oh my God all right guys welcome to the W show and I'm down a pair of earphones
for monitoring so technical difficulties
abound uh we've got a great show for you guys today though there is a ton of
fantastic news I'm also going to have some early thoughts on the Droid Turbo
which is the phone that I have just started using as of last night and I'm
pretty darn impressed with so far and of course he's going to talk about Oculus
because the the Oculus excitement fairies visited in the night and told us
that the retail version is coming soon uh so let's go through what our main
topics for today are there's of course a ton of news from BlizzCon and not just
like Hearthstone now with tablets I mean
they have that too yeah but there's other stuff um now you can use your Gmail app
with any email service including ones
like Hotmail who completely lacked apps
for years and years and years and years and years and just generally kind of
suck as a mobile experience now you can just use the Gmail
interface yeah Google can have your data without even storing anything on their
servers now they can just skim it and let someone else deal with that problem
that's right zman is bankrupt or not
maybe Uh something's going on anyways and just as like the trustiest Ste
machine you could ever possibly imagine get the pun anyways Ubisoft keeps on
digging and was able to push through through the news of their horribleness
through all the mess of BlizzCon news which is a lot impressive and important
stuff I'm not even mad that's just amazing like wow good
work you are at an impressive level of stuff that is really good good work all
right so let's roll the intro here let's see if it's set up correctly cuz I didn't do
it there sound all right okay now um
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go all right so let's get into our first topic today which is going to be uh that
blizzard should just stop making games because they're cinematic trailers for
things um the the the Warlords of dra
one uh the the one for OverWatch that
just came out today that I was like Spellbound by okay so I love animated
movies I love The Incredibles that's one of my favorite movies of all time I
loved mega mind like that action
animated movies turns me on seriously so
that trailer today oh man I'm glad I was
alone in the room because I would have knocked something over with the
yeah so freaking awesome and and they didn't pull that
whole BS Square Enix thing where there's like a 16 minute long cinematic trailer
of like some really impressively spiky-haired dude with like an
impressively huge sword that's also a gun and a laser beam or something like
twirling around with it or whatever uh we didn't get any of that or like like
you know dramatic silence Broody thing
and then no gameplay cuz they know we're not going to like it uh no instead we
actually got a Gameplay trailer do you want to talk about the Gameplay trailer for OverWatch yeah so the one thing I
really liked about the Gameplay trailer for OverWatch just to completely reiterate what you just said was um that
they showed every single this is why I love having you as a sidekick just say
exactly what you just said um they showed every single character which I
really appreciated and they showed um what I think was the complete move set
as far as I could tell I had to watch it like twice and I was referencing a sheet
that shows like their two main moves and their ultimate but if you looked really
closely it looks like they actually show all of their moves including their
ultimate now the the Assassin dude with the Dual pistols pretty much every
single time they showed him on screen they showed his ultimate which was kind of funny but I was trying to figure out
the first time I watched it I was like why does he just get to instant kill everyone around him all the time right I
was like this doesn't seem fair at all I figured out later on it's his
ultimate thing they should just call that class the douchebag yeah well he's
a still character so it's kind of I know
how games work no I mean the douchebag comment he's a stealth character so it
kind of works yes I guess how I see them when I play games anyways um it looks
really good a what a lot of people are pointing out is that while it's like the
first new IP in Forever that's largely because it's like it's Titan they just
removed everything except for the PVP portion and then they were like Yay
whole game um that's well that's a like
large amount of speculation I don't know if that's that's actually true that's what a lot of people are saying and it
makes sense um and I don't know if I'm
against it cuz this looks really cool as it's own game and I'm hoping that by
being its own game they can expand on it a little bit more instead of having it a
canned experience within a larger thing and um even talking to people that are
really into Wow since they kind of abandoned the whole Titan idea and
brought some of those MMO guys back to the wow experience wow has gotten a lot
better because of that so it kind of makes sense I'm I'm pretty stoked for
over watch actually I signed up for the beta already it looks fun and I like
games that are just kind of just fun yeah being super hardcore it just looks
like well they're going to have to still work hard to balance it if you're going
to if you're going to compete with something like Team Fortress that's fun
and really well balanced for hardcore as long as you don't go over the top with
some of the stupid stuff that goes on um if if they can achieve both of those
things and blizzard is one of the companies where I kind of look at it and
I go well who actually has the pedigree to go head-to-head with valve as one of
the only two competitors in an entire
genre yeah I could see them doing it balance has never in my they're really
good at it they're really good at it in some Realms in some ways um I I don't
personally think they've done very well with World of Warcraft Arenas which is
part of the reason why they were actually pushed out of I can't remember
what very large gaming tournament I can't believe the MLG was it they push
out of some huge gaming tournament because they were just like your thing is horribly unbalanced and this is just
ridiculous um so yeah but that is a
really that's part of the reason why I said I'm I'm totally okay with it being
its own canned experience right because I don't want the other stuff to mess
with it and if it doesn't mess with it then they might be able to work on
things like balance much more effectively looks like a lot of fun though so you can sign up for the beta
which is coming in 2015 at playoverwatch.com I'm glad that they're
taking their time to polish it like they're not even do I mean it looks
pretty playable right now but that means
that you never yeah you never really know trailers probably not working on
artwork assets so much anymore they're probably fine-tuning the actual gameplay
and maps and the actual experience of playing the game so so I'm really
excited to see it I'm I want to play with it I I like that it's 6v6 yeah I
think that's pretty cool it's it's just pushing it that much more and if they
try to make it competitive 6v6 then I mean there's a lot more room for dynamic
gameplay especially as you throw in all these different classes yeah there's a
ton I don't know the exact number but there's a really large amount yeah so
and they're they're uh they're pushing the whole it's a character instead of it
being a class but it's it's a class oh whatever yeah it's a class there's the
sniper and there's the engineer and there's the tank guy in it yeah but the
engineer has a beard now not surprising
yeah anyways moving on uh should we just do all the blizzard news right now yeah
sure sure so so yeah I just one last thing we finally got an FPS from
blizzard we've been waiting for it since ghost yeah I still wish we got ghost and
back to the Starcraft Universe now you can do your thing okay so so Legacy the
void will be a standalone game which is interesting and I personally think
actually a really good idea uh because it'll make the barrier of entry into
Starcraft a lot easier um because buying
a new game and then having to buy the two new expansions all these expansions
for it like the the or $100 battle chest
that inevita out that's just really
frustrating so I'm really cool with the fact that they made it a standalone game
they're doing a few cool things as well other I'm not really going to focus tons
on like the you get to Pilot this ancient ship and the single player and
all and there was like a lot of lore around it and it's like really cool
certain things happened if you like single player Starcraft campaigns go
play it I do but I don't think a ton of people care so oh well um they're
introducing a few new modes uh one that looks really interesting is archon mode
a new co-op and PVP mode where you work with your teammate to control a single
base and a single Army so you're you're it's two people controlling one team
essentially that sounds like a lot of fun I actually think so as well I'm
really stoked for people who are new to the game that kind of thing could be a
legitimately entertaining way to play in a game with your buddy who's like way
better I've forced it before because I love this idea I've gone into a 2v2 and
essentially like we've we've rushed and essentially sacrificed one of our guys
right and then just given control to the other guy and then one person manages
the base the other person manages the Army and by being able to quite
literally be in two places at once it can make two players that would be
fairly mediocre into like actually really good player yeah and it's it's
interesting to see how that plays out so it's really cool that it's actually a game mode now yeah I'm going to have a
lot of fun with that actually I I will I will play that game mode it's probably
the only thing I'll care about because I like RTS games I enjoy them but I tend
to be a little bit of a scatterbrain and a little bit kind of add so I will
completely forget about that you know 16
units that I queued up and I'll be in a skirmish or whatever and I left 16 guys
standing next to my barracks and if you could have just just have someone just like pushing units at you while you
fight and you just get completely fight that would be fun and I'm a base
micromanager I like building bases right and I I usually just like attacking when
I have like a huge Army which isn't necessarily
stry no yeah and then um they have
another uh Mode called Allied commanders which is another Co-op style mode where
players join forces through different scenarios and they gain new capabilities
as they progress and go forward and I don't know a ton about that one but
again it's this like bringing people together I'm I like rtss a lot I like
watching 1V one StarCraft I'm not a huge fan of playing 1 V one Starcraft I like
playing rtss on teams my favorite modes are 2v2 3v3 and before cuz I get to play
with someone so I like that they're bringing out these these additional
modes also there's going to be a like online Dynamic tournament system which
should be really cool which I'm pretty stoked about because people like my
brother C A Starcraft uh Caster have
been pretty frustrated with the like tournament support and team support in
Starcraft so it's cool that they might actually be doing something about it
also they're bringing in new units which is not surprising and they're bringing
back the lurker which some people have been waiting for all right so then we
did promise that one of the things at BlizzCon was going to be Hearthstone
with tablets just like last year well now it's Hearthstone on different
tablets Android
tablets also there's another why wasn't this a thing 9 months ago shortly after
the iOS release I don't know should have
been a lot faster I'm pretty stoked that it's finally happening but it's more of
a like yeah okay thank you instead of like a yay um but they're also releasing
a new expansion goblins versus gnomes so that'll be cool the previous expansion
that they released was actually really fun so it's cool to see them expanding
the game there's also going to be 120 new themed cards which is pretty insane
hey and you don't have to borrow my iPad anymore yeah hey that worked out for
everyone all right so let's go ahead and move on to our next topic Intel was
caught cheating now is this the second
time oh this is I think or whatever time
cuz when I first saw the story I was like wait okay there was old article
there was like the big one where there
was like allegedly Intel was uh you know
paying for people to not or deeply
incentivizing uh their Partners to not carry AMD products and that was I think
that was like HP and Dell or something
like that and this was this was back around the same time frame I think a little bit earlier actually whereas this
is during the Pentium 4 days specifically if you bought a Pentium 4
based computer sometime between November 20th in the year 2000 and December 31st
2001 so just over a year of time you bought a P4 you get a $15 cash payout
for Intel not allegedly it's it's
confirmed now they were caught so for Intel misrepresenting the performance of
the Pentium 4 relative to the AMD Athlon
Thunderbird so if you want your 15 bucks there's no receipt
necessary and Intel will also be paying $4 million to educational Charities
which is pretty cool they they have to pay they're not also pay they're not
like yeah thank you for the unfavorable Court ruling just to who's 4 million
bucks no it's they have to do that yeah
so it's one of those things where I think a lot of people will kind of look at this and go you know big bad Intel
your bad dudes and you know what that was not a cool thing to do I I think
that based on on our engagement with Intel over the last couple of years they
treat this kind of stuff really seriously internally now especially
after that the big lawsuit the one where they had to pay AMD like I can't
remember how much it was I want to say it was in the neighborhood of hundreds
of millions or a billion or something like that yeah it was a big deal um so
ever since I think yeah I vaguely remember that ever since that whole
thing came to light like they are so
careful when they talk to us about look say whatever you want do this do do that
like criticize us publicly if that's what it comes to just be fair and like
we'll sponsor you we'll have that relationship with you but we can't affect anything you do or say like okay
but that's good that's how it's supposed to work so yeah they've been yeah
they're always pretty pretty careful now $15 pants like yeah my computer from
like high school wasn't fast enough so I want my $15 now you know money the only
winners from something like this cuz the amount of effort that it takes to make
the $15 you could probably go fill out online surveys and the only winners are
people that are like lawyers yeah well lawyers and then people that are like 14
and then are like Dad can I say that you bought a computer at this time Dad's
like sure whatever and then that kid gets 15 bucks and then buys a cheap game
on Steam y yeah so so the lawyers are
the big Winners but that that's about it speak and an educational charity yeah I
the charity uh speaking of being a big winner Sony reports a 1.25
billion loss did I say winner cuz I meant loser um over the last quarter
1.25 billion usar spearheaded so oh wow
we haven't been we haven't been posting original posters oh jeez oh no so Intel
caught cheating was stizzy and the original article was from gizmodo.com
and this one was posted by Good Bites and the original article is from
neowin.net not done um the hearstone on
tablets post was by joners and and the OverWatch post was by
Graff I need this adapter as long as
this isn't the one that I marked dead and should just throw away because it
doesn't work uh no this is this is the good one so I normally do is if it's
dead I cut it in half and then I just throw it away so people don't take it out of the G yeah I actually had a
problem with people fishing the stuff that I had thrown away out of the
garbage I think an Ethernet cable made the rounds like four times it's like I'm
just trying to network things I want them to just work
okay so Linus's screen sharing is evidently not a thing right now Windows
P so uh yeah no no lonus is not screen
sharing today okay so from neowin uh Sony reports $ 1.25 billion dollar in
losses led by Wright mostly due to their mobile division which is a real shame
because I I don't know about necessarily the rest of their lineup but the Experia
Z2 is a really solid phone and it doesn't get the amount of attention that
I really think it deserves I mean they were one of the first ones to to glom on
to that idea that oh wow we should make
the battery bigger I mean it's got a 3200 mamp battery which is significantly
more than most of its competition and they were the first ones to Pioneer that
whole waterproof thing remember how much our brains exploded at C when they had
like the dunk tank with the phone yeah that was actually pretty cool if if they
had a stock Android skin instead of
their Sony skin I probably would have bought a Z3 by now cuz I'm up for an
upgrade so I okay I wouldn't have I would have upgraded through my phone
plan to a Z3 so their movie division had an operating loss of 10 million which in
the grand scheme of things is actually not not that bad you know they could
have sold a couple more tickets to something and that it's kind of a you
kind of look at that and you go okay well maybe it'll be better next quarter Hollywood accounting and all that kind
of stuff yep and so you know revenues
increased in total 7% although I personally as much as investors might
care about this kind of thing like Wall Street kind of cares about this I kind
of look at it and I go so what you sold more but you lost more money how is that
how is that a business strategy that's not that's not a good sign that just
means you slashed your prices to liquidate and then you like from on a
very sort of micro level obviously they're doing it on a much larger scale
slashing things and liquidating um and then their music division posted slight
profits and Playstation 4 maintained healthy sales although I really have to
wonder with the way AAA gaming is
going is PlayStation 4 a worthy
competitor to the Wii U right now oh Wii
U is smashing it so far and smashing it
that was actually the point yeah sorry yeah boom um just
smash smash stick um anyways they're
they're doing really well and with smash around the corner and with uh what is it
squid squid RW or I can't remember the name of the game U Splatoon there we go
with that around the corner getting really really good reviews the Wii U has
just been doing incredibly well lately and like something that I thought was
amazing which I tweeted out not that long ago was a whole bunch of Xbox and
Playstation like that style of nextg console Fanboys ragging on Wii U before
Xbox One and PS4 had been released right and like you think it's cool that you
can run like 1080p 60 FPS that's pathetic
oh yeah I get a kick out of how many console Fanboys still think that they're
getting 4K at some point no you aren't no dude no um I I
don't I don't know I think it still will um because no matter how much I can go
like yeah the best setup is a a Wii U and a PC or if you just have like little
kids maybe just a Wii U or something um because I'm a huge fan of Wii U and I'm
a huge fan of PC gaming it's it's it's it's in this this weird
situation where uh like kind of like with World of Warcraft in a lot of ways
you want to play a game that all your friends are playing yeah that's one of the big reasons why World of Warcraft
exploded is because if people wanted to play a game with a lot of their friends
it it just catalyzed so quickly because so many people started playing it just
blew up and that happens with consoles as well I I remember being in high
school I wanted to play games with my friends every single friend that I had
was playing on consoles and then there's like me with my computer I'm like yay
okay hey guys do you want to get together and play some games um where do
I plug in my mouse and keyboard they're like what eventually I was able to like
move everyone over onto my team but um yeah there was a lot of console playing
I had an Xbox I played Halo 2 online it was actually fantastic cuz Halo 2 was an
amazing game really so you didn't like catch the leprosy or something console
leprosy after Halo 2 I ditched hard I bought Halo 3 and I was like wow this
game's terrible and then I then I
stopped um but yeah by that point I had moved a lot
of my friends to PC gaming anyways so it just kind of worked out but like I I get
it I understand why so many people are into it um I think it's
actually I'm part of that like PC Master race group where it's like I actually
feel bad for them like I wish their experience was better their consoles
just suck but no if you look back at it most console releases they lose money
when they sell the machine and then they make money back on games and controllers
and stuff now they're making money from selling machine cuz it's a giant piece of crap like
they had well it's a small piece of crap it's a very slim lined piece of crap it
doesn't smell bad it could so it's it could yes it smell is not static anyways
um yeah I I wish they had a better experience they just
don't okay you know what's kind of funny we have surprisingly few live viewers
today and I'm not quite sure what's going on ah yes the announcement video
on YouTube never went live for some reason it's sitting right
here invalid request Authentication
expired well that's clever let's go ahead and actually announce that we're
live because that would be fantastic that's the kind of thing that you should
do if you're live and streaming a vide you should be like yo dog I'm live y'all
should come watch right about now it's going to be pretty cool and awesome and
can't believe we didn't do this I sort of suspected something earlier but then
I got all carried away ranting about something and then I got distracted so
speaking of branting about things and getting distracted HTC's new charger
gets your mobile charging up to 40% faster so it takes advantage this is not
an HTC technology it takes advantage of qualcomm's Quick Charge 2.0 technology
so the 1 M8 1 E8 1 M8 HK Edition Harmon
Cardon Edition it's very special um and the desire ey can all utilize this new
charger so they figure the certified charger can restore 60% to a 3300
milliamp battery in just 30 minutes
that's awesome I like that it's backwards compatible it's called the HTC rapid charger 2 .0 and it not only works
with the newer devices that support qualcom Quick Charge 2.0 but also older
devices that support Quick Charge 1.0 albe it at a lesser rate so if I I've
actually got at least you know what I'm pretty sure the Droid Turbo has a Quick
Charge 2.0 but I also have a 1 M8 so we have a quick charger on order already
not from HTC it's a different one that um I'm going to try out I'm going to see
how much of a difference it makes because I think that even though we
haven't gotten to that revolutionary stage yet where we can charge our
batteries in 15 seconds wirelessly or
you know or we have batteries that last for 5 days at a time or whatever else
that's what I'm hoping for if I can recharge in half an hour to an hour
let's say and I can get a full day no
matter how hard I abuse it out of the capacity of that battery then that's at
least a massive step towards that revolu
uary Next Step the really cool part uh in my opinion about this like you can
get 60% in half an hour isn't even the half an hour part it's how much that
comes down to in like a 2 minute or 5
minute frame the the burst like oh my God I need a little bit battery but 7
minutes and 9 seconds before I need to walk out the door my phone is almost
dead can I get through this date that's probably going to be horrible by texting
on my phone the whole time if it dies what am I going to do I'm going to have
to actually look at her face which which is horrible like that kind of thing
right yeah it's that would be really helpful it's I don't a lot of the times
if if it's going to be able to sit there for half an hour it's going to be able to sit there for 3 hours it's going to
be able sit there for more than that it's the very short burst charging that
excites so I'm going to use this to segue into my initial thoughts about the
Droid Turbo from Motorola this is a Verizon exclusive device and honestly
that's the biggest complaint I can come up with about it is that not everyone
everywhere right now can buy it it's very early stages I first signed in to
my Google account on it uh 21 hours ago
so I've been using it for very little time but is it Verizon exclusive for the
world like it not coming to Canada no no I think I think it's going to be there's
rumors that it'll be called the Droid Max or the uh the Moto Max or something
like that'll have like a different name yeah so it'll have a different name or whatever but it'll probably be a very
similar phone um what's cool about it is and I'm this is a review unit so I'm not
sure if this will apply to the retail ones but the Verizon of it is that I
can't use MMS Verizon doesn't allow MMS messages outside their own network and
that's pretty locked um even after I rooted my my wife's Droid DNA she never
got MMS working um so so there's that um
limitation number two is that it it comes with some Verizon stuff
pre-installed on it that you can go make a folder for somewhere and hide it and
then limitation number three is that when you first put in your sim it boots
up and says blah blah blah this is not a Verizon sim and then you press okay and
it drops you on the home screen nice so it doesn't I so what I'm
hoping is everyone will be able to buy one even if they can't necessarily get
one with a carrier subsidy because the 3900 milliamp battery in here they're
claiming 2 days that's Motorola's sort of quote is we want you to get through
48 hours per charge and I'm going to go you know what phone enthusiasts yeah it
ain't happening you know it's not going to be two days unless you were already
getting one and 2/3 of a day out of an
Experia Z2 you're not going to get two days out of this cuz it's like that much
more but what I want from it and what it
looks like I'm going to get is like one tank day like no matter what I do to it
so today I am hitting it as hard as I
can like I used my GPS navigation to go
to work and back so that was a total of an hour today already no more than that
about an hour and that used to kill I my my phone used to
die from Full to zero completely on one
of that trip One Direction of that trip that you just pulled so I've had music
running all day I've had the screen brightness just kind of managing itself
rather than doing anything special with it I've had Bluetooth on I've had
everything on and I've been I've been constantly on it I've been doing all my
emails and all my prep pran show I did on here instead of on my computer and
I'm still at 37% and I'm tethering to my
laptop throughout the entire W show like I'm trying to throw a worst case
scenario at it and if it can make it through this day and he's leaving the screen on his whole time yeah with even
like I'm I'm hurting ity if it can make it through this day with 5% left with
all my apps and all my services running in the background including the Moto 360
connectedness um I'm going to be really impressed and this is going to be my new
daily driver for sure yeah so there you
go that's my initial thoughts full review to come though of course people
are asking about uh full room water cooling it come it'll come I have a post
in the water cooling section about it it's it'll it'll be on the way and then
mineral oil we have like a uh Monday night Monday night okay Monday night
it's on the schedule it's actually edited now perfect there you go yeah I
thought we had a date I wasn't sure so I didn't want to see it so yeah Monday night Min oil is coming tell you what um
tomorrow is the Sennheiser momentum INE
earphones tomorrow night uh the following night is LG curved surround
part one and then the night after that is oil cooled part two which should also
be really cool so it's all going to be really good stuff for the next few days
here I haven't even seen oil cool part two I'm excited I watched number one I
was like wow that was really cool and I was like wait a second I was in that yeah I was there
y uh yeah Burl got it down to 13 minutes
nice yeah so it's PR three hours of footage or something it's pretty compact
yeah it's going to be good all right so speaking of things that are going to be good oh my goodness this is freaking
awesome oh yeah now you can use your Gmail app with other email accounts like
I don't know about you guys but I still have a hotmail.com account that is tied
to so many things that it's just way
more work than it's worth because you know some site will like change their
domain and send me a notification about it at some point and I'll have like
something or something and it'll it'll go to that email address but I hate the
hot mail interface or Outlook or whatever it is they call it these days
yeah absolutely hate it being able to use that yes especially the mobile one
being able to use my Gmail app for
that yeah which means hopefully eventually inbox maybe maybe this isn't
inbox no we have to be very clear about that new Gmail app which I actually just
started using it just rolled out to me I updated to it has a very different look
and feel to it it has that um what are they calling it material design yes I
think so yeah material design kind of look to it which is just I don't I don't
care so everything's kind of in the same place some stuff's round
now like okay yay curved
edges um so so there's that it's going to match better with um the upcoming
Android lollipop um but the new Gmail is
completely separate from inbox which I
got an invite from someone and thank you so much for that but it hasn't been very
useful for me because I use my corporate account as my primary email and
corporate accounts are not able to get get in on Google inbox yet but you have
been using it you want to talk about it yeah I use I use both um I actually
mainly use my corporate account as well but I use my personal one uh because I
have taken all of my like Hotmail accounts and stuff that he was talking about old accounts that are linked to
too many things to get rid of and I've ported all of them through that one
remaining personal account that I have um so I'm using that one for like six
different emails essentially and so I I actually use it I got the invite from
the same person he did and it's kind of great the email reminder thing is
fantastic cuz like my mom will send me an email about some family gathering
thing that I like really need to pay attention to but I got it at 2 p.m. on a
workday or I'll send you an email at 3 in the morning that you'll kind that
will get buried by other random crap by the time you actually arrive at work so
being able to and like I might have received it at 3: in the morning and
I'll be like oh this is important but starring things in Gmail puts them below
your important and I just forget about them forever which is not helpful so now
I can be like remind me and at this specific time or like later today or
whatever so with say work emails from lonus I'll be like remind me at like
10:00 a.m. or something like in the morning once I'm at work doing stuff and
with emails from like my mom I'll be like remind me at like 7 or 8 when I'm
home and doing random stuff so I find that really really helpful I like the
reminder system it's great uh will remind you on time it'll put reminders
of anything inside your email inbox so when when you go to check your emails
you're like oh I remember this now it's actually a lot more helpful than just
setting random timed reminders cuz you might be able to remind yourself earlier
and that'll help you prepare y y y and it's very very easy to get through stuff
like Amazon plugging you with emails for toasters because you bought a toaster 6
months ago and it thinks that you need 40 more um because it'll bundle things
in sections say promotions you can jump into promotions read all the titles and
it'll give you a little bit of a blurb of the email as well which should be able to explain what it's all about so
I'll see like Amazon uh like any steam stuff you play
all that kind of stuff all dumped in one spot with different sales and whatnot
I'll scroll through it all and be like wow I don't want to spend money checkbox
they're all gone it's very easy to really really quickly get through those
types of emails which is really helpful all right so let's go ahead and
move on to our next actual topic cuz I think we kind of got distracted a couple
times there in the last little bit HP
and in uh excuse me HP and Microsoft are
dropping the hammer no they're dropping a bomb lowering the boom and they're
doing something with a hammer because
Chromebooks may not make any sense to me anymore this looks really compelling so
they've launched the new HP stream lineup that includes the stream seven
the stream 8 the stream 11 and the stream 13 so the seven and the eight are
tablets the 7 is a 7-in Windows tablet at
$100 now they're not really saying anything about specs we do know that
it's an Intel-based solution so probably some kind of uh super low power atom
thing or even something else not not 100% sure what it is probably Adam and
then the eight is an 8in Windows tablet at 150 bucks so this was originally
posted on the Forum by top war gamer and the original article here is from The
Verge and this is where things start to get crazy the Stream 8 comes with 200
Megs of free LTE data each month with no
contract and right so cool right now presumably through T-Mobile now I've
been saying for a long time that I think that cloud storage is super cool except
for when you're on mobile and you're using a layo data limit well now okay
you're not going to be you're not going to be transferring like movies to and
from your cloud storage will pretty much be with 200 Megs but if we're talking
about a tablet that's going to be used predominantly for work well that's lots
for the odd text document and and some pictures here and there and that sounds
fantastic especially when I throw in this next little bit which is that both
tablets get a year of Office 365 one
tbte of one drive storage and 60 Minutes of Skype calling included in the
purchase actually kind of awesome that's like I wonder if you break that value
down what that totals I wonder how close that is to the total cost of the actual
device I think for the seven that costs more like sticker price then so you
might as well just buy a seven if you're going to use all those things if you're
going to use those services but which I could see I pay for an Office 365
account it's awesome I love it I just the way it works now I really like the
graph creation and I'm probably going to switch Office 365 just cuz they look
better and whenever I create graphs they don't look as good anymore yep Office
365 is really great and I hope that they move Windows to something like that
because I think that personal licensing makes a lot more sense than
device Licensing in the modern world where my device is very interchangeable
I mean I can switch over to a new phone within about you know an hour of dinking
around and changing desktop wallpapers and ringtones and stuff so the device is
not is not the important thing the important thing is me I'm allowed to use
Google Play Music and office and Windows
or whatever else and wherever I happen to be that should be where all of my
stuff is and and this this is this is
that this looks fantastic um now then things get even
more interesting cuz you could kind of look at and you go okay well line is 7
an 8 in low speec tablet is not exactly a competitor for uh a Chromebook because
Chromebooks are are books they're not books they're laptops
actually but the point is uh is not necessarily the seven and the eight the
point is the stream 11 and stream 13 so the 11 is an 11.6 in laptop with an HD
display at 200 bucks and the 13 is a 13
.3 in laptop that has an option for touchcreen also assumed to be an HD
display priced at 230 bucks both using dual core cerons with fanless designs 32
gigs of flash storage and both come with a free year of Office
365 wow that's kind of awesome you know
how you said the book thing well laptops aren't technically tops either like
spinning tops get it get it get it get it that joke was top get it they're not
they're not oh all right so let's just
move on now um so you know what we we got to we got a Twitter Blitz this guys
Chromebook or stream we want to hear from you guys and and maybe I know it's
140 characters but give us a couple thoughts about why because you look at
Chrome you look at Chrome OS and you kind of go okay well I can run a Chrome
browser and I can run all my apps and like you know that's cool they're in my
browser but I've never liked that experience personally no it's never been
interested in a Chromebook look I'm trying to present it as if I actually
think it's a good idea okay so so Chrome OS so you got your and and you know what
when I did try to use it for a little while whenever I had internet connectivity it wasn't that bad but the
Chrome experience relies on connectivity
everything runs in this browser and 365
doesn't care and well you can use Google's stuff offline and then sync it
once you reach a connection again like they they do have answers to that but the truth of the matter is that Office
365 is a paid solution and drive and
sheets and whatever are not a paid solution because a paid solution one is
just a lot better than the other one I I'm honestly I like Google Docs because
of some of the collaboration stuff that allows us to do but a lot of times if
it's just something that I'm only going to be working on and not other people I
will use local Solutions like Word and Excel because Google Docs Is Not Great
better yeah in a lot of ways even H like
uh I'm going to bring my love for notepad Plus up here for a second but if
you have it open in two locations and you make revisions in one location and
save it when you go over to the other location it won't just be broken when
you try to when you try to even just click on the window it'll be like oh
this has been saved and remade on another machine would you like to reload
the file you just say yes and it's so like there's there's even better
collabor there's like the collaboration for local stuff is even not even that
bad right if you have multiple computers and like I'll work on something at home and I'll work on something at work and
if I'm working on at home and then just leave and then save it I'll at work and
come back and just like oh reload yeah and the thing and and the and that kind
of collaboration so like personal self collaboration almost is uh is great for
that but the other kind of collaboration personto person collaboration especially
where I'm editing something that someone else produced and I want to leave
comments so and I want to keep like like I want to have like a a really nicely
organized change history it's much better for me to use something like
office it just it just work better uh Google Docs has a pretty good change
history and stuff but I also like I like I like yeah I like offices more um okay
so right yeah let's go to the Twitter Blitz I want to hear from you guys also
do our sponsor something what's wrong with the Outlook interface you know what
I have to confess I haven't used it that recently but if I were to do a review of
it today I'm sure I could find at least a dozen things that are just brain dead
about it so I I mainly just don't like the app honestly the online version uh
like the the web the web version has some pretty annoying crap about it yeah
but it's not nearly as bad as hotal and it's a lot better than it used to
be okay Alex says I am all for the hpn
Microsoft solution is I can't go without my desktop apps and move to a browser
you know what great point we didn't even bring that up it's a full Windows OS so
you can actually install things on the on the laptop 32 gigs but but you could
you can have stuff on it and you're not
expecting to play games so most of your apps won't even be that big and you can
probably fit it on well a big problem that I had with Chrome OS was things like codec compatibility and I don't
know if they've addressed that recently but back when I looked at Acer's
Chromebook I was like okay so I can
watch like these videos and not these
other ones and if you can just install like VC VLC Windows Med player classic
and cccp you're just good for everything and 32 gigs is not going to be a problem
that's still lots of storage for just those little things that make your life
a little bit easier you know fix stuff okay um max says stream because it would
make a great cheap portable Linux device great point was never interested in
Chrome or Chrome OS from Agent 47 this might be intriguing for all the extra
stuff you get Office 365 is actually good oh sure why not let's let's uh
experiment live and find out what this actually is uh okay yeah you know what
let's let's make that the official one so let's go ahead and
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whoops all right let's pretend that didn't happen all right that's a now so
let's go ahead and let's go back to Twitter here um oh my God Tony says
stream because there are no applications for chros no isn't fair but it is very
limited you're very right definitely the stream 13 cuz I want Windows instead of
Chrome OS better compatibility spam Jazz oh this is interesting our school
supplied all the kids with Chromebooks they don't run plugins and players so
they're sort of a waste I would rather have something running Windows than not
says Jack I've used Chromebooks and been very unhappy with them MSI mhm okay I
now want a laptop and it's going to be a stream one with a touch screen really
interesting I don't think we have ever oh no there we go I was about to say I
don't think we've ever had the entire audience as unanimous about something as
this um but BCD says oh I think I think
he might have misunderstood um two of two of the
devices are laptops with keyboards yeah
and they're still that's a good point yeah because especially if you're in a
production thing like if you're doing work and you need to use acceler word not using a real keyboard is going to be
really frustrating this is a great point from Austin stream because I I don't
think it's fair to say it's stupid and pointless but stupid pointless but
Windows can do everything that Chrome OS
can and more so if you're getting a lowcost device where you're not saddled
with that extra $100 burden of the Windows license then yeah why not have
Windows you can put a Chrome browser on yeah you could still install Chrome and you could still install Chrome apps so
yeah y Best of Both Worlds chrome chrome
Chromebooks as far as I can tell I mean I'd love to review one of these laptops
just so that I can get a feel for the build quality and everything because if
they're decent I don't understand why Chromebooks get to exist in the world
anymore at all I never liked them in the first place so now that there's something that just Stomps them and
actually looks interesting like this is actually intriguing I wouldn't have been able to do it for the schooling I did
but if you're taking like business or something like that this makes a ton of
sense especially considering how cheap it is you could almost use it as like a throwaway every
single time your Office 365 subscription died and just get a new one and it would
almost be and flip the old one yeah and it would almost be like more cost
effective than just buying like a$1 th000 laptop and carrying that through
school because it's actually cheaper and you could just try to sell off your old
ones as you went through and you'd have a constant Office 365 subscription um
constant updates on your Skype payment and what's the other one drive a terab
yeah one drive you'd constantly have a terabit of Drive constantly have Office
365 which you'd be paying for anyways um constantly have Skype stuff well not
constantly have a fair amount of Skype time um and then a brand new laptop
every single year and it's still cheaper than buying one $11,000 laptop I can
always count on you to give me the like supremely cheap bastard perspective on
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topic shall we PayPal I was like Apple pay it's like
didn't we didn't we talk about last week about how PayPal hasn't really done anything yeah yeah and like they've
tried to do stuff and but I mean like why did the incumbent sit around and
wait for Apple to unify everything and like where are the Innovations this is
an innovation this I'm really excited about PayPal has officially launched
their pay after delivery service which
don't think of it as like oh you know free stuff that I don't have to pay for
or like you still definitely have to pay for yeah you still definitely have to pay for it but the point
is trust so it allows users to pay for their goods up to 14 days after they
choose to make a purchase so if you buy from someone I'd love to say someone
like Amazon Unfortunately they don't take Paypal not at all but if you buy
from someone else online um then basically it arrives you kind of go like
yes this appears to be an actual mobile communication device okay it's all good
so the money doesn't come out of your account until you're satisfied that
you've actually received the device that you did how cool is that that's freaking
awesome and that's just the tip of the iceberg so they actually partnered with
Burger King and this this I love yeah oh
God so you can order your food ahead of
time so so this doesn't have to be like 14 days after the fact this could be
like 20 minutes be like yo dog I'm going stop by the Burger King have my order
ready and the payment drops out of your account like it's it's like
pre-authorized and prepaid and you just go pick up your food fast food just got
faster America
America I'm in North America so I consider myself part of America when I
make fun of probably won't come to us no probably not just like we're not getting
Apple pay or Google wallet or this or
anything cool yeah I kind of like I felt like
really sucky cuz uh we're doing a fast as possible over on the Techquickie
Channel about Apple pay because I think there's a lot of confusion out there
about it and so I just like I kind of run through the basics and then at the
end I was just kind of tempted to say like like get a little Canadian flag or
something be like but none of this matters to me cuz apple is like there
it's only speculation right now Apple won't comment on it but the speculation
is that it's like a year plus out for sure oh my goodness even though the
technology it's like the actual the phone and this is not an Apple phone but
I hope you guys get my point the NFC chip is not revolutionary no no at all
and and and that's where a lot of the confusion about Apple pay versus Google
Wallet comes from where people kind of go oh well why is Apple getting so much
attention and support for this it's the same thing as Google Wallet it's not on
the back end it is not the same thing so
Apple needs to build those relationships with the financial institutions which
are very different in Canada from from the US in order to actually enable it
and provide the service here so yeah so there you
go I'm excited about this PayPal thing 5
years from now five yeah whatever is speaking of 5 years from now originally
posted by Tech dreamer uh by the way Tech dreamer was also the one for the
the PayPal one and it was top war gamer for the HP stream one we've got so much
amazing news this week go go go with this one okay so
Oculus news although um not also not
hugely Oculus news at the same time A lot of people are freaking out about
this because he's like it's months away not years although the speculation that
could still mean 11 months or 15 months yeah the speculation for a long time has
been late 2015 so this isn't
actually like I was like yeah because this is more of a confirmation okay
which is great cuz I'm not super into rumors so this is actually coming
from him which is awesome because now we
know it's coming then but I think when the CEO says it's months away I think
the implication is not 11.9 months no I
think the implication is cuz when you say months well he says he says many
months I think yeah it's months not years away but many months so he he does
mean quite a few I still think it'll be like Q3 probably Q4 2015 um but yeah I'm
I'm super stoked if you haven't seen the new prototype that they've released it
looks a lot wider it looks like they've probably messed with the aspect ratio a
little bit which could be really cool um
they're still talking about how keyboard and keyboards mice gamepads are all not
really up to the job and neither is like super basic gesture control he says
urging larger companies not to rush their products out and to try and just
make the best solution they can and then release it because they don't want to
like work the waters with crappy products essentially they they don't
want to spoil the awesomeness that is VR right now it has killed Technologies in
the past it's killed VR in the past yep
it has uh more than once actually so I
think they're trying to make sure that other companies don't ruin it for all
all of the companies that are trying to do it properly not just Oculus but all
the companies that are trying to take their time and properly release these
products because they are extremely new and people are going to potentially get
extremely motion sick we all saw Lou when we were trying out the roller
coaster stuff when he tried the last one he was like no I'm done almost
immediately he couldn't handle it just and it's going to hit people randomly
certain people will feel it a lot more than others and it's not going to be like I'm a big tough dude so I don't get
motion sickness like that's not really how it's going to work and and it'll be
different things that hit different people like I was able to handle the
rides but in Kiri Forest when I fell off
of a cliff the the the the the way that
the camera was controlled by my fingers but also by my my head was just it felt
like someone took my stomach and rung it out like a dishcloth all of a sudden and
it took a while of like oh wow I better not touch that thumb stick to have it
settle down again so it's it's it's real it's a real thing it's real like you
just definitely said it totally affects people differently um some people can
like be standing up facing backwards during a roller coaster ride and not
care and then go through something like you did and be like holy crap that's not
okay um so yeah we need to be careful
but it's coming soon which is really cool I've been playing a little bit of X-Wing lately cuz I was just like you
had your stream holy crap oh oh oh terrible story my Top Gun joystick oh no
last night oh no I was like I was like I
was kind of too excited and I had my son on my lap so like I was kind of awkward
and I was like I was going around I was dog fighting with a TIE fighter and I
was like PE snap oh my trigger button snapped inside
the housing it it's it's a clean break it sounds like it might be repairable
it's a clean break and I think that the solution is going to be one of two
things or both so maybe as a temporary fix um what I can do is cuz superglue
never works for something like that but what you can do what I've actually had a
lot of success with is needle and heat it up with a blow torch red hot you
position it in the right place you GL it and then you actually stab through the
brake from different angles and then you kind of melt around the outside and
smooth it yeah I have found that that is held up almost as well as the original
strength kind welding yeah so like kind of like plastic plastic welding so I'm
going to try that and then if that doesn't work then I'll someone in twitches be like oh my God that's not
welding at all but like we know so then I'll I'll figure out a way to 3D print
one yeah and then that'll make my Top Gun joystick even cooler cuz I can get
like a bright orange or like bright pink
uh trigger on it so sick I was so sad
cuz I was like I thought you were going to telling me that story I thought you were going to like Snap It Off the base
or something I was like oh my God no but I was upset because I was playing with
my son and he was enjoying blowing up the bad guys he's he's he hasn't this is
only the second time he's actually a g beinged like I don't do the whole
lots of screen time with them thing I don't believe it I think little kids
should spend most of their time in reality um but uh but he was really he
was really enjoying it and so we had I never game with speakers anymore because
usually he's sleeping so we had the speakers on so he could actually hear
the voice chatter over the radio and like yeah and he loves the Star Wars
movies He's only seen them once again not a ton of screen time with him but he
had a Darth Vader plush from when he was very little and I have the most adorable
videos um cuz we used to play this game with him when he was really quite young
where I would lift him up and I would say um say good night monkey and he had
like a vinyl monkey sticker on his wall and say say good night giraffe and
there's like a giraffe sticker and he would like say and so he'd be all happy
and he'd be like yeah yeah and so you know say good night good night and then
um I'd say say good night Darth Vader and he would worm and try to get away
from him cuz he had like a voice thing
like yeah yeah and so I played it a couple times and and it's amazing how
the the the psychological fear that goes into
something like a costume design goes so
much deeper than that character did bad
things and is therefore scary that mask
is frightening even without the voice and even without the the actions of
you're going the planet Alder on and forcing Leia to watch like even without
that it's terrifying so he didn't like Darth Vader for a long time and I would
do it to him all the time cuz I thought it was hilarious so every night before
bed it'd be like say good night monkey say good night Darth Vader no no no
Darth Vader no Darth Vader
and and um I forget where I was going with this right so so he he really liked
the the Star Wars of it as well so that's uh I this became a long rambly St
I liked it I thought that was cool Intel we're finally getting some details and
this was posted by Tech Fanboy about the upcoming LGA
1151 and z70 z170 chipset really 1 170 it's like
this is what Intel does when they run out of numbers like okay and LGA 1151 they're
going to run out of numbers between 1,150 and
1,159 I was pretty tired when I read this and I I saw 1151 and all I could
think of was like they should have had this giant ridiculous press conference
and then just been like slowly put the letters on screen like l g a and then 11
like and have it like fairly rhythmically and 1150 and then like a
huge delay one and then like fireworks like
crazy pic dubstep pyrotechnics like oh my God
it's a one that's all I can think of so now we
should have been done now there's officially no pattern Intel is officially as good at naming things as
Microsoft cuz we've got 1156 1155 1150
and 1151 so we were going backwards and then a lot backwards and then a little
bit forward ridiculous so I I to be clear
guys that's not because it's the number of the socket it's the number of pins in
the socket so get it but uh it's going
to support both ddr4 and DDR3 memory
which is pretty cool but not at the same time you'll have to choose and I mean
guys basically it's going to come down to this is like a stepping stone one
just like how the 9 I want to say 925 chipset
supported both ddr1 and ddr2 that's what
we're looking at again there's not going to be a big performance difference between them it's going to be buy
whatever's cheaper at the time that you're buying whatever it is you're buying uh the new chipset supports
single by 16 dual by 8X or a single 8ex
and two 4X PCI Express 3.0 slots I
really hope that NVIDIA at some point revises their SLI guidelines so that we
can have triple SLI on 84 and four but I
also kind of understand why especially if what I suspect they're doing is doing
more communication over the P express bus is actually happening yeah um
supports two memory Channels with two modules each um 6 SATA 3 6 GB per second
ports and 20 lanes for PCIe total we support maximum of three SATA Express X2
ports and either 4 m.2 or two SATA
Express actually not 100% sure if those are completely transcribed correctly but
uh the original article is from kit guru.net so you guys can check it out over there and the boards will support
up to 14 USB ports 10 of which can be Intel USB 3.0 ports but as of now USB
3.1 is
unsupported so that's the new 10 gabit per second
USB I would yeah not super interested
but it's in USB 3.1 no in in because it
largely because it doesn't have that yeah that and these are going to be for
Broadwell processors which are that we have another article I'm going to scroll
down to it but upcoming Broadwell is rumored to be 3% faster than Haswell
clock for clock so unless Intel has found a way to squeeze higher clock
speeds out of their chips for the first time in a lot of generations uh we're
not going to see like a massive Paradigm shifting performance Improvement
so don't uh don't throw away your LGA
1150 PC just yet yeah yeah not so much
um donate was cancelled and I don't know how many people cared but you can get
your money back so if you bought into donate go get your money back well I think that's cool I think the fact that
they're just you think it's cool that they canceled it I think it's cool that they're giving everyone's money back and
I think it's cool that they had the balls to cancel something instead of just bringing it to Market getting a
bunch of people to buy it and then abandoning it I think that this is and
they're letting it one thing that's also cool if we're going to jump on the so this is EA to be clear so Don Gate was
an EA sort of League of Legends style MOA uh is that they're letting it
continue operate for 90 days yep so people that did like it can kind of wean
themselves off which is actually kind of cool so it's been in beta for 18 months
and basically what they had to say was well we built a game that wasn't just a
clone of existing mobas but that tried to push the push things forward and it
didn't work so so it's the Project's off
it's done uh everyone gets a refund and we're
we're not going to try and turn this into something that it's not and I say
good job EA yeah there's no actual negative news here yeah like how is how
is unless you really liked Don Gate yeah
and like well okay there's going to be people that really like to donate every
single time that a game gets closed there's people that get screwed over and
that really sucks but at least they don't get screwed out of any money yes
they don't get SC out of any money and they don't get this like abandoned
abandoned empty experience which the game probably would have turned into and
then just been depressed and had bad memories now they're like I liked that
game and it sucks that it didn't become a thing y that was fun that was cool I
mean I think the only thing EA could do to make this even cooler and for them to
be like wow good guy EA and we would actually okay we would have we they gave
them like some credit or something no what I would want them to do actually
that would be okay that would gave them a game some credit in the origin store
here's five bucks off a new game go enjoy something else hey we're sorry
about this that would be super cool another super cool thing would be if
they turned the game over to someone
else turn the game over to the community and went look okay that would be awesome
we're not going to support it anymore but you know what if you guys really
want to run with this then go with like the the Netscape thing where they're
like we're kind of closing off but you can have it and then Firefox jumps on the train and carries it forward or or
whatever it is whatever that would actually be super awesome yeah I don't
think they will but that would be super awesome cuz I think that for for like a
even for the open source Community to try to develop a game from square one is
a bit of an ambitious project and if they could take this even just as a framework and nuke a lot of it and
recreate things that would be a lot easier yeah that would be that would be
a very very very cool thing in this world of
microtransaction actually massive companies that have this image of like
you know good guy Riot but these are like big companies with a lot of money
that like it's funny because people kind
of go oh like apple like big company
therefore like bad or whatever but these gaming companies are also like big super
money driven companies so don't kid yourself I mean I would think I think it
would be really cool for for just a community-driven project to come in and
challenge something like that I I really don't think it'll happen but it would be awesome then a bunch of money would get
involved and some people would rise to the top and they'd make a bunch of money it would turn into the same thing all
over again I mean it's just one of those things money is what it is I feel like right now Ubisoft and EA are really
close to each other and Ubisoft is like digging really ferociously and throwing
the dirt over into EA's hole and filling it
up the word hole can never Escape an awkward I didn't even mean that but like
EA is not doing horrible things really I know it's amazing it's like they care
like they had that big patch for Battlefield 4 they they gave away some
free stuff to people using Sims they aren't pulling pulling their games out
of uh out of steam in the UK with the rumor being that going to pull their
games out of steam entirely their Christmas launch games did they already
I'm like I'm I'm pretty sure this is like a it's it's out of steam or at
least it's out of steam in UK and I believe us um I I think the outrage for
this should have been at the fact that if you bought one of their games on
Steam already it was just giving it to you in you play and it just launched you
playay I think that's where the rage should have been cuz this honestly
doesn't really change anything yeah you're right you're going from not being
able to buy it in Steam I mean you're going from being able to buy it in Steam
but realistically just having the game on your Uplay account and having to run
Uplay and having to launch the game out of up playay and dealing with all the crap that that has to just not being
able to buy it on Steam and having the entire rest of the experience be exactly
the same so I think the rage should have already happened and it should have been
from the forcible use of up play and
this should have just been piled onto top of that because that was super
annoying um because the conversation that we had double DRM is lame and bad
it is really lame it's like games for Windows Live that that whole stupid
thing with remember Batman Arkham Asylum
how unless you like how you could get stuck and it never got patched to my
knowledge until they finally just got rid of games for Windows Live entirely
but there you could get stuck in a loop where you would sign into games for
Windows Live and it would reboot the game and unless you did something it
would make you sign in again and reboot the game again and you could do it over and over and over again never sign I got
that game for my brother for Christmas and he never ended up playing it not
because he didn't want to play it but because he couldn't did he run into that
problem yeah like it's just I forget what the solution was I haven't touched
the game in a long time it's just it was so much work and eventually he's just
like whatever I don't have that much time to sit down and play games cuz he
worked a lot at the time well he still does um so he's like I just I'll just
play something else and so there were rumors floating around that Zalman filed
for bankruptcy however uh they have they
have sort of spoken up now and there it's going to be some kind of an
official statement at some point here but what they're saying is well hold on a second no our business is fine um it's
the parent company uh Manel i' I used to
know how to pronounce this because uh NCI brought in a bunch of cases from
them like four years ago or something like that and it was like a super
amazing deal or something anyway um so
it's actually their parent company that
allegedly is is is suspected of taking
loans that it could not repay and then fabricating export documents to inflate
its perceived value and get approval on large loans apparently they're in debt
2.98 billion us or something like that um an unnamed employee reports that the
management team uh was behind the
fabrication and uh so yeah apparently zelman may still come out of this okay
remember just because the parent company is out of money and like bad people
doesn't mean that zman couldn't be acquired by someone else and then
continue doing business the way that they're doing it so if you're a Zalman fan just kind of relax for a little bit
and let's see what comes of all this very very possibly still be totally fine
all right I really wish I could screen share for this next one Amazon Echo the
like least useful thing that I've talked
about today my my comment was that it's for
people that what is that my comment is
that it's for people that don't have like an old phone that they can put on a
speaker dock um and leave there forever and your comment
was oh my comment was that it's for people who don't have a phone guess at
all so basically it's it it's like it's Google
Now or Siri except it's a device that sits on your desk and plugs into the
wall instead of just being in your pocket all the time move it
around like it's not even battery powered that's that's why I was thinking
like if you had an old phone and a speaker dock you just create this thing
so the speaker dock is because the built-in speakers on phone are probably
crap and this is probably better than it if you had a speaker dock you could
easily get speakers that are way better than this thing okay and then just use
Google so let's go through what it does it's a 200 bucks or 100 bucks if you're
on Prime for a limited time and it's a speaker so you talk to it and you say
what what's the keyword like syx or something like that or I thought it was
like some chick Alexa okay so you say Alexa to address EA Alexa they're close
um so information music news weather and more instantly or at least as long as it
takes for you to say Alexa can you
please play some One Direction for me because that's not faster than just
being like blah blah blah on your phone um
it's controlled by your voice for hands-free convenience okay voice
recognition hears you from across the room so far we've got three bullet points that are all the same thing as
far as I can tell and then it's connected to the cloud so it's always
getting smarter now I do have to say this I funded I don't know if you
remember this that stupid robot thing that I funded on
Kickstarter um I funded that just
because I wanted to get it and it was going to be like a PSA about how Bloody
stupid crowdfunding is by the time I ever get it that whole message will be
dead and gone just like crowdfunding oh oh wrecked it'll be like
a retro unboxing an unboxing of why crowdfunding failed
um if they ever even deliver it like mini documentary on why crowdfunding so
the reason I think that one's going to fail is because it's supposed to do all
this stuff interactively with you and they're such a small company they just
don't have the resources to do it properly Amazon might so the fact that
it's going to continue to learn as time goes on might be somewhat useful but I
just don't see it being any more useful than something like Google Now or Siri
which are already going to be connected much much more tightly with the rest of
your Digital Life and the rest of your smart home and smart car stuff um the
way that your phone will so it's got Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity so it
could be in theory connected very well but probably won't be because this is
probably some weird project that's just going to go away I'll I'll be floored if
we ever see an echo to um and it's got seven mics well it depends if they still
have fire phones left oh yeah yeah the the joke the joke
going around on the web is that's what doing with all the fir phone
Hardware which I find hilarious yeah cuz
it might be accurate so it's got seven beamforming microphones with great noise
cancellation so even if it's playing music it can still hear you from across
the room which I guess is neat except that my phone doesn't have to hear me
from across the room because I'm already holding it and my SmartWatch I can also
talk to although I'm not actually a huge fan of the Moto 360 so far but again
I've only spent a day with it so lots of time for that to change
um Advanced Audio design it has a massive 2.5 in
subwoofer I'm like I'm a huge proponent for voice control stuff not that
interested like I I I've been toying with this idea for a while where if I
like set up a server that had Dragon speaking on it um I could have this is
this is going to take me a sec but this is something I've been playing with for a while it's right now it's just too
expensive to properly do and it's hold hold on can I jump in before you do it
then WTO WTO will the echo 2 be called
the echo echo
hopefully um and the echo 3 will be the echo ech echo um sorry go ahead I want
to set up an array of little microphones like all around my place and then have a
like little Central server that has something like Dragon Speaking hooked up to it so that I can just it can pick up
whatever and just look for keywords and then if I say like uh play
music uh some band One Direction one
it's I don't have any of that but sure sure you
um anyways it it would be able to pick that up and then actually just do that
and I could have like a library of keywords that I set up and program and
tell them what to do that could actually be really cool the reason why I would
like that setup is I could be anywhere and like this thing I don't
care about their stupid sever microphones you're not going to be able to be anywhere in your house and have it
work you'd have to be like within that room maybe you don't have to be as close
to get your phone to work although to be completely honest if I just talk loud
enough my phone can usually pick up if I
uh call for it that's how I find it sometimes this is one of those products
that I just don't get because like this
the cynic in me if it was a company that's smaller than Amazon I would kind
of go okay they're trying to fund the next wave by selling a bunch of these
things that ultimately they have to know are going to be useless because
ultimately as so let's let's look at the 5year the 10-year Outlook you know when
you've got your nest thermostat and you've got your self-locking what is it
Genie door I forget what that that smart door lock is and you got all this crap
and your house starts to get way more smart and way more connected with
Internet of Things stuff just kind of naturally over time because it happens
no matter what you want because ultimately you're going to you're going to go to Best Buy one day to buy
dishwasher and every it's going to be $20 more for the smart connected model
and you might as well just get it so it just happens over time and so this
device will never be useful for that because as as the idea gets bigger and
the functionality gets bigger the idea of something that sits on your desk is
going to look even more stupid as everyday passes so I would look at it
and I would go okay they're just trying to get some money to fund the actual
product but what's Amazon's excuse
because they could to just keep developing this and keep
keep working on it until something's actually
ready doesn't seem to be doing super well with the hardware stuff Kindle's
great okay I take that back maybe their their Kindle hubris LED them to believe
that people wanted something other than a way to read books from them yeah like
your phone sucks and this Echo thing is stupid and you should feel
bad oh I've got someone saying um lonus
I work in H fact trust me when I say that Nest thermostats are a p um I
believe you actually Nest was one of those companies that I kind of went
really you got acquired by Google for a billion dollars are you freaking kidding
me they've had what like three recalls in their history maybe it's only two but
they were like a big deal like I think their their smoke detector uh was
recalled because of something that's not good you don't want your smoke detector
to be terrible like awful like the
amount of crap that Nest has gotten away with just by being like a like a Silicon
Valley connected Web 2.0 company is just
mind-boggling to me and the idea that you need a smart thermostat is still
just kind of baffling to me I have a smart thermostat it's called I program
it to maintain the temperature in my house at a certain threshold and if I'm
leaving the house for like the weekend I turn it off
and then it comes back on automatically because you have a schedule for
it like not a big deal and I I I get
that some people might save a lot of power if they keep their house at 28
degrees C or whatever else it's like yeah we have the sauna house so we only
want to heat it when we're actually you know running around naked or no not
running around naked lounging naked because if we were running we'd be
generating
enough maybe one of these days I'll try a nest um and then I'll I'll tell you
guys holy crap I was wrong it's revolutionary but for now it feels like
one of those things I don't really need it also doesn't help that my house only
has two wires running to my thermostat so I'm not even Nest compatible unless I
wanted to run wires through my wall which would involve like fun which is
not happening let's not do that all right uh what else we got here that's I
think most of the like really big topics this week isn't isn't it yeah we have
some rapid FY stuff we have manave we because we don't have
screening um fut acquired by UL that's a big deal
actually so UL are the guys that have like a little
logo not this one you'll find it on a lot of different the charger for this
will definitely have a ECT stuff yeah so basically they they do certification and
testing really important stuff that they do really really good so that you know
your iPhone charger doesn't light on fire that's the kind of stuff they do
and that's why buying Cheapo stuff that's not certified by UL can be a
little bit risky because they they do a great job and they acquired future Mark
the makers of PC Mark and 3D Mark with the intention of branching into uh well
basically just just I guess adding another another testing Benchmark
essentially it's just it's a software Benchmark yeah so future Mark has been
developing all kinds of stuff in the old days it was just 3D Mark you tested
graphics cards and that was it and then they were like oh well you know maybe 3D
Mark can you know also test like physics
on your graphics card well hold on a second maybe we'll make PC Mark and it'll test your whole PC and then
they've got mobile phone stuff and like all this crazy stuff like that's great
having a big company like UL behind future Mark turning it into something
that really could be more than just this like weird like it industry standard
like if you could go to Best Buy and the PCS would be sorted by Future Mark score
or something like that that's so much more meaningful it's not perfect at all
but it's so much more meaningful than megahertz that I see it as a huge step
in the right direction I think it's awesome should we wreck uh Ubisoft for a
little bit sure yeah I'll let you do it wait can I do the gold Apple watch first
yes okay so the gold Apple watch estimated to cost $5,000 this is a rumor
this was posted by pit 5000 on the Forum and it is rumored that it will debut on
February 14th Valentine's Day probably not an accident 5000 rose gold oh
snap oh snap get
it roses Oh I thought you meant Rose
because the price went up a lot from what people thought it would be
oh snap we're awful we are um so rumored
to be $5,000 for Gold Edition it's unclear whether they're solid or plated
but let me tell you guys it's Apple it's plated um and $500 for the steel version
with the sport vers version which was rumored to be sort of like just the just
the tip of the iceberg in terms of pricing that they unveiled being the
lowest cost version uh it's rumored to
be 18 karat gold with sapphire crystal glass and come with a variety of
luxurious strap options it's unclear oh
okay since I just said that um so to all the people kind of running around going
apple is overpriced and that's totally unreasonable shut
up watches are overpriced
and
watch it not the here they are just expanding
into a market that is already charging way too much if you look at it from a
bill of materials cost perspective so
nothing new Move Along $5,000 for a
high-end watch is like nothing to see
here guys me personally I it's ridiculous oh yeah I'd never buy one
there's lots of people that do never buy one but is relative lots of people do in
fact even like otherwise like normal people who have real jobs might own a
Rolex because they that particular status symbol of a watch is very very
important to them the one thing that I have to say about this is Apple do this
right even if the hardware changes on a
very rapid basis you cannot treat a
$5,000 watch the same way that you do
something relatively disposable like even at $1,000 a smartphone because if
they roll out a new iteration that is dramatically better than the old one
every year at $5,000 even people with $5,000 to spend
on a watch are going to get pissed so there it's true Tim Cook I
hope you're listening no one thing that the deal you
did with your glasses so that you got glasses what was that deal like you had
to have a certain paent not lose them or something oh with my uh with my my
Oakleys yeah yeah so I'm I'm I'm a bit of a cheap skate I'm also a bit of a
scatterbrain so the deal that my wife actually made with me was you can get
nice sunglasses like the kind with polarized lenses and like shatter
resistant lenses that look good and feel good and are like a couple hundred bucks
if you get some like Cheapo Foster Grants at the drugstore and can manage
to not lose those for a few months and so I did and it was actually an
excellent exercise and being very conscious of having a goal to work
towards to not lose it um and then I did end up earning my awesome sunglasses
that I have now never lost even though I used to lose glasses all the time I will
not have a super nice watch um because
and maybe I'll redo this at some time but when I was younger I went to the
store and bought a fairly cheap one and lost it within like a week and then was
like I will never have a super nice watch I've done that with jewelry as
well and I'm just like I can't just keep things on my hands because I it'll it'll
be annoying I'll be doing something like I'll have to pull something or do whatever and and it will never come back
and I know that so I will just not have one that's fine well I'll tell you what
we'll get you like a like a baby's first Smartwatch we'll get you a trainer
watch before uh before you drop your five grand on those little tracking ones
that the kids get from yeah no no it shouldn't tell the time it's it's the
kind with the little balls in it that you like hold
I'll be like look you can game on your on your mobile no one else can game on
their watch I'm like the only person that's fantastic I have the highest end
watch actually um anyways okay want to hate on Ubisoft for a bit hold on I have
an actual lower third for this you know what I'll go find it while you work on
this yeah yeah yeah it's fine so we can't show you which totally sucks this
topic is posted by uh the future Mark topic was to posted by Duck do Dodgers
okay for and then this this one which is
about screenshots from Assassin's Creed ps4 version of unity blah blah blah blah
blah is from to stranger um by the way
one of the reasons why we might have had a little bit of a lower user count was
also because there's not only BlizzCon running right now but also there was an
Ubisoft stream showing off as Assassin's Creed running right now oh um I'm amazed
we even have 5200 viewers thank you yay
thanks for showing up I really appreciate it I'm not super surprised
that you're not watching the Assassin's Creed one um but the BlizzCon one is
pretty interesting uh reasons why I'm not super surprised you're not watching
the Assassin's Creed one is I tuned in for a little bit and was like wow this
game looks super old what um and it's
not 1080p on PlayStation 4 usually from
the two consoles we see PlayStation 4 able to step up to the plate and show
off 1080p but it is not happening the pixel count confirms a native resolution
of 1,600 by 900 which is not like oh it
has a white background dang it way to go Burl okay well anyway that's
what our lower third we should probably take that caterpillar logo over I was just going to say brought to you by
caterpillar CU digging I know but yeah but we should we should pull that out
but that's going to be our keep on digging lower third and we're going to have a shirt coming soon I was going to
say cuz it's not actually brought to yeah no it's not caterpillar had nothing
to do with they might get mad about that yeah so leave caterpillar out of it but
anyway Ubisoft go ahead yeah yeah so we can't really show you screenshot right
now cuz his thing isn't working but it doesn't look good and like I watch their
stream and it doesn't look good like the new Cod looks better than it and I
should never be able to say that yeah that's that's pretty harsh Burn yeah no
but the the new Cod is like new Cod looks okay facial animations look good
the especially in cinematics the new cinematics and cod if you can actually
get the the voice track to line up with the video damn it um is actually pretty
impressive and the in-game textures on like water bottles when you Mo up to
them and stuff it's like wow that's not horrible cuz you expect from Call of
Duty that it's going to be super bad um and from the stream so far and from some
of the images that we've seen about Assassin's Creed it looks kind of bad
like it I don't know we're we're going to have to wait see until we have the PC
version mind you what I will say is that seeing it at the NVIDIA gtx980 event
that was where I first saw Assassin's Creed Unity footage was not blown away
no so I don't know
kind of not super sure about that
um yeah kind of not stoked it doesn't look great and like something that was
brought up last week which was where one of the developers at Ubisoft was saying
like oh yeah people play these games that are like pixel Platformers and
they're okay with it but then they want 1080p all the time and stuff and it's
like yeah it's an art style this is why Nintendo gets away with it is they they
pick a cartoony art why blizzard gets away with it exactly this is why Team
Fortress two gets away with it it looks really good because it's a style that is
not super hard to run you picked a very
realistic art style that was your choice and it has looked good in the past but
it doesn't look good right now and that's on you yeah that sucks and and
it's about expectation management if you're like yeah we're like the next
genest gen that ever had 30% more gen than the Gen before and and we've got
like 10 billion different Technologies from NVIDIA and all this kind of stuff
then that's what we expect to see whereas if I'm playing retro games and
I'm like playing X-Wing and I'm going to I I have to fix my joystick tonight now
that I've been talking about it anyway if I'm playing retro games well that's
my expectation I'm not expecting it to look amazing yeah um speaking of things
that look amazing I found your Smartwatch oh yes this has to be it so
add uh screen region here yeah baby that
right there well that's the back of it this was a suggestion from um one of the
folks on uh there we go oh yeah oh
that's beautiful pink Snoopy pink Snoopy
for for three $381 C United States it's
7% off 7% off free shipping to Canada
and it's $38 that's ridiculous I know right what is isn't that amazing deal
extreme deal xtram is amazing it's the best place to get like obscure batteries
and stuff yeah that's cool and then one that I didn't actually think was that
big of a deal but it kind of funny is that Ubisoft is partnered with
uh let me see here who it is because it's not actually in the title I think
it's Gillette says Edge is that company or is
that yeah Edge Edge is the company yeah
I think so is it I don't even know or it's like a model or something we're
kind of Dollar Shave Club guys yeah some
other shaving product I think they're called a edge I don't know it's shaving
cream anyways you get a sword some armor
and an Assassin's Hood yeah so okay hold
on I will let you talk about this okay
hold on for a minute does the style of
the hood make it an Assassin's hood or does the person wearing it make it an
Assassin's Hood so you could have like a bonnet and it could be an Assassin's
Hood if it's being worn by an assassin
right I think so yeah whoa it should be a
bonnet anyways I don't think it's that big of a deal
it's just kind of funny this has happened in the past so if we didn't
bring it up for other companies we can't really like hammer on them too hard but
like if there's no other way to get these items that's kind of poopy it is
nice that they're probably just cosmetic so it probably doesn't change anything
so I don't really care about that too much um and some people have been like
oh my God why would they partner with shaving cream that has nothing to do with gaming and I'm like yeah well your
audience is whatever insanely high percentage male so shaving cream makes
sense are you generalizing about Gamers yeah actually
statistics Get Wrecked um so anyway on that note I
forget what I was going to talk about but I think that's pretty much it for the show today I I enjoyed uh I enjoyed
the show I hope you guys enjoyed it too I'm and the part of the generalizing
about males thing is that the yes please go on they don't have any main
characters that are female and that's actually maybe that's been brought up as
a problem and maybe so maybe it's ubisoft's fault
what they could have done is if they had at least one out of the four main
characters as a female they could have had like you get different items for the
different assassins cuz there's the four Assassins right so they could have had
four different shaving cream bottles and you get like and like Yoko Ono that's
like not Yoko because bad singing Talent
is not something that is required as an assassin no but she could be like bad at
fighting so she could have like the Four Musketeers like Yoko Yoko that that
would be what the female Gamers want to see that would be gender equality I
really don't think yeah I really think that would go over very poorly no okay
that's not how it should go that would make everything worse because it's
terrible like not not because like it
was had well intentions it's just it would make everything worse because it's
dumb and bad that'd be all the digging
yeah that would be a terrible idea but yeah I think it would make sense say if
they had two male assassins two female assassins if they had two like Edge
whatever male version and maybe if Edge has a female products I don't know I
don't know what Edge everyone's just talking about Yoko Ono in the chat now I
still don't understand how JN didn't tell Ono not to shave their feminists oh
no sorry that was two different comments it moved didn't tell Ono to stop her
yelling sorry sometimes the chat moves as you're reading and it sorry um I
think we're done here guys thank you for watching and we'll see you again next week
bye totally not whatever that company that I already forgot about was
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