hello everybody welcome to my house
we are streaming yeah that's not gonna make any sense to
them if they don't uh follow me on twitter uh but if they don't follow me
on twitter they don't deserve to get the references then they don't make any
sense then no that's someone else oh okay yeah okay
i i interviewed florida at the uh at the
samsung developer conference what people in the chat got it oh no
that was nick he doesn't count i also called nick a
bunch of people sorry oh wow that's so what you're
saying he doesn't count and you're going after his weight at the same time
i'm sorry you're an awful awful person i mean you weigh more than him
although you have about like five inches on himself
nick just seen all capitals i am multiple people
i am me and all the people i ate
sorry what what are we talking about someone said luke has his voice back
that was so confusing for a lot of people because we released a video that
i filmed on the second day first right and then other ones later so everyone
was like what is even happening right always confusing always confusing and
it's like that happens when i get when i let my hair get like really long and
then buzz it really short and then it's kind of just
changing for a bit i mean we've we've had ones where my
hair gets cut in the middle of a video yeah like a build guide once actually
yeah that's the best yeah yeah so confusing so we've got a bunch of great
topics for you guys today um
no not really it's gonna be kind of uh we're probably gonna lean on the events
that we were at yeah it's gonna be a little topic light but we'll have fun
because we haven't seen each other in over a week i think
because we've just been like busy flying around
events to like amazing places like san francisco and boston hey man
hey man i got to go to san fran boston's pretty cool i rode a bicycle in san fran
i got lost on a bike i could have rode a bicycle in boston you could have
accepted one of the guys probably doesn't have like a bike share
program no i think they do wait bike what do you mean it's like
it's like car sharing but like it's yeah bike racks but yeah well we don't have
that in vancouver no i know it's just all american cities are just inherently
it's super i saw it too and i was like that's pretty smart
and they're everywhere it's great one of the guys that i was with oh god why why
i was just in it why didn't you stop right when the ranch was turned um one
of the guys that i was hanging out with while i was there yeah donut bacon i
think bacon donut bacon bacon donut um
walked into literally almost walked into stephen hawking
no it was on his phone oh my god and then
mortified stephen hawking's like huge beast bodyguard was like no and stiff
armed him and then he was like uh uh what and looks up and then there's stephen
hawking because they're in boston and like mit and harvard and stuff so it
makes sense he was giving a lecture or something like literally almost walked
in and then proceeds to after being stopped
takes a picture
did he even ask like he's even asked to take a selfie i don't actually know he
probably did i need my keys real quick
i don't know but yeah i hope so like i'm embarrassed for how embarrassed you must
have been for him because that
that is awful i know that is awful like you don't you don't bump into people
you don't bump into famous people this is why this is why you don't bump into
people in wheelchairs you don't bump into respected people you
don't you know so many layers there's there's so many layers of you don't do
that to this and this and this is why people
are trying to make uh looking at your phone while you're walking illegal yeah yeah because people
are going to walk into stephen hawking luckily stephen hawking has an attentive
and large scary bodyguard right so that
worked out it was apparently quite nice but just was like yo
you're actually not no don't do that um so apple just announced his worst
quarter in over a decade
50 million iphones sold uh Intel is on
board the whole replacing the headphone jack
with usb thing really Intel really
womp wob
you usually do two topics oh i for some
reason i forgot that you already did one i thought that was your first one anyways blizzard has finally responded
to fans about the closure of the nostalgia servers and people are both
super stoked and like what but we'll get into why later on spacex
plans to send its dragon spacecraft to mars using the falcon heavy rocket and
that is sick and yeah let's put it you should call it
like the uh are they planning to like enter the atmosphere with it like like
punch punch through the atmosphere with it
wow then why did that take me so long oh
why is it it's like dancing it's like dance party yeah
thank you for watching my show lynda.com
oh no all right what did you do uh screw it screw topics
what did you do what did i do so i i
i got up at 4 00 a.m oh wow today
so it's like when i go to bed i'm already very tired
talking about tired tired more it's because you're thinking
about it yeah yeah um so i was so i was up at uh four in
the morning i got on a plane i worked on the plane um because i didn't want to
waste all the preparation i had done to do work on the plane
and then i um i did a thing that yes i had someone in
my family die so i went there and i did that
um can i help you
okay it's right on there it's dollar shave club not linda
oh okay okay uh nick was in space and uh
anyway so then i um
this place and wancho yeah but before that the
question you were actually asking was i spent the week at the samsung developer
conference so um it all kind of kicked off with a big
keynote uh they announced retail availability coming in a couple days
which it has now been so now as of about 12 hours ago of the gear
360 their new 360 degree vr optimized
camera uh they announced some some stuff that
actually didn't make it into my videos from the show but is really cool um if
you want to see not to give someone a shout out who like super doesn't ever
need shout outs but if you want to see some absolutely pretty good representative gear 360 footage check
out casey neistat's oscar coverage he has stuff where he's like he walks down
the red carpet with it and then he has like watching leo win an oscar from the
stands with it and you can spin the camera around and everything and kind of
see how footage from that would look and sound which is actually something that i
was wondering so he has the gear 360. he was the first person to get one and he
got one like way before anybody right so yeah gear 360 it's finally available for
purchase uh i was hands on with it it's pretty cool
it's not entirely seamless we did manage to crash the demo because we're me
why is that surprising so of course i managed to break the demo um so
basically the way it works is it records to the camera itself the live wi-fi direct feed
is actually really really good
um like it's pretty low latency there's there's it's one of those things where
like yeah it's not perfect but there's pretty much no excuse for not having
gotten the shot so you use your phone as
a live feed and you can like look around and then you actually press record on
either device it records to the camera and then on your phone with an app
you've actually got a like a browser that you can go through and you can kind
of go okay uh you know i want this i want this i want this it converts it transfers over
and uh from there you can either view it just kind of normally or you can view it
with the phone using the motion sensors or you can view it with the samsung gear
vr yeah so there's a lot of different ways to consume it it's
very very cool actually you know if they like probably not this version but if
they released like a ruggedized more industrial kind of version would be
pretty cool would just like from knowing my brother who's a firefighter it'd be
pretty sweet if they could have them on like the top of their helmets right their chief outside could switch between
person right and see what they're seeing that would actually one of them could
radio back and be like chief we've got an obstruction or something and then he
can like see it so it'd be almost like like video game style pretty much yeah
right so he's now like the rts like
master managing his little like firefighter minions exactly that'd be
awesome you have like axe firefighter and hose firefighter you have to like
manage positioning them okay i think i think you're taking it a
little far but uh quite a few years ago i was trying to
develop a firefighting video game sure something along those lines
i'm not even kidding i was anyways and then i was like wow i'm bad at
programming i should not
so other than the gear 360 i mean the the developer conference was really
geared oh
more towards developers so they're they're yeah there there was a lot of
stuff like around their new arctic hardware as well as the uh rg hardware
arctic a-r-t-i-k yeah arctic
um so it's kind of it goes from the arctic one is this more arduino
type thing and the arctic 10 is like capable of machine learning it's got like this gigantic developer board it's
like this big um got a bunch of like wireless modules and like all kinds of
like much much more functionality and people were building things that could
interact with their cloud service that sits behind arctic from
other clouds and then they were putting arctic hardware in devices and
interacting with these other clouds so they had like everything from a water purifier to
uh smart home stuff to uh you know that gebo stupid thing that i backed on
indiegogo they had something actually that looks functionally very similar
to what the jibo team is promising to deliver at some point
just as kind of a tech demo yeah like hey gebo who's george clooney yeah
jeebo's like a dude jackson things uh sorry not jibo i
forgot i forget what they call it but i ended up doing a video about that one yeah probably the highlight of the trip
though for me was uh was that i got to meet real celebrities
like not like fake oh fake youtube
celebrities like you know people who you know perform musical concerts uh so i i
interviewed florida who's coming out with a mobile game welcome to my game
yeah it should oh my god i really hope
that's how it looks i really sincerely doubt
that that is how it will load because that actually wouldn't really make
anyone welcome to my game why not go
racing
i'm done now there's no more that's probably for the best song ends there um
so uh anyway
yeah anyway
i'm sorry so what is the game about what do you do
well okay so i did ask him what's unique about it and he basically said well
fast cars i'm like okay like like the fliest cars
okay so we've got that down the floor no
flies okay yeah fly is like clarification like they're fly oh um and
then the other thing is like he's in it so like he's his music
is involved in the soundtrack okay um
other than that details are very scarce so
i do know that he i do know that he spent some time actually on a track
and then spent some time like i'm sure
he needed to do that with the controls oh yeah i i don't think he was even
pretending i don't think he was pretending he needed to do that okay yeah i don't think that i don't think
that's the thing that happened i think that basically he
wanted to and did it because he's florida yeah um yeah
so that's fair he spent some time with the controls like making sure that they
got everything right he actually says he spent a lot of time like making
sure they had the the feel of the game exactly the way he wanted it so
yeah that's uh that sounds pretty cool i i'm i'm genuinely going to try it
sure i it's called speed gods the title is all
caps bold and italicized and that like i i i double checked to
make sure that it wasn't just that it just like defines the game yeah i
checked to make sure that it wasn't like uh just just uh a logo and it's not like
when they they write it just in text about you know a press release or
whatever it is italicized bolded and
all caps so um that really gets the
point across i think um so then tommy thayer guitarist for kiss of all things
uh he's releasing a children's storytelling app
that he wrote all the music for but not kiss music hopefully yeah
no no no so so so i was talking to him about it he was like yeah this was like
a really different creative challenge for me where we're planning to add it's
kind of like semi-animated okay yeah yeah yeah yeah and then it's got he he
calls them diddies so he wrote little ditties to go along
with the story that he's like yeah i know that could be kind
of cool actually that one i will check out as well that one's coming that doesn't sound like a mirror of every
single other game in its genre yeah but i mean what that said you can't
you can't say like oh this racing game won't be good because there are other
racing no it could be it could be good i just like i know i have a few different
friends that are in like mobile game development and like out of the few
different they all work at different studios well okay two of them are the same one but whatever out of those ones
almost all of them have worked on a racing game for a mobile platform
right it's just a lot of them yeah so many of them suck one of them
was good that's the problem is like i tend to dismiss the entire genre like i
i have the same sort of initial reaction as you
oh it'll probably be terrible and from a purely numbers perspective
it will probably be terrible yeah but maybe it won't if not that's cool i like
the idea and again one of them was okay it was just far
too pay to win they had uh they had some other really cool demos they had a
roller coaster with like like a 4d roller coaster with like moving seats
and stuff with gear vr um which
man it's like it's one of those things where i'm like i know i'm at the samsung
developer conference so i know we really have to wear gear vrs for this but like
boy do i ever wish i was wearing an oculus or a vive yeah yeah cause when i
when you when we hear about like that roller coaster that just installed gear
vrs i'm just like damn it guys like
use something else but it's the seating experiences
there's so much like there's there's so
much of a greater hardware requirement for the other ones like there's so much
more investment whereas like gear vrs you just throw a bunch of phones
in a bunch of like probably samsung gave
them a pretty good deal to implement that because of all the press around
around something like that um yeah
so it just kind of it just kind of is what it is in the cases of of something
like that anyway the demo is cool because i've never actually done uh like
a roller coaster demo with a moving chair it's amazing how close you can get
to like a zero g feel just with a moving chair science
man scientists are cool yeah um and then the last demo but the
right but the latency the latency and the resolution are just the resolution
on those is a little rough yeah considering even with the vive and the
oculus like the resolution you can see it sometimes like it's it's
it's improvement will be good but they're pretty good and then you jump down to a
gears the graphics are pretty rough too like uh playing have you played a space
pirate trainer no oh you don't get to play that you have
to play it yeah it's i saw sign into my account i saw right i saw it on there i
just decided that i was going to spend most of my time in raw data because i knew that you hadn't
right so i thought we could combine experiences yeah yeah space pirate
trainer is a total freaking blast but like the graphics are not that great and
there's like a good and a better slider right now and the better slider which
doesn't look very good is apparently like
980 and up optimized
oh man oh please no um last cool demo
that i did was and these guys these guys they're
i asked them what their company did and they're like yeah so our company
uh sets up like experiential demos
for brands and i was tempted to ask them i didn't end up doing it i kind of wish that i
had i was tempted to ask them so did samsung pay you to be here
or did you volunteer to be here slash pay for a booth here
in order to meet developers i'm actually
not sure who's winning in this situation their demo was really cool so they had
this escape room style thing okay um and
then they were using each of the eight cameras above this very small room like
like less than the total range of an htc vive with the two lighthouses oh wow
okay um each of those eight cameras is worth 3500 macaroons
yeah and then they had these they had like these objects like uh like pieces
of the puzzle very very like tomb raider very like
uncharted yeah style puzzles where you move statues around and do this stuff
the graphics running off of the gear vr on an s7
by far the most impressive demo i saw there because there was another vr game
like a tech demo game that i saw where you like blast bad guys or something a
lot of the problems like you kind of just played the crisis uh rock climbing
game yet no i haven't like there's there's there are vr demos that have
very good graphics the problem is the vast majority of people making vr think
i'm even going to keep saying demos because they're basically all just demos
even the games um like are all tech
dudes trying to get like feasibility across like look
this is what we're able to make not necessarily like oh it's so beautiful
right so that would be nice so the graphics were really impressive um latency was as
good as you can possibly expect because it was running on a gear vr but it was
believable enough with like uh magnets
on some of the objects to kind of get them to click into place like it would
in a game and they had just those little uh ir reflective dots on the object so
that the cameras would know what was what um that you could like solve like a like
a color matching and like move the object to here align
the light beam take the take the golden idol and then the door opens and you run
for it and apparently it was believable enough they actually have had people
slam into the wall forgetting that the door opening in vr is not a
door opening is this a potential
liability issue oh yeah for vr companies
yeah but that's part of the reason why like okay on my on my video that i made
comparing like the the vive and the oculus rift before they
released but with final specs for release yeah like current state of vr
video thing i talked about how amazing the chaperone system is and a whole
bunch of people were like oh it's like not gonna be that great because like
games aren't gonna put it into their game because why would they do that stuff like they don't put it into the
game like you walk up to the wall and there's a blue thing like it's just it's
a warning system they're not going to just like block it anyways um and that's
super helpful because lo and behold in the setup that i have
over there almost walked into a pallet yep and was like oh
well i'm super glad i didn't walk into the palate and rift is going to be
getting a room scale-ish experience once the touch controllers come out right
because it's going to have a second camera it won't be as anywhere near as wide as the vive is
right now but you'll be able to stand up and move around a little bit so it's room scaled
to a certain degree um and that's going to be a little scary there's no
pass-through camera because with the vive you can double tap the thing yes
and see the pass-through which is extremely disorienting yeah this is true
but somewhat functional quite helpful and like if your phone's going off or
something you can double tap it and check your phone without taking the
camera off or the headset off and sitting on the top of your head and getting grease on the lenses all right
so it's actually really nice right you want to not take the headset off once
it's on until you're done right to be completely honest you don't want to like
rest it on top of your head like a lot of people did i send it to you with grease on the lenses i don't think so oh
okay because i tried to be pretty careful no but like i was doing demos for
everybody so between them i was cleaning them and stuff because people would be like that was really cool and i'd be
like
time to clean everything again but uh
yo where was i going with this crap
safety yeah i know yeah so the rift doesn't have that uh which kind of sucks
a lot i'm gonna start divulging into riff versus vive real quick oh okay yeah
well we do have more topics yes um time
warner cable has been purchased uh by charter
communications 78 billion dollars
78 billion i mean is that wow are those even are those even real numbers yeah
yeah like does that is does this even mean anything to anyone
it's official uncle sam says charter can buy time warner cable
they just approved the 78 billion dollar
deal today who's charter
um i have to confess as someone who is
not american and doesn't pay that much attention to huge american mega
corporations i am actually not sure what
all of the companies that that the mega corporation that is charter probably
owns so in a nutshell uh the u.s department
of justice justice approved and fcc chairman tom wheeler spoke in favor of
the deal on monday it does still need to be approved by the
fcc itself tom wheeler supports it but the fcc has
not given official approval there are caveats to the deal charter is not
allowed to impede access to streaming content is not allowed to impose data
caps or charge usage-based prices and is not allowed to charge inter-connection
fees wheeler says that all three seven-year
conditions will help consumers by benefiting online video provider
competition it is unclear though what he means by
seven-year conditions whether that means that they can impose data caps and
impede access after seven years is up or what yeah
um this apparently also covers charters purchase of bright house networks a
cable provider that has most of its market share in florida for 10.4 billion
dollars spectrum or charter spectrum
just seems to be like an isp
they have internet they have phone they have cable tv
just packages i've never heard of these guys
how are they so big that they're buying time warner who i've definitely heard of
multiple times if the
do they not are they not as big of jerks
as the other companies that would be a good thing yeah it looks like the the usual sort of
it seems super normal yeah so like tv internet voice and uh
mobile or something okay i don't i don't know cool it's yeah well good for them i
suppose hope this works out for everyone else involved uh comcast speaking of
american american companies buying expensive things yeah bought out
dreamworks for 3.8 billion
um so their nbc universal division is
actually acquiring the dreamworks animation studio for about 3.8 billion i
mean it's all just you know rounding rounding at that point it's
funny how 10 million dollars could literally just be like an
inconsequential rounding error yeah
this big hold up for a second okay listen to this charter communications is an american
cable telecommunications company which offers their services to consumers and
businesses under the branding of charter spectrum which is exactly what we just
found yeah providing services to 5.9 million customers in 29 states it is the
fourth largest cable operator in the united states by subscribers behind
comcast time warner time warner cable
and cox communications why were they able to buy time warner
i don't know why didn't time warner buy them
um great question and if Colton had put
more detail in the dock that i didn't look at because i was
um at a conference and at a funeral then we would know
but it's a good question yeah i like the way you think thanks
so i don't know this seems so weird anyways sorry
i am actually surprised that something like dreamworks costs as little as 2.8
billion four billion dollars yeah because
like looking at ground like like i hear you i mean we're talking how
to train your dragon franchise trek franchise i'm assuming
that they're owning the ip behind these particular works i mean how to train
your dragon has a netflix series that is going right now as a continuation of the
movies what is dreamworks done recently um
wow i'm glad you asked dreamworks is one of
those like asking so many annoying questions why do they not have the sex
appeal of pixar
okay so for one thing they haven't been quite as consistent
in terms of the uh the what they've delivered like
certain stuff has been great shrek great how to train dragon great
the croods i yeah wow really well received i thought it was awful
kung fu panda though is dreamworks um
but this is interesting i mean i guess i'm sort of overestimating how much
these are worth potentially i mean its feature films have grossed 13.85 billion
worldwide uh this is just according to the wikipedia article so take it with
the grain of wikipedia salt and it's unclear whether or not that includes
licensed products for example but um yeah i don't know i guess i just
i would have thought that that it would be that would be worth
more than that madagascar is also dreamworks it just the reason why i said
that was because what
like how to train their dragon is the last thing that i can think of from them
that was super awesome and the first one of that
is a little old now yeah yeah even the most recent one is
not that recent did you watch the penguins in madagascar movie no again
that's actually oh that's not that new either but it's hard to i mean it's hard for us to know sort of what they have in
the pipeline right now like you know if they have like oh yeah we've
got like a bunch of like crazy awesome product projects going like look at all
this awesome stuff that we've got i just feel like it's been a while and i love
little old animated movies so like i'd see a lot of these things like
i'm a grown dude and frozen was great um but like
it's been a while since i've gone to something and it's been like dreamworks
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um hackers stole 80 million dollars from
a central bank because it had 10 switches and no firewall god so the
original article here is from uk business insider
and uh basically okay okay the op of
this his name is paranoid wallet
that's my fault that's amazing i love that that's the best lineup of like op
name and article that i think i've like ever seen
that's awesome so bangladesh's central bank was
vulnerable to hackers because it did not
have a firewall it used second-hand 10
switches to network computers connected to the swift global payment network
wow these shortcomings made it easier for hackers to break into the system earlier
this year so the head of the forensic training
institute uh said it could be difficult to hack if there was a firewall
the lack of the lack of sophisticated switches and get this this makes it even
worse the lack of sophisticated switches means that it is now after the fact very
difficult for investigators to figure out what the hackers did probably more
or less impossible and where they might have been based because if you don't
have detailed data logging and i mean
based on that they broke in earlier this year it's not like
they broke in yesterday they just transferred a bunch of money
and like now they have broken the connection okay let's check the logs
from yesterday um
not great so swift is the society for worldwide inter-bank
financial telecommunication so
that's yeah apparently part of the blame is falling on them as well i i'm i don't
really know why but i'm assuming that part of the blame is falling on them
because if you're going to allow something like the worldwide inter-bank
financial telecommunication to go
somewhere you should probably make sure that that place is secured at all
i'm assuming that's why the blame is partially how do you i mean how do you
oversee that but how many like
what like i feel like you could to be completely honest
like every single gas pump has a checkup
every once in a while yeah that's true yeah like they should at least have like
someone go by every once in a while hey how's the server room going yeah
everything on fire what do you got set up you might giving us like an inventory
did you literally buy everything on ebay yesterday for ten dollars and is it used
yeah i don't know some amount of at least
oversight at all i mean on the same uh i have more than 2 000 employees at swift
speaking of oversight um the german nuclear
plant infected wow with computer viruses
says an operator apparently this is just like really really rod software really
old malware um
wow can we get some good news for this week
things that shouldn't be connected to the internet so this is 75 miles away
from munich and it's been harboring malware it didn't pose a threat though
apparently because the computer was not hooked up to the internet wow these are
names i haven't heard of before apparently the viruses included
w32.ramnet and conf thicker
i thought it was conflict so it was in a computer that was
retrofitted in 2008 with data visualization software associated with
equipment for moving nuclear fuel rods
uh the malware was also found on 18 removable data drives mainly usb sticks
in the office and rwe says it had increased cyber security measures as a
result excellent okay we have good news
google has patent uh sort of good news okay well google has patented maybe
hopefully means that we're closer to it happening but google has patented smart
lenses that you inject into
your eyes so we covered like this
in i think 2014 and i don't actually think the idea or
the concept has really changed but now it has been patented meaning that
hopefully someone's going to do something with it yeah and hopefully if
they don't they are not butt heads about it
yeah like the people that stocked mineral oil computers to be sold from uh
puget yeah like like them so the device is meant to replace your eye's natural
lens it is injected in a solution that congeals and attaches to your lens
capsule and is mostly meant to correct poor vision it contains a number of tiny
components storage sensors radio battery and an electronic lens and the eyeball
device gets power wirelessly from an energy harvesting antenna
the patent describes what would look like an external device to interface
with the eyeball computer and the tool communicate through a radio and the
interface device contains the actual processor to do the necessary computing
considering it it uh replaces your current lens what happens if it runs out
of battery um that's a great question um
like in the future are emp's just gonna make everyone blind so these lenses are
now a part of verily a division under alphabet okay
i you know what you are you are just the
difficult question person yes today yep
i don't know are you just jerk are you just going through the topics and kind
of going yep i'm not gonna say anything when this comes up until the end and
then i'm gonna just drop a bomb that's unanswerable and then we can just move
on thank you for that apple just announced
its worst quarter in over a decade mostly due to syncing iphone sales which
is not surprising because you have to make something better in order to sell more of them
i know but like by how much um it has 3d
touch okay which is touch but in 3d last time apple
sales fell um year over year was the first quarter
of 2003.
that is fantastic 13 years ago currently more
than two-thirds of apple's revenue is made up of iphone sales which is pretty
intense um the iphone in q1 of 2015 sold
61.2 million and q1 2016 was 51.2
million also known as down by 16 ipad is down by 19
and mac is down by 12 so everything is down by double digits excellent just
yeah and like ipad especially so screw everyone that was like tablets are going
to take over computers no
go away yeah i mean with that said uh Intel is
sort of not super bullish on the pc either part of the issue may just be
that hardware in both categories is getting to the point where it mostly
does what most people want to i can't think of anything i have wanted
to do on a tablet that i can't do on an ipad too
especially because the ipad 2 still is getting software updates
um i mean sure it doesn't have the same
responsiveness when i auto rotate it
it's not thin and the battery life isn't as good as it used to be
but like i'm firing up the netflix because that's
what it turns out we actually don't have this i mean i actually had you you've
met in my old my old boss um
so i remember him explaining to me that oh i do all of my
work on the ipad now like after after he left and he did the whole like startup
thing like he wanted to do a startup and
he was showing me like a presentation and he pulled out an ipad and i was like
uh you don't like have a computer because we worked together at a computer
store you know he's like oh no i do all my work on this now and i'm like okay
okay we'll see how long that lasts yeah this long
this is how long it lasted before everyone remembered that keyboards exist
for a reason and that they're really really really good yes at things like
being a keyboard being a keyboard screens aren't very good at being a
keyboard i especially find like i am getting to the point where
people don't realize i'm on my phone on hangouts
like yeah yeah they don't actually know i can trick people sometimes they check
yeah um especially with swiftkey i like the uh the comment during scrapyard wars
what did you type really fast or whatever i don't remember exactly how he
said it but bob was just commenting on you typing on your phone yeah um but but but part
of it is a well-trained swift key you have to commit like you have to commit
to it because it really does learn over time a well-trained swift key can
compensate for us stop-missing errors um
so between that and having gotten better at it i can type pretty fast on a phone
but there is nothing you can do to type quickly on a tablet
they're just so far apart yeah and like yes there are split keyboards and stuff
it doesn't but the tablet is so heavy it's very fatiguing and if you have it
in your lap
they have a device that's named after sitting in your lap has a keyboard on it
um anyways technically it's not named after
sitting in your lap it's named after being on top of your lab yes
uh so that was originally posted by phoenix arising on the forum
i really don't know
what apple's response to this is going to be this is this is really i mean
i sort of covered this in my iphone se
review they should make vr stuff where i talked a fair bit well they don't even
believe in touch screens on laptops yet are we really going to convince them
that you know a headset that plays i just like yeah i mean
they've been selling computers with unfrankly underpowered graphics for
years yeah my only my only reason for saying that right now is that like while
it's my review is coming soon but um well it's not like really ready
yet that's what's going to be hard to do in the future right for computers for a
little while word processing was hard to do
that was literally a thing and then now like we're getting further and further
and further and now like things just aren't hard to do so why upgrade your
computer honestly even gaming is just not that
hard to do these days yeah because no one's like really pushing the envelope
well that and there's the 10-year console development cycle that it looks
like we're breaking here yeah hopefully yeah looks like we're breaking with the ps4k or psvr or whatever they end up no
i think the actual headset might be called psvr so playstation four and a
half or whatever but vr is very hard to
do you need lots of them frames and you need them really quickly um so
yeah if they do that then hardware gets pushed it feels like such an oversight
that they that they that they didn't
all right you know what i guess it's still very early days there's plenty of time superheroes there's plenty of time
for them to come in and face time oh yeah you know the vr industry i guess
there's probably years before it's no longer early days like
just to be honest so i like it i mean
apple watch um i don't think they've released any actual sales figures on
apple watch in a while but my take on that is that's gotta have
been an unmitigated disaster like anyone i explain it to
where i'm like yeah the screen's off unless you go like this they're like oh
that's stupid like if they're not technology people they're just like oh
why would why would they do that i've been enjoying this thing what is that it's a
fitbit oh yeah the new one it has a
analog style clock i don't even i can read it i just don't
even bother i don't wear it to check the time i wear it for my heart rate it's
usually on this screen where i can see heart rate
right that's what i wear for like i was doing not to talk about vr again but i
was doing the raw data demos and it's a movable combat simulator right right
people like berkel get really into it right and he can't see me but i'm trying
to manage the cable for him so it's literally like i'm basically sparring with burkle because he's like going to
reload and then shoving his gun back out it's like whoa oh my god and like i'm
jumping around him trying not to get hit that's awesome and i'm running at like
130 bpm right it was cool to be able to like while i'm managing the cable like
oh cool all right that's where that's going i don't need to check the timer
all the time um so yeah luke's working uh finally
it's one of those categories that we just really haven't
haven't touched actually is fitness trackers and luke's working on kind of a
fitness tracker accuracy showdown type
of thing for when we go to mexico which is not next week but the week after can you
believe it so i'm trying to figure out and if you guys have opinions on this
let me know because the internet seems to not have a ton of data on it but um the
best like chest strap heart rate sensor
to use as a like good data comparison yeah drop that
in the comments that would be super helpful that would be very very helpful
looking at a polaris one and like a couple other ones but then like you need
special watches that aren't the fitness trackers that anyone's buying in order
to use them and stuff right so uh what
if you know things about that that would be super helpful um but yeah so i i covered a lot of this
in in my in my iphone sc review where i kind of went apple
is not defining categories right now
at all they've tried they they tried to
kind of reinvent the ipad as a as a
device with a pencil i mean stylus i mean something whatever job said they
would never do um they tried to do a watch and it
turned out that their vision for the watch which isn't necessarily the wrong
vision but isn't ready yet uh the hardware's
just not there yet um they seem to have just completely abandoned the mac i
actually screwed something up in my MSI vortex review
where i said the mac pro could have up to 18 cores
i didn't even conceive of
apple not having updated that
for now the current generation the previous one
the previous one three generations of Intel processors
it only goes up to 12 core because it is lga 2011 not lga 2011 3.
i i just i i didn't even i didn't even bother looking it up because i haven't
paid attention to the mac pro since it launched but they're just not even
they're not even trying at all and then it's just kind of like
oh yeah well oh i guess your revenue is down they're still trying on iphone and
we'll see what the se does to this number because it really is a solid
upgrade device for people who are running iphone 5s and they will have to
upgrade when the all 64-bit app store drops
um that'll be interesting anyways uh
nintendo nx to launch in march of 2017
and some people are a little salty uh
because the zelda game which looks amazing and has looked amazing since
what 2014 or something when we first started seeing screenshots of it and was
supposed to release in i believe 2015
i think uh is not launching this year
and will be launching in 2017 probably
with the nx and we'll work on the nx and
we'll also work on the wii u meaning if
it's like probably what i'm expecting it's going to be like you'll get an
awesome experience on the nx and you'll get a hopefully good but not as awesome
so you'll get the twilight twilight princess on the gamecube experience
um which actually is kind of a funny thing
to bring up because while the graphics were much worse on the gamecube for
twilight princess many people argued that the gamecube's
controller was a lot better than the uh
go like this to make link slash uh
controls on the wii that's pretty bad you can plug a gamecube controller into
i actually played the entire game with the wiimote though wow but what i can
tell you is that what happens eventually is you're like
you're chilling on the couch hold on let me just go back a little bit so i can
sort of simulate sort of leaning back on the couch here so you're kind of like
chilling on the couch like this and then the wemo it's kind of in your hand and
you're just like
well there's like okay i'm gonna get a little crude here for a moment but this
is actually like years ago not for a long time i don't know if you can still
find the video but someone made a video about how you can beat every game on wii
so this is like not even wii u days is a very old youtube video but you can beat
every game on wii by doing like a male masturbation motion
you just take the we stick and just
and you just win everything really and like he had a montage video
beating like a whole bunch of games okay it wasn't like yeah probably not
and like do you play smash like that isn't it a sideways control game
i don't think you play oh you're right yeah no there's no motion so like movement game okay okay okay okay
movement game like he showed a montage of a lot of games and him beating it
that way and it was pretty funny what was that even intentional
what a montage of games and him beating it that way oh god
that was not intentional it was great
uh so that was posted by sinster on the forum uh next one
ugh this is posted by alexp10v2
original article here is from the verge apparently Intel is
is gonna get behind this whole
no headphone jack thing we're gonna do audio over usb type
c what the crap guys
i don't get it unless they want to have two of them
that's what bugs me a bit because like there's
huge points in time where i would want to have headphones plugged in and a
charger and i don't think battery bank companies
are going to start adding like headphone jacks to their battery banks no and i
have a lot of other concerns here too like for example
in theory this is great
because usb type c has amazing data rates uh power delivery up
to 100 watts or 95 watts or what whatever it is
um power things much better yeah you could even get things like thermal temperatures out of it and stuff yeah
absolutely yeah you could you could do microphones on you could do microphones
much more universally for example so you
could actually have your headphone have software in it so that it would work
properly with volume control uh track
skipping on apple or on Android and and
you could you could do way more than just that like you could have like sick
lights on your in-ears like there's a lot of cool stuff to be said
i'm not saying it isn't cool yeah about usb audio
however the issue is that unless
it's implemented well it's going to be a real drag because
and and to be clear i i don't know
exactly what the plan is here
if we can utilize the type c port to
just pass through a signal from a dac and amp
in the device or an external device for people who want like a high-end amp and
dac to the headphones or the in-ears
passively then great but if we are relying then
on the headphones to have their own amplifier and digital analog converter
we are either dramatically increasing the cost of anything decent
or expensive yeah or we are
ending up with possibly and on the dac side i'm not
necessarily sold on needing a super fancy dac it's been it's been
demonstrated pretty conclusively by tom's hardware that
like even a super basic on-board sound
computer dac with the decent amplification is as good as
pretty much anything um but i'm not that sold on the dax side but on the amp side
of things we're probably going to end up with amps that are not that great and
we're also going to end up buying a new dac and amp every time we buy a new pair
of headphones it just adds cost in a way and complexity in a way that i
don't think they're trying to do it for thickness
i don't know
because headphone jack has been something they've been complaining about in terms of thickness which makes me
super sad because if they're doing all this for thickness like wow you're going
the wrong direction i mean i have other issues with the headphone jack it's also
not particularly robust
but it's so compatible like it can be adapted to the quarter
inch jack it can be used on anything from like an av receiver from 20 years
ago all the way up
to your car with an auxiliary input like it's just
as long as and like i don't even uh i don't even
want to say like a usb
type-c to three and a half millimeter adapter is good enough
but if
it goes ubiquitous like if by the time my kid has a phone there's a type c jack
on literally everything that handles these
duties that can also
work with outboard amps and dax and the entire ecosystem like catches up slash
overtakes the older analog solution
then maybe
but i i like i'm gonna have a hard time saying goodbye to older headphones that
i mean if as long as i can get like a module like a module or a usbc consortium or
whatever it's called um
yeah i just i don't really know i don't really know what to say about
this i'm not a huge fan i it feels like something that is
sort of unnecessary but i see why they're doing it because in addition to
any thickness concerns with the three and a half millimeter jack
there are also complexity concerns with putting the
amps and the dax inside the device as we continue to try and make it smaller and
consume less power yeah so if you can have a battery powered
optionally battery powered or also powered off the device external thing i
don't really want to power stuff off my phone like
i don't i want more battery in my phone
i don't want to take stuff from it and i've heard arguments that i forget what
it is exactly about um sennheiser's
orpheus 2 or whatever they call their new 50 000
headphone uh but they actually do have some amplification if i recall correctly
in the headphones because having it closer to the driver was able to
maintain better signal integrity and stuff and stuff
it's just i'm not sold on that approach making as much sense for a pair of
plastic headphones from the apple store that's brightly colored
as it does for the green yeah a 50 000 product where that that difference in
signal integrity is still probably pretty hard to pick up on yeah
um so they're promoting uh so here's here's
in a nutshell um what's on like a fundamental goal slide
um remove the three and a half millimeter audio jack from sources
um so analog audio okay this is actually a little bit more details this page
wasn't loading before analog audio is basically a connector replacement and
then they want to promote the move from analog to digital so
volume and shrinking transistors will reduce the cost over time user c and
value improved digital headset features
do you value digital headset features
no ok
the only one that i can really even think of
is surround don't care which i do not use yep me
neither so
yeah yeah also there is no reason why you couldn't
do that processing on the device because two speakers is still two speakers so
whether you're gonna do your surround processing
in the headphones or whether you're gonna do it on the device actually just really doesn't make much of a difference
it's just where you do that digital processing because you're still
you still have to go to analog at some point if you want to make sound
um all right sorry i'm just trying to deal with
something yeah that's fine a lot of this stuff is um
i can talk about australia's while i do this because i don't need to read anything yeah sure so this was
originally posted on the forum by no one um
but we've got the original article here on battle.net let's go ahead and pull
that up it is a sticky and it is a pretty popular sticky if you
know what i mean so basically this is the first time
since uh blizzard pulled down australius that
they're actually responding we should probably explain what australia says
it's a vanilla wow server that was community supported effectively a pirate
server but they were offering a gameplay experience that blizzard was not willing
or not necessarily able to offer yeah and
they were not doing it for commercial gain which doesn't mean that you can
just no take someone's ip so just in case you didn't see our
coverage last week it's two weeks ago
vanilla wow is essentially a nickname of sorts for the original
version of world of warcraft which has been essentially completely obliterated
on the current retail version of world of warcraft in order to make room for
their new stuff which kind of makes sense but uh if you look at their
subscriber numbers it kind of backs up the idea that their new stuff sucks so
people want to play their old stuff and a lot of people did want to actually
play it so they went on this free server which is a pirate server which is
kind of stealing blizzard's ip which is kind of sort of totally completely not
okay so blizzard takes it down and they don't say anything until more
or less now this post goes up um
nostalrius uh responded to this post
saying that yes in fact like it says in this post they have talked to us even to
the point of saying that they are apparently going to blizzard hq and
we'll have an update this weekend so it does actually sound like something might
legitimately be happening which is good um so a lot of people are kind of stoked
about that hope that kind of like honestly it sounds like they might
actually be releasing their own servers which from the nostalrius crew and from
everyone that i know including myself that played on nostalrius is what we
want we super just want blizzard to do it
because that would be so much better because one they get to be greedy and
take all of our money which is great take the money for the thing that you made blizzard that's awesome no one is
trying to make it so you can't take the money for the thing that you built that
is fair um but it's it's good to have
like a proper company running these things so that you know the next time you log in it's going to be there
because exactly that happened tried to log in and it wasn't there it
was that um so the the maybe not so
great part of this whole letter was when they went like yeah but we've been
thinking about this other thing called pristine servers what pristine servers
are is it's the current version of world of warcraft exactly like it is now
except no experience scaling no like
realm transfers and no buying on account gear and like a few other things so like
you get to play the new shitty game but with like maybe slightly less
i was trying not to swear wow it didn't work nope i went the whole
stream until right there so in other news spacex plans to send
its dragon spacecraft to mars using the
falcon heavy rocket because they are just so good at names that sounds
so awesome the falcon heavy rocket the
they believe that this mission can provide key data to spacex as the
company develops an overall plan to send humans to mars basically they want to
just do it so they can kind of see what complications and whatnot they may have
which is cool that makes sense freaking awesome how should we learn how to do
the thing well maybe if we do the thing let's just
spend all the money yeah and do all the things and then we'll know what things
about those things don't work at the same time though this can be definitely
seen as an investment because they just won a military contract for massive
amounts of money to put a satellite in space this is the first time in like a
huge period of time that like boeing and whoever else didn't get that contract
right so by showing that they're awesome they're getting these really good contracts from nasa and the military um
and if they're like look we're already working on mars and we have all the
really good data for getting to mars you should probably work with us if you want
to get there or if you want to go further than that or further than orbit
then that could win them more contracts in the future so there are some challenges um the atmosphere on mars is
so thin that it provides little braking capacity so they plan to use an upgraded
spacecraft a dragon 2 if you will powered by eight super draco engines
using propulsion more details to be unveiled at the international
astronautical conference from september 26 to september 30th i want to go to
that just to say i went by the way where were you this weekend
the international astronautical conference this is their propulsive
hover test so insane
oh ah
ah
that's amazing oh man
oh man oh
okay anyway i'll just i'll just stop now in fact
i'm just gonna i'm gonna call the whole thing now okay that's fair thank you
guys very much for tuning in to the WAN Show we will see you again next week
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