All right, guys. Welcome to the WAN Show. This is going to be the first show
in quite some time with no technical difficulties.
Actually, I already know there's going to be one technical difficulty. We accidentally deleted the version of the
WAN Show intro that has audio. So, the
uh guys are currently working on fixing that baby up. And
uh uh hopefully it'll be back for next
week. So uh without much further ado, I
guess uh oh a so many of you. I know for
a fact due to the Twitch delay that you haven't even gotten far enough in the
show for me to have admitted there were going to be difficulties. And you guys
are all like lol. But I I I I I
I know you're right. Anyway, we've got a lot of great topics today. And by we, I
guess I mean I Luke is actually um I
wonder if I'm allowed to say where he is. He's in LA. He was invited there by
a graphics card maker who isn't AMD. So
I guess hopefully I haven't revealed too much. the reason for him being there is
under NDA and he's got Brandom with him.
So, he's definitely making videos. So,
that's all I'll really say, which is kind of a lot, but Luke couldn't be here
with us today, unfortunately. But, I'll do my best to run the show by myself for
y'all. And we've got a lot of great topics this week. Actually, the
Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and more may be
revealed at an October 6 New York City event. Um, I did know about the event. I
unfortunately couldn't make it, so I won't be there, but I'll definitely be
uh checking out what else is is going to be shown off. There's uh there's a few
things that are rumored. Uh Sharp is looking to introduce 8K displays as
early as October of uh this year. So,
that is some pretty bananas stuff right there. Um what else we got? Oh, this is
this is terrible. A 14-year-old student was arrested for bringing a homemade
clock to
school. And before any of you ask, yes,
his last name was Muhammad, which
is not an excuse for arresting him.
Anyway, we'll we'll Yeah, we'll we'll get into that a little bit more later.
And this is this is more big news. Actually, there really is a lot this
week. Um, oh boy. Uh, Jim Keller has left the
building at AMD. He had come back after
a stint at Apple working as the lead architect on the A4 and A5 and had come
back to sort of let AMD's CPU division
rise from the ashes, etc. And yeah, and he's gone. So, uh, and he's gone. So,
so, uh, we we'll have to we'll we'll talk about what this might mean for AMD
over the next couple of years and then possibly over the longer term. So,
without further ado, I'm going to roll the
intro. I've got people saying to move the mic away. I could just get a pop
filter. I don't know where it is, though. Um, so yeah, there's that. And
the show is no longer powered by Razer Coms. That is an
extraordinarily old old version of the intro. There you go. I'll see if you
guys are I'll see if you guys are I'll see if you guys are happy now. So, I'll
do my best over here. Going to be all like, "Hi, Twitch chat. I don't have
Luke to talk to this week, so I'll have to settle for Twitch chat." No offense
you guys, but you are a poor substitute for the uh for the the sexy mastadon of
a man that normally normally sits next to me. I just realized actually too that
I'm kind of on his side. Like I don't know how many of you share a bed with
someone, you know, a significant other, you know, your mom or whatever. I don't
judge. Um but it's weird. Like try try
laying down on the wrong side and you're just
like this is weird. I need to roll. I need to roll now. I need to roll now.
It's kind of the same thing. Actually, this I highly recommend. If you guys are
watching the archive of the show, then you can pause the pause the show and do
this now. If you're live, then you might have to wait till after the show. But if
you ever drink from like um from the faucet, like just kind of
you're like, "Oh, I'm thirsty. I'm in the kitchen. and I'll have dirty a glass if I get a glass. So, I'll just put my
head under the faucet and drink from there. Try doing it the other way. It's
like the most bizarre thing. I was like, "Oh, my mouth doesn't know how to do
this. It's super weird stuff." And I will stop. Actually, I'm not even really
stalling for anything. I I'm legitimately not having any technical
difficulties so far this week. So, uh I'm feeling pretty good. Why don't we
jump right into our first topic here? I'm going to grab the grab the link for
y'all in the chat. And I'm not going to do links the complicated way, so they're going to be kind of ugly and all that,
but uh that's okay. We can live with that. The original poster for this is
Dat Speed over on the forum. Thank you very much for posting this in the news
section. And the article here is from Windows Central. So, it shouldn't be any
huge surprise that with uh both Broadwell and Skylake architecture CPUs
from Intel having been released since the Surface Pro 3, which is still
running Haswell, that there was probably going to be a Surface Pro
4. And no, that thing that Apple
announced back at their event was not a Surface Pro 4. You can tell because
there's no kickstand. Ah, that's one key
difference. And it doesn't run a proper
OS. It runs a mobile OS. So there you
go. And by proper OS, I don't mean that iOS is a bad operating system or it's
not a real operating system. I just mean it's not a full fat operating system.
You're not going to be able to load like the full Adobe Creative Suite on there
and take advantage of that fancy stylus and all of that noise. So there's
actually a few other things that are rumored to show up. Um, the invites
being sent out to the media for the event are for exciting news about
Windows 10 devices. And I did read this particular invite and I kind of went,
well, I wasn't planning to be in New York on October the 6th and sort of I
got a lot of crap to do in general. So, unfortunately, I can't make it. And I
don't think they even offered to like pay for my ticket out there. So, it
really did seem to be kind of an afterthought like, "Hey, what if that Lionus guy wants to show up?" Uh, okay.
Yeah, let's make sure he doesn't get bounced at the door just in case. So, so
it was one of those kinds of things and I was just like, "Yeah, I'm I'm I'm busy. I can't really make it." But that
doesn't mean that I'm not extremely interested to see what they're going to
be up to at the event over there. Uh some other there there are there haven't
been a lot of hints, but some other rumors are that um they will be
announcing the Lumia 950 and 950 XL.
Um, yeah. Okay. And I guess that's uh
that's that's really that's really about it. The code names for a couple of the
devices are Talkman and Cityman, which I
guess tells us that there's talking.
We're aiming at like sort of the urban man. And I mean, you know how the rumor
mill goes. What I've actually learned over the years is that once you get
pretty close to an event or a device launch, the rumor mill is pretty much
95% accurate with the exceptions being
cases like like what NVIDIA pulled on I
think it was the GTX 580 where literally okay and I'm not
even exaggerating at all the people
selling the product. Okay, so your EVGA
or your your MSI or your ASUS, the
people selling the product and the people buying the product, which was me.
I was working at NCIX at the time before
a few hours before the launch did not
know the price. So, I had to cut a
purchase order based on faith. my sales
rep at MSI had to process that order not
knowing how much revenue he was generating or what his commission was
going to be like all these little details right and then NVIDIA dropped a
bomb and dropped the price like right on the launch so there are a few exceptions
but in general if you know a couple days or let's say even you know a few weeks
before an iPhone 6S is announced and you know our buddy Lou over at Unbox Therapy
shows up with iPhones own six plus cases and starts bending them or doing his
thing. Um, it's probably real. So, it's
real unless it's a hoax or or an intentional
deception. Speaking of things that are real, this next topic is pretty bananas.
So, this was posted by HK05 and the original article here is
from the BBC. Let's go ahead and uh pull this
baby up. the first 8K TV screen to be
commercially available. Now, to be clear, I and and I do mean
clear. I miss Luke. I wish he was here to laugh at my terrible jokes. Maybe
Twitch chat is is loling right
now. You guys, come on. It's real. Unless it's a hoax. Well, yeah. Um Okay.
No. Is anyone Is anyone going to laugh at my joke? Haha. Yes. Thank you. The
the no scope. You win. Oh, okay. Oh, I
love you guys. Okay, you guys you guys made me feel good about myself and you
made me feel like I can continue to make those jokes with impunity. Jokes on you.
Um, so sorry. What am I talking about? Right. So, to be clear, 8K displays have
been shown before. I've seen them in person. And I've I've been like this
close to them and I've kind of examined them and I've gone, "Wow, that sure is a
lot of pixels. That sure is clear." That one video file that exists in the entire
universe of a of a locomotive at at 8K
on the show floor at CES. But this is
different. This is a real commercial product and
uh is apparently going to be launching on October 30th, which is appropriate
because that price tag is going to give you quite a scare. It's rumored to be
somewhere in the 12. Wait, is that even right? Hold on a
second. That must be a typo in my notes
for this. That is a typo. So, my notes
for the show say $12,500 to
$13,300. Yeah, I think not. We're
missing a zero here. Yeah. Yeah. So, the
price is going to be well over
$100,000. There's about $125 to
$130,000, which is really not that
unusual when it comes to these uh cutting edge technologies. Like that
image is so sharp, it's cutting
edge. Thanks, guys. Now, I've I've missed where I'm
going with this. And you know what? It will be incredibly sharp. We're talking
four times the number of pixels compared
to 4K. Okay? And you know that comparison that you always see of 4K
displays with a 1080p resolution display kind of in the corner. So 4K is four
times the number of pixels of 1080p and
8K is four times the pixels of 4K. So
the resolution will be 7680x 4320.
So NASA will be delivering 4K space
footage beginning November 1st. Netflix and Amazon, not to mention YouTube, are
offering 4K streaming internet video.
Although with that said, and we've
talked about this a fair bit. In fact, for those of you who haven't checked it
out before, I'm just going to go ahead and uh bring up the video. I'll post it
in the Twitch chat because if you haven't watched this particular video of
ours, it is definitely worth worth a look. Uh 4K, is it a place? Is it worth
it? Here we go. Oh, that's weird. Oh,
that's just a little custom test I run. Okay, so you guys definitely want to check this out because there's a lot
more at play when it comes to high quality picture than the resolution.
things like, you know, dynamic range, any color grading that's being done on
it, things like uh, you know, alterations made to sharpness to enhance
the or detract from the picture quality.
Um, things like the bit rate that the
media you're actually streaming. So, just because you know
you're you're going to, you know, watch online content in 4K doesn't actually
necessarily mean it looks better at all than a 1080p Blu-ray. Um, speaking of
Blu-ray, um, something something something. Can't
remember. Uh, yeah, I think 4K Blu-rays
are finally showing up like sometime soon or something like that. So, why am
I talking about 4K content in the context of an 8K TV? Well, for one
thing, upscaling is a thing and can help a little bit. And for another thing,
it's to make the point that back when a 4K display was costing you six figures,
um, it's not until now that you're finally getting content for it. So, I
guess what I'm trying to say is as cool a piece of technology as this is, I
wouldn't recommend that you run out and buy it. Now, that's not to say that
there will be no content whatsoever. Uh, NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation,
will start to broadcast in its 8K super
high vision format sometime in
2018. Um, so yeah, and I mean, you know what?
This is something that a lot of people are really confused about right now, and
that is, well, hold on a second. There's 8K cameras now. Like I I I can't I can
never keep track of what Red calls their stupid cameras, but I I think it's
weapon is the latest one. We went from the
uh what just
happened? Did my feed just cut out? I
promise no technical diff.
Uh did you guys ever Uh turned
off battery.
Uh okay. Come plug it in when you get a chance.
Hello.
Uh, the camera's on, right?
Uh, the camera. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Uh,
oh. I'm
refreshing. It's It's on, right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh, there we go. How many
times you mentioned no technical difficulty? Yeah, I know, right? All
right, I don't remember what I was talking about anymore. So, something
something 8K 4K something, whatever.
Let's move on to the next topic. So, NVIDIA's Game Stream Co-op has entered
beta. This was posted on the forum by Shadow Bullet. And our source for this
is well, the NVIDIA.com website. So, this is some
pretty cool stuff. And actually for us over here was one of the big highlights
of the recent NVIDIA graphics card launch, the uh the 950. Not because, you
know, the 950 isn't a cool card, you know, fair price and all that stuff, but
because this kind of technology is driving gaming forward in
a way that a new, you know, bang for the buck mid-range to low-end graphics
processor isn't. Because quite frankly, when NVIDIA launches a GTX, you know,
960 or 950 or whatever, they're not
they're not breaking new ground. This is
performance that we already had with the previous generation, just at a higher
price point. So, like that's cool and lower prices and more performance for
all is great, but the reason that we don't, you know, get all that excited
about it is because it's not bringing us new gaming experiences. This on the
other hand is some pretty cool shiz. So
basically NVIDIA graphics card users can now phone a friend to get through a
game's tough spots with the latest beta. So, to use GameStream Co-op, the host PC
needs a GTX 650 or higher desktop GPU or
a 660M or higher laptop card, a Core
i32100 or higher CPU with at least 4 gigs of RAM, which probably you have if
you have a current generation graphics card, and you need at least 7 megabit
per second of upstream bandwidth along with a decent router. So after receiving
an invite, the guest can actually launch the stream like a like a live stream of
the game you're playing using a Google Chrome extension. So it's designed for
DirectX9 games or higher. So unfortunately those of you who want to
play, you know, the Matrix or whatever
on game stream co-op, you might be you might be out of luck. And streams are
capped at 720p 30fps with co-op sessions limited to 60 minutes at a time before
the host needs to send another invite. But, uh, yeah, pretty darn cool. There's
integrated YouTube upload capabilities and a new in-game overlay. So, um, yeah,
I'm I'm I'm liking it. Oh, I remember
what I was going to talk about next on the 8K video thing. So, some of you
might be thinking, "Okay, Lionus, hold on a second. There's 8K cameras out
there like uh, you know, Red's latest, you know, awesome named product or
whatever the case may In fact, I think um I think Marcus Brownley actually has
his camera out for the upgrade right now as we speak if he has hasn't got it back
already. And you're probably thinking, "So, well, come on. These Hollywood guys
out there and these, you know, big shot YouTubers with their big, you know,
studios, why aren't they just all buying 8K cameras and releasing all their
videos at 8K?" Because there are a lot
of other problems. So, problem number one is the workflow. Okay, working with
8K footage, we're talking file sizes that are massively bigger than 1080p and
even 4K is going to put additional strain on
your processor, on your storage devices, on your network, if you work over the
network like we do. Uh, problem number two is on camera and generally storage
like just storing these massive files all over the place is a significant
issue. Okay, problem number three is
who's watching this? And while we did
discover that playing back 4K video on your 1080p monitor on YouTube, if you
have the bandwidth, if you have the internet connection for it does offer a
benefit thanks to the higher uh the higher bit rate of the
content for 8K. I
mean, that may be a benefit, but in that
case, you don't need to shoot on an 8K camera anyway. You might as well shoot
on a 1080p, even a good 1080p camera or
a 4K camera and then just export at HK.
Which leads us to yet another problem, and that is exporting at 8K. Uh, codec
support really isn't there yet. Um, I exported an 8K file on a fairly powerful
computer, very powerful 36 core machine, and it just completely crapped the bed.
And then yet another issue is that display interfaces haven't even caught
up yet. So even if people did want to go and buy $100,000 TVs, even if like every
millionaire in the world was like, "We want to push 8K forward. Let's bring us
8K now. We're going to like we're going to all buy 8K TVs if you guys will start
broadcasting in 8K." And uh the issue is that I don't think we even have a
display interface that is gonna like I don't even know how they're planning to
drive this thing. Maybe HDMI 2.0 30 Hz.
Maybe that'll work. I don't even know cuz HDMI 2.0 I know can do 40k 60 Hz but
uh maybe you guys will maybe you guys will have to let me know. And then and
then the final the final issue with 8K that will I think really like I think 8K
adoption and you guys can you guys can you guys can quote me on this. 8K
adoption will be as much slower than 4K
adoption as 4K was than
1080p. And 1080p was relatively uh was
relatively fast. 4K is taking forever
because you're counting on all these infrastructure upgrades in the back end.
It's it's almost no content that's being
broadcast like via traditional broadcast in 4K uh with only like web companies
doing what I would call cheapo 4K because there hasn't been an
infrastructure upgrade to make it possible. Not really. we're still
talking bit rates that are quite low
compared to, you know, something like a 1080p blue Blu-ray, even though you've
upped the resolution. So, so all these infrastructure upgrades, I think 8K
could be, you know, 10 years, 20 years
before anyone even gives a crap at all.
And the reason for that is that it all comes down to Apple's retina marketing.
And I'm not saying Apple's retina marketing in the in the sense that like
because Apple's full of snake oil and they've convinced someone everyone that
you know retina is the only thing that's important or or whatever. Um but because
of the retina concept in which there's actually a fair
bit of truth to be had, you know, with a with a good quality display with
accurate color management and with high
contrast which matters more to image quality than you would think. And I
don't mean turning up the contrast knob. That's bad. I mean high high a high
difference between the brightness level of white versus the brightness level of
black. Um so something something right the
basically the concept that there's a certain number of pixels needed at the
optimal or usual viewing distance to make it so that the viewer cannot
discern any additional improvement in
image quality from adding more pixels.
And I would make the argument that 1080
is already there unless you've got like eagle eye vision. 4K, yeah, you'll
probably see some improvement, especially once you start seeing content
that was shot in 4K, which isn't going
to look quite as clean and quite as crisp on a 1080p display. like it like
the content improvement is going to be as much probably of what you see in
terms of wow 4K is so much better as the resolution improvement and going from 4K
to 8K at what would be the typical like we've gotten to the to the limit of how
big of a TV people want to put in their living rooms like I don't know about you
guys but my living room doesn't have room for a 100inch TV so TVs are going
to be and and there's there shipping logistical like like it's hard to it's
hard to ship around TVs that are bigger than that. They're very easy to damage.
They're hard to lift. Like, like we're pretty much at the limit now in terms of
what people are going to want for a typical living room TV screen. Now, the
home theater guys, they're a different ball of wax, but they always have been,
and they're going to keep wanting, you know, projectors or like, you know, roll
out displays that are, you know, 150 in or whatever the case may be. But but for
now, 8K is not going to offer a tangible
benefit for normal users putting normalsiz TVs in normal homes and
sitting a normal distance away from them. You can mark my words on that. 8K
already doesn't matter. But hey, if you want to have dem bragging rights or
whatever, then you can drop $130,000 on
a Sharp 8K display and you can feel pretty good about yourself because
that'll be Apparently Twitch Chat wants Dennis.
I don't know. Hey, Dennis, do you want to come say hi to Twitch chat?
Well, no, you have to come over here. Also, you have to be Dennis.
I am Dennis. Hello. You are not Dennis.
And oh my goodness. Well, okay. Dennis is on his
way over. Twitch chat is getting what they wanted. Apparently Burkel's on his
way over, too. I didn't know if you were talking to me or not. I I wasn't talking
to you. You can No, I am talking to you, Dennis. No, I I was talking to Burkel
when I said I wasn't talking to you. Okay,
the microphone's here.
Hello. What? What's going on?
Okay. Thank you, Dennis. Is there anything happening? No, no, that's
that's an image of us. Oh, cool. The
camera's over there.
Rolling shooting something.
Carry on, guys. Are we too loud over there? No, no, no, not at all. Uh,
Dennis. We actually had someone post on the forum that apparently we all hate
Dennis or something like that. Do you think I'd hire him if I didn't
like him? If I didn't think he was a fantastic member of our team? And Dennis
doesn't have to be here. He's a highly skilled individual. Like, he he probably
doesn't get enough credit for all the stuff that he's been doing around here.
Uh Dennis has edited uh personal rig update part one on the LTT channel. He
also edited the um the uh ah right, that
is a cool video. the uh the desk PC
build with like the the components clipped into well not okay I won't spoil
the surprise but however they're attached to the bottom of the desk he filmed and edited that on a Saturday no
less totally totally good guy uh he edits almost all of Fast as possible now
so so yeah he's an extremely valuable member of the team and I'd like to
dispel any rumors that we don't uh we don't love Dennis around
here all right let's go ahead and move On to our
next topic. This is some cool stuff. The original article here is from
bgr.com and I'm sorry I've been forgetting to post links for you guys. I
suck. And the OP on the forum was Joss.
Cool stuff. This transparent solar
powered battery looks like a futuristic Tony Stark invention is the headline
over there. And it looks like some pretty cool stuff. So, it's a fully
transparent solar cell that could in theory turn every window and screen into
a power source. Like remember on your Game Gear, you know, it would come with
a warning that says, "Do not leave the screen in direct
sunlight." That could be a thing of the past. What if it's a requirement that
you run your devices with the screen in direct sunlight? Yeah. Now, that's a
future that I'm talking about. So, this was developed by a team of researchers
at the co Koga Quinn. Yeah. Okay.
Whatever. Um, co I have actually have not heard of
that university before. I'm really sorry to everyone from there who's watching.
Um, and it was influenced by ubiquitous energy. So, it contains a lithium ion
battery that is not entirely transparent. It becomes slightly tinted
when exposed to sunlight. When it's fully discharged, the light transmission
transmittance rises to approximately
60%. So the team shrunk down the electrodes all the way down to around 80
to 90 nmters to allow light to pass through. So they've been working on this
technology for about 4 years since a team of researchers at Stan Stanford
came up with the concept. Uh the concept was demoed at Innovation Japan earlier
this month and it's not
clear how long it will take to be used in commercial products. So the prototype
uh currently has an efficiency of around 1%. Okay, so you know nothing super you
know world revolutionary yet but uh they think that
10% should be possible once production commences. So, it's scalable and
affordable from smartphones all the way up to industrial size Windows. And let
me tell you, if we could convert the
random sunlight coming into our warehouse and our office and heating it
up in the summer into energy, we would
be totally down for
that. I had a feeling there were like some straw pole things that I wanted to
do today. And I've completely I've completely forgotten what any of the
ideas I wanted to do were. But uh oh, I
would like to talk about a little project that I worked on
today. Just in the meantime, I'm going to request a glass of water from someone
because I have done a lot of talking today. I shot uh too fast as possible
some like random bits that someone needed for another video right before
WAN Show today. And then earlier today,
I finally did it. I've had a lot of requests for more spots for my son, and
I finally felt like he was ready to carry his dad's torch and take over
Lionus Media Group. He is hosting with
some help from dad, his very first PC
build log. Yes, my friends. My
three-year-old came into the office today. In fact, it's it's so funny. It's
like he comes in, he does a PC build log, and now he is actually in the
library having a nap. Um, so he built
his very first PC today. Taran got the
whole thing on camera and is recording it as we speak right now. And that will
be uploaded on Vessel uh this weekend, which means it should land on YouTube
sometime next week. So, that is going to be some good stuff. Look at that. He
even put ice in it. You are such a suckup.
That is not going to last long. So,
let's go ahead and jump into our next topic here. This is really sad. Uh, this
was posted by Rune on the forum and uh
it's just like
I don't know. I don't I don't really know what is there what is there to
really say about this other than than that it totally sucks. This has been
making this has been making waves this week. Uh the post that I've got on it
here is uh from the Verge. So 18-year-old Ahmed Muhammad arrested for
bringing a homemade clock to school.
Now, to be clear, he has been released,
but not until after he'd been Okay.
Well, here, why don't we start at the beginning? So, he lives in Irving, and has a keen interest in robotics and
engineering. Cool. All right. Uh, put the device together on Sunday night. was
pulled out of class the next day, interviewed by police officers, and
taken in handcuffs to juvenile detention after being told by teachers that his
creation looked like a bomb.
Now, I mean, is this is this what
happens? We have Looney Tunes to thank. This is what happens when an entire
generation of kids grows up watching,
you know, wy coyote strap himself to,
you know, rockets and build bombs out of
like dynamite sticks with clocks attached to them on Saturday mornings
and then grows up and becomes the adults
because a bomb. So, so to be clear, the simple device was created from a circuit
board and a power supply wired to a digital display all strapped inside a
case with a tiger hologram on the
front. So, because everyone thinks that anything with a display on the front
looks like a bomb, this guy gets taken away from
school in handcuffs. I mean, what is
this what is this doing for and I like I
tend not to get into the whole like, you know, what's the right way to combat
racism because quite frankly, it's a little outside my wheelhouse. I'm going
to stick to building PCs, which is what I'm usually good at.
But does this seem like the kind of thing that's going to break down race
barriers? you know, hauling away the brown kid in handcuffs because he had
the audacity to bring something to school that someone thought looked like
a bomb when the adult way, and you know,
at 14 you should be able to deal with this the adult way. The adult way to
deal with this would be to be like, "Hey, what is that?" And he'd be like,
"A clock." And you'd be like, "Oh, cool. Show me how it works. We could just
communicate with each other. Seems like kind of an okay idea. I know I'm making
statements and then I'm, you know, my my intonation at the end of my sentences
sounds like a question, but it's because I'm questioning everything right now.
So, very frustrating.
Um, but I mean,
basically, the good news is that the PR
train is rolling on this whole thing. Barack Obama has invited him to the
White House saying that the states needs more kids like him who are taking an
interest in being makers at a young age. Uh Mark Zuckerberg has reached out and
invited him to Facebook HQ. Um a JPL
engineer has invited him to come check out a Mars rover whenever he wants. So
to be clear, happy ending to the story, but this is just insanity. and and and
at any stage someone could and should
have stopped it. So if some kid was like, "Hey, he's got a bomb." All the
teacher had to do was go and look at it. And you know, it's one thing if he, you
know, plants it in a kid's locker he doesn't like and phones in a bomb threat
to the school. Now we're having a serious conversation about, you know,
young Ahmed needing a stern talking to and, you know, should probably be hauled
off in handcuffs. But it's another thing if some kid's like, "Oh yeah, you know
that guy has a bomb." And the teacher looks at it for freaking you're supposed
to have a degree. You're supposed to be an educator for like two seconds. Talks
to the kid for two seconds and avoids the call to the cops. And then the cops
have every opportunity to tell everyone to calm the truck down. It's not a bomb,
which you were clearly told already, and not haul them off in handcuffs. Just
absolutely ridiculous.
I'm sorry you guys have to listen to me sucking back water, but I really, really
need it. All right, so this is good stuff. This is posted by Aming on the
forum. Thank you very much, Aming for posting this. I'm going to go ahead and
copy the link to Android
Authority. Here we go. And then let's go ahead and screen share with you guys.
Bubby, where is it? Yep, there it is. All right, Qualcomm introduces
QuickCharge 3.0, powering up devices four times faster. I always love those
claims with, you know, the little asterisk next to the number. Four times
if you compare to when it was a caveman spinning a stick like this with a wire
attached to the bottom of it, plugged into the bottom of your phone. Um, so
no, it is not four times faster than Quick Charge 2.0, 0, but it is
definitely raising the bar for fast charging and not on just Apple devices.
Like Apple has always been pretty good at this stuff. Now, in the last few
generations of Quick Charge, Qualcomm has allowed pretty much any Android
device out there, as long as they're willing to invest in the supported
products from Qualcomm, haha, uh to have fast intelligent battery charging. So,
Quick Charge 1.0 was 40% faster than
conventional charging. With Quick Charge 2.0 being 75% faster than conventional
charging and Quick Charge 3.0 being 38%
faster than Quick Charge 2.0. This is
cool. It's USB typeC ready. So, I mean,
it seems to me, and I don't have any particular industry insight on this.
Maybe someone has already covered this somewhere, in which case feel free to
tell me I'm an idiot or whatever. that it seems to me like what happened with
the OnePlus 2 was that during product
development type C the connector was ready but the the the backend quick
charge circuitry was not ready for that connector and that standard yet. So,
OnePlus was forced to release the two with the type-C connector, which was a
good call. Durability, reversability, A+
for that, but without rapid charging,
which for some people is a serious drawback. Well, now it's ready. And any
phones that we see that are developed now that the technology is finished
should be able to support both of those things at the same time.
So, aside from achieving insane charging
speeds, this is the first time that Qualcomm is using intelligent
negotiation for optimum voltage, which is a new algorithm to determine how much
voltage that they should request. So,
this will ship in devices with the Snapdragon 820, 620, 618, and
430. Good stuff. Now, here is here is a
thing though. Um, it is common knowledge
I think amongst the technology savvy
folks out there that charging your battery faster does a couple of things.
Number one is it gets you back up and running sooner and number two is it
causes your battery to heat up more. So
it causes the battery to heat up more which can in turn cause your battery to
have a lower lifespan. So, I'm
personally, well, and you can call it superstition, you can call it whatever you want. I'm personally in the uh
charging every time for the batteries that I care about at 1 amp or less camp.
I actually don't even use a 2 amp charger on my Droid Turbo unless I'm
desperate because I want this
3900 milliamp battery to keep being
capable of what a 3900 millia battery
can be for a very very long time. But,
um, you know, with that said, having the option to throw your device on the
charger for 30 minutes and get, you know, enough battery to stay out
basically all day is definitely nice.
And I'm not going to say no to future improvements in quick charge
technology. Oh, this was actually just added this was just added after the fact
to the WAN Show document. So, uh, for everyone watching right now, we are
doing a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus
giveaway. So, let's go ahead and, uh, paste that link into the Twitch chat
here. So, you guys definitely go and
check that out. Uh, let me just go
actually find out what exactly the uh, sorry, what exactly the the terms of
this are. So, we have uh Nick is actually Oh, look at that. There's a
special Linus Media Group staff thing for uh for Linus Media Group staff. I
didn't know that. I don't think I have one of those. Huh. It's pink. Love it.
All right. So, we've partnered with Samsung to give you lucky people the
opportunity to be the owner of a new Galaxy S6 Edge Plus as part of their
your best foot forward
campaign. Is it really fest foot forward? Okay. Uh, they brought
Snapchatter Shawn Durus and Viner Ray Lea out to a few outdoor music festivals
this summer and let them demonstrate how you can step your social media game up a
few notches with the camera features on their new S6 Edge and Edge Plus
smartphones. And it really is a great great camera you guys which you guys
will know if you watched out my S6 Edge review. So, how do you enter? You watch
this video which I'll go ahead and paste in the Twitch chat. Now, I think you
have to like it as well. Not 100% sure
how they're tracking that, but I think you're supposed to like it. Uh, yep. Hit
the like button uh on the videos in the series over on Samsung's channel and
comment below letting them know what your favorite feature highlighted in the
series was. So, it's one comment per person and it is a
worldwide giveaway. Good stuff. Way to
go, Nick. I guess uh so the phone will probably be shipped out by us. So there
you go, guys. Uh definitely go open that in another tab or whatever or go hit go
hit like and leave your comment now. It only takes a second and you'll be entered for a chance to win a Galaxy S6
Edge Plus, which as far as I can tell
now that I've had my hands on both of them, is basically a Note 5 with the
curve on the glass instead of the curve on the back. Um so yeah, and so far,
where is my Note 5? What the heck? Oh, well. Oh, there it
is. It's under my butt. Um, so I've been working on my Note 5 review for a little
while now. So far, wow. Really nice
phone. This is the first phone. This is
the first Note series phone that has really gotten my attention. There were
things I liked about previous ones. Um, I'm sure Ed's going to correct me here,
but I think it was a Note 2 was the last Note he had, and there were some really
great things about that phone. I mean, the huge screen is obviously nice for
content consumption. And let me tell you, with the bezels being so small on
this puppy, it really is outstanding for content consumption. It had really loud
speakers, which is something that's easier to do in a larger phone body just
because you can fit bigger speakers in it. And um yeah, anyway, really like
this phone so far. Stay tuned because my review will be coming at some point in
the future. I actually don't have an ETA on that yet.
All right. Uh, what have we got next? Oh, this is interesting. So, this was
posted by Patrick 3027 on the forum. And
the original article here is from the
BBC. Computers do not improve pupil
results, says the organization for economic cooperations and development.
So, here's the forum post over there, and let's go ahead and pull this baby
up. H so investing heavily in school
computers and classroom technology does not improve pupils performance says a
global study from the OECD. The think tank says frequent use
of computers in schools is more likely to be associated with lower
results. That is very interesting.
Um so Tom Bennett
um a government expert on pupil behavior said that teachers have been dazzled by
school computers. So the the report from
the OECD examines the impact of school technology on international test results
such as the Pisa test taken in more than 70 countries and tests measuring digital
skills. So, an average daily minutes for countries using the internet at school
graph is available right here. Also on the
BBC see if we can find it. Yep, here we go. So, your top five average daily
minutes using internet at school. Okay.
And then let me see. Number of students per school computer. Top five, bottom
five, bunch of really good stuff. You guys should definitely check it out. Here's a link directly to the article.
But I guess I would like to bring up a few things that it feels like we're
overlooked a little bit here. Okay, so Singapore with only moderate use of
technology in school is top for digital skills,
but okay, we're we're I I went to Singapore quite recently and what I'll
tell you about Singapore is that is one
wealthy ass country. Okay, straight up.
That is that is that is a like a a an
elite of the elite
haven. And I mean everything from how
totally unaffordable cars are to, you
know, if you don't want to live in the government funded housing to how totally
unaffordable property is like Singapore. What I'm trying to say is
that they're using their computers at home if they're not using them at school
and developing digital skills that way. You don't get computer skills by not
investing in computer technology in the
education system. Like the fact that I
know anything about computers. I was introduced to computers at school. Okay,
you can't just not have it at all. And I'm not saying that everything should be
on an iPad either. I genuinely don't
think that that's the right approach. And I think there is a value to working
with a pen or a pencil and a piece of paper. But, and I guess this is part of
what the report is saying, you have to strike a happy medium. I guess just the
part that I feel like was missed here is that it's not necessarily about, you
know, internet use or computer use. It's about smart computer use. Like, you
know, that uh that news that broke a little while ago about China investing
heavily in 3D printers in their schools.
That makes a ton of sense to me. You could tell me that my kid is going to
have an, you know, an hour block two times a week every week on, you know,
uh, digital 3D modeling and 3D printing
and design. And I would say, is that it like is that enough? because that is the
future. Whereas, you know, if you're just kind of, you know, giving students
access to computers and these kind of like hokey educational software programs
that are like here is an onscreen, you know, keyboard,
piano. Oh, you learned a thing. Yay. Where it's basically just a game and the
the the skills that are being introduced are very very rudimentary. Um or you
know like like when when and I don't know how much it's changed and I'm going
to learn all these things now that my kids are finally getting to school age
but like when we had computer lab time we were doing crap like playing Oregon
Trail and you could make the argument you know oh well there's historical
value there learning about the settlers or
some crap or whatever but like come on
it's not like we couldn't have covered everything that there is to know in that
game in like a couple of a couple of lessons and then moved on to to
something else. So, I don't know, man.
There's uh education is changing cuz I mean, here's another thing that I'll
kind of throw at you guys. Like, I actually limit um fairly strictly my
son's access to screens. I don't think
that a three-year-old needs to spend a ton of time playing video games,
watching movies, um or otherwise sitting still. I think they need to be running
around. I think they need to be building towers out of blocks. I think they need
to be doing hands-on things because, and
you know, you hear the opposite argument a lot. You know, well, how will they be
prepared for the digital age and the devices and the blah blah blah? Come on,
get real. That stuff is so intuitive and so fun that he's going to do that crap
on his own without any encouragement from me whatsoever. The world we live in
now is so connected digitally that he's not even ever going to think about, you
know, physical media. You know, the concept of of a of a file in a folder on
on a a drive or in the cloud somewhere
is going to be completely second nature to him. I don't have to teach him that
crap. Um, so anyway, with all of that said, in
the limited amount of time that he has spent, you know, on YouTube or um
actually most mostly YouTube, now that I think about it, the kid is three and can
already read a fair amount. And I I I will say straight up,
I'm going to I'm going to give these guys a shout out. I think it's called
like Kids TV123 or some crap like that.
Uh, let me see if I can find it. Yep, Kids
TV123. This YouTube channel,
man. As far as I can tell, they taught my kid basically everything he knows.
And I can sing their phonics song off by
heart. Pretty pretty darn good here. A
is for apple. Aapp is for ball. BBB. And you know what
I mean? My my kid is not only It's really funny. We um we did an
orientation for his prechool a couple
weeks ago and the the teacher was saying, you know, oh, I had a really
advanced student once that knew the whole alphabet, but this is more of just
like a play and get familiar with the concept of a classroom program. It's at
the local community center. Anyway, I was like, sorry, you had a pupil who
knows the alphabet. He's known the full alphabet and all the phonetic sounds of
all the letters since he was two. Um, so
yeah, thank you YouTube, I guess.
So, I didn't really lay down a firm opinion on any of that, did I? I guess
what I was trying to say is it's not clear-cut. and the conclusions that
especially some readers of the BBC article and other articles about this um
are drawing that like oh you know there's a negative correlation between
computer time and results are not necessarily accurate because it's way
more to do with how the computer time is being used and yeah how the computer
time is being used like I really don't think that doing addition on an iPad
brings anything to the table versus doing addition on a piece of paper and a
pencil. Um, but you know, things like
like a 3D modeling class or whatever else, like 3D 3D art, sign me and all my
kids up and I I wouldn't mind, you know, having him come home and show me his
homework, that kind of stuff,
too. All right. Oh, cool. Oh, never mind. That's
embargoed. I was about to tell you guys a thing, and I will not be doing that.
Oh, fly just hit me in the head. Intel launches and this is uh this is
definitely something that I'm happy to hear about. Let's go ahead and post this
in Twitch chat. Man, I am loving my internet connection right now. We just
upgraded to Gigabit up and down and I'm
like super stoked on super stoked on my life right now. Uh automotive security
review board to ensure the cyber security of cars. This is something we
don't appreciate enough about Intel. Sometimes it's not all about how fast
can you make the transistor switch and like, you know, how much cash can you
stick on there. They're involved in a lot of bigger picture stuff that we all
benefit from whether we buy Intel CPUs or not. So, the reports of hacked cars,
in fact, we've talked about it on the WAN Show, have been pretty regular lately with about one in five vehicles
on the road worldwide. um sort of projected to have some kind
of wireless network connection by 2020.
Meaning more than 250 million connected vehicles could potentially be affected
by these issues that have been showing up in the news like really more often
than we'd like in the last little bit. This is all according to Gartner. uh
Intel so then announced the formation of the automotive security review board the
ASRB which aims to lessen and address autocyber security risks. So their
research ARM is tasked with performing continuous security tests and
inspections and will pick from top security industry talent and Intel has
also published the first white paper version of the automotive security best
practices. They will provide incentives by awarding a new car to the researcher
that makes the most significant contributions in advancing automobile
cyber security. Well, dang, man. I wish I had
that kind of capability. I could use a new car, as many of you probably know.
On the subject of a new car for Linus, let's talk about the sponsors for
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think is pretty cool. Um Esther is actually here in the warehouse working
on the Linus Tech Tip set, but we've got a number of other things including like
an old sewing machine and all kinds of junk that we're planning to add to the
back to make the W show uh to make the W show look better. So I had a few people
say, "Hey, the new set looks great, except that like it's really plain
looking." Don't worry, we're working on it. And speaking of working on
it, if you find yourself working on things and you don't have the right
tool, you might just want to get yourself one of these puppies. This is
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these ones and the ProTek tool kit is this is all the really tiny bits and
these ones have nice rubber grips on them so you can really crank them. Uh,
what is this? Yeah, this is just a box for another Protek to Tool Kit. Way to
go, guys. Doesn't come with two ProTek tool kits. Bunch of other stuff in here.
There's like a screen cleaner. There's like a little a little blower for
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idea. So, it's September, so I know it's a little early for Christmas, but how
thrilled would the geek in your family be? That is assuming that you're not the
geek in your family, or you know, one of them at least. How thrilled would the
geek in your family be if they got uh a toolkit like that for Christmas? Pretty
cool stuff. Everyone's giving me crap about the Where's My Finger thing. Come
on. I can't be an expert on everything,
you know, and things being in front of other things. That's some complicated
stuff right there. Uh, what else we got for Oh, this is great. So, the OP here
is Prof over on the forum. Fan
freakingtastic friends. Uh,
so I actually, okay, I haven't looked too much into this one yet, but the
original article here is from CBC. Robot ethicist calls for ban on sex
robots. Now, we've talked about this on the show before. There are some pretty
like I don't know what to say. I don't want to be offensive, but for me
personally, so take it as, you know, my personal, you know, ignorant hate speech
or whatever, some pretty
creepy sex toys out there, like some pretty weird stuff where, you know, they
want to use AI to make the interaction seem like the toy is enjoying it. And,
you know, super realistic heads and super realistic bodies. And I'll tell
you, when I was over in Japan just kind of walking around in stores, I found
some stuff that I was just like, "Wow, really?" Um, so maybe I just live under
a rock and this is all like totally totally normal stuff. But, uh, Dr. Dr.
Richardson, Dr. Kathleen Richardson is a robot ethicist at Deontford University
in Lychester and she believes that these
robot sex dolls reinforce traditional
stereotypes of women and view that it is a
relationship that oh right so this this like sort of
traditional stereotype of women and and a view that a relationship doesn't need
to be anything more than physical. Um,
so sex dolls on the market are becoming more sophisticated. Um, so company,
there's a company called True Companion that boasts that it's developing the
world's first sex robot and promises to
launch its first doll, Roxy with 3X's,
of course, later this year. There are apparently thousands of pre-orders at a
retail price of $7,000. With the CEO of True Companion
commenting, "We are not supplanting the wife or trying to replace a girlfriend.
This is a solution for people who are between relationships or someone who has
lost a spouse and wants the doll to be a
self-learning engine for the
user." Wow. I think we've actually run
this straw poll before, but I don't remember the results. And I always love
to hear from you guys. So, sex doll. And this is going to be a bit of a different
phrasing of the question. So, is it And
I want to be really careful with the use of this word because the word wrong
has a lot of negative connotation, you
know. Yeah. Let's not go with the word wrong. Let's go with sex
dolls. agree or
disagree. Okay, so I'm keeping it very
general. So basically, do you think and
and you can interpret this? I leave it open for interpretation a little bit. Do
you think people should should buy them? Do you think people should make them? Do
you think people should be allowed to buy them? Should be allowed to make
them? like do you think do you agree or
do you not agree? They they should or they should not at all. And I and I know
that I hope most of you kind of get what I mean. So here we go. Let's have a look
at the results for that straw poll in a little bit and I'll go ahead and move on
to my next
topic. This is this is so awesome. So the original poster here is Al
Jolina. I straight up have no idea how to pronounce that. I'm going to go ahead
and throw that link in
there. I'm losing track of my links here. There we go. So, the original
article here is from Phone Arena. The Sony Z5 Premium apparently only renders
media in 4K and the rest in 1080p for a
two-day battery. And I can tell you right now, I'm not getting two days out of that battery. And I'm sure a lot of
people aren't. but you know maybe maybe
someone does or whatever. So there was a lot of concern about the absolutely
unbelievable like a lot of people I talked to didn't even believe the rumors
that it was going to have a 4K display. So the astounding 800 plus pixel per
inch density that is a huge first like
way far and away from others. The Galaxy S6 for example has 577 pixels per inch.
A lot of people are saying there's no way that's true because a it would be
impossible to manufacture in any reasonable volume with reasonable yields
so at a reasonable price and b because no one is asking for this. Nobody wants
this. There's no benefit to the end user
to having a high resolution display that
just sucks more power not only itself
but also from the components that are trying to drive it. Like if you're going
to try and game on mobile in 4K, even
though the graphics are not that detailed, you're going to you're just
going to run out of frame buffer. Like you're just going to run out of memory.
It's just not a good idea. So there you
go. Um they showed 10 so they show 1080p
resolution for for the for the like the
actual so so what it'll show to an application is 1080p resolution. So
it'll render at 1080p rather than the display's actual 2160x 3840 pixel
count. So this does raise some concerns
about whether the display will look good running at a non-native resolution,
something that is definitely an advantage for any pixelbased display,
whether it's LCD or uh OLED or whatever
else the case may be. But um as long as
they handle it correctly, I really don't think that's a huge issue. I guess for
me, I'm just sort of scratching my head. So, as
someone who already doesn't believe we need 1440p at 5 1/2 in, I'm I'm I'm
really scratching my head as to why we're even bothered with this. So, it's
got a 3430 mAh battery, which I call
total BS on the 2A battery life with, by the way. and we're throwing a 4K display
at it, which straight up, I mean, I've talked about Retina already on this
show. Sort of the Retina display concept, which already we won't be able
to tell, especially because where are you guys getting 4K like good quality 4K
content on your phones? And like, I don't know. There there's a hund there's
a hundred reasons I can think of why this is why this is totally stupid. But
if you wanted to be a baller and have the first 4K phone display, then I guess
you can pick up a Z5 Premium. And I'm I I haven't uh I haven't really managed to
make a point here, but I guess there just isn't really one. Let's go back to
the sex dolls. Here we go. Sex dolls. Agree or
disagree? So, uh a significant 54% of
you figure what the hey, bring it on. Sex dolls. um with 20% of you
um maybe having concerns about whether
people will bother to maintain traditional relationships if they have
the option of just having a sex doll and
fulfilling those particular needs. I mean, let's let's let's let's be honest
with ourselves. you know, a fair amount of the effort that we put into, you
know, combing our hair in the morning and not smelling bad is about trying to
attract a mate. Um, so if we feel like
we don't have to bother, then you know, are we Well, apparently only 20% of you
care about that with 26% of you figuring
turnip is the only response there with
any merit. All right.
Oh, this is just such a bummer for
AMD. Here we go. I went ahead and posted that there. Uh, the original article
here is from WCCF
Tech. Jim Keller has left AMD. Oh, can
you not, please? Thank you. Jim Keller has left AMD. So, uh, he was well known
for having a a a heavy hand. Well, no,
heavy hand has a particular meaning. So, having his hands directly on AMD's K7
and K8 series microprocessors. So, that
was really the heyday of AMD, you guys. Like, AMD rode K8. I mean, a lot of what
they did with K8, um, you know, after
Jim Keller left was just like adding
glue to the design that was already there. like you know it's like oh well
we've got like uh we got like one of these K8 cores why don't we like do two
now because we have a you know smaller manufacturing process. Um so he actually
left uh in 1998 and was involved in Apple's
A4 and A5 SOC's after joining Apple in
2008. So yeah he has worked on some
pretty bigname stuff. So he came back to
AMD in 2012 to work on their to work on
basically digging them out of the hole that they were in for desktop CPU
performance. So, um, code name Zen,
AMD's upcoming x86 cores are targeting a
40% improvement in per clock performance
over AMD's previous generation processors, which, let's just face it,
have absolutely stunk. Like AMD managed to
take the uh, what was like the last like
sort of compelling one? I guess you could say the 1100T was their last six
core. They managed to introduce 8 core processors that legitimately had lower
IPC than their previous six core and like it hasn't really gotten any better
from there. I mean we keep getting you know better on board graphics which you
know AMD was really banging that drum like yeah we got APUs we got APUs we got
APUs and by the time anyone cares and by the time any applications leverage this
Intel's going to have onboard graphics that are like as good or better. Oh
crap. What are we going to do now? So, um, it looks like the plan, you know, in
2012 was to bring back the CPU on the
AMD side and and and hit it hard. And so, he's been there for a few years now
working on that. And, uh, now he's gone.
Now, with that said, something a lot of people don't really understand is that a
CPU or a graphics processor, you know, any of these types of products is being
worked on literally for years. So, if
Zen is going to launch in 2016, I think Q4 is the current rumor. If Zen is going
to launch in quarter 4 of 2016,
um, and he's been working on it since 2012, probably so much of the groundwork
has been laid at this point that him leaving could have little to no impact
on Zen. So, I've seen a lot of people,
you know, knee-jerk reactions to this going, "Oh, no, AMD is doomed. They're not going to have Zen. They're not going
to have a processor. Um, that's that's
totally not not going to be the case. I
I hope I mean I can't say Zen's not doomed, but what I'll say is that Jim
Keller leaving now is probably not going to be the reason for Zen to be doomed if
it does end up being doomed. Um, however, we look at what happened
last time he worked on a project over there
and then we left and then it was like kind of super bad after that. Um, I'm
not saying that won't happen again, but I mean, it's not like he also hasn't
been there working with his team for a few years, you know, hopefully training
people. I'm not saying obviously that he's the only person who worked on Zen.
We've got an extraordinarily skilled team of engineers over at AMD. So, you
know, it's not it is not a one-man job designing a CPU. So, there you go. Read
into it however much or however little you want, but he's gone. And uh that's a
bummer. Speaking of things that are a bummer, this is like, do you not charge
us enough already? You know, our original article
here is from RS Technica. Let's go ahead and pull this up. Are you not already
sucking us dry? Empty Epson ink
cartridges have been discovered to be
still 20% full.
20%. So high-end. And this is this is not like your cheapo consumer like we
need to bill you for for a couple more dollars, you know, nonsense here. This
is like this is like high-end printers
where they're basically just scamming the customer out of 15th of what they
paid an awful lot of money to have. So,
this uh so a printing company cut open some cartridges to see how empty they
really were. So, this is a high-end printer that retails for about
$3,000 or about
$5,000. And basically, their comments to
Epson, which they have made multiple times asking about this, like, hey,
what's the deal? These are like 15 to 20% full still, um have just gone
unanswered. So, they still have 60 to 80 mills of ink. When you consider that
inkjet printer ink is as expensive or
more than high-end perfume, you better have a freaking good excuse for wasting
60 to 80 ms of this stuff. And on top of
that, this is this is hilarious. Um, so
this printer has something along the
Yeah, there you go. The Stylus Pro 9900
has 11 cartridges. So, if you're
throwing away $50 of ink per cartridge,
changing out your 11 cartridges, we're talking
$550. That is so
rubbish. Like, holy crap. So, uh they're hoping that their
YouTube video will get them more exposure so that Epson will actually
have to answer for what they're doing. And I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to
link that here. You guys should definitely check that out. do share it
because the more pressure that we can put not just on Epson, the more pressure
that we can put on ink cartridge companies to accurately report the ink
in them, the better. And it's not just about reporting. Like, it's one thing to
have electronic reporting for how much ink is left. That's great. I love that.
And I even understand if they're going to buffer the reporting and it's going
to go down to zero when there's actually, you know, 15 to 20% left
because you can't account for, you know, cleaning cycles or or or whatever. Okay?
So, there's there's stuff that you might not be able to account for. You're not
going to get every last drop out of anything. It might cling to the side.
So, fine. Fine. I understand that.
But what I don't understand is that you
don't keep printing until you're done.
It's like it's like if your car has a fuel gauge that goes to E, you know,
when it's, you know, pretty empty, which a lot of them do. In fact, consumers
have said that they prefer that that and and you watch your car. Okay. So, it
stays on full for a bit and then it kind
of, you know, blitzes its way for a bit
and then it kind of hangs around half and then it goes down faster to kind of
the bottom and then it like hangs out there for a bit and the needle on some
cars will actually go past the E. Like, it's hilarious. Um, but that doesn't
mean you stop driving when it hits the E if there's still gas in the tank. Come
on, man. If I want to like ride my ink
cartridges to the end, then I should have the right to do
that. All right, what else we got here?
Wow, this show has flown by. It's after 6 already. Holy cow. Um, this is cool.
So, this was posted by Alex goes high on the forum. Let's go ahead and copy that
link there. Boop. And the original article here is
from The Verge. Here's our best look yet at BlackBerry's upcoming Android slider.
This is a phone that could get my attention
because as much as this marks me as a
bit of an old guy, I am from the
physical phone keyboard era. Okay? And I
still touch type better on a physical
phone than I do on a touchcreen. I've seen people who can touch type on a
touchcreen faster than I ever was on a physical phone. And kudos to them. I'm
not one of them. Maybe partly uh due to the fact that I'm switching phones all
the time, so the spacing is always changing around on me. But I'm not going to make excuses. I'm better touch typing
on a physical keyboard than I am on a not physical keyboard. And that looks
absolutely fantabulous, doesn't it? If you're into the Blackberry Blackberry
keyboard, see, it's not actually inordinately thick. You might be into
this particular device. And this hands-on from the Verge is looking pretty good. If other things about it
are good, this could be this could be a
winner. So, other specs, it has a 5.4 in quad HD display, a Snapdragon 808
processor, 3 gigs of RAM, and an 18 megapixel rear camera. To be clear, the
18 megapixels means nothing. So, let's
wait until we see some test images from it. Uh, what else we got for rapid fire
topics today? Uh, Google accidentally launched
climate change. Uh, this was originally posted by Jaws on the forum. Now, to be
clear, they didn't change the climate, which is what the headline
there actually kind of sounds like. And the original article here is from
Android Headlines. It's great. Our internet is
so fast now that I always know that it's
someone else's site that's slow. Awesome. Um, so it's Google Maps
is testing a climate change feature. And what it basically did, Can I help you?
Just want to say hi. Oh, okay. Hi. Hi.
It's not after party. It's still the show. Okay. Well, it's after six.
Uh, so last Friday, a worst case scenario report was released to the news
media about the effects of sea levels if
we burn all of our fossil fuels. On the same day, Google turned on a new feature
in Google Maps that showed the California coastline underwater with
just a 2in Ryzen sea levels. So this
was their attempt to raise awareness about the effects of fossil fuels. The
Los Angeles area was the only part of the country where this feature was
turned on and uh Google states that it
was a coincidence to time it with the worst case scenario report and also
blames their many map partners for the issue. It's been back to normal since
last Friday. Um I guess that's pretty much
it. I I want to thank all of you guys for tuning in to the WAN Show and I will
see you again next week. Same bat time, same bat channel. This time with no
technical difficulties. Okay, come on. It was
pretty minor this week, you guys. Was just a black screen for like a minute.
It's not that bad, right? I mean, also I guess the intro, which I'm rolling now,
which I'm trying to roll now, which
okay, didn't didn't restart on time. Okay, so dang it. Don't remember
playback position. And then when
finished, do nothing. And I think we're done here.
Thanks for watching, guys. See you next week.
Um, there's the train. Yeah. The one
drawback of the new studio compared to the old one, the train that goes by
periodically, like all the time.
Actually, it's not that bad. Yeah. Yeah.
A couple times a day. All right.