The WAN Show - iPhone on Fire? Ass Creed Unity Crazy PC Requirements - October 24, 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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so why does paint.net take like it's a really hard to- run
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program it has to optimize for your specific computer yeah I know but it
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took a really long time to install then it wants a restart are you freaking
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kidding me so that's what delayed us actually we were looking at up to 65%
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CPU usage while paint.net optimized the
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performance of our system here so yeah
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we're we're live now welcome to the WAN Show guys it might even be harder to run
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than Assassin's Creed Unity uh I don't know Assassin's Creed Unity looks like
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it's going to be a bit of a beast we've got a great show for you today guys as
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you can see my wonderful co-host was not
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actually fired you know I get it because
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I haven't really made that joke in months and so we've got a lot of new
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viewers who legitimately were concerned two weeks ago when he wasn't on wow that
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he had been fired because I was like yeah I fired him I could tell whenever
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wano went live cuz I'm like overseas so time is all weird but I could tell when
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weno went live cuz my phone would blow up with people being like Oh my God you
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were actually fired no no he was on
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vacation in Germany so he's back now and
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uh we don't have any special guests cuz he's kind of like our special guest yay
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yay we've got a bunch of great topics for you today though Far Cry 4 is going
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to be crazy expensive if you want all of the launch day DLC and there's a lot of
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it and there's a lot of it wow we even have some more details about that uh
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also there is a real live hoverboard and
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and if you were to move faster than
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hearing about it from me and then going to buy it you would have been able to
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buy one all of the production units from the first run have been sold more about
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that later DSL may be getting an upgrade to get to gigabit speeds which is gits
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gigabits yeah that's like a bazillion bits actually it's a very specific
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number of bits that isn't a bazillion I knew that don't worry okay Assassin's
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Creed Unity specs are just dumb that's
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there's one word for it dumb actually
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there could be two words we could use a synonym like stupid oh yes no I don't
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think stupid is right because stupid can even have like a positive meaning like
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like that car is so fast it's stupid or it's like stupid fast you don't say dumb
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fast no dumb fast sounds like I've heard people say stupid awesome but I've never
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heard anyone say dumb awesome dumb awesome we should start
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that we should we have we need dumb awesome computer run assassin screen un
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we need shirts that say I'm dumb awesome Ubisoft dumb
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awesome we better roll the
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thanks to you for coming back I was worried you might not you loved Germany
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so much I did actually I really did want to tell us a little bit about your trip
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before we actually talk about the things that these people paid good money to hear us talk about um there's I always
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come back with the story where my mom would probably kill you if she heard it
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so I guess I'll give that one um great
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when when we first when Brandon and I first got hold on hold on a second Mrs
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slick this is me turning off my phone
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right now well I tried turning it off better now there
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you go now it's phone off now that the phone's off we will continue my phone's
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not even on me so we're good all right there will be no Callins today no so we
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get to Berlin and we're supposed to stay at this hostel already not super great
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situation so this was right after right as you guys right after I left okay just
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right afterwards actually everything while lonus was there was fine so Mom doesn't have to kill you um we get to
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the hostel No Vacancy we're like What that okay so we start wandering around
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trying to find a different one everyone that we go to also No Vacancy random
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super cute super nice British chick is like oh by the way there's this other
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hostel that has three beds still open which is right there and points at the
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sketchiest place I've ever seen in my entire life including that hotel that
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you stayed in in uh in Vegas La it looks
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sketchier on the outside than that hotel did WOW on the outside not on the inside
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well I'll get to that in a second though so you walk up there's no sign at all
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the door is covered in like random paint and like spray paint and crap and the
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part of the window pane is broken and it's just super ghetto and you open the
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door and walk in and it the door doesn't properly close I later uh later end up
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figuring out that they actually Bar the Door from the inside when they want it to be closed cuz there's no working
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lock the place is called the loha you have to go up a whole bunch of stairs to
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get up in there and all of the stairs are covered in like crap graffiti or
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like Sharpie writing and it's just horrible
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but it's the only place we could find to stay you get up to the actual door for
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the Aloha and like at this point I'm basically dragging
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Brandon like so I'm like no we got to do this we
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have nowhere else to stay we have to dump our bag somewhere so uh finally get
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to the door open it up and all the walls are like super bright colored and it
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looks like they actually had artists come in and like paint on all the walls and stuff so it's nice once you get into
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the main area but it is the most ghetto place I have ever stepped foot in before
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you get to that main area so there's one of my stories for my trip
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that was within the first 24 hours oh good well I'm sure I can expect a call
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whether I'm on the show or not from from your mom telling me about how what a bad
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person I am all right so speaking of me being a bad person why don't we move
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into our first topic here how does this
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have anything to do with you being a it doesn't really okay this is Inbox by
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Gmail this is not a replacement for Gmail this is just from first glance it
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looks like a new way of organizing your GMA email I actually really like what
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I've seen so far I did request an invite which is actually the only way to join
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so there's a request invite button up here do that and uh we can go ahead and
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yeah you better you better do that Luke because it looks like it's looks like it's pretty cool actually the invite
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system is redonkulous you send an email
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to inbox gmail.com not even kidding and the
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buttons broken when I click the link it opens up my Gmail but doesn't actually
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open up a uh oh yeah no two yeah it doesn't actually autop populate the the
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two field so you have to type it in yourself it's like oh come on Google
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anyway so the way that it works is it you know how we've had for a little
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while ways of organizing messages uh promos purchases blah blah blah I think
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right now I've got promotions and then something else anyway the point is it
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adds more options like that you can now add your own categorizations so things
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like purchases like receipts um things like tracking numbers for orders you've
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made online will be sorted out for you and this one I really like so now you
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can actually preview stuff like okay here's your flight information here's a
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quick link so you can check in it's right there you don't even have to open
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emails in order to get all the information that you need from it seems
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like they took the whole Google Now concept and just mashed it with Gmail
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and turned it into email which I think is great because I don't use Google now
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but I would use inbox by Gmail because
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of this right here being a remind are one of
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those it feels very separate from everything about Android reminders are
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just kind of this thing like you could
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kind of have it sort of next to your email or something and it's it's it's
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the same problem that I have with Google Now which is I actually really like the
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idea but I always forget to check it so it's useless yes and and you forget to
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clean up the old ones and and stuff like that so you you mean to use it but you
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almost need a reminder to remind you to use it so having something like this
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right in my inbox and with ways to manage it now you can do things like
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snooze both reminders and emails something I've been asking for for ages
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because I loved that about Windows pocket PC like and I still love that
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about Windows phone it's one of the few things I do love about Windows phone is
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the way that you can manage notifications and reminders if you're
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someone who might be say for example on a filming set and you can't deal with it
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right now well actually iOS 8 has some pretty the chat pointed something funny
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not to interrupt you but she's using an
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iPhone the chat pointed this out I didn't notice this she is look at that
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using an iPhone 6 yeah huh it's not like a huge deal but it's just kind of funny
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you'd think they would have done enough looking into their own images to make
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sure that they had their own phones yeah like that's a Nexus 5 there you
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go well maybe they're making a point maybe the point is this is for yeah yeah
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I mean Google does a Reas reasonably good job of supporting uh supporting
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Android I mean their their studio app just crashes uh whenever I reply to
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comments on iOS 8 works fine on iOS 7
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but yeah I think this is great being able to manage notifications being able
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to snooze an email like hey let me deal with this in four hours or tomorrow or
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in a couple days is great that would be great for us CU a lot of times we'll
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fire an email to each other at like 3:00 or 4 in the morning and I'll get it then
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and be like oh I need to deal with this tomorrow not now yeah I think it's great
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like because I use my email as my to-do list I just have a to-do list draft
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email to myself that I just edit because it's more handy for me than having a
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separate app for that like Evernote yeah um I do use keep anytime I need a
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location based reminder but other than that I use Gmail for that and I use it
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as a scheduler as well so the calendar will have like our video release
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schedule but Gmail unread messages is
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really my to-do list in a lot of ways where I'll be like oh
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you know add this to the W show discussion or do this or do that I'll send myself emails and so being able to
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manage that better looks fantastic I'm I'm impressed so far but I haven't tried
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it yet of course that sign up is pretty funny I sent an email and got an
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immediate reply back which just like all right you've been added to list like why
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why is it done by email I don't I don't know it's super weird all right speaking
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of things that are ridiculous and this was originally posted on the Forum by
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Victorious Secret Apple beats bows out
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of their retail and online stores really
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like the wording of that headline Victoria Secret you're a very funny
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person um so this comes right on the
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heels of Apple's acquisition of Beats
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and we actually did double check so I um
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this is I did a search for Bose on apple.com and I came up with a bunch of
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routers and some servers I think and a telepresence robot oh that's really
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expensive yeah yep jeez um so they have they have kicked
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them out there's some speculation right now 9 to5 Mac did go ahead and phone
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some Apple stores and confirm that they are no longer carrying Bose products I
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don't know that that's been rolled out to all stores but it is unknown at this
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time whether this is more to do with Apple's recent acquisition of Beats and
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the associated headphones or more to do
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with just some general kurur fuffeling between Apple and Bose over the last
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little while so there was Bose um
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threatening threatening beats with a lawsuit over use of their noise
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cancellation technology and then there was also the NFL deal where Bose is
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sponsoring the NFL and uh NFL players
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some of who have lucrative beat sponsorship contracts are not permitted
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to wear their headphones at NFL events
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so this was actually another 9o5 Mac article that I'll just bring up for you
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guys so uh 49ers quarterback was fined
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10,000 th000 for wearing beets headphones to a press conference he was
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probably fine with that because he probably got a lot more than that from beats I'm sure that he can work that out
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with Beats to make sure that he doesn't end up having to eat that but it's still
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that sucks yeah you know not that I necessarily think celebrity endorsements
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are the greatest thing ever when it comes to you know selling headphones
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that aren't worth what people areay has a celebrity endorsement ever affected a
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purchase of yours wow that is such a
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great H straw pull and Twitter Blitz
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guys okay yeah hit hit us and this can include like if you're buying say I know
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Kingston does a lot of Esports sponsorships so if you're buying Kingston stuff just because you want to
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support Esports that counts if you want to support that person specifically that
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counts have you ever let a celebrity endorsement affect your purchase
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decision we're not going to do a straw poll I want to do this as a Twitter Blitz um and I want to move on to the
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next topic while I think about whether or not I've had I've had a celebrity
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endorsement effect something because it's subtle a lot of the time you have
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to really think about it if you answer honestly and think about it you guys cuz
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I suspect more of you than a lot of you who had an initial knee-jerk reaction no
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of course not have probably had it affect you whether you know it or not I
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um I haven't knee-jerk purchased something because of one but I have
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definitely paid more attention and like
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NE maybe research something like if if I see something if I see someone using it
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uh especially different programing stuff they could be like oh that's an
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interesting mouse that this guy's using say it's Counter Strike and I'd look
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into that Mouse and try and figure out if there's anything interesting about that mous and then maybe purchase it
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based on other reviews and stuff but I haven't knjk purchased something just
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because of a celebrity you know what I'm trying to I'm trying to think of a
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product that I've purchased based on someone and I can't really think of like
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a consumer electronics product but I have purchased books based on who wrote
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the forward definitely I um I forget what book I I
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forget what book I bought because it had a forward by Steve wnac and he said it
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was good and so I bought it I've done that with books for sure so so I I yes
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and I don't know if Steve wnc counts as a celebrity in the same way that a
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sports icon does because the book was I think it was a business book so he would
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actually know something about that where okay cuz there's cuz there's two
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different yeah I know you're you have a good point there's unrelated celebrity endorsement
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I actually recently found out how much they were talking about it on the radio
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so my source for this for this story is
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um shoot it's not team 1040 TSN 1040
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it's a local radio station and they were saying that Kim Kardashian charges a
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million dollars just to show up for an endorsement of like you know a makeup
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product or jeans or grand opening or whatever the thing happens to be um she
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require six first class plane tickets so for her and whoever she wants to bring
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with her they need ground security they need first class accommodations and um I
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forget what some of the other requirements are but you know what's funny is I found I figured out that for
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things like you know NVIDIA mod 24 I don't think we've been charging enough
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because I did a rough calculation and I kind of went okay Kim Kardashian's
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Twitter followers my Twitter followers Kim Kardashian a million dollars and how
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much I charge for things and I went shoot I should be charging way more for
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stuff if Tim Kardashian's worth a million dollars anyway that's pretty
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funny sort sort of unrel let's go ahead and start doing that Twitter Blitz I
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think I think I figured out that yes I have purchased books based on think
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about books I I've even done I've looked up different people's book lists like I
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have Elon musk's book list and I've bought certain things off of his book
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list so I've like definitely done that I
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didn't think about books at all I don't think buying a 780 Ti after our review
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counts no because we're not endorsing the product in any official way yeah
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that's a review that's a review not an end we talking about like if if you saw
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someone wearing something yeah all right
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if we were wearing a 780 as like a
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necklace oh all right I think uh no
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sense here we go Josh says of course started with Nike Air Jordans I'm sure
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that specific one goes for quite a few people I think so yeah that in beats I
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think it'll be a loto says I buy based on the company not the person
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advertising the product I'm a big celebrity person I'm just trying to
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think did Happy Gilmore affect my Subway
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purchasing patterns that's more of a product placement than a celebrity
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endorsement but he does do a celebrity endorsement within the movie yeah as
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happy I don't know that's like Endor
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setion uh when I was younger didn't know any better example uh player boots oh
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crap yes I have not actually bought one
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based on this but I have shopped for badminton rackets based on who uses the
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racket interesting I have not done that with sports gear but I do definitely
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know a lot of people that have Alan says no my money is too precious to waste on
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orts yeah but we're talking about everything here yeah Joshua says yes
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I've bought something because you endorsed it before Palm says no CJ says
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if you count yourself then yes I got a 1 M8 because of your review again review I
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was not paid to endorse it in fact HTC's
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never paid us anything yeah we've we've never done a paid deal with them reviews
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don't count definitely I didn't know what be
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quiet was until I saw the as a sponsor of dignitas there you go there you go
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there's a good one and we're not talking specifically about Esports though I just
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wanted to make sure that everyone knows they're included interesting does it count as a
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celebrity endorsement if they actually buy the product and wear it I think in
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the context of when I was asking the question no no but that would still be a
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public figure influencing your purchasing decision and that would
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probably influ Inu my purchasing decision more there's actually quite a
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few people here's three in a row saying that yes they are they have purchased
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something because because we talked about it or endorsed it in some way um
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Duncan says to subscribing to someone on Twitch count no I don't think so that's
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more like just paying that person yeah um wow interesting KNX says reviews and
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user feedback versus versus celebrity I've used celebrity endorsement to go
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look for reviews and user feedback right I haven't new- jerk purchased something
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though interesting yeah really uh thank you
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guys very much for your comments on that that was actually very uh very
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interesting to see more than anything else how many of you were honest about
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it mhm cuz it I'm just trying to think
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like some celebrity endorsements have stood out to me a lot more than than
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others like um shoot that guy who did
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the stupid Subway commercials with the silly voice Subway eat fresh I can't
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remember his guy he used to do like silly movies like style crap ever so I
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idea yeah I can't remember it stood out to me definitely didn't buy more Subway
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because of it um I think the first time
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I tried Quiznos was after they did The Toasted taste better campaign with Don
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Cherry though really I think so I didn't first time I tasted Quiznos is because I
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was super hungry and they're their only thing in range I like Quiznos not
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because Don Cherry endorses it but uh I find you get more with Subway you do I
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don't know if that's right yeah I like the taste of Quiznos but Subways a much better value yeah all right this was
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originally originally posted by s
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vins whatever I don't care um I tried
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man all right ours Technica and bbc.com
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and techreport have all had oh I I love Scott Watson so we're going to pull up
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we're going to pull up his article on this but this is really interesting IBM
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pays Global foundaries $1.5 billion to
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take over their cash sync of a chip
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Foundry business so here's the article on tech report there's actually some
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really interesting information on that one because um C Cel excuse me Cel
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brings up that this deal could be subject to as many as 200 regulatory
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bodies approval worldwide before going through because IBM supplies some chips
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to governmental agencies that's actually pretty intense yeah that's that's
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inredible um so right 1.5 billion going
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to Global foundaries over the next 3 years to complete the transfer IBM
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continuing their $3 billion committed investment into semiconductor Tech
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research over 5 years Global foundaries will be the main beneficiary of the
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ongoing research and will acquire thousands of patents as part of the deal
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and Global foundaries is required presumably actually I don't know that
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they're required to but they're saying they are going to keep substantially all
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of the IBM employees and Facilities other than one in broma Quebec which IBM
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will keep and will will continue its current mission of developing Advanced
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semiconductor packaging solutions for IBM server and storage products so IBM
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intends to keep designing semiconductor products but they're entering into a
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10-year deal for Global frares to produce all of their 2214 and 10
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nanometer semiconductor products for I think I said 10 years already yeah I
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think this can be pretty interesting especially because of Google's recent thing with their red motherboards did
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you read about that did not um Google
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has been basically exclusive ly Intel for a really long time but Google is now
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saying that they want more competition on that realm so they have set up these
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new like mysterious red motherboards that will work with uh IBM chips so that
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they can start shifting so they have a little bit more of a distribution instead of just being almost exclusively
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Intel interesting okay so they're moving
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more into IBM chips and IBM is moving out of a Foundry business which is an
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interesting combination they've already converted their code to be able to work on these new Chips well so they're still
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going to be designing chips for Mainframe products and they're still
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going to be having global foundaries produce them so they'll still be selling them they just are trying to move their
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business gradually away from lower profitability businesses things like say
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for example making laptops which they sold to Lenovo uh making servers which
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they also just recently unloaded and now even making chips is not profitable
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enough for IBM they're moving towards cloud and social they're getting very
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much away from anything that could be anywhere close to cons yeah anything
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physical tangible consumer based n no
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man forget it pretty interesting all right this is a pretty quick topic this
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is uh posted by Teresa ter 93 uh this is
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from 3dprint.com and we're going to go ahead and pull that up here oh I guess I
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should put us back in the corner yay we're back look at us up here Party
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Corner party we haven't done a corner
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party okay all right um so twoyear
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sentence handed down to yoshimo Yoshi
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excuse me yoshitomo imira in Japanese 3D
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printed gun case so this was back in May
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of this year I believe that he was originally arrested but um after he was
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seen test firing a zigzag revolver for
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which he had 3D printed japine is known for their strict gun laws but I am
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surprised to see them crack down this hard on what appears to be the first
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offense here I'm not really that surprised I'm and I'm I'm very surprised
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that he's like oh I'm unaware that there's any laws prohibiting cuz he went
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and fired it as well and if they have laws strictly against guns in general
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like do you really think you're going to just totally get away with
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this I'm surprised it was two years I would have expected the first time
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around to be more of a slap on the wrist to like slap on the wrist and inate laws
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and then and then make sure that it's super clear and then beyond that it's
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like okay look you guys knew at this point so too bad yeah that's not a bad
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point I just I just think it's kind of silly that he's like oh yeah I had no
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idea this was illegal it's like yeah okay you must have known at some level
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you're going to get in trouble yeah I think he probably also underestimated
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how much trouble he was going to get into I just it just it seems like one of
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those things where some leniency well I
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guess you have to decide do you give some leniency and then you know just
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hope that others following don't expect any leniency or do you just crack down
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on it super hard make international news here we are talking about it and make it
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really clear that no we are controlling guns that means guns you make yourself
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guns other people make for you cuz it's not like you couldn't make a gun before no and it's not like that wasn't illegal
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so in in places where it's a different form of manufacturing yeah it's just a
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different way of making your own gun that doesn't make it any different really people make guns in prison it's
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doable all right speaking of making guns in prison this was posted by Ty
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lightning and the original article is from pcgamer.com
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Far Cry 4 season pass offers New
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Missions and PVP mode now it has been
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pointed out by a Ubisoft employee who
26:20
shall remain namess who was like yo dog
26:24
I can't believe you posted you know that in flammatory link on your Facebook
26:30
because it's just the one mode that is
26:34
DLC you will actually still have access
26:38
to General PVP multiplayer it's just the
26:42
overrun mode so you team up in this PVP
26:45
mode and control a series of neutral locations so yeah it's just a territory
26:51
control mode the one I would have liked the most so like the one that will
26:55
probably be fun in the context of Assassin's and the one that Far Cry 4
26:59
excuse me yeah Far Cry 4 and the one that is included in every other game
27:05
ever and so my response to that I didn't reply to the email but I'm going to
27:09
respond to it now my response to that is it should be inflammatory Ubisoft should
27:14
be torn a new one for turning something that was already included with every
27:19
other game ever into something that's a launch day DLC the season's pass goes
27:25
for 30 bucks includes what is it I think it's um Maps some Story crap five Miss
27:33
uh apparently yees Valley of the yeis so
27:37
you've crashed in a blah blah blah with single player and Co-op options it looks
27:41
like it's just a survival mode you know I think left for dead too had that you
27:47
know much cheaper game maybe go get that one yeah actually I I feel I should play
27:52
some Left 4 Dead it's been a long time it's good and it's like really really
27:56
cheap now so between the cost of the game and the season's pass which
27:59
includes enough content that I guess you could say it justifies the $30 price tag
28:04
but you could also say justify its own existence this was a lot of stuff that
28:09
was produced for the sole purpose of selling it to you on launch day so that
28:13
you could pay a higher sticker price for the game we discussed this last week you
28:17
weren't here for this but we discussed based on inflation based on the
28:20
increased General number of men or woman
28:24
hours that goes into making a game is $90 actually unfair amount to ask given
28:28
that there were SNES games 60 bucks there more metrics to look at than that
28:32
I know and there's a lot more to look at than that but let's just go pure
28:36
inflation okay a game should be 75 bucks
28:40
Fair it's not fair but it's real distribution is a lot cheaper Than
28:44
Physical distribution digal dist cheap massive amount of more customers
28:49
ridiculous degree amount that's not really the point you're looking at your sales bananas don't go down in price
28:55
because bananas are a physical item these aren't a physical yes bananas are
28:58
a physical item the you can give someone a digital banana okay it the it's rarely
29:03
to do with the cost of making something it's always to do with the value that
29:08
the customer gets from it that's how things are priced unless they're
29:11
commodity items and I would argue a game is not a commodity item not digital
29:15
things necessarily that's why movies are
29:18
if if one person was viewing a movie digitally it would cost the cost of
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creating that movie yes how many people you're able to sell it to is part of a
29:27
salc yeah but it's not about cost I think movies are a great example because
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with the exception of services like Netflix movies have taken a long time to
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adapt to okay things should cost less because they're digital they didn't cost
29:39
any less because they're digital in fact very well known to be a very slow moving
29:42
crappy industry that Netflix has been like you guys are idiots and then taken
29:47
over yes so not necessarily a good
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example okay then we could pull up an example like the billion dollars that
29:56
uh crap I'm not sure League of Legends okay
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yeah uh we could pull we could say the example of you know the billion dollars
30:03
that League of Legends makes they could afford to do a skin for a penny but they
30:07
don't because it's about the value that the consumer places on that item not
30:11
about the cost of Crea they're also not locking game modes it's a skin okay but
30:17
they also have Heroes that they do lock but that you can unlock for free yeah
30:21
and aren't that hard to really get how about this all right all right if anyone from Ubisoft is watching this time
30:25
around how about this why can't why don't you unlock why don't you unlock
30:29
the season why don't you find make a way to unlock the season's pass if you
30:32
achieve 90% game completion or something like that really interesting and you can
30:36
make it difficult most of the Ubisoft games are not that easy to 100% because
30:40
there's usually collectible items and stuff there's a lot of there's a lot of junk oh yeah and that's fine for the
30:44
people who really really would have used
30:48
the extra content okay you guys can prove to us that you really need it you
30:52
could even make it 100% the game and you could make it you could make it 100% the
30:56
game I think that's a little unfair like I think if they were going to be reasonable about it it should be
31:00
something more like an 80 or 90% well if you're going to include like challenge
31:03
modes then it should be 80 or 90 yeah so so so and then okay then go ahead and we
31:09
unlock it automatically for those people but if you're one of those people who
31:12
just wants to dink around with this particular thing and or you just don't
31:17
feel like doing side missions and you just want to play through the story Mission and it's worth the $30 to you
31:21
making it an optional upgrade would Gamers feel better about that I would I
31:27
would do it because I like doing that already I'm a completionist already no
31:30
matter how lame that is so you you know I took my Assassin's Creed safe file
31:34
100% it and then it corrupted and I was super pissed but like yeah I do remember that I did that already anyways I didn't
31:39
end up buying really any DLC because once I was done with the game I was done with the
31:43
game so I don't know and my corrupt save
31:47
file was a major piss off I probably would have bought DLC if my game didn't
31:50
corrupt but still I don't know that would be cool I would like that if you
31:54
buy the season's pass it's 20% less than all the DLCs individually uh game and
31:59
pass can be purchased in an all-in-one Far Cry Gold Edition for 90 bucks but
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it's not necessarily actually cheaper just not a discount over buying the game and buying the DLC separately um it's
32:08
coming out November 18th why are we why why do we care if it comes out November
32:12
18th because you should probably buy it on November 25th when it's 10 or $20 off
32:17
and we'll probably have a benchmarking video yeah that that that'll that'll
32:22
happen for sure for Far Cry 4 we got to make that happen all right so GTX 97 ITX
32:27
from gab this looks freaking amazing posted by Ras on the Forum original
32:32
articles from tomshardware.com I'm going to go ahead and load that up you want to
32:35
tell them about this freaking Miracle of a little graphics card here so
32:38
apparently it's going to be running colder than the reference card it's actually be running at 62° cus instead
32:43
of 76° C during a Metro last Light
32:46
Benchmark which is sick considering it is smaller it is ITX size so it's it's
32:52
it's similar to the old what was it 670 uh oh yeah I think uh both
32:57
and MSI did 760 ITX edition cards so just
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longer than a slot yeah yeah yeah so just barely longer so you're going to be
33:07
able to fit it in these tiny little miniature cases which is great that's
33:11
super awesome it's a 970 because 970 are
33:15
already really good for their value and quite fast and like you just said
33:18
console Killers anyone for sure and people that are building these little miniature steam machine things which are
33:23
just PCS but they're small and have Steam OS on it anyways uh this is
33:27
probably a great card for them are we still live yeah why okay I'm having
33:32
troubles with my yeah yeah it's all good um yeah anyways it's powered by a single
33:36
8 Pin PCI Express power connector which is also great because you don't want to
33:40
be running a whole ton of cables in these really compact systems so that's
33:43
good to see card comes overclocked running at 1076 uh mehz base with a
33:49
boost clock of 1216 which is pretty damn fast and the vrm circuitry is apparently
33:54
not all that elaborate and the cooler doesn't look necessar bar that amazing
33:58
either but it is performing better than the reference one so still pretty cool
34:03
so there's not a whole lot to complain about and there's a whole lot to like
34:07
about this card two DVI ports three DisplayPort interfaces and an HDMI port
34:11
and it's $330 and apparently ships early November so real freaking soon yeah
34:15
we've uh we've already reached out to Gigabyte about hopefully doing a review
34:19
of IT where we can really see cuz I mean it's one thing to say okay the
34:22
temperatures are this but we don't really have any clarification as to like
34:26
is that on an open test bench what about when someone actually tries to build a
34:29
mini ITX system with this I would definitely like to investigate that a
34:33
little bit and find out find out what's up with that that' be really cool excited for that card to show up yeah so
34:39
far so far we haven't got a confirmation that will be covering it but I would
34:42
really like to all right so next up
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we've got a Kickstarter for hoverboard
34:49
so this was originally posted by Liam McShan on the Forum I'm going to go
34:53
ahead and pull up the kickstarter page here
34:57
Boop hendo hoverboards the world's first
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real hoverboard does this feel to you like they're actually trying to make a
35:05
company or does it seem like they're just trying to cash in on making a
35:09
flashy video on Kickstarter and having a bunch of people give you money and then
35:12
honestly that's all that Kickstarter really feels like lately so I'm going to
35:15
be a little bit biased on this one but over the last little while Kickstarter
35:19
has been pretty in the dumps um I was
35:23
much less enchanted with this than I think a lot of people were
35:27
um it it I'd be enchanted with this video actually playing there we go
35:33
doesn't want to skip forward apparently though a really well-shot Kickstarter
35:37
video is basically like the equivalent of printing money
35:41
yeah like I I would be like looking at
35:44
looking at this video looking at the way this was shot is
35:49
uh this wasn't cheap no it either wasn't
35:54
cheap or they have like a cinematography dork with a lot of really great
35:59
equipment on I thought it was funny how he did you see when the kid was running
36:02
the thing over it was all over different things of metal yeah players and so the
36:07
way this Tech works it seems very magnificent when you when you consider
36:12
that holy crap they've got a hoverboard look at this wow he's on a hoverboard
36:16
except that the issue is that this hover
36:19
oh I guess we should probably we should probably show this the issue is that
36:22
this hoverboard only runs on metal so
36:26
yeah so that's a metal it's just magnets and I mean yes it is still an
36:31
achievement because if you've ever taken two magnets with similar poles facing
36:36
each other and like tried to have one of them sit on top of the other one it
36:39
ain't that simple like it's cool but it isn't it 10
36:44
grand to buy a single one yeah it's 10 grand to buy a single one they've
36:47
already sold all of the individual which was 10 hoverboards that they've
36:51
committed to commit so does it look like they're trying to create a viable
36:55
business not really because they've only committed to producing 10 hoverboards if
36:58
they were trying to make a business out of making hoverboards you would think
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they would want to sell as many of them as possible yeah and that wouldn't be 10
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um cuz the reality of it is you're not going to be able to ride it
37:10
anywhere so at all like at all because
37:14
there's no metal in the sidewalk so you're not going to be Maring the fly
37:18
skate park or yeah or or over like you know the fountain as you run away from
37:23
the bullies or whatever so yeah very cool no makes no sense I don't
37:28
understand how they managed to raise $350,000 you do get a pretty cool thing
37:33
for some of the uh some of the funding tiers you get this little uh metal plate
37:38
with a little white box that uses the same principles to float around on it
37:41
that's super cool but I don't understand why anyone bought a hoverboard for
37:45
$10,000 unless they also intend on
37:48
spending incredible amounts of money to make their own like metal skate park
37:53
like metal skate park insanely expensive spent $10,000 on a skateboard maybe
37:57
that's what I mean like if if you're going all in and you're spending if
38:00
you're already Super Rich for one and just intend to make your own entire
38:05
metal skate park which can't go wrong in any way of course not yeah um then sure
38:12
operation cannot possibly fail yeah just make a whole metal skate park sure and
38:17
don't don't don't don't bother getting any grind rails or anything cuz that's
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totally not going to work yeah that won't work you can grind the board
38:24
against it yeah yeah don't think recommend it I guess you'll probably have a pretty simple skate park actually
38:29
just swoop like they had in the video that's pretty much all you can do yeah
38:33
uh H's about an inch off the ground but I guess you guys saw that in the video
38:36
so there you go I guess that's all we really have to say about that at least
38:39
you don't have to pay for new skateboard
38:44
wheels mind you you could get a skateboard that does have wheels on it
38:48
that you ride as much as you're going to ride this hoverboard and then you'd never have to pay for new wheels for
38:52
that either since you won't be riding this hoverboard I can show you guys a
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picture of that gtx970 ITX now so there you go that's what it looks like it's
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small and it's a gtx970 yep so that picture is on Tom's Hardware if you
39:06
wanted to look at it some more that share share ribbon right down the middle
39:10
of the picture that was that was super cool yeah I like that all right posted
39:14
by solos SDK this original article is from bgr.com Apple's
39:19
88x dominates the benchmarks I wonder if
39:22
he's the software development kit for solo things
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uh sure all right so let's see if this
39:30
page is going to load at some point and if it doesn't then I'll you'll just have to uh you'll just have to count on me to
39:36
sort of talk about now Apple's been really Cy about the specs of their A8
39:40
chip I mean this is pretty typical for them but it looks like all they were
39:44
really saying in their event was 40% faster which is very typical Apple speak
39:49
yeah does things two times as
39:54
well magical I love the facial expression apparently all Apple people
39:59
just have duck face but like shifted upwards duck face really smug duck
40:04
face it's 40% faster
40:09
revolutionary we changed everything yet
40:13
again we changed everything again the
40:17
best part of that is how little has actually changed since the original no
40:21
yeah why is this not working oh cuz you're not plugged into the wall with it
40:25
why was it unplugged it's okay you still got a lot of battery left anyway said 11
40:30
what no no you got lots you're good you got 1 hour 10 minutes it just told me it
40:34
just told me it gave me a warning saying 11% and then now it's saying 55% up so
40:39
so basically um looks like it's going to be a three core processor looks like it
40:43
runs at something like 1.4 GHz I don't know that article is not loading for me
40:47
anymore and the detail was in there ah yes here we go and it looks like it
40:52
freaking trashes everything else that Apple has ever released in terms of
40:55
performance so the iPhone 6 which runs the A8 so we're not seeing the same chip
41:01
in an iPad and an iPhone product this time around is much much much slower so
41:08
the CPU Mark rating is 44,000 for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and 73,000
41:14
for the iPad Air 2 looking pretty spiffy
41:18
nothing special about the memory except that oh wait Apple finally put two gigs
41:22
of RAM in a product wow they've changed
41:26
everything again by doubling the memory they changed everything specifically RAM
41:32
it's it's it's it's okay there's a couple things that are interesting to me about this so ARM at 1.5 GHz One
41:38
processor three cores very very cool stuff um the one interesting thing to me
41:42
about them finally increasing RAM is because Apple tends to support the iPad
41:46
products with new os's for longer than the iPhone products from my experience
41:52
like I my iPad 2 is still getting updates so I I still get get ios8 how
41:57
great the experience it is yeah who knows I also wouldn't be too surprised
42:00
if people were iteratively updating their tablets less than their phones
42:05
which is probably why they're doing that which makes sense yeah so okay so the
42:09
only thing that this indicates to me is maybe at some point whether it's iOS 9
42:13
or iOS 10 we are finally going to see the phones move to two gig and we're
42:17
finally going to see some kind of better multitasking experience on iOS something
42:21
I brought up in my review that went live last night about iOS is that it's not
42:25
all about speeds and feeds on this thing yes it only has a gig of RAM but what
42:29
multitasking are you doing on iOS anyway and the management of background
42:33
resource usage is excellent that's why you can go to bed with an iPhone on your
42:37
nightstand and wake up with 2% or 3% of
42:40
your battery drained that does not happen on Android because Android
42:44
doesn't shut down background apps and if I forget to shut down certain apps I can
42:49
have more drain overnight than during the day because throughout the day I'll
42:52
be like oh yeah I should close things yeah I installed Plex on my 1 M8 and I
42:56
was getting um 65 to 70% battery drain
43:00
just sitting on my pillow from when I wake up until I get home from work which
43:05
is at around 8:00 p.m. I find the camera to be the worst because a lot of times I
43:09
want to take a quick picture and then go back to what I was doing so I just press home and I don't close it and just sits
43:13
there idling in the background takes a huge amounts of battery so yeah this is
43:16
all interesting uh so the iPad Air 2 crushes the benchmarks cool uh I guess
43:21
that's all we really have to say about yeah yeah it's not really
43:27
yay it did things well all right so moving on 14 nanometer
43:35
Broadwell e is rumored to enter mass production in q1 2016 this was posted on
43:40
the Forum by big stream this is a pretty far off rumor yeah so this is a pretty
43:45
far off rumor it also indicates something that makes me pretty sad and
43:50
that's that Broadwell for consumers is
43:53
going to come significantly before Broadwell for enthusiasts so we're going
43:58
back to that whole Enthusiast get things after everyone else yeah which was
44:03
unavoidable I guess because really this
44:06
is more of a really this is more of a server Enterprise product anyway
44:13
because it's a Zeon platform that's where they're doing the bulk of the business with quad Channel memory and
44:18
all that stuff enthusiasts just kind of get to also enjoy it um and that space
44:24
moves a lot slower and so you know I
44:27
guess we should be happy it's only a six-month leg as opposed to the year
44:31
that we were seeing before and at least we're still going to have so it looks
44:35
like it's going to be eight and six core options again support for overclocking
44:38
with K series SKS Intel turbo boost 2.0 up to 20 megabytes of cache and the
44:43
power is going to be 140 Watts with up to 40 Lanes of PCIe 3.0 so I think we're
44:48
going to see a very very similar to Haswell e type of product lineup 8 core
44:53
six core six core with cut down PCIe Lanes on the bottom one but I have no
44:56
problem with that Haswell e is a great product especially the
45:00
5820k and this looks like that plus 10%
45:04
IPC and better power consumption so there you go um actually
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50 5820k I think is not getting enough credit I see a lot of people really
45:14
questioning the use of fewer PCI Express
45:18
Lanes on that product 28 versus 40 and
45:22
contemplating stepping up to the 5930k which I don't think makes a ton of sense
45:26
didn't we didn't we have we only theorized about releasing that video or
45:30
did we actually release that no that video is out the one where we showed uh
45:33
SLI scaling with the different CPUs unless you're going quad SLI I can't
45:39
come up with a reason probably shouldn't which you probably shouldn't I can't
45:42
come up with a good reason why you need to buy a 5930k or 5820k there are some
45:47
things okay if you want to really leverage m.2 storage expansion so if you
45:52
want to be plugging an SSD directly into p C Express and you want two graphics
45:58
cards and you want uh a 10 GB Nick and
46:02
you want you know a raid card for your other storage array so you probably
46:06
shouldn't run quad SLI and you're probably not running that yeah you're
46:10
probably not doing all that stuff you might be if that were to happen you
46:14
might need the PCI Express Lanes but even with 28 Lanes two cards running at
46:19
8X 8X is only 16 of them that's still 12
46:22
more so an m.2 you know SSD there goes
46:25
another four you still got lots of PCI Express Lanes left so I don't think it's
46:29
that big of a deal I think the 5820k makes a ton of
46:32
sense all right so we're expecting
46:35
pre-engineering samples processor sometime in Q2
46:40
2015 um and they will continue to use the LGA 2011 V3 x99 platform that's
46:46
great news so we're getting small small incremental
46:50
improvements the NSA approved Samsung's
46:53
Galaxy phones for classified work this was was posted by Tech dreamer on the
46:57
Forum and let's just go ahead and uh fire that up here so there's I guess
47:02
there's two ways to read this number one is Samsung phones are really secure
47:06
number two is and this is the tinfoil hat version Samsung phones are going to
47:09
tell the NSA everything or they're also really not secure because people worry
47:13
about global Keys possibly used by the NSA so there's there's like the the
47:18
second tin voil hat option but the tin hat options hats I don't think that's
47:24
it come on it's approved for use by the NSA
47:31
for themselves not approved for use like
47:34
it's not the NSA signing off on this phone is approv for use for people I
47:37
think it's approved for use for all government agencies within not all so
47:42
it's NSA and there's another specific one that it's approved for um
47:46
information system defense Information Systems agency and I suspect once those
47:50
ones approve it the others will start to fall very quickly but uh basically it's
47:54
what is it the note for Galaxy it's devices based on the nox security
47:58
platform so all Galaxy S4 S5 Note 3 Note
48:02
4 Note 10.1 2014 edition Note Edge Alpha
48:06
tab s8.4 tab s10.5 um and their ipvpn service yeah so
48:12
lots of basically encryption there's a separate the way nox Works we've
48:16
actually talked about it in the past in like an interview with someone from Samsung or something so you there's like
48:21
a separate phone within a phone like a virtual phone that's secured and then
48:26
you can continue to use the device personally with as little security as
48:29
you want within your own kind of user uh user virtual phone so it's it is pretty
48:34
cool um this is something that Samsung's been working on for a very long time
48:38
this was a big part of the story when they first launched the S4 so yeah I
48:43
guess I wouldn't be surprised at all if um NSA can easily get into these I'm not
48:50
just why wouldn't they say apple you could tell me the NSA can easily get
48:54
into my pants and I'd probably believe you so yeah they probably can
48:58
echolocation weird audio bouncing off things they can like form the digital
49:02
image and recreate skin color based off your face and then there you go and they
49:07
can digitally get in your pants they probably won't enjoy it so I guess I'll
49:11
I'll let them go for that all right oh now this was something
49:16
okay so I have a couple things to talk about here Apple this was posted by Sam
49:20
fer on the Forum original articles from RS Technica I have a couple of things to
49:23
talk about here first of all um I did say mistakenly that applications
49:30
will not benefit from 64-bit inherently
49:33
and it's mostly to do with architectural improvements in a fastest possible very
49:37
recently there are workloads that will benefit very significantly from 64-bit I
49:44
should have phrased it better because most of those workloads aren't something
49:48
that are going to be a major concern things like encryption benefit from
49:52
64-bit enormously but
49:58
it it doesn't really matter because a phone is already fast enough to handle
50:01
encryption very very easily so yes incremental power savings great
50:06
incremental performance in things like you know Touch ID recognition yes all
50:11
very good stuff love it fantastic it's just not a big big deal when it comes to
50:17
browsing the internet typically unless there's encryption involved so there's
50:21
that and number two is I said I really
50:24
didn't see how was going to handle smoothly transitioning to 64-bit on
50:28
their phones looks like this is it beginning February 2015 App Store
50:33
submissions must be 64bit boom so they've they've had a
50:39
64-bit CPU for a long time the 5S launched with a 64-bit CPU but
50:44
developers have kind of been dragging ass although in developers defense they
50:49
did go ahead and release iOS 7 and then
50:52
they did go ahead and release iOS 8 with two new screen sizes Apple's never done
50:57
that before two new screen sizes on the phone at a same at the same time never
51:02
done that before um so okay yeah devs
51:05
have been busy but now it's going to be
51:08
mandatory as of February so that's how they're going to do it by the time a
51:12
third generation iPhone with a 64-bit processor launches it will have been
51:16
mandatory for 6 months for your app to be 64-bit so any updates or any new apps
51:22
will have to be 64-bit if you have an app that's on the store and you don't update it for whatever reason I guess
51:27
it's still fine I guess if you don't update it it'll stay there but uh but
51:30
yeah if you were to deliver an update or do whatever else now to be clear these
51:34
64-bit apps will still have to work on 32-bit devices unless they specifically
51:39
say that they're compatible only with the 5s 6 6 Plus and then seven or
51:44
whatever the case may be but they will at least be able to take advantage of
51:49
the performance improvements and whatever else comes along with 64-bit
51:53
and there were some examples of non encryption based applications that did
51:57
speed up significantly and ntech actually did an excellent article
52:00
looking at just no optimizations at all just compile it in 32-bit compile it in
52:05
64-bit what kind of a performance Improvement do you see and there were some that did quite well and some that
52:10
even small performance Gams are important because it's about more than
52:13
how fast does that app launch it's about CPU idle time so when an app is done
52:20
being worked on done being launched your device isn't really working on it
52:23
anymore that's great for battery life which is great for the mobile experience
52:27
so if you can get an extra 10% of battery life on your phone would you
52:30
take it sure I would most definitely because it all
52:35
kind of sucks yeah exactly battery life is one of the most frustrating things
52:38
with phones right now all right speaking
52:42
of frustrating things with phones G skills Phoenix blade posted by big stuns
52:48
yeah I know the segue didn't make sense but original I trying to think I was
52:51
like maybe there's something from Guru 3D tech report tech power up lots of
52:55
good stuff here do you want to do you want to cover this one while I pull it up on the screen here so first of all it
52:59
looks absolutely beautiful but I guess you guys will see that in a moment it's
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built on uh it's it's a 480 GB SSD array
53:06
with speeds up to 2,000 megabytes per second and 240k IHOPs that is so jokes
53:13
megabytes that's Dum fast that is
53:17
dumb see cuz normally you would say stupid fast that is actually fairly
53:20
interesting I'm not it's crazy fast PCIe gen 2.09 X eight uh trim and scuzzy umap
53:27
support uh smt all that kind of stuff
53:31
three-year warranty it's going to be $699 yeah which is a Lot
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1 sorry Buck 48 gig or so Buck 46 okay
53:40
it's a little very very very close um did you did you brain math that no you
53:45
didn't okay no I read it before okay okay I was like that was pretty quick I
53:49
was pretty impressed no dog one random tidbit people in Germany are incredibly
53:53
fast at doing math in their head anyways that's what I found anyways so
53:58
yeah pretty cool did you get the picture of it yeah yeah I had that up for a bit there CU it does look really looks
54:02
badass it has four sandforce 2281 controllers on it yes it's a quad SSD
54:09
array in behind uh a PCI Express what is
54:12
it 8X interface did you say uh yes that is unfreaking believable and uh I think
54:19
that nine was a typo in there let's go ahead and remove that uh so yeah that
54:23
looks that looks fantastic I guess this this is just because LSI SL didn't they
54:29
get sold to like pixart or something like the San Forest unit getting
54:33
shuffled around can't even remember who it belongs to anymore but the new
54:38
generation sand Force controller that we saw for the first time over a year ago
54:43
at computex yeah still isn't here so this
54:48
is the closest thing we have is throwing more last generation sand Force
54:52
controllers on a better bus in raid
54:55
operation and then just kind of brute forceing the the only thing we have is
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2,000 megabytes per second yeah that's all we got and the fact that it supports
55:03
trim is very surprising to me most raid controllers don't support Trim in fact
55:08
the one that I'm aware of that does do it is Intel's onboard raid and other
55:12
than that even add in like $600 $7 $800
55:15
raid cards most of them don't support passing trim through to ssds and raid
55:19
zero so trim is pretty important so that's
55:22
actually pretty cool all right the Pirate Bay is endorsing a VPN service
55:27
fruit VPN and it's free for now so
55:30
fruitv and.com the original article here is from torrent freak and this was
55:33
posted by Shala shalaska on the Forum
55:36
it's probably not free for very long um they've already actually posted about
55:40
that it's apparently not a paid spot for one they're apparently just kind of plug
55:44
in for friends which is interesting and this is not the first VPN that the Pirate Bay has actually plugged on their
55:48
website before the last VPN that they plugged ended up monetizing themselves
55:52
by filling it full of adwar which is what people are a little bit worried
55:56
about but they have said that um they're they're they're angry with the whole
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commercialization of the VPN business which is why they created this they
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intended it for it to be free at least for a very long time but with the fact
56:07
of them gaining 100,000 users in like a week or something they're like okay so
56:13
maybe not going to be free for all that long um but they are promising that when
56:17
it is monetized it will be very cheap cuz there's no real reason why vpns need
56:22
to be as expensive as they are and it takes it takes someone to come in and
56:27
shake up these industries I mean you look at what black magic design has done
56:30
to the production industry you know where they just kind of go no we're
56:34
going to make it and this comes back to our discussion about what is something
56:38
worth is it worth what it cost to make plus a markup or is it worth What It's
56:42
Worth to someone minus
56:46
nothing and black magic came in with a bit of a different philosophy where they
56:49
went well it's going to cost us this much to make this thing yeah it's going to be a little bit buggy the firmware
56:53
updates might come a little bit slow but but we're going to do our we're going to do our darnest to to deliver this thing
56:58
for you versus what the guys like Canon or Sony were content to do which was
57:03
build the least good possible thing that
57:07
is just incrementally better than the last one charge as much as they possibly can for it based on how much money they
57:12
know that people can generate with this equipment because professionals will just have to pay for it it's like what
57:17
choice do we have we have to buy studio lights we need lights to make videos so
57:23
however much they charge us for lights as long as we can generate enough money
57:27
and make enough videos we'll find a way to pay for them lights are stupid
57:31
expensive the ones we use now are actually pretty cheap these are the house brand uh B&H ones but not the Kos
57:37
no the Kos are really expensive so um so
57:41
yeah that's I guess pretty much it so basically their whole thing is they want
57:45
to make this VPN make sense from how much it actually costs to deliver VPN
57:50
service to someone and a markup and how much people are paying paying for it
57:54
there there is some up like the if you check if they're even able to go to
57:57
their website a lot of the time their website's down let's see if it's up right now yeah just okay cool um it is
58:04
down a lot of the time they are a quite new website with all the traffic they've
58:07
been getting and stuff they are they are seen as still quite sketchy by scam
58:11
advisor scam advisor showing them at 48% and showing that they're a fairly
58:14
unknown reputation website um there's
58:17
not a ton known about their company at all they're still pretty new um H yeah
58:24
and have possibly affiliations with a few other companies like the ISP that
58:29
they're buying all of their internet from um but those as far as I know at
58:33
this point in time are not necessarily confirmed so very interesting VPN
58:38
popping up we'll see have to see how it goes now think about a VPN is you have
58:41
to at least have some level of trust for them yeah because all the data now yeah
58:47
but we'll see um obviously a lot of people are using them one complaint that
58:50
I've seen a lot is that their the speed is not very fast but that's obviously
58:54
because they just got massively hammered by everyone so I would probably if it's
58:59
too frustrating to use now maybe come back in a while and see how it goes
59:04
because it's going to be too much for them now that's that's what I was talking about like their website being
59:07
down and stuff whoa So speaking of scam advisor I brought up our scam advisor
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linest Tech tips.com High trust rating this site looks safe to use 100% looks
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safe yay yayay Cool lus Tech tips Community Forum
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domain age 6 years oh that's right cuz it used to have that silly blog on it
59:29
owner country hidden ha yeah all right
59:33
so uh let's go ahead and go back I don't think that appap location is right but
59:36
either way yeah no no is that oh I don't actually yeah it's not going that all
59:41
right so moving on to oh we should do our sponsor spots right speaking of
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needle point and just in case you were maybe wondering for whatever reason scam
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yeah we're gonna we're going to validate all of our future sponsors like that no
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can lead to gainful employment or even if you just want to get better at
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probably fine they do have lots and lots of serious courses so 3D animation audio
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video photography marketing uh just web stuff learning about it on linda.com is
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great could even be pretty cool if you want to make your own little 3D printed
61:21
objects to maybe put in a computer case I would be amazed if in the next 10
61:26
years CAD isn't something that gets taught as part of the mandatory
61:29
curriculum in school as opposed to something that you can sometimes take as
61:32
an elective that would be really interesting because if 3D printers start being in pretty much every home and a
61:37
day-to-day usage thing not even just in the home if 3D printers are something
61:42
where you're going to be expected to know how to use one like at a job the
61:47
way that word processing is today I can
61:50
totally see that being part of of a Forward Thinking educational curriculum
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we're Canadian that's pretty cool well we're large but we're fairly
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small population countries yeah you know so we get real proud whenever Canada
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comes up with anything yeah still holding on to that penicillin so store.
62:39
phantom.in protector out there on top of
62:42
being oleophobic and scratch resistant and shatter resistant and all that stuff
62:47
that your phone already is it feels just like your phone already is all it does
62:51
is add another layer of the same Gorilla Glass that your phone was already using
62:55
to make it so not only is it going to resist being scratched by your keys in
62:59
your pocket if in the event it does actually get scratched because you drag
63:03
it across the pavement you can just peel it right off and replace it just like
63:07
that another cool thing is I actually just R my HTC1 M8 cuz I had an issue
63:11
with the lens they did get back to me it is has all been resolved so I'm still
63:15
going through my as a customer RMA experience cool pretty interesting so I
63:19
sent that back to them and um I was able to remove my Phantom glass from it with
63:24
any issues with it and I'm going to put that right back on the new one it is
63:27
fully removable and it is I think I can even say this it is bubble prooof yeah
63:33
I've never seen a bubble on one it is you can't get a bubble under the glass
63:37
because it it just magically does it itself I did a review for Phantom glass
63:42
before we ever took them on as a sponsor because I've always been pretty sketched
63:46
out by cases and screen protectors
63:50
because they're Allon cases for phones garbage cases for phones yes they're all
63:55
junk and so having a sponsor or even
63:58
doing reviews I reject almost I don't think have we ever done a case review I
64:03
think I did an otter box once and then I destroyed it broke it on camera and then
64:08
they never talked to me again yeah so so I I don't like phone cases I think
64:12
they're all just didn't you like partially damage your own phone during
64:15
that review yeah yeah just just for for you guys so you could know what's up
64:20
remember that yeah so so for them I really wanted to see it work before I
64:24
was willing to take them on as a sponsor and it does and it's awesome and we we
64:28
both feel strongly that they're cool they're actually going to be sponsoring us for CES yeah that's in the plan so we
64:34
have we have I are we actually doing my little yes we're going to do it but
64:37
we're not going to tell them yet but it's going to be hilarious the like the
64:40
sponsored video we're doing for them is going to be a
64:44
mustat a must watch pretty excited okay
64:48
I didn't know it was a secret thing but luckily I didn't say anything all right speaking of mustat this was posted by
64:53
card on the Forum kit guru.net has an article about how the Titan Z has
64:57
dropped in price to the point where it might actually even make sense to buy
65:01
one if you really want a Titan Z if you really want a Titan Z oh man
65:07
that's F personally I'd pick up a couple 97s but whatever yeah I probably would
65:13
if you really want that vram it does have 6 gigs of vram per GPU and with
65:18
games like Assassin's Creed Unity apparently saying that you need a minimum of two but we later yeah it it
65:24
know it might make sense it's down to 9900 Great Britain pounds including fat
65:28
now okay again these are very uh cherry pick numbers so 900 was 2300 Great
65:33
Britain pounds uh the EVGA version is apparently
65:36
1,200 um and that particular one the payot is basically always sold out so
65:42
yeah a little bit cherry pick numbers but it is much much much cheaper than it
65:45
used to be which is pretty cool although I feel bad if someone bought it at three
65:49
grand yeah I would feel terrible it was
65:52
like 2400 Great Britain prown so I think it was more than ,000 American in the US
65:58
it was it was three grand MSRP so um
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yeah that was pretty rough do we want to
66:07
move on to the full body Mouse chair thing uh yeah let's there's not a ton to
66:11
talk about the all right this was posted by Tech dreamer on the Forum and I don't
66:15
oh my goodness what is the link oh oh it's in the uh it's in the Forum post
66:19
okay I'll I'll pull up the video and I'll let you talk about it while sure so
66:23
um apparently uh this is a quote from Govert Flint I hope I said that guy's
66:28
name right he's the designer of the dynamic chair uh he said Western Society
66:32
is so over organized I found it awe that we create Tech that's so efficient that
66:36
it takes over physical efforts so we go to fitness centers to create the
66:39
movements which is actually a pretty interesting um quote but the chair that
66:44
he's created while interesting I think is absolutely redonkulous so you you use
66:49
your your your feet to click use your
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your legs like full movement M of your legs to be able to click use your hip
66:56
movement to scroll and then I'm not even
67:00
entirely sure how you move the mouse but as far as I can tell in the video you
67:04
like manipulate the mouse with your hands so this this is him I think uh
67:09
what left clicking it looks like so his left foot is up in the air so he he's
67:15
like I'm I'm yeah it's just ridiculous
67:18
how's the video coming along uh it's not okay yeah so it looks like he's left
67:23
clicking here could be wrong to what he's exactly doing because it's
67:26
ridiculously confusing but when when
67:30
when like computer peripherals are created by artists as opposed to
67:34
Engineers you end up with Solutions like this yeah yeah so like I I admire his
67:40
whole idea where yes we are making certain things maybe a little bit too
67:44
efficient so we're having issues with people aren't moving enough and it's cre
67:49
yes that's actually a problem but making something that makes using your computer
67:54
n impossible is not going to solve the problem now in his defense you haven't
67:57
tried the body Mouse n impossible is strong
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statement we should get
68:07
one we already have not enough space
68:10
here as it is really good comment on the line of detectives board which I I
68:14
wasn't necessarily going to bring up but I'm going to go try and find it now was like the second or third comment I think
68:18
let me see speaking of second comment by Z zet I can imagine this with Counter
68:23
Strike you would break every bone in your body in a single
68:27
match I'm like yeah exactly like burst
68:30
burst firing fire and short burst and then
68:35
because of how it's like kind of attached to you you you kicking out like
68:38
that you'd have you'd be moving metal with your whole leg the whole time that'
68:42
be ridiculous you'd have to be an oper because you there's no way you could
68:46
fire something that well but then the same problem with being an oper is you
68:49
can't aim that well cuz you'd have to move your scope by being like no look
68:53
here that's
68:57
terrible ridiculous I don't know it's I
69:01
I admire the the idea because sitting for too long is a serious problem um
69:06
I've been looking into a whole bunch of different solutions for this for a while
69:09
um so is people like Brandon but yeah well he's at a standing desk now and
69:14
when we have the space for it I will do
69:18
some kind of ergonomic improvements for everyone so we're probably actually the
69:22
chair review that comes out this week weend I'm going to look into having
69:25
chairs of that caliber for everyone um so all that kind of stuff speaking of
69:29
which this is going to be coming in a couple of weeks and I actually didn't
69:32
tell anyone that I was going to tease this at all but yeah let's let's talk
69:36
about it the decision's pretty much made I talked to our accountant who is my
69:41
wife about you know how we're doing and we're we're kind of it's it's borderline
69:47
but it's it's time we don't have enough space here so lus Media Group will be
69:51
moving we're in Nick's office right now yeah actually in Nick's office because
69:56
he had him out we kicked him out of the other one uh because we have too many
70:01
people in that room now and it's just it's gotten kind of ridiculous I mean
70:04
for those of you who watched our studio tour you'll have seen that our server
70:07
room is in a bathroom yes that's because there's literally nowhere else to put it
70:11
where it won't be too loud to film it hurts my soul yeah it's it's really bad
70:16
so we are going to be doing some kind of a crowdfunding campaign we're going to
70:20
put together some really cool stretch goals we're going to put together some
70:24
really cool rewards and that's going to be coming probably sometime in the next
70:27
couple you guys have ideas for that hit me up on Twitter lukr not this we got to
70:33
get this fixed yeah we do maybe maybe maybe a stretch goal will be to get your
70:37
Twitter handle fixed on W oh no so yeah
70:41
guys stay tuned for that we'd love to have your support um because we're we're
70:45
looking at hopefully moving into a space where we can really continue to develop
70:50
other channels like Channel superfun I want to add a couple more people which
70:54
is part of the reason we need to move because there isn't space for more people here so that we can have the time
70:59
to do that I actually have some other ideas for other channels that we want to
71:03
launch it's just that we need more resources in order to do it so rather
71:06
than looking for you know investment or
71:09
whatever else we're going to look to the community to uh and we have some
71:13
actually pretty cool ideas um can I
71:16
tease some of them uh no let's wait till
71:19
the campaign launches let's wait till the campaign launch there's some pretty cool ideas and again
71:24
uh if you have ideas let me know and I'll see about implementing them um yeah
71:29
we have to we have to do something that's feasible but we're going to try and have as much fun with it as possible
71:34
so there you go oh my God I just thought of another idea but I'll keep that
71:38
bottled for now okay oh Nick's suggesting that we do
71:43
a stretched goal of installing one of those full body uh Stupid
71:48
mice oh no no that's not going to be a stretch goal we're not doing that we'll
71:53
make Nick us it wrecked all right speaking of things
71:58
that we could make Nick use that wouldn't bother him this was posted by
72:02
pofu on the Forum and the original Artic keyboard with that thing cnet.com
72:07
what onscreen
72:12
keyboard little tiny micro movements I have to press this exact key oh man oh
72:19
that's terrible all right so let let's move on to low holy DSL poised for
72:25
gigabit speed boost this is pretty
72:28
exciting cuz DSL does tend to give you better latencies than cable and it's
72:34
been Limited in terms of the speeds that they've been able to roll out with
72:38
current technology but we could be looking at what is it 2016 yeah TW could see arrive in homes
72:44
in 2016 so there'd need to be new hardware on the ISP level there'd need
72:47
to be new hardware on the consumer level so youd need a new modem but we could be
72:51
looking at up to gigabit speeds through d L service with one large gacha which I
72:56
know you were about to find go ahead with the gacha Curve Your Enthusiasm
73:00
immediately because to get gigabit speeds you have to be within 50 m of the
73:05
sending building which is probably not going to be a thing um at 200 M which is
73:11
still pretty rough but it will have a
73:14
much much bigger impact than 50 m um is
73:17
going to be 600 megabits per second so that's a huge downgrade already
73:22
so yeah still a lot better yeah better
73:25
than better than nothing why don't we say that much yes and should be a lot
73:29
easier for these guys to deploy than fiber so you'll probably see it in areas
73:33
that were not planned for fiber yeah which is going to be really cool cuz
73:37
it's it's over the phone line so anywhere with a phone line can
73:41
theoretically get DSL technology at some kind of a speed so and even if you're
73:46
not getting gigabit and even if you're not getting 600 megabites because you're more than 200 met out which is very
73:51
likely um it should have some sort of a boost see look 8% remaining I don't know
73:57
but then it says 8 hours and 46 minutes
74:00
cool probably needs a reboot go Windows
74:04
yeah anyways all right so let's go ahead and move on to our next topic here and
74:08
then now it says 1 hour and 37 minutes photo maath now you were geeking out
74:12
over this oneome also posted by Tech dreamer on the Forum uh the source is
74:16
photo math.net so this is basically going to
74:21
take needing to keep electron devices
74:24
out of exam rooms so hardcore to a whole new level oh my
74:29
God you are now going to be checking your phone at the door there's no way
74:33
they're going to let you even have it in the bag I bet CU this is insane whatever
74:37
basically it it gives you what kind of looks like a QR code reader where
74:41
there's just like the The Zone where you have to have the object within and it's
74:45
a scanner so and you highlight it over a
74:48
uh mathematical equation so say if it's a textbook or whatever and it will solve
74:52
it on the phone phone give you the answer and then even give you all the
74:56
steps that it had to do to get to that answer so that you would be able to get
74:59
100% on the question which is awesome and horrible at the same time how is my
75:04
son going to learn anything like think about this you're going to like studying
75:08
if you have a studying area it's going to have to be a no phone area like
75:12
100% or your son's going to have to actually care about knowledge at all
75:15
which is very likely and won't do this um one thing that I could see it for if
75:20
you're actually interested in learning things which you probably should be is
75:24
to use it to check your answers yep because that's cool and math textbooks
75:28
won't have all the steps so if you're but you're right not all of them do and
75:32
it it very likely won't for all questions and problem sheets from a
75:35
professor might not necessarily have uh
75:38
have all the steps in fact most of the professors I ever met were phenomenally
75:42
lazy yes so you'd be lucky if you got an answer sheet at all so if you're like
75:46
man I can't figure out how to solve this you might be able to do that for one of them get all the steps and be like okay
75:50
well if I can manipulate this manipulate this process can the other I can solve
75:54
this problem group now yes exactly so hopefully people are going to use it
75:58
that way it doesn't work for everything um have what it works for
76:02
here so it's not like every math equation in existence uh it's more like
76:07
stuff like arithmetic um adding subtracting multiplication only if it
76:12
was this simple to point it at like you know for Matt's final theorem or
76:15
whatever that un solve thing yeah that would be fantastic so I don't
76:20
know arithmetic Expressions so plus minus multiplication division fractions
76:25
and decimals powers and roots and simple linear equations I'm actually surprised
76:29
that it even got to uh no simple linear equations makes sense so they're
76:33
constantly adding um more features but that's what they have so far so as of
76:38
right now you're not you're not going to walk into a Calculus class and be like I
76:42
got my whole page worth of work um solved so not going to happen right now
76:47
but I don't know someone high up at that company has to be a Windows Phone dork
76:51
because it's available for iOS and Windows phone so far yeah and not
76:56
Android yet Android is coming but it's not not yet which I I found that pretty
77:00
surprising as well I think this is just a phenomenally cool app though and I'm
77:04
super super impressed um I hope people use it reasonably I hope people don't
77:08
use it just to like course through school uh or sorry Coast Coast through
77:12
school it's okay I understood I'm sure they understood yeah but I think people
77:18
will yeah of course they will and one thing like not to put ideas in people's
77:22
heads but one thing I seriously see happening with especially with how many
77:25
cell phones people have these days and replacing cell phones and like just having that one that's thrown in the
77:29
drawer is that they'll like check their cell phone at the door then have another
77:33
one in their pocket which is horrible
77:36
yep and when when Google Glass like devices become just looking like glasses
77:42
yes and people figure out like I mean okay I'm I'm sure it's a matter of time
77:47
before people figure out you know two-way mirror type systems to cover up
77:50
LEDs and and lens and like that to make
77:54
it just look like glasses I mean and you think about how techsavvy the average ta
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would be at a typical University are they going to recognize every model once
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Samsung LG HTC Google themselves with a
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Nexus device you know hang way or
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whatever they all have glasses that look just like glasses how hard is it going
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to be and then there was that cool technology that we talked about last
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week where um augmented augmented reality was going to be done instead of
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with a screen in front of you by projecting an image into your eyes so
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when that hits along with all this other stuff I I don't know what they're going
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to do there's some interesting things that might be able to happen uh like if photo maath works with different
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education institutions maybe they could make it so that if you're on like their
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see but that would just be public Wi-Fi okay tell me this tell me
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this if the guys who are the math Geeks
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already who are going to do math because they're interested in it and they love
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it and if those guys are going to do math anyway and those are the ones that
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are really advancing mathematics do I need to know how to do
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any of this stuff or can I just use an app for my whole
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life uh but you have to make sure like that's that's the Mozart thing as well
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the the whole the old Mozart question where it it has to be you have to try
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everyone right because without someone kind of getting into math a little bit
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maybe they're like oh math is stupid whatever I just need to be able to do my taxes which is is actually very
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applicable for quite a few people lots of people yes um and that's that's part
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of the idea where uh teachers used to be and they probably still do oh well you
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won't always carry a calculator in your pocket and nowadays everyone's like L of
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course I do always because it's on my phone that's right um this could play
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into that in the future and that this is another may maybe they utilize this in
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education but then part of higher math is understanding how the fundamentals
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work so you can understand how higher end Concepts work so I don't know that's
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a question for education I think our education system is terrible right now
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so someone should probably figure it out that isn't me but great tweet from
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peanuts Revenge photomath will be a great tool for parents to help their
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kids with homework yeah so when Mom and Dad understood this Ting bazillion years
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ago but and now it's like what now it's like I I could probably barely do long
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division the first time around if you put a problem in front of me once you
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see it once you'll be fine once I see it once no problem so I could use photomath
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to just be like oh crap how do you do that again okay and then you can really
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explain it to Junior cuz you probably still know it's just buried in your head
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somewhere so if you can remember like oh that's the first three steps okay I got
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it yeah yeah it's like sorry first Outside Inside last right like if I
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don't remember something like that yeah but it's but it's simple so if you get
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that cue you won't be able to remember it and then help your kid out so yeah
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that is actually pretty cool I think it's a cool app I think it's a good
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thing I just like many good things in life it's going to be really easy to
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abuse I hope people don't abuse it they will abuse it um you're a good thing in
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my
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life your mom can't call me it's all
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right so iPhone 6 catches fire in a man's pocket allegedly this was uh
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posted on the Forum by Tyron and I okay
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now my my BS meter like okay I was about
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to say I'm not sure what the liability implications are of us just completely
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calling BS on this but my BS meter is
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pretty pretty going off the charts here so Arizona man suffers second degree
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burns when iPhone 6 bends and catches fire in his pocket he
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claims said his new iPhone 6 bent in half and then burst into flames while it
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was still in his pocket he was in a penny cab as his family headed to the
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football tailgate they noticed some Rick Shaw drivers on the street decided to etc etc etc uh his wife and
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seven-year-old son were not thrown out of their seats when the the wagon lost
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its balance and that tipped over something something and that's when his leg started to get hot and something
81:57
something something so so holes that I started noticing almost immediately one
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how is it bent that far if it's in your pocket are you kidding me I think
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there's a Still Still photo of it which is probably I can't find it right now
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band it should be just above this isn't it so here's here's the picture I don't
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know is there still above this I might have scrolled past it oh yeah there it
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is okay so unless your leg is broken at that angle I fail to understand how a
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phone breaks at that angle in your pocket yeah like that doesn't make any
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sense and then like okay so he apparently smashed into the sidebar on
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the penny cab thing which is one I think one of those bike so that's where the
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story of it getting bent This Way Comes from I guess but then he's like he's
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half on half off so he obviously didn't get like crushed there and then the
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weight of his uh wife and his son continually pressed and continually bent
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it he hit it and then must have been half on half off and then he's like oh
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yeah I laid down to pull it out of my pocket if if it's that bent laying down
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is not going to help you yeah like at
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all that and I mean the whole Bend gate thing I think is grossly exaggerated
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it's not that easy to bend this phone was that a 6 plus this is not a 6 Plus
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yeah the 6 Plus is much easier but this is just a six this is an iPhone six
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that's the same phone as that one like the the the amount that I
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believe this is almost non-existent yeah we probably shouldn't even be talking
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about this other than just to say it's like poopy yeah I don't know so there we
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go we still have Assassin's Creed unity
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and all the bull crap that comes with that all right yeah let's talk about
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this so this was posted by Mind Tricks On The Forum and the source is blog.
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ub.com so it's about as official as it gets and the Assassin's Creed Unity
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minimum specs are dumb they are super dumb they are so
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dumb that it's just too dumb they're not dumb awesome dum dum
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dum okay so get this get this get this okay so processor minimum required
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processor is an i52500k or an AMD fx8350 are you
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freaking kidding me oh I love that they threw in the Phenom
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2940 because that is so much slower than an i5 2500k that it is not even funny
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like so much slower oh my God so that's
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a minimum requirement and then the recommended requirement is a 3770 now
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the funny thing about this is the 3770 supports more threads than an i5
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2500k but actually is not faster in any
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meaningful way not to mention that they also recommend an
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fx8350 when it was a minimum requirement so why did you need to upgrade your
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Intel CPU and not your AMD CPU unless
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this engine is heavily threaded which I
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call complete BS on if we get more than three threads I will be floored yeah I
84:48
would be surprised and that I5 has four threads which is fine and for that
84:52
matter that phenomx 4 has four threads that are super not super duper fast
84:58
minimum system RAM of six gabt that I
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maybe I I can see that I can see that helping in some way I don't know that it
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should be the minimum um minimums are what are surprising here the recommended
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I never really even care what they say for recommended I think the recommended
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makes no sense on video card though the minimum makes no sense on video minimum
85:16
makes okay so so here's a couple things about the minimum video card spec that
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make no sense number one is that the GTX 680 is a very very powerful card and for
85:27
that to be the minimum to run the game based on the game AG I've seen so far is
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stupid pathetic also the GTX 660 Ti is
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only marginally slower than a GTX 680 so
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why can't that run it why is 680 the cut
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off for the minimum I don't buy it okay and one of sorry I have to clear
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up why a large of part of the recommended I don't really care about is
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uh what is your recommended base off of especially with 4K being such a big
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thing now to be able to run 4K at fairly
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High settings at all you usually do need really powerful systems so I'm not super
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surprised that that's happening all right so the recommended one is uh sorry
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did you just talk about recommended I tuned in okay so the recommended one I'm
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okay with that especially because if the point of this is look we're we're
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building a game that's going to really really push the hardware
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um so we're just going to recommend basically the highest end thing that
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exists today and 780 is pretty darn
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close I mean it's x% behind 780 Ti and
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980 or whatever else but it's pretty much there we're just going to recommend
86:36
the highest end thing today and people might even be able to further leverage
86:39
the game as time goes on I'm okay with that but having a minimum requirement of
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a 680 is ridiculous yeah 50 gigs of space that's becoming part for the
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course um and the rest of it really that
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crazy except except for the supported video cards at time of release yeah this is this is just stupid this comes into
86:56
why the 680 is their minimum because they're supported video cards at time of
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release is 680 or better 700 series and
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then hd7970 or better which is
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effectively one and a half generations of AMD graphics cards because most of
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the R9 series is resin yeah just so like
87:17
what laptop versions of these cards may work but are not officially supported so
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basically the minimum requirement just looks like a pure copout laziness thing
87:27
we are just not going to bother to validate this game on any graphics cards
87:32
we are going to put the onus on the graphics card makers to ensure that
87:36
their cards are compatible with this game going back a couple of generations
87:39
cuz let's face it if a GTX 680 runs it a GTX 590 is going to wreck it
87:47
so Ubisoft ridiculous just keeps on
87:52
diing they cannot stop digging absolutely ridiculous the the 50 GB of
87:57
hard drive space I've seen some people freak out about I don't even care about that because that's become a norm and
88:02
hard drives are pretty cheap and you should probably be running your games
88:05
off of hard drives speaking of keep on digging we actually are planning our
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next next t-shirt design so um I guess I
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should probably I should probably like open with an application of some sort or
88:20
something come on go fast you yeah we
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have we have our NE our next our next t-shirt design is Ubisoft
88:27
inspired because okay interesting thing while you get that open we were talking
88:32
before the show started about how it used to be the hate on origin and ha on
88:36
EA yeah hate on Origin hate on EA on all
88:40
hate on all that kind of stuff and then uh EA seems to have lately been like
88:44
whoa those guys are crazy let's just sit back and just see what happens and they
88:48
just stopped doing things no one talks about them cuz they're not freaking out
88:51
and ubis SS just throwing dirt around with shovels so I don't know ridiculous
88:56
it's just funny how it used to be the hate on EA show and now it's kind of the
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hate on Ubisoft show because it's essentially just hate on people that are
89:03
doing stupid things when we used to hate on EA I used to talk about how I liked
89:06
Ubisoft because I did I liked a lot of the games that they were releasing I liked a lot of the stuff that they were
89:10
doing you have a lot of games in your up playay account I was logged into it a
89:13
little while ago cuz I was benchmarking with your per with his permission yeah
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yeah it's fine um I I I do because I've
89:20
generally liked a lot of the games that theyve released and I I it feels it
89:24
feels like back then they would solely release games that they felt were solid
89:28
good games and that does not seem to be a thing anymore I me you've you've
89:32
admitted that the first Assassin's Creed wasn't really anything that special no
89:35
but it also seemed like the team on the game was trying extremely hard and they
89:39
might be trying extremely hard now as well but that's being cut out of the
89:43
picture by someone chopping up their results and then just giving you part of
89:47
it and then being like you can kind of get the rest I guess later it's like you
89:50
get served a pizza and they're like oh sorry we took a quarter of it and like
89:54
left it back there you can get that as well I guess if you give us more money
89:58
which wasn't listed original or like if servers were allowed to withhold your
90:03
food until they got their tip like here's your burger you can get your
90:06
fries once you pay me your tip but you know let let me know how much the tip's
90:10
going to be and we'll find out if you're getting your drink and your fries and your
90:14
dessert if you buy your drink and then your fries and then your dessert it's
90:17
20% more if you buy them all at once it's 20 it's 20% less I'm okay with
90:22
bundles they have that it's called a value
90:25
meal but they don't have that in AAA
90:30
establishments there's no value meal in like a fivar restaurant oh oh at a five
90:34
star okay sure because I was going to say like somewhere like Red Robin You
90:37
could argue they have a value meal because you can buy fries although you
90:41
can't buy a burger without fries but buying a burger with the fries is a
90:44
better value than just buying lots of fries especially cuz the fries are
90:48
bottomless anyway so if you bought lots of fries at Red Robin you're Basin like
90:51
compl opposite all right so here it is design woo so that's going to be on the
90:56
front of probably a black shirt and uh we're going to launch this I think W
91:01
show next week will have the Teespring campaign up and uh I'm getting one of
91:05
those it's going to be one of those kinds of things we're not putting a Ubisoft logo all over it or anything
91:09
it's going to be more of an inside joke but I think keep on digging is just kind
91:14
of like I don't know it's it's become a thing and you know what if Ubisoft gets
91:18
out of the target if they stop doing stupid things and someone else starts
91:21
doing things like if still wear the shirt if EA starts taking up the mantle
91:25
again maybe we'll keep saying keep on digging for them um currently they're
91:28
not or if Microsoft does a bunch of really stupid stuff for a bit then which
91:32
is probably going to happen it'll happen at some point yep so yeah it's more
91:37
multi-purpose but for now it's it's standing for them all right so this was
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posted by amorus amoras something of
91:44
pixels anyway original articles from Popular Mechanics and the thread title
91:47
on the Forum I have to agree with so much um is I have lost faith in humanity
91:53
or something like that officially done with Humanity uh officially done with
91:58
Humanity a comic Sands typewriter has been
92:02
created so there you go and remember guys this is not as simple as just
92:06
putting comic sands on the keys they actually had to create the metal arms
92:12
with comic Sands print on the end so that you could the sincerity machine I
92:17
hadn't even noticed that before so if you thought the world
92:22
needed a comic sand typewriter a go jump in a fire and B There is officially a
92:27
typewriter for you you know what the funny thing is is I'm making fun of comic Sands and jumping a fire and all
92:31
that I used nothing but comic Sands pink bold italicized for the entire time that
92:36
MSN Messenger existed I know yep oh yeah
92:40
I used to chat with you on MSN y yep fuchsia sorry fuchsia comic Sands why
92:45
did they take MSN away I love MSN it should come speaking of things that
92:50
Skype is inferior in so so many different ways the entire internet has
92:54
blown up over Smash Bros for wi U
92:58
Nintendo apparently wants to sell 100
93:01
bazillion copies of this game because they are making it look freaking amazing
93:08
y a player smash is the headline but honestly there are there are a dozen
93:13
other features they did what was it like a 15minute video with 50 features of
93:17
Smash Wii U that are just all of which
93:20
are good and and many of which are just
93:23
blowing the minds of the entire internet
93:26
so stok so you want to do some do you want to do some highlights here uh there
93:30
there's a bunch of different things if you can use your uh DS as a controller
93:33
we already knew that but if you bring your character over that you created on
93:37
your DS side it brings everything with it which is actually really cool and not
93:41
just you can use your DS as a controller you can use pretty much any controller
93:45
you want unless you're like want to use a Sega Genesis controller for some
93:48
reason like GameCube Classic Controller weote nunchuck Wii U controller 2DS like
93:56
all of the different controllers I think it's 3DS only isn't it 2DS or 3DS I um
94:00
yeah all all of the different Pro controllers nunchuck normal weote
94:04
absolutely bananas things um there's eight player smash Seven Player smash
94:09
whatever you want to do four player online yeah only fourer online and
94:13
certain Maps won't be playable online as well because they have these massive
94:17
Maps now for eight player smash which I'm actually super excited for that
94:21
looks super cool yeah they have maps with two planes yeah yeah yeah so
94:25
there's the foreground and the background they have um what is it even
94:29
called it's like I don't remember exactly it's called but it looks like a tabletop mode and you play this kind of
94:34
board game and whenever your your your characters on the board run into each
94:38
other it creates a smash battle and while you're going around the board game
94:41
you collect different characters and stuff and in the final battle your stock
94:44
count so your lives is based on how many what what characters you have so when
94:49
you die you just sort out which is actually super cool I'm excited to play
94:53
that if you have a bunch of people over that could actually be a lot of fun which is exactly why I like Nintendo and
94:59
uh oh oh yeah did I even mention already 1080p 60
95:04
FPS so epic so
95:07
epic yeah that needed more than one of
95:11
those I did it so many times I'm blurry
95:14
that's how that's how owned everyone else got by Nintendo with uh Super Smash
95:19
and there was a ton of other really cool anoun as well yeah you guys should
95:23
definitely check out the video it is worthwhile because it looks fantastic
95:27
Team battles with up to four teams that is going to be bananas I mean
95:32
it's going to be like like Risk alliances like friend breaking stuff but
95:38
but Smash Brothers one thing that I really liked was just how they announced
95:41
the eight player smash cuz they're like five people so now if you're the fifth
95:45
wheel it's fine also by the way six people also by the way seven eight
95:51
people people it's like oh my God keep on blowing my mind over and over again
95:55
it's like watching Sesame Streets like
95:59
five six
96:03
players yeah love it pretty stoked all right that's pretty much it guys thank
96:07
you for two oh oh uh did you want to do the system builds of the week that I
96:10
missed for two week do system builds in the week that you missed for two weeks
96:13
in a row but the link that was added to the dock totally doesn't work at all
96:17
okay next week so I don't know what to do about this I was not
96:21
we're supposed to draw the um the Z 980
96:25
Zotac 980 winner yeah let's do that that's fun if someone can figure out how
96:29
to get me those that would be great the link in
96:33
the doc doesn't work at all and I don't have an email from it so can't do
96:36
anything about um I have this is this does this look right that is a thing we
96:39
can preferably use the Forum but if the Forum is not working we can use this
96:43
okay let's just let's just use this then does that work yeah so what this is is
96:47
Ghost created a script which works kind
96:50
of in Junction with all of the scripts
96:53
that the mod team have created and all of that awesomeness which we are
96:58
removing duplicated posts from the thread and then this script goes through
97:03
and indexes all of them so you can find the end of it and then do a random
97:08
between one and the last entry on there and then if you just contrl f for that
97:13
number you'll have your winner let's do this thing then so
97:17
1,200 12,300 yeah that's okay 12,3 154
97:23
entries okay and let's go ahead and share my screen so we're going to move
97:27
this so you guys can actually see it this time
97:31
and oh in the meantime we want you guys to think about this and start hitting up
97:36
at lukor LFR on Twitter with some
97:39
suggestions because we are doing a $130 motherboard Roundup spectacular this is
97:44
going to be a multi-part video and we're not going to be looking at performance
97:48
so put that out of your mind that's specifically what we're not looking for
97:51
we're not looking for that overclocking we might briefly validate that they all
97:55
kind of get to the same level but they all do that anyway we're not going to be looking at overclocking we're not going
97:59
to be looking at performance we're going to be looking at usability so some examples would be
98:05
things like how fast are their download servers when you're looking for your new
98:09
drivers when you build your rig um examples like for USB BIOS updates how
98:14
easy is the process how's compatibility of the back USB ports with a variety of
98:19
USB drives when you're reading off of it in order to flash your BIOS we're going
98:22
to be looking for how good is the experience of this motherboard because
98:27
really that's what I think is more important than performance these days
98:30
where they're all pretty darn similar one thing I even want to look into is
98:34
like how many clicks to do certain different things right like just how
98:38
efficient is it to use how efficient is the BIOS to navigate great example if
98:42
you need to change to RAID Mode on your
98:45
SATA controller or whatever else like I think we we won't look at it that
98:49
granularly when we actually do the video but that's what the evaluation will be
98:53
based on is how navigable is the thing all right so the winner is
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35 let's go ahead over to 315
99:03
3015 no I want the other one 3015 there it is Barry Preston Slade
99:13
Jr so let's go ahead and find Barry
99:16
Preston Slade Jr on the Forum the lucky winner
99:22
which of course has to be claimed through the Forum so that we can
99:25
actually contact you sorry please be working yay okay this is probably not
99:30
going to work probably not going to work probably
99:35
not going to work at all oh yeah that you're probably going to have to use your other View and you're not going to
99:39
want to look right now because oh you're not streaming okay you're yeah yeah don't worry it's all good it's all good
99:44
I'm okay everything is okay oh here here here here here there we
99:49
go Boop
99:52
and let's just go ahead and have a
99:56
look there you go oh hey everyone always
99:59
complains when it's a one poost wonder who wins this time it is a 14 poost
100:04
wonder who actually has like his profile
100:08
filled out and like that's was last
100:11
active today awesome so there you go we managed to pick a winner who is someone
100:16
who even though they don't post a lot the last active thing I think matters
100:20
almost more than because that's sh uh CU I don't honestly
100:24
if you post it all if you're on the for and you're reading everything that's super cool too everything's cool I mean
100:29
posting is great because helping other people is like what it's all about but
100:33
being someone who was on The Forum two hours ago so is an active Forum member
100:39
even if maybe not the most active contributor I think is super cool yeah
100:42
me too so we're going to push build logs to oh did you find them got it so
100:46
according to you now well hold on no it's okay you just I don't have a viewer
100:50
installed according to you are you sure you don't have PowerPoint on that I yep
100:54
I checked well I didn't check are you sure can you double
100:57
check yeah you do not all righty then I
101:01
will deal with it it was forwarded to you now so okay
101:05
should have that my download speeds are terrible the access point is too far
101:10
away um although actually I have I have something interesting to tell you yeah
101:14
no I saw that I was super stoked so
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this is an eight no actually this is a
101:23
$1,000 access point yeah this is the
101:26
r700 this is their highest access point know I never looked into how much it
101:31
costs cuz I didn't want to know it is a $1,000 access point and I am going to be
101:37
having a we're going to be looking at a series of of videos about this and the
101:41
way that we're going to be approaching this this is an Enterprise grade this is like for airports Rus is badass Ruckus
101:46
is some serious stuff so the way that
101:49
we're going to be looking at this Ruckus gear
101:52
is high-end very high-end enthusiasts
101:56
don't blink twice about spending $700 on a graphics card some of them will even
102:00
spend that much times three and they'll buy three graphics cards high-end
102:04
wireless equipment is something that you can actually get multiple Generations
102:08
out of the same way that you can with something like a monitor especially now
102:11
that development has slowed down so much on it and if you were to look at it and
102:16
go okay I'm instead of investing in three-way SLI I'm going to skip a
102:19
generation I'm going to put a controller and a couple of really high-end access
102:24
points in my house I want to look at what the benefit will actually be so
102:27
I'll be taking a real world scenario in this case a house and I will be putting
102:32
a controller and two of these access points in it and having a look at how it
102:36
compares to one Central AP the way that most people do it today with just your
102:40
router access point combo unit I'm going to be looking at it compared to ubiquity
102:45
because I have those AC access points that were doing really well for me at
102:49
first but now I'm having actually a lot of problems with I had to R both of my
102:53
first ones yeah um and then we're going
102:56
to move to Ruckus and we're going to see what range looks like throughout the
103:00
house with really demanding applications things like NVIDIA game stream and have
103:05
a look at if it really makes a difference and if something like that is
103:08
is worthwhile so that's that's going to be a really interesting video and at the
103:13
same time I'm going to do it in my house because that way I can justify upgrading
103:17
to cat 6 all over my house at the same time so this is his Rose to jack a
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$1,000 access point I could well I could
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I could Mount any I could Mount anything to that to that access out there
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ridiculous I can promise I can promise this I can promise when when we move we
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will get some kind of managed multiple access point system at the new place we
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will need one at the new place we will need one at the new place so what was I
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what was I talking about now we're going build logs so you bu oh I should have
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been downloading that that was my whole con I thought you were actually that's
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unfortunate oh well on uh I think there's just one button download that
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downloads it in a zip that's okay I can
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I can un it for you no I don't know if that's cute or dirty
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oh it's maybe both we need we need a shirt for cute
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and dirty too yeah cute and dirty and it should be like a CPU with like thermal
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compound yes oh that's
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awesome that's kind of funny that's actually pretty good I'm I'm dirty with
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like a CPU that hasn't been cleaned off I kind of like that we should probably
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do that all right I'll fire to Nick well
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that's don't wor sure thank you wow I can't believe uh how many more people
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watch the show when you're around we peaked at like 5500 viewers today when
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with you gone I think we peaked at around 4500 so you're officially still
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justifiable as a l Media Group Employee that was close good job
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the thing about the thing about EMP employees or like team members any team
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member me included is like the real test
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is not what they do when they're around it's what happens when they're not it's
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how hard it is to compensate when they're not around how valuable is that
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person well if I just about die when they're gone for a week then I guess
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they should probably still work here my metric was when you guys missed
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an upload I was like whoa when you were
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gone yeah yeah no we didn't miss a day I thought you did no I was pretty sure you
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did no what we did was we started delaying the release till 4 hours Y no
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we didn't miss one that schedule just got bumped 4 hours and we could easily
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pull it in four hours everything is okay I thought you guys missed a video I was
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like okay that hasn't happened in like
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what that made no sense the one time that happened was um something where we
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were preparing content for a trip and uh
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that product ended up being embargoed and we didn't know yeah and so that
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didn't really count my opion that sort of didn't count even though we did
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officially miss an upload day but then we do event coverage where we do multiples in a day so we we're averaging
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more than one a day for over three years yeah okay I am having a little trouble
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understanding why this is multiple power
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you should only actually need two I think what they've been doing CU that we
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were wondering about this last time but if I remember correctly what they're
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doing is they send the whole file and they send just the presentation versions
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okay so you can change things if you want or you can just use the what should
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be the smaller ones so it's two and three is what you're looking for not
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there's no one so you need two and you need three okay all right well here's
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the first one I've officially figured this out now oh hold on let me make sure
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whatever's in the background here is not something that needs to not be in the
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background of our videos all right here we go Linus's screen share no it doesn't
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look like the included project rainon
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who won which one so I don't think it says who uh this was voted through I
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don't know if this is voted for uh by the mods or if this was voted by the
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community okay well we can that they definitely won a uh a build of the month
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award okay so pretty highend specs wow that's kind of badass kingping
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classified that's sick I love these Hardware shots and it's like here's all
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the stuff that I'm going to put into one very small place
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really like this these SSD mounts look
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really Cable Management on the back oh that looks good inside looks really good
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here though you know what we uh we're actually going to look into I I really
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like this whole straight line thing but what I don't really like is having to
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use fittings for it like like this having to use angled fittings and soft
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tubing to achieve it so we'll be looking into doing um some kind of a build log
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or build guide with hard tubing sometime
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in the near future I shouldn't say near future sometime in the future that will
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happen cuz oil cooled machine is happening first that is happening we
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have started that yeah I wasn't sure if I could say that or not we have started that um and done actually a lot of it
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yep yeah so that's going to be freaking awesome so here's our second one this
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laptop's doing some funky stuff right now but no don't worry about it we're good okay so R OG Maximus 6 Extreme GTX
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780 SLI Le Corsair sp120 quiet Edition
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fans and lots of oh wow
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whoa wow that case that is sick I like it I
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almost like the raw more than the black me too
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actually mind you maybe
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not okay this one's nice I'm assuming
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what happened was the last one was voted for by the mods and this one was voted
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for by the community community really likes them them super clean them super
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perfect builds wow look at this
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Reservoir I love it it looks like a
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freaking reactor thing like stasis
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module plumbed upness that's great
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absolutely love it what a great build all right so thanks for tuning in
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to the W show guys we'll see you again next week same bat Time same bat Channel
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peace out bye definitely doing an Afterparty this
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week and this some funky stuff happening just so you guys
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know dang it what's going on oh yeah you
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oh yeah oh that's the one with no sound well screw it we maybe if I clinch hard
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enough nope I'm dead we ready to do
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this okay we were a little late on the sound effect but whatever you guys get
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the point ear ear ear all right thanks for watching see you next week we're
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done here bye