all right oh welcome to the W show guys
it's Friday I'm broadcasting live from
the studio here in lovely Langley British Columbia and quite
frankly I'd rather be at home playing
games on the HTC Vive I will definitely
be spending some time on the show today talking about that I will
definitely acknowledge my my uh unfortunately downgraded but still
somewhat sexy co-host here and I will definitely tell you all of the topics
that we are going to be covering on the show today after the
intro hold on I got this there may even be music today we'll see if I fixed it
hey also whoa some of you guys were
asking where Luke is Luke is in a place
doing a thing the place is called PAX East and uh whoever whoever did up the
Pax uh thing here doesn't realize that
Pax is Penny Arcade Expo not a word that
starts with a p and has two small letters after that's okay Pax 2016 so
huge thanks to Logitech G and Discord
for powering our paxis 2016 content yes
my friends for the first time ever lonus
Media Group actually had two away teams
at the same time so Taran and Brandon were down at Nab in
Las Vegas and before they returned Luke
burkel and Dennis actually left to go
cover Pax e so we're going to have like an entire week of show coverage for you
guys and in the meantime I've been back here in the studio with uh David
and Ed
and well I guess that's about it and we've been working on some really cool
stuff so we've got the review of the iPhone SE coming up we've got uh a power
bank like battery Bank Showdown coming up we've got um I don't this is a video
nobody asked for but I was kind of interested in and so I decided to make
but I've got a video upcoming on ipmi which is a Remote Management interface
that exists on some motherboards that allows you to log in from anywhere and
like power on the server power down the server change bio settings even all
kinds of cool stuff like that so uh so I've been working on some videos and
they've been working on some videos and it's good stuff and uh okay right so I will I
will answer those questions that I said I was going to answer this is my new
co-host her name is kuu or something I'm
making that up I know she's an actual character from an actual show I don't
know what it is um I've got people
talking about wcon L yes yes I go through wcon l in the video I actually
have some other cool solutions that I guarantee you've never heard of as well
um yes I know Yoko apparently it's Yoko
I don't know I'm sorry you know for me it's just you know a pillow um I was on
Amazon and I was just browsing toys not
those kinds of toys I was browsing toys and I was just trying to find stuff for
Channel Super Fun so this was around the time uh leading up to the big move into
the new studio and so I was just like
what the hell is this it's a it's a
waifu pillow you got to be kidding me so I ordered it having no idea what I was
gonna do like I was I was thinking initially I would try and do some kind
of a prank where I called people down to help me with something and then like I'd
have a hidden camera and then I'd be like making out with it or something and
I'd get like reaction shots from people but we ended up coming up with the
Channel Super Fun where we did the cuddle challenge I think that ended up
being a lot better anyway I don't know how well that video is doing you know
honestly I feel like I feel like Channel Super Fun just should do so much better
but uh like nothing ever really catches
on for us on that channel like it doesn't go it doesn't go viral or
whatever else I've got people telling me to get another human the office is like
empty I mean do you really want me to pull Nick light in here huh come on
that'd be like the worst thing ever um
so I promised to discuss some okay before before I get into that um I will
go through some of the some of the top topics for today Intel to cut
12,000 jobs as PC demand Wes
ouch uh researchers accidentally
discover technology that could lead to batteries that can be charged many more
times than current ones nerd Sports has
launched on vessel so this is something that we've had a lot of people asking
about uh seeking clarification on so nerd Sports is a new series that we
developed um it was funded by vessel.com
so if you guys familiar with Bessel it's the Early Access platform that our
videos go up on uh generally speaking one week before YouTube but this is
different nerd Sports is exclusive to vessel and it's a series that we
developed we've done five episodes or filmed five episodes so far three of
which are actually done one of which is released um where
basically the lonus Media Group team we
call ourselves the keyboard Warriors takes on actual sports teams so the
first sports that we did were
um actually we filmed it like ages ago at this point projects like this take so
long so volleyball dodgeball lacrosse
ice hockey and curling so the first
episode is volleyball it's awesome we actually take on the Trinity Western
Spartans who are the top college uh
women's volleyball team in the country as of last year and it is um it it is
actually pretty hilarious I don't think I'm technically supposed to do this cuz
like there is a trailer and stuff but I will I will play just I'll play just a
little bit of it um so where videos here
we go just going to grab some grab a couple
chunks out of it here
if it loads of course everyone's probably like
hitting it all at the same time now thanks
guys that's weird see that's that's
working well we'll be back um so nerd
Sports is available now it's going to be released weekly for the next four weeks
over on vessel.com um what else do we
have ah yes a mosquito killing billboard
pretty freaking cool okay so now with
all that aside I have to take some time to talk about the HTC Vive and I know
you guys are thinking all right Luke's
not here on the show I don't have to listen to anyone
talk about talk about VR for the next
hour and a half but you were
wrong um everything about everything about that was wrong I'm definitely
going to be talking about VR so the HTC Vive arrived yesterday afternoon at
which time I promptly completely abandoned everything else that I had
planned for that evening um I got home I was like hi kids bye kids and locked
myself upstairs they were allowed in afterwards but only if they agreed to help me set up the Vive uh locked myself
upstairs to set up the Vive it takes the mo it's the most agonizing like hour
ever because I kind of thought it would come
with like floor or something for the lighthouse units it does not they just
expect you to wall mount it so I was like um V are we painting this room soon
because we had actually discussed it and she's like yeah I think I think so we
had we had said we were going to I'm like okay I'm putting a bunch of holes in the
wall so I'm just in there just like
drilling random holes in the wall mounting the lighthouse it takes about an hour to set up and you're just like I
just want to play VR games I just want to play VR games um so then at that time
I kind of realized again that I had derped and that I should have done this
at the beginning but I realized oh I I don't have any VR games downloaded so I
had to I had to go buy some VR games right away and then I had to
um go ahead and wait for those to
download while I finished the setup and then I spent about two hours straight
for the first time playing a single player
experience in I don't even no like I can't even
begin to imagine how long it's been since I've
since I've done that in a single player game like I'll drop in and like I was
playing Team Fortress too with uh with Luke actually the other night he was
streaming on his twitch Channel and stuff uh but like just playing single
player games it's been a long time but I was playing uh space pirate
trainer it is freaking cool you've got
like a shield and a blaster and you can like switch out your shield and your
blaster um it is unbelievably fun um I had I had
a lot of people say yeah enjoy your enjoy your headache after 30 minutes you
know what two hours almost uninterrupted
uh my wife was playing for a little bit two hours almost uninterrupted and I was
feeling good like I was 100% fine at the
end of that it was it was freaking awesome I can't wait to go home and play
with it more um there are still issues
like the setup process is not perfect I ran into a couple of issues while I was
setting it up um number one was I ended
up with the bug where you can end up standing like 6 to 10 feet below the
floor for the entire like introductory video segment and I was just like okay
well this is really frustrating like is it is everything supposed to be up there
am I supposed to be down here because there's like a weird like golf cart next
to me but what I was actually standing in was like a little room that's
supposed to to lift the golf cart up like it's supposed to seem like the golf cart emerges from there but I was just
stuck down there and I didn't come up when the golf cart went up either so it
was just sort of confusing um and
then the other issue I had was my my
motion controllers my my handheld motion controllers just weren't picking up
until I uninstalled and reinstalled the software and like there there were some
issues with the setup but once it's going man it's fun like the resolution
does bother me like you take off the goggles and you see the preview window
on the screen you're just like oh man what if it looked like
that but not to the point where the gameplay isn't immersive and the
gameplay isn't ludicrously enjoyable so
it was uh I I tell you guys it was an
absolute it was an absolute blast I I
had a lot of fun with it last night I will I suppose I will get on
with the show now um let's uh jump into our first topic here so the original
article is from anon.com uh and Intel is slashing oh
right this was posted originally on the Forum by oh no one so Intel is slashing
a huge number of jobs over the rest of
2016 and even leading into
2017 um about 11% of the total Workforce
12,000 people um CEO Brian kranich says
Intel has been known as a PC company it's time to make this transition and
push the company all the way over to
supplying chips for things like smartphones cloud computing sensors and
other devices uh getting heavily into internet of things and mobile products
um I mean he's not saying that CPUs as
you know them are going away they're just diversifying their portfolio and
focusing their R&D very clearly on those
other possible revenue streams to be clear also 60% of their
revenue does still come from PC CPUs but most of the layoffs are
expected to occur inside the PC business to allow them to focus on these other
categories I really I really hope that they know
something that AMD doesn't know about
the possibility for improving CPU performance over the next few years here
because we've we really have seen them deemphasize the CPU long before there
were Mass layoffs associated with it like this where they're kind of going
okay yep more power efficiency um we're putting more GPU on it we are not really
doing a whole lot in terms of the overall horsepower of it keeping the the
Computing experience of the desktop
user relatively stagnant while the mobile users are getting real tangible
benefits out of each coming generation like the the better connectivity I would
say even benefits notebook users more than desktop users because desktop users
can throw an addin card in their system say for example whereas laptop users
these battery life improvements these connectivity improvements you know
things like Thunderbolt 3 make a huge difference I mean you can only have so
many ports on something like a laptop um
something like Apple's MacBook you can only have one port yay whereas on a
desktop you well you don't really need a single port that has such high speeds
and can handle you know land and sound
and USB and HDMI and DisplayPort all
out of this one connection because you could just plug all those things in it's
not really that big of a deal um where was I going with this right so
we've we've seen this dmhas coming but
it's frustrating because when you look
at when you look at Intel's CPUs um on
the on the mainstream side like on the LGA 115x side of things there is room like
actual physical there is physical room
for them to even if they can't increase clock speeds dramatically and even if
they can't increase IPC that's that's the that's the performance per clock
dramatically they could be putting more cores on them if they opted to give us a
pure CPU rather than an APU something with CPU and Graphics built into it at
the same time they just don't they Reserve that for the high-end platform
the Enthusiast and the server platform and
uh that's pretty much all she wrote on that now this is really weird and I am
going to have to find out what it is regarding by having Nick find out what
it's regarding uh sorry just one
moment can you take this for me please
thank you and I'm going to move into my next topic
here uh oh actually well hold on I guess I could give a little bit a little bit
more clarification so this is the largest set of layoffs in 10 years since
2006 when they let 10,500 people go uh
profit margins in q1 were lower than expected with a net income of $2 billion
on a revenue of 13.7 billion
um yeah there're I don't know I yeah I
hope for their sake they know something AMD doesn't know because if they're
planning to let a lot of people go on the desktop CPU side if AMD really does
see a Resurgence with Zen get some more Revenue coming in um potentially
allowing them to pick up some of that Talent there could be a big opportunity
for us to have competition again due to Intel not accidentally but making a
conscious decision to take their foot
off the pedal on the uh on the desktop CPU side of things uh I'll good
yeah just because of the okay okay okay
cool all right so let's move into Intel
announcing oh no we we already we already got that oh let's move into this
one this one's fun so original article here was off of PC
perspective and basically it's amazing how this happens but researchers
accidentally discovered nanowire based technology that could lead to batteries
that can be charged hundreds of thousands of times so you guys are
probably familiar with the way that almost as though by planning um phones
become obsolete thanks to their batteries just going through the maximum
number of charge and discharge Cycles until they die like there's lithium ion
batteries are inherently not stable over many charge
and discharge Cycles well here we go
accidental discovery nanowires which are several thousand times thinner than a
human hair extremely conductive and have
a large surface area to support storage and transfer of
electrons uh lai's Team so this is Maya
laai fixed the issue where these these
tiny wires are fragile and don't hold up well to repeated discharging and
recharging they fix this by cing a gold Nano wire in a manganese dioxide shell
and then placing it in a in a gel that's like plexy plexiglass to improve its
reliability again totally by accident so
Maya was apparently playing around and coated the whole thing with a very thin
gel layer and started to cycle it and discovered that by using this gel she
could cycle it hundreds of thousands of times without losing any capacity or any
power output so this was tested more than 200,000 times over a 3mon span and
they are reporting the findings now I would love to see this technology in my
new smartphone and I share um I believe
it was written by Ryan shroud over at PC per but it could could have been one of
their other writers but I share their concern about this technology ultimately
being patented and ending up in a warehouse somewhere never to be seen
again because it is a good thing for phone manufacturers is bottom line wise
for the phone to effectively not be usable anywhere from 3 to 6 years after
it was originally manufactured would they want the battery to last forever I
don't know
um okay so moving along to our next
topic AMD is set to receive
293 million in fresh cash from a deal
with the Chinese government this of course
raises any number of questions um I mean
this comes on on the heels of the Chinese the so okay it's kind of
complicated because the Chinese government and then companies in China
are intertwined in a way that you
wouldn't necessarily expect if you come
from like a a more western or more capitalist Society I mean yeah the
Chinese claim that capital ism is alive and well but the reality of it is that
state funds make a lot of the businesses
that run in China possible so in here
the original article is actually from Guru 3D I'm just going to go ahead and
pull that up so in the guru 3D article they say the Chinese government has
attempted to make CPUs and develop their
own CPU architecture many times before um they
want their own own hardware and software for government funded
institutions but they have not yet succeeded and it looks like AMD is going
to be the beneficiary so AMD has made it clear in their strategy in their
marketing strategy that they're ready to customize modular CPU and S so or system
on chip designs by the client specs so
similar to what they would have done with uh Sony and Microsoft for the
PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One
so the deal was mentioned in their last quarterly results
and
basically the deal would involve AMD
licensing its x86 processor technology
and the IP related to designing an so like memory controllers input output and
caching but possibly not their GPU
technology um the architecture has not been confirmed but Forbes is claiming
that it must be Zen as there previous server CPUs hadn't had much if any
success it's actually been it's been a while since opteron has uh has been much
of a big deal this is this is this is
very this is very very interesting I mean AMD
is you could see it as AMD getting in
bed with China uh you could also see it
as China eventually giving in and using
uh using American Technology in order to well catch up to what the Americans were
able to do with respect to
um with respect to supercomputing and I
mean I see I don't even know if this is going to be used in a supercomputing
context to be very clear because all we
really know is that the deal would involve licensing x86 processor
technology and IP related to building
x86 architecture chips and S so's
so I've got people saying AMD is Americans since when okay so so there is
they they a significant amount of their company is owned by overseas investment
that is true but they are American in the sense that their headquarters is in
America I guess um yeah I
guess
um this is interesting so I actually I
don't have a I don't have a source link for this or anything like that but AMD
will not be seeding
firepro sorry it's dang it Colton
uh so they will not be seaing their upcoming dual Hawaii
card I forget what they're even calling it I think it's like Radeon Duo Pro or
Pro Duo there we go so the radon Pro duo
will not be seated to conin ventional gaming press I'll go ahead and share you
guys on the uh sort of the announcement
for their super Computing performance to
VR um so what I was pretty much told is
that this this product and I can't say
anything about it for a couple of reasons uh number one if I want to get a
deck about it prior to the Embargo so I can prepare any content that I have uh
that I will be able to release without an actual card um I do have to agree to
the NDA and number two because I haven't received any of the deck materials yet
so all I know is going off of rumors so
it's supposed to be dual Hawaii chips um it sounds like it's going to be dual 4
gig um it'll be it'll be uh it's oh okay
this is off of AMD site so anticipated
selling price of $1,500 us and
basically the reasoning that was given to me
was well it's not
really uh sorry did I say dual Hawaii sorry dual Fiji dual Fiji so it's
effectively two um it's effectively like
two
R9 like R9 Fury SL Fury X kind of class
gpus that's that's what we can that's what we can GLE from the details we have
so far sorry I can't believe I said dual Hawai is I've been running around trying
to trying to get our internet back up and running over here
um and see sorry I'm struggling a little bit because I'm not
sure how much of what they told me is
stuff that is on this page I'm looking at and how much of it is stuff that's
going to be in the deck that's going to be NDA so so this is good
it offers a complete solution aimed at all aspects of the VR developer
lifestyle developing content more rapidly for killer VR experiences while
at work and playing the latest directx12 experiences at maximum Fidelity while
off work so it's no secret that dual GPU
support on recent generation games has
not been what it was even before and by the
way guys we are live um something about
time zones not time zones it is is 537
and we are live
um so even even a year or two years or
even three years ago dual GPU support wasn't perfect a lot of the time it
required Patches from NVIDIA or uh AMD
or previously ATI in order to function
uh but it's actually gotten worse and worse and worse as time has gone on on
in fact some games over the last little while even games that have been you know
you know the ones where there's like the NVIDIA logo or the AMD logo that pops up
at the beginning with you know Gameworks technology or whatever else that just flat out the developers going yep yep
SLI uh Crossfire forget it forget it
we're just yeah just doesn't matter it's it's too small of a portion of customers
so for that reason the pro Duo was not
realistically going to get very good reviews from the gaming press because it
frankly just doesn't make a ton of sense as a gaming card it's only got 4 gigs of
effective video memory because it's four gigs per GPU that doesn't add up to
eight gigs that means four gigs um it's
two presumably fairly power hungry chips
that perform okay but not well enough to
charge $1,500 for two of them and like
we've run into this before but typically the Dual GPU solution has has been
closer to the $1,000 range and not so close to the $1,500 range where you
can't just kind of go okay you know like here this is a fun experiment let's just
fire up New Egg Shop AMD radon Fury
x no newegg.com is fine oh I don't wow
wow the world's most boring sale monitors and printers unless you're
shopping for a monitor or a printer in which case what just happened to my
search result oh New
Egg anyway oh okay so about $629 so
you're paying this huge premium to have
a card that does save you on PCI apparently 295x2 launched at $1,500 yeah
that's a good point but how many units did 295x2
sell like this is a this is a this is a
dinosaur the radon Pro duo in a gaming sense is a dinosaur because you can get
two X's for 13300 bucks after taxes kind
of thing so unless you desperately need those two
slots what are you even what are you even doing and if you desperately need
those two slots why don't you just water cool water cool a couple of Fury X's I
mean that actually pays for your water blocks right there
so yeah it's going to be power hungry it's going to be super expensive so
basically they're kind of going okay yeah it's for developers and I I I don't
really I don't really I guess I what I don't really get at this point I
understand why they're not seing it to reviewers because it wouldn't have gotten a positive review from us it
wouldn't have gotten a positive review from probably anyone they'd say you know
it's it's always that sugarcoated conclusion right this is the ultimate
graphics card for AMD
enthusiasts who want the highest performance
single AMD card so you go like you go
like this is this this sliver of this
slice of the available Market of people who are interested in graphics cards and
that is pretty much all that is left for someone who for for gaming purposes
might be interested in a radi on prod I'll be interested to see what they can
come up with in terms of value ads for
the prodo that would make it make sense for developers but I just have a hard
time imagining what would make it better for developers than just picking up a
couple of Furies or a couple of Fury X's
um Alpha 17x in the chat this is a this is a really good this is a really good
point I'm a developer I use what the end user would be using so I know what the
crap I'm something twitch chat moves too fast I mean that is uh that is a really
really great Point um and depending on
what kind of development you're doing like if you're working on digital assets
you might be interested in something like a fire Pro or something like a
Quadro card but in those cases you'd want a lot more than four gigs of vram
per GPU so I still don't understand why
they're even releasing this card that's the question I understand why they don't
want people to review it I don't understand why they even kept it in
development after all this time because I it's like it's no secret that VR and
directx12 is where we're headed and dual GPU something of a dinosaur at this
point I mean NVIDIA didn't even bother do you think do you think NVIDIA
couldn't have built a dual 980 card come
on they totally could have done it you think they couldn't have built a dual
980 card with 8 gigs of RAM per GPU like
that they managed to build an mxm they
managed to put a 980 in a laptop the power efficiency was there the thermal
output was there they were just
like why bother I mean Titan Z was such
a flop I mean the price that presumably it had to be in order to build it
because they had they had lots of time to drop the price on it and just go okay
yeah we'll just take less margin on it and sell some more units um like the
price it must have cost to make it just made it
untenable so yeah I mean to me this is kind of
like the the final swan song for dual
gpus on one card outside of uh outside
of you know professional like scientific com like high performance Computing
based cards that you might expect to find in a in a like a a huge server Farm
somewhere so hopefully Polaris is the answer and
uh and we can all look forward to that hey Brandon can you uh help me with
something for a minute very very quickly by
running thank you um can you find out
what this is and direct it to the appropriate place it may be something quite
important all
right so this is a cool piece of technology the original poster here is
aing and the original article here is from The Verge this is a cool way to use
technology this is a mosquito killer
billboard that is targeting Mosquito
carrying the zika virus in Brazil now if
you have been if you've been watching um the development of zika in the news
you're probably aware that it is a huge
concern not necessarily for perfectly
healthy people but especially if you're pregnant zika could be a major problem
because it can cause I believe it's um
it's either macro or micro I'm going to go with micral which is a condition
where your brain depending on whether it's macro or micro I think it's micro
where your where your head is super super small which causes all kinds of
Developmental problems so what the what the bill so zika hasn't has has been a
problem um in warmer climate areas
jungle areas because it's spread by mosquitoes it's actually transmitted sexually as well but it has been a huge
problem in Brazil so this
technology is apparently using this um like carbon dioxide and
lactic acid solution to mimic human
breathing and sweat and then zapping the
bugs killing them so it can actually
lure insects within a radius of up to two and a half kilm this is something
I've always wondered about like how do mosquitoes find us so there you go
apparently it's by smell now to be clear always wondered about doesn't mean like
it was a burning desire because I could have just Googled it it's just something
that kind of like be like oh dang it how do they find me um so it can lure
insects within a radius of 2 and 12 km
and um let's
see and kill them but there H are some
concerns that have been raised so two of these Billboards have been installed in
Rio de Janeiro and they're using
technical spec specifications that they've actually published for free online but Chris Jackson uh Jackson
Jackson Jackson a pest control expert at the University of Southampton told the
BBC that the billboard could inadvertently cause more people to be
bitten depending on where it is placed and uh just give me one second Brandon
who did you give that phone to okay can you bring him back
here thank
you so I've actually got a pretty cool
graphic for how it works here I'm just going to go ahead and pull this up on
the screen so a device spreads in the air
and a solution containing the um lactic acid and
CO2 okay so it spreads in the air this solution the combination of the two
substances attracts mosquitoes at this set claims a distance of up to 4 kilm
fluorescent lights enhance this attraction facilitating the
approximation I I think they mean approach of the
and then as the 80s flies on average 4T above the
ground the catch mechanism was designed
to be there it draws the mosquito into the panel and after being stuck the
mosquito dies dehydrated so it doesn't zap them in the sense that it like those
uh like those awesome paddle bug zapper things but uh it does kill them
eventually which I guess is uh is all we can all we can really ask
hey Brandon where is he okay did you
tell him to move quickly I can't hold on I'm streaming
from that phone I'm dropping frames he needs to get over here right away thank
you
sorry all right so this was originally
posted by yumy Yuki
sene and this is pretty much the worst
news
ever l e uh formerly who formerly went
by the name of LV LV revealed their letu
range of smartphones none of which have a 3 and 1
12 mm Jack so instead the phone supports
USB type-c digital headphones through the charging port they also launched a
USBC earphone skew and a USBC headphone
skew to accompany it so let's have a look at the original article over on
Android authority which I would I would love to click on but Google Talks is
being such a derp right now and making it hard for me to click stuff there we
go so after all the rumors about Apple
launching a phone with no headphone jack it turns
out that an Android phone maker is going
to be the first one I really I get I get a kick out of
ese like what are they why why what is the
point like I I get that they're kind of going oh yeah well you know we're going
to build this ecosystem with like earphones and headphones that work with
it but it's like such a hassle like what if I don't know say for example you were
sitting down to stream the L show and you wanted to quickly plug your your
headphones that you normally use with your phone into your streaming computer
so you can check audio levels it's oh right oh bummer it's us B type c I guess
it's just not going to work with anything and it's one thing if you were to release like some kind of a killer
pair of headphones that rounds out the ecosystem and makes it make a ton of
sense but that's
not yeah that's not g to help if you're
just some random Android maker and your
headphones and earphones to be clear I haven't heard them but are probably
terrible like probably just just
awful um let's go ahead and uh see if we can
find any pictures of the device that would be that' be super cool I'm going
to see if pocket now has pictures up on their site but uh yeah I mean there's really
not much else to say it's not it's not a product that I would be that I would be
especially interested in one way or the other and unfortunately the pocket now
article is not loading for at the moment but
um yeah speaking of products that I'm not
particularly interested in this was originally posted by lots of
unexplainable lag on the Forum and the original article here is from Mac
rumors.com but Apple has
updated not the MacBook Air not the
product we were actually hoping that they would update you know one that has
enough thinness but maybe not quite as much thinness but you know good battery
life but maybe not as good battery life but actually has ports on it no no they
didn't give the MacBook ER Retina Display so it really does look like the
MacBook Air is a is a is a forgone conclusion at this point I think it's a
it's a done deal it's gone they have updated the 12-in Macbook so now it has
skyl CPU options a longer battery life
and a rose gold option so sixth
generation Skylake dual core 4M processors up to 1.3 GHz HD graphics 515
delivering 25% faster performance for all the games that you will presumably
be playing on your MacBook faster PCI Express based storage okay I can't
complain about that an additional hour of battery life faster 1866 MHz memory
oh wow available R gold oh in addition
to the existing Gold Silver and space gray colors
unfortunately Apple in its Infinite Wisdom
did not feel it was necessary to add any
ports to it so while I wasn't going to buy one
anyway I find that frustrating just
because for the sake of the people buying this product it would be it would
be considerate of Apple to you know care
about them enough to to give them some ports to use you know man I just I feel
bad for the Apple people Apple people apping
this yeah all
right uhoh more car scandals the op here
is numlock 21 I'm going to see if
refreshing Google Docs helps here this is driving me crazy it's doing that weird thing where there's like the line
you're trying to click on and you put your mouse there and it clicks like an inch higher or something like that let's
see if that yeah there we go reloading the page helps so euronews.com has the
orinal article about Mitsubishi Motors
faking their fuel economy tests they
actually got rided like go figure rated so their
shares plunged on Thursday following an admission that they faked fuel economy
data on car sold in Japan uh they ended up losing 3.2 billion in market value
over a mere three days they apologized on Wednesday saying they will make a
sincere effort to make amends to car owners and transport Min the transport
Minister of Japan wants Mitsubishi to look at the possibility of buying back
the cars that could be even more costly
than what Volkswagen went through wow Mitsubishi will also have to
pay subsidies granted to Consumers if data shows its cars do not meet the
necessary fuel economy standards I mean I don't know I don't
know what the takeaway here is part of the the takeway is these companies are
bad and they did really bad things and you know I don't know if that makes some
bad people sometimes good people do bad things but faking fuel economy ratings
is pretty bad um I mean you're lying to
your customers you're lying to your government you are polluting the economy
or polluting the economy you're polluting the uh environment more than
you said you were like these these
targets exist for a reason we're trying to reduce our ecological impact um but
with that said it also raises questions about
the about whether
introducing laws governing how much you
know CO2 or how much how governing the emissions that cars can output whether
that's actually the solution or if you have to do something else I mean I've
argued for a long time that here in Vancouver Public Transit is basically
unusable if you have a job public transit is is pretty difficult to use
Vancouver is such a suburban sprawl it
just it just spreads in all in all directions rather than building up like
many other cities have and our infrastructure is just awful outside of
the of the urban core to the point where something that is a half an hour drive
could easily take two two and a half hours on a bus and if you value your
time at all like you could even just work another job in the 4 hours of
commuting that you save per day in order to have a car and not just sit around on
the bus um so rather than just kind of tell
companies hey you have to have lower emissions you know maybe making changes
that make it easier for people to use mass transit would be a better solution
but of course that's very easy for me to sit here and say I mean I don't actually
have to run the country thank
goodness all right huh more bad news
posted by Phoenix arising on the Forum and the original article here is from
CNN Money Microsoft's profits Fall by
25% not an insignificant amount sort of a sort of a
lousy quarter but not all of this is necessarily entirely their fault so q125
$5 billion profit q1 2016 3.8 billion
but part of the reason that it fell 25% was due to a higher than expected tax
rate and a strong US dollar okay sales
are down from 20 21.7 to 20.5 billion um
sales for Consumer versions grew 15% Enterprise version declined 11% for
Windows although this I don't know could have something to do with that we got a
consumer version of Windows that was not accompanied by a server version I mean
Ser server 2016 is nowhere to be found yet if anything it's probably kind of
happy that you know Enterprise sales only declined a little bit like I
personally would be trying to put off a server purchase until server 2016 shows
up if I had any say in the matter at this point um Office
365 consumer base reached 12.4 million
in 20 q1 2015 and grew to 22.2 million
in 2016 I will say I contributed to that I love Office
365 azur is up um XBox is up so
basically yeah OS is OS is not growing the way they would like and they were
taxed higher than they thought I'm glad they're at least paying taxes so you
know good guy Microsoft I
guess yeah anyway
um what else we got
this is interesting so original post here is from n Gadget the Canadian
province of Quebec contemplates mandating home EV charging stations
expects a decision by the start of this
summer I don't really understand what they're hoping to accomplish by that um
I mean I can see how investing in
infrastructure throughout the province like public infrastructure could help
the adoption of an EV CU in my mind like as someone considering purchasing an
electric vehicle I would love to buy an electric vehicle it's just not really in
my price range right now but as someone considering it after I've spent the 25
to $30,000 on an EV you know hundreds
more or even you know low thousands more for the charging station is not the end
of the world I mean you think about it like a phone like if you walk in you buy $500 phone are you that concerned about
the $30 charger at the same time like I consider it part of the purchase part of
the decision that someone buying that vehicle would have to make um so this
really and and and my decision as far as what the
government can do to help would have more to do with mandating businesses or
uh installing these charging stations in public places than to do with whether or
not I have to buy a charging station to put in my garage so this again smacks of
the govern thinking that just introducing a regulation is going to
somehow address some kind of a problem and change consumer Behavior at no cost
to themselves because basically they're just making uh Builders stomach it and
they're making consumers who don't necessarily want one and aren't ready
for one and could have easily waited another 5 years when they were ready for
a new car and bought one then when it's cheaper and they're making them foot the
bill instead of just investing in the infrastructure themselves
sorry oh yeah yeah yeah
um speaking of investing you know who invested in our
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hopefully I can find my lower third come on Lower
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of course mousing over it didn't help
and of course I do understand why that's
not working and there is basically nothing I can do about it right now so
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out all right what else we got here we've actually got a fair number of uh
Fair number of topics Microsoft has finally ended production of the Xbox
360 so there you have it originally
posted on Kotaku if you wanted to buy an Xbox
360 before today was the time well there
will probably still be some on shelves but 10 and a half
years 10 and a half years ago the Xbox
360 launched and we are finally finally
rid of it uh Microsoft's Phil Spencer wrote a few paragraphs about its success
um saying Xbox 360 means a lot to
everyone in Microsoft and while we've had an amazing run the realities of
manufacturing a product over at decade old are starting to creep up on us which
is why we've made the decision to stop manufacturing new Xbox 360 cons consoles
we will continue to sell existing inventory with availability varying by
country Xbox Live will remain active as will the Xbox 360's various stores and
online services um and the Xbox one is actually
adding support for backward was adding backwards compatibility support for some
360 games so there you have it there you
have it the Xbox 360 is finally no more
I'm actually probably going to pick up a handful of Xbox 360 controllers before
like getting peripherals for dying console
Madness happens I want to get a couple that are in good condition because it's still my favorite controller really
don't like the shape of the dual shock and I really do prefer it to the Xbox
One controller so there you
go um let's see what else we
got oh this is interesting original article here is from anon.com WD is
ucing WD gold hard drives they have
added yet another color it's available in capacities from four to six to 8
terabytes and effectively pretty much
replaces the SE lineup um my see much oh
H that's funny I derped um and pretty much replaces their existing SE lineup
which was kind of like um like a a high
capacity Enterprise but not as expensive
as re not quite as expens not quite as high performance as
re um so basically the the color
branding is almost complete I'm surprised they called it gold I would have thought they would save gold for re
but maybe they're going to call that platinum or something I don't know it's
tuned similarly to WD red drives uh rated for 247 use and workloads of up to
550 terabytes a year with a 5year
warranty cool uh this is this is just kind of
funny this is originally uh original post here is uh over on
cbc.ca rust players outraged after half
of them given female
avatars um in some kind of attempt to
appease sjws I suppose now this wouldn't be that big of
an issue if they hadn't been
changed without the players even being notified and
permanently so your player just
boom they've imped a feature that randomly makes your character a man or a
woman they actually randomize features for your permanent character like skin
color limb length and even penis size so developers Gary Newman and Taylor
Reynolds expected this backlash and addressed it on their Community Dev log
this is great we understand this is a sore subject for a lot of people we
understand that you may now be a gender that you don't identify with in real
life we understand this causes you to stress and makes you not want to play
the game anymore technically nothing has changed since half the population was
already living with those feelings the only difference is that whether you feel
like this is now decided by your steam ID instead of your real life gender this
is really just the first pass of an ongoing rework of the player model I'll
continue to add variations over the coming weeks which means you're probably
not stuck with your new face forever we've got a decent synced workflow
between the assets I make in zbrush and the assets you'll see in game now so it
opens up a lot of scope to easily add or change features without a great deal of
technical faffing in
between
what so we heard that lots of people you
know don't identify with gender X or Y
or some combination of the two and that makes them unhappy so we
thought as a game developer
we would take our customers and we would have them experience that on some
scale because
we something
um
okay uh we've got more details about the
PlayStation 4K which um we don't know if
it's the confirmed name I don't know if we talked about about some of this stuff
last week I I believe we actually did but we've got a handy dandy little chart
this time so I can go ahead and fire that up for you guys so eight Jaguar cores eight more
Jaguar cores well no the exactly the same number of eight Jaguar cores in
fact same architecture but higher clock speed okay gcn better gcn okay uh higher
clocked um more compute units uh memory
looks like it's got a bandwidth increase but is actually still the same 8 gigs so
there you go um
Yep this is cool so this was originally posted by Strider 721 on the Forum the
original article here is from The Verge Counter Strike hacked to run on Android
phones this is
cool now to be clear this is not CS:GO this is Counterstrike
1.6 but how cool is that right look at
this love it
oh man so let's get some details here so
this is the work of uh programmer sorry hold on got to close that albec omarov
who's experienced in making old PC games run on Android he's created touchscreen
controls for the game so to get it to work on your Android device you download
the sash xash it's xsh 3D software have
the games on your Steam account to copy the files across and the port does
apparently support peripherals which is pretty cool because with an on the-go
cable I have actually tested this with an OTG cable and a phone that supports
OTG and just a normal USB hub you can plug in pretty much whatever you could
possibly want powered USB hub otherwise you are definitely going to have issues
running like you know large 104 key like
RGB backlit keyboards so I think that pretty much
does it for the WAN Show thank you to all of you who went ahead and uh stuck
with me through the technical difficulties on the show today really do
appreciate it I will see you guys next week same bat
Time same bat Channel actually will I
see you guys next week I may be traveling next week we have a lot of
like a lot of the team is traveling a lot no I wait
what yeah Brandon's like Gone Forever uh
yeah lonus and Ed are in San Francisco until yes next Friday so I'll see if I'm
remoting in or I'll see if I'm not but uh if I don't will be hosting the show
cuz he'll be back by then this is the problem with like you tell people take
your vacation and then no one does it and then you tell people look you're not
going to be able to take it in Q4 because it's busy and then everyone just
takes off mind you most of this is work stuff actually only Brandon's taking vacation because he's not a team player
you heard me wow horrible all right see
you guys