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of our other sponsors today. But first, we have some topic callouts. So, Windows
10 versions have been revealed. That was versions, not virgins. Uh, the Oculus
Rift CV1 has been revealed. Oh, I should
have left that one for you. No, it's okay. There's actually not a
ton of information in that that we didn't already know, but there is some things that are very cool that we'll
talk about in depth. Anyways, FTC rules in favor of direct to consumer car
sales. It's not the end of the whole equation, but we'll talk about that
later. It's your birthday, Elon Musk. It's not. Yeah, it's not today. Anyways,
self-driving cars don't crash unless
apparently other people crash into them. Yeah, because that's
which is a crash. Yes, technically. So, they actually do
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It It happened. It happened. The buckets are real. All right, so let's go ahead
and uh let's move in right into our first topic. Actually,
we need to cover these builds. Oh, are there build logs? There have
been build logs for like 3 weeks and we just keep on just going right
over top of them straight to the topic. Your level of incompetence is inspiring.
But it's always been right there. I did not.
You always pick the first topic and you always scroll right over it. I did not see them
for three weeks.
That is most excellent, sir. That's amazing. All right. So, the first one we've got
is Lauram. Lauramum. Lauram. This is
This is the voters's pick. All right. Nor a momentum.
This is the voters's pick. The voters picked it.
Kind of like their noses. Oh,
it's okay to pick your nose. Sometimes you get like paint in there.
Paint and crayons. All right, so let's go ahead. Lots of water cooling. A 4770K, a
Z87i Pro, 16 gigs of Dominator platinum memory, an R9290 graphics card, and ooh,
that is looking good already. Nice small
ITX board. You got the graphics card presumably laid out somewhere where
we're going to get a PCI Express um extension going on.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. A triple radiator. Totally
flat build. I'm liking it. I'm kind of into that. You can ask my wife. Um
so, we've got a nice big reservoir Samsung SSD.
I am loving the coloration. This is a LAN rig, so you can take it to
a land and have it look super cool. That is really cool. doesn't take up a
lot of space and you can kind of pick the whole thing up like a like like a picture frame almost.
And especially out of land if you could just put this like behind your monitor or even beside your going to save a lot
of space compared to a giant tower. Look at that. Cable management on the back is almost as good as the front.
That is outstanding. Really cool. All right, so let's do our second. And
this was the staff pick if I recall correctly. Oh balls. Yep. This is the NVMK2
which borrowed inspiration from Charles
um at least as far as the name was concerned but not the loading of the website which
is still going. Yeah, this website doesn't load very quickly
although it works unlike the old system. So the the mods picked this one. It's by
Pokemon Kid. Here's some progress shots. I love this.
This is like the technique for leak testing your loop. Get that paper towel
in there and make sure that she ain't uh she ain't leaking. All right. Case Labs
Mercury S8. Two GTX 770s, 1200i power
supply, 4770K processor, and water cooling. Water cooling. Water
cooling. Some more in progress shots. Liking that reservoir placement. Look at
that. It's like all water cooling. There's actually more water cooling than
case. Yeah, you know a build is going to be good when it starts. Oo, that's sick.
I had already seen these. I snuck ahead. That is absolutely disgusting. I love
it. In a good way. Yeah, that is that is a really tight
looks like extremely attack attractive vile virus.
Yeah, I am I am really liking that. One
of the challenges when you place your reservoir horizontally like this is
keeping the air from getting sucked back into the one side. So, I'm guessing he's
probably or she has probably had to do something about flow rates to keep them
from actually being too high uh to keep
that from being an issue. Mind you, it looks like the system's actually powered
off right now because there's no way that would be just kind of sitting there
like that if the system was actually on. So, very, very nice little rig. All
right, so why don't we move into our first topic of the day? AMD does not
want to be known as the cheaper solution anymore. And the original poster here is
Zapion. And the original article here is from Ars Technica.
This was supposed to be covered last week for those of you that may be confused.
Actually, we missed a couple AMD things last week. So, they launched a new APU.
It's totally unexceptional. It's actually really funny. I was saying on
Twitter that um that I didn't have what
was it I tweeted about why someone accused us of only covering Intel and uh
I kind of went well we cover AMD graphics cards. In fact, we went as far
as to borrow an R9295X2 back.
We had to borrow a fair number of them. No, I think that's the only one we had
to Oh, we had to borrow a low-end card once. I think we borrowed two.
And the the one that came in the case, but not the most recent one.
Yeah, that was that was the one we borrowed. Oh, there's one more. We only had it I
think we borrowed it from NCX. Oh, the 6990 way back in the day. So,
there's a few. All right. So, there's a few that we've had to borrow and I was
like, "Okay, so like that's pretty much it." I mean, are we supposed to do
reviews of R9280X's all day? There's
they're 7970s. There's there's nothing different about them. Yeah, we've been
doing the same review for years. Exactly. So, what's the point? And as
far as the CPU side goes, I I said something along the lines of they
haven't released a new performance CPU in like 3 years. And I was estimating. I
think it's been longer than that. So, I had a couple people kind of give me
crap, including uh my buddy over at a non techch Ian Katrris, who was like,
"Well, actually, I'm finishing up on an
AMD APU review right now along with some new testing methodology. It's actually
it's actually a really interesting article because he tries to take a bit
of a different approach to the way that
he's to the way that he's benchmarking the chip um and get a more complete
picture. So you guys can check that out there, the A87650K
APU review, but I would point out to Dr. Ian Katrris that that's an APU review
and I specifically said AMD hasn't released a new interesting CPU in quite
some time. So, bum. Uh, I also got a uh
I also got an email actually from one of AMD's marketing folks kind of asking if
I needed the hookup to get this thing. And I kind of went, actually, it's okay.
I'm going to read Dr. Cutras' review and then I'm going to find out if we should
be making a bunch of videos about this. And it turns out that it is uh once
again not exceptional. Uh, great performance with onboard graphics. APUs
from AMD are great for entry-level gaming.
Also, they're a good value um at the low
end because they're cheaper and they perform okay. So, let's go back to that
RS Technica article here. AMD doesn't want to be known as the cheaper
solution. We'll refocus on performance, which really raises the question. Did
they ever deemphasize performance? It never felt like it.
It the community kind of did in their
direction. They did stop developing CPUs. They did
shift their strategy towards APUs, which we knew were going to be on a lower-end
socket. They were going to have fewer cores. But did they do that because they
wanted to, or did they do that because they couldn't build a competitive CPU
for years to the point where they weren't making enough margin on them and
they needed to find a different way to compete? and implementing the graphics
IP that they acquired and have continued to develop since the ATI acquisition was
the way that they were able to make something that fits in a socket that's competitive in some meaningful way. I
mean, I I'm glad to hear them say this,
but the thing that frustrates me, and this is a story that I've never told
publicly, is it goes all the way back to
the launch of the Phenom, whatever it was, 920 and 940. So, this is this is
how far this goes back. Was that the Was that the Phenom one or was that Phenom
2? Uh, Phenom 920. I think that was the
original. No, that's a Phenom. Phenom 2 is a 920. What were the original Phenom
ones? Just Yeah, there you go. Phenom AMD Phenom. Okay. Well, the 920
and 940 were one of them. Um 8000
series. Hold on. Hold on. I'm going somewhere important with this. Uh,
Phantom X4. I'm just fascinated at how long you can delay a sentence
essentially. Oh, thank you. It's quite good. List of AMD Phenom microprocessors. Here
we go. You're getting there. I'm on I'm on the Wikipedia right now,
you guys. I am like learning some stuff like live research. We should have a camera
over your shoulder mid midflight here.
So yes, that was the one that I was that
I was super that I was super butthard about was the 920 and the 940 because
and it was probably the fault of like our AMD sales guy. I was working at NCX
at the time, so I didn't have like a PR contact. I just had like a sales guy um
who was like, "Yeah, we're going to reinvigorate the sales. It's going to be
awesome." So, um, in those days I I don't even
think, no, I wasn't making videos yet, but I would still because I was in
charge of system building stuff at NCIX, I would still get my hands on all the
cool stuff and I would like validate it, right? Like I would tinker with it and
I'd be like, "Oh yeah, is this like really good? Is this really fast? How high can we overclock it? Whatever
else?" And I would sometimes post articles on hardware connects, for example, just as a guest writer. And so
I took home the 920 and the 940 and I
ended up pulling an allnighter because I
ran them through the paces. And at that time it would have been up against what
the E6600 or Q6600 or what whatever was
the relevant Intel stuff in those days. And it it it was like terrible and and I
and I couldn't overclock it worth a damn. And I was like, "Oh no, I must be
doing something wrong. It's already 1:00 in the morning. I can't even call anyone
and ask for help and the embargo is in the morning and I want to, you know, submit this for hardware connects
because I've got access to this hardware and the embargo is coming up. And it's
like I tested and tested and tested and in the morning I got up and everyone
else's review went up and the thing didn't perform very well and I was like
I sat here trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. I tried every memory
setting. I tried every CPU setting. I tried and it turned out that it just
wasn't very good. And so I want someone to log how many times
he's told that story on stream. I don't think I have told that story before on stream. Oh well, whatever. I
don't care. At least your third. I don't care. You're turning into like the old man.
Every time you see him, he tells the same story. Wow.
Hey, Lionus. Do you remember that story about that old phenom that that sales
guy told you some stuff about? Well, back in the day, he told me it was going
to be one heck of a ripper. and I took it home and I tried and I tried and I
tried and I just couldn't get it to go. So, finally I went to bed and woke up in
the morning and then everybody else couldn't get it to go and I was upset.
It was disappointing. So, anyway, the
point of the story is AMD has told me
whether it was an individual's fault or company messaging or whatever else that
they're going to build a high performance CPU for a long time and they
haven't done it. So, I'm just a little jaded. And
I want Zen to be awesome. Yeah, I do.
I completely agree. If Zen is awesome, I win because I get
to make videos about is awesome. Everyone wins. You guys win because maybe Intel will
get the kick in the pants that they need to cuz I'm sure that Intel can make a
higher performance CPU like tomorrow.
I'm sure they can make a higher performance consumer CPU, but they don't
have to. Instead, they're taking that
sort of one-sizefits-all approach where they're going, "Okay, so let's build
like really small CPU cores with lower complexity and let's put like 18 of them
under a single chip for servers and then let's put like a couple of them
and like a really great graphics core for like notebooks." And then well I I
don't know maybe the desktop guys they can like have this one and
so having like a a you know a 6970K or a
7970K that just rips would be amazing.
Um and they release a 6969K. Do you think the internet would just explode?
Yes, I do. There is no way a
conservative company like Intel would ever do that.
That would be amazing though. Anyways, yeah, they they I really hope Zans can.
So, at their analyst day, the company said they're no longer competing in a
race to the bottom, which is uh Whoops. Which makes sense because their process
is more expensive to manufacture anyways. So, they're trying to be the
cheaper solution while it costs them more money to make it. Uh it's not going
to work out very well. Yep. That's going to be a problem. Um
CEO Dr. Lisa Sue says it's extremely important to ensure that we have
competitive high performance cores. uh we have reduced our low-end PC exposure
goes on to state they are an x86 company through and through and will be focusing
on their opportunity to lead in that area and I think it is quite the
opportunity I mean Intel for all the innovation that they do and there's a
lot I mean stuff like you know um rapid
start technology you know the fact that the computer turns on really fast that
doesn't show up on a benchmark score but it makes the experience of using it
better and and that kind of stuff is great but in terms of raw performance
performance like single threaded performance. It's been like that incremental 6 to 8% for like four
freaking years now, giving AMD once again an opportunity to step in and uh
maybe kick some butt. So, Zen will be launching first as a new series of FX
chips. They're promising a 40% increase in instructions per clock, particularly
from switching to a new process node, although they haven't said what it is yet. It's going to have a new socket AM4
about bloody time which will introduce
uh DDR4 as well as I mean hopefully PCI
Express. They don't even support PCI Express 3 on their current motherboards.
Like AMD knows that their CPU enthusiast
platform makes no sense. They know this. They're not even they're not even giving
us a new chipset to put high performance graphics cards in it because apparently they don't think it's worth the effort.
Um I mean it's sad but that's what it is.
They even like they they even make high performance PCI Express 3.0 graphics
cards and internally I'm sure someone at some point has put up their hand on
guys shouldn't you be able to do like the whole solution thing like nah and
like they try but it hasn't been a compelling story for a long time. Um so
I'm excited as as excited as I can let myself be but I just am you know other
than saying I really want it to I really want it to happen. And it's not going to
be till 2016 either way. Um I I don't like rumors anyways, let alone
when there's nothing really behind them and it's just someone saying, "I want to do this." Um so
good for you, buddy. Yeah, that's basically what I'm getting out of this. I'm just going to wait. If
it's awesome, then that's super good and I think it will help all the consumers
and the industry as a whole. And if it's not awesome, I won't be that surprised
and that will super suck because that would just hurt things.
Yeah. So much more. Speaking of things that hurt, this was
posted by 907 Rider and the original source is Lily. Camera. Something you
would normally think would hurt a camera. Just taking it and throwing it
doesn't hurt this bad boy. Now, we've seen this in certain drones, just
not like consumer drones. This is a pre-order, and we are not
suggesting that you pre-order it because Oops. There is a lot of room for this
thing to totally suck donkey balls. Oh yeah.
But these demos that they show are pretty freaking impressive.
So cool. So basically, uh you can set it to
track. So you throw and it just takes off. And then you can set it to follow
or lead a particular subject. So here it is following this guy. Yeah, man. That's
incredible. You control it with like a thing that you wear. So, you tell it to there's
buttons for like, okay, I want it to follow or do whatever. Um, there's another really cool one
where they uh here, where is it? Yeah, here we go. So, this guy just like
hardcore is in sitting in his canoe and you kind of go, "Oh, well, hey, how can
you?" Oh, no. Just what? What? Chucks it in the Oh, takes off from the water. Did
you just say amphibious takeoff? Are you freaking for real?
That's pretty freaking cool. I'm assuming it's going to have to be fairly calm. It was pretty calm there and
whatnot, but that's still really cool. That's incredible. I don't know if I'd bother. I'd probably
just throw it up in the air instead of throwing it in the water, but it's cool that it can do that.
So, it does 1080p uh 60fps or 720p 120
FPS slow-mo, 12 megapixel stills, has a 20-minute flight time, and they're
pitching it as compact enough that you can throw in your backpack and wear the
controller on your wrist, which is waterproof as well, and is pretty much
off to the races. It's not cheap. I think they want $1,000 for it once it's
out. And the pre-order is like 550. But holy smack, that looks awesome.
That looks really, really, really cool. I'm excited for it. That's That's one
that I legitimately think is cool because the lack of setup time. You
don't need your phone or anything like that. It's something on your wrist. So the GoProers, like some guy on his
mountain bike could just all of a sudden like if he strapped it to his back instead of
a bag could just grab it, whip it out forward, and then go, and it's not going
to be a big deal. It's it's it's the like GoPro catch it as you're going
mentality instead of this like okay you probably need a dedicated dude
controlling the drone and all this kind of crap like follow me go and then do
whatever you want and like Burkel's been showing me some of the Cuz he's into mountain biking in
particular and he's been showing me some of the techniques involved in getting
some of the footage that as not a filming guy I just kind of take for
granted like oh yeah you know the camera followed along the bike well hold on a
second that's actually moving really asked, "How are they doing this
exactly?" And they will, what they'll do is they'll like they'll map out a path
for the bike and a path for a guy with a freaking gimbal rig to like book it down
like like people could die running alongside these bikes filming them going
down the sides of mountains. Like this is probably a better solution. No,
you're not going to get that same level of of cinematic footage, but for what
99.9% of people are going to be interested in. And this means that it'll get better.
This looks very cool. Eventually, you'll have better battery life. Eventually, you'll get things that
will be faster so they can follow or lead better and all that kind of stuff.
Absolutely. So, yeah. Next up from Boou, the original article
here is from Anantech and Intel has a new lineup of SSDs aimed at data centers
coming. These are the S3510. And this is kind of a funny one to me
because you look at Intel's push even on the consumer side towards NVMe and
abandoning the SATA standard and you
kind of go, what's the agenda here? And
I'm not that surprised because okay, to move to NVMe, that's a
huge platform change for your entire data center. People are still going to
be interested in upgrading their drives without upgrading every single one of their server platforms.
That was what I was going to say, but you did it better actually. Oh, you I thought you were attacking the
idea that it was coming out and I was like, what? No, no, still makes sense.
So, this is not a particularly high performance drive, which is a really
interesting thing. And it also features 16 nmter flash. So, this is the first
time that Intel has used that in actually I think that's the first time
Intel's used 16 nmter flash. That's very interesting. So, not particularly
amazing performance. Look at those sequential right speeds, particularly at
the low-end capacities. 260 megabytes
per second. They're not even saturating SATA 3. But what these drives are about
is the endurance and the cost. So, Intel's trying to deliver something that
is validated and reliable and is going to last for a long time, but is going to
be cheap for those data centers that are not looking to roll out a whack ton of
PCI Expressbased SSDs and completely rebuild everything. So, these are um
just yeah, they are what they are. They support 256-bit encryption
and they include uh full power loss protection that protects all data
including in-flight user rights in the event of a sudden power loss
which is actually funny. Like it's funny to me enterprise SSDs seem to feature
this technology more so than consumer
grade SSDs. But consider for a moment
that at an enter in an enterprise environment, you're going to have
battery backups on your controller cards
in the event of like a raid or something like that. You're usually going to have
I I mean any decent data center is going to have a battery backup
or generator, whatever. Yeah. U so so not maybe not necessarily per
rack but um
there will be there will be something for each kind of you know set of of of
systems. Every big data center I've been to which isn't a ton but every big data center
I've been to has that like giant generator block just outside the
building and on top of that they're going to have backup power for the entire building.
Yeah. What are the odds of an unexpected power loss? But then again, I mean, I guess
layers of protection compared to an an end user who's usually not using a UPS,
who's usually like super screwed in that situation.
Oh well. Crap. I feel like a complete idiot. I I
completely lost the word for the thing the racks go into
while I was trying to do that thing. The thing the racks go? Yeah, the one we have downstairs.
It's just a rack, is it not? No. Server rack. No, no, no, A rack is a rack and then
the thing it goes into. God dang it.
Why? Why can't I remember remember this?
Now I'm going crazy. Uh
I hate I hate cabinet. Oh jeez. I couldn't find the word for
cabinet while I was doing that. I know what a cabinet is. Are they all technically cabinets?
Not necessarily, but racks go in cabinets.
Yeah, but you can have a a rack that isn't a cabinet.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz a No, no. Like a like a Yes. You could just have
Right. You could just have a rack. You could just have a rack. You don't have to have the
And you could just have a rack mount thing and there could be nothing around it. But no, I was thinking of what they
go inside cuz on a per cabinet basis, you might have a large GPS unit.
Yeah. Yeah. In like the bottom of each one or something along those lines. That's what
I was going for. I can't believe I could. I just I hate it when I can't find the word and I'm live.
Drives me crazy. Yeah. It's cuz it's not universal cuz
you can have just a rag. I don't know. Anyways,
yeah. Yeah. Sorry, I just I had an itch there. Um,
the long life of AOL
is over. You will never receive another AOL CD in the mail. Original article
here is from the Wall Street Wall Street Journal.
Verizon agrees to buy AOL for No, I'm
not subscribing now. Go. There is no exit.
Does this come up every time you mouse over it? No, it doesn't. Okay, it goes
away. Um, Verizon agrees to buy AOL for $4.4
billion. They are predominantly interested in the
technology that AOL has been building for online video ad distribution. Um
it's not like they don't have Yeah, I I know. Um it's not like they don't have
other things going on. So subscription business, there's a content business.
What What content does AOL? I don't know who's still doing AOL
subscriptions. I don't know if you Google this. What
does AOL even do?
I haven't actually known for for years. Why and how does AOL still exist? The
first the first thing that comes up. This is great. So, let's find out
because I'm genuinely curious. I didn't uh I should have done this before the
show, but I'm just going to do it now. I saw the financial results for AOL in the
business section today. And the this is from 2012, and the first thing that came
to mind was AOL. Who the heck is using AOL? Uh posted 577 million in revenue
for the fourth quarter of 2011. And
Um, old people and Oh, two answers here
reminded me of two reasons why AOL is still alive. Old people and yellow pages
piled up in condo basement.
Ah, system did
not good. And has Google ads on it. What? I thought they were an ad serving
platform. There's a Google ad on the freaking AOL website.
So, this is still people talking about them as an ISP.
Is anyone still on AOL? Let's straw pull this.
Yeah, straw poll this. Uh, so are you or do
you know anyone? Someone in the chat just said 2 million
dialup customers. Okay. Okay. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. I
No, I want I want a percentage. Are you or do you know anyone still using AOL?
Uh, yes, no. And um uh I guess yogurt
would be a an excellent food. What type of yogurt? Third choice. Oh uh yogurt. Um I'm going
to go with pomegranate. Cool.
Actually, I might have made that too appealing. Banana.
Banana yogurt is awesome. Banana yogurt. I've never had that. It sounds very bland.
It has the It has that sort of fuzzy taste of banana yogurt. Okay.
Except it's kind of a slime that you put in your mouth. I would just eat a
banana. I can't I can't say that for all. Like I I I wouldn't just eat a
pomegranate if I wanted pomegranate yogurt, but I would just eat a banana if
I wanted banana yogurt, right? Yeah. Makes perfect sense to me
cuz like it's already a mush. I know. You chew it one time
and it's pretty much yogurt.
That's ridiculous. So, a tiny 15% of you are saying you or
someone you know is still using AOL. So, I think that's mostly going to be dialup
stuff. A bunch of people in the chat said dialup, and that actually does kind of make sense. Yeah, that makes that makes a ton. Who
else are you going to get dialup from? I I honestly have no idea.
I don't even know of any dialup providers in BC.
BC. I I'm sure there is obviously, but maybe Telus. Would Telus do it?
I have no idea. It's not on their website, at least not prominently. But then you have to think of like farm
farm net. Oh, yeah. No, like I Oh, I get it. I get that people have it. I just don't know
who they're getting it from. Yeah. AOL apparently
AOL owns N Gadget. What?
Well, there you go. So that's that would be the media that would be the content
business. Um so so there there you go. Um their
current CEO will still be leading AOL's
operations, but the acquisition is a done deal. And um Verizon said it has
plans to launch a video service focused on mobile devices featuring shorter
snippets rather than 30 or 60-minute shows in the summer. I think it's called
YouTube Verizon. I think it exists. But hey,
shorter snippets. So like everything YouTube
there's a smaller even shorter snippet one. Vine. Yeah.
Uh Instagram has video. But hey, I think I
Snapchat. Yeah, there's a lot of content developer. not
content developer like I don't know there's a lot of stuff on Snapchat now
you can watch like sports events and things and whatever one that you guys build I'm
glad that the ads will be integrated well and right from the beginning good
job Verizon I love you guys um so let's go ahead and move on to Google's
selfdriving cars oh dang it so this was
posted by Suika Sua Suika
and the previous one was from Alex goes hi and the original article here is from
the verge.com so Google is expanding
their testing um because their
self-driving cars have been in 11 accidents, but none, according to
Google, were the fault of the self-driving car.
Yeah, very interesting. Google claims that
thanks to all of the sensors and the frequency of data collection, their
self-driving cars are much more attentive than a human driver is
capable. attentive. I think you win no matter what. Um because if you just look
at polling rate, it's like, okay, you win. Um apparently there's been 11.
No, no, no, no. I want to polling rate. Humans don't have a polling rate. This
is kind of like the how many FPS can the eye see argument.
Oh my god. No, no, no, no, no. Just hold on a
second. So say compared to human
driver. Okay. So you're going to try Yeah, I know, right?
So human driver polling rate even an
infinite polling rate would not technically
well okay an infinite pulling rate would be equivalent. So anything but an
infinite polling rate would not technically be higher than the pulling
rate of your eye or ear. Okay?
Because it's a continuous stream. Okay? So my point was that you have a
huge amount of sensors constantly pulling in data whereas a human like you
will be eating or doing whatever else while they're talking.
Are we talking pulling in data or pulling in data? So an O or a U?
Either pulling rate. I don't think he knows what he's talking
about. Why? I'm just having fun. Okay. Sorry. You
can talk about the sensors now. Anyways, so there's tons of different
sensors all pulling in data all the time. A big problem with car accidents
is it usually happens in a momentary lapse. Like if this guy eating on the
right or a shoulder check. Yeah. If you shoulder check, you might not see that
guy merging into your lane. If you shoulder check on the left, you might not see the guy merging into your lane
who's not paying attention on your right. It might not be because you
screwed up. You just couldn't currently see in that direction.
So basically, Google is solving entirely the wrong problem. And they're going
about this the wrong way because what they should really be doing is figuring out how to give us cybernetic eyes in
the sides of our heads. That would be awesome. That would be awesome.
That'd be so confusing though. Imagine the first time you had it turned on. Okay.
And you could just see like No, no. This is this is the thing. So, have you heard of coclar implants?
Yeah. Okay. So, one of the big problems with
colear implants is particularly for people who were born deaf a lot of the
time they they're like scared or whatever. still. No, it's not even scared or not
scared. Like, they can know what's coming, but but they a lot of people,
especially older people, they they tend to want to do and there's like there's a
huge sort of debate about the uh about
the the ethics of of all of this stuff because they tend to have to do it with
people young in order for them to learn how to hear and how to discern speech
and all of these things. Because the older someone's being, especially if
they were born deaf, the more difficult it is for their brain to
Yeah. adapt to this completely new sense. I mean, imaginata.
That's right. And people who people who are deaf, I mean, they live perfectly
normal functional lives in many. I mean, I'm not saying every deaf person is like
a, you know, the best citizen ever or anything, but I'm saying I know plenty
of people who are just totally normal people. They just can't hear. And for
all we know, like, think about it this way. What if you were a perfectly normal
person except you had like another you had another sense normal person you had you had another
using the incorrect terminology well whatever the point is let's say
that you well no but I'm saying normal because of the point I'm trying to make
what if you thought you were like a normal person except there was another
sense in like your butt or something like if you had another organ there that
was an entirely new sense that you'd never experienced before that would like
explode your brain cuz what would that sense even be you'd have no concept of
it people could desri describe like a a a
proximity sense to you and you'd be like, "Oh, okay." But the first time you
walked down the street and you got close to something, you'd be like, "What's
going on?" Are are I don't know if I'm saying it wrong or not. Are colear implants
permanent? Like, if you get one, um,
can you not reverse? So, here's what happens with colear implants, and my my knowledge might be a
little outdated, but uh the way that my understanding is that it works is they
actually remove what was in there. Well, if it wasn't
working, well, some people can hear a little like enough that if you know a gunshot went
off, they could duck like like even though they might have a lot of
difficulty with speech. So, you'd be able to duck fast enough. So, without your colear implant, if they
put it in and take it out, there's nothing left. Okay. So, that's one of the challenges as
well. Okay. Well, that's an interesting conversation. But, if it was completely
non-functioning, I don't really think it's that big of a deal. Well, I mean
there's there's there's a lot of um the thing about the deaf community is they
have their own they have their own culture and they have a cultural pride and um forcing particularly young
children to have a coclar implant for
the sake of being more normal is something that and and it's that norm
it's the nword like well hold on a second what's wrong with the way that
you were made and that's an argument that a lot of people will make and you can and you can look and
pretty sure I'd want to hear you can be pretty sure but there's a lot
of people who don't feel that way and if they're having that decision made for
them, is that really fair? And if you don't make the decision for them, well,
maybe you can't make it till later on in your life and then maybe it doesn't work as well. So, it's actually it's a pretty
sensitive topic. Um, one that we're not going to I was just going to say we should
probably just move on. One that we're not going to get any deeper into. It's just it's just
interesting. So, anyway, there have been 11 accidents in total, all of which were
minor, uh, which Google asserts were never the fault of their car. Uh, seven
involved another vehicle rear ending the Google car. So, that's pretty much not
open for debate. Two of them were sideswipes, and one involved another car
traveling through a red light. Interesting thing here, though, is that
I have personally, and I'm sure you have as well, and I I know a few other people
have in the office because of stories that have been told, but avoided
sideswipes. You'll see someone merging into your lane, even if you're doing a shoulder
check and you look back and you see them with like a tire over the line, like, "Oh my goodness." And you can move over.
Yep. Um, why were there two sides swipes? If you've got all these sensors
and stuff, why were you not able to move or like honk your horn or do something
to try to avoid it? Like I I want more data on the sideswipes. Also, with the
one with uh another car traveling through a red light. Yeah. But one thing
that they teach you in driver training school and like I'm not discrediting people that get sideswiped and I'm not
discrediting people that get uh sometimes it's unavoidable. Yeah. And like if you get t-boned in a
red light, like that's horrible. I'm not saying it's your fault at all. I'm just
saying I want more information about those crashes because if it was
obviously someone coming Yeah. and a person would have scanned the
intersection and been able to stop or turn off or avoid or something then
maybe that's a problem. Bearing in mind though that a big part of Google's
argument is that this is going to be a numbers game and
and the more of them that there are it'll help because another Google car wouldn't RAM through a red light onto
another and their sensors and algorithms are
more attentive and less errorprone.
They're not actually saying that they're perfect. There will be situations where
a great driver paying a lot of attention would have happened to be looking the
other way and would have been able to do like a freaking wicked like E brake stop
and that car going through the red light would have would have blown blown by
them instead of hitting them. But what they're saying is and I'm a huge advocate for the this is
a lower percentage. I just want more data on those crashes. So it's one of those things where and
this is going to be such a big debate over the next 10 to 20 years.
self-driving cars will be at fault and
they will kill people at some point. It will happen. They just quote me on this.
It's going to happen and everyone's going to spaz. But the argument is going
to be and this is going to be no consolation to the family and friends of
whoever dies in this horrible situation
that is going to happen. The argument is gonna be, well,
I'm sorry it worked out this way for you with this, but
for the good of the collective, everyone in general, we still need to do this.
And uh, wow, that's going to be really tough.
It's easy. It's really easy for me to say now from my safe, you know, room in
our office where I'm not getting mowed down by a self-driving car or like, you
know, my three-year-old son isn't getting, you know, killed on his way
home from school in our family self-driving car or something like that.
It's easy for me to say, "Yeah, that's the right move." But once that
I think one really interesting thing that we're going to have to deal with at
some point, which I wouldn't be too surprised if it happened, is a
self-driving car getting hacked in some sort of way or a self-driving car going
haywire because of some other reason, whether it's like a failure somewhere or
whatnot. But if it just goes like, "Oh, the sidewalk is a street. Time to GTA
it." And just like, "Oh dear, I don't
know." Yeah. It's going to depend on the degree to which the self-driving car screws up.
Yes. But I mean I even see things like where
a person could have avoided it being a big one that people bring up. Like if
I'd been driving my son That's what I mean though.
Would we have gotten hit? Would he have died? And how do I live with that? For
example. Um so
yeah. And I mean oh this is a great point from is that Ghost putting that in
there? Yeah. Good good good work Ghost. Uh, what if the self-driving car has to
make a decision between the life of its passenger and the life of someone else?
What if swerving away from that person is going to cause it to strike a pole?
Uh-oh. Yeah, there's a lot of really nasty
stuff that we're going to run into like for sure. I just don't know what ones
we're going to win run into when all that kind of stuff. And if it all happens kind of right at
the beginning when they start selling them to consumers, they'll set us back 50 years. Yeah,
exactly. Yeah, I think it'll happen regardless. It's just Yeah.
Yeah. Um
I didn't even think about the decision between two lives thing. That's brutal. That's incredible.
Yeah. Um so Mosilla launches a new Firefox
version without DRM support. So this was
posted by XSilent X and there's a number of articles on it. TechCrunch has one.
So let's go ahead and pop that up so you guys can see what TechCrunch's website
looks like in case you had never been there before.
They have a Mozilla logo. That was awesome. Okay, so pretty much what's
going on here is in order to do away with sort of aging the aging plug-in
system for online video content, things like Silver Light, um, Adobe Flash to a
much lesser extent, and make way for HTML 5 as the savior of the modern
multimedia covered internet. DRM is going to be a thing whether you
guys like it or not unless you use Firefox apparently. So what will happen
here is that services like Netflix which
are going to rely on DRM in order to be
allowed through the agreements they have with content providers to stream video
to you. Services like that are going to require that you have a DRM enabled browser. And
Mozilla actually released one that supports HTML 5 DRM specs. Um, so now
they have one that doesn't have it. So you can get a DRM free version because
the closed source DRM solution uh didn't really jive that well with the free and
open Firefoxness uh sort of principles of the Mosilla
Foundation. So now you can download a DRM free version. So presumably you just
won't be able to like watch Netflix on it. Yeah.
So it's more of a rapid more things in the future though.
Netflix other things as well. I don't know.
Expect more DRM. Um I mean I wouldn't be that surprised
to see something like um you music videos on YouTube implement something
like this. Um you know any Y anywhere where there's
big money involved in the production of the content, you can bet that they're
spending big money to protect it from being taken by people and stuff.
Yes. Okay. Microsoft. Oh, what time is it?
Oh. Uh yeah. Um if only I knew how to read a clock. I
bet you could learn that on Linda. You could learn how to make your own
clock by programming the clock. You actually could.
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Aside from our show, of course. Yeah, that I I mean, we're pretty great, too.
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They're awesome. We love those guys. Um, also
man, once you learn all your skills and how to run a business, you can jump on
FreshBooks. You're determined to do this. You know what? I like linking them all together.
It actually works really well in this case, though.
It does. So, Freshbooks is a is like a it's a cloud-based online tool for pretty much
managing yourself. So, if you run a business, let's say you're a plumber,
for example. I always use that example. Okay, I'll come up with a different
example. Let's say you're a um a vigilante, for example, and you want to
go ahead and you want to log your hours. Let's say you're a vigilante who has
like a dirty cop, you know, paying him on the side, but you want to make sure
that, you know, you're getting your invoices sent out accurately and on
time. You know, you want to make sure that that cop is paying by by credit
card online so that um Okay, that's a
terrible example, too. Okay, what what is Fresh Books? Okay. Fresh Books is the
way if you're self-employed to spend more time running your business and less
proper your proper legal business. Yes. Your actual legal business tracks
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with accounting nonsense. So, for example, you can log your hours in it.
You can enter information like your rates. You can submit invoices to your
customers via email. You can see that they got them, which is critical. And
then you can make it so they can pay by credit card because making it easy for
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I'm not entirely sure but yeah try it out if you're running your own business. Also, finally, and
this one's going to be fun. I always have fun with these. Okay, so I think
there are notes on Loot Crate, but just to just to like just to make Nick come
in here all upset and butth, there's one that I think you'll be super
excited about, actually. I'll let you run into it. So, this, my friends, is the April Loot
Crate. Um although we should say that uh the
May crate theme will be unite apparently with a bunch of exclusive stuff. But
this is the fantasy crate. I don't know
if Loot Crate's uh if I don't know if Loot Crate's interpretation of my
fantasies would actually be a problem. When you said the fantasy crate, I was
like, "Oh dear." Well, this is about 8 in long and black.
Oh wow. Also square, which is odd.
That would be kind of physically unfortunate. And like cardboard paper
cuts are kind of a [ __ ] Oh my god. And like there too, they'd
probably get infected. Okay, so what does this say? Document
share. Enjoy. There's like a map with a sword on it. So I already know that this
is going to go well. You know what? I'm actually wearing a shirt from a previous
Loot Crate right now. So I'm going to make it part of the process. I'm going
to change into my new Loot Crate shirt. Ah, wait a second. I'm not allowed to
show my nipples on Twitch. So I think it's against the rules. Yes. Thank you.
Thank you for being my change room.
You can watch if you want. The hero always looks.
The hero always looks. That's true. Oops. Okay. All right. So, I got my new
I got my new Loot Crate shirt. Do you know what it is?
I'm kind of an idiot. Pretty sure it's No. Yes, it is.
Way. Yep. I That's That's what I knew you were going to be excited about. No, this
is not This is Yeah. No, this I This I'm not that excited about. Princess Bride playing
cards. I knew you'd be stoked for that. Yeah.
Oh, as you freaking wish, man. I love that
movie. I wonder if they have like a bunch of
Seriously, man. Andre the Giant taken from us too young.
Yeah. Oh, that Oh, these are actually pretty nice, too. They're not like like crappy
cards. There's There's noticeably differences between crappy and good cards.
Oh my goodness. That Joker card, man.
Oh, it's the it's a Dungeon Keeper. And we've got the RO US Joker card as well.
Oh, I'm loving this. Okay, what else we got in here?
I knew you'd be search for that. I love how it like took you completely
black tie geek bow tie just in case
you need one of those. Oh, this is an infl Okay,
I I'll work on this. You Okay, you work on that. What else we got? Uh Game of Thrones Stark Sigil USB
flash drive. How'd they pull that off?
That's awesome. It's probably not very high capacity.
Like, I'll be surprised. You know what? I have a computer here. Let's find out.
So, that's what it'll look like plugged into your computer. And I'll let you
guys know how big it is.
4 gigs. So, big enough for a Windows OS. There you go.
Can I help you? No way. It's a crown.
Okay. Okay, so we've got a Harry Potter um station or platform 9 and 3/4 sign.
I'm liking that. Wow, I'm actually getting most of the references these
days. Now, the thing is is that I'm not that into Game of Thrones. I have read
the first book, but I refuse to read the
rest of the books until uh George RR Martin gets off of his butt and writes
the last couple. And then I refuse to watch the show until I've read all the
books because that's how I roll. So, we've got So, it'll be a long time
before uh before Yeah. a lot of things. But, I mean, I know what winter is
coming is all about. So, these are Game of Thrones magnets with the house
sigils. Did you already take this out? Uh yes, we've got a pin. So, uh fantasy
loot crate pin. And finally, their usual
like magazine thing. Oh, yeah. Right there. Opens with as you wish. Loving
that. Oh, that's great. No offense. And as
much as I haven't seen Game of Thrones,
um, yeah, it'll never hold a candle to Princess Bride. Sorry.
Princess Bride's fantastic. I can't believe they went the Princess Bride
route. You know, like every dad that bought their kid Loot Crate got this one
and was like, "Yep, I'll take that. You can have the rest of it. Cool."
Yeah, dog. So, apparently this is a D&D t-shirt. So, that's why I That's why I
didn't catch. I think I told you. Not much of a D and D guy.
I might have brushed over. Oh, man. Princess Bride playing cards. I'm loving that. All right, so
lootcrate.com code line is to save 10%.
Which given how inexpensive these loot crates are is actually not that
meaningful unless you sign up for like a year or something. So definitely to get
the most out of your 10% off. Sign up for a year. Don't just do one crate cuz
they're like they're what, like 15 bucks or something like that? I don't I think isn't it on here?
I don't remember. They're they're not that expensive. They're relatively cheap. like how much
you get. It's like the cost of just the shirt.
So, basically, you're saving like a buck 50 if you use our code and you only buy
one loot crate. So, sign up for the subscription and uh
this is like a nice It's actually kind of nice. Yeah, it's not bad.
It's bulky, which is bulky. Not my favorite thing, but it looks cool. And
if you're just thread something through the teeth and then keep it on your
keychain. That'd be cool. That would be pretty sweet. All right, so let's move on to our next
topic then, shall we? All right. It's funny. He's always the one that
remembers now. I am.
All right. Microsoft reveals Windows 10
editions. Oh jeez. They're plated in gold.
Ah. No. Only the Windows 10 edition edition
is plated in gold. Edition edition.
Sorry. That's pretty funny. Um, okay. Do you want to handle this?
And I'll inflate my crown cuz you're wearing one. I want to wear one, too. Oh, dear. It doesn't take that long,
which is nice compared to all the other inflatable stuff we've been doing lately. But okay, so the main I meant
the for channel fun. You shouldn't tell them about that.
Okay, so go ahead. So, okay, there's Windows 10 Home,
Windows 10 Mobile, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 10
Education, Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise, and I thought there might have been one
more, but we'll just go with that. And I'm going to jump to the actual Windows
website because our notes here are kind of balls. So, moving forward, I hope I
posted this in the chat. I'm going to post it again. So, if that's a troll,
I'm sorry. Um,
so Windows 10 Home is pretty much exactly what you'd expect. What they're
listing here is stuff like Cortana, uh, Windows Hello face recognition,
fingerprint login, the Microsoft Edge
web browser, uh, mail, calendar, maps,
photos, all the things that kind of just come with Windows. Um, yeah, not a ton
of extra stuff, but you do get stuff like the Xbox Live gaming community if
you care about that at all. Um, it's there for you, so it has that, I guess.
And yeah, that's about it. Can I jump in and ask why code names are always so
much cooler than the actual product name? Why did they rename it Edge? They
should have just called it Spartan. Spartan. Yeah, that would have been so badass.
Actually, is that Spartan? It's called Edge now, I think. So,
that's really disappointing. Yeah. All right. Anyways, moving on.
So, what's douchier? Sunglasses or an
inflatable crown on and then wear the sunglasses? Oh, that could work.
Oh my god. The world's coolest king ever.
One of my crown things is all derpy. Sorry. Chrome crashed or I'd be showing
you guys the Windows blog page right now. It's making me
Anyways, Windows 10 Pro is for PCs and
tablets and twoin ones as I'm sure Windows 10 normal is as well. Anyways,
so it builds on top of that. It also includes Windows Update for Business,
which allows you to kind of peer-to-peer share Windows updates, decide when they
go out. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. You can decide when the updates go
out. So, if you're like, "Oh, well, we're kind of mission critical at like
400 p.m. So, no, you can do it to your
entire network at a specified time later on, which like that's not super new, but
is probably easier to set up now, I'm assuming. So, that's cool because it's
more centralized. I guess that's nice. I like the peer-to-p peer sharing one.
There's some other stuff for Windows Update Business, but that those are the main parts. Um, yeah. Then there isn't a
huge difference between those two. Then there's Windows 10 mobile, which is
essentially for phones. Um, and it's just more it's it's better for touch.
There's a touch version of Office, which is nice. And if you plug it into a large
format monitor, it will what is it called? continuum for phone which makes
it turn into uh basically just a PC experience so that you could have a
large format monitor and everything would be fine. Uh moving on to Windows
10 Enterprise. There's some other stuff
like long-term servicing branch um support.
Yeah, volume licensing. Other things that are probably not super
most of the stuff people won't really care too much about. Yeah.
It's not super interesting. So, you're probably fine with home, which has been
the story since forever, unless you want remote desktop connection, in which case you can get
pro. Yay.
Or if you want to like peer-to-peer share Windows updates with your roommate.
Yeah. Which makes absolutely no sense at all. So, I can't I can't get Chrome back
open. So, you're you're on point for the next one, too. Cool. All right. So, moving on.
Oh, also I wanted to add that apparently um
there's there's like certain specific games being included with it like Candy
Crush Saga. Oh yeah, that's been so that's been
making the rounds lately. So, okay,
there's two ways to look at this. Number one is, does Microsoft really need
whatever payout King Games is giving them to include this stupid game with
the operating system? And perspective
number two is does it really matter cuz it's going to take up like no space at all
and you can uninstall it. Is it any different from including Mind Sweeper?
Really? Yeah. I mean, I would argue that since it
actually has a a microtransaction
doesn't mind sweeper now. Shut up. Or you have to like
No. No. What's up with Mind Sweeper on Windows 8?
Try to launch it. It's not there, right? And then you have to get it from the store.
Mind sweeper. Results for Mind Sweeper.
Really? Do they not include it? Yeah. And then I think you you have to
like buy it or you can only play it a certain amount of times and you have to
refill your credits or something. I don't remember how it works, but mind sweeper on above Windows 7 is super
weird. And then even like I don't think Windows 7 has Mind Sweeper.
Interesting. Okay. I didn't know that. Oh, no. You have to turn it on or something like it's not the default
feature. So, the point is, is this really any different? And should we really be
concerned about it? Someone in chat's going to correct. I personally think it's a crappy
direction for them to be going. I think that including their own firstparty
games that don't have microtransactions
is probably fine, but this is exactly
the same kind of crap that I thought Microsoft was trying to fight against by
encouraging their PC makers to ship clean Windows and what and that they
were setting a good example for with the Surface Pro line not including any
bloatware. This just seems to fly in the face of the direction that pretty much
everything else is going. I mean, Apple doesn't ship a bunch of bloat. Even
Android is moving away from shipping a bunch of bloat. Even even like some of
the worst Android offenders like Samsung are moving away from shipping bloat with
their operating systems. So, I um yeah,
think that's pretty much all I have to say about that. I sure wish that this
would do things. That would be great.
Thanks. I don't remember what it is with Mind
Sweeper on Windows 8, but it has like a 4.7 out of 10 rating. So, something's
going on that I don't think the chat is entirely aware of. And I remember trying
to play it and there was really weird crap going on in Windows 8. But anyways,
in Windows 7, uh you're right, Chad, it is enabled, but exactly how I said, you
have to go and turn it on. So,
yeah. Anyways. Okay, so let's move on to
our next topic, shall we? FTC rules in favor of Tesla direct to
consumer sales. Um, they're saying it's legal, but it's not entirely through
yet. The the FTC will have a lot of sway.
Yeah. Um, but the conversation is not over. I was under the impression that the
conversation was over and it was fine. And then there was an update to the
article, which I don't know if it was actually this one, but there was an
update being like, whoa, actually it's not. the FTC is just kind of approving
it and then other things have to happen. Um, but it's it's moving along which is
good. Um, so Good Bites posted the Windows 10 editions edition stuff. Um, Silver
Draachi uh posted the Tesla bit. So here's
here's a quote from the FTC. A fundamental principle of competition is
that consumers, not regulation, should determine what they buy and how they buy
it. The FTC said consumers may benefit from the ability to buy cars directly
from manufacturers whether they are shopping for luxury cars or economy
vehicles. The same competition principles should apply in either case.
This is um a great show of common sense. The original article here is from
techdrive.co Co. And it's uh it's refreshing to see sensible quotes coming
from stuff that's all has emblems that
are blue and white and have America written all over them. So,
well, Canada hasn't really been doing much better lately. No, that is a tremendous tremendously
good point. But it's it's refreshing to see our neighbors to the south figuring
it out because usually we just follow whatever they do.
It just takes us a while. Yep. That's very true. Um, so yeah,
there's not really a ton to say here. It's moving along, which is super good.
Um, but it's not finalized, so we can't
really start the party yet, I guess.
All right. Um, scientists have invented a quadrillion
quillion FPS camera, also known as a one trillion FPS camera.
Yeah, that first number was nothing. It was awesome. It was absolutely nothing. This was
posted by Prashant Nani X and the
original article here is from science alert Japanese scientist a new trillion frame
per second camera so it can capture events occurring at 45,000
kilometers per second.
Wow. There's some limitations like last
August it could only capture six frames per shot. So, it was basically done
immediately. Um, and they're hoping to reach a hundred. So, it will still be
done immediately, but it'll allow them to observe events
like biological processes in far more
detail than before.
Very, very cool. So, this is more than a thousand times faster than a
conventional high-speed camera. So,
let's have a look at what else they uh think is really interesting about this.
That is really cool. So apparently each color uh each separate
color flash can be analyzed by string them together a moving picture blah blah
blah. So they they split each thing. How does it go? The technology works by
splitting a single light pulse into a fast barrage of rainbow colored smaller
pulses and then they analyze those individual pulses. Insane.
So there's another imaging technique apparently known as the pump probe
method. I'm not an expert on high-speed imaging. So there you go. Um, so this
can capture frames faster than stamp, but it can only capture one frame at a
time. So, uh, yeah. So, they're working
towards 25 frames per shot right now.
Last August they were at six. They hope to reach 100. So, just to put that in
perspective, 100 frames would be what? 110 billionth of a second of actual time
that they're capturing. Hold on. I'm probably doing that wrong. No, I think
that's right. Yeah. 110 billionth of a second is all they can capture at a
time. So they better get the timing of this thing freaking freaking right.
Exactly. They better not be like our camera people just, you know, holding pushing
the shutter button like whenever. Like Yeah, whatever, bro. They press Oh,
what? We missed it. Oh, I guess that's too bad. I guess we'll, you know, figure
out getting this whole apparatus set up again. Thanks for that, jackass. No,
they're going to need to be pretty precise about this. When did I have a feeling you're tying
this into something? Oh, no. Nothing happened. the the thing I just troll these guys. Yeah, it's
fine. Um, so the new Konami CEO, this
was posted by Boou and uh maybe there
was some booze involved. Probably not.
They probably got a point, but original article here is from Polygon. So, new
Konami CEO says mobile gaming is the
future and AAA will not be as much of an
emphasis.
not surprising.
I don't know. Yeah, lots of people are spending money on
microtransactions on phone games. I will never get it. I will never like it. I
will never understand and I will never do it. This is why I play retro games still.
I'm I think part of the problem with
like oh all the money's in mobile games is that people are making junk and just
terrible releases for fullfeatured
games. Yeah. When was the last time you were really
excited for a game release? Um well it's hard to get me excited
these days. Like I never got into GTA or I would have been probably really
excited for GTA 5. Um, realistically that came out like a year
and a half ago though. Yeah, I guess that's true. Well, so not
on a platform that mattered though to be perfectly fright. Not not on a platform
that I actually am going to play games on. So, um,
wow. Gee, I don't know. The last I guess the last AAA game I really really
enjoyed was probably Tomb Raider 2013.
Okay, that's not too bad. Yeah, I I thought that was I thought it was a great game. It was it like it
lacked certain things that older games had. There wasn't really a lot of
exploration to it. There's like three tombs
aside from just like story mission tombs
and like I think there was like some kind of game mode that by the time I
played it had been shut down or something like that. Like there's some
there's some pretty stupid stuff. But um
I don't know. I thought I thought it was really good. I definitely enjoyed it. I'm just trying to think like
I see a lot of people in chat saying Witcher 3, but like
a little scared for that game. Have you seen all the crap going around?
Yeah, it's kind of shaping up to be like
like Watchd Dogs Junior in some ways. Like not to nearly the same extent as
Watchd Dogs, but we're already discovering they dumbed it down. So,
it's not out yet. We'll we'll see once it's out. We'll see how console porty it is. You
think? Not sure we'll end up benching it. Is CD Project Red smart enough and troll
enough to just release it as the fullfeatured
one that they announced a long time ago to pretend that they're pulling a
Ubisoft and dumbing it down and then just not do and then not do that? Are they troll
enough? Wow.
We should ask Pasha. Pasha biceps. Are they troll enough? I
don't know. Um I don't know. That'd be really cool. I'm I'm just largely ignoring it until
it comes out. Yep. I just want it to actually come out. So, anyway, a little bit more from the
from the interior. All I know is that I used to pre-order
games quite a bit and I was never
dissatisfied and for the last in the last long time
I've basic I've stopped pre-ordering games to be honest and
it it it ended up being everything that I pre-ordered was a disappointment. Not
like a few things. You pre-ordered Assassin's Creed, that one that you
hated, right? Yes. Yeah, that was the beginning of the end. Yeah. Okay. Um, so some more some more
quotes. Um, yeah, there were a couple you hated actually.
Yeah. Just just to clarify this one that I hated. Um, so uh we will pursue mobile
games aggressively. Our main platform will be mobiles following the pay as you
play model of existing games. Our games must move from selling things like items
to selling things like features. We saw
with those games that even people who buy physical games are motivated to buy
extra content. The success of our current mobile game, Power Pro
especially, has motivated us to actively push more of our popular series onto
mobile than ever before.
We hope that our overseas games such as Metal Gear Solid 5 and Winning 11
continue to do well, but we are always thinking about how to push our franchises into mobile there, too. Wow,
that is like the single most depressing interview ever.
Yeah, there's been other fullfeatured game companies that have bailed out to
mobile, though. Like, I don't I don't know. I don't think they're speaking entirely on behalf of the whole gaming
industry. They're just speaking on behalf of themselves and probably a lot
of other companies. I don't know. I will never be into phone
games. I've tried a bunch of them and they're just all garbage.
I I used to actually play a lot more
mobile games than I do now. Like that uh the Jetack Joy Red thing
used to be a play. No, not not just that. Like Army of Darkness, I played
through the whole thing till the end. Um just trying to think of some other ones
that I got reasonably into. I haven't enjoyed pretty much any. I've
had some people suggest some. I I will probably try it again in the future.
I finished Reaper. Uh, Reaper is a lot of fun to play with a controller. Uh,
totally horrible on touchscreen controls. But on the Shield, it was
actually really fun. Just as stupid brainless hacken slash play on a Shield
though, I'd probably just play a full feature game off my PC. It it uh Reaper is a good toilet game
because you can like just like play one level and then peace out. So So that was that was a big
part of the reason I played it. Um, yeah. Wow. Okay. Oculus releases
recommended system specs for the upcoming CV or consumer version one Rift
and they have confirmed the resolution. So this was posted by Wii Maniac on the
forum and uh here is the post on the
oculus.com blog. So what else? What
else? So you want to run through the recommended specs there? Yes. I'm just trying to work on getting
the GTX 970 for one thing.
GTX 970 and an R9290. This has been something that I've been kind of
preaching about for a long time is that you need a hardcore system. This is a rich boy's toy, my friends.
Yes, exactly. Um, and that's it. Doesn't end there. I5 4590 equivalent or
greater. Like, you need good stuff. And the thing is, this is recommended specs,
not like not super high-end specs. Like,
there's I can guarantee you right now, there's going to be games that are going to need a lot more than that. Yep.
because you need uh have they talked about hertz? Yeah. So, you need 90 FPS
at 2160 by 1200 consistently. So, you
need above 90 FPS at 2160 x 1200. Good
luck on a lot of different high graphics games. Like, oh my god, that's not easy
to do. Okay, we've got people in the chat upset about it and upset at Oculus about it.
No. No, not at all. Nothing to do with Oculus. No,
this has to do with Oculus being realistic
about the way that they're presenting the requirements for gaming on this
platform to their customers. Oculus
doesn't want people buying this thing with their, you know, I'll pick on
something 5770, you know, uh, and expecting to have a
good good gaming experience. It stutters and I get sick. Oh, Oculus
sucks. Exactly. It's the de it's how demanding
the game is and the frame rate that you need to run at to have a good VR
experience that is prompting them to release these out of thisworld
recommended system specs. So they want a high-end quad core 8 gigs plus of RAM
HDMI 1.3 and a 970 or AMD 290 equivalent
or greater in order to and I'm I would
guess that this is sort of along the lines of what would give you a good experience playing something like E
Valkyrie. Yeah, based on that a lot of it black space.
Yeah. Um, if you're going to want to be playing, you know, something like uh
Grand Theft Auto 5 or Skyrim with a whack ton of mods on or something like
that, good luck. Yeah, it's going to be really, really,
really hard. It's basically all we have to say about that.
Yep. And like the thing is for people that are going to get mad, they need to
get these specs up there so that they can push higher resolution panels and
whatnot so it actually looks good, doesn't make you feel sick, and is
worthwhile even doing at all. It's a important thing to think about.
On the subject of Richard 3, Carol Karine posted Richard.
Did I say Richard three? I I don't know. I heard that. You
Oh, sorry. Witcher 3. Uh Carol Karine posted on our forum. This is from uh
reddit.com/witcher.
Well, r/witcher, I guess, is the way that people would normally say that.
I've left out the R. I'm sorry. R/witcher. Um, reviews have apparently
gone up a week before release and there's nothing lower than 8 out of 10
with Kotaku rating it yes. That's cool.
With that said, that doesn't Well, look at this. Games Radar four out of five. I
dearly hope that the day zero patch eliminates the technical issues. It's
literally the first line. Um,
also known as there's nothing else interesting right now. Please read our
article. We rated it really high. You know, that's another really interesting
perspective because a lot of people will a lot of people will talk about how the
game companies must be paying the, you know, the press to give a good game
review. And you know what? I'm sure there are cases of that. But the way
that it actually works, it's going to be a lot more complicated than that. It's
going to be, hey, we're running a giant campaign with you to advertise for
Witcher 3. And in most cases, uh, you
know, an editor is not going to be blatant enough to tell a reviewer, give
it a good review. It's going to be more of like an unspoken thing. But aside
from the whole paid for reviews thing, remember these guys don't get paid
anything if people aren't reading the reviews. So there's a lot of different
ways that you can get people to read your reviews. You could be like Yatsi
over at the Escapist. You can make them entertaining if not informative. Um you
can be controversial like that ridiculous thing. I can't remember what
site it was on about the uh the Shadow of Mordor scene where you learn your
sneak attack by kissing the white. Well, exactly. I thought you were talking about uh
stirring up stirring up controversy. Star Wars Battle
something. The one that's coming out. Battlefront. Yeah. I always want to say Battlefield.
They're so similar. Anyways, Star Wars Battlefront coming out with IGN being
like there's no need to worry. Actually, we're really worried in two different
videos like that. Yeah. Um, so, so you
can be controversial or you can you can
have an article that says the game is really great. So when someone's going
and looking for an excuse to buy it cuz come on, let's face it, that's how we buy things. We look for someone to tell
us we're making a good decision. That's what we want to hear. So you
you think something's bad, you'll Google blah blah blah blah blah issues. And you
think something's good, you'll be like top five
features of The Witcher 3. Yeah. like
it's a thing. Is The Witcher 3 worth buying? And you
know the top one of course is going to be yes. Yeah. Um so so that's actually a really good
really good point is you know what's in it for these reviewers giving it a good
score. Should we pre-order it based on that the reviews are
I don't like scores ever at all. At least they gave out review copies.
Yep. That's better than some other folks are doing these days. At least the reviewers
even got a crack at it before it was released. really rare that people allow
reviews to go out before release at all anyways.
So, that's kind of cool because usually it would go out on day of release so
that all the pre-order guys already spent their money. Yeah. So, so that's been the trend
lately. So, this is this is definitely better, but I would still wait for user
reviews. Do you really need to play Witcher 3 one week early? You've waited
this long. I mean, I guess if you're into having
the experience at the same time as your buddies. Yep. Nah,
I understand wanting it right away. I'm going to wait. I get I have enough backlog that it
doesn't matter. So, whatever. I guess I won't wait cuz
we're going to benchmark it. Good bites posted in the forum that
Microsoft has released. Remember that super cool video stabilization thing
they were doing? They have released Hyperlapse.
This is freaking awesome. You can I think you have to apply for the beta.
Yeah, we really need to uh you have to apply for the beta on uh Android, I
believe, as well as uh Windows phone.
Can't remember what all the rules are. Some of them you have to apply. Some of them you can just download it. But
pretty much you can take crappy camera footage and turn it into like this super
smooth uh this page isn't loading very well, but I hope you get the point.
I want to do it with a GoPro. I want to go on a hike with a GoPro and then hyperlapse the whole hike.
Man, that looks cool. So, it uses really advanced processing to turn the scene
into like a 3D model and then it uses that to stabilize it instead of the um
sort of the the the more reactive
correction that more traditional shaky cam reduction techniques have used.
Very, very cool stuff. Apparently works with phone footage, GoPro footage. Um I
really want to try it out now that it's out. That just dropped uh today if I
recall correctly. That's cool. I'm going to sign up for
that beta. Um, Corsair has
128 gig DDR4 memory kits. How much are
they going to cost you? If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
Yep. Over $1,000. RAM for the rich and nerdy, says the
PCWorld.com article. Uh, so they have them up to
2666 megahertz, I want to say. Um,
Kingston is saying their upcoming big ass set will hit speeds of 3,000
megahertz. So, what could you want to do with something like this? Oh, I don't
know. You could create a 100 Gigabyte RAM drive with 28 gigs left for system
memory, I guess, if you're into that sort of thing. Here we go. Here we go.
Here we go. The cheaper of the two is just shy of $2,000 with the more
expensive 2666 kit running you $2120.
I believe GSkill is working on something as well, but with them, I think it was
64 gig four stick kits, whereas these
are 128 gig 8 stick kits from Corsair
and Kingston. So, I've already reached out to Corsair for a sample. Um, I
really doubt we'll get to keep that sample. I was just going to say they're either
probably going to say no or you can have it for like four days.
Yeah. and then send it to someone else to to talk because there's nothing to
really cover about it. You're going to put it in a system. You're going to be like, "Yep,
the number of recognized RAM is very high."
Yep. And hooray.
Moving on. And it's We won't even be the first time we've put 128 gigs of RAM in
a system. We have one downstairs right now with 128 gigs of RAM in it. What's
interesting about this is the fact that it's um unbuffered memory and it works
on a consumer platform with a consumer grade CPU rather than being like an ECC
registered server gym. Yeah. Um I had one other topic that I posted
somewhere down below. Uh this is this is a rumor and this is in the rejected pile
but I just thought it was funny. Sam Fischer posted on the forum Netflix
reportedly planning Top Gear revival called House of Cars. Uh there there is
no confirmation that if they went after Clarkson and his crew, which right now
it's up in the air, they could be negotiating with anyone. It is rumored that Netflix is negotiating with them. I
really doubt they would call it House of Cars. That would be I really freaking hope they would.
Pretty much the stupidest thing ever. I would still watch it, but I really
hope they would. House of Cars. Um and this uh just
dropped today as well. You can tour
Razer's flagship store, the first of
many according to Mintan CEO. So, it has
a very Apple store, Microsoft Store kind
of vibe, and much like those other stores is pretty much a one-stop shop
for everything Razer. You can get hands-on with pretty much any of their
products. Very cool concept. Two years ago, you
would have told me Razer has a retail store, and I would have said, "What
would they need a retail store for? It could like you could put it in a closet.
Here's the wall of mice. Here's the wall of keyboards. And here's the trash bin
out back with the headsets that you probably shouldn't buy. Um whereas now
they're getting to the point where they have enough really cool technology and
enough accessories to go with it that you can kind of go, "Oh yeah, crap. I
guess I I kind of get it." Like might still be there. Yeah. The headsets I'm still not a huge
fan of and M knows that, but you know, uh whatever. Um there's there's cuz
there's a lot of stuff that you could show off in a store like this that might
not even necessarily run on Razer's own hardware, but is their technology. Razer
coms, for example. They could have, you know, like a little, you know, LAN
setup. I was going to say like a four four by four games for which even looks like
they could be doing um just constantly set up with the headsets that they have
right there. So you could have a little mini land. Um so they could be showing off their
software technology. They could be showing off their streaming technology on the fourth console. if you could like
uh book time for like little gaming tournaments and stuff in there. I don't
know. So, they're apparently allowing fans to vote. Uh although realistically, I mean,
they're smart people. They probably already have a road map for where they want to launch stores, but they're
apparently letting fans vote on where they want to see stores next. And um
these guys really do look like they're on the fast track to kicking a whole ton
of ass. I don't like everything they do, but as you guys know, I'm a huge fan of
the Blade 14 notebook in particular. Um,
really love a lot of the other stuff that they've done. Not a big fan of some
of the other stuff that they've done, but you can't deny that they are a marketing juggernaut. And the brand
recognition that they have for what would have been a completely niche
business, gaming peripherals, you know, five or 10 years ago is absolutely
incredible. So, good on them. Good on them for figuring out a way to uh to
take their brand to the next level. And these boutique stores seem to be uh
starting with Apple, the way that uh the way that brands are doing this these
days. So, here's there's actually a video where Min shows you around the
store. So, I haven't actually watched it yet. I was just checking out some pictures of it. They actually apparently
had to shut down the mall uh because there were so many people that it was a
safety concern. Wow. Lined up to go to the Razor store in
Taiwan. Holy cow. These guys are so good at presentation.
Yeah. Like this stuff does not look like this when it's on my desk. It's like uh
jewelry jewelry shopping. It's low light in that specific area. It
looks really cool. Like it's like jewelry shopping, you know? The the the color temperature of
the light they use to illuminate the diamonds is specifically chosen to make
them sparkle better. Like it's it's down to a freaking science. And Razer is
really really good at that stuff. Yeah.
So, uh there you go. That's what the store looks like, give or take two, two
and a half minutes of video or so. Um, so I guess do you have did you have
anything else? I'm pretty much done. That was all I wanted to talk about today.
Uh, thank you guys very much for tuning in. Uh, we love the WAN Show, especially
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It is really hot in here even though the Windows open. We need that cross breeze.
I can't wait to move into the new office. We're like 6 to 8 weeks away,
though, guys. It's like not happening soon. And we have no space
here. We might have to do another U-Haul just to clear up enough space.
We might have to do like more than one. Yeah, there's like a lot of
Oh, just to clear up enough space. Yeah. Yeah. To like survive here.
Yeah. No, I think we'll have to do multiple U-Hauls to the new place. I thought you meant like to move us. I
was like, dude, that wasn't even that much stuff at all.
No, that barely made a dent. And like a big problem is we're not going to be able to
make very efficient use of the U-Haul because so much of what we have has no
packaging or protection. So like unless someone's literally riding in the back
like holding things in place. That's not
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