse while she went
and shopped yeah in that time it's gone
from it actually PC gaming made up a significant chunk of the store to PC
gaming is like one side of one unit and
it's like it might not even be so
they'll have the latest title and they'll have a few copies of that on an endcap and then they'll have like some
copies of like Starcraft too Cod and blizzard yeah or they'll have like like
whatever some staple type games and then
that's it yeah so they kind of did it to themselves on the other hand I can
understand where they're not stocking it if it's not selling so yeah but then
yeah that's like I there's it's not even just places like EB Games though because
I think a lot of different gaming companies are straight up just not releasing physical copies of the games
it's not like EB Games is specifically trying not to or GameStop or whatever is
trying not to stock these things I think they might not even have an option which
is kind of frustrating yeah it's not like something like uh you know a Humble
Bundle is realistically going to have a physical exactly or a lot of Indie Games
in general which are becoming a really big thing recently or stuff like league
and uh DOTA which is brought up in here a lot where a lot of purchases are going
towards stuff like league and in-game micro style transactions which are
getting calculated into this percentage number even though they're not actually
a like a discr sale yeah you bought this
game it's not that but it's still being calculated in this number which it should be that makes sense but yeah I
don't know I I feel like it was forced into this position I know there's a lot
of people that do prefer the digital distribution style but I think people
like me who want physical copies I'm raising my donger too you just can't
tell you can tell that I rose mine
um awesome uh so I I think people like
me that actually want physical games were kind of forced out of being able to
buy them but you guys are basically dumb
so yeah I mean there are legitimate reasons to need physical games slow
internet connections you know guys in Australia not that they can buy games at
all because they come out you know however many months later it's like Australia I screwed and then screwed
again screwed some more when I used to live with my parents it made a lot of sense cuz we didn't have an amazing
internet connection so it was actually a lot faster to just drive to the freaking
store and drive back right like it's it just was um but that being said a lot of
games now you you go to the store and you come back you put the disc in it's like okay download it yeah I know
download this how big was the patch for
um 50 sorry 50 gigs you're talking about
Cod yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah no there was another one that we installed
recently it was a PC game and it had something like a six gig patch was it
Battlefield 4 there was like a day one or day two
patch I remember can't remember might have Battlefield 4 yeah it's ridiculous
I know Titanfall was Titanfall is 50 gigs yeah so I get that I get that yeah
um all right so what's our what's our next topic here um more news about high
prices of ddr4 yeah oh should I go get our ddr4 oh no we already showed that
last week anyway uh we have other ddr4 but it might be on a test bench
he doesn't he means like he laid it on yeah that's what I mean I I didn't say
anything about having a motherboard and a ddr4 compatible CPU course just
sitting on the test bench mind you if you were to you know type anything about
ddr4 into Google well whatever I'm reading all the same rumors you guys are
reading right of course so anyway Australian site PC case gear and UK site
scan. co.uk both release pre-order prices on some Corsair ddr4 products
including their new vengeance series as well as Dominator Platinum so we are
looking at pricing that is double digits
percentages more expensive than
DDR3 however and this was originally posted on the Forum by blueprint um
there's another article that spins it in a bit of a different way and this was
originally posted by Luca and it's from overclock
3D G skill they're rip Jaws for 3,000
mahz ddr4 kit which may or may not be on
one of my test benches laying on it yeah laying on it that exact in the package
still because there's obviously nothing to put in it is actually going to be
priced pretty similarly to a 3,000 MHz
DDR3 kit to which I kind of go okay well
that's cool because at least those hyper overclock DDR3 kits that hardcore
enthusiasts who want lots of cores on their CPU for example uh might have been
inclined to go towards anyway at least
those will be fairly similar although I could also make a lot of arguments for
us not really needing 3,000 MHz DDR3
kits in the first place and we've made those videos so anyway the G skill one
is priced at 360 Great Britain pounds whereas 8 gig kits of DDR3 at that speed
are 320 Great Britain pounds so there
you go um I I don't think that really
applies to a ton of people but it is interesting to see that maybe there
isn't the most massive price hike ever
and to people looking at it going okay yeah they run it the same frequency but
the ddr4 kit is going to have looser timings something that a little bird
told me is that primary timings might
not be as much of a concern with ddr4
and we might be looking at a situation where actually playing around with
secondary timings called so because they're not the they're not the main
five timings of a DDR memory module but rather they're more about inter inter
dim communication and that kind of stuff those secondary timings May or sorry did
I say inter intra um those secondary timings may actually end up being very
very important and something that the maker won't really be able to advertise
in the traditional sense so we're either going to see memory manufacturer shift
towards giving us a much deeper set of
timings when they spec out their RAM or people might just end up being pretty
confused for a bit here so there you go
it's going to be pretty interesting although that is still no matter how
much you want to say like oh yeah well this kid compared to this ridiculous kid
is actually not that bad of a deal still way too expensive for me I will jump on
that bandwagon much further in the future did you okay have you been an
early adopter to any memory Tech no I
waited for DDR3 I waited for ddr2 cuz
the first DDR3 platform was what LGA
1366 no the first DDR3 platform was 775
but it made no sense at that point I think this is the first time in a while
actually that we haven't seen a single socket have multiple memory platform
compatibility because it's always been this early stages very expensive time
period has been at a time when it doesn't really make any sense to buy it
anyway because it performs the same and it's on a chip that was really designed
for the previous technology yeah cuz I had dominators on 775 which were ddr2
yeah cuz moving from ddr1 to ddr2 um
when AMD was really the Enthusiast platform of choice we did get new SKS
and we did get a new socket but we didn't actually get a microarchitecture
update right so it was the same performance you could just pay more for
memory or not pay more for memory and
that that series of processors was very dependent on latency so DDR one
performed really well in the real world aside from you know just running memory
band with Ben the ddr1 to ddr2 change was the most hilarious yeah and then
ddr2 to DDR3 no I think ddr2 to DDR3 was
pretty stupid because basically that was the p45 days when pretty much Gigabyte
or ASUS or whoever would have like the motherboard for ddr2 and then the
motherboard for DDR 3 this one would be like $100 more not faster less stable
because early DDR3 was bad I saw more
people blindly adopting ddr2 than I saw people blindly adopting DDR3 well they
probably got burned when ddr2 was bad
probably I mean DDR ddr2 that was that
was the N4 680i days like that was when
the problem was the chipset was bad like the Enthusiast chipset of choice was
terrible and the memory was just not
validated properly like I remember ocz
SL sticks of memory putting them into
680i boards they were only supposed to
work in one board and they wouldn't work I used to
hate how they did naming at that time frame with like SLI and all that kind of
stuff it's like go away speaking of
which uh both ocz and using existing
branding to uh try to sell completely
unrelated products great segue thank you
uh here we go oh I got the whole dock up here this was originally posted by
brainless 9906 on the Forum and AMD is
planning to uh well not planning to they're planning to sell I guess they
have already released their AMD ssds so
they're calling these the r7240 or something like that I remember
it being funny because when my review sample arrived the box was labeled r7240
and then the description was video card because a lot of these companies when
they fill out their invoices they just have a standard one that they put kind
of no matter what they're shipping so it just says video kard I'm like why would
they send me an r7240 uh but actually it was an R S Series SSD
so it's based on the ocz Barefoot 3
controller it's got some tashiba 19 nanometer class nand on it um there are
a few reviews out basically it's um it's
an SSD it's not terribly expensive it does come with a 4year warranty it's
more expensive than 84 Evo it is a little bit
faster um it comes with a cloning
software to me this is this is kind of one of those things where I look at it
and go if you were really determined to build like an AMD outed
system then you could buy this and it
would be fine there's nothing wrong with it there's nothing wrong with the Barefoot 3 controller truthfully it's
just it's it's boring yeah it's another
commodity SSD at this point I feel like we don't really need another SSD player
we have a number of very strong SSD players don't yeah we kind of don't have
another SSD player because nothing on this is actually manufactured or
designed by AMD I understand why they might want to get into the market that
way I mean that's how ocz did it they went from rebranding indel links and
sandforce controllers to designing their own IP and their own controller by
acquiring indel links mind you but but they still did it um and you look at
even companies like Intel where sometimes they design their own controller sometimes they just write a
firmware but they're always using their own flash you look at guys like SanDisk
where they use their own flash they actually Fab flash so even though
they're using someone else's controller they're contributing something they made in this case AMD is coming in very late
contributing nothing that they've actually designed or manufactured and um the pricing is fine
it's just not going to be you can never compete with someone like Samsung who is
fully integrated where they're taking the margin on the flash manufacturing
they're taking the margin on the controller manufacturing they're taking
any margin that would exist in terms of a software license and they're taking
the margin on the finished drive that they put in a box and deliver to the
customer so at every level they're taking their margin so how was AMD
supposed to compete with that yeah I don't know I just I was
fairly underwhelmed because they had all that all that hype build for this well
the hype might be for something else as well I'm not sure I think they have a
live stream scheduled this week weekend although it's at 700 a.m. my time so
they were like lonus are you going to tune in I'm like no was the live stream
for this weekend for the star seon thing though I don't know I don't think we can
say what the live stream this weekend is for I know what it's for don't try
trying to trying to God we have to like play into the
rumors that are out there okay what's what are the rumors there was a tweet
for let me see if I can find it oh jeez
I thought you were going to like break our NDA oh man okay Chris Roberts
no I don't know where the Tweet is but someone from AMD was like you should
watch because stars is in news oh okay so I was like oh
mantle cuz that's probably what that is maybe I don't know we already know stard
is getting we already know that okay sure
but like what else is going to be in the Star news right and the the start season
actually getting mantled I think it's been moderately up in the air I don't
know if it was 100 % confirmed no I think it's it's a confirmed title yeah
yeah yeah yeah it doesn't have it yet but it's confirmed that it will at some
point although with AMD releasing
everything to the openg Kronos group I
don't know how much sense mantle will make by that time Star Citizen actually
comes out anyway by the time star s actually comes
out the the year
2070 all right so uh other AMD news that
is actually much more exciting hosted by Tech fnatic who is our resident AMD news
poster is that Richard H AMD's gaming
wait didn't we talk about this last week I don't think so oh okay well if we
just in case we didn't or just in case we did we'll cover it but we'll do it
pretty quickly we might have so free sync is going to be looking at a very
minimal cost for monitor manufacturers could be between $10 and $20 in total
cost although something to understand guys is that $10 to $20 of cost the
general rule is by the time the end user
actually holds that product it's going to be about double that so you have to
understand that their retailer is going to want their margin the manufacturer is
going to want their margin um the you know MDF program that they have with
whoever is going to want their margin they're going to build in some extra margin for people to return the product
because now it's a more expensive product that people might return and they might not be able to do anything
with it so all those things we're looking at about double of a bomb cost
typically so there you go so it'll add anywhere
between 20 and 40 bucks so here's the tweet it was from AMD Radeon it says we
know you're excited about star in from Robert Space Industries you'll want to
tune in to Ash amd3 live tomorrow Billy
link oh okay cool so I just yeah I don't
know so anyway the exciting thing about it is that we could be looking at
freesync monitors that are sampling next month and could arrive to consumers in
early 2015 which compared to g-sync
which is here now um is kind of unfortunate but is not as long as I
thought it might take so if you were looking to hold out sort of a little bit
longer as opposed to you know another nine months to a year then you're in
luck especially with um how kind of slowly graphic technolog is coming out
so if you're pretty good right now you're probably pretty good for a while
y all right what do else one of your three monitors I know you're going to be
excited about those yeah so this was posted by notional on the Forum and LG
is unveiling three new monitors a couple
of which uh well one of which gets me really excited one of which gets his
panties pretty wet and the other one of which is almost there yeah for both of
us all right so the original article on gur 3D why don't I do the one that I
like sure so that monitor that I love
ever so much the 9534 I can't even remember the model
number because I 3495 is what I think it is
they are going to be releasing what looks like pretty much a curved version
of that now curved displays we've actually done the fast as possible on
this before they don't make sense in every context in fact a lot of the time
they're basically stupid you should not be buying a 42 in or even I'd say a 50in
curved TV for your living room because unless you are a forever alone and you
only watch TV by yourself always the
problem is that a curved TV is going to deliver a slightly better viewing
experience for someone in the sweet spot but an actually worse one for anyone
who's outside of it and a flat TV is going to be a better bet in that case
however once a display gets large enough that multiple people can fit in the
sweet spot so to speak cram them in there um it starts to make sense now
with a monitor a you don't have to worry about multiple viewers very often so
that threshold for when a display is big enough is going to be more easily
achievable and for number two this is
big enough 34 in sometimes I feel
sitting in front of my monitor at work like a slight curvature would be really
nice so it's 3440 by 1440 I think it's 6
milliseconds of uh response time so pretty much the same as the other one
nothing special with respect to what they're claiming about input leg or
anything like that so I'm not expecting it to be amazing for gaming the way that
the 29in one is a little bit better than the existing 34 in one but uh very
exciting from a productivity standpoint and for gamers who are more interested
in the immersion I personally in spite of our recent surround gaming build
guide I personally find a larger wider
screen without bezels more immersive than bezels and you'll notice I said
very carefully in that video if you're into this then this is the ultimate
setup but for me personally I'd rather have a single screen I've also never
really been into that like multi mon surround gaming thing it makes sense
I've seen it in some situations especially for flight Sims yeah or
driving like simulators where those well those
Windows aren't it's not even necessarily a curve those are dedicated to Windows
in the vehicle yeah and if you're supposed to be in a cockpit anyway
what's another you know support structure or whatever for the glass
right like I'm okay with that but first person it doesn't do much for me yeah me
Nei so the next one is a 31 mu 997 31 in
true 4k monitor the only thing that should clarify what
true 4K means I was just going to jump into that it's were you GNA jump
in it's 496 by 2160 which I believe is
like 19
by10 that's what it stated on Wikipedia okay so I I was kind of hoping for 16 by
10 um but you know it's all good close enough and that's kind of the resolution
that I've been waiting for for a long time so excited for that the only thing
that kind of gets me slightly worried about this is um the fact that it's 31
in I know you have experience with really really large monitors but I'm not
necessarily sure if I'm ready to jump that high considering I use 24in
monitors but something I have been thinking about for quite a while is getting a really big monitor in the
middle of my setup and then setting my two current 24-in monitors into vertical
mode on the side you know it's it's funny you bring that up because I by the
way that aspect ratio is apparently 256 to
135 and that's rounded to the nearest hold number or
something so
yeah I don't know if that's right anyway the point
is width and height yeah I think I answered it right what were we saying
right so size of monitor when I originally went 30in and I used a 30-in
monitor for a few years um a Samsung 2560
x600 um I I liked it a lot there was an
adjustment period moving to it and like
I got used to how big that one again that was a 30 so I got used to it but
you know what I've since gone down to 27
in 16x9 and I never miss my 30 in I never
miss the extra screen real estate once I'm at 1440 tall when at 1080 tall I
don't like it and I would rather have an older 16 by10 aspect ratio or even even
a maybe even a square one compared to that I don't like 16 by9 small wide me
neither which is why I've been sitting on 16 X10 for so long and I'd be okay
with going bigger than 24 I just don't know if 31 is 27 is a really nice place
to be for a single monitor setup and honestly if I was running multi monitor
I would prefer 24 yeah so that that's
but that's why I've been thinking about that that one large one in the middle
and then possibly the two verticals on the side you know what I really want to
do as a project because yeah I mean okay with
both of us the big issue with multim monitor is the bezels but there are a
lot of monitors where you can strip them
down and you can take all the plastic stuff away and end up with very very
thin bezels because the bezel is effectively there to protect it a lot of
the time so if it's just going to sit on your desk forever there's no reason not to remove it I'd be I'd be interested to
do like a project build where we strip down three monitors use our ergotech
stand and see if that helps it's not a
bad idea just kind of sit in front of it and take it in and decide for what
exactly though because I think I still think first person kind of style is
still going to be messed up and I still think that kind of cockpit driving style
is still going to be awesome I don't think you're going get away from that
because of the wrapping right because you're going to get the weird warping effects on the far
side of the screen where things are on a really weird angle they're stretched and
they move too quickly I mean if games had better support for it I think I'd
feel better about it like if we were if if if basically you could set up the
game where it's like look here are my three camera angles I want it to look
like I'm turning my head this way as opposed to looking like you know the
scene is made of silly putty when you yeah yeah exactly if there was better
support I think it would be really cool but it just like super
breaks in most games that you put it in so unless you're willing to put a fair
bit of work into it and then a lot of the time you can fix it yep if you
utilize all these little custom tools and then there's the last monitor which
is like almost super cool it's the 24 GM 77 that's a 144 Hertz gaming monitor
with Dynamic action sync which drastically reduces input leg apparently
so they're saying less than 1 Mond response time includes a black stabilizer and motion
240 but does not seem to include
adaptive syn or gsync I am at a point now where I don't
know how I would feel about investing in an expensive gaming monitor that doesn't
have g-sync we actually have a review upcoming of Ben's XL 2410 something to
our 2411 something and we'll have to
like basically uh I think Luke's going to be doing that one that was what we had discussed I think so yeah so so what
I've done is I've handed Luke our gsync
uh engineering sample ASUS monitor and the Ben q and the analysis is going to
be look if gsync costs another hundred
bucks is it worth it to invest in a high
refresh rate monitor that doesn't have gsync at this point and I think that's
really going to be the angle yeah I haven't gotten that ASUS one from
you yet yeah I gave it to you it's on
your desk in there you complained about the power adapter oh yeah I was using it
for something else I didn't realize that was like to take and go compare things
with yeah okay cool yeah go to town I was using that for uh the mouse right
g42 right to see how smooth it was and stuff you know what that monitor has uh
like a g-sync module in it and I know NVIDIA has the like the the layout for
how to make a harness to hook it up to the ASUS 32
4K if I can get one of those harnesses from them I am so doing a Frankenstein
Project and 4king GS syncing that monitor that would be really cool yeah
then I'll bring all the other monitors back to the office and I won't need an upgrade for years perfect do that so you
stop stealing every monitor we ever get yeah the r Swift home so fast godone
never saw it again I never actually saw it running
from CES when I first saw it I was like it's okay and then when I got it on the
desk actually using it I took the PA off
especially stuff like monitors it's hard to get a proper first impression when
you're at a show at a show is terrible because the lighting is whatever the lighting is and you've got like four
minutes of whatever demo they're running like it just is not the right it's not
the right context to have a proper experience often that demo is running
because it's like repeatable or easy to maintain instead of being the best thing
like because a boo babe can fix it if it's broken yeah no that's what I mean
like it's it's not they're not going to have catastrophes on the floor where they have to show you that you're
they're running a PC instead of an
Xbox that's what a lot of them are going to be tuned towards uh want to
rant uh oh man you know what why don't
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the show I honestly I expect a lot of what the show is going to be is running
around to different motherboard manufacturers checking out something specific
um no more information hopefully that's
what's going to happen um we're going to be just like we've been doing for shows
for a while now that's probably really loud why is that so loud I don't know
sorry about that um just like we've been doing for shows for a while now when it's a gaming show we we will be
releasing a bulk of it as actually Hardware stuff a lot of the hardware
guys are going to these gaming shows because they want to show people that are gaming their Hardware kind of
totally makes sense I want to show people my Hardware I always show people my Hardware um
so so yeah we'll be checking out a lot of that kind of stuff we'll also be
checking out gaming stuff um I'm trying to get in contact with blizzard but it
doesn't really seem to be working so we probably won't have any Warlords or drain or stuff from Blizzard's watching
hey hello we're a thing than you um
we'll probably have an indie Mega Booth Roundup video that's been seeming to
work well lately instead of a whole bunch of individual indie games we'll just do one like top five things that I
saw well walking through the Indie Mega booth and I'll be down there for
Saturday Saturday so I'll be around on the show floor on Saturday so if you run
into me come say hi hopefully not when I'm in the middle of filming something
thank you hang out and so we wanted to give a big thanks to
hyperx for actually enabling us to be there so I'm just going to screen show
you guys for a second they they actually they've been asking us a lot lately to
kind of draw attention to their hyperx YouTube channel and I was like yeah okay
we can do that and you know because a lot of the time manufacturer YouTube
channels are really not that great but
they've actually got some pretty interesting stuff going on here right
now I don't know if you've actually checked it out I have but social blade
is my kind of ultimate uh haven't checked their social creeper thing and
check this out they've gained 20,000 subscribers in the last 30 days they
have 42,000 subscribers total they are growing Crazy Fast right now actually
yeah and they're putting out a lot of a lot of content that I think will be
really interesting to people like where are these uh they had some interviews
that are like a quarter million views like check this out uh where did it go
yeah here we go I'm a CutiePie 282,000 views and it's it's such a simple format
it's like it's 20 questions and they're like the simplest things like there's
questions about his hair like it's not it's kind of casual it's it's pretty
cool and I was like oh these guys are actually doing YouTube kind of right
yeah most manufacturers really don't get it it's like yeah we want to put all of
our ads on our YouTube and they have some ads on their YouTube channel too to
be very clear we even made a couple of them but I I'm not surprised though
because when we went to go check out their head offices for E3 I got that
vibe from their hyperx tour thing that we got to go through checking out like
their gaming room and stuff it was like okay yeah they're actually kind of
focused on making something awesome so guys um yeah so thanks to hyperx for
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good things all right so time for uh I
kind of want to start like a rant segment for Linus Tech tips cuz there's
some stuff that I could just that I could just do and this isn't we kind of do this isn't quite that bad this is
more like a a square peg round hole type thing as opposed to something that's
just uniformly terrible we don't call it a ranch segment but like Beats by 50
that was pretty rany streets by 50 my bad um so yeah you guys probably
recognize my daily driver phone the HTC1
M8 whoa Windows Phone wow I didn't know
about that um so now there a there's an HTC1 M8 Windows phone edition it's a
Verizon exclusive right now although I saw a rumor that Sprint's going to be
picking it up as well which has only caused a little bit of trouble for me I
had to program my APN manually and then I had to contact HTC directly because
Verizon customer support wouldn't do it for me um in order to get internet
tethering enabled on the phone I'm like look I got my phone working everything's
cool everything's fine I just need you guys to because I'm not on your network
so I I don't see why you would care if I internet tether I need you guys to like
come out of the Stone Age and turn that crap on on my phone thanks dog and
they're like oh yeah we actually can't do that because um you know you're not a
Verizon subscriber I'm like well I can't be a Verizon subscriber I'm in Canada do
you have service up here no I didn't think so so can I give you the Sim
information for the Sim that came in it or the IMEI for the phone um so so sir
you know the the reason that you're having a bad experience with the device
is because you know you're getting these headaches because it's not a Verizon uh
Network device and it's or it is a Verizon network device and you're not in
the Verizon network look I don't care I'm not going to be a Verizon customer I
don't live there turn the feature on and
then I so HTC ended up being able to take that care of that for me but sorry
Verizon rant over uh dri W thank you for posting this in the Forum uh we have
some details about it obviously cuz I'm working on my review for it but it is
pretty much exactly the same Hardware as the 1 I made Android edition there are
some changes the radio is slightly different so it supports fewer
frequencies which because it's a Verizon exclusive device I guess that makes
sense maybe they were able to cost it down fraction of a couple of pennies or
whatever that would work out too in that way um and you know you fire it up and
it's it's it's the the Windows Phone experience do they have the same problem
with the glass on the camera I don't know I don't know if that's been
resolved um I just I know I know some
people would care about that so I'm not really sure yeah it's really hard to say when it's
brand new but I'll be using it for at least a couple weeks to get a really
good impression of what's going on with this phone because I I want to be fair
to it but I'm running into a lot of
issues and they're not related to the 1 M8 the 1 M8 is a fantastic piece of
Hardware this is a great device I love it the problem is that I really don't
feel like Windows Phone The Experience scales for an Enthusiast I feel like for
basic functionality text messages email
phone navigation Once you pull the crappy Verizon Navigator off and put on
a real one um which you can find for free in the in the store I I feel like
it's fine for all that but if you're actually trying to do anything on it
there's just how and it's it's just it's
little stuff like okay um there's no
Hangouts client like really I use Hangouts every day that
sucks it's like super crappy so you have
you're going to have to get ready for a lot of workflow changes that you're not
going to be accustomed to even if you've done the Android iOS switch before like
I actually switched to iOS recently I've been using my iPhone 5s for a couple
weeks now just because I'm getting ready for the iPhone 6 to drw
and I want to be somewhat familiar with the platform so I'm not just figuring
out iOS again when the time comes to review that device and going from
Android to iOS these days is pretty seamless dropping on to Windows phone
man there's nothing like the Instagram clients of beta like Gmail has no like
and we're talking Google services so obviously there's not a whole lot there
like but Gmail has no native Native
client so you can use the uh so you can use the buil-in one but then you're
going to have just that stuff that feels very Stone Age like notifications that
are sitting on your phone for emails that you already checked on a PC because
they don't go away because it doesn't work that way when you're not just using
Google's client um I actually I'm going to cover this in much more depth in the
actual video where actually throughout my time using it I'm going to be
creating a list of apps I looked for and found and apps I looked for and didn't
find and some of those apps I looked for and didn't find are going to be pretty
spectacular like one of the things that I hate about it is the keyboard and I
was like just you know curiosity um does cuz like look how much of the screen the
keyboard takes up whoa when it's when it's got predictive text on there it's
up to here what's with the stuff on the bottom I can't see the side uh that's
send attachment oh voice a lot of space
yeah it takes up a lot of space and you can make the navigation bar go away in the bottom but you use it so often
you're going to want it most of the time anyway so I wanted to change the
keyboard and I was like oh I wonder if there's swift key so I looked it up and
it turns out that the only things that come up for swift key are outright scams
one of them has seven onestar reviews
going back to about three weeks ago
saying this is a scam it's a $1 link to
the SwiftKey website oh yeah like just
bad like it's not even a terrible
keyboard like wallpaper that looks like a keyboard like they didn't even do
anything it's just a link and Microsoft hasn't removed this from the store and I
think that the same problem this Segways into our next topic I know but I'm not
going to let you do it just yet so I think my problem with the 1 M8 Windows
phone edition is effectively HTC has done their best here
their camera app is is as easy to use as the window or as the Android version
they've actually got blink feed as a live tile so you can still use blink
feed if you're into that which I've actually started using more lately oh it
still has double tap to wake so there you go like it's it's the 1 M8 it's just
on a platform that just doesn't feel Enthusiast friendly like at all you know
and the whole lifetile concept it's very beautiful and you know going like this
oh you can go look at your apps and do whatever the problem is that live tiles
change visually which if you look at you know someone like McDonald's how often
do they change their logo why do they not change that recognizability is good
when people are trying to find things so to me live tiles changing what they look
like is not necessarily a very positive thing and you might go okay well lus
just memorize where they all are to which I would say yeah that's fine too
except that unlike Android and iOS you
don't have discrete pages and you can't create
subfolders so you actually once you
start scrolling for remembering where everything is on the page goes out the
window you can't muscle memory you know scroll down you know 38 of a decimeter
and then you click on the this part it doesn't work that way so hey that's a
unit of measurement just no one uses it I know
but well I I wanted to say 38 of an inch but that's not enough to be an actual so
I changed it to decimeter mid sentence anyway because no one uses fractions of
metric measurements either so it was just a completely broken thing to say
anyway the point is that um it's once
you if you're going to install more apps than what fits on like one home screen
it just doesn't scale very nicely and and it's not intuitive to use so I um I
I I was really hoping that Windows phone would have matured a lot since I used it
a year ago on a on an HTC 8X I think it
did I think it matured into a giant scam machine okay so that's how you're going
to segue into our next topic okay I just
I'm trying to make sure that you have anything left to still make a video
about posted by JM 299 oh I'm I'm going to have lot I mean I'll say mostly that
stuff that's more trolling than anything troll
yourself all right talk about this this
is for Windows phone and like Windows 8
where there's the Microsoft store and this headline written by J Master here
is pretty sensationalist Microsoft
willingly allowing malicious apps in the Windows store to obtain a cut of the
profits that is some tinfoil hat stuff there the to obtain a cut of the profits
thing is maybe a little bit sensationalist but um willingly allowing
is not sensationalist yes that's actually a thing I know they have
allowed the apps to I mean okay okay okay and they have to be manually
approved you talk you talk so the store is the stores are crammed with fake
versions of popular paid apps like lonus was just talking about you can you can
look for something and it'll just give you a link to download it that's an extremely common situation and even the
descriptions on some of them will be like helps the user to know how to
download and use this thing but it's not how to use it or anything it's just a
link to the proper app where you can download it for free that's it and I
believe the iTunes one is $9 they provide you a $9 link ridiculous
that should never be manually approved by an employee that is insane um
Microsoft does claim that in their store everything is manually improve approved
by an employee so that whole willingly willingly knowing that they're having
scam apps has to be true or they're lying about that someone knows but I
don't think that the people creating the policy for the approval of apps is they
must know at this point like what if it's been in the news so much and you'd
think if you ever look at the store like I I believe even a even a search for VLC
comes up with a whole bunch of paid versions that are just links to download
which is like okay come on now and like that one that I was just talking about
$9 for a link to iTunes iTunes is extremely common they must have ran into
this at some point in time there has to be someone reporting it up the chain
being like hey and $9 link and there
really needs to be an after Thea review system for ones like the one I mentioned
where it had seven onear reviews going back several weeks anything that's got
like you know two or three onear reviews in a row that's got to put up some major
red flags I mean the app creator didn't
even bother to create a Spam account to give it a festar rating it has literally
nothing to get past filter of any sort
nothing no attempt made so there must just not be one where where he's coming
from with the whole trying to skim the profits thing which I I don't I don't
know how how necessarily real that is
what the um but they see they're giving
money out at this point so I don't know if it totally makes sense they're running a keep the cash promotion where
they paid developers $100 for each completed app so if you're trying to get
those $100 things if you put a link in
and upload it as an app you just made a 100 bucks so obviously a bunch of people
are going to want to do that and you can make up to $2,000 per developer if you
want pretty much free $2,000 just make a
bunch of apps that link to other apps and you're done that's kind of
fantastically horrible and you know what it it it aligns with their seeming
desperation to deliver search results when people search in the store like I
search for TW TT and instead of bringing
up things like carbon it brought up
official Twitter and then it brought up like Facebook and Instagram which I'm
like okay those are at least within the same category and then as you continue
to scroll down the list things get less and less related to the point where it's
just like you know it's not about delivering more results it's about
delivering the most relevant result and it really feels like they aren't there
yet and speaking of that in April 2014 they announced that they have over
400,000 apps combined between the Windows phone and Windows uh just normal
Windows store um but that includes all the scams so they have some amount of
incentive not to take them down because they can keep that in their number of
apps that they have and if they act all of these scam apps that would greatly
reduce their total amount of apps that they can claim that they have also
Microsoft takes a cut of every sale of every app sale so this is where people
are thinking that hat they want to keep them around but honestly looking at the
like tiny little miniature microscopic
droplets that has to be in their revenue stream yeah I don't see them taking that
giant risk for that that doesn't make a l I think they're a lot smarter than
that at some level so so I think something's going wrong I don't think
it's because of the money especially because they were giving out1 $100 per
app for people to just make them in general yeah I don't see this being a
money gaining opportunity if I was going to create a program like that I'd
probably have a bigger payout for like people to create one app cuz
How could an individual developer create 20 quality apps within a reasonable
period of time that's just stupid and like maybe have a bigger payout and be
like yeah you get the money the really big payout when you have a certain ratio
of stars or something like say you have to have three star minimum or something
like that it has to be useful but then like pay attention to the star ratings
and make sure that they're not just all scam which is very common lately yeah
all right so happy topic yeah so speaking of wanting people to like you
Disney is rumored to be working on an
unaltered release of the Star Wars Trilogy the original trilogy not the one
no one cares about on Blu-Ray now as
someone who has seen the Blu-ray enhanced
versions wow they look a lot better than the original releases man like they did
some serious work to clean that stuff up
and make it look like really good by the way once I was looking for it in a new
hope you can easily spot the Stormtroopers with gaffet tape on yeah
yeah that's fun yeah especially in the uh in the Blu-ray version um so I've
seen the Blu-ray version I've seen the original releases the problem is that I
cannot take a New Hope seriously if greo
shoots first and it seems like a stupid
Petty thing but I went back and watched the original release on like VHS
cassettes pretty recently it was actually kind of awesome um and the way
it's cut together the way the music flows the way everything
happens Han is a badass and shot the
dude because he's tired of his crap boom and like the way he the way he
tips the bartender like a couple bucks for leaving a dead body in the you're
not going to convince me that he's some kind of white freaking Knight at this
point come on he's clearly this doesn't even phase him at all blowing someone
away in a bar does not even register on his radar
so anyway I am super excited to see this I plan to buy it um if it happens and
you know what at this point time even if it even if it is a rumor and wasn't
being worked on they should scramble their ass and get this released because
they're getting all good publicity right now if Disney was looking to gain the
favor of the hardcore fans like you think about the hardcore Star Wars fans
how many times they've been crapped on in the last 20 years so many so many
times they're going to be going into Disney's first crack at this with a
negative vibe as opposed to going in excited you know ready to be blown away
they're going to be going in expecting to be disappointed and I think Disney's going to have to work that much harder
to impress them whereas if they do this ahead of time I think it's a very
different aura that walks into that
theater for the first screening so yep so they really really should do this
even if it is just a rumor all these rumors are coming from comicbook.com so
we don't even know how credible this is but uh the rumor is that the project is
taking longer than expected due to damage to the negatives but I I'd be
super stoked if this happened yeah all
right so speaking of things I'd be super stoked if they happened Google's
driverless cars can keep up with the
flow of traffic this this has been very
like posted by Victoria Secret a lot see exact this is what I'm talking about the
the titles for a lot of these things in my opinion have been pretty
sensationalist because to exceed the speed limit they're not designed to
purposefully just be like ha we're going too quickly but they have a threshold
where they're take that Coppa yeah they have a threshold where they are allowed
to go slightly above the speed limit I don't think it's that fast 10 miles or
about 16 km an hour which is that's that's pretty fast but that's what
they're allowed to do they're not programmed to do this but in a lot of areas it's perfectly reasonable yes
because they're keeping up with the flow of traffic because it has been proven
time and time again that not keeping up with the flow traffic can be very
dangerous yeah like proven not speculated not by like Reddit but proven
that it's dangerous to go too slow speculated by Reddit yeah no no no
proven by like actual science yeah so
they're they're not designed to just go out and exceed speed limits because
they're they're wanting to get there quickly um they're designed to keep up
with traffic and if that has to do with uh exceeding the speed limit by a fairly
reasonable amount then it's okay but they're not like keep up with traffic is
if traffic is going 200 mil hour because
yeah so another interesting thing along
the uh also related to Google's driverless cars from this week is that
the state of California is telling Google they don't want them on the road
unless they have a steering wheel and pedals so that the driver can take
immediate control if needed um and this
is this is going to be this is going to be a big debate for a while because part
of the safety of driverless cars is
going to be taking human error out of the
equation so for now Google is
retrofitting the ones that they've already made is my understanding uh but
the ones like the actual official Google car was not supposed to have a steering
wheel and pedals so this could uh yeah
this this debate could rage for a while in the UK they are looking to allow
Google's cars starting in 2015 so once
again someone else is more Progressive than the United States where the
Innovation is actually
happening yeah it's kind of funny when you look at it that way isn't it it is
funny um I mean what makes the United States a
Powerhouse research and Technology it's
like no we don't want it here I I I find
the the United States almost more than any other region though is very scared
of uh having things go out of people's
yeah well you know it's funny cuz I was about to say movies and TV shows
probably don't help but this actually reminds me of a fantastic I think it was
a two-part episode of Doctor Who where
some bad guy I don't remember exactly the context I think it's another time
lord or something or can't remember some bad aliens or something so the basically
the plot of every Doctor Who episode ever uh they were they were using a car
manufacturer to that was it was like better emissions or something was like a
thing that you could install in your car and then they just had them like drive
people into lakes and stuff so it's not like that kind of content doesn't exist
in the UK it's just you have to also have your feet on the ground in reality
and realize that you don't live in that world and look at something that has
actually been very well tested at this point I mean what is it 700,000 miles of
logged travel on these cars and the only accidents have been like caused by
another driver yeah not them um
I don't know what was I going to say uh right iRobot there's the manual takeover
thing but then it doesn't really help yeah it's like okay yeah I don't know
what people are scared of obviously is like technical failure but then and
people don't like giving up control yeah I mean if someone told me if Google told
me look actually this is a perfect example if Google told me hey we've come
up with an automated way to look at your
video so you just upload it and then we'll create the perfect title thumbnail
and description for you i' be like no
you high and that we're not even talking about my life we're just talking about
my job at that point to be honest though if it worked after a long time I would
eventually let it just do it I would just want my own testing done on it that's all right to be completely honest
and then what you could do is like just let it go and then if something's wrong
just go edit it later it's not as consequential as driverless cars but I
don't know and that that that brings in the same debate where if if you crash at
least it was your fault fault yeah if the AI crashes it wasn't your fault even
if the odds of you crashing were much higher
yeah I I'm not I'm just saying this that's that's an argument I've I've
probably logged less than 700,000 miles
of driving in my life let me just think oh yeah definitely less probably about a
half to 2third of that but I have been
in at least two or three at fall accidents in that time so on the other
hand in the last 5 or six years I haven't been in
any so you know do you look at this and
kind of go oh okay well you know for new drivers but then they'll never get any
experience and we're going to be talking about you know previous generation
people who are not used to this new fangle technology would you trust your
kids to it like that's that's something like would I trust myself to drive
around in a self-driving car actually probably I would probably ride around
one but if I were to buy a self-driving car for my family like one of the one of
the sort of you know Utopia amazing future types things that I imagine is
that every household will only need one vehicle because it can just go where
it's needed it'll go pick up the kids and take them to karate and then when
it's done with that it'll go pick up you know me and take me there to meet them
and watch them and then it'll go pick up my wife when she's done work and take
her to come and then we'll all go together home like that's amazing that's
so cool but would I really just let a
car go by itself to pick up my son when he's done you know the day at
kindergarten I don't know how I feel about that what if it gets to the point
where there's the the car should obviously actually have cameras all over
the place and you can connect to at any point in time so you can see it drive up
to the building that your son's at you can see your son get into the car you may I'm old for this stuff maybe maybe
virtual presence devices are weird me out a
little I don't know man what if it gets to the point where virtual pres iPad
Dad yeah yeah yeah but seriously what if it gets to the point where you've seen
that thing where you can you can attend a a conference or convention through
that wheel iPad right what if that becomes way more intense what if you're
controlling an Android what if you could literally carry your sign out of the car
but it's not your body I'm giving him a robot hug and I'm getting an iPad kiss I
meant like I meant more like if the car
crashes if the car crashes oh man I don't even know the car crashes and
there's this like metal like heavyduty
emergency Droid sitting in the car and you can just be like take over pick up
carry out call 911 on its built-in Android software I don't know
man I was even I wasn't even thinking
about not being there in the invent of an emergency I was just thinking about
how impersonal the whole thing is
right that I didn't think about but now I'm thinking about emergency
all right so in in not controversial and
definitely excellent vehicle news Tesla increases their warranty Drive Unit
warranty or their the the Drive Unit
warranty on the model S to eight years
and the battery pack there we go yeah wow eight years infinite miles you can
drive as much as you want Elon Musk has said it will moderately it will have a
mod moderate negative effect on Tesla's earnings in the short shortterm but it's
the right thing for Tesla vehicle owners in the early stage of their company and
he's confident that they'll work it out well in the long term because Elon Musk
is a massive badass that's pretty much it posted by
Sam cool 55 on the Forum by the way thank you it's going retroactively to
people that already own Model S's so if you bought a Model S early on you're
getting this warranty despite not having it when you originally bought it I mean
eight years like if you think about that my car is a 2003 and three years ago you
could probably make the argument that it had kind of served its purpose to the
original owner and if that original owner wasn't a complete cheap skate they
were probably going to resell it in fact I have only owned that car for about
eight years because I bought it as an end of lease deal from someone who
leased it for a few years and this this can be transferred to infinite amount of
owners either wow so infinite miles infinite owners eight years so assuming
that my car has reached the point after the time that I've owned it that I might
have to do some maintenance like a battery swap on it is not unfair and not
unreasonable and this is the first time I've really seen a car manufacturer step
up and instead of warrany what is safe
warrany what is reasonable for a consumer to expect in terms of a vehicle
lifetime because by eight years it's dinged up it's scratched it's probably
gotten its windshield broken a couple times from random debris on the road
like there's stuff that can reasonably be wrong with it that's nobody's fault
given how much detail and quality they put into to their paint jobs which is
insane they have someone White Glove hand over the entire surface of the car
just to make sure it's perfect every single one like I would hate to get that
thing scratched but it's probably going to be scratched in the 8ye LIF happen so
this means you get uh infinite usage of all of Tesla's supercharging stations
which they're constantly putting up more for the for the lifetime of the product
not eight years um and you get an 8year
warranty on your drive unit and Battery which is like if you look into how
they're made pretty much everything that's cool that's so Beast
awesome I'm excited for their um like
more consumer friendly cheaper car that
they're going to come up with who knows if it's going to have all this kind of stuff but knowing them it'll be pretty
awesome so speaking of how difficult it is for me to switch to Windows phone
this was this was originally posted on the form by Builder and there's an
article here that I think actually hits on a number
of truths and I think the the basic point of or like okay the the headline
that Builder put in is choose Firefox now or later you won't get a choice and
the article really looks at Google's
dominance in terms of how many people
that they have won over to their ecosystem and how much power that gives
them over you not being able to switch to something else like I can switch to
iOS because iOS was so dominant and
Google has supported it up until now and
doesn't look like they're going to stop supporting it anytime soon but a new
platform someone who's trying to break in like Microsoft who's getting no
support from Google the fact that I am so deeply rooted in Google's ecosystem
whether it's drive or hangouts or Gmail I use Gmail for my personal and for my
business email I see the point if you don't stop using
Google services you may never be able to
stop and you know if they become your
service provider for everything that you use online and your ISP at some
terrifying point in the future basically we won't even need to worry
about the NSA because Google will have all the
information we were ever worried about the NSA having and Google might have
been in the past you know up until now even you know fairly consumer oriented
but that doesn't mean that their leadership's going to exist forever that
doesn't mean that as a company their culture can't change very dramatically I
mean it already has we've seen it happen it already has changed very dramatically
and these are very young companies that we're entrusting a lot of information to
it's they're not they're not old companies like you know an nendo where
we can look back a hundred years at what their culture is and how they've evolved
over time we're looking at companies that have gone from zero to enormous in
a span of you know five or 10 or 20 or
even two years
sometimes kind of insane that's how fast they change so be prepared for them to
change that fast so I don't know I just I thought it was a really interesting it
was really interesting food for thought and the original article was from
robert. callahan. org I've already been
trying I've been looking into switching to Photon mail for a while but Photon
mail is taking a while to really become a thing right so waiting for that and
I've been looking into changing to a lot of things but the problem is whenever Google steps into a market everyone else
is basically forcibly stepped out yep
because everyone moves to that so there's no real like great calendar app
anymore yep because everyone just uses Google Calendar it's hard Google
Calendar is not even that great no it's not actually it's kind of annoying I'd
love to have a better calendar so would I I mean here's here's like the now
someone's going to message us with a better calendar which is fantastic please do that um like here's the
simplest thing ever here I'm just going to pull up a blank calendar here on my
screen so like here's an example what if
I wanted to take this event and like drag it past here you have to put it on
that bottom row and then go down that's ridiculous like that's the stupidest
thing ever how did they not how did nobody catch this
ever
anyway I don't know it just kind of horrible so it's kind kind of scary I've
been saying this for quite a while actually but we don't have a better
option we're just grousing about it and the the problem right now is I I've
brought this up in a few different way shows there's there's such
Mass Fight For Speed in browsers right now where they're just iterating
releases incredibly fast if you look way back Firefox didn't release releases all
that quickly until kind of Google Chrome
came in and then they both started fighting and they're both releasing as fast they possibly can to try and stay
on top of I like that ionic meteor says Outlook Master race and I'm 50 years
old yeah um yeah they've been fighting for these
iterative releases which are insane and they just break everything on my
personal computer flash hasn't been working in Firefox for months my
personal computer at home I can't use um like most social media websites on
Firefox and then I can't view YouTube
videos in Chrome
what so I have to use two different browsers so I can actually get
functionality across all of them what the hell since when did this happen just
give up it's freaking fast enough fix everything God one of
you Firefox I wish Firefox would just like step back and be like okay you can
be one billionth of a second faster than us who gives a crap everything's going
to work on our browser that would be great because waterfox is doing it right
now I'm rooting I'm rooting for Internet Explorer the Rebrand yeah I'm holding
out for that maybe they'll get it together I doubt it though I doubt it
but maybe if I'm going to blindly if I'm
going to have Blind Faith in something I guess that'll be it right now just just
throw to the third team that no one knows about yeah I don't
know um all right ASUS is teasing a new
smartwatch posted by dri W luk 's Opera
no it's not better yeah I've tried Opera
is so impossible but of the issue with Opera Google
services it like YouTube is just
broken like and I'm not talking viewing YouTube videos I mean the content
creator tools yeah cannot use yeah all
right I have Opa on my computer I do use it so basically time has been
transformed and we have changed is a quote that they're using and they are
going to apparently give us some more details on September the 3D
hooray so there we go
apparently it'll be priced somewhere between $1 and $150 I guess that's all we really have
to say about that why don't we blast our way through some more of these like quickfire topics all right you just pick
ones that are interesting to you and I'll pick ones that are interesting to Facebook is offering bounties for bugs
found an Oculus Rift this is not the first time we've seen this on like a
hardware model but it's interesting how Oculus Rift which is a company that will
be releasing and Publishing games and their and their Rift device and possibly
other things in the future is offering a bounty
um for finding bugs with a minimum reward of
$500 when we see Early Access being such
a big pathetic useless piece of crap and
then we see companies like Oculus throwing bounties at people I just found
that to be a weird contrast yay Facebook accusation yay actually pretty much all
right I've got I've got one here there's an app uh called Shoot what's it called
again called ignore no more oh yeah that
allows a parent or guardian or someone else to stop their kids from ignoring
their calls so you know you want to get your kids some caller ID you kind of go
yeah sure you can know when I'm calling but if you don't pick up my calls then I
will remotely lock your phone so you can't use it so if you're not going to
talk to me then you're not going to talk to anyone um and we actually had a lot
of people on the lineus tech tips Forum get really upset about this and kind of
go invasion of privacy this that or the other no it's not if part of the deal is
is look Junior who's 13 years old or 12
years old and probably you know in my generation would have been considered
too young to have their own phone like look Junior you want a phone sure that's
fine but I expect it part of the part of
the verbal contract here is you have a phone so we can get in touch with each
other yeah if you are ignoring that part of the verbal contract then you don't
deserve to use your phone right now that's it so what they have to do is
they have to call their parents back to get an unlock
code I think one of my parents might call me
out on this but as far as I can remember I paid for my cell phone for the entire
duration of having a cell phone okay my parents paid for mine because the deal
was that I got a car and a cell phone and I have four siblings so the deal was
I had to be available to drive people oh that makes sense and I had to be
accessible yeah and I got a car and a phone out of it so I was like yeah deal
I was a nerd and all my friends over came over to my house cuz we had all the
coolest like right stuff to play with in terms of like video games or whatever so
I didn't really need one yeah I lived in the middle of nowhere like I it was it
was a 10-minute drive to the closest convenience store like we had horses and
stuff so for for me it made a lot of sense because my parents actually
probably made out like bandits in the amount of time that they saved you know
me driving to town which is 20 minutes there and 20 minutes back every time
someone else needed to miss the school bus or whatever else then that's worth
it for you because you have a car and a phone which because I have a car and phone dog actually the only Reon I
didn't even want a phone the only reason why I got one was cuz the girlfriend I
had at the time was like dude what the hell get a phone I know you don't want a
phone because whenever you lose or break your phone it's impossible to get in
touch with you for like two weeks while you drag ass about replacing
it oh man anyway I mean they're so
expensive I mean I think that people were upset about about this because they
saw it as something that like parents would stealthily install on their kids
phones but that's not it at all because it tells the kid yo dog your phone's
locked call your mom to un lock K you like have to know that it's on your phone this is part of the deal
yeah okay so next one jump to the user modifies their Windows load screen thing
sure cuz that's awesome really you're taking that one I wanted to do that one
well okay you no no you can have it hitchhiking robot makes its way across Canada oh yeah that's pretty cool too
boom uh I'll search for hitch there we
go there you go the hitchbot so apparently by Cy Warrior Cordy Warrior
wanted to be a huge jerk and name the
topic for this robot tricks gullible Canadians yeah I didn't even load up his
post because he's a huge butt um but
anyways almost everyone that took this robot along with them knew it was coming
before they even got it and not like a nice huge butt like booty we're talking
like sagging and like hasn't been cleaned dived yeah with
like you know gross yeah the kind the
kind of butt hair anyway sorry carry on um yeah so almost everyone that picked
it up knew it was coming beforehand because it' been blasted in the news um
and the idea was it came all the way from Halifax Nova Scotia to uh Victoria
BC by hitchhiking so that's the little Hitch King robot and someone has to pick
it up and then take it along with them
and it made it all the way which is kind of amazing especially with reading
through the comments of our super high class totally up upstart citizens on our
forum who basically all said that they would just steal it and take it home um
but yeah so there's a hitchhiking robot someone finds it this is obviously
obviously a promotional video y oh look
I pick it up and I put it in my
car and apparently it could like talk to you on some very basic level and stuff
and it could tweet out and it could do some other stuff too that's cool so all
it got was like scratched it got scratched and it's it's uh LCD
protective thing got had like a small crack in it and stuff but it made it all
the way which is actually kind of fantastic again especially considering
the massively amazing citizens of the LT forum who all said they would steal it
uh so this is cool I I love this video this is awesome yeah this is like super
super badass
oh there was no sound I heard it did you
yeah no I mean uh I don't think on the stream there is sound oh it's not going
through the
cable there we go so it actually has the
uh it has the intro music as well and he has guides on there on how to do it if
you want to figure it out and uh what was I going to say he said apparently
his fans aren't actually that loud because a lot of people gred him on that it's just cuz he had to crank the volume
a lot so you could probably hear it so that is so cool I think it's actually
pretty sick all right you got maybe one more I've got one more that I want to do
um the the Minecraft hard drive thing is that what you're doing uh no I wasn't
even going to do that we have so much stuff this week I told you right no I
wasn't even going to do that one Okay Google's planning to introduce accounts
for children under 13 posted by by Victorious secret it's going to allow
parents to dictate some of the terms of how that Google account will work I think this is really important because
as it is kids under 13 are using Google accounts and they're just not being
regulated correctly okay not being regulated at all which is kind of
redonkulous in Minecraft someone made a I think single kilobyte hard drive y one
kilobyte which is actually kind of awesome it's interesting to see this
kind of stuff I've seen in my opinion slightly more interesting things um on
the incredibly ridiculous side of things but he's got to the incredibly
ridiculous side of things at all which is super cool so it's pretty cool to
show and he shows like miniature versions of it so you can actually
understand how the whole thing works which is awesome because a lot of these really big projects don't have that so
he basically shows you the fundamentals of what you need to know so that you can
build your own which is again super awesome yeah it can store one kilobyte
of information yep very cool pretty cool I like um my next thing that I wanted to
hit was China the no actually I wanted
to do EA is not sending reviewers copies
of Sims 4 so this was posted by Mind
Tricks On The Forum and uh the original Source here that we have is kit guru.net
that is uh and okay so they're not sending out
review copies also no if I remember correctly toddlers no toddler stage no
pools no pools um it looks like I mean
we have this conversation every time there's a new Sims where it's like yeah
they downgraded a bunch of crap because all those expansions that you went and
bought you're going to have to Reby them because the base game doesn't include
the expansions of the previous games how can it not include pools or like
developmental phases of the Sims like
they're right in the title of the game yeah like those are two pretty
fundamental things guys what are you doing oh my
God yeah ultimately it's more complexity
in terms of what texts there and what isn't there oh yeah and what we have to
build to support this how do we cut down into the terrain how do we get Sims
going through portals across different levels of pools there's so much more
going on in the background that you don't end up seeing just to have a SIM go swimming but it's like well you did
it before and like and it's been done since like a really long time ago like
come on it's not that hard we're losing some of the open world aspects so
there's going to be actually loading as you go between zones
um oh God yeah I don't know how they
cons like it must be a really hard job to figure out how to make your product
consistently worse no it can't be that hard it's got
to be hard because how do you how do you pick pools buildings can now have a
maximum of only two levels
like so I don't know on the one hand I
think one super I don't think this is what they had in mind but I think one
super cool positive effect of them not giving reviewers early copies of Sims 4
is that that really opens up the door for the average consumer to create a
review that can actually generate a fair bit of traffic because we know that when
we release a video about a piece of hardware and we're 2 months late it'll
get x amount of exposure even at our level even with all the subscribers we
have and all that the tweets that we can send out and all that stuff and if we
release it at release date when everyone else hits it we'll get x times something
and if we release it early then we'll get x times something much bigger that's
how it works and that's why there are embargos and ndas and release dates so
that no one gets an advantage but by no one they mean no one who's a
wellestablished media Outlet whereas having just an on shelf date where
everyone goes to the store and buys a copy of the game I think lets Grassroots
reviewers have an opportunity to be like the one to break the story and
especially in gaming like we're pretty big we can't get interviews with
anyone because we're not established in gaming y it's impossible us for us to
properly get proper interviews with any big triaa
developers we can't get interviews with blizzard we can't get interviews with
Ubie we can't get interviews with 2K we can't get interviews with I mean on the
hardware side someone like Oculus you
interviewed Palmer like on the hardware side we're good we actually have that
street cred but and and I mean so and we even have the street cred for gaming
Hardware like it's not that tenuous a link yeah whereas if you are completely
a nobody walking around on the show floor at PA you don't stand a chance
whereas if everyone kind of stopped giving out pre-release copies and with
to I don't know I think it could be it
could be interesting to to interject here for a second the Palmer interview
we only got because I ambushed him in the booth that wasn't preset we still
don't have a proper media contact there that will actually answer anything and
in the Palmer interview he said that he did really in fact like Linux because he
thought we were Linux Tech tips that that was the cut that didn't
end up getting in because there was no audio recording cuz Brandon
rushed so maybe not is cool but they're
like they're more actually a gaming company yes and they are everyone
everyone ever wants to interview them right so if you contact their press
email there's pretty much no chance you're going to get a reply right it's
basically a Dumping Ground I know that for a fact you have to have one of their
individual emails and then I'll publicly broadcast so like we
yeah yeah I have it on good faith that he actually liked that interview but we
still have no way to properly contact him because he told us as he was leaving
that we should talk to his press guy we went to go talk to his press guy and he
was like yeah I know message the media contact we're like yeah that's not going
to work is it he was like I'm like okay whatever fine all
right well I guess we suck and we're not important so here we
go we're important to some people yeah we're important to someone I just wish
you guys actually I feel pretty important right now we have over 6,100
people watching right now you guys are amazing I know right tested always gets
the cool Oculus interviews I'm so
jelly so is that pretty much it do we have anything else we could do that
horrible stupid thing that the Chinese Theaters are testing yeah let's end with
that yeah let's end with that well this is ridiculous hilarious I mean maybe
maybe something is getting Lost in Translation here but like China you guys
you guys serious bro so check this out
Cinemas in major cities in China have started testing the bullet screen which
allows the audience to text comments
about the film that will be shown on screen they are filtered and people have
to pay to submit them I think it's like 10 cents or something like thaty of 10
cents equivalent of 10 cents sensitive or forbidden words like swearing or
democracy um are probably are probably
going to get filtered there but
um yeah and it has to be approved to be
a bullet screen film by the writer and their contract with the producer so I
can't think of any thing that anyone
sitting in a theater with me could contribute to my viewing experience by
putting it in front of my face while I'm trying to watch a movie that is
ridiculous okay I can see having something like chat with
other people in the theater like like like a twitch chat style thing that's
what I thought it was when I first heard about this on your seat or like on on
like okay okay so say for example they have a Wi-Fi hot spot inside each
theater so people can tune in on their phones and chat with each other you know
some people get really bothered by the glowing screen in the dark theater thing
I personally give exactly zero craps about that I'm not going to turn my
phone on because other people find it rude but if if that was the route you
wanted to go with this that's a lot less intrusive than putting someone's
freaking text message on the screen while I'm trying
to watch the movie so if you like logged in if there was an app or something and
it was like let's discuss the movie while we're watching that way it's very optional people don't have to look at it
that's this is ridiculous this is just stupid this is the worst possible
implementation I can think of I had like a semi emergency Thing Once where I
needed to be in texting contact with someone and I was in a movie theater um
so like you'd think just leave but it was very intermittent messages and it
wasn't like I was there was no point where I knew if I was going to get another one that I need to reply to and
stuff hold on people are like but twitch chat is [ __ ] I'm like this is
exactly why it shouldn't be across the front of our video right now yeah so if
someone wants to talk it they should be a go but it should be optional exactly
what I did was I put my sweater on backwards and put the hood up and then
use my phone under it so there was no light emission at all nice I was like
problem solved yeah I guess that's about it we
can after show to talk about anything else if we want to uh yeah I promised to
do a garage sale this week but I don't feel like it I've barely slept I have a
newborn you know what maybe what I'll do is I should start just like listing them
at night and we can like just say hey
there's garage sale items and then like
hey there's a price drop on like your Afterparty stream or something like that
sure or something I don't know or like maybe what we could do is we could do
like a really s after the maybe I'll prep this next
week and I'll just be like here's all the items that are going to be available
tonight and then like set them all live yeah stay tuned or something like that
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oh yeah speaking of derp there was one
other big news thing this week it's like Reddit and a bunch of other awesome hold
on let me find it where's derp imer twitch farc and stack exchange research
partnership I think Reddit was also involved at least I thought so the point
is it's called derp and it stands for digital ecology research partnership
can't believe they called it derp Reddit IM TW oh yeah I said Reddit see this is
why I can't do an Afterparty or a garage sale right now clearly not capable