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The WAN Show - Nexus 6 and 9, iPad Air 2, iMac 27in 5K - October 17, 2014

Linus Tech Tips ·Linus Tech Tips ·2015-05-07 · 19,890 words · ~99 min read

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0:01 you know the funny thing about the W show today is that we were supposed to

0:05 start on time in fact I've been in here

0:08 for over an hour doing my test call with

0:12 our special guest today doing my uh what

0:16 I don't know whatever else it is that I do to prepare for the show but um you

0:21 know it's funny because it feels like

0:24 sometimes the more ahead of schedule you

0:27 are the more time you'll waste thinking

0:30 ah it's okay I got lots of time no big

0:33 deal everything's fine and then it's 4:30 and you're like oh yeah I forgot to

0:39 record the the intro where I intro the

0:42 topics of the show today and I forgot to oh you know actually check and make sure

0:47 that your special guest Paul from Paul's Hardware formerly New Egg TV is actually

0:53 using the microphone that he's actually going to use for the uh the the guest

0:58 segment because right now we just have a

1:01 super D duper silent guest over there who has two microphones one on his desk

1:08 and one on his face and then actually

1:11 another one on his table he has many microphones none of which appear to

1:16 actually do anything for the moment so we're going to go through the super D

1:21 duper special call out topics today first up is Apple's event the uh the

1:27 so-called October 2014 event that

1:30 happened yesterday and included all the most amazing unbelievable magical

1:34 revolutionary technologies that you can possibly imagine so basically smaller

1:39 thinner better battery life more powerful but basically the same stuff um

1:44 then also Google announces the nexuses 6 and nine which are I'll let you guess

1:51 which one's a phone and which one's a tablet we don't know because nexuses are

1:55 just they're like this

1:58 weird I whatever I lost the word the

2:01 point is we've get we're getting a phone and a tablet and they're going to be

2:05 good and um one thing that's kind of missing particularly on the phone side

2:10 is usually with an Nexus device it's all about the sort of the cheap bang for the

2:15 buckess and that doesn't seem to be happening this time also in the news

2:19 this week Ubisoft just keeps on digging

2:23 don't they a redditor actually member of the PC Master R subreddit um had a

2:29 present at his school and uh wow yeah a couple

2:35 of Ubisoft representatives there said some stuff that is going to light the

2:40 internet on fire yet again it's like Ubisoft wants to burn down the whole

2:44 internet and that's the objective here um finally Netflix raises prices on 4K

2:49 streams that was a bit of a copout topic I didn't try that hard to find another

2:53 one that was amazing because we are going to have a lot to talk about this

2:57 week regardless at least I'll talk and

3:00 Paul will listen because I don't think he can talk yet Paul you got that

3:04 working over

3:07 there let's just roll the

3:28 intro

3:32 a yeah we got sponsors today guys we got Squarespace squarespace.com Linus 10%

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3:52 pretty darn compelling last time around they were slipping cash into people's

3:57 packages the kind of thing that's normally only accept able at certain

4:01 establishments this time around they've got a whole other thing going on and

4:05 I'll give you the details about that later on in the show so hopefully Paul

4:11 is back with us Paul you good I muted

4:14 nothing oh that's right I did mute you didn't I oh there's our problem all

4:19 right well let's open up the volume mixer and see if Paul is uh functioning

4:23 over there does it can you hear me now I can

4:28 hear you now wow it's amazing how changing the volume mixer works over

4:32 there so um twitch chat please feel free let me know if Paul is an appropriate

4:37 volume because he's going to be with us pretty much for the rest of the show I

4:41 feel like I kind of owe him one after we kicked him off of the guest segment a

4:46 few weeks back after pretty unceremoniously after like what six

4:51 minutes or something like that well I think I can understand from a viewer's

4:55 perspective if it's affecting the quality of the stream you got to you got

4:59 to you know sometimes you got to make some sacrifices yeah and I'm definitely going

5:04 to sacrifice you before me so there's that but uh no no you can see this week

5:10 no problems so now we're going to have Windows Task Manager replacing Paul

5:15 instead of instead of having Paul we'll just have the task manager showing off

5:19 how our CPU usage is now in the 35 to

5:22 60% range where last time we had Paul on

5:26 his presence was so powerful that he

5:29 over overloaded my system actually I've

5:32 upgraded it now so well K Kyle was here too he might have affected that well

5:36 we'll see what kind of effect Kyle has because he's going to be joining us in a

5:40 little bit correct that is true yes uh he should be appearing at my door at any

5:43 moment so I'll have to jump up and and get him really quick um he said he was

5:47 on his way maybe 10 minutes so fantastic all right well why don't we jump right

5:51 into our first topic here today then oh you know what I just realized I'm not

5:56 sure if they're going to be able to hear you when I switch to screen sharing on

5:59 my computer here but uh we'll do we'll do our best with it so this was

6:02 originally posted on the Forum by Lord Kitty and the source is a uh a Reddit

6:08 post in the PC Master Ray subreddit here

6:11 so I'm just going to go ahead I'm going to add the uh the formerly of New Egg TV

6:18 crew to uh when we discuss these things

6:21 there you go I'll just check you guys up in the corner there and basically there

6:25 was a presentation at a member of the PC

6:28 Master race subreddit school where some Ubisoft folks came in

6:33 in this case it was a game architect an online programmer and an HR

6:36 representative and they gave this presentation and then there was some

6:40 time for open Q&A and

6:45 so this uh this redditor started to Source questions from the subreddit and

6:51 started to ask some well you know some of those questions that we've all got

6:55 like what's happening to 60fps and why

6:58 exactly is this happening so when he asked about the industry moving away

7:03 from 60 frames per second the game architect blamed settling for 30 FPS on

7:09 limitations which is uh not in line with

7:12 that whole cinematic line that we've

7:15 been getting from you know PR Representatives is it Paul not not quite

7:20 exactly but I I think the main my first

7:23 takea away from this story is is it's fantastic that Reddit has like fingers

7:27 or tendrils spread out so you know so

7:30 much that anywhere there happens to be a discussion like this going on there's

7:34 going to be somebody there like immediately posting it to Reddit that's just that's just good to know because I

7:39 I think Reddit is a is a Force for good for the most

7:42 part for the most depends which which subreddits you they're a force I would

7:47 call them chaotic neutral but maybe leaning towards good definitely chaotic

7:52 well we're getting off topic here but that depends on your view of mankind

7:56 entirely doesn't it okay we we'll come back to that but the main the main point

8:01 here I think is is that there should never be a limitation on software simply

8:06 as a result of one company feeling that they can either make more money for it

8:10 from it or or reduce a competing

8:14 platform's ability to perform by comparison and and there's absolutely no

8:18 reason for it people people do PC gaming because they know they can build a

8:22 system and they can get performance that's in line with what you know the

8:27 type of system that they build and the amount of money they invest and a company artificially making a limitation

8:32 just so people can't argue that oh well

8:35 on PC at least I can get 60 frames per second or 120 frames per second um it's

8:41 just not right like fundamentally brings us to sort of the next thing the game

8:45 architect said and that was that um sort of there it was implied and this is the

8:50 other problem with Reddit sometimes is a redditor and and you know I love the

8:54 anonymity of the internet as much as anyone so I have a LoveHate relationship

8:58 with it i r can be anyone and so when they say that the guy at the

9:03 presentation implied something well that's the interpretation of that

9:06 particular person unless there were you know 50 people in the audience that all

9:11 100% agree that that's exactly what happened but anyway this post says that

9:16 they implied that they're being pressured by the console makers to limit

9:21 games to 30fps and it was

9:25 also when asked about Watchdogs the programmer mentioned that just before

9:29 they release a game they have to send a copy to the console manufacturers who

9:33 have the final say on what to keep and what to throw away before the game is

9:38 made why should console manufacturers have any say in what does or does not go

9:43 into the PC version of a game like that's that's that's the problem right there

9:48 that like they shouldn't have to Greenlight what people can do on a like

9:52 does does Sony have to go and and approve what can go in the Microsoft

9:56 version of the game or vice versa I I don't think so now that would be a good

10:02 one be an interesting conversation to like be a fly on thewall for

10:07 probably so basically basically that's

10:10 it and then the redditor also posted that at the end of this whole

10:13 conversation about the you know the negative response to locking Assassin's

10:17 Creed Unity to 30fps um you know he commented on the console

10:23 limitations the choice between graphical Fidelity and smoothness um and also said

10:29 eyes can't see past 24 FPS anyway and then apparently gave a wink so I I I

10:34 don't know what's going on at Ubisoft but it really feels like they have a

10:39 civil war over there right now between the people internally who feel like they

10:44 should be building the best thing that they can and the people internally

10:48 probably more along the Bean Counter lines um who feel they should do

10:53 whatever is going to make them the best most amount of money whether that is

10:57 through a partnership with a cons maker or whether that is through selling more

11:02 copies of the console version and making sure that the console buyer is appeased

11:07 because that's an angle that I think a lot of people aren't considering

11:10 everyone kind of goes oh well they're in bed with Sony and they're in bed with

11:14 Microsoft to limit the PC version and we

11:17 saw that with Watchdogs Ubisoft can deny it all we want all they want but pretty

11:22 much we know that's what happened but something that they're probably not

11:25 considering is that console maker aside

11:30 the console gamer is not going to want

11:34 to see like when there's when there are subtle differences and image quality you

11:38 know how the console PC you know flame War comment

11:43 thing that happens anytime any of this crap comes up the console gamers are

11:47 going to try to say oh well it doesn't look that different what if it did look

11:51 that different how would they feel about their purchase how would they feel about

11:56 buying more games for that console because not every console player is

11:59 going to instantly turn into a PC Gamer if they feel disenfranchised about

12:04 console gaming well it definitely makes the PC gaming argument a lot more

12:08 compelling if that's the case but I mean the other thing about this this most

12:12 recent generation of consoles that came out is they are not nearly as

12:18 overpowered compared to like PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 when they came out so

12:22 that also to me says that whereas

12:26 earlier versions of the consoles they took a pretty big loss on selling the

12:30 hardware every time it is probably less of that because the hardware they're

12:34 using in there is really not as expensive so that also provides a more

12:39 compelling reason to deter people from going into PC gaming and buying the

12:44 consoles is because they're not I I I mean I can't say this for sure but I

12:48 would assume that they're not necessarily taking as much of a loss on

12:51 the console Hardware as as they used to no no definitely not um I've got another

12:56 interesting point here that's kind of hidden in the notes on this topic but I

12:59 thought it was I thought it was an interesting point of discussion so

13:04 Assassin's Creed Unity is going to have 8 hours of DLC before the game is even

13:08 close to release bringing the total cost if you want to go for like a season's

13:13 pass pre-order to $90 if you want to count all the content

13:18 created before release as release

13:22 content even though you actually have to pay extra for some of it and I think we

13:26 should we should probably do a Twitter Blitz on this but do you think given

13:31 that a game was going to cost you

13:35 $59.99 actually you know what we should go back and find some find some old

13:39 games what was the release price of Starcraft 1 like Paul do you remember

13:45 Starcraft 1 I believe was probably 40

13:48 that that's that's when I think the the most you could charge for a PC game even

13:53 a AAA title was 40 bucks I it might have

13:57 been as low as but I'm I'm going to go with

14:01 40 cuz I seem to remember buying games

14:04 like cartridge games back on sness like

14:07 pretty old games for 50 and sometimes

14:10 sometimes even more like what did what did Final Fantasy 6 cost at lunch six I

14:16 didn't play but seven was 50 bucks definitely okay so if in 1994 so we're

14:21 talking 20 years ago I think was around the time Final Fantasy 6 came out if

14:26 we're talking 20 years ago something was 50 bucks should it be $60 today I mean

14:31 let's find an inflation calculator guys I want you to start blitzing at me with

14:34 this is $90 completely

14:38 unreasonable if you can get a slightly

14:41 reduced experience for 60 when we factor in inflation you think the increased

14:47 price might be reasonable due to the better game Fidelity increased mechanics

14:52 uh maybe not better game Fidelity CU I think that is that opens up a whole can

14:57 of worms but I would say the increas inreased cost of making a game and the

15:02 increase in okay and general inflation you might need to go get that here one

15:07 second all right so I'm going to use I'm going to use a uh an inflation

15:12 calculator here I'm going to go 1994 something that cost 50 bucks and

15:18 we're going to calculate it so apparently according to at least the

15:22 Bank of Canada inflation calculator here something that was 50 bucks in 1994

15:26 should be 7322 and then when we factor in how much

15:30 more a game costs to make these days is

15:33 it unreasonable for them to ask for 90 bucks for it all right let's start going

15:37 to the Twitter boards here because I'm very interested to hear what you guys

15:40 have to say what a warm

15:44 welcome hey everyone uh you're you're actually not you're not live right now

15:49 Kyle but he has no headset on so he doesn't he doesn't know these things all

15:53 right I'm trying to reload here all right Alan hon says that's the last draw

15:58 I'm boycot upis soft uh PC games should never be locked at 30 FPS and $90 is

16:04 ridiculous Owens says I paid $89.99 for

16:07 Warcraft 3 in 2000 and some SN games

16:10 were $79.99 all right special edition

16:14 versions Frank says yeah I didn't think Warcraft 3 was that expensive I think I

16:19 paid 60 for it but then I got like a

16:22 battle chest that had like all the versions together that that they

16:26 released like yeah but then if you if you you treat an expansion pack like um

16:31 like DLC which it basically is I mean that's pretty much exactly the same

16:36 concept then maybe $90 for a game and a

16:40 couple expansion packs is equivalent to $90 plus a couple of DLCs no maybe but

16:46 in the past I think they would have gone the route with the game they release at

16:50 launch is pretty much what they've worked on up till then and then they

16:54 work on like more stuff so if the stuff's already available then maybe it

16:58 should just been integrated into the game from the get-go rather than trying

17:02 to immediately have like a an upsell for people so if they kept it secret for you

17:08 then you would feel better about it like if they if they kind of like kept it on

17:11 a you know a thumb drive somewhere so that no one knew about it and then

17:16 brought it out two weeks after the game comes out then it's okay I mean I don't

17:19 really see the difference personally uh from I mean you run a

17:24 business do you tell everything about your business publicly I mean there

17:27 there even though it is sort of an ignorance as Bliss kind of thing there

17:32 is something to be said if they hadn't talked about this and maybe had given it

17:36 even two weeks or a month then maybe they could have done it but the reason

17:40 they're probably talking about it now is because they want to have this stuff in

17:43 time for the holiday season Q4 all that good stuff so that's basically it

17:47 they're just capitalizing on the hype train because let's face it more people

17:52 are going to buy Deluxe editions and

17:55 extra DLC when the game is all over every intern internet Banner everywhere

18:00 and in everyone's face versus if they wait 3 to 4 weeks and try to get that

18:05 $30 upsell at that point so yeah I guess

18:09 I see why they're doing it but I can also see why it's kind of it's kind of

18:13 it's kind of lame I mean Hardware makers we see this kind of thing all the

18:17 time it's not like NVIDIA is not already working on GTX 1080 and 1180 they're

18:24 already working on them but they're not going to tell us about all that crap now

18:28 because they still want to sell us some 980s and they still want us to feel somewhat okay about buying 980s when

18:33 there's something that much better coming down the pipe so so you think

18:37 they could just be decent it would be more decent of them to just not tell us

18:42 then I think I I think people wouldn't

18:45 be having this argument over whether or not it's it's a thing to be done for a

18:51 large video game maker I

18:54 mean Assassin's Creed is is is huge so

18:57 obviously it's extremely profitable it just I think I think the point at which

19:02 people start to get upset is the point at which they feel that the decision is

19:06 being made much much more for the monetary reasons than it is for giving

19:10 Gamers like the best time they could have or the most amount of content that

19:14 they could give them right all right let's go through some uh let's go

19:18 through some tweets here and welcome to the show Kyle thank you hello sorry I'm

19:22 late all right we're getting some pretty good tweets from people here action 52

19:27 for the nest was $199.99 in

19:30 1991 iron hawk says it's all about the money they're announcing the DLC for

19:35 hyping the game even more you know what that's a very good point because

19:38 something that works really well for

19:41 selling more of something is just this

19:45 just talking about it even us talking about this DLC right now is creating

19:49 more exposure for Assassin's Creed Unity For Better or For Worse that's why we

19:54 get that AC money right that's right that's why I get so much money from

19:58 Ubisoft for my uh like my digging

20:02 references they love me uh Brad's culio I find it funny that

20:07 AAA titles are so expensive whereas Indie Games actual good games are so

20:11 cheap okay Brad's Coolio I'm going to have to disagree with you you can't

20:15 generalize that way there are AAA titles that aren't that expensive I tomb Tomb

20:20 Raider 2013 was on midweek Madness for what was it like $10 or something this

20:24 week it's a great game yes it's a little bit older but that's how life works if

20:28 you want the you know if you want to watch the latest movie then you go to it

20:33 in the theater if you want to watch the oldest movie then you like find it in a

20:37 value bin that's that's how it works and

20:40 in saying indie games are actual good games yes there are good indie games but

20:45 I think to say that every indie game is good is is ridiculous or to generalize

20:49 that of terrible indie games too there's a lot of just horrible indie games and

20:55 if we count the indie games that get funded on services like like Kickstarter

20:59 and don't get made then there's some really abysmal Indie Games those are

21:04 those are like actionable Indie Games in

21:08 my opinion apparently Tomb Raider was $3.99 so there you go you can get Tomb

21:12 Raider 2013 for $4 you should prob go buy is that the one that came with the

21:16 life-size lar Craft Doll no kind of

21:19 creepy which one did you buy well for 400 bucks you they better throw

21:24 something no $4 oh

21:27 $4 would you want a life-size Laura C

21:30 okay tell me something we should do okay we should probably do a straw pole here

21:34 um would you buy a life siiz Laura coft doll no no it's not would you buy

21:39 because I have to assume that everyone on this stream would probably buy it

21:43 what I want to know is would you prefer

21:46 original Tomb Raider Laura Croft Tomb Raider 2013 Laura Croft or Angelina

21:52 jooli Laura coft in the Box could we get

21:56 old school Laura coft with the graphics in detail of current day no you have to

22:01 pick one a which Tomb Raider current day

22:04 lcraft cuz she's a real woman excellent choice Kyle I I agree

22:11 that's my reasoning so Angelina Jolie Lara Croft is not a real

22:16 woman oh was that an option was Angelina Jolie an option you weren't even

22:20 listening all you heard was Lura Croft comes in the box and you're like boom

22:24 yeah I didn't know this was such an open open topic uh just feel like I feel like

22:29 she'd be kind of high maintenance wait so so if I if I pick

22:34 the the current gen video game lcraft is that mean I could control her just like

22:37 in the game no because I would have no control over Angel no let's say they

22:41 come with their respective

22:45 personalities what okay I'd say I'd say

22:48 current Jen um is this current Jen Laura Croft because she seems like a down toe

22:52 chick you know is this really the topic of the straw pole that you're creating

22:56 yeah yeah yeah yeah it's just taking me a little while cuz I'm not signed into twitch chat for some reason I'm not sure

23:00 what's going on here I see stop it twitch what are you

23:04 doing log me in please thank

23:07 you stop being broken would appreciate

23:11 that very much I think I think this is where you and I have to start dancing

23:14 and just distract the the viewers while while lonus figures this out that would

23:18 actually be incredibly helpful right about now um come on do you have any props

23:23 here what can we I have a wine opener

23:27 why are we talking about props first we're talking about blowup dolls now

23:30 we're talking about props there's a SE clamp over there wait I don't even want

23:35 to know what you could do with a C clamp all

23:39 right so let's take a couple more tweets about this whole Ubisoft thing and then

23:45 um wow 46 New notifications man you guys

23:48 you guys hit me so fast on Twitter these days I don't think game should be

23:52 restricted in any way where's Luke by the way what happened to Luke did he

23:56 finally quit you don't know where oh well you've been in Hawai I've been I've been of with reality notw

24:01 that Luke has been in Europe he in Europe oh sweet Luke has been in most of

24:05 Europe from from what I can tell just like Demitri is he in Dimitri like are

24:09 they are they dating they actually met because when you go to Europe and

24:12 there's somebody else in Europe you meet that you meet them in Europe that's what you do that is how Europe works I think

24:18 Daniel Hoff over there better be careful with ideas like that uh he just tweeted

24:22 imagine if blizzard did DLC with wow where if you want access to a particular

24:27 instance you pay a small incremental amount for it wow well they effectively

24:32 have a much better deal going with a monthly subscription that's true but

24:35 they could do both I don't think people would go for that that's but they don't

24:41 have to that's the thing about DLC is that nobody has to buy it well there's

24:46 plenty of like uh uh frill you

24:50 know vanity items and stuff and wow that you can buy like in the store and stuff

24:55 like that I never bought any of them but I I will say that my wife did from time

24:58 to time she got the star Pony your your

25:01 wife is very vain all those did you ever have a star Pony Dy items no I never had

25:06 a star Pony all right what else we got for tweets here got people asking where

25:10 they can buy a Gigabyte GTX 980 I don't

25:13 know the internet um a Graves says I

25:18 think increasing the price of AAA titles is not ridiculous but might Stu start

25:21 scaring off buyers I mean that's the thing that's scary here is for all the

25:25 vocal minority that's complaining about this there's going to going to be lots

25:29 of people who don't care and then there's going to be the people who are actually buying it and I guarantee you

25:33 that if it was affecting sales in some kind of negative way so if it was

25:37 actually scaring off buyers Mr Graves I guarantee you Ubisoft wouldn't be doing

25:41 it so there you go wow kimchi Manu Mandu

25:47 says I don't mind the 30 FPS I lock most of my games at 30 or 60 so I don't

25:51 really mind not many PC Gamers that do

25:55 that I sometimes do 60 it depends on the

25:58 game though really that's one of the benefits

26:02 of PC gaming is that you don't have to conform to 30fps you're not locked in

26:06 yeah V I was doing I was doing adaptive vsync for a while um on games that

26:10 supported it I I I didn't mind it I thought it was a I mean when you have a

26:15 monitor that can't do more than 60 HZ anyway I I felt like there wasn't much

26:19 benefit to going beyond that here's a tweet from rsmith 17 you aren't taking

26:24 into account that games sell many more copies now than did and this offsets the

26:30 inflation okay you can make that

26:33 argument but the price of an item is has never been dictated by the cost of it

26:39 the price of an item is dictated by What It's Worth to the buyer and then it kind

26:43 of scales with the market from there so

26:48 if if it's if it was worth $60 or $50 or

26:52 $80 or some of these older games people are Tweeting or even more if it was

26:55 worth that to the buyer then then it's probably still worth that relative

27:00 amount of income to the buyer now

27:03 so yeah the fact that they're selling more copies of it means that they're

27:06 going to make more money but it doesn't mean that

27:10 the that theost gone down yeah it doesn't mean the value goes down per per

27:15 user it doesn't really work that way I mean they're businesses they're they are

27:20 trying to make money whether we sort of like this or not and you know what Indie

27:24 developers are businesses they if they

27:28 make money they're not going to be sad you watch indie game the movie you think the Super Meat Boy guy is like sad that

27:33 his game sells lots of copies and he makes shedloads of money I mean yeah

27:38 they do it out of passion sure but that doesn't mean they don't want to make money and they're not going to try to

27:43 make money but about notch I'm sorry what about notch what

27:48 what about notch he's made more money than like probably everyone in the town

27:53 I'm in Combined but he is also taking a

27:56 step that will potentially make him a lot less money right but he has lots of

28:01 money already so he's reached he's reached a point of of of Mone where

28:07 where it doesn't really make a difference anymore it kind of feels like

28:10 that all right so why don't we move on to our next topic here which is fast

28:14 charging batteries with a 20year lifetime this was posted by meev on the

28:19 Forum and the original article is from engadget.com I'm just going to go ahead

28:22 and pop that up for you guys to enjoy

28:25 but this looks freaking promising

28:29 apparently the technology is not super expensive to produce and we could be

28:33 looking at batteries that can charge up to 70% and these would be new lithium

28:37 ion batteries up to 70% in 2

28:41 minutes that's ridiculous yeah I mean

28:44 wow I mean okay s here question question for you guys and you can debate amongst

28:49 yourselves but what's more important to you long battery life or fast charging

28:55 with the same battery life we have today uh uh I'll go for long battery life

29:00 because I'm pretty good about plugging in my phone every night if my phone can

29:03 last all day with heavy use then it's going to get a full charge every night

29:07 so uh yeah that would be it for me fast charging is nice but at the end of the

29:12 day you still need something to charge it with I would prefer just having a

29:16 self-contained battery that lasts as long as it does regardless of where I am

29:21 or if I have an AC power outlet near me I guess it's a lifestyle thing too

29:25 though because if you're if you go to work where you have an outlet next to

29:29 you like you work at a desk then fast charging is great you just give it a zap

29:33 whenever you need it however if you go to work where you're on the go all day

29:37 and you're moving around and you're using your phone a lot then I guess longer battery life is more useful but

29:42 either way this will enable potentially

29:45 devices with larger batteries to also be charged much more quickly so if we had

29:50 you know I I usually assume when some research comes out and they talk about

29:55 what percentage they can charge in X number of minutes um for like a phone I

29:59 usually assume they're talking about an iPhone so we can say somewhere in the 1,800 to 2100 milliamp hour range so if

30:05 you had a tablet let's say a 6,000 milliamp battery or 5,000 oh no they

30:10 don't go up to that high do they what are they usually like 4,000 to 6,000

30:14 somewhere in that range I think three to five I've seen yeah okay well whatever

30:17 so the point is we could maybe charge that to 70% in 10 minutes or 5 minutes

30:23 or 6 minutes or whatever the case may be so pretty darn exciting so they're using

30:28 titanium dioxide nanot tubes for the anode rather than graphite which speeds

30:32 up the battery's chemical reactions offering 10,000 charging Cycles rather

30:36 than the usual 500 so would that be something that's more important to you

30:40 than the fast charging the fact that now you can get 20 times longer life out of

30:43 it especially now that so many devices don't have removable batteries when you

30:49 first when I first was looking at this story earlier I I was very excited

30:53 initially because I'm always happy when I see Battery Technology improvements

30:57 because I think that's just something that's lagged behind so so badly um but

31:01 my my secondary reaction was I hope it doesn't have like some sort of negative

31:06 impact you know I hope each one of these that they create doesn't you know kill

31:10 10 baby seals or something like that um so yeah that that's that's a pretty big

31:16 factor for me at this point um when it

31:20 goes into especially for technology is going to be the environmental impact it

31:24 might have as well so uh think of the children Factor think of the children

31:28 yes of the seals our future but yeah I mean if you have something and it's

31:33 going to last 10,000 Char charging Cycles rather than 500 it should last a

31:37 lot longer hopefully maybe the device could last longer um I mean another

31:42 discussion is is is if we're reaching a point of capability with the technology

31:47 and the speed where devices might start lasting longer rather than being

31:50 replaced in one or two years um so yeah

31:53 timing for this could be perfect then yeah so you get a device that you know

31:58 isn't really getting that much faster every generation so you don't really

32:02 feel the need to replace it so often I mean something like this could be great

32:05 for your Project Ara phone so you could you know buy yourself a a quick charge

32:10 module versus the standard battery module and make that thing last freaking

32:14 forever I mean once you have a portable device that can do you know say 4K

32:19 resolution on a handheld display and have 48 hours of battery life and you

32:25 know apart from gam playay what really stress thing to you do with the phone so

32:29 as long as it's not physically wearing out um or bending then it should be able

32:34 to last a reasonable amount of time question for

32:39 you is do we really even need 4k on a

32:42 mobile display I mean have you have you used the LG

32:46 G3 no I haven't uh I I don't really

32:49 think so I think it's Overkill I think the retina displays and the small

32:53 devices are pretty pretty absurd um a

32:57 lot of the time I mean it's it's a pixel

33:00 race it's a pixel race for smartphones I feel and I wish there was more of a

33:04 pixel race for for PC monitors um

33:07 because you know like the Nexus 6 is coming out and it's got a 2560 by 1440

33:12 screen and most people that have monitors are still running 1080 which is

33:16 I I I find that ridiculous that a 5 and a half inch screen or a 6inch screen

33:20 whatever has a higher resolution than the monitor that you're using every day

33:23 for work or for gaming whatnot when the funniest thing about it is you know what

33:28 I've been using the iPhone 6 for over a week now and it never occurred to me for

33:33 even a second that the screen was low res because it really really doesn't

33:38 matter like relatively low res it's still retina or whatever but it's it's

33:43 not as high res as the 1 M8 that I was using right before it so yeah it's it's

33:47 just funny you mention that not only can I not tell the difference between 1440p

33:51 and 1080 but I couldn't even tell the difference stepping down to uh whatever

33:55 this is cuz it's not 1080 I mean there's definitely something

33:58 we said for getting up to that point where you know 1080 and Beyond because

34:03 Steve's Steve's Windows phone that he has he was shown to me and that was my

34:06 first thing I noticed about was like oh this has like an 800x 600 display on it

34:09 or something which is why it cost like 60 bucks but yeah I mean once you once

34:13 you get to a certain amount of pixel density I think it's really doesn't

34:17 matter for a handheld device all right so speaking of handheld

34:21 devices why don't we uh why don't we jump into Android 5.0 Lollipop the Nexus

34:27 9 and the Nexus 6 so guys uh start

34:30 hitting us on Twitter so it's oh I can't really point over there very well here

34:34 we go Linus tech on Twitter want to start hearing from you guys about

34:37 Android 5.0 Lollipop Nexus 9 and Nexus 6

34:41 what are your thoughts we will go through some of those but first let's

34:45 sort of briefly run through exactly what's going on here so um Android 5.0

34:51 is coming in the next few months for the Nexus 5 710 and Google Play edition

34:55 devices as well as the upcoming 6 and9 so we now have nexus's 5 6 7 9 10

35:03 hm wow all at the same time amazing what happened to eight that's all I've ever

35:07 wanted was an 8 in Google device yeah it would be great I would rate it eight out

35:12 of eight mate dear S I think my wife has one of

35:15 those um all right so the Nexus player

35:18 streaming media device is also getting it it's biggest new feature is material

35:23 design it overhauls almost all of the gooey this is the biggest Android

35:27 changed since Ice Cream Sandwich back in

35:30 2011 it has new refined animations a new color palette revamped multitasking

35:35 voice controls and also brings 5,000 new

35:39 apis for developers to tap into and lets multiple devices and various form

35:43 factors work together better there's improved syncing options new

35:47 notification settings and controls improved battery saving something that I

35:51 would be really happy to see because being back on iOS again has actually

35:56 been super duper nice because particularly when the phone is Idle the

36:01 power management is just so much better

36:05 uh multiple user accounts something I I guess we should have seen coming I mean

36:09 as someone with a family I'm not necessarily going to buy my 5-year-old a

36:12 phone but I also don't want him running a mock on my OS doing all my things when

36:18 uh it would be better if he just had his own playground um and some third parties

36:22 have added stuff like this already so we've got you know HTC has a kid mode if

36:26 I recall correctly and I think Samsung does as well so now you can get it

36:30 without subjecting yourself to uh to touch whiz or using sense um

36:37 what else is there in here multiple user accounts yeah so that's basically it now

36:41 we can get into the hardware of the phone so Paul want to run us through the

36:46 Nexus 6 maybe give us your thoughts uh

36:49 yeah so this is this is something that we were discussing a little bit before the show started but I'm I'm looking for

36:55 a new phone soon actually I have a new contract starting and when I saw the

36:58 Nexus 6 I was oh sorry Kyle it's okay there you go I want to I want to be I

37:03 want to read it too when I saw the Nexus 6 uh I was like oh like I want to get a

37:07 new phone I I don't care really which phone I get at this point but I want it

37:10 to be a new one um so it gave me some

37:14 consideration but yeah 5.96 in 2560 X

37:18 1440 uh panel which we were just talking about not a huge difference but hey it's

37:23 it's a nice screen I'm sure 13 megapixel camera um I like the 4K recording that's

37:28 I I've been using my phone at times to to do random video recording here and

37:33 there and being able to record at 4K that's that's pretty nice uh 2 megapixel

37:37 front-facing camera um for this for the

37:41 Selfies I think it's got an f-stop of two as well so it's got a pretty wide

37:46 aperture which means uh you know you can get some good low lighting uh

37:50 performance as well as that nice defocused background go for a more cinematic feel do you think more

37:54 cinematic oh you've got to be kidding me so so you're worded

37:58 effects on selfies really of course it's

38:02 it's trending it's trending right now what can I say I mean look at look at

38:06 the filters that they have on on Instagram you know that that's one of

38:10 the popular ones where they put the depth of field you know you blur everything except the subject take your

38:15 social media to the next level lus I'm very excited about that indulge 32 all

38:19 right 30 3,220 Mah hour battery is

38:23 something that's is yeah whatever that's

38:26 been my biggest complaint recently my phone batter is really really sucking

38:30 lately in the last six months of its existence um so so yeah hopefully the

38:36 larger battery combined with the uh the lollipop features of uh particularly

38:42 saving power when it's like right about to shut off that's what I hate my phone

38:47 battery runs out and then I plug it in and then I have to like wait like if I'm

38:50 going to bed and I use my phone as an alarm and the battery dies and I go to

38:55 plug it in I have to like wait for five plus minutes to get enough charge to

38:59 turn it on so that my alarm will go off that's that's an annoyance that's

39:02 happened to me several times you know what's funny is um yeah I mean this is

39:06 this looks like this looks like um Google catching up to what other guys

39:10 were already doing like Samsung had that high endurance mode or whatever they

39:14 were calling it where your phone could last for like multiple days on a few per

39:19 charge cuz it just like didn't do basically anything it was like two color

39:24 display and all that kind of stuff and it's funny that you mentioned that with

39:27 your phone because I don't know about other manufacturers but HTC actually

39:31 reserves enough battery to wake itself up to have an alarm go off even if it

39:36 dies in the middle of the night so you might want to find find a manufacturer

39:40 whose phone does that I do love HTC pH

39:43 or there have been many HTC phones that I've enjoyed in the past uh my wife has

39:47 the one and she she's really enjoyed it and she uses she uses it to play audio

39:53 books so thoughts on the $649 99

39:58 unlocked price point though I was disappointed that was that's steep yeah

40:03 so um I mean it's too early to say now too but I mean there was also a rumor

40:08 the day I think the day of the the launch of these when they you know when

40:12 they first started discussing them publicly that uh I think AT&T had posted

40:17 the pre-order or something accidentally for the Nexus 6 and it was like 50 bucks

40:22 on contract and I I'm starting to think like that

40:27 might have been just a mistake and probably not actually going to be what

40:30 what what they're going to charge for it cuz 650 with contract is still probably

40:35 seems to me like a one1 to $200 upfront

40:38 investment they're going to ask especially when it's brand

40:42 new yeah yeah I'm I'm pretty disappointed I mean I don't know that

40:46 this has been confirmed or anything but I would suspect based on that the fact

40:50 that there's not much actual spec difference now between the Nexus 5 and

40:54 the Nexus 6 we're going to see those two devices coexist

40:57 in addition to that I mean even Apple

41:01 has finally acknowledged that there isn't just one size fits all for phone

41:06 physical sizes so for for when when I

41:10 first heard that the Nexus 6 was going to be a 6in device or whatever it is 5.9

41:15 I think when I first heard that it was going to be a 6in class device I kind of

41:19 went what are they high I mean yeah I know that the note series does great and

41:25 I know that Samsung basically created

41:28 the the hype around this fablet category that is that is doing incredibly well

41:32 with even Apple jumping on board but to

41:36 for that to be their only device cuz that's what we've seen from Google in

41:39 the past there's the Nexus device and

41:42 then there's Google Play editions of like other stuff um but it looks I I

41:47 think just for the first time we're going to get the Nexus 5 to just kind of

41:50 continue forever or at least for quite a while and then the Nexus 6 is going to

41:55 be in addition to that so I think the fact that it's priced higher makes more

42:00 sense that way because if they're still going to offer a a value option and the

42:05 Nexus 5 is still a great device then they don't have to worry so much about

42:09 making the Nexus 6 so competitively priced and I got to wonder if there's

42:13 pressure on them from the handset makers because it was a few months ago but we

42:18 we saw a report that I think Apple and Samsung were the only profitable handset

42:23 divisions within their respective companies so you know guys like HTC who

42:28 are not doing very well LG's mobile division has been doing better but even

42:32 then I still don't think it's like an exceptional Money Maker for them maybe

42:36 you know Google jumping in and kind of going yay phones should be commodity

42:41 cheap like super cheap um was upsetting their

42:45 Partners I mean is is it something where

42:48 you think if they get enough investment in the platform that is similar to like

42:53 how how consoles are sold that they might be able to

42:57 provide more of an incentive to manufacturers to selling selling the

43:01 devices for cheaper like could that be a uh a business tactic that they could

43:06 could use to take on Apple and their kind of what they they then could

43:10 position as like overpriced devices no I don't think so because

43:15 the it's in no one's on from on the business side of thing it's things it's

43:19 in no one's best interest to lower the ASP of a category the only time you're

43:25 going to lower your average sell price is to try to nickel and dime a

43:30 competitor so for Google why do they care because they've already got the

43:35 Lion Share of the mobile market with apple in a like decisively in second now

43:41 and Microsoft just barely even a player and

43:45 blackberry barlier than that so it's not

43:49 like if they make high-end devices cheaper they're likely to sell more

43:53 Android devices in general or gain more market share and the way Google's making

43:57 their money is through the data mining that they're doing as well as through

44:01 Google Play store purchases which maybe they could buy slightly higher end games

44:05 for their phones but let's face it people who are going to buy a you know

44:10 $49 device off of a Chinese website are probably not buying $9 apps anyway so

44:16 that customer is of no benefit to Google

44:20 if just because they there no additional benefit to Google Just because they have

44:23 higher end phone Hardware Kyle

44:27 I think uh so so do you think cuz cuz the Nexus 5 was not anywhere near the

44:32 the retail price of of the Nexus 6 it's like 300 bucks isn't it yeah so I if if

44:38 that's such a wide Gap going from five to six but the specs aren't really that

44:42 much different are you assuming that Google's going to be releasing some kind

44:45 of lower end more affordable price point

44:48 option in the future is that do you think that's their strategy behind such

44:53 a such a high price for for the Nexus 6 no I think it'll just still be the Nexus

44:56 5 I think they're just not going to not going to have it go away or they're going to leave it for now and see how it

45:01 goes um let's go to Twitter cuz I kind

45:04 of said that I would I would listen to people on Twitter about this so here we

45:08 go Ernie considering Shield tablet can you suggest comparable tablets in terms

45:12 of value and features not really if you want the features a Shield tablet has

45:16 then you're kind of stuck with The Shield tablet ireena says thinking of

45:20 getting a new phone next to six is not going to be it because it's too

45:23 expensive and too big Amir says it's too

45:26 big Max size for me is 5 in lollipop

45:29 tried too hard with material design it's overdone interesting uh Phantom fish

45:35 says I honestly think it looks similar to iOS bottom swipe up Graphics respond

45:39 to messages from taskbar Etc Micah I have a Nexus 7 but I don't have a

45:43 SmartPhone I think the Nexus 6 is too big if I were to buy it I could just use

45:47 the seven and that's a good point where the the line is blurred I mean Google's

45:51 last gen tablet device is now similar to

45:57 the size of their current gen phone

46:01 device um oh yeah we should probably very briefly go through what the Nexus 9

46:06 is so it's 8.9 in 20 48x 1536 IPS

46:10 display that's a 4x3 aspect ratio for those of you who didn't pick up on that

46:15 um so so interesting acknowledging that apple is right about that very

46:19 interesting um 8 megapixel rear camera 1.6 megapixel front camera dual front

46:24 facing speakers Tegra K1 uh assumed to

46:27 be the 2.5 GHz dual core model though not confirmed 64-bit processor with 16

46:32 or 32 gigs of storage aluminum construction and going to be made by HTC

46:37 pricing looks a little bit more reasonable here 3.99 for 16 gig 42479

46:42 for 32 gig and 599 for 32 gig with LTE

46:45 but again not Nexus aggressive I mean

46:49 that was the whole thing with the Nexus 7 is if I recall correctly that thing

46:53 launched at what $199.99 was the original Nexus 7 price

46:58 generation one I believe so yeah one one might have been 250 cuz that was the

47:02 whole concept bringing the Google you

47:05 know stock Android experience to the masses that was what made them so

47:09 appealing well now yeah we get a couple more inches but is that really worth the

47:14 couple hundred dollar extra we're paying

47:17 hard to say Nexus 9 versus Shield tablet

47:21 oh Shield tablet for sure for me if you're a gamer you got to go for the

47:24 Shield tablet it has the quad core

47:28 um it has the stylus build quality is not metal but

47:33 solid and it has gam stream if you're going to game on it at all then having

47:37 having game stream from your GeForce PC is a pretty pretty good thing to

47:43 have all right Jonah the boss the price is not

47:47 reasonable got it um Oliver says so is this Android

47:52 Silver but maybe they kept the Nexus name yeah there were rumors about

47:56 Android Silver maybe silver means not cheap anymore but basically the same

48:01 thing kimchi love Nexus for the low price point after I heard the price my

48:05 heart sank down to the ground Phantom fish I think we saw this

48:11 tweet before uh NEX Nexus 5 is Max size

48:15 for my largest hands Nexus 6 is too

48:20 big wow there's not a whole lot of positivity about this on Twitter here is

48:24 there there I think I think people were too like people enjoyed the price of the

48:30 Nexus 5 so much like they were just really expecting oh they're going to

48:34 come out with another phone and it's going to be available and I'm going to be able to buy it with no contract for

48:38 three or 400 bucks of all the Nexus devices really I mean I bought my second

48:42 generation Nexus 7 for 220 bucks and it

48:46 wasn't even on sale and if you think about it the Nexus 6 is is basically

48:50 just like a Nexus Nexus 7 except it's a phone and it's 1 in smaller but people

48:55 who are getting the Nexus will virtually have no reason at all to

48:59 buy a Nexus 7 tablet especially when

49:03 third of price if I recall correctly so

49:06 so on the phone side we might keep Nexus 5 around for quite a while but on the

49:10 tablet side it looks like the entry level Nexus tablet is going to be 400

49:16 bucks Oliver says looking forward to 60fps

49:21 animations not looking forward to apps that don't support material design

49:25 inconsistency in apps is EU that is a very good point Nexus 6 is most

49:30 definitely Flagship but what about makes it more expensive than the Nexus 9

49:34 tablet that's a that's an interesting that's an interesting

49:39 point that it can fit in your pocket barely no that it's that the that the

49:43 price is so much more than the Nexus 9 tablet in spite of like what are what

49:48 are the hardware differences here exactly I guess uh there's less right

49:54 actually I have to do math to figure that the pixel density isn't as high

49:58 there's definitely less pixel density and less it's a lower overall resolution

50:02 on the Nexus 9 so the the the the display itself could be a pretty decent

50:07 Factor yeah but the funny thing about that is if you've ever shopped for

50:11 replacement displays for a phone I bought one for a Droid DNA not that long

50:15 ago they're not expensive like even

50:18 buying them on eBay as an end user so there's basically like negligible sales

50:23 volume and you have to pay shipping and so like I think I got it for like 70 or

50:28 80 bucks shipped to me so I'm sure

50:32 Google isn't paying that much for a display for a 5-in device regardless of

50:36 pixel density cuz the Droid DNA was a pretty high-end display at the time that

50:39 was one of the first 1080p phones we need to have I iix it do a tear down of

50:44 this and list the bomb cost of all of the uh all the components yeah I'd be

50:49 interested to see if we're getting more more if we're getting closer to Apple

50:53 like margins on the Nexus 6

50:57 Google's profiting are the cameras the same I feel like uh 13 megap yeah the

51:02 camera's nicer 13 megapixel 8

51:06 megapixel yeah better camera slightly

51:09 slightly higher pixel count uh it's it's

51:12 an AMOLED display so battery life should be pretty strong like there there's

51:16 stuff going that's good for it but I guess it all adds up but yeah it's still

51:20 a huge gap to fill all right so let's move on to our

51:24 next uh next topic this was posted by bogus on the Forum and the source is

51:29 Goodwin Proctor and this is actually pretty funny if you if you have the kind

51:33 of sense of humor where you get amused by things that are super sad so goodwi

51:37 Proctor publishes a guide book on litigating with non-practicing entities

51:42 also known as patent

51:46 trolls so there's there's some notes Here a dramatic surge in patent cases

51:50 filed by npes has captured the attention

51:53 of corporate America as well as state and federal legisl s both private and

51:58 public sectors fuel ongoing calls for new laws designed to mitigate or

52:03 eliminate the perceived costs and inefficiencies of patent trol litigation

52:09 so in their in their whole guide to how to deal with this there were some

52:14 interesting little nuggets one of which was that it appears to be actually more

52:18 profitable to patent troll than to deliver products and well not

52:24 necessarily to deliver products you're going to make a lot of money if you make a good product product you sell a lot of

52:27 them but to be a company that actually makes products and try to sue companies

52:31 that infringe your patents so apparently since 2010 patent trolling has been more

52:36 profitable than actually delivering a product or service to Market uh

52:39 non-practicing entities tend to be more successful in court than practicing

52:44 entities and it's getting to the point where legitimate businesses might start

52:48 doing it as well so the stats published by Goodwin Proctor um say that so

52:53 between 2010 and 2013 the median gain

52:56 from a patent suit by trolls is 8 1.2 million the median gain for legitimate

53:01 businesses was 22 million so that was in

53:04 2013 uh US Dollars this is like saying me and Paul

53:10 Paul and I could make more money as drug dealers than running an honest YouTube

53:13 channel well we probably could but the problem here is they're doing this under

53:18 within the bounds of the law yeah and on the backs of the actual YouTube channels

53:23 some relaxed morals you'd have to have to no this this

53:27 like there's certain types of things

53:30 that people do that make that like I really really hate and despise and think

53:34 is like kind of the lowest like how do you live with yourself as a person if

53:38 you do this or like work for a company

53:42 that does this like I don't know I have to have some kind of of like moral like

53:48 okayness with the job that I'm doing I have to have some sort of like

53:52 investment in like okay you know I'm I'm at least on some level like benefiting

53:57 Society or producing something that's of value but like this type of crap I just

54:02 I despise like it's it's really really

54:06 terrible greed is a monster in all of us

54:09 yes well put Kyle dramatic beer drinking drink beer

54:15 now so this is this is this is actually

54:18 this is great so Michael strap a partner at Goodwin and one of the gu's authors

54:22 explained uh why the the damage is awarded to trolls are disproportionately

54:27 high so there's an economic model for of

54:30 patent trolling that includes building up like a a legal War chest by squeezing

54:35 settlements from dozens of smaller companies then suing a big fish like a

54:40 Google or an apple or something like that so the patent trolls all are more

54:44 capable of absorbing a loss in the in these litigations because they've got

54:49 their War chest and they don't have

54:52 actual you know physical inventory that

54:55 is going going to cost them money if all of a sudden they can't sell it because

55:01 you know someone sued them over over a patent infringement for example um the

55:06 trolls victories in the small suits can be used as evidence in their suit

55:10 against the big fish something that a big fish going after someone who's

55:14 infringing a patent won't necessarily have because they might not be chasing

55:17 down every Tom Dick and Harry and then patent trolls normally try to settle

55:21 outside of court and the big fish will usually just take a big loss up front

55:26 rather than the guaranteed legal fees to defend themselves and the threat of an

55:30 even higher fee if the court does find in favor of the

55:34 troll unbelievable I mean I'm not I'm

55:38 not a legal expert I think that much should be obvious but something has to

55:44 be done you can't have legitimate companies that are innovating and

55:49 investing in Technologies like Apple and Google and Microsoft being sued by

55:54 people who aren't actually making anything every time they turn around and

55:59 I think it's also because like this type of activity is it's not very tangible

56:05 you know it's like there's legal talk with involved with it and that sort of

56:09 thing so it's difficult for people to grasp at first like how it even works

56:14 but like I mean equate it to to like

56:17 cheating in a video game like an Aimbot something like that that's that's what

56:21 it equates with I mean much worse than that obviously because there's a lot

56:25 more money at stake but like think of the hatred that people direct towards

56:31 cheaters online at video games and then like transfer that over to real life

56:36 please and yeah imagine if they were cheating you out of8 and a half million

56:40 dollars on average yeah like damn it that guy stole my head

56:46 shot poverty bot oh God poty

56:54 B that's terrible this is something to be pissed off this is and is this you

56:58 know has there not been that much backlash against the sort of you know

57:02 this is more of a recent crime against humanity speak can't do anything about

57:07 it that's the problem is the way the laws are set up now is you you can't you

57:11 can't do anything so what are you supposed to

57:15 do nothing I mean there's uh yeah I I don't

57:21 have I don't have any good actionable like suggestions for people to take to

57:26 fix this that's that's probably the the biggest problem I mean this this was one

57:30 thing when we we were working for New Egg that I always appreciated about them

57:34 was that they their legal team will actually go after some people they've

57:38 won several cases against some pretty large patent trolls thatp can I think

57:44 there was a patent for like um One Click

57:47 one click checkout or something like that that basically said screw off we're

57:51 going to yeah there's a one click checkout thing there's like the shopping

57:55 cart patent like somebody try to be oh any online retailer who has a virtual

57:59 shopping cart like we have a patent on that so they all owe us money but New

58:03 Egg like fought him and and and took him down and that sort of thing but I mean

58:07 that's still just that's like a few there's like a few wins that they have

58:11 and the the amount of this that goes on

58:15 by comparison I think is is massive and I mean just that's what this article is

58:19 about that it's obviously insanely profitable and the snowballing effect

58:24 that has is insanely profitable profitable things like this where people

58:28 are making that much money they can then offer that money to people who are smart

58:33 who can like figure out ways to do it better like that's been the problem in

58:36 the states for quite a long time is a lot of like the smartest people and the

58:39 smartest graduates from schools are not going into like science the science

58:44 sector and that sort of thing they're going into Finance to like learn ways to

58:47 gain them Wall Street better and that sort of thing it kind of sucks anyway

58:50 sorry to go off topic speaking of uh money being important uh let's go ahead

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60:04 something that you guys would have to actually try out Squarespace 4 in order

60:08 to uh in order to be able to verify for yourself but I would suggest trying it

60:12 out verifying for yourself how easily you can create a beautiful website for

60:15 your blog business um portfolio whatever

60:19 else store whatever else the case may be because it's uh it's actually pretty

60:24 super awesome now it's gotten a lot more awesome in the last little while they've

60:28 actually launched a major major overhaul

60:32 so this is now Squarespace seven so they've got cover pages they've got

60:36 Getty image integration which is pretty freaking cool actually you can get very

60:41 good deals on Getty Images so your site even though you don't have a DSLR and

60:46 like you know professional photographer or whatever else can look really good

60:49 and have great stock images very affordably they've got new templates to

60:53 cater to creators of all kinds you can use an exact design or you can take a

60:57 design and customize it to make you your own they've got a Google partnership to

61:01 make it easier to manage everything on one platform including branded email

61:04 they've got updated app integration to work seamlessly from computer to Android

61:08 so you can update your blog take notes on the go Etc and their Dev platform is

61:13 finally in full release so as a developer you actually have access to

61:18 the same res it's the same platform that

61:21 Squarespace uses for their own site

61:24 which is pretty darn cool and then they've actually got this video that

61:29 they wanted me to show you guys I'm just going to go ahead and share this on my

61:34 screen I guess there we go this was just pretty

61:39 cool video so let's go ahead and screen share with lus woo this guy is freaking

61:45 amazing I had actually never heard of him before but uh his name is crap Alex

61:51 Alex something so they've they've got this video that and the behind the

61:55 scenes pictures of this video were bananas like getting this shot right

62:00 here involved having a team of three people basically at the at the edge of

62:06 like this slope above him and then they had this massive boom ARM that had the

62:12 camera kind of hanging down there we go Alex honold oh I've heard of this guy

62:17 I've watched a documentary on him he's insane he's like the world's craziest

62:20 free climber right yeah his his his

62:24 Instagram I was I was looking at it it was just incredible absolutely

62:29 incredible so uh Squarespace is just kind of partnering with guys like this

62:34 to to bring you guys well this beautiful

62:37 video this kind of this message about moving beyond the conventional limits

62:42 and uh I mean their whole vision is just a better more beautiful web so if you

62:47 guys want your site to be better and More Beautiful squarespace.com Linus for

62:50 a free trial and for 10% off use offer code Linus great video too you guys can

62:56 check that out at squarespace.com 7/ templates you know I've actually

63:00 heard a lot about Squarespace lately um two of my my buddies I reconnected with

63:04 from high school they're both uh full-time web developers now they they

63:08 build websites professionally and I was trying to get my own website started for

63:13 uh for for my own personal YouTube channel and I asked them for any suggestions of just like a no-brainer

63:18 site that would just kind of easily handle things for me and both of them

63:21 simultaneously were like Squarespace and so uh a week later I signed up for

63:26 ex web hosting um which is not

63:29 Squarespace wow right in the middle of my sponsorship spot because because

63:34 Steve from Newegg is is an idiot and he

63:37 convinced me of the wrong choice clearly and I I suame I I had suum to the the

63:43 persuasion that is steeve you should you should probably try out Squarespace if

63:47 you buy a year at a time then they throw in your domain cost for free and uh and

63:52 you get a discount obviously cuz you buy a year at a time and oh yeah guys check

63:56 out this so this Instagram picture is what I was talking about a second ago

64:00 right there three guys one cup on this

64:04 like massive massive boom ARM with the camera above him here just absolutely

64:08 freaking incredible what's the name of that Instagram account

64:15 um sorry I will find if I'll find it yeah it's just his name Alex honold with

64:19 two NS all right so our second sponsor today is 54 club and they have a new off

64:25 offer that we don't normally do 54 Club tries all kinds of stuff with us so

64:29 they've tried like a discount and they've tried putting like Cash In The

64:35 Box and now they're trying something completely different and I'm actually

64:38 going to get I'm going to get all the numbers right this time 54 Club is the

64:43 sponsor whose integration spots I have

64:46 screwed up more than any other sponsor it's a bloody miracle that they actually

64:50 even advertise with us anymore cuz I've given the wrong pricing I've given the

64:54 wrong uh um like discount amount i' I've

64:59 done it I've done everything everything wrong with these guys anyway this time

65:03 we've got it right bit. Le Linus FFC use

65:06 offer code Linus 2 for an extra item in your first package and what would the

65:11 items in your package be you might ask well 54 Club is the club that you join

65:15 if you want to be well dressed and you want to do it without putting any effort

65:19 into it whatsoever basically you go on their site you take a survey that takes

65:24 literally so you just click get started you go

65:27 through a survey you tell them you know about your style what you like to wear

65:31 your sizing and then they have your personal style advisor pick out clothes

65:35 for you every month and send them to you

65:39 so the membership costs 60 bucks a month I'm just going to double check that make

65:43 sure yeah good see I got it right this time the membership cost 60 bucks a

65:47 month and compared to the retail pricing on their clothing you're going to be

65:51 paying about half so if you're on their site and you see okay well these cost

65:55 about $120 that's about how at least at

65:59 least $120 worth every month you get for 60 bucks and what they're doing for us

66:04 is with offer code Linus 2 you get an extra item worth 35 to 40 bucks in your

66:10 package every or not every month the first month see I almost said every

66:15 month and I almost screwed it up again but I'm not going to do it this time 54

66:18 club guys and I clicked the wrong lower third okay I did man Dr the ball man I

66:22 can't do anything right I something about 54 Club

66:27 it's a cur I I wear their shirts in my Techquickie videos all the time cuz I

66:31 really like that one shirt it's just got a nice little nice little 54 logo and

66:35 it's like really comfy and the buttons look nice people compliment me on that

66:39 shirt all the time actually SE I've seen that shirt it's a nice shirt it is a

66:42 nice shirt I actually really like it I'd pay 60 bucks a month for compliments I

66:45 never get those and you're fishing for them right

66:49 now you enjoy fishing though don't you speaking of uh being willing to pay

66:54 60 bucks a month for compliments I have something nice to say about Blackberry

66:59 um they can't keep their passport in stock I don't know if this is more to do

67:03 with the fact that they didn't produce enough of them or more to do with that

67:07 they uh it's a really great amazing

67:11 square device with a keyboard on it that people really really want to buy but uh

67:15 there you go they sold 200,000 passports

67:18 within 2 days of launch and stock was apparently completely wiped out after 6

67:24 hours of sales Amazon alerted purchasers by email that their passport had an

67:28 expected delivery date of October 17th to 20th with shop Blackberry quoting

67:32 October 29th as the delivery date so

67:35 things are looking up maybe for the Blackberry brand as they saw an

67:38 operating loss of only 207 Million last quarter below analyst expectations um

67:43 they expected a loss of 16 cents per share and only ended up losing 2 cents

67:47 per share after exclusions so I haven't tried the

67:52 passport I feel like I I kind of I was

67:56 very dismissive of it when I first heard about it but

68:00 um would love to hear what you guys think about the passport actually uh

68:05 we're going to do a straw pull for this one rather than a Twitter Blitz just

68:09 because I that way we can have something up while we move on to the next topic we

68:12 don't actually have a ton of time left which is sort of unfortunate but

68:18 um conversation going on Blackberry

68:22 Passport yay neay

68:26 those are going to be the options cuz I don't have a whole lot of time to create this

68:31 poll all right it's an important one it is an important one I really want to

68:36 know what people think of stuff like this like what the heck is this

68:40 thing I realize now that I haven't actually shown a picture of it on screen

68:44 so I should probably do that just for folks we got a spammer in the chat lonus

68:48 I think you need to kick someone yeah I know right I should kick that lonus Tech

68:51 Guy what a jerk imposta all right here it

68:58 is what what uh is is this BlackBerry

69:02 still running their own their own operating system uh yes but apparently

69:07 the integration of the Play Store is much better now and you can basically

69:11 just install Android apps oh co so they're not nearly as Limited in terms

69:15 of app support right there it is all right line of screen share boom

69:20 Blackberry Passport got your full keyboard also got

69:24 a nice large touchcreen um looks like a very you know a

69:29 productivity friendly more Square aspect

69:33 ratio so I can see what people like about it um I'm just just not sure if

69:38 it's uh if it's the right thing for me

69:41 necessarily all right so let's move on to the next topic here

69:47 um wow there's a lot of topics that I haven't even touched yet we're just

69:51 going to have to go through these pretty fast Facebook's next phone might be built by Samsung there's been a few

69:55 meetings between top brass at both companies and the failure of the HTC

70:01 First which was the first Facebook phone um is not stopping them from planning a

70:05 new phone necessarily and I don't think we're going to see like a like a

70:10 Facebook only phone or anything like that but it's more likely to be

70:13 something with some Facebook features integrated into it I mean Samsung's one

70:17 of the few Android handset makers that is still really sticking with their own

70:22 skin on top of Android that is really quite different from how Android is

70:26 supposed to work LG actually as well I guess they still have quite a few

70:30 differences but um I could see Samsung potentially working in more Facebook

70:34 integration not sure how beneficial that would necessarily be to users but hey

70:37 whatever it's touch wi so it wouldn't be the first time um YouTube ads linking to

70:42 malicious sites this was posted on the Forum by rainfall within and it's from

70:46 the Trend Micro blog that we got this information basically these ads were

70:50 appearing in videos with up to 11 million views and they don't take you

70:54 directly to malicious sites but rather first through advertising sites so the

70:58 exploit exploit used in this attack was the Sweet Orange exploit kit which uses

71:02 certain vulnerabilities in Java Flash and ie and the final payload of the

71:06 attack are variants of the cter malware family which is known for ransomware

71:11 attack so there have been 113,000 victims with 95% of them being from the

71:15 US mind you there was a patch for this attack in May 2013 so if you keep your

71:19 Windows up to date you're probably okay now we've got something that I'm sure

71:22 Paul and Kyle are going to want to weigh in Bethesda to officially support

71:28 60fps with The Evil Within on PC this is

71:31 posted by spoy on the Forum and the original article is from PC Gamer and it

71:36 sounds like great news on the surface I

71:39 mean we get some console commands for things like God mode which is cool no

71:45 clip which is cool but by 30 FPS they

71:51 mean they're unlocking it from the previously rumored 30 frames per second

71:56 lock to 60 FPS only so you may run the

72:01 game at 30 FPS or 60 FPS but not more

72:06 FPS and they are saying that there's going to be potentially some glitches in

72:10 the game at 60 frames per second at launch but that they will fix them and

72:15 anything else you can set whatever

72:18 resolution you want but it's going to be glitchy and they're not going to fix

72:22 it well kids can I get a 60 is better

72:26 than 30 but it's still not ideal for for

72:29 for gamers that have 144 Herz or 120 HZ

72:33 refresh rate monitors I mean I I think they're still going to be disappointed

72:36 you're going to appease some of the population but uh for the majority it

72:40 just seems like they're trying to cover up their their mistake or or

72:45 whatnot so is it like trying I feel like

72:48 I'm trying to look a gift horse in the mouth here because it's nice that they I

72:53 mean no no actually never mind I'm changing my mind right now screw that

72:57 because we should not be like oh well it was nice of them to at least give 60

73:00 they should have given 60 at the beginning without without having to come

73:04 out and be like oh well we'll maybe give you 60 but we're not really going to actually put any effort into it or

73:09 support it or anything like that this is this is half asked and uh and and and

73:15 and we expect your full next time Bethesda I have a negative opinion of it

73:20 that's what I've decided yes okay I'm not I'm not

73:24 impressed

73:27 all right well there's a couple things I need to mention here really briefly first of all we got our poll results for

73:32 the Blackberry Passport with the overwhelming majority saying me or nay

73:37 and 17% saying yay which is interesting

73:40 because 17% of the smartphone market would still be a very viable business

73:44 for Blackberry also amount also I

73:48 realized that I never showed the picture of the extra item from 54 so once again

73:53 I have screwed up a 5 for integration that is the Henley that you get don't

73:58 worry it doesn't have a crazy pattern on it it's just made from a ribbed material

74:02 actually looks quite nice so there you go I screwed up all the things once

74:07 again go team

74:10 lonus this is why this is why you need slick so but yeah because normally I can

74:16 kind of do these things while he while he handles a topic on his own but I

74:21 don't trust you guys that much yeah all right for good reason well I did have a

74:24 half hour to look over all the topics so oh yeah back to The Evil Within there

74:29 are other problems too you can change the aspect ratio but some gameplay

74:35 prompts appear in the Cinematic black

74:38 bars that are going to only be there if you're running in the correct cinematic

74:43 aspect ratio so you just won't see those

74:46 things if you change the aspect ratio and no that will not be fixed either

74:50 apparently if they were really serious about like wanting to give people a

74:53 better experience of that higher frame rate they would just make it all open

74:56 source so that the modders could go in who were really passionate about it fix

75:01 all those issues and make it run at 60 HZ or 60 frames per second or even

75:05 Beyond you don't even have to make it open source for that you just have to

75:08 just have to enable modders yeah allow some mods to go in there um okay so of

75:13 oops sorry wrong thing uh so of course there was a big Apple event this week um

75:19 and I guess I'll have to do a very quick summary cuz quite frankly there wasn't

75:22 that much of Interest I mean Apple pay is coming Monday which is really cool

75:25 they've got hundreds of banks signed up they've got lots of merchants signed up

75:30 um I mean for me personally the time Savings of whipping out my phone and

75:36 trying it first and then realizing that you know half the time plus it's not

75:40 going to work and needing to take out my card anyway is very limited but the

75:45 Privacy improvements do look pretty impressive so Apple basically stores any

75:50 of your card information in that isolated Nonet work connected chip

75:56 that's right on the phone the same place they keep your fingerprint information

75:59 and they share none of this info with the retailer which is which is very very

76:04 cool so you don't have to worry about your you know ID being seen by someone

76:09 as you hand it to them you don't have to worry about um your credit card number

76:13 being more easy being easier to steal I

76:17 mean actually there was a leak there was a leak this week wasn't there another

76:21 retailer lost a bunch of credit cards what another one I think so I I didn't

76:26 catch that yeah CH are right whatever it

76:30 happens from time to time so the retailer thems wouldn't even need your

76:33 credit card information in order to process your payment which is very cool

76:36 and it's coming also we get a retina 5K

76:40 27in iMac that's super thin comes with mobile 290 gpus and a 295 whatever that

76:46 is I'm not 100% sure what that is but don't get too wrapped up in how great a

76:50 mobile 290 sounds because that's actually a pit Karen GPU so it's very

76:53 similar to a 7 870 actually not really

76:57 that special in terms of performance this is not a mobile 290 to a regular

77:02 290 is not what a mobile you know GTX

77:06 980 is to a desktop gtx980 AMD hasn't

77:10 gotten there yet um so 5K 5120 by 2880

77:14 res it's got Thunderbolt 2 SSD is not standard still for some reason it's got

77:19 the latest core i7s and that all sounds pretty good if you're one of those

77:22 people who is into all-in On's than having something that just functions as

77:26 a display and then something that you connect to it because that is more

77:31 modular which is good um the the new

77:35 iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 are coming so

77:39 they've sold 225 million iPads evidently since they started selling them which is

77:43 unbelievable that's like eight times the

77:46 number of people in Canada altogether it's a lot of iPads yeah yeah that's a

77:51 lot of iPads this this is starting from the very first iPad ever

77:56 so and I think that's something like over four times what Samsung has sold

78:00 total in spite of them having so many models of tablets so it's very very

78:05 impressive and then did you did you happen to hear about the uh the the

78:09 Microsoft Surface Fiasco the deal they signed with the NFL they okay that I

78:15 thought that was yeah with all the commentators calling them iPads on air

78:18 even though yeah I mean the iPad is so

78:21 to the average person it that's just what a tablet is iPad right exactly kex

78:27 and it's it's funny because in the tech Bas we don't think about that because

78:30 obviously an iPad's an iPad and other tablets other tablet but no to regular

78:35 people they just don't give two craps in an iPad's a tablet got to love regular

78:39 people so the new iPad Air 2 is 18% thinner the screen is less reflective

78:44 it's got an a8x so which actually has 50% more transistors than the A8 that we

78:49 find in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus very interesting not sure uh necessarily

78:54 exactly where those transistors went but performance should be pretty darn

78:57 impressive it's got a better camera so you can be a pad hole walk around take

79:02 pictures and Now features Touch ID which I guess is good um also the the uh Mac

79:08 Mini got an update with the latest Intel CPUs with Intel Iris Graphics two

79:12 Thunderbolt two ports PCI Express storage and AC Wireless oh yeah the

79:15 wireless on the new iPad is apparently faster too so I guess that's cool so the

79:19 one the one thing about this whole Apple event that is kind of irritating me is

79:23 since since the new version of the operating system is called Yos I feel

79:27 like they've been co-opting images of Yos and using them for Apple branding

79:31 and it pisses me off Mother Nature is going to sue apple

79:37 as the ultimate irony who's going to go and be like no half doome is a

79:40 registered trademark of Yos and and apple and apparently now also an apple

79:46 like I don't want I don't want half doome to be used to sell Apple products

79:50 apple is reportedly suing mother nature for the usage of half doome it's it's

79:55 marketing branded okay sorry okay sorry oh yeah I

79:58 guess I didn't really talk about um the new OS 10 at all I guess I just don't

80:03 care heyo

80:07 cheers well it's not it's not that I don't care because it's bad I just don't

80:10 care because I didn't use the old one so all these new amazing differences mean

80:14 nothing to me because I don't have any frustrations with the old one or

80:18 anything that I like about the old one it just is what it is speaking of things

80:21 that are what they are augmented reality might not be necessarily what we thought

80:26 it was going to be I mean I think that Google Glass looked very augmented

80:30 reality from the beginning like we were kind of thinking we were going to be wearing glasses or goggles or whatever

80:35 else but there's this is a rumor right now but Google and Others May invest

80:40 five Milli $500 million into augmented

80:43 reality company magic leap who isn't going to be putting a lens in front of

80:48 your eyes but rather is planning to basically beam the image into your eyes

80:55 allegedly solving the need for higher resolution in that Solutions like Oculus

81:00 Rift with the with a headset are going to have so the vision would be to have

81:05 the product display an image into the eye so that instead of having to pull

81:08 out a phone you would just see things in

81:11 the world around you that I mean it's

81:15 funny they're calling it cinematic reality because they think augmented

81:18 reality is a bit of a an undersells the technology a little bit because of how

81:23 realistic it is but I mean this is what it is here's an

81:27 elephant an augmented reality elephant in the hand of someone you can call it

81:32 whatever you want but it's still augmented reality uh looks incredibly

81:37 cool and gaming with a technology like this where you don't even have to wear a

81:41 headset and you just see stuff that isn't

81:45 there wow so I'm I'm getting this image in my

81:51 head of like kind of like in The Matrix you know when he wakes up and there's

81:55 just the rows and rows of people you know they're all all in their little

81:58 pods like something like that with all these people and and these little

82:02 devices in front of them just beaming images like directly into their brain

82:05 but but really what this has inspired me to do is developed my own device kind of

82:10 based on this same technology which is going to be a food delivery system that

82:14 puts a tube down your throat and just puts the food directly into your stomach

82:19 that way you don't have to worry about the whole chewing and swallowing thing I

82:23 you could partner with um partner with the guys that make soilent exactly yeah

82:28 Luke's been has is Luke like does Luke look paler or anything like that or is

82:33 he like becoming more and more stronger than he has ever been since he seems he

82:37 seems all right he's not entirely on soilent though he does he does eat it

82:42 for you know most of his nutritional stuff but he still eats um but mostly

82:47 just because eating is kind of nice and things taste good and soilent doesn't

82:51 taste that great I'm glad you've been feeding him yeah well I don't feed him

82:56 he has to feed himself oh okay I just

83:01 watch because it's so it's liquid right so the there's just these visuals I have

83:05 of lonus feeding Luke with like a big baby bottle or

83:11 something right that could be a t-shirt that's worst image that's ever been in

83:17 anyone's head during this show happy to have brought it to all of your

83:21 fans thank you that's what I'm here for

83:25 you guys will never be on my show again get up all right so um Skype kick I

83:33 guess would be how we pronounced this Qik this was originally posted by good bites on the Forum the article is from

83:37 the verge.com and this is supposed to be

83:42 a an attempt to take over mobile video

83:46 messaging so it this actually started out as just a video consumption platform

83:52 but oh I just realized I'm not actually screen sharing with you guys so there

83:55 you go they they're showing it running on Windows phone as if that matters iOS

83:59 and Android unless that HTC1 M8 is a

84:03 Windows phone version of the HTC 1 M8

84:06 which it probably isn't because I don't think anyone ever actually bought one of those um although I'd love to be proven

84:11 wrong you know it's amazing how many people are hating on me for my

84:15 negativity about the Windows Phone HTC1

84:19 M8 in my review and yet I have never seen one I've never heard any report of

84:24 anyone owning it ever and people misinterpreted a lot of what I said I

84:28 didn't say Windows 8 phone is a platform

84:31 for nobody what I said was this is a device for nobody a high-end truly

84:37 high-end Premium cost device that run runs Windows phone because the people

84:42 who buy high-end devices are going to have needs for their mobile devices that

84:47 go beyond what Windows phone can do because the app ecosystem is so immature

84:52 speaking of which I'm still super upset that the NFC chip in here only does

84:55 Apple pay and doesn't do other stuff anyway it started as a video streaming

84:59 service was available on mobile devices before YouTube so this is kind of an old

85:02 platform it's all done through your mobile phone number no account sign up

85:06 is necessary it's been being pitched as an alternative to text messaging and can

85:10 easily switch between the front and rear cameras while recording there's no

85:13 preview or processing and it has a 42c

85:16 max recording you can send to one person or a group and if your friend doesn't

85:19 have kick They will receive an SMS with instructions on how to download it it so

85:25 you can pre-record up to 12 messages for use when you're in a rush so just

85:30 pre-recorded like hey I can't talk right now I don't know why people would want

85:34 that instead of an SMS but sure whatever and the messages disappear after two

85:38 weeks if they aren't deleted like practically speaking to me

85:42 this this seems like something that might be a competitor for like Vine or

85:45 something like that but like no because it's messaging not broadcast it's more

85:49 like like like Snapchat it's more like a competitor to Snapchat except can have

85:54 videos of penises instead of pictures of them like is that what we're doing you

85:57 can do video with Snapchat too that was a benefit that I hadn't considered but I

86:01 mean beautiful the beautiful thing about a text message is when I get a text

86:04 message I can glance at my phone without unlocking without doing anything and it

86:07 can appear on one or two lines and I can immediately know what was said and it's

86:12 faster than watching a short video of somebody being like hey man I'll call

86:16 you later or something like that like well that's a stupid reason to to send a

86:20 video to someone just to tell them that you'll call them later but pred like

86:24 messages like hey I'm in class right now like that's the kind of thing people use

86:28 that stuff for so but the pre-recorded stuff is useless it's all garbage it's

86:32 short message service it's supposed to be like a quick communication a quick

86:36 interaction with someone and this feels this feels like a step backwards this

86:39 feels like video voicemail all right exactly one one

86:44 application I could see this in is like let's say you're in a in a place that

86:47 you've never been before and you're meeting someone there for the first time

86:50 you could send them a message and say hey I'm here waiting for you

86:55 picture of you yeah but the picture is is only goes so far if you're in a

86:59 location they need to see visually where you are 360 degree view you can actually

87:03 give them a panoramic shot of where you are meet me in this location so they can

87:06 recognize it when they walk up to the place so you could send them a panoramic

87:09 picture so you can send them a panoramic picture or video you could send them

87:14 three pictures fail Kyle fail no put a

87:19 filter on it l Kyle's put a filter on Kyle has already invested in quick I

87:23 think which is why he's really uh I am the first investor in quick is it quick

87:27 or kick I don't care if it's a q I feel

87:31 like it should be but there's no U no you're right it's okay the U is not

87:37 silent cuz it's not there it's not proper like use of Q anyway this is cool

87:42 this was posted by ra r bullon on the Forum and it's the Carl iiss VR1 so we

87:48 know about Samsung's VR headset for the note and we know about uh Google

87:53 cardboard which is obviously not going to be the greatest solution ever because

87:57 it's like going to fall apart and stuff but this is the VR1 which is a more

88:00 flexible one so you basically just buy like a like a tray so here's what one of

88:06 the really I can't Mouse over this without this stupid thing well whatever

88:10 so you guys will have to Envision my mouse over there so you buy a tray that

88:13 your phone slips into anything from 4.7 to 5.2 in and then you can use your

88:18 phone as a as VR so that's cool I guess

88:22 moving right along uh PewDiePie may be starting his own YouTube Network so this

88:27 was an interview with um pulse 2.com and

88:31 then he was also on the cover of Icon magazine. this was posted by Tech

88:35 dreamer on the Forum and actually generated a lot of discussion um he

88:39 makes an estimated 4 million per year in ad sales so that's gross um and that was

88:45 last year I'm can assure you it's a lot more this year plans to leave Maker

88:48 Studios in December to create his own network thinks other networks have been

88:51 managed in such an incredibly poor way that it silly and would like to help

88:55 other YouTubers and say what you want about pewes you know how you might like

89:01 or dislike his content or whatever the guy's smart and uh maybe I should join

89:07 his Network how how do you know he's smart

89:10 how do you know he's not just incredibly lucky and remotely attractive for a

89:16 YouTube personality anyone anyone at the top of any field is smart guarantee

89:21 it I I I don't know oom had some some

89:25 Fame there for octom oom yeah but that's not the

89:31 top of a field that's a 15 minutes of fame I'm talking someone who her own in

89:36 a sustained repeated manner beat

89:40 everyone else who competes at something I've seen some actors who who wouldn't

89:45 line up with that but what does PewDiePie do that no one else can do I

89:48 mean hold on a second okay remember some

89:52 actors that are dumb sure but but I said at the top of a field PewDiePie is the

89:57 number one YouTuber Point me at the number one of anything where the

90:01 person's an idiot you can't do it are you still on a network or at this point

90:05 lanis uh yeah I'm I'm with twitch right now but I'm actually probably switching

90:10 on YouTube on Twitch TV I'm still going

90:13 to stay partnered with twitch I'm still going to do all my streaming on Twitch but on YouTube I'll potentially be

90:17 moving over to um wow I feel bad for not

90:21 remembering Maker Studios oh okay isn't that isn't that where PewDiePie

90:25 PewDiePie is leaving PewDiePie is leaving that no I think that might be why I have Maker Studios in my head I'm

90:30 going to have to look it up now when's the lonus network coming and when can I

90:33 join and do you feel like you have some big shoes to feel and sure yes I'll join

90:37 your network replacing PewDiePie on studos

90:40 network sorry I feel I feel bad full

90:44 screen full screen sorry not maker I've talked to every Network at some point

90:48 iny we're on full screen full screen yeah full screen's awesome yeah yeah so

90:51 I um so I might be joining full screen

90:56 okay I I I like full screen I don't have a problem with

91:00 them all right so let's go ahead and uh see if we've got any more oh yeah

91:04 Netflix raises the price for 4K video streaming this was posted by Tech

91:08 dreamer on the Forum and this is actually the second price hike we've

91:12 seen from net Netflix in like what a year so and that was after for a long

91:17 time the pricing being very very stable so if you signed up for a 4K enabled

91:21 account already you get to keep your current subscription price until August

91:24 12th 2016 but for new subscribers the monthly price for 4K will be 12 bucks so

91:29 you can enjoy 4K content like Breaking Bad House of Cards and the Smurfs on

91:34 your 4K TV that you also probably don't own yet um although 4K doesn't work on

91:40 all TVs you need to have a supported TV so once again early adopters for any new

91:44 video standard get the old kick in the teeth way to go you spent way too much

91:49 on something that not only didn't work when you bought it but isn't even going

91:53 to work at the time that it was supposed to work that's why you go with an htpc

91:57 it's pretty normal but uh yeah this was

92:01 one of those stories where I was like okay I mean I think the people right now

92:04 who have the capability to watch Netflix in 4k aren't really probably going to be

92:09 too pissed off by three extra dollars a month um I would hope that once it

92:14 becomes a little bit more mainstream maybe they'll do like a discount plan or something knock it down to 10 I'll sign

92:19 up for 10 all right so uh next up we've got the

92:23 happening snapsaved images leaked so 500

92:27 Megs of images were leaked according to snapsaved snapav.com is a website that

92:31 allows users to save Snapchat messages and it was compromised their database

92:35 was immediately deleted when the hack was discovered but there are concerns

92:39 that many of the leaked images could be classified as child

92:43 porn so

92:48 yeah that's a that's a messy situation I

92:52 guess that's all there is to really say about that although one Pirate Bay user

92:55 complained that so far from what I've seen the vast majority are just black

92:59 screens with text overlaid or just a normal selfie that would be my initial

93:03 response to be like man the pictures aren't even that good Nexus player is

93:08 coming so this was posted by laws on the Forum the original source is Google's

93:12 own page about it so let's go check that thing out oo Nexus player so um you know

93:18 OU yeah good idea but probably ahead of

93:21 your time a little bit there and the pag is lo a bit slowly so sorry about that

93:26 but at any rate the Nexus player is coming it's going to come with a remote

93:30 and a controller the remote has voice search comes with apps such as Netflix

93:34 and Ted there's a full list uh on the on

93:37 the Google page for it that I would love to show you except that it's not loading right now and it has free online

93:41 multiplayer from Google Play games so

93:45 the thing that all consoles should always have forever because it's just

93:50 baffling to me that you have to pay to subscribe to a multiplayer server when

93:54 you already bought the game and you already have your internet connection um

93:58 it's got a 1.8 GHz quad core Intel Atom Processor 802.11 AC 2x2 mimo so that's a

94:04 pretty good Wireless solution HDMI out and it'll cost $100 and the controller

94:08 will cost 40 bucks and um one thing

94:12 though that's missing and it better have a good Wireless solution because it does not have a wired network connection

94:17 that's a bit of a killer for me oh damn

94:21 yeah I I I personally have to pee I'll be right back thank you thank you thank

94:25 you Kyle we should end the show while he's gone so that I don't have to talk

94:29 about where people can go watch Kyle make videos that's all right yeah we'll

94:32 leave we'll leave his plugs out of it so so this is like I don't know this is

94:36 like the upgrade to the chomecast I guess it's it's Android based it's it's

94:40 got a better processor and you can actually play games on it and it's only

94:44 100 bucks yeah it looks that way how many Android so you do you you've been

94:49 using your shield and everything to play games like you know uh like do you

94:54 actually play any Android platform games

94:57 or no they're all rubbish yeah so I

95:00 guess that would be my issue would be sure you can play Android games but I

95:04 don't play any Android games so the draw

95:08 really isn't there for me but I mean I don't know for $100 this is a tough sell

95:13 for me I'd rather spend I think shield shield portable is down to what 200

95:16 bucks now yeah yeah I'd rather have one of those and run it in console mode for

95:20 sure you'd have a lot more flexibility with the what you could play on it

95:24 that's that's for damn sure yep so original article here is from New York

95:28 Times and that is that uh HBO is to

95:33 start their own Standalone streaming service come

95:37 2015 which is um I I guess pretty cool

95:42 uh actually very cool because now you won't have to have a cable subscription

95:46 in order to get access to HBO

95:49 programming um so this intensifies their growing

95:53 rivalry with Netflix hpo is trying to cater to the new generation that doesn't

95:58 have any interest in cable subscriptions I have only had one when my cable

96:03 provider offered it to me for free I watched hockey games that was it 10

96:07 million homes in the US have no cable or satellite subscription but do have

96:10 internet half of those are subscribed to a streaming surface uh surface service

96:16 so uh CEO of HBO says it's time to remove all barriers to those who want

96:20 HBO Allin there are 80 million homes in the US that do not have HBO and we will

96:25 use all means at our disposal to go after them so there you go so there's

96:30 there's that popular web comic I think it was from the oatmeal where somebody

96:35 was like I want to watch games Game of Thrones but I want to do it legit stop

96:39 cracking here sorry but I want to do it legitimately and then this the whole

96:44 comic was about them trying to legitimately watch Game of Thrones and then eventually giving up and and and

96:48 pirating it this is my only my only issue here that this is going to make

96:52 that argument lot more difficult anyone who Pirates Game of Thrones regularly

96:57 now no excuse they they they have much less of an excuse and that's really but

97:01 but no this this uh to me signals the beginning of the end of of cable TV and

97:06 the world yeah I I don't understand why it still needs to exist Kyle used a

97:11 little bit more hyperbole there but just just a bit of embellishment I guess all

97:15 right we've got a few more rapid fire topics but I got to go through these

97:18 incredibly quickly because we've completely run out of time Amazon to

97:21 open a physical store in New York it could act as a way to highlight products

97:25 like Fire TV um this is a breakthrough

97:29 it's a revolutionary uh thing that Amazon has done here yeah opening a

97:33 store maybe New Egg will follow suit and then maybe ncx will open a retail oh

97:38 wait no they've already got them okay they have them they they're called the hybrid Center we're like the hipsters of

97:42 the tech industry yeah all right Corsair RGB keyboards allegedly only producing

97:47 512 colors it is advertised as

97:51 supporting 8 bit color giving 16.8 million total color combinations however

97:56 has been found to support only three bit color giving 512 combinations um to

98:03 people who are sort of blown away by this all I really have to say

98:07 is Corsair is doing what they had to do

98:10 here I think I I don't think it's right I don't think it's right for anyone to

98:14 advertise 16.8 million RGB Lighting in a

98:18 product when it's obviously not actually

98:21 16.8 million color combinations but like

98:24 let's take H the cable's trapped under

98:27 something here let's take this mouse for example this is a Logitech mouse

98:31 Logitech is a big company a good company good

98:35 people that LED lighting is advertised at 16.8 million there's no way there's

98:40 no way in hell that it produces 16.8 million colors if you guys have ever had

98:44 an RGB product drag the color wheel around you know take two yellows that

98:48 are similar and see if you can actually see the difference in the LED there is

98:51 no difference because it does doesn't actually do it it's never actually done

98:56 it and if anything Corsair's transitions

99:00 much more smoothly in my experience than the Black Widow ultimate chroma anyway

99:05 and a lot more smoothly than a lot of other RGB products I've seen so I really

99:09 wonder how many colors most RGB products

99:12 out there actually support like I said still wrong shame on you Corsair

99:18 but there you go according to the Forum users the issue is that is either the

99:23 they are constrained to the USB protocol that only supports three bits per

99:26 Channel or because the three Panasonic a32 1881 LED Matrix ic's they use to

99:31 control the keyboard are only able to give individual LEDs three bits of

99:35 control per channel so there you go I don't think there's been an official

99:38 statement from Corsair but um yeah future Mark launches the world's

99:44 first 4K Benchmark this was posted by Tech Fanboy on the Forum and it's the

99:47 source is from kit guru.net fir strike Ultra renders the fire strike Benchmark

99:52 in 4k you need at least 3 G vram to run the Benchmark and the leaderboards are

99:55 live there's a JBL special edition of the OnePlus One and earphones but I

99:59 don't really like talking about OnePlus One cuz I think that they're one plus

100:05 one um it is what it is 1 plus

100:09 two that equals two it's the answer to

100:12 the equation Apple patents flexible device

100:16 display input method so the device would react to bending using that as an input

100:20 method very cool and assus stck mechan mechanical keyboards with blue black

100:25 brown and red key switches are either

100:28 available now or coming soon I actually haven't seen if they're on sale yet this

100:31 was posted by quas oh yeah and the Apple patent thing

100:35 was from Tech dreamer uh this was posted by ques on the Forum and this is the

100:40 stricks tactic Pro there we

100:44 go really how how is ASUS and Corsair

100:47 are going to be buddy buddy now that ASUS has like mice and keyboards and

100:51 headsets and headsets and I think they had cases at one point

100:56 didn't they uh they have like I know they have like server cases they sell

101:00 like you know kind of barebone server systems and stuff I'm not sure if they

101:05 have like mainstream consumer gamer cases or anything like that but I on

101:09 this would be surprised if they did well at any rate it's a gaming keyboard it's

101:14 mechanical it's got some macro keys on the left pricing looks reasonable it's

101:18 got n key rollover and uh it's got three more

101:21 macro keys under the space bar a position that I personally really really

101:25 like for them because whenever you're not jumping you might as well be

101:28 macroing something and more maybe more than one thing and I think that's pretty

101:32 much it for my topic so I guess the the

101:36 the rest here is you know what actually maybe do you mind do you guys mind if we

101:40 end the show and then we come back immediately for a quick Afterparty maybe

101:43 you guys can update me on how things are going now that you're free from the

101:46 shackles that bound you of course yeah let's do that so Afterparty we'll be

101:50 back in like a couple seconds here

101:56 never

101:59 this they can hear you by the way damn

102:05 it hello so they can hear us when they can't see us yes so you could be naked

102:11 and you wouldn't be bothering them anymore any this is Paul I hate all of

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