all right and wiby wobby woo we are live
with only a few technical difficulties this week yes my friends only a few but
we moved the wow logo it is no longer over top of Luke's head now it is over
top of mine it's not over your head okay
it's it's a okay well I'm short are you
sitting up taller than usual no I'm not usually you lower your chair so we're
about the same height I actually never lower my chair you lower my chair not
that I'm asking you to go ahead and do that now but you know that's that's as
low as it can go I'm sorry God I hate
you uh so welcome to the W show guys we've got a great show ahead of us today
I hope and uh we've actually had honestly actually okay we we probably do
have a great show ahead of us because this has been one of those weeks where
I'm averaging about four hours of sleep a night um because I have been working
my butt off on a couple of things to just kind of kick ass and get us ahead
of the eightball for the first time since we've moved in like we actually
had some content buffered when we
started moving and then of course we used it all like we we we burned that so
hard when we moved and then since then I don't know if any of you guys have ever
moved before but it's horrible it's not
like you move for 3 days and then you kind of go oh yeah I'm going to relax on
the front porch with my glass of like lemonade and my you know I like the
lemonade Choice yeah the Le lemonade and I got like my neighbor boy mowing the
lawn and it's like whatever no no no no
no no it's not like that so we have been moving since we moved um we're still
yeah there's still a lot of stuff being sorted out there's still a lot of stuff but there's a lot that's taken care of
and it's gotten to the point where this week I was able to only do a few moving
things I was able to do all the videos that I normally need to do and get two
full extra ltts shot so uh stay tuned
cuz they're they're actually both good Dell sent us a ruggedized tablet that is
rated for being dropped almost a meter while in operation uh not to mention
that it has a capacitive touchcreen that operates with water on it so that's cool
wait we're supposed to do the intro chip gate will be a thing that we're being
talk well that we'll talk about also Tesla cars are able to auto drive as of
yesterday yester the scarp laser Razer got pulled off Kickstarter and Belle is
being finded huge amounts of money for faking app reviews on the App Store we
should probably roll the intro the worst thing about that is that in the context
of how much money Belle makes selling you their service and their apps it's
really just pennies but that's a whole other conversation which I guess we
should do after after the intro the
intro I love this
show
it might be more than one part Heavens a
lus tech tips video that's multi-art
this one like I don't think I would have a choice I think if you put it in one video even if it was a pretty long video
it would be just way too hard to watch there's way there's you've seen part of
the problems that I have to solve already yes I have and I have to like document doing all of that right and
there's more that I probably haven't told you about yet right okay uh so
basically Luke has a really cool build blog that he's working on actually it is
going to be a crazy awesome sort of
period of time here for for video content uh starting this weekend uh
YouTube is getting the scrapyard War season 3 premiere
vessel y vessel's getting episode um uh YouTube is getting the
Dual headed gaming machine oh my god build did you watch it is so cool yeah
um so we've got a single box two Gamers playing a Battlefront on it at the same
time um I just finished shooting my video of the x34 Predator LCD so that's
acers 34in curved Ultra wide gsync 100
HZ monitor it's freaking bananas um I
just finished filming that Dell ruggedized tablet that you can like kick
around and like um it get this not just
waterproof or or water well nothing is proof but not just not just water
resistant like rain but uh Jets of water
from any Direction that's the Ingress Protection rating on this thing I am so
stoked to put it through the paces that's super cool to to be fair though
Jets of water would you count a waterfall as a jet of water I would cuz
it has weight to it yeah yeah yeah so my Z3 was held under a waterfall screen up
recording with the camera for like 5 minutes why I wanted to test because you
could yeah and it worked fine so like
that rating means it can probably take even more than that so I was planning to
pull out those like soer Blaster things that we have and just like wreck
it that's awesome yeah so I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty excited for that um right I
guess we should do topics like what was I talking about before the intro I'm
sorry I'm super sleep like the the week in recap right so we are we are finally
going to be back ahead in terms of the content which means we're not like
running around like let me find an example you know sometimes sometimes
people call us out on this and we don't
generally sort of acknowledge it but come on guys it's not like we're not
aware that once in a while a piece of content is something that we were kind
of sitting around going what's the fastest thing we can do right now it's 1
p.m. we don't have a video started yet
for tonight what can we throw together so
like um the server room updates video took forever it took way longer than it
was supposed to so recycling your electronics was one that I've kind of
had in my mind for the better part of a
year but the original plan was to do it as like a music video or something yeah
yeah so that got kicked in the head and that became just a normal LTT release
which is super easy which which was which was easy but you know what
interesting and important but easy you know what's really funny about that
video it really didn't do well on
release but over time it's actually
still so so a week after its release more than a week after its release it's
still holding steady at about 4,000 views a day that is very very strong so
in the long term that video may actually do really well which is good sometimes
less fire truck yeah less fire
truck sometimes I think like some of our
most innovative ideas have come about when we just are kind of forced to do
something fast like um that that video
uh the best type of CPU Cooler final answer that has 1.27 million VI well you
also named it very clickbaity that's probably one
of our like most click baity videos ever and it's not even isn't it not even the
final answer or don't even the final answer is it depends isn't that what you
do well that is that is a thing I do yes
yes that's no but that is the
answer the final answer is that you don't have an answer it's like hold on
hold on hold on hold on hold on okay so lonus Final Answer here no I'm going to
I'll I'll screen I'll screen share this with you guys because this is a thing
I've done um so best type of CPU Cooler
the final answer it depends okay cor i7 versus Zeon which
is better final answer it depends AMD
versus Intel final answer I remember that one it depends yeah sometimes AMD
versus NVIDIA final answer sometimes
that's the answer the answer is how old are those videos we should just redo
that there's a lot of Fanboy hate going around right now yeah five five years
ago was the uh Intel versus AMD one we could totally redo that cuz that was on
the NC Tech tips Channel not even but the thing is that people don't
understand about this Fanboy crap is that it's not that simple people are
like don't NVIDIA cards run hot sometimes some cards 480 yeah 480
was a furnace in your Tower I know because I ran four of them in a half X
at the time and it was redonkulous they didn't throttle what or
die but it was in a half X yeah so
like yeah we gave them a Fighting Chance
yeah um sorry I don't remember I don't remember where I was going with that
anymore right right right right right the answer is not that simple life is
rarely that simple what car should I buy
I don't know do you need a do you need a truck
bed do you have to make Long Haul trips across North America maybe you need a
semi I don't know are you trying to pick up chicks maybe lose the semi unless
you're trying to pick up trucker chicks in which case grab the set I don't know
who are you what are you about or just a classy woman who wants man with a
straightup job right and doesn't want to see him
very often maybe maybe she's introverted
maybe she's maybe okay so introverted chicks who are into a guy with a a
well-paying job that has him away from home a
lot now we're getting really specific all right so let's jump into
our first talk topic of the day this one is from ours Technica are you dropping
links sure that was my way of saying yo drop the link I
know we communicate so well
now it's like the old married couple thing it's like so the uh the the
glasses yeah I'm cleaning
them so this is really scary University
of Cambridge study finds 87% of Android
devices are insecure the study blames the oems for
lack of updates and ranks Nexus devices
as the most secure which shouldn't be a device uh which shouldn't be a surprise
for a couple of reasons number one the obvious reason that Google is
responsible for updating Nexus devices directly number two the less obvious and
more unsettling reason is that the Nexus
program hasn't been around that long yeah so Google commits support for Nexus
devices for I believe it's 2 years so
there just aren't that many Nexus devices that are outside of the support
period which isn't saying that the Nexus
program solves the problem at all like at
all um this is really brutal yeah I mean this is just brutal stuff what else you
got uh for this topic yeah uh Google and
oems have committed to like he said the monthly security update program but it's
for uh less than 2 years old or for Nexus 3 years oh there you go but that's
security updates not new versions of Android but still security updates so a
lot of people's devices is it everywhere now that your contract is only allowed
to last for two years no that's Canadian law so not us yeah I have no idea how it
works elsewhere okay so in Canada your contract with your phone company can
only last for two years um but another
thing is is this agreement two years since the device launched I believe so
so not two years since your contract started and a lot of people are going to
start a contract and then only want to pay like 50 bucks for a phone not a
considerable amount for a phone so they might get an older model of a phone
which is actually very close to its security updates being over so if you're
going through rotations of phones based on renewing your contract which is
extremely common uh your yeah well not
anymore yeah you could end up still on a a very current for you phone that's
within your contract period so you're not eligible for a device upgrade that
is not still getting security updates and this has really come to a head
because of some of the really scary Android exploits that have cropped up
lately so what's the answer well the
answer is actually pretty obvious uh both apple and Microsoft with their
recent Fu to the US carriers yeah that was awesome is that awesome yeah yeah
it's in there we should maybe we'll move on to you want to bring that up and we'll do that as our next topic um both
apple and Microsoft have the answer you just have to well say F you to the
carriers and start and to the oems and
that I mean that might not be something that that that's it's it's such a
double-edged sword for Google so one screw the carriers no one cares about
what they think and two you have to be delivering your security updates from a
central service the way that both apple
with iOS and Microsoft with Windows 10 are going to be doing the problem is
that part of the Android benefit that the double-edged sword that is Android
is that it gives the device makers the
flexibility to implement their own upgrades and their own tweaks and their
own user experience enhancements like whether it's uh multi- window support or
whether it's enhanced I mean little even just little stupid things like LG's
enhanced copy paste is awesome like so
awesome it just comes with it just comes with a clipboard clipboard tray it's
like Yay this is cool or I mean just
little things like the way that Motorola I I love showing this off because it is
so cool the way that Motorola lets you just flick a couple times and turn on
your flashlight or wiggle and turn on the camera like my camera launch is
faster than any other anyone else because I can be wiggling it as I lift
it up to my face and my camera app is launched um but there's there's things
around that too in the Microsoft article yes um and I would rather security
personally in the Microsoft article though it says when asked about carrier
updates U Microsoft stated that Microsoft will be working closely with
mobile operators to leverage their their testing and are this word a little weird
and are fighting to meet and exceed current quality bars we will use their
input to decide when to send the updates out based on input from mobile operators
mainly and Windows insiders as well but like so think about it they could talk
to those carriers and be like hey we're going to launch this in x amount of time
here's all the code update your crap and if they don't do it that's their fault
in my opinion but instead it's going the other way around they're being too
careful about it being like here's your stuff you send it out whenever you're
ready that's putting no pressure on them and they're just going to be like H
we'll update it when our small team has enough time to do and like I I get the
argument from the Android handset maker side where they're like uh you know what
actually our margins are really Slim and we straight up can't afford the dev time
if you're going to expect us to release a new device X Y or Z and you know what
the answer to that then is you have to charge more you can't just keep slashing
your price and in order to stay competitive and just kind of of say YOLO
screw it to the customers who already bought your products and the the the
really disappointing part of all of this is you know that it's not just the
little guys like I get it if ZTE or like
you know what would be an example of like a small anyway I get it if your
little your little companies your OnePlus or whatever if they're kind of
going yeah we have an Enthusiast phone we expect people to update their OS
themselves or or whatever we're charging a rock bottom price for it I get it if
they're kind of taking that stance and that sucks for their users but hopefully
they go into that knowing what they're getting but for the Giants like Samsung
it's totally inexcusable to be spending your billions of dollars on marketing
the next big thing when you're not actually taking care of the last
freaking big thing properly so I mean
yeah let's let's see if there's anything else to really mention about the Windows thing not much basically Microsoft is
just being relatively aggressive when it comes to updating their stuff and
they're saying that their main input on when to update things will be from uh
Windows insiders and mobile operators but they will just be pushing it
directly through their own Services anyways so if Services if things need to
be updated they just will be so there's a lot of things I like about Android but
this to security to me could be a huge
huge factor for Windows mobile adoption
yeah I mean it still needs app support but but but security for a while has
been kind of pushing me away from Android a bit to be completely honest
yeah well I mean looking at the uh the RS the RS graph has a great uh has a
great graphic here too so it's I mean this isn't new that's the whole point
yeah yeah it's like going back to April 2012 yeah it was the same as it is today
in October 2016 yeah and there are and we've talked
about this repeatedly in the past over and over and
over again about how there's huge security problems and like uh people are
going to slam on me but I don't care um when iPhone's coming out with like the
little encrypted core and all that kind of stuff and when there's the huge case
in the states where they were trying to see if was wasn't it government could
see what's on that part of your phone MH
and they said no you can't that's awesome that's super cool
it's annoying because there's no way I
want to give up this phone yep I love this phone yep like I actually do yeah
there's there's stuff that I hate about the the iPhone and Windows Phone
experiences the fact that with iOS you must have an iPhone which means if you
want decent battery life you better put some cludy stupid mofy case over top of
it it's like thank you Joanie I for your
beautiful industrial design that just isn't camera bump like just so much dum
crap there's so many things that make me hate I lose the camera bump and fill it
with battery what a concept yeah but
whatever it's not artistic enough or something um and then Windows phone I
mean I think my problems with Windows Phone are fairly well documented at this point um speaking of the iPhone though
uh let's let's bring up chip gate the iPhone
6s controversy um so I'm just going to pull
up Austin's video on it which has about 500,000 views yes this is something a
that's an ad well we're supporting Austin right cool um so I'm going to P
yeah I'll pull up Austin's video on it which one thing that I really like that
I got a call out here is Jonathan Morrison as well they these guys like
kind of teamed up for these videos so they both have a call out to each other
at the end of each other's videos and their videos complement each other so if
you're interested in chip gate check out Austin's and Jonathan Morrison's Yeah so
basically in a nutshell um Apple
couldn't get enough chips or didn't want to for whatever reason buy all of their
chips from a single Source because the reality of it is there's only a handful
of Manufacturers on the planet Apple not being one of them who can actually
fabricate semiconductors like that is micro
microprocessors at the latest manufacturing process nodes so Intel is
one of them and you can bet that Intel isn't going to run around making iPhone
CPUs um Samsung is another one and as unlikely a partnership as that seems
Samsung is actually one of the sources for the iPhone 6s tsmc is another one
Global foundaries the spin-off from amds old manufacturing is another and I can't
remember what happened we we actually talked about this on W show but I can't
remember what happened to IBM's IBM's junk but uh blah blah blah chip
fabrication I think they might have sold two Global foundaries if I recall
correctly so anyway there there's only a handful of companies you can make them
from and usually um go with one or the
other because it requires a significant amount of re-engineering of the chip
itself in order to utilize someone else's manufacturing process and in the
case of Samsung and tsmc we are actually
talking about them not even quite being on the same node so one of them is uh I
believe is 14 nanometer while the other is 16 neter but I'm doing that off the
top of my head pretty sure it's 14 16 I don't see it in the thing I'll try to find it which actually means that tsmc's
chip is slightly physically larger even
noticeably so Apple had to do a metric
crap ton of work now to be clear a smaller manufacturing process does not
always mean uh you know faster transistor switching so that's the
frequency the megahertz it does not always mean that it doesn't always mean
less or more heat output uh perfect
example of that was oh crap I am drawing a complete blank
but if I recall correctly heat output was a bit of an issue on early Ivy
bridge but don't don't quote me on that anyway the point is that you don't
always get this shrinking it was good for a long time and then it started to
get to the point where shrinking it more caused higher heat density which was
harder to dissipate because you just don't have a whole lot of area to slap a
heat sink on anymore so it's it's a very very complicated equation and at the end
of the day so for whatever reason apple is dual sourcing their A9 processors
from tsmc and from Samsung yes 14 nmet
from Samsung and 16 nmet from tsmc and
it's this is the chip gate is already on Wikipedia that's awesome so basically uh
YouTuber Austin Evans tested both and saw that tsmc's Hardware uh was capable
of a longer battery life in his test so he was using an app called Lum that
identifies which processor a phone has and then pull you pull a reference
number and it tells you exactly what code corresponds to it the app was by
the way pulled temporarily due to compatibility issues and it's being put back up that's according to the doc I'm
not sure if it's back up yet I also know that it was free and it showed up again
as a paid app so there's there's that as well um Apple actually did Issue a
statement one of these days YouTubers are going to stop you know twisting the
thumb screws on poor apple with you know Bend Gates and Chip Gates and I wonder
what the next gate will be um so Apple stated that button gate certain fabric
manufactur Ed lab tests which run the processors with A continuous heavy
workload until the battery depletes are not representative of a real world use
case scenario uh which on Android they wouldn't be able to say
because I've certainly I've certainly managed that with stupid power hogging
apps since they spend an unrealistic amount of time at the highest CPU
performance state it is a misleading way to measure real world battery life one
thing I must say is that manufactured lab tests if Austin or Jonathan that and
that is describing their things good job guys that's impressive because Apple
saying that what you did was a manufactured lab test is like pretty dope actually but also they both did a
very hardcore style if I remember correctly I think they both did a very
hardcore Style Lab Test style test and then also did more realistic style
scenarios and like clear by manufactured
we're meaning like synthetic like like not real world actual usage and then and
then they did things like oh I took a time lapse for a while or I like
recorded a a video for 10 minutes which is not unrealistic at all so they both
did more real life stuff as updated the video ran geekbench and so at the end of
that the Samsung iPhone was reading 55% battery in the tsmc iPhone was reading
62% so there were some variances based on what tests that they did but like I
said earlier check out both of their videos yeah and a thing to understand
too is that even from Chip to chip from the same manufacturer off of the same
freaking weight you can see significant variations I
mean that's why you know the cor i7
5960x exists and the 5820k also exists
they're the same damn thing they come off of the same
wafer but some are better than others and that's life some of them run at and
I mean Intel for example this happened a couple Generations ago now they stopped
raing their processors at a fixed default voltage yeah it's a it's a range
now so if you buy a CPU for your desktop it could run at slightly lower or higher
power consumption than the one in your in your phone so that shouldn't really surprise anyone but that hasn't kept the
usual knee-jerk reaction of of you product recall class action lawsuit from
from kind of cropping up it's just if Apple only advertises the lower of the
two then it's more of a yay I got a
Bonus than I got ripped off by buying
you know luck of the draw I got the wrong one and also to be fair
it's fairly consistent that the tsmc chip is coming out with much better well
not necessarily even much better but definitely better noticeably better yeah
battery life it's pretty consistent so
the the binning thing might not completely apply here um it applies to
everything to a certain degree but like it's I think it's beyond that by a fair
amount so I mean I guess with all of that said so we got all the factual
stuff out of the way um what's your take on this
um I don't know I I already don't like battery life on like everything this
phone is actually a pretty good exception I can often get a day and 3/4
or maybe even two days if I really drag it out on the second day and like try
not to have the screen on too much um
so anything that's going to screw with my battery life on a phone that honestly
doesn't have that great battery life already I would probably be pretty pissed off so would you return it
bearing in mind that Apple's return policy is excellent would you return it and and roll the dice again probably
I don't like setting up a new device does not take that long for me nope it
doesn't anymore used to if I had a Samsung chip I would actually return it
yes but would you feel like you're entitled to class action whatever the
heck if you're a bunch of people stuck with Samsung chips now maybe not class
action in what form like do you think ow you money yeah well that's how they
usually works if I actually thought that
they had advertised it in a different way yes I don't know I haven't looked at
any of their advertisements if I could test it against one of their advertisements and then be like no it
didn't make through what you just told me it would then sure yes I would feel
that way because that's false advertising and that's but if
it's just not as good as the other one then no I'll just try to roll and Gamble
and get it eventually right like I just return it and then if that didn't work
just return it and then whatever I actually haven't tested my My Success
yet um you should do it right now I no it's you have to do a bunch of crap yeah
I thought you just download an app and check I no the well okay it might be now
when I first looked you had to download an app and you had to do a bunch of
other stupid crap and register on some thing or whatever yeah I was like ah
screw it I don't really care that much okay um but what I did notice is that
compared to my six I was like doing
better at the end of the day in terms of battery life when Apple is not making
any claims about the 6s having better battery life than the 6 so maybe I got a
Bonus maybe I got a tsmc chip but I
don't know um so so my my my take on
this is that um a the class action isn't going to work uh it's not like this has
never been done before uh NVIDIA with the 960m I want to say was using either
Maxwell or Kepler uh depending on which
notebook model you were buying I I'm going to double check which oh that's
gross I'm going to double check that um did anything happen with the RAM thing
3.5 gigs versus 4 no I don't think so see something maybe should have happened
no maybe it's not the 960 maybe it's not the 960m ah honestly I think something
should have happened was it the 860m or something like that 860m Kepler versus
Maxwell yeah it was the it looks like it was the 860m um where here we go so
here's notebook check um I don't know how comprehensive their benchmarks are
or anything like that but I think they've got yeah they've got 860m Kepler
versus Maxwell so let's have a look here
uh 45.2 FPS 49.6 f FPS and unen heaven
so here Maxwell is actually significantly faster in certain
workloads slower in others uh on yeah
here we go real word games so the Kepler comes out ahead Maxwell comes out ahead
they kind of trade blows um the
advantage I guess that NVIDIA had in that case was
that you couldn't read a
review of that notebook and get a
different thing because it was by model of not
so MSI's model XYZ might have Kepler and
ASUS's model ABC might have Maxwell
whereas with the iPhone 6s there is and
apple must understand this there is more to it than just the manufacturers rated
spec be all and end all as much as they'd love for that to be the case
there's reviewers there's Independent Media out there testing these things so
if if it came to light for example that
I know Apple doesn't seed a ton of devices directly but if it came to light
that Apple went out of their way to se a bunch of tsmc phones then that could
reflect very poorly on them and in fact the only way to really do damage control
in that case would be I think for Apple to have seated out only Samsung phones
for example so they could kind of go okay whenever we had any direct
influence on the review being done we showed a worst case scenario but if
apple collaborated with reviewers for reviews of the iPhone 6s to be done and
it is represented in a way that is not indicative of what the consumer will
actually receive then they could have a real problem on their hands but I think
it's probably going to take years for all of this to play out and uh by then
we'll be bored of talking about it and people may or may not get their $20
check in the mail and that'll basically be that people are asking who my
favorite hockey team is Toronto Maple Leafs really just kidding Leafs totally
suck oh thank
God um what is with people asking like
all these deep questions on in twitch chat it's like twitch chat has forgotten
what they are lonus if you never got into computers what do you think you
would be doing with your life um I would probably be an elementary school teacher
uh teacher because I've always liked presenting I've always I've always liked
I've always been good at sort of taking things and turning them into something
other people can understand which is kind of sort of what I do now and then
um elementary school because I'm just not that smart so what's going on high
school high cuz basically to teach
anyone I feel like you have to have one or two levels higher of knowledge than
you're expecting to give to them so I'm
not smart enough to teach like University or high school but I
definitely have a firm enough understanding of the next two levels up
to teach elementary school so that's probably what I would have gone with um oh I've got a whole lot of screw
you lonus what do you mean screw you lus even even Mike Babcock cannot make the
Leafs good I'm
sorry even even all the what was his uh
here hold on uh what was the Mike Babcock contract that cuz that was like
horrendous wasn't it like 70 million or something ridiculous like that at $50
million contract it's like no matter how
much money you spent honestly I think the coach's salary in cases like this
where you're doing like Blockbuster coaching deals I think it should cost
against your cap hit because if the whole idea behind the Sal cap is that
you want to increase par in the league you don't want people running around
spending 56 so what is it 8-year deal at 6.25 million on the coach and like all
this crap um you know like like the these these these other staff to like
make the players better but I mean that with that said the whether a salary cap
has a place in professional sports is a whole other argument that I'm not getting into I'm just saying that if
you're going to have a salary cap and if you're going to you know play that song
that's all about equality and every team having an equal chance at a Stanley Cup
then it should also apply to the rest of the staff on the ice do you want to
segue from that to more things about equality and equal chance and slamming
on NVIDIA a little bit more oh sure yeah to something that I don't think is in
the dock but should have been it's not I put it on the list is it how is this not
in the dock I thought I put it on the
list what the crap okay well this is
this super super pissed me off um for a number of reasons um NVIDIA
GeForce experience game day driver sorry
I'm just I'll find some article and I'll bring it up for you guys oh look it's
ARS Technica again these guys are awesome I love ARS Technica they're
actually like my favorite tech news site um other than Linus Tech tips.com where
you can also discuss with members of the Linus techtips Community the ARs Technica articles that we link to um so
the latest G and latest NVIDIA drivers to be locked behind GeForce experience
so it's pretty unusual for NVIDIA to do a whole press briefing conference call
thing about anything that isn't Hardware
yeah anything that isn't Hardware the software stuff is always just attached to some launch yes and they're really
good at doing that because it gives us something to talk about when we're like
it's the GTX 950 you increased all the spec
numbers but not as high as the 960 and
970 that we already have if we're willing to Shell out some more money um
so so it gives it gives the Press to like an actual story to tell which is
great um but they did one and I talked
to Luke and John who attended this call and the report was something along the
lines of to be fair I figured out there was no hard workare coming out and I
bailed early oh right okay and then John's report was something along the
lines of this is the most boring briefing ever and he used to work he
used to work in law so like rip
inia so basically what's happening is game ready drivers were will no longer
be downloadable through the NVIDIA website um which is crazy and only like
standard drivers will be available through the NVIDIA website which I think
come out once a quarter or something something like that um and then to be
able to get game ready drivers you have to have GeForce experience and sign up
with your email address yes email address verification required to be able
to download anything now to be clear it's not like you can't use a throwaway
email address it's not like you can't filter the crap
out of your email so they just go into a dump folder immediately yes but why it's
just dirty putting any impediment in the
way of a driver of a driver is horrible
I mean I I don't think I've ever ripped on adaptech for this before adaptech
turns off their download dri servers outside of business hours
yeah so I was in the middle of the night reformatting a server trying to I got my
new OS on it I'm trying to get my array back online and I cannot install drivers
for my RAID card are you for real so I
mean any reason for you know download
repository. comom which probably exists and maybe it's legit but it probably
isn't any reason for those sites to never have to exist ever again is a good
one is good yes hiding your driers
behind uh and and even just stupid stuff like wasting my time why do I have to
download off your site and then click
update and GeForce experience and wait for another download and another install
it's theg thing stupid I even like GeForce experience but I don't care this
is dumb and in nid I mean there are a lot of things that you can say in
NVIDIA's defense in their defense after you install drivers for the first time a
re reboot is no longer longer required so once you install within gForce
experience at least have anything to do with your email at least you don't have to restart no that's that's just crappy
across the board yeah like GeForce experience is cool I actually really
like it I was complaining about them wasting my time CU I can give them a throwaway email I don't care but wasting
my time I don't like and then and then and then and then sort of another sort
of kind of okay yeah I guess I kind of get it imagine this is your first time
too uh you just got a new graphics card y you didn't you didn't have a NVIDIA
graphics card before you just want to play some games you're you show up at
your buddy's house you're going to install the card and then have a little land between the two of you you install
your card he's already kind of playing and you're just like uh come on okay I
download g4ce experience okay now I have to type in my email what now I have to
verify this so you have to go to your email click on the thing verify the
thing okay now I can actually download the driver okay now I probably have to restart it's just obnoxious like there's
so many more steps so again in NVIDIA's defense their older non-game ready
drivers from our recent drivers through
the driver improvements Through the Ages Showdown are pretty good in NVIDIA's
defense again their quarterly wickle
complete package drivers absolutely Crush how often AMD is doing it right
now but that leads us email that no I
know I completely agree the email is rubbish and that's stupid and this shouldn't exist but but all those other
things basically lead me to my final point if AMD was competitive this
wouldn't be happening this is the kind of crap that doesn't happen if NVIDIA
has to kind of look at there you know also has 40% of the market and a very
competitive product and this could this could push consumers over the edge if
NVIDIA doesn't have to worry about AMD breathing down their neck a lot of
people kind of go you know NVIDIA needs AMD to to keep their prices fair you
know what I think NVIDIA has kind of locked into what they figure people are
willing to pay for a graphics card and they're already charging as much as they feel like let's be honest this is the
kind of stuff that worries me more where they feel like they've got free rain to
because like straight up this is for marketing emails yes they've got free
reign to ask for your personal information and to waste your time
because what else are you going to buy so that's that's basically the long
and short of that one I don't like it you shouldn't like it
um but I'm not really sure what I'm going
to do because I want game ready drivers so I guess I'll be downloading them
through GeForce exp and like I for people that already have GeForce cards
like yeah you can't you can't really vote with your wallet at that point
unless you have enough money to buy a new card already and people that have
like a 900 series card it's probably not a thing they probably just bought it oh
I don't know all right pretty rough don't like it very annoying so so let's
move on to our next the same thing like what you just said it's not technically
the worst thing in the world I can just filter it out but it's scary yep it's
just crappy anyways Tesla cars can drive themselves starting October 15th they
that's a little bit sensationalist yeah that is like a super damn Mega
redonkulous Le like The Verge used to be cool you guys used to be cool and like
now you're really not being that cool
right now um Tesla's cars can drive themselves
starting tomorrow in a straight line they can uh sort of well a little bit
more than that they can switch lanes and stuff um if you turn your turn signal on
then it's like okay so basically they can it's like
super badass cruise control someone described it that way that's not me
saying that I'm copying them I don't remember who it was but it's basically
like the sickest cruise control yeah um they're officially saying right now
you're supposed to keep your hands on the wheel you're not supposed to let go
of the wheel um and I would High recommend that um it's Auto steer it's
going to keep you in the lanes it'll check for side collisions it can turn for you if you turn the turn signal on
wait I don't think it turns for you I think it changes lanes for you only or sorry yeah it'll it'll change lanes for
you if you turn your turn auto park so it'll scan for parking spots Yep they're
saying this is this is upate that's a beta feature by the
way I love how there's beta features for a car it's so
dangerous um I believe this is version 7.0 something like that y yeah 7.0 so
7.1 one we'll make it so it can like drive out to a garage and then come pick
you up but yeah is that even in
here yep that's in here that's what it does yes okay so 7.1 will be able to
drive off to a garage and come pick you up when needed which is super sick um
but yeah they're being very clear that like if problems happen it's still
totally your fault so so basically it's
it's kind of it's kind of coming along um they're going to be continu ously
uploading real world uh sensor data from
the 7.0 equipped vehicles to continue to improve it so there's four sensor Types
on the car that they're going to be utilizing here forward radar forward facing camera 360° ultrasonic sensors
and a GPS combined with their high resolution navigation maps and so
they're they're probably going to be learning patterns yes well if this car
starts driving this way maybe I should stay away from it or whatever it'll
start learning and the whole Fleet will kind of hive mind to each other and and
and allow them to learn to drive better
um and so musk figures that or excuse me
Tesla figures that the functionality will improve with each passing week even
without firmware updates since the car is always accessing and improving tesas
highres Maps very cool yeah that's awesome it's interesting I I watched a
video and it's it's a little creepy because the guy goes over like a fairly
substantial bump I don't know if it's like a pothole or what it is because the
camera on the inside of the car so I can't see what's on the road but um like
the car jumps a little bit and you can tell like it went over something it
wasn't the car just jumping and the car is the the wheel is like oh oh oh okay
and like the the car doesn't jostle around but it it does just amount the
correction that it probably needed to and it fixed everything and the guy in the car is
like okay it's fine it's just crazy to
watch I don't know it was pretty cool I think it was Jalopnik that I watched the
video on excellent so you can check that out if you want um all right right we've
got I think we're going to kind of bundle four news topics into one here so
AMD reports their third quarter results so the original article here was from
market watch uh basically they're not
good but if you look at it quarter over quarter instead of year over-year then I
guess the revenue growth is nice but they're still losing like millions and
millions of dollars uh they're back over a billion dollars Revenue which is cool
I guess that's cool but like I could I could sell $10 bills
for 8 and I could probably do a billion dollars Revenue which is basically what
AMD is doing um also AMD is spinning off
their backend testing and assembly operations into a joint venture for 371
million so you know back to uh back to the whole back to the whole uh oh crap
men have Fabs I think it was Jerry Sanders II real men have Fabs AMD now
not only doesn't have Fabs they don't have the assembly plant for taking the
silicon and turning it into chips they are going full
fablous um but the good news is that this gets rid of I think it was
something like 1,700 employees that are no longer on payroll yep so their uh
contri the joint venture will see AMD contribute their facilities and P they're not being fired yeah yeah yeah
joint joint venture with uh oh crap now I forget uh Fujitsu yeah that's right
yeah so so there you go so there's that so so more bad news for AMD and actually
some bad news for Intel they report flat revenues and lower year-over-year
profits for Q3 original article here is
from tech report and the reason that that's bad news is because if business
isn't growing that's really really really really terrible because as much
as they're still making you know 65%
gross margin on their 14.6 billion dollar of Revenue uh which I think was
something along the lines of oh crap I
forget what net profit it was it was in the notes do you have it I do not see
it um blah blah blah blah blah BL you sure net profit is in the notes no I'm
not sure net net profits were still very very very good um but growth is very
important growth is important it means you're innovating it means your customers are inspired they're coming
back for more I was just going to say inspired and coming back for more I'm not that surprised yeah I'm not
surprised either which ties into the last the last oh apparently this link to
uh CTV News is dead unfortunately so there's uh
B basically the synopsis is uh Intel
HP uh PC does what campaign there we go
H ours Technica site is working yay ours cringeworthy PC does
what campaign wants you to upgrade uh so
because Intel has been building more power efficient desktop chips and hasn't
necessarily been that focused on you know dramatically improving performance
and I mean there's there's another issue is that there's not a whole lot of
things that you would want to do on a PC today that you couldn't do on a PC from
three to four years ago so help make more things so help make more things and
I mean it's not like they're not trying I mean there's those cameras with the
depth sensor that I can't imagine what anyone but a game streamer would
exactly like there's there's other stuff you can do though I don't know I think
the VR space is GNA be huge for people upgrading PCS yes that will but in the
meantime we have PC does what campaign uh and it's Dell HP Intel Lenovo and
Microsoft contributing to this with no
specific like product that they're trying to sell and the idea is just to
educate apparently very mainstream users
this is a mainstream user I think um
according to this campaign to educate mainstream users about what a PC does
and why you might give a crap about it so there's a
PC that's something someone would do that's the wow that's I hadn't actually
watched it yet yeah most helicopter Pilots probably
have a laptop in their
lap wow this is actually far worse than I
thought
wow I know it's sponsored by Lenovo in basically every single one of those
situations that laptop that you're testing out would have been
better because it's more rugged wow that's pretty
brutal sorry I don't know why didn't they come to us for
this we could have done so much better yeah the problem is we would have come
up with like awesome stuff that a PC does that has zero interest that didn't
have a helicopter or some dude in a dinghy in the ocean that has like but
the problem is we could we'd come up with stuff that she's not interested in
mind you I don't think she's interested in flying a helicopter with a computer
in her lap either no one should be interested that and like the music they
play the music in the cockpit no one would use a full laptop for that not to
mention phone not to mention that I've never encountered a laptop that you'd be
able to hear over the sound of helicopter rotors no oh you'd have a
phone and then that would talk to the the helicopter which would then
broadcast that to your headset that's assuming that we have helicopters with
like Bluetooth dashboard stereos oh they you do do they there's badass okay okay
like luxury that wasn't a luxury helicopter that was like the coast resue
helicop I mean we're talking hey man pass the aux cable we're talking it's
luy play this fire we're talking it's lucky if that thing flies in Canada in
Canada yeah we use boats for usually
did you just say for usually because that actually would have been awesome in
that case we use boats for usually I think we're
Canada I think I said usually oh this is
this is bad um oh whoops oh derp yeah
this is this is some ugly stuff so this is over on end Gadget uh Belle as much
as sometimes there are friends because my reception except here at the office
where we had to get a cell booster is good and they no it's not
that amazing though yeah it's okay switching from I came from telis and
I've very vocally said many things about telis so it's not like I love them but
my reception is slightly worse with Belle it shouldn't be they share Towers
really yeah it's noticeably slightly worse in shares towers with Tellis in
the East and Tellis shares towers with bell in the west that's really weird
yeah it's worse at my parents house and it's worse actually that's not true it's
worse in one part of my host and it's better in the other it could be it could
be your phone too something that almost no one it's really
funny someone no almost no one covers this in phone reviews anymore because
reception is for the most part fine but the Droid Turbo has terrible reception
uh at least for me because as a Verizon phone I'm not 100% sure if it supports
all of Belle's bands yeah so so that that is that is that could totally be it
because like I said in in part of my house where my phone straight up didn't work before it now works but in the rest
of my house it's like it usually works but it's kind of sketchy anyway I mostly
I like to like Bell because there's certain things that they do right by me
uh but this was not one of them so they've got a 1.2 million dooll fine on
their hands from Canada's competition Bureau after employees posted fake
reviews of bell apps on the Apple App
Store and on Google Play on the Google Play Store
um so basically they had kind of crap
ratings until some employees were
uh according to the regulator encouraged
to post glowing testimonials of the my bell and virgin my account apps to both
the App Store and Google play um so it was exposed by Scott Stratton who was
aware of the apps poor standing on iTunes and he suddenly saw the rating
Skyrocket due to a series of five-star reviews and then did some digging on
LinkedIn found out that the most praiseworthy mentions were directors
marketing managers and other paid people
by Bell Canada and and this dude was
angry yeah forced the company to admit that certain employees had been
encouraged to post the ratings but as soon as bosses were made
aware they ended the practice come
on that's pretty brutal yeah I'm happy
that this dude was angry enough to figure it out and I'm glad that this
sets a precedent in Canada for this thing this is the first time a company
has faced significant monetary fines for biased reviews in Canada and like like
lus said what at the beginning of the show or in the in the in the
announcement I don't even know what it was in but I don't even know what day it
is the $1.25 million which is like uh just
under a million dollars US I think which would be enough to bankrupt lonus Media
Group and lonus forever yay but is not a
drop in the bucket for B it's not that big of a deal for Bill yeah so like they
got their review a little bit higher and that might have even helped them maybe
maybe not to the tune of 1 m whatever million dollars I don't think but it was
a little bit of a Gamble and they lost and oh well I guess and I guess that's
the kind of stakes that you play with when you're a a national telecommunications company
yeah it's like yeah I'm a high roller so
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logs Bild logs let's do the Uber thing that's cool uber thing yeah original
article here is from TechCrunch and this is some pretty freaking Smurf stuff
right here Uber takes on delivery yeah
Smurf it means good don't worry about it um it's a Family Guy reference you
wouldn't understand oh people use it for like gaming like if you're really good
and high ranked and you make a new account so you can play against crappy people they call it Smurfy I thought
that was called sandbag smurfing sandbagging maybe both I think the new
kids call it smurfing smurfing yeah Smurf account no I've heard that before
I've heard I've heard it in that context I haven't heard it called smurfing but
I've heard it called a Smurf yeah yeah yeah uh anyway Uber takes on the uh the
package delivery services with Uber Rush
an OnDemand delivery service this looks
freaking awesome so basically they built an infrastructure of people driving
around old chat's like sand
Bing you're so
old hold
on oh you know what no
sandbagging is deliberately unper underperforming oh yeah no this is right
so having an account that deliberately underperforms to gain an unfair advantage in future
matches okay kind of yeah no the idea I
think with smurfing is just creating a new one yes but that would represent
your your record would not be representative it's the same idea yeah
sandbagging is a thing so youing is more
if someone has a high ranked account and then they repeatedly lose on purpose to
to get seated against a more favorable yeah that's definitely a thing actually
one of the most embarrassing examples of sandbagging that I ever saw was the uh
women's I think it was like a it was women's
badminton um in the last summer olympics
I want to say 2012 uh throw match something something
along those lines yeah here we go uh so
this was in oh bloody
hell can't remember anyway the video is amazing this like professional badminton
players playing on like my level just like not even trying so and the reason
was that they already knew the results of another match another couple matches
and they wanted to fall in a better place in the bracket so they'd have a better chance of going through anyway
all the players ended up getting disqualified so so get wrecked um thank
you Olympics for being on top of that but let's get back to Uber Rush so it's
a pilot version of its Merchant delivery service then it was launched October
14th in San Fran New York and Chicago we
still don't even have Uber in Canada thanks to the taxi Mafia um it's focused
on local shops for the moment
and uh utilizes vehicle and bike couriers to deliver things quickly so
Uber drivers can pick up passengers and
packages but can't do both at the same time uh so businesses basically don't
have to pay Uber to sign up for Uber rush but each delivery will cost the
merchant between $5 and $7 which is not bad when you consider that it happens
right away so Business Insider tried the New York City pilot and a reporter had a
rain coat she forgot at a meeting and picked it up and dropped it off and it
was picked up and dropped off within 20 minutes for $111 wow pretty cool hey
that's not bad at all um so yeah that's
pretty cool that's awesome I just wish we had Uber at all yeah even even
slightly would be nice yeah
um this is like the shittiest news ever
um but basically uh John total biscuit Bane oh has uh has oh whoops that's the
wrong that's the wrong thing has released a statement on Twitter that uh
basically says his cancer is back so I don't know if all of you are necessarily
familiar with total biscuit but you probably should be yeah I know um you
probably should be we've had him as a guest on W show before where he was
awesome by the way but he's awesome at a lot more things than just being a Guest
on w show solid dude upstanding dude um
has has really changed games journalism
in a way that goes beyond how many subscribers he has on YouTube um and the
the long and short of it is the average life expectancy for the condition that
he's in right now is two to three years however that is based on that the
condition that he's in is usually found
in older people who are less capable of fighting it so you know he's hoping for
the best and who knows what cancer treatments are going to be available in the next who knows even two to three
years you know hopefully he's got a fighting chance but it's um it's back so
we just we're we're we're talking about
that not because it's Tech news necessarily but just because it's uh
it's it's a bummer um check out check out total biscuit while you can but we
are still still really hoping for the best best for him and uh yeah uh also
he's closing his Starcraft 2 Team axium
um this was this was another there's a screen grab of the full announcement uh
that I can pull up here but basically it's it's it's come to an end the axium
website is down um they hadn't been having a great run in terms of
competitiveness for a variety of reasons over the last little bit anyway but um
in light of in light of what's going on in in John's life
um yeah he's focusing more on family and
medical expenses at the moment so this super sucks not only do I like him as a
person having him on the show and talking to him outside of the show and stuff but I literally watch everything
he releases I had never talked to him before we had him on the show actually
which is kind of funny um because I just like I had talked to him at shows as a
fan without him knowing who I was I think right so I hadn't done that but
I've actually stayed in touch with him since we had him on the show almost two
years ago like I yeah
yeah um so let's move on to something
else I guess um build logs sure Let's do let's
do build logs so we actually haven't done this in
a long time but on the lineus tech tips Forum folks can create I'm actually
going to move us out of the way here uh folks can submit their build logs so
logs of their build um pretty self-explanatory I would recommend full
screening it if you can uh oh okay button is there there we go yes allow
why would I click full screen if I don't want it to allow it um so basically uh
voters can staff or Community can pick ones that they like and then they can be
featured on the show at least that was the theory we stopped doing it for a
long time because we forgot uh so this one looks absolutely sick check out that
custom back plate from the graphics you know what this that Skyline is the
skyline yeah yeah I'm not sure cuz I recognized like the the needle on the
far left yeah don't know off the top of my head someone's going to tell us what
a bunch of idiots we are and they're going to know but I don't so yeah
absolutely gorgeous look at that it reminds me of uh
sniff it's not sniff but it reminds me of sniff that just looks fantastic I
sure wish that this coolant made sense for anything other than like Glam
footage of systems you know that if you turn your system off for a while it
settles and then like gops up so you have to literally run your system
like pretty much continuously someone the chat was like I don't like Luke one
time he forgot who the actor who played Han Solo was I I don't like Luke
either yeah and you probably don't even know that that's a somewhat roundabout
Star Wars reference I know I know do you
I did know do you good jerk so this is the second one so that
was what that was voters pick I think this is now the
like mod teams pick but don't talk trash about Luke cuz he'll rip your arms
off not just like when he loses
proper you're referencing the wrong person is that the whole point no yeah
it's just a Star Wars reference yeah okay but you're saying Luke
what who is in Star Wars even the previous reference was not Luke it was
uh Dr whatever his face is but isn't he saying that towards yeah he is saying
that to Luke I guess you got that what you talking about
son that's not a reference on a second hold
on a second who is that line delivered he doesn't like you very much is that
what you're talking about no no yeah no that one's to Luke but uh who is Han
telling that a wi no C3PO that's right
um but he's talking about the wook h no no no no no yeah okay Han is talking to
C3PO about Chewbacca the wi name is Chewbacca I know you said right then I
don't know if you know these things jerk I knew the character in the show I
didn't know the actor so here's our staff pick and I
do wow You'll see it's pry I've got wood
yes basically check that out look at that
bottom picture I'm liking it that's pretty sick that's fantastic so he took
like the actual front grill off of some case nice and compact looking pretty
good I think it's cool all right we got one more here um so this is the like uh
like wild card got picked because holy crap what
the hell system all right so this is this is it I
think this is the only photo there is so he has a computer an Xbox 360 a
PlayStation 3 and a PlayStation 4 all water cooled on one Loop wow yeah that's
fantastic yeah well I mean you'd only really use
one of them but it is cool yeah but I mean having those there for like you
know look at how inferior these ones look Museum archival purposes know my
favorite part is too is all the PC components like color match the board
and stuff and then it's like oh green grossness yeah here's some ugly pcbs I
ripped out of some like turd boxes or whatever okay to be
fair we have actually said that the PlayStation 4 was not terrible at launch
and if you want to play exclusive titles launch and now you can like kick its ass
well yeah but like all the scrapyard War stuff that went down oh yeah I know when
you guys see the new one yeah it's going to be it's even like
yeah I don't know the result is very cool all right so the scarp raised $4
million before having its funding suspended for not having a working
prototype and oh man did they ever try to sell people on the idea that the
footage they were showing was somehow a working prototype it was not it was not
even remotely a working it was not I am I am frankly a little disappointed that
we talked about this thing see this is why every time we get burned on this
crap I'm like you know what we should just not cover Kickstarter stuff anymore
you know what we should just stop covering Kickstarter stuff but then we get to cover this part of it and then
there's like some cool thing so every single thing that we cover in Kickstarter is two
topics think about it that way we're getting great mileage out of these
topics we are yeah they're amazing then we already know everything about it next
time we have to cover it I think it's we should only cover
Kickstarter stuff then we only have to prep a show twice a month so more than
20,000 people had backed the project um
this is there's a great Reddit thread that you guys should read through about
all the reasons why what they were doing probably doesn't or perhaps could work
um the ACT people digging into the alleged cred credibility of the people
involved versus um what they were saying their credibility was people picking
apart some of the footage and why it may or may not have had a filter over the
lens or or whatever else um so
basically um super sketch it's back up on
Indiegogo so there's that yep and has
raised $3,000 already already again um so yep
there you go the campaign will receive all funds even if it doesn't reach its
goal so apparently the if this is a scam
then they've they've set their sights a little lower but they but they'll take
the 300 Grand yeah if it's not a scam then I do sincerely hope that it I'm
glad our logo is not there I do sincerely hope that it ends up being
being real I really want it to be real I
super do they have not put any acknowledgements have you seen this
video yeah this crap video yeah it's
it's brutal they're like oh my God it's it's like they like get someone else to
hold the camera camera they used a Dremel to like yeah cut out a thing on
their prototype and then they put like a a filament in
here they could be anything they don't show us the power source so it could be
a AAA Battery it could be a nuclear generator yeah um it's just the worst
shot video like ever and why is it so
green that's a lens filter to help you see something or something or something
anyway um there's there's no audio if I remember correctly the video on YouTube
has ratings disabled and comments disabled
yep so something something Etc yeah they
haven't said anything about being uh
kicked off of Kickstarter which is really interesting
yeah very very
interesting well we'll see how that turns
out someone someone just said scrap here Wars 3 should be four cuz three's
already coming out but Scrappy Doors 3 make a laser
razor oh man that's awesome all right so
super NHL is on its way with support for
8K video so someone heard lonus complaining about how the heck you
deliver 8K video and delivered super MHL
yes they were like Wow Let's develop all of this and less than a week yep so move
over standard mobile highdef link super MHL is on its way and it's bringing
better video quality and support than ever before according to the sub
headline on CNET so the skinny is this
support for 8K 120
FPS um allows you to stream up to 8K AV
content from a mobile device to a TV or other display and supports up to 48 bit
color totally unnecessary by the way um and launched it CES 2015 so they
actually went back in time did all the work that I asked for and that doesn't
sound too complicated and someone sent me the link just in time for it to be
after I complained that it didn't exist yet I really like the way that all of
that timing has work also uh wait yeah never
mind um this is just kind of funny uh
wired reports that Leonardo decaprio has snapped up film rights to the to the to
the to the proposed book that is not written about the VW
emissions Scandal um so yeah so they've teamed up
with Paramount to buy the rights good um
it will apparently be called too big to fail good and it'll be something about
the impact on the automotive industry of the race to more specs and more better
faster and all that kind of stuff um he's also actually recently signed a
multi-year deal with Netflix to produce en environmental films
cool good there you go cool do good things DiCaprio way to go Leo yay I
don't know that you're actually a super nice dude but at least you're doing this
yes uh this is cool I actually submitted a review unit request got my ass handed
to me they're like yep so we've chosen I got a form letter back they're just like
so we've chosen some key blah blah Etc so you're not getting one but hey we'll
let you know if there's more later and also you can have a discount on buying
one which I'm not doing because I think it's going to be a piece of crap but this is the light l16 camera and
apparently challenges dslrs with 16 lenses in one package so the idea yes
right there you were looking at whoa a camera that will record the image 16
different ways allowing you to make that sounds like a bad idea make changes to
the image in terms of focus in terms of
a bunch of other stuff after the fact hold on a second John's trying to leave
the office hold on can you put the
sponsor spots in the script and um save
them as. txt one thanks wasn't that
already a technology oops are they claiming that they invented this are
they claiming they invented this I don't think so okay cool uh two that just
sounds like a terrible idea um yeah I mean I I think the the
the the DSLR traditionalists are going to probably look at this go or you could
take one photo with a big sensor and a nice lens in front of it properly the
first time and then teran's going to be like fix it in post this is the greatest
camera that's ever existed because I can fix it in post even better a so it'll
have a touchscreen display on the back um it'll cost about $1,300 on pre-order
and when it starts shipping in the summer of 2016 it'll cost $1,700 that's
assuming it works at all and
um yeah I guess I'm not really sure what else to say about that um it's about the
size of an X6 so it's not huge which is cool the U LT or um the originally
unofficial that's what uo came from lus Tech tips star is in conglomerate um is
going to be having a tournament thingy there's going to be giveaways based on
your performance in the tournament the first giveaway is a $25 gift card the
second place is a $10 gift card and the third place is a $5 item from The Pledge
store um even if you show up it's just supposed to kind of be fun so don't
worry if you're not very good at shooting and blowing stuff up like me
I'm usually good at flying spaceships and spaceship games and I'm really bad
at it in Star season so oh well um yeah
there's a thread on the Forum you should go there just look up operation brawl
star seon giveaway and you will find it it's from Napper 198 go check it out go
join it should be fun yeah uh wow we've got a whole bunch
of of stuff Apple updated their iMac peripherals so now there's the Magic
Mouse 2 which features a charging port
on the bottom for some reason uh original article here is from a
nonch um so there you go there's also a
new magic Trackpad too so so everyone just freaked out
about the mouse and a magic and magic keyboard updated version how bad do you
think the most is because some people are just like Atomic over the mouse
having the charging thingy on the bottom I think it's super stupid um where would
you rather it went in the very front I liked their their doublea battery
approach before the great thing about a mouse that just takes doublea batteries
is that it will work forever because you can keep putting new double a batteries
in it and if you're out of battery a very Apple approach and if you're out of
battery hold on if you're out of battery you don't have to sit on ass waiting for
it to charge you can throw in some disposables if you're if you're in a pinch like we use 98 8% rechargeable
batteries at lus Media Group but that doesn't mean that we don't have a bin of
disposables just in case we're desperate um and the and the is the other issue
here is that many mice with internal
batteries that um with internal
batteries so you can't just swap the battery pack have charging connector
positions such that you can plug them in and use them pluged into the computer so
just looks like a Wired Mouse which is like what everyone has always done
forever with that said it charges for $9 hours of use in about 2 minutes I think
people's freak out was a little bit much and that's exactly why but it's still
really stupid and it's another example of Apple just going no um well design is
um everything so we're going to put the
important things on the bottom maybe next they'll put the click on the bottom
because it looks better without actually they already kind of did that when they
removed the uh the separated plastic buttons and just had the click be part
of there you go uh the magic Trackpad has a built-in
battery brings Force touch to the desktop which is very cool uh it's 30%
larger almost than the previous track pad and pairs automatically with your
Mac and the magic keyboard is rechargeable battery again via lightning
to USB pairs automatically and better scissor mechanism under each key
increase stability etc etc so there you go some updates some of which are dumb
some of which are good and some of which are just really not very important at
all what else we got here I think that might be about it
the iPhone 6s camera shows literally no
or little improvement over the iPhone
6 um so yeah it's fine but so is the G4
this is from dxo mark.com so is the LG G4 so is the Samsung Galaxy S6 there's a
lot of great smartphone cameras out there it's really nice that you don't have to buy an iPhone anymore and that
cell phone cameras have kind of gotten as good as they need to be for a bit even Apple agrees they didn't make it
better uh with that said the 6s improves in a lot of other ways over the six my
review of that is up on vessel and we'll be coming to YouTube uh soon you talking
about Humble Bundle they used to be the reason why I brought that up is because
we used to call out what the Humble Bundle was every week do you remember
that yeah back when it was like that back when it was like cool and sexy and
not and that is the whole point of this topic is that hle bundle has let go of
20% of their staff this is off destructoid.com which is 12 people um
the CE admits that um it was a little
bit of an overly eager expansion which is probably completely true um and this
is largely to do this part isn't in the notes but this is largely to do with
well back in the day we used to call out every one of their bundles because they
were sick and they're really not that sick anymore at the very beginning which
you would expect a company to grow at the very beginning they were selling a
lot of hum humble bundles I think it was like 500 600,000 for the first sale now
they're at like 100 to 200,000 for sale which is a huge difference and your
company is as big as he made it for
um I don't actually know I'm not in the company from but from as far as I can
tell the small amount of things that they do yeah well they do book bundles
they do game store they have a game store and now a subscription
service um and and I mean it's not like it's not like their competitors have
stood still it's not like people it's like uh that's the whole thing yeah
there's a lot of bundle companies now that's like Groupon remember when Groupon went like super everyone thinks
it's important and then there's like a a
billion like clone you know group deal
you know go to a restaurant for less than because they realize how actually
like again I'm not in the industry so I don't know but how easy it probably is a
lot of these Indie guys are going to want to be on these bundles so if you're
like hey bundle they'll be like okay yes please y I don't
know um there was one other thing
I don't know do we want to do more bad news for AMD or should we just go easy
on them uh sure corporate fellow Phil Rogers has
left the company after 21 years so our
original uh original article here is from
hardocp um so corporate fellow to be clear is the highest level of technical
recognition at AMD and is reserved for those who impact AMD's business
opportunities and Technical breadth by providing a high degree of expertise
knowledge creativity and tactical and strategic Direction he has gone to
NVIDIA and he is now their Chief soft software architect for compute
server what that's a little brutal yeah bummer
about that um I don't know I think that's probably it I think I just banned
like you know what 20 people oh my goodness I feel terrible I had promised
we were going to do the Afterparty with the honorable mentions for the ultrawide
festival today and I am not because I need to shoot three fastest posses right
now and I am already like tired and it's
already after 6 and I have to go somewhere after this so I will do it but
it will not be this week of your mom yep
actually yep all right so see you guys next week same bat Time same bat Channel
bye get banned are they doing that his thing
some of them are doing his thing some of
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