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yeah so we've got some great topics for you guys today CD project red is uh well
basically they've tackled the whole downgrade issue headon they're tackling
we haven't actually seen any of that happen yet we haven't seen the tackle
they're like they they like Dove and they're right here I wouldn't even say
they've gotten that far because they've got X's and O's drawn on the Whiteboard
there is a plan to tackle well they've
been developing the yeah is it still planning maybe they're in the Huddle at
this point okay or like they're lined up on maybe they're lined up on the line of
scrimmage all right maybe they've gotten that far uh okay AMD is super super mad
about NVIDIA game works again uh what
else we got because there's a new NVIDIA games Works game makes sense also
there's apparently a 4 gab limit for the
first hbm graphics card from which they're talking a lot about and LG
is unveiling a wallpaper OLED display
don't tell them anything else about it cuz there's really not much more which
is something stay tuned to find
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it's gray logo on it all right so CD
project red is taking The Witcher 3 downgrade issues head on this was posted
by that guy who Twirls his on the Forum that is a fantastic
username and the original article here is from
eurogamer.net so let's go ahead and pull that bad boy up and pretty much the
quote here this is this is great the sub headline is we don't feel good about
it they they've one thing they've done
well throughout all of this um is they've actually maintained a lot more
openness and a lot more honest dialogue
with the community instead of just saying no that never happened um they've
come out and they've said well look yeah we could have made The Witcher 3 a PC
exclusive title uh yes it would have had
better graphics um would we have had the
financial ability were that the case to
make it such a large and immersive game no we would not have so we developed it
on multiple platforms from the sound of what people think about the game so far
that was probably worth it yeah so the thing is is that the the game is getting
rave reviews everywhere people are sinking hours and hours upon hours of
time into it already um so it's just unfortunate that the launch had to be uh
sullied by this graphical downgrade issue the good news is CD project red
has an action plan they've drawn it out on the strategy white board in a
boardroom somewhere presumably at their headquarters maybe or maybe it's a
boardroom somewhere else technically everything that he said is possible yes
um so pretty much there's a patch with updates coming and these are looking
pretty impressive not only will they give us more options to tweak in the
graphical options menu they will also be
allowing users to push graphical settings and tweak them even further by
modifying inii files which shouldn't be a feature in a less JY
like Quake 3 supports widescreen
because you just change your fov and your resolution and and I file it's
pretty old game now um it should not be a feature but the good news is that at
least we're getting it yes um so what's the timeline on that I think it's uh
next week okay sometime 27 yeah sometime
around next week I think yeah so it's oh yeah it's waiting in certification so it
should actually be dropping on Tuesday of next week now this is kind of nice
although uh so quoted quote from CD
project red for those who are still not 100% decided I definitely encourage them
to wait and see what we will be releasing in patches updates and whatnot
so it's very high road of CD project red
to say Hey you know if you're not sure about it we really want you guys to be
sure about the game before you purchase I I mean did you guys accept pre-orders
did you show off in-game footage that didn't actually end up being in the
shipping product and did you take pre-orders on that like did you do that
if we hadn't caught you on this would you have did you really think no one was
going to catch it that's a big question
I uh if it's only taking them a couple
weeks to fix this stuff why wasn't it fixed already yeah because surely they
knew after the watchdog's debacle that
someone was gonna look at gameplay
footage from a gaming event from before and compare and see that they're not the
same surely they figured that would happen you know what is pretty funny
though is the amount of like pcmr threads on on Reddit and stuff of people
um I think I only saw two of them maybe maybe there was some more but people
looking at the IGN footage where they actually did a comparison and being like
Oh I think they might have screwed up and like they labeled it improperly and
they totally didn't and the pc1 looks way better and you just don't know what
good graphics look like it's kind of funny because it doesn't seem that that
complicated does it um anyway so speaking of good graphics some of the
things we actually never mentioned this some of the things that you'll be able to tweak with the upcoming patch are
things like grass and vegetation density so if you just have more GPU horsepower
to throw at it then go hard more grass looks really good looking at a lot of
the Skyrim mods that just add grass and that's all they do it makes it look
really good grass makes every experience better um and you can add
post-processing effects like sharpening and you can increase draw distances for
me draw distances are huge one draw distances are the
difference between you know 2000 circuit
2008 World of Warcraft and a game that looks modern uh being able to amp that
up you can have the cartooni stupidest Graphics in the world and great draw
distances make the world feel bigger and I'm not talking draw distance like
there's kind of this triangle in the distance and there's like kind of like a
jagged line on the top of it that's white that's not a mountain I'm talking
draw distances that that scale in a way that feels natural so things like trees
not just as you come over a hill and like the entire Forest Pops in as you
take three steps forward that's that's really ugly that takes me right out of
the game whereas being able to increase that if you have the horses for it means
more to me than some tessellation here or a more detailed Shadow there I would
love that to be an option in a game for all the things that are like pretty far
away in draw distance to just be drawn like a little kid did it so like the
trees were like yeah with like some random triangles coming off the side and
a mountain is just literally a triangle with a squiggly you know what if someone
could find a way to do that
artfully that could actually be really cool yeah like as the object gets closer
it looks as if an older and older kid drew it yeah yeah yeah yeah so like you
could even go from uh yeah I don't know
that's kind of interesting just upgrade based on tiers of quality like you said
older and older kid did it so like from really far away it's super Derpy but you
can barely see it and as you get closer and closer and closer and closer and closer it keeps on getting better well
what the dev would have to do is
quantitatively figure out like the the
the CU not every tree could be the same tree you can just have some 2-year-old
come in and draw a tree and then that's like your tree from X distance cuz then
you're going to have that it's there's not going to be anything um smooth about
it as you move towards it it'll just be pop pop pop different objects that will
look hor whereas if they could
quantify the drawing accuracy and and
seamlessly meld from one level to another as you get closer to it You'
probably have to go backwards you'd probably have to draw the really nice one first and then kind of break it down
it would probably make your eyes bleed regardless but it seems like a cool idea
I would like to see it and I don't know why yeah I'd like to see it and then go
that's cool that was cool thanks for all that work good for you let's not use it
now yeah oh man all right so more
Witcher discussion this time posted by caram cam camaran sorry about that
caraman um AMD says and this is going to
be a whole lot of AMD says NVIDIA says
because um we haven't signed an NDA to
see the source code for NVIDIA Gameworks features so we don't know what's on the
NDA to see the source code for NVIDIA Gameworks now the good news is is that
the source code is available um to game developers who are
implementing features such as Hair Works which makes hair more realistic with
tessellated strands but the bad news is
that and this is what AMD is saying they cannot get access to the source code and
are saying therefore they cannot optimize their driver for these
particular features something that particularly makes them upset because
AMD developed features like tress FX featured in games such as Tomb Raider
2013 were possible to optimize quite
easily on NVIDIA's Hardware thanks to oh
thanks Norton oh thanks Norton my God oh
my God thanks again Norton this is why
people need Norton removal tool yeah I know right um so pretty much AMD's come
out and said that when NVIDIA dropped the Hairworks code on the game 2 months
before launch it completely sabotaged
Witcher 3 Performance now with that said
you can turn Hair Works off yep you do
not have to use it yep so that's an
option and when we do comparative testing in Witcher 3 uh we are probably
going to have to turn herir Works off just because it does completely uh widen
the gap between an NVIDIA card and AMD card to the point where it seems like
yeah that's tough we're to the point where you can't
quantitatively talk about the difference in performance between the Cards because
it becomes very subjective when you go well this one's at 62 FPS and this one's
67 but in this one you know geralt's chest hair uh you know curls very
convincingly look a lot more manly yeah so it it becomes a very difficult
discussion whereas we like to talk pure numbers whenever possible um I don't
know what else there is to say I mean something to it's a lot of the same
story yeah something to understand about this you guys is that AMD's cards
whether we're talking Wier three or whatever else straight up do not perform
as well with heavy tessellation as NVIDIA cards so until AMD releases the
let's say a rumored upcoming 390x for example with you know amped up you know
you know injections of steroids directly
into the muscle tissue not that that would necessarily help um until it's got
tessellation you know out the woo uh it
just may not even be possible for AMD to optimize and one of the things that
NVIDIA pointed out is that um a lot of
the time the driver optimizations done by AMD or NVIDIA on a game by- game
basis are based on binary builds not on source code anyway so NVIDIA is
basically going AMD shouldn't even need a source
need the source code in order to optimize
anyhow so this is one of those things where unfortunately and NVIDIA says
there's nothing in their agreement with a game developer that prevents AMD from
working with the game developer to optimize unless we actually had those
contracts and could read them we actually can't sa for sure so that's
pretty much all there is to it um the game performs better with Hair Works on
an NVIDIA feature on NVIDIA cards is
NVIDIA right to develop their features and not really lift a finger to help
people who are not their customers enjoy the features better um you could
probably say yes they are but should
they be specifically sabotaging the performance on a competitor's cards then
definitely not unfortunately we just have no way of knowing unless we
actually sat in the meeting room we have
no way of knowing if NVIDIA really has
that tight a strangle hold on these game developers that they can convince them
to sabotage their game's performance on 25 to 30% of the discret graphics cards
out there which one I put it like that sounds pretty far-fetched doesn't it can
you imagine a game developer that's so concerned about selling enough units
that they develop for multiple platforms
just saying goodbye to Performance and
annoying the customers on for a third of the PC
Gamers I don't know yeah it's possible but yeah anything's possible speaking of
yeah so we are going to do a Witcher 3 Performance thing uh like he slightly
mentioned but I think at this point it'll probably be after comex oh okay
yeah I have reasons for that fair enough yeah all right so uh
this one was posted by notional and this is looking pretty freaking cool the
original article is from english. yonhap
news. co.kr y LG display unveils wallpaper
OLED panel look at that the thing on the
right jeez so this OLED display you can see is
being uh is being lifted up so you can see the thickness you can see it's not
just embedded in the wall like a total cheat um this OLED display is less than
1 mm thick weighs less than 5 lb for a
1.9 kg yeah 1.9 thank you that's an
exact weight uh and what was that for a 55 in 55 in OLED panel less than 5
pounds oh wait what yes and uh they're
saying that their sales targets for OLED panels is
6,25 and almost triple that of 1.5
million for 2016 and that apparently LCDs took 10 years to reach these kinds
of manufacturing yields so LG given that
they're one of the few that is inv in heavily in OLED versus just kind of
continuing to push the bar on LCD and trying to sell more LCD this could put
LG in a fantastic position when it comes to
anything with a display on it because OLED has some compelling advantages
whether we're talking about mobile devices where they save power and where
or whether we're talking about really anything else with a display where they
save thickness and they increase contrast ratio and all of those things
are good uh cently they're also planning what was it a 99
in uh yes 99 in as big as a this year for
this year 99 in OLED panel and given how
much room you're saving in terms of deploying things what I want to know is
how you're going to plug anything into it I mean I guess you'll just have to
have you'll just have to have like a like a like a ribbon cable that goes to
like a control breakout box or what breakout box like the Mac they're going
to have to have something more consumer friendly obviously doesn't show any
cables in the thing which means it's probably plugged in through the back
yeah it's probably behind yeah um I mean remember guys that's the panel so it's
still going to need some Electronics in there it's not like we're going to get away from pcbs anytime soon but very
very impressive the fact that you'll be able to basically well I mean okay okay
we have a lot of thin TVs already but they'll be even thinner one of the
challenges apparently I was talking to Corning about this at CES um this last
year one of the challenges now that displays are getting so thin is not just
making them thinner apparently they can just do that now it's not making them
thinner it's actually making them strong enough to work at all so coring was
saying that one of the materials that they developed I think this was for I
want to say for LCDs um yeah it must have been for LCDs you wouldn't need
this for OLED um is a glass that is able
to disperse light evenly in the same way that the plastic layer in your existing
LCD TV would because apparently this gives it a lot more strength and you can
save an entire reinforcing layer that
awesome you would have otherwise needed um not that for me it really makes any
particular difference I think my TV is about this thick and I've never thought
to myself you know if only my TV was an
inch thinner yeah then that show would
look better it's still it's still cool that that's an option cuz if you went to the store and it was the same price and
that much thinner that's you might as well yeah like that's it's but you're
right and if your TV I wouldn't rush to the store and replace your TV your TV is
fine if your TV is like a piece of furniture if it's like a you know a show
if your house is all like modern and amazing like mine will never ever be
because there's no way I could spend that kind of money to replace things I
already own um but if you're into that sort of thing then I'm sure you'll be
into this sort of thing yeah and we can all be into things and that's cool
that's fine um Toyota Prius batteries
apparently targeted by car thieves this was posted by WTO 165 I guess it was a
matter of time because if thieves are going to steal the copper out of power
lines and risk getting killed that
happened not way too long ago like relatively close to here did it really
yeah I think they were stealing it out of like an abandoned theater or
something there you go but the power hadn't been turned off to the theater
well there you go so ripping copper wire out and just yeah and there you go Bad
News Bears that's how it my friends so
2003 to 2009 Priuses are just kind of starting to come up on battery
replacement timings that costs around
$2500 us so it's not cheap but you can
buy them on craigslists for $900 to
$1,000 now they don't put a serial number or a VIN number on the batteries
so they're pretty much untraceable that and it's being said that you can walk
out with a Prius battery in about 20 minutes if you got a couple people now
to be clear this is not as much of an issue for a pure electric vehicle like
something like a Tesla Model S because for one it's much harder to get at the
battery and it's it's in a more secure location it's not just under the trunk
and for number two it's extremely heavy what is it 1,000 lb or something stupid
like that yeah no that's really not like Tesla Model S batteries uh weigh about
1,000 lbs about 1,000 lb compared to 150 lb for something like a hybrid vehicle
so good luck having you and your buddy haul that it's possible if you're both
really th000 lb big dudes depending on
like if you had to like bend over to lift it out or something like could be
really bad could be super bad yeah um so
yeah that seems like a pretty easy way for make a, bucks pretty quick on a
Tesla you'd have to raise the whole car
yeah and then like somehow get it out of
the bottom if it was worth enough I wonder if they'd find a way to do it
very it's probably going to happen at some point yep it'll probably happen at
some point but someone's going to go get their car repaired not at a Tesla
facility and they'll drop the the relatively new battery out and put in
some crappy one or something it's really funny the um Yahoo Auto reports that the
theft seemed to be localized to San Francisco at the moment that's not
surprising they said as if that was somehow going to be a fact that we all
didn't completely assume because I don't
remember last time I saw a Prius hybrid no no no I've only ever seen I think one
or two Teslas in Vancouver at all and in
the time we were in San Fran I think we saw one or two like at all points in
time so yeah I don't know lots of places
aren't super on the electric car thing yet um other places totally are San
Fran's huge I know Norway they were everywhere it was nuts anyways that's
it's a surprisingly large amount of money that you can get from stealing
something in a car because one thing with stealing cars is they're really
difficult to sell a lot of times you have to get rid of them for like scrap or whatnot yep um and they're not going
to have too many pieces that are worth a th000 bucks with a ready buyer ready to
rock now one thing that people are being advised to do is replace the bolts
holding in your battery with security bolts of some sort and that will help
our security nuts excuse me um but you
can also just buy those you uh mhm you
can also just buy the drivers for those you yeah you can buy the drivers for those but if everyone and their dog is
using a different kind of a kind of you know nut I mean it's going to take it's
always an arms race and thieves aren't going to be able to carry around you
know 30 oh they probably can but the likelihood anyway the point for me is
not necessarily just okay maybe they didn't steal your battery it's that they
already smashed your window and they already roughed up your car only to find
out that you've got your battery in with security nuts in which case I don't know
do they vandalize it like more right you
know do they slash your seats while they're at it that'll teach you for securing your back I don't know it
doesn't seem to help because once someone's broken into your car they've basically done the damage like I had my
car back when I used to lock my doors I had my car broken into twice to steal my
deck that was worth less than $100 costing me multiple hundreds of dollars
in window replacements so I just stopped locking my car fine if you want my deck
just take it and the funny thing is no one's taking in my deck since
then cuz I think they were they saw the deck or not they broke in seeing if
maybe there's anything else that's actually worth something and then cuz I
don't I don't know if the deck is worth breaking in for I I don't know the funny
thing is I wonder if unlocking leaving your doors unlocked will even help or if
people are just going to walk up to it assume that it's locked and break the window anyways I haven't had my window
broken since then that's true so there you go it happened twice in like 3
months back where I used to live so pretty insane yeah that was pretty not
cool all right so this is very
interesting we've got an update to the
Pentium D lineup and we're getting Zeon
D's and I'm all about the D this was posted by a Ming oh I am uh and the
original article here is from CPU dworld
Doom so we're getting a quad core
Pentium d That's a 20 5 water yeah
however I don't think we should be expecting any kinds of impressive clock
speeds for that and there doesn't seem to be any kind of information about
whether they'll be unlocked like the previous um Pentium anniversary edition
so just because Pentium D's which were
what did that stand for I think that was Pentium dual core that back when it was
actually a high-end product so just cu the Pentium D name is coming back
doesn't mean we're necessarily getting any that spectacular Although seeing a
25 watt quad core with six Megs of cach
is looking pretty cool and Zeon D's
hyper low power xeons probably very low
clock speed again with 9 or 12 Megs of cache at 35 35 and 45 watt tdps so this
is going to be great mate8 out of eight
for folks who want to build like um you know a cheapo Fraz server for example
where you need ECC memory support but you don't want to be spending multiple
hundreds of dollars on a CPU necessarily unless you're building like some
redonkulous you know massive high performance array and putting you know
10 gig Ethernet into it there's no point you might as well save the power and
save the cost and get something that's pretty
lowend there's not really a ton else to say about it I don't think there's a
yeah it's still preliminary specs it doesn't really tell us anything yeah
mostly boring stuff yep I guess we'll hear more in the relatively near future
so up next we've got this was posted by obscure maybe we know nothing about it
so yeah I I doubt it because rumors for
Intel stuff are usually really early and really accurate that's a good point so
so maybe like q1 next year I don't know
yes uh this was posted by obscure mammal on the Forum and the original article
here is from RS Technica and I'll let you you just let me post it first I'll
be back in a moment uh so it it has
infected a fair number of web servers uh
largely tens of thousands largely websites and mail server specifically
it's about 8.4% of the top 1 million websites so it's not an insane amount
but it's pry definitely noteworthy um
don't worry ours are fine anyways uh
basically what happens is you're able to weaken the https encryption uh bit key
so basically I think you can down it to 512
bits instead of 1024 above
so yeah that's kind of bad because then
people can crack it much easier researchers are already working on
developing uh patches for major browsers like Chrome Firefox and Safari which
where they will reject encryption connections that are below 1024 bits so
yeah I don't know it's really not that big of a deal yeah apparently this has
been around for a long time most of these are around for a long time to be
honest so this was established so it's basically it's just a way of snooping on
your data again and this was established by the Clinton Administration so the FBI
and other agencies could break the encryption used by Foreign entities yeah
so so honestly you probably don't have that much to worry about it's 8.4% of
websites um you that sounds pretty
worrisome uh the the the so the attack has been dubbed Log Jam yeah um and it's
can only be exploited against a subset of servers that support the Diffy Helman
key exchange so that allows the two parties to exchange a secret key over an
unsecured public channel so it basically takes that and it downgrades the
encryption so that it can be easily cracked it's it's still encrypted yes to
be clear it's like it's it's honestly not that bad it sounds a little bit
worse than it is it's not a good thing by any means but the browser guys
already releasing patches for it it's still technically encrypted they're
still going to have to fight through your stuff and it's still going to have to be kind of a man in thee middle
attack so using your already existing
knowledge as Tech folks maybe don't log into your bank on a public Wi-Fi
network yeah um and like have different
passwords for things it's it's not great it's a bad thing but there's been much
worse in recent history in terms of like online virus stuff isn't that a sad
State of Affairs is kind of a sad State of Affairs but like that has to be your
spin on this to say it is though that's what you have to say it is like stuff
like heart bed was way worse right um
and whatever the other recent ones were I just remember heart bed because the
name is really cool um but yeah Log Jam
not a good thing not as bad as it maybe sounds immediately I'm trying to
remember what some of the like some of the expit with like really cool names
were like Blaster virus Ms blaster
cool named viruses is someone really going to have
you know it's the internet of course list of viruses list of oh oh no no oh
the top 10 most destructive computer viruses there you go fourth hit of
course everyone's going to have like someone on the Internet is going to have
a list like that I'm excited right now so what do we got stck net that's not
that cool that's not that cool sounding conficker no that's not cool sounding no
Zeus Zeus I my dude Doom yeah my Doom is cool my
Doom might win okay so uh let's go ahead
and Slammer code red okay okay mic a
little old Microsoft reveals upgrade paths to Windows 10 this was posted by
Good Bites and the original article here is win beta.org
so nothing too surprising here if you
have Windows 7 or eight or 8.1 within
the first 12 months you get a free upgrade to Windows 10 this we already
knew so the main difference here is that they're explaining well which version
you have which corresponds to which version of Windows 10 one thing I was
wondering about here though is wasn't there a Windows 10 ultimate I don't
think so where's that Windows 10 versions list that we had uh that's from
last week cuz there's like 100 bazillion versions of it but I think in terms of
what they're selling in a box to customers it's going to pretty much be
Windows 10 home Windows 10 Pro okay so
if you have Windows 8 or 8.1 you get Windows 10 home if you have Windows 7
Home basic which is cool or Home Premium
you get Windows 10 home what an upgrade W that's pretty cool yeah so if basic
that's sick if you cheaped out on Windows 7 Home basic which had like I
forget what the limitations are like when four gigs of RAM I think was it 4
gigs I think so and it like I know there's a RAM limitation of some sort
yeah I I was it even two gigs of R it
might have been two I don't remember what it was I just remember it was really it was brutal it was available in
Emerging Markets some Windows Arrow
options were excluded um activation restrictions blah
blah blah anyway yeah it was it was lame
and someone to Twitch chat's going to tell us yeah of course they are um so
you are actually going to get an upgrade to Windows 10 real deal is it home basic
okay no four gigs four gigs people are saying both yeah okay four gigs yeah
maximum phys starter was two gigs St was 2 gigs that's yeah that's the brutal one
so um 32-bit is four 64-bit you could
have 8 gigs of RAM um you there was a
64-bit version available but not in retail SKS so that's another cool thing
is you're going to be able to upgrade to a 64-bit OS if you only had a 32-bit one
that's cool partial support for Windows Arrow uh no built-in DVD decoder um no
multi-touch support no Windows Media Center no premium games included any
cares about that um no encrypting file
system no group policies no Windows XP modes so no backwards compatibility ease
of ease of use thing I've used that before it's been very useful like lots
of things basically it's like a g ginormous just total poo column of red
total poo yeah so this this is it here so super cool and then if you have uh
Windows 7 or Windows 8 ultimate or
professional then you're going to get a copy of Windows 10 Pro yeah so those
that all makes sense those ultimate folks they just never really got
anything for their money did they no no they did not remember remember when
Vista launched and Microsoft had all those promises about ultimate and like
the additional like cool stuff it was going to
get I guess they get an update to Windows
10 no they don't cuz that was visc they
get nothing that would be cool if Microsoft was like okay do you have this
invol installed if you actually spent
$250 or whatever it was on Windows Vista
ultimate we're going to give you Windows 10 they should have just randomly like
four years down the line been like you all get free office uh 365 for 4 years
or something like that they should have just done something like we like you guys cuz like I remember there was like
ultimate extras on like the install disc and they were stupid and I just like
what is this rubbish so like anyone installing a legitimate OS you could
tell who was pirating cuz they'd have Windows Vista ultimate well yeah no one
really installed it if they bought it I worked in Tech shops at that point in
time so you you you'd go and you'd be updating the machine you go to Windows update and there's all the language
packs and it's just
like just INE obviously PIR just in case you wanted Croatian yeah yeah well I'm
just like okay well there's no way this
dude has a legit version of Windows at all looking looking at how his setup is
running and just like Windows Ultimate
makes zero sense in almost any build let alone this one all right so let's move
on to our next one another article from RS Technica and the original poster here
is Sam Fisher what stealthy
celebrity um AMD confirms four Gigabyte
limit for first hbm graphics card now to be clear um um that headline is a little
bit misleading because it says 4 gab
limit um I mean the amount of memory on
a graphics card could be defined as the limit to the memory on it but that
doesn't necessarily mean that the rumored R9 390x will never get an 8 gig
version right all that means is that it's going to be a 4 gig card so calling
it a limit is true but just that is
super sketchy though really wonky that's all so basically the way that hbm works
and the problems with gddr5 are that it takes up a lot of
space which requires a lot of traces on the PCB it uses a lot of power so gddr5
has increased in the last three years by
what like one gig of transfer per second
in terms of like the stock clock speeds on cards like it it it's at the limit to
the point where AMD is saying if we push gddr5 any further we're going to use up
so much of that power budget that they have to build a graphics card because if
they want it to be PCI Express compliant it has to fit within a certain power
envelope they're going to use up so much of that addressing RAM that they're not
going to have enough left to build a GPU that's powerful enough to drive
performance forward with that said NVIDIA hasn't had any trouble I was just
going to say um I don't know maybe just
make your GPU more efficient yeah the could be a thing well remember a big
part of the problem right now is that smaller manufacturing processes are not
readily available to the GPU Guys these are large complicated chips and we're
only just now finally seeing Intel
rolling out 14 nmet CPUs uh Beyond those
core M like you know for like Ultra
books and tablets and stuff processors we're only just now seeing rumors that
Samsung's going to be manufacturing the upcoming A9 chip for Apple at 14 NM so
GPU guys I mean how far down are they on
the pecking order compared to apple and like Intel making its own stuff in its
own Fabs that it doesn't lease to others no so
never can you imagine an AMD Graphics chip being manufactured by
Intel in a in a world I literally can't
I can't even join your story I literally can't imagine you're just not even going
to you're not going to walk down this you go down this rabbit hole with me hey
just imagine how screwy that would be I mean would Intel be able to talk them
into having like you know like a little I even you know and like a year number
like date stamped on like I I I don't know if I would even
want to see that just do like double digit things so I13 I15 I
17 um okay what else can we say about it so I 17 graphics card so AMD says one
gab of of gddr5 takes up 672 mm squ of
space versus a 1 GB stack so they have
like these through fars through the Stacked memory of hbm that takes up just
35 mm squar so this is something that's kind of funny because one of the renders
floating around of the 390x had it as like a stubby card with the amount of
space that AMD is saving on the PCB what what are they going to put on it yeah
really power delivery and a GPU and like
little like four four memory chips cuz like remember like one of the marks of a
high-end card was like the big PCB with
like you know 12 memory chips on each
side of it because it had so much RAM well we're not necessarily even going to
need that anymore I mean one approach could be that we could start putting 16
to 24 gigs of r on GP 64 gigs of RAM but
I I don't think we're at a point yet where the data entire game into VR yeah
like the data Integrity is not even going to be high enough to put that much
memory on a GPU at this stage you you'd have to put ECC memory on it that would
be pretty cool though if you could load the whole game into all the gamees
texture files into vram you know what this actually uh ties in pretty well to
uh a tweet a tweet oh this is from my uh my
good buddy Johan Anderson okay I met him once but he's really nice super nice um
super nice he is like the guy for frostbite so there you go this actually
looks a lot like that looks really nice the
render um okay so hold on does it look like a stubby
card yeah is that the end of the
card maybe it could also just be a shiny
part and that could be the end of the black oh oh I'm not screen sharing I'm
sorry very good there we go very very good so we're just wondering if this is
I don't know because you can yeah I see that see the pixels you could definitely
be right it could also just be a shiny reflection thing
enhance enhance no I think so yeah no
you could now that we've enhanced it now that yes it was only because of the
enhancement I didn't wave my hand enough enhance enhance zoom in there zoom in
you press the hot key while I wave my hand enhance enhance
why why I want to see that emoji closer
emoji it's happy should I should I keep call should I keep calling them emot
emoticons cuz like I'm the older generation that's that's what we used to
call them an emoticon wait they're different is an an
emoji the icon well we used to call the
we used to call you mean like the image based ones right yeah we used to call
those emoticons too yeah yeah I did yeah
so are Emoji like a specific thing this
could be a great discussion topic Emoji versus emoticon the
guardian.com has an article from February we should do a fast as possible
on this Alex Hearn sets the record straight once and for all okay I have to
know I do too I'm interested I'll read with you they are not the same thing
okay and this is bold the continued confusion of the two will not
stand it's not bold actually um but I wish it was at issue was a piece of
information that the Silk Road Founders lawyer suggested was critically
important yet was emitted by federal prosecutors an emoji symbol is sometimes
calls a version of a smiley face an
emoticon is a typographic display of a facial representation like this and
there you go it looks like you're right an emoji is apparently an actual picture
yeah okay so like your your little Skype
or Google Hangouts little Emoji things
are emojis and actually typing like colon bracket is aoon so Emoji are
treated by the computer this is an important distinction so the reason we
care is not because the meaning is different but because Emoji are treated
by the computer as letters from A nonwestern language in much the same way
that a Japanese or Chinese character would which also means that the software
has to explicitly support them so all
this makes perfect sense to me now I think this distinction must have come
later because to my knowledge MSN
messenger which is where I cut my teeth on online chat sort of I guess I was
also on uh uh what was that other one icq right I wasn't I was messenger
forever only messenger you're you're too young for icq pretty much like it was
already dying yeah it was dying it was falling off pretty quick I knew people
that had it I knew people that wanted me to get it but it was like kind of falling out of Grace So MSN Messenger
called call them emoticons or emoticons even once even once that uh once they
had like real images in it so yeah all right well oh oh right we should
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about getting all the sponsor reads wrong not that that hasn't happened
before Nick and I have a bet this is a
pretty serious business bet it's a lot
more serious than I think he's really going to put on yeah I'm not going to
tell you guys what it is but if you're subscribed to Channel Super Fun you are
going to see the result one way or another and it's going to either be
amazing or really unpleasant so pretty much we have much
you're screwed finally I have refused
for so long he's pushed for it y Nick's
pushed for it my wife's pushed for it everyone has wanted this for quite some
time can you post that please give just a plain linest Tech tips shirt I always
kind of went so like if you feel like why would I want a linest tech tips logo
on my chest I've always been with you it never made any sense to me lonus Tech
tips to me was like not the kind of I just it's not that I didn't want one
like I'm proud to wear it but I just I wasn't I didn't know that our viewers
were going to be like would be amped up about like just a plain clean Linus Tech
tips shirt so I refused to make one I was like no let's have like bro fist on
the front or like you know a picture of a
cat naughty word on it and all those are great things but we are finally doing it
a lius tech tips shirt now this one will be available in the long term on some
store actually it might be not on District ls.com but somewhere else more
details it'll be in the link of the description of the video that we tell you it's on yeah it'll be somewhere but
for now it's on Teespring as a limited edition campaign and the only difference
between this one and the ones that'll be available later are that these ones as a
nod to the people who love to be first
say first on the back we love you guys
please don't comment on our videos but we're still going to Pander You by
releasing a shirt that says first on the back although if you comment on the
video and say first and then link a an image to you wearing the shirt with
first on the back then we'll still hate you but it'll
be less not as much yeah there you go slightly lower it's never really
bothered me that much like I've actually done it on my own videos like before I
said it live I'll post first I like that just cuz I'm just CU I'm kind of a troll
by Nature um but the internet at large
will definitely hate you yes for for posting first with your first shirt so
there you go apparently 14 of them are gone already how quickly did that
happened everyone in uh everyone in chat is already saying first all over the
place excellent all right so there you go guys we finally have a lonus tech tip
shirt they're on teesprings so they'll be Avail sometime in the summer you'll
actually receive it they've actually gotten faster in the time we've been using them so that's cool let's move on
to more topics shall we more topics
W what do we got oh here we go ah yes
more AMD news word on the street is that
AMD's Fiji so the rumored 390x what Nick
will retail at why are you here I thought you guys were still talking
about shirts I just wanted to say we have lots of different variations available including ladies shirts you
should get them yeah we have ladies shirts we have L Shir we have ladi's
v-neck a lady's tank top and a lady's regular t-shirt no way I'm getting one
for my wife freaking a lot of just like men's or whatever oh that's cool when
she doesn't wear it I'm going to be like super sad when what when when my wife
doesn't wear it I'm just going be like
get her seven of them we should them we should all get uh women's shirts for the
respective ladies in our lives and then just like like I'll go in for my mom and
my mom will wear it but like no one else will and then when we don't see them
wearing it just be like why not why don't you like my are you not proud of
me why don't you wear the shirt sorry Hi
chat thanks guys all right so this is
from fudzilla decom is it the single
most uh reputable site on the internet no but fudo also gets it right a fair
amount of uh a fair amount of the time fudo uh F add it fudo is his nickname
okay yeah okay yeah I didn't know his nickname was fudo he is also jumping on
my bandwagon about that other headline about the 4 Gig limit uh 4 gig first 8
gig to follow apparently I do know that 8 gigs is more complicated and I do I
have heard rumors that the hbm chips uh
yields are not fantastic so a high-capacity card might be
prohibitively expensive not that NVIDIA mind's releasing a graphics card for
$1,000 anyway but um slightly more than
that AMD is being the value solution again and aiming apparently for around
850 bucks value solution 850 bucks
somewhere between the Titan X and the GeForce GTX 980 I don't know if we can
call it the value solution I don't know if I'm okay with that with that said
that's really expensive for a value solution there are rumors hey saving
$150 is saving $150 yeah but it's a card for like over
$800 and it does only have four gigs of memory compared to Titan X's
12 okay we we'll we'll we we we'll wait
for the performance stuff I just don't know if you can say it's a value card we
also really need to see what the counter is going to be from the Green Camp
because there's a lot of rumors floating around about a GTX 980 TI a lot of
rumors floating around I've seen some rumors about that particular thing um
but what we don't know anything about is is pricing so if NVIDIA released a 980
TI would they price it more similar ly
to the GTX 9980 now and drop the price
of the 980 really putting in the thumb screws on AMD potentially unless the
390x crushes the Titan X which we don't know yeah that's true I think honestly
they'll play very reactionary if they need to they'll drop it they've done
that before if they don't need to they won't drop it they've done that before
here's the funny thing though the funny thing is this I guarantee you AMD knows
everything there is to know about the 980 TI right now and NVIDIA knows
everything there is to know about the 390x right
now probably they probably even have cards like straight
up so whatever happens is just going to be
like it's like it's like a game of like cards where they just can both see each
other's cards so just cuz you know how we've seen it time and time again in the
last couple of years where every card that launches slots in perfectly with
the rest of the landscape both of these cards are just going to make perfect
sense depending on whether you have $850 to spend or however much a 980 TI costs
I can't wait for you to do a value build log with an $850 graphics card that
would be awesome you should just try to find the cheapest possible way to build
all the rest of the computer and then keep it under a gr no dog the the intro
the intro for scrapyard Wars eBay all the parts except for except for the
graphics card the intro for that video right itself because remember there was
that whole headline with Lisa Sue AMD CEO saying they don't want to be known
as the value solution an $850 graphics card you guys
keep releasing those you're going to be the value solution
forever oh my God we could troll the crap out of them that would be hilarious
super awesome that would be kind of a fun idea for a build though put in like
the cheapest stuff that will be able to actually run that graphics card but with
modern things and see how it goes all
right so this is actually this is actually going to be uh this actually
ties in pretty well so we've got we're going to do a Twitter Blitz here all
right and this is always my favorite kind of question because it's the
question where there is no answer there's just speculation so many people
ask me this all the time like what is going to be the graphics card to buy of
the Next Generation because it looks like it's going to be 980 tii versus
390x and this is actually about um or
wait that doesn't really tie in that well you know what let's do it anyway so
we're going to do it as a straw pull instead since it's fair a fairly easy
question to answer so GTX 780 Ti versus
r9390x and I'm just even speculating yes
no and what is yes and no to this question
oh right those aren't really very okay I'm sorry
GT it's like what the heck is that 780
Ti yeah oh crap that so is the title
what are you doing what am I even doing why is the 780 Ti the only card that
exists in my mind because they're nerfing it are they what have you heard
the news they Nerf what what there's people talking about news NVIDIA driver
revisions I don't know how this didn't end up in the dock but apparently new NVIDIA driver revisions are making the
7080 TI a little bit worse 780 Ti yeah
really cuz I heard about them I I I haven't looked into it enough to talk
about it in depth but I heard about them possibly nerfing the overclocking on the
970m and 980m again interesting no this
is desktop card stuff though um um I haven't I haven't had time to try it I
do kind of want to check it out how fascinating it could also just
be fixed in the very next driver right so it's also possible I am trying to
post the straw poll I do not straight up remember my twitch password so that is
very challenging for me at this time I'm a challenged sort of person and it
doesn't really help when the chat loads phenomenally slowly here we
go there's our
strle oh wait where' my link to it go there it is this is what happens when
you have oh that's not it when you have like 300 bazillion tabs so let's see the
results as they roll in and let's move on into our next topic what do we
got apparently 22% of you are going to put a turnup in your next
computer huh I didn't know we had that many Xbox Gamers watching this stream
oh D YouTube launches 60 FPS live streaming
in quest to take on Twitch this is posted on the
brige was posted on the Forum by tangra
there you know what the funny thing about these straw poles is what is it just straight up doesn't matter how long
we look at the results after the first like 10 seconds the proportion never
changes yeah it's like it's like how big
of a sample size is enough apparently the first 10 seconds cuz it's like done
and let's see everyone okay okay let's see if we can even change it if we want
to guys if you haven't voted get in there turn it power come on vote for
turnip vote for turnup # vote for turnup
yes we got to bring the turnup in line
with the 980 TI or beat it okay come on
turnip and I've enabled actually this is news we didn't even okay so I'm going to
put away the straw pole so you guys can't see if it's working how beautiful that is how could you not vote for that
there's a new feature on Twitch so before we get into YouTube 60fps
streaming twitch has a new feature that has um shortened the delay remember back
when they changed their server configuration so that there was that
massive up to over a minute delay between stream and chat now there is a
beta feature that you can go ahead and enable within your dashboard in order to
sorry I can't keep a straight face turn beating 390x turn it power man um yes
come on so is this how politicians win
elections it's just if we tell them hard enough to vote for it they turn
yes this is what campaigning is all about that's right that's why going door
Todo Works kids for turnup we should just go door
to door leave turnips on the doorsteps like a little toothpick in it a little
sign vote for turnup next time there's a local election verman Supreme just goes
around and leaves boots with little turnips in the top on everyone's store
awesome how many people would get that reference so twitch has a new feature that allows us to interact with you guys
more closely does it bring it back to the way it was before no but I think
it's able to shorten it up to like 15 to 20 seconds or something like that like
definitely significant difference a better yeah yeah it's a lot better so
very very good news it's better to the point where you're not waiting like 2
minutes for a response because you type it in then it takes so long for him to
see it and then he says and it takes so long for you to see it and it's just
ridiculous all right so the original article here is from The Verge let's go
ahead and fire that up
so what is there really oh no I just closed the dog way to go I'll be there
in a moment there isn't a ton to specifically say other than the title
but it is interesting that YouTube is trying this hard there's been a huge
we've talked about this a little bit in previous shows but there's been a huge
push for online video in general um
streaming especially I'd actually say with isubu getting tons of funding
lately um twitch continuing to completely explode which just being
absolutely insane acquired by Amazon not exactly a small deal Google trying to
kind of start a fight which looks a lot more interesting than isu's so far not
super successful push but anyway the thing about YouTube is that and there's
there's something that they have to overcome here is that Google finally
woke up to the fact that gaming content is popular on YouTube and has decided to
actually give two craps about it at all
so it took them so long there was never any reason for twitch to be allowed to
exist YouTube could have easily
supported these features before and maybe twitch would have never been able
to spring up out of completely the woodwork and just completely dominate
online game streaming but the good news for YouTube is that twitch is not
interested right now in being a video
repository so Gamers have had to kind of
support both platforms forms because if you want to Archive anything and have it
be actually discoverable on you know the what is it the second largest search
engine or whatever that thing Everyone likes to say is second largest search
engine in the world they want to be discoverable they have to support
YouTube even if their followings aren't as big over there and if they want to
live stream twitch has been the only way to do it because that's where you get
the actual support for things like third
party streaming software like xplit which we love um or if you want to say
for example stream at FPS which people love we stream at resolutions other than
1080p which people love so you have to support these two platforms so guys like
us who are heavily invested in YouTube yeah actually have a pretty decent
presence on Twitch if the push ever came to shove and we wanted to start
investing in twitch more heavily and many twitch streamers maybe they don't
have you know 1.3 million subscribers on
YouTube or whatever the number is maybe they've got 800 or 880,000 or 15 ,000 or
something like that compared to a massive following on Twitch well hey
that's not insignificant either a huge part of building a channel is that first
20 or 30 or 50,000 you work so much
harder for the first 100,000 subscribers than you do for a subsequent
250,000 that's the way it works once you gain critical mass I mean if you were
never going to hit 100,000 subscribers then like none of this is applicable but
if you were going to get big you work so much harder for it at the beginning
um so you know very interesting I don't
necessarily see it changing immediately
yeah I really wonder how this is going to go because twitch has such a good
relationship with all the game streamers they bring them out to shows like the
twitch booths that shows are insane they directly support them in so many
different ways and they're just so like the connections and networking that
twitch has is so incredibly strong and at least in our experience the whole
networking and connections and support side from Google is really not great
Google's an engineering company yes and twitch seems to be they seem to have a
much better feel for what it means to be a relationship company and there's
really interesting things on Twitch which is going to keep streamers there like uh openly being able to do donate
stuff with no problems you're able to do contests not really able to do but
happens all the time everywhere and kind of everyone ignores it um there's
subscribe buttons which helps people a ton can get icons if you subscribe which
helps people a ton with that said some of these features exist or will exist on
YouTube as well and YouTube's um like
like kind of pay pass you know some kind of Premium paid option feature that's
been rumored forever I don't I don't know like yeah like U like more like
what vessel's doing I thought you talking about the tip jar I got it no not that one more like what vessel's
doing where there's a paid YouTube and you just don't see any ads um that's
been rumored for a long time and that could come along in put a lot of money
in streamer Pockets if you know they're rolling ads at will and people who are
paying a monthly subscription and like only watching that stream or effectively
giving them a few bucks and the volume could be potentially much higher I mean
YouTube is a huge huge audience as PewDiePie can certainly attest to I
wonder if um I wonder if there's some form of
exclusivity agreement in the twitch contract because it would be
interesting if you just streamed uh to
both which is possible yeah it's not impossible that's
for sure it would be need more upload not super easy but it would definitely
be possible you could both yeah I mean you'll always have to have a primary and
that's something that we've discovered is that when we say don't forget to
subscribe only YouTube has subscribe I say follow yeah I and I've
started saying follow too but there's a lot of other things too like Click The
annotation other video platforms don't support annotations so if we started
uploading on Billy Billy for example if it's a if it's a uh stream you can
address that much more easily sort of and like you can mix your chats and
stuff okay something a lot of streamers do is subscriber only chat so are they
just going to ignore the YouTube chat and just talk to their twitch I don't
know that's interesting yeah because there'll be a lot of spam in that YouTube chat unless there's a subscriber
only mode and then what are you going to ask for subscribers on both are you going to monitor two chat Windows come
on that's tough uh there's there will
definitely be there guys who do it browser hook which mixes those chats and
then that's a total mess because then they can't see each other not that
anyone can really talk to each other in a half no I mean for the streamer oh for
the streamer streamer can monitor everything y but I don't know it's just
it will fragment it for sure the degree to which it does it I don't know but it
will fragment it for sure
um okay so let me have you know what
this is this is our next Twitter Blitz and this is actually from Lenovo has
their upcoming Tech world event and there's a couple of hashtags that we
want you guys to use in it so we haven't done a Twitter Blitz in a while and this
one is pretty much open-ended so it's we're supposed to
talk about what we think is next and it's for the upcoming Tech world event
so I'm assuming if I were to talk about uh house plants that have genes injected
into them that make them glow well I guess that's kind of tech isn't it yeah
okay but let's talk let's talk computer tech so I want you guys to post about
what you think is next at Linus tech on Twitter use these two hashtags Boop at
Linus on Twitter and we're going to go ahead we're going to Blitz through you
guys in the next little while here um
and and it can be vag so do you want me to go first sure okay so for me what's
next whether I like it or not is wires
are going away that is something that is
kind like I've been I've been kind of inching towards this for a while you
look at uh you look at Intel's what is it 50 50 GHz or whatever that stupid uh
what's the 58 GHz I don't remember exactly what it is the the the very the
very short range Wi-Fi or the very short range Wireless someone's going to
correct me
um short range one Wireless high speed I
think it was that like gigabit speeds or something something ridiculous like that
high blah blah y gig 60 GHz there we go
um so you know seeing technology like that demoed and actually working seeing
companies like apple so the MacBook 2015 was the thing that kind of feels like
wow someone's already doing this so when
you go on apple.com they've got the iPhone the
iPad they've got the MacBook and they've got
the I the eyew watch they've got the Apple watch and they've got them all
arranged in like uh I can't find the page right now um but they've got them
all arranged and it just says better together and what struck me about those
products is that none of them encourage
external connectivity they all encourage cloud-based storage they all encourage
uh or and cloud-based backup
they all encage between the devices
without it without pluging and you know
whether you're one of those people who believes Apple when they say DSLR like
photo quality or whether you're one of those people who's like uh no I'm still
going to need a USB cable and a card reader to transfer photos off my real
freaking camera whoever you are Apple is
trying to push that future forward today and if they're trying to do it then
someone's going to come along and take that concept and clone it and do it
better once the technology catches up a little bit and that future I think is
coming wireless charging wireless data
and the the camera that I'm borrowing right now can transfer pictures to my
phone over NFC that's cool yeah so there you go
still so there you go that's what that's what I think is what's next is wires are
just going to be gone completely gone I
think uh personally solar power is going
to be a much bigger thing um the efficiency of the panels themselves and
the efficiency of storage mechanisms have massively massively increased over
the last little while home batter is a big deal he yeah yeah uh there's a study
that just came out of MIT talking about how we need to focus on it much more
because there's just so much available power it's not even like oh well it's
better for the planet derp derp it's just like no there's a lot of it and
it's super available and it's sitting right there and it's really not hard to
take advantage of and it's literally there whether we like it or not yeah
like it's super easy unless Mr Burns builds a sun blocker we're kind of stuck
with the sun yeah yeah um Burns all
right so let's have a look at what you guys think we we never do Twitter blitzes anymore speak which I wanted to
one of the oh I should talk to you about
perspective projects not on the way show oh okay Amy says the sixs gotcha
okay um no idea but it better be shiny
gpus coming from the manufacturer with water cooling being more common than
ones with air cooling that is an out there prediction that is a very out
there prediction I think that will probably never happen I think water
cooled out of the box is going to be not a thing for a while Kevin Hall says
virtual reality contact lenses dear Lord would I ever love for that to be next I
don't think that's next that's and hopefully augmented reality cuz VR
contact lenses how do I take them out
when I want to see it's like I want to eat my food yeah you're going to have to
have a camera somewhere for augmented reality sort no cuz if you can see
augmented reality if you can see through them then augmented reality is fine and
if they were VR you couldn't see through them so you'd have to like wear head
mounted camera then and that have to like connect to them mind you if there
are no wires and if I'm right and no wires is next then this will be later
and there won't be any but then that doesn't mean it's next that doesn't mean it's next um although did you hear about
the uh bionic uh bionic lenses yeah as a
yeah so that's some pretty freaking cool stuff I don't have an article to show
you guys or anything but my wife and I were talking about apparently in the
next two to three years bionic lenses are coming with all the advantages and
none of the drawbacks of surgeries like lasic so uh wow um yeah like they don't
degrade over time you're not going to need glasses later so I should just
still not buy glasses no you should still get glasses he wants it's coming
in like 2 or three years he wants me to buy him a bigger
teleprompter so that he doesn't have to buy we should have a bigger teleprompter
anyways so that he doesn't have to buy glasses no we should have a bigger teleprompter anyways okay so our
teleprompter is crap even today filming
it's like the text on the screen is jumping all over that's the best app you
should see the other something that isn't based on an app you should see the
other ones oh I I believe it but get something that's not based on an app all
right next is another interesting VR presentation yeah okay most likely VR
movies that is not next but I do hope I
mean I think they're kind of called video games because to shoot a movie in
VR and like have it be like how would you even get a camera rig that records
in all directions so they're already working on that stuff yeah like they
have 360 the camera yeah they have that
but how could you shoot it in a way
that it like I think it would actually detract from the movie watching
experience in certain ways like there's probably been a it will be a totally
different style like super different style that's one thing to part of the
part of the movie experience is the filmmaker U the filmmaker's control over
your emotions and your experience you're having the experience that they give you
otherwise you might as well play a game yeah so yeah so yeah here we go so
this is an article from The Verge from like January this year so you hide from
a cyber or something like that I don't
see movies moving there I see movies and games moving closer together as opposed
to VR movies so yes do agree Alan I
don't think it's next and I don't know what it'll be called but it'll be some
kind of
Mo mve g g g move something some
combination of the two um what's coming Wireless power for
PCs I think we're a ways away from that too mind you as PC power goes down I
can't think of any reason why a next or
Tech you could do it now or two G from now like MacBook for example yeah could
be wirelessly powered from a range that would make sense yeah cuz technically
you could do that now it's just going to be super not great David Rice cheaper
higher resolution OLED that is a super safe uh uh prediction there USB 3.1
type-c that's already here sort of yes we do have have one device that supports
it uh cheaper high-capacity ssds that's all definitely happening netor
graic that I don't know if it's next but
well strictly speaking Network Graphics is already a thing NV grid is on a
network even if it's the internet but I think you mean local network Graphics uh
better Battery tech for laptops and phones that's always coming next yeah
it's I don't know I don't know uh 36
core core i7 processor that won't be for a while I don't think it's coming next I
don't really think the battery thing is going to change a whole lot until we change Technologies 7-Day phone
batteries did you see the light phone the yeah this thing's bananas it's like
the stupidest thing ever but like people will like it uh it's on Kickstarter
right now we don't generally cover Kickstarter stuff just cuz a lot of it
ends up never existing um so the Light
phone by light it met its goal and
pretty much what it is is a credit card sized phone and you got to take it with
a big grain of salt whenever any manufacturer says credit card sized cuz
it could be as thick as you want yeah that's not credit card that's not credit
card Siz but the battery apparently last for 20 days and straight up all it does
is make and receive phone calls that's it it is not
smart all right and it's 100 bucks like
okay okay I guess I get it so we're bringing back the brick would you need a
SIM but it's like a sexy brick yeah You' need a SIM that sucks speaker phone here
we go you could always rip SIM from your dead smartphone yeah the Light phone is
a prepaid GSM cell phone that works independent of your carrier comes pre-loaded with minutes a SIM card and
an app to use with your existing phone okay that's cool so there you go so
they're a carrier now the Light phone by
light I love companies that don't have a crazy amount of forethought in their
product names it's great I think it's awesome
all right so what else we from people oh yeah yeah sure okay so we'll do 10 more
10 more Twitter blitzes uh less local storage and more theft of data yeah okay
that's un fortunate map says lower latency
Wireless to make things like wireless gaming peripherals a real viable option yeah right now the only wireless gaming
peripherals we have are extraordinarily expensive um and part of the problem
with that is that you know when you add $3 to the bomb cost of a peripheral
product with the margin structure of that particular industry you're adding
anywhere from I don't know $5 to $15 to the actual retail price because
retailers are expecting deep double digit margins the manufacturers making
deep double- digit margins and people have different expectations for these
products if there's something wrong with it they expect you to pop a new one in the mail for them and you expect to get
it and not bother sending the old one back and that's not the kind of thing
that you know a motherboard manufacturer is ever going to support because the
margins on that product don't support it so in order to not fall behind in
customer service and perceived value you
can't actually just make your product cheaper and then expect people to just
accept that they're going to expect all the other stuff and a better product and cheaper so yeah good point lower cost
and lower latency Wireless yeah it's always batteries it's
always batteries when we discuss what do people want well I I and I completely
agree I just don't think it's coming Helix slash I hope you're wrong VR
system yes curv screen laptop wow I hope you're wrong if you had one that was
flexible maybe but why but I've used a
24in curved display and it doesn't make
sense no so like the curve from that at
that size doesn't make sense so for a top unless you're like you've got it
like right to your face I don't think it makes a ton of sense that's quite the prediction Apple
will have nothing to do with unprecedented Technologies at all um I
don't well actually that's not really fair I mean Thunderbolt was unprecedented they certainly had a lot
to do with that just saying I I don't have much to say but hi all right
another episode of junkyard Wars that's wow now we're never film yeah now we're
okay that's enough no more Twitter Blitz you just ruined it for everyone Kevin
Hall wow Kevin Hall wow Kevin Hall gez
Kevin Hall it's called scrapyard Wars I'm gonna tweet when we do it junkyard
Wars is some other show in a junkyard it
probably smells I just typed in tweet. comom
that's how distraught I am that's pretty distraught right there
that's that's quite distraught uh Spotify is apparently going to have a
New York Press event so this is oh oh no not apparently this is apparently a
thing um so Spotify moves into video and
podcasts with major media Partnerships so Spotify is not ready to lie down and
have apple completely eat their lunch on music streaming nor are they wanting to
limit themselves to music streaming forever so short form videos and
podcasts sourced from BBC ESPN and Comedy Central ESPN is such a huge one
sports is something that I mean where did we go for sports Justin.tv that's
gone twitch no longer cares about that
where so what you have to just go to the
individual sports Network's website every time be honest there was a lot of
people watching the Mayweather fight on Twitch it just wasn't a legal
thing wow
anyway um that's something YouTube
doesn't do particularly well it's something that some of the leagues particularly the NHL doesn't do
particularly well is things like highlights and Analysis on YouTube
having having someone like ESPN come online with someone like Spotify having
other sports networks potentially sign up that could be freaking awesome that's
the kind of thing where if they start to get some really great content maybe I
get off Google play music maybe I start paying for Spotify instead get my music
and that and Comedy Central is another big one too although um Regional
licensing is going to be a huge one because Comedy Central I doubt very much
yeah so service will be launched in US UK Germany and Sweden so Comedy Central
is probably not coming to Canada anytime soon because I think there's some
complicated stuff between Comedy Central and Comedy Network and blah blah blah
blah blah Regional man sucks it's
annoying um it's super hyper duper annoying apparently this is cool though
spotify's new version will have Tempo detection which will keep Pace with your
feet when you are working out why would you want that I'd like
that like something a little bit like
like when you're walking you listen to a different no no no the song doesn't
speed up or slow down that would be aw yeah I was like what the crap okay that
makes sense so for song selection yeah
so if you're doing like a super hard workout then like cool and if you're not
then like that's cool too tempo as in I'd like to see it tied to I wish heart
heart rate I was just going to say I'd like to see it tied to heart rate instead but this is a step in the right
direction that's that's one annoying thing that watch that I'm not going to talk a ton about right now I'll go bust
out like a pretty intense workout and then come home and be like you were
active for 1 minute today and I'm like screw you it's not
true is it because of the phone not a
ton of movement oh right because you're
like lifting if I'm moving from like a squat rack to a bench or whatever like
right it's really not that far so what you're saying is that fitness trackers
still have a ways to go for all the different types of Fitness there happens
to be so me for example I engage I engage in mind Fitness wow that's where
I sit and think so hard about Fitness that I get ripped
no no what about that belt that you can wear that
vibrates it is so funny like the
celebrities that have sold out so hard well that's exactly it it's the
celebrity endorsements I saw a commercial for one of those things that had like Denise Richards and someone
else in it and I was like are you really worth that little if
it worked everyone would have
one everybody you know they uh they reached out about doing advertising with
us on one of them I can't remember which one
we should do a review I no no it was it was they weren't going to send a review
unit that was not the get them to send us I'll wear it for like a month okay so
know I won't cuz I'm going to work out naturally anyway um so so basically I
had never looked into them like I knew they were on late night TV not
everything on late night TV is bad the bamx for example is a great handheld
mixer and it's one of those as seen on TV like stupid commercial with and you
get the the nut Scrambler with it not
well George Foreman grills are actually really George Foreman grills also awesome probably anything that Billy May
ever advertised because it's Billy freaking
might putty really I don't know okay anyway um I believe Billy so I'd never
looked into them because I just assumed they were stupid but now we were having a real conversation with money involved
so I was like okay I should probably find out if they're dumb and every site
I found was so positive and I was like
no nothing can be that amazing and it
was at that time that I realized that
basically they just Spam websites I was
not aware of this particular strategy I've never really looked into the ways people get scammed online because it was
never really a concern for me I navigate directly to a website that I want to go
to I'm not much of a surfer so I so I
was like oh so they just create endless
websites with slightly different SEO
strategies so that something will surface and they create them
over and over and over again all the time so that something positive will
surface before all the reviews about how it's completely stupid and pointless are
able to be found and I was like okay no
and go away uh but um but yeah I I don't
remember where I was going with this anymore ocz has a new NVMe SSD so NVMe
ssds are coming ho this is posted by
numlock 21 on the Forum what available formats are there for this the show's
kind over by the way but we can do this is it what time is it 6010 how did that
happen 6010 6010 I was going to say 9 but I assumed the minute was going to
flip over and then there we go now it's
610 while you were speaking you thought
the minute would actually flip over midw
you were going to time it that precisely I that was the plan you're hero I was
off by like 5 seconds so uh capacities
anywhere from I think it was 800 gigs to
6 6.4 terab boom um they're compliant
with NVMe 1.1 they support Two Hosts accessing
them simultaneously or apparently that update is coming in Q3 or something
which is completely bananas like what the heck
like so you could have a virtual machine
natively accessing like two virtual machines accessing it natively or
something is what that sounds like to me I'm sure someone's going to correct me
but that sounds completely off the hook
um and performance is in the neighborhood of like 3 GB per second uh
not not quite so sequential read speeds at 2.9 gigabytes per second and right
speeds at 1.9 megabytes per
second sustained using 19 nanometer nand and
there's both a 6000 series using mlc Flash and a 6300 series using Enterprise
Grand enlc flash very cool do we know what form
factors it comes in PCI Express I would assume no uh really doubt
it yeah but it'll support uh self encryption in uh Q in the Q3 update um
anend data protection so this is all important Enterprise stuff but yeah okay
so here's the Dual Port functionality it's going to launch with single port
functionality with an upgrade in Q3 uh it does this using a newer generation of
the 16 channel PN C Sierra Princeton controller than what is found on
competing models and the advantage of having dual Port functionality is allows
Two Hosts to access the drive both
concurrently that's ridiculous okay then
I guess we'll see what that sort of means yeah later on down the road uh
should we do a couple of our of our quick rapid fires we can we're 12
minutes over time uh dami killer um
posted on the Forum that ducky is teasing their first Mouse what we don't
have a whole ton of detail about this yet dougy never they're always just like
random photo on Facebook that's their whole thing it's always
ridiculous ducky secret oh dude this will probably be in Taiwan continual
Improvement oh yeah they're definitely showing it at
compex um that's a thing so
yep looks super interesting could a
mouse look that interesting no quality and precision is what matters Luke hey
we put one of the like very few good
sensors in it and some plastic around it
that isn't bad and rron switches EA is apparently teasing Need for Speed
underground three nice so they're going to have to prove that that's a good game
before I yeah someone told me I think Nick told me about this and I was like
yep don't care was a huge fan of the previous ones and I have no confidence
that this will be good but I will pay attention I'm not going to get hyped up
CU there's so many ways that they it's screwed up uh the Logitech G29 is
apparently in the final stages of validation that is allegedly what it
looks like so it's got a whack ton of buttons and seems to be targeted more at
the PlayStation crowd if we're to go by that apparently PlayStation logo that
looks like a PlayStation logo to me and the circle square X triangle that could
be different model thing though could be absolutely could be so and you would
only need two models and they've done PlayStation exclusive wheels in the past
and then you could have like an Xbox SL PC one yeah um Razer uh launched the
Firefly chroma mouse pad so this is
posted by oh and the last one was uh from xtank Slayer X or just tank Slayer
I guess and this one's from a Ming original article here's from Tom's
Hardware um so if the question you were asking yourself was what can we put RGB
LEDs in next the answer is a mouse pad
you know I was really amped about the RGB keyboards and I super don't care
anymore do you care anymore I still have one on my desk and I have it set to I
have it set to kind of a purple color that's very similar to the UV lights in
my case and since then I have not touched any kinds of effects or anything
CU it's kind of distracting it is and I don't care and you know what I'd like my
PBT key cap so much that I just want that and no glow because I never look at
my keyboard anyways I still like the backlight I like the backlight sure
that's fine but I don't know I was super hyped for it too I was like Yay
innovation in keyboards then I was like I actually don't care I just like my
nice key caps so there you go now you can plug your mouse pad in via USB as
well um I'm really glad they didn't put LEDs on the actual surface of the mouse
pad cuz it probably would have wrecked tracking on every mouse ever but I'm sure razor smart enough to not do
something that phenomenally stupid so uh there you go you can have the next
product comes out yeah LED inter
LEDs the woven fibers of the mouse pad
have led elements at either end and you can like make a rainbow you can like
make Yan cat they're in the shap of snakes they Slither across the mouse pad
in a destructive manner
um this is just funny because of his name original articles from polygon this
was posted by Good Bites Nintendo's new VP of sales his name is actually Doug
Bowser yeah in like Photo that they took
of him in his new office or whatever saying like thank you for the warm
welcome there's uh Mario and Luigi tied
up by a GameCube controller in the background on the Shelf as like a joke
yeah so that's uh that's that's pretty funny um and I guess that's pretty much
all there is to say about that thank you guys very much for tuning in the L show
um oh that's kind of cool wounded turtle can return to the ocean thanks to a 3D
printed titanium
beak it's like a future turtle look at
that man wow that's badass yeah it actually looks like a like a Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles like character or
something that's cool someone is going to make a video game bad guy or like
movie character based on this picture mark my words but that's the coolest
looking thing ever people already have like replacement stuff yeah but it'll be like
really based on this like it'll be very close it'll be close okay it's a
prediction that I can't lose on unlike the one about these t-shirts which I can
lose on did I tell them what exactly the wager was no okay I thought you weren't
I'll do that on after party wrecked all right so thanks for watching guys bye
Long show see you next week no I don't think the show was actually long cuz we
started it wasn't crazy long it's like 5
minutes long or something sometimes it's 5 minutes long yeah
sometimes it's not about the length you know what the the girth of
the show the girth of the show is the girth your
bandwidth um I don't know cuz what would like P kind be then your uh how fast you
are repetition no because ping is just
iteration iteration