Okay guys, welcome to the WAN Show. That
show every week where me and this guy are all like, "Hey, let's like make
videos and put them on the internet and then maybe people will watch them. Let's
be on time." Nope. And then people watch them and Okay, we're only four minutes
late today. What is this?
You got to pause it. Why am I getting French ads? I don't know. We're in
Canada. Poor parties pay.
or something. All right, I'm pausing it. I'm pausing it. I'm pausing it. I'm
pausing it. All right, so guys, we've got a great show for you today.
First of all, we have a topic that we covered last week sitting in the call
outs here. I'm going to go ahead and move that one. Mr. Lefren, I believe,
put that there. I don't remember talking about that at all. Well, probably because I did most of the talking
because it's the Lionus show. But I feel like I would have had input on that.
Maybe you had me doing something else. I'm surprised that you didn't call me out on that. It's called the WAN Show.
It's not even called the Lionus show. I don't really care. You put your name on
everything, so whatever. Lionus Media Group. Lionus Tech Tips. What did you
want the shirt thing to be called? I don't remember, but I think that this
conversation is uh heading down a path. It had your name in it. Really not
actually that comfortable with He just really likes hearing his name. Everyone
should just tweet him his name. Thank you for that. Please just tweet him his
name. we will greatly appreciate it. All right, so why don't we why don't we move
on to our topics for the day? Microsoft has committed once again to do more for
PC gaming. But they actually have You're
spoiling me. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. I'm stopping. It's going to be
awesome. Okay, iOS 8 is on the way. So,
um, actually, a lot of the features that they're showing off look pretty darn
cool. Some of them are innovative, some of them are not, but but still good.
It's about par for the course for any mobile operating system update. I mean,
take everything that you can and add a few things. Exactly.
Uh we also have Microsoft Cortana voice control coming along the way, which
should be really interesting. And the ASUS uh phone desktop table laptop fin.
It's not a desktop. It's the one thing it's not laptop. ASUS's
5in1 PC. How do you make a 5in-1 PC?
Well, ASUS will show us. But in the
meantime, guys, we'll do the intro.
Yes. Broken intro.
All right. So, this is interesting. Our
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there will definitely be videos about this whole thing, guys. Be very, very
excited. It'll be coming sometime in about a month. And a huge shout out to
ASUS, Corsair, and Intel for making this
whole thing possible. Also, something that's coming a little bit more
immediately is E3 coverage here on Linus
Tech Tips. We bailed on Computex this year, as you probably noticed, but we'll
be doing E3. Basically, we did Comp Computex last year. It was extremely
expensive and not a whole lot of people watched the content. So, we're going to
try something a little bit different. We're going to do we're going to do E3 instead. So, our gold sponsor for E3 is
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site. I have seen that. Do you saw that? Speaking of Speaking of my bros, NCIX,
I'm sure Newegg is so super thrilled to have the host of NCIX tech tips all over
their uh their site there. So, uh yeah, it's pretty funny. I hope Paul and Kyle
are watching. They were tagged in that Twitter feed, so I know they saw it.
It's absolutely fant I'm sure NCX thinks it's hilarious, too.
Oh, this is you're embedding a YouTube video. So, I don't know. Chip 700 says,
"So, by we're doing E3, does he mean I'm sending Slick to E3?"
Yes.
Yes. We'll be doing the same kind of thing that we did at PAX East again. So,
we'll do a mix of all the hardware stuff that I can find and a few gaming videos.
Sweet. Yeah. No, that sounds like uh that sounds like fun. I mean, part of it is that we've never covered E3 in any
capacity before. So, this is more like a scouting mission. So, if it turns out E3
is a total disaster and there's no benefit to us being there, then next
year we won't. Yeah, exactly. So, let us know. It's not like it's not like PAX
where I would have to actually tie him down like harder than usual in order to
keep him from going there. What day did I request time off for PAX Prime? It was
when we started Lionus Media Group. So before we actually founded the company,
so it would have been in December of 2012, you asked for the time off in
September of 2013.
No, I think it was like the second day I started working with you before we
founded the company. People are saying audio is actually normal for once, which
is hilarious because I actually took out the compressor. We're not using a
balanced output off the mixer. I'm going into like a crappy RCA input on
something. I we actually we know what the problem is now. I know what the
problem is now. We need an amp and then we need a couple more adapter cables and
we're going to be able to get the audio like bang on. Uh the issue is that this
Juice Link amp kind of sounds like poo. It's the one that we use whenever we
film things on the Blackmagic camera and everyone complains. So I got the levels
sounding really good on this one. Um and so that that didn't quite work though
because it just sounds kind of poopy. And then I tried an objective two, but
they're not really meant to be used this way. So, uh, it didn't really work. I
need balanced inputs and outputs in order for it to to work properly. The
whole chain has to be kind of the same thing. And then I didn't have the right XLR to uh quarterinch adapters and all
that. So, it just didn't quite work. But guys, it is definitely going to happen.
Also, as for the white balance, I'm actually not sure. I think that is a bit
of a I think that is a bit of a problemmo. But uh we're just gonna have
to go with it because welcome to the W
show where we go live at some time. That's
somewhere around 4:30 and hopefully things are okay and the color's wrong
and the audio sucks. Yeah,
whatever. Screw you guys. No, we love you guys. Please keep watching. Please
don't leave. Please don't leave. I need you.
Oh, speaking of the W show, uh, and technical difficulties. All right. How
much you want to bet? We get a blue screen. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Don't do it yet. Don't do it yet. Hold on.
Okay. And hit it.
Oh, that's interesting.
That was so not expected. So, that's probably Yeah. No, I I get it. I get it.
I get it. We got to add Boom. There we go. All right. Hold on. Hold on. Hold
on. Hold on. Not yet. Not yet. Oh, I got you. Yeah. No, no, it's fine.
We're all good. We're all good. You're good. All right. Hit it.
And then Yes. Look at us in that corner over there. That's adorable. You're like
a You're like a cute little ogre. A I didn't have colored hair then. What
were they called? Were they ogres? Uh oh, no. Trolls. Trolls. Okay. Okay. No.
If someone here was a troll, it would be me. So, all right. So, we may have a
wireless standard coming. Oh my gosh. That is theoretically faster than any
wired standard that we can get at a consumer level. And I got to kind of sit
here and wonder what is the point of
these faster and faster wireless standards when they never work right
anyway. Can you please all focus your I know
that wireless is exciting and Intel had that whole thing where they're like
wireless by 20 what was it 2016 or 2018
would like replace everything or whatever I was 7 Gbit per second thing.
They want your display and your peripherals to all be wireless. And I'm
kind of sitting there looking looking at that going, "Okay, so Intel, out of one side of your mouth, you're going
wireless everything and out of the other side of your mouth, you're working with
with Apple on the Mac Pro, which is like
the octopus of wires." Well, maybe the
idea is that a Mac Pro released around that time wouldn't have to be an Oculus
octopus of wires. Hold on. Hold that
thought. Wireless octopus.
New Think Geek item. me like just like
randomly crawls around your desk and annoys your cat. You know, I was looking
into it because I have a bit of a I have a bit of an infatuation with remote
controls gear. And as much as I am a
crappy heli pilot, I'm actually I'm no
I'm a better plane pilot than a heli pilot, but not by much. And cars, I
basically have never really used a decent one. So, I'm I'm definitely not
good with those. So, but I still I I love that stuff. I geek out over it. So,
I was looking to see if you can get a really sweet RC submarine
because I actually built one in my grade
11 technology class. Like, we did it as a project. So, we made them out of PVC
and then what you'd do is you'd put as much styrofoam as you need to make it
neutally buoyant once you have your motors and your uh and your wires and
everything on it. And we actually made fully functional submarines. Like,
everyone in the class made one. Uh we we made our own watertight motors out of
film canisters. It's funny cuz my son won't even know what a film canister is.
Yeah, I know. But they're so useful for that kind of stuff. Out of film canisters and then wax seals with motors
inside them so they stay dry and they could actually move in every direction.
So we had XYZ axis movement. And um the
thing I didn't like about them though was that obviously some kind of a
wireless transmitter that's going to be able to punch through water is going to
be either non-existent or very expensive. So we were stuck with a wired
control. So no matter how perfectly neutally buoyant you made the thing, as
it moved up in the water, there would be more weight on it and as it moved down
there would be less. So you would never have that that perfect control of it.
So, I was looking I was I was just like, "Is there a hobbyist grade remote
control submarine that you could put like a GoPro on?" Because it's the kind
of thing you'd use once. I was gonna say, "But the the GoPro part of that would be really cool." You'd be like,
"Yeah, this is cool. Now, I'll never do it again." But like whatever it would
be, but you can kind of go diving with it. Yeah, kind of. Yeah. Yeah. You could
go see like fish or stuff. You take it with you on vacation or whatever. Maybe
not once, but not that often. But they don't really have anything. So, speaking
of Yeah, just wireless basically not working. So anyway, Huawei has tested
Wi-Fi based on future standard 802.118X that can hit 10.5 gigabit per
second. So that's about 10 times faster than what you typically get out of 80
2.11 AC connection today. This was posted by Querty Warrior on the forum.
The trick, the company says, is making more efficient use of the airwaves.
Thank you for that highly technical elaborate explanation of the trick,
Huawei. The new technology is smarter at allocating wireless spectrum, juggling
data between multiple antennas, and cutting back on interference. They don't
even have to switch to ultra high frequencies to make the magic happen. It
works at 5 GHz, which is great because an inherent property of those higher
frequency signals is that the range will be shorter. So, it's good that we don't
have to go any higher than that. Uh, you're still a long way from picking one
of these up. They figure that they may hit the market sometime in
2018. I guess it's just frustrating because wireless is getting all these
developments dumped into it and we're still using gigabit wired.
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? We're trying to move away from
that. Yeah, we're trying to move away from it, but it's extremely expensive
and no one's really putting the effort into making it affordable. The cabling
is not that bad. No, the wiring is fine.
It's the switches and the adapters.
Yeah. That you'll spend a ton of money on. And it's frustrating because you heard JJ talking about it. What did he
say? It was going to add about $150 to the bomb cost of a motherboard 200. So,
if they can integrate it onto a motherboard for $150, where's my $150
Nick? Or $165, $170, whatever the case
may be. Like, no one's even really making an effort. they're content to
just let it sit there as a high-end solution forever. And I really think
that with SSDs increasing in speed the way that they are, looking at how NVMe,
so that's the replacement for AHCI, the communication protocol by which the SSD
communicates with your system. So looking at what they can do with NVMe in
terms of improving throughput and reducing latency, there's no reason why
two PCs on the same network with a couple of high-speed PCI Express or M.2
Two SSDs couldn't be transferring files to each other at like two gigabytes per
second. Like, let's do this. Let's do
it. Did I say two gigabytes per second? Cuz what I meant to say was like 200
megabytes per second, you know. Actually, a lot more than that. 500,
600,00 not 200. Yeah. Not Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Yes.
So, that never happened. There's a few numbers in there that you should ignore.
The numbers you should be paying attention to are we could easily be doing 500 plus megabyt per second
transfers across a network. um straight from drive to drive which is very very
cool. All right. Now this this topic
this is an interesting this is an interesting topic. The thing that can do
all the things. Now I really liked what
was it the uh the transformer book duo
or trio. the one that you could just press a button to switch between and
where the where the Android and Windows operating systems were actually running
off of the same drive like it was more like a dual boot. This is a little bit
different my friends. So the Transformer Book V or five I'm assuming let's say
five. Pretty sure five. Okay, it's a five in one. It's an Android tablet, an
Android smartphone, a Windows tablet, a
Windows laptop, and something. A Windows phone,
Android, Windows. What the hell is this thing? So, basically, it's everything.
You can you what you do is I'm going to Here, I'm going to blow up this picture
off a little bit here. Yeah, you can you can click the phone in the back and you
can click the screen to the keyboard. Yes. So, much like previous
Transformers, there is a hard drive down here in the keyboard because there's
only an SSD up here in the tablet piece. You've also got an extended battery in
the tablet, I believe. So, the phone has
You know what? Here, I'm just going to go I'm going to go back to my uh to my
cheat sheet for this thing here. So, yeah. So, there's a 2500 millia battery
in the phone and then a 4,000 some odd millah battery in the tablet, I believe.
unless that's in the keyboard. This is the most confusing thing ever. The point
is the phone has a 1080p screen and actually um a pretty high-end spec as
far as phones are concerned. And then the tablet is a 12 1/2 in IPS display
and everything kind of slots into everything. The tablet itself doesn't
have Android running off of it. That's actually going to run off of the phone
hardware. So, it's it's a Windows laptop
and an Android phone essentially that can just like slowly come together.
Yeah, this thing is like freaking bizarro though. It's kind of cool. I am
less on board with this one than I am
with the uh the last one that we looked at to be perfectly honest. I I just But
didn't they get booted out of that for some reason? Yes. But that was such an
elegant solution because you had one set of hardware. So on the same Atom
processor, you could run your Android OS or your Windows OS and you could switch
between them in like three or four steamboats. Whereas this one, you can
switch between them, but it's more like using one as a display off of which the
other one's running. They're not actually running on the same hardware.
So, it's an Intel Atom CPU in the tablet and then it's a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800
or something like that in the other piece. So, my notes for this one
actually aren't that uh aren't that
complete. And of course, F doesn't work in Internet
Explorer because I'm a genius and I'm using Internet Explorer. Everyone rips
on you about that like every single show. I don't think it's listed. Yeah,
it's not listed. I was I was looking at a couple of different articles where it has a little bit more information than
the Gizmodo one. So, okay, that would explain why I can't find it.
So, tell me guys, it's in terms of device
convergence, would you want a a a dummy
device like this? Something that uh I think I think if it makes sense
financially, I could see myself doing it. Like if I wanted all these things
and for some reason had to refresh them all at the exact same time, which is
weird and it like made sense financially, then I could see myself
spending money on it if it's actually a good device. I think we'd have to use it
first. And this is going to be something that I definitely want to see in the store if I was a random consumer because
I'd want to like actually try clicking it in and make sure that the phone is
not just going to like fall out of the back and other things like that that I
would want to try. I don't know. Okay,
so here we go. We've got a summary from ASUS up now. So it is a Windows
notebook, a Windows tablet, an Android
phone, an Android tablet, and an Android
laptop. So that is how the whole thing
works. And the detachable Android
smartphone is detachable. So that's the
piece that is not not Windows phone at
all. So this is interesting. Okay. Okay.
Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. So it wasn't a Qualcomm chip on the uh on
the phone. That's actually that's actually very interesting. So, it is an
Atom quad core on the phone and then it is a nextG core processor on the
notebook/t piece itself. So, this gives
us a much better rundown of the overall specs. So, 64 up to 64 gigs on the phone
up to 128 gigs on the tablet with the 1
TBTE one being detachable in the keyboard. There we go. Much more clear.
Maybe next time we should go to the manufacturer site in the first place.
So, I really hope we get a unit of this cuz I'd definitely be interested in
checking it out and giving it a shot. I
should probably let them know that we'd be interested in checking it out.
Speaking of things that we're interested in checking out, ASUS has been doing
their pad phones, so phones made by
ASUS, Android phones, for a while in other markets. Uh, Taiwan in particular,
you've been able to get a pad phone for like a couple of years now. Quite a while. Yeah. Um, it gets covered in the
North American media a little bit, but understandably not much because they
haven't been available here. But it's finally coming. So, this is probably
where I got that Snapdragon thing that was sitting in my head because this one
does use a Snapdragon 800 processor. But, basically, it's a high-end phone.
It's going to be $200 with a contract.
And, uh, we are definitely getting a unit for review. So, it's got a 5 in
screen, 1920 x 12. Wait, hold on a second. Right. Sorry. This one, no
wonder I was confused. This one's a phone and it docks to a tablet. But in
this one, the tablet is just a dummy.
Yeah, it's basically just a screen except that it also has keyboard and
it's probably cheaper. Yeah. So, this one is a 2,300 mAh battery in the phone
and a 4990 mAh battery in the tablet. So, you put them together and what do
you got? Bippity bobbity bop. Bigger battery.
Um, fascinating. I I mean, okay, we need to
create a straw poll for this or something. Can you get a straw poll going? So, are you interested in a phone
that merges with a tablet? And guys,
give us your thoughts on Twitter as well. Just hit me at Linus Techch. We're
going to do a Twitter blitz on this. What would you need to see? So, between
the notebook that has an Android operating system and a window Wind
Windows operating system running on two completely separate pieces of hardware
and it's like notebook/tabt/detachable phone versus
the Padphone X, which is a phone with like a tablet dock that the phone goes
into. Uh, so anyway, the phone has a 1080p screen. The tablet's got a 9 in
screen. The whole thing runs Android. They're claiming up to 10 hours of
battery life for video playback. And
what an interesting device. I'm actually really looking forward to checking this
out. Results so far are extremely even at 51% and 49%. Wow. I think this is the
most even poll we've ever had. Holy
balls. Okay. Well, we'll give you guys the results of that. If you can I am
that over to me, then I'll check it out in a moment. But guys, we've got some pictures here that I want to put up on
the screen from the end gadget article about the Padphone X. So, here's the way
that the phone and as you can see, it'll be on the AT&T network. So, here's the
way that the phone docks into the back of the pad phone station, which is the 9
in 16x10 1920 x 1200
tablet. For 200 bucks on contract, would
you accept a little bit of a reduction
in terms of like fancy specs and features like what you might get on an
HTC 1M8 for a more basic phone, but one
that comes with a tablet now that you've actually spent some time using a tablet?
Probably not. I know. I know that might sound
surprising because I was paying for the tablet, but that tablet was only 200
bucks in itself. But this is 200 bucks on contract and the tablety part comes
with your phone that you are. And let's assume you already need a phone. Yeah.
But then at the same time, uh, independent batteries is kind of nice.
They do have independent batteries. Can the tablet charge the phone?
Like I'm not sure exactly how it works or does it just just run off the battery
on the tablet? Hard to say. Hard to say. It can run
independently is kind of nice as well. Yeah. Which it can't. Yeah, because like
I don't know. There's Wow, it's exactly 50/50. What the heck? Um I I put it in
the dock so you can find it. It's right under this topic. But I being able to
run it independently is nice. Uh that way like if someone's over and you have
your Chromecast set up to be able to stream things off your tablet, they can
be looking at your tablet and you can still have usability of your phone.
Other things like that would be nice. Um if it's going to be like $50
more compared to buying an equivalent phone and you just get this tablet dock
thing as well, I think that's pretty cool and I'd probably go for that, which
does kind of make sense and sounds like what it actually is. So I'd probably be
I'd probably be down. Wow. But I'm not super into buying phones on contract
anymore anyways. That's exactly 50/50. Well, no is technically winning, but
like yeah, not by much. If anyone hasn't
uh Yeah, if anyone hasn't voted yet, we can go ahead and pop that in there
again. But that is absolutely amazing. So, it looks like there's definitely
some interest in the whole tablet phone merger thing, but it remains to be seen
if anyone other than ASUS has the uh has
the wherewithal or the willingness or
whatever you would call it. Yeah. wants to make one. I mean, it's the kind of
thing you could see Samsung kind of going, "Oh, something we didn't think
of. Let's make one, too." And then so everything that Samsung does. Yeah,
pretty much. It's like an idea. We're
not sure if it's good or not, but let's make sure that we're cover our bases and
make really bad commercials to go along with them. Oh, that, you know, they were
on a roll for a bit. That whole next best thing was great and then it their
most recent one that they will not stop playing on YouTube is actually pretty
okay. Is it okay? I haven't seen that one yet. All right. It's for
um their their their watch and their phone at the same time in one
commercial. Okay. But it's like it's not that bad. It's it's fairly upbeat. It
doesn't have a terrible story line like the one with the guy picking up the
chick with his smartwatch. Yeah. Yeah. None of that kind of stuff. It's just
it's it's just kind of an upbeat commercial in itself. That was really hard to watch. It was It was like
painful. All right. So, let's uh So, it looks like No is actually winning now,
but only by 2%. Let's hit the Twitters. All right.
Okay. All that Twitter interaction that we often forget to do sometimes these
days. It's on a crazy angle. Do you want me to turn it? Uh, sorry. Do you want me to turn this? Sure. Yeah, that couldn't
hurt. Whoa. That's kind of trippy when someone turns the monitor while you're
holding the mouse still. It's like, "Oh, my mouse is moving, man."
Oh, wow. Whoa, man.
All right. So, the original phone pad distributes the battery power evenly.
Not sure if the new one does, though. That's interesting. So, either one could charge off the other, I guess, right?
That would be kind of cool, actually. Okay. Craig says, "Not a fan of the
combination of the two. If one breaks, then I have half a tablet. I don't see
the benefit to having them connect. Okay, that's interesting. But I mean, by
that logic, um that's not really why buy a stereo that has both left and right
speakers because then if one of the speakers fails, you only have half a
stereo. That's not even right because they disconnect. Yeah. If one of them
breaks, you either have a tablet and not a phone or you have a phone and not a
tablet. You will never Well, because the tablet won't work without the phone. So,
you've either got a phone and no tablet or you have nothing. So, if your phone
breaks, you're totally screwed. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know that that's not
really I have my Pad phone X pre-ordered. I get an almost
top-of-the-line phone and tablet on one data plan. That That's a good point.
That's a very good point. That's a very good point. The data plan point because
for some reason the wireless carriers are still determined to fleece us on the
whole idea that we should be able to use our data across multiple devices. It's
like I I just stuff so annoying stuff battles
that were won you know a hundred years ago like you know
I actually now that I think of it it's
not that different from other things. I mean, you look at
um you look at the way that your cable TV provider once you switched off of
analog where you could just use splitters and they kind of like were
like, "Oh yeah, you need a digital box. Rent another digital box for every TV.
Yeah, it costs extra." Um yeah, I guess
that's just the way everything's going. You have to subscribe per device rather
than per person. It's very annoying. Except Except for Netflix. So, you just
have to subscribe per device that's streaming at that point in time. It's
whatever works out better for whoever's providing it to you. So, you look at
something like Windows. If I could license Windows per person, I'd be
thrilled. And that's per device. And then you look at actually, what is per
person? Oh, boy. Well, isn't uh Adobe
Creative Cloud technically per person? Oh, yeah. That's per person, but it's
just not infinite amount of devices. It's like three or something. Two. Yeah,
two devices. So, basically, it's like uh but you can bounce around. You just
can't be logged in working on that many at one time. That's all. Okay. If they
can make the phone not protrude so weirdly and the specs are still solid
and the battery is good, I'd get a combo dealio. You know, I don't see how they
would do that anytime soon though. Unless it was more like the phone kind
of clips on because you're going to want the tablet to be really thin and you're
going to want the phone to have support while it's clipped in. Unless it was
like unless there was Yeah, I can't think of a good way to do
that. Not really. We're also not engineers though.
I would be interested in a phone tablet hybrid, but I feel if the tab is 9 in,
the phone is a bit too big at 5 in. 5 in
is not that big of a phone these days, though, which is funny to me because I
still think weird. I still find it big cuz my hands are still small. They
didn't change because screen sizes
became a fad that got bigger. Um, and I
find 9 in is a pretty comfortable size for a tablet. That's only a little bit
smaller than the iPad. So, really, I didn't say anything. 9 in
is a comfortable size for a tablet. I didn't even pause suggesting. I didn't
say anything. You can click in whatever you want. Will says, "I would need to
see a quad core on everything. Greater than six pounds total weight." What are
you asking for? Why would you want a sixb tablet?
All right, Will, you're done. I think he's done his things wrong. Most phones
have the specs to power a tablet anyway. Yeah, it's basically the same hardware.
I mean, you look at the Apple side of things. They're just putting the same chips in their phones and their tablets.
Makes sense for them to converge, but only if it's cheaper than two devices.
And if you're saving money on the hardware and on the data plan, and
basically you're just buying another screen in a shell, then there's definitely a savings to be had there.
Yeah. Yeah. As a mobile game developer, I need
top-end hardware. Both of these are clearly lacking high-end CPUs and
GPUs. Um, in what way? Because there's
actually only one CPU and one GPU. The tablet doesn't have one. So, this is
running a Hold on. If I can find it. Yes. Does he mean both of these as in
the tablet dock and the phone, or is he talking about this and the Transformer
5? I'm not sure. It's very hard for me to say at this point in time. Um, but
yeah, it's a Snapdragon 800, so it's not it's I mean, it doesn't get a whole load
faster than that in terms of a mobile CPU. I mean, the 805 is marginally
better at certain things, but it's not a quantum lead forward or anything like
that, so I don't see that making much of a difference. All right, should we move
on to our next topic here? Sure. All right. What do we got? the monitor that
you're probably going to be excited about. Actually, believe it or not, I'm
not. Or are we gonna Nope. Nope. We're going to keep doing topics. Uh, why not?
Oh, is there a monitor that I will be excited about? No, I I was just saying
like it seemed to be one big call of ASUS topics. Well, it was Computex.
Computex is a big show for Taiwanese companies, so it makes a lot of sense
that ASUS would have had a lot going on there. So, why not? This is the PA 328Q.
It's a 32 inch 4K. So that's 138 pixels per inch. Factory calibrated just like
ProArts tend to be 10 bit color, 100%
sRGB, wide color gamut capable. It's got
three HDMI inputs, one of which supports MHL, so you can output off your phone to
your monitor, as if anyone's ever done that ever. Um, I was corrected about
that today, by the I was telling um the wheels over at NCIX that I think that
tablets outputting to TVs doesn't matter
because chcast is sort of a thing.
And yeah, and he's like, "Nope, I do it all the time." Why? I I couldn't quite
understand what he was talking about, but basically I concluded that he's
drunk. Okay. I was like, "So, how are you proved wrong here? I don't
understand." So, what's exciting about this one, even though ASUS doesn't have
a clear idea of when exactly it will be released or what exactly the price will
be, it will be considerably cheaper than the $3,000 PQ series. Um, which was
launched actually, I believe the first time we saw it was Computex last year. I
think so. It's amazing the way prices are dropping on dim 4Ks, eh, it's
exciting. Yeah, it's might actually be reasonable at some point in time. And in
terms of the actual display quality, well, it's not 100% clear what it'll be
right now. They're not actually telling us what panel type it'll be, but 10 bit
color, factory color calibrated, this could actually be anything. Hard to say.
Anyway, this is the same size as that one. Has a whack ton of inputs, is much
much cheaper, and should be landing sometime in the next sort of little
while. Uh, but they're ending they're aiming for about half the price of the
older PQ. So, we should be looking at like 1500 to 2,000ish, somewhere in that
range. So, why not interested? Uh, because I just don't care about 4K
anymore. Oh, because you want your wide format. Yeah, I'm done. 4K is
until scaling is fixed.
Yeah. Then I I can't I can't bring myself to use it. I'm not going to
upgrade to a display that makes some
things look extremely sharp and other things look worse than before and some
things incredibly hard to read and weird website formatting and all this other
stuff and all that stuff that that you know Microsoft and application
developers really needed to be working on over the last few years as opposed to
oh 4K is here oh I guess we better do
something. Some of them are reacting, some just aren't. Some just aren't
reacting at all. And that that kind of attitude is what sets Apple apart. And I
know I come across as a bit of an Apple fanboy, but some of the things that they
do are really, really good and they're
good things. the fact that they figured out how to make scaling work properly on
their oss before rolling out the hardware that supports it or at the same
like put just putting in the work to make sure that things actually function
the way that they intend is uh is the kind of thing I feel like I should be
able to take for granted but I know that
I can't not at all not on our platforms. So speaking of Apple shilling yeah iOS 8
actually pretty pretty excited to try iOS 8. Um, some of the stuff here
doesn't look that interesting. I mean, HomeKit is going to be really excit
Okay, McAfee, just screw off. Um,
HomeKit is going to be either a massive
success in the future or there's going to be something else that completely
destroys it and is way better, but that's Apple's Apple's way of
integrating their device with home automation stuff like your blinds or
your thermostat or your door lock. um they're building security into it so
that the theory is that no one can unlock your door except you. What's I
mean what's interesting is with that whole thing with people remotely locking
iPhones and then holding them for ransom. Um, that was that was one thing,
but oh my god, breaking into people's
phones and breaking into people
basically breaking into someone's ecosystem of digital devices is going to
be a really scary thing. You know what would be interesting would be offline
phones like having having a phone which
is like your public phone which you don't store anything super crazy on. Are
you a drug dealer? And then having like a phone that you don't put a SIM card
in. Do you often cheat on women? What? Why are you Why is two phones your
solution to every problem? You've been watching too much Breaking Bad. I do
that a lot, too. I have two phones right now. Anyways,
um no to both those questions. But seriously, you could have one that's set
up for all your home automation and everything. Yes. Does not connect to the
internet. Okay. So, you don't have to worry nearly as much about getting
hijacked. These could still possibly get hijacked through other devices or
whatever, but it's going to be extremely difficult and it would probably have to be targeted directly at you instead of
just a random I think this is an incredibly stupid solution to the
problem. Wow. Why? That's so mean.
Because it's the same reason no one Okay, basically what mobile phones have
huge security holes. So completely removing that security hole is helpful.
at basically what you're suggesting is we bring back the PDA
kind of an offline phone. Yeah. No. Why?
Because it's stupid. Well, if you're worried about your house getting hijacked, a straw pole. Okay, fine. A
straw pole. Offline. Offline phones. Do they need to be a thing or is Slick an
idiot? Those can be the only two options. Yes, we need these. Luke is an
idiot. I'm going to get destroyed.
Sometimes you don't think before you talk. No, I actually still agree with
this though. But it doesn't have to be a phone. It could be just like a a a
device that can control these. Okay. But I think the kind of device you're
thinking of is just is like is is like
way overkill. What I see happening is what that's what I mean. It doesn't have
to be Yeah. But like whatever it is, it should be some device that has no
internet connectivity and can go with you. I think I would still want a screen. I just want to see a straw pole
where everyone calls you an idiot. That was that was most of it. I still want a
screen. That's why I said phone. Would you need a screen once you're more
immersed in a wearable type of ecosystem? So your glass as of right
now, I do think so because well glasses can be connected to the internet. If you
connect your glass to that device, then you're just creating a hole. What if you don't? What if you what if you just go
like what if you just touch your ring against your glass? It goes into
airplane mode. Hold on. What if it just acts as a display? So the processing's
here. Everything is here except just a display link. There's there's no way to
to my knowledge. There's no way to to hack a DVI connection. Like that's a
pretty minor issue. I don't really know. So if you if you use that as a control,
so you basically just had your glass and then you could like gesture or do
whatever else or type in the air or whatever solutions they end up coming up
with. I think that's feasible. So a
wearable is probably the right answer here. But I would still want to I don't know. I don't I don't I don't think
connecting it to because it's not DVI. I'll tell you what. Tell you what, I
will I will bring my old HP pocket PC in. But that's not the same and it's not
helpful. It has because I want I would want it to be
733 MHz. Oh, no. 533 MHz. I was like,
that's actually pretty fast. Xcale processor. All right. It's got like uh
this is not the point though. 128. I can have it connected to my parents house. I
can have it connected to my house. I could have it connected to say my significant other's house. And then
whenever I go there, it can recognize me and I can change different things on the
device, but then it's not connected to the internet. So, I don't have to worry about those things leaking. I have 64
megs of compact flash storage. Stupid pocket PC. That's not what I'm trying to
describe. Yeah, that's not the thing in my pocket you care about, I guess. No, it's not. All right, let's go ahead and
uh Not as many people grilled me as I thought. Okay, where's uh where's our
straw pole? It's It's Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, bollocks. There we
go. All right. No, no, no. Where's
Where's ours? I just posted it. You just keep looking away whenever I post it.
There you go. There we go. All right. So, let's have a
look at the results of the poll here. Wow. Actually, you're doing better than
I thought. 42% of people are blindly
following you off of the abyss like the lemmings that they are. You just want
everyone's house to get locked. And
68% of you are saying that that's basically a stupid idea from a stupid
658%. Well, I I might have embellished. So,
they're all following the dude that like can't read anything at all. just adds
numbers together. You know what? Not being able to read is a specific learning disability that actually you
have and I don't. That's No, I can still read, right? But slowly. Yes. Yes. But
that's not what Yeah, that's right. We're making That's not right at all.
It's getting personal now, And you're just wrong.
At least I don't wet my pants during the show. I don't What? You said you were so
sweaty that your pants were wet. Actually, that was me. But that was so
not true at all. You literally said that
like last week.
What? Now you're making Oh man, you're just saying things about yourself and
then that doesn't even make any sense. I'm projecting.
Oh my goodness. I'm a troubled person. Um, all right. So, back to iOS 8. It's
available for developers in beta now and it'll get a full release in the fall. We
are finally getting third-party keyboards, which is something that I was
really disappointed about with uh moving from Android back to iOS. Going back to
being stuck with just one keyboard was was was grinding my gears. And this is
this is one big step towards me being able to use iOS again. um they do their
own their own keyboard is also getting some enhanced um functionality in terms
of an auto prediction that predicts the next word based on people that you're
talking to and whatever else. Uh so basically like Swift Key except with
even tighter integration. Um I wonder if
I wonder if the custom keyboard apps would be able to access that as well. I
would hope so. I would hope so because that would be nice because I doesn't doesn't iPhone have that thing where it
like doesn't let you swear and stuff? No. Or can you add it? Can you add a
dictionary? Okay. I don't I've never extensively used an iPhone, so I don't
know. Um, so you can reply directly from the notification pull down thing. So you
got interactive notifications. Um, their mail app, which I never use because the
Gmail one is way better, has gestures
for removing, flagging, and such. Their health kit thing is basically Apple
jumping on the whole bandwagon of, you
know, heart monitors and whatever. What's kind of cool about health kit is
you can actually um have your results being automatically sent over to like
Mayo Clinic or your doctor or something like that. So someone else can be
helping you helping you track your activity. Um HomeKit I guess is where we
got sidetracked. Uh photos taken with any iOS 8 device will be available via
iCloud. So it's like okay kind of like
Bit Torrent Sync or Dropbox or Dropbox or whatever. Um, 200 gigs of iCloud is
3.99. Siri now has Shazam integration,
which is pretty cool because opening up Shazam was a lot of work. And then
finally, it's coming to the iPhone 4S or newer. And get this, the iPad 2 is
getting iOS 8. That's actually kind of interesting. That is fantastic. They do
some pretty crazy stuff in terms of backwards compatibility. I mean, that's
great. I have tablets from that era that
are running like 4.0. Yeah.
That's great. It's like kind of brutal. I I I actually I'm I'm more interested
in the Shazam integration than I think you are because it would be nice like
especially if you're driving, you don't want to touch your phone. You don't want to go open Shazam and you don't want to
be like Siri, open Shazam or whatever.
Okay, you're probably right because you said they're they're adding hello Siri
kind of support, aren't they? Hey Siri. Hey Siri. Yeah. So, if if you can do
completely handsless, like touchless completely without any worrying, that
would be kind of nice to be able to check songs and stuff. Yeah, you're pro you're probably right. It's probably a
bigger deal than I'm giving it credit for because it is something that I use a
fair bit because I don't really pay attention to celebrities and No, me
neither. Releases. I I'll just be like I'll be in the mall and some horrible
song will be on the radio and I'll be like, "Wow, that sounds great.
What is it?" Yeah, I hear you. That's funny. I got to
get me some of that some of that top 40.
All right. Should we save uh let's save the Microsoft promises to do more for PC
gaming for later. So, first up is Cortana. Oh my god, I'm so excited. I'm
actually stoked for this. Do you want to cover this one? Cuz uh sure. the the
I've been super super interested in voice controlling devices for quite a
while now and I've been waiting for Cortana announcements and being able to
listen to it more in depth and see them talk about it and all that kind of stuff. So I was super excited to see
this. If you go to this website either I think both of them have it but N Gadget
or VG247 um you can you can listen to audio clips
of her talking. Uh, it's it's essentially the answer to Google Now and
Siri for Windows phone, and I think they're adding it to Xbox as well. But
she should be able to have casual conversations with you as well, which is
fairly interesting and creepy. It's creepy, but not necessarily because if
she could I'm old and afraid of technology, so it's kind of creepy. But
go ahead. Okay. I don't think it's that creepy, but I guess I'm not not as old
as Linus is. I just don't expect it to work very well cuz there they like in
the articles they have examples. of like kind of cheeky things that she'll say
like if you ask her if she's better than Siri, she says, "Not to brag, but
apparently I'll help save the universe in about 500 years." And I'm just kind
of like, "Yeah, but all those are like anything that relies on a pre-programmed
response is always going to not be that
great. It's like it's like bullet holes in the side of a house in a game. Until
we get to the point where the wood dynamically breaks upon impact from the
bullet, it's going to look like a video game. Yeah. Yeah. True. Sorry. Go ahead.
But uh because it's all in server, they're planning on adding things like
uh jokes and all this kind of stuff as time goes on. Every two weeks, I think they were saying. Yeah. So things like
it can go along with current events. So if you ask it about current events, it
can have topical things to say about all that kind of stuff. So, while you're
completely right and it's going to add this weird thing where like you could
ask her the same question a billion times and she's probably going to say the same thing every time and that's
going to sound a little weird weird like same thing down to the letter. Yeah. So,
and that might be a little bit weird and a little bit disconnecting. They're they're they're going to be adding to it
all the time which should help that a lot and and you're kind of right at the
same time. There's going to be this disconnect. The conversations aren't going to feel supernatural. That kind of
stuff. I'm I'm sure that's going to happen but this is the start. I also
just don't really have any desire to converse with my phone. Not really.
If it could like I don't know because I really really like um Okay, Google. Now
what's up? Yeah, but it's horrible. It
is so terrible and it is not useful and
Okay, you you might have to you might have to sort of I don't have my phone
on. I wish I could do I would do a live demo, but I don't. Um, it's I'll go like
I'll have some emails and some text messages and whatever and I'm like, "Okay, Google Now, what's up?" And it's
like, "Hello, Luke. The time is 6:47
p.m. You have two emails. Subject line blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah. Okay, done. You have text messages from done. Okay, bye." It's like, what?
That was what? Where's the interactivity? How do I say, "Oh, hey,
reply to that message." I can't respond to anything. I don't I don't need to
know the time every single time. Uh the the longest part of her talking to me is
her making sure that she takes time in between words saying, "Hello, Luke. The
time is blah blah blah." Then once she gets to her email, she blurts email and
text messages. She blurts out things super fast. Doesn't always read them
correctly. Um like rifles through it. Doesn't say who it's from. Like I'll get
text, it'll be like, "You have a text message. Body of the message doesn't say
who it's from. Can't reply to it." I'm just like, "What?" I what I was like
subject line I want you so bad right now and it's like who is this from? There
could be a dozen different people.
Such a player. What? Oh my god. Okay. Anyways, but like
there there are a lot of messages that aren't like that that could be from
anyone. Um so I don't it's it's annoying and like if someone sends me a text
message that's like, "Hey, are you on the way?" This is the time where it
would be amazingly helpful. My phone goes off and says I have a text message.
Okay, Google. Now, what's up? Blah blah blah blah blah says, "Hey, are you on
the way?" Oh, respond. Yeah, I'm just driving.
That would be amazing. Well, one of the problems that I have with with that I've
had with Google's voice activation in general, and they fixed one of them
recently, to their credit, like I got to I got to give them props for this, was
the way their voice dialing used to work is you'd say, "Call whoever work or
mobile," and it would say, "Do you want to call blah blah blah?" Yes. Or I think
No, no, I think it was um calling whoever. Uh would you like to call blah
blah blah work? Would you like to call blah blah blah mobile? Call this one.
Like it didn't just let you do it in one go. And then it say and then then I
think it would ask you to confirm or something like that. I'm like
no just when I say it just do it. And I
think I think part of and they fix that now. Right. Oh, and I think with uh like
Moto X, I think you can have it detect if you're driving. And if you're
driving, I think it will do a little bit better than Okay, Google Now does,
right? But then and then like Okay, Google Now isn't even on a massive
amount of devices. So what? Yeah, it's just on
Moto X right now. Yeah, to my knowledge. So like what? And it's just Okay,
Google. You don't have to say Google now anymore. I don't think I've tried that.
Oh, it's not working for you. Maybe it just doesn't like my voice for when I say that. Could be because you and I
have had apparently lots of problems with Google Now that no one else in the
entire universe has had. So anyway, I'm gonna give I'll give Windows Phone 8
another crack uh once Cortana rolls out. It's been over a year since I've tried
it. Um that was back when Windows Phone 8 was first kind of rolling out. And uh
I'm I'm pretty excited about it. I I'd like to see what what it's like and I
don't know that it's going to convince me to switch back to Windows Phone. In
fact, I sincerely doubt it. But with some of the great devices available on
Windows Phone, like Nokia's latest flagship, which I can't remember what
it's called, but it's really good. It's got a great camera. Um,
and Nokia's latest. Okay, so there's only one, but that's okay. I'm I'm still
I still really want to try it out. Uh, what else we got here? All
right. Should we get into Microsoft is going to do more for PC gaming? Really,
this time it's different. They're like an abusive spouse at this point. All
right. So, this was originally posted on the
forum by some sort of action here. I I
whatever you go be a Microsoft fanboy
until I see some kind of action. I'm on your side. Are you on my side? Because
it didn't seem like it before when you were suggesting that we all start carrying PDAs around again.
And that was why I had to abuse you.
I hope you realize this is your fault. This is not a good way to go. Oh my god.
This is why I have to hit you. This hurts me more than you.
Horrible. Okay, that was awful. Not all right. Okay, so Microsoft's recent
acquisition of the PC ccentric Rise of Nations franchise is just the first step
in Microsoft's efforts to do more in the PC game, also known as only. According
to Xbox boss Phil Spencer, a fan asked Spencer on Twitter why Microsoft had
acquired Rise of Nations and announced a re-release for Steam to which the veteran Xbox boss said, "Steam is a
great place to sell Win32 games. We acquired the IP for future work. I'm a
big fan of the franchise." Uh, the fan is apparently a Yahoo
because this fan responded by saying they aren't interested in installing
Steam. Praise be to Gaban. Um, but would
rather enjoy a games for Windows Live replacement. Praise be to Gab. Um,
wait, wait, what? What? Did you read that part of this? Yeah. The fan is
basically off his rocker. So, it's not a fan. This is a planted person. No, I
have no idea. I have never met or talked to a single person ever that has thought
Games for Windows Live was anything other than No, Microsoft has already said they're they're not expecting to
create a direct competitor for Steam and they shouldn't. I'd like to see more
collaboration between Yeah, we've brought up about how Ubisoft needs to
give up and reskin Steam. Okay, so at
any rate, just having you play this article blah blah blah, etc., etc.
Microsoft whatever has committed more DirectX12 blah blah blah. So this is
great. Um someone point brought this to Joner's attention and it was added to
the original post. It's a post from 2013 that chronicles all the times that
Microsoft has said this in 2005. We care
about PC gaming. Longhorn that's the code name for Vista. Um blah blah blah
to usher in modern PC gaming with Trey and Play. Do you guys remember that
games folder for Vista that is gone now?
Okay. Well, Vista launched with none of the stuff they promised. Vista was not
popular. 2006, I think actually the what the article says is Vista itself sucks
the ass of a thousand camels. But I decided to make that not point as but
then you just said it. That's true. I did, but I was a it was a direct quote.
All right. So saying it in the first place. 2006, Microsoft says, "Don't
count PC games out." And they announced games for Windows Live. Talk about how
amazing it will be. In 2007, they continue the PC push. They launched
games for Windows Live with a $50 a year fee. Genius. Thanks for saving. They
also They also announced a whole slew of games to include uh uh Shadow Run with
crossplatform play and Gears of War and blah blah blah. Crossplatform play.
Where? What happened to cross-platform play? They realize that PC gamers were
going to destroy I'm sorry if you're a console gamer in the audience, but I'm so much
faster with a keyboard and mouse. like it's it's not gonna happen. 2008. Um,
yay. We got rid of the $50 a year fee. See, we're serious about PC gaming.
2008, PC gaming's not dead. Look at this event we're throwing. 2008, uh, all new
games for Windows Live. It's got a new skin. 2009, PC gaming is still a
priority for us. It's really vital for us. We're still serious, guys. 2010,
we're doubling down, which means Games for Windows Live is still here, and
we'll update some stuff. Um, to fix the problem of game saves being deleted. Uh,
2010, Games for Windows Live Marketplace.
These are all things we 2010, Windows 8 is going to relaunch gaming. Um, just
like we promised back in 2006. 2012, we won't ditch games for Windows Live.
2013, we're discontinuing Windows Live. Thank you. Um, 2013, Microsoft promises
core firstparty games coming to PC. So,
forgive me if I give exactly zero craps
about Microsoft's recommitment to the PC because it really just I mean, you look
at the rumors circulating about how, you
know, there's at least some discussion about canning the Xbox division
altogether. Never mind PC gaming, which was the red-headed stepchild eight years
ago. I mean, okay, with all of that said,
with all of that said, anyway, blah blah blah. Spencer says, "Part of my Xbox
role is to bring back our Windows gaming focus." I mean, there is
there the opportunity has been missed
time upon time with the original Xbox. There was an opportunity to get Xboxes
rolled out as media streamers, which actually there are still some deployed
today. Yeah. As media streaming boxes to to get rolled out as an inexpensive
media streaming box that happens to also be a cheapo gaming console. And then to
bring that library of games to PC gamers and Xbox gamers alike, throw mouse and
keyboard compatibility at the Xbox so that there isn't that inherent
disadvantage and and make it all one big
ecosystem, which would have been amazing. Then go and add Windows phone
and tablet and all this stuff to it to keep things segregated the way they do.
Never made any sense to me. What could they have possibly been thinking?
Developing games for just one platform
instead of all the platforms. I mean you look at what Microsoft has invested in
the typical in a typical PC. Okay. So let's say they develop a piece of
software. Let's say for example Halo. Okay. Halo 2 or whatever. Doesn't
matter. The point is if they could sell that to any PC user or any Xbox
user, why do they care? I even would have even if they had it separate, I
even would have bought two copies. So, there's the benefit. There's the benefit of selling someone an Xbox to which I
would kind of go, okay, that's a benefit. But I don't think particularly
near the launch, you're making anywhere near $70 or I think it's about 60 $50 to
$60 is what they is what a tier one pays for a Windows license. So, I don't think
you're really even making that much on the hardware. And then if they if if
it's a PC, well, then you made that much on it. So, what do you what do you care?
You should just want a bigger installer base and a bigger community for your
fans and not alienate all of the people that Trump for your platform so hard.
Like there's I know so many families where the mom and dad are just like yeah
we should just get an iMac and the kids like no please no. And then they get a PC and
it's like this is why your installer base is really large. Like come on. One
of the reasons. One yeah one of the reasons. All right, so more bad
Microsoft news before we have good Microsoft stuff. Uh, Microsoft confirms
the Xbox One is more powerful without the connect hookup. So, this is posted
on the forum by Miss Thro. This ties into a video that we have
coming shortly. Yeah. So, they figure it's about 10%. 10% additional GPU
performance can be can be gained by which is like kind of huge. It's sort of
a big deal. um
like wow. I mean, it's not going to be the difference between running at 30 FPS
and 60 FPS. And we have a really great video coming probably in a couple weeks
that's going to be about that. But it might be the difference between running
at like what is it? 882p.
Yeah. And a real resolution like
1080p. Um there was a couple Yeah. So
this there's a great post from DF on the forum. We can't just turn off the DRM.
And I don't believe that was actually Xbox One. I think that was uh that was a
that was Xbox 360 or something. Okay. And then we can't just disable connect.
We won't sell Xbox One without connect does all of those things.
But you know what? I I am proud of consumers right now for speaking with
their wallets because um what they're not really buying Xboxes. Yeah. Dead
Rising 3 is coming to PC now. Is it? Yeah. So, by just refusing to settle for
an inferior experience, we are forcing
them to be friendlier to us and to win back our favor. Well, and PC gaming is
just like, you guys keep on thinking we're going away, but no, we're just
like massive now. So, screw you guys, which is awesome. They're
ridiculously huge. I was talking to someone who was fairly close to me that
didn't know what League of Legends was. And it reminded me of the discussion that we had in the garage way back a
long time ago about whether League of Legends is mainstream. Yeah. Yeah. It's
not. No, it's not. No, it's not. That's so weird. Yeah. Wait, did I get did I
get a straw poll to determine that that you're an idiot? And did I get an
admission that I'm right on the same W show? This is fantastic. Can Can I have
a fist bump for it, too? No. You're not going to complete the like the the hat
trick. No, I can't give you all three.
Make the audience put him down. Have him
put himself down and then have him congratulate me for it. Well, no, it's
just it's how amazed that I was because at that point in time, I had proved you
wrong because you said the last person that would know about it would be proved. Oh, that's this was your won the
battle. This Yeah, this was your decision. Yeah. Okay. And then my wife
knew what it was and then I won. But then this was Yeah. This is the first
person that I've ever met that didn't know what it was. Right. But it's like
the first person I've ever met that is like outside of Yeah. And Okay. Ever as
in like the last few years. I know. You know, it's funny because I uh we it's
you don't think about how isolated or
like how how inside of a box how segmented group is people are and the
way that social circles work. Like it it's funny because I've had a few
experiences like this lately where um Rampage Dev, the guy that helped us with
the Hackintosh was like, "Yeah, to create the bootable USB." Um yeah, just
plug it into a Mac and do this. I'm like, "I don't have a Mac." And he's like, "Oh, we'll borrow one." I'm like,
"I don't know a single person who owns a Mac." And he's like, "What?
I don't I don't either." Or at least not someone who would lend me a Mac. like
not someone I could just be like, "Hey, can I borrow your computer?" I do know
someone with it, but they're like very far away. I'm like, "Yeah." So, so there
was that and then there was going to high school reunion a little while ago
where the tweets that I got from people were hilarious because they were like,
"Yeah, was everyone like and even my mom was like, "Yeah, is everyone going to be
like really impressed that you're like an internet celebrity?" And I'm like,
"No, they're really not. No one's going to know what I do. Nobody, even once I
explained what I do, nobody had any idea. Even people in my grade. People
are like, "You that's a
job." I'm just like, "Yes, yes it is.
Yes, making YouTube videos is a job." And then when they ask what I make them about, I would say, "It's about
technology, like computers and motherboards and stuff." And I could
just I could I could actually hear I could hear the switch in their brains
going as they turned off. Whenever I do
it, they're like, "Oh, what do you do?" I was like, "Oh, I make videos about like computer components and all this
kind of stuff." And then I'm like, "Oh, right. Uh, consumer electronics."
They're always like, "Oh, yeah." I'm like, "Yeah, there we go."
Oh, you mean like iPhones? Yeah. Well,
sometimes it beats. No. No. No. No, not
that second part. Not beats. Unless we're talking about how Apple bought
them. Uh yeah, let's move on to uh let's move on to that epic fail of a topic
right after we do our sponsor segments here. So, actually like the most
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And I'll be like, "Wow, can I have an autograph, please? Can you sell my
laptop? Can you sell my laptop,
please?" So, we are going to be going to the summit of Mount Elbert, a 4,400
meter above sea level mountain top, and we are going to be having the world's
highest elevation terrestrial land party. It is a collaborative effort with
Tech Syndicate. Austin Evans is confirmed to be attending, something
that we had never revealed before. Um, unfortunately, Lou from Unbox Therapy
can't make it. I was super disappointed. I really wanted him to come. Um although
but Logan, Luke, I will be there. I believe Kane is coming. Uh it's a
possibility that we'll have some other pretty cool guys there as well, but it
should be about 10 of us total making our way to the top of the mountain to
have a high altitude land party because we can. The whole endeavor couldn't
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So, a huge thanks to ASUS, Corsair, and Intel for making that possible. Speaking
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You didn't know that? No. That's cool. You're not going to actually have one
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don't always do everything perfect, but it's great technology selection and
service. If you reach out to them and if you are are fair, they'll be fair to
you. They'll do their best. They always they always do their best to fix it no
matter what it is. And that's something that you can't say about every company.
So, having been on the inside there, I know how things work and I know that
they really do care. So, there you go. That's my endorsement of NCIX. Someone
suggested that we get Lauren to go on the climb with us.
She didn't want to come on the WAN Show, did she? No. So, I don't know. I don't
know. Tell you what, we'll ask her. Okay, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. I
have a feeling our videos would get many more views. I have a feeling that that
is a stereotype. Okay. That gamers think women are
attractive and watch videos with them in. This is This is actually This is
unrelated to Tasty PC. This is related to what you just said about watching
videos with women in them. Have you not seen the like browser streamers on
Twitch? Like, are you are you kidding me right
now? You can't even make that argument.
I didn't say that it was invalid. What I
said was a stereotype. I didn't say no.
You never say no.
Oh my god. Speaking of saying no, all the no in the world to this. Apple
defines a spec for lightning connector
headphones with 48 kohertz output. Apple
piss off. We do not need we do not need
headphones with proprietary connectors.
That is not a thing we need. Please don't make it. If you stop making eye
devices with analog outputs, I will
well, I don't buy any anyway, but I will definitely continue not buying them
because that's absolutely horrible. And to and to get caught up in some kind of
a in some kind of a like race to who can
have the highest sample rate on their files is a journey to nowhere because it
doesn't actually matter past a certain point. Also, there is there is no
there's no reason why you can't have an
excellent DAC and an analog connection to the speakers that sit inside your
ears because effectively that's all that you're doing anyway. A digital headphone
is just one that has the DAC on the other side of the cable instead of
having the DAC here and then over there.
The amp and DAC actually, both of them, I suppose. It doesn't matter. It's still
a a speaker is an inherently analog thing. There is no benefit to this other
than that we are going to be stuck with headphones that only work with iPhones
and iPhones that I mean if they were to actually take the 3 and 12 in connector
off then we'd be stuck with iPhones that only work with stupid lightning
headphones most of which will be fashion trash I'm sure. Well Beats there'll be
Beats. Well I'm sure someone else they bought them will participate in the made
for iPhone. I think they're making sure that there will be a range of products
on launch for this. Picture this future and I'm about to make your brain melt.
Okay. Well, this already did. You look at the kinds of like real companies like
serious companies that really care like Sennheiser that participate in the made
for iPhone program like the Momentum headphones for example. Why is
Sennheiser targeting iPhone users with these? Because iPhone users will pay
more. Yeah. Okay. Sennheiser happened to make legitimately good headphones that
are made for iPhone, but it means that the inline controls don't work on
Android because they're made for iPhone. Now, imagine this. Imagine Sennheiser is
put in a position where they have to decide, are they making their next pair
of great sounding but still fashionable headphones with a lightning connector or
a three and a halfm connector? Could this become a breakaway?
I don't know. Maybe cuz that would make sense. But that's totally inelegant and
that's not that's not true. the Apple way like that's not going to but it
could be breakaway and it doesn't have to be breakaway like okay well Apple's
already said there will be adapters so yes you can adapt your lightning to make
a three and a half but that's stupid oh it is yeah like adapters are horrible it
could be breakaway like it is on that though
but again these I mean these are $300 IM
not everything has that feature that's an uncommon feature no I know but I'm
I'm just saying like for the Sennheiser headphones that you're talking about but these are solutions we shouldn't have to
resort to completely agree. Okay. Well,
I'm just saying it might it might it might not be as bad. I think instead of
us playing devil's advocate, because I'm obviously very upset right now, we
should we should have a moment of silence instead. Okay.
Okay. Okay. Because I what I was really hoping for with this Beats acquisition
was Beats headphones that looked good
and sounded good and were built better. Yeah, that's what I wanted out of this.
This is my worst nightmare. Yeah, this is the worst thing that could have
possibly come out of that acquisition. Well,
maybe not the worst. Maybe not the worst thing, but it's it's very very very bad.
It's very terrible and stupid. Yeah. And I need that to not happen. Yeah. All
right. The specification could
h anyway, none of that's confirmed like Apple doing away with three and a half
millimeter connectors entirely. Like none of those are all conclusions that
were made up. I mean, there are ways that the tech could be cool. For
example, if you had headphones, some something that is easier to have a large
battery in and every time you plugged your headphones into your iPhone, it
could charge them or something like that. like there is room for this to be
kind of cool as long as it doesn't get forced on us. Yeah. So, I'll leave that
positive possibility as the last thing that we say on the
subject. All right. No Microsoft start
menu on Windows 8 until 2015. This was posted by NSF NS NFS undergrounded
underground and the original article is from Bit.
Maybe he's trying to recreate the sound of when your your engine is kind of
tripping out when you're just revving when you're at the start of the
line. So it's Ne for Speed Underground.
Okay. So it's not coming in update 2 to Windows 8 point to to Windows 8. It will
be coming instead possibly with a next update to Windows 8 or Windows 9
depending on how Microsoft decides to roll things out. So, this is their new
mini modern UI start menu. Personally, I
don't really care because it'll likely be 2015 by the time I roll a new
operating system onto my system anyway. Yeah. Um, but great. So, I guess there's
that. Our next topic is the ASUS
Sabbranco. Sabbranco. Anyway, whatever. It's a it's a top series motherboard
with a white PCB. Now, this is an
opportunity for me. Oh, they already got
it. Oh, that's a shame cuz I was looking forward to just going on an ego trip
here. This was originally posted by uh
Tit. So, I wanted to uh cuz ASUS
basically said, "Look, if you want to see more white PCB motherboards to match
your sexy white PCB hardware, we need 500 retweets of this tweet." And they
were stuck at like 250. And I was like, "Oh, on the W show, we should just like
we should just double it. We should just like crush it so that uh they'll be
like, "Whoa, where did that come from?" And we'll be like flexing our internet
muscles. Stop making golden motherboards. It's cuz they're
dumb. Like, yeah, we don't even care
about white motherboards. No, not at all. We just don't want gold
motherboards. Yeah. So, screw you in your stupid retweets. So, guys, there
are 4300 of you watching the show right now. I am counting on you. I want to
double the number of retweets they have on there right now. Do that retweet
thing where you retweet and say something at the same time and just say
any color other than gold. Yeah, if you if you can. So guys, you go find that
post. Come on. Come on. Come on, brothers. You got to help me out
here. I'm posting this. I'm posting this. Guys, you gota you got to get on
this. Help me out. We got to make this thing
happen. All right. Someone says it's already at 609. I know, but I still I
still want to I still want to utilize our internet mightiness to And we're
trying to Yeah, we're trying to move a We're trying to prove a point. Yeah, we're trying to prove a point. The point
is white is not necessarily Supreme, but
it's a damn sight better than gold. Yeah. I'd just like not gold. Yeah. I
can I can I can do something with it if it's not gold. Yes. Yeah. See, see, I
got people saying silver is okay. Yes. Silver's totally cool. Silver's totally
cool. You know, black's cool. Blue's cool. Red's
cool. Yellow I'm okay with as long as it's like UV. The Empire did it pretty
well. Yes. And the Empire did it really well. Yellow. Yellow's cool. You just
got to do it right. Yep. So, we need you guys to to just help us crush it.
Apparently, it's over a hundred. It's over a thousand already. I love you
guys. You guys are awesome. Yes, it totally is. You guys are awesome. and
you made my eene grow at least 3 in today. So, I appreciate that. We have
some good Microsoft news. Actually, I have a prop for this one. Do you want to
do you want to cover this in the meantime? Sure. There's not much to say.
Um, Microsoft announced that they were going to be Whoa, some cables got
unplugged. Uh, Microsoft announced we're failing.
Fail so hard. Fail so hard. They announced that you should be able to use the Xbox One controller on your PC back
in November and it's finally coming or is here already. They're now available
for download. So yeah, and you can connect it to your computer simply with
a micro USB cable. So this was posted on the forum by Demakiller 37, although I
do have to beat them up a little bit. Anyway, the links are in the are in the
thread there to where you can get the drivers for both x86 and x64 versions of
Windows. But get this, Microsoft is
releasing the drivers today at its download site, but the company is also
planning to distribute them through Windows Update in the near
future. Microsoft, what are you doing? What do
you mean? Why aren't they in Windows Update already? Oh, yeah. Okay. I
thought you were against it being in Windows Update. I was like, why not? Why is any piece of Microsoft hardware not
in Windows update? Yeah. No, I completely agree. I thought I thought I
I thought you were against it and that's why I was like, why is anything not in
Windows update? Yeah, if it's Wickle
certified, why is it not in Windows update? Why isn't that part of the
procedure? Why do I have to dank around
drivers still? I totally thought you were on the other side of this and
you're not at all. And that's fantastic. Like Timmy, if you're watching, maybe
you can give me an explanation that makes sense, but I doubt it. Why are
drivers not in Windows update? Why do I have to think about this? Why is it
easier to plug and play a Linux installation and have it automatically
work with network drivers than it is a Windows one? That should never be a
thing. Ever. Never be a thing. Fail. Every laptop that I've ever tried to
install Linux on, perfect. and network drive. That's all I need is network
drivers because then I can move from there. That's fine. And then every
single time that I've tried to install, not every single time, but a lot of times I try to install Windows on a
laptop, especially if it's not the Windows that it came with. Horrible.
Almost never get network drivers, have to go hunt them down. It's annoying. And
a lot of the time it's not even a matter of like, oh derp, it's not on Windows
update. A lot of the time it's like, "Oh, okay. I better go into device
manager and like find the vendor ID and like PCI ID string and go Google that
and find some post on like driverh helper full of viruses.com."
Yeah. Why do I have to resort to that? You know what? While I'm bitching about
this, if anyone from Adapt is watching, you guys turn your download servers on
after business hours from now on. That's super stupid. That's like the stupidest
thing I've ever seen. They turn their download servers for their drivers off
outside of like business hours. Leg legit. Legitimately, guys, go
check. Like I've been diagnosing like a RAID card in the middle of the night
because that's the only time when you diagnose RA, you can take down your
server. Yeah. Yeah. And like their download server is just off. Honestly
though, a lot of server maintenance happens overnight. So like it should they should be they should Oh, I'm so
mad. Like so mad. Ridiculous. People are like, "Why is he mad today?" Because
things make me mad. A lot of things to be mad about today. Speaking of things to be mad about, this is actually both
cool and terrifying. Yeah. Um, so gun company figures out how to shoot around
corners using Google Glass. So, basically, they've got a super advanced scope on this gun that allows you to use
Google Glass as a site. It also compensates for human error, compensates
for conditions. It does all kinds of neat neo keen stuff. There's a short
video. It's about a minute long. uh tracking point Labs. You know, part of
me is kind of like, do we really really need more
efficient ways to like put bullets in each other? One thing that scares me is
like all the stuff that's going on with NSA and stuff right now. This is going to very possibly create a big divide in
between um civilian uprising potential
and government. Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's already there. You can already
night vision goggles are already the end of gorilla. You know, that's actually
something that I can't quite figure out why they weren't using thermal imaging to find that Monton
uh police killer. Yeah. Were they not? It took them took them
over a full day to find him and he was just kind of hiding in the woods. Like I
don't know. May maybe it's possible that they're just not that sensitive yet, but
I just wouldn't Did they have military deployed on that? They did have military
deployed. Uh I mean they eventually did find him in the woods unarmed. They've
apprehended him now. Okay. Uh do you know much about what happened? I have not been following. I know I know he
killed like I know that kind of stuff, but I don't He killed three officers and
uh and wounded two others. One of them very seriously wounded. Yeah. Um I just
didn't know about them capturing this. I'm not going to link to any news stories. I'm not going to name him
because these people don't deserve any attention. So, we're going to Yes. Uh
Dragon V2. Speaking of people who do deserve attention. Super cool. And
freaking Elon Musk is just the coolest person on the planet. So guys, oh my
god, you should check this out. There's not there's not really too much for for
us to say about it. I'm supposed to I put the main points of the video in here
is the the new capsule can hold seven astronauts. Uh it has propulsion based
landing, so it can land on a landing pad. It can land pretty much anywhere,
but someone says you can't thermal through trees. So there you go. That's
interesting. Um you can land pretty much
anywhere, but more specifically on a landing pad. You don't have to land in the ocean anymore. And the heat
shielding and stuff on the bottom is much more resistant and can be easily
reused. So if it can land on a landing pad and just have all the propellant
refilled be used very quickly. Ice Fox says Elon greater than Gabe N.
Uh let's just let's just calm down. Okay. Everyone just needs to relax. Go
ahead about Elon being greater than Gabe.
Everyone just needs to relax.
They're in They're in completely It's like Can you all Can we all just relax
and stop being tense? Thank you.
We're Look, we're looking at different castles here. Different castles. I like
that. They're not They're both the king of their own castles. All right. Sorry.
Go ahead. Go ahead. The rest of the points about um that was actually pretty much it is it can carry seven
astronauts. Um it's very reusable. Definitely reusable and it can land
pretty much anywhere very easily. It it uses propulsion based landing like I
said. So instead of having this crazy parachute like they did before where they just parachute out and then drift
down into the water, it it slows itself down as it's falling through I think
it's I think it's four jets and then evens itself out and then lands with
like these kind of spring-loaded not really spring-loaded but these feet that
can compress. Not spring-loaded at all um but feet that can compress. So it
just kind very very cool. All right, we got a
straw pole. And the inside of this space shuttle is amazing. Have you seen it?
Uh, no. Okay, you can talk about it
though. It's It's kind of hard to describe. Once you're done spamming
there, I can try to jump you forward in the video, but essentially you you walk
in, it looks like super super clean and super futuristic, unlike a lot of space
shuttles that you see that look like mega ghetto and kind of disgusting. And
then he sits down in this baller looking chair and swings down this super badass
monitor setup. It's so cool. Um yeah,
he's walking in. So he's gonna get in. He's gonna get in very soon. Here you go, guys.
So once he gets in there, sweet. So very
nice seats. I can't like he doesn't talk about them at all, but like they
actually look comfortable instead of the terrible things I before. And then Yeah.
Okay. Go a little bit back because you got to see him swing down the monitor
setup. You can see it's up right now. He'll pull it down.
So badass. Swoop. And then if you can actually see
the control panels, like it actually
looks like futuristic and badass. I know that doesn't really matter, but like it
looks really cool. There you can see all
their monitoring panels and like all the stuff in the middle. He's got uh
spaceship control is that like joysticky thing kind of in the middle. And then
most of those manual buttons are all emergency things, so you don't have to
use the other displays and stuff. They're all emergency stuff. And yeah, I
don't know. I thought this was super cool.
Yeah, I was watching it and then I ran out of time. I actually didn't make it to the end. I didn't know he went
inside. Yeah, that is awesome. That's pretty freaking cool. How's that straw
pole doing? All right, let's check out that straw pole. Castles.
Okay, castles.
castles. So, we've got 42% of the votes
going to Gabe N, 41% of the votes going to castles, and 17% going to Elon Musk.
Although, I don't think there's really any denying that Elon's or Mr. Musk's
contributions to humanity as a whole are probably more more impactful than Gabe
Ben's. But then how is that that's very difficult to quantify because if but g
because gayen could inspire more people if it's not in the same way it's it's
not necessarily lower and gayen did more than just gaming digital digital content
distribution he was a pioneer yeah and he's pushed forward for those like
racing that racing thing I don't know
anyway it's not really uh I I I vote for
castles you vote for castles you go vote for castles then one vote doesn't matter
loser. It does. Actually, every vote counts. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to go find
it and vote just cuz you said that. So, that's fine. Took me a sec to find it. I
don't know where it is. I give up. You
can find things to vote for on your own time. Yeah, pretty much. More
thingyamajiggers. Um, yeah. I fired up the Star Citizen. Uh, what's up? Oh,
yeah. Right. We actually have something really cool for you guys. So, I need you
to use # Linusmassdrop, all one word, #
Linusmastdrop, and send in your requests
for what you would like to see a Massdrop deal on. We are working with
Massdrop to basically find one thing that our community really wants to see
and bring it to you guys. That's it.
It's simple. So, everyone, take just a minute of your time, think of something
that you think is really cool. hopefully, you know, electronics or
computer stuff or something. Um, and then just use #
Linusmassdrop and uh tweet that out and
we will have someone, preferably a lackey and not me, go through them all
and compile a list of the most popular ones and then we're going to pick one
from there that we think is really cool and we think would be a great Massdrop
item and we are going to be bringing that to you guys through the Massdrop
team. So, be excited about that because it's going to be really, really sweet.
Awesome. Now, what were you saying about Star Citizen? Oh, I was saying I tried it and the mouse controls are balls, so
I need to get a joystick. I'm actually going to order a USB to game controller
adapter so I can use my old Top Gun joystick, but I also have a Scitec
Aviator that I can use in the meantime. It just doesn't have that same No, it
doesn't quality feel to it, though. I don't really like it. So, there you go.
Oh, well. Solar freaking roadways. We're not doing a mass drop for solar
roadways, especially because they don't work.
Sorry to spoil that one. Very cool concept though. Yeah,
give it give it a little while longer. A lot of while longer and we'll find a way
to leverage Mike the sun a little better. Someone says butt plugs. I don't
think we should ask for butt plugs. You can get Windows for 50 cents on Oh, PC.
It's ludicrous. Rog Jay-Z. We're never going to be free of
that, are we? No, no, we're just stuck with it forever. Okay, speaking of
things we're stuck with forever, we'll be back next week. Thank you guys very
much for tuning in to the WAN Show. We will see you next week. I guess normally
I say thank you and then I say we'll see you next week, but without this getting
any more awkward than it already is.
Boom. Oh, that's awkward. I didn't leave this in all the right spots. So, I need
to something to do with this here. Yeah,
that thing. Good work, Luke. Wait, that wasn't my
fault at all. Yeah, whatever.
Highlander, it's going to be
awesome. E3 also going to be awesome.
Yeah. Or terrible. We're not sure. Yeah. We've never done it before. Nope.