The WAN Show - GTX 980 & 970 Released & Microsoft buys Minecraft! - September 19, 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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And I think we're live. So, uh,
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maybe, possibly, hopefully. Yeah, maybe, possibly, hopefully. We
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certainly, we certainly think so. I will jump into the Twitch chat, so I
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will let us know soon. All right. So, welcome to the WAN Show, guys. The weekly stream that happens
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every week, come hell or high water, no
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matter what. even if we have already been streaming for almost a continuous
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24 hours prior to the show,
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which is what's been going on. So, I think uh we we'd best open with a brief
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introduction or a brief explanation of what the heck is going on and where we
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actually are. For those of you who don't know, we have been live streaming
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NVIDIA's Mod 24 event.
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Mod 24, which was a 24hour
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celebration of PC modding and PC gaming. I know for a fact NVIDIA invested a lot
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of money into Oh, hold on.
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Oh, you've got to be kidding me. The dashboard should not have ads. All
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right, maybe Amazon will get that fixed. All right, so we've been down here for
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NVIDIA's Mod 24, a 24-hour celebration
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of PC gaming and PC modding. They invested a lot of money into the event,
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and they asked us to uh to come down and
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host the PC case modding competition. Uh
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there were a lot of really famous PC case modders, including Darth Beas,
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someone that I've known for like eight years, talking to him on forums. I think
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this is the first time we've ever actually met in person, which was really
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cool. Funnily enough, uh his rig isn't
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behind us, but we do have the winning rig behind us, which was I I think the
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story that went along with it was really cool, was really really special. Had to do
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with their their favorite land, one of their favorite NVIDIA employees who who
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used to come down to that land. And uh people are saying I look exhausted,
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guys. I wonder why. I wonder why. I have hardly slept in the
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last few days here, but uh don't don't
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worry, we are going to make it through the show in spite of the fact that neither Luke nor I has actually really
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looked at the uh the stream document yet. No clue what's going on.
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So, we're going to pick some highlighted topics for this week. First up is of
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course the launch of the GTX 980 and GTX
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970. That is one of the reasons that we
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are down here in California right now.
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And we have a video up for the 980. And I think we're going to be getting a
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video up hopefully next week. Yeah, next week. We're going to hit the 970.
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And I don't know if this is official or not, but I kind of leaked it a little bit during the 24th stream that we might
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be doing some SLI testing. Oh, we will definitely be doing some SLI
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testing. So, uh, next big thing that happened this week, Microsoft officially
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acquires Mojang. So, for those of you who don't know, Mojang is the maker of
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the infamous Minecraft.
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So, what Microsoft plans to do with Minecraft, I think people either don't
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know or don't want to know or somewhere in between.
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Yep. And then there is, let's see,
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there was something really interesting somewhere.
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Oh, no. All right. Apple has updated their
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security on the iPhone on iOS to so such
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that if your phone is locked even they
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cannot access your data which I guess is their way of absolving themselves of any
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responsibility to report any of their users data to the government in such a
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situation as that would be requested of them. So I got to give them
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massive massive kudos for that. Um, with
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that said, the release of iOS 8 doesn't seem to have created a whole ton of
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fanfare amidst the community. So, it seems to be a lot of under the hood
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improvements without a ton of, you know, huge graphical changes like we saw in
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iOS 7. So, why don't we call that our main topics, roll the intro, and I
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finally found it. That's cool. We'll talk about and get this show on the road.
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Yeah. Click the
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Beat.
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So we have only got let's see 75 minutes
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of battery. So, we're going to have to kind of fly through our topics today and
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uh and do our best to to cover them as well as we can, especially given we have
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no idea what we're talking about. So, for GTX 980, which is actually our
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first topic, you can check out our YouTube video so we can fly past this one pretty quick. And also the GTX 970
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launch, we'll be having a video coming next week, so I don't think we need to talk a ton about these individually.
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Well, they are kind of important. They are kind of important. That is true. Should we talk about them?
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Yeah, I I think I think it might not be might not be a terrible idea. So, in our
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performance testing in the YouTube video, we found that uh 980 and 780 Ti
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go pretty toe-to-toe in a lot of different situations, but then 980
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crushes 780 Ti in uh power efficiency.
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Yeah. So, the to be clear, guys, when you look at any other review on the web,
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you're going to find you're going to find 980 pretty much dominating
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everything else, but the key difference is that we overclock all of our cards as
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far as we possibly can before running all of our benchmarks. So, what we found
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is that while 980 is a beast overclocker, I think there was only one
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game that wasn't running over 1500 MHz on the core, which is like
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really, yeah, pretty impressive.
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You serious, bro? Our 780 Ti is also a
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bit of a beast and runs well over 1200 MHz, too. So given uh the number of CUDA
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cores, given the 384-bit memory bus, that 780 Ti has a lot of raw horsepower
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to throw at any kind of a of any kind of a rendering problem. So we ended up with
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them kind of trading blows. The one that I'm actually really interested in, and
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it's a kind of a funny story why we didn't end up with a GTX 970 in time for
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us to do a review for launch. Um I was sitting in the briefing down in uh in
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California, which is where I am now. So, here I was sitting in the briefing very
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close to where I am right now and I got an email from Gigabyte. Yo, dog, here's
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uh graphics card code name something. And I wasn't looking that closely at it
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because I was in the middle of a presentation. Uh, do you want us to send you a sample for a review? And I kind of
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went, yeah, sure. And I figured because NVIDIA was only seating GTX 980s, I
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figured that Gigabyte was sending us a 970. Turns out that the one that arrived
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from Gigabyte is a 980. So, we actually ended up with too many 980s and no 970s
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at all. So, I asked Gigabyte about it. I said, "Hey, um, do you guys have a 970
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that we can get our hands on? We haven't we haven't been able to do a review yet." And they said, "Oh, well, we
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actually prioritized you to get a 980 because you're a key partner for us."
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And I kind of went, "Oh, thank you." That didn't work out very well for
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anyone, but thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, I appreciate the
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thought. You You guys are awesome. We love working with you and all that stuff. I just really wish we had a 970
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so we could do a review of it.
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So that's why that's not out this week, but that'll be out next week. Yeah, we'll get that up. But I'm really
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interested in that one because the pricing is so aggressive, as low as 330
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bucks in the US for a card that is effectively around 20% slower than the
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GTX 980 because they cut down some of the functional units. And I I don't
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actually know. You were at the event, but I'm assuming it also has autobalancing power rails.
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No, no, no. Sorry. That is still a top tier. I
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know that's still a top tier only feature. So 780 Ti, GTX 980 are the only
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ones that have that autobalancing power feature that makes overclocking on these
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cards um pretty flexible and pretty beastly.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. That'll be interesting because it'll be completely different
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overclocking experience of the new platform. So, the OP here is good bites.
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What I'm going to do this week is I'm just going to kind of spam Twitch chat
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because I didn't think to bring Oh, you have got to be kidding me. I didn't
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think to bring two Oh, wait. What? Oh,
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here we go. Here we go. I got this. I got this. I didn't think to bring two
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capture devices here. So, we've just got the one for our camera. So, I can't
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actually screen share with you guys. But, uh, what I'm going to do is I'm
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going to spam chat with the links to the articles that we're talking about. So
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the original poster after this let me manage the spam.
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The original poster was good bites and basically Microsoft has revealed a fair
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number of details about directx 11.3 and directx 12. Now we've got a lot of
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information in the doc that hopefully Luke is reading right now so he can talk
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about this a little bit. But in a nutshell, we actually had the DirectX
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project lead presenting at the NVIDIA uh
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press event last week. And in a nutshell, he basically said, "Okay,
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well, well, look here. Here's what it is. DirectX1.3
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is the features. So, it's got the new rendering features that are really
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exciting and are going to potentially free up overhead on the GPUs, make it so
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that they can more efficiently render things like um multiple transparent
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objects. So, they showed off rasterizer ordered views.
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Yeah, rasterizer ordered views. Thank you. ly he showed off a few different
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things that DirectX 11.3 can do and then
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explained that DirectX12 is basically going to have those features except with
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all that CPU performance optimization that we've been hearing about uh ever
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since AMD first started talking about Mantle and how it was going to allow
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your CPU to your multi-core CPU to spread out workloads much more
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effectively. Now, the funny thing about DirectX12
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is that not only have they made it so that they're going to be able to split
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the workload across CPUs, but in the slides that he showed us, uh, something
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really interesting that we noticed is CPU usage overall also plummets. So,
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while the theory that uh like the the theory that I've had up until up until
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he gave us that presentation was that all of a sudden we're going to have
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Yeah. We're going to have a justification for for you know GTX 5960X
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just for straight gaming and games are going to be able to leverage that.
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I kind of went, well, hold on a second. GTX 5960X. Did I say that? Core i7 5960X. Thank
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you. So, I it's just running one game. And I was like, "Okay, yeah, maybe we'll
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be able to use all eight of these cores and all 16 of these threads." But then I
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kind of realized, well, hold on a second. If CPU utilization is going down
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this much, we might just not need the
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cores or the clock speed. It'll be really interesting to see what happens
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to what we need in terms of CPU power for gaming. I mean, what I'd really like
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to see happen is I'd like to see game developers use the CPU horsepower that
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we have anyway. AI doing stuff like that,
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AI destructible environments. Um, I don't know how CPU intensive it is, but
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NVIDIA's new global illumination feature. I would love to see some of
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that offloaded to the CPU so that we can get truly much more dynamic visually
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games um in the next couple of years here. It might take us a little bit to
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see some of these implementations because there's a few warnings. It says
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it's very powerful, but it's difficult to master and quote unquote dangerous
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and inexperienced in the hands of inexperienced programmers. They're
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saying that the development model is that a few code gurus will make stuff
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like engines and platforms that other people can build on top of and outside
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of that they don't really expect too many people to touch it because it will
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be a very very complicated thing to work with. All right. So, our next uh our
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next topic is engineers made a radio the
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size of an ant that doesn't require a battery. This was originally posted by
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ETRJ on the lineus techtips forum and the
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original article is from the verge.com. So, engineering professors from Stanford
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and the University of California, Berkeley. I don't know I don't know how
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that sentence was supposed to be structured. So anyway, um created the a
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radio the size of an ant, no battery. It's actually powered by harvesting
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radio signals and doesn't require any external power. So the goal is to use
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these chips to facilitate the internet of things. So for those of you who
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aren't familiar with the term internet of things, it it refers to the concept
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that everything will be connected. So,
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not just your smartwatch, not just your smartphone, but even something as simple
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as your headphones and and high quality
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headphones, not headphones where having connectivity in them is just this janky,
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cludgy uh gimmicky type of feature. Just
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everything will have connectivity because it will be so cheap to implement
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and so easy to implement that even good products will will just have it. So
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something as simple as, you know, your power adapter for your notebook could be
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connected. There's no reason why it couldn't be. And that could feed into
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your house and tell your house how much power it's consuming. And the house
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could, you know, automatically you balance power. Who who knows? Like the
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idea is just that once everything's connected, we're going to unlock a lot
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of possibilities that we didn't have before. Things like door knobs, things
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like your your car door. So just being able to carry your smartphone in your pocket and have everything in your life
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be connected. So, um, obviously we're
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not there yet. No, I mean, you look you just, you can look
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at something like the Moto 360 as a great example of how
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Yeah, this type of technology is not cheap or
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power efficient enough yet for ubiquity.
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Mind you, part of that problem is because they used like a I think it was a processor
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from 2010. And you have to assume that they that they
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did that for cost reasons. There's there's a lot of um there's actually a
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lot of different reviews out there talking about how there there doesn't really seem to be much of a sensible
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reason because there's actually cheaper chips that would have been better.
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Yeah. I don't know. Maybe they got like a massive bulk order for of it for some
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like ridiculously cheap price or something. I don't know. Even that
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doesn't really make any sense cuz I mean the the release cadence for mobile
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products tends to be about a year and so
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I wouldn't expect Motorola to be refreshing the Moto 360 for probably
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about a year. So it's not like you order a year's worth of CPUs ever. That
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doesn't make any sense. I just it's it seems so silly. Like I
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just I don't understand why they did that. And I was so excited to get it 360
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and I'm so happy that I've taken to never pre-ordering things.
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Yeah. Yeah. Because holy crap, don't want one anymore.
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Um, so anyway, these uh these new chips that are powered by by harvesting radio
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signals are only supposed to cost a few cents to produce. So that could make it
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possible to integrate them in these types of commodity items, things like
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things like light bulbs, things that are just all over your house. and uh and and
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the kind of information they could pro provide could be pretty cool. I mean,
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not just being able to tell you, okay, how much power the light bulb is
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consuming, but allow you to turn it on and turn it off. Yeah, they can send and receive
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information. Yeah. So, you could be like kitchen light bulb on. Yep.
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Kind of. I mean, that kind of stuff exists right now, but the problem is that it's really
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expensive. The app ecosystems are not that consistent.
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Yeah. And it's it's just not quite it's not
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quite there yet. Moving on, we have Microsoft acquiring Mojang. So, the guys that make Minecraft
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for $2.5 billion.
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It was officially announced on September 15th. I'm going to spam this in Switch
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chat. Oh my goodness, that is a lot of
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money. So, I mean,
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and sorry, this is again posted on the forum by the same guy that posted the
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last thread. If I can jump over there. ETRJ. ETRJ. There we go. So, a lot of the
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community is is pretty is pretty upset
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about, you know, feeling like they they got abandoned by Notch.
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Um, at the same time, like,
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but I get it. Yeah, he has his reasons. He said that
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uh he decided he doesn't want the responsibility of owning a company of
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such global significance. And you know what? He's kind of got a
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point because you I think and it's not
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it's not a matter of selling out when you've already made the money. Notch
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doesn't have to work another day in his life, but he will.
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Yeah. Because he's he's passionate. He wants to do something else. But when you're
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when you're when you're running something of such significance that's of
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importance to so many people, you end up trapped.
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He became Minecraft. Yeah. instead of being himself, he was Minecraft at this
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point in time. And so, you know, yes, he sold the money for what he could get. I mean, I don't
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think that that's an unfair thing to do. And I don't I think it's unreasonable to
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expect someone to I don't know what give the company away like like how do you
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how do you get rid of a company without selling out? It's not even you're going
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to run into a ton of legal difficulty trying to give away an asset that's
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worth billions of dollars. Like that that is not okay. You legitimately can't
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do that. So, if he wants out, if he doesn't want to do Minecraft for the
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rest of his life, then
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you know what? I guess it's it might be better to do it now than to wait even
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longer and longer and longer. And I think I think that it's uh I I don't
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know. I I'm excited to see what he's going to do next. Yeah. Yeah. Me, too. because other
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things that I heard like this isn't necessarily in the doc and I haven't done enough research on this at all but
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I've just kind of heard through the rumor mill that a lot of it was um being
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frustrated too because he wants to work on all these other different things but
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the second he does everyone's like why aren't you working on Minecraft
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look how much money it's making you why are you working on Minecraft he's like I
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don't care I want to work on these things that are more entertaining
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when you when when you have that many millions of dollars like I I think some
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people feel like they need more millions of dollars Um,
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doesn't seem like one of those guys, but when you have that much money, a lot
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of people are just going to kind of go, "Yeah, you know what? I'm set for life. This is fine." And and you know, the
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funny thing the funny thing about it is even guys like I I saw I saw an
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interesting um I saw an interesting quote from Donald Trump uh not that long
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ago where he was talking about why why
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he wheels and deals, why he tries to make more money. He's like, "Yeah, I
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don't need money." Basically, I'm I'm driven and I and I I I I you know, I I I
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love to deal, you know, I love to I love
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to buy. I love to sell. I This is This is what I do. This is what gets me up in
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the morning. And I kind of went, "Yeah, you know, I I I kind of I guess I kind
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of get that." And you know, if Notch's passion is
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making great games and ultimately it's not about the money, then that doesn't
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mean he can't make a ton of money doing it. It just means that he's going to be
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driven to do that thing. And if we put him in this box where it's like you have
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to work on Minecraft because money, that's not going to make any sense. No.
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In his head. No. I don't know. Interesting situation.
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I mean, but I also I like I also get it because Minecraft was is so
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communitydriven. It's all about community and, you know, feeling like
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kind of fearless leader for a long time. Yeah. I mean, you've had this you've had
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this advocate. You've had this face to put on Minecraft where unfortunately,
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you know, he doesn't want his face on Minecraft anymore. The graphics ain't
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that good. Maybe he wants a better face.
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It's so boxy. I'm just kidding.
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All right, we've got some pretty good news here. So, OP is Querty Warrior
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released the DisplayPort 1.3 standard.
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So, the maximum link bandwidth has been increased to 32.4 4 GB per second. So,
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the reason we need higher link bandwidth, you guys, is not only higher
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resolution displays, but higher refresh rate displays. Currently, with display
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port 1.2, 4K is limited to 60 Hz. But there's no
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real reason why, particularly a TN panel
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couldn't run higher than 60 Hz. Why not?
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Why not? Why put Why put everyone in a box? No, no, no. We want faster display
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lengths so that we can start getting faster and faster refresh rates on these
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higher resolution displays. So extremely excited to see that it's about a 50%
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increase in maximum refresh rate or in maximum bandwidth versus DisplayPort
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1.2A. It should be noted though that that's not going to translate directly
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into 50% higher resolution or 50% higher
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for frame rate because you're going to have more overhead built into that. Um
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so there we go. Actually, that's the next point in the dock here. So, the combined link rate delivers 25.92 Gbit
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per second of uncompressed video data.
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So, that allows higher resolutions like the recently announced 5K 5120x
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2880 and that's through one cable without compression. Extremely exciting.
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I mean, you know what? As as as much as it's great that we're getting interfaces
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that are going to be able to handle these resolutions without compression, Windows can't.
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It is a m Yeah, Windows can't. And guys,
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compression's not necessarily the scariest thing in the world. A little
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bit of compression isn't going to kill us. And we are reaching the limits of
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what copperbased interfaces are going to be able to do. I mean, that's that's one
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of the reasons why HDMI and DisplayPort
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have been so slow to continue increasing
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the bandwidth because we're getting pretty close to what we're going to be
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able to do without much more expensive
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uh without much more expensive transmitters and receivers on either end
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and or more expensive link materials. So, we're either going to get to the
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point where we're legitimately going to need fancy cables
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again. remake that video. Yeah, I know, right?
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Damn it. Crap. Or we're just going to accept So, so the
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processor is going to get more complex and less expensive, and we're just going
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to accept that we're going to have to do some on-fly compression, on the-fly compression and decompression, and hope
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that that doesn't add to the latency.
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So, this is cool. You can drive two 4K Ultra HD monitors when using Vasa
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coordinated video timing. uh continues to support VGA, DVI, and HDMI via cheapo
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cheapo adapters. That's one of the things that I really like about Display
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Port is that compared to HDMI, even HDMI 2.0, which the new GTX 980 supports and
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can handle 4K at 60 Hz, DisplayPort adapts to other standards much more
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easily, which is huge, huge thumbs up.
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Although, I was pretty pleased to find out that HDMI 2.0 didn't end up
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requiring a connector change. Yeah. Yeah. That was rumored for a long
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time and it ended up not becoming a thing. Extremely pleased.
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I think we had a rant about that on the W show actually quite a while back. But
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yeah, I think we did. I mean, on the one hand, okay, but the flip side of that is I
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sure wish HDMI had a locking connector. Yes.
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So, I'm glad that we're retaining forwards and backwards compatibility for
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so long. I mean, that really is admirable. But they could have even done like a a
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sidemounted screw mount thing, though. There is
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it could have been the same. There is a company that does kind of this ghetto locking HDMI connector. I
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think they patented it though. Okay. And what it does is it is it clips into
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just part of the housing that's not meant to be a lock, but it kind of cheats and clips in
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there. Yeah. So, um, so there you go. Vasa
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releases Displayport 1.3. Awesome. Moving down, we have Comcast telling
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customers to Hold on, hold on. Display 1.3 enable support for future 8K displays. So,
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that's something that we should probably mention. And uh that's Oh, oh, this is cool. Also
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supports a single 4K monitor, 60 Hz, 24-bit color over two lanes while
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offering another two lanes for alternative data types like super speed
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USB data. Oh. So, so that's pretty cool. The DisplayPort is really coming into its own and
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is going to I I think is just going to be the dominant display.
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That's really interesting. I mean, look look at again back to GTX
25:30
980. How hard is NVIDIA banking on DisplayPort? Three DisplayPort
25:35
connectors on the back of the card. Pretty heavy duty, actually. Pretty heavy duty. I mean, G-Sync only
25:40
works over DisplayPort. This is an NVIDIA technology that they kind of went, "Okay, where's the industry
25:44
heading? We're going to bet on DisplayPort." And you know what? For that
25:47
matter, AMD has done the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. Uh earlier, I think.
25:50
Mhm. AMD was shipping cards with two DisplayPort connectors much earlier on
25:54
than NVIDIA was. So, yeah. I mean, when those two agree on
25:58
something, probably a good thing. Just putting that
26:02
out there. Yeah. So, Comcast has started telling customers to stop using uh tour
26:07
and they denied this. They've denied this to be clear. Uh did you post the
26:11
link in the chat? I have not yet, but I have it copy pasted. So, I got it. All right. So, this was posted in the
26:15
forum by and then there was one and there are a couple of of articles that
26:20
were used as references for this. So, so inquisitor.com and deep.web.com.
26:25
But there is there is a lot of information here and I'll let I'll let
26:30
you run through it. An agent named uh Jeremy I almost said
26:33
Jenny because I'm pretty tired, but an agent named Jeremy has allegedly called
26:37
tour to an illegal service and said that
26:40
uh tour is against their usage policies and apparently they've repeatedly asked
26:44
customers to tell the agent what sites the users were accessing through the
26:48
tour browser. One customer spoke to Jeremy then called back the next day and
26:52
spoke with an agent named Kelly. She reiterated that Comcast does not want
26:56
its customers using tour and she allegedly said that users who try to use
27:00
anonymity to cover themselves on the internet are usually doing things they
27:03
aren't so to speak that that aren't so to speak legal. Um we have the right to
27:08
terminate fine and or suspend your account at any time due to violating the
27:12
rules. You know to me fine should have to come
27:16
from some kind of legal entity.
27:20
I mean if you what what what's next? the grocery store is going to find me.
27:26
Like, are you kidding? Like, if they if if I uh actually I
27:30
guess a grocery store is a bad example because if I was walking around the grocery store putting things into my
27:34
coat so that people wouldn't know what I was buying, I I probably would get I I
27:38
probably would get fined. You wouldn't get fined, but you could get prosecuted.
27:42
I think they'd have to wait for you to leave the store with it, but they they
27:45
could have a plane close following you around. Totally different. That's legitimately
27:49
steal. Hold on. No, because what if I intended to pay for it? I just didn't want people
27:52
knowing what I was buying. But you left the store with it. No, no. Let's say I didn't leave the
27:56
store. Okay. Okay. So, let's say I Okay. So, hold on
28:00
a second. Okay. So, Okay. Maybe I wouldn't Okay. So, I wouldn't get fined. But let's let's
28:04
They could ask you about it. They could request you to leave the store
28:08
premises, but they can't arrest you. You haven't left the store yet.
28:11
What can they do? They can follow you around, but then that's their private
28:14
property, so that's allowed. Yeah. I I don't think there's an
28:18
equivalent to this. No. I love to hear from the Twitch chat, guys. Let us know.
28:21
Especially if there's like a loss prevention agent. This is great. Dion 7. Lol. Grocery
28:26
police. LOL. If there's a loss prevention agent
28:29
out there that actually knows the like shoving stuff. Yeah.
28:33
We We'd love to hear about that because I don't What's up like Okay, so what's the
28:37
equivalent? Like my mom does this. I know a lot of people that do this kind
28:40
of stuff where they're like go grab a drink from the fridge in a store and
28:44
just drink the whole thing before they're done leaving the store and then just buy it.
28:48
Yeah. I you know the funny thing about that is it's always made me really
28:52
uncomfortable. Even when I was a kid, I would I hate it.
28:55
I my no my aunt my aunt would often say
28:58
you know hey are you thirsty? You know here here get this and start drinking it
29:03
and I'd be like no I don't want to drink it till we leave. And she'd be like well
29:07
like what if my card doesn't work? We're shopping. We're not leaving. Such an awkward
29:11
I'm not even worried about that. Although I did have a really awkward
29:14
situation at Tim Hortons where I I forgot my wallet and my wife forgot her
29:19
wallet and we were in Vancouver and I
29:23
had already placed my order and I was like, "Oh crap, I forgot my wallet. Can
29:27
I run out to the car and grab my wife's?" So when I come back, she's got my order ready for me and I'm like, "Yo,
29:33
dog, I'm sorry. My wife doesn't have her wallet either. I have to go." I think I
29:38
made it up to them. I went and I borrowed some money from a relative who
29:42
lives in Vancouver. And then I went all the way back to that Tim Hortons even
29:45
though it was out of my way. I was like, I have cash now, you know, but I still
29:49
they probably had to throw at least some of it away. Sure they did. Like I feel terrible. Um anyway, sorry.
29:55
What were we talking about? Uh stealing stuff from stores, drinking
29:58
things before you leave, right? I just feel weird about it. I remember that.
30:02
I just Yeah, I I I don't do it. I know my I I
30:06
think my mom does a little bit. I know other people that I go shopping with have done it. And even with when I'm
30:10
with someone who's doing it, I feel super uncomfortable. I don't know why.
30:14
It's just I'm not really into that at all.
30:18
Um, they have to have you on video. Someone has to watch you put it in your pocket.
30:22
They can follow you and watch you, but you have not broken the law until you
30:26
attempt to leave the store without paying. Okay, so there you go. Perfectly
30:29
reasonable because you should be able to go around a shopping center without a basket or
30:34
shopping cart, right? I mean, they can ask you to leave
30:37
your bag at the front. Yeah. So, I usually And they can ask you to leave the store.
30:41
Yep. Yeah. It is their It is their right to do that. Yeah.
30:46
We have 5,000 live viewers right now who
30:50
are tuned into our stream, which is like super late, like two and a
30:53
half hours. Two hours late. Like janky janky quality.
30:59
Don't know anything about the topics in the middle. We have no we have no
31:02
lighting other than like the terrible fluorescent lighting in this boardroom.
31:06
And uh and you know what guys, thanks for showing up.
31:10
We love your support. We appreciate you guys. You guys are cool.
31:14
Speaking of things that aren't cool is Comcast has um has a past of being
31:19
against tour and is listed on tour's bad ISP project list thing.
31:23
All right. So, well, as if uh as if Comcast was not
31:28
listed on a good one. So, good ISP list. Come on. Anyways, I I
31:32
still had to point that out, but all right. Um, so this next topic is
31:36
from And Then There Was One as well. Original article is from Venturebe. So
31:41
the NSA is mapping the internet. I'm not sure if this is news, but uh
31:46
NSA stuff just like assume anything you could ever dream of that's
31:50
like bad and on the internet just be like, "Yeah, the NSA probably has
31:54
something to do with that." So the program is trying to create an interactive map of the global internet
31:58
in close to real time that would try to identify the devices through which data
32:03
flows such as routers. The program is supposed to help in computer attack and
32:07
exploit planning offering a battlefield map for cyber warfare. Targeted
32:12
companies that sounds good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So targeted companies
32:16
include Deutsch Telecom, the owner of T-Mobile and uh the German ISP Net
32:21
Cologne. So pretty cool. going to say,
32:25
"You guys are just staying cool." This is interesting because Germany was
32:29
already pissed off. Yeah, I know, right? About tapping into uh what's her name's
32:34
phone. So, be pretty interesting. This
32:38
next one, literally know nothing about it. Are we going to do this one or are
32:42
we going to jump over it? Yeah. No. Uh yeah, let's let's let's go
32:46
ahead. So, Apple's Warrant Canary disappears uh suggesting new Patriot Act
32:52
demands. So this was originally posted by LOLS on the forum.
32:56
We don't have an actual link though. Yeah, it's okay. Okay. The original
32:59
article is from Gigome. So if you want to just maybe post that link in the in
33:02
the chat. So Apple's first transparency report on government activity in late
33:07
2013 included a footnote that stated, "Apple has never received an order under
33:12
section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. We would expect to challenge such an order
33:17
if served on us." Um, so writer and cyber activist Corey Doctoro uh
33:22
recognized that language as a warrant canary or a way of thwarting the secrecy
33:27
imposed by the Patriot Act. Companies and publishers have included these
33:30
canaries to signal to their users that so far they have not been subjected to a
33:35
given type of secret subpoena by law enforcement. When this language is
33:39
removed, it is likely that the situation has changed and the company has been
33:43
subject to such a request, but of course is being told that they can't say
33:47
anything about it. So having that canary in place protects them and their users
33:52
um as long as people are paying attention. So section 215 of the Patriot
33:56
Act permits the NSA to demand companies to hand over their business records in
34:01
secret. It is believed that it is the legal foundation of the Prism program.
34:06
So yeah,
34:10
not good. Not good. Mind you, this uh this comes
34:14
uh this comes at around the same time as Apple's um recent change to the way they
34:19
handle user data, which is awesome. Which is pretty awesome that basically
34:23
in a nutshell means that if your phone is locked, even Apple cannot get to it.
34:30
Um, so that is is pretty much their way of throwing up their hands and going,
34:34
"Well, okay, you served us a warrant for
34:38
something we legitimately can't access. So, peace, bro."
34:42
I really like that. That's really cool. And I actually know a lot of people that
34:45
are pretty heavy Android users that might legitimately switch just because
34:49
of that reason. It's It's a reason to switch.
34:52
Kind of a big deal. I'd like to see how Google responds to this. Yeah. Because I, you know, the way that
34:57
the way that Google is about data farming, they want all your data.
35:00
They want all your data. They want it all the time. And they want it all the time. I got to
35:04
feel like if if Google were to decide that they were going to leave your data
35:08
alone when your phone is locked would be
35:11
that would be very out of character for them. So,
35:15
I don't know. It might put them in a bit of an awkward position.
35:19
All right. So, this was originally posted on the forum by Ion Basa, the
35:23
world's first fully functional 3D printed car. This was bound to happen.
35:28
Yeah, you got to bet that there were any
35:31
number of people working on making this happen. Oh my god, you can download a car.
35:35
So, it was designed, printed, and driven
35:38
by Arizona based Local Motors. Printing
35:42
and assembly took just 44 hours. Hey, Local Motors. These are the guys
35:46
that make that uh trike thing that I'm hoping to get.
35:50
All right, that for the for review. Don't worry about it. Probably won't even happen.
35:54
But yeah, after 44 hours hours, the car was
35:58
drivable. It's named the Strat Eye, so Italian for layers, electric powered.
36:02
It's a two seat compact roadster. It there has a battery, a motor, wiring,
36:07
and suspension. These all came from a variety of sources, including Renaol's
36:11
Tweezy City Care. I don't know. Yeah, I'm clearly tired
36:17
and I apologize for any words that I'm slurring or or pronouncing incorrectly
36:22
because I'm just not processors. Yeah, GTX processors. Um, chassis and
36:28
body are printed from a carbon fiber reinforced plastic compound. It has only
36:33
40 parts to it in comparison to a normal car with 20,000 or more parts. This is
36:38
actually this ties into a conversation we had earlier today where we were
36:43
talking about how electric cars right now are very expensive, but once they
36:47
become more of a commodity item and and
36:50
less of a less of a curiosity, less high tech, I expect them to actually be much
36:55
cheaper. Not even necessarily that, but once battery production goes up because that
36:59
Gigafactory that Telus uh Telus Oh no,
37:02
I know, right? Uh, you have sullied the good name of Tesla
37:06
by calling them Telus. I feel like a horrible person. Okay,
37:10
you are a horrible person. A factory that Tesla is intending to uh
37:14
build in Nevada will actually produce more of that type of battery than all of
37:19
the other factories in the entire world combined right now.
37:23
Yeah. Yeah. Which is like ridiculous. So with battery production going up to
37:28
that extent, I'm expecting and and based just based on how simple
37:32
Yeah. an electric car is compared to an
37:35
internal combustion car. I mean, I I think I think gas powered vehicles are
37:40
going to look stupid to my kids by the
37:43
time they're old enough to be adults buying a car. It's it's going to be this
37:47
it's going to be this weird, you know, eccentric thing to do to own a fossil
37:52
fuel powered vehicle. I really do think so. I think that we're still going to
37:56
continue to see fossil fuels augment battery power. So, having a small, you
38:01
know, lawn mower, like rider mower class, uh, internal combustion engine in
38:06
there to charge the battery in an emergency or whatever else. I think we're going to continue to see that, but
38:10
expecting cars to just run on gas, I I I
38:14
don't know. Industrial vehicles potentially still, especially being down here actually is
38:18
pretty amazing. While we were coming to NVIDIA headquarters, I saw on the road
38:23
at least uh 10 different electric cars and like
38:29
not just Teslas because this area is known for Teslas, a whole wide range of
38:33
them. So that was actually really interesting to see. Um the 3D printed
38:36
car will cost anywhere between 18 and $30,000 though. So
38:43
right now the materials alone are probably what's driving up the cost.
38:48
just plain
38:51
incredibly expensive. You buy enough of that stuff to build a car, you're going
38:55
to be spending a lot of money. Now, you talk about carbon fiber reinforced
38:58
filament. Yeah. Um
39:02
and also, it's it's going to be such low volume at the beginning that you're not
39:06
going to be able to take advantage of. Local Motors is kind of a specialty kind
39:10
of shop, so it's not surprising at all. If they were producing a thousand times
39:14
as many of them, I think we would see prices drop pretty considerably.
39:17
And I'm sure if you work with them, it's going to be a very personalized experience as well.
39:21
This is kind of cool, too. Uh the cost might seem high at first, but many of
39:25
the parts can be reused when you decide to tra change cars or upgrade. So, uh
39:30
good point. Yeah, I'm guessing things like the motor could potentially be reused if you
39:34
decide to, you know, uh oh, okay, I want a single seater type vehicle. I don't
39:39
see any reason why you couldn't put it inside a different 3D printed vehicle.
39:42
Yeah. Or a very different angle. Whereas like if your battery is running kind of
39:46
crap, you can swap the battery out, keep using the chassis and the motor and all
39:49
that stuff. Or if the motor dies for some reason, you can keep using the battery and the chassis.
39:53
Mhm. And that's another thing to to that's that's really cool about the
39:58
simplicity of an electric vehicle is I think the scariness of of car mechanic
40:03
work is is going to go away to a great extent. I mean, Tesla showed off what?
40:07
They swap a battery in 90 seconds. 90 seconds. Like, and that's that like huge battery on the
40:12
bottom. Yeah. So, if they can do it in 90 seconds, I'm sure I can do it in an
40:15
hour. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Yeah. I think I can probably handle this.
40:19
I think you'd have to uh I think you could do it if you had a torque driver.
40:24
That's it. I think that's the only thing you really need. Wow. Because you have to be able to torque in
40:28
the screws to a very specific amount. And then I think
40:31
Yeah. But you can you can you can buy one of those for what, like 40 bucks at
40:35
Canadian Tire? Maybe it's not even that bad. I think that's all you actually need. You need to be able to jack up the
40:39
car and then a torque driver. I think that's all you need. Wow, that's outstanding.
40:43
Obviously not entirely sure, but as I don't think anyone has tried doing it
40:47
themselves, but anyways, as far as I know, that's all
40:52
you'll need. All right, so this was originally posted by Tech Fanatic on the forum. And uh
40:58
this this this is actually pretty funny. I haven't found out if this ever
41:02
happened. Yeah, cuz we weren't at a public event. Yeah, we weren't at the public event
41:06
down in uh down in LA, but um there was
41:10
an email sent out by AMD to their team red members ready to infiltrate game 24.
41:17
Um mentions the warm reception from enthusiasts about their recent AMD30
41:21
live webcast. Um mentioned that we're intrigued that another graphics product
41:26
company uh jumped on the bandwagon by announcing a similar event. They warmly
41:31
encouraged their fans to attend the event, proudly wearing their favorite
41:34
red t-shirt and uh encouraged their viewers to tweet pictures of themselves
41:39
wearing their colors at the events and
41:42
promised to send some love the way of their users. Um I haven't I haven't
41:48
actually been tuned into the internet enough to know if anything happened. So
41:52
honestly, anytime I was I was dual streaming our own stream to talk to the
41:56
chat. So, I haven't really seen the actual Game 24 stream in its entirety.
42:00
I know. I haven't even seen the intro videos for the modders whose builds we
42:06
were covering the creation of for the last 24 hours. So, um you know what
42:10
we've got to do? Uh before we end the show here, guys, we're going to do our
42:14
sponsors next, I think. Then we've got a few more topics. But before we end the
42:17
show, we're going to we're going to pick up the camera off the tripod because uh
42:20
I think we have the flexibility to do that here. There should be no reason we
42:24
can't move it. And we're gonna we're gonna come and we're gonna take a close look at these rigs because they are
42:28
absolutely beautiful. You guys are gonna you guys
42:32
are gonna love them. I am amazed at what these teams did in 24 hours.
42:35
How much uh battery life are we running at right now? Uh we are sitting at around 45 minutes.
42:40
Okay, cool. Yeah, we're we're we're cool. We're we're running we're running good. Just want to make sure.
42:44
Yeah, I don't have uh I don't have another I don't have an AC adapter for
42:47
the camera, so we we can we're very limited by battery life right
42:51
now. Yeah. Yeah. So, sponsor spots, you said.
42:55
Yeah. Yeah. Let's go ahead and uh do do you want to do you want to change over
42:58
to our to our sponsor spots? Actually, I've got a I've got a site for you to
43:02
head to. I want to do Squarespace first. So, guys, Squarespace
43:35
Hope we're back. Yeah. All right. Woo. We are back thankfully.
43:40
Are we still streaming? We're still streaming. Okay.
43:44
Oh, Squarespace. It's the fast, easy way to create your own beautiful website
43:49
that works. Where are we going? Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no. I've got a I've
43:53
got a URL for you. You're freaking stressing me out here, man. Um, it's,
43:59
uh, forever.com.
44:02
F R A C H E. That spelling of fresh. So,
44:07
uh, Squarespace, guys, do we do I have the lower third up? You do. So squarespace.comlininus
44:13
is where to go if you want to give us credit for, you know, referring you to
44:17
Squarespace. Basically, if you've ever wanted to make your own website, Squarespace is a fantastic way to do it.
44:23
They've got great tools, including their logo creator, their website creator.
44:27
They make it easy to use. They also give you the ability to dig a little bit
44:31
deeper if you are more experienced or if you want to get something off the ground
44:35
now and then learn as you go and continue to develop your mobile site,
44:39
whether it's a blog or a store or just
44:43
uh a portfolio or really anything just anformational website that you want to
44:48
run. And what's really cool about Squarespace is uh what are we are we
44:53
still are we still working? That looks frozen. Yes, it's frozen because I'm screen
44:56
regioning. Whenever you're ready. Oh, you're screen regioning. Oh, cool. Okay, that's good. So, uh, one really
45:01
cool thing about what Squarespace does for the Linus Tech Tips WAN Show podcast
45:06
is every single month they sponsor us
45:09
without fail. They sponsor two episodes a month. They give us a lot of support.
45:13
So, guys, if you're if you know anyone who's looking for a website, they want
45:17
to make their own website, refer them to Squarespace. You won't regret it. They
45:20
won't regret it. So, there's all that good stuff. And what's even cooler than
45:24
that is if you decide to give Squarespace a try, they have a two-eek
45:27
trial. No commitment required. Twoe trial. You create your own website. If
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you decide to do that, create your own website and tweet it to me with line of
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Squarespace. We give away an entire year
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of Squarespace hosted website for uh
45:43
once every single month. So, Forever
45:47
Fresh Fresh is our winner for this
45:51
month. So, let's go ahead and get that up on the screen. If Luke could go ahead
45:55
and uh I think we're having some trouble because the resolution of the desktop
45:58
was so crazy high. Oh, that makes sense.
46:02
Freaked out. We are streaming on a 3K notebook right
46:05
now. It's an Aoris X3.
46:08
So, um, yeah, we're not really sure how to
46:13
handle the screen region capturing right now at this moment. So, can you just
46:18
make the browser small and make a smaller screen? It I tried that. It doesn't seem to want
46:24
it. Um, this is what happens when we change all
46:27
the streaming gear. So, the point is, guys, go Squarespace, thank you forever
46:33
for uh for tweeting that to me with Linus Squarespace. you are the big
46:37
winner for this month. Cool thing and other cool thing about Squarespace is they have highly dynamic hosting plans.
46:43
They take care of all the hosting for you and as your business or your blog continues to grow. It can scale with you
46:48
and grow with you. You never have to worry about things not working and
46:52
people having a bad experience when they come to your website. So, uh are you
46:57
just doing a snipping tool of it? All right. Well, I'm going to move on to our
47:00
next sponsor spot in the meantime. Unless you're unless you're ready to
47:03
just kind of kind of go for gold here.
47:07
There we go. Phantom Glass is another sponsor that we actually we love these
47:11
guys. Oh yeah. These guys are one of those companies
47:14
where most of the time when someone reaches out to me out of the blue and
47:17
they go, "Hey, we have this like mobile accessory. It's like a screen protector
47:22
and we want you to review it." Did Did the lights just turn off? Oh, do you
47:26
want It's motion sensitive. Oh yeah. Uh
47:29
awesome. So we have this screen protector that we want you guys to review. I kind of look
47:33
at it and I go, "Oh, are you guys kidding? We we're not going to we're not
47:36
going to do an entire review video of a screen protector because one, it's a
47:41
screen protector and two, they're mostly garbage. But these guys reached out and
47:45
I kind of went, "Okay, you're Canadian, so
47:50
I'll give my Canadian bros a chance here. I'm going to I'm going to at least
47:54
read the email." And then I kind of made my way through the email. I went,
47:57
"That's actually smart." Because the whole idea behind Phantom Glass is that
48:03
you're using the same Gorilla Glass 3
48:06
glass that's already on your phone as a protective layer over top of your phone.
48:11
And so I kind of went, "Okay, send it to me and I may or may not review it. It's
48:15
going to depend on how much I like it." So they sent it to me and their claim
48:20
was that their nano coating, whatever nonsense that they call it, would allow
48:25
the screen to be applied bubble-free
48:28
every time. and allow it to be taken off and reapplied should the need arise. And
48:33
I kind of went BS. Okay.
48:36
Okay. Sure. And so the first time I was applying it
48:39
when I was doing my review video, I was like super careful and like, you know,
48:43
making my way down the screen, pressing across it, and I was like, "Okay, I got
48:46
this on. I got this on. Perfect. Cool." And then for the second one, they
48:49
actually sent me two of them. I just put it on. All the bubbles made their way
48:53
out. It actually made for a pretty compelling video. and uh Phantom Glass
48:57
reached out to us because of our review and you know how how well we were able
49:03
to we were able to capture on video how well the product worked and they were like hey we want to sponsor you guys we
49:07
want to work with you guys. So sometimes
49:10
these these random things start up like that. Anyway, the point is Phantom Glass
49:14
is a great product and all of a sudden we've went we've gone from they sent us
49:19
a random email and I kind of turned my nose up at them to now we consider them
49:23
a partner. We think it's a great product. Absolutely great product and
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highly recommended. So visit store.fantom.glass
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to learn more. We got to we got to jump back to the
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Squarespace one. I want to give Forever Fras.
49:37
Yeah, we want to we want to give this website some props. I mean, the thing about Squarespace is that it's pretty
49:41
easy to make your site look great, but it still is a matter of, you know,
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picking a good template and, you know, picking photos that look really nice.
49:49
You know, I wish we could navigate on it because some of the people who submit
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these uh these these trial sites to us, they don't really put much work into it.
49:56
And this one actually you can navigate a fair bit. Sorry, man. So guys on the stream, you know, please
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do please do check out the site and if you like it, then then maybe give
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Squarespace a try. All I could really do was get that. So
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yeah, I know, man. There we go. Okay. All right. SanDisk.
50:12
This is this is crazy. SanDisk announced
50:16
the world's biggest SD card at 512
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gigabytes. Literally half the size of the largest
50:26
consumer grade full-size SSDs. And we're talking an SD card. It can write at
50:31
speeds of up to 90 megabytes per second and should be able to hold about 4 hours
50:36
of 4K footage or 24 hours of 1080p
50:40
footage depending on settings. This is according to geek.com. has an MSRP of
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$800. Actually, not that unreasonable.
50:49
I know, but it's for an SD card. How many we have that die?
50:53
Okay. Okay. You know what though? Funny that you should mention that. We've
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never had a SanDisk die. It's true. We've never had a SanDisk die. Uh we've
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never had an A data die. So, you know, if I was and it's it's it's so funny
51:07
because SD cards are one of those very simple devices where brand loyalty, much
51:12
like hard drives, gets built just based on someone's personal experience. And
51:16
based on that, pretty extensive experience. We we do have a fair bit of experience.
51:20
Obviously, the overall pool is still very small. Still very small and not statistically
51:24
significant. Oh, but that doesn't change the fact that when you when you go through enough a
51:28
data or SanDisk SD cards and none of them die, you kind of go, "Okay, well,
51:33
maybe we'll use some more then." And it's working out. Yeah, it's doing
51:37
really well, actually. Ah, the Logitech G910.
51:41
I keep on getting me message messages about this and I have no idea what's
51:45
going on. This was posted by X-Tank Slayer and basically Logitech is working
51:51
on or well has announced um an RGP
51:55
mechanical gaming keyboard based on RORG
51:58
mechanical switches. So it is it is
52:02
funny to see the way the industry went
52:05
from consolidating to everyone just shipping clones of Cherry MX Switch
52:10
keyboards to everyone trying to differentiate again all of a sudden. So
52:14
Razer's going to their uh their Razer branded switches that are being
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manufactured in China. Um Corsair is
52:23
still is still playing the uh the Cherry
52:26
MX trumpet pretty hardcore. In fact, they've started putting Cherry branding
52:31
right on their packaging. That partnership is alive and well. Logitech,
52:36
who to my knowledge has only done one mechanical gaming keyboard,
52:39
the G710 Plus. The G710 Plus has gone and released what
52:43
looks to be positioned as a higherend product with ROR G switches. Now,
52:48
so do you know where those are coming from? No, I know nothing.
52:53
I know absolutely nothing about ROR G switches. Obviously, I haven't been able to really spend a lot of time trying to
52:57
figure it out. Um because the most amount of information I've seen about
53:01
this is in this doc right now. Yeah. I've uh I've been a little busy
53:05
with my K70RGB, which has a 130 plus
53:08
page user manual, by the way. This this is like the not for noobs keyboard as
53:14
far as I can tell so far. Although I made my way through about the first 40
53:17
pages on the flight here, and most of it is pretty self-explanatory. So,
53:21
well, there's that once once you get to it, there's that like full light control panel thing
53:25
that's going to be complicated. Badass. Yeah. And that'll probably be complicated. So, uh, Logitech's going to
53:31
have their ARCs control SDK that's going to allow you to control your peripherals
53:34
from your phone screen, DPI, etc.
53:39
Uh, okay. And show system information. Going to have media controls for tablets
53:44
or smartphones. Uh, Logitech is sending us a G910.
53:47
Okay. So, I've already been in touch and we are we are going to definitely try it
53:51
out. And, uh, really interested to learn more about
53:54
the switches. See, I mean, they they're rating them for more clicks, which for
53:59
me, you know, going, "Okay, well, ours is 70 million keystrokes versus your 50
54:03
million keystrokes." It's all kind of especially when
54:07
mechanical switches, it's like, yeah, these
54:10
don't really break. Yeah. I mean, I think Cher's rating of
54:14
50 million is probably pretty conservative. Conservative. Yeah.
54:18
Yeah. I don't know. This sounds really cool. I
54:23
think you just skipped over it with your cursor, but bleep Bit Torrent,
54:27
I'm on that. Originally posted by Ray Fee on the forum, original articles from
54:30
theverge.com and Bit Torrent is determined to get rid of the stigma and
54:36
that's good because they don't deserve it. No. So, so tell us about tell us about
54:40
Bleep. I honestly know nothing about it. This
54:43
is the first time I've seen anything about it, but the second I read any
54:47
information about it. So, it's it's it's it's basically a chat client where it's
54:52
practically impossible quote unquote to gather metadata on who's talking. And it
54:56
will be available for Windows 7, 8, Mac, Android, iOS clients, basically
55:01
everything. The second I read that, which is basically all I really needed
55:05
to know, it's also in uh public alpha, by the way. I I'm pretty stoked. And I
55:10
might move a lot of things to this platform if it actually works really
55:13
well because not a fan of Skype.
55:17
Yeah, hate it. But it's the only thing that I could seem to be able to get
55:22
everyone on at the same time. And everyone has the same complaints about
55:26
it, which this might be able to solve, right? Which would be great. So, I hope they
55:30
have stuff like group chats, which would be very important for stuff that I do.
55:34
Um, and I I don't know. It would be really easy, really interesting to see
55:38
maybe if they have um voice chat as well. I know pretty much.
55:42
Let's keep an eye on it. I mean, we've seen how quickly Bit Torrent Sync is moving.
55:45
Oh my goodness. Holy cow. Bit Torrent Sync is changing really
55:48
fast. So, that's their that's their kind of I I don't want to call it a Dropbox
55:52
competitor cuz it's not, but it has some similar functionality to
55:57
cloud-based storage solutions like Dropbox except you control your own
56:00
cloud. And that's what that's what Bit Torrent is all about. Maintaining your
56:04
anonymity and your privacy and controlling your own data. And you got
56:08
to respect that as a as a company mission statement. Apparently from Comcast, you are illegal
56:13
and should get off their service. Damn. Well,
56:17
but speaking of illegal, uh, the Pirate Bay founder told he can expect to carry his
56:21
father's coffin while wearing handcuffs. This is this is pretty gross. Um there's
56:26
only 50 days left on his sentence and his brother Mattz has spoken out for uh
56:31
for apparently the first time the original article is from torrentfreak.com has spoken out for the
56:35
first time in his brother's favor saying you know I've deliberately said very
56:38
little partly because he can speak for himself. Um, but I feel like the the
56:46
justice system has forgotten about its job to support prisoners to ensure that
56:50
they don't return to prison. And even though uh their father has been
56:55
seriously ill for some time and was admitted to the hospital in the summer,
56:58
Peter has only been able to visit his father once and has been told he's
57:02
allowed to attend his father's funeral, but two guards will accompany him and he
57:05
will have to wear handcuffs. And um his
57:08
his brother basically is speaking out against this. Sorry, give us one moment.
57:12
Is speaking out against us, saying, "Well, the problem with this is that it
57:15
punishes not only him, but also me and my mother and my dead father and and our
57:19
family." Everyone that's going to be at the funeral and everyone who's going to be at the funeral. It doesn't feel fair.
57:24
The optics on that are going to be horrible. Yep.
57:27
Google sees his Nexus 5 production. This was posted by Top War Gamer on the
57:31
forum. Original article is from Slash Gear. This came from Canadian wireless
57:34
carrier Wind Mobile's customer support via Twitter. A customer asked why they
57:39
don't list the Nexus 5 on their device page and win said, "Well, because it's
57:42
no longer being made and we don't have any stock." Um, Samsung to build its own mobile GPU.
57:49
Uh, this is posted on fudzilla.com. I wonder if that'll be more more uh
57:53
suing from NVIDIA. Interesting. Samsung has managed to hire
57:56
ex NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel employees. Nothing has been announced yet. The
58:00
development has apparently been going on for at least two years.
58:05
All right, I think we're pretty much gonna have to call that in. One quick thing before we go, actually,
58:10
because I know quite a few of my friends are really excited about this, is that Twitch announces its Google Chcast.
58:15
Yes. Posted by Rafa on the forum, uh, the original sources blog. Twitch.tv.
58:20
This is exciting. Yeah. So, there's there's honestly not a
58:23
ton else to say, but it's sweet. Yeah. So, now you can you can you can
58:27
watch the WAN Show on your TV with your chcast. Yeah. Hey,
58:31
next week because this one's basically over. Um, so I do want to I do want to
58:35
pick up the camera there. I think uh I
58:38
think we're being kicked out because it's time for everyone to go to dinner and I'm pretty sure everyone's just kind
58:42
of somehow manipulate the tired in general. Uh yeah, sure. So, um you know what? Oh,
58:50
I don't have I don't have my lav mic, unfortunately. So, you know what? Here's
58:54
what I'm going to do. I'm just gonna Oh, I don't know if I can pop You know what?
58:58
I'm just going to carry this.
59:10
Okay. So,
59:16
this is the ghettoest ghettoest setup ever. But I'm going to I'm going to hold
59:20
this like this. And uh we want to show you guys we want to show you guys these
59:25
modded out rigs. I think the most Be careful not to press that middle button.
59:29
Yeah. All right. I think I'm still wrapped up somewhere.
59:32
Uh, what is this cable? I got no idea, man.
59:36
XLR. That's important. Uh oh, the XLR cable. Well, you don't
59:40
need to get that far, right? If you here if you put the laptop on the table, I
59:45
think you should be you should be long enough to uh to reach the rigs here.
59:49
So, uh,