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stuff we are not off to a good start today although we do have something
pretty cool in store for you guys involving like hand camming and POV at
all yeah yeah yeah it works I tested it already Okay yeah mind you that doesn't
necessarily mean it will continue to work because that's often the problem we
have around here hoay we might go a week without touching anything and come back
and nothing works Everything's changed which isn't what happened this time
because we actually changed everything so it shouldn't be surprising that
nothing works y but we're surprised anyway yeah welcome to the WAN Show guys
we've got some great topics today Apple's value drops by 28 billions of
dollars all on account of some leaked
celebrity nude photos the funniest thing
about the whole thing you'll find out later because that's how this show Works
snap also NVIDIA starts a legal battle with Samsung and qualcom at the same
time just throwing punches all over the place heavyweight battle also
NVIDIA sorry NVIDIA I love you guys
inidia but like oh no U also the first
round of like September's crazy mobile month has begun and we'll talk about
some of those announcements later on and in other news forchan now has a dmca
takeown policy it's amazing what a couple of
celebrity nude photos that get stolen and leak not all the like child porn and
other crap but celebrity nude photos I mean Jennifer Lawrence is upset
is she is that whose photos were leaked either her or Garner I can never
remember I don't know the difference I don't really follow celebrities it's not
Aniston I know that much she's the one from friends I know I know the internet
like Jennifer Lawrence but I'm not I think she's The
Hunger Games one is she yeah I think so
oh yeah she's all
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little bit late and we're very sorry for that you guys you know the usual story
involving technical difficulties today's was a lot worse than normal though I
think people have come to be used to like 3 to five minutes yeah no today was
pretty bad I mean part of the problem is that we're way behind on making videos
because we've been out of the office and
uh it was a short week so there was a holiday Monday this week so we had to
effectively create an entire week's worth of videos in like 3 days so I was
back here filming a lot of the last little bits and pieces of my upcoming
HTC 1 M8 for Windows Phone review it is
a very good thing for HTC that they released that before the flood of new
products uh you know Note 4 uh Moto 360
new Moto X before all that stuff started rolling in because otherwise I don't
think it even would have gotten articles written about it um my video is pretty
pretty negative I love the phone and I
mean phone in like a physical like made of molecules
sense yeah yeah I love the phone the one I made is still great well you could
argue software is not made of molecules it's made of thoughts and
dreams ponies thoughts and dreams
thoughts dreams and ponies that's fantastic minus software tips we should
just we should just get Barnacles back on the show cuz I clearly have no idea
what I'm talking about we should replace me permanently
so like the next time people need to do like an order form for supplies for a
programming house cuz that exists other than energy drinks they're thoughts
dreams ponies thought dreams ponies be like well I can't get these two but
we'll definitely get a good stock of ponies and like uh places like Staples
they have it set up so that you can have recurring orders so like every month you
can get four ponies delivered if you want to fix your software you just need
to like increase the count of thoughts dreams and ponies and the problems with
some software is they might have too many ponies or too many thoughts and not
enough dreams it's all about the ratio exactly but the only way to get dreams
and ponies cuz you can get them both at the same time is actually to import
8-year-old girls they have dreams about
ponies that's interesting because a six-year-old girl
takes up so much less space than a pony this is something that modern software
developers have not been doing very well that's why Windows is so large on your
on on your device that you yeah that's right because one 8-year-old girl could
potentially dream of dozens of ponies y yeah yeah all right so moving on Apple's
value drops by 26 billion do on account
of the uh the celebrity nude photo leaks
so share prices fell by $436 per share
or 4.2% this is the biggest decline in
share price since January 28th
2014 oh yeah January when it dropped by
619 so it's still up almost $30 since
January 28th of 2014 so it's not like apple shareholders aren't still getting
their money's worth out of that particular investment their value is
still close to $600 billion they're still the most highly valued us company
in the world there's so many things that are
like that though like the World Series in the US US love it um and I mean
honestly I think the most ridiculous thing about all of this is It's all just
hype yeah this is the scary thing about
publicly traded companies is how much of how we value them has nothing to do with
anything yes some nudie pictures were
obtained illegally amorally just in a super
crappy you don't steal people's stuff and I was actually really disappointed
to see even on our own lus Tech tips Forum people discussing how well if you
don't want nude pictures leaked on the internet then you just shouldn't take
them and that you have loose morals if you're taking nude pictures you know
what what do I have loose morals if my wife sees me
naked like is that how this works
obviously the picture was intended for a given recipient normally I'd like try to
be Devil's Advocate but I just no no
when something is stolen illegally
that's wrong and yes online sec
and taking care of the naked pictures of yourself is your responsibility you do
have to do that because this stuff does happen but that doesn't
make stuff that's out there that isn't as well protected as something else just
right for the taking it's still wrong and the kind of victim blaming that was
going on like I'm not going to get into the whole feminazi thing because I'm
super not into that whole movement either but I also strongly disagree with
the amount of victim blaming that's going on here and I mean the whole thing
has gotten way too much coverage I don't even really like that we're even talking
about it because I feel like by drawing attention to it you're just turning it
into a much bigger deal than it is it's a couple nude pictures of some women the
internet is full of nude pictures of women who did it on purpose who actually
got paid to create that those nude photos why does it matter if they happen
to also star in movies and why are we obsessed over this and why is it such a
big deal let them get on with their lives it's unreal yeah anyway the point
of all that sorry go ahead sorry uh and
it wasn't even necessarily Apple's fault that was exactly where I was going so
yeah uh so like the the Apple spent more
than 40 hours of Investigation which doesn't sound like a crazy amount that's
a lot company the size of Apple the number of Engineers they have oh see I
when I read that I thought about that as like well two people is that's 20 hours
of man hours for two people like I calculated an overall man hours but I
think you're probably right no I don't think so yeah I'm pretty I'm pretty sure
right probably a department for 40 hours that's a lot um anyways to and they
figured out that it was more using stuff like they were targeting usernames which
are probably not that hard to get in a lot of situations they're not and then
using uh common password stuff and security question hacks which is like
not a hack guessing it yeah guessing it
or looking it up I mean that's that's the scary thing to me the way that
security is handled even by companies as large as Apple sometimes where they'll
lock in what kind of a password you can choose or worse yet lock in the security
questions you can choose super dope the only safe way to set up a security
question for yourself guys if it's a predetermined list because especially
for celebrities that information's out there
you think someone doesn't you know what
car you first bought or what elementary school you went to or what what your
teacher's name was like no that's not that hard to find that crap is out there
so the way that I actually do it is I have some security answers that have
nothing to do with the question and I just pick a random question because it
is extremely dangerous to just use one
of those things mother's maiden name come on this is a digital age so stupid
that is very obtainable and so yeah that whole argument exists where people are
responsible for their own digital security but you know what that's the
kind of thing that I think nerd [ __ ] say quite frankly because yeah okay
you're into digital security good for you like that's cool that's your hobby
that's great some people have other things to do and that's fine maybe they
make movies maybe they don't sit and
research digital security best practices on Reddit every night because they're
reading through scripts to make millions of dollars and you maybe you kind of
make the argument oh well then perhaps they should have a team of people who
work for them who manag their digital sec come on be real these are people not
like Enterprises that exist under them
so I don't even remember where I was going with that but I'm just I'm Driven
Crazy by people being upset that someone doesn't know something that they do you
know what there's a lot of things that he knows that I don't and there's a lot
of things I know that he doesn't you know I if if he had a baby tomorrow I
could either be a jackass and be like well you know you you got
poop on your hands what you didn't know how to you know blind the do the things
nope not at all I know Jack all about
taking care of babies that was actually a pretty good analogy cuz I literally
know nothing I know I know you do so to
me it's just it's it's so upsetting to see people mocking and see people
blaming instead of actually trying to be helpful which uh mocking instead of
trying to be helpful that leads us pretty well into to our next topic doesn't it forchan now has a dmca policy
following the whole leaked nude photos
incident this was an article on torrent freak just going to go ahead and screen
share here uh so basically in the wake of all this forchan finally intros a
dmca so that's Digital Millennium Copyright Act takeown policy and I don't
know if the more baffling thing about this is that it exists at all or that if
it exists at all now it didn't exist before with the massive amounts of a
leaked nude photos on there in the past of just normal people once again putting
celebrities on this weird pedestal that
like there's this weird double standard that exists and and two the amount of
child porn oh God on forchan I mean forchan no offense to forun but it's one
of those sites that I avoid just based on principle just you just don't want
someone to be able to know that you went there I won't I won't hang out there
it's not even about not wanting people to know there's you know there's
incognito mode in your browser you know there's sitting in a room alone at night
because I'm usually up till 3:00 or 4 in the morning anyway I could visit forchan if I wanted
to but I would feel bad about wanting to
the NSA would know the NSA and then you show up on their Google search thing
anyways I don't even think this will matter at all I don't think this will
change anything it won't affect anything
um it's foran's going to move way too fast because forun moves way too fast
and they'll be like oh we're going to apply a dmca policy and someone's going to be like restart the thread doesn't
matter at all or people will just go to
one of the other chance which there are many of
so so there's that I'm just doesn't matter I'm just really surprised with
the way that 4chan's always been like internet internet raw Rah raw we can put
anything literally anything on the internet which you have to you have to
respect that principle even if you don't respect what it sometimes turns into
often okay not always but often it's not a bad
thing to stand up for no and I and I totally agree with that principle it's
just it's so baffling to me that even though it won't affect anything that
they had this sudden change of heart they probably had to in some way I
haven't read enough into that part but they they were probably forced to in
some way and then I bet you moot uh the
guy that runs forchan probably knew deep down that it just wouldn't change Jack
all because they can this is great someone's like 4chan doesn't have
CP okay then um moving
on um someone can serve a dmca thing for
him to take it down and then he'll just be like oh well the thread 404 it anyways so good work I guess
okay so shall we move on to oh I guess that ties pretty well into uh Apple
denies the iCloud breach Apple etc etc
etc oh yeah right so the other things for the iCloud breach is that they uh
the two-step notification thing and then two Factor authentication is interesting
so the I think twostep was not enabled on that account correct I think that's
how that went us I don't have two- Factor authentication on any of my Apple
accounts I'm not sure if they support two Factor not yet um recommends users
to use their two-step verification if they're concerned about security but two
Factor authentication will also cover iCloud in the next version next revision
of iOS which will be later this month yeah so that's coming very soon actually
there's a lot of really cool stuff coming with iOS 8 I've been using iOS 7
as much as I can leading up to the iPhone 6 launch when I'll take a take a
run at it uh with ios8 and I'm there's a couple things I'm excited about we're
finally getting swift key yeah
so there's that that's a big one but um yeah I mean adding more security to
things especially two-factor authentication which is basically a way
of not just securing something with a password but also with an email or an
authentication token that you have to use an app on your phone that you've
authenticated separately um is great it
saved my Hotmail account from getting hijacked back when I had my YouTube
account hijacked and if I had lost the Hotmail account which was set up as the
backup email it would have been much more difficult for me to get the YouTube
channel back so having twostep authentication or two Factor
authentication is super super awesome and everyone should use it yep but we're
also not going to blame people who don't use it nope all right Motorola
officially launches your new phone want to talk about it a little bit probably
my new phone I'm not 100% convinced yet
but very highly the big problem I have with it is there's a lot of improvements
and I'll get to there in second well the big problem I have with it is there's a
lot of improvements isn't it great how when you take things out of context they're funny jerk I love how you
admitted it was taken out of context though that helps me um it it it's
running a 2300 milliamp hour battery
which is like dudes but then at the exact same time my Moto my current Moto
X also has a teeny little battery and
it's not really that deal is it yeah it's very it's a very efficient phone it
runs stock Androids there isn't a whole bunch of crap running on top of it and I
have always been pretty nazy about all the kind of stuff that's running on my
phone I don't like extra stuff running on my phone so I don't have battery
issues yeah I found one that was uh that was that was wrecking my phone battery
on the 1 M8 um Plex really yeah yeah I would after
iding Plex idling Plex yeah doing nothing like boot up the phone and touch
nothing and then leave it there at 100% and come back at the end of the day and
it's at like 20% having not touched it like brutal so I uninstalled Plex and uh
Android kernel started using way less so
instead of like through uh through task management programs I wasn't even able
to narrow down which one it was because it was just hiding itself under
multimedia something and then like Android konel we're both using
ridiculous amounts of power so it's like Plex I like you but this is isn't going
to work for me with fairly heavy usage and leaving the thing on on Moto X where
on this like idle screen where it shows the time and the lock it'll show what
notifications are coming in leaving that on which is kind of suicide when but
that's OLED so that helps I know but still it still takes battery a little
bit little bit um I I can still get through a day and a half of Fairly heavy
use and this thing has a teeny battery so it's not ideal but I'm not super
worried at the same time because of the experience I've had with this phone I'm
hoping that it'll still be okay on the new one if we get a loner unit um I know
we're not getting a keeper unit for Motorola but if we get a loner unit do you want to do the review sure okay sure
that would be cool so basically it's got a Snapdragon 802 2.5 GHz processor this
is much closer to Flagship class than the original Moto X was that was never
intended to compete with the 1 M7 and
the Galaxy S4 at the time it was meant to be like a you know kind of step down
but very practical and very nice all that but this one no this is like balls
to the wall so 5.2 in 1080P super ammo Leed screen 2 gigs of RAM 16 to 32 gigs
of non-expandable
memory front-facing speakers though that's a big one pretty stoked about
that and then a lot of the usual customization featur so we're even
getting those wood paneled backs which I think is super awesome the ring flash is
fairly interesting now the camera it has a silver ring on this one but it's just
oh you can't really see it at all it's just for aesthetic reasons on the new one one there's going to be a ring
around the actual camera which is its flash which looks a little bit
interesting because it looks like you have like uh in some of the pictures at
least it looks like you have a jewel EMB bed around your camera which looks like
super ghetto right speaking of uh
speaking of weird camera stuff the iPhone 6 is rumored to have a raised
camera bump as well which is so unle
like to compromise design for better
functionality and I'm not 100% sure how I feel about it because on the one hand
I do appreciate better functionality you know and I'm willing to give up a little
bit of you know a bump here or you know widget there or dongle or whatever else
but on the other hand Apple was the one pushing the other guys who would
compromise a little bit to strive for
better design by never compromising on that so as much as I might not use a ton
of Apple products I appreciate what they've done for the industry and if
they let it slip I have a feeling the Samsungs and HT and LGS of the world
will just completely drop the ball we let it slip that much more I wasn't
going to say completely drop the ball I'm down with that I I I don't really
buy Apple products there's a thread on the Forum fairly recently where I talked about this I didn't even buy one of
those old school iPods I had a creative Zen like I've never really been the dude
that buys RCA lra there you go I've never really been the dude that buys
Apple products at all but I've always appreciated their existence because when
they got into stuff like the MP3 Market either people got out of the market or
Ste up their game Y and then I will buy the products from the dudes that stepped
up their game I'm I'm that dude but I still appreciate their existence because
they do that so I hope they don't screw up in the absence of Steve Jobs so it's
going to be 100 bucks on contract or $499.99 unlocked which actually isn't
that bad sure it's not that competitive with something like a OnePlus One but
you can buy it without an invitation and also I OnePlus One is another one of one
plus you don't have to like hate the company that makes your phone I think
hate is a strong word I think mostly
misguided I don't think they do unpopular things on purpose I think
they're legitimately trying to be liked I think at some level they just kind of
don't get it whether it's a cultural barrier or what they're just like that dude that jumps into the room and he's
like yeah guys check this out and everyone's like oh no it's like you know that thing
you've got there is pretty cool I just wish that you hadn't gotten your armpit
grease on it kind of thing yeah yeah I mostly like you um speaking of things
that I mostly like the Moto 360 has
finally been announced this was orig this was originally posted by cyan Bob
on the Forum speaking of which red round 2 posted the Apple denies iCloud breach
99 VW posted the other Apple value drops thing and then the Moto X one was posted
by dismo I got to give you guys the shout out and one thing I want to shout
out too before we move on is that a lot of the Articles from this week were
written very well and were like pretty long and well well quoted with your own
with your own interpretation of what's going on and your own thoughts and opinions and stuff be more important
very soon we'll have more details about that in a little while so the Moto 360
is announced you can pre-order them they're 250 bucks us or 280 Canadian um
available in the US now Canada later in the fall can be purchased from motorless
website or the Google Play Store and from Best Buy this is the same Moto 360
we've been talking about for a long time the main difference is now you can
actually buy one and uh once again are
you going smartwatch my friend I actually probably will be but then this
brings in another worrisome thought which is where the Moto X that I'm
thinking about jumping to because I have to give my current phone back to its
rightful owner um has not a huge battery
even though it might be efficient I'm going to have to run these connected all
the time and that could be another strain on the battery yes it's less than
you would think as someone who uses a smartwatch already I never have so I'm
not really sure yeah it's it's one of those things where you could probably
Benchmark it but dayt day it's not going
to be like oh my God I have my Pebble on I had to pull out my charger six times
it's not that kind of a difference and the benefit is just oh man so great I
would like one because I I've noticed more and more that I just leave my phone
somewhere near me and I really like the screen feature where it'll tell me what
notification I get cuz it'll Buzz cuz I usually have it uh on VI because we film
um and I'll just look over and if it's not like an email or a text if it's like
Instagram or Twitter whatever I'm like okay I can probably leave that for a little bit and check it later and it'll
be fine yeah no it's fantastic and things like being able to control music
yeah I I that's what I do 90% of the time that I'm interacting
with my Pebble when I'm not checking the time or reading a message is I'm
controlling music from my pocket because and this is a this is another
frustration as much as I love the way that Apple moves things forward in some
ways things like inline controls that work with your phone yeah apple also
doesn't necessarily do all the standards all the time so uh so a lot of headsets
particularly from companies like Sennheiser that I really like will have
these inline controls that don't work with my Android phone so this is the way
around it being able to leave my phone in my pocket that is cool and and this
has Okay Google support as well right yes so you will I mean aside from with
the Moto X you'll have support for Google Now from your pocket anyway yeah
but I'm assuming this will be able to hear it better and if I leave my phone somewhere else yes and this will work
with other phones that don't have that feature as well the thing I worry about
here is battery life so anything with an always on not e in or um shoot I forget
mirol or Mirasol display I worry very
much about what the user experience is like and I would have liked to see
someone pick up where qualcom left off off with the talk with that Mirasol
display um it was much more power efficient than even AMOLED I mean you
can see that motal is trying here if we go back to the to the picture of the
watch you can see that the stock watch
face is mostly black that's the way Amo
LED Works anything that's black is actually powered off so you're going to
get some power savings just by having thin white elements on an otherwise
black screen I just I'm not sure if it's going to be enough I already run out of
battery on my Pebble from time to time
and that one lasts me about 4 days so for something that I have to charge
every night I feel like it's a bit of a hassle right I don't know this again
these are these are two things that I'm extremely interested in acquiring myself
and because I think they should honestly work pretty well together but uh I'm
going to need to and like the watch like I'm going to have to wear the watch
before I decide I'm going to buy it I'm not going to just order it online and be
like it'll show up and I will like it that was one of my big problems with the
talk was it just plane wasn't comfortable yeah um and this this is
where when when we joke about Best Buy is like the Amazon showroom like we
actually need an Amazon showroom yeah we need we need showrooms from these
companies not necessarily Stores um but showrooms because I'd like to go in and
be like Oh yeah this is pretty cool and maybe have it be like like the ncx
langly kind of idea where you can order something online and get it shipped
there and then pick it up well I mean you look at what guys like T-Mobile are
doing moving things into the 21st century where they they were doing trial
devices yes super cool that would be awesome that kind of thing I'm totally
down if I if I could go like new Moto X and Moto 360 let's do this for a week
that would be great and I would know my answer for sure at the end of it Y and
that would be exactly what I want the issue with that is you'll never see a
program like that at launch so for the enthusiasts and early adopters the folks
like us and the people watching this show that might not be that appealing
because you're always going to have limited quantities of something available at launch even someone like
apple where they've got iPhone 6 in full-fledged full scale mass production
like weeks or even months ahead of the actual launch date you can still never
make enough of them unless it's like a
bad product in which case who wants to
use it anyway yeah uh all right let's move on
to our next topic here Mozilla leaves a ton of pass on a fairly open server
twice okay so there was a posted by rainfall within on the Forum and the
original articles from hot for security take it away Luke there was a freaking
ton of misinformation about this so I'm going to go through it generally and
then clear up some stuff that there was misinformation about so for the second
time in a month one of them was at the beginning of August and one of them was
on August 27th so the first one was
76,000 email addresses and 4,000 heavily
encrypted passwords not plain text
passwords um and those were left publicly accessible on a server for 30
days not good and then on August 27th they found that
97,000 users also had issues who
were not this isn't Firefox browser
users that's that this is one of the big misinformation thing this isn't like I
had Firefox browser and my email was randomly stored on the server no these
are people that were running test builds not even just the normal thing test
builds of bugzilla very specific and not people
that were signed up on the bugzilla forums not people that were accessing
those those their their accounts in that way just actual people signed up
directly for the test build of bugzilla
those are the people that were affected so I saw a couple people like jumping
ship off Firefox in the massive browser
war that that thread turned into which it should not have turned into but
internet so it did um we're jumping ship
off Firefox cuz they're like oh no my email stolen no dude only if you were a
bugzilla pre-release tester like not even just someone who used bugzilla but
someone who was like developer level testing for
bugzilla anyways um and no they did not
make the same mistake twice within a month and like
make a mistake and then make a mistake again knowing that they made the first
one that that's not what happened happened they discovered a mistake and
then what I'm assuming is they searched for more and then discovered another one
that was made previously because the second one had been open for I believe 3
months so they found two mistakes they didn't make two mistakes in one month
they were I believe two or three months apart and like I just said I'm going to
have to assume they found the first one and then we like oh crap and started
looking around and found the second one so yeah tons of misinformation going
about that thread and then like tons of misinformation for the first about page
and maybe a quarter and then the all the rest of it was just this stupid browser
War because it's the internet come on
yeah because Internet yay Internet yay my browser takes
0.0000001 seconds and it's already
happening in twitch chat I use IE tour browser master race no one cares Chrome
is my main driver but it's heavy as hell that I'm okay I'm with you on that one I
also Daily drive on Chrome I don't but it is oh it drives me crazy they all
suck let's just come together and accept that they're all horrible we need slower
iteration and more solid builds that's
what we need okay uh so I have a straw poll for you guys I am not going to be
here for wo next week in the in like a span of a month you're not no I'm going
to be at the event in California that's next week that's not that's event in
California we have the event together in California the following week yeah I
have no idea how we're going to get content for the channel over the next
couple weeks here so in a span of like
four weeks I think we're doing like five
events so uh we did packs um I have a secret one coming up
we're doing the mod 24 NVIDIA thing
which there will be more details about revealed tomorrow so stay tuned for that
um you're going to ctia so that's the
wireless Industry Show which will be interesting that's the first time we're doing something like that and I feel
like there's one more I'm missing lots of feedback Germany's coming up yep
Germany's coming up Germany's coming up soon actually Everest was almost can I
talk about this I guess so Germany so uh
Luke and I are going on a European field
trip so we will be touring two very cool
factories we should rent a yellow bus no it's not in the budget a really short
one at all um so we are going to be
visiting the Cherry Factory you know the guys who make keyboard switches this is
going to be courtesy of Corsair and Cherry and we are going to be touring
the senheiser facility as well and uh we
are potentially going to be getting an interview opportunity with one of the
co-founders of Sennheiser and and um or sorry one co-
CEOs excuse me and we are potentially going to get an opportunity to interview
um the guy who does their product development so the guy who designed the
hd8 DJs for example I get to sure you'll like to meet him I get to congratulate
him out of one side of my mouth for how amazing they sound and then ask him why
the hell there isn't at least like an aftermarket option for increasing the
headband padding a little bit cuz after like a couple hours it starts to wear on
me but I'm just like oh but they sound so good and I'll like take them off I'll
put on something else be like screw it
put them back on that's why I like my um
595s so much even though I recommend 555s cuz you can just do the rubber band
hack but they just feel so comfy I could
literally wear those forever yeah and the hd600s are the same they sound
really great but they're open which is a bit of a problem because the volumes I
like to listen to sometimes um that can be an issue cuz the baby is through a
wall I live alone but probably 3 feet four feet from my desk right very close
yeah um and she is a very light sleeper all right so anyway I'm not going to be
here next week so I want you guys to
tell me who you want Luke's co-host to
be some of these people aren't even options and I'm more just curious It's
like a popularity contest and I just want to see who wins options uh so the
options are barnacles Timmy tech TV edil Taran and CES C who is Luke's brother
all right so we'll go ahead and C C in number two throw those results up there
while we uh while we move on to the next topic what else we got uh I was staring
at the results um um a punch of tablet stuff yeah Lenovo launches a tablet it's
$19.99 it's got a 19 by 1200 display
it's got an Atom Processor which is very interesting to me ASUS was showing off
some great adom powered stuff at CES this year that it's like yeah Snapdragon
whatever adrino GPU cool and then
there's like Intel's onboard Graphics which might not be that great in a
notebook but you throw that stuff in a tablet it's like freaking awesome Bam um
it also has two gigs of RAM 16 gigabytes of
storage and 16 gigs needs to go away 16
needs to die like now why does that still exist like it's one
thing if you give me enough storage for all my apps and I have to put all my
other crap on an SD card or even
storage we should we should hold on hold on we need a growling
contest okay I can't keep a straight face I win all right back to the back to
the result grow that was probably really bad for my throat yeah probably you
probably shouldn't have done that sweet I egg him on all right it has a 4290
mlia battery bluo 4.0 uh dual be
whatever totally worthless but they're front facing speakers that's the
important part um 8ap rear camera 1.6
front camera if you're going to put a 1.6 megap camera on something I would say don't bother you know the best part
about that growling contest is yes we probably just peaked the whole oh we
totally did I'm monitoring um all right there's an LTE model available at a
higher price and it runs Android 4.4 KitKat it will also have 64bit
compatibility and I would encourage you guys if you aren't already go subscribe
to Techquickie because we have a once and for all 32bit versus 64-bit video
coming out that I want you guys to watch and then I want you guys to share
because more RAM and Windows bro yeah because it contains a lot of information
that actually it doesn't contain that much information but it contains
information that people need to know
which is that 64bit is not I'm not going
to spoil it for you guys all right so moving on uh looks like Barnacles is out
ahead although cold C is actually not
that distant a second which is good because it'll probably be cool
us was already kind of a foregone conclusion I traded him a graphics card
for a couple of wow appearances so he's already prepaid yeah yeah yeah makes
sense all right so oops wrong window
another tablet yes yes let's talk about
that one hold on hold on original posters uh so top war gamer posted the
Lenovo 8 in Android tablet and rainfall within posted the Milla story all right
all right moving on to the TBA one so that's top war gamer again hit us what
do we got it's named The Encore mini it has a 7in
1024x600 screen it is a $120 uh Windows 8.1
tablet though so I don't know yeah so we're talking like x86 Windows 8.1
so quad core Intel Atom Processor 16
gabes of internal storage but it does
have an SD slot for expansion so there we go cuz we can do what we were just
talking about which is you can have your OS and your apps and then a whole bunch of files on the side your music and your
videos I mean with micr SD capacity up to what like 128 gigs these days like it
it's it's just kind of a a joke to be concerned about having to store stuff on
micro SD especially if it's stuff like songs or or movies or whatever else yeah
no big deal um it uses Windows 8.1 with
Bing which is a horrible sentence to say I know it's so bad you know it's funny I
was playing around with Cortana on my HTC 1 and8 for Windows review one thing
that I was just kind of like you
know Bing can I just reconfigure this so
that when it does do an internet search it just uses something other than Bing
please just anything just don't use Bing
um anyways there's a few drawbacks like bad viewing angles no Windows Button
song Just Give me anything oh no no no
no no yeah but B well I would do
anything to search but I won't Bing
that no I won't Bing anything for search
sorry I'll let you finish the story now that was great that should be our next
song we did the rap now we can do like
anything but anything but that but
remixed fantastic someone says Bing is literally Google with a skin
no it's I'm sorry but you're dumb I don't usually say that kind of stuff wow
oh my God but it's like not wrecked oh
wrecked um sorry that was that was bad
um if it was if it was Google with a skin I might actually use it I know
right cuz it looks all right it does it looks good okay sorry talk about this
tablet so yeah it has drawbacks cuz it's $120 so there's going to be drawbacks uh
full Windows isn't necessarily optimal for 7 screen either what the heck um and
it's I don't know it's a super super super cheap tablet so it is what it is
why don't we move on yeah that's pretty much it uh more exciting news is that
the AMD R9 295x2 Is On promotional pricing which I
think means basically AMD code word for
it is now this price we dropped the price to something more competitive
don't buy it at anything other than this price also we're like we're trying to
give NVIDIA the business cuz NVIDIA tried to drop Titan Z down to what two
grand I think to select system Builders and AMD is
like we're going to do $1,000 for ours we're still half the
price so uh yeah so through specific
retailers for as low as a thousand bucks for a th000 bucks do you think that card
makes sense I don't like Crossfire SLI and I
especially don't like them on the same card but it is kind of interesting
all righty then interesting okay at $1,000 though if you're going for raw
FPS can you come up with a better
solution he's thinking top of my head yeah the answer is kind of no like you
do have to find a spot for the radiator but at $1,000 what else can you buy you
can pick up two 780s but those are going to be three gigs didn't 290s just get a
price drop as well I think yeah but 295x2 is too fully 295x or 290x it is
not 2 290s because because due to the
water cooling they were able to make it a fully so you could do something for
the same price but not necessarily lower and not even quite okay yeah the same
price but that would be but that diamond card on New Egg there for $489 is um
that those are 290x right okay but that is a dual slot card yeah whereas a 295x2
is a dual slot card for two gpus but we didn't we didn't have a limit
for slots or like case size or anything I think I said better solution but then
I said in terms of raw FPS mind you um
290 290 X's particular if they if you Crossfire them unless you have an
extremely well ventilated case could easily throttle whereas a 295x2 won't
due to the liquid cooler so in terms of raw FPS it might still win and then
liquid cooling these would make them better but would also massively increase
the cost much more expensive so I don't think G10 would be
enough I don't know go go AMD um that said that's probably the most exciting
thing AMD did this week and they actually launched a new GPU based on a
new micro architecture Tonga is the least
interesting thing ever I think I pretty much said that in my video I mean it's
good it slots in at around the same price point as the card that it replaces
that is around the same price did exactly what everyone thought it would
do yes it's more power efficient it has
better feature support so you've got free sync
as well as um Hardware h264 4K encoding
and decoding and the like super weird but kind of interesting multim monitor
speaker Arrangement setup thing yeah where it like automatically makes it
left right center channel if you're using the internal speakers on your
monitors for a massively expensive triple setup using a 285
what yeah I read that and I was
like the only big issue I have with it is that they cut the RAM from 3 gigs to
2 gigs in an era where more RAM is
becoming more important every day and when AMD themselves almost a year ago
now in Hawaii spent so much time talking
about how important it was that 290 series had 4 gigs of RAM compared to the
competition's lower frame buffer amounts
yeah so AMD guys you got to you got to figure
out your story what your naming yeah 285
is kind of brutal like what are you doing what would you have rather they
did I don't know not that they shouldn't have done the R9 R7 thing in the first
place 28 yeah you know what I actually screwed it up in the video I called the
r7260x the R9 260x and someone called me
on it and I was just like you know what I don't care because that's dumb it
should just be the 260x you know what from now on let's make a packed
everything's R9 nothing is just we don't give the RS at there are no s see I did
that on one of my graphs and everyone freaked out NOP okay well from now on
that's okay should we just do it R like
used to be yeah let's call it it should have been we'll just like like the old code names like the r600 code name we're
just going to be like okay R 260x and
like GF no cuz I I'm okay with nvidias
it's like GTX is gaming okay so it's just GTX whatever you don't really have
to say GeForce anymore just like radon so we'll go R whatever and then GTX
whatever and people will it the stand are R speaking of people
liking things for the number of people who complained about us running
overclocked benchmarks on our gpus I think that many times several
complained about us not running overclocked benchmarks goes to show you nobody's ever happy so I think what we
should do is maybe go back to overclocked benchmarks but with a caveat
so maybe instead of going balls to the wall on the graphics cards let's do the
same thing we do on CPUs where we aim for that lwh hanging fruit number the
problem with that and the reason why we haven't done that in the past is
actually because with CPU launches it's
much more orchestrated we have more information from more people with
graphis card launches we're in the black okay another thing though so I have no
idea actually this is a new thing that I kind of decided today I was I was like
chatting with Ryan Trout from PC per on Skype and I was just like you know what
I don't care about embargos anymore we're not going to hit embargos
anymore we're going to do everything
late I and we're going to try it for a little bit and some people probably
won't like it but there are a couple of reasons for this number one is that
we're a YouTube channel first and foremost and YouTube actually
prioritizes newer content and search results so us being a day or two or even
six hours after everyone else has been beneficial for us in the past reason
number two speaking of beneficial for us in the past we have launched content as
much as months late what about the nocto
cooler wasn't that like a year late something like that I mean the pebble
the original Pebble uh if you look for here so this is a perfect example let's
screen share with Linus I searched for Pebble my Pebble Smartwatch review was
months late months after everyone else
did uh unveilings and handson and full
reviews and yet 274,000 views I believe
that's the one of the most for any
original Pebble review and I was way
late so the way that I'm kind of looking at it is you know what maybe let's not
make it about the product so much let's make it more about having great quality
content making sure it's right and not staying up until 4 in the morning the
night before to finish benchmarking something when we can just release
something else that day and do it
right so I don't know it's not 100% it's
just something I was kind of kicking I think it also sh with you guys depends
on what it is and when we get it cuz a lot of times like with the extreme
Edition like we got the BIOS for that board like the day before I had to do
all the testing like that's ridiculous yeah I mean yeah that's a perfect
example x99 okay x99 got pushed up we I
think mostly people know this if you've been following the rumor mill the rumors
changed at some point which is often an indication that something changed um so
we got a finished retail Buy BIOS which In fairness to Aus particularly was not
very different from the previous one we had which wasn't very different from the
previous one we had in fact I think the only bugs they fixed there were like if
you didn't have a CPU fan installed uh
the ignore CPU fan speed feature didn't work or something like that like it was
minor tweaks so ASUS actually had their
crap together reasonably well but that doesn't change the fact that we got a
new NVIDIA driver optimized for x99 I think three or four days before launch
three three and that was over a weekend
yeah so so like not very helpful yeah we got a new uh we got a new isus BIOS like
a couple nights before the launch like it was it was very last minute and you
know what no one seems to have minded that our 5960x video went up on the
Tuesday yeah so there you go apparently we only
need 11,000 more subscribers to get to a million that's pretty insane yeah people
want us to discuss PewDiePie's disabling
of comments so this was originally posted by onot Tech on the Forum and I
actually went ahead and I post on Facebook asking what people thought
whether we should do the same thing and there was some there were some really
interesting thoughts there but I'll let you kind of cover exactly what happened
here original article here's from Kaku here it is one thing I want to talk
about before I even get into this is I've talked about PewDiePie on the show
before and about how I don't I think I've used the wrong terminology I probably said I don't don't like him I
don't like the character he portrays in most of his videos after watching this I
went through and watched like a couple other videos that he's done um like you
brought up the uh what is it the Fine Brothers yeah YouTubers react he's a lot
more sane I ended up looking that up and I watch this video and stuff and like
seems like a pretty smart dude no no problem with that I'm just not
interested in his content so anyways uh
he has decided to disable comments forever forever this has been because he
is sick of seeing mainly spam people self- advertising and people trying to
provoke others and all the other people
responding to those things making them go to the top and making them very the
the the main things that people are actually looking at especially with YouTube's new style of comments yeah and
you know it's always been a problem new comment system old comment system as you
get bigger and bigger the signal to noise ratio in the comments goes down
and no offense to Felix um but something
about his style of content I think attracts a less sophisticated commenter
yeah which is again one of the reasons why I don't like his okay go ahead with
the rest of the story and then I'll talk about sort of some of my thoughts on it as well um it the main issue is that
most of the positive feedback or even like constructive negative feedback and
welcome suggestions and all that kind of stuff are buried under all this what is
essentially junk crap that gets in a lot of the videos and he has said I just
want to connect with you bros which is currently that was a quote which is
current ly impossible essentially because it's just buried under all this
stuff and you have to imagine how many comments he gets on all his videos it's
he's not going to be able to read every single one of them I don't think you
could actually read that fast at his scale I don't know if it's possible like
yeah he'd have to have a team of people and that's insane he could afford it he
could probably afford it I have a team of people and I'm like a fraction his SI
comments though just well I wouldn't spend my money on that you have to have
a whole department of people just to sit in a room and read YouTube comments
and like collate all the important ones and hand you a package even if I was
making $4 million a year I don't think I would spend it on that so stupid anyways
so he he's decided to try and move to things like maybe uh direct Twitter
interaction Twitter hashtags that he can hashtag a certain video then you can
look up that hashtag to see what people think about that certain video or a
subreddit or something like that things that people like total biscuit have
already been doing pud isn't going to watch this but if he did I would suggest
that maybe it's time to not necessarily be so married to being a onean operation
and invest in something like building a community the lineus tech tips.com forum
is is awesome awesome that's why I always have the call to action to if you
don't want to post on YouTube post on the Forum because I always read every
single comment on every single video that I make that is on the Forum thread
for that video I read all of them hands down and so that that's what I would
encourage him to do because there you can actually Foster the kind of attitude
in the kind of community that you want I mean mostly once it reaches a certain
Tipping Point there's only so much you can do but at least it's it's usually
more refined because it it takes that extra step yes and having your own
Community is is so much more of a powerful way to connect with people and
have them connect with each other I think that's the thing that's missing in
a lot of social networks is the connection between Bros so to speak as
opposed to between PewDiePie and all the Bros so I would really encourage him to
allocate some of his 4 million a year to
someone to to build a community for him and do Community Management you probably
get a pretty cool server probably better than ours yeah probably better than ours
uh all right so all right I wanted to give some Mye thoughts so I went ahead
and I I posted on Facebook asking people
for their thoughts and I read most of what came in in the first half an hour or so and I had a lot of people saying
yes it's aess poool and I had a lot of people saying no it's not you know um
with some people even going as far as to say I'll unsubscribe if you disable
comments which I think is ridiculous because it's not YouTube is a video
watching site first and a commenting on
the video site like sixth there's a lot more stuff that you can do on YouTube
actually find that I watch more of tal biscuits videos now that he doesn't have
comments than I did in the past so might sound weird but it just it's it's even
though I wouldn't really read them that much and even though I'd only really get the top comments his videos seem less
aggressive not because he's doing it but because like the the overall experience
the environment yeah yeah it's totally about that and I guess that's what got
me thinking so I had a lot of people saying no don't do it because you know
sometimes I post questions in your comments and I actually get an answer and it it really made me think and I was
also on the pka podcast last night we were talking a little bit about about
poison within the community and how to manage it and I kind of realized you
know what our audience is pretty damn mature I was just going to say I think a
big part of it is that we're not a let's play Channel we're not a let's play
Channel we're not a we're not a you know I don't want to pick on anyone in
particular but we're not like okay I'm not just not going to pick on anyone but
the point is our type of content is only
really interesting to people who are
somewhat technology literate which I think is going to mean you somewhat know
how to use the internet which of course means we have more ad block users and
all that stuff but you know if if someone was to go a cable Linus what
would you rather have would you rather have users that use ad block and you
know that couple of pennies or whatever per view doesn't get contributed to you
but they don't poison your community or would you rather have these
poisonous people that are giving you a couple pennies I will take the mature
Community every time because at least those people I can reason with you know
with the relationship we have with them over the years and maybe go okay well hey maybe you turn on ad block but would
you consider buying a cool t-shirt once in a while and that's yeah we've we've
found a way that at least I personally
think the mass majority Mass majority of our community is cool with us monetizing
different things and I think one of the one of the big problems that I've seen a
lot of the ad blog guys talk about is they don't want to see they don't
necessarily mind advertisement they don't want to see most the crap that
ends up getting in their advertisement feed I don't think advertisement in
general is necessarily evil it's just
well yeah no because because can if you
have a legitimately good service at a legitimately fair price I appreciate
someone taking the time to tell me about it so I think it helps that we kind of
act as a filter speaking of filters and advertising we've actually got our
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send them like super nice American Apparel shirts and like some bamboo
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a long week and it's like you know what I don't care if I'm like being a poster
boy for Squarespace I'm going put my comfy shirt
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if it wasn't for sponsors like Squarespace it would be pretty hard
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that was hilarious how to get that shirt how to get this shirt and like a whole
ton of extra shirts when you go to different gaming conventions a lot of uh
what they try to get you to do to get the the free shirt which is not free at
all is pre-order their games pre-ordering games is not free bull crap
and is not free at all and is super stupid so what you do is you go up to
their booth and you pre-order everything you can so that you can get all their
swag but you do it on Amazon oh you're not really telling people this are you
I'm telling people this you're going to wreck the system for yourself they'll
never catch on will they no it doesn't matter they're so oblivious all right do
it do it do it tons of people and like you probably already know about this but
just this is for the people that don't okay because there's probably people out
there that don't emo polar bear says my girlfriend prefers my Dollar Shave Club
razors to her women's razors there you go guys and and Dollar Shave Club if
you're still watching you guys need to get a lady Razer going anyway sorry go
um yeah so what what what you do is you go up to the booth and you pre-order
everything so you get all their extra little things and their Swag Like shirts
and stuff and then you do it on Amazon cuz Amazon does not charge you until
they ship so then you just go back to
your computer or go on your phone or whatever go to your Amazon account
recent orders cancel done you get all
the swag for free it took you like two extra seconds and you're done so I got
all the Ubisoft shirts all of them and
like all the other shirts there that required a pre-order cuz I was just like
oh I need to pre-order the game sure cool done
people say you guys need to have an option to accept tips in your video
descriptions um we have we have that we have our our monthly contributor thing
or you can buy a t-shirt or or you can just change your Amazon bookmark to one
with our affiliate code we have instructions to how to do that linked in
every one of our video descriptions that helps us out a lot I mean between us
girls Amazon affiliate Revenue has become a way for me to continue
expanding the team like it's turned into not just a couple bucks here and there
so you guys have been amazingly supportive but I mean more is always
better because as much as we just hired someone I would like to add more because
I mean Luke's going to be out of the office for a week out of the next two weeks you know traveling to shows and
doing show coverage and stuff like that we're going to need I we're going to be
out for at least at least two days how many three three yeah no no I'm out for
five too because I'm doing two events too how are we gonna do anything I don't
know we'll figure it out but the point is I hired him cuz I needed help we're
getting to the point where Luke needs help so if you guys if you guys like
encourage people you know or ask permission and then change people's
browser bookmarks to Amazon to ones with our affiliate code every little bit
helps especially people you know who shop on Amazon a lot we need to find a
way that we can have it as an auto executable off a flash drive yeah there's also a browser toolbar oh
actually that would be brilliant no that's that's like yeah I'm not doing
that um so you're a terrible person
actually that's kind of smart what if we had lonus Tech tips branded USB drives
that basically um we sold like at a loss
so people could buy USB drives from us on the cheap but that had that preloaded
but in a very upfront way so the idea was hey you're buying this USB drive
this USB drive is designed to override your Amazon affiliate links when you
plug it in we could just give them like a a loader that loads it onto the people
want to donate button on Twitch why we should just put a button on Twitch that
links them to the store on the Forum where they can become a yeah we should
just we should actually have just a description on our twitch page I love
twitch they're my friends but they don't need half of the monthly donation yeah
so but what I don't I don't think they're asking for a sub button yeah
they asking for a donation button so if we had like links yeah those are
different a sub button is a twitch subscription cuz like my personal
channel has a sub thing and it has a donation thing and it has a donate to
Child's Play thing oh okay yeah speaking of which I have to do the ALS
donation I haven't done that yet I did my Ms one oh crap okay yeah I I
committed 500 and then fractal is going to match it so crap I get I'll do that
this weekend cool all right so let's move on to our next topic this is just
this is something pretty quick but the ASRock x99 extreme 11 features 18 satis
6 gbit per second ports this was originally posted by top pick on the
Forum and I think rather than talking
about this a whole lot we're just going to let pictures do the talking
did you did you did you see the super scary thing though yeah right there
super scary um I've seen ASRock motherboards with chipset fans before
that don't turn on unless you enable them so I'm not sure if they have that
here but one of their previous extreme 11 boards was like that the problem is
that it ran so hot that you had to enable the fan on that particular model
look at this though that's ridiculous two USB 3 headers just cuz whatever
because why not should we we give ASRock a chance is
ASRock participating in our four-way motherboard ease of use shootout I think
they did found a board for it yeah we have a board so um so let's give ASRock
let's give ASRock a chance to win us over because the last time I really
tried to use an ASRock board was back in the like Blue Room days at ncx I think
yep and the last time I put an ASRock board in my own system was a 939 duel
oh that that was like optron 165 dual
core days all right uh steam client beta
update brings better streaming support overall especially to AMD cards uh this
was originally posted on the Forum by
welcome uh so you want to cover this one
uh yeah there's a there's a few things actually they're also doing tweaks to
stream uh steam music where it can find music inside steam directories that
probably should have been there by default guys because you can kind of buy
soundtracks with games and it wasn't automatically picked them up and that's
super stupid but it can now which is great there's UI improvements they're
reducing energy usage when it's running in the background but it just kind of
generally supports they're saying in home streaming now support uh inh home
streaming support now available for AMD
cards that's a note in here I didn't know that it wasn't available before uh
I think it wasn't optimized cuz the thing is the thing is for every enode
encode and decode like combination they have to make sure it all works and with
all the hardware different hardware encoders and decoders that are out there
there's a lot of optimization for Val to do for what was at least at the last
time I talked to him basically a oneman army team yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly
there you go uh you can now stream from Linux uh from a Linux host 2 PCS now uh
which is interesting you and you can uh
use vce Hardware encoding of direct 3D games now if you have a Ron 77 XX
whatever numberb is the are at the end or a
r9200 series above the0 above 240 okay
cool well that'll just keep getting better and then when we get an Android
steam client then everything else will be irrelevant yeah all right so this is
something that uh if you've been following me for a long time then you
might know about this already what the bloody heck was that nigma PCI something
oh so I did a video of this bad boy
quite a while back oh come on there it
is magma Express box 3T Thunderbolt
external PCI Express enclosure um and I got really amped
about this product because it was basically a way to install a graphics
card yeah look the old intro I haven't seen that in forever let's watch it
hello all the sound effects were made
yeah all the sound I I I barely remember the actual video sequence but all the
sound effects are like permanently ingrained in my brain yeah that was like
actually cutting cardboard and the the Ping for the him winking is hitting a
glass with a spoon cuz we were worried about like uh usage rights for sound
effects and we didn't have any sound effects librar okay so this bad boy lets
you install graphics cards sound cards whatever else and connect all of them to
a PC via Thunderbolt
well the unfortunate thing about about this was due to AMD mostly AMD and
NVIDIA as far as I could tell and their support for this technology it was not
possible to install external graphics cards even though it was just a PCI
Express 4X link over Thunderbolt well
now and this was originally posted by random kit on the Forum MSI has taken it
into their own hands to release their new gs30 Shadow and gaming
dock so basically it's a 13.3 in
Notebook with just plain Intel onboard graphics and then a an external PCI
Express link to this box that will house
an external graphics card this is the
ultimate to me because for carrying
around I use an Ultrabook I'm not going
to carry around a g750 JZ all the time I
actually love the g750 Jay-Z JayZ is a pretty big dude great not this notebook
I actually love this notebook notebook it's incredibly well cooled it performs
really well it's done great for us on
shows or like if this thing's like glitching out and the CPU usage is
pinned at 100% And I'm trying to like capture footage or something I know I
can go to the g750 and it'll just be fine because it's basically desktop
power but the problem is I'm not going to carry that around with me all over
the place unless I need that power all over the place like at a show so
something like this is a great solution
out and about great battery life get home plug into the dock got your
peripherals got your 34 in Ultra wide
monitor yeah and that desktop grade
graphics performance I'm excit to bench the crap out of this thing that's what
I'm excited for me too speaking of benching the crap out of things um
totally not related to that at all but LG confirmed that they are sending us
their new curved
34 LG man be excited for a video about
that from him that's a that's happening I am either going to
conclude that it's the best thing ever or I'm going to conclude that it's the
best thing ever for people who want a curved monitor yeah both of those
conclusions will be pretty darn positive I already know this my favorite thing
about LG monitors too is that nobias my
favorite thing about LG monitors right now at least is that they can't um they
don't currently have some way to read all of the data on the Monitor and send
it back so you don't have to assign like six different check marks seeing that
you're okay with all of your data being theirs when you pry the product yeah the
monitors still don't suffer from those phone and uh Smart TV issues cuz I
really wanted to just get a G3 and be happy with that and then I was like it's
kind of a cool phone yeah it's pretty cool phone yeah yeah all right so
details of the new Moto G are available on Motorola site 5 in 720p screen
they're going much bigger across the uh across the entire lineup 8 and 16 gig
versions available SD card slot 16 gig plus SD card I'm kind of okay with but I
really wish we' move to 32 two front-facing speakers again go Motorola
is Motorola turning us into Motorola Fanboys over here slowly yeah but they
need to work on battery life my first cell phone was actually a Motorola mine
was I don't know what it was cuz it was horrible and it was the cheapest thing
they could get me that had a sliding front cuz I didn't want to flip one my
um my mom is hard of hearing so oh wait
smartphone my first smartphone was oh no not smartphone this is my first phone
what yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I know hold on hold on just calm your calm your
boobies what this is the Motorola vbox
my mom's heart of hearing so it wasn't so much so we all got them feel so it
wasn't so much about the phone call experience but more about the text and
this was one of the first options available ever in fact it might have
been the first with a full-fledged keyboard full quiry keyboard like an
actually a fairly good one I got got pretty fast on this thing and there are
no good pictures of it because like how could you take a good picture of that
back when this thing existed like 2 megapixels was pretty good for a digital
camera uh but we all had them in order to talk um in order to use voice
communication you actually had to use a headset beautiful not Bluetooth headset
mind you like wired inline headset or
they had this goofy stupid thing that like clipped onto the battery cover that
plugged into the headset Jack which wasn't very durable cuz apparently that
reminds me of like remember remember how you trick out your Game Boy Color like
all those like weird attachments and the lights never had a Game Boy Color oh did
you have I a game kid no you're a Game Gear Kid Game Gear kid how many how many
landfills are filled with the batteries that you used for that I actually that
was The Game Gear is the reason why you jumped to rechargeables was what drove
me to rechargeables yep that's fantastic yeah the Game Gear
singlehandedly moved me to recharable batter six right six
anyway sorry you were saying uh I don't remember okay I
thought I was just talking about yeah know I was talking about how the uh you
can attach that mic or whatever right and how you were explaining it reminded
me of all the attachments and stuff you could get for stuff like Game Boy Color
right or or Game Boy classic or a whole bunch of different game boys where you
get like the light or the weird screen protector thing or the screen magnifier
or like the grip thing and like oh my goodness or the chrome rims basically
subwoofer yeah speaking of chromed rims and subwoofers this was originally
posted by James 669 and Dell is showing
off their latest
5K monitor 4K that is so
2014 last quarter or this quarter next
quarter Dell will make available for the value price of
$2500 a 27 in
14.7 megapixel monitor this bad boy will
not be able to be driven by DisplayPort 1.2 in fact just to demo the thing they
had a Quadro 5000 running with dual
DisplayPort 1.2 outputs out to the Dual
inputs on the monitor I have to question why we need
this I can imagine this as a tech demo like I can see them creating this for a
trade show or something hey yeah oh yeah it's going to go on
sale it has a price already yeah yeah it
just feels like because we can I mean I'm already not sold on 4K because of
the scaling issues in Windows oh God once that gets addressed let's all go 4K
but right now it is not a great experience right now I think 1440p is
pretty awesome and I actually and that's one of the reasons I like LG's 34 in
Ultra wide so much is that it's the same pixel pitch as a 27in 1440p monitor but
it's 3440 X 1440 so it's a nice high resolution and it's B this isn't that
big it's only 27 inch it's very high resolution which means you're going to
have to deal with tech scaling and it's going to be very very difficult to run
in a way that doesn't increase immersion in any way so I love it because it's
better technology for the sake of better technology but I'm not a huge fan of um
the kind of Graphics horsepower you're going to need to drive this thing I
think that's actually more than our triple 1440p surround
setup yeah so I don't think I ever clarified the resolution that it runs at
in fact I oh yeah here we go 5120 by
2880 so that is twice the number of vertical pixels as a standard 27inch
Monitor and twice the uh horizontal
resolution in fact that's I didn't that didn't I didn't even clue into that this
is this is to to 1440p what 4K is to
1080p ridiculous yeah
ridiculous well someone's got to push the envelope yeah I hope it runs at 60
HZ based on that they needed two DisplayPort 1.2s I suspect it will yeah all
right so four speaking of 4K 4K Blu-ray discs are arriving in 2015 in an attempt
to fight back against streaming media this is post by dietr W and the original
Source here from CNET and we can look at
this Blu-ray disc logo and
um reminisce about a simpler time when
Optical media mattered you know I'm slowly moving away from physical games
yeah dog because it's pointless and stupid you were wrong all along still
actually really like hash Get Wrecked I would love to still be able to do it
poking me in the face it's probably not a good idea I'm sick that's true
um that doesn't work that way that might
have helped that's warm moist there but you now I put it on my touchpad there
you go I'm tell you where I'm going to put it next oh god um the only reason
why is because it is uh worthless because 99% of the time it just screws
up and makes you download it anyways mhm
if it actually had all of the usable data on the disc then I would still be
totally down I'm just floored we never went
USB why not every I I don't know anyone
who didn't think that was going to happen I thought it was yeah and they're
so cheap now like they're so Che okay
they're not as cheap as a sheet of plastic no I will give them that but I
got to wonder if someone had cared enough could a USB standard have been
developed that would have allowed for much cheaper more permanent storage I I
got to wonder I don't know enough about the technology to really speculate on
this but I and everyone else in probably
the digital you know gener generation
World figured that you were going to go into a store and this was back when we
thought stores weren't going away so you were going to go into a store and you
were either going to buy a USB drive that would contain the music album or
you would go in with your M with your USB drive and you would pick the album
you want you would sit and you would listen to it because you know previews
on iTunes who saw that coming and you would put the D put the media onto your
USB drive that way I'm I'm dating myself
a little bit here on little bit but I I
was in that HMV they still exist I know but who
cares still have one locally I I was in uh I was in the town I grew up in the
other weekend I went to the bird sanctuary and I drove past a blockbuster
that no no it's empty but the signage is still up because no one's taking over
the location and I was like oh hey that
thing I remember you I never there was that secret room in the back yeah I
never used Blockbuster cuz we didn't have one locally to me so when
everyone's like oh my God it's so weird seeing Blockbusters now that they're
closed I'm like nope don't care it's all about Willow
video for you yeah which they're still going strong they're still still around
somehow they're they're doing like better lately which makes no sense all
right TAA well you know what I think those nonchain types of stores probably
appeal to an older audience better yeah but then also their like game sales and
stuff is doing great and they still do cuz they but they do console games
largely right they're they're slowly moving away from PC games going sense
probably all right so TAA posted on the Forum Intel's new 14 nanometer chips so
Intel has made a lot of fuss over the last little while this original article
here is from bbc.com of all places BBC pretty sure there are a number of other
places that reported on this that are more technology Orient anyway um the
point is that they have finally launched the core m series which goes all the way
down to 4 and A2 watt CPUs based on
their new 14 nanometer process node manufacturing ridiculous yeah this is
amazing so Intel has actually been talking a fair bit recently about how
successful their move to 14 nmet has been which is great news especially when
you consider how rough it has been for a lot of other folks and how unexceptional
Intel's last process node migration was
no we're seeing better power characteristics we're seeing better
performance we're seeing all this great stuff that has improved not just in a
linear manner this time around so this is exciting Intel had initially aimed to
launch a full-fledged desktop lineup sooner but at least they now have
shipping chips that are going to be targeted at very low power and razor
thin fanless tablets without uh having
for without manufacturers having to resort to ARM-based CPU design signs so
this is incredibly exciting um in much
the same way that every time Intel completely changes the laws of how
processor work is incredibly exciting it's like that's Intel's a victim of
their own success in that way it's like yeah Intel like broke physics again
whatever same as they did last year it's not necess yeah I'm not going
to get into that anyways I was going to say it's not necessarily breaking
physics anyways no I know no one but they might be breaking what we
conventionally thought were the laws that's what I meant I know that's why
that's why I was like no one cares I'm probably like the only dude
here that actually you dork
anyways I like physics all right well I
think that's it for me do you have um anything else uh no there was rig of the
week voting is a thing yeah voting go to
build logs build log section of the Forum vote for give the like very large
spance of time because we're trying to
kind of catch up um so there's a lot of
rigs being voted on right now so weigh in and we will hopefully be blasting
that on a w show sometime soon um yeah I
have roped in wher and alpen waser to help me with Bill blogs so things are
actually properly happening now which are
good what I'm Luke Skywalker cuz that's
how the force worked in the original
trilogy you're like a wa there goes your ARM sua you're big
like one um not that kind of I mean that too
but uh anyway moving on what were we talking about oh right I forgot
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that's that's that's probably it oh there was the I think it was
overclockersuk or something had a listed
a graphics card in the description it was like get ready for um halflife 3 and
my phone going off is distracting me halflife 3 and GTA 5 launches should I
answer this and troll whoever it is sure hello
hi oh hi Mom you're on the show I know I
need to speak to lus your your mom's on
uh SHA home phone isn't
she no I think that's her note three oh
all right well at any rate all right all right what do we
got minus last the first time we took my
kid out of country you stuck him at the top of the top building in the world
when there was an earthquake on thisp uh well actually that was Western
digital's
idea uh L who's in
charge well
um one could argue I'm gonna go with the safe answer here and say my
wife ah yes okay let's go the second time you
took him out of the country you stuck him on the top of a mountain where he
was dizzy and throwing up not the second time yeah I think she means like the
second time that stood out to her which means she was deeply concerned for your
safety right okay uh what what what is it this time well the second time what
it means is when lius is in charge and he takes you out the country your life
is in danger okay I also asked to go on that
trip and now you want to take him to Germany uh Yes actually
that Germany safe yeah give me a heads
up on how you're going to try to kill him in Germany well the way that he
would be most likely to die in Germany
would be from how Politically Incorrect can I go with this you know maybe I
won't go there um so so the way the way that he would be most likely to die in
Germany would be probably from sensory overload from being surrounded by Cherry
MX key switches so it's pretty safe the
odds of that happening is probably only about
50/50 only 5050 okay question yes did
you take life insurance on Luke uh I
think he has it through the yeah I think you pay your own premium because that
way if you have to have it paid out it's
not taxable or something yeah Luke Luke pays his own premium but yes he does
have life insurance I believe but he I think he chooses his own beneficiary and
I don't think he picked me did you no oh all right then get
wed doesn't come back in 100% total
intact person I will be coming for
you all right thank you caller I think
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it's All About The W show on the lightest tag tips we're riing now this
is the song that is so awesome
and we're done no we're not
done are um