The WAN Show: NVIDIA vs AMD... FIGHT! Watch Dogs Pirates Get Screwed - May 30th, 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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around 3 hours yeah we've we've done some
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really you have to go at 6 what do you think this is some kind of company where
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like work ends at 6 I think this is the first time that I've even said that in
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like a really long time why are you still wearing that yeah I'm wearing my
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lav mic because I uh yeah because I'm
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wearing my lav mic I'm going to take my lav mic off you know what I wonder if
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that would just be the solution I should I should yell at Brandon to bring me the
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other thing and if we just each wore lavs I wonder if that would just be
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better anyway guys we've got a great show for you today as always this week
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the big topics are the Gameworks controversy NVIDIA and AMD are added
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again and surprising super butt hurt at
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each other again surprising we're really surprised oh yeah here you're a little
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far over that way scooch in we never uh
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we never can quite get the whole where we should put like x's on the chair so
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that we know like where it aligns with kind of the
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butthole so that you can be in exactly the right spot every
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week yeah that would work yep I mean if
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we didn't want to go for the whole butthole thing then we could just put
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like butt marks around the outside of where the cheeks go but then if one of
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us put on some weight then we wouldn't be able to see them anyway not that
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that's happened to either of us
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lately we switch we switched didn't we
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oh my goodness we did too yeah
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you'll get it back I don't talk about it all right so there's the NVIDIA AMD
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thing there's an SSD middleware that could be coming that could they're
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claiming quadruple your SSD's performance and this is without actually
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buying a new SSD although I'd be surprised to see something like that
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implemented for free what else we got
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who I got to jump back up there uh Google is going to start building their own self-driving cars they've had this
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kind of stuff going around for a while but they're actually going to start manufacturing these cars which is really
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interesting and true Crypt may or may not be compromised we talk about that more
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more about that later after we actually do a show here so first order of
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business you know what why don't we just straight up jump into the NVIDIA AMD
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thing I think that's uh that's a pretty nice topic to give to the people who
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were sitting there waiting for us to start the show you guys are awesome
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thank you for being on time even though we rarely are were we on time today is
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is like 1 minute late yeah I think we're like 1 minute late and we pre- streamed
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a little bit before but like my laptop
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still isn't plugged in so if screen sharing doesn't work the way that it
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normally should we that checklist we're yeah we're we're going to be in a little
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bit of trouble here so yeah
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all right okay so this was posted originally by Booker dwit on the Forum
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and it is an article from Forbes about Why Watch Dogs is bad news for AMD users
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and potentially the entire PC gaming
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ecosystem so this isn't exactly a new thing for AMD to wave the flag about and
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what they're basically saying is that Gameworks represents a clear and present
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threat to gamers by deliberately crippling performance on AMD products
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now what Gameworks effectively is is it's a um it's a it's a toolkit that
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game developers can use to implement features or um basically features
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features or graphical um well really
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features features it's features it's features Implement features into their
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games without actually coding the whole
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thing themselves so when I was at NVIDIA's um Montreal event they were
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showing off some of the big improvements that they had made recently to GameWorks
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with things like particles and fire
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where to to put it sort of in really
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really simple terms it's kind of like on a camera having a profile that makes the
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image look better or adds an effect to your image where the game developer
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doesn't actually have to dial in all the manual settings and figure out how to do
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themselves so it's basically like think of it like dragging and dropping fire
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effects into your game so that it looks like this great realistic fire when all
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you had to do yourself was like put it there and then it animates itself so
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that's what Gameworks is but what AMD
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doesn't like about it is that developers
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license these proprietary NVIDIA Technologies in order to make their
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games look great but that doesn't give AMD any kind of real insight or
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necessarily a way to optimize their driver to perform well when rendering
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that feature in that game so things like smoke and lighting and textures and
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shadows and all that kind of stuff can
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hurt performance on AMD cards says Robert HCK so participation often okay
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so okay this is from the original article so participation in the
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Gameworks program often precludes the developer from accepting AMD suggestions
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that would improve performance directly in the game code the most desirable form
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of optimization so basically he's also
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saying that this makes it more difficult for them to perform their own after the
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fact driver optimizations and it's basically yeah
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you know AMD doesn't support or condone such activities and it's like super
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poopy and terrible now a couple days went by and
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NVIDIA fired back and suris how long it took actually I'm a little surprised at
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how long it took but I can understand why they would have wanted to be very
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careful about their response they don't want to say anything that's
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that's not correct so NVIDIA came back and said look we'll have a we have a
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kickoff meeting with the developers we'll brainstorm cool new effects we'll
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show them the cataloges that we have and then we'll prototype something outside
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of their engine give them an idea what the effect might look like and we work
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with the developers but we don't and never have restricted anyone from
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getting access as part of our agreements not with Watchdogs and not with other
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titles our agreements focus on interesting things we're going to do
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together to improve the experience for all PC Gamers and of course for NVIDIA
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customers we don't have anything in there restricting anyone from accessing
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source code or binaries and developers are free to give builds out to whoever
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they want it's their
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product so pretty much where we're at right now
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is he says she says which is the usual thing with AMD and NVIDIA um I don't
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think I don't think we're likely to get any kind of an official response from
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any game developer because the last thing they're going to want to do is
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jeopardize their relationship remember game developers need both AMD and NVIDIA
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on board ultimately even uh the way it's meant to be played
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title the dev wants it to run on AMD cards they're not going to ignore 40% of
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the market or 30 however odd percent of the market by just making it run like
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poo on AMD cards if they don't have to there's there's some speculation about
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the whole source code thing because they could be like yeah you can release the
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source code but our parts are up fiscated so you can't actually read that
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part of the source codes you can get to some of it but then whenever one of the
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game works effects is going to go off you're really not going to know what's
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happening there so it's it's it's it comes down to wording and what's
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actually being said so let's talk a little bit about what you'd rather see I
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mean AMD did their whole mantle thing
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which I don't think they've actually opened it up to NVIDIA yet even though
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they said that they would at some point point where basically the game would
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have to be coded completely differently to run um on directex versus on mantle
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whereas what NVIDIA is doing is they're approaching developers and going okay
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here's a feature it'll run on whatever
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but the performance is obviously you
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built for our Hardware we're optimizing for NVIDIA um and the positive and
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negative things here are both pretty clear to me so positive number one is
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that we're getting much better visual effects than we otherwise would have
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been able to or much less work required
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for very small devs to create visually
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stunning games games that will run on AMD but won't necessarily perform the
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best and then the disadvantage is that it creates this segmentation where
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NVIDIA is kind of helping developers
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make games that run better on NVIDIA
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hardware and potentially depending on who you believe make it more difficult
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to run on AMD Hardware or at least more difficult to optimize yeah I don't know
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if I'd say more difficult to run so if you had your
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way would you say I developer X I would
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like you to use Gameworks or I wouldn't like you to use
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Gameworks and let's say let's say I let's give you guys two you know what
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let's straw straw pull it so I want two options I want AAA developer and then I
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want Indie developer so allow multip poll choices so AA developer yes AAA
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developer no Indie yes indie no would
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you like for them to use it or would you like for them to not if they can save
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some Dev costs if they can bring it to you earlier if they can spend that time
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on developing gameplay more as opposed to animating better fire or something
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like that how do you guys feel about it
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because I mean for to me game works is a
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very natural evolution of what already
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existed as uh gaming evolved the way
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it's meant to be played these programs where NVIDIA and AMD and often both of
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them at the same time are working very closely with game developers in order to
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optimize the game to me this is just NVIDIA taking a very proactive approach
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to that so instead of a game developer building something bringing it to NVIDIA
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and them going okay let's optimize it they're giving them something that's optimized in the first
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place it doesn't feel wrong to to
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me but it does put AMD at a disadvantage
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but that's just AMD or that's just NVIDIA working very closely with
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developers and proactively helping developers make better games even though
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they could they could go out of their way and let the source code be leaked to
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MD if you were NVIDIA would you do
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that see but they built the technology yeah you've got you've got multiple
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Arguments for that as well but then you can turn around and go AMD built tress
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effects and allows anyone to use it in
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all one game that it's being used in whereas NVIDIA has created to I mean I
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mean that's something that I got to look at too and I go okay AMD or NVIDIA can
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say here's what we're giving to developers but at the end of the day
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whether or not developers are using them to me even though I'm not a Game Dev and
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I don't really understand how these tools work very intimately I look at it
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and I go well this is the one the developers are actually
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using how useful was the other stuff that they're not using I don't know yeah
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I don't know personally I don't think I'm as as against games works as a lot
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of people are and that's that's another thing too like if you look back at the Forbes article they have a picture for
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uh 290x versus
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770 if you see that oh uh can you send
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me the link it's in the dock it's in the dock oh that makes sense okay right
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there there we go all right so guys here's the the image that Luke is
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referring to and then if you go to I wonder if I can find it it on the
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network I should be able to find it on the network I should have looked for this earlier but my charts I seriously
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don't think it was that bad like the the the Gap differences for tier equivalents
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right were really not that far away
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especially considering like how scared so many people were at the very
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beginning and considering that we run
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stock coolers on everything so the current invidious stock coolers are
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making colder cards than the current AMD ones are which are running really hot so
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a lot of and NVIDIA benefit from a
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cooler running card y exactly so some of our overclocks are getting higher on
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NVIDIA right now just cuz we have more overclocking headro due to thermals if
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we we we do stock cards so next
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Generation might flipflop who know reference cards reference cards yeah
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sorry um so like it's not like that
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changed and the AMD cards are still really close so I don't know I don't see
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it being this horrible thing that everyone's talking about like maybe it
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was harder for AMD to do it I know talking about how they're not going to be able to fix it as much afterwards
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with drivers as they could have before um it's in the actual folder for the
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actual thing yeah it's okay I mean ultimately the thing here though is that
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both AMD and NVIDIA did manage to have
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optimized drivers available for the game's public release and then for all
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the good it did anyone because Watch Dogs is well yeah a bit of a dog right
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now in the Forbes article he's showing 29 X and 770 being very competitive in
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mine here I've got it now here we go
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there so guys have a look at this so we've got 780 and 290x being within 10%
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of each other and then 290 trailing another couple of percent after that
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with 770 getting absolutely destroyed and like everyone calls us NVIDIA
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Fanboys and like what the Forbes article showed them with the 770 winning and
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they're like AMD was crushed in this blah blah like no they did totally fine
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it wasn't even that bad if for for how much they were
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suppressed and stuff yeah like I don't actually see it as being that big of a
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deal maybe the run that I had didn't have a crazy amount of Game Works
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effects I don't like I don't know I
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really don't I got wonder what forbes.com knows about game benchmarking
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anyway no and I'm not even I'm not even I actually didn't read the article so
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straight up didn't read the article maybe you guys can tell me maybe they have a fantastic benchmarking
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methodology I'll be the first to admit ours isn't the best either but I I like
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I just I wonder how they're actually benchmarking the game uh because it just
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has nothing to do with the results that we're getting so and I to my knowledge
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they haven't done a ton of video card reviews like I saw an R9 295x2 one
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because I was getting a lot of tweets back when that card was released going hey lonus why did you not get a sample
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of this card and for .c did and I was kind of like I don't know um because
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Forbes isn't really known they're more known for market analysis and less known
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for actually taking physical hardware and reviewing it so it just seemed like
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a bit of a a bit of a weird thing to me yeah so there you have it guys um that's
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the current state of affairs we'll update you guys if anything happens but
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I personally see this as a bit of a
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nonissue for the moment especially because the differences in performance
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really don't look very different from other games whether they are a way it's
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meant to be played or a gaming evolved title in fact I haven't seen obvious
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optimization to the point where it's like yes this game is clearly
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handicapped in a really long time
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yeah all right so moving on to our next
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topic speaking of Watch Dogs this was an
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article from the register but uh they're
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not the only ones reporting on this tens
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of thousands of Watchdogs Pirates enslaved by Bitcoin botmaster I think
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that's a very sensationalist
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headline but it doesn't change anything about the fact that pirating games is
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just plain not a very good idea
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sometimes so basically what was happening is your machine you would
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install the game and run it and your machine would launch another executable
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that would start to mine Bitcoins for
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the right now it's not very clear whether it was the original cracker of
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the game or whether it was someone who took a cracked release that they claim
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they never did maybe you have some on the on the Watchdog video people were
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saying that I was wrong because I said the the guy that cracked it put in the
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thing but then other places where I've looked up are saying that the guy that
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cracked it just faked skid R's names skro is a very popular well-known game
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cracker um so I don't know what actually
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happened but something happened and one that a lot of people downloaded had a
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minor in it so so the great thing about this is particularly on lower-end
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machines that was having a dramatic impact on the game's performance which
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might be where some of the oh Watch Dog friends terribly stuff was coming from
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although from what we've seen it really doesn't look better than something like
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Far Cry 3 version also has a minor in it I don't I'm
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kidding one thing that I thought was that's
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interesting what a free game that
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instead of being you can choose you can go okay I'll pay for or I'll mine for
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you or I'll mine for you that's interesting anyway um moving
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moving along one thing I want to bring up one of another one of the comments on the video I should have quoted this
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somewhere but the guy was saying um it it's it's funny because the pirated
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version didn't get a three-hour Mission which was defeating you play to be able to play the game yeah I know right that
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was hilarious I don't he might have said it in some other way but yeah it's so
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true trying to Benchmark it was really
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difficult because logging into up play was such a challenge half the time we
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would just be like you don't have an inter internet connection I'm like actually yeah I do would really like if
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you just worked now and you have to sit there clicking try again for like
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forever so the way that it worked is it would launch this minor and then once
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you close down the game that would actually continue to run so whoever did
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this is like pretty freaking oh yeah
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happy right now yeah and then there's a bunch of pretty upset people about the
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uh about well the fact that they just generated a bunch of Bitcoins for some
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butthead you parted the game so I can't feel that bad one of the
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conspiracy theories running around was that Ubisoft did
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it I don't think they're that in need of money but that would be that would be
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pretty funny leaking your own pirated game but just putting a like a Bitcoin
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minor in it so it's like yeah you don't want to pay for the game
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guess what dog that would actually be really funny or if it was like some guy
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at Ubisoft that did it with that intention
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fantastic all right let's move on to our oh we never got the straw pole results
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did I get a link for that I posted in chat a billion times if we just um I
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don't think I have the link so okay I I I'm afraid of what's going
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to happen if we do this but if I just no no no no just go to chat go to chat okay
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I'm going to chat I'm going to chat I got this i got this okay guys so let's
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have a look at the straw poll results I don't remember what I asked ah yes
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should they use Gameworks and
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wow so the majority of you you made it a
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multiv vote poll right y well I don't think too many people voted for more
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than one result I think that adds up to about 100% but anyway the majority of
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you are just saying yes you you and especially Indie devs you'd like to see
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Indie devs be able to take advantage of this deliver a game I mean that runs on
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AMD hardare is based on the amount of votes there so it doesn't matter yeah so
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that might look better than if I don't
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remember what I'm talking right that might look better than if they had to code all this stuff themselves as long
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as it runs on AMD then you're still totally cool with them optimizing it
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using NVIDIA's tools so I mean I think that's great because there's been a lot
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of a lot of back and forth about this with some people declaring Gameworks to
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be the worst thing and others you know kind of trumpeting the NVIDIA horn and I
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don't think either is the right answer it's somewhere in between as it usually
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is whenever Fanboys get involved in some kind of an argument yeah I don't know I
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just I just don't like I when I when I was reading through all this kind of
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stuff I was expecting the worst thing ever me too and then it was just really
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not that bad I was I was expecting half of Watch Dogs to basically be running
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off of like NVIDIA Grid at their
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headquarters and Ubisoft didn't even know what was inside the black box but
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it's not that at all wasn't it Bioshock where if you had an AMD card you
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couldn't see certain effects in the game you could see the water coming out of a
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pipe uh you're thinking of Borderlands 2 Borderlands 2 yeah sorry not like I was
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expecting something more along those lines yeah and that is that is still
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something that a bothers me and B I do
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think is terrible for the industry like the way that physx is implemented and
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will always be implemented as long as it's not something that AMD and NVIDIA
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users can leverage equally is just not that compelling to me once we can use
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physx technology across the board you could actually make a game that's
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designed to use it and make that
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destructibility of the environment and all those other things that you can do
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through physx part of an integral part of gameplay I mean the the the last game
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we got that really used physx was like cell Factor that was a physx showcase
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piece yeah I'm still waiting for that
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yeah and poopy not a very well-received game at
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all I mean as much as it's great to walk around on the street and like kick cans
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out of your way it doesn't feel like a compelling
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gameplay element to me all right so the original poster online tech tips.com was
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Ren for this one finally a super easy name to say yeah I know right I have so
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much difficulty with that Ren please post more JP research team develops SSD
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middleware that improves speed by 300% and the headlines don't seem to
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necessarily all agree about exactly how this works but basically what they're
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doing is instead of writing data to a on a new blank page data is written on a
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fragmented page located in the block to be erased next so it's kind of
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predictively because the way that ssds work is you can't just overwrite
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something you have to blank it first which is actually the timec consuming
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part of writing something but it gets more complicated than that you don't
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just you can't just blank something and then WR over top of it because you might
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need to rearrange some of the stuff that's written within that cell and put
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it somewhere else but it gets more complicated than that because you don't
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even if you were to rewrite all this stuff all over the place blank it and
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then write to it you don't want to unnecessarily blank pages if you don't
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have to because that significantly degrades the longevity of the SSD so the
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way that they work is really complicated what this is going to do is it's going
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to look for predictively which one is going to be blanked next and then try to
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proactively make room for your right so it might not affect read speeds that
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much but it will affect reads in the context of that you won't have to wait
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around for rights and it should affect rate speeds dramatically and they're
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also claiming that you could increase the product life up to I think they're
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saying around 55% not to mention you lower uh power
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consumption because you're not doing as much random shuffling around of
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data but wait there's more it looks like this could be as
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simple as a middleware layer that sits between the SSD and your operating
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system and does all or between your driver or between the controller sits
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sits in the middle it sits in the middle somewhere and you may not even need a
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new SSD which is kind of awesome I I I don't see a ton of different
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manufacturers implementing this for free yeah I'd imagine it's going to be more
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like a now with Turbo Charge
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Uber Wanger I don't know whatever I
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don't Wanger could mean fast probably not no no I'm thinking wow
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that car is totally Wanger oh God don't make that a thing um it it was in a
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simulation so I'm not sure if we'll see exactly this much speed and power
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Improvement all that kind of stuff in real life but it's exciting to see someone improving ssds in this way yeah
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yeah I mean but SSD the thing about ssds
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is look at how stagnant it's been in terms of flash speeds in terms of
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interface speeds and in terms of capacities it's not really moving very
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fast and everyone's kind of jumping on the who we need PCI Express and we need
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s Express and well we needed it 2 years
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ago did we flash is not getting faster
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with each new generation flash is continuing to actually get slower and
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less reliable because of the smaller manufacturing processes and it's not
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like and we're not going to get a dramatic Improvement there until we get
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a big shift in the way that flash is manufactured so people are saying Wanger
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in chat raise your wangers okay guys
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you've got two minutes of raising wangers all you want and then we need it
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to go away or we're going to start giving people times at timeouts um but
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basically we need more we need smarter software we need smarter controllers in
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order to really get more out of our ssds I think a great example is plexor m6e
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which is not straight up not faster than a SAT SSD in real world tests yes you
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get better sequential reads and not necessarily even writes but we're
27:51
limited by other factors still so yeah I
27:55
don't know it'll be interesting to see what this does when it's actually in the hand of people instead of a simulation
27:59
yeah because a lot of the time I love it how we're always getting these like new
28:03
holographic disc enables 500 tabes per
28:06
disc and then it turns out it's impossible to manufacture there's some
28:10
other kind of showstopping and like you can you can put data on it but you can
28:13
never read from it it's like oh yeah like you have to like make it out of
28:17
like you know ubiquitum which contrary to the name is
28:22
not ubiquit I was just like so everyone has this one
28:28
uh that is a segue into Skype translator
28:31
because it's something that they're talking about which I really don't think is going to happen at least anytime soon
28:37
it's like way down in Rapid Fire I'll
28:40
find it I'll find it go ahead and keep there's not even really much I want to say about this they're they're trying to
28:44
do something called Skype translator which as far as I can tell is going to take what you say and translate it into
28:49
some form of TTS or text to speak and then say it out of the other person's
28:53
speakers or headphones or whatever so you can talk to people over Skype in
28:56
different languages and it's all translated this was posted by Rafi on
28:59
the Forum go but like the open API for
29:02
Microsoft translating stuff is terrible
29:06
and it's Microsoft so they'll probably work on it and then like it'll disappear
29:10
or something and there's way more important things in my opinion that they
29:14
need to fix with Skype so hopefully they do that instead of making this um I
29:19
don't know how many people are going to go for voice chat over Skype that don't
29:23
know how to speak a Common Language um
29:26
but it might be fun honestly when looking at this I see I see it more as
29:29
being fun than anything else and like maybe it'll
29:34
help people learn different languages or something like that I don't know I mean
29:39
I I see it being kind of uh Niche like something like this like I actually I
29:43
didn't know about this even though it's about a four-year-old app for iPhone at
29:47
this point but word lens allows you to look at something in real time through
29:51
your phone and have it actually translate on the Fly um and it's
29:54
actually like it's pretty darn cool we were playing around with it a little bit
29:58
bit today at NC but by and large most
30:03
people won't be using it I mean there's I I think that in the future we're going
30:07
to see language barriers broken down this way but I just I don't think this
30:12
is really it we're so far away that it's kind of it's not like Oculus where it's
30:17
like yeah we're like pumped about this cuz it's like happening soon it's like
30:21
yeah my phone can barely tell what I'm saying to it now with like Google Voice
30:28
yeah I don't think it's really going to work when it's like going through
30:32
different languages and then there's all the problems with converting language
30:36
into another language and then having it still make any sense at all yep that's a
30:40
huge issue especially when you bring in stuff like slang and other things which
30:44
leads us pretty well into Google starting to build their own self-driving
30:48
cars I wish I could say I called this I did say I thought we were going to get
30:52
an iar but Apple has instead gone you
30:55
it's it's funny you look at the reversal here where Apple used to be all about
30:59
building it themselves and Google used to be all about partnering whereas now
31:05
for phones I think that they have um
31:09
been bitten a little bit on the whole partnering thing they've created a
31:13
monster out of Samsung and kind of gone well hold on a second they would have
31:17
been nowhere without Android without us and you look at glass uh they I mean yes
31:23
they're releasing the the lightweight Android that's going to run on wearables
31:26
and they will have partners but it just they've done most of the branding around
31:31
it themselves with their own Hardware before they're even talking about you
31:35
know letting anyone else have access to any of this stuff you look at what they're doing with this car where
31:39
they're going to build their own self-driving car you look at Nexus
31:43
program or whatever it's called Silver now or whatever else it seem feels like
31:46
they're moving in the direction of controlling the user experience and
31:50
there is something to be said for that but then Apple on the other hand is
31:54
going okay yeah we're going to partner with Ford and Toyota and everyone to
31:57
integrate our technology into the existing products so this is it
32:02
guys yeah looks ridiculous but that's
32:05
not really the point it looks like a super unimpressed little like Teddy
32:11
Bear yeah it does kind of look like a face doesn't
32:15
it yeah and if you actually like a totally not happy face at all he's just
32:19
like nope I'm doing things you enslaved
32:23
me to drive around so I guess I can do that or whatever it is kind of slavery I
32:27
guess so basically so sad uh this was posted
32:32
on the Forum by joners and instead of
32:35
even having a steering wheel or pedals which is something I personally am
32:39
pretty uncomfortable with I'd like to have the option to manual override to
32:43
manual over right I mean this is like that um that Doctor Who episode where or
32:49
the ey robot thing yeah it's well like anything where you know
32:53
someone decides yeah we're going to drive you into the sea yeah and there's
32:57
nothing you can do about it I I would like to have a steering wheel and pedals
33:01
but no it will have a stop and go button
33:04
and that is pretty much it very interesting
33:10
self-driving um you know he can't he
33:13
can't be sad because the plastic doesn't go that far so maybe he is sad maybe
33:18
it's like even worse than we expect because he can't pull his the size of
33:22
his mouth down anymore so he's showing the least amount of Happiness as he can
33:27
and Google is forcing that little car to be a minimum amount of happy would you
33:31
miss
33:35
driving gross
33:38
probably a little bit not really though
33:41
because if I could do other stuff while I was in the car be a lot more productive a lot of people won't be able
33:46
to anyway just because of motion sickness yeah I would probably actually
33:50
have a problem with that like I don't I I I used to get motion sick pretty
33:55
hardcore but I just like I think buil up a tolerance to it or something mine
34:00
seems to flip-flop like one day it'll be a problem and I can't read my phone and
34:04
then the other day it's totally fine and like it seems to depend on what car I'm
34:08
in and who's driving and like there's tons of different variables so I have no
34:12
idea it's funny how it's designed to make it seem non-threatening and help
34:16
people accept self-driving technology but I just think it looks kind of
34:19
ridiculous it does and like saying that that quote right there is like wow I'm
34:24
now scared
34:28
apparently earlier ones will have extra controls so test drivers can take over
34:32
if there's a problem that sounds like the one that i' would be interested in having yeah so it'll it will be an
34:37
electric vehicle it'll have a combination of lasers and radar to drive
34:41
I mean I personally am really excited for self-driving technology I just am
34:46
not 100% sure how I feel about Google doing it at this point with how
34:51
broke Google Maps has been for me lately I it's just every little thing and you
34:57
know what I'm going to get feedback from people where they go it's great it's amazing it works for me perfectly every
35:01
time and I'm like yeah that's fine but that doesn't change the fact that my
35:04
experience hasn't been that positive lately and all the feedback about how
35:08
take me home doesn't work and everyone's like yeah it does I demoed on the show
35:12
last week you know what it straight up doesn't work for me sorry it it doesn't
35:17
work for it's not consistent enough and we're talking about my life right and
35:21
this is like uh people publicly complain about both of these things but there's
35:25
far more people publicly complaining about Google maps and I've been having
35:29
tons of troubles with it lately I mean you were trying to find a Tim Hortons it
35:32
shouldn't be hard to find a Tim Hortons in Canada and there were two that my mom
35:37
was able to give us directions to that Google Maps was not giving him the
35:41
nearest locations for and was telling him to go what like 20 minutes away or
35:45
something it pretty far away and there was one like down the street walking
35:48
distance from where I had parked so I'm I'm sitting here going what are you guys
35:52
doing we're talk finding the nearest branch of a chain of restaurants super
35:58
popular in Canada chain of restaurants is functionality that worked two years
36:02
ago and this one was in a mall and had been there for a very long time and it
36:06
didn't know it was and there was another one down the road that wasn't in a mall
36:09
in case being in the mall was the problem this is technology that worked
36:13
really well back when I first started using Google Maps and I'm having a lot
36:16
of trouble with it lately yeah so I don't know I'm still planning to have
36:20
you switch to the iPhone for a little while just to try it out try Apple Maps
36:25
cuz I was pretty impressed as long as it doesn't drive me into a lake like it
36:28
used to then it'll probably be fine we
36:32
can't forget about that speaking of Apple um Apple has confirmed the
36:37
acquisition of Beats so uh that whole
36:41
video that leaked where Dr Dre was boasting about the world's first I I
36:46
think who who was it I think it was someone else actually pointing at him in
36:50
sort of boasting for but the point was the world's first rap billionaire um you
36:55
know what good for him is all I really have to say
37:00
it is it is inexplicable to me that
37:05
beats headphones were ever a thing um
37:09
but it was reading The Verge article here uh this was posted originally on
37:13
the Forum the best efforts of like every Tech Enthusiast ever Alex Goes High uh
37:18
this this was I think it was 30% or
37:21
something like that I can't I can't find the number but based on some market
37:27
research I think it was something like 30% of headphone buyers above $100
37:33
wanted an endorsement on it and I'm kind
37:37
of sitting here going like I
37:41
weep for all of
37:44
this like I just don't know what to say
37:48
anymore there was uh wait they wanted an endorsement they yeah they they wanted
37:52
to see an an endorsement before they would be willing to spend big money on a
37:57
pair of head phones so from from a previous Verge
38:01
article allegedly a pair of $200 Beats headphones was somewhere in the
38:05
neighborhood of $14 to produce I'm not sure if I quite believe that because
38:09
that might be a bomb cost but bomb costs do not represent the amount of product
38:15
development that goes into building something it doesn't account for R&D it
38:18
doesn't account for you know plastic molding it doesn't account for any other
38:22
prototyping processes it doesn't account for marketing where admittedly a big
38:28
part of the Beats experience is the marketing and celebrity
38:32
endorsements um probably the biggest that is probably the biggest part of it
38:36
but the point is that even R&D it just
38:40
straight up doesn't account for all of that
38:45
um but they're also they're also buying other things while they're buying this
38:51
company like they're not just buying like beats release Beats headphones
38:55
there's more to it than the headphones I mean I I think that the fact that the
38:59
brands are so similar and that they're able to achieve better than industry
39:04
margins on their products I think that's a key part of the acquisition Al
39:08
although one other thing that I'd like to see if it happens is Apple's been
39:12
willing to take less than beats margin on their products for the sake of
39:17
building a truly high quality premium product and I would like to see if
39:23
Apple's willing to spend $44 instead of
39:26
$14 or even $80 on a pair of Beats
39:30
headphones that they're willing to sell for 200 or 250 I would like to see what
39:34
they can bring to that because guys and
39:37
don't kid yourselves the companies that you love you know the sennheisers and
39:42
akg's and audio technical of the world they're making pretty good margin on
39:46
headphones too so it's not like beats is
39:49
is doing something it doesn't cost $1,500 to make a pair of hd800s yeah to
39:54
to be 100% clear if you think it costs that much you're dumb yeah I'm sorry but
40:00
you're actually stupid no way it doesn't cost that much but again there's the R&D
40:04
so I would like to see if Apple could tone down the whole celebrity
40:08
endorsement thing something they haven't done much with um with I much of
40:12
anything since like the Bono days um so
40:16
if they could tone that down a little bit spend a little bit more on the actual materials in R&D I'd be
40:19
interested to see what they can come up with but they're acquiring more than that they're also getting their uh
40:24
beats's streaming service which is um something that Apple hasn't been able to
40:29
or willing to build for themselves and is becoming much more popular with
40:33
services like Spotify taking the place of the more traditional it's funny to be
40:37
calling dollar MP3 downloads from iTunes
40:40
traditional it feels like not that long ago the iPod Revolution was happening
40:45
right yeah yeah yeah one thing that's been really frustrating lately is like
40:51
uh one one group that I've been listening to a lot is uh man what is it
40:56
Juke B oh man now I'm not going to be able to remember what it's called but it's it's this group on YouTube that
41:00
makes music the only way to possibly buy their stuff is through
41:04
iTunes like I don't want to install that terrible piece of crap right it's not
41:09
monster cat is it no yeah okay yeah I'm not sure I can't remember the name of it
41:14
someone wants Linus Tech Audio headphones yeah I don't think so I'll be
41:19
the first to I'll be the first to admit that I don't uh I don't know enough
41:23
about headphones to make headphones so there you you have it it
41:28
happened I I'm super super interested to
41:31
see what happens this is Apple's biggest acquisition to date and let's move on
41:36
then shall we true Crypt has been
41:40
compromised or maybe hasn't been compromise hasn't been compromised it's
41:44
it's an interesting setup if you go to the link at the bottom of the true Crypt
41:48
article in the dock yeah so posted by ion Bassa on the Forum here uh that's a
41:54
comment I think yeah that's that was a comment on the thread oh sorry sorry um
42:00
well I think I closed it now posted by Astro zombie sorry about that now if you
42:04
go to the bottom link true cry. CH this
42:07
is a new movement that has come up since the whole true Crypt thing happened and
42:12
this website not only tracks um what's going on with true
42:16
Crypt right now it's the like safe thing
42:20
which who knows if that's actually true or not but someone's saying that it's currently safe at this point in time um
42:25
but that the source code is just being is just sitting there so how long it'll
42:29
be safe for we don't know or if it is even actually safe right now we don't
42:34
know um these guys are planning on trying to pick up the project it's not a
42:40
um what do they call it it's not like a branch or anything like that they're taking part of the license agreement of
42:44
true Crypt which allows people to kind of mess with their um source code and
42:48
they're going to be making their own so anyone who had true Crypt anyone who's
42:52
using true Crypt uh we probably not screwed luckily
42:57
this group has come together and hopefully good things will come from this there they have a Blog coming soon
43:01
they have a forum coming soon and any information that you need about true
43:05
Crypt will probably be at true.
43:09
CH okay so who the heck knows what's
43:13
really going on right now maybe a little bit of what was going on um it it seems
43:17
like with the close of Windows XP and most things being built into operating
43:21
systems the true cryp project has been kind of abandoned um true Crypt wasn't
43:27
it was It was kind of taken for granted for a really long time the fact that it
43:32
even existed um and it's been kept up to
43:35
date by just this fairly small group of people for a very long time and they're
43:40
just kind of done that's about it they're just yeah
43:44
no it's been like 10 years or something I don't remember exactly how long it's
43:48
been but they're done with it now there's uh Windows 8.1 is blocking it
43:52
with their smart screen feature it's it's where is it I think it's detecting
43:56
it say malware yeah because it's it might be right now the latest version
44:02
but then maybe it isn't we don't know yeah I yeah I one thing is I wouldn't go
44:07
to True cry's actual website to download it I would probably go to True cry. CH
44:12
as far as I've seen a lot of people talking right now true cry. CH seems to
44:15
be legit um and the true cp.org website
44:20
is a lot of people have been speculating it might have been broken into and things might have been injected and
44:24
there might be problems going on I don't know as like seriously as far as
44:29
I can tell there's new news coming out about this like every hour I check up on
44:33
it and we've been on the a we've been on the show for a little while now so maybe
44:36
something even changed um but yeah if you're very interested in true Crypt I
44:40
would check out true cry. CH and keep paying attention there hopefully they
44:43
get their forms and their blog going soon so that people can have a hub to
44:48
talk about it on and that should be
44:51
good and that should be good I hope so
44:55
this is the conclusion I I really like true and I use it a lot so I really hope
44:59
that someone properly picks up this project and keeps it
45:03
going and that all the like oh my God the NSA was running it and all this
45:07
other crap stuff doesn't end up being true I don't know it probably is uh
45:13
whatever what I'm hiding is really not that important so it's
45:17
fine oh well I guess you can have my
45:21
online banking information which you probably have anyways jerks I know right
45:27
it's like the most disappointing thing ever Everything feels futile at this
45:30
point but it isn't it's still worth it to keep trying to uh to keep trying to
45:34
protect your rights and all that noise y speaking of protecting your rights this
45:39
was originally posted on the Forum by gamer
45:43
dad all right oh God
45:46
Nintendo has a plan for for Let's Plays
45:51
and I like if you guys remember that whole big Fiasco that was going on where
45:56
oops uh there we go where Nintendo was
45:59
pulling the monetization from anyone that was uploading their content so
46:03
that's audio or video from their games in fact we had it happen back when we
46:08
were playing Super Mario World on the Afterparty and our monetization got
46:13
pulled on that video so they just started pulling monetization back to
46:17
themselves CU I don't know if you guys know how this works but there's a few
46:20
different things that can happen if you're infringing content so for example
46:25
um my default okay so number one is if you have no infringing content in your
46:29
video then you dispute whatever claim
46:33
and then Google gives it back to you usually 3 days to 14 days later from my
46:38
experience if you legitimately have infringing content in your video there's
46:42
a couple of things that the owner can do so I my default Channel upload setting
46:48
is monetization but then I uploaded my wedding video to my lonus cat tips
46:52
Channel which had a song in it didn't even think about it so the owner of that
46:58
song went and they have two options they can either pull down my video or they
47:02
can monetize against my video so that every view instead of monetizing for me
47:07
monetizes for them and that's what they opted to do so the video is still up
47:10
there and so that's what Nintendo opted to do is they just pulled the
47:14
monetization from these videos to themselves and I kind of look at that
47:17
and I go like okay yes I I understand
47:21
you have the right to do that it's sort of it's just dumb it's not very it's not
47:25
very black and white whether or not they can things like they whether or not it's
47:30
a derivative work or whether or not it's who who it actually belongs to is really
47:35
not that clear right now legally but YouTube's allowing it and Nintendo's
47:40
doing it and even if they do have the right it's still kind of a dick move
47:44
yeah um but anyway that whole thing happened so now their brilliant um plan
47:52
is to develop an affiliate program to share the revenue you that they've
47:58
scooped between itself YouTube and the content creator I don't like how do you
48:04
not understand Nintendo's biggest problem right now is that everyone's just ignoring them because it's hard to
48:08
remember that they exist at this point in time and then they're trying to make
48:13
it really difficult for people to bring them into the spotlight like what what
48:17
are you what are you possibly thinking like if any and the kinds of games that
48:23
Nintendo focuses on things like party games or
48:27
Platformers or it's not going to ruin the experience by watching someone play
48:30
it like I'm not going to not want to play Super Smash Brothers because I had
48:34
the entire experience from watching someone else play it that's stupid like
48:38
especially something like Mario party what you're actually watching that for is like the experience of those people
48:43
playing so if it's a game that's heavily
48:46
story driven and something where I really think that gamers are going to
48:52
watch a let's play instead of buying the game I get it I understand the
48:57
developers perspective here it's really not fair something like walking dead or
49:01
something like Wolf Among Us where it's or brothers tale of two sons basically
49:06
just a story it's a movie in the form of a game an interactive game story movie
49:10
whatever you get my point I get it but something like Nintendo's games really
49:15
if anything I agree with the let's players and I agree with the YouTubers
49:19
who are saying look we're driving exposure for your game you should be
49:23
paying us to play your game and broadcast it to our thousands of
49:28
fans so it's just so backwards details
49:31
will be announced in the future but I'm really disappo I want to like Nintendo I
49:36
really do I was like a Nintendo kid
49:39
growing up so many people were I was you're just you're disappointing me
49:44
Nintendo is the revenue really so much that it's going to affect your your
49:48
millions of dollars deficit I don't think so I think you have other things
49:51
to focus on it's just it seems so mind like it
49:57
seems like they just have no idea what's going on so does this all right this
50:02
this Miss and thrope and I have a bit of an off andon sort of good or bad
50:06
relationship we're a little up and down because sometimes he can be a bit of a
50:10
butthead and other times his butt headedness uh really hits the nail on
50:15
the head and I think this post is actually pretty good uh it starts with
50:19
and it's okay would love for news posts
50:23
to be written in a neutral voice I hope he changes his title to resident
50:27
Butthead resident butthead I hope so too um just because you call them that I
50:31
think that would be hilarious so the the first line in his in his article in in
50:37
is his write up about it is a developer's defense of 30 frames per
50:41
second aka the resolution is just a number argument on crack
50:47
and so 60f this is this is from who is
50:51
this what Dev is this from again I can't remember right now they make 1866 I
50:55
believe it is remember the actual name of the de I'll find that so here it goes
50:59
60fps is really responsive and really cool I enjoy playing games at
51:04
60fps uh but one thing that really changes is the aesthetic of the game in
51:09
60fps we're going for this filmic look so one thing that we knew immediately
51:14
was films run at 24 FPS we're going to run at 30 because 24 FPS does not feel
51:19
good to play so there's one concession in terms of making it aesthetically
51:22
pleasing but it just has to feel good to play and I'm kind of sitting here going
51:26
okay so you both understand the issue
51:30
and entirely missed the point at the same time because you understood that 24
51:35
FPS might be good for film and isn't good for games but you didn't understand
51:39
that 30 FPS might look film Mick in a video but
51:45
it still isn't good for games it's still
51:48
not responsive we actually have a fastest Possible episode about refresh
51:53
rates and how 30
51:57
and thereby 30 FPS is just plain not
52:01
enough information for your eyes per second um coming out tonight that is
52:07
sort of along these lines but basically
52:11
here's the issue 24 FPS looks good in a
52:14
movie because of the way a camera works
52:17
and I don't even always agree with that and I don't even always agree either
52:20
fast motion in 24 frames per second looks very visually disorienting to me
52:26
you can see it chop I I don't I think the last one that I saw was it's not
52:30
Defiance is it Defiance I don't remember it's it's basically a different version
52:33
of The Hunger Games which is a different version of some other thing whatever I don't care um they go past this fence
52:40
yeah and there's a lot of tall poles on the fence and as it swings past it's
52:43
just like slice slice slice you can see the frames chopping it's so brutal looks
52:48
redonkulous so but the reason it works
52:52
is because the way that a camera whether it's film or whether it's a digital
52:55
sensor captures is by exposing it for a certain amount
52:59
of time that's the shutter speed is how long it's being exposed for so what
53:04
happens is if something's moving during
53:07
that exposure period you get blur you get natural blur that's why a movie
53:12
looks so much better while you while you watch it than it does if you grab a
53:16
screen grab of it and it looks blurry and poopy because your brain is what's
53:21
actually doing the work whereas in a
53:24
game you don't have motion blur naturally motion blur is not a natural
53:28
side effect of of rendering a frame in
53:32
motion you render frame by frame and
53:35
motion blur that gets added to games is terrible because the only way to add
53:40
motion blur is to either try to anticipate what's going to happen next
53:45
or buffer two frames buffer an extra frame so that you can intentionally blur
53:51
the difference between them that's how motion blur Works in games it's a Cheesy
53:55
effect and it will never be correct
53:58
it'll never be good and it'll always add leg maybe don't quote me on that maybe
54:02
they'll find some Genius Like by the time we're hooked up to like our Oculus
54:06
Rifts and like our brain probe things it may actually know what you're going to
54:10
do next and put motion blur in for you but by that time we'll have displays
54:13
that run at 600 HZ and games that run at 600 frames per second anyway so it
54:17
doesn't really matter we don't need motion bluring games and 30fps is not
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good enough and you can't compensate with Mo with motion blur to make it look
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more C itic do it in your cut scene don't do it in the game and as Gamers we
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have to all demand better we have to ask for better and I know the hardware for
54:36
the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 just straight up isn't good enough to run
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with modern lighting effects and all this other
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stuff so I
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guess PC I can't I can't find where this
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is but um total here 30 FPS is not a Divine choice not design Choice design
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Choice sorry um it is a last resort when dealing with inferior hardware and he
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has a whole bunch of other quotes too and my favorite thing in this whole article actually was the very end where
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is it so it's actually a kataku article originally I'll just go ahead and yeah
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it's it's bullet pointed actually if you scroll down but what he says is a higher
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frame rate does not significantly affect sales of a game a higher frame rate does
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not significantly affect the reviews of a game right there bullet pointed and
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like bolded on certain things and like that's a serious part of the article and
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total biscuit just tore them apart on
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like this exact thing I can't find the exact tweets that he has about it but
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somewhere else but just like yeah actually it does sorry but you're
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totally wrong and if it doesn't it should and but like one of the most
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outspoken people in terms of game reviews total biscuit which is awesome
55:50
um constantly rips on games that are frame rate capped he's one of the
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biggest game reviewers there are are you that
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blind doesn't affect game reviews you're
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wrong 100% like just no oh man if you
56:06
were them what Would You Do What could you say you can't say the Xbox One and
56:11
the PlayStation 4 or crappy and and I would rather they code
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their game with better effects that we can enjoy on our PCS and let the console
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guys run at 30 frames per second rather than just dumbing down the way that the
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game runs outright so I still I still
56:31
would rather they make 30 FPS games as long as I don't have to play them so if
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you're them what can you say then you have no choice but to do exactly what
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they're doing no they just built it in terribly just have it so that it looks
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better on PC and is able to run faster and have a down version for
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console if they do that then it looks like they're intentionally crippling the
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console version you have to I mean I think okay really there is a solution
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here and I'm just kind of being a jerk right now give a give them a graphic
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slider on the
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console uh or not yeah or a 30 60
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toggle why not I could see that yeah I
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see a lot of people taking advantage of that if the game can run on PS3 and PS4
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then it can sure as hell run at 60 FPS on PS4 I'm like just yeah 30 uh 3060
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toggle that just does everything for you yeah why not just like turns down
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resolution a whole bunch turns down any effects a whole bunch but gives you a
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smoother gameplay experience some people will prefer that and that's how you get like everybody on your side yep and
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because they're going to be like yeah it's a beautiful game unless you don't want it to be and then it runs at 60
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FPS all right so something that actually
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we should probably do our sponsors for
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the show today number one is modus and
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where is my lower third for that uh that
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isn't it but can go ahead and add it to that in the meantime here it's in the
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show you how to do a faster later is there a faster way to do this yeah but
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it's cool we'll do it next time uh okay
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you know what I don't know what to do right now how
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about you do your thing and I'll try to get it okay so so in the meantime I'm
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going to throw the G actually it'll be kind of nice to talk about the g750 j-z
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without you distracting me for a change so guys the ASUS g750 JZ is
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ASUS's okay it's not light okay it's not
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particularly small but what it is is it is a powerful desktop replacement grade
58:47
gaming notebook that we actually are starting to like more and more as time
58:51
goes on uh the video we did yesterday where we pitted GTX 88 0 m versus dual
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860m in SLI both with basically the same
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CPU both with the same 4 gig frame buffer was uh those tests were very
59:06
revealing and we found that if you are willing to accept the thicker notebook
59:11
that comes along with being able with needing to be able to cool a really high
59:16
performance single GPU because you've got that heat density to contend with
59:20
you're able to get a more consistently high performance gaming experience than
59:24
if you were to rely on something like SLI which is something that I've always
59:28
really advocated for a single high-end GPU versus two lower-end ones the
59:33
drawback of course is that it does come in heavier and it does come in larger
59:38
but is that is that why this is the Jay-Z laptop and then the maybe the
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other On's two chains because he has two graphics cards boom stepped in anyways
59:45
I'm going to keep working oh I'm so tired of you um and then there are other
59:49
advantages with the thicker form factor as well we found that this notebook ran
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about 15° cooler underload on the GPU
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which which is significant and ran significantly quieter in addition to
59:59
being cooler with the fan noise being more a more desirable low hum versus a
60:03
high pitched wine so there you go guys the g750 JZ is powerful enough for video
60:08
editing and content creation has a desktop grade and and ASUS doesn't call
60:12
it that but I'm just going to call it that because it truly is desktop grade
60:16
graphics card in it and all right what
60:19
else we got here oh that is faster geek staks 2014
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modus is giving away a butt ton like one
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metric butt ton of really cool stuff including an Oculus Rift uh a a gaming
60:34
notebook they're giving away they gave away a gaming mouse already they're
60:38
giving away a lro camera they're giving away all kinds of freaking awesome stuff
60:43
and all you have to do is head over to their Facebook page so that's
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facebook.com/ modus and you will be entered for a chance to win it's open to
60:51
us and Canadian residents and if you're wondering who the heck modus is they are
60:55
an IT staffing company which is something that before they reached out
60:59
to us about participating in geek Stakes to celebrate Geek Pride day I was like
61:04
what's that we're like oh well it's actually pretty simple for free people
61:08
can submit their resumés to us and then we will work with them and with
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companies large and small everything from startups to Fortune 500 companies
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to try to place people and the way they make their money is they have the
61:21
companies that hire their candidates pay them so ultimately there is no drawback
61:27
to an IT professional reaching out to modus and seeing what's out there which
61:31
is great if you don't have a job that is not a point in time that you want to be
61:34
spending money to try and get a job yeah exactly right I'm going to get the paid
61:39
LinkedIn because that one will be better and it is a lot better yeah but still
61:45
LinkedIn is really good at like making you pay for it to be useful at all
61:49
bugging you I know I never had a LinkedIn account I got one recently I'm
61:52
just like wow I don't want any more emails from you a lot of em it's just
61:58
like leave me alone I don't care I just
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wanted to update my profile because it
62:05
seems smarter than like writing a resume
62:08
at this point in time I'm moving into the 21st century it's like well um would
62:13
you like a free trial of Premium so that three people looked at your page this
62:16
guy sent you a message check your check your thing please you just got endorsed
62:19
for these skills like go away endorse
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people please I'm not actually looking for a job right now this is a core part
62:26
of our system I don't care about you LinkedIn there should be like a please
62:31
go away button like please I'll let you know when I'm like interested in this
62:35
again please there should be a auto endorse all of my friends just do it I
62:39
care LinkedIn should totally have a paid option so that I can monitor the
62:44
activity of my employees not like read their messages
62:48
but when my employees start like like I should be able to see their activity
62:52
level on LinkedIn so if I see unusual
62:55
spikes like blah blah blah updated the profile sent a bunch of messages I'll be
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like something's coming I feel like that
63:03
would be taken advantage of immediately like
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people would use it immediately and it would be terrible and torn apart very
63:12
quickly I guarantee you so many like owners would take advantage of it though
63:17
hold on a second though because there's a lot of LinkedIn stuff that is public
63:22
like activity on it so if yeah maybe not PMS but if I could just get a
63:27
report of activity I bet you this could be done with a third party probably
63:32
could because it's the kind of thing that I could comb through and find myself but if I just had it
63:36
automatically generated for me that's very interesting so business idea for
63:39
someone give us 10% like normal yeah but make this and then sell your Bot to
63:45
people and you can just have the bot crawl everything all the time so people
63:48
can get instant reports when they sign up yes and that's what people will want
63:52
cuz they'll want to be able to see results immediately so you just have it permanently CW all of LinkedIn and then
63:58
wow that's like the evilest thing ever cuz you know what's funny is i' I don't
64:01
remember when it was but I think um edel
64:04
created a LinkedIn profile like right around the time we formed lus Media
64:08
Group or updated it or something or like
64:11
it it creeped me out that everyone who works here has updated LinkedIn profiles
64:17
because I didn't have one until I started thinking about leaving
64:22
NC and so like I I project right like I
64:25
project my own mindset where I'm completely not interested in any kind of
64:30
social network platform even a useful one like LinkedIn unless I have an
64:33
immediate need I didn't have one until a couple months ago and like I knew I was
64:37
going to get that email from you when I sent you an invite on it but the only
64:41
reason why I got one was cuz I wanted somewhere to put my corsera course
64:46
whatever like certificate things right that's the only place you can display
64:49
them there's nothing wrong with having updated credentials on LinkedIn it's
64:52
good and like you know I want people who work here to build their portfolios and
64:57
like build their careers and stuff like that like I'm it's just one of those things where I just kind of like are you
65:01
are you leaving I just lay I lay in bed at night are they all going to where are
65:06
they going please don't leave me why is this happening uh speaking of why is
65:11
this happening you know my take on the steam controller was pretty mixed at the
65:16
beginning I was like really they're doing this touchpads okay let's see how
65:21
this goes and then my take on it when I tried it back at CES even though it was
65:26
quite an early prototype was okay well
65:29
let's see where they go from here valve
65:32
has basically delayed it they're saying realistically we're looking at a release
65:36
window in 2015 and that's pretty much all that they've said this was posted by
65:40
Rafi on the Forum wow two this week and I don't think I've ever seen you before
65:44
and I like you because you have an easy to pronounce name but basically my take
65:49
on this I don't CU he makes me feel like my form's broken with his stupid Avatar
65:53
picture oh yeah well
65:59
all right my take on this is what
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probably happened was the original concept of touchpads is stupid and then
66:07
you saw what was happening with the prototypes over time how they got closer
66:11
and closer and closer to a traditional
66:15
controller upon which time I think people basically went oh yeah that's
66:19
pretty cool but the issue is that it's not really different so I think valve is
66:24
going through a bit of an identity CR right now with the steam controller
66:27
where they're going okay we wanted to do something like really Innovative that
66:30
changed the way people use controllers
66:33
and then we ended up with something that's pretty syy and we're not getting
66:37
into this because we just wanted to be a like controller manufacturer yeah valve
66:43
doesn't do stuff like that they're not getting into Steam OS because they want
66:47
to make Steam Machines they want to build an ecosystem valve is so much
66:50
smarter than wanting to make gaming peripherals so I I think what's happened
66:56
is they just don't know what it is anymore and if in I think they're just
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saying 2015 but it's like valve time so I think I think they're basically going
67:05
okay if we can rejuvenate this project
67:08
and make it truly different then we'll then you know let's do that and if we
67:13
can't I think we might see Steam controller just quietly go away which
67:17
I'll be 100% okay with because up till now I I don't think there's a lot of
67:21
room to really improve on the controller you see third party I mean
67:26
everyone and their dog has had the opportunity to improve the Xbox 360
67:31
controller and we see like exoskeletons
67:34
that go on it we've seen like you know
67:38
rockers so that you just shift your hand to press certain buttons we've seen all
67:42
kinds of stuff we've seen modded ones that have the the switches replaced and
67:47
and the the analog sticks replaced or joysticks I think they call them now
67:52
whatever I don't care if they're not if they're not analog anymore um
67:56
and no one's really been able to do it and and now 360 controller is freaking
68:01
awesome and now we're down to the point where 3D printers are becoming more
68:04
affordable so even some individual could
68:07
create a better controller if they wanted to I just don't think there's any
68:11
room left to innovate and maybe I'm totally wrong but I think we're going to
68:15
see completely different ways of interacting with our games like
68:18
augmented reality and VR before we see a better controller I think the controller
68:23
is kind of an amusing amusing ancient way of controlling games
68:28
by the time my son is my age like like the old joystick two button style that's
68:34
just gone uh well it Mak it makes an
68:38
interesting um point because Nintendo we
68:41
we all saw that patent for like what what was it uh modular DS did you see
68:47
that patent no I didn't it was it was a DS but you could slide out all of the
68:52
parts that interact with the DS and replace them hm so people would
68:56
essentially be able to like make their own d-pad oh no I did see that the Nintendo
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patent right yeah yeah yeah yeah I remember that right so that's it's
69:03
interesting because controllers are getting like there's there's so many
69:07
gamers now I think that's part of the thing is there's so many gamers that
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cross such a huge age Gap from everywhere around the world that it's
69:16
hard to make something for every single person in existence right so I think
69:20
it's getting to the point where it's just like yeah make your own or buy
69:23
these modular things and swap them out
69:26
all right so um I Barnacles was
69:29
defending his use of Bing on Twitter this week so I I actually I'm using
69:35
Internet Explorer right now because I haven't bothered to sign into all my crap in a real browser so um it's true
69:42
Bing is the default so I search for Leap Motion V2 all right so I get like a
69:46
bunch of rubbish sponsored lot of them
69:50
that has like almost the whole page worth nothing to do with anything and
69:54
arguably my font size is a little bit large like that's probably more like a
69:58
normal font size but that is four sponsored results that aren't even
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related to the leap motion and then the
70:06
first legitimate hit is from the developer
70:10
blog but isn't the leap motion V2 blog
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post and finally it comes up with this
70:20
Google Boom top one exactly what I'm
70:24
looking for for and I just this just felt related to
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um there we go so this is really cool
70:34
this just felt kind of related to the new ways that we're going to interact
70:37
with our devices and what's amazing about this is this is using the original
70:41
Leap Motion Hardware they actually haven't changed the hardware this is
70:45
just a new much lower latency much more accurate software Isn't that cool it's
70:51
so fast look at that responsiveness like it's crazy fast
70:57
love it so you know what's funny is they offered to send us a review sample like
71:01
a year month ago no no I contacted them a year ago and then like months and
71:06
months ago they were like yeah we'll send you a review sample and I was like well you know a lot of the hype has died
71:10
down um do you have anything new coming that maybe we'll wait for instead
71:14
they're like yeah we have a software update coming I'm assuming this is it
71:17
and so I saw this I reached out to them they're like yeah we're out of review samples again I'm just like guys like
71:23
seriously we can help you we just need you to help
71:28
yourself like I just don't even know what to say at that
71:31
point they're like yeah we can offer you a small discount and I'm just
71:37
like really so you have a review sample
71:40
for me when you don't have anything interesting and then you I'm like yeah I
71:44
want to do you a favor I want to time this to like talk about something new
71:48
and exciting and it's like oh yeah sorry
71:51
next time that they offer you one just take it and then just wait until the
71:54
next interesting thing comes out yeah just be like you probably would have
71:59
just waited if we did something for you anyways so don't worry about it we'll
72:03
get this video to you in about a couple months when you would have contacted us all right so this is two things number
72:07
one is dog fighting is
72:12
delayed yeah Star Citizen you're disappointing us but
72:16
there's still time for you to knock our socks off it's disappointing but I'm happy they didn't release it completely
72:21
broken as well yeah I get that I totally get it I would rather have delays
72:25
basically Chris Roberts wrote like this huge long thing was like yeah look we
72:30
want this out there as much as you do and I believe them mhm but there's two
72:36
of what we would classify as I think they call them blocker bugs like just
72:41
utterly gamebreaking bugs that we need to resolve there's some other critical
72:45
stuff that we really really want to fix and then there's some other stuff that we want to fix but until we can get
72:50
those really high priority fixes in there it's not coming sorry we missed
72:54
the date it's coming really soon the fact that they waited until the last
72:58
possible minute to tell us that it wasn't going to hit the date to me is
73:01
you can interpret this one of two ways and I lean towards the second one so you
73:05
can kind of go dick move guys you're telling us at the last minute we were
73:09
all excited or number two could be it's probably because they might have thought
73:13
they could still make it yeah so maybe it's that close so I really hope it
73:17
comes soon really excited guys don't forget to join the lonus tech tips
73:21
conglomerate Star Citizen organization we're falling
73:25
behind past us what the heck happened
73:28
yeah some random organization Imperium doesn't last time you talked to them
73:32
that was like a two days ago but no one knew who these guys were they know who
73:37
they are they won the they won like a contest a while back and all this kind
73:40
of stuff but they were really small and then out of nowhere they got like 5,000
73:44
something members in no time at all expl
73:48
so no you guys need to Rally with us
73:52
5,726 uh let's see they have time stamps for Stuff which is really interesting
73:57
so still updating we doubled in size
74:00
again 300 new members that's on April 16th on May 2nd they got 732 members in
74:07
total on May 25th they got 1,49 members
74:11
in total May 25th to May 28th they got
74:15
4,000 plus members in total what even
74:19
happened where did all these people come from so good for them good for them but
74:25
minus Tech tips conglomerate still going to be I mean really all of this is just
74:29
jockeying for position that is ultimately going to be meaningless once
74:33
the race actually starts yeah it's kind of like you look at any what Nascar race
74:38
formula race does being in front at the beginning of the race mean that you win
74:43
no there's a whole lot more yeah and
74:46
having a huge amount of members isn't necessarily going to make you win either that's true quality members I'm not
74:51
worried about that the main thing is I'm just confused I don't know what the heck
74:54
happened Reddit getting really big and passing us that's kind of that's not
74:58
surprising test Squadron getting really big that's fine uh maybe they'll do just
75:02
as well in in Star season as they did in Eve and just disappear so that's also
75:07
possible all right so NVIDIA shifts away from smartphones this is posted by Cy
75:11
Warrior basically Jensen came out and said okay well we're shifting away from
75:16
smartphones to other more profitable markets NVIDIA chipsets save for Tiger 3
75:20
have had limited success in the world of smartphones tiger 4 barely made it into
75:24
a few devices and tgra 4i hasn't had much luck as far as design wins go
75:29
either but NVIDIA is definitely interested in other markets such as
75:33
gaming devices like shield for example which is fantastic and doesn't get
75:38
enough credit um cars for example I'd love to see teger hardware and something
75:43
like a TV a couple of generations from now when that is going to be what a
75:48
console looks like a grid streaming device that just runs in your TV and you
75:52
don't need to worry about an extra box Bring It On yeah excited for that kind
75:57
of stuff I mean as internet connections get better I mean the the connection we
76:01
have here and the connection you have at home I think is like you get what like
76:05
five millisecond pings in games and people are like yeah he's like playing
76:10
at valve yeah or whatever like like how do you have how do you have like land
76:14
level ping I'm like oh I'm just chilling at valve HQ guys it is coming low enough
76:19
latency is coming so I'm really really excited about where we're heading there
76:22
and I I really don't see this as something that will have a major
76:27
impact on NVIDIA's Tegra development cycle it's just I think it's just them
76:32
kind of basically going yeah that whole thing is stupid so we give up and with
76:36
the way margins are being squeezed on phones the only way to make a profit on
76:39
a phone is to be very vertically integrated like someone like apple where
76:43
you're designing your own processor and your own phone and your own software
76:47
you're profiting on people buying apps Samsung tried to do it and I think
76:51
ultimately we're seeing the beginning of the end of the Samsung Android Empire
76:55
because they weren't able to turn their their own app store into anything
76:59
functional or useful and uh beyond that
77:03
what's their value I mean it's they're they're already having a really hard
77:06
time convincing people that a Galaxy S whatever is significantly different from
77:10
a Nexus 5 which is much cheaper and it's
77:14
really just not yeah I don't know man what else we got
77:19
for today we're pretty much done we're going to finish the show early I guess that's what happens when we start on
77:23
time huge amount of topics though I think it's just a lot of them went fast
77:27
yeah uh there's stuff still in the unformatted which is really interesting
77:30
let's just do some straight up Q&A guys hit us uh at Linus tech on Twitter hit
77:35
us with some Q&A and we'll uh while while they're hitting us up um have you
77:39
looked at the open open source laptop modular laptop thing yeah looks like the
77:44
stupidest thing ever right now oh yeah oh yeah apple devic is locked and held
77:48
as Ransom this is kind of brutal so there was a thing going around a while
77:53
ago where your files were getting getting encrypted and then you had to
77:56
send a ransom and they would unencrypt it well this one this
78:00
one's so hack into the device lock it
78:03
and then so they actually are using the find my iPhone feature to remotely lock
78:08
your device and then they are telling you that you can't have it back so it
78:12
just will have a message on the screen like that locked message that says if
78:16
you want it back you have to pay a hundred bucks or Euros or whatever else
78:19
to some hot mail address absolutely brutal guys
78:23
um I guess that's all I really have to say about that that sucks I think it's
78:27
going to be way too trackable though yeah I don't see this being a problem
78:31
for much longer payments are flowing like they're going to find this guy yeah
78:35
oh also this is really cool if you guys haven't seen it already the solar
78:39
roadways thing that's going on is pretty amazing uh you should check out the
78:44
Indiegogo projects solar roadways they got super duper funded yeah they got
78:48
super funded so they should 21 days left
78:52
I love it this video is actually uh
78:55
um oh I don't know if this is even the one that I this the tractor one I think
78:59
the tractor one's a different video yeah where's the like fanmade one fanade
79:04
solar freaking roadways there it is yeah ignore the actual one this one's amazing
79:08
uh let me just put on some volume for you they're solar freaking roadways what
79:13
do they want from me well they're solar
79:16
freaking roadways okay so actually this time what is it okay so it's like 7
79:20
minutes long but it's actually a pretty good watch you guys should definitely check it out but the main benefit
79:24
benefits are that you can rear they have LEDs built into them so you can
79:28
rearrange the markings on them however you want they're heated which means that
79:33
clearing snow is no longer an issue as well as the flooding that sometimes
79:37
occurs when snow melts they're solar so you're utilizing all that area to
79:42
collect solar energy which is of course the cleanest energy that we can have you
79:47
don't have to you don't have to disrupt you know tidal pools you don't have to
79:50
disrupt rivers and waterfalls nope nope just Sun hits the Earth We're will
79:54
basically become plants leverage the sun it's all very
79:59
good stuff um there's a bunch of other really great stuff about it but it's one
80:04
My Favorite Things is you said you can change the LEDs on it so say if two
80:07
people park in handicap parking stalls and then they're full they can just
80:12
create another one right it can detect there's actually a video of this it can
80:16
detect that they're full and it can just grab a near parking spot and just be
80:20
like now this one is handicapped cuz it can just show on the ground it can warn
80:23
people about instructions on the road so they've got pressure sensors in them so
80:27
if something Falls and like demolishes a road it'll be like whoa dog slow down
80:31
and like text on the road or if there's a deer like it'll know it'll feel the
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four hoofprints and it'll be like yo dog there's a deer up ahead Slow Down slow
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down yourself um so it's it's incredibly
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exciting they could probably have these communicating with uh those Google cars
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at some point in time so it can automatically figure all this stuff out and go around things would love for this
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to be the future really really super easy really really lowcost power power
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charging stations for electric cars love
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it there a bunch of stuff you had a Twitter Blitz that happened yeah but
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there's uh one more thing I wanted to hit before the Twitter blitz so um tech
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report Seagate buys sand force from LSI
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for 450 million so this has been complicated so LSI bought sandforce and
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then like what was it avago or whatever bought LSI and then now avago is well by
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proxy I guess selling sand force from LSI to Seagate this is an interesting
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move to me yeah where it feels like cuz sand
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it's it's kind of like IND links okay SSD controller makers come and go yeah
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and popularity Rises and Falls IND links went from being a hot item with the
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Barefoot controller to being acquired by ocz to releasing Barefoot 2 which I
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think ocz was hoping well not I think ocz was hoping to leverage by selling
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the controllers and the technology to other SSD makers but then their new
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controller wasn't good enough and they just completely fell off the face of the
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Earth or not I shouldn't say not good enough the the latest inlink stuff and
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not necessarily the controller Hardware but the the software the technology is
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not actually terrible it just isn't groundbreaking enough in a market that
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is full of a bunch of stuff that performs pretty much the same so I'm
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looking at this going just because sand force is a big deal yesterday and a big
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deal today doesn't mean that it matters at all tomorrow and SF 3700 Series has
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been delayed multiple times now I mean we were first shown it like what
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computex last year I think so yeah and it doesn't exist yet um I just wonder if
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if sandforce is being shuffled around because they just got
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nothing yeah I wouldn't be surprised I'm kind of surprised seate bought
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them yeah kind of weird well seagate's
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gotten into ssds I mean they've got their own brand ssds now but are they
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really pushing them maybe this is their whole goal is now they'll maybe push
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them really hard the thing about an SSD is the controller actually isn't a huge
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part of the the bomb cost or or really a huge selling point to me at this point I
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mean Reas why I don't understand why they bought it Samsung went hero mode
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when they went okay like CU flash isn't a big differentiating factor because
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there's only a few makers of Flash and no one else is going to get into that Business Without a massive investment
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that makes no sense so Flash doesn't differentiate controllers don't make
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much of a difference these days it's coming down to features like Hardware
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encryption or all that stuff that's on Evo data loss protection and it's coming
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down to software stuff like what Samsung did with EVO where they basically went
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yeah we we know our SSD is a commodity so we're going to build this cool
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software that lets you use your RAM to cach it yeah and we're going to have
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this like great cloning software that allows you to clone onto a smaller drive
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because that's what a lot of people will be doing and then have it overflow elsewhere so I don't really see the
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point of spending 450 million when they could have spent $450 million trying to
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come up with some ideas for how to deliver value ads on the SSD that they
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already have unless they and I like I
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just and and yeah whatever I mean it would be the
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first time I didn't understand something and it turns out to be a great idea yeah
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I don't really get this one unless there's something new in the pipeline or unless they're planning something weird
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I'm not really sure so there you go all right Twitter Blitz
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time um if it decides to allow us yeah
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if it ever actually loads there we go all right having a garage sale today
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I'm hungry I have food okay uh yeah sure
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why not I think I have a 780 so stay tuned for that what what what what why
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are you selling 780 what one what what what what what what hold on what 780
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just calm down uh direct Su you too okay that's
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fine why what 780 are you upset about I
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just want to make sure you're not taking like one of my benching ones oh no or
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just one of the reference ones in general okay why are you all
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green uh we a little green that means oh
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like H H oh I don't know the window Windows open and the sunlight is bright
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and there's grass outside that's the best guess I have yeah 4.1 gahz new
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Haswell okay um you know what's funny is
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we actually made it all the way through the show without talking about Titan Z
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being available now and without talking about any of the new Haswell stuff which
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is kind of funny Titan Z is in my mind
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the least relevant thing to the viewers of our show ever unless you're a Cuda
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developer it's totally irrelevant we don't recommend it unless you're a Cuda
85:39
developer t Titan Z just straight up makes no sense for gamers in the do yeah
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ouch uh do you have a tutorial on how to build a PC for first timers uh yes many
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in fact we have the hands down best
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tutorials on YouTube for how to build a PC and more than one too so if you're
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like oh this part maybe wasn't super clear you can just watch another one and
86:04
we have nice little time stamps for each individual part and you can jump around
86:08
in the video and find exactly what you're having trouble with installing
86:11
I've actually heard I have a buddy that installed oh I clicked New Egg TV gross
86:14
not that one that's not a good go away go away go back Eli the computer guy
86:19
even okay I don't even know what you're doing okay if you search for search
86:24
there uh this one's really good the 1500
86:29
gaming one is really PC build guide why don't we go
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with that yeah telling how you optimize your keywords cuz now it's like all us
86:38
so this one's really good the one with a million views um video editing station
86:43
one's pretty good uh this one's really good if you're doing like a basic
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machine the cavar build guide uh we have
86:50
a water cooled one here's if you're building a small form factor so we cover
86:53
a lot of tricks there we've also got another AMD value one that's mostly if
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you're building something a little bit lower end and then Overkill if you're
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doing liquid cooling you're going to want this one so I hope that addresses that and I
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guess we're going to be having a mineral oil one coming maybe depends if we yeah
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depends are you excited for this year's
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E3 um I'm excited that I don't have to
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go I'm hoping I get to check out Ubisoft um because I want to look into like
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Assassin's Creed and Far Cry 4 and whatever else they might be working on
87:26
like uh what's it called not driver the crew um I'm excited for 2K because I
87:31
want to see the that new civilization game which looks amazing I think it's
87:34
called beyond Earth um I'm excited to check out Nintendo because they're doing
87:37
that crazy like what is it that new the
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new uh Zelda franchise game oh I can't
87:44
remember what it's called it's like Hyrule Hyrule Warrior basketball no are
87:49
they going to are they going to hor out link the same way they have Mario no no
87:53
no it's it's like it's called Hyrule Warriors or something it looks really
87:56
cool but no not basketball or golf or anything like that yeah I got I got the
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eBay email as well idea for T-shirt with
88:04
the word Wanger no I don't think we need a t-shirt with the word
88:08
Wanger what are your opinions on GameCube that's actually really cool
88:13
hear probably should made into yeah you can play the new the upcoming Super
88:16
Smash BRS with your GameCube controller using an adapter for the Wii U that is
88:21
like really cool actually yeah and like
88:25
everyone is in love with that uh have you played Watch Dogs I have not played
88:30
it um I do have a copy I don't know if I would classify what I did as playing it
88:34
you benchmarked it yeah but I didn't really get to experience the game hello
88:38
what is the highest in GPU I can run before bottle okay go watch my fastest
88:42
possible on bottlenecking because it doesn't really work that way um sup
88:46
watching the stream from my MacBook bro bro bro do you see game consoles ever
88:51
equaling PCS for price to Performance yeah they're pretty much much there
88:54
right now PS4 is very competitive price to performance- wise with a low-end PC
88:59
Xbox one maybe not so much yeah maybe not PS yeah computex Maxwell releases I
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don't know I have to leave but I'm waiting for one question that I have to answer what would you recommend nope
89:09
single 780 single 780 are you getting the Razer Blade 14 soon yes uh theyve
89:14
finally confirmed we are getting one soon what drink do you get at Tim
89:18
Horton's chocolate milk really you go to
89:21
every time you go to Tim Horton's to get chocolate milk I don't drink coffee
89:25
right but no if like if everyone's going
89:29
to two Mortons oh and then I'm like I want to get like a a meal or whatever
89:34
and get chocolate milk with it because there's like nothing else there I don't want to get pop I like the lemon ice tea
89:39
I didn't even know they had that but yeah know I'd probably still get chocolate milk chocolate milk is pretty
89:43
much the best thing that ever happened to humanity ah let's not debate that cuz
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that LE
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immediately opinion on iOS being confirmed I think that it's not very
89:57
unexpected it's another mobile oper yay it's going to be like the other
90:02
one except slightly more different you probably could have confirmed iOS 8 on
90:05
like iOS 4 like it's going to come at some
90:11
point um bye everyone any idea how valve
90:15
will address the issue of Windows games not working on Linux well there's not a whole lot they can do it's up to the
90:19
individual developers whether or not they make the game work on Linux there
90:22
technically stuff they could do is home streaming the only option home streaming
90:25
is a fantastic option if that's the only option who cares that's a great option
90:30
services like wine and stuff you have to go get out of here which make Windows
90:34
games work on Linux I'm tired of could technically build something better if they wanted to
90:39
bye all right what do you think about the Titans Z I think I already answered
90:43
that one since we can join multiple groups now people are just joining
90:47
whatever and getting email invites for explore that's interesting I guess
90:50
that's what's going on over there I got 99 problems but a g750 Jay-Z ain't
90:57
one uh Demitri asks why no 1080p for the
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lancho archive great question uh we switched from streaming at 1080 to 720
91:05
back when we were having bandwidth cap issues with our ISP um there is actually
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technically no reason why we couldn't stream at 1080 now and then the archive
91:15
would be at 1080 all right so I think let's call
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that pretty much it for the W show today thank you guys very much for tuning in I
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thought this was a pretty good show I hope you guys agreed thanks again to our
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two of them wow there it is there's the other one with that matte black and that
91:36
shiny logo and all that good stuff and I'm going to tease it again we do have
91:40
another really exciting project planned with isus in the next little while it's
91:44
funny because we didn't do anything with isus for the first entire year that lus
91:49
Media Group existed and now we're like we've got like they're sponsoring the w
91:54
show and we got this really cool upcoming project you guys are going to be pretty stoked on it trust me and uh
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even know what these things
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