Welcome to the WAN Show. I'm sorry you had to see what I was doing there right
before the show started, but you know, I mean, I'd hate to have that hanging over
me during the entire show, so it's better to get things out of the way.
Um, so we actually've got a pretty short
show for you today, guys. We've got uh
mandatory device kill switches potentially coming to California. So
that is to say that the owner, not the manufacturer,
I mean, oh, the potential for abuse is so there, but the owner of a device
could go, "Hey, that jerk mugged me. Well, I'll show him what for and just
turn the thing off." Or, uh, maybe you could disable certain functionality.
Right now, it's not like there's a standard that's completely ratified or
anything like that, but that could be coming. And as a consumer, I think that's a fantastic idea.
There's a standard for what it has to be able to do. Yes. And we'll talk about that when we
do the actual topic. But right now, we're teasing them. Teasing. Sony is in
talks to sell off their Vio line in much the same way that IBM sold off their
ThinkPad business. So, we might see Vio notebooks in the future. Uh, but they
might take on a very different form if at all. So, stay tuned for that as well.
More information from uh Bit Torrent Sync. Someone is actually making
something called SyncNet, which is essentially a a a way for you to access
web pages without them being um like
normal IP domains, but because it's all sourced through Bit Torrent Sync, so
we'll talk about that later. And Oculus Rink Rink.
Oculus Rift has its first launch title, which will be Eve Valkyrie, which has
been kind of thrown around at all the different trade shows lately and looks amazing. So, that was probably the
smartest move they could have possibly done. He's got hockey on the brain because Olympics, Oculus Rink, VR hockey
would be so awesome. It's uh they have every sport VR.
There's like not AAA version already. People are working on it.
Oh, I'm so stoked. It's going to be awesome. Pretty epic. Have you seen the flight
one? Someone's like there's no echo. No, no, the echo usually comes when I switch to
my notebook as a source, but I have already disabled it this week. Sorry.
What' you say? Yes. Um uh yeah. No. Have Have you seen
the flight one? No. Flight simulation VR as like a bird.
You fly around. I did hear about that. Yeah. Yeah. You just like you just like fly around. It's
like so good. A so good. I'm so excited for stuff like
that. I'm so excited for like But then they need like a combat mod.
Well, yeah. Bird dog fighting and like hawks and like a bird MMO.
You don't get an epic mount. You are an epic mount. I know. I'm an epic mount.
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jump into our first topic here. Um
do outer net or sync net all the nets. You can decide which net you want to
talk about first. I want fish nets, but I'll settle for outer net. Let's go ahead and uh get
this bad boy fired up. All right. So, just before we even start
going in, I I found their uh it's it's about this, but before we start like
talking about how it actually works, why is my screen sharing not working? I went down to their like like support
us donate area. They they support PayPal, Amazon
payments, direct payments through their website, Dogecoin, and Bitcoin.
Really? I was like, wow,
you guys spent a really long time on your like ability for people to support,
maybe spend more time building outer debt. Um, it's a really interesting
idea. They want to support it. Hopefully, Linus gets his laptop working at some point in time.
Yeah. In the meantime, go ahead. But they want it to work through hundreds of miniature satellites that
orbit around the Earth. And all these satellites would be constantly
broadcasting um like like Wi-Fi data essentially, but
broadcasting it downwards. So, for the mass majority of people, this is going to be one-way communication. you'll be
receiving the information and they'll transfer stuff like uh news and
information, crop prices for farmers, Bitcoin blockchains, Ubuntu, Wikipedia
in its entirety, uh some music, movies and games, but that's not necessarily
the main focus, uh educational courseware, emergency communications,
and many other things. And this is uh mainly designed for people that don't
necessarily have access to the internet because the goal of this project is that
everyone should be able to be connected. Ow. Um two-way communicate communication
is only going to work for very specific uh users and very specific use cases. So
it's going to be more focused on say there's a big natural disaster and mo
most communication lines are down. You'll still be able to access out internet for two-way communication but
most people are not going to be able to. This will also extend to certain people
in in areas where some sort of regime regime not regime regime might be
restricting you from accessing the internet. Um Lionus feels
in its unfiltered in its unfiltered entirety. Speaking of unfiltered
entirety, um you know what? Oh, I do have one more idea. So go on if there's
anything else you have to say. I mean really guys, okay, so to be clear, this is not internet for everyone. The outer
is not the same as the internet. The idea is it's more like um like the radio
would have been um you know 60 years ago.
So they can push you information and and uh one thing that's cool that makes it
not like the radio actually is that users can help push uh what what is
priority on the internet at that point in time. So if something really big is
going on like what's been going on in Ukraine um uh users could push that so
that it's on the outer internet. So you can push it through SMS or certain phone
apps so users kind of control what's on there. Obviously, Wikipedia in its
entirety is kind of a really important thing to be on something like the
internet because it's a massive source of information. Um, but more news and
that kind of stuff I think is going to be very userdriven. Um,
yay. That's honestly about it. But it's
actually really interesting. My favorite thing is the like in case of disaster,
you will gain two-way communication. And something that they're thinking about a
long-term goal is that everyone will always have two-way communication, but
that is not a launch goal at all. That is a like, hey, maybe way the heck down
the line, this can be supported because that would be awesome. Even one way is amazing. I mean,
something that has really baffled me is with everything going on in the Ukraine
right now, why is it that every headline
is about Justin Bieber? Yeah. Because I mean, and it's one of those
things where look guys, I'm not I'm not going to make this show about Justin Bieber. I've had a lot of people asking
me to talk about Justin Bieber for whatever reason. Um,
I think it's cuz we're Canadians. I don't know anything about him. I don't really care.
I don't know what songs he sings. I don't know how old he is. I don't know
who he's dating. And I really don't care. And the thing about all this
sensationalized uh celebrity gossip is that the harder
you ignore it, the more it will actually disappear from your life. You won't even
notice it anymore if you just stop caring. And the outer I think would be a
fantastic way for people who don't care about Justin Bieber to hopefully
be able to tune in. Yeah. Hopefully.
Although it could turn into another Twitter. It's userdriven. So,
but it's nerdy enough that I think it'll be users that aren't
Bieber. Yeah. Um but I mean, you know, like anything, it might turn into that eventually. But
I still I still believe that looking at looking at the technology in the way
that it is intended to be used um this
there's so much potential for it to be more like an unfiltered in terms of
censorship but filtered in terms of nonsense and garbage news source that
people could really come to rely on. I mean, one of the problems with the
internet is that it relies on
groundbased communication hubs that can
be located within areas that restrict
their citizens from having access to information. And that's what the
internet was intended to be used for. Unrestricted access to information for
everyone and the ability to contribute to that information that everyone has
access to. outeret might not allow everyone to contribute immediately but
it will give everyone access to it which is um quite frankly
amazing. I mean it's it's if they achieve this then I mean this is
to me that it's a step that's as big as
the internet was in the first place from my perspective from a from a human
rights and equality perspective because because people uh say people in
the Ukraine that's where that short-term two-way communication could be dropped
in is you could get help while you're in the Ukraine if something's going on if
you're somewhere else if there's a natural disaster like I don't think it's necessarily only natural disasters
because right when the Ukraine same thing started going on. There was all those live streams, right?
Mhm. And you could actually fairly easily figure out what was going on. I don't
necessarily know what happened, but I'm not getting as much information out of there as I was before.
And now I'm not hunting for it super actively every day. But it would be nice
if there was a stream of information that I could just go to easily all the
time and get updates because for me so far, it's been honestly a lot of manual
hunting just to figure out what the heck's going on. And it shouldn't be. I
mean, it doesn't make sense. It's such a big deal. It is compared to Bieber
and everyone's focusing on I can't even remember what the most recent thing is.
Olympics, but well, I wish it was the Olympics. Do you?
Instead of Well, instead of Bieber. Well, okay. Yeah, Olympics greater than
Bieber less important than almost anything else. I mean, don't don't get
me wrong, national pride is great and
the spirit of sport and people cooperating and competing, it's all
great. I just don't think the Olympics is as big of a deal as,
you know, giant super important things. Yeah. Like what's going on in the Ukraine
like like super important things. I think Coca-Cola should find some other
way to get their message out there. I don't even know if Coke is I know Samsung is a sponsor of the Olympics.
You hear about Samsung um because
they're a sponsor of the Olympics. Any athletes that are using non Samsung
devices have to cover their logos. It might have been specifically Apple, but
uh but yeah, they they like during the ceremonies and stuff, they have to like
cover up the logos on their device. I'm just sitting here going, it's like,
okay, that's brutal. There's a lot of comments about my
sunglasses. Well, it happened to be sunny out today
and so you should wear them for the entire had my sunglasses on and because
I would rather put them on my head than hang them around my neck with a strap,
which are the two options if they're not on your eyes, I went and I put them on
my head when I came in. But because you guys want to uh talk about the
sunglasses, I'll give you something to talk about. I'm wearing them for the rest of the stream. So there you go.
All right. So the next topic is actually another net that is
exciting and terrifying at the same time. This one doesn't feel This was
posted by Oh, shoot. Our last topic was posted on the forum by Sorry. I
sometimes forget to do these calls for you guys
by is it Sean the by I said showing the dock.
Altis Altis.
If people want me to be able to pronounce their names on the stream, they need to have names that I can
pronounce. So that's all I have to say about that. Anyway, the next one's from
Top War Gamer. So this is SyncNet.
Syncnet. SyncNet is interesting. My favorite thing is like one of the first
quotes you see when looking for this thing at all is SyncNet is experimental.
No security auditing has been done. Only use it if you know what you're doing,
which is insane. Which basically means don't use it.
Don't. I mean the way Okay, so the way that it works if you guys aren't
familiar with Bit Torrent sync why don't I do the Bit Torrent sync rundown and
then you can do the um the how it relates to this rundown.
Okay, so Bit Torrent sync is actually magical. It's it's one of the easiest
ways to share files um with yourself
remotely or with other people in a in a secure and private manner. So, Bit
Torrent Sync is an application that you install on any PC with storage or any
device. It actually works on iOS and Android phones as well. And uh what it
does is it actually allows you to create
shared folders that use a 33 character
secret, which is just another way of saying password or whatever. Anyway,
they call it a secret. A 33 character secret to determine who has access to
it. So, what you can do is you can create this folder, create a secret,
enter the secret on your phone, which is as simple as scanning a QR code when
you're sitting in front of that computer, and then you'll have access to those files on the fly. Between phones,
it's also amazing. So, you can use Bit Torrent Sync to send files between
phones using a local Wi-Fi or data or whatever it is that you want to do
simply by sharing a secret or scanning a QR code with each other. It's faster
than almost anything else out there. And unlike um things like Samsung's
proprietary technology where they want you to put the phones together and then
it'll transfer. It's like but only if your friends all use Samsung. No, come
on. Uh it is completely not locked down to any particular platform. So uh Bit
Torrent Sync is awesome. And one of the other things that it does is the more uh
the more shared folders there are distributed on devices all over the
place um the faster you can get access to it. So, if I had my photo library,
um, say I had it on Bit Torrent sync here at the office, I had it on Bit
Torrent sync at my house, and I had it on Bit Torrent sync at my parents house.
If I wanted to grab one of those photos on my phone, I would get the cumulative
upload speed of those three locations. So, I've created a private cloud all
pushing to me at the same time, which is
awesome because if you get together with some friends and you create Bit Torrent
sync shares, you have to trust your friends. It has to be, you know, not private data, just to be clear. I'm not
suggesting this, but if you bit torrent sync each other's stuff, you can take
advantage of your own private internet, which leads
into or your own private cloud storage, which leads into a new concept. So, how
this works is what you're doing is instead of transferring just random
files, you're transferring somewhat specifically tuned HTML files and then
uh there's a specific browser that's going to be made that can access that.
So, what you're doing is instead of going to a URL, you're typing in this
secret into the URL bar and then that instead of going to sorry, an IP is just
going to a folder. So, when you go there, you download it.
You download the entire website. entire website which is a security hole
and then you become a node. It's one big hole. That's all it is is a
hole. Like it's not secure at all. No. And then and then you become a node.
So it actually essentially if if someone has a massive website on here, it
becomes easier for them to host it as time goes on because more and more
people will access it. Then they all become nodes. So instead of bandwidth cost going up, they either stay the same
or go down. Um, now it wouldn't work for content like a
forum because you can't download the entire
Linus techtips.com forum. Well, you could, but you get a singular snapshot and it's
not going to update very well. Like, you can update it because it's Bit Torren in
sync. So, as changes happens, it can be synced out, but something like a form
where it's moving that quickly is not really going to work very well. Um,
something like uh a chat box is not going to work. Um, something like a news
site or a blog would actually work really well or just anything static in
general is going to work fairly well. And then if you have updates like once a
day or something like that, that's not going to be that hard to sync out to
everyone because it's a synchronization folder. It you can just get an update
while it's sitting there. Um, as he
said, you can make a secret key. What you can also do is actually make what's
called a read key, which is a read only key. So people can't if if they tamper
with your files, it won't be streamed back out under that key, which is
interesting and a good idea. You're still harboring a whole bunch of files
from some random dude. Yeah. And those files that are on your
computer can be updated just like that at any
time by that dude. So if someone
say that they don't get possessed by a demon and decide to do something evil
and completely take over your computer steals their secret, but let's say someone steals their
secret, breaks into their house. Okay, figure we're talking realistic stuff
here. Someone break figures out who they are, breaks into their house, sits at
their computer and updates the website and does whatever they want because they
have all this data stored on your PC that is just going to sync itself to you
and then next time you access it, it can do probably whatever it wants. There's
now there there are ways that they could figure out how
to advance this and possibly put security in place and all that other
kind of stuff, but it's sketchy as all hell right now. So, be careful if you
want to go test this. Um, I think that we should probably go as
far as to say don't test this. Probably let's do that. Don't test it.
But here you go. This is what it is. Uh, it's it's really interesting anyways
because in the future, like I said, certain security things can come in hand. maybe only certain file types can
be transferred over this system, blah blah blah blah blah. Uh certain things
aren't going to be supported. It'll probably be very raw, a lot of textbased sites, stuff like that. Um which which
is interesting enough, but we'll see where that goes. There there's ideas for
things like colored coins and name coins being brought in so that you can have
more easily accessible things like actual domain names going to uh secrets
because right now it's sync colon slash and then a 33 character secret which is
uh a little bit crazy. Um so hopefully
that gets easier at some point. Namecoin can al also make it so you can easily
look up who's running a website instead of just this random secret key. Um, so
yeah, I don't know. It's freaky and scary and possibly amazing and possibly
one of the scariest things on the internet. All at the same time, it's going to enable things like um certain
groups that could otherwise be oppressed to be able to get information out there.
It's also going to enable things like really, really, really, really creepy
people on the internet having stories of images and websites and stuff like that
being really hard to take down. So yeah,
we always have to look at the bad side, but then there's also the good side.
It's like the force, basically. It's like those Jedi we saw fighting in the
park the other day. Yeah. Awesome little Jedi.
I know. Um, baby Jedi. There's ideas in the future for
converters of sorts. You can convert a website uh like just a standard website
into something that can work on this this SyncNet thing. Um, and there's
ideas for maybe Firefox and Chrome plugins, so you don't actually have to
have a dedicated browser for it, and you could just type into the URL bar or
something else, whatever the plugin works, and then Firefox and Chrome could
interpret that. By the time my son is in
high school, the internet as we know it could be a
marginalized part of the internet because there's going to be pirate bays
internet. There's going to be syncnet internet. There's going to be
potentially outer net. Some of which will provide services that are actually
more important than what the internet does today.
Isn't that amazing? Especially because the internet is being like it's losing net neutral net
neutrality. It's being way more commercialized every single freaking
Was Verizon throttling was Netflix, right?
Yeah, I think so. But then they're denying it, I think. Yeah, they can deny they can deny
whatever they want, but they were denying it. Yeah. Yeah. So, allegedly.
Allegedly. As long as you say allegedly, then nothing really matters. It's like that
NBC story. It's like the phone was hacked while I was in Sochi. It's like
no, you were in Moscow and it was hacked because you did something stupid, not
because someone there was actually attacking you. You're an idiot. Um,
allegedly an idiot. Allegedly an idiot. We don't want any lawsuits here.
None at all. I Yeah, I don't know. That whole thing is so stupid. He just went
to some site and clicked on something that he shouldn't have. And then was like, oh my god, people are hacking
people in Sochi and it's like, what? Oh. Oh god. Anyways,
I mean, there are problems in Sochi, but that just isn't one of them.
Or it might be, but it didn't happen to him. It was this completely different
thing that happened to him. All right. So, uh, next, this is unbelievable. So,
um, believe it or Okay, believe it or not, this unbelievable thing is not
being reported on by us because we happen to be a Twitch partner and we're
streaming on twitch.tv right now. I think they don't call it twitch.tv. I
think that's an old people thing. Twitch.tv saying dot.
Really? I think so. Yeah. Guys, let let us know.
Let us know. What would you say? Twitter. Twitch TV.
I think it's an old people thing to say the dot in a website.
So you'd be like Facebook com. No, that's just Facebook. Like I don't
think you say dot like you never say the ending.
Yeah, I don't I don't think so. But maybe I'm mistaken.
But I don't say facebook.com. I say Facebook. I read something really interesting. Um
apparently, you know what? I don't know if I put it in the doc or not. Let me
let me check. Okay, don't worry. We're going to get to this in a moment. I say twitchtv.tv when I'm referencing
the company. I say Twitch when I'm referencing the website. Okay, this is sort of unrelated. Oh,
bollocks. Where did it go? Okay, I saw an interesting article. Um, it was like
a linguistics article about the way that the period is changing in meaning to
mean um irony or anger because so many
sentences in text message communication and without periods. And I have at times
been called a grammar Nazi. And yet I find myself very often not using a
period. Question marks, exclamation marks are much more likely to be used
when appropriate. And I think it was even commas, but don't quote me on that
part. But the period was much less likely to be used. I think it was
something like 30 to 40% of the
situations where it would be appropriate, a period was being used.
Uh, I see I see on forums and stuff I see it much more commonly properly used,
but if I'm doing instant communication like like Steam chat or something like
that or if I'm doing text messages, if someone uses a period, I'm usually like,
whoa. And that's exactly it. Online communication, I think, was something
like 10 to 15% more likely for people to use a period. And then text messages
were the worst. And it stems from things like 160 character or 140 character
limits on SMS and Twitter. But um the the reason the article was written was
because uh a textbook writer's son was
reading the textbook, I guess, you know, proofreading exercise. Got to leverage
that free labor when you can uh before they move out and was like, "It it seems
like you're angry and the way it's written." And then the example given in
the article was like like a it was like a text message screenshot that was like,
"Are you mad?" And then it said, "No, period." What does that mean?
That means yes. Right? Because when I was reading the
article, I was like, "No."
And then I saw that example and they're like, "Are you sure?" No. Period.
Absolutely. That means yes. When did this happen?
I think that's been going on for a really long time. I don't think that's very new.
No, it's not new. But why didn't I notice? I'm old.
You are old cuz I noticed and everyone else noticed.
Why you remind me of these things? Why do I ask you these things?
Someone says, "Dots's not an old thing." I either say Twitch or twitch.tv or
lines techtips.com. Um, the septagon is digging the shades.
Thank you. These were these are the most expensive I think these are the most
expensive piece of apparel I own.
They're Oakley's maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Because I uh like I always used to
lose sunglasses. So what I did was like I really wanted some nice sunglasses and
I and my wife believe it or not was basically like look we'll get you cheap
sunglasses and if you cannot lose them or break
them for about whatever period of time she gave me then you can buy whichever
ones you want. And I was like okay. She
really does have to manage me that way. It's sort of sad. Um but I made it
through the trial period. So I got myself some nice some nice Oakleys and
I've taken extremely good care of them. You've had those as long as I've known
you. They don't have any scratches on them pretty much whatsoever. I keep them in
their case, but um I I digress.
All right, we should do a Twitter blitz on the period thing and we should move on to the Twitch thing.
Yes, I do want to move on to the Twitch thing. Uh please inform everyone about
the World Cancer Day folding week. Yes, World Cancer Day folding week. Only two
days left. Better than nothing. Uh there's more information in the line of
tech tips folding at home forum section. Do you think NVIDIA will come out with a
GTX 7? I got no idea, man. Uh, I don't want to speculate on cards that uh that
aren't out yet. Where did I get my Domo plush? Uh, it was on Amazon. Bummer
about Austin Evans's pad and burning up. Yes, it was. Although there should be
some news about something to do with that tomorrow. Uh, do you think the
concept of transcendence is possible? By the way,
love the show. Constantinos
C. Do I think the concept of
transcendence is possible? It depends what you mean. I think
I think a genre can be transcended.
I think a state of consciousness can be transcended.
Would you disagree with that? Depending on what state you're in in the first
place? Yeah, I'm going to say that that really I think there's a top level. You know, I
think if you spend your life in a drunken stuper, you can transcend that.
Yeah. But I don't think if you're in a coma, would coming out of the coma be transcending? a mental state
potentially. Okay, you know what? I don't want to get into this.
We're defining it way too much. Michael says Terminator. Thank you,
Michael, for bringing us back on topic. All right, so let's
Terminator. Yeah, I think he's talking about your
glasses. Oh, that makes more sense. Yeah. All right, so Twitch TV is fourth in US
peak traffic as of the uh I think it was
a week ago. What?
You have got to be kidding me. The companies only existed for three years
now. Okay. I think the stat is a little
bit deceptive. And I will explain why. Okay? Because one of the things about Twitch
TV is the inefficiency of their broadcasting. They do not
transcode their broadcasts prior to
broadcasting them. So that's why when we
cranked our bit rate up to 8500 kilobit
per second basically no one could watch the stream
which we didn't really realize because I assumed that they were that they were
able to more easily transcode on the fly but what they can transcode on the fly
and that's how people can watch a 1080p stream at 720p. But when you feed them a
huge file, like a massive bit rate file,
they have a lot more difficult time with it. They're not able to do that much with it because even with their one
minute delay, that's not a ton of time.
And I remember talking to their COO uh
back at PAX uh where he was just basically saying he's like, "Yeah, look,
one of the reasons that we need so much bandwidth is that a lot of the content
is going out in pretty much the form that people are broadcasting it in. So
when you watch something in original quality on Twitch TV, you are getting
original quality if both of the network connections and Twitch at the time can
handle it, which is insane. When you select original on YouTube, even for
something like 4K content, you are getting a seriously downsampled piece of
content. In fact, a great example of that is uh look at that. I still have
the tweet up. Um Marcus Brownley, MKBHD,
is actually um I don't want to use the
word bitching, but it seems appropriate here. Is complaining about the
compression on YouTube. Yeah, it's not can't zoom for some reason. is
complaining about compression on YouTube changing even the colors in his videos
to the point where his shirt goes from looking vibrant and orange to looking
kind of dull and red. And so that is what you're getting on other platforms
whereas Twitch is pretty much giving you what
exactly what it is. Yeah. So while their bandwidth use is
through the roof, I don't necessarily think that gaming is more popular than
Hulu. necessarily, right? Because Hulu is going to be
much more efficient. Yeah. As is Netflix, as is YouTube.
It still shows growth. It still shows So maybe maybe like bandwidth isn't the
best way of measuring this while your computer crashes, but um it still does
show growth. So there's some actually really interesting stats. Uh the three
most watched games in 2013 were League of Legends, Dota 2, and Starcraft 2,
which is all not surprising whatsoever. League of Legends viewing has gone up
258% since 2012, which is insane. But even
more insane, I guess, because it's newer, is Dota 2 viewing has gone up 58%
since 2012. Um, they're they're saying that when people look back in the
future, they will see 2013 as the tipping point for streaming. And I don't
see that surprising at all. Basically, everyone I know now has a Netflix
account and is streaming movies. And basically everyone I know that's into
gaming has watched some sort of Twitch stream at some point in time, even if
that was just for a gaming competition. Um, and then I do know a few people that
just watch Twitch streams almost 24/7, which is pretty insane as well,
which is another thing that I actually think is probably a little bit deceptive
about these numbers. Uh, because I think
that compared to a service like Netflix
where if someone starts streaming in Netflix, they're going to sit and watch,
they're very likely to be actually in front of that screen. Um, you look at at
the way that game streaming works, people aren't a lot of the time watching
the game. This is this is a radio broadcast and watching the game is
often, yeah, it's entertaining and it's there, but you might actually have it
minimized or you might actually have it tucked away on a secondary monitor.
Tab in and out every once in a while. Tab in and out. You got it running on your tablet next to your computer and a
lot of the time you're not you're not giving it your undivided attention. So, Twitch is a big deal. gaming is a big
deal. I just don't think that um you know com you know comparing it to some
of these other things I don't think that it's one of what YouTube or
of what you do. Yeah. And I don't think it's it's a 12th of
YouTube either because it is pushing that much. Well, that the the Google thing
the bandwidth. Oh, okay. That's true. Yeah. So, I don't think it's even one 12th of
YouTube. Never mind being whatever proportion of that is actually YouTube.
Um so, yeah. So, yeah. Anyways, uh the average age of users is 21 years old,
although I seriously doubt that. Just
putting that out there. I mean, it's one of those things where I can't tell people what to do, but I had
someone um ask about registering on our forum. Um they said that they put in
their birthday and the forum said they couldn't join because they weren't 13.
Um, I suspect that a lot of people um
circumvent that in a way that um is is
pretty evident if you look at Steam's stats for how many of their users are
born on January the 1st.
Last time we brought that up, someone was like, "But I'm actually born on January the 1st." Like, oh wow, that's
actually surprising. Most people that say they're born on January the first
really were not. 93%
This is old news. This is from like 2011, so it might have changed now. But
the point is that people don't fill out their their birthdays correctly when
they I'm going to be 100% honest. When I go fill out a birthday, it's too I'm too
lazy to actually put in the accurate one. Like I'm always old enough for everything, but I just click on the drop
down spin and then click on something. I actually do it really.
I enter my birthday. I never do. I know. No, I it's it's a weird like OCD
thing. I do for things that I'm like, "Oh crap, I'm really worried about recovering this
account at some point in time and they might ask me how old I am." M.
So I do for that kind of stuff, but a lot of the time on Steam, it's actually nothing to do with your
account. You might even be signed in, which is ridiculous. Which is ridiculous.
Yeah. Except if they have family sharing enabled.
So like in the future, this might I know. I know.
I've always been like, "What the hell? I'm logged in." And then when you accidentally just click next and its
default is not old enough and you just get locked out for like a day.
Like come on. Like please stop. Um some other interesting stats. So 68%
of Twitch users have decreased their TV watching in order to watch more Twitch.
58% of their 45 million monthly unique visitors watch more than 20 hours per
week. And again, I think this is a stat that might be a little deceptive because
idling and whatnot. It's easy to leave a Twitch stream on while you're sleeping. In fact, uh we
had uh we had a problem back somewhere I used to live where one of the tenants
would just leave Twitch streams on all night and we had some bandwidth usage
problems that our ISP was pretty annoyed about because even streaming like you
know hours on Twitch like not an entire day on Twitch you can use like 15 20
gigs like no problem in a day and uh you
know that that full quality streaming. So that uh that's that's just something
you know that I think is you know we have to temper our enthusiasm a little
bit. No, I know like it's still huge but it's still massive.
Yeah. So that that comes out to Twitch users running an average of 106 minutes
of content per day and 12 billion minutes every month. Not each user but
in total 12 billion minutes every month which is
how many lives is that? Does someone want to do the math and maybe tweet me
with how many lives that is per month that are basically sacrificed to the
Twitch gods? You know, I was I was wonder how many lives have been
sacrificed to the Linus. I was just going to tell you um I I
looked at it the other day. That's what made me think of this. Actually, this
made me think of that and I went and looked at our number. So, every day I
think about a year and a half gets sacrificed to the Linus Tech Tips gods.
Um in terms of minutes watched. So, has
that been a life yet? Oh, more. Oh, yeah. Every day, a year
and a half. So, that means in a year about Oh, wow.
Yeah. 500 years or so get sacrificed to
the Linus Tech Tips gods. Oh, wow. Isn't that crazy?
That is pretty crazy actually. Yeah. I mean, you spread it out among
enough people. Increase that number. We have to increase that number. We need to commit our genocide.
Our genocide. Our based genocide.
So there's about 900,000 broadcasters
per month. 5,100 of those are partnered.
So a mass proportion of the broadcasters are not actually partnered. And there
are about 6 million total videos broadcast per month, which is pretty
crazy. An interesting statistic would I didn't think about doing this would be
to split down like how many broadcasts there are versus um how many
broadcasters versus how many videos and how many videos versus how many minutes.
So, like how long is the average broadcast seen for?
Right. Be pretty interesting.
All right. No one no one has done the math yet on our bill. Oh, okay. There we
go. About 325 lives, says Mitch. Oops,
wrong one. So, uh, yeah. Yeah.
Yoinkerman's like, "Yep, I always fall asleep to Twitch." So, that's a thing
that I just think is less likely to happen with a service like Netflix.
Yeah. Um, if they all stop at the end of the movie anyways, wouldn't it?
Depends. If you're watching a show, it'll keep it'll keep running. Like,
I've fallen asleep to net. I'm sure that's happened at least, but
not nearly as much. Yeah, I think it seems less likely. And
I've got a few people backing me up on always filling in the correct birthday.
Looney, thank you. Yamuda says 86% of statistics are made
up. Thank you for that. Um, okay. I had one person backing me up on always.
Looney, too. Then it would be Looney, wouldn't it? Okay, I love you, Looney. Fine, be like that.
That's awesome. I see how it's going to be. All right, talk about your
Yeah, I want to talk about this. So, this is an Indiegogo campaign that I
actually um that I Oh, you know what? I
don't know if you guys are going to get audio from this or not. Where is the uh
where' the Where' the plug go? Is that it? Oh, I'm stepping on it. Well, that
explains it. All right, here we I'm just going to throw this in. So, this, my
friends, is the aird do. And I actually tweeted out about it and I uh and I
posted a link on the forum before I had actually tried it just cuz I kind of
looked at the video and I was like, "Oh, that's really cool." Potentially,
I was totally not interested and then I watched the video and I was like, "Yep,
okay, cool." Also a car dock all built into one
charger built into the base and then on the face here is a phone. Yeah, I just want to skip to you know
what, whatever. Uh, so the point is he got in touch with me and uh, so guys,
it's here. I'm just going to throw the Indiegogo link in here. It's not cheap.
I think it's about 75 bucks um, even
with the Indiegogo discount. So, I think it's going to be about a hundred bucks
retail, but it's really cool. So, check
this out. Here it is. Oh, it's stuck. Okay, so it's a Chi wireless charger.
And I should probably do this. Okay. and
uh or charging dock. So, you got a micro USB here. You can run that down to uh
your your cigarette outlet in your car or whatever else. It comes with a kit
that has Where is it? This is just like
a pre-production one. We're going to be doing an unboxing and review. So, I'll
give you guys full impressions once I've really had a chance to use it. But, I
just want to give you my initial impressions right now. So, it comes with the cigarette adapter. It comes with a
cable. comes with. Uh, see, I never really do unboxings like this anymore.
So, it's like it's like back to the old days. This thing is like batshit crazy.
Feel the material on there. This could stick to anything. I'm like I
could probably stick it to your ARM.
Yep. Nice. Not going anywhere. We should leave it and see how long it lasts.
Yeah, we should see how long that stays there on his sweaty ARM. So, it comes
with all that stuff. Then it comes with another another piece here that is got
to be the best bendable ARM I think I've ever encountered. It's about the
thickness of my pinky. And check this out.
That's what it takes to bend it and then it stays. It doesn't go. It just doesn't
move anymore. And then it's got uh an articulating ARM here. And then it's got
like a more standard suction cup on the bottom piece here. Okay. But the real
magic and they actually this is hilarious because they call it magic.
Okay. Let's see what does he say. Okay. Okay. And I got to I got to call him out
on this. Magic foam
and magnets hold the phone to the air
dock here. Really? Magic foam anyway.
And magnets is basically the same as saying they're magic. So that's like
saying that there's magic holding the magic and then it has wireless charging
which in my mind is also magic because it works with magnets which are magic.
So it's like magic cubed. And the thing
that really got my attention when I looked at the Indiegogo video was the
demo where he takes a phone, puts it on like this, and listen to this.
He loves the sound. The sound is amazing. Okay, so this one
came really dirty out of the box and really wasn't working that well and I
was like, "Oh, my one doesn't stick to it at all. I'm I'm not impressed. I
don't like it." So, but then what I did is I washed it. So, it's just you just
wash it with water. I mean, be careful. Don't put like water all over it or
anything like that. Um cuz there's like electronics inside and stuff, but you
just kind of wash off the surface and then boom. You throw a phone on it,
shake it around. It's going to Whoa. Okay. So, it's not perfect. uh it's
going to hold up pretty well to any kind of normal vibration that you would have
in a car, especially if you're at an angle that's somewhat reasonable. And
this is on an HTC1, which is not a validated device. Um if you give me your
G2 for a sec. Okay, let's just go ahead.
There we go. So, let's go ahead and stick the G2 to it. So, this is not a
validated device either, but plasticback devices are going to be more able to
stick to it. So, I can shake that around
and listen to this.
So, I don't know. Scared of it ripping the back off at some point in time. If you have a if you
have a back removable device, like I bet you my old S3 Yeah. it would just take the back right off.
So, and it does have magnets in it, too. So, some phones and tablets actually
have metal plates in them for magnetic mounting. So, that holds it on. And then
the magic foam, which is actually I think it's some kind of nano thing. The
magic foam holds it in place. So, I think it's really cool, especially cuz
just having it in your car and then just being like bloop and it charges and it
sits there well enough that you can easily do whatever navigation you're going to do. It's not going to come off
in transit. So, we're going to do a full video of it, but I just thought that was
really cool and I wanted to call out their Indiegogo campaign and give you
guys an opportunity to get it for $25 less. This thing is still sticking to my ARM
somehow despite being bumped like Yeah, of course it's sticking to your
ARM. Oh, hold on. Can I get it off? Yeah, there we go. Okay, so I was able to pull it off. So, you can see how
dirty he is. It was gross before you put it on my
ARM. See the skin cells? Ew. How would you
got to troll you, you know? I know. It's all about the troll. Are we moving on to the next thing?
Yeah, let's move on to the next thing. Okay, so Oculus Rift, it has a launch
title and they're actually going to be co-publishing it, which is really interesting. Uh they've been doing a lot
of stuff lately in that realm, but the idea that they have an actual exclusive
launch title and the fact that it's Eve Valkyrie is kind of huge because Eve
Valkyrie has won tons of awards like uh PC game of the year at E3 2013 or PC
game of 2013 um from PC gamers, which is
pretty crazy awesome. And it's also, in
my opinion, probably the most well-developed game for Rift.
There's been games that have been made for Rift. I have not. Oh, it's amazing.
I've seen like every possible video on the internet. It is so amazing. It's like it's unlike
anything you've ever tried. Exactly. Which is exactly what they
need. Oculus Rift needs that killer app to bring people to Oculus Rift because
there's all these different virtual reality goggles coming out and they're
going to need something that splits them apart. So, they're obviously moving in
that direction with this and other things. Those other things being
recruiting people like 3D artists, animators, gameplay engineers, and more,
which they're doing right now. They're actively trying to hire these people.
So, if you are one of those, be sure to check it out. Also, um they have hired
David De Martini, which is kind of scary
because he was the senior vice president at Electronics Arts.
Yay. Helping publishing.
Don't like it. Anyways, moving on. I have another thing I don't like about
it. Um, I mean, okay, I guess it's fine
as long as it's not exclusive, but
you've written here first exclusive Oculus Rift launch title. Is that
correct? Launch. Yeah, at launch. It's only going
to be on Rift at launch. Okay. I don't know if it's like forevers.
Yeah, because I mean the the the direction that I see the industry moving
is less exclusivity and more openness.
And I just I feel like if you try to turn Rift into
it it says exclusive. Yeah. Um now I don't know if that's going to
be forever exclusive. I don't know if that's just some games are launch
exclusives, right? Uh we've seen that actually quite a bit where it's exclusive at launch and then
it can be distributed after that. And I mean I get it. I mean I get it
because developing for a particular VR goggle is going to be different from
developing for another one. And if I'm Oculus and I'm investing heavily into
this piece of hardware and the marketing and the production and all and and
hiring John freaking Carmarmac and all this stuff, I want to make money on my
investment, but I just, you know, I don't want to see
I mean, even Nintendo has finally begun to yield on firstparty
titles for their first party systems. They haven't said what they're doing
exactly, but they'll have some mobile content coming.
Yeah, but most people are assuming they're going to be extremely short demos.
And I'm assuming that, too. Wallpapers. And I'm assuming that, too. But progress
is progress. Yeah, that's true. But like a two-minute
demo and a wallpaper, I don't think is exactly what we need. Um, need more than
that. But I don't know. So, David D. Martini is going to be working with uh
he's going to be figuring out how to partner effectively with big partners, small developers, all the way to the
individual who wants to make something for the Rift, which is interesting and a
good idea. He's from EA and that's scary. I mean, I don't know. With all of that
said, just because someone's from EA doesn't mean that they're evil.
I know. And I'm hoping that maybe he left EA because he wanted to do
something different. And I'm hoping that Oculus was clever
enough to hire someone that has a philosophy that's similar to theirs. And
I mean, anything that pushes more Oculus Rift development and more titles
honestly is is big thumbs up for me because I am buying one 100%. You guys
can mark my words. If I don't buy one, then
you can I don't know, call me foul names or something like that. I'm very
probably planning on just whenever the next developer kit comes out, retiring
mine and giving it to like the high school I went to and then just moving on to the next one
because if they release a developer kit for Crystal Cove, oh,
all over that. Like that thing looks so cool. And I'd love to have a 1080p panel
and the OLED thing. Uh the the low persistence OLED. Yeah.
Oh my goodness, that sounds amazing. So down for that.
All right. So Sony
does something that's not surprising. Well, I was going to pretend it was a
little surprising. It's not that surprising. I mean, when's the last time you
actually saw someone using a Sony Vio
notebook? Um, probably when I used to work in a
repair shop. And not not not I'm not saying
I didn't I didn't mean it that way. I just meant because I saw a lot more
laptops then. Um, we didn't particularly see a lot of vios there. Um, but like
yeah, honestly I don't see them a ton to be completely honest. Usually in
classrooms you see either an army of Macs or you're somewhere that isn't
business and you see an army of cheap laptops. So it's
or an army of expensive laptops that are HP or Dell.
Yeah. Or like business class or ThinkPads.
Yeah. Yeah. I I just and and you know looking
at some of the stuff that they've done over the last little while I just kind
of scratch my head like the the the the
Vio Duo 13 is actually an Ultrabook that
I will be giving away shortly. I have a huge giveaway to announce in the next
little while here. Um there will be a proper video about it, but I'm going to
give you guys a sneak preview. But as much as it's an interesting notebook and
it's a high-end notebook and to to get it for free in a giveaway will be
awesome, don't worry. It has some design decisions that were made that I just
kind of look at and I go, "What were you thinking?" Which one was that? This was the one it So, it's a it's a
convertible. So, basically, when the screen comes up, it goes I want to sort
of make this visual for them in a way that's easy to understand. So, the
screen comes up like this and then slides down like that. So, it only goes
at a fixed angle. You can't adjust it. And then the hinge back here is actually
exposed. Whereas something like this,
which I think is called a pin wheel twoin one, makes a ton more sense. It's
a notebook. It's a tablet. Nothing is exposed. And I
can fully adjust the angle of the screen when I'm not using it as a tablet.
So, yeah. I like and I saw someone in the
Twitch chat, well I'm on a V laptop right now. It's like yeah they exist.
We're not trying to say that. Um it's just quite a few years ago I saw them
all the time and now not nearly as much.
That's more where I'm I mean it can't be helping that the uh
that PC sales have gone down what was it 7% in the last year. And when you're
someone like Sony where your market share is
not uh you know dominant um that 7%
hurts a lot. That might have been the difference between scraping by and not
making it. And I mean Sony hasn't quite gotten over that they're not a premium
brand anymore. So they designed these products. They put a lot of money into
the R&D of bringing them to market and then they're not a premium brand
anymore. And I don't think people really
accept it. And I mean, there are regions where Sony still has um some brand
mystique. And quite honestly, I find it baffling when there are products that
just aren't that great that somehow manage to have like this that get put on
this pedestal. I mean, products like honestly Samsung um a lot of their stuff
fantastic. Some of their stuff, how was
anyone even accepting this? I mean, their Galaxy high-end phones, the the S3
and the S4, particularly the S4, how was
that competitive with a lot of the other stuff? Yes, S3 was. Sorry. S4
build qualitywise, it just it was not up to par with other devices that cost the
same. And I mean, Google came in and, you know, crapped all over everyone.
Yeah, that's interesting. Right now, like people have asked me about buying phones. I'm like, well, you have a few
options. They're all in the Google store. If you're if you're trying to buy
a brand new phone, like just full out buy a brand new phone. I'm like, "Yeah,
like there's there's not a ton of options. They're all in Google Store because if you try and do price
performance outside of the Google store, like you're screwed. Everything's going
to be $800, $900." And yet someone like Samsung gets away
with it. I mean, you look at stuff like their smart TVs. I've complained about this in the past. None of the features
work. like motion control this uh you
know tracking that you know it voice control none of it works how do we
accept this how do we let them get away with delivering something that's just
not polished like at all um so I don't
know plug in a chcast so some people I'm sure still feel that
Sony is super awesome apparently Sony doesn't think so anymore so they're
selling off that business unit I think the the rumored sort of on the table
price is somewhere some more in the $500 million range. Yep.
Uh the the random estimation is about $493 million.
Um yeah, it's it's kind of interesting. Although not surprising, we were
actually fairly recently talking about that like massive ridiculous
over-the-top percentage of Sony bankrupting. Oh yeah, someone said, what was it?
There was a uh there was an an article that claimed there was a 78% chance,
we talked about this on the W show. Yeah. of Sony going bankrupt in the next
I think it was some ludicrously short period of time like 2 years or something
like that and I think what we said was well no
they have a lot of assets that they could sell to keep them going for a
really long time before they just declare bankruptcy. So
yeah and we see the beginning of it and I I expect them to liquidate certain
assets and then try to empower others to try and get profit going again and that
looks like exactly what they're doing. If you were a buyer, would you even be
remotely interested in this in the Vio brand? Because does the Vio brand mean
anything without Sony attached to it? Is it the Vio brand you're buying though
or are you buying infrastructure? You're well, you're buying both. You're
buying a distribution system. You're buying the Vio brand. But the rumor
right now is that Vio notebooks will probably disappear outside of Japan for
a while anyway. So you're you're probably going to lose whatever momentum
you had. But then look at this. They forecasted 293 million profit and lost
1.1 billion
for the year. Would you buy this business unit and this brand that
obviously doesn't resonate with consumers?
I think that was a total for their company. Um I'm not entirely sure but
Oh yeah, sorry. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. So not just Val Laptops, but like there
there's interesting people looking into it. There's that investment group from Japan. There's also Lenovo or uh uh uh
what am I trying to say? Is it Lenovo? Lenovo is a company that owns IBM or
owns ThinkPad rather. Yeah, there we go. So, it's Lenovo that's looking into Vio, which is
interesting because IBM just sold them ThinkPad. Yeah. So, I could see I could see them
consuming it. IBM just sold them their server business as well.
Really? Yeah. Is IBM just going to sell them everything? I don't know. I guess so. Maybe Lenovo
is just gonna buy everything just like Amazon and Google are buying everything.
It's interesting how these massive companies are just going on insane
shopping spree. In the last few years, Lenovo came from
absolutely not significant at all with funding from the Chinese government to
being a dominant PC manufacturer. It's
amazing that Chinese government backing
is pretty strong. So, there's going to be quite a few things hit by this. um
about 5,000 jobs are going to be cut. That's about 1,500 in Japan and 3,500
overseas. Uh so it's not all just randomly Sony dropping part of their
business. It's also Sony dropping 5,000 jobs, which is not good to hear as the
job market in many places isn't super great right now. Um so
could be worse. They could work for Linus Media Group.
I mean, how likely is your job to end? I fire you Well, I haven't fired you in a
long time, actually. Speaking of acquisitions, Amazon just bought a game
studio. So, this was posted by Top War Gamer. And Top War Gamer, can you please
not post mobile links when you link people to things on the forum? Come on,
man. Lol. Lol. I don't think it's that hard to fix.
Yeah. Yeah. But at least I I would Okay, I'm not going
to harp on him that hard because he always fills things out. That's true.
And I would way rather it was filled out and had a mobile link than wasn't filled
out and had a normal link. True that. All right. So, there you go. Here, carry
on. This isn't, in my opinion, that super
interesting yet. Um, it it's interesting because of what might happen in the
future. There's been a lot of rumors spinning around about Amazon maybe releasing a set top box console, which
is interesting. However, that might possibly work. I don't know. Is it a
Steam box? I don't know. Is it an Android system? Who knows?
Does it use their cloud to do cloud
gaming? Maybe. I don't know. Oh, there's a lot of different stuff spinning around about
this, so we'll see what happens there. Um, it's also not the first gaming
acquisition they've made. They they got casual game maker Reflexive
Entertainment back in 2008. So, they're adding um these guys to the list. Double
Helix is still fully intending to support Killer Instinct, which was a
Xbox One game. So, they're going to be releasing more content, more characters
into it. Um, and they fully expect to release uh more Killer Instinct games
for Xbox One in the future. not that very many people watching this show
care. Um, and yeah, so a lot of what Double Helix
is doing is not going to change, but they're going to be a part of Amazon Game Studios. And there's all this other
stuff going on about Amazon Game Studios. So, while this isn't interesting now, once Amazon actually
does make a proper announcement about what their gaming system set top box
possible, maybe possibly thing might be,
uh, this might become interesting. And once they make announcements about what
these gaming studios are actually doing, that might also be interesting. But
right now, it's just they bought something and yeah, that's about it. So,
there's not a ton we can actually say about that right now. Speaking of things
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Yeah. of how absolute rubbish a lot of a
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these things have already actually changed. Y um but this is where it
started. So other things will be add-on layers essentially. So if for whatever reason you're not
happy with your coverage here, I'm going to post that link again. And someone's
like, why didn't you go to Sochi to cover it? Well, it isn't technology.
There's no like overclocking Olympics there.
It would be in the mountains though. Although
actually we don't really cover the overclocking Olympics either anyway. So
No, frankly, they aren't that interesting.
No, I'm way more because it's not representative of what you're going to
be able to do. I don't know. I mean, my problem with professional overclocking really comes
down to the personalities. Like remember
how hard it was for you to get an interview from anyone? God, I felt so
useless at that event. I was like, okay, they're focused on working and I have to
stand. And that's fine. I respect that. I get that. But at the end of the day, in my
mind, it is the obligation of a professional
sports person or a professional competitor to advocate for what they do
to make people interested in it because there was stuff there that was really
interesting, but no one wanted to show it to us or talk to us about it. Like
when I was at Gigabytes thing at uh CES,
uh one of the overclockers there had a graphics card that was had a full PCB
and then it had the back PCB of a
different graphics card or like some EVGA like weird thing like soldered to
it so they could like plug in more PCI Express connectors and get more power to
it. And I'm like who's covering this? That's awesome.
Yeah. And that's really cool. But then no one will talk to you about it.
Yeah. It's interesting. Um, also a problem that I have with it is it's so
hard to replicate at home. There's a lot of insane binning that's
going on. Uh, like just throwing away tons of parts because they're not good
enough. People are like, "Trade secrets, my friends." You know what? I don't care
because you can have a trade secret that no one's talking about and no one's
watching and maybe doesn't exist 5 years
from now. If you care about having a job, you have to be open about it. It's
like look at any professional sport. Do they hide how to dribble a basketball or
do they want all the youth in the world dribbling wanting to dribble a
basketball just like LeBron James? That
is how it works. That is how you get
people engaged and excited about what you're doing. I don't hold anything back
from you guys about what we do here. I'm willing to explain anything we do,
whether it's on the computer side or whether it's even on the YouTube or
social media side. And I love answering questions about this stuff because I've done it quite a few times even.
The reality of it is if you're not constantly innovating, people will catch
up to you anyway. So if you just sit there and jealously guard your secrets
and try to prevent other people from furthering what you're doing, well, how
are you ever going to learn from them as well when they innovate and they
discover it's all about sharing? And that's what I think a lot of people
don't understand, which is actually exactly Have we released that video yet?
Which one? The 2014 update. No. So, which is exactly what a future
video will actually be about is how we're planning on trying to be agile
again because we always try to plan on being agile, trying to change things. It actually
Okay. Right. I promised to give some information about the giveaway. So, this
giveaway is going to be for the crate computer. So, that's a 4670K
GTX 780 500 gig SSD PC that's built onto
the back of a 27in gaming LCD. Worldwide
giveaway. Okay. We're also giving away an ASUS GTX Titan.
Boom. And we're also giving away a Sony Vio 13
Ultrabook. Boom. Three things all at the same time. And
all you're going to have to do, there's going to be a video coming up on Techquickie that you're going to have to
comment on. And then the Titan and the Vio Ultra book are going to be a little
bit different. So, the main prize is the
crate computer, and anyone can enter that one. But to enter into the other
draws, you must either be a social media
influencer with 10,000 followers on some
platform or another and share the video,
or you must get a social media influencer to share it and credit you
for sharing it with them in the first place, and then you will be entered for
a chance to win the Titan. So, I am I am
enlisting you guys to help spread the word about the crate computer giveaway
by incentivizing you with a chance to be in a much smaller pool of people who
could win a GTX Titan. Imagine someone wins both.
I'm sorry. Imagine the dude that wins the crate also wins the Titan. Is that possible?
Are we allowing that to be possible? I don't think we can allow that. Just roll.
Yeah, we'd have to roll. We'd have to draw the crate computer first. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then the Vio Ultra
book is for the influencers. Yeah.
So, anyone who shares it who is an influencer is in the bucket to win the
Vio, which I don't think there'll be that many. Maybe 10 or 20 influencers
tops. That's great odds on a thousand notebook. And then the Titan for the
people who get influencers to share. And then the crate computer, which anyone
can join. Y. So, it's going to be crazy.
Someone's like, "Of course you have to have a a stupid garbage book or Twitter
account. What the hell are you talking about?" I said you have to leave a
comment on the tech wiki video for a chance to win the crate computer.
I did that. That actually that No, no, no. Yeah, good try though. Someone's like,
"Sell out." Sell out to who?
I don't understand what just happened. But let's ignore the Twitch chat right
now. Wow. Most people have said good things about
it. Yeah, I I love you guys mostly, but some of you don't get it. All right, so let's
move on to our next topic. Uh here we
go. Ah, yes. California.
There's a California bill that's proposing a mandatory kill switch for
phones and tablets in 2015. Really cool. That's actually really cool. So,
more than down. So, there's some requirements that it has to make. They're not making you use like a
specific one. They're not like, "Oh, yeah. Lowjack has to come pre-installed
on every single mobile device." No, they're not doing that. But, but it has
to meet certain requirements. So, those requirements are if I can find it really
quickly. Uh, of course I can't find it really
quickly. Once activated, it should be able to prevent phone calls, internet
access, and the ability to run apps. Um, you can also
It also has to be able to restrain people from doing a hard reset. Um, it
has to be able to restrain them from returning the device to factory condition or downgrading to a different
operating system. So, basically, it has to be able to be on there all the time.
Yeah. because you shouldn't be able to remove it and it should be able to
restrict you from phone calls, internet access or running apps. So, it
essentially renders your entire phone useless and you can't remove it.
So, this comes this stems from um an increase in muggings that are targeting
mobile devices. I mean, what is something that you could basically
assume someone will have on them that they can give you in less than 10
seconds that is reasonably valuable and
easy to flip? Super easy to flip. Super easy to flip. It's not going to be
jewelry necessarily. Actually, I was reading a really interesting article on
the resale value of diamond jewelry, and it's like nothing. It's it's like
pennies on the dollar basically because the assumption is that it's probably
stolen. Plus, there's the fact that uh diamond retailers are buying at
wholesale that is so much lower than the retail prices that people bring in
diamond jewelry for trade-ins and they're just like they usually just end
up keeping it anyway because it's just not actually worth anything.
And so, so jewelry is not necessarily the answer. So, you just walk up like,
"Give me your phone." Because people's wallets won't necessarily have anything
of value in them. uh card now. Yeah. It's going to be plastic. It's
like, "Yeah, here. Go ahead. Take my wallet and just let me take my driver's license and like, you know,
and the leather and you can have everything in it." Yeah. You can have everything in it
because I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to place a phone call right now with
like someone else's phone because you probably just stole my phone, which is the only valuable thing. And I'm going
to cancel all those cards. Yeah. I don't know. Oh.
Uh, they're going to be pushed pretty hard. Retailers are going to be fined around uh $500 to $2,500 per device
that's sold that doesn't have this type of technology. Yeah. So, it's not set in stone or
anything, but the fine could range anywhere in there. And it's important to
note that per device word. So, a retailer that sells 10,000 phones that
aren't equipped with this technology in California could be looking at whatever
the math is for 500 five, you know, millions of dollars
in fines potentially. So, kind of a
really big deal. Um, I think it's awesome. One thing that they are
expressing worry about is that no one's really going to want to make a phone just for California. Um, but they were
saying that if that does even look like it starts to happen, uh, they're going
to push really hard for basically everyone else in the states to back this
as well. And it looks extremely possible that that is going to happen regardless
of whether or not people are worried about making phones for California. There are other states that are very
interested in proposing a bill that is essentially the exact same thing. And
I'm totally down for that. Totally, completely down for that because phones
getting stolen is a huge deal.
Yeah, that's that's about all I have to say. I'm happy. Me, too.
Something less happy. This is the rumor mill. That's my
on-screen keyboard. Posted by a Hi,
Carrie. I should know how to say this by now. Uh, you post a fair bit of news.
So, the rumor mill says GM107
is a new core that could be coming from AMD at some point here. This is from
videocards.com. What's up? You said it. AMD.
Did I say AMD? Yep. Oh, sorry. NVIDIA. The NVIDIA logo is
clearly visible there. So, don't mind don't mind the man behind the curtain.
Um, so there's a even bigger NVIDIA logo
there. Thank you for that. Okay, you've got the summary in the dock. So, so
essentially it's a hybrid between GK 107 and GK 106. For all of you guys that
were super excited for a big massive card, maybe not so much. Uh, the slower
variant. Oh, I don't think we ever said this. Yeah. So, rumor on the street, word on
the street is that this is Maxwell. Yeah. Maxwell, but 700 series Maxwell.
700 series Maxwell. So, not GTX 800 series. Um, not a 20 nanometer chip. So,
this is still at a 28 nmter manufacturing process. And then like you
were saying, somewhere between GK 107 and GK 106. Okay. Go ahead.
Um, so the the focus of it is extremely low power. So, the slower variant, the
GM107-300 will be used for a GTX 750.
Rumored allegedly. Rumored. And then the GM 107-400 will
rumored allegedly be used for a GTX 750
Ti. Rumored allegedly. Um, we have a chart down here that shows speeds. And
the speeds are not oh my god fast. But the power usage is
oh my god low. Some of these are actually going to be able to even be
used without any extra power or just a
single six pin, which is interesting and
boring. Well, come on. You can't call power savings boring. You know what? I
actually had a really interesting conversation with a guy from Intel um
when and it was just like everything is off the record. It wasn't like official
Intel, you know, jargon or anything like that, but I was he was like, you know,
what's your take on what we've been doing for the last few years? And I'm
like, it's boring. It's the typical enthusiast response.
You guys haven't done anything that's lit my world on fire in terms of driving
up performance. And he's like, you know what? You know, power savings aren't
boring or aren't interesting. And I'm like, well, no. And he's like, well, you
know, what about this? What if that die area that we saved on making the CPU
more powerful is what enables your notebook to go from sleep to wake in
like, you know, a second. But they're not talking about that.
Who? Intel. Intel. I know. Um, no, no, no. I'm just
talking about like the the conversation I was having. No, I I know. But he's
like, but you have to consider like, have we not introduced exciting
technologies? And I'm like, okay, yes, you've
introduced exciting technologies. It's just that the performance hasn't excited
me. And I kind of go and I'm kind of sitting there going, "But I see your
perspective because just because saving some power doesn't excite me personally,
the enthusiast, doesn't mean that it isn't having an impact." I mean, if we
can take this card and have it be fairly
close to this in terms of performance, so it's probably going to have jacked up
memory frequency because that's what NVIDIA's been doing lately. So even though it's only got a 128 bit,
it's hard to see. Sorry. So I can't highlight. It's a picture. Way to go. Uh, so even though
it's only got a 128 bit bus compared to
192bit bus, the overall specs are similar and if it has faster memory, we
could be looking at very similar performance, but at just over half of
the power consumption. And then something else to think about is the global impact of this. I mean, if a
hundred thousand people, hypothetical number, are using this card versus that
card, we are saving all of that power and all those resources for the world
when we're gaming. And that is awesome. It just it's not exciting.
And it's not exciting.
Like like it's cool, but it just and like with the the the technologies that
Intel's coming out with, like that's cool, man. But
well, it's more of an expectation management thing, I think.
Yeah. Like like you expect there to be a significant difference between 3000
series or between 2000 series and 4,000
series Intel processors and when overclocked, it's just like
meh. So, I don't know.
Yeah, the Twitch chat seems to be with us that power savings are boring.
The Twitch chat also figured I was selling out because I was doing a giveaway. I don't get that.
I I think people are selling out. Are you selling out to yourself because
you're driving techquicki which is us? Yeah. So you're selling to yourself. So it's
like a loop transaction and I'm using my own stuff. Yeah.
Like all this all So you are losing things
to buy things for myself. For yourself.
Is that selling out? I'm curious. I'm
not going to ask the Twitch chat though.
Except Except we're both staring at the Twitch chat. Except we're both staring at the Twitch
chat. Yes. Yes, we are. Okay, we're not going to look at the Twitch chat anymore. Sorry, Twitch chat. All right,
Titanfall minimum specs are out. And this is both surprising and not
surprising at all. I mean, it it is based on the source engine, which can
basically run on this, which I think was the point of the uh picture that Nice
Hat decided to post, which is awesome. Which is awesome. Um, but I guess just,
you know, next generation game, you know, super exciting AAA title that
people are stoked about. I was expecting it to not run on an Athlon X2 2.8 GHz.
My favorite part is the requirement for Windows 7 and then the 512 megaby RAM
requirement and then Windows 7 having a it's not you can go lower than that, but
Windows 7's like, yeah, you should probably go about one gig or two gigs.
And if you're having a 64-bit operating system, which this game also requires,
you should probably go about two gigs. Then the game's like, 512 megabytes,
it's all good. Yeah, I don't know if I'd really want to play it with these specs.
I don't think so. I don't think so. I think like I think it's going to
install and you'll load it and then you'll probably want an upgrade. But I
mean, for particularly laptop gamers, I mean, I don't know how many lands you've
gone to, but a lot of the Yeah, I know you've gone to a lot of lands.
I was like, what? It's just usually how I preface things. I know.
But the ones that I've been to, there's a lot of people gaming on older
notebooks because that's the kind of machine they needed. They're not going
to buy a notebook and a desktop. And gaming notebooks out of all the types of
gaming devices, even tablets that are optimized for gaming, I feel like uh
degrade in relative performance to everything else slower than gaming
notebooks. Um, if you buy on a bad generation of gaming notebook, you could
have the next gen of gaming notebooks be a quantum leap forward in performance
because it actually gets a core change in addition to a branding change and
then it could stagnate for two or three years. So, you you either are are kind
of up there or or like you're not at all and the the industry just moves forward
without you. So, I think this is great for people who have a several year old
gaming notebook and actually want to be able to play Titanfall because it looks
pretty exciting. Yeah, actually I'm actually pretty
stoked for it. Um, but then I'm kind of scared as well. But I don't know. We'll
see how it goes. In other news of things that I'm excited for and scared, but I
think the scared level, like the excited level this time last year was the exact
same as the scared level is this time, like around now is the ESO beta.
No, hold on a second. They do say that. Uh, no. You Oh, right. Never mind.
That's Windows 7. ESO beta. Where is that? Uh, it's not in here, but ESO beta is
this weekend. Um, I don't think that part's under NDA, and if it is, the
entire internet knows, so shut up. Um, but like the the the NDA behind ESO beta
is ridiculous. They're doing like a server load balancing level beta and
it's still under NDA. Like everyone and their mom got a beta key, but they're
like, "Nope, nope, don't talk about it. Don't stream it." Blah, blah, blah. Because it's ugly as hell. which is part
of the problem and a whole bunch of other problems. But yeah, anyways, I'm
going to stop talking about things that are scaring me. Okay, what else we got? We have the different sites supporting
Bitcoin payments. Yeah, so you can buy uh
you can buy things off Tigerirect and scan.co.uk
by using Bit uh Bit Pay, which is using
Bitcoins. Bit Kay Bitay is a little bit
uh I don't know.
I was trying to figure out like how Bit Pay works. So, I went on their website
and went to the like how it works area
and the YouTube video that they have specifically made for that is showed up
as set to private. So, I was like, that's weird. So, I went to YouTube and
was like, Bit Pay. I find their channel. I'm like, okay, cool. Maybe they have a
new updated one and they just forgot to update the website. Click on the channel. This channel was like removed
or deleted or something. I'm just like, "Oh,
okay." So, in theory, the way Bit Pay works is
that exchange rates are calculated every minute and can be grabbed through an API
and shown on a website like tigerdirect.com or scan.co.uk, UK,
which is kind of awesome because one of the things that was happening in the past uh was very early adopters of bit
pitcoin payments. What they were doing was just taking like
the high point and then going a little bit higher and then being like uh I mean
sorry the low point and going a little bit lower and being oh sorry yeah the
high point going a little bit higher than being like that's how much it actually costs. So that you'd get crazy
charge whenever you tried to buy anything with Bitcoin. So, it's actually a lot more worth it to just go exchange
exchange your bitcoins in to dollars and then buy the thing with dollars. But,
this makes it more realistic to buy things with bitcoins. Um, it's honestly
actually pretty easy and cheap for someone to set up. It's about 30 bucks a
month to run as long as you're doing under about 30,000 20 $29,000 a month.
Um, but then I worry about a few things
on it. Like it it doesn't seem I don't know. It doesn't seem like the most
secure thing ever. and their website's a little bit sketchy. Um, but it's
probably entirely fine. I just worry about a lot of things like that a little
bit more than I probably should. Here's a bunch of folks that are using it.
Yep. So, it's not like they're really small
and nobody's using it at all. That's very true. But then when you look
into a lot of these websites, they're there are ones I recognize. NameCheep.
Yep. A lot of them are just straight up
Bitcoin websites though. Yeah. A lot of them are like an extremely large portion.
Yep. Okay.
Wow. There's a lot of stuff on this page. I'm not going to scroll through
the whole really really long. Uh that's actually why I brought that out too is I have
sketchy feelings because of like the YouTube page disappearing and all that
other kind of stuff. But then there's also this which is
actually really cool. They're like look at all the things we're working on right
now, right? So you it might work. It might be
entirely fine. Um, I don't know. I don't know how big the team is. Maybe it's a
small team thing, so they just haven't noticed the YouTube thing yet, right? Uh, maybe it's something else. It's
probably entirely fine. Massdrop uses them. That's kind of cool.
That is actually kind of cool. Lots of good stuff on Mass Drop. Yep. All right. Well, I think we're about
five minutes from the end of the show, so let's go ahead and see if there's uh
We have quite a few things left, actually. Do we? Call of Duty is now on a
three-year dev cycle, so this is interesting.
uh they they added a a developer, it's called Sledgehammer, which I believe
worked on a previous game in conjunction, which with another one of
the teams, and apparently this was a knee-jerk reaction to uh the crazy low
ratings that Call of Duty Ghost got. Apparently, it's sold fairly well. Um,
the sales are going down a little bit more rapidly than they had hoped, but the initial sales were actually pretty
all right, but I think that has in no smart small part due uh due to the new
consoles. Um, because people just wanted games for them. Um, but yeah, they're
saying this should help their teams be able to polish and ensure really high
quality games every single time they have a release because now they have a three-year cycle instead of a two-year
cycle. So instead of releasing a game and then trying to support it for
another year while kind of working on a new game and then crazy working on a new
game for one year, you kind of have supporting your game for a year and then
crazy working on a game for two years, which is actually a lot more time.
Yeah, that's that this makes such a big difference because I mean you look at even something like Battlefield 4, like
how much patching is going into that game realistically?
How much work is getting done on Battlefield 5?
Okay. No. Yeah. Like you have to support the game. Yeah.
At least in theory. Uh for for a fair amount of time after you've released it,
which really eats into that time for the next game. Whereas this I mean this is
great. So by adding a full another development studio as long as they as
long as they do a good job of it. Um they've they're able I believe this is
the same number of teams that NVIDIA uses. So for new GPUs, I believe, don't
quote me on this, but I believe NVIDIA has three teams. So each new graphics
core, each new graphics architecture has a different team that worked on it every
three cycles. That's how long it takes to develop a GPU. If NVIDIA only had one
team, they would have fallen behind AMD
years and years and years ago. And so that's makes sense. This is a business model that exists
outside of games. And uh I mean if they're going to jam a new Call of Duty
down our throats every year, it might as well be one that was worked on for a
reasonable period of time. Honestly, I don't even mind the one-year
cycle. I've talked to different people about this before. I just It has to be
good. It has to be really good. And I haven't been I I was in like a love
affair with Call of Duty 4, the first Modern Warfare, and a lot of the Call of
Duties before that. And then it's kind of just gone down pretty hardcore
lately, and I have not been interested. If they can fix it with this three-year
dev cycle, I'd more than happily go back to Call of Duty. I just hate it right
now. Right. Not into it at all. And I mean, you know what? That's a good
point because I have no problem with a month-long release cycle. The more
content you throw at me, the better. You look at something like episodic gaming,
like what Walking Dead's doing, like what Wolf Among Us is doing. So, that's
Telltale. I got no problem with that. Give me short content that's inexpensive and
throw it at me really often. People don't have an issue with that. It's just
something that doesn't meet their expectations. Speaking of which, I had
completely forgotten about Wolf Among Us and Ed's
out, so I am playing that tonight. I'm definitely playing that tonight. So
stoked. Um, then there's Steam Music. Yeah, Steam Music.
I'm less excited about this than I am about in home streaming.
Yeah, this isn't the most crazy thing, but it has it's going to work within
home streaming. Yep. So, this was posted by Neuronite. So, this still ties in with the idea of
having a semi- lowowered device with almost no storage on one end and then
having your beast machine on the other end because you can store all your music somewhere else in the house and then
stream from it. Um, there is basically nothing in terms of features right now
other than a play button that's almost a direct quote from one of their developers. Um, but they're taking
suggestions and they're planning on putting in a ton of new features. If you
want to sign up to be a part of the Steam Music beta, it's the exact same
way that you'd signed up for Steam inhome streaming. You got to go to the Steam Music community page and join the
community and then you will be in. Right now, it's only working with MP3s, but
that's not going to last for too long. They are already working on bringing in
a bunch more support for different formats. Um, like I said, it works
within home streaming. And the idea is that there will now be an in-game player
for your music. So you can change things without tabbing and you can it's it's
just going to be a lot more easily integrated. It's not a music store at
least as of yet. You can get game soundtracks through through Steam that
has existed for a very long time. Um but it's not a music store in itself. The
idea is you point it towards a directory on your computer. It finds all the music
and then you can play it. That's pretty much it. And you can play it by using
like the Steam overlay and it's super easy and super integrated. It's It's not
the most exciting thing ever, but it's cool and I think it's a good move. I
think it makes a lot of sense. Um,
Lionus is looking up Goat Simulator. Well, yeah, we have to talk about this.
I had totally forgotten until someone mentioned it in the Twitch chat. I
posted this on Facebook earlier this week, but this looks like the kind of
thing that if it's like five bucks, I would probably pay five bucks and play
it for a little bit. This also isn't the first time we've seen it. This is just the first time
we've seen uh this awesome demo. So, this is uh some alpha gameplay
footage.
And when you climb the ladder, the head just like goes like this. You can move
stuff around, climb into stuff. See, you
get the door for just doing things. Oh, his head is banging on the run.
Yeah,
because this is a, you know, game mechanic that makes sense.
This better come with physics. Yeah.
Oh. Oh, car plus ragd doll 64* 2.
What? So, okay. I think we're done here. Yeah.
But, uh, there you go, guys. You can check that out. Goat Simulator first
alpha gameplay on YouTube. Uh, if you want to watch something that makes
absolutely no sense but just somehow
inten need to buy it. Yeah, I like really want it to be a
benchmarking video. How to build a rig that's perfectly optimized for Goat Simulator.
Yeah, we should actually do it. Um, for updates that haven't happened in quite a
while. Um, the folding team is doing quite well. We're in 52nd position
overall for folding, which is actually like kind of insane with how young the
team is. um and just cuz like the forum hasn't even existed for that long and
that's what drove the start of the uh Linus Tech Tips folding team. So that's
epic. Uh we should be within the top 50 in about a week which is also really
cool and we're number eight for active fold folders which is also huge and
extremely cool. Um, the Star Citizen team, which you should join, is I think
that we're we're number one in activity right now and we're number six in the
world for member count. And I think honestly within the next day or two,
we'll probably be number third, meaning we will be front paging for most members
and we will be on the top and front paging for activity, which is epic. So,
if you're looking for a team to join for Star Citizen, I would definitely join
us. It's funny you mentioned the um the
Steam music uh streaming because it's
not in Big Picture on the Windows client, but I swear there was something
about video in Steam OS and I'd have to
fire up my Steam machine to to have a look at it again. But I wonder if uh
local video streaming is something that they're looking at adding the idea. Yeah. And if if you read
through the music thing, it plays into that very well because the guy's talking
about how they're they're trying to be they're trying to make it so that's all
you need. Yeah. You won't need anything else. So, so
supporting video makes a lot of sense. And it's probably not going to be a
thing where you can buy movies through the Steam store. It's probably going to
be a thing just like how music works, which is where it's like point at this
directory and then you can play things. Yeah, that makes a ton of sense. That's
probably how that's going to work. I really really hope that that comes because that would mean that I would
pretty much never need to leave Big Picture on my HTPC. Whereas right now I
was like, "Oh, okay. I guess I need like a video player if I'm going to legitimately replace my Windows
machine." Not happening yet. Speaking of my Windows machine, I discovered
something interesting about Steam and home streaming. And that is that even if
you have a pretty powerful CPU,
the CPUbased decoding is just not uh not
low latency enough. It's not good enough to have a 1080p or even really
stutter-free experience overall. I'm still using a Linfield
760 or something like that. No, seven. Crap.
I can't even remember anymore. Anyway, the point is that it was the last Intel
CPU that didn't have a hardwarebased
H.264 decoder on the integrated GPU. So,
what I'm going to do uh this weekend is I'm going to take this graphics card
home because it's the only one that we have that's actually short enough to
install in my home theater PC. And I'm going to see if this makes the
difference between that PC being able to run in home streaming satisfactory or
doesn't. Cuz initially I thought it was power line network that was causing the
frame drops as much as 20 to 30% of my frames were were being lost. Wow. And
then I concluded that that wasn't it when I bought a 50 foot Cat 6 cable, ran
it down my stairs like across my hallway and I was like, "Oh,
oh, it's not fixed. Okay, I guess it's time to get a graphics card then." So, this
card has a built-in H.264 decoder. Actually, this is a Kepler card, so this
has an encoder as well. But there is so much more to be done within home
streaming. For one thing, they've added some more resolution, so you can stream
at 480p now. And I saw some interesting behavior when I was playing around with
it. I haven't really dug into it again since I did my video. And they've
changed some stuff since then, but I saw the resolution changing dynamically
during a stream rather than just frame rate resolution.
Yeah. And and it was like 1600 by 900 or 1680 x 1050 or something like it was in
between. It was a tweener res. It wasn't 1920 and it wasn't 720. But maybe it was
like my eyes playing tricks on me. I got to play around with it some more. Uh,
but there's still so much more that they can do if they can figure out how to
take advantage of Kepler's onboard hardware encoder, which I don't believe
they're doing right now, and they can find a way to take advantage of, which
they've already done, the hardware decoders, we could be looking at a a low
enough latency experience that it will be kind of like sitting in front of it.
Uh, I mean, and with good enough hardware now, even you can get pretty
darn close, but we're just not quite there yet. Some people have raised
concerns about the California bill, saying that's the exactly the same as
what the um Ukraine government wants and how the Uncle Sam's going to have a kill
switch on your device. I don't think I'm
pretty sure it's 100% user controlled. Yeah. But I mean, it's I mentioned this
earlier in the show, too. Just because it's user controlled doesn't mean it's
doesn't mean that there isn't some sort of back door. And with all the stuff NSA
is doing lately, that is actually kind of freaky. Usually, I do think of those
things. Yeah. didn't really think about it this time. So, that's something definitely
really important to consider. And to those speculating that I'm wearing sunglasses because my wife beat
me, you are 100% correct. I knew you were going to say that.
Thanks for watching the show today, guys. If you tuned in late, the archive
will be up later. And nah, I changed my mind. Um, I think that's pretty much it.
Yeah. Peace out, guys. Thanks so much for watching. See you later.
Thanks for watching.
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it. I am. But I I'm vicariously listening to it
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