The WAN Show - GTX 960, R9 390X, and Ubisoft KEEPS ON DIGGING - November 14, 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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and we're live welcome to the W show sorry guys Luke couldn't join us yet
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don't worry he'll be here in a little bit but for now Slender Man will be
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taking his place while I introduce the topics for the day and all that good
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stuff because Luke is actually finishing
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up what will be tomorrow's video right
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now we're going to be covering the ASUS Gladius Rog Mouse it was supposed to be
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an Assassin's Creed Unity performance guide with a bunch of graphics cards and
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benchmarking and all that stuff but I'll let him cover when he gets back why that
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didn't happen H yeah it was it was pretty bad so we've got a lot of great
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topics for you guys today aside from that an AMD has released the mantle
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public SDK so they are pretty much inviting
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everyone with some uh with some need to
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have a super like bare Toth Metal Graphics API whether it's game
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developers or say for example other Hardware manufacturers they're inviting
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everyone to the party AT&T is acting
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like a small child about the ongoing net neutrality debate in the US and uh
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honestly this is just unreal so we'll give you more details on that and the
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NVIDIA Shield tablet is going to be one of the first devices not made by Google
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to feature the new Android 5.0 Lollipop
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Os Oh also I guess you know grid gam streaming went out of beta so we'll talk
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about that as well but for now now I got to roll the intro to buy myself some
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time to uh go ahead and get our
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announcement video up that we're live so that's a
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thing oh there's no music in this one I
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swear one of these days I'm going to figure out which one has the music and
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this is not going to happen
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Tech boom all right that video is up so let's jump right into our first topic
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AMD releases public mantle SDK well th
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this year so let's go ahead and um first give credit to our op so Tera flop
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posted this on the lens Tech tips forum and the original article is from and I
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know these guys aren't the most popular source of news on the Linus Tech chips
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Forum but W wccf Tech posted that it is
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coming this year and AMD has basically come out and said look NVIDIA and Intel
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we want you guys to use it you can use it for free Now Intel has expressed some
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interest in mantle apparently um NVIDIA
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on the other hand has not been that warm
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and has not been that uh friendly to the whole idea but I mean this was something
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that we've talked about in the past as well it might not necessarily be about
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mantle being the API for you know every
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future game although they do have a surprising number of games on the list
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of already released to be released soon
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and currently in development that are supporting this technology but it might
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not end up being mantle API that you know the game runs on ultimately 5 years
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from now but what's great about them
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opening up the kimono a little bit like this is Kronos and Microsoft so the
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openg and direct X guys have already said that they're looking at mantle and
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possibly implementing various parts of it in their own apis so I mean openg has
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the advantage of its ubiquity I mean you can run openg games on a tablet or you
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can run them on a PC um so that's really
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cool direct X of course has that amazing backwards compatibility as well as that
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enormous industrywide support on the PC side of things and so if either of those
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get anything positive out of AMD's
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public mantle SDK then that's uh that's
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absolutely fantastic so that's I mean
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it's it's incredible how much momentum it's gained and yet how it might not end
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up being the winner but there's no question that mantle has pushed the
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industry forward and we should definitely be thankful for
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that all right I just you know let's do a straw
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pull here I want to hear from you guys okay straw pole
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will NVIDIA provide any kind of mantle
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support yes no and let's go with apple fritter for
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our third option because I know how much you guys love you know just not
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contributing to the poll at all all right let's go ahead and spam the chat
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with this bad boy boom boom
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boom ah I missed that first time yeah no
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matter where you click in that apparently the camera looks really bad
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today I don't know what you're talking about all right there we go
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all that's bam so we've already got uh who's this
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in twitch chat one man Pizza in twitch chat already says it's not even a
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question they will never I I don't necessarily think that's
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true I mean it's not like NVIDIA is in a position where if some game comes out
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that that ends up actually running you know 20 30% better on mantle compared to
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directx12 which looks like it's going to offer many of the same benefits so this
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kind of thing seems very un likely but if there was a game like a really key
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game or a lots of games like a dozen games that run 20 30% faster on mantle
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you really think NVIDIA's not going to leverage that if they can I I don't
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think that's true at all but let's go ahead and see what you guys think let's
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fire up these results here while I move on to the next topic wow we've got 51%
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of you uh saying no 30% of you saying
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apple fritter and a um tiny 19% of you saying yes so it looks
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like you guys are pretty much on the same page about both apple fritters and
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uh the chances that NVIDIA will provide any kind of support in their drivers for
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metal all right our next topic actually
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you know what this is a Ubisoft thing so I think I'm really just going to have to
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wait until Luke gets here for this um so
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first up is this was posted by Tech dreamer on the Forum let's go and the
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original IAL here is from Ang Gadget but
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Tom wheeler the FCC chairman says that he may ignore Obama on the topic of net
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neutrality now he made it very clear
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that even though he was appointed by Obama the FCC is a separate entity just
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because the White House says something like you know oh we want to classify the
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internet in the same way that we now classify telephone lines so there can be
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there can be no no messing about with the way that traffic gets allocated and
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and the way that bandwidth gets allocated so that you know large
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corporations would have an advantage if they're able to afford to pay for
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internet Fast Lanes so Obama's basically said look you know net neutrality is a
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really good thing but the FCC chairman has come out and said that he thinks
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that the solution while you know I I hopefully hopefully you know
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the the solution that the internet service providers are offering up which
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is that they should basically be able to do whatever they want as far as I can
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tell he's saying he prefers a or he prefers a more nuanced solution so you
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guys can interpret that however you want but it sounds like what we're likely to
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end up with isn't going to be straight net neutrality and isn't going to be
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straight the isps are allowed to do whatever they want but some critics and
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Advocates are expressing their concern that a compromise between these two
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might just end up with a muddy set of rules that doesn't actually have a whole
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lot of meaning in the real world so guys
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there are a thousand places that you can voice your opinion on the subject of net
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neutrality but the only thing I really have to say about it at this point is go
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voice it it's extremely important without net neutrality we could see
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situations where let's say a company
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like oh I don't know hypothetically Netflix were to try to start a let's say
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hypothetically streaming service where they deliver video programming to
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people's homes and let's say you know an
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incumbent let's say Comcast whose business happens to be and these are
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just examples these are hypothetical companies any semblance they bear to
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existing companies it's purely coincidental so let's say for example
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this company hypothetically named Comcast goes oh well you know we're in
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the business of providing internet connections to people's homes but we're
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also in the business of providing video content to people's homes and if these
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guys are going to use our lines for that well they should be paying us a lot more
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than necessarily the you know exact
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amount we would normally charge for the amount of bandwidth that they're using
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and if we don't maintain net neutrality we will be stuck in a situation where
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they would be free to do that and we could rely on the courts to enforce any
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kinds of you know anti- competitive laws or whatever else but we talked about
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this last week where oh shoot and I
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forget how long it took I think it was back in 2000 was the issue with Intel
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misrepresenting the performance of their Pentium 4 processors against AMD's
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competitor and so 14 years later last
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week this was news people who bought that misrepresented processor got $15 I
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mean that's how long this takes and that's how ineffective it is um so I
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wouldn't I wouldn't rely on that we just need to make sure that we keep the the
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freedoms that we already enjoy in the first place place if we want to have any
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chance of of not living in a world where
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our isps are in control cuz we know how
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awesome they are speaking of how of how
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awesome our isps are AT&T has publicly okay this was posted
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by Dietrich W on the Forum the original article here is from The Verge I'll just
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pull this up here but AT&T has oh that's
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weird oops okay hold on a second let's
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just change my screen share around here wow it just decided that it was going to
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go into extend mode rather than
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duplicate okay
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what
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ah sometimes I just don't even you know
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like I just don't even get it so let's
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just show desktop only on one let's try that first
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okay keep changes sorry guys then let's
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try uh oh okay and then that display is
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completely not detected anymore which might explain some of why it's uh being
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a little bit borked anyway the original article is from The Verge here and
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AT&T's basically said well you know look
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we're not going to invest in high-speed fiber connections and there were they're
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in talks with something along the lines of 100 cities about getting high-speed
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fiber rolled out and this looked very reactionary to Google Fiber starting to
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roll out in selected cities and so they're saying okay look we're not going
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to invest in any of that stuff until we know the lay of the land with the new
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rules um so so basically how much money
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they're going to be able to squeeze out of every you know foot of fiber that
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they lay down in these cities and this is extremely disappointing to me not
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only because they already got the money
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to build a better infrastructure I mean this was this is this is well documented
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at this point they got the money they did nothing with it so aside from that
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they've already been paid um this is disappointing because it's not like
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they're not doing just fine today the
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plan to roll out this high-speed fiber networking is in place on the basis of
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they're already doing just fine charging people as much as they're charging them
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for internet connections that at some point they had to build the
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infrastructure for and at some point that investment paid off from a business
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standpoint investing in something that you can get someone to pay you 50 to $75
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a month or whatever else for in densely populated areas is a winning proposition
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and the only reason that they can afford to just sit on ass until presumably
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sometime in early to mid 2015 when these
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rulings get finalized I mean if it even happens then the only reason they're
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able to do that is because it is so difficult for competitors to come in and
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force them to step up their game so I I
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I don't know how all this plays out I mean it's it's easy for me to say as a
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Canadian well this is all kind of us nonsense so it will never affect me here
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but the problem is that so much of what happens in the US does tend to become a
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precedent that's been set for it now and it does tend to trickle down to other
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places not everywhere but in the case of Canada that tends to happen a whole heck
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of a lot and our isps are no less evil
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than the American isps so they're going to look at what worked down there and
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they're going to push real hard to have it you know work up here and they're
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going to build case studies and they're going to Lobby our politicians and go oh
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well look how successful this was it you know did this for the economy because
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we're able to charge this much more to to whatever else
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so what a childish thing to do we're just going to stop building any more
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better infrastructure until you know we get and they haven't they haven't said
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that it has to be a favorable ruling they've just said that they are going to
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re-evaluate their plans once there's a ruling but I think we all kind of know
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how this is uh how this is going to play
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out got people asking where's Luke Luke is recording a video right now so as
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soon as he's done he's going to jump up here and join me and then boot Slender
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Man out of his spot all right so this is uh this is a really
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unfortunate little piece of news this was posted by Victoria Secret on the
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Forum and it is unusual for large
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companies like NVIDIA to come and out and speak speak publicly to post on
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their blog about you know something like an ongoing lawsuit but uh this is this
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is really important not because of
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really I straight up don't understand
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where that's coming from that is oh I
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know what it is that's a that's a screen
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grab of the last thing that I was looking at it's not updating anymore I
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see okay well you guys will just have to take my word for it it's on NVIDIA's
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blog and uh basically I'm I'm going to kind of run through the whole thing here
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because it's super it's super crappy and Samsung is behaving like a spoiled child
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about this so they basically said look we filed patent lawsuits 2 months ago
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against Samsung and Qualcomm alleging that they've used our patented GPU
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technology without proper compensation to us when we filed those suits we fully
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expected to be sued in response it's a predictable tactic so we weren't
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surprised when earlier this week Samsung filed the lawsuit against us adding in
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for good measure velocity micro I don't know if you guys are familiar with
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velocity micro if you don't follow the boutique system builder space you know
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the Falcon Northwest and uh you know pit
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systems guys of the world you might never have heard of velocity micro but
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they're a a pretty small company okay
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they're not like a gigantic Mega corporation like a like a Dell where
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there could be some kind of you know collusion between Dell and NVIDIA to
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allegedly break some Samsung patent or
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something they're just they're just a system integrator very similar to this
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could have just as easily happened to any other shop that builds custom gaming
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Rigs and sells them on their website so
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they included velocity micro a small customer based in Virginia so their
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action focuses on eight patents NVIDIA is alleged to have violated six and
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included in the in the filing is a false advertising claim against NVIDIA um that
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the statement about the Shield tablet with the K eger K1 processor is the
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world's fastest mobile processor there saying it's fals and misleading so NVIDIA goes and like straight up puts
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here's our benchmarks against the exos 54 433 that's in the Note 4 yeah you're
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not faster yes NVIDIA did include a lot
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of gaming focused benchmarks so are they spinning things a
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little bit uh yes but they also included
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some non-gaming Focus bench marks and it looks like if you were to just sort of
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you fire a shotgun and if you hit sort
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of you know the the Dozen or 15 or so
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benchmarks that they ran you would hit more that NVIDIA wins than that Samsung
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wins and uh pretty much here we go it's
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unfortunate that Samsung sued velocity this isn't velocity's fight this is this
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is just extremely this is just extremely crappy
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a velocity and this isn't something that um that NVIDIA's put in their article
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but it is something that I've seen in some of the articles about NVIDIA's blog
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post but you know we got to consider when we shop a lot of different things
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that often we don't we tend to look at a spec sheet we tend to look at a
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benchmark Mar score and we tend to look at a price and then we go ahead and we
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we make a purchasing decision but I
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mean no one I shouldn't say no one I
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think a lot of us are frustrated at times with the way that Apple behaves
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with respect to its patents but is Samsung really being any less vindictive
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and it's one thing if they're going to go after another big boy you know if
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they're going to go after an apple or an NVIDIA but it's a whole other one if
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they bring in a little company like velocity that didn't do anything other
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than put NVIDIA graphics cards in their systems um just because and this is
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NVIDIA's Theory this is allegedly just because Virginia tends to process these
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filings extremely quickly and velocity had the bad luck to be located in
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Virginia so just something to something to
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consider oh there there is an open letter to the public from Randy Copeland
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the CEO of velocity micro where he basically says look we know nothing
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about thee previous issues between Samsung NVIDIA and we don't care you
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know his response really had a very he had a very it had a very bitter tone to
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it and he basically said we'll have to use company resources to defend
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ourselves from Samsung and obviously
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mismatched opponent and he says if this is how Samsung operates we want no part
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of it and we hope others agree and we consider this during the upcoming
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holiday shopping season can't say I disagree Mr cop who
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I've actually never had the pleasure of meeting but seems like a nice enough guy
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and doesn't deserve this kind of nonsense all right I've got another
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Ubisoft thing here that I'm going to skip and wait for uh wait for Luke to
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come in so he can weigh on but I have
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the most hilarious thing that I probably
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saw this entire week to show you guys here and I'm going to I'm going to fire
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it up on on this computer so that I can screen share with you guys so you can
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see this but this is freaking unreal gig
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B releases a triple or show shows off I
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don't think you can buy it yet I'd be surprised if you can ever buy it to be
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perfectly honest um shoot where did it go I can buy you I'll buy your face oh
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all right so the original article here is from tech power up let's go ahead and
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do a quick screen share I don't know what's broken about my uh my stupid
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thing here but I can't screen share again this week all right screen region
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boom okay Gigabyte announces gtx980 water
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Force Tri SLI all right so this is three
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GTX 980s each with their own individual
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120 mm radiator and 120 mm cooling fan
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it features this massive like coolant
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exos style external radiator system
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thing and then presumably because Gigabyte wanted to use a prepackaged
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solution um instead of going with a custom pump configuration and then
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allowing one pump or even dual pumps to power the whole thing each of these is
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its own separate allinone with its own
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separate pump and then its own separate set of Inlet and Outlet lines into the
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computer so you actually have to run all six of these tubes into your computer
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with this box sitting next to it how are you even going to be able to do that
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though uh because I could see like are they really really small tubing they
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look like quarter inch to me oh man so they're not hyper small like you're
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probably ripping a PCI like slot out of
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the back gross on the back of your case cuz like you're not going to be able to
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get through the included grommets and because it's pre-filled okay because
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it's pre-filled you can't even like go through a grommet unless you could
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thread your graphics card through your water cooling grommet
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oh my God so this you wouldn't be able to go through one of the expansion card
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slots either then oh yeah wait how's this even supposed to work I wonder if
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they do have go through the maybe they have quick connects okay maybe I'm wrong
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about this don't quote me on that the front you have to go through the
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front no that's
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horrible no they didn't even sleep the cable look look look look look this is
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worse than I could have Poss
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yeah they can yeah yeah they're looking at this right
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now come on is that okay do they give
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you a custom like B thing I guess so that is it isn't it
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yeah wow just wow mind you mind you here
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this is a value at it comes with this graphics card reinforcement cool bracket
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doohickey bracket do hii and and so yeah
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is that a custom that's a coolest lie Bridge yeah I'm not going to buy this to
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get that SL hybridge mind you but um but I wouldn't buy that to buy the like
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thing that looks like a BAL tire pump either so yeah welcome to the show thank
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you um so I was saving the Ubisoft topics oh yeah so I should probably
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finish up I should probably finish up that graphics card thing for you guys uh
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each of the cards is going to be clocked at 1228 MHz core 1329 boost although of
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course you'll be able to overclock them further at with 7 GHz on the memory
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um the front panel can control fan speeds and coolant pressure of each of
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the three Loops for whatever reason you wanted to
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do that and I think that's pretty much
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it it's fully assembled in the factory but I think that was implied when I said
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these were these were pre-built yeah okay so let's start with uh let's start
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with this article on PC pur.com and I
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apologize for for this just being sort of a little bit cluggy this week I will
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figure out what's wrong with the capture card um so here's the original article
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from pcp.com it was post posted by obscure mammal on the Forum where um
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Ryan had an article or had an opportunity to talk to the Ubisoft
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development team about hey actually
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didn't know about this article what the heck is what the heck is going on over
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there um so basically the development team came back and said that Assassin's
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Creed Unity is one of the most detailed games on the market it has a giant hold
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on hold on just calm down Luke it has a giant open world city with tens of
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thousands of objects visible on screen Paris is incredibly detailed for example
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notredam is millions of triangles itself
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it features Global illumination local Reflections realistic High dynamic range
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lighting they talked about scaling down the quality to allow for lower system
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requirements but decided against it because they were targeting existing PC
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Hardware not future cards but high-end
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existing PC hardware and this is a quote
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our position always came back to us ensuring that Assassin's Creed Unity is
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a nextg only game with breakthrough graphics with this Vision we did not
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degrade the visual quality of the game
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they are planning to continue working on optim oh I haven't been screen sharing
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with you guys I'm sorry there's the article on PC per so yeah basically it's
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it's just Ryan asking questions and
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then a big long thing oh there's some updates since the last time I I had
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uh okay so apparently okay okay okay so
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there's updates we can actually chat about these updates very briefly but the
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the the last part of what we originally sort of sort of knew about this was that
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they're going to continue working on optimizations and you'll hear more details shortly so here's an update a
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couple of other media Outlets have posted anonymous information that indicates that the draw call count for
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Assassin's Creed uni is at fault for the poor poor performance of The Game on PCS
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according to this quote unquote anonymous source while the consoles have
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lowlevel API access to Hardware to accept and process several times the
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number of draw calls that direct X11 can
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um direct X11 is limited to 7 to 10,000
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Peak draw calls while um the game is apparently pushing in
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excess of 50,000 draw calls per
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frame and then if this turns out to be true it would be a confir confirmation
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that UBC didn't take the time to implement a direct directx11 Port
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correctly and if it's not true or that's
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only partially to blame then we're left with more meaningless finger pointing because people really want to point
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fingers I've seen fingers pointed at NVIDIA Gameworks yeah I've seen fingers
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pointed at Ubisoft um I actually don't
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think I've seen anyone blame Microsoft for this one although you could make the
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argument that if we're draw bound um the
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overhead associated with DirectX 11 could be partially to blame given that
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it's no secret that graphics card makers like AMD have been pushing for a lower
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level API to the point where they went just went and created their own their
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own for an awfully long time now um but
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it makes a ton of sense especially
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because even though we weren't able to do our own performance testing of
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Assassin's Creed unity and I'll let you go on that very soon especially weren't
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able to do our own today and yesterday which is what we wanted to do um it
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makes sense given that we've looked at other people's performance analysis and
28:38
it just doesn't make any sense yeah we don't seem to be limited by the
28:43
traditional things like memory bandwidth
28:46
or you know fill rates or at the same
28:50
time though pretty much everyone that I've seen actually reporting numbers has
28:54
had like fairly blatant disclaimer being
28:58
like it's pretty spiky because like even even the amount
29:01
of times that I was able to get it live like I could be just staring at one
29:05
exact wall and like I lined up framings with like okay there's a Groove along
29:10
the wall here I put my screen exactly on that Groove stand on this I stand on
29:13
exactly the spot like I had the framing perfect and I'd look at it and get 63
29:18
FPS and I'd look away and come back and
29:21
now I'm at 52 and I'm
29:25
like wow bro I'm staring at the same wall like it should be the exact same
29:30
performance and it's just not like why not what is wrong with you so are we
29:36
actually here so why don't you give the update on your experience with
29:39
Assassin's Creed Unity so far okay so I'm sure they want to hear from
29:42
you it's awesome oh hold on hold on hold
29:45
on yeah there's a the little look I don't
29:50
know if we supposed to anyways um uh
29:54
that's my that's on my shirt I'll hold really still yeah there you go um so it
29:59
it started off I showed up to work quite early today cuz I was like I need to get
30:03
this testing done before the W show trying to be all good Samaritan and get
30:08
you guys a video Yeah didn't get a successful boot for what 2 and a half
30:14
hours yeah no you were talking to me at like4 to 9 the first message I sent to
30:19
you was I think you hadn't had it booted yet yeah I think the first message I
30:23
sent to you was before 7 cuz I got to work pretty early I don't think I
30:27
replied to that one no no not till later I was sleeping I I thought so I just
30:31
wanted to send that message before I forgot about it anyways um had tons of
30:35
issues like I I could load in and then
30:39
take like two steps and I'd lose connectivity to you play so the whole
30:43
game would just crash it wouldn't go like oh you're offline now you can't
30:46
open those stupid freaking chests no you actually can't play at all and it's not
30:51
like it just closes the game the whole thing just like gray screens and then
30:55
does that like uh Microsoft is trying to figure out what just happened to this
30:59
program we don't really know do you want to end it I like of course it's trash um
31:03
anyways so then eventually I'm like I I
31:07
messaged lonus and I was like should I just go offline mode or should I go
31:11
online mode like there's a noticeable performance increase when you go to
31:14
offline mode which is hilarious and I voted for offline mode because I figure
31:20
they've got to patch this I'm sure that if there's that much of a performance
31:24
disparity just between being
31:28
and being offline they can probably implement that fairly easily so I was
31:32
like okay test offline and then hopefully that'll represent what people
31:35
will be getting once the next patch shows up okay go ahead okay so so we're
31:40
going along it's it's it's kind of working now I still have a few issues
31:44
but I get over most of those and I I I get through it and I'm finally like okay
31:48
I need to finally find a benchmarking run I had planned to have a benchmarking
31:52
run way before now sorry of course it's
31:55
trash Luke 24 I had planned to have a benchmarking run
32:00
way before now I'm kind of worried cuz I need to get all these cards done but at
32:03
the same time I'm like 3/4 these cards aren't going to work anyways so whatever
32:08
probably won't be as hard as I'm expecting it to be um finally loaded to
32:12
the game and at this point I'm like okay I need at least at least a little bit of
32:17
a fighting scene and I need a little bit of free running and then I'll be happy I
32:22
don't need much like I just need something that'll work and I'll just say
32:25
in the video that it's not great because I ran time CU it was broken and a
32:28
benchmark run doesn't necessarily have to be representative of the most
32:32
demanding scene in the entire game in fact a lot of the time it's not because
32:35
we're looking for repeatability so a benchmarking run should should be
32:40
demanding enough that there isn't an obvious CPU bottleneck and you're going
32:44
to want to try and show some amount of variance so like explosions and wide
32:48
shots and close shots and lots of people and different things well like we want
32:52
to get a feel for how the engine performs and then we want to be able to
32:55
rank graphics cards against
33:01
perance quantif FPS will get if I'm
33:05
running a similar configuration to them in this spot in the game if I upgrade my
33:09
graphics card to this that's what we want you guys to
33:12
know anyways so I I found a spot that
33:15
was actually not too bad and it's pretty close to the beginning of the game you
33:19
spawn in I'm not going to give any spoilers but you spawn in you run forward and follow some dude there's a
33:24
fairly quick little sequence thing you run a little bit further you stab some
33:28
dude you run a little bit further there's a little quick sequence thing
33:31
you climb up some stuff you climb up some more stuff y y fairly straightforward and it captured the main
33:35
things that I wanted to find and I was like okay this can kind of work but
33:40
considering how fast I found that I actually have a little bit of extra time
33:44
let's see if I can push on forward and see if there's maybe a little bit more fighting scene because I literally just
33:48
ran past this dude poked him twice and then kept going that's all the fighting
33:52
I got and I knew people would have been like H this isn't Assassin's Creed you
33:56
have to stab more more people so I was like okay whatever I'll try to find something really quick run forward kill
34:02
some guy that I didn't really seem was I didn't think was super important in
34:05
hindsight like it kind of makes sense but it went into this crazy long stream
34:10
of annoyingly not skippable for a lot of them cutcenes which ended up being like
34:15
8 minutes or something which if I had any amount of sound might have been good
34:19
but I didn't cuz I'm on a benchmarking rig yeah so I'm just like sure I have no
34:24
idea what's happening you guys are talking that's cool anyways it goes to
34:28
the next sequence I'm like oh okay well how do I
34:32
get back to the last one cuz that's where my benchmarking run is you can't
34:39
you can't go back at least at this point in the game I don't know if maybe later
34:43
on you're able to go into the the thing that I'm going to not spoiler and go
34:47
back but at this point in the game you can't go back in sequences you also
34:52
can't delete your save file and you can't restart the game so you have your
34:58
one save file and you have the furthest progress you've gotten to in that save
35:03
file what so for the next little while I
35:06
was very surprised that you couldn't do that in game for one but then
35:10
immediately I'm like okay whatever I'll just do the super ghetto option and go
35:14
delete it from either I'm assuming my documents or app data or inside the game
35:19
folder not super likely that it's inside the game folder because you'd lose your
35:23
saves if you uninstalled the game but it's possible I start looking around and
35:28
I can't find Jack I can't find anything I I found a save games folder with
35:33
folders that were just extremely long random strings of characters and inside
35:37
those folders just files that were just random numbers I'm like sweet found a
35:43
couple that were from today but like I didn't want to delete the wrong stuff so
35:47
I started looking online and I started tweeting and I asked people and some
35:50
people shared some ideas someone was like oh it's file 740 or 720 or
35:55
something I don't remember so are looking for that F
35:59
420 um so I I but they can't be
36:03
high because you can only run the game on they keep on digging oh there's two
36:08
jokes there good one um anyways So eventually I fig okay
36:15
it was supposed to be a folder named 720 but there was no folder named 720 but I
36:19
found a file named 720 which was created
36:22
today so I was like oh awesome okay we found it successful delete load the game
36:28
save still there what what okay so I go and nuke like
36:34
every single file that's been created today like everything I can find just
36:39
destroy everything whatever like if I have to redownload a small part of the
36:43
game at least I have the bulk of it just go to like destroy everything mode it
36:47
takes a while to find everything delete it all launch the game file still there
36:52
I still have my progression file I'm like what the crap what is going on why
36:57
can't I get rid of you why won't you go away and then I'm like oh okay someone
37:03
posted online even if you're on offline mode maybe one of the things that keeps
37:07
functioning if you have internet is your Cloud saves right so I'm like actually
37:12
that kind of makes sense cuz maybe you go into offline mode to like hide from
37:15
people maybe it's their version of anonymous but you don't want to lose
37:18
your save files maybe like okay that's
37:21
actually not a horrible feature I'm down with that okay fine I
37:26
don't know how many people would I'd love it if we could just manage our save
37:29
files normally anyway exactly yeah but
37:32
or if it was like steam where you could be like I want to use the cloud SA or
37:37
don't yeah yeah options are good thanks
37:40
Ubisoft except no thanks steam um so I'm
37:45
like okay disable go back through I find those old files that I just deleted
37:50
again so I'm like oh they're Cloud syncing that totally makes sense cuz it
37:54
recreated them right right so I'm like all right right cool delete them all
37:58
loadad the game save file still there so basically in a nutshell we're
38:05
going to try and figure this out yeah uh but it's just it just might take some
38:08
time and normally finding an Assassin's Creed run is just a matter of me making
38:12
sure Luke gets provided with a review copy of the game that he doesn't have to
38:16
pay for and he just goes and plays it because he's going to play it anyway because he's the biggest fraking
38:20
Assassin's Creed Fanboy ever like have you 100% did every game up till now yes
38:25
yeah so there you go so usually finding an Assassin's Creed run is as simple as
38:29
Luke kind of having it in the back of his mind while he sits and like yeah
38:32
zombies out at his at his computer for 4 days after launch you know what I'm
38:36
trying to think Black Flag you were a zombie for about a week after launch cuz
38:41
as far as I can tell that was all you were doing outside of work time have you
38:45
even been tempted to touch Unity no and I haven't wow I've been working in my
38:50
spory time instead of playing and you've even played Assassin's Creed games 100%
38:54
at Assassin's Creed games that by your own admission weren't that great no I
38:58
hated three three sucked wow I was not a
39:01
fan of three at all so in the spirit of
39:04
keep on digging we are finally releasing
39:08
the keep on digging shirt are we yes
39:12
it's ready the campaign is ready we were supposed to have shirts to wear today
39:17
you get banned from spanning your own channel really I think so oh all right
39:22
well um just cuz that was that was just a lot I actually really want this shirt
39:26
so oh I am I am super stoked on this
39:29
shirt because the way we design the shirt it's not just to be used on
39:33
Ubisoft necessarily you can keep on digging
39:37
anything so the previous keep on digging even though we didn't use that
39:40
terminology would have been EA so now we're just it's now Ubisoft and whoever
39:45
e was brofist yeah that's true that's the origin of brofist that was the when
39:49
we started brofisting on the show yeah wow that was so all these gaming
39:53
companies start our memes I know thank you for being ter
39:57
and keep on keep on digging like I I know that I didn't invent the phrase
40:01
keep on digging but did did I popularize it yeah for Ubisoft yeah yes it's all
40:07
over the place cuz there have been some fantastic keep on digging me St on like
40:14
PC Master race on our own Forum um I've
40:17
seen a lot of gifs of me digging on the show so guys if you want to rep if you
40:24
want to rep just the keep on digging this the amount of hatred that this
40:29
morning that is that is going on right now show your support for Luke keep on
40:34
diing t-shirt um oh good we have hoodies oh I
40:39
might have to order a hoodie cuz the uh the the the Highlander
40:43
hoodie I have is awesome it's super nice is it the same kind yeah it's the same
40:47
one it's the it's the same Gilden one I wasn't sure about Gilden hoodies when we
40:52
first um there we go when we first
40:55
ordered our our Highlander stuff and I just kind of ordered one hoping it would
40:58
be nice and I was checking if there were better options and that was all they
41:02
really had but it's like super nice you saw it right yeah so I I definitely want
41:06
like a keep on digging hoodie yeah me too I'm going to buy
41:11
one every every winter season I get like a new hoodie this was last season so I
41:16
need a new one yeah so everyone was everyone was pretty darn stoked with the
41:20
uh with the quality of the Highlander shirts so that's why we're going ahead
41:24
with Teespring again cuz they did a great job of uh of that campaign I had
41:29
uh a guy on the Forum and stuff Str strore map had two shirts from I think
41:34
one from district lines and one from Teespring both show up with little holes
41:39
in them and he got both of them promptly replaced nice yeah so that's good all
41:47
right I feel like I had more crap to throw at e or Ubisoft oh no there
41:52
there's more like there's a there's a there's some crap going on with respect
41:56
to to Far Cry 4 review copies oh polygon
41:59
didn't get one really yeah they have
42:02
like a developer version that they can't use to actually review the game and then
42:06
they couldn't get it working on any of their PlayStation 4s and then they just
42:10
so they're just like so yeah we're other Publications got retail copies we don't
42:15
really understand why we don't have one so we're just going to go buy a retail
42:18
copy we'll have a review for you guys as soon as possible wow yeah they've got a
42:22
blog post up I was like really messed up oh jeez and then
42:28
what was it Assassin's Creed Unity the Embargo date was 12 hours after the
42:32
release um total actually this ties into
42:35
hold on let me just biscuit made a video for that didn't he I don't know if he
42:39
made a video about it but um okay I here
42:42
can I can I do our next news article first then um but this is great I'm so
42:47
happy with this I'm going to talk about total biscuits thing so Ubisoft stock
42:51
and I actually haven't looked at it today so this is the old headline but
42:55
Ubisoft stock fell 99.33% um direct immediately after the
43:00
Assassin's Creed Unity launch I mean we
43:04
are talking not inconsequential amounts of money and I am so glad because I I am
43:11
a huge advocate for gamers voting with
43:14
their wallets if you don't like it not
43:17
only don't play it or no excuse me not only don't buy it don't even play it
43:23
don't even give them the opportunity to look at like piracy you know seeds and
43:28
Torrance and and and try to extrap take those as positive metrics yes they can
43:33
interpret that positively even by downloading it you can be supporting
43:38
what they're doing if you ignore Far Cry
43:41
4 if every single one of you and all of your friends ignore Far Cry 4 and all of
43:47
their friends and all of their friends if you can make a difference to the
43:51
pocketbooks of these companies they will treat you like your voice actually
43:55
matters because because as long as you keep giving them money your voice doesn't matter not at all y the only
44:00
reason why we wanted to do and still kind of want to do an Assassin's Creed
44:03
Unity benchmarking video and the only reason we will want to do a Far Cry 4
44:06
video is that we can warn everyone essentially like look at this crap it
44:11
doesn't freaking work don't buy it we're not a we're not a gaming publication we
44:16
are a hardware publication so we're going to look at it from a hardware
44:19
perspective this is how well this piece of Hardware handles this game and then
44:24
we're going to do some investigation which is going to take a lot of detective work in this case to figure
44:28
out why this particular game doesn't run well on that particular hardware and
44:33
we're going to come to a conclusion that should be fairly obvious by this point in time because it's trash because we
44:37
want you guys to know this stuff but we're not going to be doing Let's Plays
44:40
of Assassin's Creed Unity no well exactly two minutes yeah in a way that
44:46
you probably shouldn't play the game unless you're so we're going to
44:50
have it open on our computers un unless you're very
44:54
specifically trying to B bench market so to be clear you know a stock dip like
45:00
this can be temporary it might not be indicative of a long-term struggle I
45:04
wouldn't be surprised if it bounced back at least a little bit but it can be a
45:09
warning sign and it can be and at least if nothing else it's going to be an
45:14
attention grabber because Executives and bean counters will notice that even if
45:19
they're not reading you know every comment in the twitch chat of the Linus
45:24
Tech W show stream you know yeah exactly
45:28
not watching which I feel very disconnected from cuz I don't have my laptop right now oh you don't have a
45:32
laptop wow you're like a you're like a
45:36
you're like a peasant of no laptop of
45:40
why don't you just um here why don't I message well no because the the the the
45:44
peasants are defined by their disbelief
45:47
of PCS being better that's true I didn't mean console peasant I just meant your a
45:52
wow peasant because glorious wow Master
45:56
race people have laptops so so okay yeah that's really
46:01
unfortunate I'll ask Nick to bring you one okay cool um okay so let's let's
46:06
sort of let's keep going here um right so it's it's probably going to bounce
46:10
back at least a little bit I hope it doesn't bounce back that much um I don't
46:14
want Ubisoft to die Ubisoft has been a good company at some points in time I
46:19
think they just need a like massive B slap to the face so they wake the hell
46:24
up and stop being idiots yeah let's just bring back our keep on
46:28
keep on digging lower third because we're still talking Ubisoft they're like half the show this week and it's not
46:33
like we want to talk about Ubisoft I'd love for us to be I'd love for us to
46:36
just be talking about what like what a great game Assassin's Creed Unity is and
46:40
how stoked we are for Far Cry 4 I would love that to be the topic that is the
46:43
conversation we love Black Flag was amazing and Far Cry 3 was really really
46:48
good and you know know what incredible okay what news did they get over last
46:51
week what news did they somehow get through I don't even remember something
46:56
really big last week that I don't remember oh yeah yeah they pulled
46:59
everything from uh from Steam yeah but no yeah but then it's it's back now
47:03
there was other news though that was really big and we were like I can't
47:07
believe you were even noticed like you made yourself no this was going on
47:10
either way oh blon BlizzCon right BlizzCon was going on and people still
47:14
heard about what the hell Ubisoft was doing because they were bcon was such a
47:18
big deal this year bcon was huge and then now there was just the uh warland
47:22
of dra or release and everyone's freaking out over U
47:26
soft what how are you that
47:31
bad I'm kind of tempted to pick again
47:35
really should I just not last time you got pretty I know last
47:39
time was bad okay forget it I'm not going to I'm just going to repair my joystick and play more xwing um okay
47:44
maybe wait till your kids are at like a minimum age so this was original
47:48
articles here this was posted by I'm the wallus by the way the Ubisoft stock
47:52
falling thing um original sources here were kit guru.net and finance. yahoo.com
47:57
um but there were also some other things that were that were brought up by these
48:00
other articles um we might not even need a charger I think it's charg right yeah
48:05
yeah just uh yay Luke will have a laptop thank you but um one of the other things
48:09
that was pointed out was that things are not looking that great for Far Cry 4
48:13
because some Publications didn't get review copies yeah so um yeah not
48:19
necessarily a great sign and then and like with with stuff like that uh that
48:24
polygon post like people are going to read that and that is going to be taken
48:30
as a negative review if people are reading into it properly yeah I would
48:33
yeah the fact that you for whatever reason are not enabling as many
48:38
Publications as possible to get their hands on this game so that they can Rave
48:43
about how great it is is a really really bad sign and I mean total biscuits
48:48
comment I think is is awesome about the way that the Assassin's Creed Unity
48:53
embargo was handled where the review embargo was not lifted until 12 hours
48:59
after the game's retail availability which is given the way that games cannot
49:04
be refunded anymore if you buy a physical copy or really any copy um is
49:10
is really telling I mean that really says something about how they might have
49:15
felt about how quickly they needed to cash in on the immediate launch sales
49:20
before the reviews go up and people start maybe considering whether to wait
49:24
for even Far Cry for or some other game to spend their money on
49:30
um not not good not good I I would lose
49:33
consumer confidence basically immediately if I had a Far Cry 4 uh
49:38
pre-order which I don't but if I did have one I honestly probably would have
49:43
canceled it once I read that polygon post cuz I'm I'm pretty skeptical
49:48
already there's very few things that I'll pre-order I'll pre-order stuff like
49:52
uh Smash Bros for Wii U you would have normally pre-ordered Assassin's Creed
49:55
actually yes I would have normally done that I have done that for every single other Assassin's Creed launch but this
49:59
one yeah so anyway total biscuit came out and said he is not going to accept
50:04
review copies of any game that has an embargo that is after the launch time of
50:10
the game which is awesome which is awesome and uh and I think I think
50:13
that's I think that's great I think that's a great way to handle it and it just I I actually responded to I think
50:18
it was that tweet or one of the related ones just cuz I was so blown away that
50:23
you could have a review embar after people are expected to drop their
50:29
money for the game I mean no one in the hardware industry does that no one and
50:33
you know what and and you know what John John TotalBiscuit has has actually
50:37
tweeted me as well saying that he has no
50:40
idea how we seem to kind of pull off this weird thing where our advertisers
50:45
are Hardware companies and yet we criticize these companies openly on our
50:51
shows and in our reviews and and some
50:55
somehow we've managed to take money from these companies for advertising maintain
50:59
the trust of our viewers and maintain the relationships with these companies
51:03
and do it all at the same time and he was just like how does this even work I
51:07
think it's because there's a much different mentality with like computer
51:11
hardware companies and gaming companies canuter Hardware companies seem like
51:15
infinitely humble and they'll take whatever you say and they're just like yes okay next time we do better and and
51:21
that's not true of all of them but that's true of many of them they just
51:24
seem to be so much more mature than these gaming companies like someone like
51:29
Corsair if I come out and I slam them about something I'll get an email but
51:34
they're not going to pull our funding they're not going to pull they're not
51:37
going to refuse to work with us they're not going to stop seing us review samples because they value the
51:44
input what a what a freaking concept right oh my God
51:49
amazing not really with gaming in gaming
51:52
they they they they tote their marketing muscles as as much as they possibly can
51:56
try to silence anyone that they possibly can that would say anything negative
51:59
about them at all and then just try to slam games down your throat and then and
52:04
it is a generalization pour the DLC water down not every gaming company is
52:08
like this no praise G Ben um praise gin
52:13
uh what is it super giant games does really well there's definitely developers and Publishers that are that
52:17
are good and there's ones that mostly seem to try to do the right thing but
52:22
sometimes screw up and we have to understand and respect that too and
52:25
that's fine people are human they make mistakes we make mistakes um but it just
52:30
feels Ubisoft screw up looks feels like some like Cartoon Network like where
52:36
they just keep falling forever it's like EA last year yeah where just every week
52:42
there they were doing something horrendous they they fall down the hill
52:45
and gather so much momentum because the hill is so large that they have enough
52:49
momentum to climb up the next one and then fall down it over again like
52:54
ridiculous stop screwing up hit a wall
52:57
at some point and then just be like no we will be better we're going to shut up
53:00
we're going to say nothing we're just going to make games that hopefully
53:04
people want to play yeah if they stop talking and start working some more
53:08
maybe they can fix some of their crap I am just I am I I got to say the whole
53:14
thing with the the draw call issue in Assassin's Creed Unity is so believable
53:18
yeah because their whole thing their whole defense of unity to Ryan from PC
53:24
per was is we weren't going to dumb down the level the detail and the objects in
53:28
the city it like and every object is a draw call yeah and and when uh when when
53:35
Call of Duty like massively outclasses you in every possible appearance aspect
53:41
that's bad you did something wrong I
53:45
know like Assassin's Creed is supposed to be the like holy crap this game looks
53:49
good I mean Advanced Warfare should have been taking all the headlines for crap
53:55
and instead I mean everyone's like oh it's pretty good you know it's probably
54:01
unfortunate that they didn't publish after Assassin's Creed in Far Cry 4 so
54:06
they could have cuz I suspect a lot of people because you know how it's always
54:10
whatsoever The Horizon you never look back at what was that thing I didn't buy
54:15
it's always like okay well Far Cry 4 is coming next or this is coming next or
54:18
whatever's coming next we coming get later I feel like if they had just kind
54:23
of waited for all the people who didn't spend their money on all the stuff that
54:27
came before them they could have gotten an even bigger payday probably I I doubt
54:32
they needed I'm sure they did fine yeah yeah I'm sure they did totally fine but
54:36
it's just it's just like how did you get
54:39
graphically outclassed whoa whoa Photoshop CS6 says lonus doesn't even
54:43
play video games lonus doesn't game as much as he'd like to that doesn't mean
54:46
lonus doesn't play video games he's starting to a lot more lately too yeah
54:50
I've been finding a little bit more time for it especially on my shield yeah
54:53
speaking of Shield um actually that leads us really well into not a Ubisoft
54:59
topic y um and Vidia just announced that their
55:05
grid streaming service and this was um this was posted by jper 10996 on the
55:11
Forum and the original source is the NVIDIA blog um but grid is coming out of
55:16
beta so grid has 20 titles right now
55:19
including actually I'm just going to fire up the grid game list here but they've got a Arkham Asylum Arkham City
55:25
they've got Allan Wake uh American Nightmare they've got Darksiders
55:29
Darksiders 2 Dead Island Psychonauts which is a freaking awesome game by the
55:33
way if you have a shield and you have an internet connection that's good enough
55:36
for grid go play Psychonauts if you haven't already Saints R II Trine 2
55:40
Witcher 2 Ultra Street Fighter 4 like there's some pretty great games on this
55:45
list what's the like payment plan stuff for this does it just come with a shield
55:49
or okay so the beta's been free for anyone with a shield and the non data is
55:55
free for anyone with a shield until June 2015 okay so you get about 6 months of
56:01
free access to the game pretty good actually that's a lot more than a trial
56:06
yes which considering the cost of something like a Shield tablet and and a
56:11
controller when you are when you look at the Shield tablet as oh it's also a very
56:14
competent 7in tablet um is actually a pretty darn compelling value yeah that
56:19
feels a lot like the I'm trying to remember the name of it but those HP
56:23
things yeah yeah yeah the um streams
56:26
yeah where you get so much stuff with them yeah where you get not just value
56:30
ad stuff that's like hey you got a 30-day trial of maca can I interest you
56:33
in paying us it's not even value ad just like where there's real value ads that
56:38
are relevant to the people who are using that device so so you get 6 months for
56:42
free if you buy if you buy a shield now um they're recommending 10 megabits per
56:46
second down and 60 millisecond second ping or less to your nearest grid server
56:52
but they're expanding their grid server Network so there's already the one in
56:55
California they've added one in Indiana
56:59
and EU and Asia are soon to come so
57:02
they're it looks like what they're building is and they're it looks like
57:07
it's meant to be about like Netflix for games yeah now you can say what you will
57:11
about the 60 millisecond additional latency that is not going to be
57:15
palatable for certain types of games are you going to play CSO with an extra 60
57:19
milliseconds of lag no no but you probably wouldn't have played that on a
57:22
controller but are you going to play Darksiders sure sure why not probably
57:25
that's probably fine cool yeah um all right they've also
57:30
got other news The Shield tablet is getting Android 5.0 Lollipop in a few
57:34
days yeah I they're going to be they're going to be I think I was on the phone
57:37
with someone from NVIDIA today actually and he was saying I don't remember if he
57:41
said they're going to be the first or one of the first uh one of the first
57:46
advice makers whose name is not Google to have lollipop on their device I mean
57:50
NVIDIA committed back when they launched Shield portable to prompt Android update
57:55
but come on we've heard that we've heard it over and over again how many prompt
58:00
Android updates have you gotten for your Galaxy Device one per device is usually about
58:06
the general rule yeah and then you might get an update but everyone else has been
58:11
using it for six months nine months by the time you get it if at all um whereas
58:16
NVIDIA's like on this yeah it's actually kind of absolutely fantastic if I do say
58:22
so myself it's nice to see that especially when you're getting a device
58:26
that like talking to people that aren't you
58:31
about Shield is like often they don't really know what it is or they're like H
58:36
is there really a lot of support for it like I don't really see anyone using it
58:40
now I see it around a fair amount when looking at stuff like the r forum and
58:44
like within the office and like these closed ecosystems but I got a message
58:49
from someone either on the for or Twitter where they told me how the
58:53
shield was kind of embarrassing to be out about with because people kept asking if it's a portable
58:57
Xbox sorry go on but yeah just to illustrate the point but yeah like it's
59:01
it's it's it's very new and it's very
59:05
different so people are a little bit skeptical about it so I think it's
59:08
actually really good for them that they're getting these like they're
59:11
pushing the update thing really really hard and they're actually repeatedly
59:14
getting these really early updates which is awesome because that's just going to
59:18
increase um confidence that they are interesting products and they are
59:22
they're really good would you buy an NVIDIA phone
59:26
actually probably cuz I know you're not into the tablet thing so much not really
59:32
and phones the only reason I'm not super into phones the only reason is because
59:36
most of them are trash that's a strong statement it's
59:41
true though like there's so like there's so many that have glaring issues that
59:45
you like know someone must have figured out and then the Droid Turbo is just not
59:49
coming to Canada at all in no form my
59:53
brother tweeted them and asked and they were like no the droid turbo or
59:56
variation Max are not coming to Canada officially from Motorola oh that's a
60:00
bummer awesome what the hell the one phone that's like that's super cool nope
60:06
god wow that's really sucky I mean it's
60:09
not going to happen with Tegra K1 because Tegra K 1's power consumption is
60:13
just straight up too high but if Tegra K2 or whatever they end up calling it
60:19
came to a phone would you consider it I mean they're not that far away they've
60:23
already got the the tablet 32 gig which has LTE and they did acquire that LTE
60:28
radio technology maker not that long ago so they can build their own radios I I
60:33
don't think it's that difficult to I don't think it's that difficult to I'd
60:37
be really interested to I would check it out I'd want to check it out for sure
60:40
definitely want to check it out uh if if they got the if they got the the battery
60:43
capacity right and they had a not trash
60:47
camera I would be definitely confident enough in the rest of the phone to be
60:51
like all right let's do this NVIDIA is one of those companies where I think the
60:54
camera could go one of two ways they could either have a bunch of Knowledge
60:58
from cuz they know a lot about image processing yeah that's interesting it's
61:02
not like they don't have experience when it comes to image filtering to make
61:05
things look better this is NVIDIA's
61:09
freaking wheelhouse but that doesn't necessarily
61:12
mean they know that much about sensor technology so so I I don't know which
61:16
way the camera would go and that's a huge part of any smartphone purchase um
61:20
one thing of just to note is that right now the 32 gig version of The Shield
61:25
tablet lvid is on fire with this announcement here comes with Portal
61:30
halflife 2 and halflife 2 episode one holy crap Android versions if you jump
61:34
up to that one in addition to the grid thing and those are all pretty good to
61:37
play on that device as well actually especially portal Portal's really good I
61:41
play portal on the shield portable yeah yeah um and shield portable is getting
61:45
lollipop support but we don't have an ETA for that yet so I'll have to wait
61:49
cuz I don't really use my Shield tablet much I mostly use my portable yeah all
61:53
right other NVIDIA news this was posted by big STS on the Forum the original
61:58
article is from techreport tocom the
62:02
gtx960 has been found in an India Import
62:06
and Export label or data or something the record States four GB of gddr5 a
62:12
256-bit bus 993 MHz core and 68 MHz
62:17
memory it's unclear whether that is a base or a boost clock speed and the
62:22
price translates to around 256 US Dollars although we don't know if that
62:26
will be a retail price or if that's like an NVIDIA to their board partner price
62:31
or a board partner to retailer price or just an invented number or if they're
62:35
going to flip it 18 times 3 days before it's out because they kind of do that
62:39
sometimes because they do do that sometimes um the speculation on the
62:43
internet right now is that this is going to be a GK 104 based card so actually
62:48
the same chip as the 980 and 970 just like we saw with the 680 670 and 660
62:56
Ti um we should probably do our sponsor spots actually so we're going to start
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these guys uh for any of the viewers who have watched before you know what the
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sales pitch for Phantom glass doesn't really change so I do find myself
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repeating myself a fair bit but it doesn't need to change because it's good
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enough as it is the only reason that we started working with these guys was that
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and it's just kind of a funny story The only reason I reviewed the product at
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all was because the guy was Canadian because normally screen protectors I
63:34
don't we've only done two screen protector videos in the entire time lus
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techtips has existed and they've both been like very oddly Innovative yes some
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kind of real actual important thing that
63:46
happened with them so the only reason I would even listen to him was he was
63:50
Canadian and then the only reason I wanted to review unit was because I I
63:54
was like okay if this does what you say it
63:58
does I will like it but if it doesn't do
64:01
what you say it does then I'm going to throw it in the garbage and never talk about it again and he was like okay okay
64:06
okay send over the review unit and then the reason that we're doing advertising
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with them is because it's freaking awesome basically it's a sheet of
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Gorilla Glass 3 that sits over top of the existing pain of Glass on your phone
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so if you already liked any kind of the
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you know the the glare Clarity um touch
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feel characteristics of your phone screen it will be exactly the same it
64:29
does add a little bit of thickness to the front of the phone but it's still compatible with other third party cases
64:34
and it has this like Nano coating on the bottom of it that actually works like it
64:40
actually does what they say it does it's I think you'd have to work pretty hard
64:43
to try to get a bubble under Phantom glass and if you apply it wrong you can
64:48
just pull it up reapply it I've actually done it and it goes on perfectly second
64:52
time around so pretty cool I mean if it's given that it's kind of expensive
64:57
it's nice to be able to reuse it because I actually had to RMA my HTC 1 M8 so I
65:01
had to pull my Fass off yeah you peeled it yeah so I put it in some Saran Wrap
65:05
to keep it safe cuz I don't really have the original packaging anymore and uh
65:09
there you go my One M8 is actually back as of yesterday and uh before we move
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into our next sponsor spot just wanted to share my experience with that so I
65:17
was a little disappointed with HTC because the first custo I my one8 camera
65:22
lens cracked on my rear camera cracked and so rather than work through my HTC
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rep I decided you know what just for fun I'm going to go have the regular
65:30
customer defective product experience because it just cracked out of the blue
65:35
there wasn't a single Mark anywhere on the entire phone other than a cracked
65:39
rear camera screen so I would have had to I would have had to literally take
65:43
like drop it on like a very point of a rock but then catch it before it
65:48
actually hits the ground yeah or like take a chisel and like whack it or
65:52
something in order to crack that thing so it in my mind this is not something
65:56
that could have been feasibly broken by accident and I see it as a design like
66:02
probably the one design flaw in that
66:06
phone that I really dislike is that they used a plastic cover on it there's
66:11
actual Flex to it okay maybe not actually it might not be plastic okay I
66:14
shouldn't say plastic maybe it's some kind of composite or glass or whatever
66:18
else but it's got some real Flex to it once it was broken and it has a coating
66:22
on it that scratches off very easily just taking it in and out of your pocket
66:25
and gives you blurry photos until you rub it off with toothpaste this is a documented problem so I talked to their
66:29
customer service and they basically the first person I talked to said seem to be
66:35
aware of the issue and said yeah that should be no problem to to for it to be
66:39
covered under warranty but they asked me to call my carrier to ask if they'll
66:44
deal with the RMA for me because I'm in Canada and that's the normal procedure I
66:48
kind of went yeah sure okay so I called my carrier they didn't deal with it because I didn't buy the device from
66:52
them I knew that was going to happen but I jumped through the hoop just to humor
66:55
them so I called back and they told me they couldn't guarantee anything about
66:59
the repair and then it turned out that they did want to charge me over $100 for
67:03
the repair even though and the repair center was not willing to Advocate to
67:08
HTC on my behalf or anything like that I basically said you guys are experts you
67:12
look at phones every day is it even
67:16
possible is it even conceivable in any way that I could have damaged the phone
67:19
in this way at all or does this seem like the
67:23
kind of cuz it just cracked out of the blue and they just went you have to talk
67:28
to HTC so I didn't pay the money I ended up just going through my HTC contact
67:32
telling them I was being jerked around and they got it taken care of within like an hour cuz that's normally the way
67:38
that that I get treated but I was I was disappointed in the way that an actual
67:43
customer um would would be treated in
67:46
that case yeah that's kind of that's kind of sad the problem the problem too
67:51
though is that like I get it physical damage is generally not not covered
67:54
under warranty yeah but if it's a known issue it generally is so it's a matter
68:00
of whether they're acknowledging the issue or not the internet knows about
68:03
the issue I don't know if the internet knows about a cracking issue but the
68:07
problem is that my my rear camera was scratched already before it even cracked
68:12
so I should have been eligible for a replacement had i r made it sooner and
68:16
it had not cracked on its own anyway so that's why I was so upset so I get it I
68:21
understand I'm just a little bit disappointed I've had to deal with very
68:25
few like very few uh customer service
68:28
for like ship out and repair stuff uh one of them was uh an Xbox 360 which was
68:34
hilarious um and that was actually super easy right because they were all red
68:39
ringing so I'm sure their whole Factory was just like in- and out in- and out
68:43
in- and out in- and out um because it was just a swap and then the other one
68:48
was uh evj when I was doing my mineral oil computer and that was like the best
68:54
on the phone experience with someone who is supposed to help me in any form Ever
68:58
right yeah EVGA is kind of Legend always liked them because of that their their
69:02
customer service was fantastic all right so let's move on to speaking of
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fantastic customer service and super easy to use squarespace.com oh yeah with
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their 247 support and their well
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basically it's just a great service we love Squarespace we love those guys and
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they are on fire L lately they recently
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introduced Squarespace 7 and it's a huge
69:25
upgrade over the previous iteration so
69:28
they've redesigned the interface they've got integration with Google Apps which
69:32
is really cool for any businesses that use Google apps like say for example the
69:36
one that you're looking at right now we use can I help you oops we use Gmail for
69:42
uh for our internal email and all that kind of stuff um they've got their new
69:45
partnership with Getty Images so that you can have greatl looking images to
69:49
match your greatl looking site you know the the funny thing about Squarespace is
69:53
it feels like some of the stuff they do is more selfish than anything else it
69:58
feels like okay so the partnership with Getty Images is basically you can get
70:02
very reasonably priced beautiful images to put on your site but it seems like
70:06
they're just a bunch of Geeks care about websites looking really great yeah and
70:11
they're then they don't want to see people take their beautiful template and put some crap image on it so it's like
70:17
it's it's almost like and I'm not saying selfish in that it's not beneficial to
70:21
the user I'm just saying it seems like like they just kind of are like oh they
70:26
like don't screw their stuff in bad ways yeah take good images we really love our
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product and we wish you wouldn't like make it ugly than it has to be so we're
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going to get you guys this like great less expensive gy images thing and you
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can get that get go get good images don't pay much for them um they've got
70:42
new templates they've got cover pages and
70:46
um yeah I guess that's isn't isn't that
70:49
it right yes um also I wanted to just cover the usual talking point so if you
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guys don't know what Squarespace is it's a fast easy affordable way to build your
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own beautiful website they've got uh
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only $8 a month and you get a free domain for your trouble if you sign up
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for Squarespace for a year they've got responsive design so basically that
71:09
means your website scales to look great on any device and they've got integrated
71:13
Commerce now that was actually one of the previous things that they rolled out
71:16
that is pretty freaking cool so if you want to build a store on Squarespace
71:20
then you can rock on and do that so you can start a trial with no credit card
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offer code Linus and you decide to go ahead and use that website for your
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store or blog or restaurant
71:36
or someone I don't know maybe you want to make a website dedicated to pictures
71:40
of your junk wow I don't
71:44
um preferably not please don't but you
71:49
could yeah you could it's technically possible it's possible um some someone
71:54
in the twitch yeah quite literally uh someone in the twitch chat was like
71:58
please tell Squarespace to fix their documentation for developers it's really
72:02
bad I've looked at it what are you
72:05
talking about for one and for two I'm sure you can just contact them I've had
72:08
to contact them about stuff before they've responded very well and very quickly so if you're having a problem
72:12
with something which I'm not sure what you're doing because I've looked at
72:16
actually a fair amount of their documentation for developers it was all
72:20
fine from what I've seen maybe there's something that isn't I don't know but
72:23
just them and it should be fine so this is the best way I think YouTube could
72:27
have possibly done this they have implemented YouTube music key and this
72:33
is the first subscription based YouTube
72:37
service that we're seeing and I think they did it absolutely brilliantly so it
72:41
was posted by Raph banan on the Forum and the original article is from
72:45
official Android. blogspot.com and basically it's going
72:49
out of beta so it's not like it didn't exist already it's a monthly
72:52
subscription service for $9.99 a month
72:56
but it is $7.99 a month right now which
73:00
happens to be exactly the same price as a Google Play music subscription so if
73:05
you sign up now if you happen to be a Google Play music subscriber already yo
73:10
then you can just sign up for this you get a full Google play music account for
73:15
exactly the same price if you sign up during the promo and then you also get
73:19
ad free music background play on music
73:22
which is pretty nice if you like to listen to music on YouTube and offline
73:26
viewing of Music on YouTube it's invite
73:30
only right now and those who get an invite get to try it out free for 6
73:34
months if I can get this for $7.99 I'm
73:37
sold done because I and even if I can get it for $9.99 you know what I will
73:42
probably buy it that's actually pretty sick I really
73:45
like the background play thing yep background play and to be able to listen
73:49
to playlists on Monster cat for example and not have the ads interrupt your
73:53
groove that would be really nice I I think they knocked it out of the
73:57
freaking park with the way that they implemented this that's actually really cool music was the one to go after first
74:02
and the way that they did it enabling it to be the same price as a streaming
74:05
service that they already offer that's already great I love Google play music
74:09
especially the curated playlists it's awesome Google play music is more for me
74:13
than just I feel like I'm doing another sponsor integration but it really is
74:16
amazing I'm just a paying customer it's just nothing special but the the way
74:21
that they that they manage it it's more than just just not pirating music is it
74:25
the same sorry I might not have heard that part is it the same thing as if you
74:30
have the Google music that you have right now is it the same do you get this
74:33
yeah yeah okay so they're together oh wait no no no no no no this is this is
74:37
going to be a a more expensive subscription but would okay but it will
74:41
also that one include that oneic yes and then for a promotional
74:45
period of time you can get it at the same price okay so you should buy this
74:48
one yeah yeah um but like I mean it's more than just not pirating music and
74:53
and saving money versus going and buying albums it's it's for me it's all about
74:58
the curated playlists um where I can it'll be like hey it's Tuesday afternoon
75:02
do you want to listen to like you know pickme up music or do you want to listen
75:06
to like Mello music and the I'm feeling lucky radio is is awesome and does a
75:11
really really great job interesting uh Sharp's latest iGo
75:17
prototype sets the stage for 4K faets as
75:20
if it matters uh the oral say like sounds surprisingly excited for this
75:25
what's happening obscure mammal posted on the Forum the original article is
75:29
from techreport tocom and they have they
75:32
have made a prototype 2560 x600 4.1 in
75:37
panel oh jeez that is some incredible
75:41
pixel density so we're talking
75:44
736 pixels per inch that is massively
75:48
more than the Galaxy Notes 515 pixels
75:51
per inch the Google NEX 6 is 493 pixels
75:55
per inch and Apple's iPhone 6 Plus is 401 pixels per inch which quite frankly
76:00
is already enough I should point out
76:05
that the Droid Turbo has I really like the display but
76:12
the issue is that I don't know if it's related to the fact that it's AMOLED and
76:17
I'm really enjoying the Deep blacks or if it's related to that it's 2560 by
76:21
1440 yeah because on the G3 I didn't
76:25
feel like there was a benefit to the higher density display but the contrast
76:29
wasn't very good yeah it was icky and contrast is more important once you
76:34
reach a certain point than you know I was really surprised at um Marcus MKBHD
76:39
he did a a collaborative thing with the Verge like ultimate smartphone like
76:43
dream smartphone like well I would take this one and then I would change this
76:46
and I would squeeze this and I would do this and it would have a bigger battery and all that kind of stuff and I was
76:50
really surprised he picked the screen from the G3 for his dream smartphone
76:56
yeah he's wrong oh well that's one way
76:59
of putting it I would have said I would have said to each his own but just
77:05
no what so the latest iGo prototype will
77:08
have 11.5 micrometer pixels that will
77:12
likely be impossible to see with the naked eye um when okay when when was
77:16
that article done which one was that uh was that done before like Note 4 came
77:21
out and stuff no no it just went up two days
77:26
ago okay I don't get it um okay so one
77:30
one okay so so that's really cool that we won't be able to see the pixels but
77:34
one potential drawback is that higher
77:37
density displays typically require more power to achieve the same brightness
77:41
because as you pack in more Electronics do hickory in order to actually get
77:45
light through it to your eyes you have to have a brighter backlight now Apple
77:50
seemed to figure out how to address this on their 5K iMac um and that thing is so
77:56
bright and they've achieved the same brightness they say I don't have a last gen one but they've achieved what they
78:00
say is the same brightness as their last gen one which is ridiculous I have it on
78:03
like 10% at all times I don't understand
78:07
why it needs to go that bright but um
78:10
just in case you need like a random Spotlight yeah I mean honestly I guess
78:15
here all I have to say about this uh mass production will reportedly begin in
78:18
2016 so all I have to say about this is by 2016 battery
78:23
technology better have caught up in some meaningful way and I still don't care
78:28
because I would still rather have a 1080P or if you have to have a higher
78:32
spec to make your competitor look stupid a 1440p panel that gives me better
78:36
battery life um on my device right and
78:40
better performance in and better performance at Native resolution in
78:43
games and other applications like I don't want to necessarily have a 4K
78:48
display on something that gives me no benefit and tanks my battery life and
78:52
means I'm I'm going to have to run interpolated resolutions in order to get
78:56
decent performance in in in mobile games I don't play a ton of mobile games but
79:00
I'm it's more of a I'm speaking on behalf of what you guys should be thinking if you do play mobile games
79:05
yeah there you go ah rumors
79:12
r9390x Fiji XT this is posted by Paragon
79:16
X on the Forum and this thing looks
79:19
banana hammers May feature
79:23
4,096 stream processor so 64 compute and
79:26
256 texture units with a
79:30
4,096 bit memory
79:34
bus oh my God this is due to the fact that AMD is rumored to be using a
79:40
completely new technology for the memory
79:44
on this particular card the more traditional way is we've got the chips
79:48
laid out on the card and then we've got contact points on the bottom of the GPU
79:52
that lead out to them so that's why it was so costly to implement wider memory
79:57
buses that's why we saw memory buses continue to increase on graphics cards
80:00
until we reached 512 bit and everyone kind of went whoa hold on a second this
80:07
is really expensive now in terms of the area that we need for the package in
80:11
terms of the contact pins that we need to create on the bottom of the of the
80:15
chip itself and in terms of the PCB design we need to lay out all those
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traces to all those memory chips this sucks so NVIDIA just bailed and they
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stopped at 384-bit and amds actually I
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don't think NVIDIA has ever done a 512 bit GPU was 480 512 bit that was the only
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one I could think of cuz 480 was an interesting card let's
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see 512 bit or was it no I don't think it
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was 285 was the
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285 okay anyway I if NVIDIA ever had when they bailed and they started doing
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384-bit for their high-end cards and then now we even have a 256-bit GTX 980
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which is passing for DDR3 okay so that was GTX 285 um so so
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it got really expensive but in it's in a
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similar so an analogous technology to what Samsung is now doing on their 850
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Pro SSD where they're not using the latest super tiny manufacturing process
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and instead of trying to go wider with the design of their chips actually
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stacking them on each other so it looks like this technology is going to enable
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AMD to deliver massive massive memory
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bandwidth we're talking like a 1024-bit interface per chip um without hopefully
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a huge significantly much bigger incremental cost um One Challenge is
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that right now we're going to be limited to 4 gig configurations because uh this
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is this is a highx technology K highx technology and it's only the first
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generation but um yeah we could be
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looking at bandwidth for the memory bandwidth for the graphics card in the
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640 Gigabyte per second range that's
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nuts that is redonkulous I I I very
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reportedly am not a huge fan of just rumor mill
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stuff you very specifically hope this one comes through that would be really
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exciting to see this card I wouldn't be surprised I mean it's uh makes sense the
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the problem that I have with rumors is
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if you've been around for a long time it would be really easy to fabricate a lot
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of them yeah that's true CU you could be like these things would make sense rumor
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printed and a lot of the times I even wonder if people are just like yeah this
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is probably what it's going to be and just rumor drop and then they're like oh
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yeah look it was accurate because usually it's going to be accurate cuz
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you can look at things like road maps like if you know SK hinx says okay we're
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going to be sampling it here we're going to be going into mass production here
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and then you look at fairly credible rumors like when the 390x is rumored to
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launch and you go well gee why would they be Mass producing it if not for X
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yeah you know a lot of the time you can kind of guess yeah speaking of exciting
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memory technology uh this was also posted by big stuns on the form original
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article is from tweak Town SanDisk
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releases memory mounted ssds these fit
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in DDR3 memory slots and they're ailable
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in up to 400 gab capacities so either
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200 or 400 GB oh crap I need to set this
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reminder for myself for uh for later
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otherwise I will not remember oh good I I already have a reminder for five
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minutes before it happens hooray yay back to the dock um yeah so 2 400
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Gigabyte capacities and basically you'll
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just slot ssds into memory
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slots what I mean this is not a consumer
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oriented technology you're not going to be putting this on your z97 Deluxe or
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whatever this is this is more for servers but what it does is it removes
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complexity components and cabling from server designs if you had a server where
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you didn't actually need a ton of memory but you did need a lot of storage but
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you wanted to be compact this could make a ton of sense and you need like crazy
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fast storage mhm yeah maybe not a lot CU
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these are actually very high drives well hold on a second 400 GB per drive on
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something like a 16 dim
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motherboard cost yeah it's expensive I didn't say it
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wasn't expensive and it's not even going to help that much in terms of space
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really like it's yeah it's largely going to be for
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Speed okay well it offers 880 megabytes per second of sequential read speed and
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600 megabytes per second sequential rights but the big one here is actually
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the warranty so it's support it's got a 5year warranty at 10 full disc RS per
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day so the application for this looks like it's more like caching and less
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like mass storage which makes a ton of sense so you could build extremely
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compact racks that are just designed to cash data and they can actually do full
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fleshes of the entire for so we're talking four terabytes per day per drive
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in this cache server that has all these drives in it and is Lightning Fast Very
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responsive and has extremely low complexity and very small size
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incredible technology I mean I would have said and for a stor for because
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databases will need a lot of RAM but servers that aren't going to need a ton
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of RAM which there's definitely some of them if you want to cash some of your drives and you can fill those slots with
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these that would be sick because again the reducing complexity thing not having
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those extra cables and stuff that's super super nice and to be clear they're
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nonvolatile storage so they're not like memory and that as soon as the system
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power's off the data is gone so they're they're just ssds they just just go in a
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dim slot that that's freaking cool I want to see one is there a picture in
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here yeah I think so it's just my screen sharing is not working so I'll check it
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out later a BMW is developing street lights that can also charge your
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electric car now the whole idea of
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having roadside stations or parking stalls with electric Chargers in them
86:11
was kind of like yeah okay I guess we
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slow this idea wow this is gamechanging
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because the okay the idea is not to that
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you would have to replace all the street lamps in your entire city the idea is
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that you would be able to retrofit your existing Street lamps with chargers and
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be able to monetize it brilliant What
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city doesn't sign up for that they get to go Greener they get to have an
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additional new Revenue stream in the longer term they can monetize things and
86:42
and I mean you'll see this I think we're going to see this in obviously more
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densely populated urban areas first but all of a sudden the whole parking thing
86:50
maybe you can have like like you know a bundle thing where you buy your parking
86:54
for that spot and that also includes zapping your car for the time that
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you're there and ends up making a ton of sense for electric electric vehicle
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owners I think it's awesome yeah that's actually really cool um I don't think
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Tesla has commented on it yet at least not at the time that we were working on
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the dock but I would imagine Tesla and
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musk would be very supportive of a technology like this down yeah anything
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that expands the the infrastructure for electric vehicles is going to make a big
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difference to people who are considering buying one the only thing I can imagine
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musk being against is if he looks into
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it and realizes that it's like I'm
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completely hypothetical right so realizes isn't a fact I'm just saying
87:37
like if this happened uh realizes that it's crap like if he comes up with
87:41
something we didn't think of it's bad because of this reason or he tries it
87:45
and it's bad because he observed this thing or whatever that's the only real
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reason why I could see him being against it cuz he a definite advocate for trying
87:53
to get more of that kind of stuff out there and if he can suddenly utilize all
87:58
of these things in that ever growing map that he's trying to do yeah which is you
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can travel here to here to here to here if he can suddenly just go there's all
88:05
these spots now filled up of course we're going to keep putting superchargers y because those are going
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to be the super fast ones but this will massively expand your network I'm sure
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he'd be down for that yeah I I'm I'm I'm
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super excited for for the whole for the future of that I think this makes a
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whole lot more sense than uh than solar powered roadways in terms of how much
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thought appears to have been put into it you know so any I don't think I don't
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think musk doesn't seem like the kind of guy who gets all butt hurt because you
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know someone else came up with a good idea I think if it's a good idea he has
88:37
no problem going Head to Head Tesla's EVS versus BMW's EVS he'll just try to
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do a better thing I I I think that's uh
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I think this I think this will happen this is the most sensible idea I've
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heard yet for how this could be implemented and I'm really excited for
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it yeah all right speaking of of bad
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ideas Google did a fishing survey not this kind of fishing P pH fishing which
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is a method of attack that actually gets you to give up your
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information voluntarily Yeah Yeah by by
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tricking the user similar to social engineering and you know how you know
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you and I have conversations where we we'll get a particularly stupid spam
89:18
email or fishing email and we'll laugh it to each other trying to go really
89:22
could anyone fall for this yes I used to work in tech support places they do
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Google's fishing survey revealed that 14% of people submit information to
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hackers wow Google and UCSD looked at
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100 fishing emails picked out of a random sample self-reported by Gmail
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users the researchers also reviewed a random sample of 100 fishing websites
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caught by Google's safe browsing system to further understand how the scams work
89:50
these websites were all created through Google forms which is how researchers
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were even able to access the data and even the worst performing fishing
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websites like think about some of the ones you've seen where it's just like
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obviously not a real website full of typos like you click on any navigation
90:08
on the site and it doesn't go anywhere it just leads to a broken page like
90:11
we've all seen them even on the worst performing 3% of users still submitted
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their data on the most effective sites
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as many as40 5% submitted their dat I wonder if this
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data took account for faked stuff
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probably not
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but I would speculate that most people
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aren't going to go to the trouble of even because okay the techsavvy
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user unless they're one of those super
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techsavvy users who runs you know a virtual machine on their computer solely
90:50
for the purpose of opening up you know potentially malicious stuff you know
90:54
unless you're one of those I would I would venture that most moderately power
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users are just not going to click it yeah yeah because you don't even want to
91:02
go to that site that's bad you just don't even want to go there I used to
91:07
okay when I used to work at certain shops uh depending on where it was
91:10
situated so like depending on the demographics of the area around me um I
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could get from like one a week to maybe
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two a month um so like 0. five a week
91:21
people coming in like oh I had this is
91:25
even worse this is just phone calls someone called me from Microsoft and
91:29
said that my computer was sending them messages saying that it was having
91:33
problems and they need me to go on my computer and type all this stuff and
91:36
then I'm like oh yeah you screwed up
91:41
it's such an awkward situation like how do I get my money back I'm like you
91:45
don't you don't like it's gone so according to
91:51
Google's resear search here um hackers spend an average of 3 minutes figuring
91:55
out how much an account is worth once they have access and will apparently
91:59
move on if the account doesn't seem valuable enough so there you go the
92:03
solution is to either avoid fishing websites entirely not give them your
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data or not have any money yeah yeah oh
92:11
but then you okay you still need to not be a doofus because the hacker then
92:15
tries to get money from your account's contact list so you can be compromising
92:20
your friends and family members right yeah being dumb speaking of being dumb
92:24
gizmodo.com article about this website I
92:28
can't remember what it's called right now but this is just terrible so creepy
92:33
website um insam claims to feature feeds from IP
92:38
cameras all over the world including 11,000 in the us alone and uh Gizmodo
92:44
browsed some of the feeds finding people's living rooms um parking lots
92:49
porches and even bedrooms in these feeds and the site says that the way that they
92:54
did this was by exploiting people who haven't changed the default username and
92:59
password on their IP
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camera um that's creepy I don't even
93:07
know if I should be saying this on stream but it's fairly widely known and
93:12
spreading the knowledge that exists might help get it fixed um there's
93:16
certain Google Search terms you can use to find uh open IP cameras
93:22
and you can get straight up into their control panels to the point where you can move them around like it's crazy I
93:28
was doing like a presentation in high school talking about like internet
93:33
security stuff this was a long time ago and I did a live demonstration from the
93:37
class and like moved the camera around and everything and it's like yep it's
93:41
really bad I mean it baffles me that more things don't require you to change
93:46
the password the first time that you log into them because anyone can be lazy
93:51
even someone who knows better can be lazy but maybe you're just spamming next
93:55
and you don't notice that one of them was whatever really important yeah H
94:01
anyway Assassin's Creed Creator launches new studio the original article is from
94:05
gamespot.com so following his reported firing from Ubisoft last year the
94:09
Assassin's Creed Creator uh has opened a new studio in Montreal called panach
94:14
digital games Pan's other co-founder another former Ubisoft veteran who was
94:19
fired in 2013 uh or yeah sorry pacha's other
94:23
co-founder um was another Ubisoft veteran so in June 2013 he sued Ubisoft
94:28
for 400,000 and the rights to purchase 1666 which he was working on at THQ
94:33
Montreal before its collapse cool interesting hopefully he
94:37
does good things yeah well based on how good Assassin's Creed is with his
94:41
involvement and how rubbish it apparently is without his involvement oh
94:45
I guess we need to uh okay so just just
94:48
just a I'm I I have to I have to kind of pitch this to you guys again because
94:53
Nick will give me a hard time if I don't uh but the keep on digging shirt
94:56
apparently has already sold like 40 shirts oh that's awesome because you
95:00
guys are pretty into repping the keep on the keep on digging so we have yet
95:05
another Ubisoft topic it's just a short one uh cuz they just can't stop can they
95:11
so check it out it's over on oh no this one oh yeah I
95:18
know okay brain's going to bleed before we're
95:23
done this uh hold on I'm just trying to I'm
95:27
just trying to post our uh our link here I don't know if that link is going to
95:31
work hey look at that it works so if you guys want one of these shirts check it
95:35
out I'mma spam my chat
95:39
boom Nick's like here's one link I will
95:43
do things the way that isn't obnoxious good job Nick and like says
95:48
what it's for and stuff you're just like B
95:51
no dog and it's funny because of the stream delay right yeah so just out of
95:55
nowhere just huge amounts of nothing all right so Ubisoft patches
96:00
microtransactions before frame rate issues so this is this is a post that
96:06
has actually been pulled down already let's just go ahead and uh and pull this
96:10
up here so this is on imer um there we
96:14
go a patch has been deployed and the issues with purchasing and receiving
96:18
Helix credits is now fixed on PS4 We are
96:22
continuing to work to solve the issue on PC and Xbox One 214 thumbs up from the
96:28
24 members of the Assassin's Creed team that were told to thumbs up that post
96:34
pretty much yeah
96:37
unbelievable I just want to make sure it's pulled down when was this supposed
96:40
to oh it just says 14 minutes that's not
96:45
helpful yeah W the rest of their Facebook is just we are aware of the
96:49
issues we are working on it yeah that's already November 11th so I
96:54
think we're we're done yeah wow yep it's
96:58
gone that post is gone they don't want us to they don't want us to talk about
97:02
that nope all right recked I think we
97:06
got not much El not much else Apple's chip suppliers are apparently gearing
97:11
Up Get It gearing up that's a different
97:15
company for mass production of the Apple watch I know it's a it's a competing
97:19
product that's true that works I think it's funny
97:23
I think it would have better or is my humor wearing on you oh there we go
97:27
except that's still a different company I know you got to like it's got to be
97:31
within the Apple ecosystem no it doesn't it does uh chip orders are estimated to
97:37
be around 30 to 40 million units for a debut in early 2015 stainless steel and
97:42
gold editions will reportedly retail for prices starting at
97:46
$54,000 respectively uh the the Lenovo S90 is
97:52
the most ridiculous phone I think I've ever seen speaking of patent trolling um
97:58
oh no if anyone was going to if Apple was going to go after anyone about
98:03
anything this oh right my screen sharing
98:06
isn't working right bloody balls right
98:09
uh this should have been this should have been it because this is absolutely
98:16
brutal here we go on the left the iPhone 6 on the right
98:23
the Lenovo S90 wow on the bottom the iPhone 6 no way on
98:30
the top the Lenovo S90 they even copied the promotional
98:35
images I mean the antenna band is the
98:39
same wow wait are those different those are
98:45
different oh
98:49
no that's it's not good isn't that horrible apparently this
98:54
phone is not going to be available in all regions and I'm guessing this has to
98:59
do with that Lenovo knows they have no
99:03
ground to stand on if they brought this thing to the US there would be a sales
99:06
embargo like that that's uh it looks
99:10
like it's a China only China only design
99:13
not surprising this posted by Shadow captain on the Forum though I tweeted
99:16
this out earlier this week rather I posted it on Facebook cuz I thought that
99:20
was hilarious like just embarrassingly
99:25
blatant copy that's funny all right so I
99:29
think that's pretty much it there's only one other thing that I wanted to call out um we did a couple live streams if
99:34
you guys are interested in programming so becoming a coder we actually did a
99:38
number of live streams they were sponsored by modus the same guys that we
99:41
partnered with for Geek Stakes uh earlier this year where they gave away a
99:45
bunch of really cool stuff they're a they're a Placement Firm for coders so
99:49
basically they work with companies that need coders and coders who need
99:52
placements andies connect them wow um not as
99:59
aggressively as that they're like pretty nice about it they're a little bit more
100:02
considerate of each other's needs yeah so anyway they sponsored a series of
100:06
interviews where we took some folks from code school which is um a video a video
100:10
tutorial online uh online site where you can
100:15
learn coding in a fun and engaging way and they had a few of those folks come
100:18
and interview with us about sort of how to how to become a coder and of
100:22
particular interest is number two um
100:26
that one was really excellent especially if you know any females who are thinking
100:29
about programming because she talked a little bit about what it's like as a
100:32
female learning to program and being involved in the developer Community I
100:35
thought that was really uh I thought that was really really cool and actually our third our third interviewee was um
100:41
was really cool as well because a lot of what we talked to him about was not
100:45
sitting in front of your computer you know Finding inspiration for your
100:49
programming projects in the real world by being a real person and doing real
100:54
things especially stuff um like apps or if you want to build a if you want to
100:58
build a program which is going to solve someone's real world problem you
101:03
probably need to get off your butt and go figure out what that problem is cuz
101:07
we see a lot of uh we see a lot of a lot
101:10
of solutions that are to problems nobody
101:14
has yeah yeah yeah which is great if you
101:17
like have a different job and you're just soling your own
101:21
solutions that other people might not have that's awesome that's a really good
101:25
way to program and actually most programmers that I know just do that
101:28
because they'll have other jobs and they'll program their own solutions to stuff um but if you want to like make
101:34
your job doing stuff like apps for phones you probably need to figure out
101:38
stuff to go do huh look at this okay well we've got
101:42
one more we've got one more news item hi lonus I'm sure you saw some news
101:46
floating around today about statements made by Richard huie in regards to
101:50
directx12 12 I wanted to provide comment from AMD to give some context around
101:54
what has been said thus far there have been reports based on a video of Richard
101:57
h of AMD making speculative comments about directx12 support on versions of
102:01
Windows Richard Hy does not speak for Microsoft he was unfortunately spec
102:05
speculating for Microsoft publication of key dates and milestones for Windows 7
102:08
life cycle and blah blah blah okay that's not very interesting never mind
102:12
boring email okay well I think that's pretty much it no longer interesting
102:19
goodbye all right all right so yeah I think that's pretty much it thank you
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guys for tuning in to the WAN Show
102:27
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also to so many of you for tuning in we had almost 6,000 viewers we had over
102:34
6,000 viewers at one point not for a huge amount of time but we did well you
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guys are awesome and we will see you