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HD woo 2013 I know right it's like we've
caught up to the entire rest of the internet and uh actually here I should
be monitoring here I don't oh what only one of them is plugged in because we
have relocated the entire setup of all
the gear and everything and we're sorry we're a little bit late but we did end
up sort of having some technical difficulties we only forgot one small
adapter which for anyone who's ever relocated a bunch of tech crap one small
adapter is not too bad it's not bad and unfortunately I have no tech gear at my
house anymore it's all at lus Media Group headquarters so we don't have
anything but what we do have is a fantastic show for you guys today so if
you've been sitting on the twitch Channel then you'll have probably seen
this already in the video introduction that we upload to Youtube that I
normally record locally locally and then upload but at any rate Windows Live
sorry do it live do it live ah Windows 8
is no longer permitted on hardware bot you can't Benchmark competitively on
Windows 8 so we're going to tell you more about that later uh space glasses
space glasses they're crazy you they can simulate things that you touch in midair
are you the only one calling them space glasses no the link is to space glasses
look space glasses website I didn't even notice like I was looking at the company
name I was watching the videos about it I was like where did he get Space
glasses from space glasses although what's funny about their company logo
and it okay okay this is okay okay no let's get to our topics first and then
we'll talk about that later but remind me Maxwell is is rumored to release in
quarter 1 of 2014 which might make NVIDIA look a little bit scared at the
whole volcanic islands thing coming out because remember guys the way that AMD
and NVIDIA control information if there's a leak they wanted there to be a
leak pretty much they're so tight about that stuff so if they're leaking hey we
got stuff coming it might be because they
want to talk about how you should probably not quite run out and buy an
AMD graphics card just yet please uh so that's that could be very interesting
the graphics war is heating up again it's exciting um speaking of exciting
things if you are Microsoft you are either excited or not excited Steve
Balmer is retiring he's giving an awful
long lead time so he's saying sometime
in the next 12 months he will be retiring um but I mean that's
appropriate given that they haven't picked a successor yet and you know it's
uh you got to respect the guy for being willing to stick it out as much as an
entire year more y uh before just sort of leaving them defend for themselves so
we're going to have more on that soon but before we do that let's kick things
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want to check that out so without further Ado let's get into it hardware
bot banss Windows 8 benchmarks due to RTC issue so basically if you decrease
the base clock and increase your multiplier we should start with some
background because not everyone's going to know what a hardware bot is okay okay
so hardware bot guys is sort of the governing Authority on competitive
computer benchmarking if you haven't heard of it before go check it out hardware.com and what they do is they
catalog and give Awards to the people who are really at the top of their game
it's kind of like the um the uh the feal
standards and measurements whatever those guys are in that South Park
episode with the giant turd so they oversee all this stuff uh even if only
the kinds of people who you know are really into computers just like kinds of
people who are really into turd size might actually care about it they
dedicate a an unbelievable amount of effort into making sure that
everything's fair and everything's on the up and up which ain't easy with
anything digital because all these
overclocker guys so easy to spoof things they're tuners and Tweakers and Geeks
and hackers and you got to be sort of
fighting that while helping them to anyway okay so that's hardware bot so
what's an RTC the RTC is the clock in Windows so
it's it's keeping track of time and if that isn't properly running things can
get really really messed up so there's a lot of things that rely on RTC backups
rely on RTC benchmarks some benchmarks not all benchmarks rely on RTC um
anything scheduled applications can rely on RTC so if you play um like if you
ever played older Windows 3.1 games like I had this one game called Goose where
you were like a little like tank and you were like andway it was good I liked it
um what happened was my family upgraded our computer and all of a sudden the
tank went so fast I couldn't do anything because that application was not taking
time from the systems r TC it was actually just running as fast as the
processor could possibly run it and okay
thing so RTC is good yeah we like it okay so the problem has to do with
certain Intel platforms and Windows 8 so
the base clock is how the clock speed of your CPU which should not be confused
with the system clock that's running
because that's what was happening in that old Goose thing whereas the time for the application was derived from the
clock speed of the CPU which is totally wrong now crazy it's insane it should
have never worked that way but a lot of them did so the clock speed of your CPU
is derived from the multiplier times the base clock so when you're increasing or
decreasing the base clock what are we seeing here so what's happening is
they're they're allowing for a bigger time window by decreasing their base
clock but then not making their CPU Faster by increasing their multiplier M
so the CPU has instead of say 5 minutes
It'll have 5 minutes and 18 seconds to complete the Benchmark and in that
amount of time a lot of benchmarks are like okay how much can you do in this amount of time yes so they give
themselves 18 more seconds but they're at the same speed they were before right
so they decrease their base clock increase their multiplier give themselves a bigger window and then
achieve a better score now to be clear Hardware bought doesn't necessarily um
think that this was being intentionally exploited at least that's the official
word who knows what they know or don't know but they have found the error and
the here's I mean here's the funny thing is you talk to even super knowledgeable
people like uh you know I was talking to
um Andre Yang and JJ from ASUS where my whole thing to them was well changing
Bas clock doesn't really change performance and they were like well it
can in certain cases so for all we know
Bas clock can change performance in certain cases this is true but for all
we know some of the perceived improvements in performance we were
getting from base clock tuning might have been because we didn't have a
second stopwatch running next to this
other system and it's as much as a 7%
difference 7% difference if you uh like
you can get it higher 6% but yeah 6% you you can depending on how you adjust it
and stuff you can you can adjust that difference a little bit so depending how
much you're underclocking the base clock and compensating with multiplier you can move around how much of a difference it
makes so what you could do is if you were intentionally exploiting it you could actually tune it so that you beat
someone else by like half a percent so
that it's believable looks reasonable
but yeah very very fascinating and you
know you look at an issue like this and you get to kind of Wonder well who's I mean whose problem is it to fix this
exactly yeah yeah like apparently the changes were made so that Windows 8
could be put on much lower power devices um it's it's it's a lot easier
to run the new RTC than it used to be so
different processors and all that kind of stuff can do it much better and the thing there is that how easy is it going
to be for Microsoft to patch this when they still have to
enable you know whatever other devices
whether it's you know um super low power Intel has Wheel based chips or they're
probably using the same technology in RT so they're going to have to probably adapt it for ARM or they're going to
have to run two separate clocks it just gets really awkward right I mean the
idea of RT and Windows 8 is that aside
from x86 compatibility they're supposed to be and then how much do you expect
Microsoft to really invest estim this too that's that's one thing that came up to my mind right away was like okay it's
a whole bunch of Niche overclockers which I love but does Microsoft care
that much like they've obviously been moving away from game but we don't know
what else this affects I mean for all we know this could affect um simulations of
oil pipeline drilling y or something like that so if something like that
comes in they'll get I think more pressure than they will from the overclocking Community yeah definitely
the overclocking Community is uh you know awesome but not that big we we love
them yeah what can but what can we say so um our scheduled guest for today is
Locker gnome or Chris pillo as uh depending on at what point in history
youve followed him or how closely you'll have probably heard of him though he's
one of the pioneers of tech videos to to
put it to put it mildly so I'm I'm just tweeting him right now and finding out
where we're at on that because I don't think we managed to get a uh a test call
going today so hopefully we're going to get that going pretty quick just wanted
to bring that up and our next topic should we jump right into EA might as
well I yeah might as well EA moment we need like an intro
thing for this so that we can like really do it
properly I mean they didn't do anything bad this week they didn't do anything
bad so our source for this one is Escapist magazine and like you know they
don't they don't know what to make of it we don't know what to make of it EA
offers full re funds for unsatisfied
origin customers now my first reaction
to this was I was like okay it's
Escapist so they're probably trolling EA because EA is offering refunds on Origin
which is free or something like I mean that's the level of stupidity we've come
to expect from these guys but
no that is not what they did so it's supposed to be a benefit over like
physical retail so with physical retail you buy a game you try and return it no
no not not a PC game because it has a license attached to it but I mean a big
part of that is because that digital license is is cuz I mean you used to be
able to return games back when it didn't have a serial number attached to it that
was like you know a one-time use battl net account that now all of a sudden the
serial number means nothing yeah back before that you could return them so
it's actually the the digital rights that are making it so
that retailers can't take games back and from my perspective I'm looking at a
digital piece of merchandise going well
hold on a minute why can't steam give you a
refund I totally could because they can remove it from your account and that's
the only way you have to use this thing
so if they remove it from your account they can take the key back and resell that key and I understand the you know
you don't want someone buying a game to do a speedrun of it and returning it but
I think EA has found a very nice balance
here so they're calling it the great game guarantee it's only running on EA
titles irony just weird no I understand it
because how would you get a third party developer to to take a game back well
what I was thinking is is you could you could you buy batches of keys I think
this is how it works I'm not entirely sure but you buy batch because steam will run out of keys for certain games
sometimes so I think they buy batches I don't know don't quote me on that but
you have this batch of keys if you get returned you just put that back into
inventory and resell it unless the
license terms you have with the developer don't allow you to do that
that's true yeah which could very well be the case so they're doing EA games
only um they are allowing either 24
hours after you first launch the game or
7 days after you buy the title so they're giving you whichever comes first
um and they're giving you that long to just say no I actually don't like this
game at all you know because this I mean it's not the kind of thing where it's
like oh you know I'm 12 hour into the campaign and maybe it's not the greatest
thing ever if you're 12 hours into the campaign the idea is you buy it this is
to protect you from oh it's not compatible with my graphics card or like
you know Crossfire stutters all over the balls and you know crisis 2 or you or
it's a Bad sequel or something you don't like it and you know right away you know
instantly the idea is you're not stuck with it you can get a full refund I mean
if it was like a launch day bug you could even return it and go you know
what I still want to play this game but buy it later maybe I'll buy it when they
fix the bug and I think this puts the right kind of pressure on the game
developers too to stop releasing you
know day one or day two or day three patches because now the pressure is
going to be on the EA teams to deliver a working title at launch because
otherwise they're going to take returns this is going to I mean this is going to
indirectly make EA potentially a better
game company because they're not going to be able to just be like oh well we'll
just release it and then they're stuck with it hopefully it does that hopefully
it does that it has potential to do that one thing that I will see it doing is Al
the you know like I'm not a huge fan of origin origin in itself is I guess okay
the main reason why I don't like it is cuz it's another freaking application that I have to run yeah origin plus
Battle Log Battle Log oh Battle Log okay
sorry I hate battle don't give me yeah um but like this makes it look pretty
enticing because steam you have no ability to do this steam has summer
sales you can buy things for $2 but steam doesn't have any ability and officially origin has one selling point
that steam doesn't know one but it still has one but that's one that's one and
are we getting I mean are we getting closer to digital I mean this is crazy
where digital retail is behind physical
retail for customer satisfaction policies isn't that insane where Amazon
has a better return policy than steam yeah come on yeah I mean Amazon has to a
lot of the times you know a lot for particularly items where there's some
actual margin built into them they'll even ship a return label for you to ship
it back to not only are they not getting your money for the transaction they're
going to eat shipping back on it they're losing money on it whereas steam there
is no shipping no they could even make it an automated system apply for refund
within even if they gave you 6 hours you know if they gave me honestly I'd be
happy with that I can usually figure out if I'm going to like a game in six hours yeah 6 hours after launch I think would
even be fair but EA's gone above and beyond that they've said 24 hours if
you're not going to get more than a full day's enjoyment out of our game then
we're going to give it back if you wait till the weekend play it on Saturday and just go for gold you can beat a lot of
games in 24 hours well I I mean I don't want to encourage people to do that not
saying it's it's ballsy on EA's half on behalf to allow a 24-hour window because
of that I agree it's not fair and if I like a game I'm going to pay for it but
it's it's pretty ballsy and they're going to get a lot of people doing that not that I think it's right but they're
going to get a lot of people doing that and that's frustrating I wish it I wish it didn't have to be like that I mean I
I am I I'm like I'm like gushing about
how greedy a is right now but like okay at the same time like steam's great I
love steam compare them to valve and Blizzard at this point though yeah I
mean look at blizzard who could be more Draconian than blizzard about no you pay
you own I mean look at how broken some of
the stuff they've done over the last while is and no you pay you own that's
it so I uh I I I love this Diablo 3
launch imagine how many returns they would have gotten for Diablo 3 launch I
know it's crazy so like the pressure is going to be on EA to like no no that
sports game is like you know going to have the right stats for you know
whoever anyway moving into Diablo I
Diablo II Reaper of Souls expansion is
coming we don't know when no but it's
but it's coming so this was an article uh on joystick so I'm just going to go
ahead and flip over there right now I'm going to zoom in on that there for you
guys so it was revealed at Gamescom and
there's actually quite a lot of information given about it the let's
start with the less important stuff I guess so there's a new
class um that is going to be called the
Crusader so it's going to be kind of like a paladin which it's like who
didn't see that one coming
I I yeah I was kind of surprised it wasn't like in already I I thought they
were going to have more CL anyways well they were saving it for yeah expansions
I guess I mean but like really yeah I
don't know it had very few classes at launch what was it four uh Warrior Demon
Hunter Wizard and Rogue basically or
whatever they call it now I don't remember anyway okay so they had a few
so now it's like Yay one more class and so there's new endgame content there's a
higher level cap uh there's new monsters there's a new story act but this is what
I want to talk about the new loot system loot
2.0 they've actually taken I mean look
at this I'm going to say something positive about blizzard today too
positivity day I know it's like the good news
show uh so the new loot system is going
to adapt the drops to be fewer so your
inventory isn't just going to be full of stupid like you know leg of WS all the
time I don't even know if that's a thing anymore but see I'm showing my old
school Miss oh I forgot to change back to us so uh yeah not so full of you know
stupid stuff anymore but it's going to be a fewer better drops more tailored
more and in addition to that something
to do with that you might actually want to use them because right up till now it
looked like okay you were just kind of farming gold so you could buy things in
the auction house which is just like oh
which is like okay yes blizzard we know you get a cut out of the auction house
sales and that's great for you but it shouldn't you shouldn't just be buying
all the gear that takes the satisfaction out of a Dungeon Crawler what's fun
about grinding unless there's like the thrill
of getting the drop which is much lower when you fully expect to just be farming
gold to bite out of an auction and how disappointing is it to get a drop that's
like so legit and not anything to do with anything you
can use so now you get to go and like sell it it's like it's like uh it's like
you know Diablo I accounting Edition yeah instead of the actual excitement of
crawling around and finding that thing that's that's that's that's so cool I
mean if I just wanted to grind and buy something I could go do odd jobs for
people in their yards I could get a tan I could work on my muscles and then I
could go buy whatever sword I want CU that's basically what it was so I
think it's really exciting that uh there's that oh oh and the new mystic so
there's a new Artisan that allows you to reroll Stats on regular
items which is interesting that's cool it's very interesting it's it's like you
buy something or you you you get something and it's like oh this is like
really good but it's like if I if only it would sort of slightly be different
slightly be more different then that would be uh then that would be even better so so that's uh you know blizzard
doing something right just a really weird combination
um how's that coming uh talking talking to Chris on
Twitter he's like uh yep yeah we got oh I don't have Windows readily available
so he's uh throwing he's throwing coms on his Surface Pro and is definitely
working on it now so uh uh add lonus
Tech to uh
uh so don't worry don't worry Locker Nome will be joining us it's just a
matter of getting the uh the technical the technical things sort of worked out
here so let's move into our next topic you want to pick our next topic we got
Ben Affleck is Batman come on although as long as he
doesn't do the like I'm Ben Affleck and I have throat
cancer also I'm a superhero like thing I do that annoyed
me so much yeah it actually made the movies like aside from that they were
amazing and he Ledger is basically
like the best thing to ever happen to Batman or basically my childhood ever uh
oh I can I can be a Manchild I was like
wait what I mean uh that movie par I
loved Dark Knight because okay so dark knight one thing you just mentioned we
should just talk about how great eath Ledger is for the next 10 minutes and just completely gloss over Ben Affleck I
actually I saw this on Reddit this is like one of the only times I've actually
been able to get a newsworthy item from Reddit uh cuz our forum is just too good
at the moment but uh Heath fleder when
he was casted as the Joker got a whole bunch of
flak because of previous movies that he had done 10 Things I Hate About You was
an awesome movie so whatever he he didn't look like he would
be able to fit the role very well because of a lot of the previous roles that he had done so he got a ton of flak
now that being said I don't think he's gotten as much flak as Ben Affleck but
so there's B Affleck I mean I understand that Bruce Wayne is supposed to be a
pretty boy and got the he's got the chin dimple yeah he's he's got the chin
diple so we give him full marks for a
chin I just that matters a lot on Batman I know but I don't see him as an
Unstoppable badass and that and you're going to put him next to
Superman so like Batman's already the redheaded stepchild of of that
particular superhero team up and uh
speaking of speaking of superhero team ups and redheaded stepchilds and Batman
versus Superman um this out so this was
a Vsauce video that I don't know if you guys have had a chance to check out but
I I quite enjoyed it so there's an ad running here right now but uh oh wait
I'm not monitoring at all am I think it's
working I have no idea what the audio level is like but anyway the point is
check it out it's on Vsauce 3 and it's what if Superman punched you and this
came up um in no small part because of the upcoming Batman Superman crossover
is like how helpless is is Batman let's go Batman versus Superman
he loses cuz the stupid arguments have been like oh well Batman can afford
Kryptonite if he has like Kryptonite that star things that he can throw at
him how do you hit Superman with a star yeah it's not going to
happen like he's super I mean honestly that's one of the things that's bothered
me about Superman a lot how does he how well no it's that
well he's too imba and then he he's like defeated by his own just it's not even
like defeated by his hubris or his tragic flaw or anything like that it's
like defeated by sheer utter stupidity but yeah that's the argument as to why
Batman could possibly win is Batman's the opposite he always wins by his
intelligence and planning and cunning you can be as cunning as you want but if
someone like punches so hard that they
could like hit the Earth on the opposite side of the world as you and the shock
wave that hit you would like you know bust you up then I mean he's got laser
eyes but what if he what if he never gets a chance why does Superman never
get why does he ever get close to anything he should just laser eye
everything I mean he's Superman so it's not like oh well his laser eyes might
hurt an innocent bystander well then he should like lasery the tire of the car
so perfectly that like right like there
should never Superman's an idiot he always gets in terrible
terrible situations Superman's a dumb jock yeah and and and Batman is the very
intelligent cunning planning person so Superman just runs
around and that's actually Indiana Jones that you were going for there you know
what Indiana Jones versus either of them
go what oh man see Batman always sets up
situations if you set up a situation with all his blinging amounts of money
and bought all the Kryptonite ever he might actually be able to win but if you
put in a small closed room and had a fist fight which is apparently your
description of it then yeah Superman's obviously going to
win okay now if Batman is Ben
Affleck I don't know then we're maybe giving Batman too
much is what you're trying to say I I like Ben Affleck but I don't know if he
fits this role now he can surprise me like Heath Ledger that would be awesome
man Heath Ledger's awesome I I wish Heath Ledger wasn't dead me too it's not
often that I kind of sit around going I wish someone wasn't dead but I I wish
Heath Ledger wasn't dead oh man I I I I
have confidence in Ben Affleck I think he can do something I do like him but I
don't know it's not exactly his style of
role yeah all right you introduce our next topic I got a thing going on here
all right one second so Oculus is looking to
solve simulator sickness simulator sickness is not like motion sickness
motion sickness is when um there's all this motion but you can't visually
perceive things moving stimulator sickness is when you visually perceive
things moving and there's not all this motion so it has been giving people a
lot of dizzy spells a lot of headaches people have thrown up stuff like that so
they're trying to solve the problem um they haven't yet but they are working on
it and they do think that they can grow towards the goal of at least reducing it
to an incredible degree where it won't be that big of a problem because right
now it is fairly common for people to get simulator sickness did you get it
when we tried out the Omni and the Oculus I did not but you didn't e no one
did right uh I of our group I felt a little bit motion sick but I don't know
if like it was it was at the beginning and then it kind of went away so I don't
think it another thing for us though is that that wasn't fair we were
moving oh okay cuz I thought about this
we were we were not sitting planted in a chair we were moving around
and one thing that people have talked about is one of the things people have been doing with oculus rift is put out
interesting experiments while they'll have people lay down and then have them
like fall in the game I see and then they feel like they're falling and kind
of freak out a little bit um and that is going to be interesting
cuz you're not moving at all but you're falling so your mind is going to freak
out especially fast movement so if you whip around or if you're on a roller
coaster and you go down and your body isn't moving your head is supposed to
mess up so so we don't actually have the proper what I was thinking about with
this is that I would join the chat too and then you can monitor through
there uh that works okay sure okay um so okay
on the other hand this could be great for guys like virtuix with the Omni
which is the uh for those of you who don't aren't familiar with the virtuix Omni it's the omnidirectional treadmill
that is intended to allow you to move around and walk around and run around
sort of like running and gunning with oculus rift um so if it ends up being
that you kind of have to move to use Oculus this is going to be great for the
physical condition of Gamers everywhere and great for companies that want to
make accessories for for products like Oculus so and not that Omni wasn't
already legit but this just makes it so much more legit because if if you are
someone who is afflicted by simulator sickness you can get an omni and solve
that problem hopefully very very cool
okay let's do one more topic before we uh we break for our sponsor break for
Squarespace and then we're going to bring Chris pillo in after the break so
uh go for it I've just got one more quick thing to do here this is another fairly short one so we'll try and keep
it to that I can I don't remember exactly what it stands for it's like uh
I'll try and find it but um I can has
banned dotless domains Google was trying
to get HTTP search no www.n.com
and it hasn't happened yet there aren't any yet but they have preemptively
banned them um this is apparently a
really big deal I personally don't really care that much because browsers have this really good ability to auto
Correct things so it's actually really not that big of a deal if you just type
in search it'll find it anyways and that's dotless so I'm not too worried
about the exact domain personally um but
apparently a lot of people are Google kind of seems to think it's a big deal
but I can't and I can talks so I can
does they are the internet Corporation for assigned names and numbers which is
kind of the driest thing I've ever heard in my life I remember that it was
ridiculous but I didn't remember exactly what it was assign names and numbers
isn't that big of a deal but internet Corporation I find hilarious um yeah
okay you know what I've got uh I've got Chris calling in right now so we're
going to go ahead and move to that and we'll do our sponsor break afterwards so
uh yep I'm going to add slick to the conversation as well here so here we go
yep and wherever he is there we go add
friend and in theory we should be able to monitor things
so here we go slick
pickup hey y Chris can you hear us I can
hear you hey hey that's fantastic so uh
say hello to the W show I guess and if you could do a brief introduction of
yourself for those who have been living under a rock and have never heard of you
that would be fantastic as well hello world I'm Chris pillo AKA Locker Nome on
YouTube although I guess formerly known as Locker Nome on YouTube since they've
recently switched me over to my real name I am officially Chris Perillo and
if anything I create videos on a daily basis revolving around geek culture not
just technology but well beyond it if I
did nothing but talk about technology I don't think I would be married and uh
you know that's that's a good thing I think I'm happily married and turning my
wife into a geek we just recently started watching Doctor Who I I got her
to watch Star Wars for the first time uh a few weeks back and we've documented
the entire experience so for me it's about living a geek lifestyle and uh you
know loving geek culture and so the videos that I produce tend to revolve
around that I'm just going to start out by saying that I'm very impressed
because um I have managed to get my wife
to watch Star Wars with me but she fell asleep during each movie so she's
actually only seen about the first third of each movie from the original trilogy
meaning she's only probably seen one Star Wars movie sort
of ouch yeah I I uh I had explained over
and over again that she would understand so much more about me and of course the
jokes that I would make uh if she watched the movies and that was enough
motivation to get her through it and she enjoyed them a
lot that is uh that is fantastic and
that's very cool so for those of you guys who don't know how to follow Chris
he's available on Twitter he's available on YouTube I think he's probably one of
the easiest guys in the world to get in touch with because if you just Google
his name there's all kinds of great results speaking of which Chris on
Twitter the other day I saw a fantastic twe tweet of a picture of you on the
front of a VHS cassette can you tell us a little about that yeah that was uh
during a brief run of hosting a a television show that on a network that
no longer exists and uh during a part of
that stint we this is of course back in the day when VHS was
state-of-the-art we recorded a in an afternoon's time how to how to use your
computer and this is right before Windows XP had been released and someone
found this VHS tape at a garage sale and took a picture of it I got a kick out of
it it's it's kind of cute I've got a couple of them left I guess they're
antiques I mean I I I have VHS tapes but
no VCR in the house or maybe I do somewhere I don't know it it could be I
mean if you're if you're anything like me there's probably a VCR but it would
take you years to find it so now that's the thing about technology is it's fun
and it's interesting but it's outdated so quickly and it's one of the reasons
why like with my YouTube channel I've evolved to addressing more of geek
culture so like Star Wars is not going out of style anytime soon nor is Doctor
Who or or Lego bricks in fact Lego sets
appreciate in value compared to technology which usually loses value
over time so it's it's speaks very much
to you know one of the reasons why I've taken the approach of of tapping into my
inner geek and letting my geek flag fly
in social media and you know what's funny is I've not only is technology
more relevant moving forward from a uh from a dollar amount value perspective
but I've also observed that it's more relevant um or sorry technology becomes
less relevant from a value perspective but geek culture it doesn't do that same
thing and what I've noticed is if you check out my YouTube channel three of my
four top videos ever in terms of views are unboxings and overviews of a remote
control fir Tru a remote control excavator and the parrot AR drone even
though I'm a strictly computer channel so to speak yeah you know I I had the
same Revelation uh some of my better traffic videos had to do with uh my Lego
sets my the Lego Death Star Lego
atat uh you Star Wars Lego geekiness you
know and I'm like okay uh I need to be more of
myself one of the things that surprised me the most uh I went down to Science
World and they had a huge Lego exhibit and I started looking around and then I
noticed that everyone else looking around was about as old as me which was
interesting and like there was some kids there but the adults were the most
interested and then you go down to the Lego store in Vancouver and it's a whole
bunch of adults and a whole bunch of kids so it's it's one of those things that you can still enjoy when you're
older too y'all got to come down for Brick con it happens in October in
Seattle and it is amazing it is a Lego a
festival really but it's done more for a Falls or adult fans of Lego and the the
structures that people make are just so fantastic like a scale model to Min
figures to of the Hogwarts Castle or a
full tower orth uh from The Lord of the Rings not the official set but like a my
own creation build I mean it's just it is so incredible to see the creativity
that comes out of of people you know when you when you give them the right
tools and and that's the beauty of technology today is you know we're
evolving like with arduinos and you know really uh raspberry pies lowc cost easy
to use configurable moldable you know
you can make anything that your mind can
handle right and you're not limited by the tool set in front of you and I I
look at I guess I look at Lego bricks for as non- Tech as they are in much the
same way as I do arduinos and in in raspberry pies they're building blocks
right can make something yeah where things are it's it's almost like we're coming full circle because in the early
days of electronics and Computing everything was DIY and then things got
kind of too complicated and the tools didn't really catch up to the point
where nothing it felt like nothing was DIY for a while there and then now we're
getting back into it with highly programmable things like Arduino and
with some I mean some of the cool DIY type projects that I've seen turned into
real products like I had um uh it's called The O2 amplifier and basically
these are DIY headphone amps that are just built by like a dude who designed
it and was like oh well I see a bunch of problems with the commercially ailable
products so I'm going to fix it outstanding I love it and then now
we're getting into 3D printers and stuff just being able to make your own things and mess around with your own things we
could be this could be the Golden Age of DIY because even when you were able to
build your own Electronics 30 years ago 40 years ago and it would be you know
similar to what you could buy off a shelf now all of a sudden what's always
been difficult is housings and tooling
hous and tooling can be 3D printing programming and all that kind of stuff arduinos and raspberry pies blah blah
blah blah blah you can build out of Les lesbo Lego and 3D
printing well you look at the the Microsoft talking about uh enabling 3D
printing by default in future versions of Windows that's pretty powerful stuff
but pretty Forward Thinking for them yeah but the problem is is that it's got
to be a lot more consumer friendly and it's just not there yet I've seen a a
few really amazing Kickstarter projects that would work in theory but the issue
I have with a lot of Kickstarter projects that have to do with technology is that usually the teams that have
great ideas suck on execution I mean you
look at you know potentially amazing things like the auntu phone which is may
go somewhere but didn't really make its Mark in terms of community backing um
you know there's there's sometimes a disconnect between the value of
technology and the consumer adoption of technology and whether or not they
actually see the value in something absolutely I mean I know we haven't even
managed to talk about any of our of our topics on the dock yet but I know you're
a star no no it's as much us as you and I'm about to derail us again so as much
of a Star Wars geek as you are
Disney you know initially I had a knee-jerk reaction and gagged but uh you
know I really have appreciated the way they've handled uh some superhero movies
um and and and certainly appreciated the
bringing on J.J Abrams appreciated the work that he's done Disney can Market
they can franchise and the they've come out and said they understand that fans
want them to go back to the basics think about the fans at the center of this
universe not necessarily the technology that empowers movies and special effects
and so I I think their heart is definitely in the right place they realize it's their game to lose and you
really can't screw up much more than the prequels although the more I watch the
prequels the happier I am with them so I'm I'm very very um I'm very positive
that Disney will treat the Star Wars franchise better than I think Lucas
could okay but look at what happened I mean okay I'm going to play Devil's
Advocate because I don't necessarily disagree with you but look at even
something that's an original Ip that they have like Pirates of the Caribbean
first film I I have no idea how many times I've watched that movie I've
completely lost count it got progressively so much worse because it
seems like oh come on oh at you're not going to tell me movies
three and four shouldn't have been one movie are you I well yeah I guess no I
enjoyed four I mean it was it was different but I I didn't not enjoy it
I've enjoyed every single Pirates of the Caribbean movie I enjoyed them but I
didn't rewatch them the way that I rewatched one and the way that I've
rewatched original trilogy Star Wars really that's I'm on the same level as
him actually I did really enjoy them they're really good movies but the first one was epic and the other ones were
just very enjoyable and for me it really felt go I found the third one more epic
than the first one I guess for Pirates of the Caribbean I I I liked the scale of the
third one like the epicness was there yes I'll give you that but it felt like
to me the problem was they they broke their own rules for the sake of epicness
in the first movie we exist in sort of a
pretty normal world except for this cursed ship and then it seems like it
just goes so to speak off the deep end
in the movies that come later and it's something that you know you look at the
really great franchises like Harry Potter Harry Potter for the most part
never breaks its own rules that it established right at the beginning it it
allows it to okay so here go ahead go ahead but but they're with Harry Potter
they were going from a script they were going from an overall Arc and I don't
know if they expected to do the same thing with Pirates of the Caribbean until it was found to be a commercial
success okay so Star Wars are we going to give them the benefit of
the doubt and go okay if they're going to say yearly releases and big
Productions every two years are they going to be working 20 years out on a
story arc I'm guessing that well maybe not story arc but they if if they are
faithful to at least adhering to the notion of not breaking Cannon then I
think they'll be fine but the moment you step outside that boundary like Star
Wars was okay A New Hope Was Meant To Be
A Standalone right in the middle of this 12 story monolith that Lucas had in his
head in fact recently at at a Star Wars celebration in Europe Mark Hamill had
suggested that originally Lucas was going to have the Death Star around
forever but he blew it up in a new hope uh and then of course brought it back in
return to the Jedi but originally it was just supposed to be one one Death Star
he had to make ches because he wasn't sure it was going to be successful so
you know I think he violated canon in
and of itself by going back and establishing a prequel or trying to give
you a backstory of Anakin Skywalker and who he was but I mean I wouldn't have
minded An Origin story for Anakin Skywalker if once again they hadn't
broken their own rules the force is it
surrounds us it binds the Galaxy together it does all these things it's
mysterious it's not medoran right right
okay so like I said Luc that's Lucas's problem Lucas he broke his own rules
okay but Lucas is not Disney
too what Lucas wants I think they'll
succeed so should we be more scared that he's a creative consultant or more
comforted here here's a movie to watch the people versus George Lucas watch it
on Netflix if you're finished watching battl Star Galactica in Doctor
Who okay I you know what I'm even gonna I'm even G to put that in my document
here so the people versus George Lucas I
haven't watched it although I do have a Netflix account I got it with my chomecast so my my dogs actually make it
brief Cameo at the beginning of the uh the video I dressed him up as Darth
Vader and Princess Leia but it was a a video that went viral a while ago has
nothing to do with technology that's what's popular again
again nothing to do with technology again nothing to do with technology okay
so did you have a chance to check out some of the uh things in the dock that we labeled Locker Nome uh I saw the
entire document and actually was it was intrigued greatly all right so why don't
we get into space glasses I want to hear what you think of this um the space
glasses.com versus Google Glass do they
have a chance um do you mind if I actually play this video for the viewers
so that they have a really good idea what we're talking about here you should
all right let's play this video cuz if you guys haven't seen this you are going
to have your socks rocked right off right
now boom oh yeah
I don't even know if the uh viewers have audio right now but I I don't think it
matters that
much unreal
I mean you got to be geeking out over that right there hey Chris you know it's interesting but yeah
let me see the final product cuz this is all Pie in the Sky to
me it's all shut up and take my money until you actually use it and then it's
a different story you know that's I think you know
okay I'm going to I'm going to just I'm going to pause this now I'm going to switch back to let's let's discuss what
we've seen so far because I think that's something that you and I are very much
on the same page about is that a lot of the viewers don't understand that it's
actually not all fun in games doing what we do and playing with the latest
technology you know I'd say a good three times out of four it just doesn't work
even well three times out of four yeah that's probably G that's probably being
pretty generous that's very generous I mean it looks great but dude that's
that's total marketing video that's like wow amazing total marketing video
they're also huge that was one of the first things I noticed is they're very
very large and really unsightly so I don't actually see that many people
wearing them especially they showed the professional environment where he shaking hands with all the different
people and they were basically introducing themselves uh verbally and
through the images that the uh what do they called space glasses were putting
up but in a professional environment do you really expect your boss to show up
with this giant headgear so let's talk about the culture of these wearable
glasses um first and then let's jump into meta's product versus and I think
their logo looks like meth it looks like meth it looks like meth anyway um so
let's talk about meta versus Google Glass and how that's all going to shake down so so
Chris do you expect it to be acceptable
to walk into a business meeting even in 5 years from now wearing a wearable
glasses technology where other people are not necessarily wearing them I mean
you know how stodgy people can be um are they going to be feel uncomfortable
because they feel like you're looking them up on Facebook while they're
sitting there talking to you and is that going to continue to be a stigma even
five years from now well you know i'
I've been pretty public in terms of my you know belief in as far as technology
goes it's going to be in personal wearable technology like Google Glass
technolog is becoming increasingly pervasive and I think it's a matter of
time before a good headup display or heads up display is integrated within
eyewear the challenge I think you have
even even Google has in fact um Russell
Holly who writes for geek.com uh
recently attended the I think it was a Moto X event it was a Google's own event
and he was told to remove Google Glass
so Google didn't even want Google Glass at a Google event and if Google can't
handle that I don't know how the hell they expect the average person to handle
that they have stated sorry no go ahead
uh they have stated though in the past that they they don't expect Google Glass
to be able to be worn every uh people were wondering like uh how
hackable it would be and all this kind of stuff I call [ __ ] come on whoa
whoa whoa whoa hang on so let me get this straight Google charges beta
testers out the yin-yang to have this
product and then says well we don't expect you're going to wear it anywhere
everywhere really that's the whole IDE
where's not okay and you know what if Google the only okay to me the entire
value of a wearable tech like Google Glass is that I do wear it everywhere
and that it actually becomes part of my life if my smartphone was my tablet then
I would use it occasionally the same way I do with my tablet the whole point of a
smartphone to me is it's always in my pocket I can rely on having it if I need
to use it as a remote control for my TV right now because I always have it and
it's always charged it's like priority number one when I go to bed isn't even
brush my teeth it's plug in my smartphone and make sure it's charged
for tomorrow if I am not wearing Google Glass all the time for a similar product
then it's it's lost the entire value to me one thing I found that was
interesting that Chris said was the the charge for beta testers that's hilarious
the the the price of the product is going to be so much less than what they
charged to beta testers and here's the thing I see someone wearing Google Glass
and like okay you have money and you kind of look pretentious I mean I have
yeah you know it's it's it's a social stigma right now because it people are
living on the bleeding edge and and I get it and it's kind of neat and I tried
it I I'm very I'm very happy to have tried it I was invited to the Explorer
program but it was just a little cost prohibitive I thought really am I am I
going to get my money out of this other than bragging rights for having Google
Glass and I just couldn't get past that I couldn't figure out how's this fit and
eventually costs will come down technology will become more usable uh
you know having it built into prescription lenses I wear glasses
happily wear glasses I think it will become socially
acceptable but the Norms today dictate that permission is not
implicit when you hold a camera up to someone's face they get uncomfortable
and by you have the right to be filming them at that time they don't like it and
I don't see people's desire for privacy necessarily actually changing in fact
the more it's been studied that the more connected people are or the closer that
you jam them in together actually the more they tend to try to isolate
themselves in fact it is less common to have a nosy neighbor in an apartment
building than it is to have one in Suburbia because people get so close to
the point where they're actually trying to separate themselves from each other
as opposed to trying to get closer and Snoop yeah I I just think that people
aren't ready for technology as much much as technology may be ready for people
there are still social boundaries that I would a great majority of the pop are
not ready to have violated if if they take the camera out and like Chris said
are able to integrate it into prescription glasses that look like
prescription glasses that's where I'm sold I don't want a camera in them at
all because that's just creepy and weird I want no camera I want them to look
just like prescription glasses but you just want augmented reality exactly yeah
you could probably sell me that I mean I've said to you quite a few times I am
in no way interested in the beta thousand stupid thing but I am totally
interested in Gen 5 gen 10 and person I
don't want to AR is definitely going to
work really well but it's not the idea
it's the execution and Google has a
chance but they're they're already Sid stepping a lot of those mores and
expecting society's going to keep up and there's one thing that you cannot change
with ease and that is culture yes so
let's go to actually that's a great segue back to space glasses and let's
talk about seg no I don't have a segue I I never got a segue
either very funny
man so let's um let's go back to let's
go back to MAA here um you mentioned
just now Google has a chance sorry
Google has a chance to make it happen do these guys even have a chance because to
me the advantage of Google is nothing to
do with the glasses themselves or even to do with the Android operating system
or to do with a camera or processors or
anything like that it's all about the ecosystem which is something that quite
frankly is there anyone other than Google or Apple who could replicate the
ecosystem that Google has yes young d404
in your chat rooms he I think he can pull it off because he just said Chris
pillo is the best guest on the W show ever with three three purple hearts
three purple hearts he put in there or she I don't know
point that out I think he or she has the chance of pulling it
off okay how about space glasses.com
this guy's Gonna Keep derailing
me so anyway I just wanted to say I'm W I watched the chat I didn't mean to De
derail you no I I think you're right and I think Google if anything Google's got
a lot of data and that's its biggest advantage over Apple Google is a a
horizontal player versus Apple who's a vertical player which is why I have a
big problem with anybody uh who dares try to walk into the Android versus iOS
argument because unfortunately that argument is it's outmoded it doesn't it
can't exist because I'm For Better or For Worse there are two completely
different Market strategies to the marketplace just like a Windows to OS 10
to Linux I mean you could talk about operating systems and compare for
Feature Feature for feature but's in so
depends on who you are Google has got the biggest advantage in terms of its
ability to collect data uh and and use that data to their advantage and and
unfortunately if you're not paying for a product and sometimes if you are paying
for the product you're the product yourself and that's what Google has it's
one of the reasons why Google created the inorganic social network or I'm
sorry social layer Google Plus which I
do happen to use on a regular basis um
it was looking to get more data you know Facebook wasn't giving them the data
Twitter wasn't giving them the data and Apple has almost zero data that it's
willing to give out yep yeah true I actually have
nothing to really add to all of that because I agree 100% And it honestly it
kind of irks me I was a longtime iOS user because for me iOS was the answer
and honestly I still use my iPhone 4 almost every day just as an MP3 player
and to use a few apps and try some of the new stuff that's coming out so that
I don't get completely to the point where I don't even know how it works
anymore um and they're so different and
they're both so good that they're
different they're different approaches to the same Marketplace Y and and that's
really it's so difficult to talk about because for better for worse and hey I'm
a geek I'm just a different kind of geek I'm sure but people treat technology and
their choices for technology as if it was a religion what like your life really
revolves around this piece of technology
like let's talk about Intel versus AMD yeah come on really are we still it's
just it doesn't make any sense Protestant versus Catholic I mean go you
know Big Mac versus Whopper go you're okay well hold on a second I have
to defend the Whopper here because at least one day of the week is Holy in the
Whopper religion yes Wednesday when the Whopper gives back to you every
Wednesday oh by the way D PC Gamer asked
how old this kid was and this kid is
40 oh man and he loves both Big Macs and Whoppers
and you know what that's okay he loves both Android and iOS actually likes
Windows phone too you know what you guys
I got to step in here and I need to do a Twitter Blitz for Chris so we're going
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guests we've had I don't want to I don't want to you know diss any of our other guests but Chris you're awesome one
question I saw I didn't catch who who asked it but Christianity versus i7 I'm
gonna have to give this one I'm gonna have to give this one to the core i7
honestly done a lot for me
sorry I don't want to go into just now
that I've totally usurped the uh show I apologize I I bring you back to your
regularly scheduled programming you know what no I'm going to we're going to keep
the religious debate going because if you can't see it does it exist LG has a
new display it's what it is it's a religious debate it's it's like no it's
Android all the way and anybody who doesn't believe is going to burn in hell
like really like are you serious so wait
you're telling me that I have to live by your choices okay I'm fine with that I'm
fine with living by your choices the moment you start paying my bills that's
right okay so if you can't see it does
it exist the LG display that they are
showing off is a 2560 by 1440 5.5 in
smartphone screen although we'll probably kind of have to call it a fablet at that point um Chris how do you
feel as someone who wears glasses no less about the race to higher
resolutions is this just a dick measuring contest from the manufacturers
is it just a fanboyism thing from the consumers that keep pushing for higher
and higher resolutions
go oh hold on Chris you're breaking up give us a second let's just
uh yeah give me give me a second here I'm just going to restart the voice chat
ons here okay okay sorry give me a sec don't
worry guys we'll be back to uh your uh our scheduled programming very very
shortly reg regularly scheduled entertainment yeah which I hope is very
entertaining for you guys cuz I am definitely having an absolute blast
anyone who joined late is like what religious debate what I know right what
what's happening okay so hold on a second there there it goes there it goes
okay we uh almost have liftoff here guys
so uh Chris will be back in just a moment as long as we're not uh as long
as we're not dropping frames we're still on right like we're still live maybe we
got hit by the the the wrath of LG
screens we're still live okay so it's not our connection this time fortunately
for those of you who are tuning in late we're streaming from my house again
because we haven't had a chance to get um to diagnose with Shaw yet or have a
new ISP come in and uh get things going for us so chat with uh chat with friend
uh no no no I'll add you you're adding me yep think I can do that cuz you're
still in right yeah okay so go ahead and invite me maybe I can't do that oh hold
on I'm still in okay boom yay yay so
you're back first of all let me address
the person who accused me of being a sylon in the chat I am not a frack and
toaster get that through thick skull okay and if you disagree you and me are
going to have words uh second of all I think you know we increase screen
resolution it's a law of diminishing returns quite honestly and anybody who
can see the differences uh I I would
they've got very very finely attuned eyes because I can't and unfortunately
they're pushing pushing these resolutions very high and that's great I
love Sharp Images sharp text sharp screens the problem is the video
processor or just the CPU just can't keep up and so you end up with a subpar
experience and to me technology in a
device in my hand or in front of my face it's all about the experience forget the
specs 100% absolutely forget the specs I'm I'm someone who I I know I'm an
outlier but I I believe in specs to a certain degree but without proper
execution what's the point I've had great Hardware in crappy software and
this to me is exactly why the guys like
LG who are releasing this oh there's the problem so I need to boost this one
right very good all right to me the problem is guys like LG who were sort of
I mean look how much earlier was LG in phones than Apple or Google if they got
it if they understood that it's not about the next 5 1/2 in 1080P screen and
it's actually about the experience there would have been no room for guys like
Apple or Google to bust in and Caron in
this market if Samsung had understood if Sony had understood and and that to me
is why Google is allowed to exist and that is why Google and Motorola may be
the one to look out for as opposed to even Samsung in the long run on the
Android platform I I wouldn't count Samsung out yet uh with teas or taisen
how do you say it is it teasing or tysen I have no idea well you know what I'm
talking about though right yes okay this is the open source platform being
codeveloped by both Samsung and Intel just to give context for those who who
may not be aware I think Samsung has
done more to help Android than Google believe it or not and with Samsung
potentially dropping I gotta cut you off here do you mean in terms of market share and
acceptance and marketing then yes
absolutely y because Google was seem to be content to let it be for nerds don't
don't wrong I think they're spraying and praying uh with Samsung producing as
many devices as it does it doesn't surprise me that it has the the market
share that it that it does command uh you know but they're they're going to be
dropping Android and and Android is just a means to an end for Samsung and to a
certain degree Android is just a means to an end for Google uh open is great
when it's a marketing term uh but Google is you know not I don't think they they
haven't been as open as they claim to be or been we discussed this last week
actually in fact uh the whole Fiasco with Microsoft and Google and the
YouTube app is really a window into some
of the things that are changing at Google right now we feel and well it's
true and Google is and I think Danny Sullivan put put it best he called
Google clopen which is I guess
a so they're horses
CL yeah you can say that no more like the words Clos and open put together I
know what he meant this this guy's giving me this look right now well how
how do you get to horses I had horses as
a kid oh my goodness okay sorry keep
going uh is my volume okay by the way
let me tweak you yeah I love being tweaked that's not exactly like a twerk
right sounds hot right I wasn't sure I'm I'm still not hit with the kids lingo
these
days all right I turned you up yay
so so okay I think basically we've come to the conclusion that okay I agree with
you 100% the race to resolution inpcs is
not the be all and end all I'm interested to see what Samsung and Intel
come up with however the thing that I
still am not necessarily convinced that they understand is the experience on the
software side Intel is not a software
company and Samsung is not a software company and you look at their entire
history of products I don't think either of them has produced anything worth a
lick when it comes to software no offense I I no I completely agree I do
not like the TouchWiz experience on Android devices at all uh I think it's
completely unoptimized much talk about Intel Vive if we all want to be old
about things for a bit here well I didn't want to trip too far
down memory lane oh and speaking of I someone just
said well I don't know what it was exactly but they keep bringing up a
Nintendo 3DS XL um it was released uh you know just
recently that uh the Google Play Store
and iOS app store are cleaning the clock of mobile console gaming I think it's
just a matter of time before Nintendo has to give up and start licensing their
titles to uh uh various platforms I get
a lot of black I get a lot of flack for this opinion I think NVIDIA Shield is
potentially the future you know I I don't disagree I I think it's uh you
know I bought the Ouya and was impressed
with the idea of the Ouya I think NVIDIA
captured exactly what needed to be captured now whether or not it's going
to evolve that way uh I I think I I I
would I would be inclined to agree I think NVIDIA did a good job with The
Shield or as good as could be expected um but it's it's got to be uh you know
something that users are going to think of and grab first and I don't know if
they're there yet I really don't and that's not to say that a console gamer
is better than a PC Gamer is better than a mobile gamer they're all Gamers period
the lon share of the marketplace however are people like me casual gamers Plant
versus Zombies players well no I don't play I honestly the game video game I
play Tetris I freaking love Tetris uh
you know I I I play casual games I pting monsters I pick them up put it down and
that is most of the market I mean you have extreme Gamers and that's certainly
a great part of the market it's great entertainment but you know in terms of
who's spending the money a bigger piece
of that pie is not being spent on any kind of console gaming that's true and
new models have developed to take advantage of Hardcore I mean in the old
model you got to sell them the cartridge and then that was it whereas in new
models like free to play you can continue to milk those hardcore guys so
at least it's not a total write off but I think the hardcore guys really
overestimate um how important they are in the grand scheme of things when it
comes to companies and balance sheets and
profitability you know it's it's really
it's interesting to be at this time uh with technology and where it sits
specifically in the consumer Marketplace and even we're there with with computers
in in traditional PCS and I I've caught Flack for my opinion on on PCS as well
saying you know that they're really kind of being marginalized you know the idea
of a personal computer uh in a PC in
general is just going to an extreme part of the market much like you could build
your own car but are you going to do it most people won't and I've taken Flack
for that same thing from him you just
okay if you don't believe me go to Google Trends and search for the word
computer and see how it's trending downward people are not searching
consumers 99% of the marketplace are not
searching for the word computer because their definition and need for a computer
is changed that eliminates the PC as a
viable tool to be used and sold in the marketplace which is why Microsoft is
getting its clock clean and I'm sorry as
much as I think it would help now that Steve Balmer is announced his retirement
from Microsoft I don't think Microsoft's going to change its ways if only because
the CEO or even an interim CEO is going to be appointed by the board and be
signed off on by Bill Gates Steve Balmer and the board so Microsoft's not going
to bring in someone radically different and unfortunately this is It's A Hard
truth but you have to accept that the
world doesn't need Windows as much as Windows needs the world and Microsoft's
been operating from a completely different perspective which is exactly
why we have this monstrosity this Frankenstein's monster that's known as
Windows 8 or even worse Windows
RT I I I agree with a lot hold on I
would make the argument that we don't really have Windows RT because no one
owns a device that has it on it okay you said it not me um I I agree
with a lot of that but not quite all of it with the new consoles coming out PC gaming is getting bigger now PCS as a
consumer device I think might kind of float away but they might become more of
a dedicated gaming machine exactly like said we don't need Windows for that it's
like building your own car except building your own car if it was easy
yeah so it it should still have more penetration than custombuilt handmade
cars but you know the the we might be looking
at the end of the HP Desktop and Best Buy being relevant I have no issue with
it all and and I think that uh you know Microsoft's they're they're hedging
their bets uh and I think they're taking the wrong their heart's in the right
place but unfortunately they're going to price themselves out of the market uh
the Xbox one they position it in such a way that it's an entertainment console
which is great the problem is I think the PS4 could very easily take the Xbox
360s place in the family room if only based on price and just completely eat
its lunch I I really honestly because
look at it unless I'm mistaken unless they've changed their tune like
Microsoft has done in recent weeks with just about everything in relation to the
Xbox one uh it won't be backwards compatible with older Xbox games you
know certainly Games available on disk the problem with that is that gives the
consumer who was an Xbox 360 you know owner more ability to shift platforms
yes it does why would they give themselves that open and let Microsoft
honestly they're potentially shooting themselves in the foot by pricing it
$100 more even if it's $100 greater they
by pricing it so high in respect to
their core audience of who's going to buy it and that's going to be the the
13-year-old kid who's begging mommy and daddy to buy them a game console let's
and that 13-year-old kid if you were like me um actually okay you were
probably looking at different consoles than I was but I was asking for a Super
Nintendo or a Genesis I got whichever ones my parents bought and if they're
saying I want a PS4 or an Xbox One the
parents are going to make the decision exactly and if they're going to
base that their decision on price nothing else ain't going to be about
enhancing the family room ain't going to be enhancing the TV or that the the
media experience Microsoft has the right
idea they have the wrong approach yeah and you know what they really had an
opportunity with Xbox to uh and it seems like they're kind of taking baby steps
in the direction of unifying the Xbox experience and the Windows experience
but it should have been that way from day one Xbox One well okay Xbox first
gen was a PC why were they not able to do
something okay and I'm not saying this would have been easy but why was it not
possible for them to treat it more like a PC and not even be sitting around
worrying about backwards compatibil compatibility at this point because they
could just say oh well you know don't worry about your back library of Xbox uh
360 games because they're all going to run on your PC we're going to open up
the license now so you don't need a console or or whatever else they could have done to bring those two devices
together and actually converge them to the point where what they're trying to
do now is they're trying to make the Xbox One the media PC because Microsoft
and Intel and you name it has been trying to do this since I mean Google's
trying to do it Apple's trying to do it everyone's trying to make a media PC
essentially yeah but but people don't need it and not at that price exactly
not at that price that's the problem people will take it at it's really it's
sad because I think the Xbox 3 I'm sorry
the Xbox one yeah is a better media
center console than a PS4 it's it's not so much a gaming
machine as an everything to everybody and I would have expected Microsoft to
learn its lesson to not do that again I mean Windows 8 they talk about no
compromises I think the whole thing is a compromise uh and for for whatever it's
worth by the way I'm you know in chat with you guys right now on my Surface
PC it's uh it's the only way to to to run the utility you know and I'm I'm
running right now in classic desktop mode but it's uh it's something where
Microsoft's trying but unfortunately they they are not addressing the need at
a price where the consumer is going to buy into it yeah so you know what I
don't want to keep Chris for too long here guys and I promised we'd do a
Twitter blitz so we're gonna oh that's completely not the right thing so let's
go over to the actual Twitter feed here so Chris I don't know if uh you're
familiar with it it's pretty self-explanatory Twitter Blitz is I ask
people to ask questions for you and you basically answer them as fast as
possible and move on to the next one great I'm sure a lot of the people who
want me out of this chat would be very happy with me being quick all all right
favorite piece of technology you've ever owned go oh uh
Theon I'm sorry the toron it was a
musical instrument the MIDI controller that Yamaha made it's actually an app
available for iOS too what brands of products do you use most every day and
why or maybe even just pick like kind of a favorite product you use a lot right
now uh God I go back and forth between
my Nexus 4 and iPhone 5 today all right fair enough and totally
agree with that approach y on Google Trends the term computer has gone down
while PC gaming has gone up and this I'm
going to just interject here this to me was a huge missed opportunity for
Microsoft where they abandoned the PC as a gaming platform to focus on Xbox
versus allowing them to be convergent so go ahead Chris hit it yeah I think it's
great I I think the the the idea of a PC
type of uh piece of Hardware perfect for
gaming but it doesn't need to be on Windows it could be uh Linux it could be
OS 10 it could be anything and that shows with steam moving towards
Ubuntu uh okay here's just a comment that uh sort of a comment on the the
dynamic we've got here which is great news because I actually already pinged
Chris about this and we're going to be down in Seattle for PA's Prime Chris
isn't attending the show but what's cool about us being in the same city at the
same time for more than like 3 hours this time which we were a little while
ago but we didn't have time to meet up I am uh going to shoehorn myself into a
pillo vlog at some point somehow so we are G to hang out while I'm down there
now we can't back out oh boy oh by the way someone in chat said
type three for boobies I I've been I've been pressing three but nothing's
happening uh tell me what you're excited
about boobies I I was told by the chat
room there would be boobies if I pressed three and I'm so disappointed
um you know sorry to be serious for a
minute no I am married and my wife is hotter than any other woman on the
planet you know it's amazing what makeup can do because like there was a there
was a porn actress that was at a hockey game not that long ago and the camera
was panning past and caught like the breasts right and you could tell the
cameraman was like and and her face oh
man when she's just like out and about and not made up and you know on the set
wow that you could sort of you could grape cheese with it you know in terms
of what I'm excited about you I I just I I I can't wait for the next Star Wars
movies I can't wait uh to uh to you know
just just experience just live in live in the now and enjoy life every single
day that there's very little that I could say that what I'm looking forward
to more than anything else um I don't know I just uh I enjoy a lot this
question is is 5 in or 4.7 in 1080P
smartphone form factor a limit now I'm not sure exactly what this viewer means
but what I'll do is I'll interpret that the way that I want to is for you how do
you feel about fablet and are we moving in sort of a stupid Direction where it
comes to smartphones just other than Apple where it comes to these Android
smartphone makers which again comes back to that bigger must be better because we
don't understand the experience thing do they need to be any bigger no I I think
they're they're nice but they just it they don't some people love them some
people don't I think they're interesting um I think they're interesting that that
my friend is a term that means I don't
want to say what I'm actually thinking right now yeah it's interesting I I'll
leave it it's interesting all right we've never been
into it very much yeah not really uh do you consider the Moto X a
better Android phone than the Nexus 4 based on what you've seen so far uh I
wouldn't go that far I think in terms of consumer adoption it has a possibility
although I guess Motorola had a pull back on a lot of customization options
because they were having quality control issues with the engraving the other day
um I think it's a step in the right direction making it more consumer
friendly but I got to tell you my Nexus 4 is still my go-to Android
device all right I think let's see if we've got a couple more here that
asking me about my size preference is a very personal
question at least we didn't ask you about your size out right I appreciate
that even though I do have a 31inch Darth biter in my
office all right well you know what Chris I don't want to keep you forever
and uh we've already given the teaser that uh I have I've invited myself to
your show at some point in the near future so guys if you enjoyed Chris let
them know by making sure you subscribe youtube.com/ Locker Nome make sure you
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letting him know and make sure you let us know how much you enjoyed Chris so
that hopefully we can uh gravel hands and knees to maybe bring him back at
some point because this was a total blast man thank you very much here's the
thing I've probably lost subscribers Now by by doing I'm not to say that you you
trust me you have far more power than I ever could uh but I wouldn't be
surprised if if I offended anybody and I did not offend you as a listener if you
hate me let me just say I just want to talk to your haters of me right now if I
can uh I just want to say one thing you haters I'm on this show and you're not
okay that's really all I wanted to say yeah we were actually you know what is
funny is I PMD you on YouTube years ago
when I was Tiny and you were like a huge
deal to me to be perfectly honest and I never got a reply from you and so I half
expected when I messaged you this time that I wasn't even going to get a reply
because you're still a big deal to me man you were a huge Pioneer and you were
one of the guys that I was following you
and Tiger Direct TV were the ones where I was looking at you from more of a of
an edutainment perspective and I was looking at them from a what a retailer
can do to build a YouTube channel perspective when I started ncx Tech tips
four years ago so for those who are going to hate on you on this show
they're not allowed to do that you guys it's not permitted it's okay but I just
wanted to let you know I ignore every YouTube message that's the worst way to
get a hold of me I didn't know better at the time I did not ignore you on purpose
I just want to throw that out there YouTube is the work because it's it's impossible to manage I I I don't really
reply to them either I I I understand now but at the time I didn't get it
because I was still replying to every message because I got like one every week right thanks I we'll talk to you
soon and uh we'll see you when we're down in Seattle this has been a total
blast absolutely happy to do it all right take care see you
later all right let's just uh well there
you guys have it that was Chris pillo or Locker Nome as the for the artist
formerly known as Locker Nome let's go let's go with that and I really hope
that uh that you guys enjoyed having him on as a guest based on how many people
are tuned into the stream right now I think you guys enjoyed us having him as
a guest so I will make make sure this is my personal commitment to you now we are
going to try to bring back Chris at least I guarantee personal commitment we
will try I shut up man you're killing me
here let's get back down to business so I was trying to load this page before
and it wasn't working there we go posted by John Lamb on the Forum uh Steve
Balmer about to retire he wrote a letter that talked about sort of all the you
know great things that have happened at Microsoft how they went from I think he
said 7.5 million do company to a s 7
billion billion dollar whatever somewhere around some ridiculous metric
that thousand de growth in the time that he's been with the company I I did the
math 7.5 mil to 78 billion which is just
unbelievable he says Senior Management is still committed to devices and
services as a strategy so For Better or For Worse they're still going down that
path and um you know what let's just
move on to the next one this is an interesting talk also related to I'll
let you uh I'll let you cover this one here go check it out okay so this is our
article posted by snow comet on the Linus Tech tips Forum it's the original
article is from VR Zone and AMD says P4
performance advantage over Xbox one may be greater than many expect due to Huma
which is their homogen or homogeneous unified something AR microarchitecture
something like that Bas it allows the GPU and the CPU to grab references that
are in RAM on at the exact same time so before they could both grab it off the
same chip but it would have to be two separate instances of the same
information now the graphics card and CPU can both grab it which is a huge
benefit part of the problem though is if it's not a console exclusive title
they're going to be developing it not with that feature in mind so we're not
going to see a huge benefit from this unless we do because of apus on the
desktop unless we do because of that and we will maybe later on okay okay well
later on they're not expecting titles to be able to get that much Advantage from
this but it's it's more of a long-term look at this awesome thing that if
utilized properly could give a lot more performance so it's a hardware feature
now but I mean I expect a Next Generation or even two generations from
now Apu from AMD to potentially take advantage of this which would mean we
could be looking at a situation where the game gets released for console and
then gets I mean okay it gets released for PS4 and Xbox One let's say so it is
able to run with Huma or Huma or whatever you want to call it or is able
to run without it gets ported to PC where if you have an APU all of a sudden
you can take advantage of that code path that already exists so that's what we
could be looking at every everything coming out all the information coming
out for consoles right now is just every single time it's like oh wait this is
information for consoles but this is so good for PC so good for PC probably even
better than it is for consoles like this is such a big deal awes yeah we are
color us pretty excited about uh about that particular development right there
so big thanks to everyone who posts news on the lonus tech tips Forum we
appreciate you guys and we're going to actually burn through a few of these news topics here because the camera is
running on battery today and I actually have no idea how much battery life we
have left so uh yeah Wacom has a new
tablet like actual tablet not like a drawing tablet well it can it can be
both if you plug it into a PC or a Mac it becomes a drawing tablet if you run
it solo it's either depending on which one you buy an Android tablet or a
Windows based tablet and they're saying that for professional use you can plug it into a computer but then while you're
on the road or while you're doing whatever you can still get design work done uh using apps inside of Android or
window Facebook or yeah or whatever you want it's an Android tablet or Windows
tablet they're not cheap no they have a demo demo video that you can check out
in the thread this was posted by Pixie pay on the uh lus Tech tips Forum so uh
the Android version is $1,600 for a 32 gig model and the
Windows version is $2500 for a 512 gig
model however when we want to talk about convergent devices uh the so the
original uh oh source was just wacom's website so when we talk about convergent
devices how flexible is this thing because it's not much bigger than a regular tablet but it's got a
248 uh different um oh yeah sorry I'll
sign out of there uh so it's got 248 different pressure
settings and it is not much thicker than a regular tablet which is just
unbelievable um it's it's awesome because like and another thing is I saw
a whole bunch of people go oh my God the price is so high and I would normally
jump on that too but it's a walkom tablet yeah still a walkom tablet the
price is going to be crazy high it's a walkom tablet it has that quality in it
and it can be used in that way people are going to be spending around that
much money well maybe not around that much money but a lot of money on a
walking tablet anyway so if they could just spend a little bit more and get this increased functionality that's
awesome I mean so $2,500 let's say you bought the biggest iPad available so 128
gig iPad and you bought yourself a Wacom tablet I mean you're already spending a
whack ton of money anyway maybe go for a Windows tablet that also has a Wacom
tablet built into it I don't know I like that one because then you can get full desktop applications to use with it
right that's so cool it's really expensive but it's so cool and the the
the storage space on that is insane to me the Android device doesn't make a
whole lot of sense and I had this conversation with diesel and he
basically said the same thing is like he paid the extra $900 to have a Windows tablet even not
from a creative person I'm not a artistically creative person at all you
know that neither of us are um if I was in that position I would probably Fork
it out for the Windows one because you just get so much more flexibility and
the the storage space on it is so much bigger isn't it like I think it's like
500 gigs versus 32 or something 512 versus 32 I mean that uh that that's a
really big deal to me and we're
back we think so we have a
theory that we're testing right now to
see if we are going to indeed stay back
but we uh we think that uh you know baby
got back or something like that it's a song about babies maybe
you're not a parent you wouldn't understand there is probably a remix of
that isn't there oh probably some some
actual baby one that is so classic anyway so without further Ado
folks Let's uh jump into our next topic here I know this is sort of random that
we're uh that we're jumping back into things here I know that's pretty unusual
and I have no idea how many people are even watching but uh you know it's worth
worth a shot giving things another go we
are live again I'm going to tweet that out right now so AMD has just announced
massive price drops on their new
9590 processor so this was the CPU
with the 500 watt
TDP which did I say 500 cuz I meant 220
wat TDP sorry but it was the CPU that now costs
uh oh well see this is what happens when
my flow gets interrupted they dropped it by $500 it has a 220 watt TDP making it
pretty much about as hot running as anything could possibly be it consumes a
ton of power and the performance while looking okay
well what was like like just ridiculous
for $900 I mean it's a it's a lot more
feasible now but if you bought one already I feel bad for you and my kind
of theory about this is what they're trying to do is make it so that people can spend their excess money on water
cooling so they don't blow up the chip
yeah maybe I mean I I don't I don't I
don't know exactly what the uh the logic behind actually asking that much for the
product in the first place was and I don't know what the logic behind
slashing it by that much is unless they were literally selling none of them like
zero so maybe there weren't even cuz honestly okay working at NC if there was
like um if there was like an issue like
okay like we've got like 500 of these and we're selling like 10 a week and
it's at this price we we might look at it and go okay well how many have we
sold have we sold like two can we just
like reach out to those two guys and like deal with them and then you know
not worry about all the people who are going to be upset when we drop the price by $100 or something like in this Casa
in that case it's only on products where there's like a ton of margin like it was
like a weird closeout deal or something like that where you just you're
experimenting with the pricing trying to find what the market will bear maybe
what AMD did was they tried to find out if the market will bear this discovered
that they've sold none of them and then they were like okay well we're not going to be upsetting anyone if we drop the
price now that was another thing I was thinking is yes it's a huge price drop
and yes my first reaction was holy holy crap if I bought one of those I'd be pissed then my second reaction was did
anyone buy any of those is it is there going to be anyone to be pissed I have
no idea I mean I know NC opened one to build a demo
system other than that have they sold any so like retailers and system
integrators yeah it's like it and then
like crazy benchmarkers that are getting them for free yeah I don't know I had a
great question uh the other day on Twitter someone was asking if they
released the 9590 does that mean fx8350
is which are basically the same chip but bin not quite as well does that mean
that some of the best overclocking fx8350 is are essentially not going to
exist anymore and the answer is yes they skimming it yeah yeah because if they're
skim the only way to get what you know is for sure going to be the best
overclocking chips is to buy the highest Bend part typically now there are other
factors such as what Intel or AMD or NVIDIA whoever else are selecting for if
they're selecting for power consumption versus if they're selecting for um heat
output or or whatever those factors are
um that can affect it too but in general going for the highest end one gives you
the best chance of overclocking this has always been the case but even then we
might be talking about differences of a couple hundred mehz or we might be talking about differences where they run
at the same speed but this one the lower end one outputs a lot more heat or something along those lines so um
someone says uh on Twitch chat uh lonus I love how I search for FX 9000 Series
chip and you're like the first two results
sweet great work and I don't think we ever even made a video about it which is
sort of the most ridiculous thing there all right so let's uh you know what
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speaking of things that you can pay for
monthly should you so desire
it the Elder Scrolls Online is asking
for a monthly fee should I just shut up
for like 10 minutes so we can go to the next topic um no no I want you to I want
you to cover this one so that was submitted by top war gamer on the lonus
tech tips forum and uh slick go for it
if uh if you want a reference back to a previous live stream that we've
had um sorry if you want to reference
back to a previous live stream that we've had uh when wow I can't remember
his name they have too many different names for all their different stuff but
Logan I I was thinking Tech Syndicate and then I was thinking raise the world
thinking uh when Logan was on we talked about free to-play games and the the
payment mode that most people are calling out Elders girls should have
been is a free-to-play game now one thing Logan brought up that I believe
both of us agreed with is free-to-play games putting no barrier to entry brings
in a not strong Community every 9-year-old every single person that you
don't want playing that game will be playing that game and the communities in
payto playay games have been higher now
is in my opinion a subscription model the best not necessarily they could have
done something like Guild Wars they could have done something like something else but the angle pay for the game and
then no monthly fee I mean that to me isn't a bad one either yeah but then
okay okay but but where they're coming from is if they did any other model so
say they did The Guild Wars model Guild Wars released his expansions fairly
often that's where they get their recurring income from now you don't have
to buy the expansions but if you don't buy the expansion you're not able to do
everything the other Scrolls team is saying well with this IP you've always
been able to do everything it's a free roam very do
whatever you want IP now and IP like
intellectual property not like Internet Protocol yeah sorry um now where I'm
coming from with that is there's always been expansions and stuff but I guess from a single player's perspective it's
not like you're locked off compared to other players cuz it's single player so you're free to do everything that is
currently in the game for you so in a multiplayer situation they're saying
you can't not do something that someone else can do so you'll always be able to
do everything if it's subscription based that was interesting and I was sold I
was okay with it now if you looked at my notes that I added on there they're also
adding a cash shop so that that's where things start
to get a little bit dicey to me because if you're going to charge everyone to
play at all then how can you have free to play stuff implemented as well like
paying so so I mean what is this like I think so quote from uh vg247.com
is it's probably safe to speculate that these will include a large range of
largely cosmetic items then if they're not going to have a pay to- win model so
horse armor anyone yeah like are they I mean would it get them a lot of
publicity if they like if the first viable item that would be huge one thing
though is that the only thing they have confirmed is in the cash off is a name
change which is no problem but there's obviously going to be more stuff we just
don't know what it is for