uh we had a couple of complications before the show but you guys aren't
gonna concern yourselves with that so let's get uh a rousing chorus of
ah they're late in the uh twitch chat and we can all get it out of our system
line is later late Linus or whatever i don't remember they say something
they're probably saying it right now they're probably saying it right now so it would be helpful if we actually
looked at that you're kind of cut off if i kind of scooched over a little bit
would that help i didn't really scooch i just want to sit closer to him
so let's go ahead and have a look at what our topics are for the day
it's actually a surprisingly jam-packed show so it's unfortunate that we weren't
able to get started on time we had to replace the batteries in the microphone
um i realized right before the show normally we leave everything all set up
so that we can get things going pretty quickly and i was like oh yeah
our last wen show was in vegas we took
our streaming gear to vegas it's not set up so we had to
get everything all set back up again but uh other than that we are pretty much
ready to rock here so some uh some sort of top topics today
microsoft and google are scrapping over
patch fixing policies and sort of you
know airing dirty laundry in public about each other's bug reports
the new nintendo 3ds to not include a
power adapter in north america uh are you beautiful i am you might be
able to eat for free at a certain restaurant and gta 5 has been
what exactly uh
gener general food super normal things
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all right so it's going to be a good show today guys uh we're going to kick
off with something that's actually not new at all this article is from like
fairly old man we were three weeks ago and we even okay like i know it says
it's old but we never discussed it we did oh we just both were like whatever
oh all right i just agreed that it was stupid and moved on at any rate boom
here's the bbc article i'll go ahead and screen share with you guys but uh
wow wow wow maker says that video games
should be in the olympics and
there there are some arguments on either side of this or really that okay video
game see i i went and i used one of those words that mainstream media uses
to you know make it seem less legitimate what did
you say i called them video games oh i should have called them esports
excuse me very different
what i'm being a little bit facetious okay just just a touch just a touch okay
so so there are a couple there are a couple good points that the uh that the
wow creator brings up i'm just gonna go ahead and switch back to my laptop here so i can look at what they were because
i don't memorize all these things so number one is that they're well
positioned to be a spectator sport uh given that you can fill up you know tens
of thousands of spectator coliseum for a
live event in some parts of the world and i mean the north american viewers
out there might kind of go well yeah but just because you can kind of do it there
doesn't mean that it should be a big deal i mean the reality of it is north america is not the center of the
universe and i don't know if this is still true and it was either 2008 or
2012. my facts are a little bit hazy here but i believe it was the badminton
men's singles gold medal match that was the most watched sporting event of that
entire of that entire summer games olympics and it's basically non-existent
in north america so i thought you were going to say like ever and i'm like i'm
pretty sure that was something to do with soccer but yeah okay no just because just because no one watches it
here doesn't necessarily or or watch it here and people go to live gaming events
it's pretty rare i know they did one at the staples center yeah but that's kind
of it it's like yeah there was that one they did at the staples center that
doesn't make it an olympic it happens but not on the same scale at all
same i guess similar to tennis people watch it but not on the same scale so
and then the other argument is i think the way you look at esports is as a very
competitive skill set and you're looking at these professional gamers with
reflexes that are lightning quick and the and quick decision making you know
upwards of 300 actions per minute although the whole actions per minute
metric is one of those ones that i think we've pretty much stopped acknowledging
at this point i hope um
and so you know the comment is video games would first need to win a cultural
battle uh over physical sports
so with all of that said the the ioc the
international olympic committee has already kind of laid down the law as far
as you know new events goes they're only going to have a fixed number of events
so that means that if you want to add something you have to remove something else and as questionable as some of the
things in the olympics i actually don't follow summer olympics as closely as i
do winter olympics but i mean come on figure skating and ice dancing like
really and someone's gonna give me crap over this in fact i hope my new contact
at sony isn't watching right now because um
yeah she's uh actually no she's a she's a figure skating judge not an ice dance
judge my understanding is figure skaters for the most part look at ice dances
kind of why are you even here figure skating in
its own regard is pretty freaking intense i don't know
much about ice dance ice dance is kind of like figure skating but um right more
dancing no figure skating has partners too like that's exactly right
i don't know where it's just like why do we need both of them um okay yeah we
should probably but like it's figure skating is quite physically challenging so okay
i guess whether or not they win this battle is going to come down to whether
they can find something less worthy to knock out and whether or not it's
possible to win the battle of should uh should what is effectively yes there's a
physical component but uh yeah you can't really even say well
no like the the a point at the bottom of this where it's a mind sport is a really
good point um chess chess supporters have wanted chess to be in the olympics
for a long time and i think if you were to look at the olympics as
sort of you know it's a traditional thing it's all about the legacy of
whatever it is and esports being very new probably don't necessarily
follow fall under that chess would i mean
chess has a long history and if we're not going to include that then should we
include esports first if we included stuff like chess i think it would make
more sense because we have added newer
sports to the tradition of the olympics
but of course there's the like there's the business aspect as well going back
to the if you're gonna do esports you should probably do chess argument because compared to esports chess
doesn't draw nearly the same kind of a crowd no i meant the other way around if
they were doing chess already it would make more sense for them to do that than
any sport there was a no brainer during the mind game stuff should we close the door yeah i'll close the door because
those guys are loud move into our next topic sure i don't
think there was really much to say on that it's just the mind sport thing it
comes down to it in in my opinion they don't do the mind sports stuff i mean
what that says i mean okay something like throwing a javelin
okay this is not a mind sport but hey i thought you were gonna be like that's a
mind sport i was like dude no something like hockey on the other hand though
there is a huge mental component so yes
it's physical there's there's a mental component to every sport
javelin throwing there's a mental component to it okay there's a mental
okay i shouldn't have said mental i should have said mind because they're
not they the the connotation is slightly different you don't use your mind to
throw a javelin but there there's like a mental resilience under pressure
component to any competition whether it's a physical one or anything else you
still use your mind to throw a javelin okay you use your mind to throw a
javelin we're not talking freaking telekinesis here we're talking about you
use your mind to tell the ARM that it should probably go ahead and do this no
i know but also if you're in outdoor stadiums you have to judge other things like it's it's anyways there's no point
in arguing this um but there's you have to use your
brain in every sport um but it's like anyways whatever uh
google oh should we just go into the google versus microsoft thing uh yeah
sure why not oh god okay so there's essentially
two stories to this so i'm gonna start with the first story um google what the
okay someone messed with my notes here did you copy the link already i'm doing
it no i did not okay sorry i will do that from now on
uh if i make sure i'm logged in google released details on a security
vulnerability in Windows 8.1 48 hours before microsoft was ready to release a
patch for it microsoft claims and i believe google is
not refuting this at all that they were in contact with google and were like
guys we're releasing a patch for this in two days hatch tuesday please don't
do this and then google was like nope releasing it uh google's whole idea for
this um and microsoft is calling for them to be more flexible and work with
them in the future when it has to do with the vulnerabilities of millions and
millions of users google's rebuttal is that they have a standard 90-day policy
when it comes to uh releasing data about
vulnerabilities and the policy and the reason this exists and all that kind of
stuff is to pressure companies into fixing vulnerabilities more quickly now
when it was already fixed and it was coming out in two days
maybe that shouldn't apply but that is their policy so that's what they're doing story two
is that um so there's that fight already going on story two is that while google
is slamming on other companies to fix vulnerabilities they have their own
problems google has received reports for vulnerability in rep webview which is a
web renderer for Android and it affects jelly bean users the
article that we have linked here to neowin is claiming that jellybean is 60 of
users it's actually more about 46 percent of users of Android users of
Android users yeah um if it's 60 if you include the things before
jelly bean but i wasn't entirely certain if this vulnerability affected things
that were before jelly bean as well right um so it's 46 or 60 i'm not
entirely either way it's hundreds of millions yes it's a massive percentage
of people and google is refusing to fix it and will not work on it at all
because they will not work on anything at all that is pre 4.4 kitkat uh google
is stating that if someone wants a fix for this they can submit the patch in
the report and then google will be we'll we'll check it out and if it's
legitimate they'll send it to oems and see what the oems and then the other
option is they're saying the oems are more than welcome to patches themselves
which i mean if anyone here has ever bought
like i'm going to pick on samsung because they're the biggest ones
manufacturer that makes software yeah any any any handset manufacturer that makes
their own skin on top of Android and
basically supports it until the next flagship is
out oh what's that hold on new one's out but bye see ya um
so so pretty much that's it um
you get you get to buy a new device or you get uh and i mean
i'm so sick of people saying oh well you should just root and run a different rom
you nobody does that like someone does it
yes you do that's fine but when you're looking at the
46 to 60 percent possible metric of people an extremely small
percentage of that the people who are still running jelly bean probably don't
do that because they probably wouldn't still be running jelly bean and when you
consider that there are new devices being sold today that have jelly now
running jelly bean like this is a huge problem and like not a small amount of
them there's a fair amount of devices being sold now that have jelly bean on them and i understand google's issue
here where they have such diversity in the in the hardware that Android can be
running on that they they can't individually support every device and
ultimately it does fall on the handset makers to support the devices that they
sell but the cold hard truth is the handset makers or device makers aren't doing it
and if google doesn't support these older devices at least with something
like uh with a like a a widespread
fundamental flaw like this if they opt not to support it it ultimately reflects
poorly on the Android experience and gives more ammunition to people like me
you know it's amazing how many people uh called me uh an apple fanboy or like
iphone fanboy in my nexus 6 review you know okay um i haven't even watched it
i've heard of it and i'm going to watch it i just this last two weeks has been a
blur um but can i finish that thought first sure it gives more ammunition to
people like me who praise apple for supporting their older devices much much
better than handset makers on the Android side i still use my iphone 4
almost every day as an mp3 player and a video streamer just
if i you know if i'm in the bath or something and i don't want to risk dropping my
actual phone i'll grab it and i'll i'll throw it there and it still runs
everything i need it to do my wife's samsung galaxy s vibrant that was the
equivalent flagship Android phone
okay aside from the micro usb connector obviously dying because every single
micro usb connector with you know i think the one on my moto x is already
going uh because they will all die eventually it's a terrible terrible
connector aside from that dying on it that thing was freaking useless by the
end of its life and that is a pattern that continues and comes right from
google on the Android side when apple does not do that uh but that said i'm
not an apple fanboy in fact my daily driver
right now is an Android phone whoa look at that
well you can't really tell because that's a twitter app but
okay sorry what you're gonna say i'm i'm conflicted now because you've probably
known for a while now i haven't been super stoked with my moto x because it only lasts for half a day but um
there's this is my problem consistently with phones is there's no real great
solution i don't want to go to iOS because i don't like iOS but
things that i do on the phone a lot twitter instagram
social media stuff email all of that would work totally fine on iOS actually
instagram would work considerably better and i would know the camera's good um
now i could just do more research and find an Android phone that has a good camera but iphone cameras are very good
and it would be totally fine and my instagram would work better now a lot of
app support on iOS is better which is frustrating because i'm an Android guy
and i want to stick with Android now i'm interested in a turbo but don't even
really sell them in canada they don't sell them at all in canada yeah yeah
like you can you can try and import them you can do all this other crap but it's
super frustrating like god this sucks there's no good solution
on the Android side in my opinion at all
in canada honestly not really well it was cheap
battery was crap yeah that's a huge problem right like
god mine the iphone's battery is crap too like i
know if you actually i'm saying there's no good solution standby is excellent
but the actual in-use battery life is is
terrible like at uh at ces i was using the iphone 6 because um phantom glass
doesn't have a cover for the droid turbo so i wasn't able to use it um but yeah
so i was using the iphone 6 every day i was down to single digit battery at the
end of the day and one day it just died while i was out and about i had to charge it i'm kind of sitting here going
i can't even get through a day with this phone this is ridiculous
whereas the droid turbo is awesome like every single day no matter what i do to
it and like people in twitch chat are off referring phones that are
not good oneplus one and actually the oneplus one is supposed
to be okay i haven't used it the experience is not great i've used one of
my friends it's not awesome and there's like stuff you have to go and fix
yourself because it's just broken it's like something stupid
yeah or they're too big or like other crap it's just oh
i do not like phones because i think they're garbage you should get the um
oh crap the cinco phone
you know the cinco phone right i've yeah isn't this
yeah okay we have to we have to play this we have to play this this is an adult swim
thing who knows i might get a copyright strike or whatever i don't care okay
what should be like cannot be played in your region oh no you're good hold on hold on evolutionary new device the new
cinco phone from cinco mobile great thing about the cinco phone that has one
button and one only let's say i want to call my mom press it on open both the antennas for
better reception than the number five
five five
oh press no times for zero
have you seen this
and the receive best with it you should only
make calls you'll never be bothered again at work your leisure time out in
the golf course or at the beach so
is that your phone like is is that the point we're at right now that doesn't
solve any of my problems at all no no didn't even talk about battery life
speaking of not solving problems uh nintendo to halt
console and software distribution in brazil so this article is from
digitalspy.co.uk i'm going to go ahead and post that in the chat here and what a
bummer for brazilians yeah really like just
i i don't blame nintendo for this
at all yeah and and like it's it's not like they're like oh we're never gonna
be distributing in brazil they're just talking about how they're having issues with it right now i'm assuming they're
gonna try and fix those issues and then come back but so basically they they're
they're they and their brazilian distributor who
is apparently still handling distribution for that area just not in brazil
specifically are have both said yeah like we're we're still we still have a
relationship and we're we're committed to re-evaluating things as time goes on
but basically um due to the and apparently there are
other issues as well that they're not really getting into but they're saying the distribution model in the country is
unsustainable and most of this is thanks to the extremely high import tariffs on
anything that's manufactured outside of brazil now this is something that the brazilian government did a number of
years back um to to to i guess
incentivize incentivize companies to make their own manufacturing facilities
within brazil because if you make something in brazil whether it's a car
or a playstation 4 if you make something within the country it's not subject to
those tariffs and i can understand why they might want to do this from a job
creation perspective um i'm sorry did you like this yeah and also to encourage
foreign investment into you know high technology manufacturing facilities
within brazil but the reality of it is brazil is just brazil
and setting up new manufacturing in you
know if every country started doing this and you had to set up manufacturing in
every single country not only would it drive up the cost of that product within
that country it would drive it up everywhere because it creates all this overhead for these companies so
um i mean to put this in perspective like people might be going well you know
there's import tax in the uk and in canada and everywhere but to put in
perspective the 400 playstation 4 this is from the digital spy.ca article
uh was priced at eighteen hundred dollars after import fees when it
arrived in brazil and that's converted
that's not in brazilian dollars or anything like that that's just that's a
straight currency conversion i mean
it's not like it's not like brazil is dubai where you might expect the average
resident to be able to afford to pay four plus times more than
you know anyone else in the world and obviously i'm generalizing i know not everyone in
dubai is is loaded but the point is it's not like brazil is an extraordinarily
wealthy country where everyone is going to be walking around with two grand to
drop on a game console and then you know over a hundred dollars per game i mean
that's ridiculous um so basically yeah they're again they're
gonna re-evaluate and i i hope it really sucks for people in brazil it really
does because now how are they gonna how are they gonna get them the only other
option is gonna be um i'm like okay how does it work if you
bought something on like uh amazon.com and got it shipped
to you yeah same thing the the import tariffs okay yeah absolutely
rough all right so this is from uh hexis.net
i'm just going to go ahead and take it again you got it okay ssds yeah yeah
this is from hexis.net and
a report on the state of flash memory and disk storage has predicted that
using ssds will become more economical than hard drives for most purposes from
2016 onward the prediction applies to
almost all storage but seems like the highest capacities will remain the forte
of spinning disks for a little bit longer uh wikibon followed up its 2009 report
with another recently focusing on evolution of all flash array
architectures so this one right here shows four year
cost per terabyte for capacity disks and
nand flash so they figure in 2016 so
between 2015 and the beginning of 2016 we're gonna go from flash costing you
know uh let's see a scale of this here so
whatever 40 more all the way down to
only about wow less than less than half massive drop yeah um so for one thing i
haven't really seen uh this this exact
ratio at this time so they're they're assuming that'll happen in 2015 so um
good luck and two talking to a couple SSD makers at ces
um they kind of went 2016 are you i
um we're we're a long way away
um and you look at the difficulty that even Intel has had moving to 14
nanometer although we haven't seen any indication that 10 nanometers is going
to slip but um
yeah it would be great kind of insane like at
the same time i just had the problem where my SSD completely died
um and while all right SSD failure rates are actually
really good the problem is not really recoverable so i'm still going to want
to have most of my mass storage on hard disk anyways that's actually a very good
point not something that i thought about um when it comes to when it comes to
mass storage being able to buy like a terabyte SSD for my boot drive
sweet and have it be like totally affordable like that's awesome i totally
want to be able to do that you're still not going to archive on it i'm still not going to archive on it right not at all
there's no way my nas will be running hard disks
unless something super major changes but i seriously doubt it because that way if
there is a huge failure i can just be like okay well i can probably scrub data
off this that's a good point because i hate running hard drives on anything
portable like i thought ipods were insane yeah when
they had hard drives are you are you just
asking for this to die um like i was one of those i was one of those freaks that
bought an rca lira because i bought a zen uh zen creative
some other stuff because it wasn't a hard drive yeah
i paid way too much for my for my lira but and it only had i think uh i think i
had one and my girlfriend at the time had one one of us had a 64 meg and the
other one had a 32 meg so we're talking like 10 to 20 mp3 music files on this thing i
miss those things but i was like okay and but but but and and so that was like
compared to people with ipods right but there was a justification behind this so
number one is it wasn't a hard drive based so flash storage yay throw it around and
all that's good and number two is that at the time i was using a sony discman
anyway so when you're burning yourself a mix cd that's only going to be about you
know 16 to 22 songs or because you didn't have mp3 cds at the time where
you could just burn the files to it so you were only going to have about 20
songs on a disk anyway so i was like okay well this thing is the equivalent
of whatever mix cd that i would be burning for myself and yeah it's a
couple hundred bucks or whatever but at least it's at least it's pretty rugged i
used to i used to love the days of like all right i have woken up time to change
what songs are on my mp3 player because i can only hold one album worth at a
time that was always entertaining um but yeah
i i don't see myself changing our archival storage mediums for a very long
time on the subject of archival storage mediums this is really interesting maybe
i just haven't been paying oh we haven't been saying who's been posting articles
in the forum we're bad people it was i hammy for the esports thing good bytes
shout out to you for the google not patching the security whole thing opcode
for something x tanks layer x for nintendo halt console
and uh oh no okay that was it okay so
this one's by aming new service allows you to rent your hard
disk space uh have you posted the article already okay awesome i'm going
to go ahead and pull up the myce.com article here but it's called storage and
it's spelled wrong because that's the hipster web 2.0
yeah like like the razor sirens like what are you guys doing
it's it's like you're celebrities and you're naming your children
so storage s-t-o-r-j dot io is where you can go to
learn about this and it sounds really
cool on the surface um last year they raised about 215 000
in bitcoins apparently according to this article that's um
using today's bitcoin valuation so at the time if they converted them
promptly then that was actually a lot yeah a lot
more money but the way it's going to work is it's a peer-to-peer network that
allows you to allocate storage on your computer so on your hard drive or SSD
whatever the case may be and go okay yeah i've got 300 gigs of storage i'm
not using and then it actually gives you that much storage space elsewhere on the
network to use as as cloud-based storage
yeah very very cool and then sorry go ahead
there's there's other ways you can utilize this too i believe you can request more but then you have to pay
for it yes and then other people can kind of rent out their space yes yeah so
that's pretty cool like one quick thing to note about the rent out your space is
you get paid in i don't remember exactly what it's called but it's like storage i
o coin storage storage coin x yeah a digital
uh a digital value atta veluta i haven't
seen this word before i'm gonna call it currency uh which can be exchanged for
real money yeah so you don't actually get paid to
like your paypal in dollars uh
you get paid in this thing so you can figure that out convert it or whatever
but i mean think about it like if you planned to use this service in the long
term you could go ahead and invest in a large raid array or something like that
you could rent out until you fill it and
then you could start using your your stored like your your your built-up
storage currency to rent from other people until you can save up some money
in order to you know buy a new raider or whatever else like i can i can see this
being a really really cool way to get the most out of your personality remember is that current cloud-based
storage is not that expensive to be able to be honest and this is not that
no this is supposed to be a lot cheaper so you're probably not and then after
their cuts and stuff you're probably not going to get a ton for renting out your
space but if you weren't using it anyways yeah then that's still cool and
you might actually be able to theoretically make more money off of
renting your hard drive space use a lot less power
uh compared to running bitcoin binders right which
would be kind of funny and i mean one way to look at it too is you're you it's
it's more like storage shifting almost at a certain point because you could
kind of go yeah i don't need all the space i have on my desktop computer
which i hardly ever touch anymore because i'm always running around with my notebook or my smartphone or whatever
else but you're converting that to cloud storage that you can use in your smart
with your smartphone pretty cool and it's so the way the way it works is it
actually breaks up blocks and those are either 32
meg or 8 meg if i recall correctly yeah 8 meg or 32 meg blocks and then it
actually distributes everything all over the place so aside from encrypting them
you shouldn't act like one person's hard drive aside from having an encrypted
version of your data shouldn't even have the entire the entire piece of data in
many cases so it's in theory secure i'm
not endorsing its security yeah let's be really clear about that this is
something i hadn't heard of until now and there is definitely um a gray zone
here so each block each block of data has a
unique hash it should be possible to add illegal content to a so-called gray list
and then it should be possible for users to allow or disallow gray list content
to be stored on their hard drive because this creates a huge a huge liability
concern like what if i get raided
because my hard drive has a bunch of child porn on it like let's go worst
case scenario it's got a bunch of child porn on it that i didn't even know was
there and was encrypted so i i didn't even have any way of discovering that it
was there um and so
probably and then the other way around and then the other way around you use
this maliciously to try and take blame off of yourself for doing something like
that so yeah and it'll use your bandwidth of
course because the way it works is it's kind of a it's a mesh based network so
in order to keep speeds high you're actually pulling from multiple sources
and in this much the same way like just like just like torrenting you
would be you would have multiple seeds including yourself uploading files to
other people at the same time so very cool idea i
might consider you know giving it a try be it's a very interesting thing i'd be
interested in giving it a try too i'm definitely not going to check off that gray content thing no definitely not um
even though it might not even help because i don't know how they're flagging grey content but i'm sure it's
not very effective yeah i'm sure it's not going to capture stuff like child
porn i'm sure if it captured anything it would be stuff like used read the file
name it's not very effective
called jpeg1 didn't work uh
but yeah yeah i'm sure it's more for like movies
more nintendo's filed match uh iron man
four okay well you can't have it more nintendo bs uh nintendo is no longer
including in the new ds xl excuse me 3ds
xl this time it's their fault um
like really guys this time it's like super their fault this was posted by
rohith kumar sp i'm gonna go ahead and pull this up on uh pull this up on my
computer here but the the new nintendo 3ds xl does not come with an ac adapter
nintendo says there's a good reason for that and that's that rather than to
raise the cost of the 3ds xl by charging consumers for a component they may
already own we are giving them the option to only buy it if they need an ac
adapter and that is an interesting argument and you
could probably make that argument for something like
a smartphone that uses micro usb
instead of a proprietary connector that
they haven't even been using for that long i mean if you're a ds light owner
that's not gonna work so nintendo
uh and apparently it's an eight dollar adder although luke was saying that when
he saw them in the store they were significantly more than yeah well it's
an eight dollar from nintendo if you buy it from a brick and mortar or something
it could be more expensive i mean can you imagine getting giving that to someone for
christmas there's there's stories in the news article about people that bought it
for christmas for their kid with a game the kid opened both of them and was like
oh crap because this is already a thing in uh certain asian markets europe and
uh japan for sure yeah yeah um so like
it's already a thing in places and people are already upset about it people are going well like you don't do this in
the states so their decision was to also do it in the states that's not how you
solve that problem oh my goodness you just stopped doing it everywhere because
like okay i've owned iterations of uh ds where
i've got a 2ds now right yeah where if i bought this new one it would be fine but
if i bought the new one i would give my 2ds to someone with the charger and not
everyone not everyone is brandon and just buys
half a dozen charging cables for everything they own and yeah and another
simple solution here would be for nintendo to stop using a proprietary
connector it's just a 5 volt power source there is absolutely no reason on
i thought it was mini-b it looks like mini b when i had uh what was it my ds
light so admittedly a different connector i thought it was mini b so i
lost my charger for a while and then just went and found a mini b cable and
was like why doesn't it work what's wrong
what is this
so there's new macbook air rumors um
and there's there's conflicting reports i was hearing for a while that they were
going to do away with the magdot connector their magnetic charging cable
i was hearing um so this is this is the most recent this is the most recent
version so it's rumored that it will be so thin that it will not have room for a
3.5 millimeter audio jack which is absolutely ridiculous
um i i cannot i cannot imagine apple
being i shouldn't say that i truly hope apple wouldn't be that
stupid um so stupid as to remove the
three and a half inch connector maybe the justification is you know we're
going to have an awesome new bluetooth beats headphone or something like that
but that is ridiculous um
so so there's other stuff it will apparently have a retina screen dir
it's a 12 it's going to be super thin it's uh allegedly going to have a fanless design
so so far it actually sounds very similar to the zenbook ux305 that we
checked out at ces which is also extraordinarily thin has a 3200 by 1800
pixel display is fanless which is cool and features a
broadwell m processor which is what allows it to be fanless and still
deliver decent performance um so the new
macbook air will apparently have a usb 3.1 interface rather than Thunderbolt
which is fascinating to me because apple's been
the only one that really has glommed onto the Thunderbolt standard and many
mac people are already invested into the Thunderbolt ecosystem now bear in mind
usb 3.1 at 10 gigabit per second is and
with up to 100 watts of power output is
a very capable capable connector
but um it's still a little weird it's still
pretty bizarre to me because the footprint of a usb 3.1
a plug is actually quite large they might have been able to get two
Thunderbolt plugs in that area yeah and this picture shows uh shows looks like a
Thunderbolt shows an a connector and also shows what appears to be a Thunderbolt connector but this might
this might be an older one or something like i'm not sure the the rumors are kind of all over the place right now but
one one challenge right off the bat although usb 3.1 should address this
with display over usb being much easier is that people are not necessarily going
to be set up but then again i was going to say set up with all the you know
cables and everything that you need but then apple's never been ashamed of charging you 60 for a cable with your
with your macbook anyway so who knows what they're going to do but i
know for sure that i want to check out the ux uh 305 that zen book from ASUS
because that one looks outstanding yeah broadwell while not exciting on the
desktop um looks like it's super cool on the laptop really cool on laptop really
cool on notebook did you see the 12.5 inch ASUS like super thin
uh transformer book chi t300 tablet no i
was checking out all the lenovo stuff they have a lot of really cool yogas
which are super crazy thing yogas that are basically as thin as tablets when
you fold them a yoga could could win me over i'm
really disappointed that dell kind of abandoned
the the ferris wheel design for their
convertibles um because i mean the new xps 13 we do have a review unit coming
and i am going to check it out it does look it does look pretty awesome but i
really really wish it was a two in one because even though i used the tablet
functionality of this only very rarely
it's still nice it's nice to have and the the hinge mechanism has been
robust enough that it hasn't been a problem for me at all and i don't mind
the extra the extra thickness in order to have that so i would have i would
have liked to still just have that opportunity the other thing i'm really disappointed about and i'm already
planning to rip into dell about for a good minute of the review is that the
top end sku has only eight gigs of RAM yeah like really
it's like they it's like they want me to only get a year out of my xps 13. gigs
of RAM is like when i'm like yeah buy this kit so you can upgrade later yeah
um all right AMD employee confirms new GPU with hbm
so hbn or high bandwidth memory is a
stacked RAM technology co-developed by AMD and sk hynix similar to hybrid
memory cube which is something that micron was working on and that NVIDIA
was backing and what had planned to release the GPU with this year but since
NVIDIA bet wrong it looks like they're going to be stuck with gddr5 until
2016 when they are going to be apparently jumping on the hbm bandwagon
as well so why do we need hbm well there's a
couple of good reasons dramatically better bandwidth we're talking on the
order of four and a half times insane
right from the start and higher bandwidth is good not only because it
allows the GPU to transfer data extremely quickly from its video memory
and to its video memory but also because
it simplifies the design of the chips and the pcbs lowering the cost of the of
the graphics card for the end user in theory probably not probably they'll
just take more margin on it but you know how it is in the long in the very long
term it will drive costs down because if you don't have to have these massive
384-bit 512-bit
uh designs that's a lot of pins on the bottom of the GPU that's a lot of memory
modules and that's a lot of traces then it does lower the cost significantly um
so there's that uh oh the rumored r9 380 x
will include it that is supposed to be a 20 nanometer GPU and due sometime in the
next few months here um the r9 390x is
also rumored and is rumored to come with water cooling from the factory
just like the uh wow i'm drawing a blank r9 295 x2
and i think that's pretty much it it should be noted that our source for this
is wccf tech so i i saying that at the end so
everyone wouldn't just tune out immediately and most of this stuff looks
pretty credible and does align with stuff that we've heard already and the
fact that the source for some of this info at least was the linkedin pages of
AMD employees one of which seems to have been made at
least not public because i couldn't see it at this point um looks like it could be
pretty credible yeah yeah and it's not like it's been it's not like hbm has
been a secret hynix has been sampling it since uh late last year yeah so it's
been available um i'm i'm pretty excited to see what that brings uh NVIDIA
may end up in in a position where for the first time in a while they have
maybe a performance competitive part but perhaps not a cost competitive part and
they might have to give up some of those juicy margins they've been making for
the last couple of years because uh titan x which is what the internet is
kind of calling it now the fully enabled maxwell that should
power um you know tesla quadro and then
very high-end titan-grade gpus on the desktop
is still out there you know we don't know too much about it other than that
it'll apparently have around 3 000 cuda cores uh but it's going to be a really large
die and therefore very expensive to produce since NVIDIA is had planned to
skip 20 nanometer and instead go straight to 16 nanometer except that
that's been delayed by tsmc due to difficulties and samsung as well for
that matter Intel's the only one with working one x-class nanometer manufacturing
right now and i don't think Intel's gonna run around making gpus for NVIDIA anytime soon
although maybe that would be a really interesting collab
i seriously don't think it would happen totally not happening Intel always
reserves their best for themselves and apparently apple no yeah um so that that
was rumored a couple weeks ago i think but um
hmm could be an interesting year AMD might uh might be able to fight back i mean
freesync is a big one because i've been i've been blowing that g-sync trumpet
for a long time not because i love NVIDIA so huggy muggy much and i think
they're just the cuddliest most wonderfulest people ever but because
it's a legitimately much better gaming experience and if freesync delivers on
what it promises and we're going to have free sync monitors coming into our our
office here soon then that'll be a cool showdown i mean
what else is there NVIDIA still has GeForce experience which i personally
don't use because i have no problem configuring my in-game settings um their
3d is much better but stereo 3d is
basically dead in the water at this point in the multi monitor and then
multi monitor say AMD is going to have the edge there yeah so
freezing could be a huge win for them especially if monitor availability is as
good as they're saying with i think it was 11 monitors
now and then up to 20 by the end of the year wow
and uh talking to ASUS um they were it's
funny talking to them at ces they actually weren't sure if their monitor
that they know works with freesync was even going to work with it because
communication was kind of blue all over the place but now it's come out that
even though that monitor is not freesync certified there is no mandatory
certification process or anything like that so if ASUS wants to have a freesync
compatible monitor that's not certified that's fine and it'll work just fine
interesting very cool as long as the scalar technology and the firmware on
the monitor both support the tech right
yeah yeah cool hey that's interesting
all right i wonder what the certification process is because i i
still see buyer confidence being a little iffy if it's not actually
certified i think so too and um AMD i
believe said that there's okay i can't remember what they said about the fee
structure so basically don't quote me on this but it was something along the
lines of they're not charging for like a
badge on the box the way that NVIDIA has in the past with
certain technologies or the way that uh you know someone like mlg will charge
thank you to have like the mlg certified gaming monitor or whatever
else but i believe there would be a cost
associated with the certification process right just because those things
do cost money because they would likely be done by a third party not by AMD at
all which is better which is life yeah yeah
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hooray hooray my google docs is freaking out right now
anyways what do you want to do next i don't know what should we do oh let's do let's do grand theft auto 5 for pc
delayed this was posted by wurto 165 on the forum i'm gonna i'll go ahead and
post the link it's okay okay um i got this got this um so basically the
internet's freaking out and people are bros be mad and um their
their butts hurt and they shouldn't be all this kind of stuff
so it's it's been delayed several times so there's that um delayed again to the
24th of march and what i have to say about all this is
a screw you rockstar for not at least
trying to get the pc version out in a somewhat timely manner like right near
the ps4 and xbox one versions at the very least and two
screw you guys who are complaining about them delaying it because they've come
right out and said it needs a few more weeks of testing and polish to make it
as good as it can be yes please shut up just shut your mouth god they've said
we're getting it they're not just going console exclusive
on it which is something we could legitimately be mad about it and they've
said the reason we don't have it yet is because they want to port it properly
i mean again screw you rockstar for opening up your pre-orders
um and all of you guys please don't pre-order it because we shouldn't be
giving them money until they deliver it to us but we also shouldn't be upset
that they haven't delivered it to us yet if it's not ready yet i'd rather have a
finished game and you know what i've even seen people posting on reddit and
even in our forum i thought i saw one of these it's like i'd rather have it have
a few bugs and be playing it now you would be saying the exact opposite
thing if this was assassin's creed unity or watch dogs we have mine do watch dogs
a far cry come out we have watch dogs come out ubisoft
hooray we have h1z1 we have all changes
on my shirt various problems um we're gonna get such
a huge viewer account um but uh yeah so like all these launches that just
cover the nipples with the powered by Linus tech tips i should be okay
i'm gonna claim that twitch told me that but they definitely didn't
uh i feel like you're gonna screw up at some point oh no no oh yeah he made it
okay um nipple management expert we have all these terrible
all these terrible launches that people freak out about
justifiably and then we have someone go like okay we don't want to be in that
boat let's fix this before we launch it and people freak out what are you doing
god we have to be united and decide what
we want what we want is games that work work at the beginning yes when we first
installed them without 20 gigs of patches or whatever else and then like
oh man what what what was it unity that came up with like you should probably
have a 680 was that unity security i don't know
some game i don't know i don't care already but um some game came out
probably unity that needed way too high performance stuff and everyone freaked
out because they couldn't run it and then gta comes out and they're like oh i
expected it to like look better and have higher requirements i'm like god damn it
pc community anyways sorry
all right yeah i guess that's all there is to
really say about that isn't there um more gaming news this is from
playstation.com sony is uh making 50 million dollars a
month from playstation plus isn't that incredible do you want to post this uh
it's okay i can do it i got it yeah you sure because i got it i got it i got it
no i got it i did it first boom oh you lost um
so let's go ahead and fire this up no freaking wonder microsoft got all over
that that xbox live gold nonsense and
turning multiplayer into a paid service because if you're gonna try and tell me
that you're spending 50. 50 million dollars a month to make the online
gaming experience would you pay five bucks a month for steam
does it include content uh no no of course not well it includes
free games tf2 stuff like that no
i don't want to play tf2 yeah absolutely not so you wouldn't you
wouldn't use the steam service if it costs five bucks a month um no i think
i'm already paying for the steam service by buying my games through them so
they're already they're already taking a cut um no like we have to
like like assume you don't have a steam account yet like we're like this is not
this realm of reality so your your options are buying
things on the steam service or buying them directly like they're buying them at a store
or there's like a download link from the
company so if they forced me if i wasn't
allowed to play online unless i paid five dollars a month for
steam no that's not even that that's an interesting discussion but that's not
the one i'm trying to oh okay so would i be five dollars a month just for what
steam is today essentially streaming the steam home streaming free
games music some free games the the unification of chat uh steam overlay the
the download service which is a lot better than most um all of that kind of
stuff would you pay five bucks a month for that
i feel like straw pulling this wow straw pull it straw pull it
wow that's tough if my other choice was to not have it
because a lot of okay you'd still be able to play multiplayer and stuff but
you know yeah i know deal with all that but a lot of the argument that i make
for boycotting something like playstation plus or xbox live gold where
i just kind of went look guys if we all refused to pay for it it would go away
like that a lot of the argument that i make for that is on the is is based on
the fact that we have it for free on the pc so you have other options that you
could take advantage of if you were taking away
my option of not having any platform
where i don't have to pay an additional fee for for for the like the overlay
like even something like steam big picture you could look at as a value add
for for people who want to use steam to even just manage their library of games
so if i had no choice and the only other option was like
like Windows explorer c colon slash program file slash you know code master
slash grid slash like if that's it would i pay five dollars a month it's not a
lot of money i probably would
i probably probably just i would probably sign up for it once out of
frustration and then i'd forget about it and i'd just kind of do it forever
that's kind of how it was and i think if steam wasn't there a lot of those
services that you have that kind of bring them all together wouldn't exist
now to be completely honest if steam wasn't there i bet you the Windows games
folder kind of idea probably would have actually stuck around and that was
fantastic and that really should still be a thing um but
yeah i don't know it's just an interesting idea that popped into my head can you uh hang out with me this uh
this job yeah the struggle sure so i can go ahead and uh post the positions oh
crap do you want the results i realized i was still screen sharing uh yeah i
want the results link okay it doesn't really matter i can navigate to the
results link on my own
thank you so far it's looking like about 43
percent of people are saying no 31 percent of people are saying austin's
nipple and 26 percent of people are saying yes
all right here we go i'll get those results uh visually for you guys there
there we go so yeah a lot of know a lot of i refuse to
say anything relevant about this and then actually the fact that 26 percent
of you are saying yes is a strong indicator to me that if valve did decide
to charge for the service um they might actually generate a lot of subscriptions
i mean we're probably not a long way off i suspect they'll never make it
mandatory but an optional subscription that gives you extra features
a la you know gold or plus yeah yeah um i
don't think plus i don't think multipla multiplayer will ever be one of those
additional features for something like steam but if it gave you additional uh
that's why i took the multiplayer element out of it yeah but if it gave you additional community
interaction features or some other some other benefits i mean people pay for
hats like what if what if all it did what if
all it did was drop you a care package from time to time with a hat in it
that's exclusive to people who are steam plus members i bet you they'd get way
more oh my god and that's something that oh my god and that's something that
steve would totally do oh man if you got like random indie
items and valve games i hope gabe's not watching right now it's like hey we
could have this rolled out like tomorrow
oh my goodness and the thing is okay not not harping on the people that said no
too much but um i myself kind of sit in
the no camp right now because i could see myself um using other systems to manage my
games right although however annoying that would be myself and a lot of people
in the no camp that might change if you didn't have
limited of like five minutes to think about this answer if you were then sitting on your
computer months from now and you couldn't remember what freaking game you
owned or where the key was that you could download it off the website
because they have bad account management and you're dealing with all these other
crap things and you could just be like well
could just get steam inject all my games there and then be fine
i don't know i see more of those nodes changing i see myself maybe being a
little bit more flexible um i don't know it's interesting
all right well i don't know if that is a thing at all it's just kind of a thought
experiment yeah this is just us making things up yep okay so
yes very fortunately we can jump to a few things actually oh uh there's the
marriott abandoning their quest to block personal wi-fi hot hotspots this is from
inc.com i'm going to go ahead and fire this up you want to post it in the chat
yep um so this was ridiculous basically they got they got slammed with i think
it was a 600 000 fine when it was
discovered that they were intentionally blocking their users personal Wi-Fi
hotspots like on their phones um from functioning in the rooms and then they
apologized and then they turned around and tried to get permission from the fcc
to implement that technology in places like conference rooms
are you freaking for real and they claimed this was to prevent people from
showing up in marriott hotels creating unauthorized hotspots with the intention
of stealing data and information from the patrons of the hotel and i kind of
go okay that is a scenario
that probably happened like once and there are other ways to get around
something like that and i i think it was
fairly obvious like at the on the
surface of this yeah that this was all
about trying to get people to pay additional for wi-fi in the hotel
especially business customers who are coming in for conferences and the fcc
received 39 comment letters this is from the inc.com
article received 39 comment letters on the issue of which 38 were negative and
one was either neutral or off topic google and microsoft were among those
registering their opposition so at least they're on the same side
about something right now yeah really and i'm glad it's about not really
getting along everywhere but they're such big companies and i guess parts of them can get along with other parts
psy all right um
we've got the tesla thing uh let's do the obama obama thing sure yeah so this
was originally posted in the forum by lightning i got it and you got it okay
obama calls for an end to 19 state laws
that harm community broadband this is this is this is awesome because
um obama calling for calling for the
internet to be reclassified as a utility marked a bit of a turning point maybe
not in the fcc chairman tom wheeler's
thoughts about whether or not it would be title ii like
maybe maybe he was already leaning that way but it definitely brought about a
change in his actions and what he was saying publicly about it and it looks
like obama's going to kind of go keep moving
forward with this whole yeah if we want to if we want to be a developed nation
let's face it we've already got you know sewage we've already got electricity
mostly other than that it can be extremely expensive we've already got water again mostly actually really
interesting conversation with uh taran about how how things work with the
colorado river and allocating the water yeah yeah he was saying that the way
like any downstream states get an allocation in gallons so if the flow is
less colorado's actually the first one to not get any water from the colorado
river anyway i thought that was interesting so anyway they've got most
stuff mostly figured out and yet they're
lagging behind on broadband because of either cost or legislative challenges
that exist that prevent any startup from becoming an internet
service provider and kind of going you know what hey those margins that
profitability that's not good enough for at t yeah i'll take it i'll take it i
mean it stifles competition that's the that's the principle that this entire
country and i mean by this i mean the usa i don't live there you know but but
that that entire country was built on was was competition and capitalism and
if you just legislate the crap out of anyone being able to compete then you
end up in a situation where it's this monopolistic nonsense and it's not quite
a monopoly so um this was a really interesting
uh chunk of the article uh yes here we go at speeds so with the old broadband
classification of i believe it was three down one up four down four down one up
75 percent of consumers have a choice between two or more fixed providers and
15 percent can select among three or more which i would even still say is way
too low abominable yeah it's terrible however in the market for internet
service that can deliver 25 megabit downstream i mean we're talking
the speed at which you that you you could pretty much do
anything on the internet you know netflix acceptable
hd youtube stuff like that um
three out of four americans had no choice between providers
i mean when was this ever acceptable i mean i i i i hate to be critical when
they're finally speaking up and doing the right things but why did this take
so long and when's canada gonna
figure it out follow suit like we always do
it'll take us a couple years and then we'll get there and you know i've seen a
lot of people wearing their cynicism hats um and especially on our forum
where a lot of our community is international and sort of going well
this is only because the election's coming i mean okay maybe there's some pressure
from the democratic party to you know
improve obama's popularity so whoever their new candidate coming in will have
a better chance of of winning the upcoming election but
um guys obama cannot be re-elected this
is a second term you can only serve two four-year terms in the united states so
it's not like it's not like obama personally wants to be the president for
another four years and is therefore trying to trying to win a popularity
contest by you know making especially a
lot of this focuses on community broadband initiatives so smaller smaller
community isps or even municipalities themselves enabling them to utilize
their existing infrastructure so whether it's power or sewage or whatever else to
run lines and create their own broadband providers um don't remember where i was
going with that the the sentence kind of it's not hugely benefit beneficial for
himself necessarily yeah because you were talking about uh elections coming
up and it's not just pop it's not a popularity contest i mean it's it's it's
a fact that access to high-speed internet breeds creativity and and gives
people more options to better themselves i mean let's go back to one of our
sponsors for a minute here lynda.com what are you gonna are you
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okay what if your lynda.com membership is really reasonably priced but your
internet connection has such a small cap
that by the time you watch the instructional videos you're actually paying a ton more just to educate
yourself and potentially improve your prospects in terms of your career path i
mean it's it's absurd inexpensive broadband has become something we need
not something that should be a privilege for the wealthy so
just right there that's it kudos yeah very happy about that whole situation
the fcc is already examining these state laws and considering whether it can
invalidate them by using its authority to promote competition and
telecommunications already so good
all the progress let's make it happen jumping to a not necessarily happier
note but a funnier note we can do the beautiful thing yeah oh my goodness this
is ridiculous you just want to have some entertainment i mean speaking of things that should be
illegal um
let's uh dang it
all right here we go okay i'll i'll post it uh our original source for this was
cnet um but their article is down so the
telegraph article is still live this is a restaurant there's actually a
different cnet article now but don't worry about it i i was trying to i
should have fixed the link i was trying to figure out earlier okay so this is
there's a restaurant that promises free meal for good looking
now they've been forced to take down that sign yeah the local government
forced them to take down the stuff yeah like showed up with a wrecking crew it
was like we are taking down that sign because that's embarrassing but they
have vowed to continue the promotion regardless the the the the how this
works is there's a scanner and there's a panel of surgeons which are
uh plastic surgeons which are in cahoots with the restaurant first sponsorship
paying a sponsorship oh sorry dashboard now i always
for essentially advertisement so you can go there get told you're not good
looking and then be referred to those people to become better looking
oh ridiculous and so apparently it's not flat out like you're good looking uh you
get a free meal you're not good looking you get a full price meal it's like
there's a sliding scale so you could be pretty good looking and you could get
like 30 off or something like i'm making up the exact numbers but
really like that's just that's just gross
and i'm not just saying this because i don't think i'd be getting a discount i just think that is absolutely one thing
i noticed is that op mr amp 12345 states
in his second paragraph as someone who has uh had things given to me or gotten
discounts because of the clerk thought i was good looking i was unsure how i felt
about this so my new idea is that we as a lion
detectives community need to find amp one two three four five take him bring
him to the restaurant and then just all eat there until they're bankrupt
so we're gonna force feed amp no no he
can get all the food when he just eat it oh
i see i think they probably would catch on tonight it's a very smart idea though
you did very well thank you you did very well i'm very proud of you
i just want to utilize amp's obviously tried and true amazingly good looks this
was posted by um this was posted by tedster and uh since we're on the topic
of just completely stupid things right now um this kickstarter
okay paul boyle i i it
is 30 euros he probably did it himself
so well he has seven backers seven backers totaling 30 euros that
doesn't even divide evenly made seven kickstarter accounts and then it got
bored and when ate a burger so i mean you can see that this is
clearly not intended to be serious but the plan is to reconstruct the player
michael's house from the game grand theft auto 5 to scale and the rewards
are ridiculous i mean um for okay so for
five thousand dollars you can stay there for three nights for four euros you get
pictures and a video of it
for 400 euros you get a personalized title with image and info of your choice
added to the bottom of michael's swimming pool for 900 euros you get to visit the house
and have a tour around it at your leisure and for 5 000 euros you get to
visit and stay in it for three nights i just thought it was kind of funny he
figures he needs uh oh the faq this is pretty good who will
the house belong to will the donators get a share in the final build are you
giving it to charity no shares i'm afraid given the small chance that it's
funded the final build will be sold and donated to the choice of charity voted
by the backers which i mean the last time anyone
believed that a kickstarter for charity was actually going to a charity was uh
i don't know 2013. yeah not that long ago yeah oh story
hasn't been around that long no but yeah in internet years it's been
quite a while yep um
i don't know is there anything else interesting there's the not super amazingly interesting uh tesla news but
i can talk about it regardless sure yeah let's talk about the three um so there's
there's honestly not a ton to say this article exploded posted by victoria's
secret by the way yep this article exploded i can get this into the chat um
and it's kind of an interesting conversation but people were like oh my
god the tesla 3 is so amazing there's not actually that much information here
about the tesla 3. this is the the model x delays model x yeah um so
and once again we shouldn't be complaining about the delay even though it kind of sucks because they're saying
that they're just trying to do it right anyway they sold out like the first manufacturing year of this thing anyways
so whatever um anyways the feds give about 7 500 for
electric cars apparently this is in the states i don't really know so when chevy
came out and was talking about their bolt which is supposed to be a tesla competitor they were toting it as a 30
000 price tag vehicle
this is a response elon musk in an interview was like well
ours is what is 35 35 000 so using their
logic it's actually 27 500 right that
was the whole actual point of this article now this thing exploded this got
everywhere like automotive subreddit it was like massive at front page all this
kind of stuff it's all he's talking about is that it he didn't include
incentives in the price of thirty five thousand dollars that's all it really
was um uh as we already knew
going to be able to customize it add options a lot of things that are actually on the model s if you like
something very specifically it's on the model s you might be able to include it on your on your three but that will
obviously increase the cost so it could be more expensive in the end so your
version of the model 3 might end up being the same cost as a bolt
who knows because you can configure them yeah one cool quote that came from it
though which is interesting is that musk said the model 3 in brackets will be way
different from any other car on the road but in a way that's really useful and
doesn't just make it a weird mobile weird deal so i don't know what that
means um but yeah this i love tesla news
uh this exploded but it wasn't actually
yeah i don't know all right so this is this is interesting to me because i'm canadian sony is shutting all of their
canadian stores um i've got the article
here where's the last time you went to a sony store uh um
wow i posted it already
i totally get it because i don't think sony stores really have any reason to
exist especially when a lot of the time they were just a place where
you couldn't shop for any other brand of
product and the pricing wasn't better often worse because it wouldn't have the
same promotions because it's really awkward for most manufacturers apple
doesn't seem to give a rat sass but most manufacturers to have their own branded
store that competes head to head against their customers so they have to prove to
their customers whether it's a best buy or whoever else that they're not trying
to undercut them and steal customers from them and at the same time they have
to sustain their employees and the
retail spaces the one sony store i've ever been to the one time i went to it
was just terrible anyways they had a really bad selection of sony products
yeah so anyway so sony store closing stores oh apparently mex and jacob are
closing a whack of stores but for me the big one right now is actually target so
target opened up the canadian territory in
2012 i want to say i
thought it was thirteen i could be wrong was it thirteen have it hasn't i believe
it's been that short i think it's been two years i could be wrong though let me
well it's only barely 2015 right now anyway the point is uh target actually
purchased at least here in the at least here in bc all of these zeller's
locations when zellers went bankrupt and and disappeared um so they had a total
of 133 big box stores and they will be
exiting okay apparently they launched in canada in march 2013 so they didn't even
last two years and they will be shutting all of the stores putting 17 000
employees out of work and taking a 5.4
billion dollar loss in that period of time um
there's a lot of problems um one of the huge one was distribution
they came in and got 133 stores going but didn't have a
proper distribution chain for them so you'd have a lot of issues where you'd
go to target and there's just nothing on the shelves yeah so how are you supposed
to buy it how are they supposed to make any money so they just were hemorrhaging money didn't have distribution going
went in way too fast and way too hard totally screwed up and then their
solution was to just close everything and bail
so in under two years they got 133 stores going filled them with 17 600
employees fired all those employees closed all of those stores and took off
so uh target said exiting canada would allow to focus resources on the u.s
market um i i really i i mean it just it
so misguided i don't know and i've read one article that suggested
that you know the lack of um of of staples that that canadian
consumers are used to going down to target us and buying and bringing back
up here things that just don't exist in canada i can't remember what the example
of it was but um no i'm not actually it was it wasn't this article it was one
that suggested that you know the lack of the lack of some some chocolate
something or other might have been the reason for target's failure because maybe people walked in thinking they
were going to buy cool stuff that they're used to buying at target and they weren't able to
but honestly i don't think that has anything to do with it i think it was just too much too fast i mean we were
talking to uh to berkel about this before the show started and he's like
yeah they opened one in what did he say vernon vernon the open one in vernon
it's like there's not even that many people in vernon i mean did they even
check and they already have a walmart they like barely need a walmart and they already have one
and i think i think vernon has a costco too so it's like you're gonna go up
against costco and walmart which have been there for years already and you're
gonna just hope that what people magically sprout
from the earth and come shop in your store like try to build a sustainable business
model first and obviously i'm not an expert i've never run a big box store
but it just seems like there's a lot of mistakes in the past that we could have
learned from and this is actually just the target shutting down reminded me of
this i um my housing development that i live in was built about 30 years ago and
we still have from the previous owners the brochure
that like was like the sales brochure for people shopping for houses in that
neighborhood and it's really cool it's like an accessible place to live easily
accessible from virtually any direction the property is bounded by a bunch of
places the first project of its kind in this area blah blah provides quick
access to the interior of british columbia and to the rest of the lower
mainland on the other hand it's only two or three minutes away from um
okay so there's a shopping center home to woodward's
eaton's woolco marx and spencer and over 200 other fine
stores have you heard of any of them no
no a few minutes further you'll find simpson sears so okay sears okay simpson
sears and the bay okay the bag and
neither of them exists anymore
oh my goodness that is so hilarious
canada has proven to be an interesting market because of how we're laid out and
one of the huge important super crazy obvious things about opening a very
large amount of stores especially in somewhere super huge like canada is
freaking distribution what are you thinking like i like yes we're maybe not
the most educated people on opening a massive amount of stores but like do any
amount of research at all look at how best buy came into canada which was
actually a very effective takeover they bought future shop which was kind of our
version of best buy um and then just took over all their warehouses they
bought feature shop for their warehouses
that was the reason because they're like oh distribution will be a problem let's
solve that problem
god that's so dumb like there could have been so many problems but their whole
thing like well it was hard to make money when we couldn't keep things on
the shelves because not not necessarily that too many people were buying them
but we couldn't put things on the shelves because we didn't have them that's so bad we're getting a bunch of
people talking about how apparently a couple of those are big over in over in
europe and like that but that's exactly it like it's been tried and failed so
many times that you would think um they would have done at least a
couple sort of case studies and tried to make sure that they were going to have a
chance of success in canada yeah or even open like five stores
yeah and just slowly figure it out so you could lose uh let's let's see let's
do let's do the rough napkin math so that's about
150th as many stores as they opened so it would be 150th as much loss so like
okay so a loss in the order of what tens or hundreds of millions as opposed to
billions which is still a lot which is still a lot but less but and for a
company of that size more growing pain size instead of oh my god complete
failure size
um there was a whole thing this week where
apparently microsoft appeared to be not allowing
youtubers to put the title of a game in
the name of their youtube video but they've clarified uh it's apparently not
that big of a deal you are apparently supposed to add a disclaimer in your description saying something along the
lines of that the game was made by microsoft and the video is not endorsed
by them there's official text for it this was posted by cobbs 360 on the
forum and you're not allowed to mislead people into thinking it's a microsoft video but um i think that was just
people freaking out over a wording issue i'm glad microsoft got it rectified
pretty quick to be honest the main concern was that you couldn't call
something like red versus blue the halo show
or something along those lines like using the trademark incorrectly you had to come up with your own name if you
were going to do something that was more along the lines of a show and less along
the lines of strict gameplay or multiplayer footage but you could do like halo gameplay and it would be fine
yeah as long as you have your disclaimer yep um
lg had a nitrogen leak in their factory this was uh the original article is from
independent dot co dot uk let's go ahead and pull that up very very unfortunate
uh two were killed uh four have taken ill since the since the incident um
basically not not a whole lot is known uh one of them died on the scene one of
them died on the way to uh on the way to the hospital uh i mean does that
something that we often don't consider about these electronic doodads that we
enjoy so much is there's a lot of harmful and dangerous stuff that goes on
uh in order to manufacture them um the nzxc doco this was posted by brown ninja
on the forum original article here is from tech powerup promises 50 to 80
milliseconds of latency and promises basically your your computer experience
on well basically anywhere you want on your tv um luke has a review unit and i know
he's planning to work on it maybe once you've got the motherboard roundup done there i've gotta do the motherboard
roundup and maybe one other thing and then i'll probably be on doco yeah looks
cool the only disadvantage right now so it's got usb ports and it uses usb over
ip in order to make it so if you plug in a keyboard it's basically like having
that keyboard plugged into the computer you're using i've been able to use it to
a certain degree have you used it already i i'm not not uh my own unit but
i was able to use it while it was still under engineering yes and the usb over
ip is actually pretty freaking good cool i was able to use a keyboard and mouse
and i was able to use a flash drive and i was able to use a um
they plugged in the microsoft wireless dongle and then had me using a wireless
controller which i was actually more worried about than just plugging in a controller directly but it worked
totally fine that's awesome pretty cool um it's only 1080p 30fps but i'm hoping
that we'll see a doku extreme or goku plus or something along
those lines one thing that kicks the nps speak a little bit uh because it's not
under nda anymore is that um
the processing power and stuff in that unit is not exactly amazing right um
and if there is a lot of interest shown they could release a higher end version
right could do more FPS or whatever so
yeah tell them that you want one okay well i
think that's pretty much it for the show today guys thank you so much for tuning
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