things actually working i know Linus is not here he's off doing
something if you saw my tweet he actually did show up in the room sat
down we filmed the intro for youtube and then he left again so like i tried i
almost had him here anyways we just decided to just go he's gonna be back so
he's coming at some point anyways we've got cool topics for you obviously the
Windows 10 conference happened so we'll be talking about that a ton it probably
won't be as ridiculous as the facebook bought oculus thing but we'll be talking
about it quite a bit the gtx 960 has officially launched as anyone who has a
youtube account is sure to have noticed that every single person ever released a
gtx 960 video also nintendo has announced the end of
club nintendo but it's all not bad news
so we'll talk about that later as well get the good news out there and the gtx
970 may not be able to utilize its four gigabytes of vram entirely hmm
talk about that later on as well rule the intro
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oh no all right oh man sorry i just had to review something whenever i do a
particularly negative video about a
product i tend to want to cross all my t's and dot all my eyes because the last
thing i need is uh a lawsuit for
defamation or like anything like that yeah yeah that's right it's different
from a reformation which is taking people who aren't famous and making them
famous again um like
carrie fisher anyway let's go ahead and
maybe just start start this show so we're going to
kick off with the one thing in the show that i actually didn't look into at all
so you're on your own for this one backed by NVIDIA katopsys brings
microsoft's illumiroom vision to life so
you knew about aluminum a luma room wow i can totally talk when i'm sick uh you
know the illumiroom concept right where there's the tv screen and then the
illumiroom projector which would be behind you essentially extends the tv
screen to try and make it more immersive well they actually kind of did it and
it's called whatever it's called how is the name of
it not in here immerses there we go the name of it's not in the title nice
trying to post anyways um it happens to be an expected price of twenty five
hundred dollars twenty five hundred and they would need developers to step
behind it to actually make stuff for this to work so that's a really
ugly combination with people like um
i can't remember any of it right now but still series thing the eye tracker toby toby yeah
well no it's different when it's sold by steel
series yeah whatever but it's the tobii eye tracker yeah but
yeah um anyways whatever that thing
has some amounts of trouble with adoption i think the main game that's
they're really standing behind it is an indie game that they're probably paying
to stand behind it um or maybe not or or maybe not but like
there's there's one of the problems with all these different things coming out oculus gear
vr every other vr solution ever this
thing eye tracking hand tracking stuff
is even something we're going to talk about later later hololens is you need
developers to develop things for these things and when it's 2 500
and you need a pc to be set up in your living room
not just a console and you need a living room where you can
have a projector behind the couch
like there's a lot of variables here and i don't see the install base being huge
and i think that being it's probably going to be a problem for developers um
you are like nostradamus like
this thing's expensive for a functionality that no one really asked
for like it's probably adoption won't be
great yeah i don't know it's a cool idea it's
there's really no more it's a luma room like it's you can watch the video so you
can see that it can fold and go into a box and you can carry it around hooray
but it's it's room which is which is cool
but yeah i wouldn't spend 25 speaking of things that are cool with no application
as far as i can tell um artificial intelligence helps mario play his own
game i'm gonna go ahead and post this in the twitch chat here so he has learned
certain things like jumping on a goomba will definitely kill it um
and stuff like that he's made decisions based on his learning he's decided how
to get through different levels and stuff yeah he's able to figure out very
efficient ways to do things yeah he can calculate you know how many moves
something will require he apparently has moods which
from looking from reading a little bit further into the article seems to be
mostly just pre-programmed
logic trees as opposed to a true a true ai like everything
hooray it's cool but like that's yeah i don't
know it's also it's been done before um it's it's pre-programmed logic arrays
which it is able to kind of add to a little bit but like it it knows the past
that it should go down and then it's just filling a database of information of results of actions
essentially which yes of course that's how things learn
but it's just it's it's not crazy advanced we not only have more advanced
ai projects out there but this has also been done before i think it's just the
most advanced ai mario because why
um so i don't know it's kind of cool it's a fun project
um speaking of uh speaking of mario we're
gonna we're gonna try and move pretty quick here guys because we do want to
spend a fair bit of time on the Windows oh yeah you know
not as much time as they spent mind you but um not not two hours and 20 minutes
or whatever it was so let's go ahead so um nintendo club nintendo to be
discontinued world wide wow them ads
what is going on here look at this the ad is it's like half of it's here
half of it's oh
nintendo insider.com if your site admin is watching uh we have a sponsor uh
squarespace they have like
they have like stuff that will make it so this won't happen
so anyway okay fine whatever frameworks and whatnot anyways so club nintendo is
shutting down uh they'll be discontinuing the service on the 30th of
september or end of june in north america and 30 september in the eu
they've been running it for about six years it is going to be replaced by a
new program a new loyalty program yes um
the current one honestly is super badass um club nintendo is great like
you get coins from buying games which like okay whatever um but then
those coins kind of last for a really long time then you can spend them on
real world physical items or digital games and if you buy a real world
physical item the shipping is totally free it's actually pretty cool um maybe
it's too expensive it might be too expensive it might be
just like some of the problems that they've been having is uh the
merchandise for it coming up with new things right a lot of times there isn't
really a new thing in the previous thing sold out so it's just like what do i use
these coins for i kind of want to save for a physical item that is exclusive
instead of just buying this thing that i could get off the
wii u store for not much money anyways right so a lot of people just sit there
hoarding their coins forever waiting for something new to come out then it sells
out too quickly anyways so they don't get it um so it can be frustrating it's
a cool program but it can be a frustrating program so i think they're gonna try hopefully replace it with
something a little bit more elegant and i guess this gives them an opportunity
to um eliminate the coin hoarding by getting people reset unless they offer
people like i think they've done resets in the past but then that's always ugly
as well yeah i mean the optics of that are just kind of terrible yes like so
you're resetting because you planned it poorly yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah so i don't know not the end of the world uh there if you are
a club nintendo guy and you have a bunch of coins read up more on it they have
tons of information on like when the last date to
uh get coins from games is when the last date to redeem things are when the last
date to buy things is if or not they're going to be adding
more things to it because i think i think they're adding more physical items like rapid fire just before the end so
you can dump all your coins um so but i'm not entirely sure about that go read
up on it if you care essentially dang it you went for so long that my segway's
not gonna necessarily work that well but you said it wasn't the end of the world
and i was going to say speaking of things that could be the end of the world uh this service this is this is
absolutely fantastic and uh oh
whoever did our notes on this one didn't actually manage to put the name of the
service and the notes and i've forgotten what it is second time uh invisible
girlfriend create your own girlfriend or boyfriend there's also invisible
boyfriend equal opportunity sort of
service here um so so
all right so this isn't the first app that promises to be your virtual partner
but these apps take a bit of a unique approach to it in that they actually
pair you with someone with with a with a paid virtual girlfriend or boyfriend
that will send you messages and selfies and voicemails and even
handwritten notes so um
apparently the selfies are are going to be stock photos but that doesn't
actually sound right from what i was reading them you know what the best
thing is though have you read the text message conversation yeah here
so good oh man it was lovely it's the text
message covers oh you're looking for something else i'm looking for the text
message it's in the Linus tech tips oh it's in the thread yeah oh okay awesome
this is post oh crap we haven't said who's posted things okay so good bites
for the illumi room thing sadisma for mario ai ah ming for this thing tanks
lair x for nintendo virtual whatever club thing
nintendo virtual whatever club sorry i was thinking of
a virtual boy both things that are gone yes yes yes
all right so here we go here we go so the the thread online is tech tips
actually has a little bit more information so the app is only available
in private beta and using canada but the creators are hoping to raise funds so
they expand can expand to other parts of the world like countries where it is a
crime to be gay and people might have a need for a fake heterosexual
relationship that is actually a very compelling use for an application like
this so these guys messages were better maybe clark kent
uh so so here's an example of some text uh some text messages
hey carissa this is clark how are you omg why didn't you text me last night
where were you sorry i left my phone at work
let me make it up to you i don't believe you
i was in such a rush when i left yesterday i was charging it and forgot
all about it i'm sorry really the the stupidest thing about this is as like
not sort of great as those messages are they're
kind of convincing yes i could imagine having that conversation what i kind of
love about it too though is that in their example he goes i miss you i've
been working so much lately i need a vacation want to come with me so in that
use case we're like you need to try to have a heterosexual relationship because
of laws and blah blah blah blah it should be like yeah definitely let's go
instead it's like what have you been working on
what this is your example give a better example than that
god wow so like yes it it's very bad at
responding so anyway the personalized
texts maybe they're going to work on making them better but basically they
they they have paid people who are sending texts
and voicemails and handwritten notes and i it's 25 a month and i think that
includes what was it two handwritten notes
uh 25 texts or some something along those
lines i can't remember what exactly the model is um
i i i i
i don't know what to say like i feel like for someone somewhere this is
something that they would really like to have but i've gotta wonder like
would they not be better off just kind of making a friend online that shares a
common interest on like steam versus trying to use a service like this
to have them be a girlfriend or a boyfriend i have to imagine that
considering how fake it feels
that you'd have to kind of know so it i feel like it would be more of an
external thing like i don't know how many of course there's going to be
some of course there's probably going to be a lot but i don't know how many
use cases of that i understand i guess as much where someone would do it as
like a partnership thing but i know a lot of use cases that i understand a lot
more where someone might want to do it as an external thing look this is my
person uh like the thing we were talking about
i see okay i'm gonna try and explain what you're saying in a way that might
actually be clear um so what he means is like a lot of sense if you're showing
off [ __ ] versus external relationship yeah like like if the if the idea is not
that you're doing it for your own satisfaction but you're doing it to like
prove to grandma that you you know are not ashamed or whatever if
if you're a girl and your family's like oh my goodness why haven't you started a
relationship we want babies yeah you'd be like well i did here i'm you know
there's this working on luke lefraniere guy that i'm texting a lot and he sends
me selfies of himself in the shower wait sorry i'm looking at my phone whoa yeah
we weren't supposed to talk about that um snapchat's a hell of a thing anyway
speaking of things we shouldn't talk about or should talk about
you're right prweb.com has an article posted by clock lock or
a203 whatever i tried um do you want to post this one
in the chat yes got it but these are the most used passwords of 2014. if your
password is on this list change it now
and actually the password that you thought was my password is not my
password no i didn't do that oh okay i know i saw that written there somewhere
but that wasn't from me all right so there's a couple other tips um don't use
your favorite sport don't use your favorite team
don't use your birthday or especially just your birth year information that is
really not that hard to find these days in fact you know i i really feel like
all this digital security stuff gets a lot of attention whereas it's really the
more traditional security systems that that are bothering me lately like i had
um i had my bank call about something and
yes they called my phone number which is a form of authentication authentication
authentication authentication but the only security question they asked me was
my birth date that's not even close to enough which is not good enough and you
know what the funny thing about it too though is and this is one that really
makes me mad is when the security questions on a website um
okay i'm going back to digital now yeah but when they're fixed yeah yeah it's
like i don't know any of these things i think and like so i've gotten um riled
for a few things on like the Linus tech tips forum but i'm not super worried
about like a forum like a bank is more if i'm
ever talking about like login form security and all this kind of stuff i'm talking more about like a bank or your
email not your forum login um but yeah
if you guys are storing like sensitive personal information in your minus text
please don't like it's not like it's not like it's not encrypted it's not like we
don't have security but like and we do that's just idiotic
yeah why are you doing that anyways um
we're not talking like having your birthday in your profile we're talking like if you have like images in your
image upload account or something like that that are like of your passport like
just be smart online that's all i'm asking um
but yeah when like a bank has fixed security questions yeah or when like
like i've seen banks start implementing a like a three-stage thing
you put in your login name it loads another page you identify an image it
loads another page you put in a password it loads you into the bank
which is interesting except that the amount of times that they challenge you
with the image is near zero like why did you even implement that security step it
does nothing right i think oh i think um it's more
likely to challenge you if you're on an ip that's not your usual ip it is so but
it's still extremely low right um like my bank does it and i checked while i
was in vegas which is scary but i did it in a fairly safe way um
and it didn't challenge me with a picture change well people people are
the biggest obstacle because mine used to do it every time i was on an
unfamiliar connection and then probably people complained
because it doesn't do it anymore so okay anyway let's get let's get back
to let's get back to this topic so here we go one two three four five six
unchanged from 2013. rock on one two three four five six you
glorious bastard uh number two password
same position as last year one two three four five has really climbed the range
17 positions one two three four five six seven eight has fallen from third to
fourth so if you thought you were being more secure by going from five digits to
eight digits you were but not by much
because when we're talking brute force attacks and the millions of attempts
they can do per second the difference between two and three when it goes
through this list not gonna be a whole lot yeah i was gonna say because most
brute forces will start with a pre-dictionary first anyways yeah um so
qwerty one two three four five six seven eight nine zero does provide
an almost immaterial extra level of security
one two three four is apparently more secure than one two three four five six
seven eight nine zero if it's using a dictionary based attack as opposed to
just a uh a sequential attack so there's that
usually it's it's stacked though it'll do a series of common passwords and then
it'll do addiction anyway dragon dragon is number nine why was it because
how did you get MSI is like super popular right now
let nine is up one i actually don't even know what that means
that mine looks not english monkey is up five to
number 12. good job monkey master is 19
is bader on here batman is master batman
i love i love new six nine six nine six nine how is that new i would have
expected that to be fairly cool yeah i know trust no one
is 25th that is one that i would not
have imagined would be nearly as popular as batman oh it's let me in oh let me
end the twitch chat is like wow dude you guys are dumb you know what got it maybe
if whoever came up with that capitalized the first letter of every word or
something which would actually have made it more secure as well
let's not blame me for the stupidity of this list
any of it my one of my favorite things is bringing up the social engineering
aspect of hacking to people talking about how like leaving flash drives
around and having people plug them into their computers and compromising their security that way or just
talking to people right being like
what was your mom's maiden name and be like oh well funny story it's blah blah
blah it's like okay well now i can get into like every account ever um
and mine's a trick good yeah no that's actually not a bad
idea at all actually sorry can i can i sorry i'll let you
finish i can get no i can get back to this okay you'll remember yeah okay cause because this is this is kind of a
funny story there is my my mother's maiden name question is a trick um but
there's one account that i have to use i
think once every six years you know what i'll just i'll just say what account it
is because it's not going to matter i'm not going to say what the trick is so it's my icbc account my my uh like my
insurance account i used a different
trick answer than on any of the other ones
so every six years when i have to renew my licensed license they'll ask me and
i'll be like this and they'll be like no
they'll be like right that one
okay sorry guys that's awkward um right so yeah i think it was jimmy
fallon or some some nighttime tv guy thing did like uh
checking people's passwords in i think new york or wherever he's from so they'd
go on the street and be like oh what's your password
and people would be like oh i don't want to tell you and they're like they'd be
like oh okay well like what's it made up of they'd be like okay well it's like my
mother's maiden name and then my birthday they'd go like oh that's cool
are you close to your mom then blah blah blah okay what's your mother's maiden
name then they'll tell them then oh yeah and when were you born then they'll tell
them it's like oh my god
it was fantastic i don't remember who it was but just like these are the problems
with those types of securities it's so easy to just talk to people okay this
information smeg czar here brings up a really good point why the hell are you wearing a hat
i semi forgot about it it's cause i'm sick and i had a
shower but really needed to work on things so came out and didn't fully
towel off and put on this so it's a towel hat it's a towel hat hey
my hair actually kind of like worked out under that sort of
except in this bit back here we'll fix it i'll just we have the oh geez it's
already like we have the technology all right let's
um let's move on to our next topic this is one that i i have to talk about for a
little bit um oh yeah because uh
okay i can't really say anything oh go for it keep going no no i can't i can't
say certain things about this but uh this was posted by cast death 97
on the forum uh original article article here is from nine to five mac you want
it i thought we were doing this one oh no
one up but we're okay whoa that that that one okay
all right here we go much less confused no this is this is something that i'm uh
that i'm sort of sort of stoked to talk about so i'm gonna go ahead and screenshot your hair okay so the rumor
is apple apple targets for the apple
watch battery life have been revealed there is apparently an a5 caliber CPU
inside something that is both impressive and completely unnecessary um depending
on what kind of experience apple expects you to have with the watch which of
course does seem to be pretty different from what everyone else is targeting
with their smart watches so unlike other smart watch makers apple is including i
believe it includes wi-fi although i feel like i'm
i feel like i'm saying something stupid here i'm pretty so aside from bluetooth
my understanding is the apple watch will also include wi-fi connectivity um so
that is already very different because it's no longer reliant on being tethered
to another device in order for it to
tell you anything useful um and then the other the other big difference is that
based on that it's going to be running kind of a stripped down iOS and going to
have the super powerful processor i'm guessing you'll be able to run some
seriously much more powerful apps on the
apple watch compared to what we can currently do on Android wear devices
which are basically i mean yeah you can think around with some apps i found a
spin the bottle app no when i was doing my moto 360 review it's like let's play
spin the bottle just like shove my arms awkwardly in the middle of the group
it's like this this result is not looking favorable hold on i'm just going
to turn my wrist um so okay so so this this this
the the the specifications themselves tell us that apple is expecting it to be used a
little bit differently but these battery targets look
bad like super super bad
so they're expecting you to get one day
but we're not talking always on one day
like the g watch are where i actually forgot to charge it last night and i'm
sitting at 17 i get almost two days
out of this thing i even got a full two days once um so we're talking screen off
one day of battery life so they're figuring two and a half hours under
heavy use things like games but if you're playing games on your watch you
are really doing it wrong especially because the assumption uh which is a safe one in
this case is that you already have an iphone
which is a much better gaming plot anyway um okay
so four and a half hours sorry two and a half hours in games where did that go
okay four hours of exercise tracking
are you for real so if i go up and i go skiing
i'm done yeah and like the big problem with this too is i didn't even think
about the skiing thing honestly i was just thinking about a normal workout session so a lot of people will do half
an hour to an hour but that means that you just took out
um a quarter of your entire phone's battery life i
watch but oh about yeah
watch three hours of continuously looking at the watch face
three hours that is brutal that's super not good and
so they figure 19 hours of combined active and passive usage with about two
to three days in standby now the scariest thing about all of this is that
the the rumor mill is swirling with um
they may not even hit these targets
so i think it is fairly safe to say um oh here's a here's a cool image of the
um the maglock wireless charging connector
so that's that's kind of cool um so the the
whatever okay the point is do not buy the apple watch we got there yeah um
i've actually the reason i wanted to talk about this was not just to highlight how abysmal
those results are for the apple watch and i see what apple's trying to do here
they're trying to deliver a very different experience one that's more
like a phone on your wrist that's extremely small and less like a wearable
accessory that is tethered to a computer in your pocket i get it
but the technology is just straight up not there yet the battery i mean apple
has been an innovator when it comes to battery life and when it comes to
processor efficiency but that doesn't change that it simply doesn't exist yet
to do that and like i complain about what people are doing with uh phone
batteries but i just don't think they can with watch batteries right now and
the thing about the thing about the thing about that makes me say that don't
buy it is that i i have experience with the difference
between those two use case scenarios so the moto 360 i ended up giving a pretty
negative review of that device and some of the problems were just the general
glitchiness of Android wear which has been addressed somewhat with the
lollipop update so i'm running that on the g watch r the review which will be
coming fairly soon um but
a lot of it was just i just didn't like
it and i couldn't put my hand on quite
why i just didn't like it and it turns out the answer now that i'm running the
g watch r is that always off bothers me in a way that are
not always on because it's not always off yeah but off unless you gesture or
touch it bothers me in a way that i even i didn't quite understand and i've
talked about it on the show before i hate that i think it's stupid but it
just made using the device not pleasant
and not natural and not enjoyable and so
the apple watch i'm going to say it right now it's going to be unnatural and
unenjoyable and you're going to be spending way too much for that
experience because apple's trying to put too much hardware into something that
just isn't ready for it yet
um speaking of of battery life though actually i want to jump to uh to a topic
so do you want to do one do one in the meantime maybe do the uh the next one
here okay um i'll i'll screen share that
while i go fetch something because i for sure so this was posted by rohith kumar
underscore jsp just reminding i think a lot of people want to hear about the
Windows 10 thing so yeah you should oh yeah that's cool
and get to that um so the next thing we're doing is that moot is
quitting 4chan i mean yeah i i put up i did yeah like
he still owns it as far as i can yeah yeah um so he's quitting the
controversial website after 12 years uh
so yeah well 11.5 i guess i should
clarify he he said that the website's gone through a number of challenges
throughout the years and kind of made it through a lot of them but
the biggest point of failure that they have right now is that there's one large
uncomfortable point of fail one uncomfortably large point of failure
which is him moot so he's kind of stepping down or
quitting however much that is true so that a few
senior volunteers can kind of take the place leading the website he says that
they'll be financially secure for the foreseeable future and there will be no
problems i seriously doubt this is a full quit
um but not like anything really changes
over there anyways so no one will probably notice anyways so
yeah so there's that he quit and i don't think it matters
all right so i just wanted to uh i wanted on this on the subject of devices
with better battery and just kind of deprioritizing
um you know power where it's not really necessary these guys reached out about
oh sorry these guys reached out asking us to do a
review they're an incredibly small company their website is spectrum hq.net
i guess i should just screen share that instead of just getting rid of my screen
share and uh what i thought was interesting about this phone was not
necessarily that it has the most groundbreaking specs in the world it
actually uses like it's a 1.3 gigahertz quad-core mediatek chipset it's got one
gig of the base model has one gig of RAM eight gigs of storage uh 720p display
um but what i thought was interesting about it is that it's 150 and i know that
inexpensive mediatek based phones are not uh necessarily revolutionary but
what i thought was interesting about it is that it has a 4 000 milliamp hour
battery in a reasonable form factor and
with an ips display so i just thought i
mean basically i think it's still pre-order but i have i have a working
one here unfortunately it has pretty narrow uh pretty narrow band support so
you're gonna have to make sure that your carrier will actually work with it but with the power sipping
components in here and a four thousand milliamp hour battery for 150 bucks it's
got dual sim uh it's also got microsd expansion i think up to 32 gig support
um i just i thought it looked interesting i told them look i can't
review a phone that doesn't work on my carrier um because that's just my policy
now because i just i wanted you won't
necessarily inherently use it enough that way yes
um but what i told them is just because i thought what they were doing was
interesting and i agree with things like
not necessarily going you know 2560 by 1440 on the display settling for 720p
but making sure it's an ips panel instead of a tn panel like you might
find on a lot of inexpensive phones and so i just wanted to mention it just
because actually here i think this this cap from your site 4 000 milliamp hour
glory something that may actually get you through a couple of days because
while i kind of railed on um on motorola about the droid turbo
having claiming to offer two-day battery life and actually it has a similar
capacity battery in it um the issue is that it runs extremely powerful hardware
and so that's where you're going to to lose a lot of the battery life that you might get from a device like this so
there you go it's uh oh yeah oh yeah the 4000 milliamp power battery is actually
user removable as well so you can you can swap them too which
is pretty uh pretty unusual so yeah
13 megapixel camera um not not earth
shattering image quality or anything like that but i wanted to highlight these guys because i think what they're
doing is is interesting especially compared to other low-cost phones where
they're just low costed across the board seeing an ips panel and seeing a nice
high-capacity battery is refreshing yep i feel like if they had a good camera in
there as well that's all i'd really want
all right you should see oh man i don't have my phone on me right now but i took
a picture today with my moto x and i was like all right i should probably get a
new phone if for no other reason just the camera
yeah no garbage
um okay should we do a couple rapid fire topics before we get into Windows 10
does it matter i don't know there's some interesting stuff in here gta 5 inside gta 4. inside
of taco inside a taco bell inside a burger king inside them all inside your
brain this one has done very well but it's
already been done and it's not like it's not coming out until like pretty soon
op is uh tara oh whoops no wrong one oh shujin and this is from
pcpcgamer.com obviously it's not
know for crying out loud i don't care about guild wars
correct all right so obviously it's not the entire game
but it's just one of those things that grabs headlines and is therefore
interesting to people to post on their news sites um
AMD's ceo lisa sue has confirmed this was posted by teraflop that their new
graphics cards will launch in the second quarter of 2015.
uh very good products coming in q2 2015.
rumors include fiji xt with 4096 gcn
cores and you gotta kind of feel like NVIDIA is just sitting on their butts
waiting for AMD to make a move you know
i i love the guys at NVIDIA they're my bros they're they're good people um but
this was posted by opcode on the forum and the original source here is from
GeForce.com the really what are these sources why are there sources for like
vxgi in here all right let's go ahead so the gtx 960 officially launched and
feels like a holding pattern boy does it ever feel like a holding
pattern i mean we were getting used to for a while new graphics cards launching
and basically if the only piece of information that we gave luke was the
price he would pretty much be able to create a performance graph of how it's
taxed up against all of its competitors because that was apparently what AMD and
NVIDIA were doing they were just figuring out how it
performed and going okay let's price it this much yeah yeah yeah
whereas the way that it used to work was that when there was a cost advantage for
a new GPU or just a new design in
general we would get better performance for the price or we would get um
better performance with a greater price or or or or like much better performance
for the same price or something anyway the point is that it would try to
push things from the envelope forward whereas the gtx 960 pushes nothing
forward and you can make the car consumption
power okay yes yeah yes and that is important for certain
things this will make the mobile gaming experience
better really it should be it should be less expensive
though and we've seen NVIDIA do this whole
GPU creep thing over the last couple of generations where it's like it used to
be that this class of of chip went in
these classes of products so now all of a sudden this class of chip will hold on
there's like a titan something
put that one there and then actually this one which used to be like a a x 60
class product is now a 7080 class product this one that used to be like uh
x 50 class product is now this um so so
this the gtx 960 launch was a little bit disappointing to me yes
it compares well against its competition um but the problem is that AMD's
competitors for it are these much much
larger and older gpus that are based on
in some cases significantly older architectures like the uh the r9 280x
which is like how old is that card now
because it's three years it's not yeah because it's not really a 280x yeah the
7970 yeah um
seventy like here i'll i'll search for like the launch 7970 yeah december 22nd
2011.
so yeah yeah it's three years old so AMD's
sort of not really on a level playing field because they can't lower prices
enough to compete with this card and if they did if AMD made a move in terms of
pricing went yeah we're just gonna charge 150 for you know r9 285s NVIDIA
can match that like that
um so what's my point here the 960 came out
it's frustrating to me that uh yawned really loudly yeah it's also kind of
annoying that it came up right after christmas because this is a much better christmas priced card than basically
anything else they had that's a good point i didn't even pay a little bit
more for our cards oh christmas is over okay here we go yeah if they released it
at christmas time i think they probably would have sold a lot more of these instead of 970 because 960 was rumored
to be coming a lot sooner than it ended up coming up well the one that i'll be
interested in is if we get a 960 ti at 249
if it's actually based on gm 204 as
opposed to gm 206 um so so right now we've actually it's
funny we've only got four maxwell desktop products and they're running
three different versions of the chip because 750 ti is gm gm-207 so it's
gm-207 gm-206 and gm-204 and then we haven't seen uh you know a titan class
product which would be running a gm2 there's rumors going on 200 yeah there's
lots lots of rumors about that um
i guess i guess that's all there is to really say about that i mean
uh we're we're kind of curious what you guys thought of our coverage of the of
the 960 where we kind of did a single card and then we did sli coverage as a
separate video um you know what you guys thought of that feel free to sort of
post in the twitch chat but i'll be completely upfront with you guys the
only reason we did that is because we ended up with too many 960s by accident
so nine nine seventy nine eighty launch uh we had we had nine eighties no
problem uh NVIDIA provided those but 970s were actually provided by the
add-in board partners and NVIDIA um
apparently somehow or another
we we got allocated lots of 980s because
of people like prioritizing us and wanting us to send us their best product
we didn't get a single gtx 970 on launch because everyone kind of assumed well
someone else will send them a 970. we're going to go ahead and send them 980 and
i didn't i didn't ask about it because i
just kind of assumed that i was going to be getting seated one and i didn't
really think of it 960 i went i was like okay we're not gonna let that happen
again so i proactively was arranging samples and then it turned out that they
were gonna be seated automatically and they were in the mail before i even
found out you know when the launch was so we ended
up with uh three 960s instead of one
which is what i wanted yeah um so so so
we were like okay well i don't just want to do three of the same review because
that's super boring so let's do sli as a separate one so we'd love to know what
you guys uh what you guys think of that yeah do we want to move into Windows 10
uh or should we do sponsors first three to get it out of the way about 970.
what's about 970 uh the video everyone wants us to talk we should talk
about 970 so people can stop screaming then do sponsors and then just Windows
10 it for basically the rest of the show sure well no not the rest of the show we
do have basically it is a well i don't want people to tune out because they don't
care about Windows 10. i do it'll basically be the rest of the show but i
was trying to lie way to ruin it someone screwed up the there is other stuff
brighter
dimmer oh the power profiles are it's brightening right now it was it
stopped okay um all right
where is this nine 970. apparently the
gtx 970 cannot utilize
all four gigs of its memory and i think that headline is a little bit misleading
although i don't necessarily disagree with the overall sentiment um this
headline is better NVIDIA's gtx 970 has a rather appears to have a rather
serious memory allocation bug because it's not that you can't
access all four gigs it's that once you
start filling it up these performance
of the vram 125th of the speed or something like that tanks significantly
so it seems like when the last 500 to
700 megabytes of vram gets accessed
memory performance drops significantly so this is something that is currently
and a developing story on reddit overclock.net and guru 3d
some users have even found their card and NVIDIA's own websites which is all
over the place it goes belly up when hitting three gigs
so it looks like it varies from card to card the gtx 980 is fortunately not
affected okay so it's not a maxwell issue but
seems to be one specific to the 970 um going beyond
uh so so basically the problem will manifest as stuttering or dramatically
increased frame times so basically just
a degraded gaming experience even though FPS reporting might still seem like it's
okay so here were the here were the results
yup so a fraction of the performance once it reaches the
uh once it reaches the end here so we're seeing 150 gigabytes per second from
this benchmark here fall to 22 or even
as low as six gigabytes per second once
the card is full so
this writer says you know well the card still performs like a champ
which is good this makes it extremely
hard to recommend this card right now especially in light of the fact that one
of the big arguments for the gtx 970 is
how it not only has the the horsepower to gain at 4k it has the vram that
you're gonna need to run high resolution textures at high resolutions
um which which i mean and ah man this
just just does fail written all over it doesn't it we don't yeah we're still
waiting to hear back from a video though yeah everyone's waiting for back from
NVIDIA yeah video is investigating they are investigating they have officially
responded and they are investigating so i think we need to kind of hold tight
and wait till we hear back from them um some people are speculating recall
already and we we don't know that that will be the case although wild
accusations the thing is is that
i this looks pretty low level this isn't something that's showing up just in
games this is something where people can okay so if they can fix it in drivers
great uh yeah if it requires a firmware fix
i they might recall gross yeah yeah because you can't expect well okay it's
easier than it used to be like we had to update the firmware on our on our 970
Windows still can't really expect people to do that on
their own because there's possibilities of bricking and whatnot but the problem
is like and then whose problem is it is it the board partners is it the retailers i
remember the last time we had uh we had a recall it was the um the
rev one of the p67 chipset
uh back at ncix uh remember oh
no that was horrible yeah it was a dessert that took me a second to kind of
oh that was cool and so the way that that one worked that
one even more unfortunately was um was a
hardware re-spin yeah as opposed to just
a firmware update so and i'm not i don't even know i mean NVIDIA might not be
able to fix this with a firmware update or they might um but that one was just a disaster
there's some pretty there's some people getting pretty low level in terms of
like what could be causing the issue and there's there's some speculation on each
side where well if these things are what's actually happening then it could
maybe be firmware fixed or if these things are what's actually happening it
might have to be a hardware replacement of some sort et cetera et cetera it's
pretty interesting um so basically in development we don't know no one knows
right now no NVIDIA's investigating i can't believe they didn't notice this
yes um and like even if you did i can't believe
you would possibly think that no one would notice it so i'm pretty sure they didn't notice it um NVIDIA
they they tend to
they tend to take the approach where
they they want to make sure their technology is legitimately better so
they can maintain their kind of smarmy attitude about how great their
tech is they don't seem to be in the business of trying to
say that it has something that it doesn't yes um so i i don't think they
knew yeah like the the last you can take the good and the bad from that the last
thing NVIDIA wants is to have this mug smile wiped off their face by something
embarrassing like this so i i cannot imagine for a second that anyone at
NVIDIA knew about this i'm
wasn't surprised least a little bit more than one extremely short forum post
i understand that though like i get it yeah the response almost has to be that
because you you can't say more until you know more i mean
but you could make a more official statement saying you're looking into it
do you though i mean okay let's let's let's be
realistic oh wait was okay was that their forums i don't remember which form
it was that was their own forums then that's probably fine can't can't
remember i can't remember anyway the point the point is like the only people
who know about this right now are going to be hardcore enthusiasts who are on
sites like ocn okay is NVIDIA gonna go and send an e-blast to everyone in their
GeForce.com mailing list about something like this
my problem was more the fact that it's extremely short i think it's like one
line responding to one person's quote
and they're like by the way looking into it
yeah but you can't say more because as soon as you say more then
you're you're like bound to that and when you don't know what's going on you
have to investigate first like i i don't i don't disagree with you
i'm playing a little bit of devil's advocate here yeah because yeah
for the consumer who spent their money and bought that graphics card they they
deserve more so that's actually a better line than i thought it was
we are still looking into this and we'll have an update as soon as possible i
thought it was shorter than that to be completely honest so
but from a corporate standpoint from a legal because if you yeah if you admit
blame on a legal standpoint then even if you rectify yourself later you're still
in the wrong so there's there's a ton of reasons why they just shouldn't say more
and they should say nothing until they know what their action plan is because
legal standpoint and that kind of stuff is is really weird because apologizing
is always a negative thing no matter what in a legal standpoint and aside
from from all of that like they're remembering videos not just dealing with
the end user customers they're dealing with like their ad and board partner
customers on this yeah who are going yo dawg
what's going on who's footing the bill if these cards are coming back like i
can assure you those questions are already happening right now yeah
definitely you know what that actually leads really well into um
puget's thing we have like 35 minutes right now that's
it to do Windows okay well i still want to do the
puget thing okay um so this is uh oh and i guess we should talk about the
backblaze thing while we're at it so puget so these are more like uh can
you put these in the chat these are more like if you feel like checking them out go ahead and check them out um they're
not as scientific as as you know i think
the graphs would indicate that they appear to be for example puget's puget's
uh thing here is strictly based on i
think it's ASUS graphics cards so
on both the NVIDIA and the AMD side but they show desktop GPU failure rate by
doa or failure during their testing and then failure out in the field so they
show that NVIDIA has actually improved quite a bit since the gtx 200 series
with the 700 series being the best so far and no data for 900 series and then
AMD being kind of a little bit all over the map here and then their hypothesis
was or their theory or whatever was uh
that it seems to be something about AMD because all the cards are from ASUS but
that may not necessarily be the case because there's a lot of different reasons a card might fail earlier for
example if AMD's pricing was lower
it's a lot harder for someone like an add-in board partner to bake in the
margin that they need and the build quality that they want to put into it so
they might cut corners on something even if it's the exact same manufacturer
that's why you don't see a 200 graphics card built on exactly the same car like
pcb design and power delivery design as a 500 graphics card so if the asp is
just lower on one side you might get a little bit more cheaping out on things
um and then uh backblaze published another one i don't even wanna i don't
even want to link this i did already did you you told me to link them
uh backblaze releases flawed listings
hard drive failure rates for 2014. with
a series of the worst source links on the planet we got to get that under
control um
where's the graph like four back blaze links in a little in a row that just say
backblaze.com like what freaking ones are these where do they go
completely different websites even one of them is a blog
god more than one of them is the blog anyways
uh sorry doctor strange best charger anyway there's a graph it says seagate
drives are terrible and hitachi ones are good and uh oh here we go yep so there's the
annual failure rate um take this with an enormous grain of salt because something
that we pointed out last time they published one of these lists
every time they published it like three to four is that their methodology is
terrible it's ridiculous sometimes their sample sizes are just outright way too
small other times their sample sizes are
just too small and other times they are
like there is no controlled environment for the drives they're running at different temperatures with different
different amounts of drives in the thing more vibration less vibration different
parts of the rack different uh oh so
please ignore back blazes hard drive reliability never look at their blog
ever not because we're like super close friends with seagate and trying to cover
their butts in fact i'd say we have pretty much equal relationships with c
games exact same thing if it was switched and we would say exact same
thing it's just wrong and it's bad and please ignore it speaking of things that
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so let's get into uh the microsoft uh
Windows 10 keynote Windows 10
is a paradigm shifting all new
it's Windows as a service although it's not quite Windows as a service the way
that i was looking yes for it to be yes but it still kind of is the idea is
having the same experience whether you're on this kind of a device or this
kind of a device or a much larger pretend this is a monitor this kind of a
device ah this box under here okay that's not
gonna work oh i caught it by looking in the camera
that was awesome that was sweet anyways um so so they're
there their concept here is called continuum which is very different from continuity
by the way it actually is pretty different because
continuum is supposed to be about having the same look and feel across the
devices whereas continuity is about having access to the same information
across devices and and being able to use
the features of one device on another device okay it's a very blurry line but um the
point is then there were a few cool things that stood out it's about almost
a two and a half hour keynote that honestly it's pretty good
oh i was gonna say it was terrible really yeah i thought a lot of their
presenters um i think probably practiced
it too many times so that they were like stuttering on
things that should have just been fluid speech um
but i didn't mean good okay i didn't mean good as in the presenters were like very
engaging people i think the content was pretty good i mean you watch apple's
keynote addresses right no not really no usually because i'm
usually working while they're going there there was there was like there was
some there was some also ran sort of presentation skills going on with the
okay that should have been the presentation skills were not great the
content i think was good the content was okay but it should have been an hour and
a half keynote there were ways to condense that there
there was some really great um when the ceo came up at the end and sort
of talked about how it all tied together that was great but there was a lot of
filler that throughout i do also appreciate that they bring people on
stage that are very in touch with what's going on yeah
they could have just put hosts up there that's true and would have been terrible
yeah and like i would rather it be the guy that may not be super amazing at
presenting but did a lot of this stuff or led the teams that did a lot of this
stuff and had was deeply integrated with it the entire time like the guy that did
the um hollow glass which we'll get to that at some point um he's been working
on that project for like seven years
like maybe not the best presentation skills but you can tell the whole time
that he's on stage that he cares to a crazy degree yeah and i liked that very
passionate so maybe not the presentation school was super high but i knew that he
cared and that actually made me care more about it and i focused more on the
device instead of just the presentation anyways all right so let's um let's go
through and let's do let's do the the highlight reel this was posted by says
ray on the forum by the way so for me huge highlight was uh that it looks like
Windows 10 is going to do a much better job with convertible devices oh sorry we
don't call them convertibles anymore two-in-one devices so things that are
notebooks and also tablets like this one allowing it the the switch between a
tablet mode that by default has your applications whether they're win32 or
modern ui applications by default be full screen with multitasking being
swiping in from the left to boom your keyboard is connected now you have a
more traditional window management desktop laptop type experience looked
really good huge improvement um another so one of the big things aside from
window sizes is start menu so instead of being stuck with that full screen thing
there's a new micro modern start menu within a more
traditional start menu that can have text in it as well looks absolutely
fantastic add to that you can maximize it yeah there's a max there's like a
window maximize button where you can make it bigger if you want which i i
kind of doubt anyone will really use but it's there if you want it another one
i'm really excited about is it looks like microsoft is stepping up to apple's
level here with respect to in os
um integration of things like calendars things like notifications something i
really have felt like is is missing it's like look i i don't want to use bing and
i don't want to use your calendar because they suck i use a google
calendar on on os 10 i can just sync my google
calendar boom os x calendar application which is great by the way automatically
has all my crap in it i don't have to think about it um so it looks like we're
gonna get support for stuff like that on the subject of bing i guess we'll talk a
little bit more about that but um a lot of the stuff they were showing off
is very bing and one drive reliant which
is extremely frustrating to me i don't know anyone who uses onedrive and you
know what here let's let's go ahead uh before we get into that if we're going
to finish this container yeah yeah yeah go ahead go ahead
sure okay so Windows 10 will be free for people that have Windows 7 plus so
Windows 7 or Windows 8 and it's it's free for a year but
by that they mean you have to activate within a year um and then it's free forever once
you've moved to it so it's it's not that you you your license runs out in a year
it's that you you need to move up within a year essentially which is i think
understandable personally so upgrade all your stuff then you'll be
fine also if you are on there i don't remember exactly what it's called but
their early adopter program um where you're testing out Windows 10 right now
a lot of the stuff that we're going to be talking about today will be in updates very soon apparently the cortana
update is going to be fairly quick here which is actually very interesting and
has me kind of looking for a device to install it on because i want to try that
out we'll talk about that more later and
they're going to have the install versions for phone Windows 10 for your
phone fairly soon for those early adopter guys as well which again i don't
remember the name of and uh Windows 10 for phones are just i
don't think this is in our notes but one thing that i really liked there was they
are they're they're making the like they're making everything look more
similar but one of the big ones that they fixed this has been a big gripe for me is the settings menu so they are
making it look similar on phone and on and on desktop and tablet and then
they're consolidating everything like it was really broken yeah uh with some
things in modern some things in the classic ui and just extremely
frustrating so here we go i just posted a straw poll i mean i want to know what cloud
services you guys are using because a lot of the stuff they demoed was like
super cool if you happen to have a surface three
and a Windows phone and you use one drive
and like one drive so basically if you're a
microsoft yeah yeah um and i i hope to see better
integration with some third-party services even though i'm not sure uh i'm
not sure if that's gonna happen one thing too is microsoft has never really
been that hardcore about needing to use their stuff
so i wouldn't be surprised if maybe it launches with these things but yeah but
they're trying to create that more integrated experience and and quite
frankly they hopefully you have to do it hopefully they're trying to make the
availability of more interviews one thing you can tell definitely is that it
isn't this or at least it doesn't seem to be i guess you can tell definitely
that it doesn't seem to be um the like split team idea that microsoft used to
be yep everyone seems to kind of be coming together and working together now
which is good god that should have happened a long
time ago maybe more people would be voting for
one drive right now if that had actually happened what else we got here um the
new office for mobile which is free on devices under whatever inches i think
seven or eight something like that um looks fabulous so aside from aside from
being able to have like a full-fledged microsoft word like they've modified the
ribbon interface to sit at the bottom of the screen which looks fantastic it
actually works kind of across the device so if you're writing an email in outlook
you can have a fully fledged microsoft word engine word processor on your phone
in order to compose emails which is fantastic to me the new photo
aggregation and organization application that's included looks really great i
always liked Windows photo gallery but it lacked the automation that i thought
it needed so this one does little things like it'll uh it'll retouch your photos
automatically which i'm personally not a huge fan of but it'll get rid of
duplicates and it'll sort bursts on its
own automatically turn off all those things and you can if you don't want
retouching i'm pretty sure it can turn yes so you can do all that stuff too and
then one last thing that was just kind of uh this stood out to me about the
whole presentation and seems to be like a gen that i don't see too many other
people talking about is one drive music collection and playlist syncing yeah you
can drag and drop your entire music library into onedrive and boom it's
everywhere with all your playlists accessible and automatically updated
that is freaking cool personal cloud
music service is awesome for folks who have large collections of cds and or
digital files that they've purchased over the years or just like yeah owning
your own stuff oh that's cool just just owning your own data is really cool i
mean it's still on someone else's cloud server and so there's that but you you
own the songs instead of a service like the google music thing where once you
don't pay forever they're all gone yeah yeah like if i kind of went okay there's
probably only 3 000 songs that i'll ever care about in my life and if i subscribe
to this for eight dollars a month for 30
years what's actually a better value for me oh okay
like there's some math to do for which one works best for you but either way i
think that's that's a really cool feature um so so i'll let you do spartan
browser because spartan browser looks it looks like microsoft kinda hedging
their bets a little bit but also moving in the right direction i think they're
moving in the right direction uh anyways there's a new rendering
engine that they say is more for today's web wall
i just your last one apparently one drive is doing better than i thought 16
it's doing better than i thought two but it's still not 44 yeah with google drive i actually
thought dropbox would have more yeah i thought google drive would be right
about there dropbox would have more and onedrive would have less i hate google drive's interface
okay go ahead i still use it more just because it happens to be there and it's
free but yeah um anyways the one of the coolest things is
that you can mark up the web quite easily now i know some people are going
to be like well you could kind of like snipping tool and then write on it and
it's fine and there's other kind of stuff for this already but it's very well integrated so
if you have a pen or a touchscreen device in general so you just want to
use your finger you can draw all over websites and do whatever uh if you have
a keyboard you can uh add in a commenting system which looks really
nice it looks very similar to words commenting system which is actually
really good we use it a lot in in office
here i guess in-house actually very specifically works um but
but like you you can highlight things and comment them like very very good and
it's collaborative to a certain degree so by snapshotting it you essentially
take the website offline in the aspect that if there's an update to that
website your snapshot will not update but all the links and everything that
are on there will continue to work and all that kind of stuff will still be
fine and i believe you'd be able to right click on an image and view its
source information all that kind of stuff like it's just a snapshot of a web
page and then you can share that to people and mark it up collaboratively
which is actually really cool it's really cool i can see getting behind
something like that yeah and all this support hopefully someone doesn't just
mark the whole page um but i'm sure there will be that's all over stuff for
that yeah um and all this collaborative ability is
built into the browser so all the buttons for it and stuff are built into the browser so it's very quick and easy
to do which is pretty cool um that's
the main thing in terms of markup and that's the main thing in terms of the rendering engine which they didn't
really talk about but it also has um
cortana built into it cortana cortana cortana
i have the markup clip here yeah so you can see later on he draws a smiley face
which i guess he'll do in a second i didn't realize this was actually playing
uh but like he circled it drew this does a smiley face and in a little bit here
you'll see him actually share it with other people well i think he i don't
know if he actually does but he goes to do it uh anyways cortana should be here
can we talk about how internet explorer and codename spartan will both be
included with Windows 10 yeah and spartan will be available uh pretty much
across the board so we're going to have spartan on Windows 10 is all about
unifying all this stuff so it'll be on your phone it'll be on the desktop it'll
be it'll be everywhere looks looks really interesting is there anything
else that we can talk about about spartan yet i mean they've redone
the ui to make it more because it's not Windows or it's not in an explorer
10. so let's move on to our should we talk about cortana on the desktop before
cortana in spartan i don't actually think so because
cortana and spartan is very specific okay sure so let's talk about what
cortana will do in spartan yes exactly so
she's not as yeah it does not function the same way
as cortana on the desktop so we'll talk about that in a second she's more of
like a a pre-done web crawler which will try to assume the information that you
want from a web page for you so say you go to the restaurant one is a very good
application for this it's a good example but it's also not a particularly
compelling example because i can i can google map search or restaurant and most
of that information comes up in the drop-off that's not all she does i know all right um so she can get you
address and directions like you just said phone
number and all that kind of stuff which is usually quite easy to find on a
restaurant website but there are definitely some restaurants where
they might not even have the menu on the website or they have it somewhere else
and she can try to figure out this information for you and if the menu
isn't super detailed or say you're like what the heck is that she'll have
already figured out all this information so if you click on a word that's like i
don't know artichoke which you should probably know but uh anyways she can
tell you about it she can give you dietary information all that kind of stuff it's kind of like consistent yeah
it's kind of an assistant in terms of that yes of course things like the
address is probably pretty easy and most websites are often there menu is often
there and often detailed enough but it'll also have like you can click on a
menu item and it'll give you yelp reviews yep like these kind of things
are actually pretty cool and helpful um not
ground breaking and not things that you wouldn't have been able to do on your own um but
helpful yeah and but stuff like when you start typing in an address having
cortana kind of jump in and be like oh hey is this actually what you wanted to
know so it's all going to come down to how well it works and microsoft sales
pitch for cortana involves a whole lot of it's powered by bing
just like scary very scary it has bing
improved that that assumption thing that he was bringing up is basically if it
knows you're waiting for a flight from somewhere
if you're waiting for someone to come in and you start typing in that airline's website it'll just be like oh well that
flight's coming in at this time is that what you're actually looking for and then you don't really have to actually
go to the website which is nice which is very cool um we're also getting
cortana on the desktop and quite frankly i i don't understand why this didn't
happen before i have no idea why siri isn't on os 10. yep i ca i cannot think
of a reason why google now isn't a desktop app i mean every macbook and
every imac has a microphone like for sure it's on there uh and has speakers
like they're built in so
why was apple not the first one to do this yeah uh they i mean they sat on ass
since they released siri and did nothing on the desktop uh anyway sorry go ahead
so cortana's coming to the desktop um
microsoft sorry go ahead it's like your typical kind of assumption for voice
control there's also kind of interesting things like that cortana is a trusted
assistant so you can tell it what you want it to know and what you don't want
it to know yeah so in the notebook you can be like yeah i'd really prefer for
you to not know my gender or not know the year that i was born but the more
information you give cortana the more relevant stuff will just kind of
pop up like hey the the game that you want to see yo
dog there might be some information about it or if you happen to be a big sports fan actually i thought one of the
best examples of it being smart was one
that they didn't even give in the presentation because uh the presenter
for this part was talking about how he was a big sports fan and the like front
and center on on on like whenever we were kind of looking over his shoulder
at his devices it was all about inflate gate
which is the big sports news right now yeah and uh so i thought i thought that
was really cool if there's more than i really need to stop putting gate on the
ends of things if there's more that cortana can do
to keep relevant information at your fingertips then i think that's great so
you just click on the the search bar near the start button you get like a
google now style information feed uh can be used through type or voice so you
don't have to yammer at your computer like a person who talks to their
computer if you don't want people to think you're crazy
um and yeah i mean it's it's probably worth
tuning in to just the cortana on desktop part of the keynote if you watch nothing
else well that and the other the hologram thing i actually see myself
using cortana on desktop more than i see myself using google now
i can i can imagine that yeah yeah definitely like i'm just walking
around my house especially because i have a snowball
yeah and like people that have mics that are not necessarily just headset mics
because uh especially ones that are like adaptive like a snowball is so if it
doesn't hear anything for a little while it'll try to reach out more right so if
i'm in my kitchen it might actually be able to pick me up right um and if i'm
like hey cortana play music it'll hear me from
fairly far away because it's a snowball and then actually be able to start playing music and stuff that's really
cool you might like google now more if it was if it was on the desktop if it
was on your wrist oh yeah um but although i still find myself using
google now very little because google now on my wrist can't control my
speakers on my desktop that's correct um so the integration of some other weird
stuff it's the ecosystem fragmentation so what i could do
is if i had sono support which will likely come eventually i could play
music yep so be like sonos play my google play whatever now whatever so
it's kind of going from google to uh through the sonos app so yeah so it's
it's so through sonos service sonos please play plays through
the sonos it's so it's so it's very fragmented but if microsoft can maintain
control of of all those different steps in the chain then yes it could provide a
very seamless experience yeah um one thing i do want to comment on sort of
sort of accord they also showed off some cortana stuff on mobile so
they they sent actually no i think this particular demo was on the desktop
yeah the email was on the desktop at about 35 minutes into the keynote
um where he uses cortana to type an email and the email is a one-liner with
a subject line and takes a minute to send and i kind of went all this talk
about natural interaction with our electronics and how touch and voice are
the direction that we're heading i agree with touch um touch touch always kind of
made sense to me voice continues to make absolutely no sense to me and i'm gonna
i'm gonna pull up my crystal ball and i'm gonna say voice will never be a
mainstream interaction with a device uh well i
shouldn't say mainstream it'll never be it'll never be
it'll never be a great experience and it'll always be a little bit weird um
talking to yourself totally wrong okay okay fine so let's
let's let's get to that keep doing your thing so
the reason that i have for this is that whenever you use voice control you are
going to disrupt everyone around you which means in the workplace it will
never make any sense because i i've been using it i've been actually i've been
having a little bit of fun with it because it's not like i don't have a voice control thing on my wrist at all
times i'll get a message uh while we're filming and i'll i'll be like
uh okay google blah blah blah um
what did it come up with that body body something lick anyway um
so and i'll talk at it and immediately anyone else in the room kind of goes huh
what because i'm not talking loud enough for
them to hear me properly but i have to talk loud enough for the microphone to
hear me so in an environment where you have to be around other people it's
never going to make an ounce of sense and i even think the same thing will be
true for the home to some degree yes there are fewer people and they're not
necessarily trying to do anything but if i'm reading on the chair and my son is
on the couch trying to control some crap
on the screen and is talking at it i'm gonna be like shut up
pick up a controller because that's annoying because we're
hardwired in much the same way that our eyes are hardwired to notice movement
even in our peripheral vision we are hardwired to notice especially the sound
of another human being communicating and
it is extremely distracting to us if it's happening all the time and it has
nothing to do with what we're supposed to be paying attention to so i i don't
see why any of those reasons mean that it'll never be a mainstream interactive
mainstream was the wrong word so i i said that immediately mainstream is the
wrong word it'll be mainstream and then i was searching for another word and i
got lost because anyone can use it i mean what does mainstream mean it means
it's on every device and like anyone i think it will be very widely used but it
will be extremely edge case scenarios where it makes any
sense to use versus anything else i think uh an office setup like we have is
a fairly edge case scenario to be completely honest a lot of people have
cubicles and a lot of people are expected to be on the phone while they're in their cubicle a lot yeah i
think voice control while you're in an area where you're expected to be talking
to no one else is totally fine okay but also uh voice
control apps are trying to learn their user's voice that's a constant thing
that they're not very good at yet i'm not saying oh that wasn't even my
concern i'm not yeah yeah i know i'm going somewhere give me a moment um
we're far from it being super great we all definitely know that
um but it's trying to learn your voice so if you were in even a very crowded
very loud area if you talked at a fairly normal tone it should be able to figure
out that that was you talking and what you said and whether or not that comes
from uh microphones on your head better noise
cancellation better noise cancellation or somehow so you should be able to use
it while walking around about wherever
very easily and it should be able to talk to you um you should be able to use
it in cubicle style environments you should be able to use it in tons of
different environments maybe it's not that thing where your
dad's sitting in the same room as you and you're trying to talk to the tv
you should probably use a remote because definitely in that situation
your dad's going to be like what the hell are you trying to talk to me about i'm trying to read this thing right um i
don't expect it to be used there but just like almost every single other
input medium it hasn't replaced
the other input mediums you still expected like the the fact that we can
already talk to our tvs has not removed right the clicker the fact that you can
do motion control with a lot of tvs has not removed the clicker especially
that laptop has yeah really bad
really bad i hate those things the fact that this laptop has a touchscreen on it
hasn't removed the keyboard because the keyboard is still extremely good this is
a different way so okay i agree that it's a different way um what i the
problem is i i don't even know if there is a word to describe my okay i guess
what i'm looking for is the the stigma
the the the weirdness of interacting with something by voice in front of
other people i don't think that's going to go away and it might work better
better noise cancellation and voice recognition and will make it function
better and i think the the the things that are hearing you
whatever you want to call them at this point in time need to become more personable as well yes for that to be a
thing and i think this might sound a little bit morbid but the people that
came before voice control was a big thing kind of need to die off and go
away no because i know that sounds like okay
so to be more socially acceptable yes you think either society needs to shift
its perception which the only way it really happens is by and this is a known
thing certain things don't get adopted until the people that
were alive before it aren't alive anymore like that's i know that's a
terrible thing to really say right but
it's something maybe i'm one of the people who has to die one scenario i
don't even mean that one scenario i can see where it will
make more sense than it does today is if it's combined with something that where
you have a visual heads-up display that allows you to read because okay my issue
with voice control right now is whenever
it doesn't quite go right and and the safeguards that have to be
in place in case it doesn't go right because his one-liner email took a
minute to send that is devastating
maybe other people have lots of time on their hands but i don't have a minute to
send a one-liner and if i was gonna send something much more complicated than a
one-liner then i'm gonna spend either i
or uh you know an assistant that i guess i have to hire is gonna have to spend a
bunch of time going through and editing something and they did show off okay you
can put in a hashtag and it automatically punctuates and all that stuff that doesn't mean i don't have to
go back through and edit it if i'm doing anything longer and more complicated so
to me again too i think this is where um
much further down the line and i've honestly i've always found the messaging
especially when it's not just a recording of your voice yeah to be a very odd use case
right for voice control because of these issues it takes way longer in the end
and like maybe okay if both of your hands are currently preoccupied if
you're trying to cook something yup say or if you're trying to do something else maybe sure and i use this for that
periodically yeah yeah i'm sure but then like when he's
his his thing was uh not you the guy in
the presentation was that he was like working on excel on his monitor and he
had too many excel things open so he couldn't send an email
i'm just like just like it's
it's gonna be so much easier the people okay that's my point then i guess yeah
the people inventing it don't seem to know what it's for
yeah because it's not for that no not really i don't i don't think that use
case was very good i think voice honestly i think voice is a crazy
important medium i think it's going to be one of the most important ways that we interact with devices
not now i think it will be at some point in time
and there's a few things that could really fix this for me uh like if i didn't have to hold it to my
you know facebook yes no that's an important change that you make the recognition good if if i could if i
could like okay walking down the street would be a great example where
i i i wouldn't want to kind of
if i'm gonna pull out a device and kind of yak at it i might as well do it with
my phone whereas if i do have a head mounted display um or an augmented
reality display of some sort where i can read the message and then i just kind of
say okay yes okay that's
less weird to me than just kind of walking
down the street going like this like we saw that that version of the future
if you watch the movie where near the end of the movie just
everyone is walking around talking to their ai people that they're in or
people digital people that they're in relationships with their artificial
intelligences that they're in these relationships with um i i don't
see that happening and maybe it's
old-fashioned but we are going to crave the actual attention of other people and
other people are always going well in her relationships with your ai were not
were not that was still not very widespread closer to the end where even they were
they were friends but the like relationship it depends how
you define relationships sorry relationship doesn't necessarily mean girlfriend okay it just means
relationship yeah um so
i don't remember where we're going with this i don't think you and i actually disagree that much i think it was true i
think it was the way that i phrased it it was a terminology thing like i think it's all we and when i say edge case i
mean i don't mean edge case where only certain people will ever use it i mean
edge case within your daily life where it will make sense to use it like we've
got people bringing up that driving is a great use case for voice control and i
would mostly agree it still needs to be better oh yeah it needs to be better a
lot of the time i will go to use voice control i actually have a dock that sits
kind of about this far from my face so i can all like my phone is never more than
two feet from me in the car um and even with it there if i try to use voice
control to reply to a text message it'll make a mistake unless i'm just saying
something very simple you know a good double-digit percentage of the time and
when that happens and i've got two seconds to cancel the notification all
of a sudden i'm scrambling for my phone and i'm driving until it's
basically perfect it doesn't make a ton of sense i think
right now it's definitely an edge case i think at some point in time i don't i
don't think it'll be nearly as much of an edge case and i think we'll almost be
designing offices based around to it once we get to a certain degree all
right so let's go ahead and uh and move on to the xbox gaming app yeah so my
games everything you play on any Windows
10 device although i don't know how much
clarification we have with respect to um
oh shoot what was i thinking when i was watching this crap i forget now anyway
okay so everything you play on Windows oh right right right right so there's lots of integration with things like
friends lists messages activity feeds um
a lot of there's a lot of talk with respect to uh sharing with people and
communicating about skype and it's like that's great fix the ip resolver bug and
i'll talk to you about skype skype right now nobody should use it if they don't
want people to know their ip address and therefore their location yeah all you
need is someone skype id and you can know pretty much within a block where
they are or where they were where they've been
you can see a history it's terrible yeah it's devastating you should not be using
skype if you care at all so anyway all this integration with skype totally
irrelevant to me so they're talking about friends list messages all this
stuff and i kind of wonder okay well so are we tied to their social network they
mentioned steam very briefly yeah presenter said hey i'm just using a
gamer bunch of games he used it to launch a game but i don't know if we're
going to see any kind of cooperation between that's another thing that
actually bugged me is that he didn't launch the steam game through the xbox
gaming app launched it through he should have been able to click launch and it should have
maybe even just popped up steam and then loaded the game or something but he left
the xbox gaming app and launched it through steam so it looks like it might
be a replacement for the my games holding too many things um with with
more social integration uh there's activity an activity feed so you can see
like achievements that other people got and stuff i personally i don't creep my
steam buddies achievements that often so i don't really feel a need to to see
that um but what's cool is you can capture the last 30 seconds of gameplay
and uh edit it up and share it which is which is pretty cool something that we
kind of already have with service with things like NVIDIA shadow play but yeah
more refinement and more ubiquitous great yes people people jumped all over
that oh we already have this well not everybody shadow play is not on
everyone's things not even all NVIDIA gpus support shadowplay yeah and i know
a lot of people that have it don't have it on and i know a lot of people that have trouble with it and all this kind
of stuff this is built in everyone will have it
it's cool i like the fact that it's there i really like the fact that it's there it's easy to use too this one
remains to be seen if it's gonna be this closed garden sort of everyone
has to use the xbox gaming app and you have to you know interact with xbox
gamers uh then uh i i don't know how much i'd
like to take off i like that i'll be able to have some form of communication
with buddies that i have who might be playing xbox stuff honestly i think that's pretty cool i like cross
platforms and the fable legends demo was pretty cool so they had uh they had xbox
and Windows playing a game at the same time the thing about that demo though is
that a lot of fuss got made about how it's running on Windows 10 this isn't
new functionality and this isn't something that game developers haven't
been able to do for a long time um it's just they had a game that they could
show where it was actually done and it wasn't a shooter yet that's all that really happened i was hoping i found
that i was just pretty sure um he was wearing a grunt shirt i think
i don't know enough about halo because i haven't played in the last while but i think that was the grunt logo as in like
the little dudes anyways and the twitch channel let me
know but he was wearing a grunt thing so the whole time i'm like oh master chief
collection is coming to pc and it didn't i was like what come on but directx 12
is basically here at this point they're saying uh this is this is really funny
uh i like that i like the spin on it CPU-bound game performance um
CPU-bound games can see performance increases of up to 50 percent which is
basically like saying
not a whole lot is going to happen i mean AMD made the same kinds of claims
about mantle it is good that the pc is
finally getting apis that will support much greater numbers of draw calls for
better better complexity much lower level apis for interacting with the
hardware more directly allowing game developers to squeeze more performance
out of the hardware in general but much like we've seen on every game console
so far it's going to take time for devs to even
get any extra performance out of the hardware learning these new techniques
so we're not going to see i don't think anything that significant with the first
generation of directx 12 games other than much like AMD is touting with
mantle easy reporting from console versions uh look at assassin's creed
unity for a great example of a game that is severely
just hampered on the pc because it will
end on the console but compared to even to the console uh by the number of draw
calls that they just didn't reconfigure the game to not require on the pc
version um so so it'll enable that and
then other than that um yeah more efficient uses CPU so you
won't need as powerful as CPU and then given the way that the resolution race
has been heating up lately with us seeing basically 4k go from
totally way out there to basically affordable in like a year and
a half and with 5k displays on the horizon our dell 5k is in the mail by
the way 8k displays like slightly beyond the
horizon slightly beyond the horizon um we're not going to be CPU bound in
pretty much anything for quite some time i mean there are situations where it'll
be great i can see something like um you know a physics combat based game like a
space sim where all the weapons are physics based yeah we can see the
viability of these games actually being a thing more yes which is exciting but i
think people who are expecting there it's an expectation management thing i
think people expecting games that have a directx 12 and directx 11 version to
just perform 50 better in directx 12 i think they have another thing coming
what's cool about directx 12 though is there basically won't be many reasons to
run a game in direct x11 mode because uh directx 11 hardware for the most part
supports directx 12 across the board which is pretty cool
um you can stream from your xbox to your pc
should you so desire okay i thought this was cooler than
pretty much anyone gave it credit for oh yeah i didn't think was that cool so go
ahead um people hammered on it like convinced me uh i think it's cool for
the people now okay basically no one watching this but um
and now i agree with everyone saying that you should be able to use your xbox
as a streaming device from your pc so you should be able to stream from
your pc down to your xbox yep it should be both it should go way more sense it
should go both ways i completely agree but um what microsoft seems to be doing
right now is this slow
unity of everything yeah and one thing that i really like about the xbox gaming
app and one thing i really like about being able to xbox stream in one direction is that we might be able to
pile on top of that more and he he made it very very clear that the
game developers conference will have more information additional information
about stuff that they're doing and more news for gamers so there might be more
stuff so maybe streaming in both directions maybe more games are gonna be on both platforms uh maybe additional
stuff like that so i think it's cool that you can go in one way
the guys that might want to be playing xbox exclusives and that might be the
only reason why they have an xbox if mom and dad are on the tv will now be able
to play it on their gaming pc anyways um and there are exclusives that are
look interesting yeah that's a very frustrating but true fact
um so we still have to buy an xbox we
just don't have to look at it anymore which is still frustrating and there and
there it would be better ways to do this but they're they're i'm talking steps
here they're making things better progressively which is good
all right so i'm gonna go ahead and uh and pull this up but well do you want to
go over these bold things oh uh yeah i okay well there's there's a lot
more that microsoft can still do to make gaming on pc better i mean one thing
that yeah actually here you know what i'm just gonna kind of rant about a couple things here so one is i mean
where's our xbox one wireless controller dongles like come on
if you guys are gonna act like you're taking pc gaming seriously like at least
let us use your own freaking controller on your own freaking os i have to hope
that that kind of thing is coming soon and there's another thing that that i
find really frustrating about presentations like this you know they're fixing a lot of
problems that i didn't really have which is good because that's what an
innovative company does it takes what consumers want and kind of goes okay
that's interesting but here's what we think you actually need um and that's
fine but i don't see any talk about
making making the pc experience more seamless in the ways that we've been
complaining at them about for years like are we going to finally for the first
time ever install Windows and not have
any exclamation marks in device manager is
there any reason on earth
why something like an Intel storage driver shouldn't automatically work and
automatically be perfect or an Intel nick driver or or what whatever else you
know Windows update is such a powerful tool and so awesome and just so
under utilized at this time and i would have i don't know maybe i'm asking for
too much maybe that's just a mundane little detail and they're going to fix
it by the time Windows 10 launches and i'm going to be like holy crap the first
Windows that's actually easy to get started on but uh i just
it's like the fact that i can install Linux on one computer and have
everything work right out of the gate and install Windows on that same computer and have
a lot of it broken right out of the gate is really weird
like the adoption for Linux should not be as easy
i mean it should not be easier than it is for Windows that's just weird i love
Linux but like inherently you shouldn't be easier to
use than Windows it's just odd that's not that okay to be
clear it's not that Linux shouldn't be easier it's that Windows should be easier yes because they have so so many
resources to throw in it they're designed to be that easier install base
Linux is designed to be the more like badass we do it ourselves install base
and i'm not harking on Linux at all i'm just saying Windows should be easier to
install it's just weird okay well i wanted to pull up this section of the
live stream but my internet connection is being poopy so uh do you want to just
go ahead and start talking about uh about the headset
okay are we skipping the surface hub thing i don't know if it matters yeah
sure so there's a thing for like meetings and you can draw on it and uh
it's like super cool it's cool and you can if you care you can share meeting
notes like super easily because it's all basically a one note presentation so
it's just like liberty bloop send to the people who are in this meeting which is super awesome if you happen to buy a
gigantic surface thing for your meeting room and everyone uses one note and all
those things yeah um so Windows holographic the thing
that basically everyone's entire internet about yeah speaking of
exploding did you notice that at the moments when at an apple keynote
everyone would like burst into yeah what was with the people
at this one they need to bring us to the next one because when they unveiled like
Windows holographic or brought out that 3d printed drone i'd been like yeah
whoa the the audience of this one and like
watching them too like something really cool would happen and you'd see everyone go oh
it was like going to a canucks game yeah it was very it was very odd there
was no one was excited and you'd have like the guy go up there and be like do
you guys want to see it and like that's the cheesiest thing everyone ever and
everyone knows it but but you should you gotta have a couple people throw them a
bone you know you're not a single person stepped up do you know how stressful it
is to be up there presenting this stuff like like i'm not going to say life's
work but buddy here has been working on this for
seven years i mean that's a significant chunk of his
life and he's gonna show you this thing and you're not even gonna give him a what what you know come on anyway sorry
go ahead freaking cool i got it on the screen now i totally agree with that
actually that's that that was very frustrating watching this and again
that's the thing we're talking about earlier the presentation thing like not the most amazing presentation but i
appreciate it because of who he is and you can tell how interested in it he is
give the guy some freaking claps so he doesn't think he's doing a terrible job
not the clap lots of claps it's different okay go ahead anyways that was
a little annoying anyway okay so the uh
they're saying it's the most advanced holographic computer the world has ever seen which is probably probably right um
the dark visor up in front you'll notice there's kind of like uh lenses inside
that look kind of like glasses might actually be glasses and then there's the
kind of dark kind of somewhat see-through display on the front that
dark visor is a see-through display that's where the actual images are
showing up um it's called the hololens and it's still
in development but will be released in the Windows 10 time frame so
based on how quickly we saw Windows 8.1 view
that could be soon maybe pretty quick not really sure that being
said it will be in the hands of developers by spring
so no idea when you're gonna be able to buy it sometime in the Windows 10 time frame
but it'll be enhanced developers like super soon spring is not that far away
so that's actually pretty cool there's no external markers there's no external
cameras there's no external wires plugging into anything and there's no
connection to anything needed at all it's all inside
the hololens you don't have to be connected to a computer none of that kind of stuff super cool the sensors are
flooding the quote-unquote flooding the device with terabytes of data every
second which is kind of insanity it has a quote-unquote high-end CPU and
GPU and has its own unique hpu or hologram
processing unit inside now this is seen
through uh the the camera rig that you saw on the lady's shoulder which is
wearing the camera rig is kind of wearing hololens so it's looking through
the camera rig right now um how you interact with the device is
you're going to be able to see here the the lit up part you point with your face
and then you click with your finger i don't think you actually point with your
finger you just click and then there's um i think there's one other right voice
so it's voice controlled look controlled and finger click controlled obviously
i'm sure they can add functionality there will be lots more options in the
future yeah um one thing that bugs me about that control level right now is
especially in the demo which is of course a like in the future demo not
this one which actually looks really cool but anyways um it shows them you
you pick things up and you manipulate it and you stretch things and you do stuff
like that none of that works and you like wave at the wall and like a boom
your netflix shows up on the wall and you just sit down on the couch and
there's like a virtual tv that actually doesn't exist and is strapped to your
head and it's like wow holy crap so that kind of stuff doesn't really work yet
because the only controls are look click and voice um but they might be a thing
this does exist already so this is the holo maker i believe it's called or
whatever it's called that part of my notes got moved or something
holo studio there it is this is called hollow studio um so you have that kind
of like tool kit on the right hand side she's obviously created this thing way
more than just this one time yeah fast oh yeah she was really fast um but it's
pretty cool and not even just the idea of being able to make something in
hollow maker like she just made this um
quadrocopter but you'd be able to view things so
you'd be able to view a 3d model say you wanted to buy something off of uh
squarespace not squarespace um i don't know some places it's a 3d model
printing place that prints shapeways shapeways um
i started with an s whatever if you wanted to buy something off of shapeways
you'd be able to download the model and actually view it in this type of a form
which is like really cool look around it like this look around it and like see
kind of how it works instead of just looking at a 2d screen which is really cool because you're buying a 3d object
and then you'd be able to get it printed and sent to you that's it's very very cool way to view things and specifically
you know virtual reality will actually do some of these things really well
maybe even better but augmented reality i 100 agree is
with with sort of the the sentiments from the presentation is that it's it's
separate and in some ways better yeah um and in some ways worse
it's a different thing this thing is i will say it will never be
mainstream something this big and this bulky yeah
will never be mainstream well i don't think the hololens in this form will
ever necessarily be this very early adopter thing and i think i think some
people are gonna get like super stoked on it this is kind of like uh google
google glass um ces 2014
everyone and their freaking dog was running around on the show floor wearing
google glass do you remember how many we saw yeah and then i don't think i've seen one single one no no and it's not
because they all broke it's because the novelty wore off
and google glass is dumb yeah like sorry
and and there will be forms of of a google glass type device that will not
be dumb but google glass is like super dumb and they know that though if you
looked through the demo all the cool cinematic demos they
weren't wearing anything yeah so how they're planning to do that we
don't know yet no but maybe it's contacts let's give them some
time hey but uh yeah it'll be quite a while but this is a very cool start and
i think could be very cool for certain applications like that thing i was
talking about viewing 3d things in real space because vr would be nice for
viewing 3d models but sometimes you want to see it on something yeah furniture
shopping furniture man holy crap furniture shopping is like impossible
whereas if you could just plunk models of stuff down and like redecorate that
way freaking awesome or better yet if you could you know use a technology like
this to have a skype call with someone who's also looking at it with you and
advising you this was one of the coolest things sorry i gotta jump on that
actually one of the coolest ways that this can be applied in the in the video
they show uh putting a uh
fixing some plumbing yeah i don't know the name of it right now but and and the
person on the other end of the skype call is seeing a flat 2d image of what
you're able to see and can draw on that image um it's like put it here and here
yeah yeah and in this video it's very interesting oh
maybe not this video not sure um in one of the videos the guy that was in this
video for a moment talks a lot longer about his experience
oh no not this guy just a guy that looks very similar anyways and he actually got
to do some of these demos which is one of the coolest things about hololens and
something that i didn't know until i watched this whole thing is that like
this demo they're doing it right now sorry this this mars demo is is working
right now obviously this is a render and it doesn't look that great but you're
able to walk around the mars environment and one thing that's pretty cool that
they show here very small but they do show it here is that he's
able to take his mouse and take it off screen and onto the hololens right and
he can click and manipulate things that are in your hololens screen using his
mouse and Windows 10 together and then can walk into the hololens area and look
at mars one thing that and they were able to do that demo in real time now
with reporters um and like the verge
went and did it and then another demo that was working right now which is
really cool is the plumbing one yeah so he's he
swapped out a light switch the guy told him where to put the wires and where to secure them and all that kind of stuff
and he was able to swap out the light switch without ever doing it before with
the help of someone who was in spain that's super cool like if you're not
sure how to fix something my dad crazy handy person if i was able to be like
hey how do i do this and he could just be like pop your hololens on and let's
uh he doesn't have to yeah he just has to have skype um i think that's super cool
it definitely has uses again
exactly what you said it's not gonna be glass um or it's not gonna be what glass
was trying to do it's not gonna like you're not gonna see 20 people walking
down the street wearing these unless you happen to be at ces 2015 or ces 2016 i
guess um i think that's pretty much it i think we're gonna we're gonna have to wrap up
the show we ran for almost uh almost two hours here comcast congratulations
you're the worst company of 2014 ubisoft was not in the running yeah well they i
think they wanted it to seem like a contest so um so admire starships has been
announced it looks like ftl um according to
a study that cnn.com posted this smarter
people use iphones which is ridiculous it has nothing this is tiny sample size
making ridiculous jumps like that iphones are more popular with rich
people and rich people tend to be more highly educated and there are four are
smarter although somehow an indication of intelligence so come on they claim
their sample size is millions but it's actually just one thing that pulled
more than once on the same person the actual install base i was reading in the
comments across both types of devices was only like 1200 users or something
so google play now apparently has more apps than the app store which is not to
say anything necessarily about the quality of the aforementioned apps um
and acer has a predator 34-inch
3440x1440 g-sync curved monitor coming
acer acer has is like turning into like the
monitor company an exciting company to follow about with monitors yeah i mean
they've dabbled in the past they had their um their their their gaming
branded like orange and black uh 3d
vision display um they had their ferrari
branded ones like way way back like every once in a while they're like
ah maybe we'll make a high-end monitor and then it's like a bunch of commodity
stuff and then it's like hey now they care all of a sudden very cool anyway
thank you guys very much for tuning in to the lan show today hold up hold up
some guy just messaged me flaky banana says guys the skype issue is fixed
awareness is the issue sent me an image of allow direct contacts connections to
your contacts only that totally doesn't work talking about awareness to the
issue that is not safe that does not save you in any situation and you're
still totally scared the resolver got patched within days if i recall
correctly yes uh because we heard about that and thought it was fixed and boom
ddosed when show yes it is totally not fixed the problem is still totally there
and you're right awareness is a big issue
and that's what we're doing yes
um i just wanna like i'm not even trying to
hammer on you specifically i'm just i want you to be aware
before that becomes a problem for you uh oh this is interesting yeah i know
the glass explorer program is over that's not really what i was talking about i was talking about how the people
who own them aren't wearing them anymore because they're over it um okay so i
think that's it see you guys
we had like 500 people tune out during the Windows talk whatever screw it
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