the peg tops for these we're live
which are very cool by the way they are maybe a video about that eventually yes
yes maybe eventually welcome my friends to the WAN Show the show on the internet
that's the joke after all WAN Show
why no one got it at this point almost
no well no no i remember when we first changed the name which is really funny
everyone hated the name WAN Show i bet most of you don't even remember
i missed the days when it was the live stream when it didn't have all these
production values and 3D printed microphone holders with screw the garage
i liked the kitchen or the living room screw the kitchen i liked the whatever
was before the kitchen with the bookshelves and change is never good why
get off my lawn um
all right so uh Oh wow yeah I've got people talking in the uh talking in the
chat about who's wearing their WAN hoodies yes the WAN hoodies have finally
dropped mine's actually at home yeah mine's mine's at home i do have to wash
it occasionally also short sleeves like
it is finally getting to be the real the real spring going on over here i noticed
because I do thermal testing in the warehouse and the warehouse doesn't really have like it has heating things
but they're usually off um you can track like what season the video came out in
based on the ambient temperatures in the warehouse cuz in the winter it was like
16° now it's like 22 and it's like oh okay I really hope it doesn't get like
too hot in here in the summer probably going to you know what last summer it
was somewhat bearable on the days when we didn't open up the bays and and we
have the window coverings now that'll help that's cuz like my office someone
walked into my office uh yesterday taran Taran came into my office yesterday
before we shot the Channel Super Fun and he was like "Holy crap it's hot in
here." I had had the Windows I had had the window cover open for about seven
minutes when before I beams right in there
before I got them that office was like a sauna it was horrible i hate that it was
absolutely horrible so much and to be clear guys we have an air conditioning
setup yeah but you don't air condition a warehouse generally speaking it's not
unless you're like a cold storage place yeah do you have any idea how ballin it
would be to uh air condition the entire warehouse have you been up on the roof
no okay so they're the two air conditioning units you can like you can like see them up there so we have two
air conditioning units each of which are about double the size of this table um
and that is just for the office space which is only about a third of the
entire space in here so we would have to have like six air conditioning units or
much larger ones in order to air condition the warehouse which is insane and it's huge amounts of money lots of
electricity all that kind of stuff so there's there's a ongoing costs suck yes
so there's that even when you live in BC and your your power is pretty cheap
because everything's just falling water it it still sucks one-time costs are
good things like buying a camera like in
the grand scheme of things even a $5,000 camera is not that bad hiring an
employee for you know let's say oh I don't know $2500 or $3,000 a month let
me tell you that adds up extremely quickly especially compared to that
camera two months in you're already way past and then like with with the stuff
that employers have to pay for different various thing possibly one month in and
you know what's BS with the camera I pay for it once and I can use it forever
it turns out employees are nothing like slaves the second you stop paying them
they stop working in fact if you terminate them it is customary to pay
them to keep working for another two weeks even though they don't do it
anyway we've got a lot of great topics for you guys today uh Tesla announced
the Model 3 yay
although you'll have to wait a while if you want one yes more on that in a
little while ooh this is interesting lawmakers pushing to make owning an
unregistered prepaid phone illegal in
the United States of a holortation
from Microsoft it's all I'm going to say is hollowportation
anything is better with portation at the end yeah like uh like transportation
that's a little boring maybe yeah not always planes trains automobiles yeah
that's a great movie yes anyways you don't even know that's a movie do you i
know that's a movie why I said you didn't know who Tom Hanks was i You
didn't know Harrison Ford played Han Solo i Okay those are mis quotes and not
fair okay you know what's great about the
internet speaking of quotes no they can go watch it mr mr gabe Newell once said
that you can't lie to the internet because they watch it you did not know
Harrison Ford i know who Harrison Ford is i forgot his name in context when
talking about Han Solo it's still inexcusable but that's not how it
happened that's why I said a misquote
god won't you misquote another topic um in uh Bintel
Rodwell IP branched
there i misqued a topic which was Intel Broadwell EP no you're done intro's
rolling you're done
and when it's done rolling he won't be there
okay no no see there's a problem with this there's a there's a big problem
with this so I'm going to have to fix this here we've got We've got ourselves
a problem i'm just going to Hold on i got to just There we go yeah okay oh no
no he's back okay yeah good enough his
feet can stay that's it you're done
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all right so get get back get back in here get back in here so that what you
said wasn't going to be a misquote so I had to not be there yeah because then
we'd have to get rid of me and then there would be no WAN Show and that's a problem do you know how many WAN shows
in a row we have done on Fridays whether
it's you know Christmas
or New Year's which I think both fell on Fridays this year we kind of fake out
the Christmas one april Fools we did fake out we did it on a Thursday that's
true we did we did we did we did we did every other one we honestly haven't
faked it yep yep i I don't think we've I don't think we Yeah i don't think we've
ever actually claimed it was a live broadcast when it wasn't no i've had
people in the chat be like "This isn't live there's no way it's live." Then
I'll like reply to them in chat and then they're like "Oh okay."
Really that actually happens like quite a bit oh cuz it'll be some holiday and
they'll be like "There's no way they came into work." It's like "Actually we did." There's been a few times where
we'll move when we get the holiday so like we'll take the holiday on the
Monday instead of the Friday or there's been other times where we just come in
to work at like 4 yep i think we did that i think we only did that once but
Luke and I did do one day where just he and I came in no one else was in the
office we hosted the WAN Show and then we pieced out it was a beautiful day if
I recall correctly yeah yeah i think it was must have been like BC day or family
day or something like that and we're just like "Yeah it's really hot in this
room and it's really gorgeous outside." We had to like listen to the kids
walking yeah anyways speaking of gorgeous outside the original article
was posted on the forum by Maybback 123
yes I have Tesla Model 3 announced the
release is set for 2017 which is a very very generous headline courtesy of The
Verge because uh I think what Musk
actually said was that production will be starting in late 2017 with the plan
being to actually deliver cars by the
end of 2017 just a few which is Yeah which which based on how many people
have pre-ordered the damn thing already probably doesn't mean that everyone who
pre-orders is getting one right off the hop no no definitely not like I I
wouldn't expect it to be any different than their other launches where they're
just going to go in order of their pre-order list so okay what do you think
the very front Okay so what I think it
looks ugly okay but cuz you said
speaking of beautiful and I was like yeah I'm not much no I'm not much of a I'm not much of a car guy so I generally
don't have much of an opinion about a car okay but this looks jarring and
unattractive to me but I think I understand why again maybe because well
it looks like it kind of crashed into a wall maybe because I'm not a car guy
because I'm looking at it I I like to think very very objectively
and I think what I don't like about it is just that the grill is missing i
understand why the grill's not there you don't need one
you don't need one for an electric car there's no There's no radiator there's no heater core well oh no there is a
heater core probably but I guess that would just be handled down here or something anyway anyway like I I get why
it's ugly and it has kind of a It has kind of a Porsche look to it a little
bit to me like the Okay I see it like the the hood has kind of like a Porsche
look to it looks exactly like a Panamera to me uh Brandon says it looks like a
Panamera to him but I think if you if you shopped a grill onto it
all of a sudden I didn't think it was a grill thing at all until you brought the It wouldn't look so unnatural to people
and I think car people who find beauty in every line and every aspect of a car
are used to seeing something it's like it's like let's say a very beautiful
woman who didn't have a nose m maybe
she's still beautiful but you're looking
for you're looking for the elements that make the person a a human and well also
and if something's missing it's I think it's jarring but then at the same time
you're going to get people that want jarring so people are going to really like this there's people that might be
super into the chick with no Nose it like it But yeah exactly i when I first
saw this I thought it looked especially probably because of the lighting in that
photo if you want to jump back there and share it yeah sure i'll I'll get back on
there so I'm assuming it's especially cuz this specific photo is the only time
that I've been like "Oh I don't really like it." But you can see right along
the edge on the top it's It's I'm going to Yeah I can't really so right along
there you can see the line from the lighting and it makes it look like this
super harsh angle it does it looks like it was like angle folded in and like it
was smashed into a wall and I don't really like that but in profile pictures
it doesn't look nearly as bad so I think it's because of the lighting in that one
photo interesting it look It looks like super bent in and awkward and I know
like uh Brandon brought up the Panamera
and there are some Porsche cars that do kind of do that but then there's
something going on there whether it's a grill or
something an opening i know they have the opening at the bottom but it doesn't really look the same it still looks like
a pretty harsh edge it still does look like It still does look like you know it
looks like someone took a styrofoam cutter and just cut off the front of the car yeah I can see it and you know what
like the thing is is that if there was a grill on there it wouldn't bother you i
bet pro because you could even have the grill come it could even be concave i
mean concave grills are a thing you could have a concave grill right there
and it would look totally natural but I think it's I think it's like the nose analogy is pretty good where it's just
like the nose isn't there and you're looking
like it kind of looks bland here like I'm expecting
the grill is an accent piece i mean that's why you that's why you call you
know the gold teeth nonsense that's why you call it a grill it's like it's a
fancy it's a dressed up element of a vehicle and it's missing on this car um
the registration plate will be there yeah
I don't know how much that's going to help a good point and thank you for
bringing that up but I don't know how much it'll help it's going to be such a
small thing and it's very overlooked on a lot of cars anyways yeah it surprises
me that for the sake of fuel economy they don't have like an air scoop that
filters air through the car or something like that like you uh like it it looks
like a very blunt nose but I'm sure the engineers at Tesla thought of something
i was just going to say I'm sure there's some logic behind the like even
aerodynamics of it having a straight wall doesn't normally seem like a great
idea for that but I'm sure there's something going on there i mean it's one
of those things where it's not until you an engineer it's not until you sit in a
better engineered car that you you appreciate certain things about it like
I had uh the first vehicle that I ever sat in that I noticed this on like my my
family always had North American vehicles and so the first car I ever
noticed this on was a Volkswagen Jetta of some sort some some some model it was
a long time ago and I marveled that when
I opened the Windows when I unrolled them in the rain the rain didn't drip
inside the car and I was like leave it
to the Germans to figure out how you can
open your window like as long as it's not torrential downpour or like coming
in that way on an angle or or angled how
to have the water kind of fly past the
car instead of like going right into the window and soaking whoever's in the back
seat i was like "This is amazing." I think it was a 91 Jetta and I I don't I
suspect that not every Volkswagen or and
and it could have been by chance it could have been entirely by chance although I doubt it yeah um
so so it it blows me away the number of things that go into something as that's
seemingly as simple to the untrained viewer as the body design of a car where
you just kind of go "Yeah it must just be for looks right?" No manufacturability
uh aerodynamics things like keeping the freaking rain off of people absolutely
absolutely stunning the amount of work that goes into something like this um
that being said I think the rest of the car is very good-looking
i think the rest of the car is actually very plain looking for a $35,000 car
though brand new okay so here I'm going to I'm going to do this i'm going to put
us here does that not pretty much look like the
butt end of my Civic i just like the little Tesla badge to be
completely honest you dislike the Tesla badge really you don't like this no I I
just like Oh you just like that that's it not dislike okay i didn't know like
cuz when you covered it up I was like kind of boring so like That's probably
That's probably a significant part of it
you are so freaking shallow if you look at the back too though I think there's
like a cool window thing going on uh yeah okay so no they've uh Verge has
another has another shot of it um here let's go ahead i'm just going to cuz I
liked that cool i thought Yeah so that's pretty cool okay so it's one continuous
piece of glass all the way from the front of the windshield to the back of
the windshield and this is with a fivestar safety rating i was going to say this is another thing that kind of
blows me away because Musk has come right out and said that it will be one
of the safest cars available and I'm
kind giant piece of glass over everyone and I'm kind of going I mean this is
something people don't think about because how often do you pick up you
know a six foot long piece of glass not very often no freaking heavy oh yeah i
had to put the door back on my uh my glass enclosed shower thing at home with
the help of my with the help of my wife
and like it was all we could do to get
it on crooked it's on crooked now
and I was like she wanted to take it off and it was one of those like husband and
wife things where you know she's wrong and you know you're going to regret it
but you do it anyway because you're just like yes you're right dear it is very
very important indeed to you know clean the thing under the hinge or whatever
stupid asinine thing it is that we're doing right now um
let's take it off and so we did and I
regretted it and so did she so now it actually doesn't close anymore oh but it
it kind of mostly closes do you get splash or anything no okay so it's
probably It is functionally functional but not aesthetically functional it is
functionally functional yes thank you for that yeah I knew what I said was
dumb as soon as I said it but uh but I like I like Anyways the instant replay
was much appreciated coming back to the car I do like that part a lot it looks
really cool i worry about it in crashes and stuff um yeah i mean if he's I mean
the the Model S is a shockingly safe car it is and this is a fivestar safety
rating so like I don't know i mean that just seems like
I mean so many the thing about modern cars is that what has made them so safe
speeds on highways have gone up the speeds that people travel have gone up
the the incidents of injury and death and collisions have gone down
dramatically in the last 50 years
crumple zones that's been the answer is
let the car take the brunt of it and I don't understand
how glass factors into a crumple zone
unless it is that that cubing glass that
you find on automobiles where it's designed to go "Okay haha I'm dead."
And disintegrate into a bajillion pieces
but why would you want that type of glass above the driver and the passenger
i thought it would be windshield glass well that would be that's that's that
kind oh I thought you Okay yeah so it's either designed to be rigid in which
case um
it seems like a problem or it's designed to shatter into a bazillion pieces in
which case but windshield glass holds together when it shatters it visibly
shatters but it holds together windshield glass hold on maybe I'm
thinking is it side glass you can be side glassass am I thinking of side
glassass the hell up because okay my mom had a while I was in the car had a rock
come through her drive same thing exploded window is gone the front of the
window you can beat the crap out of the front of a car window and it'll just
you're right cuz you can like stick a bat through them okay so but either way
then either answer I don't understand I think
I understand windshield glass a lot more no but so you think this is windshield
glass okay I like I mean then in that case
yeah and what someone just said roofs aren't part of crumple zones it would be your trunk and your front that's true
okay that's true so as long as you don't get hit by a semi the theory would be
then that the crumple in which case you're doomed anyway uh so the theory
would be then that the crumple zone
wouldn't actually reach the roof
the things that kind of worry me uh outside of that are if you get t-boned
Yes and your your door like by something big yeah and the door frame like if you
get hit by a by an SUV like a truck or an SUV or something and and the like
upper part of your door frame bends but then if it's made of windshield glass
then it should just vis visibly explode but mostly hold it assuming it's affixed
very securely here here and here which it kind of looks like the idea would be
that it could basically dent in without necessarily creating a disastrous window
is like layered i think there's like glass and then plastic and then glass or something like laminated yeah I don't
remember exactly what it is don't quote me on that i would look it up it's kind
of cool actually but it should it should visibly shatter like crazy but then kind
of hold it shape to the point where if I remember correctly I've seen videos of
people like pulling it and it like bends but it still holds its shape and like
will visibly blow up but still hold its shape i don't remember what the exact
combination of things is but they're like "Guys stop you know nothing about
glass." Well that's Welcome to the WAN Show that's true um all right so let's
talk about some of the other things we do know about the car price is looking to start at $35,000 which puts it right
smack in range of the new Bolt that or
hold on volt and Volt the Volt that Chevy was No wait no Bolt volt that
Chevy was showing off at the auto show that I just attended oh that was so
confusing so yeah Chevy Volt is the is the hybrid which is a plug-in hybrid
starting 2017 and then the Bolt is the pure electric um so Chevy is saying that
the Bolt will be sub $30,000 in the US
assuming that you get the full federal uh tax credit which I think can be as
much as $7500 okay but if you are in I
think Tesla's quoting that and if you are in a lower income bracket you won't
necessarily be able to take advantage of it because it is a tax refund so it
assumes that you paid $7,500 in taxes
and then they refund that okay um
will deliver at least 215 miles of range
although we are a long way out from when the car is actually shipping um which is
end of 2017 elon Musk fairly confident
according to our notes here that deliveries will begin by the end of 2017
so they've got time to tune it means like nothing and that's very similar to
what Chevy is quoting on the bull i actually was really it was it was
actually kind of fun doing the auto show even though like again I'm not really a
car guy cuz I got to talk to so many people that I have like little snippets
of information that are actually relevant to what we're talking about right now for a change i don't have to
kind of sit there and be like during the car topics
um it's also fairly comparable to uh Hyundai's Ionic which is I believe
shipping now in Korea and coming soon to North America so um yeah really cool car
have you seen the Ionic no three different drivetrains uh traditional
hybrid plug-in hybrid so with like um I think it's about a 22 or 25 mile or 18
somewhere somewhere in the 18 to 25 mile pure electric range and then it switches
over to a gas motor for a gas engine and then a pure electric so three different
drivetrains of otherwise the same basic car very interesting car oh so you can
buy Okay i was like "Why the hell would
you ever do that?" No no no no it's like yeah hot swap drivetra like that just
sounds needlessly expensive for so many reasons okay yeah um so that's really
This is great so the the the pre-orders in our notes are 130,000 although I
think you were saying Musk has tweeted a number that's higher than that uh I'm
talking to someone about this remember what it is uh Model 3 pre-orders yay for
having computer 7.5
billion worth of Model 3 pre-orders in
24 hours 20 hours ago it was uh past the
150,000 mark wow
so hold on a second let's let's whip out the old uh calculus here oh here we go
180,000 cars now the craziest thing
about this and this is this is really cool this is really smart is that those
people did more than just kind of u you
know uh uh answer a straw poll on the
internet or like a Facebook event
invitation right yeah yeah they they paid $1,000 each for the
privilege of pre-ordered it crazy and
what's really cool about that is I was actually talking to Brandon when we were
at the car show about how much cash
Tesla has burned over the last 18 months
it's like over a billion dollars like they are actually I believe they are
they could be it's somewhere in the they have somewhere in the neighborhood of $1
billion of cash left don't quote me on that exact number but they're burning
through it so fast that I was talking to Brandon i was like "Yeah like they're
going to run out at some point here so they're going to have to go back for another round of investment or something
brilliant idea take pre-orders you know
u 20 months in advance and that actually
just put a significant amount of cash
into the company that actually lets them run for not an insubstantial amount of
time to continue developing the Model 3 while they are still not able to
actually ship cars i mean you know do do the I I should be able to do this in my
head and I feel bad for So the 7.5 billion is the total if everyone paid
full price for the car which I don't even think is uh possible right now so
it's about $180 million yeah so that's the cash injection they just got as
effectively like a like a a a
Kickstarter towards the Model 3 except that you don't actually have to pay the
full amount yeah and they don't have to give Kickstarter a cut so that is an
incredible chunk of uh chunk of moola in
order to uh in order to get things in order to get things rolling over the
next little bit oh this is this is great usa Today has pre-orders topping 198,000
as of two hours later than the Verge
like check this out this is very much a developing story how many pre-orders
Tesla is getting oh my god on the Model 3 wow
um I can't share topics right now because Firefax Firefox that's basically
what it is doing right now fail Fox um Firefox is completely crashed uh I can
do it give me a moment uh which which one are we which one are we linking here
just uh I was going to I was going to share some of the statistics sites um
but for this Oh I think I already shared the car oh okay then we're good um okay
so five adults will fit comfortably in the Model 3 and comfortably is
apparently the important part here um
all Model 3 cars will support Tesla's high-speed supercharging network as well
as feature the hardware which is interesting they specifically said the
hardware for autonomous driving features um so it's possible you will end up
having to pay more in order to enable the software unlock of it um but what's
cool about it coming with the hardware is it means that you could potentially
uh buy that later on down the line which which is a lot easier to swallow for
people and would be really cool for things like the resale value of this
type of a vehicle so if you got kind of go no I want to drive my car myself but
hey you're looking to sell it and someone else wanted the autonomous
version hey that's that's pretty cool you can just download that kit of the
car all models will apparently feature the full safety suite so all of the
safety features and um shoot there was
something else that was really cool that I was going to say just now right and
there will be but there will be variants that will cost more so that that $7.5
billion estimate that assumes that people are only spending uh the very
base right $35,000 but there's going to be a two-w wheelel
drive there's going to be a four-wheel drive model there's going to be any number of different trim levels so
$1,000 down just means you're committed to buy one it doesn't mean that you're
committed to buy a base model and I can imagine people spending more than
$35,000 on Okay it was based off an average retail price of 42 oh 42 sorry
so didn't know that so thank you i just wanted to double check because I wasn't
sure i assumed they would just go for that but like I don't know i have Can
you even go through like a car configurator at this point i really
don't i don't think so i don't so then how do people know what the average retail price is
i don't know yeah but like option mix
stuff yeah no no no no yeah so I'm not really
sure entirely how people are getting that number um because like I'm not
necessarily sure especially with a super affordable car
um that's going to come with a lot of its features anyways like how much extra
are people necessarily going to add i don't know you know I actually take a
completely different view of it than you do the way that I see it like as someone
who's a total cheapkate and has never bought an expensive car um one of the
things that I've been waiting for to upgrade the Super Civic is an electric
vehicle that makes sense so for me if
I'm kind of going okay I have the Super Civic is a 2003 that I've been driving
since 2006 and so for a 10-year
investment do I really want to do to myself what I did to myself last time
cheaping out and not getting air conditioning and is this thing gonna not
come with air conditioning no like that's what I mean like without a kit configurator AC is usually extra really
Tesla well but the thing is Tesla's cars cost six figures right now so it would
be a base model feature but this is a $35,000 car so I don't know without a
kit configurator it's impossible to say yeah but I could see myself investing in
some extra creature comforts if I wouldn't be surprised either like real
deal I'm going to keep it 10 years yeah
yeah I could no I could totally see i'm I'm just saying like just deciding on
that number is maybe a little weird anyways um so this is interesting here's
a blog post from Elon Musk August 2nd
2006 where he outlined the master plan
um which has actually totally come to fruition
blah blah blah as you know Tesla Roadster is the first car it's a sports
car i am going to use the money we make on this to fund to to make something
more affordable enter the Model S then I'm going to use the money from that to
make something that is much more affordable enter the Model 3 so
basically he said 10 years ago what he was going to do blah blah blah here you
go so here's the summary
the rest of the automotive industry had 10 years to react to this master plan
that he actually put in plain and simple
English on the tesla.com blog
and only Chevy looks like they have
somewhat reacted to it properly tried yeah um
with that said I do see the electric car as a secondary
vehicle for most people still even the
Model 3 with secondary vehicle i see it as a second I see it like the second
family car kind of deal not necessarily even the second one but I see it as a as
a car for people who have two vehicles okay because the range and recharging
considerations make it um make it so that if I wanted
to go on a family road trip and I realize you can just rent a van and do
things like that but aside from the cost it's much less common for road trips
these days very inconvenient um
so the the the is it that bad if you're going on a road trip you could plan out
supercharging stations you could 15 miles a day is
Not that much no if you're doing a family road trip though yeah that's true
do you need to slam like I don't know that's true but I mean I don't know i I
don't feel like I would need to buy an entirely different car on the off chance that I wanted to do a family road trip
and book it the whole time but would you as someone who only has a single car
would you buy a pure electric then sure you think so uh here it would be a
little bit harder well I live I would also probably be completely fine because
the craziest stuff I do is drive to Kitsano and back so which is completely
covered in 215 miles i guess what I'm trying to say is I can see why everyone
else not everyone but many others are betting so much more heavily now on
hybrid electric or excuse me plug-in plug-in hybrid um is what is what
everyone's calling it where it has an electric motor and some of them are are
very reasonable like I think uh the Prius Prime is able to do something like
80 85 miles an hour on the electric motor like it's it's it's not or 77 or
something whatever it's it's like highway cruising very comfortably very
quickly speed um and with a range of about 22 miles it's like everyone's in
like that high teens uh to low to mid20s range with a range like that I do kind
of see it as best of both worlds where you can do your daily commute probably
on the electric motor and then the gas motor the gas engine which has got a
range of you know 300 to 350 mi on most
of the cars that I was looking at that'll handle anything that is not
covered by pure electric that strikes me as a more potentially much more
convenient solution if you only have one car so while I agree with you depending
on your lifestyle pure electric could be the one car if I was going to make a
$35,000 investment that I was planning to keep for however many years
I also definitely see the value of a plug-in hybrid i understand that i just
think the amount of people that expect to drive uh 107.5 miles in one direction
and back a day is a little crazy um the
amount of times people are going to go on a road trip it would be very
cost-effective to save the money not buying a plug-in hybrid and just buying
an electric and then just renting a car unless a plug-in hybrid is very
similarly priced to a pure electric if it is but I don't see the
added literal mechanics that have to go into the car not making some other form
of difference to make it the same price yep you might lose a trim level somewhere you might lose something in
order to make it the same price i feel like that would happen because you're literally adding things to the car so
you're thinking potentially even longer term than me where you don't want to do
any maintenance on the car pretty much other than replacing your battery pack
periodically that isn't even what I was saying but that is a very good point and I'll take it um what I was saying was
literally putting those functions in the car would increase the raw cost of the
car right so so like trim level would
have to go down or something to make it an equal price remember too though that they have much smaller batteries like
way smaller batteries and that is a huge part of the cost of an electric car
super sucks then yes but I mean well they have much they have much lower
range to correspond to their much smaller batteries here's another consideration though um so Musk also
said that the Model 3 is going to be capable of 0 to 60 in under six seconds
um no one's quoting 0 to 60 times on the
plug-in hybrids that I saw at the auto show so I don't expect those electric
everyone's quoting top speeds which does not mean that you're getting torque off
the line um I mean you'll probably still be doing okay because it is an electric
motor but it is not the same kind of electric motor that you would find in a Model S or even a Model 3 which like
some people are going to say like "Oh yeah well like you can't speed because it's legal or whatever." Anyways having
fast pickup is actually very very helpful very useful it's one of the
things that I like most about riding on a motorbike um is the fact that people
say "Hey riding on a motorcycle is really dangerous." And it if you get hit
you're probably dead on the highway like to be realistic uh I think motorcycle
helmets have any functionality up to about 60 to 65 km an hour past that they
do pretty much nothing you might as well be wearing a baseball hat um don't tell
my wife I said that i'm actually putting the bike back on the road very very soon
um
awesome but sick one of the counterarguments that I make about
riding a bike is that A my visibility is
so much better than you because I actually have my full field of vision
with no obstructions whatsoever b I am smaller than you so someone can actually
be encroaching on my lane by a meter and
I can still be in my lane and not being hit by that person number three is I am
way more agile than you so as long as I have my head on a swivel I have seen a
motorcycle dodge an accident that another car ended up getting in i have
seen it on the road he saw it coming and just I I was just supposed to said
stepped on it but that's not really how that works uh got out of there really
quickly and then the car ended up careening into someone else having fast
pickup I would argue based on my experience as a rider if you have your
eyes not just on the road but all around you having fast pickup is as important
or more important than fast braking if you want to avoid accidents and it's one
of the things I like most about my bike is it makes me much more able to avoid a
bad situation things are much more on you yes yeah um being being a defensive
rider is while I'm not going to say safe
is not as dangerous as I think people would potentially believe if they had
only ever been behind the wheel of a car and had never ridden a bike right so I
definitely see having torque um as as a
very important safety feature of a vehicle there was even I don't remember who did it but they they did a uh they
did a video on uh their electric car showing that it
was slower than a whole bunch of other cars then they showed that like off the line
it was really fast they're like "Yeah you're not going to get the top speed at
like a few miles of like this this Challenger or whatever." Yeah but
in a in a city when all that really matters is you maybe being able to get
in front of the other person right after the intersection make that light yeah exactly that kind of stuff like you can
do those things very effectively which is probably all you're really going to be able to use anyways because you're
probably not going to take this car to a track and that's realistically the only
time that you'd be able to use that so like that's actually kind of interesting
so let's move on to our next topic i just realized we have spent like 20
minutes talking about the Model 3 i mean I'm on the show so I'm sorry i'm on the
show and we're talking about electric cars so we could just keep going it's fine yeah I know right virtual reality
or electric cars i can just It's fine it'll be okay so this was originally
posted by Nine Shadow on the forum lawmakers pushing to make owning an
unregistered prepaid phone illegal in
the US so the original article here is from Android Authority
and uh yes yes Matrix references are very clever authoritar Authority um so
there's a new bill in the works called the Prepaid Mobile Device Security Gap
Act of 2016 if it passes anyone who
purchases a prepaid cell phone will be forced to register their identity with
the device and this law is being pushed forward by Jackie Spayer a Democratic
representative from California
so supporters of the bill are saying that
it's a solution to the the loophole that is allowing you know nerd do wells to
purchase prepaid phones as ways to conduct their illicit business and
that's definitely a thing and that is definitely a reality um one thing that I
wonder about these days though is like you ban this they're just going to buy
smartphones without a plan and start using other applications a lot more
expensive two bit drug dealers can't afford to run out smartphones now um
hold on a second yeah but if you were to buy that then you would have to if you
buy it off a plan you would have to register their identity smartphone off a plan well that's what people are doing
right now is they're buying devices uh oh wait so we're talking about prepaid
cell phones yeah this would not be a You would not have cellular so you buy a $20
smartphone off a plan and then use Wi-Fi
and whatnot you could yeah i mean yeah but the thing you could even hotspot
wi-fi is quite traceable though relatively speaking
i mean Wi-Fi gives you the location uh
that gives you potentially a security camera feed nearby like if you were
making calls off Wi-Fi no I was thinking making a hotspot from your phone oh I
see yeah but then even then that can be traced back to that device again so it
VPNs and stuff like I I don't know i don't think it's the hardest thing to
get around i would argue that the average two-bit drug dealer does not
know how to use a VPN okay that's probably fair but then they just need
like one techy dude in their crew to hook them up with cell phones yeah but I
would argue that probably many of them
do not have that and if they did that's
a more elegant solution than running around buying need more of those like classic Gangster Squad groups where
there's like the hacker guy on the on the laptop and like the thug dude and
then like the funny guy that drives the car and like Yeah anyways that's how
crime every movie ever yeah yeah it's
like that's your that's your major in crime school it's like
which dude you are yeah wow that's perfect i wonder how
many people remember crime school uh more than you'd think people have been
bringing it up to me yeah um yeah i mean
I I guess to me this doesn't feel so
much like taking away a freedom as
um as as closing closing a gap that was
that was in introduced accidentally because it's not like when phones were
introduced a line wasn't tied to a
physical address and then later on when cell phones were introduced a line
wasn't tied to a person um who also had
a physical address when the yellow pages started was it literally everyone was in
it uh like everyone with a Yeah white pages and you're so young so the yellow
pages are for businesses and the white pages are for individuals well my book
had both of them in it we actually did use it it's been a long time yeah
anyways uh but but but but yes yeah so
it used to be that you actually would uh
contact I had looked up people that I knew in the I guess white pages like
when I was a kid in order to be like I know this dude's name but I don't
remember his phone number and then I could just find them literally yep and
you would just like call all the like P fernandez until you reach the right one
yeah yeah there might be a few of the same name or whatever but so it used to be that you actually had to pay to not
be included so you had to you had to I think it was it was either BCTL that you
contacted or it was Yellow Pages okay uh or can pages or whatever they were
called at the time it's can pages now i don't think it used to be um so you
would contact them and then there was a processing fee involved and you could
get an unlisted number that that was where unlisted numbers okay came came
from so um yeah so so the whole idea of
being able to have a phone line anonymously is actually very new so I
can see why they want to close this gap i really doubt that this law will be
pushed through and if it is pushed
through I doubt there will be any real way to enforce this uh because in much
the same way that you can go to NCIX and you can tell them your name is John
Smith and create a customer profile around that the law isn't about buying
phones and having them registered law is about being on a plan having a pay as
you go plan that's unregistered so I
guess what I don't understand is if you have a pay as you go plan what prevents
you then from Okay sorry not phone then uh SIM or or refill card refill card so
if I have a pay as you go plan what prevents me from registering it with fake information and you could say yes
there will be all these regulations in place to prevent you from doing that but at the end of the day that's not going
to stop you know Joe Tubbit uh you know corner store guy from actually what what
like walking to your house and verifying that you actually live there like like
what personal information are we expecting people to submit in order to
register for their prepaid plan can you buy I guess you can probably buy prepaid
stuff i wonder if it's going to stop online sales of prepaid stuff you might
have to show your driver's license in store maybe but then what will how will
you enforce that i mean I guess what you can do then is you can make it the
problem of the corner store and then you can shut them down um but I do it's
gonna be a long and uphill battle yeah i just
People are saying you could ask for social security number i mean come on what do you have to provide your social
security number that's brutal like that's terrible that's really brutal if
that's the solution and I'm not giving then I oppose this yeah i'm not giving
my sin or SSN or whatever to any random
like corner store or big box store employee there's no way that's happening
not in a freaking lifetime i mean not some employee who will have my like name
address phone number on file with my social and identity theft shut up 3,000%
in the state of California that was like the worst idea oh my god yeah so no that
would be that would be terrible um I refused to go to a uh Nick Light
switched gyms we used to work out together and he switched gyms um and
then the the new gym they take your bank
account information and then withdraw money directly from your bank account
and I was like okay I'm not going to your gym
because it's just I don't like that they can't just take a credit card no they
refuse to take credit card they refuse to take cash they refuse to take it's
like a 3% processing fee it has to be on time billing and it has to be withdrawn
directly from your bank account but then you can get overdrawn i know
i was just like "No dude i'm out." Like
I don't know i don't like give and like I don't like giving people that kind of
information like checks passing back and forth in my mind is insane i don't
really want people knowing anyways yeah just insanity uh speaking of insanity
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then I forgot we were going to do that but then I I I glombmed on there a
little bit after that um so on the subject of taking credit card and how
easy it is maybe that gym should get themselves a Freshbooks account oh my
god that would be way better because not even just saying
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totally didn't get your email." No I didn't read it yeah sorry I'm late yeah
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um so Fresh Books is great whether you're a plumber you run a small dance
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tired and worrying about accounting crap yes you want to hear about another
stupid gym payment story sure we have a
lot of topics to cover this week though and we have done nothing there's a
really cool gym in Miami that I liked a lot went there a few times tried to get
a membership there the problem was you have to pay on the exact same day every
single month and you have to pay in cash in an envelope and if you miss it your
key fob dies and you can't come in you have to make an appointment with the guy
that owns it and then you can pay again so I was there for a month and then
never again i could have told him that you're not organized enough to do that
well I was literally out of the country for work and I was like this is going to
happen way too much i'm out of here
so yeah anyways okay let's talk about
holoportation original article here is from Gizmodo
and that is some cool shiz that we got
going on right there so right now you're
seeing it where he's he's scaled it down quite a bit but realistically this is a
previous recording he's he's the one facing away from the main camera here
that's that that's him and his daughter that's a previous recording that he had
just done in that room like minutes before he shows this demo so what he's
kind trying to show is that you can do it in real time you can have conversations with people or your family
or your co-workers or whatever and then you could theoretically play it back so
if you want to like relive a memory so say you had um your family over for
dinner and you had everyone hanging out in the family room after and your family
was crazy and said crazy stuff and denied it later
you could record it and then give it to
everyone in the family to either relive
those fantastic memories or to prove
your accusations later on I guess is where that may or may not have been
going um but this is cool for a whole bunch of reasons one of them is uh being
able to have people there say in family situations that might live across the
country other ones are different companies that might not have everyone
working in the same place we're in the same place some larger companies have
multiple offices around the world if you want to work with someone it is actually
legitimately kind of easier to do things
if you feel like you're in the same room and these things how out of business are
these guys are so dumb in my opinion
i've never been into these they like you can control them and like wheel them
around and there's a screen on it and a webcam and they just don't matter in my
opinion at all oh I have to go up the stairs you want to pick me up i'm
probably pretty heavy you can put me up there and then I can keep wheeling around i don't know i always thought
that was kind of a stupid thing but this is actually kind of cool um if you go to
the video and probably mute it but go to the very beginning he's interacting with
a dude now to be fair all of this looks like it was kind of previously recorded
because the skits are just so bad but it might actually just be because the skits
are so bad that it feels like it was previously recorded before he even said
that you could record them I thought they were recordings so this Yeah he's
interacting with this guy so theoretically there you go you see he
kind of like teleports into the room and you can tell he's digital but it's pretty good that's crazy hey yeah so one
thing to note is that the camera that's filming this has hollow lens equipmenty
stuff on it so that it can overlay things in real time y but that's not
obviously exactly what you would see so what the hollow lens would actually more
kind of see is in the bottom lefthand corner so the the color is much less
accurate it doesn't look nearly as good
yeah but you can see where it's going and this is a dev kit or whatever so
it's pretty cool see they can't actually high five
very very cool though it's super and you can see cameras cameras i was going to
say you can see the cameras and there's more of them behind him there's cameras
all throughout the room and they're they're actually pretty crazy cameras so
this is uh maybe not going to like be in your home right away but a super cool
this will actually eventually happen kind of deal and once they get them down
to the size of like kind of the lighthouse sensors for the Vive which at
this point I'm way more excited for than the Rift but that's maybe for a
different day um uh once they get them down to that size
and the hollow lens isn't this like giant thing that you have to wear on your face and it's more like glasses
that's going to be insane absolutely insane
i don't know i really like the idea of telecommuting not necessarily
telecommunication but telecommuting like being able to go to work digitally i
think that's going to be super cool especially for congestion and population
density in crazy cities because if we get better internet infrastructure
outside of just cities and people are able to commute to work which is 10
hours away instantaneously that's awesome we don't have to have
everyone in these crazy highrises right really close to their work all the time
yep and we don't have problems like in Vancouver where our land in actual
Vancouver is fairly restricted and everyone has to live super far out and
houses cost $2 million water United
States of America yeah congestion it's like it's Yes
exactly um so people being able to telecommute into Vancouver would help so
many things i mean for employers it'd be great if I could hire someone where I
just kind of go "Okay so you're proposing that I pay your relocation
costs uh your labor market impact assessment uh charge which by the way is
very expensive with the lawyers involved in all that." Like we hired an American a little while ago not e uh easier for
him but we looked into the LMIA it is very expensive very complicated and very
timeconuming um
there's there's a company in Vancouver Hootsweet who has recently released a
blog talking about how it's becoming excessively difficult for them to hire
anyone because it's becoming excessively difficult for talented young people to
live in Vancouver so there's a mass exodus of like young talent in Vancouver
we don't live in Vancouver for a very specific reason because it's too
freaking expensive to live so this makes life a little bit better for employers
because I could say "Okay how about this instead of paying your relocation costs and all of those other associated fees
why don't I just set you up like a like a space where you're going to kind of
live and then if I ever want to talk to you then I'll flip on my presumably much
more high-tech and much less clunky hollow lens glasses i'll pay for you to
have a setup next to your desk that you actually just set aside at your house
wherever you live and if I ever need to talk to you I'll know where you are yeah
no seriously it's And you could literally have like just a corner or
whatever because it doesn't have to be very fancy on your end but just where
they sit theoretically and you could go see them quite physically you could see
them working at their desk and you could be like "What's that?" And it could be projected and everything could be kind
of cool i don't know very cool speaking of things that are cool this was
originally posted by CUDARS on the forum and the original article here is from
WCCF Tech and the Intel Broadwell EP
family has been launched so this is the Xeon E5
2600 V4 family based on the Broadwell
architecture so the servers are actually lagging more than a full architecture
behind the desktop products these days um but the good news about this is this
means that Extreme Edition on LG 20113
can't be far behind so uh hopefully we'll be getting some new uh enthusiast
desktop uh extreme edition chips that aren't based on sorry what are they
they're still Haswell based aren't they yeah so so Intel's actually spanning
three architectures right now they're running Skylake on the mainstream
desktop they've got Broadwell based chips on the server side and then they
are still running Haswell on the enthusiast side which is like anyway um
so they finally launched them they make use of their 14 nmter core architecture
increased core count core IPC improvements as we already know because
there's there's not a whole lot we don't know about this we're talking Haswell to
Broadwell like happened a while ago um
and better performance per watt compared to the existing chips the main cool
thing 22 threads multi-threaded 22 cores
or 22 cores sorry 44 threads yeah right there baby so of course I'll be calling
up my contacts at Intel and being like "Yo I I I want I want two
one is not enough no one CPU can be enough for me." We're
getting with with GPU announcements on the horizon and this kind of happening
um we're getting into compensator territory again yep because compensator
can't I had someone message me the other day and they're like how are you going
to do one when he just made the seven
gamers one CPU $30,000 computer how do you make a compensator which was not
nearly as expensive as that when that just happened i think it can still
happen i think so because it's more the
compensator was never like literally the most insane thing you can possibly build
no it was like what are the most expensive but still consumer
kind of things that you can get not dual CPU motherboard and intended for one
user yes the compensator machine delivers more horsepower to a single
user than seven gamers one CPU could
have actually uh on the GPU side of things anyway so there you have it there
is no reason why we can't still do a compensator in fact I've already got
GPUs lined up for it oh nice i didn't know that i do okay yes i wonder what
those are uh I I actually don't know all
I know is that I'm getting whatever they are seriously not even joking that's
awesome it's like it's NDA so no one can tell me anything they're like "Yes you
are getting them you'll get a thing."
Okay that's cool uh so 7.2 billion
transistors on a 456 mm square die uh
where's the uh Yeah 22 cores maximum is
freaking insane um brought three die variants oh this is
interesting so there this is not necessarily the traditional way of doing
multiple CPU SKUs so what we've seen in
the in the in sort of more traditionally in the past is that the Xeon and the
Pentium 4 would have been based on the exact same die um just with a couple
features laser cut off of the pennium 41 or whatever else and anything from a 2.4
to a 3.46 46 GHz or whatever would have all been based on the exact same die and
it's just a binning process well now we've got three dieses one that can
accommodate 4 to 10 cores with 3.4 billion transistors one from 12 to 15
with 4.7 billion and the flagship 16 to
24 core with 7 whatever billion
transistors so epic freaking cool so
epic um what can they tell us about this one i want to know what it boosts to 2.2
GHz base 3.6 six boost not bad wow
that's ridiculous i did not think it was going to boost to that at all and it
tells us per on a per core basis do you know how hard it is to find this chart
for anything from Intel seriously have you ever tried to find the actual boost
breakdown i actually have and I have actually failed it is so annoying so
this is Wow look how aggressive Turbo
Boost 2 2.0 is here so up to 11 cores
11 cores and so up to 10 cores you're getting anywhere from plus 18 over the
base 1.8 frequency i don't know why they even call it a base frequency if you're
going to do plus eight so okay so here
let me let me do the math so with 22 cores active you get 20 you get one 18
plus 8 so 2.6 GHz and then with as few
as like three or four cores active you
can actually get up pretty close you can get like 3.3 GHz very very interesting
h so the 2683 V4 is a very interesting
skew because it's got a very similar base frequency to the 2699 it's got 16
cores which is still an awful lot by the way uh only two fewer than the previous
flagship at 18 and it turbos up almost
the same up to its full 16 cores which
not necessarily all of them do oh this one's this one's sexy too the 2697 V4
that's an 18 core so that would be a direct replacement for the 2699 V3 that
I have now but looks like it can
actually turbo up more aggressively base
frequency of 2.0 man there's a lot of SKs this time around very very very
interesting goes all the way down to quad course
so that gets me excited not necessarily all of you but whatever um
I don't really care about that one i want to do April yeah let's do uh Yeah
let's do some of the uh some of the April Fools jokes that have been around
there this was posted by Elfin Sky on the on the forum so Razer did Project
Bread Winner uh the Razer Toaster which
it appears they actually did produce toast with Razer logos on it in order to
uh make the video of they put so much work into this video oh yeah like as a
video production company I can I can tell you guys that with all the
different talents that they had uh including some fairly notable game
streamers and internet personalities like where's uh where's what's his face
mr castle's over there he's in here where'd he go
they probably cut him out a lot because because there he is look at this guy uh
anyway um they put a lot of freaking
work into this thing honestly in my opinion at six minutes the joke is kind
of old by that point especially because it's obviously April Fools when I
clicked on it I was very surprised at how long it was but uh but I I will say
though that um it was good nzxt's was probably a little short i was
uh I was going to wait till we got to that one but yeah what the heck and a
little bit low effort um so oh wait what is this press release but the actual
landing page seems kind of fine uh have
you noticed that here where because all I saw at first was the um and they they
super try to harvest your email with a popup right away wow which is super lame
guys just kind of wanted to enjoy uh April Fool's joke already on your
mailing list didn't need that anyways um they did some like weird VR thing with
like VR's in the heel which was a little excessive they should have just gone
with the lighting joke and the video which I don't know where it is i think
it's up there there you go the video is like the most halfass thing I've ever
seen
like it's not like it's just a static image
um and like it's literally a product that's actually been made
like like that those shoes exist and like that's not even that far off for
NZXT to make them to be completely
honest this is probably the most believable one that I've seen i thought
this was actually kind of cool i kind of wish there was GeForce GTX energy drinks
yeah so just an energy drink get your drink they've got And like if you buy if
you buy like a like a They only come in packs up to four you buy like SLI packs
you get like a slight discount if you buy like dual SLI
and if you SLI them together which is funny because you don't in real life no
I know on video cards i know yeah if you buy them together you can like click
them together and then drink from like one thing but it's both of them or
something i don't know it could be kind of cool so so that that was I thought
that was done really well that was pretty cute uh they've got graphs for
increasing your reaction time and and such sort of Yeah people are saying like
I would actually buy this and stuff like Yeah that would actually be kind of cool this is really trippy look at this i'm
like clicking here and it's going down
that's actually really weird there there i found it oh what the heck there I
found it so this is how fast you are without it this is how fast you are with
it it's just obviously a sped up video of the same the same clip which is which
is which is I think NVIDIA exactly how they should have done it the right
amount of effort into their April Fool's joke um the NZXT thing seems like an
afterthought that they put a good web designer on and then we're like try to
get this out really quickly and oh yeah don't forget make sure you try to harvest as many emails as you possibly
can when they try to watch this which kind of sucked the NVIDIA thing actually
seemed really genuinely good the Razer thing seems like they got super
massively into it this is so cool i
actually ended up watching a fair amount of these videos cuz they're just kind of awesome have you no I actually haven't
watched any of the videos do you know anything about this not much okay so it
it actually doesn't explain it that well here so what's really going on is they
had Snoop Dogg sit in a theater with some other I'm assuming YouTube
employees and they watch the videos on a
big theater screen so like this and he just comments the video from the
background so you can like turn it around and look at him and he'll just
like talk about the video while it's playing but it's Snoop Dog so it's
awesome and then you can rotate it back and actually like watch the video i
don't It's actually kind of cool what What was frustrating was like I'd
watch some random video on YouTube and it would have a Snoop Vision or whatever
it's called i think it's called Snoop snoop Vision snooper Vision logo and I'd
be like "Oh sweet." Like they did this one that's so cool but then no there's
just a little set of the ones that they did there's obviously not everything
so like that waterblue one is actually done in Snoopa Vision so it's it's 360
and you can turn the camera around and see him sitting there and talking about it it's actually kind of cool binge on
Up was pretty funny this was one where they put a ton of effort into it and it
actually like kind of worked out no
sorry what was that that was them wanting to know my location
so it's it's a it's a like a headset thing that just makes it so that your
phone is like in front of your face uh it goes with their binge on thing where
you can watch tons of different services without using your data so their whole
idea is like well if you're using that service and it's not using your data you
can just do it all the time yeah the problem is that Rick Mercer's already
done it and if an amazing Canadian like Rick Mercer has already done it then you
lose this was a long time ago this is when Blackberry was relevant i love I
love this video see Rick Mercer genius
oh no never mind his didn't actually have a spot for the helmet never mind
sorry it had a signal booster and it made it so that if you walk into Okay so no Rick Mercer has not quite done it
this I'm pretty sure this thing's been done though yeah I'm pretty I'm pretty
sure that a uh that a phone holder a phone holder you know what's really
funny is I actually would like a product
sort of like this except for the bed
headrest or the headboard have I talked to you about that no it just makes sense
yeah like the amount of times I'll be like this I get really tired and
then drop it smacks right in the face and it'd be perfect for things like a
Kindle as well yeah oh yeah i love reading in bed but like you get
uncomfortable in this side then you get uncomfortable with that like if you
could build a versatile enough ARM that it's strong enough to hold a Kindle a
tablet or a real book even and then you
could just have have it so you could like turn the pages and just like have like a clip on oh man that would be like
the most comfortable way to read ever might even be a thing i would never get
out of my bed ever again um so who gets who gets your vote for
the for the best April Fool's joke
i enjoyed Snoop Vision the most enjoyed Snoop Vision the most i think NVIDIA's
was very well executed i enjoyed the most yeah yeah
uh like it's gotten to the point where I think there's a fine line where between
ad campaign and April Fool's joke yeah and between like between making it funny
because like because it's April Fools versus actually trying to fool people
was yours was yours actually trying to fool people though mine was trying to
walk the fine line where I was pretty sure that some people would believe it
but that I wanted people to mostly know
that I wasn't serious by the time they reach the end of the video that's like a
semi-dangerous thing for people to think is actually happening yeah i don't want
people to actually and and you know what though i think as much as a lot of
people posted on the video like this was super obvious and you guys are idiots
this is just another bad video that you've made the number of people that
also have like not just publicly like
"Haha haha I am playing along with the April fool wow you got me." Um but the
number of people that have reached out to me privately asking if it actually happened
i don't think I've had any of those that's funny oh man uh so I think we
walked the line just right yeah because I liked it i was just trying to dissect
your point I guess but yeah I like the RS um yeah NVIDIA NVIDIA I think had a
very wellexecuted one i enjoyed YouTube's the most which I'm not too
surprised about youtube always does such a great job there's more Google ones in
here that I guess didn't make it into the doc like the I think it's called the
Google Parachute yeah that's in here oh never mind parachute uh by Google
Express i was just I was skipping past it because we're really close to 6:00
and this one's kind of annoying because Oh it worked for you i had to put in a zip code before I could actually see it
but this one's kind of funny shop anywhere anytime and it like
parachutes you whatever you're buying i
thought it was pretty funny i think it's kind of funny because like Amazon
probably not that far off might get to this point with drones where you could be like walking around town and be like
I want a soft drink and it just like brings you one like I wouldn't even be
that surprised if that ends up happening so like I don't know that one definitely
didn't win for me because I was just like that could totally be a thing maybe not with parachutes but like All right
let's jump through some of our rapid fire topics here first up we've got that
AMD announces the Fire Pro S9300 X2 dual
Fiji for HPC so yeah pretty much it's a
uh Fury Pro Duo except with a completely different everything about it except for
the GPU cores themselves $6,000 yeah
different PCB different cooling design so these are these are designed to be in
a chassis where the cooling is taken care of by the chassis so there's no fan
so it just goes in here and then out the back um and it's got an awful lot of
stream processors and it's got a big boost clock and um there's two GPUs on
it i'm a little surprised that it's only 300p
300
i All I have to say about this is that um
Polaris and Pascal can't come soon enough i am so tired of talking about uh
28 nanometer GPUs yep
um Windows 10 is possibly getting well
okay is getting I guess uh Ubuntu's bash
and Linux command line which is kind of crazy so apparently you can uh write.sh
scripts on Windows and they're getting command line and stuff because they're
baking that into Windows 10 and I have no idea why they're doing this well DOSs
is gone so people might want it i know
but like I'm like okay I like that it's
happening i mean is anyone I don't understand it from a Microsoft perspective is anyone complaining about
PowerShell well yeah okay well then maybe they're I
just I don't see this changing anyone's mind on anything so you don't understand
why they wouldn't just make PowerShell better or
uh well people being more used to things and stuff is cool but like I I just Okay
I don't know how to phrase this properly i understand why this is going to be
cool for people i'm surprised Microsoft did it and I don't understand why they
did it like like what would be your inspiration as a Microsoft employee to
be like we should do this well they want
basically everything they've done since
Nadella took over has been about increasing the install base making sure
to to not only not continue to lose not
continue to erode the latest version of Windows install base but claw back
market share claw it back from piracy claw it back from Apple claw it back
from even Linux uh however insignificant that install base might
certain certain user groups because there
would have to
like this being the thing that could
make us go okay now we could have these
elements of both worlds with this via this new Linux subsystem within Windows
10 like like yeah like I I I like it I'm
not saying I don't like it if the objective is to actually try to sell
your product by doing things that are good for your users then I get it it's
just that seem like a Microsoft move that's why I'm confused like that's
that's the Yeah yeah i'm not I'm Yeah i'm not I'm not saying it's a bad idea i
think it's a great idea when I read that I was like "Wow that's really cool makes
things easier in a whole bunch of different ways that's awesome i'm just
just doesn't seem like Microsoft that's all
i don't know um Apple is developing
batteries to improve energy capacity in devices this was posted by Sans Varmick
on the forum and the original article here is from PC World i guess that's
about like saying that Apple is developing screens that display images
to the users of their phones but I'm sure there is uh I'm sure there is more
to it than that um I mean
you know maybe it's not quite They're focusing on ceramic maybe it's not quite
the same as that because Apple actually hasn't done pretty much anything to their battery capacity other than
release the iPhone 6 Plus which just is bigger and has a bigger battery in it in
the last little while i sure wish they would just do a thicker phone with a higher capacity battery please not that
they'll ever listen to me i'm sure they don't care what you weren't on the show for that what do you think about the SE
um I because you like small phones i think that they're desperate
i think that they straight up are pulling a Samsung and going "We can't
figure out how to sell more phones so let's just throw more models at the problem." Okay that's what I think
happen you're not excited because it's smaller or anything i think they are I think they're basically slashing price
without trying to I think they are putting off for as long as possible
slashing the price of the flagship device by creating an entry-level tier i
think it didn't work well last time with the iPhone 5C but I think that the
reason that didn't work was that um
the 5C was built from the ground up to be cheap in a way that was very obvious
unapologetically obvious um I hate that
word and then there's the there's the there's the issue with what they've done
in the past where they've just sold previous generation devices but those were not designed to be cheap devices
and I think the manufacturing costs are higher so I can see why they're doing it
they're building something from the ground up to be cheap but not that cheap
and they are giving uh and they're they're taking the fight to the entry-
level smartphone makers sort of at least in the best way that Apple can do that
on from a pricing standpoint um but I think they basically just aren't sure
what to do to to to keep selling more phones because much like with many other
devices phones are really getting to the point where yes the Galaxy S7 is
marvelous and I'm going to be switching to it but if I already owned a Galaxy S6
and I actually paid for phones I sure as heck wouldn't be doing that
university of California Irvine uh hold on i wanted to touch on a little bit of
a little bit more about this so um focusing on ceramic as the electrolyte
they've proven in Labs that they can provide faster charging and safer
batteries which is a concern um they're
also hiring people that can take battery technology from the lab to the factories
and they already got granted a patent for developing a solid state battery
this could be considered the next big technology in battery research
so good cool university of California
Irvine announces an esports scholarship so by the start of 2016 six private
schools had developed scholarships based on the game which is uh League of
Legends in this kind of context um this
is the first public state-run school to officially support esports um they're
talking about building a like a little land cafe and everything on campus which
I guess would be kind of like your your field
i mean if you're going to have a basketball court you might as well have a land center yeah i mean if you're
taking esports seriously and you're going to have you're giving scholarships and stuff you should probably have
somewhere for them to go anyways the the cafe will be built in the model of
Korean PC gaming cafes and will offer a
premium League of Legends experience i wonder if that includes my favorite part
of those cafes which is where they like bring you food and stuff directly to
your thing probably not i seriously doubt it so they probably mean like
sponsored gaming chairs but like still um I don't know this is kind of cool i
We're getting closer and closer to like VJHS
yep we like actually are so that's going
to get interesting i don't know someone's going to interview like Freddy
W in like 15 years or whatever and be like "How did you know this vision was
going to come true?" Yeah it's going to be like "Shit man i didn't know i
thought it was funny." Making a joke i just I just figured it was kind of
cool i made a video with my bros esports is cool this is cool like it's
it's starting to become a very viable career for an actually not insignificant
amount of people yeah and not just a professional career but also like an
indie career through services like Twitch yeah yeah so like it actually
kind of makes sense i'm making fun of it because it's kind of funny but it does
actually kind of make sense riot Games has a guy Okay a guy whose job title is
collegiate program manager go figure
who saw this one coming you know um
I think that's the show
yeah pretty much uh
let's see blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah oh the
PlayStation 4.5 is kind of interesting um so this is everyone's calling it 4.5
could be called 4K or something like that but word on the street is that Sony
will be launching a play an updated PlayStation with roughly double the
performance of the previous PlayStation uh whether that's enough to actually get
them to reasonable performance at 4K is
uh still very very much uh to be determined um like no but
I got to use a wet blanket but like we I did that test like years
ago why don't Why don't you just Why don't you just Why don't you just go to
Japan okay pull up to Sony's headquarters and take a giant dump on
the lawn why don't you just do that if you're going to be such a downer minus the dump on the lawn part we should like
do a diplomatic mission as a video sometime like
I don't know if it's to Sony or whatever but we should just like show up somewhere and be like Valve we want to
help design stuff stop putting glossy
plastic on your controllers there Valve perfect done do not put glossy plastic
on the top of your damn controllers my dad ended up watching that review
because he was like kind of interested because couch gaming is totally in his
realm of things that he would like to do and he saw the glossy plastic part and
was just like "What why i recently had a
conversation with someone where I was like like I was half joking because I
thought I was talking to someone like kind of lower down on the totem pole um
and I was just like uh and I was like yeah and I can't believe you guys put
freaking glossy plastic on it and it turned out it was the person who like
made the decision and he was like why
was this Gigabyte i don't remember okay cuz at CES
um I had a conversation with Gigabyte about their nucks really are their
bricks they're bricks and the guy was like "Yeah like um we put Matt on it i
hope that's a monitor guy for me." Oh yeah no it was it was a the guy that
manages bricks he's like "We put Matt on it i hope that's okay." I was like "That's awesome." He's like "Oh what
you're not like mad that there isn't glossy?" I was like "What are you
talking about who are these people?" But
do you read anything have you watched any of our videos like come on and not
just us anyone's I mean I'm pretty sure
we're not the only ones here we're not or not right i shouldn't have said our
videos like like have you have you looked at reviews of things at all like
the what what was it the Fury uh Nano
that has like the glass over top of the glossy uh not what product is it that
did that cuz that was cool that was fine cuz the glass is nice and easy to clean
and the glossy plastic under the glass stays gets protected and doesn't get scratched instantly i don't remember
what product it is though good job but you know what I'm Yeah whatever um
someone did it it looked great that was a good implementation of it just putting
glossy plastic especially in places that you're going to touch is so dumb and I
don't understand how they haven't figured this out yet back to the PlayStation 4 and a half um a more
likely reason for its existence is to compete properly with VR computers um so
if because I mean we did the math back when Sony was saying well you know due
to our special sauce we are this much more efficient we're this much we're this much 60 hertz per eye we can make
it okay if we do some fancy interpolation whatever else we did the
math and it still didn't add up yeah it was still weird if they have a
PlayStation that is twice as powerful now it makes sense
so if you want to have a proper VR experience it looks like you're probably
going to be buying a PlayStation 4K or 4 and a half or you know 4 VR edition or
whatever the case may be so I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you guys
for tuning in to the WAN Show we will see you again next week same bat time
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