Okay, so new plan. We renamed the show to third times a
charm. Yes. And this is what happened last time, folks.
I unplugged my headphones from the audio
device on the microphone and bam, USBB
connection gone. Fell out of the bottom. So, we've used
an innovative strategy called the uh the
velcro it until you can put some tuck tape on it approach.
I don't know if I want to touch it right now. And hopefully
tape under it. Hopefully everything is fine from now
until forever.
Now until forever. We already established this isn't real wood.
It's not wood, isn't it? Well, it feels like wood and it tastes
like wood. But remember last time I like carried in the table. So it probably is wood.
Wait, you tasted it? Wouldn't you have just tasted the paint?
I guess so. Um, no. No, I think it's No, I think it's like particle board or
something. No, we we have a real wood table, but but the table can change without us really messing up much of
anything else. Um, I just for your knock.
So, basically, we um well, strictly speaking,
if you have a painted or even for that matter sealed table, does it still
count? because you would be knocking on the paint, not knocking on the wood.
Yeah, but I think it's kind of like the like the crater effect. Like if a
meteorite Okay, so the the vibration from your knock goes
the thing hits the other thing. We still say the meteor caused the crater. We
don't say that that this particular ring of dust dispersion of the other things created.
Yes, exactly. Exactly. It's a chain reaction. Yes. All right.
Um so on the subject of chains, um what
what do we got for topics? We have the Google event. So a bunch of stuff was launched there. some pretty
interesting things. The Google The Google event. The Google event.
The one and only Google. Uh PC is no longer the number one gaming platform
for children. Wrecked. I hate you. Wrecked. I hate you.
What? Justin sounds off by a little bit. Just so you know
what the timing. It needs a delay. So delay just a little bit.
I can't remember. I did this last. I thought it was 50. I thought it was Yeah, I thought it was
like 50. That's not It shouldn't take too much.
Maybe 50 to 100. Yeah. Okay, I did 50 last week and
apparently it was fine. So, we also have Yelp for human beings. So,
you can now rate people. I'm basically just going to do all of the
um also T-Mobile customers were exposed
in a major data breach. So,
so without further ado, the intro.
Oh crap.
I knew I missed something. I was going to I was like waiting for
the intro to go away and I was going to be like, "Yeah, high five. We did it right."
Um, oh man. So, I figured out why the
intro doesn't work because I've been using the microphone's audio device as
system sound and then I've been telling the intro to play on system sound, but
I've had to mute system sound in order to keep the mic from having um an echo
because it automatically monitors itself. The problem hasn't been the audio the
whole time. No, the intro audio worked. No, you know how sometimes the intro the audio
doesn't work? No. Yeah, but the big problem is that the intro video wouldn't play.
Oh, yeah, that that too. No, no, that I think I think that's the reform. We've
reformatted the machine cuz that was one borked Windows
installation. It was bad. To be fair, the new one's still having
issues because of Blackmagic cards. But I think I've got that now. I think it's
okay now. Okay. Like, I think we're good. I actually I don't know what
caused the problem, but it hasn't happened again.
It's that thing where you change so many things and it just starts working and
people are like, "How did you fix it?" And you're like, "I don't know, but it's done."
I think. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz it's one of those things where that
honestly that's the worst when you don't know what you did to fix it because that
means it could come back at any moment and you wouldn't know why and you'd have
to do all the 25 freaking things you did last time just to have a chance of
fixing it again. Yes. Yeah. It's like what what chance?
So, the the sponsors that were supposed to go on that overlay thing right there.
Yeah. Linda.com, Squarespace, and Tunnel Bear would have normally had would have
normally had spots, but instead, let's jump right into the show and get into
our first freaking topic here. And this
this is quite the topic. The original article here is from NDP, excuse me,
NDP. Sorry, I got Canadian elections on the mind here.
It's a big deal. npd.com. Are you dropping this in the You are dropping it
all over the place. So, NPD, kids move away from home
computers for gaming in droves
in the least surprising.
Okay. You know what? I will I will let you I'll let you go kind of through what
we've got. So, largely what they're talking about is that the kids have moved towards
mobile devices, which is not surprising.
There there's the classic thing like, "Oh, do you have games on your phone?"
Like the the question that you get from your your little nephew or niece at like
every single family gathering ever. It it's not surprising because it's very
easy for mom or dad to just have a game on their phone and be like, "Here, play
with this. I need to do something." Um, one of the things that this report
is actually talking about is that the amount of kids, like the percentage of
kids that are playing games on mobile phones hasn't actually really increased,
but the amount of time that they've spent playing games on mobile phones has
increased by quite a bit. I mean, here here's a couple of Okay.
No, I I'll let you I'll let you I'm I'm going to let you finish. I'm going to let you finish.
Okay. Portable consoles remain popular in the age 9 to 11 group with about 41%
of that of people in that age group playing those games. Um 45% of kids aed
2 to 17 are gaming on a home computer down 22% since 2013. So that's actually
changed a lot. Um that's pretty
surprising. But I don't think as many
kid games are coming out right now for
PC compared to That's an interesting point. I didn't even think about that because I I I had
some other factors in my mind that I thought were probably contributing to
this. But now that I think about it, I mean, okay, it's also possible that you
and I just aren't really exposed to. This is why I said that and then looked
directly at you the ways that we used to be because like I don't I can't even think
of where to buy kids games. Like I'm sure they have them on Steam.
You can you can often get them at like the big box store stuff like uh big box.
Uh big box store. Um, I remember like I
think Staples and Best Buy stuff will have like the Leaprog.
Is that really a PC game?
Cuz they usually try and sell their own stupid things. Oh, I see.
This is This was back when I was working there, though. So, this has been a
while. Yeah, it's kind of like five years ago. No, I know. But that but that's from
2013, so that's a little bit after I was working there. So, like it's still
within the realm. But I'm just trying to think like when I was shopping for a
game as a kid. It was like I mean you
kind of look at how the demographics of gaming have changed as the kids who grew
up playing video games. Hello. Um became adults and oh it turns out games aren't
just you know kid crap. It turns out that when you grow up playing video
games you might still play video games. Um to be fair though even when I was
growing up for kids games that like basically what I'm going to put under
kids games is like stuff that my mom would let me get when I was in these
kind of age groups. A lot of them were mobile or console stuff. A lot of it was
Nintendo, right? And Nintendo has been like kind of not
really wanting to go towards mobile stuff, whether or not you think that's a good idea. But other people have been
going into the mobile space really heavily for kids games. So, kids games
already not being super huge on PC to be completely honest. I remember like like
Kickstart and all this kind of stuff when I was a kid. Yeah. D Park Tycoon and Oregon Trail and
all that all that kind of crap. Yeah. like you could go and shop for PC games
as a kid and there would be like tons of options and then for like the really
sort of adultoriented stuff there'd be like Leisure Suit Larry like on a high
up shelf somewhere and you know or you'd have like your you
know when I was I guess I would have been in my teens at this point so stuff
like you know your never winter nights never winter nights too like awesome games
so so so all this stuff existed but there was an awful lot that was very
kid-friendly whereas now and now and now like what do you do you
you a lot I know a lot of people jetack Joyide even exist for the PC?
I don't know. Unless it's like Flash. It's probably in the Windows Store. I
bet it is. There you go. Yeah, I'm going to check the Windows Store. Um like like Okay, to be completely fair
with some of the stuff on Steam with kids in a certain age group, I don't
even know if I'd necessarily want them seeing the Steam store just because of
the stuff that might go through the sale page. Yep. Um, so like I could understand a
kid not having Steam and with the vast majority of PC stuff happening on Steam
these days, I don't know. I kind of get
it. I'm not super surprised by this statistic.
Um, there were a couple other comments that I had here that were sort of
unrelated to that. So number one is Oh.
Oh yeah. Okay. So number one is, um, now that I have kids, I get to make all
these like observations about children and seem insightful, but actually I just
have no choice. you have to supervise them or they'll kill themselves. Um, so
human babies mimicking so crap mimicking parents is a huge factor. And
the article actually actually brings this up is that mom and dad are likely
performing a lot of tasks on their phones now that they would have
traditionally had to do on a computer. And junior or juniorette or whatever.
What would you junior? What's the equivalent? I don't think there is one. Isn't Junior just Isn't
that No, I don't think he used Junior Junior for a female.
I think it's I think it's commonly used as a male thing. But is Junior actually
not gender neutral? I don't think so. But junior just mean like
cuz no one names their daughter after their mom. I have literally never heard
of that once. So in order to be junior, you'd have to be
But you could be like a junior engineer. I mean,
and that's a gender neutral term. No, no, that is. But but in terms of the
name junior like like it's it's it's
Indiana. It's it's it's Dr. Jones senior. Dr. Jones Jr. like it's not.
Yeah. I I think No, I'm pretty sure it's gender specific. Is that just because like no one does it
perhaps? Or is that because it's actually gender specific? Although I mean now that
there's so many unisex names, you know, whether it's, you know, your Taylor or
your Lesie or whatever else, in theory,
assuming I had a unisex name, which Lionus really isn't, um, any name that
actually has an alternate meaning in Urban Dictionary as, you know, male
genitals, probably it will never be a unisex name. Um, so let's say my name
was something appropriate. Does every guy's name reference that? Because mine does too. On everybody,
you're Luke. Yeah, I guess. Um, no, not all. Well, no, it it means it
it's the first definition for mine, though. Yeah. Is yours even the first definition? Cuz
just cuz it's like No, it doesn't mean like that directly.
It means a size of that. Wow. So, where I was going with this was
I could technically name my daughter Lionus Jr.,
right? If my name were unisex. And I I guess
but people would assume they're a boy for sure. or just even just junior would
assume like if your nickname is junior you would assume it's a boy.
Um so where where was I going with this? Right. Mimicking parents. So like you
know my my son and daughter are both phone whiz kids like compared to their
ages of course. You know my daughter's one. So the fact that she like knows how
to try to type in a passcode and like unlock things and open apps is kind of
impressive. It means I spend too much time on my phone in front of her for one
thing. Um, and they don't see me use the desktop computer nearly as much anymore
because I've switched to almost entirely using my laptop or my phone whenever
they're around because when do I have time to sit down at a desktop? Yeah.
Um, and then number two, and I think this is actually I don't think the
article mentioned this, but I personally think this is a huge factor is
handme-down phones because even three years ago, you know, two
years ago, three years ago, four years ago, 5 years ago, every year the number
of very capable, still very usable,
handme-down mobile devices explodes
because you look at the growth of how many of these devices are selling. And
then there was that period where they all kind of sucked. Like iPad 1, iPhone
3GS, uh Galaxy S1, like all that stuff
was just kind of rubbish. But we're at the point now where anything from I'd
say an iPhone 4 to iPhone 4S, Galaxy S3
or so and up is still today and you know
a few years old device now is still a very usable device today and there's no
reason to throw it away. So what would I
do? Am I going to buy my kids the new iPhone, you know, 6S? No. Uh, would I
necessarily object to throwing them my old iPhone 4 to dink around with?
Probably not. So, I would imagine that compared to the investment of buying a
mobile game console, dedicated mobile game console with $60 games,
I would imagine the inclination for parents is, oh, well, this thing's got lots of games on it and it's just
sitting in a drawer anyway. Here you go. Yeah. So, I think that's probably a huge
factor there as well. Yeah, I would be surprised. Like, no.
Yeah, this is interesting. It's not like, oh my god, I can't believe they're
playing less PC games now,
but it's it's still interesting. It's still interesting. It's just it
just is kind of what it is. Someone clarified, I haven't looked at Urban Dictionary in like a very long
time, but apparently it's different now, just in case you wanted to know.
Um Oh, well, okay then. That's great.
What's going on? Uh, I don't know. I'm just checking a thing. I actually I This
is like a new version of XSplit that I haven't used recently. Yeah. And so
someone's saying something about 24 FPS and I really don't think it's running at
24 FPS, but I have actually no way of verifying that.
Uh, you could
No, you know what? I know. No, I know it's not bring up the flash properties. No, no, I know it's not. I'm sure. Okay.
So, let's go ahead and move on to our next topic here, shall we? Yes.
Ah, yes. The spec reading event, the Google. Yeah. The the the reading of
specifications for you exclusively here on the WAN
show. Except not exclusively. Yeah. Except everyone and their dog has
covered this. So, let's try and blow through it pretty quick here. Nexus 5X specs. 5.2 in IPS LCD 1920 x
1080 Corning Gorilla Grass 3. Snapdragon 808 2 GB of DDR3 RAM. Stock Android 6.0
Marshmallow with Google Now on tap. 16 GB and 32 GB versions available,
non-expandable 12.3 megapixel dual LED flash camera, 2,160p video capture, 5
megapixel selfie camera, fingerprint sensor on the back, USB type-C, Android
Pay, Wi-Fi, 802.11 AC, Bluetooth 4.2,
stereo speakers on the front with three microphones, 2,700 millah battery,
black, white, and blue different colors. Ships in October. 16 Gigabyte version
cost $379. 32 GB version cost $429.
Bam. All right. Fascinating. Thanks for that. Great
reporting. No, no problem.
All right. There's some new features of Android 6.0. Uh faster access to voice
activation. Uh there's a charging speed indicator. Holy freaking crap. How did
that take so long? Do you know? Do you know when I was trying to do my video on
quick charge 2.0? Do you know what I had to do?
Did I tell you what I had to do? No. Oh, it was ridiculous. So, I had to get all
my different chargers, which by the way, everyone mislabels. False advertising
all over the place on the output of chargers. That's what actually inspired
that little uh that little ammeter that I got for USB ports that I showed on
Handytech because they're all over the freaking map. So, what I had to do was I
had to get all these different chargers of each type. I had to charge the phone.
So, I had to get the phone down to like I think it was like 2% because if I let
it go below that, it would turn off and then I would have to do a power on cycle
while charging which would affect the charging speed during the critical low
battery time when it takes best advantage of quick charging features.
So, I had to get it down to like two or 3% or something like that. So, I had to
be like sitting there watching it with a game running like, "Oh, we're getting
there. We're getting there. Okay. Okay. Do something less. Turn off the flash now. Now, just the game. Okay, turn off
the game now. Just max screen brightness. Okay, screen brightness. Okay, we're there. We're there. Okay,
quick, plug it in. Then I had to plug it in before it turned off. Then I just had
to like set notificially,
very quickly, so I could turn it off right away so it could charge on its own. And then I had to just create Excel
graphs out of my samples that I took. It was horrible. And all of this just to
find out if these features were working
as intended. So ghetto. So now there's just an indicator.
It makes sense. It's just very ghetto. Yeah. I It worked.
Yep. Yep. Yep. Faster scrolling and search. Uh ondevice
predictive app launching so it learns your patterns and places. Um so goodbye
AV8. Yeah, I guess. Uh runtime permissions,
less bloatware for the Nexus lineup and uh
that's good. So updates coming to previous Nex devices.
Yeah, the 56 uh 2013 7 and the 9. What
is it? Next week. Yeah, next week. So, um there you go. Everyone
else, you know, whether you got a Galaxy S6 Active or a Droid Turbo,
screw you, buddy.
I love how they do that. It's just the worst.
And it's like it's all It's not really all anyone's fault. It's all a lot of
people's faults. It's all Google's fault. It's all the handset makaker's
fault. And it's especially all the carriers fault. It's all of their
faults. Just cut this crap out. Apple had the right idea. Let's just let's
just all get on board. Oh, cool. There's a music family plan for 15 bucks a month
for up to six people. Oh my god. Can you do that? And then can
I just You are not a family member. Can I be?
Can you adopt me? Wow. That's not awkward.
Um, okay. First, no. And then, uh,
but I want to Google Play. I want to save like $8 a month.
It is kind of awesome. I I kind of love it. I probably will upgrade to a family
plan. Um, so I guess nothing would prevent you from being part of my family
at that point. Yay. Yay. If I I mean, okay, if I ever
personally got like software license audited,
then I guess who's this? Saw Luke Lafrenier. Is he a relative of yours?
Well, he's got white skin like me, so we probably have a common ancestor
somewhere eventually if you go back far enough. You know, also our uh our Lukes are
similar sizes. So, uh you know, probably
a well-endowed ancestor probably did a lot of mating on account of his, you
know, you know,
you want to see it. Wow. Like, no. No, it's okay. The license is
fine. 14.99 is not worth it.
Identity verification based on similarities of Luke's.
Yeah. People are like, "What? Your name is
actually Lionus?" Uh, yes. I wish I'd
had the foresight to adopt a screen name. I'd have gone with Dirk Diggler.
Oh my goodness. Oh, terrible. Uh, okay. Okay, so there's some Chcast stuff. Finally, 5 GZ Wi-Fi.
You know, funny story. I have had my Chcast sitting plugged into the back of
my receiver since it came out. Um,
because I didn't have a USB power port on my receiver when I plugged it in. I
was like, "Oh, I'll have to kind of deal with this later." And I just left the USB cable hanging out the back of my
cabinet. I finally hooked it up two days ago.
and I used it and I was like, "Oh yeah, this would have been cool to be using
all this time uh because I actually changed out my receiver." So, this is
kind of funny. Um, I posted this on Instagram a little while ago. LG sent
over a 65 in OLED TV for not a review.
I'm not going to call it a review because it's not what it's going to be, but it's going to be like what is it
like? Because this is state-of-the-art crap. It's curved OLED. uh huge. It's
Yeah, it's actually It's kind It's kind of magnificent. The bezels are like
this. I'm just like, "Wow, it wouldn't even matter if it didn't have bezels at
all because the or if it had huge bezels even because the the black of the black
is the same as the black of the Anyway, um so I so I posted on Instagram. I was
like, "Great news. Awesome new TV.
Terrible news. My receiver doesn't have HDMI 2.0, show. So, I will be running at
1080p for now. Um, so LG was actually
like, "Oh, well, just get a receiver and
we'll comp you for it." And I was like, "Okay,
sure." So, I was like, so I hooked that up. So, that's why I was hooking up the
chcast. And then, um, so yeah, now apparently that's pointless. So, there's
a new antenna system. Uh, NBA, NHL, and other partners coming in the fall. Sling
TV will be available if you're into that sort of thing. I don't think Sling is
even supported in Canada, is it? I don't think so. Yeah. So,
oh Canada, your content is inferior.
Although we do have some things on Netflix. You have lots of fresh water.
Nestle. Nestle. No, not Nestle water. I don't
want to talk about Nestle water. It's like we have to I mean a lot of the
times. See, now you're going to get me started on Nestle water. So, we have to
get into this stuff when it's actually like techreated because it's like
because it's a tech show. But I try to avoid this kind of crap when it's when
it's not techreated. But so, so in a nutshell, basically Nestle figured that
um well, not Nestle, the particular person at Nestle, although they're high up enough that they can be considered a
spokesperson. Yeah. Figured that that water was not a right.
And I forget what the word used was, but calling water not a human right is
ridiculous. And people should have to pay for water was was the other thing.
And you know what I have to say to that, Nestle? First of all, screw you. And
second of all, your water sucks. Yeah, it's terrible. It's calling that spring
water. Like you Okay, you guys, even if you don't realize it, you've probably
you've probably drank Nestle water. There are the ones that come in the
bottles about yay big. Okay. They they're like ribbed bottles.
Crappy tops. Yeah. They have the really crappy clear translucent plastic top. They crinkle a
lot when you when you when you press on them. And they taste like pool water.
That's how you can tell Nestle water because it tastes like I went over to
Luke's house, dipped a cup in his pool right after a fresh chlorination
treatment, dumped it in my in my, you
know, flask or whatever and chug that stuff like a like a champion. Your flask
that's like already made of the leakiest plastic ever that's like chemicals into
water. Yeah. Like it's horrible. Most of the tap water in the lower mainland is way
better than that Nestle water. So get
wrecked, Nestle. Um
the whole Twitch chat isn't even responding to really what you were saying. They're all just like Luke has a
pool. I love you guys. Twitch chat. Uh there's
a new Chromebook or something. The chcast audio is super cool.
Oh yeah. Do you want to talk about that? So we can jump down. Where did it go?
Way to go. There it is. So it's a different device. It's not actually like built into the
chcast. And actually if you go to the article
uh the Android police article. Is that
the one that's in there? Oh, sorry. I don't think I ever actually brought it up. My bad.
I'll Android Central. I'll post a different one.
Oh, wait. Under on the dock. Go to that and then
I'm going to post that in chat as well. Go to your face because I want to show everyone a
picture and see what you guys think about this. Go to Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So,
does that because of the I know it's because of the shadows because of the photo, but does that not look like a
Beats logo? It's the Chrome logo, but it super looks
like a Beats logo. It's super duper. When I first saw it, I was like, "What?
Beats? Why?" And then figured out that it's just because of the lighting.
There's a better shot down low where you can actually see it,
but it Yeah, I was I was pretty disappointed and then realized I was
just seeing it improperly. So, basically, the idea is that you can plug
whatever speaker into it and it's just like a way better version than those
like crap usually craptastic
uh Bluetooth dongles that people have been using to do this for quite a while
now because it should just work way better than that.
Huh, that's funny. I I can't really imagine what could be so bad about those
dongles. I have an HTC one that I was that I was playing around with cuz I'm
actually planning to do a video with some some car stuff that I'm doing with
my car and that that was one of the things I was going to do. Um and your car it would be fine.
It was fine. The nice thing about this is it's a Wi-Fi device, not a Bluetooth device. So
you can go in it and be like play this and then walk away or disconnect and
it's fine. So that's a huge improvement over the
Bluetooth dongles. Uh, it's a Wi-Fi device, so you wouldn't really use it in
your car, I don't. Yeah. I can't think of any reason that I would need to do that.
No. Um, cool beans. It's kind of nice because it's a Wi-Fi
device, so you can like kind of swap between people fairly easily and
whatnot, right? Um, which would be kind of cool to do in
the car and you could theoretically do it in the car if you have some way of
like creating an Wi-Fi network, which should be pretty easy if you have a
phone, but it's like not really the intended use case, right? Um, I think
it's pretty cool. Um, I could see a lot of people using this thing. It's it's it
falls within the same realm as the chcast for me because it's like it's not
a crazy thing. Cheap, cheerful, functional.
Yeah. Very cost effective for what it does and will probably work quite well.
All right, so let's talk about things that worked quite well. This is a
fantastic looking app. I am really looking forward to when this puppy comes
out of uh out of uh out on the App Store
and the Google Play Store. This is described as Yelp for people and it'll
actually let you rate people in much the same way that you could rate a
restaurant or a store or whatever else the case may be. So, imagine this.
You're buying something on Craigslist. Someone replies and their name is like I
don't know. You're buying something on Craigslist and what you're buying happens to be a person and they're
rated. Wait, what? No. So, the person you're buying from happens to be a one Josh
Smith, for example, and you uh and you
look this guy up and you kind of go, "Well, gee, he's got a review from he's
got a twostar review from Lionus for being uh for being tall and obnoxious
and a fivestar review from Luke for being a sexy beast of a man."
So, you know, he's got only a three and a half star average rating here. I don't
think I want to sell to this guy. Can you imagine how useful that would be?
Now, imagine a world where everyone with, you know, who wasn't the popular
kid in high school could have all the other students in their class post
negative reviews about what a crabtastic person they are. And then that person
actually wouldn't have any way to remove their profile or those reviews. What a
future. Yeah. Okay. Hopefully you guys have picked up
the sarcasm at this point. co- uh co-founders Julia Cordray and Nicole
McCullo, I hope I said that right, uh insist the app exists to promote
positive feeling. I don't think they understand how the
internet works. As two empathetic female
entrepreneurs in the tech space, we want to spread love and positivity. I
appreciate that message. Um
but welcome to the internet. Um that's
probably not going to be how things are going to work. They have some things
kind of in place to try to help against this, but I think the administration of
said things is going to be pretty insane. Impossible. Um, once you register, negative reviews
or sorry, if you don't create a profile, but others are rating you, only positive
reviews will be posted. So, that's an interesting thing to note.
Um, but I wonder if there's comments that go along with the stars. And a
positive review could contain all kinds of hateful stuff in the comments
because you could be like five five star bleep bleep bleep hate this person.
Yeah. And like this is like crazy stuff. So you have 48 hours after someone posts
a negative review of you. You have 48 hours to dispute it if you've
registered, which is like, so what? I have to be So I have to be sitting
around policing the reviews of me on on
the people app in order to you know what really scares me about
this kind of stuff too is um we did it
Reddit. Do you know what I mean by that? Like
every time that Reddit is like, "Oh wow, we found the guy that did like the
Boston bombing." and it turns out to totally be the wrong person and they
send like hateful emails and stuff to their family and they get really angry
at all this kind of stuff. Like the internet just zergrushing the wrong
person could actually be a really bad thing with this app.
I think we can all agree that the justice system regardless of which
country you live in could probably use a little help. It ain't perfect. It can be
bloated. It can be slow. That civilians helping is a good thing.
Civilians helping is a good thing. But there is also a reason a lot of the time
for the the due diligence and the sort
of methodical uh nature that sometimes gets mistaken
as being slow and bloated um that the real system goes through because the
kind of I mean honestly it is enough for
someone to be to be uh you know I had a teacher once that was pushed out of his
job at a particular school simply because of an accusation
not because anything was ever proven or any charges were ever even laid. An
accusation is all it takes to color people's view of another person. It's
just how we are. If if you're accused of something or whatever and you totally didn't do it,
the first Google result is still going to be the accusation. It'll always be that article blah blah
blah charges laid for, you know, which is why a lot of the times they
keep the names anonymous until they're fully Yeah. A lot of the times.
Not always. Not always. Um, so I don't know what
else there is to I I don't really know what else there's. We'll see what happens once it comes
out. May maybe there will be some weird impossible beam of hope that keeps it a
positive app. But knowing the internet,
I seriously doubt it. Yeah. And honestly, it's going to become, for lack of a
better term, a circle jerk for certain people. Like you said, the popular kid
at school is going to have the greatest rating everywhere because everyone wants
to rate him publicly or her publicly so that that person thinks that they like
them. so that hopefully they'll be in good spots and then the if that person
doesn't like someone then it's going to be negative flow and like it's just
going to be a crazy popularity contest I think. Do you want to hear something crazy? It
actually took me about 15 to 20 seconds to realize what a horrible idea this was
because I am so accustomed to not having any privacy anyway.
Yeah. that I don't actually necessarily think about that aspect of of a social
network or an app or whatever the case may be right away. So, I'm used to
people being able to leave a review of me anywhere they want
and like I don't care cuz we're used to that. But like some people will not
and that's their right. That's their right. I as an adult knowingly and
willingly gave up my a lot of my privacy. I kind of didn't knowingly and
willingly. You were like, "Hey, bro, film a video." And I was like, "All
right, but it's fine. Welcome to the plan show,
but like I I I knew that going into this." And it was fine.
And here you are now with like the fact that you have a pool being big news.
Yes. My my parents pool. We don't have the pool anymore. It got torn down this
summer. Oh, I actually did. Okay. I did not know that. So, do I think that there is
potential? I mean, we've talked a lot about anonymity and people people's
rights surrounding it and the and the benefits to other people of less
anonymity in a lot of cases. Um, can I
think of situations where this would be
useful for me to know that that person
doesn't return tools when you lend them to them or whatever else?
Like I can think of I can think of a thousand ways this would be useful,
but I can't think of a single way that
it would be useful to someone
for their own account. like like I don't I can't think of anything someone could
say about me on my own account like like in a review that would benefit me. So So
people could say like, "Oh yeah, he's kind of like he kind of talks over
people." Like when that loot guy was trying to talk like 20 seconds ago, he
just kept on going like a freight train. I freaking hate that guy.
Register it anymore. Sorry, I saw it, but I was I was just
going to finish this point and then hand it to you. Um, like I can see that being
useful information for other people to have, but I don't want them to I don't want them that to be the first thing
they know about me. That's a huge part of it is like I have an opportunity to make a a good
first impression, right? So, why should they why should they get,
you know, all the skeletons in the closet right off the bat? I mean,
shouldn't I get a chance to get to know these people? Maybe I have other redeeming qualities, you know, and we're
relying on user reviews, which quite frankly, look at how broken user reviews
are, you know, for things as simple as a freaking USB cable on Amazon. And
something as complex as a human, you're going to trust other people to review them.
One thing that I worry about, too, is like timed sniping. This is what I was
trying to say earlier is like, oh, they're going on a hiking trip or a
business trip or something. They're swapping out their SIM. It's based on
your phone number. They're doing something that they wouldn't be able to take advantage of the 40 48 hour window.
Let's leave some inflammatory stuff,
right? Right. Yep. I can I can see people getting
trolled like that. Yeah, that's not working. Someone wanted me to
move it to the top right and it didn't happen. We will at some point.
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All right, we've actually got we could probably run the show for another two
hours because a lot of topics. I think we might have to just rapidfire
as many of these as we can. Uh so why don't we why don't we start with the um
the ZDNet uh the ZDNet article. Did you drop it in the Twitch chat already?
No. You want to do that? Uh, sure. Yeah, I'll do it. Go ahead. Okay, so it's suspected that a mobile
advertising network has been used to do a site with hundreds of thousands of
smartphone browsers, which is actually like kind of insane. Cloudflare stated
that one customer is hit by 4.5 billion
page requests over a few hours. Most of the smartphone browsers are on Chinese
IPs. It's apparently a browser to go China.
Wow. Not the point. Um
um apparently it's a browserbased layer 7 or application layer uh flood attack.
They've been viewed as theoretical in this way for several years but haven't
become a reality until now due to difficulties in efficiently distributing
malicious JavaScript code. But that's where the advertising network comes in.
The browser attack peaked at over 20 uh 2,000 or 275,000 HTTP requests per
second. 80% from mobile devices, 98% from
Chinese IPs. Way to go, China.
Not the point. Again, not the point at all. It's probably just
It was probably just a hijacked advertising network that was within
China. It's not It's not Way to go, China.
Wow. Okay, that's probably about it. That's
intense. But T-Mobile customers exposed in major
Experian data breach.
All right, so here we go. Bloating up the original article here on the
verge.com. Did you post the link already? We got this. Okay,
so uh yeah, I mean I'm not going to say
that the fact that like everyone gets breached makes us feel any better about
the breach that we had on the forum, but it kind of does. There's actually been
some pretty ridiculous stuff in the last little bit.
All I'm saying is this is why we didn't store financial
data. Yep. This is I mean a lot of people have asked us why the only payment method we
accept through the forum is PayPal and it's because it's PayPal's problem.
We do not want your credit card. I don't want to touch that at all. Ever.
I never want to see your credit card and your credit card. You don't want to show
me your credit card. you don't want to do it because that is not the kind of
stuff that we want to be responsible for. I mean honestly it's it's it's
enough for us that we have you know name data and stuff like that and that wasn't
even what was compromised for us anyway. Uh even if we had stored credit cards
that wouldn't have been compromised but
we still don't want it ever. Yeah. Uh, so 15 million Americans were
affected and the breach revealed names, addresses, and social security numbers.
I mean, to put that in context, that's uh about three and a half to 4% of the
United States population and definitely enough information to
steal your identity. Yes. Uh, it's unclear how many other
companies were involved in the breach, but no banking or credit card information seems to have been leaked.
your name, address, and social security number, so they could probably get your
banking information. Now, with that said, the social security numbers were being stored in encrypted
files, but it is not clear if that encryption has been compromised.
Okay. Okay. So, um, do we know how they were encrypted?
Uh, no, I don't actually 100%. I don't
think that's in the article or anything, but how they were encrypted would
actually give some insight as to whether because if it's like some crapastic form
of encryption, they probably have them, but if it's a
little bit more advanced, then I don't know. I don't think it's in here. It's
not. But all right. Oh well. By the year 2050, this actually ties in
pretty well to something we were talking about last week. Uh, human on robot sex
could be more common than human on human
sex. Again, I find this not very surprising.
Um, at the very least just because of like
masturbation statistics. People probably get off by themselves
more than they get off with a partner throughout
their lifespan. Ah, throughout speak for yourself.
I don't know. I actually I wonder
right like in in a still in a relationship you probably like sometimes
I don't know. Yeah. Speak for yourself man. Theo differences. Mine's pretty.
I don't know. All right. So this is the tmi edition of
the women's show. Um I I mean I didn't uh
uh Yeah. I don't know. So, what they're saying is by 2030 most people will have
some form of virtual sex. They're saying as casually as they browse porn today.
That's kind of interesting. That's 15 years from now. And
uh the consumer version one is coming out pretty soon.
Did you say 15 years from now? No. No. 35.
What? 2030. Oh, 2030. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. No, this isn't for robots. They're just
saying virtual sex. So like VR. So, so, so VR, I mean, what would you consider
to be VR VR sex? Because you wouldn't even necessarily need like a USB
accessory and a VR headset. It could just be a matter of touching yourself
with a headset on and that could be like a a virtual sexual experience.
I think that's what they're saying there. Yeah. Okay.
Because in 5 years after that, they say 2035, the majority of people will own
sex toys that interact with VR in some form. I mean, they're also being very loose
and easy with their wording here. They super are um saying things like most people,
excuse me, most people. Yeah. Most people in 15 years probably still
won't even have like decent internet connections. I was just going to say you
mean most people. Um like most people in first world
countries who also kind of at least somewhat like technology.
Outdated term. Sorry. Uh developed nations. That's like honestly I think
that one's worse. No, the first world and third world is actually like a cold
war. It's a cold war term. Oh wow. Yeah. Right. It has like some weird meanings.
Yes. Um and then yeah, it's like what group you're a part
of. And then honestly though, I think the connotation of developed versus
developing countries is way worse. That's like that's like saying like I'm
not even necessarily true because in a quote unquote developed country there's
probably more science and development going on.
Um well well that's exactly it. Being
you're never developed I think is the point. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Um,
and like even if you look at infrastructure, we're still improving. And calling someone else like
developing. Like that's honestly that's the kind of thing I could see that
turning into like a playground insult. It's like Yeah. That's the developing
kid. You know what I mean? Like that's that's exactly when you're at the UN or whatever.
Yeah. Exactly. Right. Right. Can you can you just imagine like all
the ambassadors? Yeah. Developing developing.
Oh, don't worry about him. He's just developing. He's just developing. Like that's brutal.
That's rough. Um, so anyway, so, so, um, less affluent countries, why
don't we say that? Sure. Um, um, and and then they're saying again
with the the loose terminology, robot sex to overtake human to human in 2050,
but like maybe. Yeah, maybe. I mean, that's that is some
crystal balls stuff right there. A lot of this is kind of crystal balls
stuff. Um, I wonder if anyone has two. Anyways, um apparently the sex toy
market has been growing by 6% every year, but it doesn't h specify for how
many years. Again, a lot of this is a little up in the air. Um yeah, I don't I
don't I don't really find this all that surprising.
Like even just porn is becoming much more easy for people in the public to
talk about. Uh there's been protests in what the UK against porn being banned
and like people went out without masks to protest it. Like it's it's becoming
much less taboo these days. So, as that becomes much less taboo with Pornhub,
they should have gone out without pants to protest it. Didn't I think some people like
I probably did. Yeah. Um, with Pornhub releasing like
the twerking butt thing. Did you see that? That was hilarious. Like like it's it's becoming a like you
can laugh about it. It's becoming more mainstream. People are making jokes about it. People are talking about it
publicly. Um, Game of Thrones is pretty much Game of Thrones is like,
"Wow." Like, there's some pretty racy porn on some pretty there's some pretty
mainream ancestral relationships like it gets it gets pretty pretty intense on there. Um
so like I don't know it's becoming very not weird. So if you if you give it that
trend and that continuation and then until what 2050 they're talking about
like okay wouldn't be that surprised.
Yeah. I mean I I still have some I still have sort of some concerns about that. I
mean and I think Futurama covered it pretty well. I think it could lead to
less relationships, but at the same time, we have an overpopulation issue. So, like, is that really that big of a
problem? Yeah. Yeah. So, basically, we'll just weed ourselves out until
we not as many anymore. And I guess that'll be a thing.
Um, Tesla unveils the Model X.
Yeah. Speaking of sex, we've got the Model S, the Model 3, and
a couple different levels. Oh, yeah. And it's sexy, right? Good
job. Uh, did you did you post this yet? I'm working on it. Okay. So, that is what it looks like,
which surprises absolutely no one at all. Yep. Since this has been teased many, many
times, literally seen one. We've literally seen one in person.
There's been minor changes since there have been tweaks. Y
or twerks as it were. See, look at its butt.
H. Do you want to give us the rundown? Okay. So, there's a bunch of different
things that people are talking about. There's stuff that we've already known for a long time, but I'm going to go
through some of the quotes and specs here first. Uh they say it's the safest,
fastest, and most capable sports utility vehicle in history. That's actually not
super surprising considering what they did for the Model S. Uh shares DNA with
the top-of-the-line Model S P90D, which
is pretty epic. Uh standard with all-wheel drive and a 90 kilowatt hour
battery providing 250 mi of range.
Sorry. Uh performance and standard models available. P90D and 90D. It has
seven seats, which is Is that a lot? That's a lot, right? I only look at
sedans. I don't know. I used to five being a lot.
Not even a lot. That's just standard.
The seven standard. No. Well, in an SUV, yes.
There we go. All right. So, it's not necessarily a lot. 0 to 60 in as little
as 3.2 seconds in your family car, which is fantastic.
That's hilarious. Uh, same as a Koigg CCX4.7
V8, although your top speed is not going to be the same.
Yeah, it's limited to 155 miles an hour. It's about 200 km an hour. Although,
frankly, you shouldn't be driving your kids around at 200 km an hour anyway.
Yes. Yeah. Um, this is cool. The Falcon Wing doors.
No, those are neat, I guess. But the boweapon defense mode
is freaking I love how they name things. No, seriously. There's like there's like
a fresh air, a recirculate air, and then
a biohazard symbol button that is
apparently u it uses a an air filter
that is 10 times larger than a normal car's air filter that's designed to keep
you safe in any situation where the air quality is questionable. This is going
to be a standard feature on every car in China
in like the next like 6 to 8 years. Oh,
you could quote me on that one because that is like if you can have a
filtration system in your home and a filtration system in your car. If you
live in Beijing, you probably should. Yep. Yep. Uh when the car is operating
Yes. When the car is operating at max capacity, we can't even detect any
viruses or bacteria or spores. It's like
zero. You keep on clicking around. I can't read it because your name thing's
in the way. It goes on the Google doc. I I mean I
mean who else who else does this? Who else does this? Does anyone else while you're reading? Do you just kind of like
do this? But on my screen, wherever his cursor is, it also has a line up and then says
here, I'll move mine. So yeah, I can I can see it. Yeah. So see how it says the name. So it like
it's covering multiple words at a time and then moving around while I'm trying.
There's cursor wars on Google.
Be the most boring episode of anything ever. Um, anyways, it's like zero that
came through. If there's ever an apocalyptic scenario of some god damn of
some kind, hypothetically, you just press the bioweapon defense button. This
is a real button. Yeah, we're trying to be a leader in apocalyptic defense
scenarios. Uh, only a leader for the
extraordinarily rich and elite. However, the 90D starts at $132,000
and the P90D starts at $142,000.
So, I won't be buying one of these for my family vehicle anytime soon.
I don't see it on here, but I thought they were saying something about uh
fitting within guidelines for like hospital quarantine rooms or something.
Oh, yeah. I'm not sure. Yeah, I think it was something like it's as clean as a hospital. I think it didn't end up air
quality in the car is on the levels of a hospital room.
Um, all right. Moving on to our next topic. I fix it.
They got their app yanked from the Apple
store. They banned their devel. So, their account, their developer account
got banned in response to their Apple TV
tear down. To be fair though, in response, they were like, "Lol, we don't care. We'll
just work on our mobile site more." Mhm. Like literally their developers were
like, "Uh, we were kind of thinking of doing that anyways." So, what is awesome
and the best response they could have had. They're not a sponsor of today's show,
unfortunately. It would have been awesome if that had that particular star
had aligned, but uh we love those guys. They're great. They believe in Yeah,
they believe in understanding uh your devices and being allowed to repair them
yourself. So, um, with that said, I also
have to defend Apple a little bit here because iFixit knew based on an
agreement that they made with Apple that
if they did this, Apple could take action against them.
I don't think Apple was in the wrong and they did it anyway. I just think I fix's response was
perfect. Yeah. So, so there you go. Um, I fix it.
We'll just Well, okay. I think they're in the wrong because they should let people do that.
Yes. But they didn't like this is this isn't like this isn't like
that bull crap with um uh with Pebble
where right after the release of the Apple Watch you couldn't refer to the
the Pebble app in your description or whatever. Like I can't remember exactly
what they did but they've done some really stupid stuff. Yeah.
Um but this this wasn't it. It's just kind of funny.
Yeah. All right. ad block extension begins
whitelisting acceptable ads. This is actually something that I talked about
on a recent episode of Fast as Possible
um where they've actually had this program in beta for quite some time
where their community got together and
made a list of the of requirements for what could be considered an acceptable
ad. So something that doesn't take over the whole page. uh something that
doesn't, you know, uh turn up your freaking speakers and play at full
volume. Like all the ads on our site, so yeah, like pretty much the ads on our
site for adblock users, which I believe
is opt in by default.
Okay. Adblock users would receive ads on our
site, but I think we actually have to sign up like we have to submit and be
audited. Okay. For the acceptable ads program. But but
basically but basically what it is is um
here, hold on. I'm just going to go back to the to the details. If your ad is
considered acceptable, then you your
your your ad will be shown to ad block users unless they go back in and
manually opt out of this program.
Um, it was also apparently sold to an anonymous buyer.
Yeah. And we don't know who that is yet because they're anonymous.
So there you go. Oh, there was a previous uh controversy um IO so the
owner of Adblock Plus. So this is Adblock using the Adblock Plus whitelist
to be clear. Uh so IO had previously caused controversy by accepting payment
from some whitelisted ad companies. It apparently is no longer the case, but I
remember us talking about what a conflict of interest that created
uh way back when that was happening. Um IO says they are not the buyer of
Adblock though, so we don't know exactly what's going on,
but there you have it.
Um, this is stupid. So, yet another yet
another, you know, crowdfunding campaign
for yet another phone that will never exist. I don't even I'm not even sure
why this is in the dock. Oh, yeah. It's in the dock because I thought it was funny, right? I remember why. I put it
in here. Okay. Up to 256 GB of storage, 6 GB of RAM,
Snapdragon 8204 megapixel camera. Ah,
this is Symmet, the no compromised
smartphone PC that you can use as a laptop
because it is so powerful. Holy crap.
This is a render. That's not a real product at all.
Um, so basically guys, if you're buying
a a a phone Wow, that goal though.
Yeah, I know. Nowhere near it. Is it flex funding? I don't know if you guys
Oh my god. Can you check if it's flex funding? They have like 50 grand already.
Uh, fixed fixed funding. Okay.
So, if you if you're buying a phone
based on someone on Indiegogo or Kickstarter promising you that it's
going to be really fast, it's going to be the bees knees. It's going to have a
lot of megapixels. You know what this would be really good for? Not to cut you off, but someone
who's trying to uh buff up their
marketing portfolio for a resume. Like they could be like, "Look, I took a
product that straight up didn't exist at all, that would never exist, had no
possibility of existing, and that no one had ever heard about, set my goal at
over a million, and in four days, 114
people gave me over $50,000. You should hire me." What? Like, what? That's
pretty impressive. If I was smart, I'd probably say, uh, that's because you
promised them something you couldn't deliver, and that's not a viable
business strategy. The door's over there. U, but I could see someone
getting see someone I could see someone getting hired. Um,
so basically, so back back to what I was saying. If your plan is to buy a
smartphone that uh projects that it will be available,
when are they? August 2016.
So, in 10 months with like seemingly
nextgen specifications, here's a freaking clue for you. Why don't you
just wait till all the nextG phones are out? You'll have now until then to save
the money instead of dropping it now and you can get them then.
We should talk about more interest. Yes, there we go. Yeah, we're doing this one. So, this is
also a Kickstarter, which as you guys know, I'm not a huge fan. I generally
don't like giving them a ton of coverage or even talking about them at all, but
this looks like it might be the real deal. Um, so, so sort of just to give
you guys sort of the full rundown, we have never been in touch with Scarp. I
don't know anyone who works there. I hadn't even heard of this until Luke
linked me to it. shaving as we know it is for there must be the laser
completely level to the surface. Okay, so here's how it works. There you go. In a nutshell, soft last longer to the
touch. It goes at a particular
wavelength that cuts human hair but not
skin. So you basically just scrape this thing along your face and it removes
your hair like freaking magic. What I've been talking about, not to
like give other people ideas yet, um is I I want them to send us one for review.
I don't think they've responded yet. I had one of our guys send them an email.
I because I thought it would be kind of fun to review. We reviewed the shaver a long time ago.
And I was like, this is actually more a
lot more techy than the shaver is. Um, wow. That is a blast from the past. So,
here I'll screen I'll screen share. So, this is what he's referring to.
It's actually the fifth video that ever went up on the line.
I find myself in a tricky situation. It is now 5:30. I get off work at 6.
Hey, that's a cool shirt. At that time, I need to go directly to an appointment
for a portrait. So, this is like I I think this is like a
week plus for me. And I still I'm still like demonstrating
the I'm just going to mute this. This video is awesome.
Yeah. I look like you're in front of a projector screen, but you can still see
this shelf.
What is this?
The old intro. Oh man, this is awesome.
I get such a kick out of it when people are like, "Melinius, you're so unprofessional now." It's like, how when
were you when was this golden age? What What were you watching before?
When was this golden age of Lionus Tech Tips? Look at these shoes. When was this
golden age of Lionus tech tips? When you were watching when I was professional.
Hold on. When did you wear pants that weren't from Costco? Look at this computer. Look at this
computer. drive auto drive just hanging out.
This is great. But anyways, we had reviewed a
Oh man. We had reviewed a USB shaver and I was like, you know what? This thing
actually looks super badass. I think actually makes sense on our channel now.
Are we Is the audio playing right now? No. No, you can talk over it.
Um I think actually might like make sense on It didn't even do much. Well,
no, because it's uh what I had never
used a shaver. Yeah. Um and I didn't realize they only really
work on stubble. Yeah. If you want to use an electric shaver, you have to you have to like razor first
and then you can and then you can maintain with a shaver.
So, it I spent like forever and it didn't really work ever. So, also it was
like $5 or something from Caiba. But yeah, this thing's badass.
And one of the things that I want to do, um I I want to review it to see how well
it works. and I think it fits within the tech space. So, I I thought we should contact them and see how it goes. Um,
more as like an experimental video to see what people think. Apparently, people freaking care because of how
Yeah, they've raised like $2.5 million. Almost 15,000 people have backed them
and they've raised uh $2.8 million, almost $2.9 million, actually. Um, so I
thought, okay, we should try to review it. And one thing that I want to try to do is work with Taran
Mhm. and get a 3D printed mount to see if I
can use it for shaving hair down instead
of actually taking it completely off because they have it going right against
your skin. So just a like more like a grooming version.
So like make our own custom 3D printed mount to lift it off your skin a little
bit and then make it so you can they might even just make an accessory for that. I could see them doing that.
It's not in the Kickstarter. So I could definitely see it as like a a long
longer term thing. So you just you could even it could just
clip on. So you could just be like here here and like you know the places that
and then sort of everywhere else. That'd be kind
of cool actually. So I thought that could just be kind of fun to do in the video.
I can see this company just making a fortune because
you know what though? I think they're largely targeted towards
not really, but like all all the people in the video are men
and the stylistic design of the thing looks very masculine, but I think way
more chicks are going to be interested in this. And I get it. Yep. If if if you're shaving your legs, which
most guys don't awful lot of surface area to deal with.
This would be So you could just whip it by. Yep. You don't have to worry about cutting.
It's waterproof, which is cool. So you can use it in the shower, which is super
amazing. like yeah I mean it is so it's got the laser has a
life of 50,000 hours and is powered by a AAA battery and the founder has been in
the laser hair and skin treatment industry for 30 years now with all of
this said it's still a Kickstarter it's still not a real product
y let's see how it goes I didn't back it incredibly interesting
and if it actually works as well as they show I will definitely have one
but I didn't back it because it's a Kickstarter I'm going to wait till it comes out I'm not worried about it not
getting funding their goal was 160,000. They've made $2.9 basically million
dollars. Yeah. So, I'll just wait. There's no point. Honestly, at this
point in time, I don't see any real reason. All the early bird deals are
gone, right? So, I'd be buying it for a lot.
Yeah. Um, so whatever. March 2016. I'll just
wait till then. All right. We got a couple more things. This is sort of a big deal. Um, Amazon,
don't be douches, please. Like just
please don't be douches. Did you post this already? No, I didn't.
Amazon is banning Apple TV and Chcast
sales on their site. Uh so they've quietly informed it's not just you can't
buy it with Prime directly shipped by Amazon. Um it has informed marketplace
sellers that as of October 29th it will no longer sell chcast or Apple TV.
That's annoying. What the actual crap, guys. I'm sorry
that Fire TV is stupid and that nobody cares about it, but this is really not
the way to go about this. I'm like, your stuff doesn't even work
in freaking other countries. Get over
yourself. Like, we can't even use what is that even what is the thing called?
The Amazon whatever the tower thing.
So, the Amazon spokesperson over the last three years, Prime Video has become
an important part of Prime. It's important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime
Video in order to avoid customer confusion.
Wow. The biggest load of bull crap ever.
I hope that they reverse this decision between now and October 29th or whatever
the date I just said was because that is super super stupid. I really hope this
turns into an anti-competition lawsuit because this is one of those cases where
it really would be justified. you you're I mean, yes, I know it's your store and
you get to decide what's stocked on your shelves. Even if you have a section of
your store like Okay, so you go to Home Depot, right? And there's a Harvey's or
a Subway or whatever inside it. They get to decide, you know, hey, we want a
Subway there. We want a Harvey's, but it's just kind of crappy
to just lock out what is effectively I mean, is it even a competing product?
Come on. Like in order to be competing, it would
have to be competitive. Yeah. Yeah. I was bringing up that the
Amazon Echo you can't even use in Canada. Yeah. We had to send it down to our
fastest possible uh writer down in the States to try out a bunch of the stuff
for us and then he's going to send it back to us and we're going to compile
our review based on on his notes and stuff like that. And he's he like he's
good. He's been writing for us for a long time and that's fine. It's just we shouldn't have to deal with that kind of
crap. YouTube to potentially announce its
subscription service in October.
Uh so the original article here is from recode.net.
So they are apparently prepping their subscription launch. Two services, one
price. Uh what this will mean uh it's
well I don't know, not necessarily 100% clear. Uh they were aiming apparently
for a midsummer 2015 launch. That clearly didn't happen. It's possible the
launch date could keep slipping and it's speculated that they also intend to
bundle YouTube music key with their ad free video service. So that's the way it
would work is you would subscribe to YouTube. Um industry sources say Google
has told them it intends to charge $10 a month for the combined music and adree
YouTube offering. Um although that's
sort of hard to believe because I thought the music service was just about
$10 on its own. Yeah, I thought it was $8. Anyway, so the point is um you will be able to pay
a subscription to YouTube and then not see any ads on the site. That is to say,
unless unscrupulous content creators bake their own ads into their videos and
force you to watch those so they can collect their own sponsorship dollars
and Google can't have their 40% cut of that. I wouldn't know anyone like that
though, right?
With that said, um, content owners have been told through a blast email that
they have to agree to the new terms by October 22nd or their videos will no
longer uh be available for public display. I haven't seen said email. I
have a YouTube rep. Um, so I haven't heard anything about this, but there you
go. Uh, what else we got? Oculus VR will
cost more than $350.
Fascinating. Okay,
so Polymer explains why the first consumer model won't come cheap. You
want to run through this one? This is I actually had no idea.
You didn't know this yet? No. Oh, okay. Okay, I'll run through this
one then. Uh, so in a nutshell, um, it's
been confirmed that it'll cost more than 350 bucks. The reason is that it has
more tech than the DK1 and DK2 days.
Although I think we probably expected this back when Oculus freaked out a
little bit when they saw Lighthouse on uh the HTC, what's it called? The Vive.
Yeah, back on on the HTC Vive. Um and
he wants it to be the best it can be, even if this means it'll carry a premium
price tag to set an example for all VR headsets. And that is important. But I
remember the whole like pitch back when the Facebook acquis acquisition took
place was like, "Yeah, thanks to Facebook's investment, we can keep the
price low." Yeah.
To be fair though, I'm not that surprised cuz like there's headphones
now and the stand camera is nicer and a
stand camera instead of like just this
like crappy thing that hooks onto the top of your monitor and weighs not
enough. So the cables always pull it and torque it to the side and it drives me
insane because it never sits flat on top of the monitor. I have to like tape it
or glue it on and then that's weird because then I have residue on top of my monitor and I'm just not happy about it.
And then now there's a stand camera and it's better. And like the headband thing
is a lot nicer now. Like they improved the materials in almost every way. They
improved the camera's now stand camera. There's Yes, we got that. Thank you.
There we go. Um, there's little like fold down headphone things now which are
trash. Please don't use them. I remember not that long ago freaking Palmer was
like, "Oh yeah, they're great. I'm an audio file. They're they're fantastic."
They're they're like those they actually sound okay. But the problem is that
there's those like pad headphone things that you
Yeah. So they're like those TDK like like $10 at London Drugs when you're
desperate. Like for what they are, I was like, "Oh, wow. I'm surprised this
doesn't sound like literally throw up pouring into my ears, but like they're
still pat like they come out on angles off your ear and it's just like this
isn't ideal. So get get your own headphones.
Okay, I'm going to let you finish, but I love
I love I absolutely love the argument of
no, these things are great. I'm an audio file. Audio file literally means
nothing. It's not a diploma. I don't remember if that's exactly how he said
it, but it was like I remember reading that and being like, "Okay." No, but I was I was reading comments on
the uh Beats by 50 uh Star Wars rap video that we did a long time ago, and
I've got people saying like, "Oh, first of all, oh, oh man, one of my favorites
was everyone else on the internet says that these are great." So, I'm pretty sure
this guy has paid off. Oh, no. One of these. It was Streets by
50. Sorry. Um these were trash. I know. They were awful. And then and
then and then there's there's always the comments. It's like I'm an audio file and these are great. Let's break it
down. I'm going to break it down for you. Okay. Audio means audio.
File means love.
Audio love. I like it. And these are great.
It's not a certificate. It doesn't It doesn't It doesn't give you any sort of
like industry credentials. It just means
you should take part-time education and like get an audio engineering degree
just to troll the whole internet. You know, I can't do the math.
I can help you with that. Would you just do the math homework for
me? Yeah, we can show up the test together
cuz I can do I can do conceptual stuff. Yeah, I got no problem with that. Yeah,
but like you put an equation in front of me and I'm like
I can just like three. I hope the answer is zero. I hope
it's one of those.
I hope you have to do a bunch of calculations and it's just zero.
Anytime we can make it like an online course. Anytime we have to go in for a test, we can just get like a makeup
artist to make it look like we're Siamese twins. Like just pretend my head
to your shoulder. That would fly.
like, "No, this is this is this is how it goes." Yeah. This is this is real, man.
Yeah. Um All right.
Oh, man. So, um
someone's saying pedo equals walk pedometer. No, no, that's foot.
Pad is foot. Well, pod is foot, but I'm pretty sure
is is Oh, crap. Is ped walk? Because pod
is foot. Uh oh. I don't know. I don't know. Okay. Well, I hope I I
hope I didn't screw that up. It says they have audio file network cables. All
right, and on that note, thank you guys for tuning in to the WAN
show. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Um, we'll see you again next
week. Same bat time, same bat channel. Maybe the same time.
I hope you guys hopefully the same time.
Um, hopefully. Oh yeah, also uh hopefully let us know if you guys like
what we've done with the set. We actually pulled the table out a fair bit
more so you can see a lot more of what's going on back there. Personally, I think
it looks like the bee's knees, but uh I could be uh you know, I could be
Looks pretty good. Mythical morning. We're not quite there, but we're getting close. Yeah, it does.
There's some work to be done, I think. Yeah. Still still a little bit to be done, but it's pretty darn good. I'm I'm
liking it. Yeah. Here, tell me this. Does this help or
hinder? I think it helps a lot.
Should we put the CRT up higher?
Uh what? Oh, probably. One problem that
I think it has right now is it's a very much a dark void.
The CRT? No, the whole thing. Oh, well, we could light it better.
No, I know. But that's that's what I'm saying. Like like the like the black racking and the dark wood and then the
Maybe we should wear bright shirts. That might help. I bet that would help a lot. We should
be doing this kind of thing on Afterparty. Probably. Okay. Byebye.
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