to the W show W
show show yeah it's my favorite show because
it is my show this would be if it was
your show it would be your favorite I forget how the song goes but whatever it
was Tom Green Tom Green Show it's not the green
Tom I don't remember the tune because I never watched the Tom Green Show I didn't really like it but yeah oh really
yeah I I I I don't I Can't Tell You Why
Tom Green Show I'm not mistaken that's the duct tape one right uh oh I don't
know wait no that's the Red Green show Red Green show I like the Red Green show
you don't know who Tom Green is uh he was like pre the prej he was like the
pre jackass jackass like the shock the shock value oh yeah yeah like he he like
televised his testicular cancer operation and stuff like that like yeah
that's that's him well I mean conquering cancer is good yeah I don't want to look
at his balls no so there's good things
and bad things about all of this um uh not much not much bad to say about our
first uh sort of teaser topic of the day so Skye CPUs information has been
leaked oh right I'm I heard there was a lake in the sky
oh wow I heard that was the information that was leaked is the Skylake leaking
it could be what what are we going to do without
our Sky water is that what rain
is Sky Lakes leaking clouds are actually
just these big puffy Bulls you are the Rain Man the cloud just moves too
quickly and then the water shifts over the side and it just falls down that's
what rain is anyways Google project F
and I'm not going to really say anything else about that we'll talk more about it later it's good thing this shows about
technology and not and not science not weather patterns
that's why when it's sunny out it doesn't look like the clouds are moving
that's why when it's stormy out it looks like the clouds are moving really fast speaking of Stormy my whole world is
stormy right now because valve has released an update that enables paid
mods through the workshop something
that yeah we'll have to talk about later okay also the first USB typc phones are
being announced and this is important for a number of
reasons and we'll hit you with that later too first the intro will it work
will it work no no how did that not work
I told you it's constantly broken that is so stupid this is a local file square
space hold on let me just turn the the volume's so loud I'm sorry headphone
users I'm sorry God CLI the thing there
you go okay uh how do I make that go away awesome I got
this I wouldn't be able to do that right now no you wouldn't your knee is broken
just like just like the difference between these two things is broken also
Lind fresh
book it's so exciting I'm so excited I
would like my books to be fresh and I just can't hide it oh I'm glad it's
Friday I am so glad it is Friday today I'm glad it's Friday too it has been a
long frak in five weeks
week it's been a long five weeks like
guys I was on vacation but I you know what okay I'm sorry we'll get into the
actual show later first I'm going to talk about my vacation yeah I was on
vacation but it was like the worst vacation ever I mean I mean infants
toddlers you name it they were there and
they were my problem like and they were sick I mean imagine this okay think
about this you ever been on a plane right and there's like a cry baby right
across the aisle from you and you're just like holy crap won't that parent
shut that kid up I could go over there
and pound them into the ground and take that kid and throw it out the plane okay
even like babies so yes that now imagine
for a second that you're that person with everyone staring at you oh maybe
you should shut the kid up daring dagger what are you supposed to do I don't know
I'm not a dad that's your job to hit them you think then they won't cry you
think that's how it works I can't tell welders how to weld I'm not going to
tell a dad how to Dad you think any do you think there's a freaking manual yes
for well there is but it's it's not very
good no the government of BC they have like a yeah yeah there's a manual that's
awesome yeah there's like an infant one and like a toddler one Finland where
they send you like a whole package it's like this big box and you have a whole
bunch of supplies and I don't know if there's any books on how to do anything
but there's a whole bunch of supplies and stuff and then when you're done you empty out the box like when you take
everything out of it the Box becomes a crib you lost me at packages I thought
we were talking about something else but uh I mean sure that cool story though um
so so anyway worst vacation ever and
then I come back for like two or 3 days
or something like and then well hold on at the end of the vacation I go to Japan
and I have to hang out with this guy for like 3 days or something like that yeah
two and we did the Japan wi oh my goodness that was such a long day like
we must have worked 18 hours that day was either in airports or in the air
longer than I was in Japan for that trip
awesome so uh so after Japan I came back
I was home for 2 or 3 days then I went down to Florida to film a thing for
Intel and HP and I was down there for like 3 days so basically like I arried
late at night cuz that's not a short flight Vancouver to Florida is about as
far as it gets within North America not quite but like pretty darn close so I
like Wast an entire day flying plus the time change so that's you know 11 hours
in the air no and if you count being at the airport on time then so it's like 13
or 14 hours including like transit times and stuff then I basically crash film
all day the next day y go home and work
or go back to the hotel work crash then I burn the entire next day going back up
to Canada thankfully I got my 3 hours back but it was like an early morning
flight so I get back I go to NC I film I come back here I film wano after filming
a couple things then I'm like I go home I sleep Friday night I
get Saturday with my family and then 100
p.m. Sunday I ship off to Munich so I go
to Germany with Nick van burkel and then I'm there until Thursday this Wednesday
night this week finally yesterday I was
back in the office back in Action today
I was back in the office um it is good
to be back and we are going to get going on some of those projects that have I
mean people have been asking why is Luke so in so many of the videos these days
because lus has been all over the freaking planet and hasn't been in the
studio quite literally when are we getting more scrapyard Wars well gee I
don't know maybe we would have to have one of our two
co-hosts in the country for that to
happen for like any reasonable amount of time there was okay you had a plan to
shoot a scrapyard Wars that was insane that was insane but at one point in time
he's like no man we got to do another one I'll be back for 2 days I can land
we can film the whole thing all of it in the 2day period I'm like what there's no
way that's going to work but I'm back
and we will have we will be filming a scrapyard Wars to coincide with the
opening of the new office uh you guys should let me know if you want to see a
new office update presumably they've been working on it I haven't seen it I
would love to go in and show you guys how the sets are going and how the
office building out is going I'm personally mostly focused these days on
building up the new it infrastructure to put into the new office I'm really
excited about that Luke and I were looking at the numbers kind of going oh
snap son we're going to have two $4500 zons we're going to have I think it was
11k worth of Kingston ssds yeah just
we're going to have I think it was 16k worth of Seagate hard drives and this is
this is just like four things out of all
the server so I think we're going to have something like three or four racks in there we're going to anyway there's
the Norco racks there's everything else um there's the 45 drives rack there's
potentially um a rack for the a dedicated rack for the security system
that you don't even know about yet um well a lot of high-end security systems
need rack mount stuff so I'm not surprised at all so that's a whole other
thing um so yeah so we are going to be looking at like some pretty mad gear in
that room so I'm going to be I'm getting all of that arranged ahead of time so
that when we move in we are going to have some Wicked infrastructure I don't
know if some of you guys saw the Instagram post that I sent out before
the W show today but what I've been working on most of the day today is
consolidating all of the data off of the stupid shelf covered in hard drives onto
the storinator so that's the the 45
drives um rack mountable system and I've
been building up the new day-to-day use
server so that's one with the 24 by the
way they are not v300 ssds so many people are like oh why are you using
Kingston v300 they're actually Kingston KC Series drivve so they're the new
KC wow I should really know this uh the
Box they came in was here somewhere but I've lost it don't worry about it KC
something or other anyway it's their new KC series business drive so that is what
we're actually using so it's going to have 24 drives in raid 50 oh KC 310 uh
24 drives in raid 50 so just for laws I
made a 24 Drive raid zero so each eight
Drive chunk is raid zeroed then I raid
zero striped the entire three arrays on
each of the three raid cards and that I had a lot of people saying oh lonus has
got a RAM Drive setup no no that's 24 ssds running in
raid zero on some pretty highend LSi
controllers those are 92 71s pretty nice controller cards so uh
people in chat are like WTF is raid 50 raid 50 ah yes
okay well it's it's raid five and I think that was nope that's the only
explanation they need I was I was doing this because I was expecting you were going to talk and I was going to do the
symbolism while you were talking I actually do that a surprisingly large
amount of time but it didn't work out because there was no speech so it was
just like okay I can talk now so so raid 50 is the way we're actually going to
run the ssds and that is with three eight Drive raid fives so that's 7 + 1
for parody okay so we lose three drives
worth of capacity and then I'm going to take those three raid fives and use the
operating system to software stripe them so we're going to get a total of I think
it's around 19 terabytes of usable raid
50 storage and I ran some benchmarks on that too performance is looking really
good especially for reads which is what we want because this is something that
people are going to be using to play back media in real time in 4k on their
project timelines on their individual workstations so that one's going to have
20 Gigabytes excuse me sorry 20 Gigabytes
of SSD storage is and then it can
withstand up to three drives being lost as long as it's one per array and
there's going to be a cold spare just in case something does fail so we can pop
that in there I could have gone with a hot spare and a raid five but then I
only get 18 D of capacity which kind of
sucks and especially because we're going to be backing it up constantly to
another server throughout the day I figure what the hey let's just let it do
its thing you know what I mean um so so
that's going to be that's going to be super awesome then it's going to have 20 gigabit per second bandwidth to the rest
of the office so people will be able to actually draw data off of it at 2 gabt
per second sustained Madness absolutely no Sparta
no new office get
it you have to like spit a lot though so
I was like I I can't do it cuz it's going to peek the crap out of the mic yeah I was kind of thinking about it too
I was like I was like like should I if we had like a really good attenuation
setup i' just go for it all the headphone users are just going to like
literally bleed yeah I'm going to get saliva all over the blade and Stu well
you could like and then go up yeah it's still still spray on there and like it
could even get on you and I mean I there are certain there are ways I like to
apply saliva collateral damage for an epic yell oh
wow so let's go ahead and uh get get
this show underway so let's start with the uh the sque lockers article someone
just said 20 Gigabyte raid wow lus nope
that's wrong anyways did I say 20 Gigabyte oh I did too I'm sorry yeah I
did 20 20 terabyte R Sor sorry no
um anyways s clocker article I can actually post it in the TW chat the
trat wow W
show it's a good thing it's
live for who I don't
know uh so oh man as you might expect
this might be a little bit hard to read um but if you can scroll down you can
make pretty good sense of the chart or I believe on the lonus tech tips article
which I can also post I think it has an English version so basically I mean it's
mostly it's mostly numbers and things that we can pretty much interpret on our
own so the top end Skylake model is going to be a four core 8 thread 4 GHz
uh 95 watt TDP sounds an awful lot like
um the last so 4790k has an 88 watt TDP
has the same amount of L3 cache turbos to a higher amount at 4.4 has the same
base and the same core and thread
count so unless there are some serious
IPC improvements here we are looking at
another generation of status quo yep um
sounds very much like status quo I'm sure there will be a 10% Improvement uh
the 6600k breaks the traditional naming
scheme of the cor I 5 uh four core four thread variant of the
high-end one which is exceptional for no reason
whatsoever I don't know we have a pretty high clocked t- skew which is actually
pretty sexy looking there is a 2.8 GHz
3.6 turbo 35 watt processor so I can
geek out over that a little bit that's kind of cool I mean if you're into like
wow that's actually I mean that's that's pretty cool that's pretty cool there's
no like super badass option but there's the
like but the good news is that nice pre-assumption Intel has finally
actually restored some validity to the high-end platform so 2011
V3 is I but you don't want people to restore validity to something by like
stopping making the other thing better right it's not like they stopped making
it better but like you know what I mean cuz there
there might be improvements in other areas that don't really show up on the chart very well but it's probably going
to be that good old 10% that we've gotten used to so 35 Watts suck it um
the first USB type-c phones are being
announced uh this is off of stuff.tv
and you've probably never heard of it you know what I'm going to confess I
haven't actually looked at this yet so uh I believe they're all Chinese phones
so I don't think any of them are going to be necessarily available here they're
all I I believe Le TV or LV I'm not sure
how you're actually supposed to TV would be my guess TV I could be wrong but I
like it that way L TV phone uh USB type
any think it's one or two phones and a fablet um so you're not even classifying
them as phones anymore no all right I'm not I'm not
against you I'm just saying that they're just so
dumb not a big fab guy cuz I'm not a big
guy oh oh I get why some people like
them just to be clear I get why some people like them but you know it was
really refreshing for me to see the Galaxy S6 just be a normal size and not
have to up the ante in terms of just making it bigger I I do have to say
though this phone is too small the iPhone 5S yeah height is probably okay
but like when my thumb takes up that much of the screen I can't type I don't
have my six on me but I bet the six would be more like your size I typo
almost every word like it's insane the
thing I the thing I don't like about the six though is the rounded edges it just
it doesn't work I like this one's form factor very much except I just wish like
just make it a bit wider and then everything else would be great um so I
actually finished my Galaxy S6 review or okay hold on we should probably we
should probably talk about us USB 3 type-c uh so just to be clear guys USB 3
USB type-c doesn't necessarily have to be USB 3.1 this is actually something I
didn't realize I think I even did a fastest possible where I might have
actually covered that it doesn't have to be 10 gbit but didn't like absorb yeah I
gu I I think I covered it a little bit in my MSI coverage at C I thought they
all had to be 10 GB turns out they don't so the first USB 3 type-c device that
will be getting like finished device I don't know if I'm allowed to say
anything about it but it's going to be a USB 3.0 type- C so that's 5 gbit per
second versus USB 3.1 type-c which is 10 GB per second so I'm not necessarily
expecting phones to have 10 gbit per second connectivity because there would
be literally no benefit at all like even
high-end phones like the Galaxy S6 right now would not be even close to
saturating USB 3.0 if in just in
sustained transfer rate so it's it's not a concern at all for the time being but
uh the benefits either way are that it's reversible so you don't have to Fumble
for it in the dark in theory although this has not been validated yet it is
more durable than micro uh micro USB
type I have some worries about that I do too but you know what if there were two
companies that I would expect to kind of
validate something before tossing it out to all their customers
they would be apple apple implemented it yeah that's
true yeah but been changing a lot Apple
has never adopted micro b though and
lightning is an excellent connector yeah I think lightning is a lot better than
type-c so I I like in terms of the just the physical connector they adopted type
c not only did they adopt type c i mean and remember Apple's warranty policies
are extremely good yeah for them to go okay we're betting on type c being the
only connector to plug in anything else
apparently they expect that to last for the lifetime of that device with the
type-c that I've worked with so far and this could be a not fully released thing
um cuz it was all tester stuff this could be a wasn't worn in enough at all
yet thing cuz it was fresh but like to plug it in you have to like push pretty
hard and to take it out you have to pull pretty hard like when I first plugged it
in I thought it was fully plugged in and then let go and was like oh interesting
I didn't feel it lock and then Burl was like and like shoved it in and it
clicked in I was like wow okay and then you have to you have to ref on it pretty
hard to get it out like it's it's weird and I'm worried about the amount of
force that it takes right I feel like it could be bad for multiple things
interesting well I have a type-c motherboard and prototype device
downstairs that I'll be checking out maybe I'll take it home this weekend this was a while ago and this was with
like super tester level stuff so that
could all be wrong so anyway those those phones um oh yeah oh right there's a
bunch of other benefits so you can connect your device to an external display through it uh I mean you can do
a lot of different things through it with with dongles and whatnot uh thanks
to the USB at least 3.0 bandwidth um as
well as just the flexibility of the connector standard um I I have a lot of
Hope for it being better than micro because almost anything would be better
than micro I'm sure it will be so there's that uh we can talk a little bit
about those phones so there's a low-end one with a 5.5 in 1080P display a
mediatech X10 processor 3 gigs of RAM
3,000 mAh battery it's funny how like a 3,000 mamp battery 3 gigs of RAM and
1080p screen or low-end phone these days it's nice the mid-range one has a 2K
display Snapdragon 810 processor 4 gigs of RAM and the high-end fablet one is
also a 2K display but 6.3 in so it's huge uh 4 gigs of Snapdragon 810 and AKG
audio apparently they're getting into the whole uh you knowes rebranded audio
thing you know the funny thing about that is the companies that are
rebranding the phones whether be it beats or AKG or you know Harmon Cardon
or whatever else none of them make
DXs and for that matter does AKG even make
speakers uh not that I know of but but I could totally be wrong about that I
don't know enough so I guess it's just like a certification process or
microphones and headphones maybe the microphone is really good or something
anyway um let's move on to another
phone um okay sorry I have to show this
it's like headphones for your lifestyle and it shows that dude hugging what I
presume is his girlfriend and it's like I'm not listening to you hello good to
see you okay bye is that a closed yeah that's a closed exactly Clos back
headphone man here is that just AKG domcom yeah all right we gota we got to
share that with you guys let me just go ahead I find that to be wonderful fire
that up on my screen so so that's that's what's going down over here uh it
doesn't go down apparently because yeah yeah it's the one ARM hug
too yep and he's like not even looking at her no here's the one ARM hug I'm
looking at something behind you I'm going to hug he's checking out the chick
behind her it's totally happening maybe it's his sister and the girl behind her
is he's actually interested in so he's like oh hey yeah good to see you and
then going to the other girl right well that's that's that's a good way a
backend story line it's his sister yeah you're all about the back end aren't you
all right so moving on to the OnePlus 2
uh the original article here is from Android Central and I have the mlink in
here there we go you will finally be
able to buy the one plusus one whenever you want but uh they are also going to
to be um reintroducing the invite system
with the launch of the OnePlus 2 which
we're expecting sometime in the third quarter so sometime in about the next 3
to six months so as annoyed as you were
with OnePlus and the whole you know
invite system or send us your sexy photos and you can get a phone or you
can buy a phone or whatever all of the
completely back disastrous stuff I guess it's all coming back um they do
have some comments about the OnePlus 2 so we'll be far more prepared to to make
the uh the transition into whatever the original transition was something
something uh we're committed to maintaining razor thin margins in order
to give as much value as possible back to users and this increases our risk it
will bring the challenges that came along with a brand new product and initially our invite system will help us
to manage that risk it also helps us to be sure that every one plus two user
gets the amazing experience that they
deserve sure man so there's some rumored
specs of the OnePlus 2 there's a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor
Android 5 dual SIM card support which is kind of cool for like some people I
think it's kind of cool but not everyone care yeah I would like it too 4 gigs of
RAM micro SD card support which is going away on a lot of phones so that's nice
to see yeah I was really surprised to see Galaxy S6 with no removable battery
and no micro SD yep and a 3300 M hour
battery with that said the one time that
I've ever really had to use micro SD on an Android device it let me down I tried
to use the micro SD expansion on my shield uh Shield portable what I can't I
can't figure out what NVIDIA is calling any of this stuff is that one of our news articles today no I I didn't look
at it in the article but they renamed the uh Shield console they renamed it
Shield Android TV it's like what are you are you Android TV are you Shield you
don't know what you are and so and so I think it's still called
The Shield portable the handheld one okay so I wanted to store some emulated
games some ROMs on it and like the original Shield yeah okay yeah see
exactly well because there's Shield classic there's a Shield tablet now with
more aspartame The Shield tablet's technically handheld yeah you're that's
true like I'm not saying you're wrong just confusing it's incredibly confusing
so I wanted to put some ROMs on an SD card turns out that if you load a ROM
off an SD card with the Retro whatever Arc retro Arc whatever it's called Uh
something something save states right yeah not that we condone uh original
cartridges and all that noise um so save states don't save they try to save and
then there's like a write permissions problem something something I have to
put it on the actual internal memory so I'm sitting here going what do you
people actually use this for because I've switched to a streaming music
service videos and so you don't use the videos part
photos okay but you're not going to take photos with your Shields I'm not going
to take well even on my phones I'm not going to take more than like 16 gigs is
not enough no so I don't buy into that but I'm not going to take 32 gigs of
photos and I don't need a bazillion apps like I think I I like to think people
have mostly gotten over the I need 200 apps on my phone thing because there's I
mean I can't come up with a reason to have more than about 50 you know or like
and then like a plus or minus you know like 10 for like the couple games you're
playing right now the I have the junk folder and then I have the super junk
folder and the super junk folder I don't have probably more than 50 but the super
junk folder is literally just like the stuff that comes with the phone that I
can't get rid of the mobility apps yeah yeah or like whatever junk that I might
need to access once in however long somehow dbrand managed to send me a bell
phone and I was just like
great I'm sure glad I didn't just get a random carrier unlocked one
it's like how did you find this they're not even
Canadian that's so random but yeah I mean I found that even having some apps
installed on my phone tanks the battery life like I had that issue with and
maybe it's resolved by now and maybe it was just particular to the 1 M8 but I
had that issue with Plex just junking
the battery life of the 1 M8 even when I wasn't using it at all so like I I don't
know I think 32 gigs is is Lots I think 64 gigs is is tons um and the 128 gigs
that I have on the iPhone 6 is like way more than enough so uh I don't know I
I'm not I don't care that much about SD expansion and I don't really care that
much about removable battery but I do wish that the Galaxy S6 had Canadian had
a higher capacity battery are they oh a
bunch of people were like what they are Canadian oh
oops uh well Canadian owned and operated
founded on 11 111 same time that Skyrim came out
yeah never forget Skyrim
release um uh so right uh OnePlus is also
expected to launch the OnePlus light so that is not a phone it's a
light actually it's a phone so it's kind of a cut down version of this so it's a
there's an event wait event scheduled on the 20th of April this is an outdated
article dang it horribly well let's see
if we can find some actual information on the OnePlus light which so it's like
one plus one light get it okay so
release date specs features and improvements so the OnePlus light so
this is from the Latino post they must oh sorry I wasn't listening I was I was
reading the Latino post it's fine I'm surprised their SEO is good enough that
they were the first I think they were the second hit for OnePlus light
something along those lines wow their site is slow look at all them yeah holy
actual balls and they don't have just like a wow it's just so many things are
loading it's just a link to John Ringer's video and then like a mass ton
of ads the most ads holy crap and like a
bunch of com in down there okay this site is terrible so I don't care anymore
I've I've I've lost my attention span for it so Google project 5 yeah original
article here is from the verge.com so I'll go ahead and just in case you
weren't sure if Google has all of your
data yet yeah now you can be 100% sure
because they can be your cellular providers tell me this that news last
week about Belle selling customer information who would you rather Google
or Bell at this point you might as well keep it all in
one place Google might as well just have all of it since they already have it all
anyway like whatever I don't know well they yeah they know okay they do know
where you are all right I I was telling okay Taran posted on something the other
day that he was happy that that service that he posted it on um didn't
necessarily know where he worked and
lived and what he did for work and all this kind of stuff because it would keep
asking him about it and I read it and didn't comment on it but I was like
dude they know where you're logging in and where you stay logged in overnight
and then they they know where you log in every day and who else all logs in there
and then who else has those things filled in their profiles while you're
there like they know they just want you
to fill it out so that it can tell everyone else really easily and so that
you give them 100% permission to know that information they know exactly
what's going on y like that's why what is it like uh Kmart or whatever knows
when people are pregnant often before they do because their like shopping
patterns will change and stuff like they know
yeah it's done anyways they want to be a cellular provider um it will be running
on both Sprint and T what runable Sprint and T-Mobile switching between the two
as well as Wi-Fi based which is pretty cool I'll talk about that more later um
20 bucks a month gets you talking texting and Wi-Fi tethering and
international coverage in 120 plus countries and a flat this is a really
interesting pay model for their dat hold on can I jump in for a minute yes how is
Wi-Fi tethering not included it you mean other this yeah how
is Wi-Fi tethering still a feature it is
2015 yeah man that makes me mad every time I go down to the States and because
I'm just using a pay as you go and like I get it you're not going to give you
know you're not going to give it all away to the you know pay once per use
customers if you know what I or something wherever I was going with that and it's just depart um so like I get it
you're not going to have every feature I don't expect to have you know voicemail
transcribing to text messages and sending it to me like I like I get that
but not being able to use the data that I paid for is really frustrating like I
was trying to do something you playing the show oh
uh no a whole bunch of people are saying sorry I'm confused a whole bunch of
people are like hey Lon it's the W Show starting I'm like what the I don't know
uh do want just mute it just in case it's muted that one oh sure cool okay
sorry keep going um so where was I going with this right right right right right
I paid for the data why can't I use it on my laptop like I was trying to figure
out a login problem with PayPal and I was like freaking out and the mobile
site wasn't working properly on my phone I was just like I would really like to
use another device right now for like two minutes I just need to load a couple
Pages reset a password anyway sorry go it's not like
you're going to not do it you're just going to do it in a more annoying way Google's including tethering so Google's
including it and then this is a really interesting pay model for data I like I
don't know okay so it's a flat $10 per Gigabyte of data in the US and abroad
which is nuts for one but then if you don't use your data you get credit back
for what you didn't use so if you go with a 3 Gigabyte plan so it's $30 and
only use 1.4 gabt in a month you get $16
back and if you go over you only pay the
same $10 per Gigabyte what so why have a why isn't it
all just Flex
plant right like
what like I'm sitting here reading this point like okay isn't it going to be a
lot more work to deal with all the credits back and
forth why don't you just make everything a flex plan anyways I don't know so if
you go over your cap it's exactly the same as if you didn't go over your cap
but had a higher cap so you can put like a data cap in
your phone and cap it that way or you can just pay the same amount all the
time and it's fine anyways so it's pay for only what
you use which is great it requires not pay for only what you use it's pay for
as much as you think you'll use and get credit back for what you didn't use what
you didn't use I guess requires a special SIM card for project 5 which
makes sense uh works on both existing NEX Nexus 6 devices and new ones so I
don't know if it's only a Nexus thing uh oh right available for only Nexus 6
owners my bad um no contract no family Clans available but it's pretty freaking
cheap so whatever um phone numbers live
in the cloud so you'd be able to make uh calls and do text messaging stuff from
your computer through your phone number so that's definitely going to be a
Hangouts integration thing yeah that's going to be that's that's awesome I mean it was one of the things that I liked
about um I for I don't even remember what the word they have for it now is
but when I had the iMac and the iPhone 6 at the same time um shoot I don't
whatever I don't remember what the word for it was but I could take calls on the iMac which was a terrible experience
because the microphone is on the back of the display because apparently Apple's
Engineers don't understand how Sound Works but uh on a on a device that
actually has a decent headphone microphone solution plugged into it that
would be that would be awesome my phone could just stay in my pocket and I could
just throw my headset on when I'm sitting at my computer at work freaking
great yeah so I'm happy about that I think that's really cool um so it's
invite only so there's that also uh
looks like it's Nexus only for now so
basically most people unless they have large hands and an invitation are not
going to be taking advantage of this particular offer wow um all right uh
yeah I'm sure it'll open up more later but for now it's pretty locked down I
send invitations to people with large
hands anyways doj which I don't know
what that stands Department of Justice cool they could stop Comcast from
becoming a mega terrible thing with Time Warner which is good because of antitrust laws um so apparently Comcast
has actually dropped its $ 45.2 billion doll bid on Time Warner in light of uh
the doj becoming mad and being like you can't do that I think they're going to
what is it actually called uh lawsuit
they were going to put down a federal lawsuit so then Comcast was like nope um
we don't even necessarily need to keep talking about it because I guess it's not happening but it could have made
them control 30 % of the market for pay TV which is a lot um they would have
controlled more than 50% of broadband internet Market in the United States
which is a crap ton so I'm happy that the doj did
something I I guess I just the thing that I don't
um like the the thing that continues to
bother me though is that they're cozy enough that they wanted to merge so it's
not like having them remain separate it's not like they're not going to work
together yeah it's it's it's not it's not like it's not like the consumer wins
it's not like yeah Choice free market they've already been avoiding each other
in terms of market share y so like that's not going to stop it might even
just get a little bit more aggressive that's all I I I doubt it like why you
already have enough money to buy the Earth and all the heavens so no it might
become more aggressive about not oh being in the same market share oh yeah
like they might even just avoid each other more see it's funny because I thought you meant business aggressive
but what you actually meant was just being a jackass aggressive okay well
aggressively aggressively jackass we need like a shirt aggressively is such a
nicely like uh Dynamic word MH because
you can be aggressively in love with someone or you can aggressively hate
someone no can't or you can yeah you can you can you can or something can have
aggressive lines on it tell me tell me this uh okay hold on if
you're in love with someone and then someone smacks that person we're going
togive we're going to St P this because
if if it's like uh
okay aggressive love yes
no uh you know pursuing one's aims or
intents forcefully sometimes unduly so hold on let's just can we just can we
just put this out to the can we just put this out to the audience it it it
doesn't matter because words mean what we decide that words mean because
without us You' defended the EXA what you just said so many times can we all
just calm down for a second see half the twitch chat is talking about rape right
now I didn't say it was a good
thing oh okay I didn't say it was a good thing at all all right all right okay so
you're not saying it's a good thing but
um cuz what I was going to say is if if
I'm you know staring into her eyes and
it's like okay I got to think of like something Charming to say right now am I
going to am I going to be like that's not what I said at all my love for you
is agressive no don't do that it attacks
me do that it carves out chunks of my
body and soul and takes it for itself I
guess in like the right context if you were like AEM couple an emo scene couple maybe
what you just said no no I don't know no
no I'm just putting the option out there the audience likes but they're wrong
they're wrong it's like I now know what percentage of our audience is
single aggressive love is a it works
it's just not necessarily a good thing it works terms don't have to be
good okay I think it's time to I think
it's time to uh to to move on let's actually let's do our let's do our
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W oh wow there's certain people on there
um who are these people you know what let's just let's just move back to our
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never listened to the song cuz I didn't have headphones why do you even you're the only one that could hear it why do
you even try squar space build it beautiful no that's okay that is their
new slogan or not is new since the song but that's not how Okay Squarespace
actually has a pretty aggressive thing going on right
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you get an interview you actually get to come to New York and experience the city
as part of the interview process and it's not like if you don't end up
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just just getting an interview is good enough to go down and get a taste of the
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there's nothing Squarespace can do about that but if people visit your website
whether it's your blog your store or your portfolio they will have a good
experience and they will feel like you are competent enough to have aite you
could apply to Squarespace get a trip to New York and start a blog about your
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and use offer code Linus to save T you know this is why I really truly wonder
how we even get through sponsor spots when I'm not here because your entire
purpose for being here when I'm trying to talk about freshbooks.com for example
seems to be seg to throw me off which I
will not allow you to do fresh books is an online tool to allow you to focus on
your business and I don't mean toilet business this isn't a Dollar Shave Club
spot I what if you're a plumber okay
actually the plumber example is a good one because we even tied your dad into
this last time did your mom see that I don't think so did your dad see it I
neither of them have commented so maybe they both saw it and they're just like
nope just not going to talk about very Poss so Luke's dad's problem all right
seems to be uh to do with billing okay he had no problem coming in and
installing a fantastic copper pipe liquid cooling system for us but when it
came time to send us the bill for his work it took him uh just about the uh
gestation period of a human to actually
give me an invoice with fresh books you can do that stuff online you can log
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and then you can even get confirmations when they've looked at the invoice and
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decide if you like it see I didn't let
you screw me up I didn't even who was that sponsor I used to always get the
amount wrong for remember I used to never know how much it cost was it 54
yeah I think I think that's the one I think that is the one yeah I screwed up
nothing today ha take that all of
you all right so uh what do we have 11
pages of topics today we've actually been fairly on topic today and we're
still like there's a lot of Rapid fires we're still still boned all right so
Norway this is phenomenal Norway will be
the first country to shut down FM radio
the ministry of culture has finalized a
transition date in 2017 and I think this
is asinine there's a lot of technological advancements that I
believe in but there are advantages to
radio that are not necessarily overcome by
mobile data networks um I I yeah okay
yeah so it's not like it's not like there isn't you know another plan so
it'll be digital audio broadcasting also known as dab which will offer better
audio quality dab plus sorry specifically plus the daab radios will
not work uh so better audio quality other functionality like showing
information about the state uh station you're listening to and what song is
playing which by the way we have on FM radio um so that's a thing uh the
transition will cost Norway the equivalent of$ 1.3 billion US and the
200,000 dab radios will become useless as they don't support dab plus they've
already started advertising for the switch you get more radio in a digital
radio and I I just I plain don't get it
because the reality of it is we use FM
radio because it's cheap because it's
got great legacy compatibility and because it's good enough both in terms
of broadcast range and in terms of audio
quality I mean we can get radio stations from Seattle up
here which I do all the time if you want
to reach a bunch of people radio is
still a great way to do it because the reality of it is pretty much everyone
still owns at least one radio and we can
kind of count on that to work like when everyone you know jumps on their cell
phones in an emergency Well Radio is yeah I was just going to say radio is a
lot of time the emergency frequencies yeah so and and I I get it the ab+
radios are not cell phones but we're
counting on people to have them so the people who don't have those and we can't
necessarily reach by cell phone or mobile data because let's say there's an
emergency and everyone jumps on it and it's totally congested radio is going to
be the way to reach these people I don't understand why we need to phase this out
someone in chat said that they live in Norway and it just seems like they
always just want the newest stuff so all right well newest is not
necessarily always the best thing I mean
I I actually had a really I had a good conversation with Brandon about the uh
some of the new cameras that were released at NAB so uh those of you who
were following our neb coverage probably less than half of you based on The View
counts um would know that there wasn't it was about half of our normal view
counts even for coverage uh would know
that red released an 8K sensor upgrade
to their red whatever it is whichever platform it is I think it's the dragon
um so this is called the red weapon and I think whatever I think the camera once
you put the upgrade in it is called a red weapon it's very confusing because
they had the cuz if you upgraded the Red Epic to the new sensor it became a red
dragon and then I think yeah anyway so I
didn't think the weapon was an upgrade I thought you had to like
buy the weapon not sure anyway I think you could uh exchange and then it's 20
grand or 10 grand or something it was 10 grand at the show 20 grand after the
point is they have an 8K sensor and I was I was talking to Brandon about it
because Marcus has ordered one already as we know and uh we were we were just
kind of talking about it going why would we be using this um 4K is already I mean
sort of I'm going to let you guys in on a little secret uh we were releasing 4K
videos on YouTube that were upsampled 1080 for a long time nobody ever noticed
no one can tell because the main advantage of 4K playback on YouTube
right now is the higher bit rate um and
when you factor in also that the cameras that we shoot on the Sony fs700 and the
Panasonic GH4 both have 4K sensors so
their 1080p is actually down sampled it's like super sampled because it's
down sampled 4K when you blow that back up it looks pretty darn freaking good
any any way especially at any kind of reasonable viewing distance so unless
you're pixel peeping 4K is way more than
enough for web video and to which I kind of went well there's the future
proofness argument maybe you need more pixels in case you want to republish am
I ever going to republish a YouTube video on like some kind of futuristic
you know 5 10 years from now platform probably not so we were we were talking
about it a little bit and we kind of decided that 4K is already more than
enough for us so we'll be sticking with 4K and I just feel like like shooting at
a higher resolution is going to complicate the workflow in a way that is
just not worthwhile to me I mean if you're just one person working on it I
guess I can see why Marcus would like to do it because he's got the time to kind
of Tinker around with it and play with it and only one person has to learn a
new workflow with us we're trying to figure out okay maybe we could invest
that you know $10,000 or $20,000 on backend equipment that makes
the 4K workflow butter smooth and ab absolutely perfect as opposed to yeah so
so things like like storage servers that's something that a lot of content
creators completely ignore for some
inexplicable reason is having a proper
storage setup which is what we're moving to finally um so and and that's the kind
of thing that for the price of something like a Decked Out Mac Pro and like you
know a red weapon for example you could
have an amazing workflow as opposed to a
couple of really cool pieces of equipment so I I guess it's a priorities
thing um and also a scale thing because
I'm not going to go and buy 12 core Mac Pros for four editors that is like
straight up not happening whereas if it was for one then maybe you could pull my
you know twist my ARM a little bit um
Google is uh yeah wow look at that is
ditching the old YouTube API so let's go ahead it's not probably as big of a deal
as it sounds um for instance the Linus
tips.com website used V2 and now uses
V3 okay I don't know um not a huge deal
they will have to retroactively update devices so things that use the V2 API
such as some smart TVs Android and Apple TVs game certain game consoles iOS
devices that are old and outdated stuff like that yeah um would need an update
but it's not like they can't be updated well an iOS 5 locked device might not be
able to be updated so you might straight up not be able to use YouTube if you're
using an Apple TV second generation or older there's no current way to watch
YouTube on these devices straight up that's pretty brutal so that's really
sucky I guess um I guess we learned a lesson about buying functionality locked
boxes yeah PC for Life woo this won't really
affect like your website things yeah so
it's fine cuz like every website ever was like oh and then just updated it by
the way thank you Colonel Morse oh my goodness Colonel mortise
yeah why that was posted by Alex Goes high oh okay right we should probably be
saying who posted Lord Sparkle bottom ruy top war gamer cool Kingler one I
like mac and PC um syntax vgm Lord
Sparkle bottom again and Alex Goes High have given us the news for this week so
far and wordo 165 I both appreciate your
effort and wish you had never brought this to our attention at all because
this is basically the worst news of the week steam has introduced a new way to
support Workshop creators and line the pockets of valve Executives wait they
don't have that second part creators in the smallest possible way and line the
pockets of valve Executives as much as possible starting with the Elder Scrolls
five Skyrim of course of course it does
buying from the Steam Workshop try any mod risk-free for 24 hours nothing to do
with long-term support though that's kind of funny buying mods and made by
like you know casuals that don't have to
support it at all after the wow that's really weird so uh with over 24,000 free
mods I guess there's nothing here about the ones that are becoming paid very
quickly now that there is a price on it and uh calling all creators uh earn
money doing what you love Yeah set your own price that's cool you can add
contributors and uh where's the where's the part about the 25% hold on
75% oh that's not on here that's weird
so let's let's dive into this this is very much a developing story right now
so everything we're saying now um take
it as the information that we had in sort of the hours leading up to W show
today and not much more than that but uh
I guess I'm let's go with just the facts
then I think each of us will probably have to weigh in separately because I
think we're going to have kind of differing opinions here sure um so why don't we just do the facts the
initiative was introduced yesterday pitched as a way to support the people
that made the mods I mean we saw that on the page uh compensating these creators
is a way to inspire new modders to try their hand at creating new higher
quality items and experiences uh you can make cosmetic items sound packs custom
skins fancy houses epic quests entire new cities horse genitals whatever the
case may be for Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim
um many more of your favorite Workshop games will support paid content in the
coming weeks and they offer refunds for mods that are broken or don't work as
promised within 24 hours of your
purchase the sort of stuff that wasn't
on the page um that was discovered later and has outraged some consumers and
presumably some creators is that the Creator only receives
25% of the revenue from the mod sale so
a $10 mod is actually giving $2.50 to your favorite Creator and $7.50
cents to valve there's um I guess let's
let you go first you're you're running
with it I can go first okay one thing is opinion one thing is I I we like total
biscuit here he's been on the show before he has a video on it his content
patch number 195 is all about this and
he's probably way more well informed than we are so we will talk about it for
sure but I actually highly suggest going and checking out his thing I have not
watched it yet um I'll watch it later I didn't know there was a thing I will
also watch it later I'm very interested in what he has to say about it good old
John Bane um I don't like this for a number of reasons first off is the
24-hour support thing what hey um people
are like going off in chat about this this there's more information that came
out apparently the 75% is 45 developer
30 like 45 original game
developer okay okay so I'm just I'm just
said 75 valve okay so 45 45 game
developer yep 30 valve developer 25 mod
developer that's what people in chat are saying
okay okay that's interesting good to know um doesn't really change my opinion
on it okay so carry on then yes um well
maybe slightly but not enough to really make an impact so a big part of my issue
with this is that a lot of mods break things straight up break things they can
corrupt save files sometimes they can make so you can maybe the save file
isn't corrupted but you can't play it with that mod and you can't play it
without that mod so it's useless um
there's there's they can conflict like crazy um there's just a huge amount of
issues with mods and that's fine when
they're all free but what what happens if you have a whole bunch of free mods
installed and then you install a paid one and it breaks all your free ones or
the other way around you have a whole bunch of paid mods installed you install a free one and it breaks all of those it
doesn't matter for 24 hours and like okay if it breaks my whole save I don't
care about the $1.50 that the mod cost me I care about
the hundreds and hundreds of potential hours that I have into this game we're
talking about stuff like Skyrim I could have played that game for 800 hours have
a whole bunch of content mods installed that like double
quadruple the actual game length massively increase what I'm doing I
could have been playing on that one character the whole time and it could be
totally screwed because of that yeah you can say you should be backing up your
save file you should be doing all this other kind of stuff but still it's going to happen to someone and that's that's
crazy you only have a 24-hour window to get your money back and getting your money back isn't even the biggest
problem there okay continuing on past
that part the 75% thing is ridiculous 45% goes to the
game for just including mod support like I'm totally down with supporting the
game developer and sure maybe some percentage of it should go to the game
developer because we want to encourage them to actually have stuff like mod
support and with single player experiences like Skyrim where is their
recurring Revenue nothing yeah exactly so I'm actually I'm cool with giving
some of the money to the game 45% is
really high I think they need to invert
this whole system I think valve needs to get maybe 25% I think the game needs to
get maybe 30% then I think the mod developer needs to get probably more
than 45% I think it needs to be completely flipped anyways if it even
keeps those percentages at all yeah I don't think that added to 100 but I get
your point that's the numbers you gave me oh 45 30 and 20 that's why I'm like
what oh I thought I got confused when you were oh okay no I know it doesn't
work there's 5% it's 25 25 mod yeah 25 mod that's your problem um okay so I I
have some thoughts on this as well so there's there's a couple of things one
very positive takeaway from this is you see the big Blockbuster games like your
Skyrim hold up hold up see this is what I'm talking people are that's a whole
that's a whole other that's a whole other thingal we can we can talk about the we
can talk about the fact that people are stealing mods and reuploading them um
and valve will not pay the yeah there's there's a $400 cap anyway all of these
little rules are basically just sort of piling on to the crappiness that is
getting dealt to the mod in all of this in in all of this stuff I was actually
reading up on a couple of these things as you were talking but there's a couple
main main sort of bigger picture things that I that I want to address here so
number one is that it makes sense to me
that the game developers who are spending the time to develop these great
single player experiences are getting paid for it I mean we we see mod support
with games like Grand Theft Auto and with games like Elder Scrolls where
these are big budget games where there expecting to sell uh you know a thousand
bazillion copies and pretty much okay we
don't have any recurring revenue from this game but it's okay because we're
going to make that massive amount of money and there's going to be a really
long tail on the sales for years like
you you can still buy Oblivion and it would still be a great gaming experience
today even though it's been out for like eight years or something along those
lines so I so so the Blockbuster Games
they can include mod support kind of without worrying about it too much but
what incentivizes a smaller game developer to build a great single player
experience almost nothing why are we why
do we see a a billion you know online online multiplayer games why do we see a
billion mobas with you know microtransactions for skins why do we
see everyone in their dog I mean this was more of an issue five or six years
ago but why did we see everyone in their dog trying to build an MMO because game
developers want a recurring Revenue stream for their work and they want to
keep going ahead and working on it and developing it now with all of that said
do I think taking 45% of the revenue for
the developer as opposed to the modder who is the one actually extending the
usability of the product and potentially driving new sales of that product to new
users based on the whether it's missions
or whether it's new texture packs that make people want to rein invest in this
game or or buy the game when they haven't played it before do I think that
the game developer should be getting the Lion's Share of this deal absolutely not
are they supporting the mod are they are they are they creating
a system yeah are they creating a system where they're they're certain that the
mod will be whitelisting things are they qcing it are they making it so you can
roll back the mod are they are they creating a a a mod module so you can
manage your mods really well and so that if something does damage to something
you can easily undo it are they putting these systems in place is that is that
what the 45% is for I doubt it what
about valves 30% I mean you look at the people blatantly uploading stolen mods
already taking advantage of the system is valve investing their 30% in
painstakingly going through the mods and making sure that they work that would
fall under customer service so no right well I okay we all knew the answer to
this I was I was being I know I was taking a shot at the
um and then and then as for as for the
dev the 25% is completely unreasonable
as a YouTube Creator it's it's it's a
source of friction between YouTube creators and Google that Google takes
45% when ultimately we are creating the
content that sits on their platform now
with that said I've accepted the 45% YouTube tax and I've made a really good
living for myself and for the people
around me with the 45% YouTube tax with
abandoning that to them and all of that good stuff
because sorry hosting videos is going to be a lot more of an overhead yeah the
the back in that Google needed to do the storage of all of our videos the
distribution of all the videos and stuff is much harder than the really small and
YouTube brought us a really big audience compared to what valve is offering
moders simply by listing
mods the way that you were already able
to do in the workshop um so so the
YouTube platform has contributed enough that I kind of go oh crap that's a lot
of money but yeah fine I like I get it you actually have ongoing overhead
associated with with supporting me it
sucks but it's understandable yes with this system unless valve is contributing
a lot more than it seems like they are I mean I get it bandwidth is expensive
totally get that but that's the kind of thing where you could have the modder
actually just pay per use or something like that uh because there's there's no
there's no real reason why a very very small mod needs to have a bunch of
bandwidth cost associated with it and I think 25% is a completely unreasonable
amount of money to offer someone who actually did all of the work literally
all of it I mean in many cases these mods have their own dedicated websites
where you can go and visit the developer blog find out what's coming find out
what's not coming the ones that are well supported especially deserve a proper
amount of money for what they're doing something interesting one thing I have to butt in about is GTA has no official
mod support oh thank you it's it's uh
there's there's a bunch of games that do um but anyways but at least it is
modable there are games that are a lot more difficult w't be like a workshop
thing for it no that's anyway that's fine yeah um oh crap what was I going to
say now uh I forgot after
that the the the people that are supporting their own mods and stuff a
lot of the times they'll have donate options and donate options it's all
going to go to them except for like the little PayPal cut or whatever y but like
the one point that's so much more worth it to these people 2 point whatever
percent um so much more worth it so okay so so so but with all that said so I'm
super upset about the way this whole thing is structured I think it makes
absolutely no sense but there is
something that I've seen people upset about that has really annoyed me as as a
content creator the idea that mods
should be free why if it's crappy
sure but don't pay for it if it's crappy
then they're going to release the mod they're going to get a couple of onear
reviews on whatever Marketplace it happens to be whether I'm okay with like
super badass huge content mods or whatever costing money that's fine yeah
that's zero problem but but no I know I know you're not going to have a problem with this but and people are saying
modders can still upload for free if they want and that's fine but why should
they if modders are putting a lot of work into this why shouldn't they make
money doing it I mean the whole internet
mentality that everyone should do everything as a passion project um
doesn't make a lot of sense to me because with monetary investment from
the users comes I believe and and I mean
this is my principles as a content creator should come better investment
into the quality of the content I mean if a mod is as amazing as it is and it's
free and it's something that someone did purely as a passion project imagine if
you freed up that person's Time by making it so they didn't have to have a
day job anymore if that person has you
know some principles that they stand on where they believe that if they're
getting paid they should work hard and they should do a good job job that
should in turn turn into a better quality mod for you to enjoy and maybe
it cost you $4.95 or whatever the case may be I
don't understand why people are upset about that at all I just have a problem
with you know the $4.95 mod ultimately turning into a buck
25 in the pocket of the modder because that is a lot I mean when we consider
what a mod is going to cost I would expect most mods to be you can buy a
game on Steam for you know under 20 bucks a lot of the time like a a good
game an older AAA game even so I don't expect mods to go for 20 bucks very
often so when we're talking about $5 mods or you know $10 mods expecting
people to live off of an average revenue
per transaction of a150 to $2 or a buck
25 to $2.50 is absolutely ridiculous and
unreasonable and frankly insulting so
that's what and like saying hold on a second you're not taking into account
the major modders are not wanting this who cares then they can release their
Mod for free it's about Choice the community being upset makes no sense if
a modder wants to do something where they want to turn you know their modding
their modding passion into a business why shouldn't they be able to do their
passion I'm sure a lot of people are still going to release uh mods for free
especially a lot of the just like texture mod things where or not even
just texture mods but uh actually specifically not texture mods got
someone saying lus your car is being stolen no that wouldn't have been my car it doesn't have an alarm no alarm and
it's not it's not locked so they wouldn't have to break into
it fantastic now everyone knows your car is unlocked um anyways the like here's a
single sword which I actually found kind of funny was a lot of the ones that
you're able to currently pay for I think a lot of that kind of stuff might stay
free because people are going to go like oh I want to design a sword and they'll
go and like design a sword for Skyrim and be like oh that's pretty cool all right people can have it like I think
that'll happen quite a bit I don't think people are just going to stop modding
out of passion because now there's a potential way to make money yep but I
mean like I don't know so for me personally the fact that I could make a
business out of YouTube inspired me to build a team and to make much higher
quality content I think we can all agree that what we're doing now is light years
ahead of what I was able to do on my own back when I didn't have this awesome
team around me and I would like to believe that there will be the basement
moders who don't want to be paid and just want to do it for fun and don't want the pressure of customers that's a
real thing not wanting the pressure of people who are paying for your content
wanting people to have it for free so that if like something goes wrong you
can just go whoa yeah well this was free dude it comes with all the warranties
associated with free stuff that's sometimes I I brought this up earlier
and forgot about it that's actually one of the reasons why I was scared about
this and one of the reasons why I like buying things sometimes because if I buy
something and it breaks there's someone that I can hold accountable yep and I
can be like hey fix this I paid for it fix it or else I'll like bring hell on
you as much as I possibly can um if I'm downloading stuff for free if anything
goes wrong with it I'm just like okay
I'll submit a bug report or like try to fix it myself and if neither of those
things work then I guess that's about how that
goes I got a lot of people talking about how modders if they want to go legit in
their business so this is this is more of okay so so two things number one
people want us to talk about the $400 payment threshold from valve which is
nonsense by the way that is ridiculous the typical payment threshold is $100
for things like Google AdSense uh well for things like Google AdSense if you're
going to have actually affiliate programs that I've been part of um I
think Amazon's is $100 it's when you make a $100 yeah it's when you make is
the same as this no it's 400 no you get $100 when you make $100 yeah okay yeah
it's the same but it's not much less because lots of
mods will never like you could make a sword and you could be like this is a $1
sword and 350 people might buy it and you will never get your your $100 check
I believe it was Nick or ghost or I don't know someone just updated this you
need to get $100 before you can withdraw the funds so you must sell at least
$400 before you can withdraw the funds um and then shoot there was something
else that uh that people were bringing up on uh that people bringing up that I
wanted to address right um so the whole
thing about about modders a lot of them
kind of being kind of gray and sketch because they're releasing it for free so
a lot of them are not using paid versions of the often very expensive
software that's involved in 3D modeling and game creation um so honestly that's
the kind of thing that is just going to have to be up to the modders the ones that want to continue to do it for free
and fly under the radar I think are going to be put under a lot less scrutiny than the ones that decide to go
okay yeah I'm going to make a business out of this we're going to make items we're going to make game mods we're
going to make texture packs and I guess I better invest in some actual software
now because I mean honestly there's
um there there's there's not a lot that valve or the game developer can do to
police this and people are just going to have to be responsible and if they're
not able to be responsible that's ultimately going to be on them which is
which is sort of just yet yet another thing like we're putting all the extra
overhead on the modder for their
25% that they get out of this out of this whole thing the whole thing is
ridiculous
and yeah I don't know I actually didn't
really read our notes I was just going off the top of my head on a lot of this
stuff well a lot of this has been updated while we've been sitting here um
so there's that um one of the interesting things too is going to be
the people that potentially make it a paid mod on the workshop and a free mod
um in other ways like if you install it through like Skyrim Nexus or whatever if
they make it a free mod that way and a paid mod on the workshop that could be
fairly interesting that could pull people away from the whole Workshop
platform but then that'll only work for certain games I guess I don't
know um I don't know what else to talk
about we've got like 12 minutes
left um gamers in the UK showing a tendency of uh curbing pre-order habits
yeah I guess there's not really a whole lot to say about that did you ever post the link for the valve thing I think so
okay cool um 20% of UK Gamers have said
that they have either stopped pre-ordering or pre-order less games um
there's more information in that article but it's not a ton more information so
that's cool it looks like um you know I
was actually totally down to pre-order games a long time ago yep I used to Y
and it was fine and I actually never had a problem with it yep I I I got burned
on BioShock two and then I was done yeah and actually I got semi burned on Left
for Dead 2 I thought Left for Dead 2 was a complete waste of money for what they were charging for it uh that should have
been an expansion pack for 1999 um okay H okay well we can do this
really really quickly Liber Liber land
is the new European nation that runs off Bitcoin so they've got some pretty
unorthodox practices taxes all cryptocurrencies all crypto Curren
primarily Bitcoin uh so it's a small piece of land between Croatia and Serb
um it's the has no military taxes are
optional um they should have a military they just have like one dude with a
board with a nail through it be like yeah that's our military yep so they
won't let in people who have communist Nazi or extremist past you can't be
punished for past criminal offenses uh you have to have respect for other
people and respect the opinions of others regardless of their race ethnicity orientation or religion and
have respect for private ownership that is untouchable
so registrations and applications for the new country are going swimmingly as
over 20,000 people have already applied with over 100,000 expected by the week's
end I actually didn't know it was that simple to just start a nation we should
start lonus land I don't think it's that simp I want it to be more of a theme
park though because you have to have the land let's just buy a theme park okay
lonus land and it can be the theme park Nation theme park Nation I'm clearly not
talking about anything real at this point so let's go ahead and uh
the let's do a little bit of video card news yeah so GTX 980 metal and 980
TI uh let's go ahead and pull up the kit
Guru article here so the 980 TI is rumored to be
coming next month with a 980 metal in
the work so the rumored specs of the 980 TI would put it pretty darn close to the
Titan X so it would have a fully feature
GM 200 processor um it would have 6 gigs of
memory compared to 12 gigs on the Titan X and be basically pretty darn badass
with 372 stream processors etc etc
actually I don't know if that's the full number of texture units cuz I can't
remember the Titan X specs off the top of my head but the point is it'll be
super fast it'll be cheaper than a Titan x and notd by a whole heck of a
lot I guess that's pretty much all there is to say about it yeah I I mean NVIDIA
is pretty good these days at not making you know people who bought the high-end
Thing feel too bad about it I think people who bought Titans really got a lot of mileage out of that card even
though they paid $1,000 for it um the
980 metal enhanced version It's unknown
exactly what that is um kit Guru
speculates that it's highly unlikely it'll be based on a cut down version of the gm200 GPU um I would I would hard to
say we don't really know much about yield likely oh highly likely oh right
yeah I was just going to say that I don't agree with that at all because
both Titan X and 980 TI rumors would
indicate a fully featured chip so if any of these are have defective units on
them like they got to do something with them okay so 980 metal might might be it
uh no idea what performance or time frame will be in NVIDIA of course didn't
comment they generally don't really do that uh another article from kit Guru is
that 390x availability might be limited
thanks to low yields of hbm memory so
that's that new extremely high performance memory that is going to be
the 390x is sort of Feature Presentation
in terms of what it's doing that hasn't been done
before so I guess that's that's about it
pretty much all there is to really say about that it's basically a rapid fire topic yep um I mean there's a whole
bunch of other stuff in here about hbm memory so Stacks four Dam dies with two
128bit channels blah blah blah etc etc
it results in a memory device with a 1024-bit interface so yeah it's like
super crazy fast but Supply may be
constrained so an fairly interesting thing that I want to talk about
hammering on Steam again a little bit po depends on what you think about this
uh I'm not a huge fan but I'll talk about why in a moment anyway steam users
now have to spend $5 um in purchases before they can add
friends so I don't even think that means just adding $5 to your account I think
you have to actually buy $5 worth of things um you cannot send friend invites
open a group chat vote on reviews on green light or participate in the Steam
Market Etc so you can't like sell CSG go
Skins if you've been gifted csgo because then you wouldn't have spent
money okay um I had that problem before
I've made a new account gifted it something and then been unable to do
certain things I think you already couldn't participate on the market I'm not entirely sure right
um Dominic is saying something apparently you can just put $5 in your
wallet but it does say specifically purchases so I I like this personally um
I mean I was talking to did you know that over um EXT which one is it
overclock.net is no not a crap which one
is it extreme systems sorry extreme systems is a paid Forum
now has haven't they been for y the
years y yeah okay yeah yeah yeah so it's I think it's like a dollar to join
forever it's a dollar to join forever and their comment um their comments
about it I actually I I realized when I went there not signed in and I was like
what the crap this is a paid site now and then I logged into my old account
found out that it was fine because it had been created and not banned during
the the prepaid days um and so I messaged one of the one of the old mods
that I that I kind of used to know over there and I was like what what the crap's going on he's like oh um it's the
best spam prevention that we could have
possibly implemented it cost people practically nothing but it validates
that they're a real person it validates that they actually people who have
invested something into a platform are much less likely to dink around with it
and you know spam people I mean this is a big problem
always talked about like when ESO was coming out and I hadn't realized that it
was a giant pile of junk yet um I kept
on saying on the stream that I hoped it was a paid game I wanted there to be
like a subscription or at least a fee to buy the game or something like that and
then once I realized it was going to be junk I said that it was going to go to free play and it did um but
anyways that's regardless free games get
the toxic Community all the time because
you can just be like uh whatever I don't know if I'm going to come back to this
game time to just flame everyone as hard as I can until I get banned because if I
decide to come back I'll just get a new free account right who cares I might
lose my character or whatever but I can also just trade all my stuff to my buddy
then get banned and then if I want to come back he can just give me some
amount of value back or everything back or whatever um what I'm not a huge fan
of on this is someone who could have not
much access to any money or say their
parents don't want them to make online purchases at all and all they want to do
is do something like play TF2 online with their friends will be unable
to which is kind of poop um you could I
guess like if you hook up through Skype or whatever voice chat application you
could like tell people IPS bounce back and forth that way and then just make
sure all your communication is completely outside of the game but it's
kind of annoying that you wouldn't be able to communicate through the steam platform so it's not completely stopping
them because you could still join servers through that but there's a fair
amount of games um I think CSG go if you
want to do matchmaking I I know you can join
servers on csgo but I think if you want to do like the matchmaking side of
things um you have to have access to the
friend system right so like if your buddy wants to buy you csgo and sends it
to your account then you'd only be able to really play like I think you could do
matchmaking but I don't think you could do matchmaking lobbies with your friends because I don't know how you could
invite someone to it there might be some way around that twitch chat is probably
correcting me right now but it's just kind of annoying I don't know I've got
Lance B Taylor saying on Twitch chat twitch should be paid to get rid of the
idiots well a lot of streamers do that they have their yeah subscriber chat
subscriber only chat a lot of people have asked why we don't have subscribers
on this show it's because we only stream once a week so I don't think it's a
great value we think people who are giving us a recurring monthly
contribution should be doing it because of the content in general not just
because of our Twitch streaming so they should just be contri through the website yeah um just as a quick way to
address that so uh next article is on RS
Technica I got the link this time boop boop and iix it has completed
their tear down of the Apple watch which is rumored and this iser speculation I
don't know why this news article is getting uh spread so so rapidly rumored
to have sold uh I think it was how many
uh no up further uh three uh 3 million
units and that would be be $2 billion of Revenue and or something anyway it's
it's an estimate um so think big analytics
though estimates that gross margins on the Apple watch are in excess of 60%
making it extraordinarily profitable I fix it says replacing the Apple watch's
battery is easy replacing the processor
is hard something to do with resin and whatnot replacing the screen is
apparently fairly easy and they gave it a repairability score of 5 out of 10 not
too bad not too bad for a watch y not as good as the iPhone 6 but pretty darn
good considering the compactness of the device with that said I don't know if
they've taken apart the Edition Edition for example though um Sony has announced
the the Edition Edition was just gold and no other
changes yeah I think you're right okay yeah I'm not I'm not I'm not sure if
they would have made any if that would change anything about the construction
though right uh I mean different metals can make a difference yeah Sony
announces the Xperia Z4 their Flagship for 5 basically they changed not a whole
heck of a lot um Snapdragon 810 32 gig storage
every single phone is the same micro SD 3 gigs of RAM 29 30 mAh battery 20.7
megapixel re camera and it is dust and
waterproof seriously every single phone is the same all of the phone
announcements today were 810s except for one and it was low-end
one anyways oh well is that it are we
good uh AMD revealed that Windows 10 will launch in Late
July I've actually I was kind of trying to wait till Windows 10 to move
everyone's workstations um and sort of re reify everything around here but I
actually yeah we picked up a couple of uh Windows 8 licenses today actually for
a couple of the new servers yes I know it's not a server OS I don't care it
doesn't actually matter for most of the things we're doing if we decide to
virtualize the 36 core machine and we have which we probably will which we I
don't want to say probably I will say we may do um it depends it depends if I
know but it's not going to be able to yeah if media encoder handles it okay
then we'll just have it be a single machine I agree I just seriously doubt
that it will if it doesn't then what we may end up actually doing that would
this might actually be kind of smart if we did eight virtual machines each with
32 gigs of RAM so we'd have to double the RAM and then we gave every editor
their own render box and it was all running off of the
one box that has benefits and downsides
conversation to have anyway cuz you wouldn't be able to just like pound out
videos yeah well it would still be really quick but not as fast yeah um but
but they wouldn't use each other's resources and you could have parallelized rendering and all this kind
of stuff AMD reveals Windows 10 will launch in Late July so uh I I couldn't
hold out that long so I'm I'm going 8.1 on some of that stuff I'll figure out if
like I'd feel pretty sketch about upgrading an OS on a server so so
there's that um yeah I don't know man what's your
what's your gut feeling on that one uh honestly usually I'm like nope but then
looking at how amazingly well my upgrade
from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and then
revert back from Windows 10 to Windows 7 went I am actually kind of down okay did
I really talk to you about that yeah you did yeah that was amazing like that was
the best part of the whole experience was how well it went up and back down again apparently non-paying steam users
can still accept friend requests they may not send them out so they okay
that's not that big of a deal so they can have a friends list but they just have to have someone else send group
messages so they could message the people on their friends with it I'm cool
with it then I have no problem that was the only thing I didn't like so yeah true all right well I think
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