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we'll be live in checked the time it was 3:30 and I was like about an hour I
could have said exactly 1 hour you could have I was like no that would have been
a crazy thing for you to do yeah yeah
you're you're a crazy you're a crazy kind of guy we know all about this sorry
what are we talking about right it's time for the show so let's kick things off with some fun
uh oh right no we'll kick things off with what we're going to talk about today yes right thank you um so I wanted
to talk about your haircut I think you look very nice didn't you also get a
haircut I did I'm fishing for compliments ah I see I think yours is
wonderful thank you Yes mine cost 0 oh
that's nice yeah mine didn't my wife did it if I want a $ Z haircut my dad will
grab the shaver put it on the minimum setting and just go does he have to put
it on the minimum setting well it's an
option I mean it doesn't take that much longer have uh dog clippers that's what
we probably excellent quality Clippers oh they're great yeah and like well
taken care of and all that kind of stuff yeah yeah and also used for my hair
sometimes and also used for your hair sometimes I mean I mean dog hair is perfectly safe people are talking about
Dollar Shave Club no no no no Dollar Shave Club is for the
face no if you were bald yeah yes okay
you could use both their shaving cream and their Shavers if you funny story
Dollar Shave Club is not one of our sponsors today but this is just an
anecdote um when I was researching Dollar Shave Club to find out whether we
should take them on as a sponsor there was actually one review on YouTube in
particular of a dude who didn't get provided Dollar Shave Club raisers but
just signed up for it and did a review that had like 70,000 views and he was he
was bald and so I think people who shave their heads as well with their razors
are going to be way better people to talk to about the longevity of the blade
so he's like yeah it lasts longer than quality too though cuz you have such a
bigger Zone where you can potentially cut yourself and shaving your face is
actually relatively easy cuz you can see what you're doing yeah the back of your
head and stuff is not going to be easy he's just like yeah these are good and I'm like okay then I guess they're
sponsor um so where was I right Sony
pirated movie oh no they didn't
pirate Sony pirated the interview no
hold on back up Sony pirated music in the interview that is to say they used
it without permission more on that later
Hollywood says well Hollywood is a place
but they can't really say anything but in general um content producers from
Hollywood Google Fiber leads to more
pirating we'll get into that later what else are we going to get into Google
steps up and says that if the internet is made a title to service that they
will jump on board and distribute fiber as much as they can because they will
have poll access awesome more on that later and kim.com is to release a chat
client for your web browser which is totally encrypted and he's taking shots
at basically everybody but mainly Skype from Microsoft saying that they are just
terrible ways to communicate with people speaking of terrible ways to communicate
with people the
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number all right so this was posted by
Victorious secret on the Forum I'm going to go ahead and copy the link here fire
this over to you guys um original article here is from torrent freak it's
okay I I got this i got this all right so actually yes no let's switch over to
you doing that so here you go guys Sony
about to get sued for pirating music in
the interview the famous movie or inFAMOUS movie whatever this movie is
that I still haven't seen probably won't see but I haven't seen it either I
commend Sony for releasing it y except
that they should have probably sorted out their licensing deal with uh what's
her name Yuni Ray also known as Natasha
Shanta Reed a us-born hipop and R&B
singer whose song they used uh it's called payday without her permission
they were negotiating to use the song and then the negotiations fell apart and
then then they just used it they it was
assumed that Sony had moved on and picked a different song that was not the
case they just decided to use the same one should we jump right into Hollywood
talking about piracy because that just makes sense yeah yeah so but so her
agency Feelgood music I can't like
really best name feel good music it's not even spelled right it's like Media
Group g h o o d feel good good feel good
well maybe the person that started this company maybe their last name was
good it's like name of your company lest Media Group it's not quite the same you
just put your name in it okay it's like um it's but your first name cuz you're
just that kind of a person enough your C at least I don't
have to carry around business cards that have someone else's name
the most awkward part is when someone will be like what's your boss's email
I'm like um lus at BL like okay that's
that's oh no so Natasha's agency has
said that they will be taking legal action against Sony picturers the
damages that they're seeking I don't have them in my notes here but I found
some rumored damages that they're seeking and they're just like just pants
on head ridiculous like nothing to do with reality well I'm wondering if part
of the damage part is that they didn't want to be associated with the movie ooh
then they could be big yes I think that's going to be a huge part of this
whole negotiation is that they they could claim that they didn't want to be
a part of the movie because of all the verifications that tied to it and even
though these negotiations were probably going on before all of that yeah
definitely still be able to claim all of it at the same time what a disaster
because it would be super easy for them to be like well we saw this coming
didn't want to be a part of it so more news from from torrent freak i' I've got
it I've got the post oh you were already ready with it weren't you uh yeah well
whatever it's there um so more news from torrent
freak Hollywood Google Fiber increases
piracy or pirating or whatever it's
posted by aing on the Forum leads to more piracy let's go ahead and fire this
up movie studios fear a Google Fiber
piracy search now so here do you want to go through the the point on this and
we'll disc they ped about 2,000 people ages between 13 and 54 about their
piracy habits and media and whatnot uh
more than half were interested in Google Fiber including a large group of the
Pirates within that group y so apparently 2,000 people is a good enough
number of people poll um I'm not even
okay we can attack them about lots of stuff here let's not attack them about
their sample size I mean 2,000 people is
it's a sample size it's not huge it's not huge and the problem is with
that number it it gets to like it's only
Kansas City mhm right but it's Kansas
City because they wanted to pull people
prior to the Google Google Fiber roll out then pull them again after Google
Fiber had been rolled out so I I get it I get it yeah no that makes sense okay
like let's attack them for other things so do you want to run through the rest of it first uh I don't think there's a
ton else to be completely honest okay so the research tries to
estimate how much money they're going to lose due to Google Fiber and whatnot but
I think the general idea is more just having faster internet will cause more
piracy that's what they're trying to prove and um yeah so the study finds a
link between between piracy and Broadband speeds I think sorry I I think
is probably Common Sense yeah it's probably completely valid I mean the
thing is that okay here's what this comes down to we've been through this on
show before we agree that we agree that not paying for things is bad but the
problem the issue is that accessing things by paying them is often less
convenient than pirating them and I think the whole the whole BS that's been
going on between Netflix and the US isps
for example is a great is a great example of this where your Netflix
stream is going to be either not working
correctly with buffering all the time or even just degraded enough that you get
blockiness and choppiness in your video playback so it's not an excellent
experience so you kind of go okay well crap I guess I'll just download it and
watch it at my leisure then even though this is something that I should be able
to stream to myself so the issue here is
that the isps often with very tight ties
to broadcast companies like NBC for
example is owned by crap I'm going to completely Fall Apart here it's Comcast
right I'm not sure yeah Comcast owns NBC and so there's there's a lot of
relationships like that so there is so
this basically is how we discover why
the isps are not upgrading their networks because they don't want your
internet connection to be good it's not even a matter of like the Fiers is
expensive they straight up don't want your internet connection to be good
because then you'll pirate and or even
watch competing services like Netflix instead of watching on your television
where they can throw ads at you every you know 8 minutes in between your
programming distribution is the problem and when when it when it comes down to
the question of I I've even had friends who have been in situations where
they'll properly buy something but then it's broken or some some process is
messed up or because of some DRM or some
other reason they can't even access their freaking game or it makes it
incredibly hard to play and it has become easier for them to just download
the pirated version and run that one even if they've actually paid for it
it's easier to just run the pirated copy and especially when you get stuff like
Google Fiber which will make that downloading process extremely easy um it
makes that more likely distribution is and basically has always been the
problem so there you go so Hollywood's afraid that Google Fiber leads to more
piracy but the way that I see it is holding back the infrastructure is not
the solution to this the solution to this is to make the content accessible
in the way that people actually want to access it and why can't I like properly
get HBO without a cable connection in
Canada yeah HBO is slowly coming around
on that HBO GO or whatever but it's not in Canada yeah I remember reading about
this they're they're finally turning it around but it's starting us only and the
thing is is like Game of Thrones
guys so pirate very very illegal much
distribute torrent like it's I I don't
remember the guy's name right now um John Oliver I think I really like his
show I watch the YouTube highlights all the time I don't have any way to
actually watch it properly I haven't pirated or anything but I've just been
living off the YouTube thing and I would I would love to sign up for HBO GO just
be able to watch John Oliver's Show right but I can't because it's not in
well can't because it's not in Canada so yeah I guess basically yes
Hollywood um Google Fiber will lead to more piracy I mean there's no doubt that
pirates are going to be some of the main guys and gals who are interested in
massive fatpipe internet connections duh
also another thing is people that are interested in big new kind of bleeding
edge powerful services are going to want to do a lot with those things y um and
like selling someone you know a DVD that
has an online license to watch on two
devices or or whatever like remember that whole Goofy thing where they were
doing digital copies and DVDs maybe they still do I haven't bought a DVD I don't
know I own one Blu-ray I don't own any
and actually I think I only own like two
two DVD two video DVDs one is the first season of an awesome show called made in
Canada yeah and the second is actually here at the office I I own a DVD copy of
The Princess Bride special edition I have uh oceans I have the ocean series
those are kind of good and I think that's it my my only I don't know where
they are I was just thinking I I was thinking how do I not own any Star Wars
DVDs and it's because my only copies of Star Wars or VHS VHS yeah I have the VHS
of the original 3 all right more Google
and more Google Fiber discussion so this is an article from end gadget.com I'm
just going to fire it up here so Google tells the FCC
look if those other guys are going to
drag ass and not b to roll out their
fiber upgrades you know if you declare
internet to be a title to utility then fine we'll expand it we'll do it because
the problem is right now anywhere where Google wants to roll out fiber they have
to dig their own trenches in order to get it to the buildings where they need
to get it to if they had access to the underground conduits and to the
telephone polls then they would be able to roll it out for what was the article
figuring something I think a tenth of the cost digging trenches crazy
expensive so Google has already managed to make it somewhat economical at 10
times the cost of what they think it would cost them if it turns into a title
2 utility if it gets reclassified and they can just roll out fiber wherever
holy crap that would be awesome and
honestly if I'm if I'm AT&T right now do I just do I just kind of go okay crap I
guess we better just get on this okay I guess the you know 60 $70 a month that
we're getting from our subscribers is pretty good maybe we should maybe we
should try to retain those customers while we still have a freaking chance so
I don't know if it's the overall cost it says the the access to PS uh ducks and
conduits at a tenth of the cost is limited by federal law so it's probably
not the overall cost it's probably those aspects individually but that's hu still
a huge savings massive massive savings and if they're if they're able to go
through these pre-done setup things it's
it's going to not only be cheaper but way faster too the the amount that they
are going to be able to spread out is going to be insane and that's awesome and this isn't just Google this is just
the Extremely Loud voice of Google there's also smaller other companies
that would now be able to have access to these polls and be able to set up like
those those like small fiber companies that you hear about just in like
downtown areas of some cities like downtown Vancouver there's one called
novice that I would love to have access to Dirt Cheap Wicked f fiber but I
happen to live in the wrong neighborhood yeah and like they'll only go to like
some Office Buildings essentially and that's like it because moving it around
is so expensive but if you make it much cheaper for them they're going to be
able to spread out those little awesome companies like Novis I don't know pretty
awesome actually very cool yeah so uh
this is actually kind of a fun article so Verizon famously said that if the FCC
heeds President Obama's urging and declares the internet a title to utility
it would cause great harm to an open internet competition and Innovation but
that not is the stupidest thing I have
ever heard like so stupid so stupid I
mean the the the economics of providing
internet service to customers and getting monthly subscription fees is
already proven this is already established and it's not like rolling
out the previous infrastructure that they did wasn't expensive at the time
and didn't make sense based on the subscription costs that were present at
the time like this is this is an established business that works so well
that these companies can you know develop new new content programming and
they can you know name stadiums and and
co-build them and so obviously it's it's perfectly functional um and so yeah if
if they're not willing to do it then
great great I would I would love love to start lonus Media Group ISP that would
be awesome I I'd love for just a whole bunch of startups to pop up that'd be
great um former FCC chair read Hut hunt
hunt hunt I hope I'm saying that right hu n DT told uh the Washington Street
Journal that if title 2 gives Google poll access then it might really rock
the world with Broadband dang I want my world to get
rocked I wish this was happening in Canada I really do as well speaking of
which Ting come to freaking Canada yeah really that's another that's an example
of the kinds of small time isps that would actually be able to reach a much
much wider customer base yeah for sure all right so is is that it for the
Google show for today I think that's all we need to talk about with Google we
might take a little short break here I just want to bring up that the new
office campaign has ended right it's over I thank you very much for your
contributions didn't update the total yet oh I just realized so we can't even
I I just fired it up so I could so I could show people that I think we might
uh here did did we hit the um LT land
hoodie goal give me a second are you checking pay
seriously what what wow apparently why
do they own that apparently PayPal owns pay.com that's so
awesome cuz that's not even a title that's just like the L and the Y are
like here and like here that's just
completely not knowing what pay's called that's so awesome uhoh you're terrible
it works though that's so cool you're basically a bad guy okay so we need to
add a number to this which is going to make this more complicated we have to we
have to do what now we have to add a number what uh
2400 uh don't worry we we figured it out
after a while well whatever I just want to take a moment to thank everyone who
was involved in the new office campaign um you know we had a lot of people
criticize us over reaching out to the community to help us fund the new office
um and to those people all I really have to say is then don't contribute um we
had a lot of people who really did want to help us get a larger more comfortable
working space so we could continue to refine our craft and make great content
for you guys and to those ones I say thank you to the people who are upset
about it um sorry
the ultimate Canadian response to everything okay so the final number we
raised $ 38,1 1258 cents I really don't know how we
ended up with 18 cents oh right cuz contributions are in us and the total
number here is in Canadian and PayPal fees and PayPal fees right a couple
couple things so um so yeah thank you so much that is going to contribute an
enormous chunk of the renovations that we're looking to do at our new place
things like building up new sets um putting in the office spaces we need
storage racks for Loop to put video cards and stuff in security sort of
doors over all that valuable stuff all
that good stuff fantastic so thank you guys so much for for helping us with
that yes and another thing that I want to call out is that U or the lp starson
organization is going to be having our battle Extravaganza thing starting on
the 16th of January so there's a forum topic dedicated to that UL 2015 stars as
in battle start uh 16th of January there's going to be a
meeting of how we want to rank people and there's going to be like winners and
we're going to do some swarm battles and stuff so can I have the rank of Supreme
Overlord show up and then maybe so we'll
see I'm I'm going to be fighting and I'm going to be joining in so hopefully
everyone kind of rejoins I know the the the start has been kind of slow it's
because there's nothing for us to do so yeah I got to fix my joti I got to buy a
joystick I want to get like a pretty nice thing and I'm thinking I might just
I okay I probably yeah probably okay I
might just I might just steal some things from the office cuz I kind of
want a separate like battle station for you need I want Aur I want a curved
monitor cuz I'm not using a curved monitor on my gaming rig right now and
it's not like it's not like Star Citizen is going to run at 144 FPS anyway so
curve Monitor and then like a sweet like
Joy stack joy joy stack joyti
Joy I know what they're called No I'm just laughing cuz like there's the
there's the connotations of joystick but then Joy stack is just even better what
would a joy stack be an Oreo
perhaps all right moving on sorry can't do this now our source for this next
article isn't necessarily the most um
reputable but fudzilla decom says Intel
could save apples B and actually the implications of this
news that hasn't really been hasn't really been verified too hard yet but if
it's true is a huge deal the implications of this are enormous not
just for Intel and apple but potentially for the entire industry did you post
this already I did okay so basically fudzilla decom also someone just
purchased joy.com oh or said they did I don't know
that's awful sorry okay so basically um the
rumor is that Samsung and tsmc are both
failing to produce 16 nanometer finfet
chips for Apple it's not that they don't
have the the Fabs kind of up and running
the problem right now is that they're not getting strong enough yields on
their 16 nanometer products in order to meet the demand or to make the cost make
sense because that's the way this whole thing works there's no such thing as a
wafer with 100% of the chips on it being
usable that's not how it works you produce the wafer you get all the chips
you cut them up you test them and then the ones that work work the ones that
don't work don't work and the ones that kind of work well those are going to be
your your Pentium dual cores and your core I 3s whereas the fully functional
chips are going to be your core i 5S and core i7s um so that's that's the way all
this works there's lots of different ways for a chip to not work sometimes it
could be fully functional but maybe it's operating well outside the power
requirements of the product that you're trying to build with it so this this
could be pretty disas okay so basically Apple the word on the street is that
they're looking to move to 16 nanometer with their new processor so they wanted
to be on a Cutting Edge manufacturing process in order to be competitive in
terms of power consumption performance
and well really power consumption and performance are going to be are going to
be the big ones um with the best that anyone in the world can produce So Right
Now Intel is ahead of everyone else I believe they're on 14 nanometer at the
moment yeah so Intel's on 14 nmet right now and they've already begun
construction on their 10 nanometer Fab
that should be going online crap I want to say sometime in
2017 oh yeah is is that correct it's
it's I know it was like about two years from now so 2017 sounds about right but
like I wouldn't be surprised if it was late 2017 okay no Intel said Intel to
ship chips in 2015 and they figure 7 nanometer chips in 2017 so there that
just blew my mind so much when we first covered it that I forgot well because 14
nanometer uh 14 nanometer was delayed it
was only delayed I think six or8 months or something like that on Intel side but
it was delayed and then I think the plan on Intel's side was not to slow down
development of 10 nanm so 14 nanm would just have a slower life cycle Now Intel
had trouble with 14 NM so it shouldn't be surprising us too much and the and
Intel had a big Advantage there too because they were already doing finfet
on the previous manufacturing node so
Samsung and tsmc to my knowledge are
tried to go finfet and 16 NM at the same
time so it is no surprise that they're having problems with them and basically
the word on the street like I said is that the Apple simply will not be able
to get chips from them for their upcoming produ so apple is allegedly in
talks with Intel to have Intel start producing chips for Apple this is huge
because someone like a qualcom so you know how like every smartphone has a
qualcom proc processor in it right now every high performance smartphone
Qualcomm does not own manufacturing no
so they rely on guys like Global foundaries Samsung and tsmc to actually
manufacture chips for them now qualcomm's design might be very power
efficient and very high performance and very optimized for mobile applications
whereas Intel has all that Legacy
x86 stuff to bring with them that really
hurts the efficiency of their chips in very very low energy devices like
tablets and phones that's improved a lot in the last couple of generations with
optimizations on Intel sides and will continue to improve as Intel forges
ahead with smaller and smaller manufactur processes but now imagine
this cuz Intel for a long time enjoyed
being a full process node ahead of the entire rest of the industry and it
looked like at 14/16 nanometer they were
going to catch up and all of a sudden Intel wasn't going to be able to be
slightly less efficient with x86 and
just be at a lower process node so they could compete with everyone else who
stuck on a last gen manufacturing process well now it looks like Intel
could jump as far as two two nodes ahead
of everyone which means which I mean that could be the solution I mean that's
that's it's funny because they keep they keep doing this it's just like we will
Brute Force having the best Manufacturing in the world and then if
the design isn't quite as efficient then bollocks to that who cares so we'll be
able to save cost with much smaller dieses or we'll be able to save design
and we'll be able to have something that's not quite as efficient as long as we have the best Manufacturing in the
world if they end up two nodes ahead your phone in 2016 or 2017 could have an
Intel processor in it because there's just no one else who's even in the game
it's it's interesting how how companies like Qualcomm now okay I'm going to say
this and please take it with a grain of salt may not have been that big and then
just exploded and then Intel's like no
mine go away and I mean you got to
imagine that someone like Intel isn't going to be giving their most
competitive contract manufacturing rates to someone like Qualcomm if they see an
opportunity for themselves to jump in and dominate the mobile market I mean
someone like apple I think Intel is going to be it's going to be
advantageous for Intel to work with them but if they lock up a contract like
apple well that's a huge chunk of the
business that existed for other companies until an apple have displayed that they're both willing to do that
before yeah oh yeah I mean it's not like apple doesn't use Intel chips as big
grudge ly as that seems to be happening in their notebooks and their desktop and
their desktop computers but and partnering with them on other Technologies and stuff yeah things like
Thunderbolt it's not like they haven't worked together this is uh if true yeah
I was just going to say that I was just sitting up to bring that up if true I
mean you look at how quickly qualcom took over yeah it happened that's what I
mean though like pretty much overnight necessarily mean small but comparative
to what they're at now this is a very very fast moving New Market segment
Intel could take over that quickly again because as a smartphone maker so your
HTC's and your motorolas and Samsungs
you do not risk having them having the
device that is less powerful and less
power efficient for crappier battery life you do not risk that if you can buy
this processor that allows you to skimp on battery here and you know skimp on
you know what or or have like a a brighter display in order to make the
best use possible of the power that you have available you are going to get
whatever chip is the best and you're going to validate it like crazy because
you cannot afford to develop a smartphone and have it have a crappy
processor in it that nobody wants that's bad so wow and even like general public
is starting to get quite um really Savvy
yeah especially about phones like like I'll over hear people talking and like
maybe it's not the most accurate stuff ever they'll be like oh yeah it comes
with the Qualcomm y I'm like okay well or it has a Snapdragon quad core yeah
yeah they're they're starting they're starting it's it's and if Intel if Intel
goes Intel inside and like and manages
to F and I mean okay so here imagine imagine this imagine around the same
time Microsoft gets Windows Phone cleaned
up that would be so interesting I would
love for Windows phone to not suck would love for Windows phone to not suck to I
took so I took so much Flack from Windows phone die hards for my HTC1 M8
Windows Edition review where I basically said it was a phone for no one was what
I said and I think people some of them were did understand me and were upset
anyway but I think a lot of people didn't really understand me because I
didn't mean that Windows phone is for no one and I didn't mean that the 1 M8 is
for no one I meant that the combination is for no one because Windows phone has
a place a basic user like my mom there is no reason why she couldn't enjoy a
Windows phone as much as any other phone my uncle has had one and really liked it
and the 1 M8 is a great phone but the problem is that the 1 M8 is a flagship
class 600 plus doll device and if I'm buying $600 smartphones then I also
expect to be using some web services have some other you know connected um
smart devices I would expect to want to be able to um actually I guess that's
yeah that's pretty much it I would want to have more super user kind of stuff
yeah so companion apps for the other stuff that's part of my complete digital
lifestyle ecosystem if I'm buying complete like high-end smartphones then
I expect that I want to use the capabilities of it other than that it's
just this super high performance device that has very limited functionality
compared to an iPhone or an Android device that's that's all I really meant
by that yep and I totally stand by it because well I don't care about apps
well then why do you need a high-end phone if you're not if you're running
your address book then who cares yeah there's way
better options on the Windows phone and on the Android side of things and like I
I know it's not really ready yet but I like the Cortana idea more than most of
the I'm I'm really into voice activation stuff I like the Cortana idea much more
than the other things now Google Now isn't exactly that amazing either but I
I think it might work better right now
all right so apple offers a twoe window for iTunes refunds in Europe that's cool
so this was posted by giving TNT on the Forum I'm just going to go ahead and
pull up the article from kit guru.net now if it's say like a movie or a book
or something like that and you open it they reserve the right to
not uh honor your return which I
honestly think is fine because uh you
don't want that that situation where like someone goes to the store to return
their jug of milk with five drops left in the jug of milk being like actually I
didn't like it at Costco you could probably return that jug of milk
probably um but like if someone watches an entire movie and then tries to get a
full refund nah um I'm hoping they have
some sort of like amount of time it was open tracking or that would be great cuz
it's the same thing at a theater I think if you sit through the first x amount they're not going to give you a refund
for the ticket but if pry quickly yeah and like that's that's cool actually I
like that I think it's nice that they have
the refund thing especially for people that might be
sharing uh sharing a phone with their kid might not be the right terminology
but like letting their kid use say like a tablet or something and they
accidentally go to the store and they're just like bye bye bye bye bye bye bye
bye bye hopefully you can return all that junk yeah I mean right now I'm
particularly I I'm I'm kind of waiting for valve to get their crap together and
you know be the be the well not even the one because EA is already doing it on
Origin but raise the bar for digital
refunds because there is no reason a digital product shouldn't be refundable
in the same way that a physical one more so than a physical one much more so than
a physical one yeah and like even just have like and make it so you can have
the overlay on or off and make the default off so it doesn't bother anyone
who cares but like have a timer like amount of time you're allowed to be in
playing a game and like maybe you get like 15
minutes or something and you get to play the game for 15 minutes and then if you
pass the 15-minute threshold no longer a return and there could be this like
little kind of like the fraps FPS counter just sitting in the top right
hand corner as a timer or I don't know
or not but I like that idea I think that' be cool um you're taking an
extremely long time to create this pole I have a I have a straw pole that
actually s it it's kind of related it's kind of related to the conversation
we're having about if you if you like if you've half watched a movie then should
you have the right to refund it now it got me thinking about food if there's if
there's a hair in your food okay you've got a few options most places that I'm
aware of will offer you a replacement a
replacement of the same item Grace that's kind of the industry standard if
they're sort of if they're A Cut Above then they'll bring you the replacement
and they'll wipe the item off of your bill or or like sometimes they'll bring
you the replacement and they give you free dessert something yep or something like that um and then the like yeah
that's so so there that those are pretty much the the two options so there's a
hair in your new plate of food not Tech related do you take out the hair and eat
who cares do you draw the server's attention to it immediately for a free
one or do you put it aside eat like 3/4
or half of the food put the hair back in draw their attention to it and get a
full new plate and get twice the meal if you what if you have eaten 3 to half the
food and then you find the hair well then that's immediate that's immediate
would you intentionally keep eating to get more food and then draw the server's
attention to the hair so so go go ahead I'll let I'll let you go first I think I
would eat around it mhm until they kind
of showed up and then I'd wave them down so even if no matter how much time that
was let's say something like it's pasta
okay so like it got mixed around in there and probably the hair touched
other things but let's say it doesn't look like a pube so it looks like a head hair I'd
probably just wait unless I'm like crazy hungry I've waited before and I've
returned food that had hair in it before okay I I tend to I tend to go for the
immediate one yeah um unless I'm really
hungry and then I'll just take it out and eat it I've also been there before
hair is I think all I think it all depends on like a whole bunch of
different like and and I I admit that knowing that that's disgusting like hair
is the dirtiest thing on your body other than like your butthole like hair is
super gross and and if you have hair in your butthole then that's even worse
okay so butthole hair is like the worst thing ever um so you if there's hair in
your food you probably shouldn't eat it but well don't like I don't just mean
not eat the hair definitely don't eat the hair but you probably shouldn't eat
the food especially if it's something that was mixed like he said with so
apparently the vast majority of you drop the serers attention to it or just take
the hair out and eat with only 6% of you saying that you would eat half of it
first so that you could just have more food I guess you guys don't have the
kind if it's something that's especially if it's like a multi-art meal so like if
there's some meat and then vegetable and something else um I will wait until they
come around at least within range to flag them down like if they're back in
the kitchen I'm not going to go up to the kitchen right but I'll wait till
they come out and then I'll flag them down but I might have a few bites of
whatever until they get there just cuz I'm like okay well I don't really want
to wait longer to be able to eat but I'm also not going to sit here and try and
scam you out of a whole bunch of food apparently people are thanking me for the cleanliness lesson you probably
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don't think we got through all of our Google topics no all right well let's do
something else for now anyway um oh this is good uh Microsoft
working on a new browser not IE so uh
this was posted on the Forum by Alex Goes High I don't know what goes High
means I understand gets high I've honestly never really got that one so if
you if you hold on a second so if you get I was wondering if it was like a
compression of a word maybe he's fairly young and it's Alex Goes To High School
probably not nope yeah not probably not all right so basically Internet Explorer
12 UI overhaul is a blend of Chrome Firefox adds extension support which is
pretty darn freaking cool and Microsoft is allegedly discussing sort of past
past Internet Explorer 12 coming out with a browser that does not feature the
Internet Explorer branding now which might have one of the coolest code names
ever which has been a trend for Microsoft lately but it might be called code name
Spartan which is pretty sick I don't know I like that kind of stuff I like it
when they bring back like the old Halo stuff like how their their voice AI
Cortana their new browser might be called SP let's latch on to the one
hugely successful thing we did with the young demographic in the last 10
years um Nintendo releases a browser link
I they released a security system and it's just called like the master sword
as long as it's not like Navi then I'm
can can you imagine if their voice interaction system was Navi hey shut up
sh please shut open Google Docs
no um oh that was probably the most annoying thing I've ever done on the
show so so probably uh
um so probably they're not going to completely overhaul the underlying
design of the browser but it looks to me like it's probably just a timely Rebrand
honestly Internet Explorer isn't that bad lately it's just not I mean it's the
kind of thing where it might not have a lot of the special exciting stuff stuff
like really great extensions that Chrome does or Firefox does but as a Workhorse
if you want to go to a page particularly like an educational page or something
like that Internet Explorer is the one that kind of just works for me
educational pages are uh like login portals yeah login portals are a big big
thing what even was that I don't know that was a weird face ni just walked by
really oddly I don't even know what you just
start calling that the nickf face it's kind of like a combination of duck face
and like popped out eyes it's
like what a weird guy why do we employ
him Nick is super weird good night Ed I'm not leaving yet
okay that's good all right Google okay more Google
more Google topics all right this is posted by Victoria Secret I'm going to
go ahead and pull up the uh CNN page here so Google opposes the Marriott's
plan to block Wi-Fi hotspots you know what's funny about this is didn't the
Marriott apologize for that
BS what BS um the yeah the bit where
they were blocking people's Wi-Fi hotspots without them knowing I don't
know I didn't hear about this yeah we talked about it on the show was this
like a really long time ago a ago I vaguely remember this Marriott
apologizes after being fined by the FCC
for blocking customer Wi-Fi yeah they apologized for this BS yeah I remember
this so no this art this is a post on far.com so I don't think that's the most
um how this read write.com shoot I wish
I could how when was this October what that seems way too recent or when was
that Fark one yeah October wow yeah well this is them apologizing after being
fined so this whole thing went down before that and and so they they
apologized and so now they're basically going yeah we're sorry that it was
against the rules so can we change the rules so that we
can do this unfreaking believable so basically
their argument their argument is just
infuriating if a customer arrives at a hotel with her own myi device myi really
you're just inventing things now and the hotel interferes with the customer
connection to that personal Hot Spot the hotel oh wait hold on no no no no no
sorry this isn't their quote crap where's their thing um I don't think
it's in these wait no no sorry here it is yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Marriot and the hotel lobby argued that guests can
use their smarton I to jump in again sorry one second I love how it's called
the hotel lobby I know um argued that
guests can use their smartphones or myfi devices to launch an attack against a
hotel's Wi-Fi network or threaten other
guests privacy what are you talking about
uh if you open a uh open
network if you post that's not threaten someone else's okay okay if if you if
you created an open network that you were and you were kind of spoofing
something that looked official you could create a login portal that looks kind of
like it or whatever else okay yes but I
don't see any reason why the hotel couldn't monitor for something that
appeared to be spoofing versus something that is obviously not you're just going
to run into complications there with them claiming that it seemed like they
was spoofing or some crap like that because there's there's also problems
where even if they're not spoofing like the hotel marot's Wi-Fi it's a one just
opens a unsecured Network and it's like free
internet people are going to want to connect to it so okay so I I get that
argument I'm not I don't agree with them at all I want the answer is really easy
my Wi-Fi should be included in what I just paid you for my room for the night
get over yourselves thank you that too
so basically there should just be a thing in the room saying like connect to this exact SSID yep ignore other ones I
mean I don't understand you know what now that I think about it the then
people can still screw with you even when uh Wi-Fi is included with my hotel
room it's almost like they go out of their way to not bother to no to not
bother to tell me how to connect to it because some hotels make do a pretty
good job of this where you just log in with your last name and your room number to get into the portal and that's
something that someone who's spoofing their connection wouldn't be able to do
anyway they wouldn't know your last name and your room number although they could
just make it auto let you in okay that's true um so so anyway but they they have
an easy way to do it whereas other ones you have to go behind the you have to go
to the desk you have to get them to give you a card and it has like a onetime
used password and like that kind of thing is just inconvenient it's like
they don't even want you to use it in it's inferious
anyway so basically if the the flip side of this argument is if a customer
arrives at a hotel with their own personal hotspot device then effectively
what the hotel is doing is forcing them to not use that even though they already
paid their carrier for the right to use their device as a personal hotspot um
they're forcing them to pay twice for the same capability to pay the hotel to
use their Wi-Fi so yeah this is kind of ridiculous this is this is ridiculous
and stupid and I mean I'm sorry that
people might get spoofed that seems like a very uncommon thing and it seems like
also the kind of thing that someone would have to be physically on your
premises doing and wouldn't be that hard to track down who was doing it with
video surveillance in the lobby and make sure that you're prose Prosecuting that
person correctly like yeah that that
seems like there's Solutions other than locking down your customers from being
able to bring their own Wi-Fi hotpots yeah and that just needs to be a personal security thing like people need
to be aware that these are things and try to protect themselves this isn't the
hotel's job to protect people and that's obviously not what they're doing anyways
they're just trying to get people to buy their freaking Wi-Fi like come on
cynicism hats on okay we can take our cynicism hats off GTX 960 is rumored to
be released on January 22nd although
although none of our sources for this are particularly concrete but that makes
sense because the concrete sources are going to be under
I actually haven't heard anything about it so I'm just speculating on someone
else's rumor this was posted by whoops
uh brood on the Forum I'm going to go ahead and pull up the article from everybody's
favorite I'm doing this just to irk The Forum people I was wondering so I was
like that was a lot of call outs for the fact that you don't like that Source
like normally there's like oh just be wary but this one was like so it looks
like if the rumored specs are correct it'll be around a $200 price point it'll
have the oh GM
206 whoa okay I didn't know that was
happening I actually misread this I thought it was GM 204 because if it was
GM 204 then it would be an extremely cut down chip versus the GTX 970 and 980 but
it would be the same chip but this could be its own fully enabled 128bit GM 206
chip so just to put this in perspective NVIDIA has effectively over the last
couple generations of products um worked
their way worked their their their less
their smaller less expensive dies
several like it looks like about two bumps up the product stack so it used to
be that an x04 chip would have been a
960 950 or like an x60 x50 product and
that is now an x70 x80 every other generation if the pattern continues and
then uh an x06 chip would have normally
been like very lowend like that would have
been under probably under something 50
TI like it would be like a vanilla version of that or somewhere like that
in the product stack so this could be a
very very affordable chip for NVIDIA to make could be a very very affordable
chip for you to buy and if it's Maxwell based which of course it will be then it
uh the performance should actually be really good and it should be very efficient it's rumored to have only a
single PCI Express six pin power
connector which is not too surprising if
you think about it yeah none of this was all that surprising I think the 206
thing is pretty cool I really hope that a 960 TI which is sort of speculated to
also be in the works I hope that a 960 TI would also be GM 204 based um maybe
maybe cut down to 192 bit and then maybe
cut down maybe much lower clock speed maybe turn off some more Cuda or
something like mind you by the time you cut it down enough I mean GM 206 might
be competitive with it at that point so we'll have to see once it gets on a
bench pretty excited for that I like graphics card launches yeah me too
especially the affordable ones are always fun cuz like as much as we love
covering you know Titan Uber Edition or
whatever we know that most of you people aren't buying that so speaking of which
go watch the motherboard videos oh yeah the main interesting ones are going to
be the next two y so I've had people be like this series is useless but then
I've also people be like thank you this is amazing so those of you that are
saying this series of useless I think you guys will start having your answers
in the next two because we'll be covering stuff like uh uh BIOS usability
what you can do how easily can you do it and then the next one after that will be
finish system some more once you're in the operating systems different
utilities that they have and for the really clever folks among you you might
be able to read between the lines a little bit and see that this isn't just
about these exact motherboards this is as we get deeper into BIOS issues
compatibility and stuff like that this is going to be more of an investigation
into who is doing a good job developing
motherboard products and making them easy and pleasant to use for the user
out of these four Brands it's not necessarily just about these models we
picked a price point and we picked four Brands and told them to give us their
best shot that's what we're looking at here and we are definitely at a new
all-time high for concurrent W show viewers I don't know if you've had an
eye on this but holy trap I don't know what the heck happened are we front page
no we're not I check or something like we have 7800 viewers watching W show you
guys are freaking awesome and we love you all there a whole I don't know if
you've been noticed but I I keep on opening the front page again just being
like wait did it happen this time CU it keeps going up it's not even a holiday
today like I don't even understand whatever you guys are awesome um
Speaking of awesome kim.com Mega to
Launch anti-spying call in chat service quotee unquote soon this was posted by
dlf on the Forum want to go ahead and post a link for them I think I'll pull
up the PC World one I guess I just always post a l Executives link oh okay
sure that's fine too so basically kim.com came out and criticized actually
very strongly oh yeah the existing chat clients that are out there saying that
you shouldn't trust any us-based chat
company with your chats and your personal information and your and your
personal data and um this page isn't
loading so we'll have to give it a sec mine is working fine yeah don't don't
worry about it um so basically came out and and criticized all the existing
Services named Skype specifically and I
got no problem with singling out Skype because Skype is the least secure piece
of crap
correct um WhatsApp actually did add end
to end encryption late this year year or last year I guess by now yay last year
it's 2015 Corner party we're not in the
corner hold on let's get in the corner oh this page still isn't loading
so I can't even I can't even screen I figured out Su um mine's working totally
fine but uh the link that we had in the doc was a repost because someone's a
butt so I'm going to post the proper
original topic now although I still don't know why yours isn't loading cuz
it's working totally fine on mine I'm going to throw this link I think it's just that s right there okay oh cuz
you're not going to Oh I thought you're doing not on the con my website's fine
yeah no no it's all good no no no you're don't worry your website is
working um so anyway fully encrypted browser based video call and chat
service so this frees you from the clutches of Google assuming you trust
Mega maybe you do maybe you don't I don't know um I'm interested in it I I'm
yeah yeah yeah I guess that's really all there's to say about it it'll be called Mega chat I just wish creative thing
ever I saw my dad has a wireless keyboard for his home theater setup and
I saw a little MSN Messenger button on it and I just stared at it for a little
while and was like please please come back you were so much better I know oh
man like there was voice capability in everything I know they even had video at
the end yeah there's no reason they had like uh they had like your your MSN
Messenger like profile page like back when back when social networks were just
starting up like Microsoft crapped the bed on having the largest install base
on what was effectively a social network they had it they totally it was
game over and icq you could say the same thing about them completely crap the bed
AOL same thing it's like each one of those in their time was number one was
way ahead of this social networking game and guys like Facebook come out of
nowhere and have to play catchup on the messaging app and it's still terrible
NSN is still better than Facebook Messenger all I even use Facebook for
right now is group networking so I can plan events with different groups that I
have and chat y That's it news no news
feed none of that junk just chat and groups which were already implemented
years sometimes group chats oh wait we don't even need it for that all right so
this was posted by Dietrich W on the Forum and it's from macro.com Apple
getting hit with a class action lost suit over large iOS 8 storage
requirements holy crap I mean s cynicism
hat back on because class action lawsuits benefit absolutely nobody but
lawyers nobody but a lawyer benefits from a class action lawsuit because the
number of plaintiffs is so large and the
reward that goes to each of them is so small that it ends up being a very large
settlement so once the lawyer takes makes their cut that's a huge chunk of
money and then everyone who participated in the class action lawsuit gets like
their $6 and a coupon or whatever the
settlement ends up being like what was that Intel one recently over the faked
benchmarks like $22 or something yeah yeah yeah so basically the argument here
is that apple does not limit the size of
their ios8 or their of of their OS
updates that they roll out to these phones and it could be taking more
storage more than the user is aware of than it did when they first bought the
device and you know what I have to say to that stupid lawyer who is a bad
basically a bad person is how about we all be thankful that Apple provides OS
updates to their older devices so that we get updated feature sets and so we
get the latest security patches how about that how about we say thank you
Apple that my iPhone 4 only just recently stopped getting updates when
Android phones from that era are still
stuck on like gingerbread how about that what do you
think how about we say thank you Apple for supporting your devices instead of
being complete buttheads and turning it into like and and they of course there's
this totally totally
romanticized version of how devastating
this is to the user like they're at a wedding and they can't capture that
moment because their storage is full you know what oh and then Apple will
opportunistically sell more storage to them through iCloud you know they should
have thought of that before they can I help you just taking this laptop all
right so confused carry on
Soldier um so right so yeah so anyway
they they so they're they're pitching it as this like absolute worst case
scenario you know what another option would be to empty your phone once in a
while and make sure you actually have some space on it before you go to a wedding now with that said I really
would appreciate if Apple would start putting expandable storage in their
devices cuz it really doesn't seem like that big of a deal but um and like yeah
storage capacity sucks but exactly like he said just start managing your data
let's stop suing companies over doing the right thing even if they uh did
display the amount that the uh update
took even if they were like you only have this much available you'd still hit the cap
knowing like I have this exact data and I've taken this exact amount of photos
and have this exact many songs like you're not going to do that calculation in your freaking head you would check
your system storage settings anyways get over
yourself all right so I think that's
sorry 8000 I know I well no I was I was trying to find something that I could uh
that I could kind of click on so we could okay here we go
whatever ASUS Zen phone allegedly coming so the source is Android police and this
was posted by that cool blue kid on the
Forum so so I wanted to I wanted to have a corner
party that's why you wanted to do that the last Corner party what was that for
I don't remember oh no it was for lots of viewers yeah but I don't remember how
many it was for it was for less than 8,000 yes over oh oh my goodness we have
to do something special when we go over 9,000 for the first time we should get
like okay I'm going to should I keep this idea Under Wraps yeah yeah keep the
idea Under Wraps we'll we'll figure it out we'll figure it out we'll have to incentivize everyone who's watching to
like share the stream and be like look just tune into this stream don't worry
about it watch it happen not that I think it will but watch it happen during the show we just completely unprepared
no no don't do it now we're not ready yet we're not ready yet all right so
ASUS is teasing their New Zen phone to be unveiled at CES saying see what
others can't see and I think the the r
the video is very cryptic but the rumor is that we could be looking at a very
different kind of dual camera setup than we've seen before in the past so as
you'll see below the device itself couldn't possibly have these two lenses
if that's what they are arranged side by side when held in portrait mode in fact
the screenshot above looks like it may just be a product of a post- production
mirroring effect on the single lens something something something um I think
one of the rumors is that we might be looking at a camera with optical zoom or
something along those lines so that would be kind of cool
um yeah I don't know we'll see we can
watch the video if we want oh you'll be
this I liked the pad phone X yeah yeah I'll be checking this out um I liked the
pad phone X the only issue I have with it is that mine is locked to A&T so I'm
Canadian and AT&T refuses to unlock it for me yeah so I was just like
okay I cannot be a customer of yours it
is not possible we cannot unlock it for
you I'm like yes you can you just won't yeah they're like
yes oh man so yeah I mean ASUS is one of
those companies they they'll screw it up and screw it up and screw it up and half
asset and half ass it and then be almost there and then be almost there and then
they'll just take over um they have the manufacturing
knoow what they what they usually lack is the industrial design but they've
gotten a lot better at that in the last few years and I'm excited to see what
they come out with with the uh with the New Zen phone
um Bitcoin deemed the worst currency of 2014 this was posted by big stuns on the
Forum I mean I still wish I'd had some Bitcoins back when it was above $1,000
but since then it has dropped to Just Around
$320 I mean anyone who kind of could
predict the future would have known that something like this was going to happen
anyway it wasn't going to it wasn't going to keep Rising like this and
settling in at $320 if it can stay
settled is just fine because that's what it needs to be a currency it needs to
not be rising really fast just as much as it needs to not be falling really
fast it just needs to establish a value and stay there so that whole Gold Rush
thing was totally harmful to bitcoin and if it's yeah if it's ever to have a
chance it needs to just even if it even iFit the Bitcoin value dropped to $100
or $50 as long as it settles in somewhere and people know what it's
going to be worth then they can trade with it cuz right now it's just complete
mess ridiculous um do we have anything else
some this screenshot and said what do you mean msn's gone um there's there's
still I think you can still use the client with like
um and I think it's not gone in all territories it's not gone in all regions
like it's complicated the the gradual killing off of the service has been in
progress for quite some time okay yeah cuz I got kind of excited
no was like was there some way I can do this and the problem the problem would
be related to other things like there's there' be no security on it there'd be a
lot of spam on it like it's not being maintained yeah so yeah apparently
there's a vase amount for IMAX now new.com cuz I complained a lot oh wow
this is the stupidest thing ever I hadn't actually looked at this yet it's
like engineering a solution to a problem that should not
exist oh really the largest most
ridiculous thing ever and it leaves the leg on it so you actually have to just
leave the foot on the new iMac you can
use it as like a phone tray you know you know those things that they have where
you you plug your phone into the wall it's like that's now built into
your iMac aluminum
design you wanted a high build quality phone stand I had people giving me crap
in my in my iPhone or my uh my iMac tear
down where I was saying that I think it's totally asinine that Apple doesn't
allow the stand to be removed and swapped for a vase amount like it did
with the old ones now you have to decide at the time of ordering and people are
saying no no lonus there's a vase amount this does not
count that is
stupid stupid stupid stupid and apple
needs to get their crap together like that's not even an upgradeability thing
that's just common sense monitors go on base amounts and yeah we're almost at
8,300 what that's incredible we're not just
beating our previous record we're just wrecking it crushing it absolutely
ridiculous monstrous all right so um
this has apparently been redacted but the internet was pretty excited about it
momentarily I think um okay so I've been speculating for quite a while that it
would be Q4 maybe Q3 but probably Q4 so
this wasn't too surprising um but I have a theory that part of the reason why it
was redacted was um they probably want it to be a big thing at
CES I'm wondering if that's going to be an announcement at CES right so
basically um he was so so Palmer was
quoted as saying that the consumer version of the Oculus Rift would be
released uh what was it winter 201 win 2015 um that has since been changed
to late 2015 early 16 I think is the new
quote that's been that's been replaced in the article and honestly I wouldn't
be surprised either it's it's
yeah I don't know they need to Super
Duper make sure that their first consumer version is 100% okay because if
if there's any problems with their first consumer version that's going to cause
serious issues for the VR Community as a whole we need the first consumer version
from the massive Front Runners to be a very very good success for the entire
industry I'm so stoked to play uh uh
Valkyrie like so stoked Valkyrie will be sick I'm I'm excited for something I'm
not going to tell you guys a ton of yet but a company that I'll be going and
seeing at CES that has a VR AR mixed
headset that should be really cool hopefully we'll see um well I guess that's pretty much
uh that's pretty much it for today oh
there was one thing that I um that I told this that I told this company that
I would talk about brief on the show um
no not that I thought it was three so this is
actually here I'll load up the uh I'll load up the site I don't even know how
to pronounce it but I get contacted I don't know because vessel
would have two s's right yeah but I
don't know companies do that a lot okay
here we go so vessel case they these
guys contacted me and they were like
yeah we have like this super high quality iPhone 6 case we think you'll be
really really impressed with it and we want you to review it and I kind of went
well I'm I don't really review phone cases because what is there to say about
a phone case uh not a lot uh so so
basically what I said was look I'm not going to review it but what I will do is
if you guys want to send one I will try it and I will like open it and put it on
my phone on the podcast and I will give people my thoughts on it so my initial
reaction here I'll hold this up a little bit closer for you actually you know
what I could probably do is add can you be my cameraman yeah it'll
be like the old days yeah this is so exciting didn't we do something fairly
recently I don't remember oh okay this
is going to be fairly difficult because the cable don't worry you got this you got this bro and I have no viewfinder
hold on hold on I got to I got to change the the output size we we need this uh
we need this camera putting out at 1920 by 1080 all right so um here you go I
told them I'd do like a live unboxing on on the W show so this is the case you
can choose uh you can choose your wood finish I believe I went with space gray
Walnut so there's little um there's little pins that hold together the
corners here there we go yeah oh yeah
that that depth of field bro that oh come on focus focus I have no manual
control there go if I hold my hand there then we can see it all right so those
are in there like that so the construction is all like metally and
sexy and stuff and then the buttons kind of go through the thing and there's like
a I don't know a foam or something there okay anyway let's put the let's put it
on the phone and so my initial reaction was
like oh yeah this seems pretty cool I've actually had it on my phone already I
cheated I unboxed it without you guys um
now I'm a little bit worried because I had it on before and I had to take it
off because I had to put something else on on my iPhone 6 um but anyway the way
that you put it together is then you put um you put the last screw in this corner
so I'm going to go ahead and do that and it comes with this little tool which is
actually pretty cool vessel case.com and I hope yes I did I put the screw there
so it comes with its own uh there its
own little like socket thing and then it's got a little cap on it and I guess
you could store that on your keychain if you felt like you might need to take
your case off your phone very frequently are like are these like
premium bumpers becoming more popular
cuz I have to confess I was not really aware bumpers are only really an iPhone
thing right I think so yeah so I have no idea
right see not a clear let's see if I can
do this I'm having trouble now of course I have trouble when I try and do it on
camera it's like Murphy's freaking law right this is a really weird way to film
something dang Murphy ah anyway so I was like yeah this
seems pretty cool but I got to say I wasn't that impressed with the price
this thing is 20 sorry 120 hold on hold on it gets
my first guess before you even started saying it price was it's
138 Euros Euros oh no that's okay that's
a lot worse yeah so I mean it's nice so
there you go that's what it looks like I've got a debrand case on here and it
actually does fit even with the vinyl case although I'm sure they'd probably
prefer if you if you kind of kept it clean clean metal on the back for the
looks so I told them I would install it on the phone and I would show it on the
show but that I wasn't going to review it because if I was going to review it
then I would have to bring up that you're spending $160 for a bumper case
that effectively doesn't actually provide a ton of protection for your
phone 138 yeah 138 with that said the
protection for the phone isn't that bad cuz what they've done is they've got a bit of a lip on it here so this lens is
never going to going to sit face down on things anymore which is a problem that I
have with the iPhone 6 and then if you have a vinyl WRA back here and you throw
some Phantom glass on the front then aside from that you've just spent like
$200 um the phone is actually reasonably well protected and uh let's just go
ahead and remove that the phone will then be reasonably well protected but
you've just spent like $200 on like a
combo case for your phone with a dbrand skin Phantom blast front and like a uh
buy a whole another phone we're going to get into the motherboard's territory there you're just like protecting your
phone when you could just buy another one at that point yeah not quite but I
mean the button passrs are good and this is one of the few cases I've encountered
that actually allows you to use the mute toggle um as a pass through rather than
just kind of reaching through something so I'll give them that like it's it's
nice but uh I don't think that's the kind of thing that I would spend my own
money on right yes so there you
go I think that's pretty much it for everything that I wanted to talk about
on the show today I just wanted to do like a quick glance through to see if
there was anything else but I think that was it there's that lamp that lasts for
40 years yeah but it costs how much two grand two grand okay I can I'd rather
replace my light bulb every once in a while yeah especially because we've
already got LED bulbs that cost like 10 bucks or 20 bucks and last for also lots
of years maybe not 40 years and like by
the time that LED light bulb finally dies there like might be something new
and better or version of that which will also be cheap yeah so here guys I'll
pull up the article for that just for amusement more than anything else so
Jake Dyson has designed an LED light that lasts for 40 years um the light is
called
Ariel the L's called Ariel scroll done I
was hoping to have something else to say about it it has a massive freaking heat
sink yep but that's common with LED light bulbs like I installed LED
lighting in okay I installed LED lights
in my son's room and they should have probably had bigger heat sinks because
those things ran freaking hot so aside from needing to redo the dimmer switch
to one that's uh LED dim dimmable LED
compatible I put two of them in a fixture those things give off a ton of
heat like it's actually kind of scary right yeah um right and then one other
thing that I wanted to do was a call out for uh someone who's been helping us out
a lot on the W show lately um both ghost
and fighter leid who has been doing the timestamps on the WAN Show pretty much
um alone according to ghost who coordinates fighter leid doing the
timestamps and submits them to me so that Luke and I don't have to sit and
watch the show and uh kind of go go
through that on our own go watch the show that we just hosted which is it's
kind of kind of sucky yeah so hearing yourself talk for an
hour and a half is like not great so we
we crushed it you guys we have 8600 viewers which we've never had on the
show before you guys are amazing thank you so much for tuning in and we'll see
you guys again next week I think we're going to do a very short Afterparty tonight um but other than that it's
packing time we're heading to CES yes totally unprepared although I did I
need to shop tomorrow I already did I need shirts I got some yeah I don't have
enough pants I don't want to know about your sexual
exploits oh I see how you did that
although if the shirts helped then maybe you should tell me what shirts you were getting the shirts did not help actually
I didn't wear any of them for that well you're not supposed to wear a shirt
during that I mean how else are you supposed to show off your sexy
potentially wear a shirt in progress
before when you're still working on yeah
the objective yeah and that's when
shirt your shirt's never helped
me just when they're off yeah did l.com
teach you that no but I could put that on a Squarespace
site and and then you could look at it on your phone and protect your phone
with glass