what up y'all and welcome to the show now you'll see how rehearsed some of the
stuff I do is not actually usually it's
not but but because my brain had enough
of uh had enough of a memory left in it
in order to remember something that I said just a couple of minutes ago I was
able to do that see because your brain had enough of a memory left in it yeah
well you know the thing is that the thing is that when um some some
streamers who are more eloquent than me might have more eloquence left in their
bodies in order to exude it but I've made a lot of
videos that was awesome so sometimes they are not as successful as they are
other times upon which time they are
successful all right guys welcome to the show we've got a bunch of great topics
for you today Google has approved Cyanogen MOD phone so apparently those
guys are no longer you know jilted lovers and are now talking to each other
I don't know that they were ever you know lovers but they I mean they worked
together if you get it you know working together but uh bit torrent sink looks
like it could be the final solution to
personal cloud so I I mean if it
exterminates every other personal cloud solution out there I will be extremely
pleased by that because it looks amazing
secure private No Limits have they
talked about cost is there going to be a cost associated with the program none
they're saying it's free or the beta's free it's saying it's it's it's bitor
and it's free all right because that is extremely exciting we're going to have
Jason from Jay's 2 sense joining us shortly there's our little guest lower
third that's a preview of that don't look too closely at it someone's going
to scrub back and stare at it for no reason no reason just because you said
just because I told them not to do all right go ahead what else you introduced
some topics for a change there's been a lot of really really big what
Acquisitions this year and one of them is going to be a Vago acquiring LSI so
that's actually pretty big deal some people are like oh Vago just makes the
switches in my mouse not switches sensors sensors yeah Mouse sensors no
not so much other things too a lot bigger of a deal um and then T-Mobile is
kind of leaking possibly information about uncarrier 4 which looks really
interesting it ties into their other uncarrier schemes as well I just water
on my laptop good thing I hate this laptop but unfortunately I need to use
it for the next little while here so we're just going to blow out the water
and hope that that works all right guys without further Ado here is the intro
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wondering if we might be too high bit rate for a lot of people we're too high
bit rate some people are have like 30 megabits per second down and they're on
low and it's buffering like crazy well that's shouldn't be because we're a
partner so it should scale in theory yeah but I'm wondering what it scales to
like I wonder if there's different scale levels for low depending on what your top end is I have no idea what you're
talking about people are saying it's twitch apparently that's very possible
that's very possible too all right anyway guys let's jump right
into our first topic here which is going to be actually a twitch related topic so
check this out we're going to head over to GeForce.com
where the GeForce L experience has been
updated so GeForce experience 1.8
introduced Shadow play which is a way of
using the h264 encoding Hardware built on to your Kepler based GeForce GPU so
that is 650 TI boost and up in order to
record your gameplay videos with a very
very negligible performance hit now GeForce experience 1.8.1 introduces
Shadow play Twitch streaming so there's like a video of a guy oh it's Warframe
okay cool okay we're going to stop that now because we don't want our video to get taken down quick move it
ah anyway okay for those of you who
haven't been following there's like a big there's a big hubub on the YouTube
right now for people who are uh uploading gameplay footage and getting
Tak down notices that are taking down their videos it's sort of a big deal
right now so my favorite thing has been when people are like I'm just going to show a little bit so it probably won't
get taken down and then it's like well come on if you know what you're
doing is going to get the video taken down then I don't want to hear any complaints but if you really were a
victim here then that's a whole other thing so anyway GeForce experience 1.8.1
now allows you to live stream so let's
face it it doesn't have quite the same degree of flexibility that something
like um xsplit does where you can have all these different inputs and there's
like HDMI in here and webcam in there and you know your gameplay window there
and so there's there's a few things that aren't really perfect about it so it's
it's still very much in beta alt tabbing interrupts your stream for example
there's very limited functionality compared to Dedicated broadcast software
like xlit still no Linux support but if
the objective is to play direct X Games
and stream them on Twitch and do a little commentary it's so funny because
uh I mean I love NVIDIA I heart them they're my friends but there's there's
some pretty um there's some pretty sort of lame terminology in here enable you
to uh blah blah blah we're updating something something and I think they
said something like do your um commentaries or something like that no
actually oh I must have read it wrong okay well they did fine it was me who misinterpreted it yeah I was like I
don't remember anything being weird in there I'm going to try it in the
Afterparty but it's going to crash when I all tab so I'll try it like once and
then we'll just see if it works and then go from there yeah cool that's about it
I think that's pretty exciting it's interesting because it's it's going to
open the door to a lot more people because I know one of the big problems when my brother first started trying to
do Starcraft casting was he tried to do it off of like a laptop while he was at
an event and it was like oh there's quite a few people commenting that uh
right if you're used to watching our stream on high you may want to turn it
down because high will be a higher bit rate than usual we're on our fiber
connection now yes we are I'm just
wondering if it might because people that want to watch on
high are jumping up a resolution as well so now that people used to watch on high
they might have to go to a lower resolution because of our bit rate but
high resolution at a low bit rate looks like ass anyway so they're probably
better off watching at 720p I don't know I'm interested I'm interested too well
at any rate we're ready to move into our next topic which is avago to acquire LSI
now I have to confess that I am one of the people who I like I generally
consider myself to be sort of in the know when it's like oh lonus what does
tashiba know about ssds and I'm like a
whole lot believe it or not because they manufactur n flash well I had no idea
that aago was this big uh So within
within the last year there's actually been quite a few things that have
happened uh one of one of the things that happened not that long ago was
actually LSI acquiring sand Force so that was at the time the dominant SSD um
controller well I can't you can't call them maker because they don't they
didn't actually Fab anything but but they own the IP and they designed yeah
the designer the control the controller designer for most of the high-end ssds
on the market LSI acquired them and over the last year or so we've seen The
Branding gradually shift from sandforce to LSI sandforce to more and more
towards LSI well now they have been acquired so avago makes all kinds of
crazy stuff so the original article from Anon and they're talking about how they
you know Apple devices use an LTE duplexer module and power amplifier from
aago these chips don't generally get much attention uh they're mainly focused
on the Enterprise side and things like fiber channel transceivers and Fiverr
Optics and all kinds of which I guess ties well into the thing that they're
probably best known to Gamers for which is the optical and Laser sensors in
gaming mice but I had no idea that they were a big enough deal to acquire LSI
crazy how they just like dropped it in cash they're like yep we're just going
to buy you not going into debt or anything just it's kind of impressive
when companies are able to do that yeah and they're just that much bigger that
they're just like nope so it looks for the moment like it's going to be a
non-destructive takeover so the LSI team
that so remember these guys have a ton of experience with high-end storage so
this is going to tie in potentially really really nicely with someone who
specializes and high-end interconnects so things like fiber channel so we could
be looking at um at at merging these
Technologies in ways that are going to make highspeed storage um just a a gen
this could be the next Generation in highspeed storage I guess is what I'm trying to say removing bottlenecks man
yeah exactly removing bottlenecks is a huge thing and having these guys working
together if the merger goes well although you know I mean you look at how
long it took someone like AMD in ATI to
figure out their very different corporate cultures and find a way to get
a cohesive product that really contains elements from both teams to Market that
being said with a lot of communication Technologies and stuff that we have now
it seems to be a lot easier for these companies to do this and we've seen like
a long time ago it was a lot more common for destructive takeovers right because
of that problem Communications problems all that kind of stuff it's like well your HQ is here your HQ is there you
want your job okay I guess you better relocate yeah we don't really care so
don't or do whatever and that seems a lot less common now communication is a
lot easier and there's a lot of more widespread companies and mergers that
are being done much less destructively speaking of communications apparently
Obama I guess the meeting's already taken place actually have you checked
out any followup on the meeting CU I have not all right so Obama did have his
meeting with I I heard kind of nothing came out of it so I'm not sure you can
you can check it out but I don't think so I think if anything does it'll be not
for a while original article was from The Verge and it's Obama to meet with
the leaders from Apple Twitter and Yahoo today in fact there are quite a few
Executives that Obama has committed to meet with so including Apple CEO Twitter
CEO uh Netflix's co-founder and CEO Dropbox Yahoo Salesforce Zinga Sherpa
concast LinkedIn Facebook Google Microsoft AT&T these are all huge
companies and the the Obama Administration actually
Obama himself has committed to meet with these guys to discuss um some of the
stuff that's been going on lately with the NSA and some of the well just
outright Data Theft from these companies
that's been going on over the last little I mean I can't I can't imagine
what he would have to say it says specifically what hasn't been made
public yet is exactly how President Obama responded to Sur surveillance
concerned so everything that people cared about hasn't been revealed yet so
yeah we don't really know yet but I yeah
that's kind of brutal and I'm I'm actually I had this in the notes but I'm
happy that it happened now because if it happened a few months ago I think almost
none of these companies would have really gone off to bat too hard but once
they figured out that they were all being infiltrated they all got kind of
really pissed off yeah you know surprising how many people thought that
that open letter uh was fake
um Microsoft can't can't remember where
the actual thing is H Google everyone agrees just trying to I'm trying to find
that open letter that they all wrote my colleague whatever that was in
the paper I think I sent you that right yeah here it is
yeah yeah here it is so uh this is from
phonearena.com anyway Dear Mr President and members of Congress etc etc etc we
understand you have a duty to protect the Citi sincerely AOL Apple Facebook Google LinkedIn Microsoft Twitter Yahoo
and uh when I tweeted that out it was amazing how many people thought it was
fake because it was just this letter that's like hey can you please like cut
the crap and stop doing this sincerely all of us a bunch of companies that
aren't exactly known for working together uh Twitter and Facebook anyone
uh you know Apple Microsoft Yahoo for that matter Google and apple like
there's there's a whole lot of this is the one thing that they seem to all be
able to when that happens when there's a whole big group of people that fight all
the time and then there's this giant bad guy that shows up and they're like oh
okay let's all group together and fight that thing that's when you see the
interesting alliances so yeah I I to me
it's absolutely baffling that they didn't notice on their own before all of
this went public but I guess a lot of it's when you're when you're looking at
internal pipe traffic though like how
much are you really analyzing that compared to external stuff like you you
see so many different things is accessing this data you're probably not
too worried because it's all internal stuff and you're all encrypted from the
outside and you're watching the outside so it kind of makes sense that they might not have noticed it for a long
time I don't know yeah all right now
this is a pretty exciting little topic for the PC Gamers out there hopefully
there's at least a few of those watching our stream you know what I should just
make sure that our YouTube announcement went up because we've been having some
problems with that lately with that just
not going out to the viewers yes it has but it has like very few thumbs up and
like it looks like it might not be fully published yet so that's that's brilliant
maybe we'll do a Twitter Blitz after this one but the dual shock 4 is fully
unlocked for PC almost this was posted by Tiger Claus 12894 on the
Forum and it's from The pcsx2 Forum
right here where there is AIT little bit of a breakdown from the guy who is
working on it so go go ahead I think you have all the the details for this one so
basically it it was working except for the touchpad the LED and uh vibrate mode
and PS PlayStation was essenti or Sony I guess sorry it was essentially like yeah
it works except for these things sorry someone in the community decided that
wasn't good enough and started releasing their own hacked weird version things
that incorporates a few different things like tricks it into thinking it's a different controller it emulates it into
a 360 controller and like all this weird stuff which is really cool emulating
into a 360 controller so that thinks C and things should work and then they just work that's brilliant um and yeah
so the community is stepping up and making this thing work and it's hilarious because Xboxes doesn't yeah I
mean it's it's it's so so you you're going to need a dongle
for an Xbox One controller which is just unbelievable to me I mean you look at
the versatility of Sony's implementation with Bluetooth and you can I mean I mean
it could be better you know you look at the PS3 controller the fact that you had
to have a rooted Android device in order to use that controller on Android like
why why didn't you just I mean okay at
least it's better than Microsoft where you still need a dongle they had every
opportunity over the last eight years to
see that Sony's solution was better this
time just use Bluetooth use Bluetooth so
that at least let us try to hack it
please exactly cuz like I don't think anyone's mad about about this Sony
giving up and just being like yeah it works that much I don't think anyone actually cared no because son's not
stopping these guys which is the nice part which is the good part the part
that's like thumbs up on I mean they could have done better there's no real reason why they couldn't have just had a
PC driver so you sit down and you can game at your computer I
mean yeah there okay it should have just worked but I don't think people are too
up in arms that it didn't because they're allowing people to mess with it and my issue here is that how long ago
was this okay how long ago like two or three
weeks I think was this so this is uh this is the old article from gam
spot this is a post on Gamespot and this
I hate this computer okay so then it's
redirecting me to here we go Microsoft on PC gaming we lost our way promises a
better future so this was about six weeks ago um like okay where where's our
where's our controller that just works natively on a computer the same way that
it does on an Xbox that should be part of that that
should definitely be part of that the other day actually I was at a buddy's host and he loaded up Dark Souls but
they pulled off games games for Windows Live from like one game that's my point
games for Windows Live was still on it and I was like oh that's
depressing that's not good and like H I
don't know it seems so well timed and poorly done
time yeah that sounds about right like
like they dropped it at a really good time where a lot of people really cared
didn't do anything it's lip service if one part see that's the problem with
Microsoft is they're a very fragmented company I mean there's Microsoft
Hardware there's Microsoft software there's Microsoft consumer there's
Microsoft Enterprise for all of the different things and it's not
necessarily going to help you personally as a Microsoft employee to advance the
whole company it's more your own it's
your own department so then there's Microsoft game studios then there's
Microsoft then there's Xbox and so there's there's all these different things and just because like one dude at
Microsoft is like yeah we lost our way on the PC we're sorry um directx12
will'll have more tessellation or whatever um that doesn't that doesn't
necessarily mean that that all the Ducks are actually in a row and everyone is
committed to making the PC a better gaming platform at least at Microsoft
which isn't to say that valve and NVIDIA
and AMD and all these other guys who are are just sick of Microsoft being
completely focused on Xbox and not focused on PC at all aren't just going
to take matters into their own hands and create an OS and an ecosystem that works
better than Microsoft's and I personally believe very strongly that the reason
the PC still is the dominant platform at
least for desktop computers you can make arguments other ways in lots of other
spaces um I think the reason that they're still dominant is because of
gaming not because okay so to be clear I don't
think it's because everyone just plays games on their PCS and that's the only
reason they own them so anyone who doesn't play games shouldn't have a PC
the reason is because I believe that Gamers particularly on the PC side tend
to be enthusiasts so when their mom comes to them and is like son I'm buying
a Mac they're like
No And they stop it that doesn't mean that Mom wouldn't
have been just as happy with a Mac or Linux or anything else for that matter
it just means that because the enthusiasts and the Tweakers and the
hackers that Microsoft has really lost track of how to appease are still tied
to that platform because they want to game on it I think if gaming goes away
those guys lose that last tie that they
ever had to the platform and those recommendations to other people start
changing I mean that is what these companies keep forgetting is it's not a
about how many units of Android smartphone or Microsoft Windows PC or
whatever the the hackable platform dour
happens to be it's not how many of those units you can sell to this guy it's
about how many people he goes out and influences and explains that the benefit
of this is so great and that's why you should jump on board it and that is how
a platform gains dominance we've seen it time and time again and then when they
start to close down the platform it starts starts to go away and it happens
time and time again so that I don't remember what the topic was anymore but
anyway Jay's two cents uh we'll be joining us did you have anything to say
sorry um there's there's a few things like the point about the like the the
the influencer the Enthusiast that tells people what to buy is incredibly true
and we see that constantly in every way shape or form and people just yeah just
don't understand it it's kind of disappointing because you see that like
something super niche will happen with a product that no one knows about but that
product starts selling way less or way
more because of it even if there's a few very small amount of people that know
about it even if it's like some bloody subreddit that cares about it all of a
sudden it's like whoa where didd that sales Spike come from yeah because these
people are influencers and their influence goes beyond what they type on
the internet to other people who already know about it they have real Li well
some of them have real lives some of them have real lives and talk to real
people speaking of a really cool feature that I actually wasn't aware of did you
know that the HTC1 wakes up from a full
power off to uh trigger an alarm so if your battery dies in the
night how's it fully powered off then if your battery dies in the night so it's
like off and you know how it usually has
enough like it has like half a percent and it'll wake up and then it'll be like
oh sorry it'll wake up and alarm and
then power down trying to trying to trigger an alarm so the alarm goes off
so it's that like clock battery in your phone or something cuz how it must be on
in some form no cuz even like even I manually power it down yeah yeah but it
there's got to be something still running something's going on yeah that's actually really cool yeah I don't know
if the One Max does it yet oh speaking of which I've I'm switched over to the
One Max for now man this thing's huge like look at it in relation to my
hand it's like ronculus see see my hand
Slick's hand you go it's like appropriate ridiculous anyway uh I'm
kind of getting used to it already I've only been using it for about 4 days and
um anyway it's it's it's it's I I don't
remember okay right because I was talking about that feature where it wakes it wakes it up because oh right my
wife was super mad because my alarm went
off or something and I was like it won't happen again I turned that phone I'm not
using CU I'm not using it I turned that I turned it off and it woke itself up at
my normal alarm time triggered the alarm and I was like stop it and it went back
to and it turned off again and it was like off like lock button doesn't do
anything I'm like what I don't know if it's just that one I have I have to play
around with it some more that's actually kind of cool because I don't care if my phone is like if I forgot to plug in my
phone I want my damn alarm to go off cuz I don't want to miss things yeah so it's
actually really cool yeah it's awesome I love it I think it's I think it's like crazy awesome all right so why don't we
pull Jay onto the show I actually don't have my uh oh thank you no problem is it
plugged into nope NOP not plugged into anything but that's okay uh oh did I
plug into that wait what is oh the wrong ones oh okay well I'm just going to like
deck myself out in all of the Christmas cheer today I wish I had a red one too
to go along with my green one we should see how many pairs of headphones I can
wear all at the same time I don't even hear anything he's not here yet and here
we go user was moved to your hello Jay hey guys what's going on not a whole lot
how are you well I guess we do have a lot going on we're streaming live to
thousands of people well hello thousands of people Jay's to C here thanks for
having me all right why don't I go ahead and put on your little guest lower third
there and why don't you do a brief introduction you guys have been you guys
have been asking for Jay to come on the show for about one bazillion years so
for those of you who haven't heard of him Jay go ahead hey guys Jay St sense
here I just do the YouTube thing like everybody else just trying to get my
little piece of the corner there doing all kinds of PC reviews and uh custom
tutorials and water cooling and if it has to do with a PC your Tech I'm a geek
and it fits right in so that's what I do cool that was very concise and what
was your uh what was your YouTube channel name it's Jay's two cents and
that's with a z not an S and I'm no relation to Jay-Z I am not a rapper
that's unfortunate you'd be really rich a lot of people seem surprised by that
honestly that I me they say are you related to Jay-Z no not at all so that
one was an accident it's funny because your ethnicity looks the same as Jay-Z's
based on the video of VI I'm looking at right now over in this corner depends
entirely on the lighting you know what's funny is we
were we were filming NC Tech tips today and uh we were doing a thing about
Bitcoin mining and I was like oh we should uh we should put like we should
put some stuff all over my face so I look like a minor and edel's like you
can't you can't do blackface on this show I'm like no I'm not talking about
I'm not talking about that I'm talking about like if I was a minor and he's
like he's like oh I see what you mean oh we probably just shouldn't do it anyway
you could make it you could make it look like coal smears well you could make it
look like Co I think they decided that we were just going to do it in the thumbnail so that they could control how
coaly it looks and make sure that it didn't end up looking inappropriate and
in un UN in insensitive that's the one
you got there I'm having a bit of an off day today Jay you're not the only one oh my God
after the day I've had this is a welcomed pace for me tell tell us a
little bit about about yourself what kind of day did you have today because YouTube's not your only gig correct
YouTube is a hobby I am in I am an IT engineer by day also Moonlight is an sqa
software developer quality assurance tech for a software development company
which shall remain unnamed but yeah I I wear a couple of different hats and
today is one of those days we had our company Christmas party at noon we're
trying to head out the office at about 11:00 and we had a major power adage at
our data center and we had to rush in make sure our our cooling backups were
good to go cuz if you've ever been to a Data Center and cooling goes down it
takes about 5 minutes for everything to overheat to death five minutes oh yeah
with the amount of racks that we have in our data center in Irvine it takes about
5 minutes from for the temperature in the room to rise about 35 deg F wow nice
racks yeah that's what she
said had to do it sorry so oh don't be
sorry so what do you do to prevent the
overheating at this point well data center that we have is all water cooled
um but the problem is I mean the pumps and everything stay running but the HVAC
system goes down because it's on the main grid you can't power back up an
HVAC system like that so pretty much we
have a direct line to Southern California Edison saying please get your
trucks here now before we lose millions of dollars of equipment so tell me
something cuz I mean this is this is something I again not on the same uh not
on the same level as what you guys are doing over there but I have had um I
have had a fan failure on a water cooling system before just a PC grade
water cooling system and what the biggest problem I had there was the
pressure that built up within the lines
uh as the water heated up and heated up and began to boil because I don't know
if the viewers know this but most processors including graphics cards and
some older CPUs will actually go above
100° before they will begin to throttle so um depending on what kind of a Delta
you normally maintain between your CPU and your liquid um you could actually
reach liquid temperatures of near or above 100° in very very disastrous cases
and I actually had this happen once where a fitting a tubing blew off a
fitting and uh sprayed water all over the inside of a PC I don't know if I've
ever told you about this no oh it was terrible um anyway so I was wondering
when the HVAC system so to be clear guys HVAC are HVAC system refers to basically
massive industrial grade uh air conditioner that is designed to not
necessarily condition air but in this case condition water and keep it cool um
so what I had happened was I had tubing blow off so what happens if your coolant
boils uh the coolant that we have actually is is treated in such a way
that the boiling temperature is much higher than the normal 100° C where
water would boil kind of like a car uh but in this case what we actually had to
do because we didn't have an ETA from the power company was we had to power
down our servers so we were running around to all of our our server consoles
trying to get all these servers powered down in the amount of time that our ups
would keep things flowing cuz even without an HVAC if water's flowing you
get a little bit of cooling but if you don't get them shut down in time they
you've seen it things will melt themselves and these these servers even
though they're all Xenon and whatnot uh they will throttle themselves but the
temperature rises so quickly they'll die before they ever throttle now I know
that with consumer grade Hardware the way that uh the way that overheating
protection often Works nowadays like when I had that problem that was a long
time ago the way that that overheating protection works now is usually when the
CPU reaches a thermal limit this the whole system will power down now with a
server does it not necessarily work the same way it can but the the thing is
when you're dealing with thousands of racks in the same room the temperature
spikes so fast that it doesn't actually have time to power down before damage
occurs genius excellent yeah so that's
why you see articles like in like last year where Google I believe was pulling
in water from one of the natural ponds that was extremely cold where they were
getting cold water without having to actually condition it themselves I don't
know if you saw that article earlier in the year but it was pretty fascinating yeah that's very cool actually I
remember back in uh back in the days when the only Forum I really used to
troll with was extrem system.org I remember seeing an incredibly cool build
log where what this guy did was he buried I think must have been a couple
hundred feet of copper tubing um and
then he he actually had an excavator and he excavated a significant portion of
his backyard and put it down below frost
level right so it rather than go rather
than being sub subject to any kind of heat from the Sun or any kind of cold
from the uh from the frigid air above every season all all seasons it was
basically the same temperature and then he had a he had a pump a series of pumps
that on the one end that was actually running tubing or running water through
this snake of tubing buried in his yard and then up to his PC in his house
that's pretty so that's a very similar type thing did you I did and I think I
remember one of the one of the challenges was condensation because of the depth yes one of the challenges was
condensation I think one of the other challenges was actually um I don't think
he was using copper at every stage I think there was some PVC and then he had
issues with filt and like junk into it so he had to
filter but it was a really project I was like wow I want to do that yeah I
remember people him why are you doing this and his answer was why
not indeed and you so that's that's what
I do by day and uh yeah the whole YouTube thing for me is just kind of a
Moonlighting gig just because I like it so I do
it here is the thread this is on
overclock.net so I this might actually be a different one than the one that
someone posted this and the one that I was looking at although it might be the
same one I don't even remember here let's see how old this is because if
it's this is 2010 it could just be a copy over though
could be a copy over not sure if oh yeah this might this might be the guy anyway
very very very cool project maybe it was just PVC maybe he didn't do copper maybe
I'm not even remembering it correctly either way very very very cool project
all right let's go back to our guest thing here so we haven't actually started any of our actual topics I know
we promised a Twitter Blitz to you guys earlier we will go back and we will look
at those tweets but if you have any questions that you want to Blitz to Jay
I I don't think I ever said thanks for joining us on the show Jay thanks for
joining us on the show I'm glad you're here he no problem appreciate it ad
stream I know I know I know all right so
let's move into our first guest topic here and this is the Cyanogen phone that
has now been approved by Google so here's a Google Plus post um that Luke
you give us your thoughts on this first there's been some interesting stuff
cycling around this because kind of everyone thought that they were going to have to fight the man to be able to get
this to actually exist at all and then now Google's just kind of giving them
their blessing which is interesting so I'm wondering if some some talks happen
behind doors and they decided to be friends with each other but ignoring all
that because it's approved and I don't really actually know what happened behind doors the phone is really
interesting in itself it's it's have you
ever actually used an Oppo phone no I haven't me neither all right then which
yeah I want one of these though have you looked into this at all nope the camera
is specifically interesting if you can see that right there because it can swivel I think it's
207° I should have put that in the dock but I think it's
207° and at every single point in that swivel it can lock oh so with some old
laptops especially from Acer they would have webcams in the top of the screen
that you could flip over but it was either facing at you locked or flipped
over locked this one you can kind of point it wherever you want cool this is
actually a really smart solution to the whole crappy front facing camera CRA
good because now it's one really good camera just you face it wherever you
want it to go and I guess that gives you more room for Optics as well which is
really cool oh so here they're talking about the camera so for world's first
rotating camera smartphone was the first in the world to
release a 13 megapixel smartphone now
you've got 60 so the camera is constructed from 67 different components
featuring a 26° rotation that will firmly lock in position at angle without
shaking or moving while you frame the shot which is like pretty impressive
although all I really see coming out of this is a lot more selfies a lot more
selfies much much better selfies at
least they'll be higher quality I guess but I think there's going to be more of
them which isn't necessarily good thing I guess it depends on who you are but
that is actually pretty cool and it is a really really high-end phone f2.0 lens
wow it's kind of a big deal they're sh
flash there the camera aside I've I've always been a big fan of Cyanogen
project I was an early adopter of it back when I used Android uh that camera
is pretty awesome though I I imagine all of the front-facing blinded selfies
because the LEDs will be in your face but
hey well we have to start punishing people for taking selfies at some point
here amen I agree so what better way to do that uh keep going I like the I like
the fact that you can lock it in any position though because now you're not
if you want to use your phone for some sort of recording you can lay it flat or
or amount it to something I think it's pretty cool I would like to check this
out that's for sure this is another feature that I want to cover which is
their ouch so the idea behind this is that say you're say you're reading a web
page or on Reddit or something on your phone can we ban companies from calling
their features the first letter of their company and then Dash something s pin o
touch S Voice s voice oh my God G
Gmail it's just way too easy um anyways
so the idea is that you can scroll through things and use your touch screen
in basic ways by actually using the back of the screen so you don't have to put
your fingers in the way all the time and I think that's really interesting
because there's a lot of websites that are being mobile optimized that are
completely ignoring the old rules that you don't put things that are interesting below the fold now things
are very scrollable because of touch screens so being able to easily scroll
through someone's website or reddit reddit is very actively looked at it's
is nice by being able to touch the back of the phone because you can use it with one hand for one big thing if it's a
really big phone like yours it's a lot harder like with a smaller phone you can
just do everything with one hand but with a big really big phone sometimes you're just holding it and you would
have to use a second hand to yeah I mean totally when things are bigger sometimes you have to use two
hands so this has a 5.9 in screen which
I do find a little bit on the big side
although what I notice about it immediately is that unlike the One Max
which has the boom sound speakers on either side of the screen what they they
have done is they've gone with a much Slimmer bezel on the one side so it should actually be overall physically
smaller so that's that's good I'm glad to see someone innovating in terms of
input rather than um doing what Samsung's doing and moving backwards
it's like yeah we can't really figure out what else to do with our high-end phone so uh here's a
stylus but don't worry you can like you can draw a little calculator on your
screen with it I do like that did you
use it it's interesting I I I could have swore I saw something last year saying
that apple had filed a patent for the rear touch display so is this going to be another lawsuit on Apple Tans oh god
oh potentially actually I mean it never
seems to really end with those guys so
nope more pent Wars I think smartphones
have been kind of stale the last couple of years so I'm really looking forward to somebody to come and shake things up
you know what you're one of the you're one of the people that I think I would
agree with about this whole thing because my my when I first got my iPhone
4 I looked at it and I went well this does everything I could possibly want
that without some kind of a huge paradigm shift this does everything I
could possibly want to do with a phone the only issue with the iPhone 4 now is
that iOS has gotten so heavy that it runs like an absolute dog um on the
iPhone 4 but when it when I got it I swear I was never dealing with any kind
of laggy text input that's for sure so there is something a Miss uh with with
the iPhone for hardware and software that is making some seriously bad things
happen with it I haven't seen I I
haven't seen some kind of huge amazing innovation in the last little while I
mean what what what do you think will absolutely help
this gosh you know I don't I've been thinking about that myself especially
since in working in it we're constantly dealing with new devices and I I think
this is the first year I've not purchased a new smartphone for the year
I normally am an annual upgrader of some sort but I think I'm really looking
forward to some of the technology that we looked at last year at CES with the
transparent displays I would love to see something like that but again I think
technology in the smartphone Arena has moved so fast that they kind of outpaced
themselves and not to mention all the lawsuit tobaccos over the last couple of
years have really slowed down technology so everyone wanting to be you
know the patent holder of this or that has stalemated the entire industry as
far as I'm concerned those patent Wars have gotten pretty ridiculous I mean you
and then you look at something like the wearable space where there's so much
Innovation left and it's so much more usable I mean the smartphone is great
but I mean Apple's whole laughable thing where it's like you can't make anything
that looks like an iPhone well okay but
it's just it's a thing with a screen on one side and not on the oh we could have
a smartphone with screens on both sides there we go like that's okay but a we
those actually I think they're releasing run in Russia or something and no one cares how do you make a smartphone that
isn't a screen on one side buttons around the edge or in the case of the G2
o buttons on the back and you know
cameras I think I'm really looking I was at Samsung's keynote last CES regarding
the their foldable Tech their bendable screen I I would love to see some of the
concepts they showed on that come to fruition you know with the folding
tablet or the wallet phone something like that cuz right now I look at what's
being done with uh flexible displays and curved curved displays in particular as
a very evolutionary step I I see I see
something like the G Flex um as just
because we can not as because this is something
that people actually need or actually desire
yeah yeah it's definitely cool Tech but I don't think it would be quickly
adopted you know because I think part of it is you're going to be dealing with
soft soft materials on the screen which could potentially scratch really poorly
yeah yeah that's actually a very good point all right our next guest top
actually let's do your why don't we do your guest Twitter Blitz here so let's
see if we have any uh any excellent questions for you here all right playing
Twilight Princess on my PC while watching the stream also the bit rate is
good source quality looks golden thank you Darren no drop I agree it looks
great this week uh the mighty Noob says
just started watching your channel Jay and loving your content hey thanks I
appreciate it uh apparently Blackberry has had the powered off alarm for a long
time and Starbucks says that's one of the things that he or she missed when
apparently someone has had that since
early 2000 with noas from the 9s cool all right I don't see many
questions for Jay here so we might have to come back to these ones later and uh
hopefully there's uh there's a few here blah blah blah blah blah lots more
comments about the the bit rate and uh
okay well why don't we just move into our next topic for now guys if you have
any questions for Jay please do post them Intel reportedly eyes future 18
core Broadwell chip for Zeon well yes in
fact their their picture here really indicates the uh kind of investigative
journalism about it Hardware that might perhaps go on at certain unnamed sources
for this particular article
as a as a guy who builds servers I am
particularly interested in that especially if we can if that means we
can have less physical servers and more VMS due to the extra cores I would be
extremely happy with that all right talk a little bit about because for gamers in
particular well okay particularly before AMD mantle comes into play which will
happen I mean well okay dice said December so they still have 11 days but
we'll see I I wonder about how hard the developers are working on the 24th the
25th the 31st and the 1 so so that's
four days out of the next 12 that probably are kind of writeoffs but um
anyway so in theory Mantle's coming soon and that's going to help Gamers leverage
multiple cores but on the desktop we we have kind of looked at what Intel's been
doing lately with reduced power consumption and the capability of adding
more cores although they haven't bloody well given us any in the last couple
iterations here um and the capability of adding more cores and we've kind of gone
okay yeah that's interesting but we don't really care whereas in the HPC
space or in the server space this is a huge deal for you so talk about what an
18 core chip means to you well when when
you build virtual machines you're basically taking resources from the
hardware on the server and allocating it towards digital computers so you have
one physical computer or server where you create multiple virtual machines all
doing separate tasks and they can be different servers entirely doing
different things so the stronger the processor and the more memor re
allocated to it allows you to do a lot more in in a smaller physical space but
once again when you deal with that type of of threading or that many cores in
one you know package you're going to be dealing with a lot of heat as well um
but as a server guy I would think that exponentially we would have a lot less
heat if we had smaller packages that can do more rather than having more packages
putting off massive heat into the air so
I was looking at that article and thinking of it about it from a gamer perspective um I don't think it means a
whole lot for gamers obviously I mean we're barely catching up to four core
and eight core possibilities or 12 core um if you're on x79 but I think just
like we were dealing with in the late 2000s you know Hardware is still
outpacing the threading capabilities of the developers so I don't think gamers
are going to benefit from this whatsoever yep and I mean I think this
is just more reinforcement that Gamers Intel has no plans to stop with the
whole we're just going to add more cores and make them more power efficient and
we are not going to increase clock speeds and we're not going to increase
per core performance plan that's not going anywhere so um there you go guys
Intel is more focused on the bigger picture of where compute performance
needs to go in the future and uh less less focused on individuals playing
video games at the same time there a lot more video games recently have been GPU
bound instead of CPU bound which is why the GPU game is still so exciting and
there's still so much war going on but I have to look at that and go well
the GPU developers probably know that Intel and AMD for that matter I mean
look at AMD they just knocked high-end uh dedicated CPUs completely off their
road map I mean they're just not that into it
anymore really I'm really concerned with what the the TPU is going to look like
on the overclock side especially for the 8 and 10 cores because everything I do
is overclocked it has to be and I was really disappointed with the way Haswell
turned out regarding the temperatures so
I'm wondering what this is going to do as they add more physical heat in there
as well well you know what I think we're going to get to the point very very soon
actually one of the things that I saw in Intel's rumored upcoming I think it was
an 8 Core Extreme Edition but their entire upcoming LGA 20 whatever it is
anyway the replacement for LGA 2011 201
Haswell Haswell e the uh the rumored the
rumored upcoming refresh was that these chips are going from 130 watt tdps to
140 Watt tdps which means that if you
start to get higher than about 140 Watts I mean look at something like the uh I
can't even remember what the stupid thing is called the 9590 yeah AMD
9590 uh TDP that chip basically required
liquid cooling that had a 220 watt TDP
so as we start to get above sort of 150 180 Watts we're going to be requiring
liquid cooling even on the desktop and that is going to be a huge huge problem
for overclockers who are not installing triple radiators into their machines yep
yep I had an 8350 that I overclocked to 5.14 at its highest and the temperature
output on that was just massive I mean I was running a a triple end a double rad
uh 45 mm thickness and was still hitting the edge of that thermal uh limit to
where I was uncomfortable with it and had to back it off but yeah I mean I I
get the power efficiency I get that they want to have you know twoin one
capability with their new Chips um but enthusiasts like me I you know I'm
willing to cool it if necessary but I I want to make sure that we're not going
to be dealing with these low overhead capabilities like we're we were seeing
with Haswell I I get a lot of flack from people from staying on Ivy bridge but i'
I mean I've got a chip that's a Golden Chip and I won't move away from it until something really lures me I'm on Sandy
bridge and have no problems with it at all I mean to put this in perspective
I'm on Sandy Bridge e um so I'm on LG
2011 and I was literally holding an ivy
Bridge e chip but it was in its box so I
had my CPU out of my socket because I was doing a motherboard Swap and I just
had to open the box on the ivy bridg e chip in order to move to that one and I
was like too much effort exactly cuz there is no benefit
even so Sandy to Ivy ivy to Haswell we haven't really for overclockers we
haven't really seen a benefit and I mean how much of this a direction do you
think is and the move away from sort of
appeasing the Enthusiast and you know looking for the solutions providers and
how you can work with those guys do you think has to do with apple I mean look
at the Mac Pro how much of Intel's intention of providing something like uh
you know a 12 Core 10 core um workstation chip as opposed to just a
server oriented chip um how much of that has to do with Intel's move towards
we'll know workstations in the future are going to be this they're going to be
this garbage can shaped thing and they're going to have one CPU in them
and we're not going to do that whole dual CPU thing anymore so guys you better find a way to put more cores on
an individual CPU I mean I think Mac Pro
with Broadwell is going to be an incredibly compelling little
can right and potentially with something like the Mac Mini where you're getting
much p a lot of power in much smaller formfactor I I do think Intel is more
concerned with form factor than like you said those dual chip Solutions which are
server systems yeah definitely as we see
Power draw go down and mobile Intel chips become much more yeah speaking of
Broadwell Intel saying that we could be looking at or well the okay rumored
rumored uh the rumor is that we could be looking at Broadwell chips as low as 4.5
Watts so we could be looking at everywhere from 18 core server chips
down to 4 and 1 12 watt tablet chips on the same basic architecture which is uh
pretty exciting it's really awesome for certain form factor like Jay was just
saying it just has nothing to do with gamer and overclockers no it just really
has me wondering where the future goes from there I mean we've seen this trend
so many times in Tech where things get smaller and smaller and now just like
the faets were're back to going bigger and bigger so when is the cycle going to
repeat uh wearables right there yeah yep
it's already happening and we'll make those smaller
and smaller and smaller until we want to turn them into fashion statements and
then they get bigger and bigger mind you I think that's happening already because
one of the um the wearable bra uh no not the wearable bra yeah oh when those get
bigger that's definitely a good
thing well come on I had to make the joke um oh no no the thing that I was
actually going to talk about was the Neptune Pine so this is the uh the
Smartwatch Kickstarter actually 26 hours to go and I'm not necessarily
recommending to back this thing guys because I think it's stupid but I I
backed it so that I could get one so that I could do a video of it so we could show you that it's stupid um but
this thing looks absolutely ridiculous I mean look at the thing it's supposed to
be a smartwatch and the GU using it like
like it's it's not that much smaller than iPhone 4 I was actually marveling the other day that my iPhone 4's screen
area is literally 13 of the One Max like
if you take the thing and you put it if you put it portrait next to the
landscape One Max it it it almost lines up screen for screen and it's about
three of them um so I mean these Trends
are it's like they're happening at like hypers speed now smaller faster we're we
haven't even released anything yet but we're going to make it smaller and then bigger and then smaller
again
yep eventually they'll come up with the Fallout style huge yeah ARM things like
armband things with curved displays and you're just like so you can have
multiple conversation Windows open with different people like I'll keep you on
my bicep so you can enjoy that there we go perfect I would love to spend a day
in just in one of these think tanks at these companies to see where they really are trying to take technology cuz I
honestly feel like some of these companies are truly lost where they they
have no idea what they're going to bring us now I I think Samsung's always like
that yeah I would agree more plastic it's like well we'll just
release like every phone and then the ones that sell well we'll we'll tweak
those and then release them again and then we'll release them as a camera and
then we'll release them as a watch and then we'll release them as like
Underpants if we can get side to where Underpants then the smart underwear
smart underwear tells you when you got to go it tells you when you already went
tells you when you should dance that that wake up alarm on it vibrating alarm
s underwear you ate too much start
dancing oh boy but but but then again
you know this this whole unknown is kind of what makes it exciting at the same
time too but every now and then there are those companies that come out with something that they hype up like crazy
and you just go what what what why did
you possibly think this I'm sorry what were you think like I I think I think Galaxy Gear is
just a complete disaster I think Samsung did it so they could
be so they could have something on the market I mean I think I okay this is
sort of the cynic in me but I think they're just releasing it with as many
features as possible so that if there's any kind of a patent dispute later they
can be like well no we already had it like we brought it to Market we did this
so that they can just sit and they can have this stupid product on the market
that makes no sense and then they can wait for Apple to release the eyewatch
and then they can make like as few tweaks as possible to gear so that it's
not a copy but it's like an iteration of gear but so that they can actually just
clone eyew watch all the marketing is actually just so the judge can find the evidence that it exists yeah that that's
what I think which which takes us to the bigger problem at least here in the
United States is just how many patent trolls there are yeah and companies
wouldn't have to do this if they weren't concerned about the patent trolls if the laws actually protected the innovators
and not the copywriters on the other hand the flip side of that is if you
have a great idea what can you do if someone like an apple or someone like a
Samsung flat out just decides to steal it because yeah I yeah I I it's so
frustrating to me because it's the problem is then you patent the idea and
you never it never comes to fruition you have this great idea sitting on the shelf because the guy who patented it
couldn't make it happen so it is a double-edged sword and yep it really
staying say but because none of these companies are willing to collaborate
with each other well they all are bitter enemies no one works together either
yeah we need more giant alliances like the DVD alliances okay but the problem
with giant alliances is that then you end up with Wall-E I know and then it's
just like cuz as far as I can tell if Costco and Amazon merged they would
basically just call themselves The by and large and they they would be that
Corporation they could totally do it they could totally do it because there
would be this oh my God imagine Amazon show rooms inside of
Costco I just peed myself I know imagine you could get free shipping from Amazon
if you just shipped it to a Costco and picked it up I okay imagine if the
entire top of a Costco warehouse was like Amazon drone area oh my so you
could order things to the Costco because Costco is so good at like bulk Logistics
and and pricing and all of these things and customer service and like Amazon is
so good at these things if they just kind of got together and we're like yeah
we're just going to crush everything cost
I'll tell you what's frustrating especially with Amazon is I live I can
see out my front yard about 2 miles away there's a brand new 1.5 million foot
Costco shipping warehouse distribution center on the west coast sorry you said
Costco did you mean Amazon I I'm sorry I mean Amazon yeah yeah okay and I can see
it in fact I have a family member who works there yet I can't go pick anything
up and I still have to pay full price shipping even though it literally never
it goes from a van to my door they use like a third party carrier that's local
and they still charge me for full price for shipping and you can tell when it's
local because I'll have it'll be 4:00 in the afternoon and it's giving me another
9 hours to order it to have it by tomorrow so it's obvious it's right down
the street but they don't give me the option to pick it up so that's
incredibly frustrating and I would love to see drones in my area because I live
in a high wind area and I can imagine the amount of injuries that'll come of that because of out of control
drones I think we're a long way away from the Drone thing I'm I'm in the this
was a marketing stunt Camp I'm excited for it and I think it'll happen but not
for a lot long time it's a long way away and I think I think what's more likely
to happen in the more near term is pickup Depot this was actually one of
the things that I really wanted to see happen at NC uh when I worked there I
wanted rather than focusing on larger more beautiful stores what I wanted was
I don't know if anyone ever shopped at like the old NCI on Broadway in
Vancouver if anyone on the stream ever shopped there that place was horrible um
the front of the the storefront was like
covered in like ugly Tech posters and there was like a counter and then there
was like the place where I would always hang out cuz I was always like going there with my computer to like
troubleshoot things and I'd like borrow tester parts from the R department so I
could like try things and then I'd like buy stuff based on what worked and
anyway um but they had like this old horrible Dusty PC and an acrylic case on
the right and then they had like cases and printers all over the front of the
store and then in the back they just had storage and that that is what I would
have loved to see for an
etailer tons of them tons of little okay
there's a little like Tech area where you can get some service done and people
can come in and like troubleshoot things and they can swap out parts and then buy
things um a little bit of limited inventory of like like my my concept for
this was two Brands per category period
no matter what okay so video cards we stock EVGA we stock XFX that's it memory
we stock Corsair we stock Kingston that's it or whatever it doesn't have to
or whatever but the point is two Brands per category and then you can special
order anything so you'd have you'd have
like like basically two trucks that just cross the country you know every week
and go like this and then just do pickups and drop offs at each location
as needed so you could have anything Shi for free anywhere if you're willing to
wait a maximum of six days or five business days or whatever it is I think
that is the future more than something like drones that's what I liked about NC
so much that's the only only real reason why I pretty much only buy things from
ncx is because I don't have to pay shipping I get it shipped to an ncx
location and then just go pick it up screw paying shipping well you know
Amazon has that locker system but I don't trust it because when I looked at
the local Lockers in my area one of them I kid you not was
7-Eleven it wow yeah yeah I didn't understand it so I there was no way I
was even going to try it but 7-Eleven was a locker pickup I had I didn't even
know that was possible yeah I had no idea it's almost like if you're willing
to allow us to ship stuff to your location and you'll stick it in the back we'll pay you that's what it seemed like
to me yeah that's sketchy in my opinion
not super down for that someone says private little PC stores have tried that
idea the price markup is too high how have private how can little PC stores
try that idea the whole idea is that you have a national chain massive scale yeah
that's that's not how the idea Works NC does that yeah n does that I just wanted
to see more locations and smaller and just everywhere that's why I said I
liked doing it it's cuz it was an option anyway all right so let's move into our
last big topic here which is bit Torrance
sink wow this is amazing personal cloud you know what Jay why don't I let you
kick us off on this one because you must have a lot to say about this you you
know it it's scary to me just because a
lot of the immediate thoughts that go along with the word bit torrent to have
my data traveling and funneling through them when the whole bit torrent thing
all about in the beginning was piracy so I don't know how much I would trust it I
like the fact that it the space is only limited by your own personal space and
the bandwidth is only limited by your own personal bandwidth right and and I
thought that that that concept is great but I don't know if the person trying to
Market this is the right person I mean the whole bit torr thing just scares me
bit torr's been trying to change their name for a long time though and they're changing what they're developing as well
so they're doing sync and they're doing chat systems and they're kind of moving
away from their idea which kind of goes to show
though the the reputation they've already created for themselves when when
my first reaction is bitorrent oh I'm I'm concerned about security that how
many other people have that same reaction to it but what part in bit torent are you worried about security
with the fact that they have piracy ties with being utilized for piracy or people
actually being able to break in um I think when you have a community
that in the past has been pretty much all having to do with piracy I think
immediately the thought that goes along with that is people TR trying to break
in as that's just what they do that's the way I feel about it form it's
because most people that are using torrenting applications aren't the
people cracking things they're people acquiring the things that were cracked
by someone else so I think it's a different type I'm not saying you're
wrong I just I think it's a different type of pirate it's not it's not people
hacking lines it's people hacking software so they can release it for free
my personal opinion though is I don't I don't store anything on the cloud and I
know this isn't cloud storage but they are still we're using Cloud funneling uh
almost like a pointto point to your own personal network but I don't I don't
like my information traveling through these unsecured networks that I have no
idea where they are so I personally have my own vpns and I have my own access to
my networks but then again I'm I'm on a geek level that the average consumer
isn't going to be on right so and if if someone's the average consumer and still
worried about that kind of stuff they can take other precautions too it's not perfect nothing will be perfect but uh
like something you can do is uh encrypt your stuff before you send it like
encrypt your stuff before you put it in a sync folder because then it's at least
slightly more secure so is man I'm just
wondering how many average people would know to do that or even know how to do
that even with simple tutorials or tools yeah but then how many average people
are going to be transferring data across these sync lines that is like
super worried if they lose it I kind of feel like this is the future of storage
though I mean I think we're really looking at so much being on the you know
the interweb and interets and these these different cloudfunnels and uh
these point-to-point Services I think I think we we are inevitably going to have
security holes and and issues in there I mean Target alone this week right 40
million credit cards lost yeah yeah and they are and they have massive massive
massive third party companies constantly trying to break their system to find
these holes yet it still happened but because they're a giant Target as well
my mom isn't a giant Target oh um no but
like if when you look at something like how when Adobe got cracked they got
cracked because they're this giant actual honey pot with real honey in it
um of things that you can get if you break into it if you're it's it's not as
common for someone like my mom to get attacked it's more common for that so
personally like it's it's obviously what risk do you want to take in this
situation it's not there isn't a perfect solution but I didn't get a chance like
this I didn't get a chance to research it fully in depth but my question is
where's the Hub and can somebody somehow
monitor that Hub that with malicious intent I don't think it's based off of a
hub because I think based on their technology it's going through your own
lines so it I don't think it's ever interfacing with bit torrent servers
it's going through your own lines I I'll have to definitely research that more
because I'm curious as to how they can establish that connection without seeing the data I don't think there's a ton of
information yeah there's not a ton yet um it's just a basically they've got the
informational page up so guys I'll just show this to you right here so your data
belongs to you as their whole thing if everything they say here is true so
access your files everywhere create sync folders open on any computer phone or
tablet access docs photos etc etc etc um
never stores your files on servers so they stay safe from data breaches and
prying eyes send and sync without speed limits and free if all of this ends up
being true then we have one revolutionary concept on our hands if
any of it isn't then it might be just another me too but the one thing that I
can say about bit torent to I guess um
you know yeah the word has become synonymous with piracy but that's just
all it is it's a word um bit torrent has
legit imate uses and we actually used it
not that long ago for something that I looked at and I went this would be
absolutely impossible or extremely costly without bit torrent and that was
when we did our capture um our gameplay capture and image quality comparison
between a bunch of different consoles and I was looking at it going how the
hell are we going to send out these multiple Gigabyte files to all the
hundreds of people that are going to hit them all at once and the answer was bit
torrent it was incredibly easy everyone was getting great download speeds and
having this peer-to-peer Network um really a
validated the the protocol to me it's being able to see that an individual
like myself could just go okay let's like make something happen let's get a
file out there that is that is a legitimate file that has nothing to do
with any kind of piracy just so people can see it and compare image quality is
great and if they can take that um if
they can take that distributed sort of approach and that that decentralized
approach and apply it to things like the security of my personal files or my
personal chats I think that's fantastic because I the public cloud makes me
extremely uncomfortable I don't store anything um I don't store anything very
personal there because um just the fact
that it's never actually deleted is is very very disconcerting to me so I do
use a personal cloud I probably don't have one that says secure as what you're
doing but I would make the argument that it's certainly a hell of a lot better
than a public cloud and if this is at least that much better than public Cloud
even if it's not as good as the very best thing you could build on your own
with a whole lot of networking knowhow then I'll settle for that yeah I I I
agree with you 100% on that I it's definitely sounds like one of the you
know legit service that's been abused because of the fact that being a
peer-to-peer allows people to abuse that sort of system uh but if this gives
people like you said the freedom to be able to securely transfer files from
their own networks to I mean let's say next month there's something very
important you guys left back at the studio on that machine and you need get
right in there through bit torrent pull it to yourself I can see the benefits of
that and this is something I'll definitely research and maybe even try out and and give some information on
myself but yeah I've been I've been off of the consumer level Point too and
peerto peers for so long now I'm not as in touch as I'd like to
be yeah and I mean one other like huge
application for this is in in spite of these things getting larger the storage
on them seems to keep not getting larger my data plan in the last 5 years has
gone from I think I used to have oh it was something stupid like 500 Megs and I
have five gigs now running right now yeah so in another five years if I'm
able to get a 10x scale get 10x scaling on that again and I can have 50 gigs a
month having something in a little personal bit torant Cloud where I can
have all of my files at my home
replicated to my office and then accessible anywhere where I have you
know LTE 5 or Whatever It Is by that point that'll be fantastic that is a
future that I can that I can get into so the the workings of what he was just
explaining is you can have things automatically syncing everything so
they're just always mirroring each other or you can have it where you can
selectively download things or just remotely view them so you don't have to
use all the storage on your phone and you can do that by user groups or you
can do that by individual folders or whatever else you want it looks amazing
it just has to be awesome and the P2P nature of it is a nice little security
outer yeah I and I do like you said about the you know the data plans and
and the amount of bandwidth it's unfortunate that so many carriers and
and because let's face it if we're talking mobile we are going to be at the mercy of whatever our carrier's plan is
yep that everyone's gone away from unlimited you know the the speed got
faster everyone's bandwidth has grown yet they found a way to Market To Us by
giving us limited data caps which I don't know how it is in Canada but I
know here we've I was on an unlimited plan for 9 years before I got stuck on a
cap plan simply because I wanted a newer phone yep so I could see a system like
that if you don't set it up just right just wrecking your cell Bill y but then
like we said you can selectively download things you can have it so that
it can see everything but doesn't sync any of it and then remotely access it or
just not sync it at all all right so let's go to Jay's Twitter Blitz before
we uh before we move on to our other topics Jay can I create virtual machines
and run them at the same time for example one Ubuntu One Windows and
display them on two different monitors absolutely in fact you can display them
on any uh remote desktop as well in fact we don't even have monitors hooked up to
these machines they're just a box that then you remote into different IPS and
their virtual machines on that system so you could have as many virtual machines
as you want as long as you have the hardware to allocate to it awesome
Amazon oh oh okay um someone says Amazon should open up small pickup shops that
only serves as a pickup spot where Works fber big companies here in Denmark okay
yep yeah that is what we were talking about agreed
um where do the world okay someone says
working at an Amazon warehouse it's pretty disappointing that I can't pick
up my own order and walk out with it it's right there so it's not just you
Jay and it may end up coming from a different state um Evan says Jay do you
think that AMD will try to pick up the enthusiasts that Intel has left behind
on the desktop overclocking side I think they are already have just based on the
radan move a radon move with getting in bed with the developers especially
Battlefield 4 everyone now is seems
they're going pro AMD which just six months ago if you had AMD you were kind
of ridiculed yep um I run a Home Server
do you or Jay know a good app that lets me manage the files on it from the W do
you how do you do it for yours do you do you okay math Mathes or oh I'm sorry I
don't know how to pronounce that if you specifically run Windows Home Server then you'll do that through a brows
but if you're talking a kind of Home Server then we'd have to know what kind
it is I think yeah not enough info sorry man post on the that that 140 characters
people will help you all the acronyms
Tobin contributes ASUS Samsung HTC are
all just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks smartphone saturation
equals desperation I would make the argument that HTC hasn't done that as
much the one the one was the one and they did it for a long time and they're
starting I mean now there's and the One Max which is like one but
it's like bigger didn't we see something last week about an ASUS phone uh the pad
phone I think they only have a couple phones though and they're not available
here so we don't really get much exposure to them I I thought yeah my my
wife actually linked me something talking about an ASUS phone with their own OS but it still runs on Google so I
don't know I didn't really look at it hope she's not watching M strand says
Jay do you like mycloud from WD or is a dedicated tubay Nas preferred with some
kind of custom software setup if the dollars are similar well the Nas is
always preferred because you have full control over it but if you want Simplicity then going with something
like that mycloud would be just fine for the for the normal
consumer I mean you got to remember guys I'm I'm dealing with terabytes of
traffic a day
right uh someone says lonus I heard this
AMD does not do desktop CPUs anymore thing was related to a fake road map I
could be wrong no you are wrong um AMD is still doing desktop CPUs they're not
doing am3 desktop CPUs everything will
be an APU I what I meant was dedicated CPUs so those are going to be gone and
it will be all apus with Graphics cores on board all right one more question
here we go um uh yeah it's not that
great of a question sorry there's okay you can you can uh you can post on the
for about that Rob uh Brian says Jay
just saw your video on the CM stacker do you think a potentially large casee is
really that viable of an option seems seem uh with the way that things seem to
be moving towards manyi ITX and and smaller form factors well let me be
clear um the stacker in itself the 935
is not that big of a case it's just a mid Tower it just becomes gigantic as
you start stacking 915s on the bottom or the top yeah it's kind of ridiculous at
that point yeah I mean I've got the top and the bottom and I stuck it next to
the 900d and it was massive but I did find that it lacked in a little bit on
depth uh depending on the applications that you're doing if you're trying to do
custom 480s um but you know I don't I
think there's always going to be those guys who love their ginormous case like my 900d and there's going to be those
who love you know their node or or some sort of a shuttle PC I I think it's I
think both are perfectly well suited towards those who desire that size I I
don't think I don't see the a paradigm shift towards small PCS although that
may change now with the steam box and the Steam OS but then I don't
necessarily think the big ones will disappear I just think there will be a lot more of smaller ones
right all right well I think that's pretty much it for our guest segment Jay
you were awesome thank you so much for coming on the show if you can just give
the viewers out there a quick reminder about how they can find you on the
interwebs if they enjoyed your segment here which I'm sure that they did alth
hopefully they'll let us know that they did uh yeah lonus Luke thanks for having
me on here it was a blast um you guys can find me on J2 cents on YouTube it's
right there on the screen you can also find me on Facebook and Twitter at the
same handle um I'm always doing what I can to try and help you guys be smarter
buyers and Builders of your own PC uh I am a huge advocate of building your own
PC so I'll do everything I can to talk you out of buying a prefab uh but with
that that's that's who I am and toss me a follow and ask me your questions all
right cool thanks man see you later all right thanks have a good one all right
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as well people are complaining about my headphones well I needed them to hear
Jay I need needed both of them I needed surround sound that's how it works add
more speakers add more speakers you'll just generate more ears as you put more
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yeah don't look at the man behind the curtain I love how you're showing the
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uh there we go full screen browsing yay
all right so this will potentially at some point in the future be the store
where we'll sell things like review samples or I don't know we could sell
almost anything here we have a a partnership with a with a with a
retailer who's I who local that I used
to work for um they're good guys I love those guys can't say that enough uh so
we have a partnership with a local retailer where the shipping out will
actually be done by someone who knows a thing or two about shipping and packing
and all that kind of stuff not us um but
the actual transactions will be handled through this uh we're planning to use
PayPal as the payment portal someone's going to buy that now someone probably
did you put a stock limit on it I did okay someone could actuallyy the 3970x
for $699.99 if they really wanted to although I don't think it's that
fantastic of a deal um this was just we were testing it so if I click on this I
think just out of pure curiosity if someone bought it we'd kind of have to
fulfill that unless we refunded them so if someone bought this right now would
would we be fulfilling that yep yeah yeah we have we have we have a few of
them actually um I'm just making sure that so there's like some specs I copy
pasted some specs in nice so if you were to add to cart now that might have more
specs on it then now hold on a second the one the problem would be shipping
because right now there's no shipping methods that that work um so the way
that shipping is going to work is we're either going to get something integrated
or we are going to have to just have people manually use like Canada post's
website to calculate how much the shipping is going to cost us and then
we'll just have to send it out from there um so yeah that's that's that's
the thing and I think payments actually work so they do so I wouldn't people
used to mess around when there was a widget on there and pretend to buy it
it's it's going to work now so if you buy this it will work it will transfer
$700 to us and we will ship you a
CPU so if you don't want a forementioned
CPU please don't buy it don't buy the widget cuz you're not
getting the money back if it ships
so yeah all right hopefully people get that
and it's all good uh I think that's pretty much it
though so guys the the main thing the we can keep doing leaks if we want to waste
time we can keep doing leaks I well why don't we do another leak later there's
this one we'll just tease the next leak yeah oh no no we'll leak that one after
Okay so let's move on to our next topic here guys which is that Dell is
releasing a console I I put this in the dock and I
think Luke Luke's comment was something along the lines of how is this even news
line because basically it's a small Alienware
desktop I think this underlines a bit of a fundamental issue here with the whole
idea of PCS as consoles whether it's steam boxes or Windows Media Center
media PCS or whatever else it's just a
PC it is literally just a computer I
love when you watch the video the guy's like yeah it's pretty much everything's
upgradeable including the graphics and the RAM in the storage and I'm like of
course it's a computer shut
up I hate all this steam box crap it's
literally like congratulations You released a computer that looks like a
console I don't care I just oh man I'm
curious did we Peak when he was handy clapping I wonder I'm just curious I
don't know twitch chat should probably let me know but features and design
available with Windows 8 oh my God get
the Windows 8.1 update for increased productivity with a free update from the
Windows store mindblowing visuals and sound you mean just like we've had on
PCS forever virtual design for virtually
any space whatever virtual design means
expansive experience with Wi-Fi I love
that's a big part of the movie too they're like you're always connected with 80211 and I was like yeah not new
we have AC like we person personally
have AC now on our
phones I need like a beep button so that I can bleep
myself oh my God we should get one of those we could do it with we could
totally do it we could just we have to do it that oh my God
that would be so epic okay yeah that needs to happen anyway that's not news
Dell not news Dell that was why we added
news speaking of news this is news I am
so stoked for this pebble's official app
store coming in early 2014 because there are apps for the pebble which is amazing
and I love it and I use it every day except when I forget it because I'm a
bit of an airhead sometimes I love my Pebble and having an app store that's
built into Android and iOS Pebble apps
is going to be amazing because the App Store really did revolutionize the way
that people shop for software it really
did what is an app it's an
application I love that it's not new
it's not different it's just an application you just shop for it in an
application store that's all so the
store was really the the shift here and
having something that makes it easy to browse and shop for and try out
different Pebble applications is going to be awesome and I am super stoked and
and pebble is amazing there's no rumors of like a pebble 2 or anything but I got
to wonder like what they have they got to do something yeah they got to have
something going on which isn't to say that that Pebble one is is bad in any
way I'm extremely happy with it it's just but things move things move things
change but there's going to be lots of different stuff whether it's uh so the
the the categories for apps at the beginning are going to be daily remotes
games notifications tools tools and
utilities Sports and Fitness and watch faces so some of these are a little bit
different from what we're used to seeing but of course it's a smartwatch and it's
a it's a completely like singular piece of Hardware that's going to have its own
unique advantages and disadvantages and the original article is from Tech Crunch
and I'm extremely excitated about
that um oh yeah do you want to talk about uncarrier 4 so the original
articles from bgr.com and wow that is
the scariest face he's always like that I love it I love it it's awesome all
right so their CEO has hinted that the company is about to
make another Big Splash in the wireless another one this is what like the third one this year uh this will be the fourth
fourth this year all right carry on so essentially it they they with their
uncarrier thing it was all really attractive but a lot of people couldn't move to T-Mobile because they still had
to do um early termination fees which
was a big big deal oh whoops sorry I was
distracted I was watching twitch chat no worries
um yeah there a really big deal but like
now how do I say this they're they're basically giving everyone up to $350 to
be like yeah join our side so if you have early termination fees they're just
like no we'll pay those and they're giving cons extra consideration to
families so if you have a family of like four or five people they'll go over and
above their previous $350 potential to
be like no we're going to Bow your whole family that's amazing so T-Mobile's like
yeah uncarrier all this stuff is epic oh you couldn't switch to us yet no no
that's cool man I got you just come switch if I was in the states I'd
probably be all over T-Mobile like the past is delicious just come to our side
you can just keep eating it all day yep we'll even pay you to come eat it that's
kind of amazing I mean honestly just with the whole roaming thing alone would
be enough that I could look at something like oh okay a few hundred
for um you know oh oh crap you know I uh
you know I have to pay out my contract yeah that's not the end of the world if
I can travel to the US and not have to deal with roaming fees which are the
worst thing ever on the face of the of
the earth so there you go guys it's all rumors right now the whole $350 buy out
of your early contract termination fee but it fits into the direction that
they've been moving that's just the same kind of crazy thing that they might be
willing to do so we're extremely excited um Star Citizen hanger module has an
update but more importantly the dog fighter module has been delayed who
didn't see this one coming yeah I mean based on looking at The Hanger module
were they anywhere near ready for dog fighting no and like ah there's there's
some cool stuff though they with this update you know I was just complaining I
think yesterday that they took away my oh not again um that they took away
my I'll tell you later um they took away
my uh what was I trying to say they took away my cutless yep was Uber not stoked
with this update cutless is in so I'm super stoked to go look at it soon y
because but you can just look at it you can't actually fly it yet well I can get in it and like look around at the
controls and stuff all right so here we go we can uh
I think we might as well just blow through our quickfire topics then and then move on to more leaks shall we sure
all right so this was just a post on the Forum that I thought was
awesome smil post
that this guy ordered 108 R9
290s this is on bitcointalk.org
and um so to be clear guys uh graphics
cards are not really that optimal for Bitcoin mining they're more for Litecoin
mining these days but check that out
apparently this is like just some dude and his dad's helping him Finance it but
an r9290 actually has gone up in price from $400 to $500 since launch um
actually we oh oh this is an exciting leak so we're going to have our um r9290
versus GTX 780 both of them water cooled
Showdown coming very soon which is much more relevant now than it was when we
originally planned it because they're the same price now yeah because
everyone's buying up AMD cards so let's let's sort of average it out and let's
assume he paid 450 each so 450 * 108
means he spent nearly $500,000 on the graphics cards alone
never mind the PCS required to power to run them and the power required to power
them so that is boners and it just goes
to show you how big into the whole cryptocurrency thing many people are
getting in spite of the fluctuations in value I mean Bitcoin went from $1,200 to
what five something High the next day
and then and then it halfed again I think yesterday did it no I think heard
rumor that I got halfed again there's a new coin called Dogecoin yeah but that's
a joke hilarious hilarious we're not talking
about that it's a okay we'll talk about how it's a joke okay so Dogecoin or
dogcoin or whatever you want to call it is like it's a joke
cryptocurrency that's only reason for existence is to make fun of
cryptocurrency okay so no bitcoin's at around 600 to 750 right
now um so yeah Dogecoin please don't
invest in do I've heard of people making money on it though because like people
are people are jumping into it as a joke and then like okay I hope it becomes
like the thing that stays around just because that would be amazing like
flying spaghetti monsterism it's like it only exists to make fun of all the other
ones and yet we keep allowing it to continue to exist Because the Internet
loves satire like nothing else it really
does it does um yeah that's about it we don't
really have anything else to say about Dogecoin yeah no that's about all that
can be said Minecraft coming to Playstation 3 on two days ago so this
was obviously a post from earlier in the week um it was really funny some of the
posts in this thread were kind of brutal people being like why do they keep
favoring Sony over Microsoft well I
don't know because like you can only release on so many platforms at a time
you just got to kind of like pick one or why do they keep favoring Microsoft over
Sony or I don't know what people were saying but it's like I don't know it's
was released for One console before and now it's two and you know why didn't
they release for the PS4 well because there's like you know what a million of
them out there like how many are there I actually don't know I haven't been keeping track relatively there's not as
many as the old relative to PlayStation 3 and it's not like Minecraft needs the
extra horses frankly although I mean there is mods and stuff on the PC
version which is obviously vastly Superior that uh that can make it more
diand in that's that's not a thing on the uh on the on the other one
not so much all right so Oppo is teasing the fine s which uh is SE is a handset
with a 2K display so to be clear guys um
that uh okay I think the the article here on Phone Arena made a bit of a
mistake because 2K is not uh F seven 2K
display that's their graphic that's why they said that oh okay well they're
they're being confusing because to be clear 2K is 2048 by 1080 that's 2K
that's the standard uh 2 and 1 12K is
2560 by 1440 well also known as 1440p
the problem is that is that the terminologies are changing so many
different ones we've gone from vertical resolution to horizontal resolution and
the other issue is that there are multiples of some of these resolutions
so for example 4K could be 4160 by
whatever it is I 38 something or 3840 by
2160 or like whatever they are there's actually multiple ones for different
aspect ratios so at any rate I think what we're talking about here is a 5.7
in phone with a resolution of 2560 X 1440 now one thing I did notice about
this particular 5.9 in phone at 1080p is that it doesn't look as sharp as the one
but that could be the contrast ratio and the quality of the screen as opposed to
the actual pixel density because this does not have as good of a screen as the
HTC1 it's actually quite warm not not like warm to the touch but yeah the how
it looks yeah it's more yellow whereas the one is uh is more maybe a little bit
on the cool side so it's expected to have a 4,000 Milah battery man that
makes a big difference this one's like 3,000 something compared to 23 something
I think on the one it's the difference between like on a heavy day making it
through the day and on a heavy day like being Tethered to a charger and like
today I've used it I've made a bunch of calls I've been on the internet all day
and I'm at like 60% battery it's like awesome yeah anyway um I think that's
pretty much all we have to say about that other than that to me this really feels quite unnecessary this might be
the world's greatest mouse pad this was posted on linest Tech tips.com by wooden
marker yeah yeah a $1 mouse pad that has
his or her Avatar and lus Tech tips on
it wood marker is kind of a big deal yep
greatest mouse pad ever um also this was
cool this has happened before but this is just I I thought was like boners so
doctors in China successfully saved this guy's hand see there's a hand attached
to a leg I'm sorry for showing you this picture I probably should have done like
a warning or something but um they had it they kept it alive for a month
allowing it to actually like sit and heal it was uh from it was it was
severed by a drilling machine so the guy oh this is crazy the guy put the hand in
a plastic bag without a blood supply while he searched for a hospital that
might be willing to save it so about 7 hours after the hospital can you imagine
being being this guy and being like yep
I'm a trek around with my severed hand
in a bag of ice trying to find someone who's willing to try to reattach it for
me anyway he found a doctor that was willing to to to to take a crack at it
and 35 days later they removed the hand from the leg reattached it to the ARM in
a 9-h hour operation and they will need several more operations in extensive
Rehabilitation but doctors are optimistic the limbs should fun
fully in about months isn't it I think I think it's like nerves grow oh man what
is it I think nerves grow one in every month or something so after reattaching
a limb like you need times not only for your body to get used to having that
again but the nerves to like go back out into your hand I can't remember like
that's probably off by a little bit so no scientific data there but yeah 6,000
Great Britain pounds yeah I think that's all there is
to really say isn't there probably still scratch your
disc so there you go the price tag for this gaming machine is about
$10,000 the original article this was posted by imike the king oh iike the
king you did not post an original link to an
article I am I for shame um that unless
this is it okay well it's from the huffingtonpost.co.uk
so I mean there are other ways to get
goldplated consoles for example uh what's that what's that place called I I
have it in here gold genie.com gold genie.com has all kinds of crazy
goldplated stuff they don't have Xbox one yet but they have a 360 that's
goldplated for around $1,200 Canadian so
that might you might want to wait for gold Genie to deliver your ludicrous
gaming console if you're going to be crazy one thing that we did say that we
would call out today is that we have the world's greatest live stream socks so
there's mine with Space Invaders if I can actually get mine up there you're
huge you really are a very large very large person mine has a robot on yeah
like robot socks so these were a Christmas present from someone on The
Forum oh we left their names downstairs I think we left their names downstairs
Frozen Kore or something which is really embarrassing right about now I tweeted
it so Instagram L Tech Frosty Kyogre
we're terrible people it's like we're trying to be thankful to someone and
actually we are just horrible we still have the Post-it note
downstairs because yep cuz we didn't want to forget and then we forgot and
then we forgot we left it down there we do that a lot yep we're just generally
not very nice people I think we're kind of nice we're just terribly forgetful
yeah you could make that argument which gets interpreted as being not nice
that's true and our people correct is being inconsiderate being not nice but
maybe it's not being inconsiderate we considered it by leaving it down there
so that we wouldn't forget it all right Frosty Kyogre I can't even really read
this VOD some Frost and frosty Kyogre I can't I can't read it
unfortunately all right leaks of new Forum features I'm going to sign in
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actually I can't even remember my username it's good thing I'm not like
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clear is not us becoming not a community
Forum in fact the homepage will be yet
another way to increase our community interaction and our communities
interaction with itself and each other it's realistically a portal for the
Forum all of these topics that you see like best frog USA which is obviously a
sample topic will link to a part of the
Forum if you scroll down there's a trending topics part still working on
the logic for that still work that might not work we're figuring it out but that
is all direct links to The Forum and
then if you go down even more there's a featured videos thing um and then
there's and then there's build logs build logs will be a direct feed from
the build log section some people were wondering why the heck there's that
sticky weird not actually a build log build log from Mr Wizard there as you
can see it's got a few few views and a few posts that's what that is all about
because we've been messing around with that so yeah this is what's been
happening lately so yeah we are uh we are we are we are definitely investing
we are spending some money on developing the website and making it a better place
for you guys to go and hang out and do things and get the latest news and
interact with each other and hopefully that ends up being something that's
useful to y'all yeah I guess that's all there is
to really say about it uh the store and that actually oh well we already leaked
this before but we should probably just uh show it to them um oh wait that's not
the right one hey where is that one what one the uh this one oh media there we go
oh yeah so there's also another tab here the media
tab which you can
watch this show on
hooray so at some point in the future and you can also see a countdown to when
the next broadcast is obviously we're broadcasting now so yeah oh wow I made
it I made it big Zoom un Zoom oh no I
can't control it um so then there will
be like some content here for the channel description and news items so
you can see there are definitely some placeholders there's there's going to be uh spots for oh no I don't want to turn
on sticky keys sticky keys on your keyboard never a good thing um so over
here there's like the sponsors for the show and then down here there's past
shows so we like I said we are definitely we are definitely investing
some cash monies in making our website more desirable for you guys to to check
out and enjoy and uh you know I guess
just making it better yeah we want to be better
but we may need your help we seriously I know we've been talking about this for
like a month but we will be doing a funding drive for some of the new gear
that we really need and these website upgrades that right now I'm paying for
we're trying we're trying to find a way to
make the new one like cool really cool
the badges thing was pretty cool we're going to try make a new type of cool we
want different cool stuff so there you go guys all right well I think that's
pretty much it for the show today um before people freak out I have build
logs they will be in the Afterparty they couldn't be in this show because of
issues really that's all you're going to say cuz I have I actually don't have an
explanation I do do you yep but I don't
nope right I figured you had one but I don't okay well whatever um so guys you
can tune you can tune into the Afterparty apparently um I had wanted to
stream at 4K today theoretically it's possible
um but we weren't able to make that happen I was having some trouble with
the uh with the oh I should show you guys I should show you guys the new
setup speaking of of new gear that is going to how much of the new setup are
you our content better huh oh no I'm just showing the uh the camera oh you
took the camera okay cool I wanted to make sure that he wasn't doing like
other things it then the camera not the
camera is not a thing I don't have it
well I can why don't why don't you have it I can show the recorder yeah you can just grab the AUD
okay so why can't we do it these buttholes released their product before
it like had anywhere any like okay in their defense their website did have
like fine print about how doesn't do any of the things that it's supposed to do
yet um so this my friends is the Odyssey
7 q and by sometime in February we will
have support for codex and resolutions that will blow your mind so we'll be
able to record in prores at 4K
all day with our current setup so with the battery and the two 512 gig SSD
cartridges that pop into the top of this bad boy see them we will be able to
shoot pretty much everything we do in 4k
which doesn't necessarily mean that much because you don't watch the videos in 4k
but what it does mean is more detail when we zoom in on things so for
something like fastest possible um when
we punch in on closer on my face it'll still be Crystal Clear what it also
means is when we're doing macro footage of products we can punch in up to four
times digital zoom and it'll still look like full HD 1080p so the videos are
going to look real cool once this thing videos are going to look really good so
what I was hoping to do because the way that the SDI out interface works on our
camera is that it only outputs 1080p unless you have a special recorder which
is either this one or Sony's $4,000 one which is ridiculous plus you need
another $4,000 piece so you need a $1,000 interface piece and $4,000
recorder piece to record 4K with Sony solution so this one right now only
supports 2K raw but 4K raw is coming in
January and then 4K Pro res is coming later but anyway it has SDI in so SDI is
kind of like professional HDMI if I had to kind of explain it it's totally not
the same thing at all but it's just a digital video signal that uses a locking
BNG connector that is capable of carrying um similar resolutions to
interfaces like HDMI or display ports it's completely different standard some
people in the chat were saying that YouTube can't support 4K and other
people are already correcting them I'm just correcting them here so that
everyone it it's fine they support it now yes yes it
can anyway uh so it has SDI in so that
comes from the camera and then it has SDI out which can go to our Blackmagic
extreme 4K capture card so I thought that I could pass it through but I
couldn't get it to be detected it could have just been used rare I didn't have long to play around with it but I
thought maybe we could stream at 4K today but it looks like uh maybe that's
yet another feature that's coming later although being able to shoot in raw we
have an upcoming project that we shot uh for Funk entirely in 2K raw which is
basically just 1080p like it's not higher resolution but the color and the
image quality should be the best we've ever managed to produce so we're do we
get to release this one well eventually
yes why you got it why do you is the other one just never going to exist
okay yeah yeah yeah no the the the one where he's in an Afro and stuff will
exist in the future but the the one we just filmed for the keyboard will be
coming first yeah okay yeah so there's going to be kind of a weird reference in
there no no no it'll make sense we we we rejig the script to make it make sense
in the new release order okay cool yeah
that's awesome and I'm definitely going to meet with funk at CES this year and
see if we can uh see if we can find a way to produce more of them because they
really are kind of Awesome you guys have only seen one of them so far there's
three there's three but I mean what's
the point of releasing a marketing video for a product that you doesn't exist um
some people brought up that it's kind of funny that Sony took 4K really literally
just made everything 4K what oh yeah this thing allows you to
film in 4k cost 4K you need another thing that cost 4K and then you can film
in 4k in their defense the camera itself costs
8K yeah a precursor of things to come no
it only has a 4K sensor in it yeah yeah
uh should we do maybe like one Twitter Blitz I was going to say before we
actually sign off we should hit a Twitter Blitz people been asking for that let's do it let's do it
yeah you can always go so much deeper than
me wow uh Austin says you should just open
a store called l Tech Computing and try and compete with NCI I don't want to I
love NCIX they're my Bros we'll just work with them is it true that the I
343 oh I love this show uh almost performs the same as the I5
4670 uh it wouldn't perform that differently unless you're overclock yeah
cuz that's non a nonk so yeah it' be pretty similar I don't know if there is
a 4670 I thought it was the 4 570 nonk and it was very similar anyway uh check
out patreon.com actually they reached out to us um it offers a way for your
subscribers to become regular Financial contributors we're well aware of
subbable actually subbable oh we were really close to being one of the first
like dozen channels on subbable uh the problem is that we're not us-based and
because Amazon payments to take payments requires you to have a Us address in US
bank account we weren't able to but I really love what Vlog brothers are doing
with subbable.com I haven't looked into patreon.com as much yet but it looks
very similar um we're aware of it but through the lineus tech tips form and
through the store we will actually have regular contribution options where
instead of you guys giving someone else
money to give to us and then have them take a cut you can just give it straight
to us so that'll be a thing more leaks all
the leaks um finally some demos and news
on mantle oh okay I should probably check that out later yeah it was it was
a 46 minute video I think so I didn't scrub through it for today but I'll show
it to you would you prefer Mac or Windows for a college student I can't
choose which you know what post online as Tech tips.com and you will get a of
people who tell you to choose Windows Windows um with that
said if you legitimately want to be a student and not waste your time playing
games buying a Mac would might be a good idea because their limited functionality
or makes them better for certain things or you could build yeah that's true you
could build a Hackintosh or there's certain actually programs that you can
get that'll limit you from going to different websites and limit you from opening different programs any thoughts
on the LG G2 I'll let you feel that since we have one and we're working on
well he's working on a review while I work on my One max review um so far I
actually really like it there's a few things that I'm on the fence about and
there's a few things that I really like the screen is beautiful for one it's
absolutely beautiful the buttons on the back as some of you can probably I know
it's not oh Lord wow I know it's not in focus when I do this but Sil oh we have
a new lens now too epic is this the Tamron we have like no money left cuz we
spent all the money because it's the end of the year there see the up and down arrows
here uh up arrow down arrow silver button in the middle the up arrow and
down arrow are volume the silver button in the middle is your like uh Power and
sleep option and then so it's all in the
back which is really weird but then it has functionality where if you double
tap the screen every single time I want to show someone it doesn't work yeah you
show to me there you go if I double tap the screen it always works when I do it when I'm not showing people it turns the
screen on and if you double tap the screen in a blank area on the desktop it
will turn the screen off so you can still kind of ignore the button and then
use the phone I'm kind of warming up to it at the beginning I was like wow this
is stupid I hate this and then within about a day I liked that the volume
buttons were back there I'm still a little bit on the fence about the power button um other than that it's I haven't
played around with it enough I kind of changed a whole bunch of things so that
I'm not using LG's interface too much
yeah um but I don't necessarily know that LG's interface is that bad I'm just
not used to it all I'm really used to is raw Android and um t wiiz and it's quite
different right so I I ignored a few things but I'm slowly allowing options
to come back in from LG's side and a few of them are really interesting I'm just
not super used to it so right now I like it a lot it's a good form factor size
too I think um but I do wish it wasn't
such crappy plastic on the back so I might get a case for it it's very very
plasticky all right next up we've got
uh someone says NVIDIA gsync do you
think yes at some point g-sync technology will come to Rift um yes it
needs it uh John carac covered that pretty darn well during the gsync event
I asked AT&T if there were any special circumstances where the cancellation fee
was waved she said
death excellent wow um all right so
let's go ahead and someone that's a special circumstance people are
complaining about twitch lagging we did up our bit rate so you might just have
to turn down your usual quality of the stream some people have been saying that
it might be twitch as well that I saw one person was complaining with a 30
megabit per second down connection that he was lagging like crazy another person with 30 megabit per second down
connection was on Source said it was perfect no lag and looked amazing um
speaking of which Mark asks how's the fiber experience yeah it's awesome it's
pretty great we speed tested it yesterday and uh from 50 down 10 up
advertised we were getting 63 down 18 up
I'm not going to go there this time all right so let's go ahead and I
think that is pretty much it so guys
thank you very much for checking out the live stream the land show whatever this
thing's called don't I I think we changed it at some
point and peace out well we got to do
the do the what oh yeah
thanks guys bye