The WAN Show: The H8 on Microsoft Episode... Also a Couple Good Things - June 6th, 2014

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0:00 Okay guys, welcome to the WAN Show. That
0:04 show every week where me and this guy are all like, "Hey, let's like make
0:08 videos and put them on the internet and then maybe people will watch them. Let's
0:12 be on time." Nope. And then people watch them and Okay, we're only four minutes
0:18 late today. What is this?
0:22 You got to pause it. Why am I getting French ads? I don't know. We're in
0:26 Canada. Poor parties pay.
0:30 or something. All right, I'm pausing it. I'm pausing it. I'm pausing it. I'm
0:33 pausing it. All right, so guys, we've got a great show for you today.
0:40 First of all, we have a topic that we covered last week sitting in the call
0:44 outs here. I'm going to go ahead and move that one. Mr. Lefren, I believe,
0:48 put that there. I don't remember talking about that at all. Well, probably because I did most of the talking
0:53 because it's the Lionus show. But I feel like I would have had input on that.
0:56 Maybe you had me doing something else. I'm surprised that you didn't call me out on that. It's called the WAN Show.
1:01 It's not even called the Lionus show. I don't really care. You put your name on
1:04 everything, so whatever. Lionus Media Group. Lionus Tech Tips. What did you
1:09 want the shirt thing to be called? I don't remember, but I think that this
1:13 conversation is uh heading down a path. It had your name in it. Really not
1:17 actually that comfortable with He just really likes hearing his name. Everyone
1:20 should just tweet him his name. Thank you for that. Please just tweet him his
1:25 name. we will greatly appreciate it. All right, so why don't we why don't we move
1:29 on to our topics for the day? Microsoft has committed once again to do more for
1:34 PC gaming. But they actually have You're
1:38 spoiling me. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. I'm stopping. It's going to be
1:41 awesome. Okay, iOS 8 is on the way. So,
1:47 um, actually, a lot of the features that they're showing off look pretty darn
1:51 cool. Some of them are innovative, some of them are not, but but still good.
1:56 It's about par for the course for any mobile operating system update. I mean,
2:00 take everything that you can and add a few things. Exactly.
2:04 Uh we also have Microsoft Cortana voice control coming along the way, which
2:08 should be really interesting. And the ASUS uh phone desktop table laptop fin.
2:15 It's not a desktop. It's the one thing it's not laptop. ASUS's
2:19 5in1 PC. How do you make a 5in-1 PC?
2:22 Well, ASUS will show us. But in the
2:26 meantime, guys, we'll do the intro.
2:31 Yes. Broken intro.
2:55 All right. So, this is interesting. Our
2:59 first sponsor this week is actually a group of sponsors. We along with Tech
3:05 Syndicate will be participating in the
3:08 world's highest elevation terrestrial land party. So, we
3:13 are going to be going to the top of the highest peak in Colorado and we will be
3:20 taking some some ASUS gaming notebooks up
3:24 there. We're they're going to be powered by Intel Core i7s and we're going to
3:28 have some sweet Corair gaming peripherals, of course, featuring their
3:32 RGB keyboards in order to get a land
3:36 going at 4400 m above sea level. So,
3:40 there will definitely be videos about this whole thing, guys. Be very, very
3:45 excited. It'll be coming sometime in about a month. And a huge shout out to
3:50 ASUS, Corsair, and Intel for making this
3:53 whole thing possible. Also, something that's coming a little bit more
3:58 immediately is E3 coverage here on Linus
4:01 Tech Tips. We bailed on Computex this year, as you probably noticed, but we'll
4:06 be doing E3. Basically, we did Comp Computex last year. It was extremely
4:10 expensive and not a whole lot of people watched the content. So, we're going to
4:13 try something a little bit different. We're going to do we're going to do E3 instead. So, our gold sponsor for E3 is
4:20 HyperX featuring the Fury line of
4:23 performance to price ratio. I think the
4:26 word is value price toerformance ratio optimized SSDs as well as the Corsair
4:32 RGB keyboard and NCIX. My bros, my my
4:37 homeboys, my dogs. Did you see that? We were being featured on Newegg's product
4:42 site. I have seen that. Do you saw that? Speaking of Speaking of my bros, NCIX,
4:47 I'm sure Newegg is so super thrilled to have the host of NCIX tech tips all over
4:51 their uh their site there. So, uh yeah, it's pretty funny. I hope Paul and Kyle
4:56 are watching. They were tagged in that Twitter feed, so I know they saw it.
5:01 It's absolutely fant I'm sure NCX thinks it's hilarious, too.
5:07 Oh, this is you're embedding a YouTube video. So, I don't know. Chip 700 says,
5:11 "So, by we're doing E3, does he mean I'm sending Slick to E3?"
5:16 Yes.
5:21 Yes. We'll be doing the same kind of thing that we did at PAX East again. So,
5:24 we'll do a mix of all the hardware stuff that I can find and a few gaming videos.
5:29 Sweet. Yeah. No, that sounds like uh that sounds like fun. I mean, part of it is that we've never covered E3 in any
5:34 capacity before. So, this is more like a scouting mission. So, if it turns out E3
5:39 is a total disaster and there's no benefit to us being there, then next
5:43 year we won't. Yeah, exactly. So, let us know. It's not like it's not like PAX
5:48 where I would have to actually tie him down like harder than usual in order to
5:53 keep him from going there. What day did I request time off for PAX Prime? It was
5:58 when we started Lionus Media Group. So before we actually founded the company,
6:02 so it would have been in December of 2012, you asked for the time off in
6:07 September of 2013.
6:10 No, I think it was like the second day I started working with you before we
6:13 founded the company. People are saying audio is actually normal for once, which
6:18 is hilarious because I actually took out the compressor. We're not using a
6:22 balanced output off the mixer. I'm going into like a crappy RCA input on
6:27 something. I we actually we know what the problem is now. I know what the
6:32 problem is now. We need an amp and then we need a couple more adapter cables and
6:36 we're going to be able to get the audio like bang on. Uh the issue is that this
6:41 Juice Link amp kind of sounds like poo. It's the one that we use whenever we
6:45 film things on the Blackmagic camera and everyone complains. So I got the levels
6:50 sounding really good on this one. Um and so that that didn't quite work though
6:55 because it just sounds kind of poopy. And then I tried an objective two, but
6:58 they're not really meant to be used this way. So, uh, it didn't really work. I
7:02 need balanced inputs and outputs in order for it to to work properly. The
7:07 whole chain has to be kind of the same thing. And then I didn't have the right XLR to uh quarterinch adapters and all
7:12 that. So, it just didn't quite work. But guys, it is definitely going to happen.
7:17 Also, as for the white balance, I'm actually not sure. I think that is a bit
7:21 of a I think that is a bit of a problemmo. But uh we're just gonna have
7:26 to go with it because welcome to the W
7:31 show where we go live at some time. That's
7:35 somewhere around 4:30 and hopefully things are okay and the color's wrong
7:38 and the audio sucks. Yeah,
7:43 whatever. Screw you guys. No, we love you guys. Please keep watching. Please
7:47 don't leave. Please don't leave. I need you.
7:50 Oh, speaking of the W show, uh, and technical difficulties. All right. How
7:55 much you want to bet? We get a blue screen. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Don't do it yet. Don't do it yet. Hold on.
7:59 Okay. And hit it.
8:02 Oh, that's interesting.
8:07 That was so not expected. So, that's probably Yeah. No, I I get it. I get it.
8:11 I get it. We got to add Boom. There we go. All right. Hold on. Hold on. Hold
8:15 on. Hold on. Not yet. Not yet. Oh, I got you. Yeah. No, no, it's fine.
8:21 We're all good. We're all good. You're good. All right. Hit it.
8:25 And then Yes. Look at us in that corner over there. That's adorable. You're like
8:30 a You're like a cute little ogre. A I didn't have colored hair then. What
8:35 were they called? Were they ogres? Uh oh, no. Trolls. Trolls. Okay. Okay. No.
8:39 If someone here was a troll, it would be me. So, all right. So, we may have a
8:46 wireless standard coming. Oh my gosh. That is theoretically faster than any
8:51 wired standard that we can get at a consumer level. And I got to kind of sit
8:57 here and wonder what is the point of
9:00 these faster and faster wireless standards when they never work right
9:05 anyway. Can you please all focus your I know
9:09 that wireless is exciting and Intel had that whole thing where they're like
9:13 wireless by 20 what was it 2016 or 2018
9:17 would like replace everything or whatever I was 7 Gbit per second thing.
9:21 They want your display and your peripherals to all be wireless. And I'm
9:25 kind of sitting there looking looking at that going, "Okay, so Intel, out of one side of your mouth, you're going
9:29 wireless everything and out of the other side of your mouth, you're working with
9:32 with Apple on the Mac Pro, which is like
9:36 the octopus of wires." Well, maybe the
9:39 idea is that a Mac Pro released around that time wouldn't have to be an Oculus
9:43 octopus of wires. Hold on. Hold that
9:46 thought. Wireless octopus.
9:51 New Think Geek item. me like just like
9:55 randomly crawls around your desk and annoys your cat. You know, I was looking
9:58 into it because I have a bit of a I have a bit of an infatuation with remote
10:03 controls gear. And as much as I am a
10:07 crappy heli pilot, I'm actually I'm no
10:10 I'm a better plane pilot than a heli pilot, but not by much. And cars, I
10:15 basically have never really used a decent one. So, I'm I'm definitely not
10:19 good with those. So, but I still I I love that stuff. I geek out over it. So,
10:23 I was looking to see if you can get a really sweet RC submarine
10:29 because I actually built one in my grade
10:33 11 technology class. Like, we did it as a project. So, we made them out of PVC
10:37 and then what you'd do is you'd put as much styrofoam as you need to make it
10:41 neutally buoyant once you have your motors and your uh and your wires and
10:45 everything on it. And we actually made fully functional submarines. Like,
10:49 everyone in the class made one. Uh we we made our own watertight motors out of
10:54 film canisters. It's funny cuz my son won't even know what a film canister is.
10:58 Yeah, I know. But they're so useful for that kind of stuff. Out of film canisters and then wax seals with motors
11:04 inside them so they stay dry and they could actually move in every direction.
11:08 So we had XYZ axis movement. And um the
11:12 thing I didn't like about them though was that obviously some kind of a
11:16 wireless transmitter that's going to be able to punch through water is going to
11:20 be either non-existent or very expensive. So we were stuck with a wired
11:24 control. So no matter how perfectly neutally buoyant you made the thing, as
11:28 it moved up in the water, there would be more weight on it and as it moved down
11:33 there would be less. So you would never have that that perfect control of it.
11:36 So, I was looking I was I was just like, "Is there a hobbyist grade remote
11:40 control submarine that you could put like a GoPro on?" Because it's the kind
11:44 of thing you'd use once. I was gonna say, "But the the GoPro part of that would be really cool." You'd be like,
11:48 "Yeah, this is cool. Now, I'll never do it again." But like whatever it would
11:52 be, but you can kind of go diving with it. Yeah, kind of. Yeah. Yeah. You could
11:55 go see like fish or stuff. You take it with you on vacation or whatever. Maybe
11:58 not once, but not that often. But they don't really have anything. So, speaking
12:02 of Yeah, just wireless basically not working. So anyway, Huawei has tested
12:06 Wi-Fi based on future standard 802.118X that can hit 10.5 gigabit per
12:12 second. So that's about 10 times faster than what you typically get out of 80
12:17 2.11 AC connection today. This was posted by Querty Warrior on the forum.
12:22 The trick, the company says, is making more efficient use of the airwaves.
12:27 Thank you for that highly technical elaborate explanation of the trick,
12:30 Huawei. The new technology is smarter at allocating wireless spectrum, juggling
12:34 data between multiple antennas, and cutting back on interference. They don't
12:38 even have to switch to ultra high frequencies to make the magic happen. It
12:42 works at 5 GHz, which is great because an inherent property of those higher
12:47 frequency signals is that the range will be shorter. So, it's good that we don't
12:52 have to go any higher than that. Uh, you're still a long way from picking one
12:56 of these up. They figure that they may hit the market sometime in
13:01 2018. I guess it's just frustrating because wireless is getting all these
13:06 developments dumped into it and we're still using gigabit wired.
13:12 Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? We're trying to move away from
13:18 that. Yeah, we're trying to move away from it, but it's extremely expensive
13:21 and no one's really putting the effort into making it affordable. The cabling
13:24 is not that bad. No, the wiring is fine.
13:28 It's the switches and the adapters.
13:31 Yeah. That you'll spend a ton of money on. And it's frustrating because you heard JJ talking about it. What did he
13:35 say? It was going to add about $150 to the bomb cost of a motherboard 200. So,
13:40 if they can integrate it onto a motherboard for $150, where's my $150
13:44 Nick? Or $165, $170, whatever the case
13:48 may be. Like, no one's even really making an effort. they're content to
13:52 just let it sit there as a high-end solution forever. And I really think
13:57 that with SSDs increasing in speed the way that they are, looking at how NVMe,
14:02 so that's the replacement for AHCI, the communication protocol by which the SSD
14:07 communicates with your system. So looking at what they can do with NVMe in
14:10 terms of improving throughput and reducing latency, there's no reason why
14:15 two PCs on the same network with a couple of high-speed PCI Express or M.2
14:19 Two SSDs couldn't be transferring files to each other at like two gigabytes per
14:23 second. Like, let's do this. Let's do
14:26 it. Did I say two gigabytes per second? Cuz what I meant to say was like 200
14:30 megabytes per second, you know. Actually, a lot more than that. 500,
14:33 600,00 not 200. Yeah. Not Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Yes.
14:38 So, that never happened. There's a few numbers in there that you should ignore.
14:42 The numbers you should be paying attention to are we could easily be doing 500 plus megabyt per second
14:46 transfers across a network. um straight from drive to drive which is very very
14:51 cool. All right. Now this this topic
14:55 this is an interesting this is an interesting topic. The thing that can do
14:59 all the things. Now I really liked what
15:03 was it the uh the transformer book duo
15:06 or trio. the one that you could just press a button to switch between and
15:12 where the where the Android and Windows operating systems were actually running
15:16 off of the same drive like it was more like a dual boot. This is a little bit
15:21 different my friends. So the Transformer Book V or five I'm assuming let's say
15:27 five. Pretty sure five. Okay, it's a five in one. It's an Android tablet, an
15:33 Android smartphone, a Windows tablet, a
15:37 Windows laptop, and something. A Windows phone,
15:43 Android, Windows. What the hell is this thing? So, basically, it's everything.
15:47 You can you what you do is I'm going to Here, I'm going to blow up this picture
15:51 off a little bit here. Yeah, you can you can click the phone in the back and you
15:54 can click the screen to the keyboard. Yes. So, much like previous
15:58 Transformers, there is a hard drive down here in the keyboard because there's
16:02 only an SSD up here in the tablet piece. You've also got an extended battery in
16:07 the tablet, I believe. So, the phone has
16:10 You know what? Here, I'm just going to go I'm going to go back to my uh to my
16:13 cheat sheet for this thing here. So, yeah. So, there's a 2500 millia battery
16:19 in the phone and then a 4,000 some odd millah battery in the tablet, I believe.
16:25 unless that's in the keyboard. This is the most confusing thing ever. The point
16:28 is the phone has a 1080p screen and actually um a pretty high-end spec as
16:34 far as phones are concerned. And then the tablet is a 12 1/2 in IPS display
16:38 and everything kind of slots into everything. The tablet itself doesn't
16:42 have Android running off of it. That's actually going to run off of the phone
16:46 hardware. So, it's it's a Windows laptop
16:49 and an Android phone essentially that can just like slowly come together.
16:55 Yeah, this thing is like freaking bizarro though. It's kind of cool. I am
17:02 less on board with this one than I am
17:06 with the uh the last one that we looked at to be perfectly honest. I I just But
17:11 didn't they get booted out of that for some reason? Yes. But that was such an
17:15 elegant solution because you had one set of hardware. So on the same Atom
17:20 processor, you could run your Android OS or your Windows OS and you could switch
17:24 between them in like three or four steamboats. Whereas this one, you can
17:29 switch between them, but it's more like using one as a display off of which the
17:34 other one's running. They're not actually running on the same hardware.
17:38 So, it's an Intel Atom CPU in the tablet and then it's a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800
17:43 or something like that in the other piece. So, my notes for this one
17:48 actually aren't that uh aren't that
17:51 complete. And of course, F doesn't work in Internet
17:56 Explorer because I'm a genius and I'm using Internet Explorer. Everyone rips
18:00 on you about that like every single show. I don't think it's listed. Yeah,
18:04 it's not listed. I was I was looking at a couple of different articles where it has a little bit more information than
18:08 the Gizmodo one. So, okay, that would explain why I can't find it.
18:14 So, tell me guys, it's in terms of device
18:17 convergence, would you want a a a dummy
18:23 device like this? Something that uh I think I think if it makes sense
18:28 financially, I could see myself doing it. Like if I wanted all these things
18:33 and for some reason had to refresh them all at the exact same time, which is
18:38 weird and it like made sense financially, then I could see myself
18:42 spending money on it if it's actually a good device. I think we'd have to use it
18:47 first. And this is going to be something that I definitely want to see in the store if I was a random consumer because
18:52 I'd want to like actually try clicking it in and make sure that the phone is
18:56 not just going to like fall out of the back and other things like that that I
19:00 would want to try. I don't know. Okay,
19:03 so here we go. We've got a summary from ASUS up now. So it is a Windows
19:09 notebook, a Windows tablet, an Android
19:12 phone, an Android tablet, and an Android
19:15 laptop. So that is how the whole thing
19:19 works. And the detachable Android
19:22 smartphone is detachable. So that's the
19:25 piece that is not not Windows phone at
19:29 all. So this is interesting. Okay. Okay.
19:32 Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. So it wasn't a Qualcomm chip on the uh on
19:36 the phone. That's actually that's actually very interesting. So, it is an
19:39 Atom quad core on the phone and then it is a nextG core processor on the
19:45 notebook/t piece itself. So, this gives
19:48 us a much better rundown of the overall specs. So, 64 up to 64 gigs on the phone
19:53 up to 128 gigs on the tablet with the 1
19:57 TBTE one being detachable in the keyboard. There we go. Much more clear.
20:02 Maybe next time we should go to the manufacturer site in the first place.
20:06 So, I really hope we get a unit of this cuz I'd definitely be interested in
20:09 checking it out and giving it a shot. I
20:12 should probably let them know that we'd be interested in checking it out.
20:16 Speaking of things that we're interested in checking out, ASUS has been doing
20:20 their pad phones, so phones made by
20:23 ASUS, Android phones, for a while in other markets. Uh, Taiwan in particular,
20:28 you've been able to get a pad phone for like a couple of years now. Quite a while. Yeah. Um, it gets covered in the
20:33 North American media a little bit, but understandably not much because they
20:36 haven't been available here. But it's finally coming. So, this is probably
20:41 where I got that Snapdragon thing that was sitting in my head because this one
20:45 does use a Snapdragon 800 processor. But, basically, it's a high-end phone.
20:49 It's going to be $200 with a contract.
20:53 And, uh, we are definitely getting a unit for review. So, it's got a 5 in
20:57 screen, 1920 x 12. Wait, hold on a second. Right. Sorry. This one, no
21:02 wonder I was confused. This one's a phone and it docks to a tablet. But in
21:06 this one, the tablet is just a dummy.
21:09 Yeah, it's basically just a screen except that it also has keyboard and
21:14 it's probably cheaper. Yeah. So, this one is a 2,300 mAh battery in the phone
21:18 and a 4990 mAh battery in the tablet. So, you put them together and what do
21:22 you got? Bippity bobbity bop. Bigger battery.
21:26 Um, fascinating. I I mean, okay, we need to
21:30 create a straw poll for this or something. Can you get a straw poll going? So, are you interested in a phone
21:36 that merges with a tablet? And guys,
21:40 give us your thoughts on Twitter as well. Just hit me at Linus Techch. We're
21:43 going to do a Twitter blitz on this. What would you need to see? So, between
21:47 the notebook that has an Android operating system and a window Wind
21:51 Windows operating system running on two completely separate pieces of hardware
21:54 and it's like notebook/tabt/detachable phone versus
21:58 the Padphone X, which is a phone with like a tablet dock that the phone goes
22:04 into. Uh, so anyway, the phone has a 1080p screen. The tablet's got a 9 in
22:08 screen. The whole thing runs Android. They're claiming up to 10 hours of
22:11 battery life for video playback. And
22:15 what an interesting device. I'm actually really looking forward to checking this
22:18 out. Results so far are extremely even at 51% and 49%. Wow. I think this is the
22:24 most even poll we've ever had. Holy
22:27 balls. Okay. Well, we'll give you guys the results of that. If you can I am
22:31 that over to me, then I'll check it out in a moment. But guys, we've got some pictures here that I want to put up on
22:35 the screen from the end gadget article about the Padphone X. So, here's the way
22:40 that the phone and as you can see, it'll be on the AT&T network. So, here's the
22:43 way that the phone docks into the back of the pad phone station, which is the 9
22:49 in 16x10 1920 x 1200
22:53 tablet. For 200 bucks on contract, would
22:58 you accept a little bit of a reduction
23:01 in terms of like fancy specs and features like what you might get on an
23:05 HTC 1M8 for a more basic phone, but one
23:09 that comes with a tablet now that you've actually spent some time using a tablet?
23:15 Probably not. I know. I know that might sound
23:19 surprising because I was paying for the tablet, but that tablet was only 200
23:23 bucks in itself. But this is 200 bucks on contract and the tablety part comes
23:28 with your phone that you are. And let's assume you already need a phone. Yeah.
23:32 But then at the same time, uh, independent batteries is kind of nice.
23:36 They do have independent batteries. Can the tablet charge the phone?
23:44 Like I'm not sure exactly how it works or does it just just run off the battery
23:47 on the tablet? Hard to say. Hard to say. It can run
23:52 independently is kind of nice as well. Yeah. Which it can't. Yeah, because like
23:57 I don't know. There's Wow, it's exactly 50/50. What the heck? Um I I put it in
24:01 the dock so you can find it. It's right under this topic. But I being able to
24:05 run it independently is nice. Uh that way like if someone's over and you have
24:09 your Chromecast set up to be able to stream things off your tablet, they can
24:12 be looking at your tablet and you can still have usability of your phone.
24:16 Other things like that would be nice. Um if it's going to be like $50
24:21 more compared to buying an equivalent phone and you just get this tablet dock
24:25 thing as well, I think that's pretty cool and I'd probably go for that, which
24:28 does kind of make sense and sounds like what it actually is. So I'd probably be
24:32 I'd probably be down. Wow. But I'm not super into buying phones on contract
24:36 anymore anyways. That's exactly 50/50. Well, no is technically winning, but
24:41 like yeah, not by much. If anyone hasn't
24:44 uh Yeah, if anyone hasn't voted yet, we can go ahead and pop that in there
24:49 again. But that is absolutely amazing. So, it looks like there's definitely
24:53 some interest in the whole tablet phone merger thing, but it remains to be seen
24:58 if anyone other than ASUS has the uh has
25:01 the wherewithal or the willingness or
25:04 whatever you would call it. Yeah. wants to make one. I mean, it's the kind of
25:08 thing you could see Samsung kind of going, "Oh, something we didn't think
25:12 of. Let's make one, too." And then so everything that Samsung does. Yeah,
25:16 pretty much. It's like an idea. We're
25:19 not sure if it's good or not, but let's make sure that we're cover our bases and
25:23 make really bad commercials to go along with them. Oh, that, you know, they were
25:27 on a roll for a bit. That whole next best thing was great and then it their
25:32 most recent one that they will not stop playing on YouTube is actually pretty
25:36 okay. Is it okay? I haven't seen that one yet. All right. It's for
25:41 um their their their watch and their phone at the same time in one
25:45 commercial. Okay. But it's like it's not that bad. It's it's fairly upbeat. It
25:48 doesn't have a terrible story line like the one with the guy picking up the
25:51 chick with his smartwatch. Yeah. Yeah. None of that kind of stuff. It's just
25:55 it's it's just kind of an upbeat commercial in itself. That was really hard to watch. It was It was like
26:00 painful. All right. So, let's uh So, it looks like No is actually winning now,
26:03 but only by 2%. Let's hit the Twitters. All right.
26:07 Okay. All that Twitter interaction that we often forget to do sometimes these
26:12 days. It's on a crazy angle. Do you want me to turn it? Uh, sorry. Do you want me to turn this? Sure. Yeah, that couldn't
26:17 hurt. Whoa. That's kind of trippy when someone turns the monitor while you're
26:21 holding the mouse still. It's like, "Oh, my mouse is moving, man."
26:26 Oh, wow. Whoa, man.
26:32 All right. So, the original phone pad distributes the battery power evenly.
26:36 Not sure if the new one does, though. That's interesting. So, either one could charge off the other, I guess, right?
26:40 That would be kind of cool, actually. Okay. Craig says, "Not a fan of the
26:44 combination of the two. If one breaks, then I have half a tablet. I don't see
26:48 the benefit to having them connect. Okay, that's interesting. But I mean, by
26:51 that logic, um that's not really why buy a stereo that has both left and right
26:56 speakers because then if one of the speakers fails, you only have half a
26:59 stereo. That's not even right because they disconnect. Yeah. If one of them
27:03 breaks, you either have a tablet and not a phone or you have a phone and not a
27:06 tablet. You will never Well, because the tablet won't work without the phone. So,
27:09 you've either got a phone and no tablet or you have nothing. So, if your phone
27:13 breaks, you're totally screwed. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know that that's not
27:17 really I have my Pad phone X pre-ordered. I get an almost
27:21 top-of-the-line phone and tablet on one data plan. That That's a good point.
27:25 That's a very good point. That's a very good point. The data plan point because
27:28 for some reason the wireless carriers are still determined to fleece us on the
27:34 whole idea that we should be able to use our data across multiple devices. It's
27:39 like I I just stuff so annoying stuff battles
27:45 that were won you know a hundred years ago like you know
27:50 I actually now that I think of it it's
27:53 not that different from other things. I mean, you look at
27:57 um you look at the way that your cable TV provider once you switched off of
28:02 analog where you could just use splitters and they kind of like were
28:06 like, "Oh yeah, you need a digital box. Rent another digital box for every TV.
28:11 Yeah, it costs extra." Um yeah, I guess
28:14 that's just the way everything's going. You have to subscribe per device rather
28:18 than per person. It's very annoying. Except Except for Netflix. So, you just
28:22 have to subscribe per device that's streaming at that point in time. It's
28:26 whatever works out better for whoever's providing it to you. So, you look at
28:29 something like Windows. If I could license Windows per person, I'd be
28:32 thrilled. And that's per device. And then you look at actually, what is per
28:37 person? Oh, boy. Well, isn't uh Adobe
28:42 Creative Cloud technically per person? Oh, yeah. That's per person, but it's
28:45 just not infinite amount of devices. It's like three or something. Two. Yeah,
28:48 two devices. So, basically, it's like uh but you can bounce around. You just
28:51 can't be logged in working on that many at one time. That's all. Okay. If they
28:56 can make the phone not protrude so weirdly and the specs are still solid
28:59 and the battery is good, I'd get a combo dealio. You know, I don't see how they
29:04 would do that anytime soon though. Unless it was more like the phone kind
29:07 of clips on because you're going to want the tablet to be really thin and you're
29:11 going to want the phone to have support while it's clipped in. Unless it was
29:15 like unless there was Yeah, I can't think of a good way to do
29:20 that. Not really. We're also not engineers though.
29:24 I would be interested in a phone tablet hybrid, but I feel if the tab is 9 in,
29:28 the phone is a bit too big at 5 in. 5 in
29:31 is not that big of a phone these days, though, which is funny to me because I
29:35 still think weird. I still find it big cuz my hands are still small. They
29:39 didn't change because screen sizes
29:42 became a fad that got bigger. Um, and I
29:46 find 9 in is a pretty comfortable size for a tablet. That's only a little bit
29:50 smaller than the iPad. So, really, I didn't say anything. 9 in
29:56 is a comfortable size for a tablet. I didn't even pause suggesting. I didn't
30:00 say anything. You can click in whatever you want. Will says, "I would need to
30:04 see a quad core on everything. Greater than six pounds total weight." What are
30:10 you asking for? Why would you want a sixb tablet?
30:15 All right, Will, you're done. I think he's done his things wrong. Most phones
30:21 have the specs to power a tablet anyway. Yeah, it's basically the same hardware.
30:24 I mean, you look at the Apple side of things. They're just putting the same chips in their phones and their tablets.
30:28 Makes sense for them to converge, but only if it's cheaper than two devices.
30:31 And if you're saving money on the hardware and on the data plan, and
30:36 basically you're just buying another screen in a shell, then there's definitely a savings to be had there.
30:40 Yeah. Yeah. As a mobile game developer, I need
30:45 top-end hardware. Both of these are clearly lacking high-end CPUs and
30:51 GPUs. Um, in what way? Because there's
30:57 actually only one CPU and one GPU. The tablet doesn't have one. So, this is
31:03 running a Hold on. If I can find it. Yes. Does he mean both of these as in
31:07 the tablet dock and the phone, or is he talking about this and the Transformer
31:12 5? I'm not sure. It's very hard for me to say at this point in time. Um, but
31:16 yeah, it's a Snapdragon 800, so it's not it's I mean, it doesn't get a whole load
31:22 faster than that in terms of a mobile CPU. I mean, the 805 is marginally
31:27 better at certain things, but it's not a quantum lead forward or anything like
31:32 that, so I don't see that making much of a difference. All right, should we move
31:35 on to our next topic here? Sure. All right. What do we got? the monitor that
31:41 you're probably going to be excited about. Actually, believe it or not, I'm
31:45 not. Or are we gonna Nope. Nope. We're going to keep doing topics. Uh, why not?
31:49 Oh, is there a monitor that I will be excited about? No, I I was just saying
31:53 like it seemed to be one big call of ASUS topics. Well, it was Computex.
31:58 Computex is a big show for Taiwanese companies, so it makes a lot of sense
32:01 that ASUS would have had a lot going on there. So, why not? This is the PA 328Q.
32:08 It's a 32 inch 4K. So that's 138 pixels per inch. Factory calibrated just like
32:13 ProArts tend to be 10 bit color, 100%
32:17 sRGB, wide color gamut capable. It's got
32:20 three HDMI inputs, one of which supports MHL, so you can output off your phone to
32:24 your monitor, as if anyone's ever done that ever. Um, I was corrected about
32:28 that today, by the I was telling um the wheels over at NCIX that I think that
32:34 tablets outputting to TVs doesn't matter
32:38 because chcast is sort of a thing.
32:42 And yeah, and he's like, "Nope, I do it all the time." Why? I I couldn't quite
32:47 understand what he was talking about, but basically I concluded that he's
32:51 drunk. Okay. I was like, "So, how are you proved wrong here? I don't
32:55 understand." So, what's exciting about this one, even though ASUS doesn't have
32:59 a clear idea of when exactly it will be released or what exactly the price will
33:03 be, it will be considerably cheaper than the $3,000 PQ series. Um, which was
33:10 launched actually, I believe the first time we saw it was Computex last year. I
33:13 think so. It's amazing the way prices are dropping on dim 4Ks, eh, it's
33:18 exciting. Yeah, it's might actually be reasonable at some point in time. And in
33:22 terms of the actual display quality, well, it's not 100% clear what it'll be
33:27 right now. They're not actually telling us what panel type it'll be, but 10 bit
33:31 color, factory color calibrated, this could actually be anything. Hard to say.
33:35 Anyway, this is the same size as that one. Has a whack ton of inputs, is much
33:40 much cheaper, and should be landing sometime in the next sort of little
33:44 while. Uh, but they're ending they're aiming for about half the price of the
33:48 older PQ. So, we should be looking at like 1500 to 2,000ish, somewhere in that
33:54 range. So, why not interested? Uh, because I just don't care about 4K
33:58 anymore. Oh, because you want your wide format. Yeah, I'm done. 4K is
34:04 until scaling is fixed.
34:07 Yeah. Then I I can't I can't bring myself to use it. I'm not going to
34:12 upgrade to a display that makes some
34:15 things look extremely sharp and other things look worse than before and some
34:20 things incredibly hard to read and weird website formatting and all this other
34:24 stuff and all that stuff that that you know Microsoft and application
34:29 developers really needed to be working on over the last few years as opposed to
34:35 oh 4K is here oh I guess we better do
34:39 something. Some of them are reacting, some just aren't. Some just aren't
34:43 reacting at all. And that that kind of attitude is what sets Apple apart. And I
34:47 know I come across as a bit of an Apple fanboy, but some of the things that they
34:51 do are really, really good and they're
34:54 good things. the fact that they figured out how to make scaling work properly on
34:59 their oss before rolling out the hardware that supports it or at the same
35:04 like put just putting in the work to make sure that things actually function
35:07 the way that they intend is uh is the kind of thing I feel like I should be
35:11 able to take for granted but I know that
35:14 I can't not at all not on our platforms. So speaking of Apple shilling yeah iOS 8
35:21 actually pretty pretty excited to try iOS 8. Um, some of the stuff here
35:26 doesn't look that interesting. I mean, HomeKit is going to be really excit
35:30 Okay, McAfee, just screw off. Um,
35:33 HomeKit is going to be either a massive
35:36 success in the future or there's going to be something else that completely
35:41 destroys it and is way better, but that's Apple's Apple's way of
35:45 integrating their device with home automation stuff like your blinds or
35:49 your thermostat or your door lock. um they're building security into it so
35:54 that the theory is that no one can unlock your door except you. What's I
35:58 mean what's interesting is with that whole thing with people remotely locking
36:03 iPhones and then holding them for ransom. Um, that was that was one thing,
36:11 but oh my god, breaking into people's
36:14 phones and breaking into people
36:17 basically breaking into someone's ecosystem of digital devices is going to
36:23 be a really scary thing. You know what would be interesting would be offline
36:28 phones like having having a phone which
36:31 is like your public phone which you don't store anything super crazy on. Are
36:35 you a drug dealer? And then having like a phone that you don't put a SIM card
36:38 in. Do you often cheat on women? What? Why are you Why is two phones your
36:43 solution to every problem? You've been watching too much Breaking Bad. I do
36:46 that a lot, too. I have two phones right now. Anyways,
36:51 um no to both those questions. But seriously, you could have one that's set
36:55 up for all your home automation and everything. Yes. Does not connect to the
36:59 internet. Okay. So, you don't have to worry nearly as much about getting
37:02 hijacked. These could still possibly get hijacked through other devices or
37:05 whatever, but it's going to be extremely difficult and it would probably have to be targeted directly at you instead of
37:09 just a random I think this is an incredibly stupid solution to the
37:13 problem. Wow. Why? That's so mean.
37:17 Because it's the same reason no one Okay, basically what mobile phones have
37:22 huge security holes. So completely removing that security hole is helpful.
37:28 at basically what you're suggesting is we bring back the PDA
37:33 kind of an offline phone. Yeah. No. Why?
37:38 Because it's stupid. Well, if you're worried about your house getting hijacked, a straw pole. Okay, fine. A
37:43 straw pole. Offline. Offline phones. Do they need to be a thing or is Slick an
37:48 idiot? Those can be the only two options. Yes, we need these. Luke is an
37:54 idiot. I'm going to get destroyed.
38:01 Sometimes you don't think before you talk. No, I actually still agree with
38:04 this though. But it doesn't have to be a phone. It could be just like a a a
38:08 device that can control these. Okay. But I think the kind of device you're
38:12 thinking of is just is like is is like
38:15 way overkill. What I see happening is what that's what I mean. It doesn't have
38:19 to be Yeah. But like whatever it is, it should be some device that has no
38:24 internet connectivity and can go with you. I think I would still want a screen. I just want to see a straw pole
38:28 where everyone calls you an idiot. That was that was most of it. I still want a
38:31 screen. That's why I said phone. Would you need a screen once you're more
38:34 immersed in a wearable type of ecosystem? So your glass as of right
38:38 now, I do think so because well glasses can be connected to the internet. If you
38:43 connect your glass to that device, then you're just creating a hole. What if you don't? What if you what if you just go
38:48 like what if you just touch your ring against your glass? It goes into
38:51 airplane mode. Hold on. What if it just acts as a display? So the processing's
38:56 here. Everything is here except just a display link. There's there's no way to
39:01 to my knowledge. There's no way to to hack a DVI connection. Like that's a
39:05 pretty minor issue. I don't really know. So if you if you use that as a control,
39:09 so you basically just had your glass and then you could like gesture or do
39:13 whatever else or type in the air or whatever solutions they end up coming up
39:16 with. I think that's feasible. So a
39:19 wearable is probably the right answer here. But I would still want to I don't know. I don't I don't I don't think
39:24 connecting it to because it's not DVI. I'll tell you what. Tell you what, I
39:28 will I will bring my old HP pocket PC in. But that's not the same and it's not
39:33 helpful. It has because I want I would want it to be
39:37 733 MHz. Oh, no. 533 MHz. I was like,
39:41 that's actually pretty fast. Xcale processor. All right. It's got like uh
39:46 this is not the point though. 128. I can have it connected to my parents house. I
39:50 can have it connected to my house. I could have it connected to say my significant other's house. And then
39:54 whenever I go there, it can recognize me and I can change different things on the
39:58 device, but then it's not connected to the internet. So, I don't have to worry about those things leaking. I have 64
40:03 megs of compact flash storage. Stupid pocket PC. That's not what I'm trying to
40:08 describe. Yeah, that's not the thing in my pocket you care about, I guess. No, it's not. All right, let's go ahead and
40:13 uh Not as many people grilled me as I thought. Okay, where's uh where's our
40:17 straw pole? It's It's Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, bollocks. There we
40:23 go. All right. No, no, no. Where's
40:26 Where's ours? I just posted it. You just keep looking away whenever I post it.
40:30 There you go. There we go. All right. So, let's have a
40:33 look at the results of the poll here. Wow. Actually, you're doing better than
40:36 I thought. 42% of people are blindly
40:41 following you off of the abyss like the lemmings that they are. You just want
40:44 everyone's house to get locked. And
40:48 68% of you are saying that that's basically a stupid idea from a stupid
40:52 658%. Well, I I might have embellished. So,
40:56 they're all following the dude that like can't read anything at all. just adds
41:00 numbers together. You know what? Not being able to read is a specific learning disability that actually you
41:05 have and I don't. That's No, I can still read, right? But slowly. Yes. Yes. But
41:10 that's not what Yeah, that's right. We're making That's not right at all.
41:14 It's getting personal now, And you're just wrong.
41:19 At least I don't wet my pants during the show. I don't What? You said you were so
41:24 sweaty that your pants were wet. Actually, that was me. But that was so
41:27 not true at all. You literally said that
41:30 like last week.
41:34 What? Now you're making Oh man, you're just saying things about yourself and
41:39 then that doesn't even make any sense. I'm projecting.
41:44 Oh my goodness. I'm a troubled person. Um, all right. So, back to iOS 8. It's
41:49 available for developers in beta now and it'll get a full release in the fall. We
41:53 are finally getting third-party keyboards, which is something that I was
41:58 really disappointed about with uh moving from Android back to iOS. Going back to
42:03 being stuck with just one keyboard was was was grinding my gears. And this is
42:08 this is one big step towards me being able to use iOS again. um they do their
42:14 own their own keyboard is also getting some enhanced um functionality in terms
42:18 of an auto prediction that predicts the next word based on people that you're
42:22 talking to and whatever else. Uh so basically like Swift Key except with
42:27 even tighter integration. Um I wonder if
42:30 I wonder if the custom keyboard apps would be able to access that as well. I
42:33 would hope so. I would hope so because that would be nice because I doesn't doesn't iPhone have that thing where it
42:38 like doesn't let you swear and stuff? No. Or can you add it? Can you add a
42:42 dictionary? Okay. I don't I've never extensively used an iPhone, so I don't
42:45 know. Um, so you can reply directly from the notification pull down thing. So you
42:49 got interactive notifications. Um, their mail app, which I never use because the
42:53 Gmail one is way better, has gestures
42:56 for removing, flagging, and such. Their health kit thing is basically Apple
43:01 jumping on the whole bandwagon of, you
43:04 know, heart monitors and whatever. What's kind of cool about health kit is
43:08 you can actually um have your results being automatically sent over to like
43:12 Mayo Clinic or your doctor or something like that. So someone else can be
43:16 helping you helping you track your activity. Um HomeKit I guess is where we
43:21 got sidetracked. Uh photos taken with any iOS 8 device will be available via
43:26 iCloud. So it's like okay kind of like
43:30 Bit Torrent Sync or Dropbox or Dropbox or whatever. Um, 200 gigs of iCloud is
43:35 3.99. Siri now has Shazam integration,
43:38 which is pretty cool because opening up Shazam was a lot of work. And then
43:43 finally, it's coming to the iPhone 4S or newer. And get this, the iPad 2 is
43:49 getting iOS 8. That's actually kind of interesting. That is fantastic. They do
43:52 some pretty crazy stuff in terms of backwards compatibility. I mean, that's
43:56 great. I have tablets from that era that
43:59 are running like 4.0. Yeah.
44:02 That's great. It's like kind of brutal. I I I actually I'm I'm more interested
44:07 in the Shazam integration than I think you are because it would be nice like
44:10 especially if you're driving, you don't want to touch your phone. You don't want to go open Shazam and you don't want to
44:15 be like Siri, open Shazam or whatever.
44:19 Okay, you're probably right because you said they're they're adding hello Siri
44:23 kind of support, aren't they? Hey Siri. Hey Siri. Yeah. So, if if you can do
44:26 completely handsless, like touchless completely without any worrying, that
44:31 would be kind of nice to be able to check songs and stuff. Yeah, you're pro you're probably right. It's probably a
44:34 bigger deal than I'm giving it credit for because it is something that I use a
44:38 fair bit because I don't really pay attention to celebrities and No, me
44:42 neither. Releases. I I'll just be like I'll be in the mall and some horrible
44:46 song will be on the radio and I'll be like, "Wow, that sounds great.
44:52 What is it?" Yeah, I hear you. That's funny. I got to
44:57 get me some of that some of that top 40.
45:01 All right. Should we save uh let's save the Microsoft promises to do more for PC
45:05 gaming for later. So, first up is Cortana. Oh my god, I'm so excited. I'm
45:10 actually stoked for this. Do you want to cover this one? Cuz uh sure. the the
45:15 I've been super super interested in voice controlling devices for quite a
45:19 while now and I've been waiting for Cortana announcements and being able to
45:24 listen to it more in depth and see them talk about it and all that kind of stuff. So I was super excited to see
45:28 this. If you go to this website either I think both of them have it but N Gadget
45:33 or VG247 um you can you can listen to audio clips
45:37 of her talking. Uh, it's it's essentially the answer to Google Now and
45:41 Siri for Windows phone, and I think they're adding it to Xbox as well. But
45:46 she should be able to have casual conversations with you as well, which is
45:49 fairly interesting and creepy. It's creepy, but not necessarily because if
45:54 she could I'm old and afraid of technology, so it's kind of creepy. But
45:57 go ahead. Okay. I don't think it's that creepy, but I guess I'm not not as old
46:01 as Linus is. I just don't expect it to work very well cuz there they like in
46:06 the articles they have examples. of like kind of cheeky things that she'll say
46:10 like if you ask her if she's better than Siri, she says, "Not to brag, but
46:14 apparently I'll help save the universe in about 500 years." And I'm just kind
46:18 of like, "Yeah, but all those are like anything that relies on a pre-programmed
46:23 response is always going to not be that
46:26 great. It's like it's like bullet holes in the side of a house in a game. Until
46:31 we get to the point where the wood dynamically breaks upon impact from the
46:36 bullet, it's going to look like a video game. Yeah. Yeah. True. Sorry. Go ahead.
46:41 But uh because it's all in server, they're planning on adding things like
46:46 uh jokes and all this kind of stuff as time goes on. Every two weeks, I think they were saying. Yeah. So things like
46:51 it can go along with current events. So if you ask it about current events, it
46:54 can have topical things to say about all that kind of stuff. So, while you're
46:58 completely right and it's going to add this weird thing where like you could
47:02 ask her the same question a billion times and she's probably going to say the same thing every time and that's
47:06 going to sound a little weird weird like same thing down to the letter. Yeah. So,
47:10 and that might be a little bit weird and a little bit disconnecting. They're they're they're going to be adding to it
47:14 all the time which should help that a lot and and you're kind of right at the
47:17 same time. There's going to be this disconnect. The conversations aren't going to feel supernatural. That kind of
47:21 stuff. I'm I'm sure that's going to happen but this is the start. I also
47:25 just don't really have any desire to converse with my phone. Not really.
47:31 If it could like I don't know because I really really like um Okay, Google. Now
47:36 what's up? Yeah, but it's horrible. It
47:39 is so terrible and it is not useful and
47:44 Okay, you you might have to you might have to sort of I don't have my phone
47:47 on. I wish I could do I would do a live demo, but I don't. Um, it's I'll go like
47:52 I'll have some emails and some text messages and whatever and I'm like, "Okay, Google Now, what's up?" And it's
47:57 like, "Hello, Luke. The time is 6:47
48:00 p.m. You have two emails. Subject line blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
48:04 blah. Okay, done. You have text messages from done. Okay, bye." It's like, what?
48:08 That was what? Where's the interactivity? How do I say, "Oh, hey,
48:11 reply to that message." I can't respond to anything. I don't I don't need to
48:15 know the time every single time. Uh the the longest part of her talking to me is
48:19 her making sure that she takes time in between words saying, "Hello, Luke. The
48:24 time is blah blah blah." Then once she gets to her email, she blurts email and
48:28 text messages. She blurts out things super fast. Doesn't always read them
48:32 correctly. Um like rifles through it. Doesn't say who it's from. Like I'll get
48:36 text, it'll be like, "You have a text message. Body of the message doesn't say
48:42 who it's from. Can't reply to it." I'm just like, "What?" I what I was like
48:47 subject line I want you so bad right now and it's like who is this from? There
48:51 could be a dozen different people.
48:54 Such a player. What? Oh my god. Okay. Anyways, but like
49:00 there there are a lot of messages that aren't like that that could be from
49:03 anyone. Um so I don't it's it's annoying and like if someone sends me a text
49:07 message that's like, "Hey, are you on the way?" This is the time where it
49:11 would be amazingly helpful. My phone goes off and says I have a text message.
49:14 Okay, Google. Now, what's up? Blah blah blah blah blah says, "Hey, are you on
49:18 the way?" Oh, respond. Yeah, I'm just driving.
49:23 That would be amazing. Well, one of the problems that I have with with that I've
49:27 had with Google's voice activation in general, and they fixed one of them
49:31 recently, to their credit, like I got to I got to give them props for this, was
49:35 the way their voice dialing used to work is you'd say, "Call whoever work or
49:40 mobile," and it would say, "Do you want to call blah blah blah?" Yes. Or I think
49:45 No, no, I think it was um calling whoever. Uh would you like to call blah
49:50 blah blah work? Would you like to call blah blah blah mobile? Call this one.
49:54 Like it didn't just let you do it in one go. And then it say and then then I
49:58 think it would ask you to confirm or something like that. I'm like
50:01 no just when I say it just do it. And I
50:05 think I think part of and they fix that now. Right. Oh, and I think with uh like
50:10 Moto X, I think you can have it detect if you're driving. And if you're
50:14 driving, I think it will do a little bit better than Okay, Google Now does,
50:19 right? But then and then like Okay, Google Now isn't even on a massive
50:23 amount of devices. So what? Yeah, it's just on
50:27 Moto X right now. Yeah, to my knowledge. So like what? And it's just Okay,
50:32 Google. You don't have to say Google now anymore. I don't think I've tried that.
50:35 Oh, it's not working for you. Maybe it just doesn't like my voice for when I say that. Could be because you and I
50:39 have had apparently lots of problems with Google Now that no one else in the
50:43 entire universe has had. So anyway, I'm gonna give I'll give Windows Phone 8
50:47 another crack uh once Cortana rolls out. It's been over a year since I've tried
50:51 it. Um that was back when Windows Phone 8 was first kind of rolling out. And uh
50:55 I'm I'm pretty excited about it. I I'd like to see what what it's like and I
50:59 don't know that it's going to convince me to switch back to Windows Phone. In
51:02 fact, I sincerely doubt it. But with some of the great devices available on
51:06 Windows Phone, like Nokia's latest flagship, which I can't remember what
51:09 it's called, but it's really good. It's got a great camera. Um,
51:14 and Nokia's latest. Okay, so there's only one, but that's okay. I'm I'm still
51:19 I still really want to try it out. Uh, what else we got here? All
51:24 right. Should we get into Microsoft is going to do more for PC gaming? Really,
51:28 this time it's different. They're like an abusive spouse at this point. All
51:31 right. So, this was originally posted on the
51:35 forum by some sort of action here. I I
51:41 whatever you go be a Microsoft fanboy
51:44 until I see some kind of action. I'm on your side. Are you on my side? Because
51:49 it didn't seem like it before when you were suggesting that we all start carrying PDAs around again.
51:56 And that was why I had to abuse you.
52:00 I hope you realize this is your fault. This is not a good way to go. Oh my god.
52:08 This is why I have to hit you. This hurts me more than you.
52:14 Horrible. Okay, that was awful. Not all right. Okay, so Microsoft's recent
52:20 acquisition of the PC ccentric Rise of Nations franchise is just the first step
52:24 in Microsoft's efforts to do more in the PC game, also known as only. According
52:29 to Xbox boss Phil Spencer, a fan asked Spencer on Twitter why Microsoft had
52:33 acquired Rise of Nations and announced a re-release for Steam to which the veteran Xbox boss said, "Steam is a
52:38 great place to sell Win32 games. We acquired the IP for future work. I'm a
52:42 big fan of the franchise." Uh, the fan is apparently a Yahoo
52:47 because this fan responded by saying they aren't interested in installing
52:52 Steam. Praise be to Gaban. Um, but would
52:56 rather enjoy a games for Windows Live replacement. Praise be to Gab. Um,
53:02 wait, wait, what? What? Did you read that part of this? Yeah. The fan is
53:06 basically off his rocker. So, it's not a fan. This is a planted person. No, I
53:10 have no idea. I have never met or talked to a single person ever that has thought
53:15 Games for Windows Live was anything other than No, Microsoft has already said they're they're not expecting to
53:19 create a direct competitor for Steam and they shouldn't. I'd like to see more
53:24 collaboration between Yeah, we've brought up about how Ubisoft needs to
53:28 give up and reskin Steam. Okay, so at
53:31 any rate, just having you play this article blah blah blah, etc., etc.
53:36 Microsoft whatever has committed more DirectX12 blah blah blah. So this is
53:41 great. Um someone point brought this to Joner's attention and it was added to
53:45 the original post. It's a post from 2013 that chronicles all the times that
53:50 Microsoft has said this in 2005. We care
53:53 about PC gaming. Longhorn that's the code name for Vista. Um blah blah blah
53:58 to usher in modern PC gaming with Trey and Play. Do you guys remember that
54:02 games folder for Vista that is gone now?
54:05 Okay. Well, Vista launched with none of the stuff they promised. Vista was not
54:10 popular. 2006, I think actually the what the article says is Vista itself sucks
54:14 the ass of a thousand camels. But I decided to make that not point as but
54:19 then you just said it. That's true. I did, but I was a it was a direct quote.
54:27 All right. So saying it in the first place. 2006, Microsoft says, "Don't
54:32 count PC games out." And they announced games for Windows Live. Talk about how
54:35 amazing it will be. In 2007, they continue the PC push. They launched
54:39 games for Windows Live with a $50 a year fee. Genius. Thanks for saving. They
54:45 also They also announced a whole slew of games to include uh uh Shadow Run with
54:50 crossplatform play and Gears of War and blah blah blah. Crossplatform play.
54:54 Where? What happened to cross-platform play? They realize that PC gamers were
54:57 going to destroy I'm sorry if you're a console gamer in the audience, but I'm so much
55:02 faster with a keyboard and mouse. like it's it's not gonna happen. 2008. Um,
55:08 yay. We got rid of the $50 a year fee. See, we're serious about PC gaming.
55:12 2008, PC gaming's not dead. Look at this event we're throwing. 2008, uh, all new
55:17 games for Windows Live. It's got a new skin. 2009, PC gaming is still a
55:22 priority for us. It's really vital for us. We're still serious, guys. 2010,
55:26 we're doubling down, which means Games for Windows Live is still here, and
55:31 we'll update some stuff. Um, to fix the problem of game saves being deleted. Uh,
55:36 2010, Games for Windows Live Marketplace.
55:40 These are all things we 2010, Windows 8 is going to relaunch gaming. Um, just
55:45 like we promised back in 2006. 2012, we won't ditch games for Windows Live.
55:49 2013, we're discontinuing Windows Live. Thank you. Um, 2013, Microsoft promises
55:56 core firstparty games coming to PC. So,
55:59 forgive me if I give exactly zero craps
56:03 about Microsoft's recommitment to the PC because it really just I mean, you look
56:08 at the rumors circulating about how, you
56:11 know, there's at least some discussion about canning the Xbox division
56:16 altogether. Never mind PC gaming, which was the red-headed stepchild eight years
56:21 ago. I mean, okay, with all of that said,
56:26 with all of that said, anyway, blah blah blah. Spencer says, "Part of my Xbox
56:29 role is to bring back our Windows gaming focus." I mean, there is
56:33 there the opportunity has been missed
56:37 time upon time with the original Xbox. There was an opportunity to get Xboxes
56:42 rolled out as media streamers, which actually there are still some deployed
56:47 today. Yeah. As media streaming boxes to to get rolled out as an inexpensive
56:52 media streaming box that happens to also be a cheapo gaming console. And then to
56:56 bring that library of games to PC gamers and Xbox gamers alike, throw mouse and
57:01 keyboard compatibility at the Xbox so that there isn't that inherent
57:05 disadvantage and and make it all one big
57:08 ecosystem, which would have been amazing. Then go and add Windows phone
57:11 and tablet and all this stuff to it to keep things segregated the way they do.
57:16 Never made any sense to me. What could they have possibly been thinking?
57:20 Developing games for just one platform
57:23 instead of all the platforms. I mean you look at what Microsoft has invested in
57:29 the typical in a typical PC. Okay. So let's say they develop a piece of
57:33 software. Let's say for example Halo. Okay. Halo 2 or whatever. Doesn't
57:38 matter. The point is if they could sell that to any PC user or any Xbox
57:44 user, why do they care? I even would have even if they had it separate, I
57:49 even would have bought two copies. So, there's the benefit. There's the benefit of selling someone an Xbox to which I
57:54 would kind of go, okay, that's a benefit. But I don't think particularly
57:58 near the launch, you're making anywhere near $70 or I think it's about 60 $50 to
58:04 $60 is what they is what a tier one pays for a Windows license. So, I don't think
58:08 you're really even making that much on the hardware. And then if they if if
58:13 it's a PC, well, then you made that much on it. So, what do you what do you care?
58:17 You should just want a bigger installer base and a bigger community for your
58:22 fans and not alienate all of the people that Trump for your platform so hard.
58:27 Like there's I know so many families where the mom and dad are just like yeah
58:31 we should just get an iMac and the kids like no please no. And then they get a PC and
58:38 it's like this is why your installer base is really large. Like come on. One
58:42 of the reasons. One yeah one of the reasons. All right, so more bad
58:46 Microsoft news before we have good Microsoft stuff. Uh, Microsoft confirms
58:50 the Xbox One is more powerful without the connect hookup. So, this is posted
58:55 on the forum by Miss Thro. This ties into a video that we have
58:59 coming shortly. Yeah. So, they figure it's about 10%. 10% additional GPU
59:05 performance can be can be gained by which is like kind of huge. It's sort of
59:10 a big deal. um
59:13 like wow. I mean, it's not going to be the difference between running at 30 FPS
59:19 and 60 FPS. And we have a really great video coming probably in a couple weeks
59:23 that's going to be about that. But it might be the difference between running
59:26 at like what is it? 882p.
59:29 Yeah. And a real resolution like
59:32 1080p. Um there was a couple Yeah. So
59:35 this there's a great post from DF on the forum. We can't just turn off the DRM.
59:39 And I don't believe that was actually Xbox One. I think that was uh that was a
59:44 that was Xbox 360 or something. Okay. And then we can't just disable connect.
59:48 We won't sell Xbox One without connect does all of those things.
59:53 But you know what? I I am proud of consumers right now for speaking with
59:58 their wallets because um what they're not really buying Xboxes. Yeah. Dead
60:02 Rising 3 is coming to PC now. Is it? Yeah. So, by just refusing to settle for
60:09 an inferior experience, we are forcing
60:12 them to be friendlier to us and to win back our favor. Well, and PC gaming is
60:17 just like, you guys keep on thinking we're going away, but no, we're just
60:21 like massive now. So, screw you guys, which is awesome. They're
60:27 ridiculously huge. I was talking to someone who was fairly close to me that
60:31 didn't know what League of Legends was. And it reminded me of the discussion that we had in the garage way back a
60:36 long time ago about whether League of Legends is mainstream. Yeah. Yeah. It's
60:39 not. No, it's not. No, it's not. That's so weird. Yeah. Wait, did I get did I
60:45 get a straw poll to determine that that you're an idiot? And did I get an
60:49 admission that I'm right on the same W show? This is fantastic. Can Can I have
60:54 a fist bump for it, too? No. You're not going to complete the like the the hat
60:58 trick. No, I can't give you all three.
61:01 Make the audience put him down. Have him
61:05 put himself down and then have him congratulate me for it. Well, no, it's
61:08 just it's how amazed that I was because at that point in time, I had proved you
61:12 wrong because you said the last person that would know about it would be proved. Oh, that's this was your won the
61:18 battle. This Yeah, this was your decision. Yeah. Okay. And then my wife
61:22 knew what it was and then I won. But then this was Yeah. This is the first
61:26 person that I've ever met that didn't know what it was. Right. But it's like
61:29 the first person I've ever met that is like outside of Yeah. And Okay. Ever as
61:34 in like the last few years. I know. You know, it's funny because I uh we it's
61:38 you don't think about how isolated or
61:42 like how how inside of a box how segmented group is people are and the
61:48 way that social circles work. Like it it's funny because I've had a few
61:52 experiences like this lately where um Rampage Dev, the guy that helped us with
61:55 the Hackintosh was like, "Yeah, to create the bootable USB." Um yeah, just
62:00 plug it into a Mac and do this. I'm like, "I don't have a Mac." And he's like, "Oh, we'll borrow one." I'm like,
62:05 "I don't know a single person who owns a Mac." And he's like, "What?
62:12 I don't I don't either." Or at least not someone who would lend me a Mac. like
62:17 not someone I could just be like, "Hey, can I borrow your computer?" I do know
62:20 someone with it, but they're like very far away. I'm like, "Yeah." So, so there
62:24 was that and then there was going to high school reunion a little while ago
62:28 where the tweets that I got from people were hilarious because they were like,
62:32 "Yeah, was everyone like and even my mom was like, "Yeah, is everyone going to be
62:36 like really impressed that you're like an internet celebrity?" And I'm like,
62:40 "No, they're really not. No one's going to know what I do. Nobody, even once I
62:45 explained what I do, nobody had any idea. Even people in my grade. People
62:50 are like, "You that's a
62:54 job." I'm just like, "Yes, yes it is.
62:57 Yes, making YouTube videos is a job." And then when they ask what I make them about, I would say, "It's about
63:02 technology, like computers and motherboards and stuff." And I could
63:05 just I could I could actually hear I could hear the switch in their brains
63:11 going as they turned off. Whenever I do
63:15 it, they're like, "Oh, what do you do?" I was like, "Oh, I make videos about like computer components and all this
63:19 kind of stuff." And then I'm like, "Oh, right. Uh, consumer electronics."
63:22 They're always like, "Oh, yeah." I'm like, "Yeah, there we go."
63:26 Oh, you mean like iPhones? Yeah. Well,
63:30 sometimes it beats. No. No. No. No, not
63:34 that second part. Not beats. Unless we're talking about how Apple bought
63:38 them. Uh yeah, let's move on to uh let's move on to that epic fail of a topic
63:42 right after we do our sponsor segments here. So, actually like the most
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64:09 of the mountain. I was just gonna say he probably could be like be like, "Yo,
64:12 I beat you to the top."
64:15 And I'll be like, "Wow, can I have an autograph, please? Can you sell my
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64:27 meter above sea level mountain top, and we are going to be having the world's
64:31 highest elevation terrestrial land party. It is a collaborative effort with
64:36 Tech Syndicate. Austin Evans is confirmed to be attending, something
64:40 that we had never revealed before. Um, unfortunately, Lou from Unbox Therapy
64:45 can't make it. I was super disappointed. I really wanted him to come. Um although
64:49 but Logan, Luke, I will be there. I believe Kane is coming. Uh it's a
64:54 possibility that we'll have some other pretty cool guys there as well, but it
64:58 should be about 10 of us total making our way to the top of the mountain to
65:02 have a high altitude land party because we can. The whole endeavor couldn't
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65:56 You didn't know that? No. That's cool. You're not going to actually have one
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66:52 suggested that we get Lauren to go on the climb with us.
66:57 She didn't want to come on the WAN Show, did she? No. So, I don't know. I don't
67:00 know. Tell you what, we'll ask her. Okay, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. I
67:06 have a feeling our videos would get many more views. I have a feeling that that
67:12 is a stereotype. Okay. That gamers think women are
67:17 attractive and watch videos with them in. This is This is actually This is
67:21 unrelated to Tasty PC. This is related to what you just said about watching
67:24 videos with women in them. Have you not seen the like browser streamers on
67:28 Twitch? Like, are you are you kidding me right
67:32 now? You can't even make that argument.
67:35 I didn't say that it was invalid. What I
67:38 said was a stereotype. I didn't say no.
67:43 You never say no.
67:49 Oh my god. Speaking of saying no, all the no in the world to this. Apple
67:55 defines a spec for lightning connector
67:59 headphones with 48 kohertz output. Apple
68:03 piss off. We do not need we do not need
68:08 headphones with proprietary connectors.
68:11 That is not a thing we need. Please don't make it. If you stop making eye
68:15 devices with analog outputs, I will
68:19 well, I don't buy any anyway, but I will definitely continue not buying them
68:24 because that's absolutely horrible. And to and to get caught up in some kind of
68:31 a in some kind of a like race to who can
68:34 have the highest sample rate on their files is a journey to nowhere because it
68:40 doesn't actually matter past a certain point. Also, there is there is no
68:45 there's no reason why you can't have an
68:48 excellent DAC and an analog connection to the speakers that sit inside your
68:53 ears because effectively that's all that you're doing anyway. A digital headphone
68:58 is just one that has the DAC on the other side of the cable instead of
69:02 having the DAC here and then over there.
69:05 The amp and DAC actually, both of them, I suppose. It doesn't matter. It's still
69:09 a a speaker is an inherently analog thing. There is no benefit to this other
69:14 than that we are going to be stuck with headphones that only work with iPhones
69:20 and iPhones that I mean if they were to actually take the 3 and 12 in connector
69:24 off then we'd be stuck with iPhones that only work with stupid lightning
69:29 headphones most of which will be fashion trash I'm sure. Well Beats there'll be
69:33 Beats. Well I'm sure someone else they bought them will participate in the made
69:37 for iPhone. I think they're making sure that there will be a range of products
69:42 on launch for this. Picture this future and I'm about to make your brain melt.
69:45 Okay. Well, this already did. You look at the kinds of like real companies like
69:50 serious companies that really care like Sennheiser that participate in the made
69:54 for iPhone program like the Momentum headphones for example. Why is
69:59 Sennheiser targeting iPhone users with these? Because iPhone users will pay
70:03 more. Yeah. Okay. Sennheiser happened to make legitimately good headphones that
70:07 are made for iPhone, but it means that the inline controls don't work on
70:11 Android because they're made for iPhone. Now, imagine this. Imagine Sennheiser is
70:15 put in a position where they have to decide, are they making their next pair
70:19 of great sounding but still fashionable headphones with a lightning connector or
70:23 a three and a halfm connector? Could this become a breakaway?
70:28 I don't know. Maybe cuz that would make sense. But that's totally inelegant and
70:32 that's not that's not true. the Apple way like that's not going to but it
70:36 could be breakaway and it doesn't have to be breakaway like okay well Apple's
70:40 already said there will be adapters so yes you can adapt your lightning to make
70:44 a three and a half but that's stupid oh it is yeah like adapters are horrible it
70:48 could be breakaway like it is on that though
70:51 but again these I mean these are $300 IM
70:54 not everything has that feature that's an uncommon feature no I know but I'm
70:58 I'm just saying like for the Sennheiser headphones that you're talking about but these are solutions we shouldn't have to
71:02 resort to completely agree. Okay. Well,
71:06 I'm just saying it might it might it might not be as bad. I think instead of
71:10 us playing devil's advocate, because I'm obviously very upset right now, we
71:14 should we should have a moment of silence instead. Okay.
71:26 Okay. Okay. Because I what I was really hoping for with this Beats acquisition
71:31 was Beats headphones that looked good
71:35 and sounded good and were built better. Yeah, that's what I wanted out of this.
71:39 This is my worst nightmare. Yeah, this is the worst thing that could have
71:42 possibly come out of that acquisition. Well,
71:47 maybe not the worst. Maybe not the worst thing, but it's it's very very very bad.
71:52 It's very terrible and stupid. Yeah. And I need that to not happen. Yeah. All
71:58 right. The specification could
72:02 h anyway, none of that's confirmed like Apple doing away with three and a half
72:06 millimeter connectors entirely. Like none of those are all conclusions that
72:09 were made up. I mean, there are ways that the tech could be cool. For
72:14 example, if you had headphones, some something that is easier to have a large
72:18 battery in and every time you plugged your headphones into your iPhone, it
72:22 could charge them or something like that. like there is room for this to be
72:26 kind of cool as long as it doesn't get forced on us. Yeah. So, I'll leave that
72:31 positive possibility as the last thing that we say on the
72:35 subject. All right. No Microsoft start
72:40 menu on Windows 8 until 2015. This was posted by NSF NS NFS undergrounded
72:47 underground and the original article is from Bit.
72:51 Maybe he's trying to recreate the sound of when your your engine is kind of
72:54 tripping out when you're just revving when you're at the start of the
72:58 line. So it's Ne for Speed Underground.
73:04 Okay. So it's not coming in update 2 to Windows 8 point to to Windows 8. It will
73:10 be coming instead possibly with a next update to Windows 8 or Windows 9
73:15 depending on how Microsoft decides to roll things out. So, this is their new
73:19 mini modern UI start menu. Personally, I
73:23 don't really care because it'll likely be 2015 by the time I roll a new
73:28 operating system onto my system anyway. Yeah. Um, but great. So, I guess there's
73:34 that. Our next topic is the ASUS
73:37 Sabbranco. Sabbranco. Anyway, whatever. It's a it's a top series motherboard
73:42 with a white PCB. Now, this is an
73:47 opportunity for me. Oh, they already got
73:50 it. Oh, that's a shame cuz I was looking forward to just going on an ego trip
73:54 here. This was originally posted by uh
73:58 Tit. So, I wanted to uh cuz ASUS
74:01 basically said, "Look, if you want to see more white PCB motherboards to match
74:05 your sexy white PCB hardware, we need 500 retweets of this tweet." And they
74:10 were stuck at like 250. And I was like, "Oh, on the W show, we should just like
74:14 we should just double it. We should just like crush it so that uh they'll be
74:18 like, "Whoa, where did that come from?" And we'll be like flexing our internet
74:22 muscles. Stop making golden motherboards. It's cuz they're
74:26 dumb. Like, yeah, we don't even care
74:29 about white motherboards. No, not at all. We just don't want gold
74:32 motherboards. Yeah. So, screw you in your stupid retweets. So, guys, there
74:37 are 4300 of you watching the show right now. I am counting on you. I want to
74:43 double the number of retweets they have on there right now. Do that retweet
74:46 thing where you retweet and say something at the same time and just say
74:50 any color other than gold. Yeah, if you if you can. So guys, you go find that
74:55 post. Come on. Come on. Come on, brothers. You got to help me out
74:59 here. I'm posting this. I'm posting this. Guys, you gota you got to get on
75:03 this. Help me out. We got to make this thing
75:06 happen. All right. Someone says it's already at 609. I know, but I still I
75:12 still want to I still want to utilize our internet mightiness to And we're
75:17 trying to Yeah, we're trying to move a We're trying to prove a point. Yeah, we're trying to prove a point. The point
75:22 is white is not necessarily Supreme, but
75:26 it's a damn sight better than gold. Yeah. I'd just like not gold. Yeah. I
75:32 can I can I can do something with it if it's not gold. Yes. Yeah. See, see, I
75:37 got people saying silver is okay. Yes. Silver's totally cool. Silver's totally
75:42 cool. You know, black's cool. Blue's cool. Red's
75:46 cool. Yellow I'm okay with as long as it's like UV. The Empire did it pretty
75:51 well. Yes. And the Empire did it really well. Yellow. Yellow's cool. You just
75:55 got to do it right. Yep. So, we need you guys to to just help us crush it.
75:59 Apparently, it's over a hundred. It's over a thousand already. I love you
76:02 guys. You guys are awesome. Yes, it totally is. You guys are awesome. and
76:07 you made my eene grow at least 3 in today. So, I appreciate that. We have
76:12 some good Microsoft news. Actually, I have a prop for this one. Do you want to
76:17 do you want to cover this in the meantime? Sure. There's not much to say.
76:20 Um, Microsoft announced that they were going to be Whoa, some cables got
76:25 unplugged. Uh, Microsoft announced we're failing.
76:30 Fail so hard. Fail so hard. They announced that you should be able to use the Xbox One controller on your PC back
76:34 in November and it's finally coming or is here already. They're now available
76:39 for download. So yeah, and you can connect it to your computer simply with
76:42 a micro USB cable. So this was posted on the forum by Demakiller 37, although I
76:48 do have to beat them up a little bit. Anyway, the links are in the are in the
76:51 thread there to where you can get the drivers for both x86 and x64 versions of
76:56 Windows. But get this, Microsoft is
76:59 releasing the drivers today at its download site, but the company is also
77:03 planning to distribute them through Windows Update in the near
77:06 future. Microsoft, what are you doing? What do
77:11 you mean? Why aren't they in Windows Update already? Oh, yeah. Okay. I
77:15 thought you were against it being in Windows Update. I was like, why not? Why is any piece of Microsoft hardware not
77:23 in Windows update? Yeah. No, I completely agree. I thought I thought I
77:26 I thought you were against it and that's why I was like, why is anything not in
77:31 Windows update? Yeah, if it's Wickle
77:35 certified, why is it not in Windows update? Why isn't that part of the
77:40 procedure? Why do I have to dank around
77:44 drivers still? I totally thought you were on the other side of this and
77:48 you're not at all. And that's fantastic. Like Timmy, if you're watching, maybe
77:53 you can give me an explanation that makes sense, but I doubt it. Why are
77:59 drivers not in Windows update? Why do I have to think about this? Why is it
78:03 easier to plug and play a Linux installation and have it automatically
78:07 work with network drivers than it is a Windows one? That should never be a
78:10 thing. Ever. Never be a thing. Fail. Every laptop that I've ever tried to
78:14 install Linux on, perfect. and network drive. That's all I need is network
78:18 drivers because then I can move from there. That's fine. And then every
78:21 single time that I've tried to install, not every single time, but a lot of times I try to install Windows on a
78:26 laptop, especially if it's not the Windows that it came with. Horrible.
78:30 Almost never get network drivers, have to go hunt them down. It's annoying. And
78:33 a lot of the time it's not even a matter of like, oh derp, it's not on Windows
78:38 update. A lot of the time it's like, "Oh, okay. I better go into device
78:41 manager and like find the vendor ID and like PCI ID string and go Google that
78:46 and find some post on like driverh helper full of viruses.com."
78:51 Yeah. Why do I have to resort to that? You know what? While I'm bitching about
78:55 this, if anyone from Adapt is watching, you guys turn your download servers on
79:00 after business hours from now on. That's super stupid. That's like the stupidest
79:04 thing I've ever seen. They turn their download servers for their drivers off
79:09 outside of like business hours. Leg legit. Legitimately, guys, go
79:14 check. Like I've been diagnosing like a RAID card in the middle of the night
79:19 because that's the only time when you diagnose RA, you can take down your
79:22 server. Yeah. Yeah. And like their download server is just off. Honestly
79:27 though, a lot of server maintenance happens overnight. So like it should they should be they should Oh, I'm so
79:32 mad. Like so mad. Ridiculous. People are like, "Why is he mad today?" Because
79:36 things make me mad. A lot of things to be mad about today. Speaking of things to be mad about, this is actually both
79:42 cool and terrifying. Yeah. Um, so gun company figures out how to shoot around
79:46 corners using Google Glass. So, basically, they've got a super advanced scope on this gun that allows you to use
79:52 Google Glass as a site. It also compensates for human error, compensates
79:57 for conditions. It does all kinds of neat neo keen stuff. There's a short
80:02 video. It's about a minute long. uh tracking point Labs. You know, part of
80:06 me is kind of like, do we really really need more
80:12 efficient ways to like put bullets in each other? One thing that scares me is
80:17 like all the stuff that's going on with NSA and stuff right now. This is going to very possibly create a big divide in
80:21 between um civilian uprising potential
80:25 and government. Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's already there. You can already
80:28 night vision goggles are already the end of gorilla. You know, that's actually
80:33 something that I can't quite figure out why they weren't using thermal imaging to find that Monton
80:38 uh police killer. Yeah. Were they not? It took them took them
80:44 over a full day to find him and he was just kind of hiding in the woods. Like I
80:48 don't know. May maybe it's possible that they're just not that sensitive yet, but
80:51 I just wouldn't Did they have military deployed on that? They did have military
80:54 deployed. Uh I mean they eventually did find him in the woods unarmed. They've
80:58 apprehended him now. Okay. Uh do you know much about what happened? I have not been following. I know I know he
81:02 killed like I know that kind of stuff, but I don't He killed three officers and
81:05 uh and wounded two others. One of them very seriously wounded. Yeah. Um I just
81:09 didn't know about them capturing this. I'm not going to link to any news stories. I'm not going to name him
81:14 because these people don't deserve any attention. So, we're going to Yes. Uh
81:18 Dragon V2. Speaking of people who do deserve attention. Super cool. And
81:22 freaking Elon Musk is just the coolest person on the planet. So guys, oh my
81:27 god, you should check this out. There's not there's not really too much for for
81:31 us to say about it. I'm supposed to I put the main points of the video in here
81:35 is the the new capsule can hold seven astronauts. Uh it has propulsion based
81:40 landing, so it can land on a landing pad. It can land pretty much anywhere,
81:43 but someone says you can't thermal through trees. So there you go. That's
81:47 interesting. Um you can land pretty much
81:50 anywhere, but more specifically on a landing pad. You don't have to land in the ocean anymore. And the heat
81:54 shielding and stuff on the bottom is much more resistant and can be easily
81:59 reused. So if it can land on a landing pad and just have all the propellant
82:03 refilled be used very quickly. Ice Fox says Elon greater than Gabe N.
82:10 Uh let's just let's just calm down. Okay. Everyone just needs to relax. Go
82:15 ahead about Elon being greater than Gabe.
82:18 Everyone just needs to relax.
82:21 They're in They're in completely It's like Can you all Can we all just relax
82:25 and stop being tense? Thank you.
82:29 We're Look, we're looking at different castles here. Different castles. I like
82:33 that. They're not They're both the king of their own castles. All right. Sorry.
82:37 Go ahead. Go ahead. The rest of the points about um that was actually pretty much it is it can carry seven
82:41 astronauts. Um it's very reusable. Definitely reusable and it can land
82:47 pretty much anywhere very easily. It it uses propulsion based landing like I
82:50 said. So instead of having this crazy parachute like they did before where they just parachute out and then drift
82:54 down into the water, it it slows itself down as it's falling through I think
82:59 it's I think it's four jets and then evens itself out and then lands with
83:04 like these kind of spring-loaded not really spring-loaded but these feet that
83:07 can compress. Not spring-loaded at all um but feet that can compress. So it
83:12 just kind very very cool. All right, we got a
83:15 straw pole. And the inside of this space shuttle is amazing. Have you seen it?
83:21 Uh, no. Okay, you can talk about it
83:25 though. It's It's kind of hard to describe. Once you're done spamming
83:28 there, I can try to jump you forward in the video, but essentially you you walk
83:32 in, it looks like super super clean and super futuristic, unlike a lot of space
83:36 shuttles that you see that look like mega ghetto and kind of disgusting. And
83:40 then he sits down in this baller looking chair and swings down this super badass
83:45 monitor setup. It's so cool. Um yeah,
83:48 he's walking in. So he's gonna get in. He's gonna get in very soon. Here you go, guys.
83:53 So once he gets in there, sweet. So very
83:57 nice seats. I can't like he doesn't talk about them at all, but like they
84:00 actually look comfortable instead of the terrible things I before. And then Yeah.
84:03 Okay. Go a little bit back because you got to see him swing down the monitor
84:06 setup. You can see it's up right now. He'll pull it down.
84:11 So badass. Swoop. And then if you can actually see
84:17 the control panels, like it actually
84:20 looks like futuristic and badass. I know that doesn't really matter, but like it
84:24 looks really cool. There you can see all
84:27 their monitoring panels and like all the stuff in the middle. He's got uh
84:31 spaceship control is that like joysticky thing kind of in the middle. And then
84:34 most of those manual buttons are all emergency things, so you don't have to
84:38 use the other displays and stuff. They're all emergency stuff. And yeah, I
84:42 don't know. I thought this was super cool.
84:48 Yeah, I was watching it and then I ran out of time. I actually didn't make it to the end. I didn't know he went
84:51 inside. Yeah, that is awesome. That's pretty freaking cool. How's that straw
84:55 pole doing? All right, let's check out that straw pole. Castles.
85:00 Okay, castles.
85:06 castles. So, we've got 42% of the votes
85:09 going to Gabe N, 41% of the votes going to castles, and 17% going to Elon Musk.
85:15 Although, I don't think there's really any denying that Elon's or Mr. Musk's
85:20 contributions to humanity as a whole are probably more more impactful than Gabe
85:26 Ben's. But then how is that that's very difficult to quantify because if but g
85:30 because gayen could inspire more people if it's not in the same way it's it's
85:36 not necessarily lower and gayen did more than just gaming digital digital content
85:40 distribution he was a pioneer yeah and he's pushed forward for those like
85:44 racing that racing thing I don't know
85:47 anyway it's not really uh I I I vote for
85:51 castles you vote for castles you go vote for castles then one vote doesn't matter
85:56 loser. It does. Actually, every vote counts. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to go find
86:01 it and vote just cuz you said that. So, that's fine. Took me a sec to find it. I
86:06 don't know where it is. I give up. You
86:10 can find things to vote for on your own time. Yeah, pretty much. More
86:14 thingyamajiggers. Um, yeah. I fired up the Star Citizen. Uh, what's up? Oh,
86:20 yeah. Right. We actually have something really cool for you guys. So, I need you
86:25 to use # Linusmassdrop, all one word, #
86:31 Linusmastdrop, and send in your requests
86:35 for what you would like to see a Massdrop deal on. We are working with
86:39 Massdrop to basically find one thing that our community really wants to see
86:44 and bring it to you guys. That's it.
86:48 It's simple. So, everyone, take just a minute of your time, think of something
86:52 that you think is really cool. hopefully, you know, electronics or
86:55 computer stuff or something. Um, and then just use #
87:00 Linusmassdrop and uh tweet that out and
87:03 we will have someone, preferably a lackey and not me, go through them all
87:08 and compile a list of the most popular ones and then we're going to pick one
87:11 from there that we think is really cool and we think would be a great Massdrop
87:14 item and we are going to be bringing that to you guys through the Massdrop
87:18 team. So, be excited about that because it's going to be really, really sweet.
87:22 Awesome. Now, what were you saying about Star Citizen? Oh, I was saying I tried it and the mouse controls are balls, so
87:27 I need to get a joystick. I'm actually going to order a USB to game controller
87:31 adapter so I can use my old Top Gun joystick, but I also have a Scitec
87:35 Aviator that I can use in the meantime. It just doesn't have that same No, it
87:39 doesn't quality feel to it, though. I don't really like it. So, there you go.
87:44 Oh, well. Solar freaking roadways. We're not doing a mass drop for solar
87:48 roadways, especially because they don't work.
87:55 Sorry to spoil that one. Very cool concept though. Yeah,
88:00 give it give it a little while longer. A lot of while longer and we'll find a way
88:04 to leverage Mike the sun a little better. Someone says butt plugs. I don't
88:10 think we should ask for butt plugs. You can get Windows for 50 cents on Oh, PC.
88:16 It's ludicrous. Rog Jay-Z. We're never going to be free of
88:20 that, are we? No, no, we're just stuck with it forever. Okay, speaking of
88:24 things we're stuck with forever, we'll be back next week. Thank you guys very
88:28 much for tuning in to the WAN Show. We will see you next week. I guess normally
88:32 I say thank you and then I say we'll see you next week, but without this getting
88:35 any more awkward than it already is.
88:40 Boom. Oh, that's awkward. I didn't leave this in all the right spots. So, I need
88:45 to something to do with this here. Yeah,
88:49 that thing. Good work, Luke. Wait, that wasn't my
88:53 fault at all. Yeah, whatever.
89:00 Highlander, it's going to be
89:03 awesome. E3 also going to be awesome.
89:07 Yeah. Or terrible. We're not sure. Yeah. We've never done it before. Nope.