time uh for some reason the San Francisco server hates our life right
now and uh why did we have some audio
issues when we went live for a second there before why did we have that well
gee it's because someone why are you looking at me oh no
no no no no someone no no no no knocked
our mixer off the table okay okay some
someone's bright idea was to glue the
power connector into the mixer okay so it
falls off the table onto the power connector which why would the glue have
anything to do with which which breaks
two of the pins off into the back of the
connector which now have glue all over the place and someone me I'll be you
know clear about who this was I was trying to salvage it
by pulling and so basically long story
short um the mixer's okay the input the
power input for it is not so we need a new one so um so so we had we had some
issues there and someone is responsible for them you know I don't want to name
any names or anything but uh that that someone would be totally okay with uh
having the whole company transferred into his name if he's going to have to
be blamed for things that he didn't do he might as well have the things that
the person that did them has i' would be cool with that so we've got a great show
for you guys today NVIDIA still has a
shovel but this time they're filling up
holes uh but not like screwing anyone
like not that kind of filling up they're like planting trees in the holes that
they dug yeah see there they're restoring overclocking to their mobile
gpus also Apple May enter the car game
this could be fun to see would you buy an Apple car well we'll discuss it later
yeah we'll discuss it later is this your fantasy fantasy
oh okay okay tell them to tell them
topics H snow Sony is attempting to sell snake
oil um it's not going very well for them everyone on the planet has pointed it
out and no one's believing them at all so yep also DNA hard drives sound pretty
freaking cool maybe not crazy usable and crazy feasible right now but pretty
freaking cool regardless all right let's run that
intro so are we allowed to show like our logo hold on it's still loud
sponsored by us so are we allowed to show like our own logo on this thing
because I'm not really sure wait are
these are these graphics on the uh
they're oh they're probably on that USB drive so there's no logos uh because in
other news this week YouTube no longer allows brand logos in like what on are I
can be the logos so okay we'll go back to so Theo so this week's show is
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title card logo but it's a of focus horrible blurry logo it's here I I
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there was no sound at some point other
people can hear just fine so I think it's just someone's got their someone's
got their volume muted okay all right so why don't we
jump right into our first topic of the
day I will find first topic of the day
hooray uh NVIDIA to restore overclocking
in Mobile gpus this was originally posted by querty Warrior are you going
to throw the uh the article in there so basically what it comes down to and we
talked about this last week is NVIDIA took out overclocking from a mobile
driver and we discussed this last week and the general I think we pretty much
agreed on All Points dick move but you
probably shouldn't be overclocking a laptop probably that was that was kind
of the and I had some people get really upset about me making that statement
because there are laptops that do have beefy enough cooling system to be able
to handle overclocking just fine ASUS g751 there are some some clom made
machines that definitely have enough Cooling and are and are overbuilt enough
that it should be fine um but in in general in general people shouldn't be
overclocking the GPU in their laptops anyway but basically having received a
lot of pressure from oh I never actually brought up the tech power up uh link
here go ahead have we tested your push
yeah everything's fine um so basically Bally users were super super mad and
um with its most recent driver update the company decided to restore
overclocking with its next driver update scheduled for March so you won't have to
wait that long and in the meantime you can revert to the older
34475 drivers so I guess that's pretty
much all there is to say about that um that's two super positive things I've
seen from them in the last little bit are we over GTX 97 70 vram gate oh
probably not um and I've had some users bring up some really good points about
that but I got a sweet update for my shield to help with emulation
performance and they restored overclocking on their mobile gpus so maybe they don't just hate their
customers after all yay on the along the
lines of the uh G huh can I help you
trying not to interrupt I emailed you the lower thirds because those were also
just on the USB oh email is not helpful
yeah I can't do anything with that um
plug the USB back in no we can't because there's more USB stuff uh don't don't
worry I'll figure it out I'll figure it out don't worry I well can you PL it in the front uh yes that would work do you
want to do that I left it on top of the chassis okay in the meantime uh what was
I even talking about you were talking about NVIDIA being better 970 gate so I
actually got a PM oh my God can we not call it gate I'm so tired of everything
being called whatever it is and then gate uh how about break the vram
internet oh did I make it worse yes I wanted to
make it worse that was what I was going for I was I was I was trying to pretend
I was making it better but actually I made it worse I got you yeah that that
was my intention uh so so I actually had
someone PM me on the form and go well hey hold on a second lonus you said that
even though that memory is much slower that 500 Meg chunk of memory is is much
slower it's still faster than system memory but I I checked mine and my
system memory is faster and while this user did have like 2,000 mahz DDR 3 or
something like that like it was some super high-end premium memory and a lot
of users wouldn't be running system memory that's as fast as that chunk uh
it still brought up an interesting point I mean what about those users whose
system memory is significantly faster than that slow chunk of memory they
wouldn't even want NVIDIA's Tom Foolery with overflowing into that that mean you
might as well just go to system RAM and be able to turn it off so I thought that
was a really interesting point and I guess that leads us pretty well into our
next topic here this was posted by the okay whatever unless you know what
no new policy unless your username on the Forum is an actual I don't care
unless your username on the Forum is an actual name or word I'm not even going
to try it's a car well I'm not much of a car person
so NVIDIA gets hit with a false advertising suit over
gtx970 performance uh um so pretty much
that is what it sounds like some people are mad and uh it claims that NVIDIA
misled customers about the capabilities of the GTX 970 claims the last half gig
runs 80% slower than advertised and can cause images to stutter at high
resolutions and cause poor in game performance and for some reason Gigabyte
is the only OEM being named as a defendant um so yeah NVIDIA declined to
comment about the suit and the lawsuit seeks a jury trial and damages that
apply under California law filed on behalf of all us customers that
purchased a gtx970 the judge has to approve it as a
class action suit before it can proceed so lawyers make money and
everyone else gets a check for $12 then five years yeah those things are just
the worst unless it's for like actually substantial amounts of money which it
never is then it's just the worst where can I help you did my glass of water go
I'm largely just worried that I'm going to kick it right oh it's under it's
under there okay we're good you won't kick it unless you if you manage to kick
that then you are one talented kicker I
I don't see I think you'd hit your shin here before you could put your fo okay
he's look this this is why I hate this show he's got his foot like this and
he's like daintily like pointing at the
well yeah that's not we I use the word
kick that is not a kick if you kick like that I'm not playing I'll play sports
with you but not on your
team all right all right touche all right Samsung Su LG executive LG suus
Samsung this was posted by SS so on the Forum and I love this story because this
is so oh this is the pettiest nonsense
that I have read in quite some time you
want to go you want to go want to go through what happened here the worst series events ever okay
so what is is it LG home appliances Chief and two of his employees were
indicted for deliberately damaging Samsung washing machines at like some
store or something Germany yeah and then
uh where is it they admitted to it yeah
and then they agreed to pay the damages after some German authorities were like
what and then I think they made fun of Samsung quality or something yeah they
took a pot shot at the quality of Samsung products and Samsung was like
you can't
then separately Samsung display said that four of its employees were indicted
charged with stealing OLED display panel Tech from LG display Co limited charged
with illegally obtaining the information from an LG contractor this is uh the
these Korean Rivals over here are getting I mean they're getting real high
school up in this can you can you even
imagine like I worked at a retailer for a long time I can't even literally if I
I can't even begin to imagine like our
Intel rep okay like comes to tour a
store with us and I turn my back on him for a second ands beating up and he
sticks a screwdriver into like the cooling fan of like an AMD computer like
that's the kind of stuff we're talking about here oh man that is some that is
some serious like grade eight grade N
Stuff appliances Chief like it's not even like some it's yeah yeah it's not
some like you know some rep that works at that store
is trying to make his products look better like it's not that no like that's
fairly low level and actually like I understand that a lot more it's not even
like a like a country like a country sales representative who's like you know
trying to like How Could An executive do
something like this no he's probably on a business trip officially in Germany
like if you if you're some vigilante employee like I can see stuff like that
happening like the whole thing with um who was it was it Verizon or AT&T or
something where they're renaming customers names to Butthead and and okay
what whatever like there we're talking about the actions of one employee for a
highlevel executive to behave in such a manner as that it's just crazy that
reflects a mindset at the company that is just not very mature and whatever
whatever comes of the lawsuits I think this is just embarrassing enough that no
matter how much they're forced to to pay in Damages for you know ruining someone
else's washing machine it they should just be the embarrassment should be
worse than than any of that it's probably not that's just but it should
be ridiculous yeah I can't even I was
reading through that story and I clicked through the link being like this isn't
going to be real this isn't going to be real at all this is ridiculous there's
no way oh it's real oh apparently it wasn't apparently it was Comcast
apparently it was Comcast with the the REM they're all ridiculous it doesn't it
doesn't it doesn't matter cuz it could have just as easily been anyone else or
something like that all right so this
your favorite topic of the Year this is some serious serious rumor mill stuff
going on here so original article here is from 9o5 Mac this was posted by pit
5000 and um we've also got another post
from Blaze 756 and apple is rumored to be entering
the car game now this is something this
is actually a debate I had um post
iPhone but pre iPad with the uh with the
NC cameraman who a lot of people seem to
think is Luke but NC cameraman was always a different person ncx cameraman
is a person and then the people who operated the camera while I was at NC
all had their own alias was one specific
person that was the ncx cameraman yeah and he was like the Mac guy and he's the
one that I always had that that Mac banter back and forth with and he was
the one who convinced me to get an iPhone 4 and like all that all that
stuff so so we were talking and he goes you know what's Apple's next big move
and not having thought of SmartWatches
unfortunately I I said an i they had already done that I'm sorry they had
already done that that's true they had already done a watch but that were right
that was that was that was Jonathan Morrison's very silly video and where he
blindsided me with the Apple watch and it was very funny actually you can check
that out it's on TLD today uh on YouTube
but um he asked me what's their next big move and I said I said I car and then
I'm I want to I want to get this out there again before I get into all the
rumors about the about the Apple car but then my next prediction was I home and
he said no impossible because Apple's
design full philosophy is that you know it's it's almost it's almost early Ford
like here is the one color or maybe if you're lucky three different colors and
here are the two models and or you could have last year's if you're some kind of
scrub like that's that's that's a that's about all they do and he goes no no no
the car is too personal a thing and and
the home is too personal a thing there is no one siiz fits-all and I kind of
went well Apple's whole thing is they figure out the one size fits like
they're going to have like half of people bumper cases for your car and that's good enough and so so right so so
the car so Wall Street Journal reports Tim Cook approved Apple electric car
project a year ago and there are apparently rumored allegedly hundreds of
employees working on it so um Steve zesi
a former forward executive is leading the group and appal is working on
something that will quote unquote give Tesla a run for its money so he was
given permission to create a thousand person team there's there's we have to
be careful about a lot of different things in this article in my opinion because every single car company that's
trying to make an electric car is like we're going to give Tesla run for its
money so like take statements with a grain of salt they might it's Apple they
might it's Apple I mean if there's something that Tesla is good at it's
battery and design and just general
attitude and if there's something that apple is good at and sex appeal Tesla's
really good at sex appeal you know and if there's anything that Apple's good at
it's all that stuff I just listed they're really good at that stuff and they have a lot of money yeah so um
although it's funny I was reading another article not not one that I that
I can pull up right now about the uh the poaching War that's going on between
Tesla and apple right now and apparently apple is having a hard time wooing
people over from Tesla um people believe in the direction that company's headed
and believe in musk as a leader so that's that that's really interesting
but uh anyway so zesi was given permission to create a thousanders team
and poach employees from different parts of the company and
um and then though this is actually sort of only slightly related but there are
some rumors floating around that it looks like apple might want to acquire
Tesla I personally think those those I think it's stupid those rumors are very
baseless there're speculative rumors it's speculative rumors of some investor
that's probably like if I make this rumor really big and then it happens I'll be super super rich and I'll be
people will think I'm super cool and they will want to swim in my pool with
me yeah like it's it's not and I'll have a pool it's it's one random could play
pool in a pool I would have like I would
have like a floating pool we should tell Lou to install an indoor pool and then
put a make his pool table like take the legs off and put it on a floaty boat
that would be awesome and then you can play pool in the pool pool in the pool
like pool pool you play pool in the pool while watching pool so you have like a
TV while while you're in the pool too and you can watch pool tournaments while
you play pool in the pool so anyway yeah there's the the the sort of the the
speculation here is that no one else in the world could try to acquire Tesla
because they either don't have the cash and they don't have the ability to give assurances to musk that they won't screw
it up um Apple's design team so software
global distribution would actually level Tesla up in some ways and that this all
may be the case but I I think I think
that musk is early enough in the Tesla project
that he's not going to just hand over the Reigns because it hasn't it hasn't
even begun to sell things he sold two of his
his his two previous companies but he also seems to get them to a certain
point and that was where I was going it's not there yet it's nowhere near the
potential that he probably sees for it and that many people see for it not even
close I think he would want to get it to a certain level before he'd be willing
to sell I think to him like when you hear him talk about money like $75
billion sounds insane but to him that might not sound that insane and that
might not sound like enough he he values money in a very
different way than most people because he's looking at projects like sending people to Mars where he needs incredible
like sending armies of people essentially to Mars like thousands of
people um so he needs incredible incredible amounts of money so his scale
is very different to other people's so he might be looking for a lot more than
that he might be looking for that I don't know what he's looking for speaking of Mars Mars One selects oh
sorry about that uh Mars 1 selects one alen and 99
human finalists that title makes no freaking sense and I've never been able
to figure out why it makes any sense um it's just 50 guys and 50 girls no idea
why it's one alien 99 humans um I dug
very deeply trying to figure that out uh no no clue okay so basically they
have narrowed it down to uh 50 finalists
of each gender that are going to be going through some physical testing and
they're going to be uh they're going to be evaluated in terms of their
suitability for you know well leaving
behind everything and everyone they've ever known or loved um did I did I
mention who this was posted by uh rohi Kumar SP yeah there we go and I cannot I
can't I don't know why it's like bugging out oh tap the nope nope nope all right
there we go there um okay so what else
we got for this one so I didn't get picked did you apply a long time ago I
had actually forgotten that I had um it was like well before I started working
here because this has been a really long time coming right so I think when I was
at like iuic oh okay so like a while ago
right like I don't know how many years
but like so they had
22,5 186 applicants and the scary the
scariest thing about this project is this is a one-way trip these people
would die on Mars so they're going to have to prove that they can demonstrate
okay you are completely correct but I hate that people are saying that
sentence in that way well they would live on if they didn't send they would
die on Earth yes okay like people are
saying like oh yeah they're sending 100 people to go die on Mars it's like yeah
what I mean by die on Mars is they would they're not coming back yeah they would
they would never find out how you know I don't know what's the some show people
care about they would never find out how Game of Thrones ends because well you
can send data it's just be really slow really slow you're not going to
you're not going to be sending like Game of Thrones you're going to be sending much more important things than that I
would think Game of Thrones in like 250 by
250 look I see a
sword but I really appreciate how cinematically shot this blocky Pixy mess
is um but they'd be able to like they'd get pictures of their family and they'd
be able to like essentially email back and forth and whatnot like you could
yeah still still still pretty crazy pretty crazy so they and they're not
just going to be selecting people one by one they're going to have to also
demonstrate their ability to work as a team because you are not going to be
able to be a lone wolf on Mars and expect that to go real well for you this
is not the way I mean this kind segue as well because we were just talking about
Elon Musk this is not the way he thinks this should be done no at at all I mean
100 people is not a colony that's not
even that's not even a small town in central BC for the most part although
there are some smaller ones than that but but that that's not going to be like
a functional Society it would I I I
don't I don't know I don't know it's certainly cool I wouldn't apply to go
but uh apparently younger me did um
would you apply to go now not for Mars
one i' I'd be much more interested in elon's implementation of it right but
elon's implementation of it is very different than Mars one right so yeah
and like I don't know when or if that's even going to happen so that's also a
completely different conversation it's it's Elon so I will never say it won't
happen right yeah the hyperloop everyone reported will not happen being worked on
yes so there's that yeah so I will there's no way I'll say it won't happen
but it just looks not super crazy likely right now
that's all all right so tech radar has uh this is a pretty quick one but uh
basically an investigation into whether we should unplug our chargers at night
this is something a lot of people are really confused about and justifiably so
because the guidance we get from manufacturers you know in the quick
start guide for your new cellular phone ulator this was posted by iham yeah
posted by iamy on the form doesn't actually tell you what you're supposed
to do and a lot there's a lot of misinformation out there like oh if you
leave your phone plugged in it overcharges your battery and ruins it
actually it doesn't any smart charger for any reasonably modern device is
going to trickle charge once it reaches a full charge which while not perfect
for your battery and not actually as good as simply charging it and letting
it discharge to a reasonable level and then charging it again while not as good
as that is not nearly as harmful with a Lithium Polymer or lithium ion battery
as just continuing to charge it which will nuke it like right like that and
sometimes spectacularly too yes lithium is
awesome um yeah don't get a wet um so
basically the article summarizes that um the best time to charge your
battery is after work so after your
after you've done the bulk of your use for the day and then before you go to
bed so you can actually just leave it in standby or with your phone off on your
nightstand while you are sleeping that is the healthiest way more standby time
and less Plugged In Time although while that might be the best way to do it I
will never do it that way yeah it's not going to happen for me never um not
because I wouldn't be able to usually just have it plugged in that whole time
um but because there's no chance in hell I'm going to risk my screen turning on
and not turning off and then powering down in the middle of the night not having my alarm going off
yeah I the for people who use their phone as an alarm clock anything that
any habit that isn't every day so anything I don't do every day I don't
work every day I can't make that a routine but I do go to sleep every day
so if I plug in when I go to sleep like because the way that I work is on cues
yeah so I take my like I I have a I have a medication that I have to take every
morning and every night so I'm supposed to take it 12 hours apart and for a
while I was trying to do it like B B on
meals I'm supposed to take it with meals mostly for nausea but I I eat so
irregularly and all that stuff so I'm just like okay I take it um you know 16
hours and eight hours apart when I wake up and when I go to sleep and sometimes
I go to sleep pretty late so it's like four hours apart and that's going to
have to be the way that it is fortunately the way that that Med works
is it actually doesn't even kick in for a couple weeks cuz it's more like it
accumulates in your system um it's it's not personal or anything so in case
anyone's wondering I'm on hydroxy chloroquin um brand named plel it's
there it's it's for it's for rheumatoid arthritis so I'm not it's not like it's
it's like I just want I don't want people to be concerned people get really worried about me sometimes it's it's
actually kind he's got the AIDS it's kind of bizarre no not not that so much
how do you know um it's not that so much it's it's
like wow
um wow um anyway you know what let's just let's
this is a topic that I really want to
talk about this is awesome we've talked about this before we have talked about
this there's a lot of topics in the doc this week that we've actually this one
um this one was actually sent by a friend of mine so I we usually quote
whoever uh whoever referred us to it and this was a buddy a badminton buddy of
mine who used to coach me and I had this
was back when I was before I had kids right because he was coaching me to play
badminton like who has time for that um
and we would often go I never paid him for coaching oh this dude yeah yeah
Billy so I never paid him for coaching but I would just buy him food afterwards
it was about equivalent to if I was you know paying you know 14 15 bucks an hour
for coaching and we'd go have a meal together and just kind of hang out we were buddies right so because I had
friends um so this one time I'm talking
to him and I'm like you know what what if in what like
is our older games really better like our older video games better because I
think they are yeah I think Final Fantasy 6 is the best Final Fantasy ever
made is that only because of the date
that I was born and how old I was when I played it was I was I at that magic age
there many arguments for that where I was old enough to appreciate that level
of complexity and not so old that I was
jaded but not so young that I couldn't enjoy it is and to be super
impressionable and all this kind and that's when that game came out is that
why I think it's great and and he was like yeah probably and I went well no I
I legitimately think having played it again later that it is it is
legitimately better than the ones that have come afterwards with some being
very good Final Fantasy 7 was pretty good Final Fantasy 9 was really good um
and he kind of goes no I think it's just I think it's
just chance so I was like well here's what I'm going to do my kid is not going
to be allowed to play the latest video games he's not going to be allowed to
play whatever comes out when when he's age appropriate for its release date I'm
going to make him play older games and then I'm going to find out if he
appreciates them if he appreciates the older games
the same way I do even if he plays new games while he's still young and has
time to enjoy video games because that's another really big thing too I have a
hard time having getting the same enjoyment out of new
genres like mobas compared to ones that
I was able to play extensively as a kid like 2D Platformers I because I I can
pick up you know a new Raymond game like
that and be good at it in the same way that a younger person like Luke might be
able to pick up a new MOA or a new MMO
and be good at it stuff that I didn't invest the time into building the
fundamental skills to be good at when I was younger and I had a lot more time
the way it is now you know what's funny is who was it EA was getting a bunch of
flack for um saying that their games were too hard to pick
up really I can't remember who it was yeah where they were saying like that
that the problem with the game with games is that it's too hard to learn and
that's what that's what keeps it from reaching a broader audience I actually
agree with that 100% not because I'm an idiot not because I don't know how to
you know use a controller not because I'm some kind of a chimpanzee but
because I have a really busy life I'm going to tangent off a little bit and
then I'll let you keep going sorry you know what had a really good tutorial
which one Shadow Mordor it did I had to go through it again because of the thing
that I'm doing but I will actually point out problems with even the Shadow of
Mordor tutorial for someone like me I had a hard time getting into Shadow of
Mordor because I rarely have longer than about 30 to 45 minutes to sit down and
spend with a game at a time so that means my first play session was
basically just the tutorial and then the
next couple of hours where they start to sprinkle things in was split up among
another two or three play sessions so I would be expected to know a mechanic 3
hours into the game that I literally haven't touched in two weeks and that
can be hard and you know I can figure it out and there is a legend and there's
you can look stuff up online and all that stuff but that that doesn't change the fact that it makes it less
accessible and less drop in and have fun the way that something like a a racing
game might be so anyway this guy did
it and I love this guy this dude are
hilarious this guy is a hero oh my God
and um and so playing with my son and
experiment in forced Nostalgia and questionable parenting the guy talks
about like you know experimenting on children some other thing he he wanted
to convince his kid that he was living inside a computer simulation until his
wife vetoed the idea but this is
fantastic so I'm just going to I'm just going to drop drop away from so the
article here is on medium.com and so over 10 years this guy Andy bio
performed an experiment on his son um so
this is the quote if you have a kid why not run experiments on them it's like
running experiments on a little clone of yourself and almost always probably
legal wow you are fantastic so anyway he
didn't buy his kid the latest and greatest games made him work his way to
Modern modernity playing through the the history of gaming starting with 1979's
galaxian uh calls it a decade long experiment in force Nostalgia and
questionable parenting meant to give his son an appreciation of older or or
crudder games that he otherwise may have
dismissed as relics I mean it's no secret if you drop someone into you know
uh wow okay and they play that for a
year and then you're like try to appreciate
zorc that's going to be pretty tough yeah yeah yeah yeah it's true and and
and the dad didn't go quite as far back as text based games because uh
even even for you know a pretty sort of
nerdy kid that that kind of thing is probably going to be it's probably going
to be a little TP but if you're young you know if you if the idea was to start him young playing games like if you're
like a 5-year-old I don't think you're going to get much appreciation from a text Bas game so so anyway the the
result was that his son became very good at old and more diff difficult video
games um so there's another quote from the article Elliot just beat the first
Zelda entirely by himself I only helped by showing him a map of dungeon n That's
My Boy which is actually a lot of that's pretty impressive I know a lot of people
right now that would just bail out hard and you know what funny what's funny
about you saying that's impressive is that it's not I know because a
generation or two ago there were nine-year-olds playing the first Zelda
game and that's why all those people are our age are older now and look at I said
it's impressive because people quit too easily that's right it's impressive by
today's standards because like what what
driving game were we playing the other day where like we weren't looking and
forgot to steer and it the car stayed on the road I I don't remember which one it
was no Dirt 3 does that but yeah the point is games have gotten trivially
easy and it looks like it is as simple
as limiting exposure to Modern easy games and just kids can handle older
games just fine I may do the same thing I may not I when we were talking about
this a year ago or whenever we talked about it I I told you you should do this
and I totally agree and like I already save and collect old games I know you'll
probably do that thing that is possible but if you need stuff I have like Kika
visions and I have I would fuel this and
I would be so entertained by watching this process go down I am thinking of
setting up you know those two little rooms I have inside my my office uh you
know how there's a bigger one yeah I'm thinking of setting up like the Retro
Gaming Lounge there so I need to get like an awesome big CRT and I need to
get my hand there's some stuff that I'm just going to have to actually obtain
like a duck hunt like gun and stuff like that those are easy yep oh I know
they're easy to get but I'll just I'll just have to do it and uh and you know
it's it's one of those things where it's like I think some people might misinterpret this article and kind of go
oh oh we should can we straw pull this lus his through gesing games um if
people say no buts well we're supposed to let them answer before we tell them
their buts crying out loud if you say no if not you're very attractive
butts so some people not a chunky butt you know um so
some people might misinterpret this is it's not like he has to play every game
you know it's not like you made him play every game but I think the idea was to
cover different genres you know not necessarily be locked into whatever is
popular right now whatever you know encouraging Beed stupid thing but you
know start with something that insults you when you die you know and is and is
legitimately difficult and just have an appreciation for different genres in the
way that they changed over time you don't have to play every game um the
idea would just be over over a period of time would be like okay you know you're
six so this is NES year and all you can
play is you know here's the NES games I have you can play some Blades of Steel
you could play some whatever else and then maybe one year later you get a
super Ness and and a Genesis or whatever so I don't think that's how he did it
though no he he did I think this was the original idea idea we had yeah yeah so
he actually locked in the titles yeah whereas for me it would probably be more
like here's your console here's the era the era that you exist in and here's a
bunch of games you can play whatever you like like what about PC then PC yeah no
problem with that um but we would go by release years so we would maybe go with
like an acceler brackets or whatever so if he had a snst you'd give them the
bracket that the snst existed for I guess yeah yeah yeah so easier to go bu
the console but then just give the PC game to another at the same time cuz
like playing orcar as humans and stuff like that would be really cool yeah yeah
I think that would be stomped on by the AI the thing about well the wasn't good
it just cheated yeah it cheated so hard and you know Orcs versus Humans was a
funny one like I would end up in I I ended up one time on on a mission map
where it actually got to the end of the game and neither of us had an offensive
unit left and all the resources on the map were depleted because the the units
were so equivalent that you could literally you know fire you know your
last two catapult volleys eliminate each other's armies and it's just it's a
stalemate um there was no real tactical REM
maneuvering so it was it was really tough uh can you send me that straw pull
so I can screencast it um but yeah I I think I think I'm I think I'm going to
do it and it's not like my wife uh you posted in twitch chat
yeah oh can you get it can you get it Miss why are you right clicking I got
this i got this i got this i got this i got this um all right so here's the
results from the straw pole for whether I should make my my kid experience
gaming chronologically so basically super
yes yes attractive butts and and 11% of
you are ugly butts okay yeah so so attractive butts is literally just yes
is literally yes yeah okay I was not
paying attention to how you were structuring this pull I see that you've
uh taken the mature road to it you always put like banana and stuff what do
you want me to do banana at least leaves it to the imagination little yeah yeah I
I should have put yes no attractive butts ugly butts ugly butts yes or just
left out no entirely and made them click ugly
butts yes and ugly butts there we go all
right so I guess now is actually a pretty good time for us to do our
sponsor messages which ones first so did did did
Nick even manage to okay well remember it's the thing yeah will hopefully work
nope cuz the drive letter changed oh did it now yeah okay well drive it in though
or the drive is not working oh is that
oh oh um does the front USB not even
work that's maybe there's two in there though so one of them might the other
one might not all right so um I'll do another Topic in the meantime I guess or
something like that in order to sort of try to seem like this show is somewhat
professionally run yeah that was that was never that was never a thing all
right so uh this is a wccf tech rumor
and it was posted by GPU expert on the
Forum and I'm just going to go ahead and copy the link myself since Luke is
currently in disposed um and basically
there's there's actually I'm going to kind of Riff on riff off of this one
because there's some stuff about in this article and there's some stuff that's
just kind of been floating around lately but uh Fiji XT r9390x rumored to be
coming with y working now rumored to be coming with a Cooler Master liquid
cooler so it will be water cooled out of
the box just like AMD's previous dual
GPU solution that to me is some pretty
crazy stuff and pretty pretty indicative
of um The Thermals of AMD's upcoming Flagship which is which is terrifying I
mean we know that they couldn't shrink the process yet much enough I don't know
actually no I thought that I thought this was going to be shrunk can their press event be in a volcano this time
you know what I actually can't I can't
remember uh I can't remember if this is supposed to be a
um if this is supposed to be a smaller chip or not someone's going to correct
me so we'll we'll figure all that out when the time comes but basically uh
here we go so here's a look at uh so here's the leaked R9 390x shroud right
there so you can actually see the Gap right there for the liquid cooling solution uh it's also rumored that uh
aib so add and board Partners will be able to make their own solutions that do
not involve uh so this is the existing uh 295x2 I believe so they'll be able to
make their own solutions that do not involve liquid cooling although it's
you're going to need a case with like pretty great ventilation for something
like that we've got rumored specs that is some fast memory double the memory
throughput of R9 290x which was already
a 512-bit be of a card with 496 stream processor I
mean it it's looking pretty amazing but the other rumor floating around right
now is that everything under the 390
level so like the 380x 380 is going to
be rebadged no had you heard this no yeah
this is all rumor right now but it is rumored that 38x will be uh will just be
rebadged to 90x is maybe clock speed
bumps right um that is that is some
scary stuff so AMD is going to have potentially a 300 series time frame
lineup that has several generations of
gcn architecture all as current products
that is terrifying I mean what does that say about AMD's R&D budget and how it's
how it's doing right now because they have cards that are literally well over
two years old that are still part of their current lineup and if those get
recycled again that is some that is some
scary stuff that's kind of nasty cuz the costs only go down so much if you don't
shrink down the manufacturing process or make the make the PCB design less
complex so if so if AMD has like mid
tier you know $200 grade cards that have
like 384-bit memory buses these are
complicated pcbs it means you have to at least have X number of memory chips in
order to even populate the whole thing you have like it
that yeah that's some scary stuff it is a
rumor the good news is 390x according to the rumors looks like it's going to be
an absolute beast and if you want a best of the best card it's going to look
pretty competitive but we also don't know anything about Titan X or Titan 2
or or anything like that in terms of its gaming performance so we're going to
have to wait and wait and have a look at this heavyweight Showdown what we do
know is that if it's Maxwell based it's going to be very power efficient and
will not need a liquid cooler
yes so yes very much
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Sprint has spoken up in support of title
2 um what I didn't see this in the dark
is Sprint and ISP um well they do mobile internet sure okay yeah all right yeah
man um and and and some some of the new
some of the fcc's new uh new initiatives would involve um title 2 for mobile
broadband as well okay yeah so so yeah Sprint you know what's funny is I used
to have Sprint as an ISP back in the dialup days but I don't know if they do
that anymore I don't think so yeah and like that was in can I don't know yeah
sprint. CA man long distance plans that
are affordable I can't remember what they're sping remember I remember the pin drop though yes that was like their
their thing right no I remember that but they're not really a thing anymore so um
Sprint has basically spoken up and said you know we need it to be light touch
you know we we're not looking for heavy-handed regulation or anything but
that um you know it it didn't seem to
hurt the phone business so that was good
for us when we got into that um and that
seems to have inspired competition um so
you know yeah as long as we're not looking at heavy-handed regulations this is not going to affect our investment
into infrastructure yeah that's really cool so that's cool um so this is this
is um in the wake of
T-Mobile um Verizon and AT&T all all
claiming that it's going to be a problem so SP Sprint has officially broken ranks
and is like nope we will continue to invest in data networks regardless of
whether they're regulated by title 2 Section
706 very cool so uh the original article
here this was posted by spart man 64 did you post this already no uh original
article here was from ARS Technica I love ARS Technica what a great great
site their writers are good yep umop there were some really good
quotes in here uh regardless of the legal grounds proposed Sprint has
emphasized repeatedly that net neutrality rules must give mobile
carriers the flexibility to manage our networks and to differentiate our
services in the market so Sprint's not saying yes we will offer only one speed
to all of our customers and it will all be unlimited we still they're saying we
still need to be able to you know have you know if you go over a certain data
limit we might have to throttle you in order to manage our Network and manage
the load to provide the best experience to the bulk of customers as we can
because mobile data in particular is
really not as simple as you know throwing in some new switches at the Hub
and adding more capacity I mean it is an extremely expensive roll out and the
capacity is limited in a much harder
sealing sort of way compared to you know
something where your your fiber installation could be X deep into the
double digits percentage dark fiber that's not even being used used yet
where there is literally almost no cost
to just turning on more of it um so so I
totally get it and I think uh they they couldn't be reached for comment by ours
um when they asked to clarify what they mean by managing their networks and
differentiating their services but I kind of get it and I think I have a
pretty good idea what they mean by that and I think the fact that they're coming
out and saying this publicly is pretty
pretty positive so cool good on youprint
not saying everything you do is great I'm just saying this is this specifically was very cool this is
pretty cool yeah um so this was posted by prast dupac and the original article
here is from Wall Street journal.com and apparently we're getting
we're getting more and more leaks this is not that this is not that uh
customary for an Apple product launch for us to get people internally who are
talking about the development process and the challenges jobs has passed away
well this is this is a real weird situation there are some some allegedly
sort of oh I'm sorry I'm not sharing I'm not screen sharing right now there's some allegedly inside sources claiming
that originally the Apple watch was
intended to be more of like a multi-functional health monitoring
device with sensors for heart activity blood pressure uh stress levels and all
kinds of things that Apple wanted to monitor with the watch but over time uh
the sensors weren't accurate enough they had problems with hairy people or people
with dry skin not getting good readings
um there were challenges with um uh potential regulatory issues like if
Apple's going to sell a device that claims to make you healthier uh all of a
sudden they have to deal with I believe it's the FDA sorry I'm not American so I
try to keep up with with uh that might make sense yeah the Food and Drug
Administration or other Regulators if they're going to make claims like oh you
know helps you monitor your your your heart health like all of a
sudden that that could be a that could be a disaster I'm I don't know how I had
a cardiac arrest I was wearing my Apple watch at the time and the battery died
because Apple's internal battery targets look abominable but that's just me
injecting my own let let me just be weird you keep talking I'm just going to
solve a problem Oh keep going keep going keep is
that like happening right now yes it is the whole you were supposed to keep
talking that supposed to be unobtrusive oh yeah whatever no no it's okay my uh
people are adding me on Steam friends and I'm going to completely ignore all
of them the same way that I have been the only you know there's an there's an
ignore all button the yeah I know it's beautiful but I usually don't do it
because you know what happens is if you let it sit for long enough your friend's
request list actually fills up it maxes
out and so then so the only reason that
I ignore Al a while ago and the reason people are able to do this right now is
that I tried to legitimately add someone to my steam friends not that long ago
yeah you were there that night I think I added Josh or something yeah so anyway
um what else we got here so the Wall Street Journal Source describes the
four-year watch Project as a black hole
that sucked in resources from elsewhere in the company
um features like measuring blood oxygen levels and blood pressure are said to
have only been shelved so it's possible we'll see this in future iterations but
for now I really do believe the Apple watch is going to be the first
generation is just going to be a complete stop Gap solution um different
from any other stop Gap solution like the iPad 1 was actually kind of a stop
Gap solution like if you look at it compared to any other iPad it had the
shortest shelf life I believe I I'm
doing this off the top of my head it had an extremely short shelf life it was
discontinued much more abruptly than other Apple iPads that have continued to
exist even with their their successors available in the market um since then
and it just they dropped support for it extremely quickly compared to iPad 2 um
like it was just it was a bit of a redheaded step even though it was the
one that created the tablet category as it is today um as it is today yes as it
is to oh no I know tablets existed before that but the the Apple watch
looks very different to me it looks like like with the iPad it was like yeah we
we like we did the best we could and we're like pretty sure this is pretty
good and it's going to be like a better way to browse the internet and with your
fingers and stuff with the watch it really does look like we just kind of
have to release something yeah it doesn't seem very Apple a lot of things
Apple's been doing lately doesn't seem very Apple I'm conflicted on Apple right
now because I really like things in terms of the security and stuff that
they have on their phones the security the app support the camera camera that
they have on their pH really good but then I dislike things like some of the
design choices that were made which are super stupid and then just different
directions that Apple's going in right now but then Google is doing way worse
in my opinion so then like what one do I actually follow right now Windows phone
oh I wish it was better I really wish it was better I really want to like Windows
phone I have taken so much crap for the stuff that I say about Windows phone and
you know what's funny is when Windows Phone eventually gets good and I switch
to it people are going to be like blah blah blah back in the day when you
hammered on it oh my God yeah I hammered on it cuz it was terrible it was a
terrible terrible ecosystem and that's not to say Windows phone is terrible
terrible ecosystem because it's just bad
and people can go oh well you can do this and you can do that that's nice you
can but I'm not going to invest that kind of time into doing stuff that I can
do in like 4 seconds on an apple or an Android device I got super excited when
I heard the Ubuntu phone was coming out and like where did that even go did that
just disappear no there's a new thing
there's a phone actually coming out but it's not going to be anything like that original one that they announced it's
like a super cheap like very cheap phone
oh I remember that project yeah that that totally died I I really wanted to
try Ubuntu phone actually like badass sapphire glass one no no I just wanted
to try the OS Brandon brought in his Galaxy Nexus s specifically for me to
install Ubuntu on it cuz I wanted to try it out and then I just like I kind of
never got around to it unfortunately um it's probably going to be bad it's
probably but like could you be slightly more negative
I I was just thinking I needed more negativity in my life you know could you
this company sucks this one sucks this show sucks I would like this one but it
sucks I hate this show this one's interesting but it sucks oh whatever I
wish my co-workers weren't such buttheads um attractive but heads this
is great oh my God someone made me the
window wow can you link me that I'll
retweet it oh wow okay we we got to show
you guys this we are we are taking a break in the middle of the show to show
you guys this because this is great it is awesome um do I have to sign in in
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just do it not a big deal if I click and go view
image I could this is this is amazing where did it go I just saw it uh oh okay
my Twitter feed moves too fast here it is yeah there you
go if you click on it it it will give you a better uh that's fantastic so
someone recreated the linda.com logo with Luke as the as the Linda mascot I
absolutely love it I wonder if we'd be allowed to use this it's not their logo
we should ask Linda though like we should ask Linda if they'll let
us use if they we we should I was bringing this up earlier if we did like
kind of funny Recreations of all the logos like I was talking to Nick for
some of them would be tough for for Dollar Shave Club I don't remember what
it is crossing but it's a cross it's razor blade it's razors yeah so if I
just held two razors and went like this oh my goodness or if we like 3D
printed two really big razors and then took a photo of them
that could probably work like because it's not really their logo no it's
not that's we're going to start something here and then we're going to
draw a bunch of attention from Google that we don't even want we're going to
be the martyrs that we don't want to be yeah yeah all right so posted by fnot on
the Forum cognitoys huggable dinosaur is
connected to IBM's Watson super computer
imagine Dollar Shave Club sponsored Wolverine sorry keep going
I oh okay I do want to play this video
because this thing is hilarious so um
let me just I hope the volume
Works uh hold on my my my my system sound is muted just a
sec hi my name is Lily to meet you okay hold on hold on
hold on hold on okay I think I just I've got the wrong audio device set give me
give me just a second here don't worry I will I will get this sorted out so is it
supposed to sound like a dinosaur cuz that sounded very very aggressive hold
on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on I'm on I'm on this I'm can you just
can you just can you just not like can we just what's what what what is xplit
stream audio renderer okay just everyone just calm
down okay I think it's working
now okay this thing's voice
this the sound of this dinosaur thing is
like some scary scary stuff now to be
clear this was actually clarified in the article to be clear the voice is
supposed to sound more Cookie Monster like in person but right now it's just
like I'm going to murder you like it
really sounds it really sounds awful so oh my God basically it's a smart toy
it's on Kickstarter it's going to be $100 I'm actually thinking of funding it
just so I can get my hands on one and play with it because this this tickles
my tech I love that kind of stuff my parent techie sort of I don't even I
just yeah I love things you can talk to and the idea is that it'll use machine
learning to interact with children um so it'll be little plastic monsters that
use that that communicate to with the Watson supercomputer to basically answer
questions and interact so uh you push a
large button on the belly ask a question and Watson excuse me green dino will
come back with the answer and so Elemental path's pitch here is that as
your child ages the toy will monitor their progress and ask more
sophisticated questions and provide more detailed answers when it is dialoguing
with them cool um now to be clear IBM's involvement in the project is purely to
let the company connect to Watson like they're not actually developing this
it's just we got this supercomputer yeah this is a way that we
could maybe make money off of it if people wanted to like use it for Stuff
um so so that's pretty much it um so I have about as much hope for this product
as I do anything else on Kickstarter which is about this much um but who
knows might be great might be terrible and uh I don't know I might I might try
it out just like because like I wonder how I wonder how old of a child it would
think I am yeah I'd be like oh my
goodness that would be so much fun yeah like how old are you in in in Dino
calculated years yeah I don't know it looks pretty cool becomes the new IQ
test yeah really right um let's talk
let's talk DNA storage this is really cool so this is posted by System 32 on
the Forum I'm going to go ahead and pull up the uh the National Geographic
article here um think that's a first
that's probably a first yeah I don't know if we've ever posted anything is
awesome so this is this is just one of the uh one of the aspects of the going
be a good photo when it has that little yellow rectangle
yeah man anyways all right so well
preserved specimen pushes back the timing of modern horse Evolution basically uh oh basically they are able
to read DNA data from a 700,000 year old horse bones which is pretty freaking
intense um and that's actually I don't know how um related that really was they
because they were able to sequence that genetic code I think that's maybe a
proof that if they were to to store this stuff they would be able to access it
way later in the future right I think that's actually more part of the uh
whole point they they're calculating that one gram of DNA which is actually a
lot but one gram of DNA would be capable of holding 455 exabytes which is insane
so here's the sciencealert.com article that actually talks about what they what
they did with um with using DNA to store
data subjecting it to some pretty rigorous environmental and aging testing
so they've actually got it contained within what is it like tiny micro glass
no yeah 150 nanometers 150 nanometer
glass capsules diameter 150 NM in diameter um to keep to keep them safe
and they figure they could preserve the world's data for millions of years how
many exobytes in one gram of DNA it's
455 which is pretty insane they do it by coding A and C pairs of DNA as binary
zero and t&g pairs as one so they can
yeah you're essentially putting huge amounts of binary which is kind of what's always happening so that's not
too surprising now to be clear this is not affordable technology so the 83
kilobytes of data that they encoded for the study cost around
$1,500 and and you wouldn't be able to use it as like a hard drive or an SSD
this is not yeah stuff is specifically encoded onto this and then hoped that
you would be able to specifically take it off later not like you can actively
use it for read writes yeah like the DNA inside the spares would be extracted
using a fluoride solution it's not like it's not like you just you know drop
some drop some hloy cells into your uh
computer there and you've expanded your hard drive that just make a mess I'm
hoping I'm hoping that eventually we're going to have biological hard drives to
some degree because I think that could be pretty crazy cool but this is not it
but this could be extremely large
extremely uh long-term data storage so if people were to back up like a library
that could be super cool or back up like the current state of the public internet
that could be super cool stuff like that the Time Capsule kind of stuff could be
really cool but it's yeah it's not a hard drive wow this stream like people
are all over the place some people are just seeing like my chat just saw the
dino video link your chat could be behind and then some but some people in
chat are commenting on what I just said with the hloy cell joke that some people
I was hoping some people would get that that's why I was looking at chat um okay
so meganet uh this was posted by narar
on the Forum and the original article here is from the hacker.com
N so I'm going to let you mostly
handle are you going to let me mostly handle
narar what are you doing did my output
like bork again okay well here you want to talk about this in the meantime while
I try to fix this Fe have your email open anyways kim.com is jumping on the whole
like kind of private internet style stuff just like a couple other projects
have own there's made safe project maelstorm and zeronet are a couple other
examples so they're all just like uh like peer-to-peer networking hosted
websites stuff so you're still using internet infrastructure for the most
part um or entirely but you'd be able to do it per to peer what's kind of cool
about a lot of these is I don't remember what country this is going down on right
now now and I'm not going to be able to bring up this article right now but a lot of people are having issues having
internet at all so people are running their own lines North Korea secretly
North Korea no I just you said people having trouble having internet at all so
I said North Korea no I don't think it's North Korea but either way um I'm pretty
sure it's not North Kore no it's it's not it's not at all anyways they're
running they're running their own lines and creating their own kind of Internet with their own websites their own game
servers which people can connect to and play on like it's actually pretty sick
what's going down I don't remember where the country is you can try to look it up
it's a cool article anyways um yeah so
he's trying to make the it's going to use trying to make that mainstream more
so you don't have to run your own lines This would run on the internet but
you're kind of encrypting things using uh the blockchain that was used for
Bitcoin there's no more IP addresses because it's using the blockchain that
was used for Bitcoin uh I suggest looking up how the blockchain works if
you want to understand how that makes any sense and yeah it's not actually a
super complicated idea it's just a different way of having websites on the
internet you'd be utilizing stuff like the bandwidth and the storage on your
phone right because it would be distributed all over the place peer-to-peer Style Network um yeah very
much so phone although not exclusively phone a lot of what he's talking about
is the data on your phone which you probably have excess of which is not
that surprising because you probably actually do and the storage on your
phone which you he's saying probably have excess of but I'm not super
agreeing with don't really think so the
fact that 16 gig phones still exist at all is just before I reformatted my
phone I couldn't do anything with it I'd take a photo and it be like Max Capacity
and I didn't have that much stuff I had like two or three self-taken videos um a
very small library of songs of like stuff that I saw while I
was traveling
not damn it like really cool diseases that you acquired while you were
traveling whoa how do you take a video of a disease oh I can imagine
how anyways yeah uh it's not a super new
idea but it's kim.com doing it so it
might actually become a big thing instead of not which is mom is the bit
torrent guys so like
yeah yeah then again bit torrent sync hasn't exactly completely taken over you
know drop like it probably should have
you know it's funny again I'm going to bring up I'm gonna bring up my neighbor
again because last night I was uh I was
like I was helping him with this thing he's kind of like an older guy and he
was telling me about his um he was telling yeah I'll I'll bring that up
later he was telling me about his um like his setup he's got like mostly
older computers like he has like this guy is like crazy technical in ways that
I'm not like he built his own CNC and I'm just like that's cool um and then
and then the idea of I I mentioned a Naz
because he just has all his computers like not networked to each other and he
whenever he needs to store something longer term he pulls out a terabyte
that's what he calls an external hard drive and I'm just
like wow so like like I'm looking I'm
looking past Dropbox for how I can control my my cloud storage myself and
use my Nas as a as as as like a a cloud
device and like there's there's people that haven't even that haven't even got
like the idea of Central Storage like technical St smart people who are like
scratch building like he scratch builds the entire electronic scoreboard you
know sources solar panels CNC Cuts all
the metal components welds them programs
the microcontroller that controls the solar panel charging and controls the
functionality the board and builds this crap in his garage and the guy has like
never heard of the idea of a NZ and I'm
like how do we reach these kids you know
anyway how do we reach these kids um Media Tech mediate Tech of all
people showing off 480fps 1080p video uh the article here
is from nextow up.com um 480 FP s
video his his laptop's being a butt yeah sorry not an attractive butt I'll have
the I'll have the right thing up in a second here um with their but with their
with their upcoming what the there we go
okay so there we go super slow motion 1080p video with their upcoming what is
this an eight core eight cores clocked at 2.2 GHz now remember gigahertz is not
important that actually is completely meaningfulness uh but check this
out like I I wouldn't have I wouldn't
have figured it's going to be mediate Tech pushing things forward in terms of
of the processing power required for super slow motion video
capture so here we go so 116th speed of
course this is all totally simulated oh that's one quarter
speed so that's 120 FPS this is hardore
480 FPS dat
slowo now this was obviously not
captured on a phone yeah simulated imagery you can see all the depth of
field that would not be present on a phone in the image but the point is if
it can do this at all that's still pretty freaking cool
who knows and I mean the thing is is that we've gotten to the point where the
CPU in your phone is pretty darn fast
and is it worth spending an extra you
know like a flagship phone is going to be 600 700 $800 plus dollars depending
on your storage configuration if you can get a phone for a couple hundred bucks
with a mediate Tech chipset that might start to look pretty
compelling I mean there's still value ads to high-end phones um things like
the because there's more to it than just you got an image sensor and like a fast
processor you actually have to do a lot of software work to make a phone camera
good yeah but um man the hardware is the
hardware is getting pretty pretty terrifyingly
cheap uh directx12 this is posted by rafy on the Forum original article here
from tweak Town reportedly treats multiple
gpus and we're back to remember twe toown has autoplay stuff uh yeah not
like I can screen share it anyway because it'ser losing it every time okay
what article is this where did you go uh
I just did the next one it's up up there we go uh can treat multiple gpus as
a single there we go as a single entity
so this is not actually that new as far as I know so no um yeah
poed memory could be a thing and um well
okay AMD was doing this and basically perfect scaling could be a thing so as
we like super hardcore we're like this is definitely going to happen to
everyone I guess now it's officially going to definitely happen to everyone
it's officially going to be easy apparently okay so that's that's pretty
much it so uh Brad Wardell the CEO of stardock tweeted that they did a test of
direct X1 versus directx12 on an unreleased
GPU uh with an 8 core CPU and directx11
managed 13 FPS with direct X12 managing
120 what is stardock even still doing um lighting and lens effects were were
apparently cited as one of the reasons why directx12 performed much better so
uh one thing it does make is it easy to treat multiple gpus as a single
GPU all right so we're into our we're into our quickfire topics here this
one's from kit Guru posted by roohi Kumar SP and Sony to launch smart
glasses in March they look absolutely
abominable um this will not be the Savior that Sony is likely looking for
for their God that looks bad company it has a a a a single color green display
it's like what is this we're going back to yeah yeah um it's going to cost 520b
in the UK and $840 in the US
it will use augmented reality to place an image in your field of view in the
center it's going to have 85% opacity so you'll be able to they not calling it
Holograms Sor I said 85% opacity transparency only 15% opacity 85%
opacity would have been so bad I wear my
sunglasses with augmented reality at night so I can not see things that are
very high resolution crash my car
into the bridge all day and I don't even
care I crash my car into the bridge and
then I let it burn so the resolution of the screen is a totally impressive car
419 by 138 and Care you'll be pairing it to a
phone with kit kat 4.4 later Android
gonna be garbage don't want to Che it buy it I still want to check it out uh
CS or something Sony invested 800 42,000
to buy 2% of SNP a Japanese startup making self-driving cars so this was
posted by numlock on the form believe it's zmp whatever um Sony joins
self-driving car chase blippity bloopity so basically the point of all this is
that Sony wants to leverage uh one of the business units where they actually
are a market leader which is Imaging sensors so it's no secret Sony is pretty
good at that stuff and they figure that self driving cars are going to need a
whole heck of a whack ton of them over the next uh over the next five to's like
crap if we Market this properly we might not go bankrupt yeah this this could
actually save the things that we want to do that are not this yeah
um Neil Young's $400 high def music
player this is posted by Victoria Secret on the
Forum I think saying loses to Apple's
iPhone in BL audio test is a very
sensationalist and uh it's just not better right Apple biased headline
appleinsider.com that is actually not how it went down the original article is
from CNET although I'm showing the uh
the appleinsider.com one and what actually happened is people couldn't
tell the difference conclusively enough
to pass a blind taste test yes that is
how it works I forget what the numbers are because I don't stare at this stuff
all day so it's it's not necessarily better it's not it's not that it was
could not consistently enough conclusively tell the difference between
the $400 Pano player and the iPhone 6
something that I could have told you guys but um David po former professional
musician over at sorry did I say ca I'm sorry I meant Yahoo Yahoo Tech uh that
was terrible I'm sorry Yahoo Tech Yahoo Tech um so it wasn't the most scientific
test but he did set it up reasonably well and it wasn't ABX but it was blind
AB testing and he had I think just over a dozen like 14 people um including
self-professed audio files come in and try to tell the difference between them
and more people did select the iPhone 6
as the winner but the way that a blind test works is I think you have to be
able to tell 90% of the time or
something in order for it to be considered that you could tell so that's
not that's not that's not good because random guessing could cause serious issues with Statistics and it does cause
serious issues with Statistics um oh oh this is cool gaming
theater.net this is originally posted by mystical on the Forum um Zelda Wii use
open world is apparently as large as the system can handle this was like when I
first saw this topic I was like that's not new information what um this was
highly hinted towards like very
freakishly highly hinted towards they basically said it but I guess now they
officially said it when they were to First announcing
the game they were like yeah we weren't able to properly do this with Wind Waker
that's why there was islands and stuff and now there won't be and we're going
to use as much as we can and now it's like it's going to use as much as it can
I don't know this isn't really new news it's basically what I was trying to say
I I mean what's exciting about it to me is that um is that Nintendo is treating
you know large explorable worlds seriously again I mean we got away from
that again it always comes back to Final Fantasy 6 for me that world was massive
and had a lot to explore and that was like SNES days like if I was going to if
I was going to ask if I was going to create a Christmas wish list of what I
want RPG makers to invest their Dev time
in it wouldn't necessarily be fancy Graphics it would be lots of NPCs that I
can interact with and lots of cool stuff that I can explore because that is what
makes that kind of game fun and you did like
Oblivion right yeah I did like obliv yeah okay yeah I was going to say well
why don't you play and then I was like wait cuz I lost my save game yeah way to
rub some salt in that wound yep I forgot jackass sorry about that um that is
actually I actually do feel bad that's horrible it's okay oh we teased this so
we have to talk about it original article here is from pcworld.com
Sony pedals snake oil why wasn't this in
the main thing 60 cuz I moved it uh 64
gig micro SD XC card for premium sound
this like we are we going to need like a weekly audio file snake oil segment we
had the Ethernet cables the $10,000 Ethernet cable last week we've got uh
yeah Pono player I think I talked about the week before and then we've got
Sony's premium sound SD
cards spoiler alert there is absolutely
nothing about an SD card that makes it better or worse for audio could it be uh
something to do with Emi connections between the SD card and the
player that you wouldn't hear anyways but could it be is that what they're
referencing towards let's find out what they have to say about if it just says
high speed then uh that would be junk
okay okay they're selling it in Japan it's a four or five times more expensive
than a typical 64 gig card it is supposed to produce less electrical
noise okay so yes it is supposed to
wouldn't like yeah still snake
oil just saying cuz there was the yeah the register and PC perspective for like
oh yeah the different type of storage medium like no crap that's I don't think
that's what they were going for of course still uh you know it doesn't like
even snake oily things try a little bit harder than what the Rister inpc
perspective pointed out yeah like that's obviously not what they were going for I
still still think this is totally snake oil but it's yeah it has to do with Emi
stuff ah
yeah now we're just ending the W show on a sad note because someone somewhere is
going to buy it and they're going to think that they got a good deal well
mine doesn't hum as much because of the electrical magnetic interference
reduction of my SD card so therefore is
superior especially when I play it in my Pano player and when my computer is
hooked up via Ethernet cables that are specifically made for
audio my cables are very dancable that's
a good thing kill me now okay so 9 to5 Mac reports Pebble teases a new model
sources say thinner watch with color screen in the works um I really hope
Pebble actually manages to seed us a unit this time because I'm happy enough
with my gatr that I am not going to buy it this time so uh rumors are that
pricing will come in around the price of the Pebble Steel and it will be
initially sold via Kickstarter not Pebbles Retail Partners or official
website I mean that's kind of been their model it's not like they didn't start
their business on Kickstarter I go to I got to wonder if companies like Pebble
that have demonstrated the successive Kickstarter are probably getting a deal
from Kickstarter to continue to support the platform um in fact I wouldn't even
be that surprised if Kickstarter was paying them if Kickstarter was well
maybe not paying them but maybe throwing a lot behind it and kind of going yeah
we're not going to take a cut or we're going to take a very small cut maybe advertising or something yeah like I
would expect this to be more of a more of a trade now that pebble is the
monster that they are um well you can't really call Pebble
a monster but it's they've theyve they're fairly monstrous they're a big
deal now a lot of people know about Pebble they are they are a much bigger
deal than I would have ever expected a Kickstarter founded company to be and
yeah well they they're bigger than I would have ever expected it to be too I just mean they both are like I didn't
expect that kind of success out of it it's not happening nearly as much anymore
Kickstarter like especially the kickstarter Hardware guys Glory Days
seems to be largely gone it feels kind of like that whole uh see I don't even
remember what they're called anymore Groupon it feels like that whole Groupon
thing like Groupon made it big and everyone was really excited about it
they were huge they blew up a bunch of a bunch of uh copycats showed up and then
when's the last time you heard about a Groupon deal or similar like yeah not
they're still around they still exist you can still get good deals there and
there's all the different ones but no one cares anymore yeah so it's like the
the kickstarter fad seems to be mostly over um so I think that's pretty much it
thank you for watching The W show today like this video if you liked it dislike
it if you disliked it are we doing a thing a what thing an after thing after
are you doing stuff oh garage sale yeah uh yeah I am planning to do garage sale
today I actually didn't go find stuff for it yet so there might be a bit of a
delay but I'll be back it will be garage sale time I'm going to try and sell that
Mac again wish me luck with that yeah this problem
is like it was like it was like the Pano player last week was hilarious I was
like I can't tell you this thing is amazing because it's not but I spent
$400 on it so I'm in need I'm a need
someone to give me some money for it did you sell it yeah I got 190 bucks
shipping in so I had to pay shipping but
why did anyone buy it for that much for 190 bucks I don't know it's got a 64 gig
SD card in it so there's value ad I don't know if it's audio file
grade it's Emi is pretty bad I don't know did you hear that Emi on that Pano
player maybe that's why the Pano player lost funny story didn't have an
equivalent level SD card my neighbor again he met Neil Young oh like way back
in the 60s that's awesome yeah I shouldn't name any names but he he
didn't speak very charitably of him CU he mentioned he was like uh
because he used to he toured with the Guess Who like as a as like a like an
opening act or whatever what and I was like no way that's ridiculous I was like
you have got to be kidding me he's like yeah we were just like we never made it
big or anything but like me and me and some buddies we like we had a really
good Agent who got us into like all the parties so yeah I I met Neil Young and
like and he was telling me all these people he met and we finally arrived at Neil Young And I was like oh Neil Young
yeah I know who that is because I didn't know who a lot of the people were and he was like
oh he's like Chris Christ I'm like I
don't know man I know who that is okay well whatever so so um oh well so so he
finally got to Neil Young and I'm like yeah yeah Neil Young yeah we kind of burned him pretty bad on our show not
that long ago he's like oh yeah well he's a whatever
anyway so we got got to talking about that anyway I think that's it for the
show we'll be back with the with the garage sale in a little bit and thanks
for watching you guys are awesome roll the outro intro
thing H we had like seven ,000 live viewers today we
did you guys are good people I like you
you all have attractive butts regardless of that straw pole some of you don't
have attractive butts that's may be true
but I'll say that you do and you'll take a compliment because you're a good
person inside wow really that's what they did
that's terrible I am going to fire whoever did this it got worse cuz before
like the color was different but now the whole freaking couch moves and we get
bigger for some