well hello hello everyone thank you for joining me here on the W show it's going
to be just me this week that is to say
unless uh twitch pulls a Dennis or Riot
which seems pretty likely although I think he is busy editing a video right
now so I'm really not sure if it's going to be an option but I've actually got a
fair number of good topics this week
asterisk because some of the good topics that I'll be discussing this week are
actually ones that took place um more last week than this week but I didn't
get a chance to uh talk about them last week because Luke got all distracting
with his dreamy blue eyes and all that stuff so Luke and Brandon are actually
on an embargoed trip right now they are in Switzerland of all places pretty
freaking cool which means that I am on my own except that yes twitch chat is
completely exploding thank you for that twit chat I'll tell you what I will ask
Dennis to join me for a few minutes here but I really don't know how much time
he's going to have
um you guys are
merciless just for a few
minutes that's always how my requests start hey uh can we do that thing I want
to do it'll only take a few
minutes um so I've got a pretty good show for for you guys today though some
some of the topics are actually left over from last week like I said but there is some pretty interesting stuff
from this week so in spite of my inability to order one the HTC Vive
managed to sell 15,000 units in 10 minutes talking about the implications
of that uh Samsung has a 15 terabyte SSD
I'm I'm waving but my body language I'll
try I'll try you oh
Jesus hi Dennis welcome to the show um hold on I'm just going to tell people
about some of topics we got this week so John McAfee revealed on National
Television how to uh hack into the San
Bernardino Killer's iPhone which uh the
method he outlined I mean I'm no iPhone security expert but uh caused me to
raise an eyebrow and I'm not the only one uh Far Cry primals Map same map as
Far Cry 4 more on this at 11 and joining me for the show is Dennis with one of
the gigantic food of his people around his neck would you say that
shrimp is a food of the Taiwanese people yeah yeah this is fresh big shrimp I got
from Taiwan okay excellent I'll roll the intro
now
oh thank you Ed made
it it see it's me and Luke yeah with shirts that we no longer wear but that
we used to wear those used to be like our trademark
shirts
y we don't have that couch no we do not have that couch anymore I do still have
that shirt somewhere and Luke may still have that I think it's like a Team
Liquid hoodie he may still have it somewhere but I'm I'm genuinely
uncertain if if any we definitely don't have the red cushions anymore those are
gone yeah yeah I actually gave that couch to uh to a friend of mine who runs
the Badminton Center now so uh badminton you're Asian what do you know about
Badminton you like badminton I play taiwan's PE class we
play a lot of bingum but I'm not
professional I don't think I'm as good as you but I think you don't have to say
that just cuz like I'm you know better
than the other people here I think okay
okay we should play sometime we should play sometime maybe we'll uh maybe we'll
get an opportunity to engage in some kind of fun exciting uh sports sports
thing in sometime in the next little bit we'll see how your uh your physical
sporting prowess is um so let's jump
into our first topic for the day this was posted by Sam fiser on the Forum I
have not wh I forgot to test if my screen capture was working so uh it
helps if you plug in the HDMI cable and
whoa look at that the stream computer
worked for the first time ever the HTC
Vive sold over 15,000 units in 10 minutes that's the
Taiwanese people made that's my people yep so uh well they I mean they make
pretty much everything that's not made in that's not made in China so it's like
it's it's like Taiwan and Japan if you want something that's sort of A step
above China then that's where you're going to want to go so HTC has been
hanging on for dear life they can't make a phone that anyone wants so they
partnered up with valve they introduced the HTC Vive the initial concept looked
really interesting for those of you who need a bit of a primer on it where they
had this idea where instead of having a Tracker right in front of the user they
were going to have these Lighthouse towers for extremely low latency um
motion excuse me motion um position
detection and the initial units were frankly not very impressive SS did you
try the Vive at CES this year okay no I didn't get to see that at CES this year
the Vive grew up the Vive put on its big boy pants and started to look like a
legitimate competitor for the Oculus
Rift now I to my knowledge Oculus has
not released any of the sales figures for the rift but the Vive was priced at
if I recall correctly it was uh
$7.99 us uh let me just let me just yeah
so the Vive was priced at $800 leading many myself included to believe that
that combined with the cost associated with running VR on a computer that's
powerful enough to run VR would really hurt initial adoption
I mean 15 can you believe 15,000 people
bought a pair of goggles that goes on their head that runs with like a handful
of programs and they have to have a computer starting at probably around
$1,000 to $1300 to even use that's kind
a lot have you tried VR at all I I
try I didn't I didn't try entire thing I have a I tried a glasses thing in CES
didn't have much time but I I would love to try that the Vive thanks Dennis
you're a great co-host here you're help helping me out a lot here is amazing
really you guys you guys all have tried it uh a few people tried it yes I didn't
even see it you don't have to be so shy man like if someone's if like me or Luke
is like trying something at CS you can be like can I try it did L's I don't
think we saw that CS um yeah I'm pretty
sure yeah yeah I'm pretty sure and we went to the HTC booth but we saw the
this a scale thing that's all we saw oh
not CS the the thing before CS the first
day so I didn't see so the implications of this are pretty huge from my
perspective I mean I I am willing to bet money based on that HTC has never uh you
know come out and said yeah we sold 15,000 of our new flagship phone in 10
minutes that it has been a long time since HTC has had a product fly off the
shelf like this and for them to get
their foot in the door in a real way whether it's the partnership with valve
whether it's the fact that the the Vive is just a really impressive piece of
Hardware this could be a breath of fresh
air into the lungs of HTC and I personally have been kind of rooting for
them all this time CU they were that they were that kind of upstart from
nowhere I mean people forget this but they were kind of like a OnePlus many
years ago when Android was just kind of
starting to to chip away at the market share of the other phone makers and they
were kind of a big deal they made a lot of really important phones over the
years and as much as phones have kind of
lost their their glamour um with anyone
but Apple Samsung or actually LG to a certain extent lately unable to really
Dazzle people with their new phone releases um if HTC is the one out of all
those guys that figured out okay we're going to jump into this then I'm I'm
proud of them I'm proud of them great job guys and to be clear I do recognize
that Samsung has the whole gear VR thing going on but you guys need to recognize
that the Vive and the Oculus Rift are
completely different pieces of Hardware compared to something like gear VR it is
not the same thing at all so um yeah I
guess that's I am blown you know here I
want to hear from you guys and this is this is important this is important you
guys I want you to answer as honestly as possible did you pre-order a
Vive um or you know what did you pre-order a gaming VR headset and I'm
going to I'm going to put all the options on here so Vive and and I'm
really serious I'm leaving out the turnup option okay so Vive Rift both
none let's get that poll created here and I want to hear from you guys by the
way I did eventually manage to get
everyone stop answering in the twitch chat for crying out loud that's not how
we do things I can't even read that can they even see your your thing because is
oh gone I know and they make it impossible for me to post my links look
at the link click the bitly you guys the LTT bot bitly so uh let's have a look so
guys to be clear I did eventually manage to get a Vive pre-order in it took me a
little while it took me about 40 minutes so I'm deeply concerned that I'm not
going to be getting a particularly early unit which is going to set back our
coverage for it but whatever there's nothing I can do about that at this
point um so I did get one so we definitely have an order in for a rift
and we definitely have an order in for aive and we're going to be really looking into
um how how video cards perform with
these what the experiences are like um I'd love to even maybe Branch out and I
haven't talked to Luke about this so don't quote me on this but I'd love to
even do some game and app reviews specific specifically for these products
because while I recognize especially now seeing the results of this poll that
very few of you are actually interested
enough in gaming grade VR to plunk down
you know I think it ended up costing me about 1,200 Canadian rubles for just one
of them to plunk down that kind of money on on a gaming headset um I think it is
super important for the future and it's important for us to get familiar with
these devices so we can continue to provide you guys with context relevant
information about the new devices that will be coming in the future and it's
also important for us to have these devices here in the office so poor
Dennis can try them yeah where do you have needle what oh uh
okay these that that is that is an interesting question and I'm glad you
asked so I have these um these needle
capped syringes uh here on the table and the
finger yeah uh it's called nail nail
polish yep nail polish um which ironically does not polish your nail so
much as cover your nail with paint nail
polish is actually a bit of a misnomer oh a misnomer is is a is a name for
something that not right it's not it doesn't accurately describe it yeah see
this this is this is how the arrangement works we don't actually pay him um but
he teaches us about Taiwanese culture and uh and edits videos and then you
know we we teach him English we're not doing a very good job of our end of the
bargain though sorry
Den um car what's that for okay so
actually this I'm going to be doing a live experiment with the here I'll
actually I'll switch to the camera angle that I'm planning to use for no no it's
not a big deal so I'll be doing a live experiment where I had a lot of people
comment on my painting video of This gtx980 Ti that the the text here the
gtx980 ti really needs to be a different
color to make it pop CU this used to be black so my theory is that I can do a
poor man's like epoxy resin fill
technique to color this with a syringe
and some nail polish that is an actual technique that's used to make things
like um high-end case badges um and
emblems so where they'll actually have a um a metal stamped or or cast sticker
and then they fill in with different colors um so I'm hoping that I can do
that for sort of under $10 kind of thing
but I don't know if it's going to work but I was if I ran out of topics on my
it easy to get a needles yeah it's just
a it's just a needle you just tell the pharmacy you're diabetic what is that
diabetic oh um yeah that means you have like a brain disorder that makes it so
when no no I'm just kidding diabetes yes diabet I know diabetes yes you can also
get them at safe injection sites they're very nice the ones that have at the safe
injection sites are better well the people are very nice all the people are
nice they don't judge you oh oh how did
you know um so posted by Nona hexa on
the Forum the original article here is from Computer World Samsung ships the
world's highest capacity SSD with 15
terab of storage now 15 terab of storage
so so Dennis do you know how much overall storage capacity we have in our
entire server room um two 200 terab um
actually that is that is very very close
yep we are somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 terabytes of storage now that 200
terabytes of storage takes up um one
entire 4u rack that's all magnetic
storage and another Ur rack with the
necessary um uh host bus adapters and
and trays and 2 and 1 half in ssds it's not a very efficiently laid out case
it's only got 24 ssds in it but so far we've taken up eight years worth of
racks and then we've got another machine that's just got like a like a temporary
like a Dumping Ground for um for offloaded footage that makes up the rest
of it with a mere what 12 of these
ssds we would be cuz we've actually got about 185 terab so we would be we would
have the same capacity of storage that we have in our entire server room in
like what I could fit in my two hands just like this this thing looks freaking
bananas now it is still I believe it is
SATA I don't even think it no no it is
SAS so this is a SAS Drive uh they're calling it The pm
1633a and it is the highest capacity solid state drive um it's Peak
So Random read and write speeds of up to, 3200 iOS per second so to be clear
those read ey Ops are pretty darn good
those right ey Ops are not particularly impressive so what Samsung's going after
here is uh write infrequently read very
very frequently and with very very high
data storage density applications and there is definitely a place for this
like for example um while it doesn't
have the same kind of performance that a PCI Express based um preferably NVMe SSD
would have because it uses a SAS interface it's a you can connect a lot
more of them to a system just with host bus adapters or Raid cards so you can
connect like whack loads of them you're not limit limited by how many PCI
Express slots you have and in addition to that uh it is hot swappable so you
don't have to power down the system take it out and swap a card if you have a
drive failure or something along those
lines this is freaking incredible 15.36%
over its 5year warranty holy freaking
crap so let me tell you there are some data center Architects that are drooling
over this and I I'm personally drooling too because I can think of all kinds of
things that I would love to use a 15 tab SSD
for wow so there they're saying that the
random read iops performance is about a thousand times that of a SAS type hard
disk drive and the sequential read and WR speeds are more than twice the speed
of a typical SATA SSD because this is not just SAS it is SAS 12 gbit so that
is the because of I believe it's due to
the controller complexity and the power consumption that is the next step for
the for what remember guys SAS and SATA are very closely related and have and
have evolved with each other so that would be the next step for SATA if they
could figure out how to solve those problems and if there was really a need
for a desktop system to have so many drives connected to it anymore with
between the cloud and Nas storage I can't think of a reason why most
personal computers really need more than one or maybe two drives so the so the
desire for this you know 12 gabit
interface that you can connect you know anywhere between six or 12 or however
many SATA ports you would have on a motherboard drives is is really not very
high and and the cost of implementing it is very high I've learned some turning
fap Bess inste we don't really refer to
it as fap externally we call it fast as possible take a key yeah but uh that's
good they know what I'm talking about yes they call you that word too yeah
they they Pro they probably do um so
what was I going to say all right so the way that Samsung is achieving all this
capacity is with their stackable vertical nand they are right now Far and
Away the industry leader in that technology with guys like Intel very
much playing catchup so let's let's see there's actually a lot of really great
technical details this is a really good article from Computer World here so
they're using the same blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah what are
we looking at so how many 256 gbit dies are on
here wow 256 GB on a chip that is larger
than the tip of a finger so they're stacked in 16 layers to form a single
512 Gigabyte package so there's a total
of 32 of those flash packages in the 1536 terab Drive um this is actually a
question that a lot of people have asked
whether it's directly to me or just I've seen this this question on forums and
stuff over the years and here I I will pose it to you Dennis I'll see if you
can I'll see if you can answer the question I'll see if I I can't understand question so you know how a
hard drive is like this big yeah okay and an SSD is so small like they're like
this big or in the cases of laptops remember the one you probably edited the
one on m.2 right yeah like they're tiny they're just a little like they
basically are like a thicker SD card like crazy so a lot of people have asked
over the years why don't they just pack
as many flash chips as they can into something the size of a hard drive for
desktops then we could have had high capacity I mean theoretically if Samsung
can make a 15 2 and2 in SSD today why
can't they make a 60 Tab 3 and2 in SSD
today I don't know why but that's s
doable and in theory it does and I'll explain why just because a lot of people
have brought this up over the years the reason is actually due to a couple of
things number one is cost and number two is actually very closely related to
number one and it is complexity so the cost of the nand chip
it it doesn't get cheaper if you make them bigger in fact the the the
manufacturing process for Nan chips is
refined to the point where down to down to micrometers they've determined what
the optimal size is for op the optimal
interconnect speed and all that nonsense that goes on inside of a chip there
there is no point there's no benefit to making it physically larger and putting
it into a larger package because you might actually end up with a latency
penalty for example that would hurt performance so there's the cost so just
because you can put you know 3,000 flash
chips into something the size of a like a 5 and a quar inch optical drive like
yeah why don't we just have 5 and a qu inch ssds and we'll put them in our Optical Baye uh doesn't mean that we
could afford it and then number two is complexity also related to cost so
building a controller that supports more
communication Channel out to all of these chips and can handle
things like uh load balancing and and the the leveling of the wearing out of
all the different Nan chips uh in the drive building that controller is
extremely difficult and the more the more CH the more communication it needs
to do the more calculation it needs to do the more expensive and the more
complex it needs to be and unless you can sell over a certain threshold of
these controllers you're not going to make back what you spent in R&D no
matter how much you end up charging for it so you have to wait until the
economies of scale make enough sense that you can build a complex enough
controller that you can attach enough Nan chips Nan chips that you can afford
in order to make an SSD of a higher capacity so the solution that we've been
left with is you just have small ssds and big metal adapters if you really
really really want to put them into a 3 and 1 half in
Bay I'm so lost I'm so lost sorry guys that's okay
hopefully you guys aren't lost this is great retro capes says
you're having a Vietnam flashback I just trying to process all
the words you say this yeah sorry I talk pretty fast although I read a really
interesting article uh once Ed actually linked it to me I would love to be able
to find it by the way we've got the final results for our straw pool here
91% of you did not pre-order a gaming VR headset with a whopping 8% that doesn't
add up what the hell okay uh anyway rounding error 91%
of you did not pre-order a gaming VR headset with 8% of you saying that you
did and only 1% of you saying that you pre-ordered both so uh very Niche very
expensive but apparently around the world you know beyond our audience uh
where we've got you know about 150 people saying they bit the bullet and
went for it there are apparent ly thousands and thousands of people
revealing a much a much uh healthier appetite for this stuff than I would
have necessarily expected especially given how few people have actually had
an opportunity to try it when's um
when's the VR thing coming out is like coming on these couple five years couple
years or um well one of the headsets is shipping in April so we'll have one here
like very soon um however if you're a
Mac User you may not be able to enjoy that same privilege so this was
originally posted by Master disaster on the Forum original article here is from
PC Gamer Oculus founder Rift will come
to Mac if Apple quote ever release a
good computer wow burn and to be clear to be clear um
and this is this is right in the article very sensationalist headline I don't blame them um when your entire business
is whether or not people click on your article or not I don't I don't NE as
long as you're not being deceptive I don't actually blame you for for trying
to attract people to click on it but um
it does say he did clarify saying that
he was referring to Apple's lack of high-end GPU support even in its
high-end systems that the rift is dependent on so he went on to say you
can buy a $6,000 Mac Pro with a top-of-the-line AMD firepro d700 and it
still doesn't match Oculus is recommended specs I mean remember guys
Oculus is asking for what r9290 or a
gtx970 graphics card I mean we're talking a current gen Enthusiast grade
graphics card whereas Apple over the
last little while unless you look at their mobile lineup has really
deemphasized the importance of GPU and to be clear I don't mean mobile laptops
their laptops some of them I think still have decent gpus in them but nothing
high-end I mean a lot of people say you know one is why did you why do you use
the Razer Blade 14 it's just a MacBook with a better
GPU why do I have to explain why I use it because the MacBook is a great piece
of Hardware is MacBook Pro to be clear uh the MacBook Pro is a great piece of
Hardware but it has a freaking freaking
crabtastic GPU for what it is and for how much it costs that's why the Razer
Blade 14 makes a lot of sense to me um
so I I I guess that's pretty much all there is to to really say about that I
was kind of I was going to Riff on this with Luke if he was here this week a
little bit more but um maybe Dennis I'll get your thoughts uh
what speechless what I don't
know do you think Apple makes good
enough computers for gaming I never seen
people playing games on Mac mostly they
do media things like Photoshop or illustrator or video editing but serly I
never seen people play games on Mac Oh
Nick he he has a Mac yeah get wrecked
Berle he always he played like stupid little game when he was in college in
class every class yeah got in class how
did he pass did he get did he get better grades than you yes in every class but
no my grammar is better than his your grammar is better than his yes but like
good yeah no no no they has a grammar
test I got 100% go wait you guys are in BCIT
why are you doing grammar tests Communications cuz we have communications diplomas Communications
that's what our education what do you mean Communications is what you do you never even graduated yeah well that's
why my communication is okay there was a law class that we had and I never
studied and I always just played Age of Empires in it and I would just
subconsciously listen and I got it and failed you sucking hm Empire yeah
so so you work hard on H Empire but you
suck I work on law I'm I pass still I
think we can all agree that Age of Empires is much more important to his current line of work than
law all right so um moving moving on
with actually the show this is a big
deal and hopefully we can get to weigh in on this one this was posted by Mech
777 on the Forum original article here is from Tech PowerUp let's go ahead and
pull that up oh you know what I just realized I've been totally derping and I
haven't been posting the articles in the twitch chat normally Luke does that for
me I'm sorry guys there you go there's the article from tech power up there um
and now I'm going to try and find my way back to it for crying out loud okay
there we go Windows store games are
going to be limited in some pretty fre freaking crappy ways I mean Microsoft
the more times they commit to the PC Gamer the more times they turn around
and take a steaming dump on the PC Gamer
especially the Enthusiast PC Gamer and I understand I understand that if all you
play is like what what's it called like Zuma or like you know uh uh uh what's
that stupid game that my sister played with the Cafe Diner Dash or you know
whatever if that's all you if that's all you play on your PC you are technically
still a PC Gamer and I'm not going to be down on that like yeah you're not like
OG enough you're not hardcore enough you don't have a five-digit steam ID yo you
know I'm not I'm not going to be like that or anything
but why take a crap on the Enthusiast
Gamers who do invest in Hardware that runs your operating system and not let
them take full advantage of it so word on the street right now the way that
it's looking right now is that Windows store games may not have proper support
for um adaptive vsync SLI and Crossfire
modding or even proper full screen game
support because while it is so it what
it appears that they are going to be doing is running these games as window
apps so technically that's going to run
in window full screen so I do know and I
haven't I apologize in advance because I haven't it's it's not 100% clear um how
many of these limitations will affect how many games and with which video
cards what I do know is that NVIDIA
supports g-sync for example in window
full screen AMD on the other hand does
not appear at this time to have a solution for AMD free sync in Windows
full screen so while news breaking
originally that there might be exclusive titles uh I believe the upcoming Gears
of War release is going to be exclusive to the Windows store and I was like sure
okay I get it I mean hey look everyone else is doing it you know whether you're
Ubisoft or valve or EA or or whatever everyone else is doing it so fine I get
it you want to to drive the adoption of your platform but if you are going to
stunt your platform by killing things
like SLI and Crossfire support I mean killing it even worse than the game
developers implementing it poorly then what's your
problem like I get I get I I get the
economics I get the business strategy of
not wanting to give up a cut of the game
that you are selling to some third party distribution service like steam if you
just want to that money fine I understand that you know everybody's got
to make money but if you your game at
the same time um then that becomes just that just
becomes it's just rubbing salt in the wound and I've got some people asking
about Tim Sweeney's comments unfortunately that situation we were
looking into it before W show is a whole lot of he said she said right now maybe
we can talk about it a little bit once the dust settles next week but right now
that whole situation between epic games and Microsoft right now is something
that I that I don't really want to want to touch so Dennis let's get your
thoughts on this about the the window thing yeah
yeah so they don't support full screen and some V things so they do support
full screen it's but it's like borderless full screen so you don't
actually it's it's a borderless window so it's technically running in windowed
mode like you can alt Tab out of it yeah and into other appliations it doely take
the experience but you don't see the borders around it but what that means
because of some complications in the video card driver is that certain
Advanced features that require the video card driver to fully take control of the
application are not able to function and these are these are these are functions
that so someone might buy one of these and they will get sort of The Full
Experience um in this situation missing
some stuff potentially um but some people will go as far as to buy two of
these so they'll spend an entire additional like $800 on their gaming
system in order to theoretically double their performance in SLI so Microsoft is
taking a big poo on that oh so like the Windows have full contr up the entire
thing yeah oh I don't like that I like I
like everything you can just come true and you don't have to buy something for
that brand like to be clear Microsoft
isn't offering an alternative Microsoft video card they're just completely
kneecapping the functionality and not giving you any recourse whatsoever I
don't like that so there you go guys you
heard it here first Dennis doesn't like that and I don't like it either so
Microsoft if you guys are
watching yeah thank you Dennis all right
so uh let's move on to our next topic here uh actually oh we should we should
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use it really have you updated things on the Squarespace site no you just always
hear me say that yeah I saw your ly but yes yes you could use it so it looks
really easy yeah all of squarespace's tools are web based so all you got to do
is go in it's very visual you don't have to be a programmer although there are
more tweaks you can make if you do have some coding experience and you just go
in you make your edits you click save and Bippity Bop the whole thing is
handled by them the page is hosted by them and if you sign up for a year they
will even throw in a free domain so for plan starting at only $8 a month you get
all that stuff taken care of so you can focus on just building a beautiful
website rather than focusing on like figuring out how to get that freaking
image to write a line just can't do it
which can be very frustrating so there you go guys Squarespace you should build
it simple powerful beautiful I think I'm just going to start stringing together
every slogan they've ever done at a certain point uh until we until we have
literally all of them it'll be like like poke Pokemon style all right so I'm
going to go ahead and drop my uh seriously seriously is that is that not
going to work is that is that not going to work for me you've got to be freaking
kidding me all right I will find this I am
freaking out here come on come on no not
that one well okay fine there you
go Dollar Shave Club all right Dennis
you're up tell me about Dollar Shave Club so you can order all the not just
your um what's that razor and some
bathroom supply deliver to your house
your every month and can I help you I got they have
they have sure Char Charlie what's that
Charlie one white Charlie thanks Nick they
have Shi moist and cream what did you just say
shave moisture thing ah yes y shaving
cream they don't have some nonsense razor y it's all six blade yep and easy
to use deliver to your house so easy Dennis can use it yeah I don't have beer
at all okay so so Dollar Shave Club uh
whether you want highquality razors and other bathroom supplies like their butt
wipes or their aftershave or their Dr
Carver shave butter which is not technically a shaving cream cuz there
they have travel size too and they have travel sizes thank you Dennis if you're
in the US Canada and Australia for just a few bucks a month without having to go
out to the store and spend way too much on replacement blades you guys can join
the club save money save time and head
over to dollarshaveclub.com Linus to start doing
it I like they I like people send stuff to my house and cuz when you receive the
package it's like someone send you gift but it's actually you send
yourself that's an hour happiness you can buy
from that that is a good point um thank
you thank you thank you Dennis okay so moving into our next
uh next actual topic um if you have work
to do you can you can leave I I actually only meant to drag you here for a few
minutes okay sorry sorry Dennis I know you're trying to edit as fast as
possible right now thank you for joining me yeah thank thanks Dennis Stay Stay
Stay Stay no they stay yeah they they'll
stay don't worry it's okay um so this is
posted by no nerg whatever that is on
the Forum I'm gonna go ahead and drop the link here in the twitch chat
um boom there you go John McAfee
according to the RS Technica headline better prepare to eat a shoe because he
doesn't know how iPhones work okay so we're going to fire up this
video um at risk of at risk of me
getting like a like a an infringement strike here from uh who is this I don't
know some some United States can I just
see this on YouTube please thank you all right so um so some some news network I
don't know I'm not American um so basically to be clear he did say and
it's the it's the top comment on the video I hope everyone knows that the
Apple explanation was vastly dumbed down for the Press I know the A7 system chip
well including it secure Enclave with separate co-processor that stores the
encrypted fingerprint the feral key generated by the co-processor that Apple
doesn't even know the secure Enclave memory isolated from the rest of the processes on the Etc doesn't matter the
main ARM processor has its own memory and that's what I'm interested
in etc etc etc um however ours put together a very
strong because I was kind of looking at it going like the way he was explaining
this it was like it was like a four-year-old could break into an iPhone
so like he says okay so this is a summary from John McAfee you only need
two people a hardware and a software engineer okay well that sets the bar
somewhat somewhat High the hardware engineer takes the phone apart that
doesn't even sound like a hardware engineering task to be perfectly honest
I mean I can think of there's probably a thousand people on YouTube alone who
could take apart an iPhone with their eyes closed copies the instruction
set which I I it sounds like um he sort
of loosely using the term instruction
set to mean which which is is actually a
way that that that a processor takes software uh takes what software tells it
and turns that into something that that transistors can understand like it it
translates it into like like machine code um so so that's that's an
instruction set so so you actually wouldn't you wouldn't even want the
instruction set um so I think what he
sort of means is is like the the the the software like the actual operating
system or something not sure then you run a disassembler which takes the ones
and zeros and gives you readable information okay then the coder sits
down reads and finds the first access to the keypad reads the instructions for
where In memory the secret code is stored and he says it'll take half an
hour however our Technica summary which my
understanding of it is and I am not a software engineer I want that to be very
clear I am neither a software engineer nor a hardware engineer but from my
understanding of the way that Apple's encryption works
apple is being honest and being very
upfront about the fact that even day
cannot break into an iPhone unless they
were to push a software update so they were to install a new version of iOS
onto the phone that defeated the
safeguards that they have put into place to prevent even Apple from breaking the
encryption so to imagine for a second
that apple apple is storing plain text
versions of the entries of a passcode
which by the way the passcode itself is not what unlocks an iPhone it actually
generates a key that unlocks the iPhone
so for for to imagine that apple is storing this in PL Tex somewhere is
just is just baffling baffling to me
that um that he would think that it's
that simple
and I mean so so here ours ours explains it better than I possibly could because
they're really smart over there and I'm only a little bit smart so the pin is
not stored on the flash storage at all because there's no need if the wrong PIN is entered the encryption key that's
gets generated by combining the pin with the hardware ID won't work there that's in a sentence a way better explanation
than I could have possibly given you guys it will not unlock any encrypted
files so that's how the iPhone can verify if the pin is correct or not it
verifies simp on the basis of did it work in the key
or not it doesn't actually know what the
or did it work in the lock or not it doesn't actually know what the right key
is for the lock it's basically like like the way that it works is as if people
just walk up and try any key in a lock and the only way the lock even knows
what its own what its own what its own Tumblr setup was was whether the key
works or not that's the only way it could have possibly known so to imagine
that it is easy to pull that information
out of an iPhone is is asinine as far as
my understanding and the RS author's understanding goes which isn't to say
that it's impossible if they were to
actually disassemble the the chip itself
so they would actually have to inspect the handset's processor so this is back
to the article again which I believe I Linked In twitch chat but just in case I will do it again because really good
read uh you guys should definitely be checking this
out if they inspect the handset's processor using acid and lasers it is
possible that they could get the device's unique Hardware ID and then
with that ID they could combine it with each pin every pin in turn until they
hit upon the exact right one although the cost and complexity of the technique
would be extremely high and the risk of destroying the device permanently making
it completely unrecoverable would also be very high
so I don't know if he's actually
planning to eat a shoe I don't know if he actually thinks he could open it in a
couple weeks because if he could like it's pretty easy to do that demo with
some other iPhone just be like hey just to prove that I really can here we go we
did it um or if he's just in his own
eccentric way trying
to just just undermine the FBI's efforts to
get apple to agree to build in a back door if he is like I can't I can't
believe that I like he's kind of a he's
kind of an eccentric character but I haven't seen anything about him to make
me believe that he's stupid so
um maybe he's just playing a game that
most of us have not picked up on here I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt where he's just trying to to put
up barricades for the FBI for the
government's requests to have apple build in this
functionality I'd like to believe that's what's going on here but I'm I'm
definitely not sure um so there there
you have it
um yeah so I'm actually going to take a
break from our regularly scheduled land show programming to bring you guys my
live yes my friends live Voyage of
Discovery here with this gtx980 TI I'm actually not out of topics I actually
have a fair number of them remaining but I really want to do this I'm I'm
actually like kind of amped on it and so uh I I want to bring you guys along for
the ride because I have to go home after work today I'm not going to have a
chance to uh to stick around and try this oh oh that that's not what I meant
to do sorry I was just trying to uh see if I can get the color right oh wow
that's weird okay so my hands are now pink which they're not but that card
looks a lot closer to what it looks like in real life so I think uh I think we've
got our our color good enough here so what I will be trying to do is like an
epoxy okay the table's not dirty it's actually um it was painted it is chipped
paint the the table is actually not dirty see look I'll I'll look my finger
that tastes fine um so what I'm going to be trying to do
is use nail polish to be like a poor
man's epoxy resin fill technique I don't
know how to open these um for coloring a
recessed a recessed logo or emblem or something along those lines so my wife
went to the pharmacy and uh obtained
these uh needle syringes for me so I was
hoping to use this as an applicator I'm actually thinking I might try to suck up
the nail polish without the needle tip because I don't want to get nail polish
all over it I'm going to have to be very careful about the way that I apply it um
because a lot of people had critiqued this already um even though I haven't
even released the video about it this painted gtx980ti saying that it would really be
a lot better if I took the extra step
to uh to color the gtx980 ti text so oh
hold on all right now you'll have to pardon me I've never done this before
I've I've never put nail polish into uh into a
syringe okay I realize I'm not actually
showing you guys what's going on
here uh okay that is super duper not
working very well okay okay that's fine not an obstacle got everyone being all
like shooting nail polish that is not what happens on this show not what
happens on this show oh wow wow that is
uh that is some slow
slow slow suction that we got going on here
hopefully you guys can see I am managing to draw up some nail polish though so
that that bodess well for our chances of success here if we can at least get the
nail polish into the syringe boy is that ever slow though
holy crap we've got a near vacuum in the thing at this point
okay okay that's fine that's fine I can make do with this
okay so there are professional ways to do this but as you guys know I tend to
uh shy away from those for reasons that are really not very clear to anyone so
let's start on the let's start on the easiest the easiest thing
here um let's start with let's start with the T that seems like the least
complex the least complex of the letters
got everyone asking me why I don't put it in the oven I think you all know the answer to
that okay oh wow okay so here I learned
something new about uh needles today the hole is not actually right in the
end H okay so that that just put a bead that
is not spreading out at all into the T
which is fine I can work with this we're going to try and uh going to try and
spread it out I sure hope I haven't like
permanently wrecked this
thing
okay wow this is stressful I mean there's a lot of stuff
that I do that's like kind of stressful but I mean for
me the cost of a component is less of a
factor because you know for us the components
are just sort of cost to doing business
um we we need them we can't make videos about this stuff unless we have them so
ruing a component is is really really
crappy and I and I hate doing it but ruining a bunch of time that I've
already invested in a video is is much more
harmful um so I'm really hoping not to destroy
this video card that I have already done uh most of the work for oh sorry I
realized I moved that away from you so what I'm kind of hoping for is that I
can use some kind of a of like a a cloth
or something oh oh oh oh it's coming out
really fast okay don't come out so fast
you
okay wow this is some this is some
touchy touchy work here so so what I'm hoping is I can use some kind of a wipe
over the top of it
to you know if it came out the end of the needle I would be in much better
shape right now um to get the excess off around the
edges and hopefully get a nice clean line that is what I am sincerely
hoping okay
so the G the T and the
x or the G the T and the X the T only
the t is sort of done but it looks a little
overfilled so I am at a bit of a loss
for how to fix that right now
because I don't think I even have any nail polish
remover well there you have it guys I
got sad on Wow today okay you know what
here I I actually have an idea I have an idea people are like can we talk news is
wow there's only a 60% chance we're even going to talk about news on low you guys
knew that coming into this you knew what this
was um okay you know what no I want like uh
okay what if I use I need uh what do I need I need
something I need like a flat Edge I need a flat Edge oh people are suggesting to
suck up the excess with the needle there's not that much excess though I
might not have fine enough control okay I'm going to try this I'm going to
try scraping the extra
off actually that could work that could
work I might need to take another couple runs at this here but as long as I can
sufficiently clean
off oh oh oh oh we're in trouble now
we're in trouble now uhoh uhoh okay um
uhoh now I'm in trouble time to uh time to bring in the
Cavalry Cavalry here
um uh I might need our resident nail
polish expert can you just clean it with
saliva oh the answer is no I don't know what oh oh oh I got a bunch on the top
cuz there's nail polish on my fingers uh uhoh oh well I sure hope I didn't
completely ruin it we shall find out very very
soon Cavalry is coming
yvon um I may have ruined my painted
video card by spreading the nail polish
out a bunch and and and ruining it um do you know how to get that
off yep yep I'm live so um and I and I
got some there too the back do you know how to do you know how to remove that
yeah you need CL remover uh I was even
going to buy some cuz I was like I know you're going to screw this up and then I
didn't because I was like you're using a syringe it'll be okay in my defense
these syringes are not quite what I was expecting uh apparently isopropyl will
work uh I don't think so but I will I actually also don't think so you need
acetone same thing yeah well um yep so there you go I will
do a news topic now thank you for thank you for coming along with me for that
wild ride oh this is sort of this is sort of
a big deal I mean it's only it's only sort of tech related but I guarantee you
that this will is it coming off actually yeah cuz it's not dry yet oh really oh
can I see oh why because I I want to see
if it could maybe be removed a little bit yeah I'm oh well yeah you just rub
harder and then it comes off more oh really well cuz it's not dry yet it's
not cured yet oh can I okay can I can I can I can I can I have that whoever said
that I'm sorry you were right okay good job with the isopropyl uh normally I
think once it cures it doesn't work though I mean have you ever tried to use
alcohol on your fingers yeah I have um but I think it could be because of the
paint finish too like maybe that's why maybe it makes
it easier to to same I think you should
let me do that I think you're ruining it I look you're taking the paint off or
what is that I don't think so no I think that's just um I think that's just nail
polish junk cuz if there's a way to if there's
a way to fill it
without oh yeah it's no it's okay that's the problem the alcohol is not taking it
off fully it's just kind of spreading it
around well that's why you should have let me do it cuz I was doing fine okay
go away
we also have that Goof Off stuff that may work but will that take your paint
off I'm not sure we're better off taking the paint off than having that stuck on
though just ring that out
there all right thank you um I don't
know if I posted this in the twitch chat yet so I'm going to go ahead and post it
here but uh yeah Dow chemicals and
Dupont are merging this is only peripherally related to Tech um because
like for example Corning uh falls under falls under this merger um they make a
an awful lot of glass that goes on Tak it's taking the paint off yeah that's
why it's sticky see it's orange oh no
that means it's all the way through the clear coat I think that's
why oh that's
terrible um I don't know it might be in the cleaning supplies um under the sink
in the kitchen oh if I have to repaint that
that's like actually kind of a disaster I don't even know if I have enough
primer
left I always push the
limits all always push the
limits so the deal is valued at
130 billion making it the 18th largest
corporate deal ever this company looks to challenge uh monsanto's seed
dominance so it'll create three separate entities in India with agriculture
products Material Science and specialy products as main businesses so dupon and
dowo chemicals have long been criticized for their track records regarding
environmental stewardship uh Dupont refused to take responsibility for toxic
pollutants spilled into the Ohio River the company has also received scrutiny
for its release of per floro Octan ploro octanoic acid uh which is
used to make non-stick products like Teflon and da was responsible for
producing Napalm used by the US military to devastate populations in Vietnam um
it subsidary Union Carbide was responsible for the deaths of thousands
in Bal India in 1984 following a massive leak of a chemical used to make
pesticide and DOW continues to refuse to clean the site or fund medical
initiatives to address the Bill's ongoing aftermath say critics of the
companies um so this is bound basically to affect pretty much uh everyone like
if you buy if you go into a grocery store or like a store and buy pretty
much anything I can guarantee you that you are buying something that lines the
pockets of DuPont or Dow chemicals um so
3M for example is owned by Dupont and will now be owned by this by this merged
company um in other news the uh Dow CEO
Andrew Lis gets nearly $53 million in a
golden parachute deal after the dupon merger um so that's 53 million in
Severance compensation um according to the Securities and Exchange Commission
filing so I think between the two of them it was something to the tune of
like 80 or hundred million and and a golden parachute is effectively an
executive um an executive like you know
Assurance package so that if the company were to ever merge or get bought out for
example uh they would would and then they were to lose their job as a result
they would definitely still be financially secure and um yeah my $53
million I I would I would consider that financially
secure uh in other news this was originally posted on the Forum by oh
that last one was posted on the Forum by oh no one okay so this one was
originally posted on the Forum by implosive Tech let's go ahead and Link
you guys to the original article here
Apple patents magnetically detachable wireless earbuds for the iPhone so is it
true that the iPhone 7 will have no 3
and a half millimeter Jack
possibly possibly and again possibly not so uh
Yep this would be a hybrid headphone design that is capable of both corded
and wireless operation so I I love I love the
illustrations in like applications it's like it's like they're determined to
make people look as weird and creepy as possible like who who has eyes like that
and it's like she's it's like she's so smug it's like she's like a it's like
she's an Apple user oh I guess that's why no no I'm
just kidding the smug look on her face could be for any reason so actually
there's better there's better drawings right here so it would allow um here you
go so it would have a magnetically detachable point right oh sorry I had
the the wrong Mouse here right around here and then you could well attach or
detach it and then power would come in here and you know stuff is very
fascinating um good for them I
guess yeah relies on two cables one connecting the stereo headphones
together to form a listening subsystem and then one tethering that subsystem to the host device and it would be for blah
blah blah so you could connect the listening device to the host cord for
battery recharging and for Wired audio signal transmission
uh direct X2 explicit multi-GPU mode
bringing radon and gForce together know we talked about that last week dang it Colton hi can I help you yeah you is it
completely ruined can I see yeah oh that
sucks yep so there you go my wonderful paint
job that I was super proud of is completely ruined and I will need to
completely sand this back down to metal
um reime it repaint it Rec clear coat it
and reassemble the card the good news there is some good news here is that
this piece is if I recall correctly the
easiest one to remove so I will not need
to fully disassemble the card that is a very very small Silver
Lining um but I will not be reattempting
my Cheapo um epoxy resin fill attempt
it's already ruined can I try since it's ruined yes you can try but really don't
think it's going to be worth the risk of trying it once it's painted again and you can't do it until after I paint it
again so um it was a good idea in theory
I think it could actually still work but I believe what you would have to do is
dilute the nail polish cu the problem I was having was that it wasn't spreading
so it couldn't overcome the surface tension that was making it bead I had to
try to spread it out by hand and of course when you try and spread it out by hand you might as well paint it by
hand in other news happy goggles here's
how to upd the world's most there we go a virtual reality headset made from a
Happy Meal box and this is on uh this is
actually pretty cool so they show you the whole
instructions for how to basically Google cardboard it up with your with your
Happy Meal box you get to wear that smile on your
face too so you look like a real winner love it very
cool that's pretty much all that I have to say about that it's pretty uh pretty
self pretty self-explanatory um it's a limited
edition Happy Meal box that can fold into VR goggles special boxes are being
issued to Mark the 30th anniversary of the Happy Meal in Sweden and only select
McDonald's restaurants in Sweden will be selling the boxes for now to accompany
the goggles McDonald's is including a special VR game called slope Stars which
will be available to download off McDonald's Sweden's website starting on
March the 4th it's it's essentially uh ski free no I'm just kidding it has
nothing to do with ski free although if you guys get the reference then one internet point for you uh the company
says the game will offer the player 36 a 360° ski experience and teach them how
to stay safe on the slopes uh the reaction to the goggles on McDonald's
Facebook page was mixed which to me is kind of bizarre like what's to not like
about it it's it's it's it's at least repurposing a box as opposed to
um you know just throwing it away like why not
Quantum breaks cutcenes this was originally posted by Sam fiser on the
Forum will require the liveaction
cutcenes will require an internet
connection that is some you know what I I think this was actually added after I
started the show here so I don't I have not I have not reviewed this I did not
know that this was posted a few days ago though will require an internet
connection so wow that is that is really
that is a really weird thing so it's a Time War shooter that employs a Blanda
video game cut scenes and a liveaction TV show attempting to tell a story in a
new cross media way okay very cool so the liveaction cutcenes will not be on
the disc but will actually be streamed to your PC the developer says that there
wouldn't have been enough room to get it all on dis because there's actually 40
different variations of the show Xbox One players will have the option of
downloading episodes but PC players will not the game is set to release April 5th
so I kind of get it okay there's no room on the disc so we have to have it streamed but well hold on a second if
you can stream it to me then you can give it to me as a download and if
you're going to give it to Xbox players then why aren't you going to give it to PC players that is a whole lot of
nonsense that really doesn't make any sense to me at all I mean
to yeah I yeah that's very frustrating
well I I wish that hadn't been added to the dock now because now now I'm just
upset uh
um this is cool so this was originally posted on the Forum by cloaked and the
original article here is from RS Technica with the next update on the
PlayStation 4 you will be able to stream games to your PC or to your Mac oops
sorry it's hard when I'm running this whole thing myself there's like a
touchpad and there's two mice in front of me um it's a feature
that to my knowledge I I've actually yet
to encounter someone who extensively uses steam in home streaming like I kind
of get it on the handheld side whether it's a PSVita um or whether it's
something like an NVIDIA Shield which didn't take off I mean they never even
refreshed it we never even got a new Shield portable that should tell you
that should give you some idea how popular the feature was um the whole
streaming from your gaming system to another device thing really hasn't taken
off yet um so I don't know how many people are really going to leverage this
but it's cool to see more options being
offered um I'm very interested to see how they handle PC inputs so things like
um can you actually play the game with the keyboard and mouse will PlayStation
game developers be expected to add that kind of a support or will you basically
be expected to just play PlayStation 4
with a PS4 controller on a screen that's connected to your PC not 100% sure
um y yeah oh I am so I am so sad I am so
sad right now that that graphics card is
broken now I'm just now I just can't now I just can't
focus um All Right Far Cry Primal map
this was originally posted by Trick star on The Forum original article here is
from gamer pressure.com and Ubisoft
recycled Far Cry 4's map in Far Cry Primal apparently so if you have a look
here the similarities are actually are
actually pretty striking um I guess that's pretty much
all there is to say about that so thank you guys very much for tuning in to the
WAN Show thank you to our very special guest Dennis for joining us today and we
will see you again next week same bat Time same bat Channel Luke should be
back next week I believe so uh expect a more normal W show thanks again for
watching and I'll see you guys next time
sorry guys no after party I've got some work to do been really bus lately