The WAN Show - Is Piracy's Latest Victim.. LINUX??? - Feb 26, 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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all right ladies and gentlemen welcome to the W and everyone else too welcome
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to the W show we are finally live um I
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was helping Luke uh create is he what
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the oh but I was helping Luke uh create
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custom length Ethernet cables by um
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basically looking at what he was doing going wow gee that looks too hard and
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then going and getting some Ethernet cables I happened to buy a few months
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ago that happened to be the length of the cables he was trying to make and
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handing them to him so uh he should be wrapping that up pretty darn quickly and
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then he'll be joining me here on the show we've got a great show for you guys today um going to be a lot of discussion
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around Mobile World Congress obviously that was the big thing that happened
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this week lots of you know you know news about the uh latest happenings in the
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desktop computer world I need like a cricket sound effect
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that I can play um so lot lots of stuff from the the biggest handset makers you
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know your Samsung your LG your caterpillar um evidently that that's
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that's a thing uh so we'll be talking a little bit more about that actually the caterpillar phone looks really
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interesting I'm hoping to be able to get one for review um what else we got going
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on Direct X12 explicit multi-GPU mode has been tested by PC World so we're
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going to check that out um I don't know
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I'm sure there was something else that's interesting Arrow Cool's DreamBox
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chassis kit potentially a a more maker
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friendly chassis than we've ever seen before and uh software piracy apparently
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hurts Linux adoption a research uh study
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find so uh more on that at
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11
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it's so funny I got a guy in the chat that's like sorry I'm late can you start
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over like yeah I I wish that was a thing
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that I could do all right so here we go we're starting
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over welcome to the W show guys boom
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let's roll the
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intro oh boy all right so I think the
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first topic today is gonna be uh let's
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see what can I what can I handle without my my dynamic duo Ultimo sidekick here
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I'm sure there's something you know what why don't we jump right into the Mobile
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World Congress stuff if you have to go make Ethernet cables somewhere I think that's totally fine because basically
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I'm going to be listing specs for the next 20 minutes um which I actually
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won't and by the way the battery on your laptop's low Get Wrecked I love how Dell
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says strike the F1 key to continue it's
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like you have to be really sure they want you to to to not press not push not
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even hit you got to strike you got to hit with Precision accuracy
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intimidation I'm just stalling for time at this point all right so let's jump
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into the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge unlike
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last time it looks like we're going to be seeing an S7 and an S7 Edge that
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aren't just complete equivalents of each other with one of them having a curved
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screen so with the S6 and the S6 Edge they were they were actually kind of two
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versions of both there was the um there was the the note which I sort of like a
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Galaxy S6 larger and then there was The Edge Plus so this time around the S7 and
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the S7 Edge are just totally different so the edge now is a larger phone so
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it's actually got a 5 point I believe it's a 5.4 in display versus the 5.1 in
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display of no excuse me 55 in display
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compared to the 5.1 in display of the S7 Edge they're both running qu Quad HD
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Super AMOLED displays and very going to be very similar to their predecessors in
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that regard um the camera is a big change on going from the S6 series to
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the S7 Series so they're going down from
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a 16 megapixel camera to a 12 megapixel
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camera this time around they are doing the whole uh HTC UltraPixel thing except
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that there's a power bar there it's full no no the other
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one um so they're so they're actually
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reducing the pixel count in order to use larger pixels for better light capture
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especially in low light conditions but hopefully um like apple they're doing it
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right so they're doing it in a way that's not going to hurt the performance
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of the camera in more normal shooting
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scenarios something that many people complained about with the 1
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M7 this is cool so we are getting back
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the ip68 water and dust resistance so
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they are saying that it's going to allow for submersion in up to 1 and 1/2 M of
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water for 30 minutes at a time and we're getting some beefed up specs of course
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so Snapdragon 820 exos processors in some regions of the world this is so
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bizarre to me the way Samsung does this yes it's like this region this and that
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region that these people want to process this way but then again and you know
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what's funny is they get away with it like you look at how much crap Apple
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took just over using two different foundaries for the same damn chip design
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meanwhile Samsung's like yeah we're just completely different processor don't
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worry about it um at least that is done by regen though with the apple one it
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was like a gamble what one do I get who knows complete poop mix so to speak um
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some other big changes so we are getting back micro SD expansion Samsung either
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heard their customers loud and clear or
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this is nothing that they didn't know already and they intentionally withheld
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that from the last generation to hope for there to be some reason some reason
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for people to upgrade from the S6 to the S7 there's also 4 gigs of RAM this time
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around um actually oh I don't know if the I know I think there were three S6
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I'm I'm see it's all blurring together because it's like yay new phone spec
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bump really premium looking devices this time around with like Glass and Metal
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and all that kind of stuff so that's again huge step in the right direction
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love that from Samsung cuz they do it really well when they decide to do it
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um no removable battery but the capacity on the S7 looks pretty good it's got a
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3,000 milliamp battery and that combined
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with Android 6.0 Marshmallow with any power saving features we gain there
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should be enough for you to get great battery life even if you use the always
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on display features so Samsung is claiming that you lose only about a half
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a percent of battery per hour in its tests by having the display on all the
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time so that's just displaying uh so critical information I mean this is
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something that I've seen before you've probably seen before uh things like
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SmartWatches that use AMOLED displays we'll have an always on display so that
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oh it's funny I'm holding see there you go you can whatever you can barely see
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it whatever here against the purple background no I don't do it do it do it
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there see you can oh um and I've seen sort of uh ambient
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display modes on phones before like the Droid Turbo that had that proximity
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sensor that you could just kind of wave at it whenever you wanted to see it honestly
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that worked really well but this seems pretty good and it won't necessarily be
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on all the time it does have a proximity sensor as well it just uses it for the
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opposite purpose so it'll actually turn off those pixels that it's Illuminating
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to tell you the time or notifications or whatever else and whenever it's in your
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pocket or face down on a table or whatever else although if you're the kind of person who puts your phone face
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down on a table feel bad feel bad about
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that because there can be small like
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micr fragments of actually surprisingly
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hard minerals like I don't know if people know this but like sand is not
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necessarily all made of sand Stone okay
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there's all kinds of minerals and elements and deposits and junk in just
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regular ordinary sand to the point where my iPhone 6s is scratched to crap just
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from going in and out of my pocket from getting bits of dust and debris and sand
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in my pocket because I didn't put a phantom glass protector on it I know I
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even have one I have two I have a normal one and a privacy one and I was just
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like you YOLO YOLO I'm going be back on
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the 6s cuz I did so well with the Droid
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Turbo which doesn't have a phantom glass protector for it so I never even had the
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option and I'd like had it for over a year and I was like oh this thing's still doing really good I'm like getting
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good at this like taking care of my phone thing with that said not all glass
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or not all scratch resistant glass is made equal even from Gorilla Glass like
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I swear with exactly the same treatment I
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have encountered phones that scratch very easily that are using the same kind
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of glass as ones that just seem to be completely bulletproof like that Droid
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Turbo um and seem to be nearly impossible to scratch I think there's a
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there's a binning process that goes on that Corning seems to not talk about
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where there are different grades of even every type of Gorilla Glass and it might
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be a little little touch of the old luck of the draw as to whether you get a good
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one or one that is not as good uh we can
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briefly go over the S7 Edge so larger display like I said 5 1 12 in the back
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of the device now has a curve to it as well making it more comfortable to hold
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um has a 3600 mamp hour battery and
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other than that looks like pretty much the same darn thing so I'm doing way
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fewer phone reviews this day these days there's a couple of reasons for it
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number one is I just don't think they're that different from each other
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anymore yeah and number two is that
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um I I I was getting it was really wearing on me be because not all
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reviewers do this but I actually switch to the phone outright that I am
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reviewing I take my sim out of my normal phone and while these days because I use
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Google authenticator for pretty much everything I do still need to carry
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around my daily driver phone cuz switching over all that stuff is a real
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bear um I I only use the other phone for
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everything else and it has just been wearing on me to be switching phones all
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the time like that so um I only plan to review one of uh the Galaxy S7 and the
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S7 Edge
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so I'm going to do a straw pull here guys I want you to let me know which one
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you want to see here we
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go straw pull man they make it easy
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to do polls Boop there you go so I want to see
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what you guys want to see I mean I want to know what you guys want to just okay
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whatever I'm going to click results now um some more interesting phones so the
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LG G5 seems to have kind of uh jumped out
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in front of everyone else on the whole uh modular phone concept certainly not
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to the same degree as someone really
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guys the edge it's a 5 1/2 in device I can practically
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write that review right now the phone's really nice it's really fast Samsung
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continues to make improvements to touch wi uh but it's too big for my
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hands I actually I'm personally a lot more interested in the S7 than I am in
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the edge apparently very few of you are interested in it at all though this is
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one of the lowest percentage voter turnouts I've ever seen we've got 4,700
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people watching and like a thousand of you voted okay okay there we go that's a
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little better, 1500 um looks like the S7 is making up
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some CR here but uh wow you guys are with me on the whole phone's just not
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really being that interesting anymore thing it looks like uh the G5 does look
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legitimately interesting though so not modular to the same degree as something
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like the phone blocks concept where the idea was you'd actually have like almost
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like a bread board with like a screen in front of it and then you just have like
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these modules that you can modularly plug in or take out and well even
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claiming to be able to do things like a hot swap a battery module while the
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phone is running that's not out yet that's something that's in a lab
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somewhere that probably will see the light of day in the future um but for
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now the G5 does offer some modularity so
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the original article here uh this is posted by nin shadow on the Forum the
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last one was Chris row 996 and our original article here is from Android
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authorita
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um so they've got basically most of the
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phone is not modular so phone blocks was like yeah you could like put in a new
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processor and RAM and storage and blah blah blah this one most of it is not
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modular it is pretty much a phone uh they've still got the power button on
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the back although thankfully for me I I prefer this they've moved the volume
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rocker to the side of the phone then um
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it's got I think it's a 2800 milliamp B
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battery it's got some dude holding it up
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here design and build quality oh yeah they're going for a much much uh more
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like premium feeling design to it it's got this actually kind of reminds me of
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um oh what was it Nexus S original Nexus
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this actually looks like this rounded
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business here it feels like kind of a dated design language but um yeah Nexus
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uh s yeah the white one that I had yeah really reminds me of that with the with
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like sort of the curved look to the bump um but I mean as long as it feels good
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in the hand then I'm not going to give them I'm not going to give them too much
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Flack over that um but there's a few unique features to this one that
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actually make it really interesting to me so Snapdragon 820 adreno 530 4 gigs
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of RAM don't worry none of that was unique yes it is 2,800 milliamp hours
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for the battery I did just uh check on that no support for wireless charging oh
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yeah the last thing that's a total bummer and a missed opportunity about
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the S7 and the S7 Edge um micro micr USB
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connector hey it's 2016 if it's not type c I don't want to
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see it anymore get it I don't want to see anything else it's not a joke it's
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just Dum um anyway so the G5 supports Quick Charge 3.0 but no wireless
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charging it has a dual camera setup this is where we're starting to get into the
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cool stuff so it has a normal that's funny my notes say normal Ang angle dang
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it Colton so it just has a more standard
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16 megap camera then this is cool it has
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a wideangle 8 megapixel camera and the phone can actually Stitch inputs from
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the two cameras into one image and it also allows you to switch between the
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135° wide angle and the regular camera manually within the app with an instant
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transition this is one of those it is so
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difficult to get the best of both worlds unless you just put two cameras on it
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problems and LG ran out and solved it by
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putting two cameras on it because one of the things that I liked so much about
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the S6 was the relatively wide angle lens particularly on the selfie camera
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which made it so that you didn't have to have that you know that selfie look like
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the you got the one ARM out and you're like trying to make your face Square to
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the shot and trying to look natural but you can't get it out far enough to get a
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decent picture well with a nice wide angle lens you don't have to you can be
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very comfortable you can be very square and the phone can be very close to you so having the ability to take uh to take
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sorry to take wider shots of close-up subjects or and this is the problem with
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that or or to be able to get a reason reasonable Clarity on a shot of
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something like you're you know you're at a hockey game or a basketball game or something and you know you're that
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person because everyone does it when it's like oh this picture of this player
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is special because I took it um
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then you're actually able to do that in a way that you otherwise can't all right
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aluminum unibody power button built into the rear fingerprint sensor fingerprint
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sensors are a great thing especially when they're well implemented I am such
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a huge fan of that I really wish it was better on the Z5 compact um it it's it's
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a funny thing about this phone it was um it was something that I that I was not
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able to really tackle properly in my review but that I can follow up with now
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no matter how many times I re reset my fingerprint in the settings it works
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great for a bit and then stops working great and while you could say well lus
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it's obvious the answer is that you're a morphling and your fingerprints change
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over time I really don't think that's it because the iPhone 6s that I reviewed
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before that and I'm now using now after that review works like instantly just
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fine anyway um so let's get into the modules so what they're allowing you to
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to do is swap a it looks like a single module so
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you have to kind of pick okay what's my specialty so they're allowing you to
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remove the bottom cap of the phone and swap in these modules so you uh this
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allows access to a replaceable battery or you could add something like a camera
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grip which gives you manual control for
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shutter and zoom as well as um as well
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as an increase in the battery capacity so another 12 1200 milliamp hours so
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that's brings it up to 4,000 milliamp hours if you have that grip on it
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they've also got one called the LG high-fi plus so that's an audio module
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from bang and Olson which features a 32bit as if that means anything uh DAC
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as well as a dedicated 3 half mm headphone port and there are apparently
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more modules to come I can't think of too many modules
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that I would particularly want to add to a phone
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so I guess I'd like to take this opportunity to hand off to you guys and
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ask you what exactly would you add to a phone so let's let's let's do Twitter
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Blitz here um I want to hear from you guys at linch on Twitter what module
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would you like to see from LG let's go
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ahead and put that right there PC building a fridge does it work come on
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let's bring on those tweets bring on those tweets as many battery modules as
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I can get who does an hourlong podcast
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all by himself not this guy yeah and not
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this guy yeah I love your timing we've actually yeah we've actually both done
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that before we have both done that before yeah all right come on guys come
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on that thing that I'm working on is pretty much as far as it can go until I
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need to make large amounts of noise so okay cool yeah we could talk about that
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actually here why don't we talk about a couple of the videos we've got coming I
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mean YOLO right um let you do yours
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first do it background so do it in the back or do it
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in the background maybe both oh in the background so we talk about that one
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twitch allow that yeah sure so basically essentially uh I live in a rented place
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like a lot of people and when you live in a rented Place usually you know they
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don't want you to drill like giant holes in the wall because that can suck um
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sometimes you can get away with it by just not telling them but that's not really an option with my landlord so um
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I'm instead of putting my networking on a wall I'm putting it on a board which I
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can just lean against the wall because up until now all of my networking kit my
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access point my router my modem my giant switch all of it was just in like a pile
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and all the cables were just going everywhere and it was disgusting and
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horrible and I hated it back to the pile so uh so instead I'm mounting it on a
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board that's what I'm doing over there so when I was off screen I was like velcroing stuff down and routing cables
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and doing stuff like that it's not perfect but I'm doing it
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really fast so I bought $1,000 HDMI cable today
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no i i people on Twitter are freaking out they're like M us to waste of money
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I'm like I I know I know I know trust me I know you guys you guys who watch The W
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show you guys are the inner circle okay so I'm not going to Tweet out I know
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because if people have been watching people have been watching long enough to
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follow on Twitter and they don't know that I'm aware of the issues that's kind
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of czy with $1,000 HDMI cable then they
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can just wait for the piece of content they don't get to be Inner Circle okay
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so I know the point of the video is that
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someone but remember that I'm not buying an HDMI cable to own an HDMI cable I am
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buying an HDMI cable to make a piece of
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content about a forementioned HDMI cable
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and the issue with the high-end cable
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industry is that you've either got the
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people who I can't figure out why but they they they either buy into the snake
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oil and because they get given the cables maybe I'm guessing or they buy
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into the snake oil because they bought the cables they can't return them and
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they can't admit that they got fleeced
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and I think that's where a lot of this defending purchasing decisions yeah I
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think that's where a lot of this these myths get perpetuated because the
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only people willing the only people who have them to talk about them fall into
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one of those two camps for the most part so everyone else all the other people
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who know better are too smart to buy one
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so what I'm doing here effectively is I am taking it for the team yeah I just
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spent ,000 oh on an yeah that's so much worse
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on an all silver we are talking silver
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wires okay the premium of the premium
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one meter cable and then I am
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legitimately going to Benchmark it in a
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way that should actually be meaningful oh yeah see that's the part you didn't
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know I bet no because thought you're just going to rag on it yeah well I'm
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going to do that too um that is unless it actually turns out to perform better
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because in my Benchmark there is a chance in fact my Benchmark will give it
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every Advantage because while watching a video
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um or listening to audio over a forementioned HDMI cable
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literally cannot at least on this Earth
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be affected by the silver wires I believe that it is possible if
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the design of their cable is truly Superior that I will be able to
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overclock a monitor further with it oh
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because monitor overclocking is dependent on the cleanliness of the
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signal as well as the Headroom that's
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left in the scaler of the monitor so my
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intention is to take a high refresh rate
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high resolution free sync monitor so
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it's got a high powerered scaler in it and then using HDMI
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1.4 I am going to over clock as high as
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I can with the silver cable and overclock as high as I can with a $4
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cable from mono price if it performs better in a
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repeatable consistent fashion then the cable is superior but that won't change
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anything about it won't make it worth ,000 it won't make it worth $1,000 in
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any meaningful way because you could just get a DisplayPort cable yeah um
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and you're not overclocking your home theater because all the content you're
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watching on that runs at 24 to maximum
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60 frames per second the chat brought up
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um a point saying overclock your monitor but you just spent $1,000 on a cable so
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why didn't you just buy the better monitor um that's not the point because
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you can overclock better than the best monitor yeah huh yeah all right yeah to
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which you could reply the point is just is the C does is the cable better in any
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possible way at all yes and so we are going to we are going
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to do our best to answer that question
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that no one cared about because no one was going to buy that cable who watches
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our videos definitively um so yeah I I
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don't know it should be uh it should be cool I'm looking forward to it because that's the kind of stuff that's that's
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really fun for me is that sounds fun is like taking the the the general wisdom
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and actually testing it which I guarantee you I guarantee you almost
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every single person who says expensive HDMI cables are a waste has has never
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used one which doesn't mean that they're wrong it doesn't mean they're wrong okay
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I'm I'm not going to it just means they
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haven't used one they're taking what someone else said as the truth you're
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not wrong with me I have not used one I have not used one yep so I'm going to
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use one for the first time claims that's what the workshop's all about do you
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want to try it too sure okay we'll both try it we'll try it together we'll have
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like an we'll audition the cable you know we'll have like a listening party
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check out how dancable it is ooh
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ooh what if anyone's ever going to get that reference uh I oh I think so I
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think that's pretty I think that's pretty famous okay the the dancable
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cables yeah um expensive cables you
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should oh oh no no Heavens no all right
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so um let's uh let's jump into oh this
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is great this is posted by good bites on the Forum I I swear I I think he would
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actually curl up into a ball and die if someone else beat him to the punch on
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some like positive Microsoft
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news and this is some pretty positive Microsoft news the H the HP Elite X3 um
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we we talked about the leaks last week but obviously there are more details is
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announced and it is designed to be your Windows Phone laptop and desktop to
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which my reply would be sorry good bites
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and everyone else who who thinks this is relevant this is not relevant we're not
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there yet it's running a Snapdragon 820 it is running 4 gigs of RAM it's got uh
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hold on I'm going to have to it's being slow to switch between scenes four gigs
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of RAM is not nearly enough well amount
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of tabs that I run on casual desktop experience okay it's not nearly enough
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for me no it's not nearly enough for you but it's also a phone I need like 32
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gigs of RAM for my tabs bro me too sadly
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enough I run out of the 16 gigs of RAM on my computer upstairs infected me I
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used to be great I'd have like five tabs open at a time every of tabs is great
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and then I used to laugh at you because you'd have way too many tabs open and
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now I have like four Windows of the same browser and they're they all have too
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many you want to hear the truth what you got busier yeah it's true and it's not
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about being too busy to close a tab it's
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about that you're legitimately working on every single thing that's open in a
27:53
tab and and and when you get that busy
27:56
you you start to you start to think about your time very differently the 3
28:01
seconds that it takes to type in a URL is not worth the organization of not
28:06
just having that tab open already and when you're really busy and you work on
28:11
the same tasks repeatedly you actually
28:14
you learn you remember where it is yeah tab number one is my is my work Gmail
28:20
tab number two is usually my second work Gmail for when I need to reply to
28:23
something tab number three is going to be my personal Gmail well no not my
28:28
personal my YouTube my YouTube like personal Gmail tab number four is this
28:33
tab number and and you actually and so it's like this chunk is usually like
28:37
something I was working on a while ago and that I need to get back to this chunk is what I'm working on right now
28:41
it's not that hard to find things it's faster than opening up a new tab I have
28:46
a whole window for Forum management which has like the tiered system that
28:50
you're just talking about y I have a whole window for uh like like emails and
28:55
like so like work email I have work email inbox and then I have work email
28:59
like working on whatever this is so like yeah yeah yeah social land like
29:05
whatever music is currently going on all that kind of stuff's in that window then
29:08
I have like working on video a and then working on video B yeah man yeah tab tab
29:14
life all those have stacked yeah tab life um ridiculous all right so back to
29:18
the elite X3 which crashes like four times a day well that's cuz it's Firefox
29:23
Chrome has its own issues though my Chrome at home is just brain explosion
29:29
like total brain explosion my Chrome on my laptop has another has an issue too
29:33
like whenever I VNC into our servers i
29:37
chrome it's the one computer it doesn't work perfectly on um
29:42
it's just ridiculous I remember the
29:45
whole idea behind Chrome remember the commercials apparently
29:49
you no I'm going to get back to that I have not forgotten it's sitting there
29:53
with the new notifications waiting for me to hit that the light yeah yeah it's
29:57
not y um okay so let's talk about the elite X3 though um the most powerful
30:03
Windows 10 mobile device you can get 4150 Milah battery that I like 5.96 in
30:10
AMOLED uh Quad HD display uh quad core
30:15
qualcom blah blah blah 64 gigs of storage expandable to two terabytes with
30:18
micro SD although if you're storing two terabytes of data on a micr SB card um
30:23
you need to re-evaluate your strategy that's a really terrible idea
30:29
think that could be to be terab but that
30:32
could be unimportant to put on a Micro SD card I could be wrong it's got a 16
30:38
megapixel uh rear camera 8 megapixel front camera Windows hello Iris and
30:44
fingerprint scanners that's pretty darn cool IP67 rating for DUS and waterproof
30:48
mil military standard 810 rating 1 M drop very nice Chi and PMA wireless
30:55
charging holy freaking crap bit lock ER encryption image
30:59
encryption yes and here's where we get into the really interesting stuff
31:03
because it has continum it allows you to either wired
31:08
Le or W oh yeah USB 3.0 type-c way to go
31:12
wired wired Le shut up wirly or wirelessly you're so
31:17
mean connect to a couple of accessories
31:20
that HP has so one is this doc that I
31:24
forget what it's called it has a stupid name HP really needs to learn from Apple
31:29
have a cool name pencil have a pretentious name because
31:35
For Better or For Worse it helps me remember it um that allow that gives you
31:39
a DisplayPort which by the way can be adapted to HDMI two full size powered
31:44
usb3 ports with Device charging capability One USB type-c connector and
31:48
a Kensington lock um and then there's actually a laptop that has no actual
31:54
system in it um it has a 12 and 1 12 in screen keyboard touchpad speakers
31:58
headphone jack Ethernet port two fullsize usb3 connectors One USB 3.0
32:02
type-c connector and a 48w hour battery that does not feature its own CPU the
32:07
phone actually transmits to the laptop wirelessly so you can keep it in your
32:11
pocket once it is connected to the laptop very very cool so hold on a
32:15
second lus that sounds awesome and it sounds like you're amped on this great
32:19
Point except the reason I'm not amped is
32:23
because it needs two more generations and this is not hp's fault this is
32:27
Intel's fault for not getting their head in the game on their mobile x86
32:31
processors tell me about this when it runs
32:35
x86 because the beauty of Windows is the
32:39
application compatibility the Achilles heel of Windows mobile is the
32:44
application compatibility I mean I was I was just I was browsing aimlessly on the
32:49
internet and I came across um an article that The Verge did on the apps that are
32:54
not only not developing for Windows mobile but pulling their apps and it was like
32:59
terrible it was like American Airlines like Pinterest like it was just like
33:04
devastating devastating apps that are discontinuing development or flat out
33:09
pulling their apps from the platform citing a lack of users as the reason for
33:14
it um so until you can tell me about
33:18
x86 Intel powered phones I'm really not
33:22
that interested but when you can wow am
33:25
I ever excited about this like as someone who carries around a
33:30
supremely op laptop um I also have recognized that
33:37
other than my Chrome hungry hungry hipping um I don't need that much power
33:44
when I'm out and about so something like this could be
33:48
fantastic if it has compatibility for all the stupid junk I needed to run and
33:53
is maybe a little bit more powerful and is maybe a little bit more powerful because give it to two more Generations
33:57
we're going to have 8 or 16 gigs of RAM in it um we're going to have a more
34:01
powerful CPU we're going to have everything that I can imagine today
34:06
wanting although my needs might change in the next year and year or two right
34:10
so it might get even worse uh Razer has confirmed they're sending over a blade
34:13
stealth um we're really late on that I actually looked back at my emails and
34:18
they were like let me get back to you tomorrow on availability it was like 5
34:21
weeks ago so today I was like I'm getting requests to review the blade
34:25
stealth like do other people have reviews up and there people with reviews that are like almost a month old at this
34:29
point I'm like Oh my yo are you guys sending one they're like oh oh yeah so
34:34
so they're sending it um I'm hoping to get my hands on their core as early as
34:40
possible and I'm going to cut yeah the uh the external GPU box so I'm going to
34:44
kind of dig a knife into their side and be like yeah you guys got me the blade
34:47
stealth super late so I really think I should be the first with the core oh
34:51
this is this is the kind of stuff that goes on goes on behind the scenes um I I
34:56
don't know how much they like me though to be perfectly honest like Razer like
34:59
that's the thing is like I'll I'll play those games but like ultimately when the
35:03
device arrives I'm just going to say whatever um like Razer razer's gotten
35:07
some pretty bad reviews here over the years um they've also gotten good ones
35:11
they've gotten good ones they've gotten really good ones do a better job get a
35:15
better review they also with that said they also at least you know like I don't
35:20
think they intentionally snubbed me on the blade stealth or like were laid on
35:23
the blade stealth I think it was probably just a thing they missed forgot it or whatever they have a pretty mature
35:27
attitude about it when we say something negative about their products like
35:31
that's something that a lot of um a lot of people I think worry about because we
35:35
have relationships with pretty much every company whose products we review
35:40
like there's people that we're going to have to talk to when we publish a really
35:44
negative review and say yep well we we didn't like it sorry that's that's the
35:48
reality of it we've done that we've got some pretty inflammatory stuff back
35:51
sometimes uh the mounting thing are we still talking about that which one is
35:55
that the cooler the cooler remember it was really hard
35:58
to install and we were like what the hell oh yeah the um who made that be
36:02
quiet yeah yeah yeah yeah so so stuff like that like yeah they they weren't
36:06
happy about that but actually it's not like they stopped supplying us with review samples and that's something that
36:11
I think viewers I hope viewers should recognize and understand is that even if
36:16
we say something negative and even if they don't like it the mature companies
36:20
the guys like a Corsair or a Razer are going to continue to deal with us
36:24
regardless which I think is better for them better for us and better for the
36:29
consumer because ultimately if the company tries to control what we say we
36:34
will make the decision to either buy the products ourselves if we think they
36:38
really need to be covered or we just won't work with them anymore and Astro
36:42
is a perfect example of that um I actually covered that in a video that I
36:46
don't believe is released yet oh um but they they straight up never replied to
36:50
an email from me um after I released a negative review of the A50 which quite
36:54
frankly is everything I said it was it's just plain not very good it was not as
36:58
good as any of the other wireless head headsets I tested it
37:03
against like I'm sorry I don't make the rules 420 and it's it's one of those
37:08
things where I think it comes down to the the pedigree of the company as well
37:11
like I like to bring up Corsair because they do a really good job of being big
37:15
boys about it when we don't like something um with Corsair we like yeah
37:21
we don't like it they're like okay what can we do better yeah that's a good
37:25
point or no we don't agree this is why uh because their pedigree is enthusiasts
37:30
they actually care if you look back at Astro and you know I'm not going to like
37:35
I'm not going to make disparaging remarks or anything like that but if you
37:38
just read their company history they are literally a branding firm that is
37:44
literally their Core Business that they did and I believe still do that they
37:48
just kind of went oh well we're really good at this I'm assuming making
37:52
assumption okay that it seems like what they did is they went oh we're really
37:56
good at just like taking something and building a brand around it so why don't
38:00
we do that with our own stuff and so do
38:03
I necessarily think that they approached it with the same level of enthusiasm and
38:08
Engineering um adeptness skill um knowledge that
38:14
someone else might my perception based on that the product was straight up not
38:19
as good as what Corsair and steel series both brought to the table is no so there
38:25
you go that's what I have to say about that I don't know how I got on that
38:28
topic wait I aimed let's jump into that Twitter Blitz
38:33
that I had uh that I had promised to do with you guys before so what would you
38:37
guys want to see a Good Vibration motor it's such a Good Vibration
38:44
motor um anyway PCI Express I can't say
38:47
I agree with that one what was this question uh what modules do you want to
38:51
see oh that would be I forgot the question but turnup you're
38:55
correct uh maybe an anten upgrade that's
38:58
an interesting thought although I don't think we're antenna limited the same way
39:01
we were when we had to pull up the little thing before we could make a call
39:06
more storage I could you know okay like if
39:10
you don't want MicroSD storage like if you want SSD storage then I could kind
39:15
of see that 3D scan a giant add-on
39:18
module yeah seems like you wouldn't be but you
39:22
could go okay I want more storage and battery or maybe not micro use full size
39:26
and you get like two of them oh no if it had like an SSD sorry SSD I know but
39:30
that would be huge no no not like 2 and a half in SSD like like like apple did
39:35
with the iPhone 6 where it's like you want a little compact SSD I could see
39:40
that um desktop grade GPU everything you
39:43
guys want is terrible I'm sorry better internet audio module an awesome camera
39:48
okay it doesn't really work that way it's just a module that kind of like slides into the bottom but um to Ali
39:54
here like when phone block when and if phone blocks becomes a thing
39:59
that's the kind of stuff that that'll do uh Yono jono wants the audio module a
40:04
physical keyboard Galaxy S7 uses micro USB
40:08
because of the gear VR yep that makes perfect sense thank you for pointing that out that doesn't mean I have to be
40:12
happy about it they could release a new um decent front-facing speakers okay
40:19
it's a little module that slides into the bottom so I don't know how well
40:22
that's going to work I love you guys but I think um maybe we should should have
40:26
shown a better picture of um the thing
40:29
that we were doing thank you for
40:35
that $1,000 HDMI you should better phone
40:39
all Linus videos all the time stylus module Windows in VM with Bluetooth
40:44
mouse and keyboard
40:48
h okay infrared two micro SD two more
40:53
micro SDs um hanging in there
40:57
Tony read the reviews off Amazon oh people everyone's talking okay so that
41:02
was one of our less successful Twitter Blitz Blitz is usually you guys have a
41:06
lot of like really really great suggestions but it probably would have
41:10
helped if I'd shown better someone in the chat said Ty C module a type- c
41:15
module uh doesn't the G5 use type- C
41:18
already let me check I'm not sure I missed that part
41:23
uh that's a lot of notes not in my notes
41:28
so I if it's already got a USB connector
41:32
and quite frankly if it supports wireless charging it's less the the
41:35
crappy durability of the micro b is less of an issue for me it could be kind of
41:39
cool though if the charger for the phone was
41:43
modular just in case you screw the charger up by like having it in your
41:47
pocket and having it torque or whatever if you be like oh well right yeah it's
41:51
like yeah I'm eating you know 60 bucks or whatever overpriced price tag they
41:55
want to put on at least I don't have to buy a whole new pH at least I don't have to buy a whole new one uh before we jump
41:59
into our next topic now's a perfect opportunity to talk about
42:04
freshbook people in the chat are saying it's type c okay it is Type C thank you
42:08
for that then I thought so but it wasn't in my notes so I couldn't double check
42:11
freshbooks is the easy to use invoicing software that helps small businesses
42:16
look professional and get paid faster not only will you look more professional
42:20
you will be more professional because it helps you stay organized about the way
42:25
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42:29
like walk up with like a paper invoice and go like please give me a check or
42:34
cash it doesn't look nearly as professional if you have like a system
42:38
already in place you look Fly by Night compared to if you have like a like you
42:43
take credit card and or you can take check but yeah looking flexible is a
42:49
huge part of looking like a bigger business like looking like you're
42:53
successful is uh and it's it's it's kind of a funny thing because I there's got
42:58
to be people on Earth who would go oh that contractor takes credit card
43:03
therefore he or she must overcharge by 2
43:07
and a half% in order to compensate for the credit card fee there's probably
43:11
someone on Earth who literally finds the contractor who only does paper invoices
43:15
and checks because they go that's my kind of cheap skate um I want them to
43:21
use the worst materials but to the rest of the world
43:25
looking like you've got your stuff together and like that you can afford to
43:30
have proper systems in place for things like invoicing and payment it really
43:34
helps your professional image and gives people more confidence to book with you
43:38
so whether you're doing smalltime computer repair or whether you are uh
43:41
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43:46
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43:50
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43:56
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44:00
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44:04
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44:17
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44:21
you're just like I need to do as much as I possibly can you don't want to just like sit there and do paperwork nope
44:25
paperwork paperwork is a bummer you know what's
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that you could possibly want to build they've even they they've got the uh they've got the store module actually
44:58
built into I believe it's all of the templates at this point then you should
45:03
use one of those Squarespace templates create your website use the online
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Builder tool which is so easy that even I can do it and all and then I'm trying
45:13
to set it up and I can't do it my brain's not working fast enough todaying
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which uh is an offer that you should defitely take advantage of although you
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should.com is probably taken so Squarespace should build it
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beautiful good job that's difficult not
46:06
for me for you that's difficult it's when my brain's working faster I'm not
46:10
having a fast brain day today when my brain's working faster I can handle it a
46:14
lot better hopefully you speed up before the uh on the shoot tonight yeah that's
46:18
going to be rough yeah all right so um
46:21
we've got a video coming on this you filmed this right uh the valve VR
46:25
performance test okay so the O op is not filled out here original article here is
46:29
from kit Guru um but valve released their VR performance test it's there at
46:34
that portal based uh demo that I got an
46:37
opportunity to do at CES um and the point of it is basically to determine if
46:43
you have the horses to run in VR with
46:47
the conclusion being that the odds are excellent that you indeed do not um
46:52
Luke's got a video coming out where he talks about this Benchmark as as well as
46:56
I think you're going to encourage people to create a database of yeah so you
47:02
should still watch the video but what it really kind of boils down to is that we
47:06
have a fantastic cinebench community on the Forum I think it's made by jumper
47:11
118 hopefully I remember that correctly
47:14
um and it's awesome there's over 500 submissions everyone submits their
47:17
cinebench codes I actually look at that every once in a while just to check
47:21
where things are sitting it's pretty cool and I want to create the same kind
47:25
of thing based around uh steam VR performance
47:29
test results to figure out how ready the
47:32
actual Enthusiast Community is because there's problems and I go over it in the
47:35
video y because as as interesting as the steam Hardware survey is I have a lot of
47:41
machines personally yeah a big part of the video talks about not gaming
47:45
machines yeah junk data that's in the hardware server which isn't necessarily
47:49
junk data for game developers that aren't developing for VR but how many
47:54
machines do you have that you actually intend to play VR games on probably one
47:59
or zero and I have like seven machines
48:03
in the hardware survey at least Y so
48:06
like yeah I don't know I mean with the number of test benches that I set up
48:10
I've got to have dozens in there to be perfectly honest yeah all right the
48:15
unthinkable has happened radon and
48:19
GeForce together in direct
48:24
X12 so this is the dx12 explicit
48:28
multi-GPU mode and the way that it
48:31
supposedly works is that it takes any
48:34
direct X12 compliant device and utilizes
48:39
its resources in the best way possible
48:43
um oh wow we need to go pretty soon um
48:47
in the best way possible for performance boost that is not Reliant in any way on
48:53
SLI or Crossfire and can indeed work
48:58
across mixed vendor multi-GPU setups so
49:02
PC World tested it out and uh this
49:05
feature is going to is still in beta by the way but it will make its debut in
49:08
ashes of the singularity which is launching next month and so Gordon M PC
49:13
World benchmarked with a resolution of 2560 x600 with the crazy presets uh two
49:18
GTX 980s with SLI a single gtx980 a
49:22
single Fury X and gtx980 plus
49:26
Fury X which will be the really interesting one got the results here so
49:30
the gtx980 plus Fury X actually
49:33
performed the best at 56.3 frames per
49:36
second with the 980 plus 980 SLI off
49:40
multi-GPU on outperforming 980 plus 980
49:45
SLI on now with that said this is just
49:49
like an FPS graph FPS average not like
49:54
yeah we need PC per yeah we need we need
49:57
Captain Shrout to to have a look at the frame times
50:03
tell us if there's stuttering or micro
50:06
stuttering or any kind of other anomaly
50:09
in in this data that is not evident
50:12
unless you're using a frame a capture device and uh and NVIDIA's Tool in order
50:18
to see yeah like something like this
50:22
where it's a technology there's a new technology yeah we we need a much deeper
50:26
dive to figure out what's actually going on and if
50:30
NVIDIA could just go okay balls to the
50:34
wall here we go we're going to use all the processing power of the gpus I
50:38
suspect they would but they've been really focused like all their messaging
50:41
about SLI since the launch of the 980 has been about smoothness butter smooth
50:48
consistency of the frame delivery not necessarily about the frame rate they
50:53
deliver good frame rates there's no doubt of that but that's not what
50:56
they're talking about and not what they're focused on when it comes to driver and Hardware development right
51:00
now so it's possible that that frame rate is not
51:05
meaningful it's also possible that this is like bananas and the coolest thing
51:10
ever sort of because there is one big
51:14
caveat and that is that the developer has to specifically implement this
51:18
feature oh and based on how many
51:21
developers even today are still not
51:25
working with NVIDIA and AMD on CrossFire or SLI support never let alone at launch
51:30
like at all um I don't have much hope
51:33
for this being like the way forward for gaming and building your system based
51:37
around the idea that whatever game
51:40
you're going to play has this enabled is crazy unless you only plan to play games
51:46
that are already out yeah so yeah uh
51:50
this was posted on the Forum by uh cloaked and the original article here is
51:54
from business insight Ider a 19-year-old made a free robot lawyer that has
51:59
appealed $3 million in parking tickets in the UK pretty cool so sure the
52:05
government's super stoked about this kid's robot yeah
52:10
so that's awesome so hiring a lawyer for a parking ticket appeal um is not only a
52:17
headache but can cost more than just paying the ticket which is one of the
52:20
things that they rely on it's it's way
52:23
less hassle to just pay the ticket than is to try and fight it um however with
52:29
the help of this robot created by Joshua Browder who is 19 years old all you have
52:35
to do is give the robot some information
52:39
and it asks you these questions and generates an appeal letter which you
52:43
then mail to the court without ever
52:46
requiring a lawyer to draft the letter that's awesome um it can also help with
52:51
delayed or cancelled flights or or uh on
52:55
P payment protection insurance claims and he's working to program US city laws
52:59
into the bot starting with New York uh
53:03
for everything I know right Browder doesn't think that robots will be
53:07
dealing in the US Supreme Court anytime soon but he says fewer lawyers will do
53:11
mundane tasks and people will save money on stupid little disputes which I
53:16
absolutely love not only that aw but it
53:19
learns oh that's cool yeah so the more people use the robot the more
53:24
intelligent it becomes so I guess anytime it fails at something I might
53:27
analyze why I'm not sure exactly how it learns but entrepreneurs are already
53:31
talking to Browder about implementing the bot into
53:34
cars so I'm not sure exactly why you
53:38
would need to be able to dispute your ticket directly from the uh while you I
53:42
guess people that want to deal with it immediately I guess so or maybe if
53:48
there's new cars where they don't just have to put a ticket on your dash where
53:52
they can like give your car the ticket
53:57
and then you can dispute it completely
54:01
automatically I don't know man I can't see you know I can't see impark being
54:07
that stoked on that um uh I don't care
54:10
if imp Park is stoked on anything though yeah me neither I hate those guys
54:15
they're so freaking annoying I've never even gotten a ticket from them and I
54:18
hate them uh this kind of sucked uh you were actually in the middle of working
54:23
on something that used um oh my God
54:26
Linux last week uh so this was posted by pandol on the Forum and the the mint
54:32
Linux um iso download was compromised so
54:38
if you installed mint off of that ISO it
54:43
actually had a back door in it um can you explain how the crap something like
54:47
that happens uh it wouldn't even actually be that hard if they had access
54:53
to the server where people are downloading the isos from and they just
54:57
replace the iso with one of theirs that has extra stuff on
55:01
it that's kind of all they need and I
55:04
mean even the most conscientious downloader who's checking the md5 check
55:08
sums I mean if they can just replace the md5 check sum on the download server
55:13
then you have no way of no way of checking um that the iso you downloaded
55:18
is actually compromised so I was using mint it doesn't actually matter I could
55:24
use a a huge array of other things but it's
55:28
just frustrating because I had to start
55:31
not quite from scratch but I had to redownload other things and reset up my
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whatever and things sucked that video is not going to be coming for a while doc
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swag posted this one on the Forum the original article here is from wccf Tech
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dang it
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Brandon uh okay hold on I think our stream
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computer is running off of the UPS right
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now uh what just happened no no no we're
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not we do have power why doesn't that have power it's
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pluged okay and that's not working anymore just take a
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second okay cuz it's not on at all you know that it's it's not even glowing
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slightly this looks kind of cool yeah it's like uh when show Noir Halloween
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edition sorry we need a I kind of I kind of like it we should do like a really my
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phone yeah I want to do like a spooky story thing we should do like a really serious WAN Show um I don't know where
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your phone is anyway so PlayStation VR effectively
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60% more powerful than an equally speced
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PC apparently very very interesting the way
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that they're achieving this is the usual
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console Advantage so with the lower level access to the hardware um with the
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fact that game developers can program for a specific set of Hardware so so all
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those things that we're used to seeing but there is also some unexpected Secret
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Sauce as well so let's go ahead and uh
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and pull this up so this is so Sony's Richard Marx held a presentation during
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the AR VR Vision Summit February 10th to
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11th and the Pres presentation provided an overview of PlayStation VR and the basic
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development process apparently thanks to
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the fixed Hardware the latency is extremely low we're talking less than 18
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milliseconds which doesn't sound that low to me there's some problems with
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this it's got a 100 degree field of view I I do wonder if that's a typo in our
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notes though that is possible
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um super low latency of less than 18
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milliseconds mind you if that's end to end if that's end to end that's pretty
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damn impressive it's probably end to end okay um 100° field of view which
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is yeah okay like that's that's not too
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shabby I haven't tried Project Morpheus so um now the 60% more powerful than
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same speec PC point was apparently reported by middleware providers not son
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and has also been confirmed by a VR developer on Reddit Brandon I really
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don't think that light is on
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okay um who said psvr is extremely close
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to being on par with Vive and the rift
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with a GTX 970 based on the tests that
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I've done wow so if your app runs at 90
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HZ on a PS on a PC with a GTX 970 then
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you should be very close to 60 on the PS4 and with the 120 HZ reproduction
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applied it is glassy smooth so psvr only required about one
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quar of the render Target size that Vive requires the PS4 has hardly any driver
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overhead compared to Windows the draw calls on the PS4 are faster than with
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directx11 on a PC I noticed that direct X12 is being conveniently ignored here
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um there's also a 20% buffer for
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classified techniques that further reduce the
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render Target size so the Vive render Target is 457 million pixels per second
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so that's 1512 X 1680 * 2 * 90 Herz
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whereas the psvr is approximately a million 1920 x 1080 by 60 um minus
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approximately 20% but we don't know what that 20% is yeah
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um if I'mma just wait till they come out
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yeah I mean to say that a 60 to 120 htz
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upsampling or what what what what are they what are they
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callu uh reproduction works
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well we'll see yeah we'll see I mean
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even for video playback I have found
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that those kinds of you know clear motion uh Technologies are are are very
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um they're great as long long as the motion is predictable and the processor
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which by the way doesn't operate at 18 milliseconds as long as you give that
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TV's processor a lot of time and as long as the motion is predictable can
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actually be like wow I didn't know that
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there weren't actually more frames in the original content like very
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believable but something as unpredictable as a game an interactive
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medium we'll see yeah I mean I want to try it that would be cool might sound a
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little bit weird coming for me but that would be absolutely fantastic because
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right now what VR needs mostly is just wided option so if a huge amount of
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PlayStation players get behind it and then VR becomes a super normal thing
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sick yeah great yeah that's awesome bring on Bring it on to the mainstream
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I'll believe it more when I see it but
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awesome the op here is Mr Troll and the
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Gears of War Ultimate Edition PC gets
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screenshots file sized and requirements
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apparently the ideal specs are 16 gig
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RAM with a 980 TI or an R9
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390x to be fair though the minimum specs go down to a 650 TI and a 260x which is
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exactly how PC games should be yeah they
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should scale all the way down for people who don't have the horses and they
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should scale all the way up for the people who are investing all this money
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into a gaming experience that they want to have that games refuse to deliver
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because of the console cuz the ideal specs are like a chunk above the
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recommended specs yes which is sick
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super down with that yeah so minimum is
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650 TI with like an AMD fx6 core or a
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core i5 at 2.7 GHz recommended is a
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gtx970 um which is uh actually the highest percentage graphics card on the
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steam Hardware server yeah yep so like sure so like I get it okay I'm stoked
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cuz I've never played Gears of War I played one of them very possibly
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the first one well I'm stoked I'm I'm going to
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play it I haven't actually played a game in the last little while so I'm going to play that that's my that's my objective
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um really interesting article this one was posted by Patrick 3027 on the Forum
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original article here is from torrent freak software piracy hurts Linux
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adoption research finds most of the
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research sometimes it's research um into
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piracy is focused on determining how it
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hurts paid software options like Microsoft Office or like uh you know uh
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Adobe um wow I can't remember why can't
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I remember what Premiere I was trying to figure out for so long how this would
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even be possible but now I totally get it yeah so the this this new research
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suggests that software piracy has a detrimental effect on the adoption of
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the Linux desktop operating systems and I would go as far as to say that a that
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makes total sense oh yeah and B that you
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could say the same thing about any free software and free software is is driven
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by user base they benefit from whether it's ad supported or whether it's
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donation supported the more people who use it the better and if people run out
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and just pirate paid software then what they're effectively doing is they are
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taking the wind out of the sales of
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open-source or uh free- to use software
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developers which is a really interesting new way to think about that so the way
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that they tackled it was they looked at um actually the notes for this one are
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not very good um but they looked at it on a regional basis so they went okay
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this country has an estimated piracy rate of this they accounted for factors
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such as the GDP of the country um and
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local anti-piracy efforts and estimated
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that the number of Linux users would increase by 50% if all piracy
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disappeared I'm surprised it's that
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low I think that a lot of people pirate simply because they can not because they
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can't afford the software so I think that's why they're trying to factor in
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things like the country's GDP and average income when I did I'll admit to
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that it was completely because I couldn't afford the software right like
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100% I there was was no way um there was
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it was a mix for me when I did um like
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there was there was definitely some I ease of use things I straight up can't
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afford this and then there was other like you know what actually you know
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what I did pay for Vista um I was going to say stuff like Windows
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Vista where it's like yeah I'm going to use this for like a bit and I'm probably
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going to go back to XP so um I've pired
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to test things I I diday I did playay for Vista though yeah I liked Vista it
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was fun CU you had a super op computer yes I did I don't want to get into that
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conversation and that's the other thing too is I think that's where the piracy
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because I can't afford it argument gets really inexcusable is like if you went
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and spent a bunch of money on your computer and you can't afford $100 for a Windows license then
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then I don't know how your computer budgeting worked um and all of
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that um are we done do we need to go yeah I think that's pretty much it we
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should probably uh should probably get CRA aacan thank you guys for tuning into
65:57
to the WAN Show we will see you guys again next week same bat Time same bat
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Channel why are you holding that get
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it no one's going to understand but you might understand oh yes yeah we're we're
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going to play hockey yeah and that's not how you use it though this is a g this
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is a Gordon Freeman crowbar it is used like
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this it's the only correct way to use a Gord Freeman crowbar good call all right
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thanks guys see you next time
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yay