The WAN Show - The PC is Dead. Long Live the iPad Pro! - Nov 13, 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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okay so I know it's been a while since
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we've said this because quite frankly
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most of the time lately there just really hasn't been any excuse for our
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lateness I think it's these lights that's why we're
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pale okay not not what I was talking about at all but I you know I like your
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effort it's why you're still here he drives real hard folks
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real hard Brandon get other lights that don't make me look so dead hey Plus for
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effort um so I know I haven't said this in a while but really today we were like
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this close not to being on time but to being like pretty close to we were like
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5 minutes off or something like it was actually okay we were about s minutes
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late and basically I was dropping the sponsor spots into
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place and this is really weird like this
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is this is kind of cool because I got a
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firsthand look into the inner workings of the mind of Windows 10 um where xplit
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the like the program window was here
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here you know what I'll just uh oh I don't think I have a scene where I can
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screen share with you guys I will create one very quickly that's going to get
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okay so I could you got picture picture that's going to lag out super hard uh
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that's a pretty good computer should be okay all right
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task manage that that sh 177% CPU
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y'all yeah that's right 47 wow we put a
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4770k in this and that was all on Paul and Kyle's behalf if I recall correctly
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cuz we we were we were CRA we the stream was dropping frames because we had two
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guests or something along those lines I think anyway so the point is I could see
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my xsplit window it was kind of here I'm reenacting this for you guys and I could
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see us moving around and things moving in the frame and I could actually right
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click on the desktop but and I can number lock was
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working but it was the most bizarre thing because I couldn't click anything
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start menu wasn't coming up and even pressing the front button was not
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resetting the computer but number lock was working I was like this computer's
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responding so I was like okay well hard
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shut down going to bork my Windows again went
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just boot it up and the motherboard's all like oh you're CSM boot settings
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it's stable you need to change these things to whatever if you want to do
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anything go to the secure boot settings I'm like oh not this again so I go and I
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go I set it to a bunch of things and then I set it to full auto and I reboot
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it again and I kind of go now just hold on a minute here my voice isn't quite
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back yet folks and I go into the actual boot
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devices and there's nothing in there no drive no Drive
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what do you mean no Drive where's my drive why not say there's no boot device
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found right that's what my laptop was doing I'm using a John's laptop actually
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my the SS the MS m SATA drive in my
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laptop died so I've swapped that anyways no big deal but it was just like oh new
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no boot device that's fine where was that eror assus so so anyway so mean it
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takes me like 12 minutes or whatever to diagnose this so I'm I go I go down I
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look at the computer it's plugged in so I kind of go well that's what happened
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my SSD died while I was operating the
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computer I don't ask for much from this
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computer two hours a week it doesn't even go into sleep it it shuts down
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everything but two hours a week and honestly it's only really supposed to be
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like an hour and a half a week and it's on a UPS so like it gets the best power
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in the building I ask for so little and
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it's just no no whatever lonus big old big old F you lonus because I hate you
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and you know what I hate you too computer anyway new SATA cable boots up
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we're ready to go but we're late and on
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top of that I just wasted another five minutes explaining why we're late we
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haven't even inted topics yet making us even later unless you've watched it on
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YouTube you don't know what we're going to talk about I want a refund can you get that for this show on
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time oh wow I want a refund what does that even mean
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I don't know I don't know but what I do
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know is that PornHub released some stats
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from their site showing that their traffic compared to typical averages
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lowered immediately after the Fallout 4 launch telling us something that I'm
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pretty sure we all know uh Tim Cook declares the end of the PC ushers in the
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age of the iPad Pro also Broadwell e specifications have
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leaked and Pokemon on gen one is coming to 3DS
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3DS intro tag
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yeah oh my God the intro worked the intro always works these days man wasn't
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it like two weeks ago that it didn't work this is so funny people are like
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15% of the traffic was Luke hey I mean
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that's
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fair sponsor
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squash oh man I got to do something about that voice okay see this is the
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trick this is the trick yeah if I make it blank now then it'll work next time I
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just always forget we should have a script that just does that you know what
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we should have is we should have like a checklist for the end of the show
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because I swear it has been a month since I've remembered to pull down the
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hey we're live tweet and Facebook post and then inevitably inevitably people
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are like hey how come you took down the
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archive okay for one the video is called
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we're live it's not called The W show
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okay the W show has been running for like two
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years the wano has never been called
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we're live not once and number two I
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understand your confusion and it's completely my bad this is my way of
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apologizing he likes to Apologize by making you feel like it's your fault but
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then also admitting guilt in some way
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yes it's that way works best for everyone so let's get into
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it you know I'm at that stage where I'm like feeling pretty much better but
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there's like a gigantic lugie somewhere between like my nose and my throat like
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kind of in here somewhere and like it's annoying you can't really do anything
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about it I think I just swallowed it oh that's
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better or worse in other news about swallowing PornHub
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oh you know that doesn't happen
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much it could it could but it does there's probably like a whole category
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for that probably actually actually oh probably I'm probably just missing the
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right keyword um all right so this was posted
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originally on the Forum by uh Sam fiser
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and the original Source here is from Venture beat let's go ahead Sam fer wow
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screen share with you guys so pornh hub's traffic dipped significantly the
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day that Fallout 4 came out confirming
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once and for all that
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Gamers um who are on the internet
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sometimes on their computers might occasionally partake in the uh in the uh
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Hub of porn website I think that's what it's called right hub of porn I wouldn't
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know much about it myself great yeah yeah okay h porn website so so in the in
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the time after the Fallout here I'm I'm going to go back to this graph so in the time after the Fallout release uh
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basically this is a traffic change among Gamers specifically so the actual dip is
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probably less significant because PornHub has actually used Google data in
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order to um segment their their overall
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traffic into just the traffic that's also interested in gaming well that
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makes sense then which makes sense almost
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too groomed I I wish it was overall
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traffic nothing can be too groomed oh wow yes okay I wish it was overall
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traffic not just gaming fans that would be a way more interesting statistic I
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didn't realize that and that makes this way more boring yeah so so anyway so in
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so the the traffic change after the Fallout for release you can see it was
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down as much as 10% however after looks like I don't
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know what three four five 15 or so hours
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of continuous gaming it was time for PornHub and then time to go to bed well
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that looks like on the first night they
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gamed a bit and then had a little no no
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that's 4:00 a.m. then 400 p.m. so that's a 24hour period you're looking at it's a
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little more a little more it's the 30 hour or so period so the first night it
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comes out they play a little bit then they're like ah I got to go work in the morning have some fun time go to sleep
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work work work work work do whatever do whatever do do whatever play again the
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next day and then now everyone's had a little bit more Fallout time so they're
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more inclined to spend a little bit of time before going to bed doing other
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things and then everyone's like okay whoop and then go back to bed okay so
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this is probably going to be the worst straw pull we've ever
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done that's saying a lot
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um so does a hot
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new game release you should just go full
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bore and make it faap on night one versus fap on night two versus fap on
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night not going to do that that's just no does a hot new game
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release affect your all right
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schedule so we're going to go with uh yes
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no and really those are the only options because there's there there's not
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there's not really a whole lot to it beyond that so I'm going to go ahead and
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drop that in the twitch chat love to hear from you guys about this one I'm
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going to go ahead and vote okay oh wow the results are pouring
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in bouncing back and forth they are wow this is the people are the the two the
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two wow everything everything is jockeying for position this this is the
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tightest pole that we have ever run some
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might say warmest warmest no one would say that but possibly not most inviting
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best groomed perhaps so we've got the majority of you
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it looks like it's settling in a little bit we've got the majority of you saying
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no a hot new game release is not enough to get you off of your schedule with a
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third of you saying yes indeed it would
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and 28% of you voting for turnup the way you know you should yep all right let's
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go ahead and move on to our next topic here I can't believe anyone even
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sponsors this show it's uh sort of
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horrible I mean it's great but in just sort of a horrible way or it's horrible
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in a great way yeah I love this show all right so posted by Z mule on the Forum
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the original article here is from the telegraph you're posting links today
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right awesome okay we got this Tim
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C declares the end of the PC and hints
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at new medical product okay so uh I don't know but wow
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that's great this article on Telegraph has 1,600 comments it's amazing how
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cyclical this whole argument ends up
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being um so anyway I I'll give you guys some context for this this so here
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here's the here's the quote if you're looking at a PC this is Tim Cook why
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would you buy a PC anymore no really why
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would you buy one and then he continues um yes the
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iPad Pro is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop for many many people they
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will start using it and conclude they no longer need to use anything else oh
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right we make phones other than their phones I added that that bit about oh we
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make phones I guess we need to sell those too um the really weird thing here
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is Apple also makes PCS pretty decent ones last time I
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checked and also last time I checked their PC market share was Rising not
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lowering um I Rising falling not lowering I can't find the graph but
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someone made a info graph based on the
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people claiming that the PC was dead over time and I forgot I should have had
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that in here for this segment but it's amazing CU it's been going on since like
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a really long time ago like in like the
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crazy the PC spaces exploding era people
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have been saying it since then so why don't we take turns answering uh Mr
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Cook's question here um if you're
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looking at a PC why would you buy a PC
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anymore no really why would you buy one one answer one answer at a time one
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answer at a time am I first yeah you know the first one's too easy well I
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think there's a lot that are too easy actually so go ahead gaming okay gaming
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you can game on an iPad Pro no it's the it's the job okay yeah
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no no I am going to we have to take turns I want to play games that can't be
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played on iPad Pro uh well then you should probably Lobby that developer to
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develop for the iPad Pro the iPad Pro is extremely powerful because the game it's
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not powerful enough though it's not powerful enough okay all right so you
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want a machine that can game and is powerful all right I got argument number
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two maybe just
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maybe I want a peripheral that is not
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Bluetooth well you should probably and does not require an external like dongle
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you should probably learn to use modern peripherals you're just behind the times
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this is going to get confusing for viewers my modern peripherals are just
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fine sir that is a stupid argument and mine is a good one you're next um I I
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need to uh have interesting input
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devices that I can't have on an iPad Pro that's basically mine rephrase try again
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no no no because of like capture cards and whatnot if I'm rendering video I
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said I wanted peripheral devices that are not Bluetooth were you not talking
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about keyboard or Mouse no it just peripherals I could be a printer I it
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could be a printer okay printers a peripheral okay
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um I don't know enough about the iPad Pro to be completely Fair basically it's
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a big IAD and it's
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faster what could you need to do with a p see that you can't do with an iPad all
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I really do with it is play games right oh well okay well fine I'll come up with
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other things how about an external display okay what if I want to
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peripheral actually multitask okay arguably that is a peripheral so I'm
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repeating my own argument you said peripheral which took away to out of the
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argument damn maybe he's right maybe he's right what if I want to upgrade it
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what if I want to upgrade it but that was part of the not fast enough thing oh
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oh crap cuz we said it's not fast enough okay and we said we want to be able to
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plug more things in no we will come up with something and then games Falls in
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under the same category as Windows only applic I need access to my file system
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you can't do that on iPad Pro no it's just iOS I don't use them I don't know
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it's just a big iPad that's pathetic they have changed nothing it doesn't
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even have Force touch I need massively expandable storage okay uh the cloud local no no
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the cloud the cloud is the answer to everything I need it to be privately secure in fact the cloud is the answer
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to your game G too cloud gaming cloud storage
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done I don't I don't accept that um I
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need to be able to play my games offline I need local secure I mean I think we've
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made our point I I mean to to I knew
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more about what people actually use iPads for i' I'd probably be able to
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have more arguments I think honestly that's a more interesting discussion at
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this point not what you can't do on an iPad because that's kind of an endless
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topic but what can you do on an iPad I don't use them I literally don't know
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you can shop on Amazon you can check your email it's all the usual things I
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mean the main difference here okay and we can use this we can use this to
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springboard into you know what the iPad
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Pro is as much as anything else because
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and our my favorite iPad Pro review so far uh is this one over on over on RS
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Technica where I think the the the headline pretty much says it Mac like
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speed with all the virtues and restrictions of iOS because
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it does bring some interesting new peripherals to the table there is
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finally an apple sanctioned official
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keyboard cover and the similarity to something like a Surface Pro type
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cover is definitely a thing um and they
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have the pencil which is a stylus but it
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is a apparently you just use an iPad for porn you can use a computer for porn
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yeah so so it's one of those things where uh and we'll talk more about
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steemo steo later but it's one of those things where I I don't especially with
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the way that it's priced which is kind of uh beating down the door of devices
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like a Surface Pro 4 and even Apple's
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own MacBook lineup um at the kind of price that it's at I just don't really
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understand why I'm taking a a half ass
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keyboard and no trackpad it does have the pencil so it
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does have a stylus but it lacks any
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Mouse e any mouse or trackpad input um I
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don't understand why I'm giving that up for the sake of I can detach the
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keyboard I guess and the screen is bigger I'm
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trying to watch people talk about what they actually use them for so far I got
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keep all my school books in one place which like so it's a eBook or a laptop
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okay one of the two yeah um porn yeah
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your phone yeah um well screen's pretty
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small and that's like it
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so I mean to me this is not so much a
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problem with the with with what Tim Cook is I think trying to say and that's that
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the iPad Pro is like everything that
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like uh where's that where's that other where's that other uh
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shoot where's that other quote I think this was you can technically Video Edit
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on an iPad Pro yeah so so it's a it's
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not like no no everything he said is just kind of wrong he said okay yes the
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iPad Pro is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop for many many people and if
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you use it within the right narrowed scope yeah so I think to say that for
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many many people and apple is or no okay
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I shouldn't say apple because I meant the fruit not the company but in the context of this discussion that could be
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very confusing to say for many many people a trackpad is a replacement for
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the mouse would be true
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because functionally you can kind of use
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them for the same stuff but I and this
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I've said this before uh in my MacBook 2015 retina
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review I've got stuff to do I need a mouse because it's faster and actually
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objectively better if you've like got stuff to do if I'm just hanging around
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watching YouTube videos on my computer I don't need a mouse because I'm not in a
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hurry I've got all the time in the world and I think that's kind of what's being
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said here yes the iPad Pro is a replacement for notebook or desktop for
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many many people if those people don't really have anything to do or they're
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like they need something to to sketch on
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but I I I like I don't oh I don't understand why they're using this
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instead of like a Windows-based wcom
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tablet which has already existed for a couple of years for people who legitimately want to use the fully
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featured Adobe Creative Suite on a portable device with a legitimately
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excellent pen and digitizer experience
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um with that said the overall feedback on Apple's pencil stylus seems to be
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pretty good so far from reviews but they're not out there in the wilderness
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and this is really crazy the iPad Pro is out but the stylus is delayed again so
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you actually would just be buying a big iPad with a keyboard and and I mean I
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mean this this is another thing going back to the keyboard like I don't really
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personally think that an extra couple inches on the screen no CH dramatically
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changes the iOS experience enough
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combined with a keyboard that this is a gamechanging device I mean I personally
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this is something I went usable I
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personally went through the experience of back in the iPad 2 days uh Logitech
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and they actually have a new peripheral for the iPad Pro but Logitech had a
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Bluetooth keyboard slard aluminum cover
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really nice accessory for the iPad 2o I
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personally bought hundreds of them when I worked at NC I like busted my butt I
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was like this thing is going to be a hot mover it takes everything that's great about the iPad and makes it so you can
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actually pipe on the damn thing that thing was a disaster it was so hard for
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me to get rid of them and so what so
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people have changed their minds that much already I don't think so
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um so lots of people talking about oh uh
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sure oh there's one extra word uh two
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extra things so okay go for it um so
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lots of people in the chat are bringing up the horrible horrible horrible
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horrible things that happened in Paris um yes wait oh are we done with the iPad
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thing are we completely changing okay we don't technically have to but we've been
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talking about it for quite a while yeah okay so yeah yeah we're done so basically in short uh don't expect an
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iPad Pro review from me because I don't really care it is not a PC it does not
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replace a PC it's a big iPad and that'll be good for some things like in a
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classroom where a bigger thing to read a story book to the kids on the iPad might
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be nice that's what I think it's for okay go anyways um super important super
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terrible things happening in Paris uh yes we know um we're mainly not
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addressing it because we're probably not the right people addressing we're still
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a tech show yes I would it is super important and if you do want to be
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informed I would very much recommend going and checking it out I know there's
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at least two of the top things on the front page of Reddit are about Paris
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right now those are probably good links to go get yourself informed I'm sure
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people in chat will probably be able to help you if you're looking for
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information um and you'll be able to find it all over the Internet it's a
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huge thing right now um but yes we are
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probably not the right people and I feel like if we spoke about it we wouldn't be
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adding to the conversation for one and
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might accidentally spread misinformation which would be the worst thing to do
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right now so y maybe go Che in short
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there are attacks and Paris has closed their borders um and yeah that's very
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much a developing developing thing right now so yeah I think it's safe for us to
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say you know our hearts go out to the people of Paris I love Paris that's
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actually the the city that I chose that was my grad present is I could go
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anywhere in the world for I think it was like 10 days or something like that also
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I had to take my mother um and I went to Paris and it was freaking awesome and
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people should not attack Paris I think we can all agree on that yeah all right
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so moving back to Tech news uh Intel's
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Skylake Speed Shift technology has been
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deployed now this is stuff that was built into the CPU back when it was
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released and this was posted on the Forum by numlock 21
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the article here is from a nonch but basically what this amounts to is a more
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advanced kind of a more granular version
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of the of the speedstep technology that already existed that allows the CPU to
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dynamically adjust its power and speed settings as it's being used
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so uh so this is cool so in the
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past the operating system was fully in
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control of this process and the CPU itself was just capable of all these
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different Power States now with operating system support and this has
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been added to Windows 10 the OS can actually hand control of the frequency
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and voltage back to the processor so in
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short there's uh there's an Intel provided graft here that graft excuse me
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graph here that shows with speed shift enabled how quickly it can cycle up to
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different Power States so you can see the I believe this is frequency yep so
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this is frequency versus time in milliseconds we are talking getting from
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uh a a low lower power state to the
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highest one in a matter of what is this
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like 15 milliseconds or something along those lines versus about
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120 milliseconds without Speed Shift
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enabled so this is going to be particularly important for things like
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mobile processors where the difference between your base clock and your very
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low power steps when you've got speed Step At Its very very low states to say
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battery so this is going to make a big difference to the responsiveness of
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tasks when that mobile processor that has a huge disparity between its base
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and its boost clock is able to quickly go okay you're doing something boom I'm
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done and oh now I'm way back down so you
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know say for example when you're navigating to a web page that puts a
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very short very sudden very very
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shortterm load on the processor and now that will be able to take better
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advantage of the actual power that you've got under the hood of your device
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than was possible in uh the past which can give you responsiveness in little
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tight timings which can actually make your computer feel a lot faster than it
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actually the the change actually is yeah responsiveness is more important than
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you know how quickly can you render out you know a video that is going to take
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either you half hour 35 minutes or whatever which is awesome but like that
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5 minutes will feel like a much shorter period of time than when cuz you'll
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probably go do something yeah um compared to if you're sitting there
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literally staring at the screen waiting for something to load so this is cool
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this tells us a little bit about it so an ontech ran PC Mark 8 because somehow
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they managed to get that Bloody program to run I swear like and you know what we
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must just be snake bitten because I I love futur Mark those guys are nice and
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I love most of the software that they make but PC Mark man every single time
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people people often ask me why don't you run PC mark on like your laptop reviews
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and stuff maybe 10 to 20% maybe 30% of
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the time that I've just sat down and gone okay I'm going to run PC mark it
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has worked for a while I was actually using the battery life test in my
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notebook videos so I I used it in I think two and then I went to use it for
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the uh the Dell rugged uh laptop and it
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just three times just failed like would
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stop working it would just the the computer would go to sleep when the
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device still had 40% battery I'm just like this is not useful every time we
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get to Scrapyard Wars we get to deciding on one of those style of tests I'm just
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like H oh dear we went through what
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three different versions of PC Mark to find one that would work to find one
28:15
that we managed to run and even then I think we oh I'm this is spoilers okay
28:20
stay tuned for more scrapyard War how is it still coming out it's still coming
28:24
out I'm on the fan side on this one it's way too long you know what but it was
28:28
one of those things where it ended up being a result of us taking the whole
28:34
thing and going okay what's good here because a lot of the time stuff that was
28:40
good enough to make it into this version ended up on The Cutting Room floor
28:44
because of just time constraints last time so I think the ha Hazard approach
28:49
almost worked better last time the problem was because it was too light and
28:52
then last time had its own whole set of problems I know so like we decided on
28:56
this before we so we'll reeval and we'll take another crack at it and
29:00
that's pretty much all there is to it all right um so anyway there's some more benchmarks for Speed Shift that show
29:04
that in some cases it does make a very significant difference uh in other cases
29:08
it's much smaller um but yeah there you
29:12
go battery efficiency ever so slightly improved I love those in on Tech guys
29:16
they do such a good job this is all good stuff y it's not it's not a m it's I
29:21
doubt it's going to be a major gamechanging thing but like it's cool uh
29:26
what's interesting is that the OS can relinquish not necessarily all but just
29:31
some of the power State um some of the
29:34
power States so it could control it within this range or that range or the
29:37
whole thing that's cool very cool stuff yeah do you know if you're going to have
29:41
to enable this or is it automatically running that I actually on the side I'm
29:47
assuming on the CPU side it's probably enabled by default I suspect it works on
29:52
its own I cannot tell you the only thing that made me think of that is because
29:55
you said it it can do this or that mhm
29:59
all right so this is interesting I mean this is something where it doesn't look
30:04
like anyone can get any comment from um
30:10
here we go uh from the director of
30:13
whatever Ki yeah think it's unlikely that they
30:19
could have got did we intro the topic at all no no
30:24
we didn't so basically word on the street is that the FBI paid carneg melon
30:28
$1 million at least this is all very he
30:32
said she said to break tour so the
30:36
original article that we have here this was posted by dat speed on the Forum the
30:39
original article oh and uh there's the full spe full size ad is from Forbes
30:45
here and so the tour project is the one claiming this um and the the objective
30:52
they are saying was that was for the FBI to uncloak particular users and find
30:58
their true ipss so this is the team responsible for
31:03
maintaining the tour anonymizing Network and they're claiming that they paid 1
31:07
million to disclose techniques that they discovered that could help uncover the
31:11
identities of users neither the FBI nor Carnegie melon have directly confirmed
31:16
nor denied anything there was a talk uh
31:19
that was supposed to be at black hat 2014 that was cancelled um from two
31:24
researchers their names are in here somewhere that were from Carnegie melon
31:27
uh that talk was cancelled and was directly pertaining to these kind of
31:31
things and people are wondering if that talk was kind of bought out by the FBI
31:37
so it wasn't released and then the things that they were talking about in there were released and that talk was
31:41
about um being able to un un un
31:45
anonymize these people and find the hidden Services which is exactly what
31:50
was done so they do actually seem pretty well related yep um so I guess that's
31:56
pretty much all there is to really yeah to really say about it Ed Ed I don't
32:02
know how to say your last name Ed Des Ed
32:07
desautel desel can I help
32:10
yous how you say that name desotel yeah it looks like a French
32:15
name spokesman for Carnegie melon software engineering Institute did not
32:19
deny the accusations directly but told wired I would like to see the
32:22
substantiation for their claim adding I am not aware of any payment which is
32:27
like B basically like saying I can't say
32:30
anything yeah yeah um the site
32:33
motherboard reviewed the court filings reviewed court filings that proved the
32:37
FBI recruited a research institute that was running systems on tour networks to
32:42
uncover the identity of a user of Silk Road 2 uh so that's the drug Marketplace
32:47
that replaced the first version of the Silk Road and um yeah I guess that's
32:52
pretty much all there is to say about that so nowhere is
32:56
safe yeah y yay although that's why you
33:00
should run a local Cloud unlike that thing that you can do on an iPad which
33:04
is using other clouds oh wow boy um I
33:08
guess I I kind of we actually had a separate you know what it's probably
33:12
worth going through we had a separate topic for the iPad Pro uh I did Cover a
33:16
lot of this though when I was kind of ranting about it before but there are some good things about it iPad Pro again
33:21
bro yeah so this supposed to buy Dad speed well it's kind of a big deal
33:25
because it replaces desktops and laptops [ __ ] that means like our jobs yeah I
33:29
know right we'll just have to make videos about the iPad Pro all day dude I
33:33
can put the iPad Pro in a
33:39
bomb okay that will make more sense if
33:43
you've watched his Fallout 4 build
33:46
block yeah um anyway so there is some
33:50
cool stuff so the a9x processor uh the same one that was found in the iPhone 6s
33:56
has now been over clocked just another way of saying the
34:00
clock speed has been increased so it's now even faster and actually quite
34:05
competitive with um Intel's real
34:09
processors like we're not talking corm it's legitimately looking pretty
34:13
competitive with you know a low-end core I3 Core i5 dual core pretty darn
34:19
interesting stuff and this is based on some browser based benchmarks as well as
34:22
geekbench it also shows little sign of throttling in the geekbench thermal test
34:28
pretty darn impressive and with the larger battery thanks to the larger
34:31
housing it's able to achieve pretty darn similar battery life to previous iPads
34:36
again a very good result the onboard
34:40
Graphics are looking very very
34:43
favorable uh beating every previous I device and every Intel GPU up to and
34:48
including the iris Pro 5200 and Intel HD
34:52
520 it does not feature 3D touch something that I'm personally pretty
34:57
disappointed brutal 3D touch is actually awesome yeah Apple's done a pretty good
35:01
job in the past of uh of of maintaining
35:06
their new features sort of across the product line as they refresh them um and
35:09
I would have really expected that and this is especially disappointing given
35:13
that this is a device that it's so funny because apple is always running around
35:17
saying well h no touch screens for our MacBooks because that's
35:22
awkward so this is a device where we
35:25
were expected to type and touch it yeah
35:29
um and they're actually taking away input options from the touch from the
35:33
touch input uh multitasking is still quite limited um because it's running
35:38
iOS it takes around 4 and a half hours to completely recharge with the included
35:42
charge wear if not in use um thanks to
35:46
its high capacity battery and it starts at $800 uh the keyboard is
35:51
$169 for a keyboard accessory and the
35:54
stylus is $100 so you've spent spent
35:58
over $11,000 by the time you get even a base 32 gig Wi-Fi model basically I
36:04
wouldn't recommend buying it um I've had some pretty I've given some pretty
36:08
positive reviews to Apple devices in the last little while um including the
36:12
iPhone 6s but this one they're doing really great on the phone side
36:15
especially with and like part of the reason why they're doing so great is
36:19
that Android is just doing terribly
36:22
terms of like security stuff yeah security stuff uh OS updates um customer
36:28
support there's a lot of things wrong with Android right now um I'm super
36:32
pleased with my new phone those of you who aren't following on vessel won't
36:35
know this yet but I have officially switched to the xeria Z5 compact I have
36:40
done away with the Droid Turbo it has officially happened after 11 months like
36:45
you're actually gonna switch that's done wow I'm done I'm done with the Droid
36:48
Turbo I think Taran wants to buy it so that would be a good upgrade for Taran
36:52
yeah yeah he needs uh he needs a phone with a camera that works so the Droid
36:56
Turbo is definitely that all right let's move on to some Intel news the Broadwell
37:01
e upcoming Broadwell e specifications have been leaked this was posted by Mr
37:06
troll on the Forum whose name is appropriate given that it's a news item
37:12
on LT Forum linking to wccf
37:16
Tech so there's actually if this is true
37:19
and what I will give wccf Tech and many
37:23
of the other rumor mail sites out there what I will give them is that that
37:28
typically Intel CPU rumors tend to be
37:31
pretty good um Intel is a very very
37:35
structured company and generally speaking their road maps
37:40
like back when I was working at a retailer the their road maps are pretty
37:44
far out and like if if if they are if
37:49
they're going to be arriving I think what was it q1
37:53
2016 uh blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah later
37:57
in 2016 later in
38:01
2016 so the uh the Broadwell EP zons are
38:05
rumored for q1 2016 with the consumer grade ones coming I think it was later
38:09
in 2016 so it would not be unlike Intel
38:12
to have a a year out road map that they're showing potential Partners under
38:16
NDA but of course how long does it take for wccf Tech to get their hands on that
38:20
so in a nutshell we are looking at once
38:23
again man it seems like it took forever for them to get past giving us six cores
38:28
on that platform but we are getting another two cores for the top end
38:34
extreme Edition Cool freaking stuff one of the coolest Parts though is that you
38:37
can get an8 core non-extreme Edition yes
38:41
so the topend th000 processor is rumored
38:44
to be rocking 10 cores and 20 threads at 3 GHz so uh we're looking at a basically
38:52
equivalent single-threaded performance in all likelihood with essentially in
38:57
heavily multi-threaded workloads that's 3 GHz uh non- turboed yeah non-t turboed
39:03
and we don't know the turbo and we don't know turbo clocks um so effectively
39:06
whatever sort of 25% performance Improvement in heavily threaded
39:10
workloads not bad from generation to generation heck of a lot better than the
39:14
Consumer stuff yep yay we're getting treated like enthusiasts again um and
39:19
then this is even more interesting sort
39:22
of except that we don't know pricing yet and that is that so the 6950x is the
39:27
exem Edition the 6900k is apparently going to have eight
39:31
cores and 16 threads yeah so you won't have to buy an extreme Edition to get
39:35
the8 core experience which is awesome but again yeah we don't know the price
39:39
tag but the price probably pretty easy to guess well I would have said that
39:43
except that this time around Intel is going to have four
39:47
SKS in the Enthusiast stack so for the
39:50
last couple of generations like three generations
39:55
3960x and then it was 3930 k 382k then
39:59
we had the 4960x 4930k
40:02
492k and in both of those
40:06
cases I believe they were all it was six
40:10
core four core four core no six core six core four core I think something along
40:14
those lines anyway so this time we get 10 core okay so right so 5960x is eight
40:19
core and then both of the lower ones are six core right there was no cheap quad
40:23
core previously that's right they were they were six cores or uh or sorry
40:27
there's the cheap one is not a quad core this time uh six core six core so this
40:31
time you get a 10 core or an eight core
40:35
and then there is no quad core very nice so you get definitely something for your
40:39
money investing in an x99 motherboard and quad core memory uh quad core quad
40:45
Channel memory so this time you definitely get at least two more cores
40:48
for your money and you could get up to
40:51
also six or eight or 10 but we don't
40:56
know what the pricing is going to look like and I wouldn't be that surprised to
41:01
see Intel pull another q6600 on us here
41:05
so back when they launched their first Quad Core Extreme Edition the qx6700
41:10
what happened was they initially launched the q6600 which was their first
41:15
non-extreme quad core at like $750 or
41:19
something like that like it was quite expensive so I wouldn't be surprised to
41:23
see that and then another lower end six
41:27
core with kind of the other six core sitting in between that massive price
41:32
Gap that now exists between the 582k and the 5930k and the other thing
41:38
we don't know yet here is how PCI Express Lanes are going to be handled so
41:43
right now while we do get a six a six or an eight core regardless of how much we
41:48
spend that bottom tier six core instead of having two F course has 12 fewer PCI
41:53
E lanes for Worse expansion if you want to add a bunch of a bunch of cards to it
41:58
so what I'm guessing is we're going to
42:01
see that low-end 6800k be six cores and few PCI Lanes I
42:08
think we're going to get a six core with all the PCIe lanes in between like that
42:12
new one that didn't exist before that new price point then we're going to have
42:15
eight cores with all Lanes then we're going to have 10 cores with all Lanes um
42:20
so that's that's kind of what it looks like to
42:23
me I'm really super stoked on Broadwell
42:27
EP though as some of you probably know I
42:31
have been getting I've been getting more and more into xon stuff and like
42:37
enjoying all the cores and you know whether it's using them for our video
42:40
editing workflow or whether it's using them for running virtual machines where
42:45
we took two two Gamers running on one motherboard which is pretty freaking
42:49
cool um so this is this is looking interesting and this uh the official
42:53
launch is apparently targeted for q1 2016 so this is E5 600 V4 up to 22 cores
43:00
and 44 threads with up to 55 megabytes
43:03
of cash per chip holy actual freaking
43:08
balls not to mention that memory speed goes up from 2133 to
43:14
2400 so we're talking a dual socket machine with up to 44 cores I mean I
43:20
thought it was bananas when we did our 36 core machine I wonder what excuse I
43:25
could find to tell Intel that I need 222
43:29
course I'm going to have to come up with something wait don't you already have
43:34
this no I've got 218 course what about
43:37
that oh no those are okay so I do have
43:40
okay so I've been teasing this for a bit okay we're changing topics a little bit
43:43
here so without revealing too much I'm going
43:49
to be building a very interesting machine um it will contain keep going
43:54
I'm just trying to think of how you can get these processes seven R9 Fury
43:58
Nanos it will contain two 14 core xeons
44:03
it will contain 256 gigabytes of memory
44:06
and it's all going to be on an ASUS workstation motherboard uh the rest of
44:11
the specs are sort of TBD right now um
44:14
because if I I think if I said anything about the rest of what I'm putting in it
44:17
might reveal too much about the project but expect that project to show up
44:21
probably sometime around the end of this year because let me tell you it takes a
44:26
little while to get all of that Hardware coordinated and it's going to take a
44:29
fair bit of testing and configuration for me to get this whole thing working
44:34
so my CPUs are here the RAM arrived
44:37
today the video cards are due next Wednesday and the motherboard is ASUS
44:41
doesn't communicate I just kind of go hey I need this motherboard and then
44:45
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onto the uh rest of the show here what
51:17
what what else are we supposed to talk about today I don't even know there's Pokemon and oh yeah Pokemon your tax
51:22
Rebellion thing no this is actually okay this is really interesting okay he
51:25
hasn't read this but I believe this was by posted by triari on the Forum our our
51:31
resident our resident of tin foil hat wear this is such a topic for you man I
51:35
know no it's actually no it's it's it's legitimately pretty interesting so no
51:39
I'm just say this just it smells like so
51:42
the Welsh Town Crick Howell which is a great name for a town by the way moves
51:47
offshore to avoid tax on local business
51:52
what okay so this is led by some Traders
51:55
including the town salmon smokery local coffee shop Bookshop optician and bakery
52:01
what and this tax Rebellion could spread
52:05
Nationwide now it it it's important to
52:08
be very clear what they are doing they
52:12
are not trying to evade taxes for the
52:15
sake of evading taxes they uh so blah
52:19
blah blah blah blah blah blah up until now blah blah blah blah etc etc etc okay
52:23
I can't find the quote that that I was reading uh but but basically that is not
52:29
the point the these are these are these are people who presumably at least some
52:34
of them okay proudly pay their taxes to support their country and the public
52:38
services that they use I pay a lot of
52:42
taxes personally and through the business I pay lots and lots of taxes
52:46
because I've been working since I was legal aged to work with absolutely zero
52:50
interruptions having always paid my taxes and I am proud of that I am proud
52:55
to support the social programs that we have here in Canada that take that tax
52:59
money that I pay and build a road that not only I can drive on but everyone can
53:02
drive on that is the way the system is supposed to work is the system broken
53:08
yes the system is broken there are many many significant issues in Canada and in
53:12
many other countries pretty much everywhere there are many significant
53:15
issues that exist with the way that taxpayer money gets spent oh yeah but
53:20
it's a heck of a lot better than Anarchy and so I continue to support it happily
53:24
and I do not go out of my way to evade any taxes and I'm proud of that so
53:29
that's not what these guys are doing either their point and this is this is
53:33
great one of the town's Traders discovered that he paid seven times more
53:39
in corporation tax last year than
53:43
Facebook which paid
53:46
5,000 in corporation tax that is their
53:50
point their point is if this loophole is
53:55
here then fine we're going to use it and
53:59
you got two options option number one is
54:02
okay well we're going to play by those rules and we don't pay taxes anymore we pay very very small offshore company
54:08
taxes or option number two is tax those
54:11
guys they should be paying tax too um they super should and it's super
54:17
annoying this loophole uh allowed the likes of Amazon to pay 11.9 million on
54:24
5.3 billion of UK sales yeah
54:27
amazon.co.uk is sort of a big site I think that's worded oddly I think
54:31
they're paying taxes on 11.9 million of
54:34
5.3 billion of sales what no taxes of
54:38
11.9 million on 5.3 billion of sales
54:41
okay yeah yeah that's right don't don't don't worry it's all good um I don't
54:46
know what I don't know what ghost is doing neither he's drunk okay that's why
54:50
I was assuming there was something wrong anyway the point is um what Joe carthu
54:55
who runs the local smoker said is that until now complicated offshore tricks
55:00
have only been open to big companies who can afford the lawyers fees now we've
55:05
worked out a way to mimic them and they're basically uh this is going to be
55:10
a part of a documentary in 2016 as part of BBC Britain's black economy season
55:15
and they're basically going okay here's how to do it so we're starting tax
55:20
Rebellion if you want to collect any taxes from businesses maybe it's time to
55:24
start collecting taxes from everyone in a fair and Equitable manner I love it
55:29
this article made me so happy because it
55:33
makes absolutely no sense that these
55:36
companies are going to are going to you know threaten threaten the government
55:41
and go oh well we'll just we'll just like stop paying our lobbying dollars
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and we'll just we'll move our operations out if you make us paid
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taxes I realistically I don't see that happening but it takes it takes multiple
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governments forming a united front against this behavior in order to make
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it work and so I I do sincerely worry
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that it might not be possible I don't know I don't know because it's I mean
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yeah if you're if you're apple is it
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cheaper for you to pay tax properly on all your income or is it cheaper for you
56:17
to offer the entirety of your Silicon Valley campuses a massive relocation
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bonus to move to Canada or move to
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somewhere else yeah I I don't know like I don't know I don't know how far this
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would escalate before it ended and I
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don't know what the landscape would look like when it was over um oh this is this is actually I
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have to confess I had not heard of this so this was posted on the Forum by oh no
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I don't have a forum post this is just an ours technical link so beware of ads
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that use inaudible sound to link your phone TV tablet and PC so privacy
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Advocates warn the feds about cous cross
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device tracking this is some crappy stuff going
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on right here yeah and I hadn't heard of this before if if you're running
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software on a smart device so basically
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as far as I can tell that's anything that can have an app installed on it
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that can have silver push software running at the same time yeah um that
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would be able to listen so a microphone of some sort so probably your phone or a
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tablet but probably your phone um then
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that silver push software can be the audio Beacon and different devices in
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your house so your computer if you have speakers on it your TV most likely in
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the middle of a commercial can yes uh would be playing extremely high-pitched
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noises I'd be interested to see if that's a frequency that dogs can hear
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see if the dogs freak out when they hear if your dog would be like you're being
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SPID up you like yeah yeah exactly your dog's like no dog meat will save you um
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anyways Fallout 4 reference um it's going to play this crazy sound that you
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can't hear but that your smart device that has silver push software on could
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kind of pick it up so that they can track if people are seeing these things
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yeah so this will tell advertisers oh man this will tell data
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miners so much more about you personally
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than was possible before because I mean we talked about this let's talk about
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the iPad Pro again there's certain things that make sense to do on a tablet
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and there's certain things that don't make sense to do on a tablet so for
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example if an Advertiser uh let's say let's say oh I don't know let's say
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Google okay let's say you don't use Chrome on your desktop but you use
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Chrome on your iPad so if all that Google knows about you is that you uh
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read game reviews and you go to Pornhub
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then they'll go okay gamer porn Enthusiast and they might you know try
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to figure out based on some you know uh emails you send here and there how old
58:53
you are and what your gender is and all that kind of stuff so they've created a
58:56
profile for you but what they might not know about you is that you watch um you
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show you watch yeah and that you love watching Madmen on TV and that you're
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and whether or not you mute the ads that's right whether so so there's all
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these things that they that they can't know about you unless they know all
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about your devices and the example given in the ARs Technica article which was
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excellent was maybe you would research STDs on your computer and then search
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for a um you know an you know a a sexual
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health clinic on your phone and then you would travel there and come back and
59:31
then like now all of a sudden it could go okay you had an STD you went and got
59:36
treated and now you're back home and maybe you're better now or maybe you're
59:40
not and it can continue to track your search is like being able to track you
59:43
across devices raises some serious
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privacy concerns um especially because tracking you across devices tells them
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exactly who you are there's pretty much no way to anonymous submit data like I
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went here I went there I live here um it's not it's not Anonymous anymore and
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this is the scariest thing about it silver pushes software is used by 67
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apps and which we don't know what those apps are but totals 18 million
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smartphones and they've basically what they've basically said is it is against
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our policy to disclose what apps are using our
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technology what so rip so any app that asks for your microphone and speaker
60:26
permissions potentially I don't know any have 67
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apps super brutal actually yeah all
60:34
right original poster here is tangra and the original article is from ARS
60:38
Technica once again I love ARS Technica so this is so funny this is so funny I
60:43
called this on W show last week I was like it will take no time flat for the
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Linux Army to attack my steam machine
60:52
review and tell me about how I'm missing the point because you can enable desktop
60:56
mode and the blah blah blah Linux Master race Etc um so it took like a matter of
61:02
minutes and I actually tweeted about it when it happened but someone said something along the lines of oh crap
61:08
anyway one of their points was that Linux game performance and Steam OS game
61:12
performance is actually very similar to Windows when I used the word significant
61:18
performance tax or significant performance penalty or something along
61:21
those lines um a that wasn't my point in
61:24
the video at all because what I was really talking about was the Steam
61:30
Machines uh how successful the steam machine was at targeting the demographic
61:36
that valve seems to be targeting with it so it was completely I didn't even run
61:39
any performance numbers and you're wrong about the other thing because whether
61:44
it's Linux we're talking about or whether it is driver issues the
61:48
performance tax so they were saying there was no performance tax or it wasn't significant the word I Ed was
61:52
significant was has a very specific meaning by the way um it is
61:57
significant Middle Earth shadow of morar ouch huge that's so
62:02
brutal um so whether it's drivers actually I thought there were oh yeah no
62:06
there are more uh middle or Shadow of Mordor medium settings one are actually
62:11
ultra settings is very interesting but I don't know how many people are going to run it on that because it brings it from
62:15
a very playable frame rate to a not very playable frame rate um but the one that
62:19
I like looking at the most is medium because it brings it from a probably
62:24
above your monitor refresh rate
62:28
defitely not Y and even valve Zone games
62:32
with portal falling behind by like 30% are not running on par and the blame is
62:39
probably in some cases probably the game developer but in in many cases probably
62:44
not and the blame probably falls mostly with the graphics card makers but the
62:50
cold hard truth is hold on I'm going to
62:53
see if I can find a source for this one of my favorite things okay this is a
62:56
little bit unrelated but Metro last Redux and then they go to maximum
63:00
settings and it's like doesn't run great on anything unfortunately because it's
63:06
super hard to run um 9.5 to 4. yeah
63:10
unfortunately I can't find a source for it but so I'm not going to give the
63:14
number but someone was telling me that they had heard uh they had heard AMD say
63:18
something along the lines of uh that the the the the Linux driver download
63:23
percentage was very very very like lower than you'd think very very low the
63:28
people who actually desire to run discret graphics cards and Linux is is
63:33
very very low and I was really excited
63:37
um I I was actually like really really excited by steo when I first heard about
63:44
it two years ago oh yeah okay yeah it was yeah yeah so I and and valves like
63:50
valves conviction um in their in their
63:54
in their movement to to bring gaming to
63:58
a more open platform and and I still admire valve's commitment um to bring
64:04
their titles and to encourage other developers to bring their own titles to
64:08
Steam OS to run on Linux natively and and what's what's cool is for most
64:14
Gamers remember most gamers are still running 1080P or lower okay so most
64:20
Gamers with decent hardware and remember they could afford hundred extra dollars
64:25
on a graphic F card potentially if they don't buy Windows so there goes your
64:30
performance tax right there you just buy better Hardware potentially so most
64:33
Gamers running at 1080p um are not going to are not going
64:38
to demand the kinds of experiences that for now things like VR or multim monitor
64:44
multim monitor ifinity gamings like some of those things that just don't work on
64:47
Linux due to driver support right now they're not going to need them and and
64:51
there and there is potential for that movement to continue one one thing
64:56
about the driver download stat is I'm
65:00
not super great at Linux I use it fairly often but I'm actually not super great
65:04
at it um I I think it's hard to say that
65:07
you're super great at Linux to be completely Fair um non-official driver
65:13
packs are very very very common yep and
65:17
the included drivers are generally better yeah so like the the Am driver
65:22
statistic might not be accurate because they're very probably using something
65:27
else some I I think Mesa is a popular
65:31
common one uh but I could super be wrong but I don't know but like the you use
65:35
other things to control your stuff that's one of the reasons why people like Linux but that ties in really well
65:40
with the end of my point which is as much as I admire valve's effort and I I
65:44
hope for success for Linux gaming in general I don't think Steam OS is the
65:49
answer because Steam OS is an arrow with no Bullseye to move towards like it
65:54
doesn't know what it's Target it thinks it's targeting mainstream Gamers but
65:59
like then it throws a controller at you that not only is different from any
66:03
controller you've ever held but requires you to completely rebind everything in
66:08
order to even play games a process that can be done and is no problem for a
66:13
power user I was able to figure it out it was no big deal and it's very
66:16
versatile but Joe Xbox gamer I mean if
66:20
it's more complicated than like oh cool a magnetic d-pad alternative it's not
66:24
happening not happening so and to be completely honest sometimes I feel like
66:29
being a power user and sometimes I'd be like yeah I want to configure this to be
66:33
like exactly how I want to run for this exact game and sometimes it's yeah but
66:36
if I'm going to play like dirt showdown yeah exactly I do not want I want to
66:41
plug in my controller and I never even want to open up the controller submenu I
66:45
want to click race race race quick race go yeah that's it yeah because I feel
66:49
like vegging that's why I'm playing a game yeah sometimes yeah I'm going to
66:54
want a tinker but I don't want to have to Tinker and certain gaming experiences
66:58
are worth the effort of tinkering quite frankly it's just that for me like a
67:02
racing game or like a a third a third person exploring game is that's what I'm
67:06
just like chilling and it's it's all my brain can do to solve whatever Lura
67:10
croft's breast physics puzzle of the day is or whatever else
67:17
um some of you have been asking about these shirts we're wearing so it's uh
67:22
teespring.com Christmas and you can get in a variety
67:26
of colors we actually went out of our way to choose ugly colors so um that's
67:32
kind of the point it's kind of the point they're called ugly Christmas sweaters
67:35
yep now to be clear they are not sweaters they're just t-shirt or they're
67:38
excuse me they're just sweatshirts yeah but uh they're ugly what's the
67:42
difference between a sweater and a sweatshirt a sweater is woven
67:48
oh I had no idea
67:51
yeah that actually makes a ton of sense
67:54
um Pokemon generation one coming into the 3DS there's an announcement video
67:58
you guys can check that out if you're into that sort of thing and that's literally all there is to say on that
68:03
topic we don't know uh there there's been speculation as to whether or not I
68:07
I guess there is more to say on that topic yeah there's lots to say about it actually there's been speculation as to
68:12
whether or not the the old bugs will be in there because there was a lot of them
68:15
and I don't mean like bug type Pokemon I mean like miso and and all that kind of
68:22
stuff you like that yeah um yeah I like
68:25
that I don't know because I I as far as
68:28
my knowledge goes a lot of those have to do with how things were stored in memory
68:33
so I don't know if that's going to translate properly CU these are Virtual
68:36
Console titles for the 3DS yeah but if you're emulating the Game Boy then you
68:41
could potentially emulate way I never
68:45
emulated red or blue have you have you
68:49
tried any of the bugs I did not own a Game Boy or Game Boy Color I have
68:53
definitely played through Pokemon Blue I owned two advances I don't own an
68:57
advance never did oh wow I I owned an original a color and two
69:03
advances I don't like I don't maybe the chat will know if you emulate it or the
69:07
bug's still there okay Brandon knows apparently and
69:12
when you do emulate it the bugs are still there so maybe it'll work I don't
69:18
know good job Brandon thanks
69:21
Brandon okay so okay myo definitely works apparently so hopefully they don't
69:25
screw with anything but they're fixing some stuff so you can wirelessly trade
69:29
Pokemon now is that a fix well it's a
69:32
new feature cuz you had to use the stupid Link cable yeah but that's just
69:37
connecting that's connectivity of the device well that's that's a feature
69:40
upgrade in my mind I don't know if that translates to the game or if that's just
69:43
connectivity to the device yeah well either way that's it's it's an improved
69:47
experiment it's a it's improves the experience I still have a Link cable of
69:51
course you do so red blue and yellow are launching and uh there you go it is uh
69:58
yeah February 27th 2016 release I'm not quite sure why it's taking so long but
70:02
uh given that emulated Pokemon red blue and
70:06
yellow existed for a long time the a really long performance yeah
70:12
like like going back to my uh my Napster
70:16
days um I Heard Napster coming back I think we talked about yeah I think we
70:19
talked about that um you know what i is sort of is unrelated to this but I kind
70:23
of wanted to touch on apparently they're doing an HD remake of Twilight Princess
70:29
yeah are you for real that game how old is Twilight Princess like six years
70:35
old I have to look it up Twilight Princess blah blah blah blah blah blah
70:40
Wikipedia thank you that's for the original Wii like it's not even
70:44
2006 what I played Twilight Princess 9 years
70:51
ago whoa we both just got a really old
70:54
moment I think whoa I didn't even consider that
71:00
like a collector game for me I have it at home I didn't
71:05
think huh we should move on so we don't feel so old again I was I was good oh
71:11
wow crap on netlink daily on the NC
71:14
Channel I was like ripping into them about doing HD remakes of a game that
71:18
would have been HD if the freaking console had had any decent Hardware in
71:21
it which is still true by
71:26
away that's so brutal but I really oh I
71:30
didn't realize it wasn't that old oh my goodness Um T-Mobile is apparently going
71:35
to let you stream some video for free
71:39
another bold move so they're calling it Benin John man does he not look like
71:44
some kind of serial rapist in every picture I was maybe not going to go that
71:51
route but he's the serial rapist I love
71:54
that's for sure oh wow okay whatever is
71:58
doing some stuff look at that scary
72:02
face um other stuff happened in the news
72:07
uh EVGA is launching a 970 Fallout 4
72:12
edition which is probably a little late and stuff but the back Plate's pretty
72:16
cool um we should talk more about the t- hobble thing actually it's so YouTube
72:21
unfortunately not included neither is Twitch they did say they are working
72:26
with you too but Netflix Hulu Showtime
72:29
vessel hey uh HBO Go and sling TV are
72:33
supported I went to The Vessel offices last weekend oh yeah how was that
72:36
there's some freaking cool people and they have a cool modern office we
72:44
don't our office is functional we we
72:48
have a cool office it doesn't feel very modern Once you walk into the vessel
72:52
offices their space is amazing yeah there's Silicon Valley though so
72:57
yeah yeah we feel very like where we are
73:01
and they feel very like where they
73:04
are it's like lus Media Group
73:11
pragmatism it's like we have cool stuff
73:15
but it's cool stuff with a purpose yeah
73:18
pretty much across the board yeah their
73:21
stuff has a purpose I just mean like like they have the flat floor with everybody on it
73:25
yeah yeah like the only rooms are are meeting rooms and then like the the the
73:31
entrance area is like large and they have extensive places to put like bikes
73:35
and stuff and there's a ping pong table and they have a large K prob a couple of
73:39
electric car charging ports outside they have a large kitchen which is stocked
73:43
with like snack food and drinks if you need it there's a hey we have a large
73:46
kitchen stocked with snack food I don't put the snack food in
73:51
it yeah I don't know their office was cool and they're actually super cool
73:55
yeah I had a really cool talk with him cool lot so sorry back to the T-Mobile
73:59
thing I was damn it I wasn't done with that so it is it is it is speculated
74:03
that the reason that the uncapped video streaming is only offered on certain
74:07
Services is that it requires some backend work to compress the data so
74:11
that you know T-Mobile isn't going to be stuck with the bill for putting a bunch
74:15
of 1080p freaking YouTube videos all over the place um so so the idea is that
74:20
it will be optimized for a small screen which makes a whole ton of sense um I
74:25
that's really cool that vessel supported I guess it kind of makes sense because
74:29
it looks like Hulu is also supported and vessel is the former uh former founder I
74:34
believe or CEO at least of Hulu Hulu um
74:38
which is kind of cool because like I just kind of chat with him sometimes and
74:44
he was in the meeting yeah it's like he's a super smart dude he's super
74:47
downto earth guy super smart guy and it's just like I I kind of forget when
74:52
I'm talking to him that he's probably a multi bill millionaire he's also like a
74:56
big deal at Amazon at some point yeah and stuff one of those like serial
75:01
startup people um it's really funny a
75:04
lot of people on our Forum underestimate a the number of people watching our
75:09
videos on vessel and the impact that vessel has had on our business and
75:13
underestimate vessel's chances at continued survival they are not stupid
75:18
they are not new and they are not going away so
75:22
yeah there's a there's a little bit for you um I guess that's pretty much it you
75:27
need to do a shout out for Desert buus yeah okay where's the notes for that at
75:33
the very bottom before sponsors uh uh November 14th so tomorrow um
75:41
desert bus for Hope is a charity marathon where where for some of you
75:45
today yeah actually in Europe but this
75:48
is PST time so no it is Pacific Daylight
75:51
time or wait no it is Pacific Standard time damn it yes it's Standard Time
75:55
right now right yeah okay I think so I don't know yeah yeah minus8 minus 8 GMT
76:00
right okay um loading ready run is doing
76:03
their desert bus for Hope Charity Marathon which they've been doing for a long time where they play desert bus
76:07
Which is the worst most boring
76:11
game careful yeah that's why I stopped
76:15
maybe not the worst bus is driving through a desert it's it's pretty rough
76:20
there some pretty bad games up there yes
76:23
um the the bus I I don't remember if it either veers left or right but it slowly
76:27
veers One Direction so you have to just keep making it go straight but I think
76:31
it auto goes for you and if you screw up you have to restart the whole thing and
76:36
it's just it's it's ridiculous they're hilarious it's tons of fun to watch it's
76:40
starting at 10: a.m. PST Saturday November 14th their charity website is
76:45
just desertbusforhope
76:55
have done it not me I didn't do anything
76:58
cool um but what I did do is I put
77:01
together a list of the cool people and the cool things that they did and the
77:05
Afterparty today is going to be all about the honorable mentions and winners
77:09
of ultrawide Festival so thank you for
77:12
tuning in to the W show today and that is the outro oh I didn't get to wave
77:25
there have you had enough waving you good I was just going to go until you cut the
77:31
stream damn it oh wait that's an overlay
77:34
I thought you put it in the corner I was like I have to keep going
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now we're discussing how show
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today you guys