The WAN Show - Now with Actual Tech News! - August 7, 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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a little bit late today but how could I run the show without my special co-host
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here huh I mean if Harry wasn't helping me host the show today would you guys
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even be tuned in I didn't think so so uh
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that's my way of apologizing for being late uh since we don't actually have a
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permanent W show set yet uh getting the
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W show going involves tearing everything else down getting the W show up and
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running and then uh bringing it to you guys about well 16 minutes late sorry
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about that so the good news though is today's show will actually have Tech
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news since there's no one here to distract me with his rugged good looks
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although Daniel Radcliffe does have pretty rugged good looks uh so I'll be
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just kind of focused on interacting with you guys and talking about what actually
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happened in the world of tech this week our headline topics are what else we got
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actually I'm just going to pick random headline topics oh look at that Nick
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went and picked headline topics for me all right so the z170 chipset launched
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along with Skylake Enthusiast grade processors to go with it I know we don't
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have a review those of you who follow me on social media will know why but I'll
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talk more about this later Cherry has announced their Cherry MX silent
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switches where Cherry MX key switches just not silent enough for you well
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maybe now they will I don't know I haven't tried them yet maybe they're totally loud we'll find out and there's
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a tool for unlocking shaders in your AMD GPU it's not the first time something
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like this has popped up so let's go ahead and roll the
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intro bam oh crap
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oh apparently there's no intro sound well oh I know why that is okay the only
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way I could figure out to get rid of the stupid uh Echo I I can't I don't know
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what it is something in the settings is borked right now and I can't figure out
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how to get the um the HDMI audio from
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the camera which is being pulled off of a off of a microphone on the camera so
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it sounds horrible here I'll show you guys what it sounds like for a sec hello hello oh it's awful oh so
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that's why I have that turned off but because I have my system sound disabled
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you guys can't hear the wow intro so whatever it is what it is um apparently
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we're dropping frames I don't know what to tell you guys because I am not dropping any frames on my side and my
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bit rate isn't super high and our connection is fine
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so yeah may actually be uh may actually be a twitch issue this time apparently
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it sounds fine
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oh okay then well whatever we'll fix it
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during the outro I think the point is let's get going on our first topic of
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the day so I'll go ahead and post the link since I don't have my handy dandy
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helper today go ahead and click that bad boy uh
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basically well this is this is kind of the big news Intel launched partially
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launched their Skylake code name CPUs
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let's go ahead and post that puppy there sorry this takes a little longer when
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I'm doing it by myself and their z170
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chipset so here we go news item is this going to
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work oh okay no no no that's that's super weird
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well let's just add a screen capture region again we'll go ahead and capture
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that window there we go news item no big deal all right so Intel deut debuts
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sixth generation core processor family and z170 express chipset now don't
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expect this to revolutionize your gaming experience that was never what was
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promised and definitely not what was delivered but what you can expect is
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incremental per performance improvements now not quite to the degree that I would
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love to see on a more on a more mainstream and more upto-date platform
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because the thing that happens here again is that the mainstream platform
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actually overtakes the Enthusiast platform in terms of the processor
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architecture being used so the Enthusiast platform that is LGA 20113 is
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now using Haswell e while the mainstream platform which has under gone a socket
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change here that's something to note this is LGA
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1151 so we've now gone LGA 1156 1155
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1150 and 1151 these are not
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interoperable in any meaningful way but the LGA 1151 socket now has a more
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advanced microarchitecture than the Enthusiast grade socket and the the
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thing there is that the Enthusiast grade socket gets a bunch of features that the
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mainstream one doesn't things like quad Channel memory things like uh up to oh
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crap memory doesn't I hope my serves up to 40 PCI Express Lanes off of a single
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CPU whereas the mainstream one is still stuck at 20 PCI Lanes if I recall
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correctly and of course this article doesn't mention that but I should be in
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should be in the neighborhood of 20 PCI Express Lanes which means that if you're running dual Graphics you are splitting
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your top PCI Express 16x Lane no matter what to 8 by8 which doesn't matter in
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terms of performance but if you want to throw a bunch more Hardware in there
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then you're pretty much hooped also it means that you are are limited to quad
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core processors Max whereas the Enthusiast grade platforms are limited
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to well cuz you can hardly call it a limit they've got six or eight core
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processors and then going up to 18 core processors if you want to spend five
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grand on a Zeon so let's talk about some
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of the things that have improved here number one is ddr4 has officially
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reached the mainstream I just wish that
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the pricing reflected it immediately these things take time it'll take a
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little while for ddr4 to get cheap now what can happen is you could have a
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Skylake motherboard that supports DDR3 or ddr4 the architecture actually does
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support both and I would fully expect to
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see as we get SKS that are not K
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overclocking SKS um which are coming so right now we've only got two SKS the 66
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excuse me 6700k and the core i5 6500k so
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as we get more mainstream SKS I would expect to see boards much like we saw in
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the past with ddr2 and DDR3 on the same board although you could only use one at
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a time and I'm assuming the same will be true boards that support DDR3 and ddr4
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so you could buy cheap DDR3 now and then you know maybe higher density higher
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speed ddr4 in the future although I would be absolutely floored if ddr4
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makes any kind of a difference in anything other than the use of the
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onboard Graphics whether that's running games or whether that's using some kind
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of GPU compute so let's talk specs the core
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i76700k is the usual thing it's got a nominal frequency of 4 GHz so Intel has
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once again managed to stay above that 4 GHz barrier even for a base frequency
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and it can turbo boost to 4.2 GHz Now Intel was really ramping up their turbo
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boost frequencies last generation and
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now they've really backed off of it again that is only a 5% increase with
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turbo boost so I guess one way of looking at it is it's running pretty
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damn near the maximum frequency all the time but another way of looking at it is
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that um you're not really getting any extra for your power budget I mean maybe
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the the the cold hard truth is throwing more power at this chip just doesn't
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really do anything I mean it's extremely efficient both of these chips have tdps
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of 91 Watts so not a whole lot of power
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and uh let's go let's go back to the so the core i56600k this is another change
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this generation um is that Intel has really not gotten very aggressive with
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their Core i5 it's clocked significantly lower it looks like about 78 of the
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speed of the core i7 at 3.5 GHz base
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although this one features a more aggressive boost up to 3.9 GHz so it's
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got slightly less cache 6 versus 8 Megs of level three cache and no
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hyperthreading compared to the core i7 which means that my video Let's see if I
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can find it versus I5 let's go ahead and
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uh yes leave this page I guess my video
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cor I3 versus core I 5 versus core i7
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still is very much accurate a full what
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is it wow it's been over a year since I
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made it where I talked about the difference between a core i5 and a core i7 being hyperthreading and blippity
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bopity etc etc so good on Intel for not
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changing too much and keeping my videos relevant someone benefited both of these
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chips will not ship with a stock cooler this is a move that has is creating some
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controversy now to put this in the proper perspective guys
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even though the Intel stock cooler is kind of unexceptional I mean you're not
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going to be doing any overclocking with it it is functional but it does come
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with a cost so if Intel's assumption is okay well people buying a K series chip
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are probably overclocking maybe they're right to
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remove it but we've got uh people who are unhappy with the move saying well
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hold on a second I mean it was handy if nothing else I was able to test my
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system it's really quick to install so you're able to test your system make
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sure it's working before you go and install a complicated you know water
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cooling setup or whatever else only to discover that something is is broken
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down the line and you know they're just
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it doesn't seem like that much to ask for Intel to spend the you know $7 or
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whatever the the bomb cost is on a cooler like that to include it in the
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Box um I'd love to hear from you guys let's go ahead and straw pull this uh
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the thing to note guys is that only the K chips seem to be affected by this so
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should you just Pony up for a cooler if
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you have a k chip because the thing to bear in mind is that there's pretty much
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always a just about equivalent nonk chip
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that's sometimes clocked a little bit lower that is a little bit cheaper and
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will include a box cooler so let me just
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get this uh get this P there's no one to stall for me while I'm trying to create
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straw pools and stuff like that I've got a lot of people complaining about being banned in the chat guys we have a chat
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moderation bought so the only way to not
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get banned in the chat is to not be obnoxious in the chat that is pretty
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much the way that it works so there you go we've got 62% of you saying that
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folks should just be ponying up for a cooler if they're spending the extra in
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the first place for a K series chip with only 22% of you being upset about it and
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a whopping 20% of you voting for turnip
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apparently those turnup shirts uh vote for turnup shirts have actually started
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arriving so that's uh that's pretty good news I'm always glad to see people
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posting me pictures on Twitter of them in their Linus Tech tip shirts very good
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stuff good news well this is more good news cuz Intel's been doing this ever
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since lga775 and 1366 now is there is no
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update to the mounting socket so you could carry over you could carry over
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something as old as what like a four or fiveyear old water block or CPU Cooler
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if you still had one lying around that was compatible with LGA
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1156 so you will have to make make no changes to your existing setup if you're
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just upgrading which is another justification for Intel to just save
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themselves a couple bucks on these CPUs since a lot of enthusiasts are the kinds
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of people who are already going to have a cooler anyway that they're just going
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to upgrade too um blah blah blah blah will be
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identical yeah first motherboards etc etc etc um okay 100 series The 100 series
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chipset does have some improvements as well so there's an increase to the DMI
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chipset bus B with to 64 GB per second which should help with storage devices
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that run off the PCI Express bus so things like m.2 or PCI Express ssds uh
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the chipset Now features native support for the NVMe protocol so that's the
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replacement for ahci that is optimized for Flash based
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storage uh they're actually keeping so they just released these SKS this is a
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really weird launch from Intel and they're keeping a lot of the information about what they actually changed
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architecturally from Broadwell to Skylake private until August 18th this
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is going to be kind of a funny period for lus Tech tips build guides over the
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next little bit because due to the move I still haven't done my Broadwell based
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build guide I've got a really cool idea for it I'm going to be doing like a desk
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PC so I I I still don't actually know
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architecturally um if the chip that I'm using for that build which is already
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locked in with Intel is going to because it was supposed to be done before
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Skylake launched um but I don't actually know if that Chip is going to make a
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whole ton of sense for the rig that I have planned to build around it and then I'll actually have a separate build
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coming for Skylake that's going to be an Enthusiast grade one and like a really
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cool case and all that kind of stuff so uh stay tuned for that guys I've got
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another really cool piece of news so while NVIDIA not once but twice in the
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last little bit has run off and changed
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the overclocking policies for their mobile products on their uh Maxwell gpus
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they've actually disabled overclocking a couple times I think they claimed the second time it was by accident or
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something long like something like that uh oh yeah the op for the last article
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was tisk and this one is Good Bites
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Intel has promised unlocked
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overclockable Skylake mobile CPUs so
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that is a gosh darn
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it what is the what the crap is this no
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I don't want a subscription I just want to see this thing thank you uh so here
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this post from RS Technica says that Intel has committed to a full range of
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Base clock overclocking and improved memory overclocking on their 2015
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Skylake processor actually that's that's really cool so we're also going to have
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an overclocking guide coming for Skylake and there's going to be some extra information for that um a lot of lot of
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details about why it's important for Bas clock to be overclockable and sort other
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things like uh storage to not scale with
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it uh but they are also promising unlocked overclockable skyl CPUs for
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laptops now okay I've said this before
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in fact I said this very recently when the whole NVIDIA locking down
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overclocking on their mobile gpus Scandal broke um where I kind of went
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yeah I don't care um I've never really asked for overclocking on mobile CPUs or
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gpus because my personal opinion you can take it with however many grains of salt
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you want is that you just probably shouldn't do it the benefits of
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overclocking are higher performance but
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they come at a cost and that's higher power consumption sometimes
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significantly higher power consumption and higher heat output neither of which
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you want in a laptop now there may be exceptions and I've had people criticize
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my stance on the whole well you shouldn't overclock your GPU and your
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laptop anyway position I've had people criticize me over it because they go
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well hey hold on a second what about like you know cevo shells that are
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designed with coolers this big and you really legitimately could overclock it
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safely okay there are very very few
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exceptions but most people probably shouldn't be overclocking them but I'm
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really interested to see what kind of designs come out of guys like Cleo or
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ASUS or MSI where they're still really
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sticking with that thick laptop form factor whether it's on a gt80 A gt72 or
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a susus G 75x Series that we like so much around
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here because they run so cool and run so quiet so so stay tuned for that guys
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again we haven't really seen any any details um but we may have more info
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after IDF 2015 later on this month this
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is the first time we've seen an officially overclockable mobile CPU from
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Intel even though they have done extreme Edition branded stuff
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before uh this is great I mean this is such a this is such a crappy thing in
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general that this news like hardly even
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makes it noticeably more crappy in my
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mind except that it just kind of is screwing over Apple for no logical
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reason this is posted by hk5 and the original article here is
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from torrent freak let's go ahead and pull this puppy up iTunes and this is
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kind of a sensationalist headline we can expect this kind of one-sided uh
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delivery of the news from sites like torrent freak me WR in the name um
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iTunes is illegal under UK copyright law
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now what they mean by that is that iTunes actually suggests when you use it
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and enables you to rip the songs off of
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your CDs and then store them in iTunes
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for use on your personal music playing device I mean this is how this is how
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iTunes and the iPod uh revolutionized Mobile Music at a time when you know I
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was still carrying around a disman and a CD wallet remember CD wallets remember
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when those were relevant wow I actually still have a couple of them I haven't
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bought a new one in a long time I used to to I used to like stock up on CD
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wallets you know very very different time anyway um the point is that iTunes
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encourages and enables that behavior but
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uh due to the due to the high court uh
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s due to the UK High Court calling the
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government's previous action to legalize copying for private use so the use by
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yourself on other devices that you own
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um as unlawful um after objections from music
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groups it is now unlawful to make a
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private copy of copyrighted works that you own without permission from the
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copyright holder so that includes just
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taking a CD and putting it on your mp3 player you can't even this is this is
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this is great so this is something that I've been thinking about for a while and
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I thought maybe we should popularize in some way but I I haven't really I
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haven't really come up with any way to do it but I mean what if you what if you
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had a a a
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like what if you you know you you protested this kind of thing by taking
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to social media and like what if people made videos of themselves ripping their
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content so you know TV shows onto their
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file servers that they can use to stream to their phones like I love air video
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and emit I use them all the time I store
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everything on my file server and then I can beam it to whatever device I want
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wherever I want it's awesome what if you made a video of yourself just ripping
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them and then shredding shredding the discs just being like look I don't
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object to paying for media what I object to is being told how I can and cannot
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use it because it's ridiculous it's ridiculous that you can't copy a song to
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another format that they expect you to keep buying a new one every time an HD
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DVD or a Blu-ray or whatever comes out with slightly higher definition anyway
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you I'm probably preaching to the choir you guys are pretty Savvy folks um but
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the point is that since iTunes the CD
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ripping feature during install under the current law they are actively facilitating copyright infringement
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meaning they could face significant claims for damages from artists and
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labels I mean what a complicated relationship that is between Apple and
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artists where they've got their own content delivery platforms on the one
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side uh with iTunes and their new uh their new streaming service and then on
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the other side they've got these same
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folks that are potentially going to run after them for breaking copy write law
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that makes no sense in the first place but is certainly beneficial to the folks
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that sell physical media I mean what a
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freaking what a freaking mess they got
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going on over there anyway there you go guys I'd love to we should call it like
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like like hash shredded or something because it's like Rip but shred like or
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what if you did what if you actually ripped the media hashtag rip it or
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something I don't know anyway seems like a cool idea but I'm not very Savvy when
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it comes to hashtags and you know online protests and all that so I'm sure
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someone can come up with a smarter way to implement that kind of thing I think
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it would be awesome though all right uh
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more awesome news actually this this looks potentially cool now I'm going to
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I'm going to be like super I'm going to be super real talk with you guys for a
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minute here oh crap I never actually posted that last link sorry about that
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um here's the next one so this was originally posted in the Forum by oops I
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went to the wrong dock uh by donate
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donut donut natator donut nator that's
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the kind of username that someone picks when they really have never said it out
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loud to them do I mean donut Ator might be kind of funny because it's like it
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would be like a past tense of eat you're the donut Ator like you ate a lot of
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donuts or I don't know but donut nator I don't know if that makes a ton of sense
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anyway the last uh the last keyboard that cherry that excuse me that Corsair
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launch the strafe they sent it over to us for review and we kind of
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went GE um there's not a lot for us to
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say about this thing uh compared to the k70 which you know we already have a
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whack ton of them in the office because we absolutely love that keyboard um like
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what's the deal here because it didn't offer a significant price Improvement it
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did offer more programmability which is kind of a big deal um full fully
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reprogrammable with uh Corsair's utility
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engine whatever Q software so so like
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that's pretty cool but other than that they weren't really pushing the envelope in any way we didn't get a new case
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switch to talk about so it makes it hard to do a review of a keyboard when you
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don't have like some shiny new feature to talk about whether it's RGB lighting
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or different form factor or whatever the case may be um now so when Corsair sent
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me news about their upcoming their upcoming keyboard so this is off of
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hexus here their upcoming keyboard I kind of
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went yeah okay I don't know if we're GNA
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review that and I had misunderstood the
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original message because they said it's got a Cherry MX silent key switch I kind
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of went okay so you put Reds on a keyboard uh that's exactly the same
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thing that you've been doing since you first launched the k60 and the k90 I
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mean that they had Reds on them this this is not new uh but no I I had
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completely missed the point entirely there is a new Cherry MX key switch type
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called Cherry MX silent they have actually redesigned the key switch to be
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well they're saying silent and Cherry's pretty hardcore but they've designed it
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to be quieter even though Reds and blacks are already quite quiet so what
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are they going after here not just the tactile click that you hear on a brown
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or a blue no no they want to eliminate the need for thirdparty products like
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O-rings or dampening mats under the key
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cap and make the actual entire motion
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silent so I kind of went okay yes I do
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want to see the keyboard so we will be getting one as soon as they're available
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and this key switch will be available exclusively in Corsair keyboards for a
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period of 6 months I believe the RGB exclusive was a year but neither Cherry
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nor Corsair have ever confirmed that with me so I actually legitimately don't
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don't know but um I mean the partnership between those companies it looks like
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it's going well and I'm excited to see what a Cherry MX silent switch actually
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ends up looking like so it'll be ailable in red and black variants which are both
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linear switches so we're not going to get a clicky switch in a silent variant
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think about that um so they're both linear variants but the only real
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difference will be uh 45 Newtons versus 60 newtons of force
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required did I say 16 hold on no no I think it's like C Newtons or something
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whatever grams um BL I'm I'm actually
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I'm not that okay I'm G to go off on a tangent
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for a second here I get a fair is Harry moving wow it's like he's come
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to life by Magic uh sorry anyway I've received a
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number of complaints Lately from both users of the imperial system so usually
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Americans and users of the metric system usually Europeans that I don't offer
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translation from one measurement to another in my videos and and the reason
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that I get complaints from both groups is I will frequently talk about length
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in inches or feet and then I almost
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never use um use Imperial for let me
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think what do I almost never use Imperial for no I actually use Imperial
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for length and Metric for length and then in terms of weight right I will
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always use grams like I'll never use uh what is it I don't even remember ounces
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ounces almost never use ounces I'll always use grams but I almost never use
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kilograms I always use pounds so and the
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reason for that is Canada is a metric country but because our neighbors to the
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South so many of our Imports uh come from there both culturally and
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physically uh still use the imperial system most of us here can think in
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Imperial for a lot of things like all construction is done in Imperial here
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and I don't know it's probably not the case in Europe I I I guess but I would
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never call a piece of wood a like I
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don't know what like a like a a a six CM
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by like I don't know like five like what
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two two would be like what three yeah see like a what like a 4 cm by like 8 cm
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no it's a two it's a 2x4 it's a 2 INX 4 in piece of wood so um so yeah I I I
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apologize for that the reason that I don't provide translations is because I
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don't even think about it I just kind of inches are a very convenient unit
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because it's it something that's an inch or two Ines would be like you know two
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and a half CM or like 4 and2 cm like
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it's it's not very good for just a rough quick approxim and the same thing for
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feet um that's another thing right I'll use feet almost always and rarely meters
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because feet are kind of they're they're
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they're kind of more granular whereas centimeters are compared to inches are
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too granular and meters are not granular enough I mean 1.7 m like what can we
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just can we just say 5T uh so yeah I don't know like it's
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funny I don't even know my weight in kilograms and my height in meters it's
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just it's it's a Canadian thing all right let's move on to our next uh next
27:32
topic here this was posted on the Forum by
27:40
Jaws will they know he's stalling for time open up the original article on
27:48
for.com um news item so the original
27:51
article here is from fortune.com and it looks like Facebook has patented
27:55
technology that would allow creditors so money lenders to validate
28:02
your eligibility for a loan based on
28:05
your circle of friends now if this
28:09
sounds insane to you then let me remind
28:12
you that it wasn't that long ago we were talking about on this very show China's
28:17
intent to catalog their citizens and and
28:21
assign the social credit that would actually affect so so your your score
28:25
was influenced by all kinds of things like the activities that you
28:29
participated in uh the friends that you had um whether you uh lived at home
28:34
whether you were married all kinds all kinds of crazy stuff like that that
28:37
affected your ability to start a business get aan sound
28:42
familiar oh
28:46
so like I get it I get it this is really
28:50
useful information for a lender to have
28:54
uh because it might and it might even be
28:57
okay don't take this out of context okay it
29:02
might even be a good thing for some people because right now the lending
29:07
requirements feel kind of arbitrary sometimes lonus Media Group couldn't get
29:12
a loan for the mortgage for this
29:15
building okay could not get it until it had been in business for 2 years why
29:21
well nothing to do with my personal credit nothing to do with you know my
29:25
wife and business Partners Credit uh nothing to do with lus media groups you
29:29
know accounting nothing to do with our you know our sustainability as a company
29:33
it was because well then just the rules well what if we lived in a world
29:38
where you know responsible responsible people who you know try to do all the
29:42
right things well what if those people didn't have to wait 2 years wouldn't
29:46
that be wouldn't that be a good thing now I'm not saying that that's how this
29:49
tool if it ever exists would be used I'm
29:52
just saying that that kind of thing could feasibly be beneficial but
29:59
that doesn't make this any less scary and this is sort of the the the real me
30:03
talking not that this is the part that you can quote this is absolutely
30:06
terrifying because to me the government
30:10
monitoring all this crap is actually less scary than private companies having
30:16
access to all this data simply like like Facebook is going to be able to access
30:22
you know the the the essentially a like
30:25
a social credit score based on your friends and the activities you do on the
30:30
weekend and the the things maybe you post pictures of yourself spending money
30:34
frivolously maybe that affects your ability to get a credit card like I
30:38
don't I don't know why does Facebook why does Facebook have this data and why why
30:43
is Facebook compiling it in order to provide it to the companies who are you
30:48
know and remember guys your credit score affects a lot more than just taking out
30:53
a mortgage I mean it can affect your ability to uh sign up for uh cell phone
30:58
plan like there's all kinds of companies that are going to want access to your
31:01
credit data and are potentially I'm assuming they would they would pay uh
31:06
they would pay Facebook for access to this but I'm it's actually not clear
31:09
exactly how that would work so to be clear this technology doesn't exist
31:14
today Facebook has filed a patent it is UN it is uncertain whether they will
31:19
ever do anything with the technology who knows maybe they're patenting it so that
31:22
they can hold on to that patent and make sure no one ever uses it although I
31:25
really I think I'm giving Mark Zuckerberg too much too much credit I
31:29
don't think he's exactly that sort of White Knight but who knows maybe benefit
31:32
of the doubt um but uh there there you
31:37
go I mean to be clear and another thing that's really important to note guys is
31:41
this isn't new you know it's not like this is the first time that someone has
31:45
tried to take something other than a a financial history to determine the
31:50
eligibility of someone for alone because again young people this is where I could
31:54
see it being both beneficial and extremely harmful Young people don't
31:58
necessarily have a lot of a lot of traditional credit score built up I mean
32:03
that was one of the reasons that uh before I was old enough I I think I was
32:07
16 when I got my first credit card um
32:11
and I got a limit of $500 which and I was a fiscally responsible teenager like
32:15
I had a lot more than $500 in the bank so even if I and this this another thing
32:21
I don't really understand how people overspend on their credit cards tracking
32:24
your receipts really isn't that complicated uh anyway um so even if I
32:28
did overspend on my credit card I had the money in the bank to pay it I have
32:32
never paid credit card interest in my life um but I got a credit card when I
32:37
was 16 because my understanding was that
32:40
it was important to use it and pay it off promptly in order to build up your
32:44
credit score same thing with you know my cell phone like you actually have to
32:48
think about when you're too young to really be considering crap like that I
32:51
mean you're not ready to buy a house or whatever uh but you have to really think
32:54
about establishing a credit history for yourself early on and a lot of people
32:58
don't do that I totally get it so this could be beneficial for them if they are
33:02
otherwise responsible people um but there there's a lot of downsides too I
33:06
mean one concern that was brought up in the article is that it could make it much easier for predatory lenders to
33:11
reach vulnerable people so you know you want to talk about that South Park
33:15
episode about how uh pay to win games freemium games really Target the the
33:20
people with gambling essentially gambling addictions and that tiny
33:25
percentage of the customers makes up that massive percent of the revenue I
33:28
mean this could be a way for for lenders to try and find excuses to lend to
33:33
people who they know won't be able to pay back in time um and are just going
33:37
to have to pay you know massive interest on whatever it is they're doing oh the a
33:42
sorry there's a glass door between here and the editing den and Ed was gesturing
33:48
emphatically he's casting spells on me now but he was gesturing and conversing
33:52
with Brandon and it turns out that he wasn't looking at me at all so I will
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could really use some I could really use some water maybe I'll maybe I'll message
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someone because I like dying here
37:50
Brandon doesn't seem to be doing any actual work right now he's just wandering around anyway so can I get
37:56
water please thanks in my decorated cup
38:03
please we'll see if he even gets this that guy man drives me crazy oh oh I
38:09
have a I have kind of a okay I am going to get distracted by one topic today I
38:13
have kind of a kind of a cool a cool update I have been looking into off-site
38:17
backup for some time cloud-based storage
38:21
is freaking expensive especially when
38:24
the server that I'm looking to back up nightly is a 20 terab server I mean I'm
38:28
not even talking bandwidth cost they want so much money to put 20 terabytes
38:35
in the cloud it's like well this you know server boxes from blah blah blah I
38:39
don't care you know how much a freaking raid card costs you know how much a
38:44
license for an operating system costs you know how much it would cost me to
38:47
put like a free Nas box somewhere can somebody for the love of all that is
38:53
good please just rent me some Rackspace for a reasonable price and I'll put my
38:58
own server there I I actually this is like the
39:02
first time that I've heard myself saying this but I love our new ISP I love our
39:07
internet service provider here uh it turns out that they were they were
39:11
willing to I I talked to them about this they were willing to let us put one of
39:16
our servers in their data center that is
39:19
here in BC but physically far enough away that if there was an earthquake or
39:22
natural disaster we would be spared from it um so they they're going to allow us
39:27
they're just going to charge us a very reasonable monthly rate per U that we
39:31
take up in their rack plus power and I don't believe there's any additional
39:34
cost for data and we can put an off-site server that will actually appear to all
39:40
of our local computers as though it's on the local network so I am super stoked
39:45
on that and that is uh that is a a small new office update there's actually going
39:49
to be fewer new office Vlogs over the next little bit we are finally getting
39:53
the real content rolling so we've got yesterday we did window 10 versus 8
39:58
versus 7 gaming performance uh today we filmed uh final Mouse review as well as
40:04
uh what else is coming on vessel in the next little bit here um oh yes this
40:07
one's going to be good is 4K worth it
40:12
and I'm not talking a hardware upgrade I'm talking online video um then I think
40:17
there's a moving Vlog coming Monday on vessel and then next week I'm going to
40:20
be jumping into Pebble time our Skylake sample I think arrived today but it at
40:25
my house so I'm going to have to double check um the S6 active review is finally
40:28
coming I've been using that thing forever so we are getting finally back
40:32
to our to our regularly scheduled content you guys will just have to have
40:35
to bear with us for a little bit here
40:39
now oh I just realized something oops
40:44
oops there we go I haven't had my lower third in my
40:49
little My Little W show floaty see-through thing see it's see-through
40:53
you can see my hand through it uh for this entire show oops all right let's
40:56
move on this is this is freaking hilarious I love this um so Best Buy
41:01
posted a deal uh where if you buy an LG G4 at
41:06
Best Buy excuse me a buy or lease an LG G4 at Best Buy and you can
41:12
get a 24in TV free of charge uh this was
41:17
posted by top war gamer on the Forum and this thing is brutal like it is the
41:23
worst thing ever basically I mean first
41:27
of all can you really call 24 in a TV
41:31
anymore I mean what what what is this like the late '90s you know when you
41:35
could actually buy a 21in TV because CRT TVs were like kind of huge and bulky and
41:42
not to mention still expensive and stuff this TV is 720p so it is basically
41:48
obsolete before the first you know uh
41:52
engineering drawings were ever made of what it was going to look like and uh
41:56
the offer is is valid from August 2nd to
41:59
August 8th so get on this now activate
42:03
an LG G4 get pretty much the worst TV
42:06
ever for nothing apparently it normally retails for $149.99 and what I want to
42:11
know is how they get off charging 149.99 for that I mean let's let's go on a site
42:16
like uh like Newegg and find out what a 24in monitor is going to run
42:24
us actually rarely actually shop for
42:27
things because of of my job so it's uh
42:31
so for for okay this is this is good so for a mere $20 more we could actually
42:37
get 1080p which would make it not a
42:41
completely irrelevant and horrible product nope for 10 for $10 more we
42:46
could get we could get 10 NOP for exactly the same price we can get a
42:50
1080p display so I think it's very deceptive
42:56
to call the Val of that particular TV $150 but if you were planning to get a
43:01
G4 anyway then I did want to bring your attention to it if you happen to be in
43:05
the US and you're not locked in in terms of the carrier you can get Verizon AT&T
43:09
or Sprint versions of the G4 so those of
43:12
you on uh on UNC carriers are are a
43:15
little bit out of luck but uh that's that's pretty much that's pretty much it
43:19
I mean I guess there are other carriers in the States but uh the big three The
43:24
Big Three are covered project quantum
43:27
this is posted by HK 05 look at all this Tech news this week it's almost like
43:31
this is a tech news show with Harry Potter
43:35
um H I don't know what it is I think my
43:38
uh I think my laptop's a little unhappy you guys can probably hear that the fan
43:41
is going super loud but web pages are taking a little while to load and stuff
43:46
like that that normally isn't really the case like apparently some application
43:51
crashed or some crap something something Windows 10 home
43:57
something something whatever okay oh my
44:01
gosh I maximized it that is not what I want no stop stop please um so this is
44:07
posted by HK 05 I'm going to go ahead and post the link over here but yeah web
44:11
pages are opening extremely extremely
44:15
slowly boop I'm not dropping frames though which is
44:19
good and yes I know there's some background noise you know what else the
44:23
background noise is caused by air conditioning so our air condition was
44:27
finally turned on yesterday and it is so
44:31
awesome because I just naturally get kind of warm when I'm working on yay air
44:36
conditioner what what what I said yay air conditioner oh yeah yay air
44:41
conditioner indeed like I naturally get warm when I'm working on computers and
44:45
when I'm like hosting a show like I just I tend to run kind of hot as a person
44:49
and when I'm doing that in a hot room it
44:52
is so brutal like I'll just sweat through everything it's it's it's awful
44:57
having AC is the most amazing thing ever
45:00
and we've got it we've got so many different zones of it that we could even
45:04
turn down the temperature in like the room where we're where we're doing W
45:08
show which will be less of an option in the winter it occurs to me now we might
45:11
just have to oh yeah we're not going to be filming inside the office forever
45:15
well I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts air conditioning is nice I don't
45:18
remember where I was going with this uh project Quantum may not actually reach
45:22
the market so if you guys recall project Quantum was like a a concept PC that AMD
45:29
showed off um that was like it was based
45:34
on actually based on Intel CPU it's really funny how AMD really dances
45:38
around the whole yeah you should buy our CPUs but like when we do benchmarks for
45:43
our reviewers guide we use Intel platforms and when we um you know design
45:48
a product that we might think people might actually want to buy we usually
45:52
use an Intel CPU in that too um so it has an Intel CPU unit thank you Brandon
45:56
you got my message uh see I have my water now uh uses Intel
46:00
CPU uses two Fury class um Fiji gpus so
46:08
effectively an R9 Fury X2 uh so it's got
46:11
a 4790k processor it's designed for 4K
46:14
Ultra HD gaming and an extraordinarily
46:17
small form factor so the idea is it's got like this you know external unit
46:21
here but it's actually still quite small and I guess my response to this is is
46:27
who is surprised I mean the the viability of a product like that like
46:32
the the the engineering that would go into Mass producing something like that
46:35
would be extraordinarily expensive like the only company I could think of that
46:39
might even begin to consider creating a product
46:44
like that would be someone like Razer where you look at what they did with laptops and they went okay we're going
46:48
to reinvent this we're going to make a MacBook Pro but with a GPU in it um and
46:54
I really don't see Razer doing this because they are already investing in
46:57
the Android gaming space so they think
47:00
the little gaming box is going to be Android based and this is not what uh
47:05
this is not what this is at all so it it came out of AMD's innovation lab they
47:09
did it just to demonstrate what can be done but the latest word on the street
47:13
is that um this and this is from Chief gaming scientist Richard hudy from AMD I
47:18
don't know whether we have an oem who is committed to building something like it
47:22
we built it as a concept PC so like concept cars it's not usually practical
47:26
to take it straight to Market that would make a great deal of sense but uh it's
47:30
not far from that um I would think that
47:34
if we have the right kind of conversations with some oems then we
47:37
might well turn it into a real product in that case it will probably be a very
47:40
small number maybe only one or at most a handful of PC manufacturers who would
47:45
bring it to Market potentially it's a custom piece not a high volume piece but
47:49
it is a thing of beauty speaking of things of beauty this
47:55
is actually looking pretty good good Samsung um you know they they really got
47:59
my attention with the S6 Edge and the Note 5 is looking like it's going to be
48:04
a pretty impressive little piece of Kit as well let's go ahead and pull this
48:09
puppy up here when I when I can doop
48:13
doop doop note five etc etc so this was originally posted on the Forum by six
48:19
god let's go ahead and drop that in the twitch chat Boop and the original
48:24
article is from Droid Life if I recall
48:27
correctly here is the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 they have
48:33
gotten their hands on it it is Big although if you were expecting anything
48:37
else out of a note series phone then you
48:40
probably had another thing coming in the first place and gives us a couple of
48:44
improvements that uh I don't know about you guys but I've been hoping to see for
48:48
some time so we've got a spring-loaded stylus you can actually see that in the
48:54
there we go they've actually got a couple of other shots here so you can see that in the bottom we've
48:58
got a spring-loaded stylus now the fit and finish of it looks absolutely
49:03
beautiful so gone is Aon is pretty much all the plastic it's very they're
49:08
probably not going to like me saying this but it's very iPhone esque looking
49:12
on the bottom I mean it's undeniably similar looking to the iPhone on the
49:15
bottom there I said the same thing about the S6 Edge um it'll be available in
49:20
3264 and 128 gig
49:23
configurations uh there is a screenshot showing their
49:28
um their Air Command so you can add things to it like Instagram or whatever
49:31
the case may be I've got a call from
49:35
someone who is not going to be relevant right now Wham thank you Smartwatch I
49:41
love you and it has a regular USB port
49:45
so they have done away with the whole uh USB 3 and have not even gone with usb3
49:51
type c so uh that's a bit of a disappointment I would have liked to see
49:55
a USB 3.0 type-c implementation just because the flash storage on phones is
50:00
getting fast enough that USB 2 is a significant bottleneck um but I'm really
50:06
glad that they did away with that USB 3.0 micr B connector cuz that thing is
50:12
the worst connector ever created in my
50:15
mind so there you go I think the actual unveiling is going to be next week at a
50:20
press event or something along those lines but it looks like uh now we pretty
50:25
much know everything we need to know about it 3,000 mAh battery also very
50:29
unimpressive I uh I recently switched back to the Droid Turbo since Brandon is
50:34
using the S6 active to do b-roll for the review of it and I got to say whenever
50:39
I'm reviewing a phone that doesn't have like a 3500 plus milliamp battery I
50:45
really really feel it I love having the flexibility to be you know 530 so most
50:52
of the way through my day with 70% of my battery life left if I got a you know
50:56
GPS all over the place not having to carry a battery bank with me is huge and
51:00
absolutely fantastic this is really funny
51:06
um here we go so there's there's actually two sort of related pieces of
51:10
news here number one wow I actually have a lot left to cover here holy smokes so
51:16
number one is that Microsoft is now giving up to 20 weeks of Parental leave
51:21
which is apparently a big deal in the
51:24
states so uh um yeah I I had no idea
51:29
because in Canada we actually get a year
51:33
per child now to be clear that's not a year fully paid that's actually a
51:37
government thing like it's an employment insurance thing um so it's it's capped
51:43
and it's like a percentage of your salary something something etc etc etc
51:47
but but we actually get a year of leave
51:50
so I kind of went 20 weeks so that doesn't that doesn't seem that great but
51:53
the good thing about it is that it is now with 100% pay so it's actually at
51:58
the discretion of a company so uh I know
52:01
that for my wife because she has a managerial position at Costco a
52:06
significant portion of her parental leave was actually topped up so the
52:11
company can contribute additionally to
52:14
what the government is already is already paying um so so like that's
52:18
that's something that I thought was pretty cool the fact that they now give
52:22
up to 12 weeks for a dad or an
52:25
additional 8 weeks for Mom so up to 20 weeks of fully paid leave and I had no
52:30
idea so I'm getting back to my point I had no idea this was such a big deal
52:33
because in Canada we get a year duh apparently in the states parental leave
52:38
is like horrible like you only get a little bit if if anything it at all and
52:43
the even in in Washington I think the law was something along the lines of
52:46
like you had to give like8 weeks or something like that and it was at the
52:50
employer's discretion if it was like paid at all or something along those
52:53
lines so uh I can tell you as someone who has had a couple of kids in the last
52:57
bit it is so important and so awesome
53:01
for for Mom to get to spend a ton of time with new baby when when they're
53:06
first born um you know especially if you want to if you want to breastfeed versus
53:10
Formula feeding and all that kind of stuff uh which has health benefits you
53:15
know antibodies and all that all that stuff um yeah anyway so not to be not to
53:21
be outdone uh also this week Netflix has
53:25
announced that their offering unlimited paid parental leave for a year
53:31
which I guess is another way of saying that you've got a year of Parental leave
53:36
leaves so um here we go federal law in
53:39
the US requires 12 weeks unpaid leave for parents so I was wrong it's 12 not8
53:44
and so this one is now available for both birth parents and adoptive parents
53:48
they'll earn their normal salary and is intended to help the company keep
53:52
valuable employees according to their talent officer or a talent officer it
53:57
allows parents to set their own work schedule letting them return on a full
54:01
or part-time basis and take leave as necessary during the first year so many
54:06
are spectacle about uh spectacle skeptical about the new plan's efficacy
54:11
as in competitive Industries like Tech employees are often looking for any
54:14
advantage they can get um but market
54:17
watch speculates and this is this is really interesting uh this was actually
54:21
posted by oh actually we don't have a forum source for this one so market
54:25
watch speculates that this could cause um oops where's the do well this
54:31
could cause new parents to take less time off than if they were given a set
54:36
amount of time because uh this was so
54:40
this was an internal study done by ernston Young that found that for every
54:43
10 extra hours of vacation time employees took advantage of their
54:47
performance rating from their bosses climbed 8% and that those who took
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frequent vacations were less likely to leave the company but the reason for
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this and so the reason for this might be something called work martyr Sy which
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means that in competitive workplaces employees are looking for any leg up
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they can get on their performance reviews so they think that it will look
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good to their bosses if despite being given unlimited vacation time or whatever they actually take even fewer
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days off very very interesting stuff like the whole psychology of of vacation
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and time off and all of that all that good stuff uh we've got this is a really
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interesting one Microsoft updated their terms of service on August 1st in uh
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sort of a sort of sort of a scary in sort of a scary way I'm going to go
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ahead and uh pop this link in the Forum so this was originally posted by The
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Stranger although uh the stranger I think you uh You misspelled the you've
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got it spelled te just saying I'm just kidding I know that's an intentional
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spelling error uh this is post by the stranger and Windows 10 updates can now
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disable pirated games and unauthorized Hardware so this went into
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effect on the first of ox August and the terms are valid for everyone using
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Microsoft services such as Office 365 oops I put up the wrong hand well
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whatever I'm just going to have to put this away Office 365
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outlook.com Xbox Live Skype one drive
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Bing and MSN although software using a
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Microsoft account is covered by the terms meaning that the terms also affect
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most Windows 10 users and speaking of
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you know maybe I'll rant about that a little bit a little bit later so um it
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is unclear what the company means by
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unauthorized Hardware peripheral devices maybe we're talking unlicensed game
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controllers um maybe we're talking like Lord Lord Only Knows um but yeah we we
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don't we don't really understand what exactly they're going to do with it but
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they could prevent you from playing counterfeit games or using unauthorized
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Hardware so back to back to the whole having to have an email to actually use
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Windows 10 thing man is the way that they've implemented
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this obnoxious let's go ahead and I'm going to just going to pull up the
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control panel on my machine here I'm just going to close anything that uh
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might be incriminating can my typing just work
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please that'd be super awesome oh that's weird I straight up
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don't know what's happening but I cannot type uhhuh
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uhhuh okay well I guess I won't but the point is that the control panel when you
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create a new user account for your for your computer you actually have to this
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is this is great like they' they've hidden the ability to create a local
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user account that is not tied to any kind of email account so well that I
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suspect 99.9% of people out there are just going
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to enter their email information you actually have to say when you create a
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user account you have to click this person does not have an email address in
57:53
order to get to the menu that allows you to then get to another sort of weirdly
57:58
worded thing to click to create a local user account I I've been I've been up I
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upgraded the uh uh the blade to Windows
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10 I upgraded my desktop to Windows 10 and that is one of the things that
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really really annoyed me what if I don't want to tie my email account to the
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computer what if that is not what I want to do I still can but most people are
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not going to think to click that the user doesn't have an email address
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they're just going to think oh well there's no other way out I guess I just
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have to enter this information uh speaking of no other way out I actually
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did did figure out something something kind of cool so I'm going to go ahead
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and share H hold on a
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second uh okay so maybe I can add screen
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capture I'll just share my screen with you guys here so we're going to have some video setion here so I did figure
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out let's just put that away this so I
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had said in in the video I released last night that I couldn't figure out how to
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pin things down here it turns out it is super duper simple so that's pretty cool
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I have so much crap in here and yet I don't think I can get rid of any of it
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it's like scanning utilities and like
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rapid storage technology like Chrome
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synapse I was going to take synapse off and then I realized for a second I was
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like oh I probably can't take synapse off it's like an actually a razor laptop
59:21
like the keyboard and touchpad probably need synapse drivers I yeah
59:28
but the reason I wanted to take it off ended up being a mistake anyway I thought that there was an issue that
59:32
synaps was causing with like Mouse legginess but that didn't end up being
59:35
the case and it totally resolved itself anyway um oh more more bad Windows 10
59:40
News uh Windows 10 Telemetry let's go ahead and pull up the RS Technica
59:45
article here so you guys should definitely check this out so they've
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actually updated it a couple of days ago since I first looked at it with a few
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more Windows 10 features that gather up your data and or behavior here and send
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it back to Microsoft they also have some suggestions on how to disable them so by
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clicking through Express settings which I have to confess I did because it never
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used to be a problem all it did all it meant was that I had to like change bang
60:10
and Internet Explorer from being my default Ah that's another thing that
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really annoys me about Windows 10 when you click make Chrome my default browser
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it brings you to a menu where you then actually have to click and turn off edge
60:25
and make Chrome your default browser instead of just doing
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it um so by clicking through the express settings during installation you allow
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Windows 10 to gather up your contacts calendar details uh text and touch input
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location data and a whole lot more it is sent to Microsoft so that it can be used
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for personalization and targeted ads the easiest way to disable it is to turn
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them off during the upgrade or installation process and there are
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actually registry and Group Policy edits that are needed to disable all tracking
60:56
so yeah pretty cool uh there's a tool created by a Reddit user to disable
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Windows 10 tracking with one click thank you Reddit user uh you guys can go ahead
61:06
and check that out I will go ahead and post this link here Bippity poity just
61:11
like that so guys if you're using Windows 10 um I'm actually not
61:16
personally endorsing that oneclick thing because I have no idea what that Reddit
61:19
user actually put in there but it seems that some people are reporting that it's
61:24
all good and that it helps and that that is a good thing I got another news
61:29
article for you here guys this is posted by Sam cool 55 let's go ahead and wait
61:34
for that page to load there we go post
61:37
that in the twitch chat all
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right boy it is I really need a producer for this show I've had so this is so
61:45
funny I've had so many people contact me and tell me hey lonus you know what I
61:49
think would be a great idea for the W show you guys should have a producer to
61:53
like do the lower thirds and bring up the Articles and post the
61:56
and all that I'm like yeah uh that would
62:00
be great um sort of cost money and would involve
62:05
like completely rejiggering how the sort of the infrastructure of the show works
62:10
and and all that kind of stuff and yes it is the kind of thing that
62:13
professional shows have and we are very likely to introduce at some point
62:16
especially now that I can't believe we have almost 10,000 viewers again I don't
62:20
even have a co-host I I got I got I got Ary over here um we have almost 10,000
62:25
viewers again so I guess we're getting to the point where with 10,000 live viewers and like 150 to 200,000 archive
62:31
viewers we probably should invest in something like that I had never really
62:34
intended for WAN Show to to to grow like
62:37
this it was supposed to be I originally called it the live stream and I treated
62:40
it like Q&A and then it turned into this thing it got like a life of its own so
62:45
the original article here is from overclock.net and the activation of
62:49
cores in Hawaii Tonga and Fiji gpus is
62:53
apparently this is great is apparently something that requires a massive
62:57
disclaimer right at the
63:01
beginning so there's uh wow the versions
63:04
are rolling out extremely quickly here and I just want to say before you guys
63:08
use this I'm going to go ahead and oh yeah I know I posted a link to the thread in the form um before you guys
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use this if you've already got a fully
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unlocked chip something like a 290x don't run it there's nothing to
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gain there's nothing to gain at all because all it does is it unlocks
63:26
shaders that were that were hidden away so if you have something like a 290 this
63:30
is something that has cropped up before 7950 uh we're being flashed way back in
63:35
the day to 797s um so it's only if you have hidden
63:39
ones it can unlock them and make them usable again but the thing that you guys
63:43
need to understand is the way that chip binning works is sometimes chips are
63:49
used for a lower grade product because they just have to fulfill the demand for
63:53
that product sometimes chips are used for a lower grade product because
63:57
they're broken well not broken they work but the parts that would have made it
64:02
qualify for a higher end product don't work like if Intel has a CPU that has
64:06
six Megs of cach versus 8 Megs of cash like I talked about with the Skylight K
64:10
processors some of those core i5s might
64:13
have fully functional cach maybe they just didn't reach like a you know a
64:16
power Target at at that frequency or whatever there's a lot of other reasons
64:20
a chip can fail other than not working out right they've got their power targets their uh heat targets whatever
64:25
ever the case may be maybe that cash Works maybe that's the thing that was
64:30
broken so by unlocking it you could potentially be unlocking broken stuff on
64:36
the chip so your mileage um may may may
64:39
may vary so there you
64:44
go ah this is good so this was posted by
64:47
13ca 350 and the original article here is
64:52
from wired.com I'm just going to go ahead and post the
64:57
I hate there's got to be an extension for this um I will try and find it after
65:02
the show but I hate the way that in
65:05
Google Docs it creates that stupid
65:09
google.com/ URL that goes on forever
65:12
thing instead of just allowing me to copy paste and like rightclick copy and
65:18
paste things directly I actually have to navigate to the stupid URL every time
65:24
um a 100,000 followers people are saying something
65:29
about 100,000 followers is that on Twitch oh I guess
65:34
that's on Twitch huh look at that we
65:37
have almost 100,000 followers on Twitch and I've only game streamed like a half
65:41
a dozen times in my life go figure researchers hacked a Model S but Tesla's
65:46
already released a patch thank you Tesla for treating this with the appropriate
65:51
amount of gravity and uh appropriate
65:54
expediency of your response and all of that good stuff so if you guys recall we
65:59
talked about the whole thing that happened with that jeep where it was
66:02
hacked wirelessly and Jeep's response was like well actually you guys probably
66:06
shouldn't be talking about this because now you're making like this information
66:10
public so other people could do it um so
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please don't do that no no no no no Tesla has instead worked with uh looks
66:19
like who who was up to this this time yeah Mark Rogers and Kevin mafey um so
66:24
they executed the attack and Tesla has already worked with them on the six
66:28
vulnerabilities that were found in total they've developed fixes and addressed
66:32
all six through a Wireless update already so basically these guys were
66:36
able to control the vehicle through a laptop over a physical connection so not
66:41
even nearly as terrifying an exploit as that one that was done cellularly and
66:46
they were able to plant a remote access trojen on the model S network while they
66:49
had physical access then they were able to cut the engine remotely at a later
66:53
time they were also able to shut the car down at a low speed of 5
66:57
mph they discovered that the infotainment system was using an
67:00
out-of-date browser which contained a 4-year-old Apple webkit vulnerability so
67:05
theoretically if someone made a malicious web page and a Tesla's system
67:09
visited that page the site owner could gain access to the infotainment system
67:12
and control the car by taking advantage of a privilege escalation vulnerability
67:16
and gain additional access to the car's control although that wasn't tested um
67:22
so but either way it's it's they they they it's patched so there you go um so
67:29
yeah what what can we really say about this other than that good on you Tesla
67:34
for doing things the right way because if everyone kind of sat around and was
67:38
complacent and kind of went well if you don't fix the stuff then you know it's
67:41
not going to affect someone's buying decision I don't have to fix this stuff then we can just all not fix this stuff
67:46
it's good that someone is running out and getting competitive about it about
67:50
the security of their smart cars and I shouldn't say smart car because that's a
67:54
specific car but their connected cars
67:58
lordy what are we going to call these things uh of their of the of the
68:02
security of their connect see now I don't know what to call them cars let's
68:06
just call them cars because they pretty much all of the features now the security of their car someone's taking
68:10
it seriously and hopefully that just raises the bar in the industry and forces everyone to play
68:16
along more Windows 10 news this was posted by Ragnarok Dell on the Forum
68:22
let's go ahead and pull up the original article here from PC World
68:26
there are already More Steam users using
68:29
Windows 10 than there are any form of
68:33
Linux although this shouldn't be any surprise to anyone who has participated
68:38
in the Windows 10 upgrade experience because let me tell you it is pretty
68:42
darn seamless I had my laptop up and running everything working 100% within a
68:47
matter of like an hour or something like that so it was super duper no big deal
68:52
and awesome um and even for pirates I
68:56
actually validated this very recently even for pirates the upgrade process is
69:01
pretty darn seamless depending on how they pirated their Windows so I was just
69:06
like okay people are telling me it works let's find out if it
69:09
works okay it works very very
69:13
interesting so when you go ahead and you basically provide Windows for free
69:17
whether people paid for their old Windows or didn't pay for their old
69:21
Windows you've effectively just made Windows 10 free and that is that is some
69:26
pretty revolutionary stuff right there it is no surprise to me whatsoever that
69:30
people are jumping right on that
69:33
Biz so I think that's pretty much um I
69:38
guess that's pretty much it for the show today let me see do I have anything else
69:43
I'm sure there must be something PC World
69:47
article no I think that's that's pretty much it for the show guys oh no no
69:51
there's another there's another really little really little piece of news so
69:54
this is from the .c uh the Youtube 301 view freeze will
70:01
no longer be the case so this was posted by
70:04
cybernetic okay what whatever that username is now the reason that videos
70:09
would stop at 301 views in the past was
70:13
because YouTube was validating whether that video was actually getting views
70:17
really quickly like this is back when a video getting 300 views within the first
70:21
you know minute was a big deal now it now it's not now there's lots of users
70:26
that can rack up the views pretty quickly so they had to validate whether
70:29
the views were real or if they were coming from a a botn net or something to
70:32
artificially inflate that video and make it look like a big deal so it would hit
70:36
the front page or something like that and then get legitimate traffic that was a real strategy for a bit there not that
70:41
I ever did that um now they're doing
70:44
away with that so the 301 plus stall uh
70:48
will be will be taken away so as long as the views are validated views so the
70:53
validated views will come right away and the ambiguous one will be added later once uh Google has
70:58
ensured that they are
71:01
genuine um yeah I guess that's pretty
71:05
much that's pretty much it for this week so thank you for tuning into to the show
71:10
I hope you guys uh oh no okay no I do I
71:13
do have one more that I want to do so this is posted by rev silverpine and the
71:18
original article here was from tech radar let's go ahead and
71:23
uh copy these into the appropriate
71:27
places wow 10,000 viewers and almost
71:30
100,000 twitch followers what a day today
71:34
hey uh but basically uh so the the
71:39
article is you don't need a crazy powerful PC to run Windows 10 uh someone
71:43
got it running on an AMD Athlon 64 3200
71:47
plus so that is a 12-year-old CPU with
71:50
256 megabytes of memory I mean anything
71:54
prior to that you're going to have issues apparently it was just throwing
71:57
out errors but there you go you can not that I'm saying you should run Windows
72:01
10 on a 12 year old computer if you
72:05
really wanted to so thanks for tuning in
72:08
to the show thanks to our sponsors I will see you guys again next week same
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bat Time same bat Channel Maybe by then we will have a 100,000 twitch followers
72:16
which didn't even occur to me that we had see you guys next time
72:31
it's not showing up in my dashboard apparently we already have 100,000
72:35
followers it didn't show in the dashboard so I got owned