The WAN Show: New Razer Blade 14 Popcorn Time is Gone?? Haswell-E Coming Soon??
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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All right, and we're live this time with
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my screen sharing working and no blue
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screens. And no blue screen. You know what's interesting? This will be a good
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uh very early show discussion is someone told me when we ended the show last week
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and then like popped right back back in.
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Um they don't see the first 30 seconds because of the ad. Oh. So, whenever we
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do the first 30 seconds of our show, it actually gets cut off because the way
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that Twitch integrates ads is they just put it over top of the content, whereas
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YouTube has a different approach that I'm used to. So, I thought that was
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interesting. So, that means no one will see this until it's uploaded in the
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archive. Yeah, it's cool. They'll never know it was there. We could do anything.
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I mean, except that the other thousands of people will see it. So, yeah, there's
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that. Someone says no sound. Yes, there
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is. Um, yes, there is. I'm monitoring. Well,
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yeah. Okay. No, there is sound. Cuz I was going to say, remember in the
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recording we did, there was no sound. That was the whole problem. True. There
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wasn't. But the levels are all going and the monitoring is working. So, way to
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troll us. We love you guys so much. So,
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very much. All right. So, so let's kick off the
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show with Oh, right. No. Yes. Wait. What are our topics? Right. Razer has the new
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Blade 14, which is an allnew version of the original Blade 14 that takes
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everything that I thought was shite about the original one and improves it
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to the point where, and this you know what, Min, their their CEO, backed me
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into a corner on this one because at CES, he made me promise that if they
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fixed everything I complained about about the original Blade 14 that I would
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go on camera with a revised model and say that it's the perfect notebook. And
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I was like, if you guys can fix everything I complained about, then I
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will. And they did. So that's going to
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be that's going to be awkward. Um, what else we got this week? Awkward,
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actually. PEL is a new wireless standard
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that looks to replace those monolithic cell phone towers with something that's
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smaller, easier to install, but would require many more of them, but could
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potentially give us much better speeds.
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Uh then we have Google is now going to be encrypting your searches and more on
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that and then the fact that a thing called popcorn time existed for a very
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short period of time and everything entailing that. All right, so let's uh
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get this rolling.
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old intro. Why is the WAN Show early? That is an excellent question and let me
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uh go ahead and direct your attention
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to daylight savings time is stupid. So
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if you Google daylight savings time is stupid and uh it'll come up with
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thoughts from a gamer it's stupid why it should be abolished. How it's stupid. 14
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reasons that it needs to end forever. Daylight savings time is a thing in some
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parts of North America, not even all of them, which I was baffled to discover
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when I was a kid. Yeah, like I actually recently discovered that. I thought
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daylight savings time was literally a worldwide thing. No. And then like
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fairly recently, I was like, what? It's some parts of North America, even within
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Canada, there are provinces that do not use daylight savings time. So confusing.
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So every 6 months the clocks jump forward an hour or back an hour in order
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to in the spring give us more usable
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daylight during the day which is a factor when everyone's working outside
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in the fields and less of an issue in
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the modern age. So that is that is why
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the show is a little bit you could just shift your like sleep cycle. Yeah, you
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could do that. Yeah. So companies could have their own thing, but there's no
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real reason for us to just be not in sync with the rest of the world every
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six months. Yeah. Yeah. Because if you're farmer in the field, you need more working daylight. Well, that's why
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farmers get up early. Exactly.
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You don't need to change the time for that.
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Doesn't Doesn't the rooster crow at a certain time depending on the sun, no
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matter what time the clock says? That's my understanding. Although if there are
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any farmers watching, we would love to hear your thoughts on rooster crowing.
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If they all have a watch on and then that's how they crow. I don't know. I
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don't know. All right. So, our better than Bieber segment today is
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significantly better than Bieber because anything in outer space is automatically
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better than Bieber. It is the 80th
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birthday of Yuri Gargaren. I'm not 100%
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sure how to pronounce his last name. I'm very sorry about that. I know Neil Armstrong cuz he's like, you know,
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because we're so Americanized up here, the only thing we know is like American
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heroes and celebrities. But it is his
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80th birthday and he was the first man
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in space. So congratulations, Yuri.
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Congratulations, human race. What a big
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deal that was. So that was uh March 9th.
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That was 5 days ago. So he went into space for a
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108minute flight on April 12th,
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1961. He was born into a poor family March 9th, 1934. In 1955, he was called
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up for military service and sent to study aviation in Orinberg. And then on
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December 9th, 1959, he applied to join a
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squad for cosminaut candidates. How cool
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would that be? Actually really cool. First man in space. I always wanted to
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be an astronaut. Then I was like, "Wow, I'm really not intelligent enough for
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this." After his flight, he was never allowed to fly into space again.
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Something he dreamt of. And he was actually killed in a MiG 15 UTI crash
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near the town of Kerach. Sorry, I don't know how to pronounce that either. You
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weren't even I saw that coming and I was like, "Oh no."
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So that was on a routine training flight, but he would have been 80.
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That's how. Isn't that cool? That's actually
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really cool. I I I like I like all the space news. That's part of the reason
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why it always gets in the better than Bieber segment because space news is just interesting. People have heard my
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rant. And it's better than Bieber in general. Yeah, exactly. I mean, so is
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anything. So is this t-shirt. So is this t-shirt. Well, oh, I forgot to wear my
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Linus Tech Tips t-shirt today. You wore it yesterday. I have my holy balls one.
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Yeah. Oh, bummer. All right, so let's move into our first real news item of
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the week. The original poster for this is DM012 onlineus techtips.com and Amazon
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Prime. It's official. The cost is going
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up. The good news is that if you already have a subscription, you can lock in for
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one more year at your old rates, which I actually think is pretty generous.
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That's not too bad. I honestly when I first read this, not this one, but when
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we first reported on it a few weeks back, um I thought they were just going
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like, "Yep, as of this month, it is now this much more." because that's how like
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everyone else on the planet does their rate increases.
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Yeah. But no, they I think they took a very consumerfriendly approach to it. So here
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we've got someone posting their letter. This is DM012's post. Um so hey, you
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know, just to let you know it's going to be increasing. So as of July 31st, 2015,
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I mean the guy's got like like 15 months
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to enjoy it at the old rate. uh your membership will renew at $49 a year. Um
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and so that's the student rate. So the student rate went from 39 to 49 and then
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the grown-ups rate went from I'm not saying students aren't grown up. I'm
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just saying like there could be students that are older than you. Actually there
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is students. Yeah. 100%. Students of life or students at school. Did you know
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that in BC actually I don't know. Did you know this um post-secary education
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is free for seniors? What? No. Yeah. You
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can just go take classes at university at like UBC. What? Is that like a
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government sponsored thing or is that done by the schools? I have no idea. That's so random. Yeah. So, my my mom's
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talking about like her retirement plan and she's like, "Yeah, you know, well, I
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went to school, you know, and then I went to high school and then I went to
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university and then I started teaching in a school and then I'm going to retire
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and go back to school." Like, mama, I love you, but I would go for
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certain classes if they were free and I was retired. I definitely go for
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certain. So there you go. Very few people take advantage of it. Um so
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anyway, so for for other people it goes from $79 a year to $99 a year. And I
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don't know. I mean given that the rumor was it could go up anywhere from up to
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like $40. $100 a year. I don't know.
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What do you think? I'm still not going to get Prime because Amazon.ca is
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terrible. Okay. If you were in the US, would you pay $100 a year for Prime?
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Probably. When you consider that you get instant video, um, when you consider
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that you get free shipping, when you consider there's it's it's free
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shipping, right? And the Kindle loaning library, lending library, and I would
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get it for free shipping. There's something else that they have coming, right? I don't know. I don't pay as much
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attention as I probably should because I'm not American. So, it does not Well, it's in the docks. So, I was giving you
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an opportunity to talk because apparently there were complaints you didn't talk enough last week. But since
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you're not going to take the bait, uh there's a rumor that Amazon will be
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launching some kind of a music service. They already have that and that would
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MP3. If you buy MP3s, you can stream it through their website. No, but this would be a streaming service. So like
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some kind of like all you can eat style streaming service. So So there's a rumor
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that they're going to have a streaming service and then that might be bundled
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with Prime as well. Nobody really knows what's going on. You know why I knew
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they had at least what they had so far for that? I was trying to buy because I
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was like, I should buy my music because I'm getting frustrated on trying to
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listen to YouTube albums of people's music because ads will play while I'm
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trying to run and sometimes it's like a half hour ad. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm just
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like, okay, I don't really want to like stop and skip the ad. So, I was like, K,
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I will buy my music. I'll be a good citizen and I will buy my music. Not
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possible to buy digital version of what I wanted to buy because I wanted to buy
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Arctic Monkeys album AM and I was like, okay. So, I go on Amazon.com, try to buy
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it. Oh, you're a Canadian citizen. Can't buy. So, I'm like, "Oh, okay. I'll just
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get it from Amazon.ca for what I'm guessing is like two bucks more or
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something. Go there. No MP3 version. MP3 downloaded not supported in Canada."
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It's like, "What?" I have to go buy a music CD from
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Brick and Mort. Like, when was the last time I've done that? I don't even know
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where to go. Like, I don't know if Best Buy even has a music section. Do you remember A&B Sound? Yeah, they don't
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exist anymore. But that was probably the last place I actually bought a CD. And
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they don't exist. They're gone. I know. What do I do? It's because their entire
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business model was selling CDs and it's dead. Oh my goodness. Did you try
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iTunes? I don't I don't want to do iTunes. I don't want iTunes on my
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computer. It's a big piece of garbage,
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but it works. I've bought songs through iTunes. I I had to there. I was looking
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for some stupid obscure thing like at some Christian band or something and I
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needed this song cuz I thought it was awesome and I was like okay where can I
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get this like nope iTunes nope that's
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it. So, speaking of the difficulties
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that exist with legitimately obtaining
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legitimate content, let's move into what
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I think is going to be one of our biggest topics this week, and that is
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Popcorn Time. So, this is a service that
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launched. It launched this week, right? This was fast. This was really fast. So,
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it launched like days ago. And the idea
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was, I think, for it to be used for legitimate things, but let's be honest
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with ourselves, that was that was not even if they didn't have the intent for
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it to be used for piracy, the internet had the intent for it to be used with
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piracy immediately. So, the idea was that it was kind of like a Netflix for
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pirates and it was going to allow the
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Bit Torrent protocol. So, that's peer-to-peer sharing to let people
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stream movies and TV shows and videos.
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So, it had you can see what the interface was because it already doesn't
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exist anymore, but you can see what the interface was. You could browse by
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category with thumbnails. And the idea was that unlike traditional Bit Torrent
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clients, which allowed the user Oh, yeah. This article was submitted by Top
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War Gamer on the forum. Thank you. Um, the idea was that unlike traditional Bit
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Torrent clients where you can specify a seed ratio or a maximum seeding speed,
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the way that this worked was that once you committed you were going to watch
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that movie, it would store it on your computer and you would automatically
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seed it until you actually rebooted at which time all the associated files
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would be wiped from your computer. So, as long as something was reasonably
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popular and up to-date and people were watching it, it would be available on
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the service and it would be streamed quickly and reliably. And actually
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because it wouldn't rely on Netflix's
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constant struggle with the internet service providers to allow their service
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to be closer to their users because it's
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peer-to-peer. You could actually be streaming it from your next door
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neighbor if they happen to be watching that movie. Someone down the street. They don't even have to be watching.
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They have to have watched and not have restarted their computer yet. That's
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right. Which would be quite common. But the idea is that you could be very close
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to where the content is being streamed from as a content delivery platform.
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It's absolutely brilliant.
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But if you go over to uh getpopcorn
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tai.me. So we're going to go ahead and have a look at that website. This was
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never meant to be. Um it says goodbye.
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You know, we started this to challenge ourselves. They thank the community for
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translating it into 32 languages, some of which they had never even heard of. I
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just realized that Oh, no, never mind. That's uh that's up. I thought maybe it
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wasn't. Um so they they thanked the community for helping them translate it.
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They they basically said, "Look, we checked like four times that what we're
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doing is legal in much the same way that the Bit Torrent platform and Bit Torrent
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clients are legal because they're not specifically hosting any pirated
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content. Um but they basically went look um
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there's an industry here that is established and they don't like what
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we're coming in and doing and whether
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what we're doing is legal or not. We are going to have to defend ourselves and
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we're going to be bearing a burden that no one should have to bear um
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monetarily. And so I mean even even the stress I mean people have ended up in
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jail over u you know rulings that come
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from judges that don't necessarily even understand the issues involved and and
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that's a big problem. Do you want to be that guy or do you get your cease and
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desists from absolutely everybody? I mean these guys were getting covered by
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everyone. It was a huge Techrunch, Time magazine, RS Technica, Washington Post,
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Huffington Post, Yahoo Finance, Gizmodo, everyone was covering these guys. Us, we
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were covering these guys. I mean, as soon as this popped up on the form, I
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was like, "Wow, that's amazing. We have to talk about it." And I meant to try it, but it's gone now.
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Um, but they basically went, "Look, we
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created this not because we were trying to do something illegal or pirate
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content, but because we really feel like the distribution platform for content is
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fundamentally broken." And one of the most interesting things in their letter,
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I'm going to try and find it right now, was uh here, right here, where they say,
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"You know what is the best thing about popcorn time?" I'm going to blow this up
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so you guys can read along with us if you want. And that tons of people agreed
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that the movie industry has way too many ridiculous restrictions on way too many
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markets. And this is word for word. Take Argentina for example, and this blew me
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away. streaming providers seem to believe that there's something about
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Mary is a recent movie. That movie would
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be old enough to vote there. And I like that's awesome. The bulk of their users
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were not in the US. It's everywhere else. Popcorn Time got installed in
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every single country on Earth, including
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two that don't have any official internet access.
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That blows me away because what they
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were doing, even if it did enable piracy, which come on guys, we can't
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have this stupid argument anymore. It's wrong to steal things. And you can argue
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the semantics of the word steal all day, but it is wrong to not pay people for
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their work that they did. And you can argue about whether the publisher
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deserved the money or the actor deserved the money or whoever deserved the money.
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Somebody got to get paid for the work that they do. You don't work for free,
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neither should they have to. And if you do work for free, then you're doing it
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by choice. And if someone else didn't choose to work for free, you have to
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respect that. That's their right. I tried to buy the Arctic Monkeys album.
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I'm still going to have to try to figure out how to buy the Arctic Monkeys album
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without paying the ex without paying more than the cost of the album in
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shipping. Sorry, that's a that's an option I found. Oh, and guys, Twitter
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Blitz time. I'd love for you guys to just kind of weigh in with your thoughts on this, but but anyway, so even if they
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weren't setting out to create a piracy platform, what they were doing was
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amazing because it was going to level the field. That's the point of the
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internet is that we should all have access to this stuff. And you know what?
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Screw geographical restrictions. Aside
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from a PAL or NTSC format, why are we
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country locked? Why can we only use this phone in that country or play this game
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in that country? It's absurd. And the fact that we have the technology now to
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enable us to not deal with that crap anymore
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is frustrating.
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Any kind though. We had a debate before the
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show that which you did not carry a which you did not carry into the show.
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Oh, what was our debate again? You were saying that they were obviously creating
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a pirating platform. They were, but they
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did it with all good intentions. During my thing, I said, "Even if they
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weren't." I mean, do you have any idea how many millions of dollars a site like
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Pirate Babing brings in a year? You monetize a piracy platform and manage to
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keep it up. There's a reason that the I don't remember how much it was, but the
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ISO hunt guy. Um ISO hunt. Especially when you go the direction that Pirate
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Bay has gone with their ads, which they're just like, "Yeah, we're not
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going to filter any of it." Yeah. Just put whatever you It's like here's like
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boobies on our site or something like that. Um it's like I feel real awkward
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ever going there to be like, "Yeah, this is what the pirate bay is and like blah
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blah blah blah blah blah." than showing anyone and explaining the whole system
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to anyone because I'm like, "Yeah, there's tits all over the place." Yeah,
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this is weird. This is sort of the underbelly. Here's another reason why you shouldn't use it, Mom. Um I think
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the iso hunt guy paid 110 million or
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something like that. Yeah, 110 million. So, okay, think about this. They had to
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think that he had 110 million. Like the
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am I hunt I think was number four. Not
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even not even one of the top guns. Like Pirate Bay is bringing in some serious
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money. So if it wasn't in the back of their minds somewhere that they wanted
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to drive massive adoption and we've had this conversation, piracy drives a
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platform. I personally believe that piracy is a big part of the reason that
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Android is so strong. I was going to say Windows and Windows for that matter as
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well. Piracy drives platform adoption.
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And so if they didn't if it didn't occur to them that someone was going to pirate
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content. That's true. But you can tell that they didn't even though it occurred
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to them that it might have driven piracy, you can tell that they didn't expect it to at least get as big as it
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did because they shut down so fast. There's no way they couldn't have pushed
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off lawyers for a little while, but we don't know what's going on behind the
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scenes over there. That's true. For all I know, they could be selling the tech
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to the pirate bay. The Wow. So that would be so smart
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because then they could back off and not have to touch lawyers and just sell it for so much money or the Pirate Bay
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being who they are could just build it themselves or whatever just be like like
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and that could have even been the point. It could have been a group that was like we're going to make this just to prove
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that it can be done and then we're just going to like do it and deal with it and
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then we're just going to like dump the source code on some like back door of
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the internet somewhere. stage two when we see like Forbes and Yahoo Finance
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source code for Popcorn Time leaked.
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So, there's a lot of places this can go,
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but um Popcorn Time obviously doesn't
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intend to to keep I mean, if that's a legitimate video platform, I would have
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loved to see something like this. I mean, I love YouTube and I love Twitch,
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but they will always have the cost and
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logistical difficulties associated with centralized hosting. Well, people have
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been talking about the torrent version of Twitch for a little while now. Oh, of
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like torrent streaming. Torrent streaming in general. Uh, it's not a
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thing yet, but people have been talking for quite a while about how that would be a lot easier because then you
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wouldn't necessarily even need certain backbones in place. Tell me this though,
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what would you rather do? Would you rather pay a monthly subscription for
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the privilege of using twitch.tv, which I'm not saying they're doing. I'm just
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saying which would you rather do? Or would you rather use a service like
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Popcorn Time that mandates that you have
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to use your uplink to upload videos? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. That
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mandates that you have to utilize your bandwidth to support the rest of the
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platform and potentially puts you in a position where you're just paying for a more expensive monthly internet
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connection anyway. Uh, I don't know. Maybe Twitch, I'm not sure. But the
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reason why the torrenting streaming thing actually came out was the Venezuel
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Venezuela riots. Remember, I actually did talk about this very shortly on the
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show because people are talking if you could get one slow pipe out, right? And
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just stream it to one person and just barely stream it and then that person
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can share it to two or three and then it can escalate, right? That's how you can
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stream information like that out. So maybe it's not as widely used, right, as
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something like Twitch where they control the whole platform and they monetize it like crazy and all this kind of stuff
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goes on. Um, but having it available would be really cool as well. And
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another thing that ties into your your increased bandwidth side of that two
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option thing is the Time Warner bandwidth thing that's coming out. Yes,
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that was interesting. So, okay, you know what? Let's do remember that we're doing
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that topic next because I think that's uh that that ties in really well. But
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let's uh let's take let's go to the Twitter boards here. Hear what you guys
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have to say. What's up? What's up? What's up? What? Oh, the source code is
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already
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available. Uploaded four hours
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ago, which is right when they closed, isn't it? Oh, man. That's classic. They
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closed a couple hours ago. That's interesting. It's like close leak. Bye.
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All right. So, let's go. Let's go to Twitter. Acid Alamo. You know what, man?
24:38
You can't be more wrong. I think piracy helps artists get their music heard.
24:42
It's not all bad. If the artist believed
24:46
in free music and you look and some of
24:49
them do. Weird Al Yanovic very famously
24:52
released for free on a dedicated website for it a song called Don't Download This
24:57
Song that basically just makes fun of
25:00
the MPAA and the RAIAA. It's just like
25:04
and makes fun and like just parodies the
25:07
idea that grandmothers are getting are getting sued for pirating music and some
25:13
artists believe in that but the issue is that you don't get to make that call and
25:18
people like Logan can do it in a even from tech syndicate can do it in even a
25:22
different way he doesn't have them available for free but publicly says buy
25:27
it give it to everybody yeah and that's
25:30
fine too but that's his Right. If you
25:34
create the content, it is your right to decide how people will use it. And you
25:37
can think people are stupid for doing whatever they are doing as much as you
25:41
want, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you're right. What's the point of the O-rings in the G710 Plus? Good
25:46
question. It softens the uh the presses when you bottom out the keys in theory
25:50
and makes it a little bit quieter in theory. Um, as for the ISO hunt guy,
25:53
yeah, he was from Vancouver, my hometown. It's not stealing if you don't
25:56
get caught. Stealing. It's still stealing. You're not a You can argue
26:00
semantics all day. I'm not going to do that on this show cuz it's stupid. Uh,
26:03
best example is Game of Thrones, the most pirated series there is no legit
26:07
way to watch in Europe. And that is a fantastic example of a completely missed
26:13
opportunity because the content providers, the local governments,
26:16
whoever it is, can't figure out how to just freaking work together and cash in
26:22
all that money because people are willing to pay. I could be totally
26:26
wrong, but don't they film part of it in Europe? I think so. And it's not
26:30
available in Europe. Are they high?
26:33
Well, it's kind of like um I'm not I'm not sure if I I forget what it is. I I
26:38
It's not oranges, but there's some fruit that's grown in California
26:42
predominantly, but it's actually more expensive there than it is here.
26:46
It's not oranges. You said it's not oranges. I don't think it saddens me to
26:50
see stuff like this get shut down because what they're doing is wrong, but
26:54
because not because what they're doing is wrong, but because they got too big doing it. And but that's a lot of the
26:58
time what happens, you know, when you're when what you're doing is with the best
27:02
intentions. Like I mean, you know what, a great example is when we do worldwide
27:07
giveaways. You know what? The way we do it isn't really legitimate. And if we
27:11
turn into, you know, um NBC, Linus Media
27:15
Group turns into the next like multinational media conglomerate, we
27:20
won't be able to do worldwide giveaways anymore because you're under more scrutiny. I was I was going to say you
27:24
might want to explain how it's not like it's it's it's not um you can't there
27:30
there's local law laws and giveaway laws in many different places which really
27:35
screw with giveaways. We're able to fly under the radar because we're not big
27:38
enough but we're not we're not what we're screwing with is a lot of places
27:43
you're not allowed gifting people things. Yeah. or you have to pay 100% of
27:47
the cost of the item on top of the actual item, on top of import fees, on
27:51
top of taxes to be able to give someone something. We might as well just send
27:55
you the cash. Like it would be Yeah. At that point in time, it would be
27:58
literally half the cost to just send you money. Yeah. So, yeah, there's lots of
28:03
problems. Georestrictions money. No,
28:06
sometimes georestrictions just result in no money for anyone. That's the problem.
28:11
Um, that page is awesome. You were right, Linus. They have to change region
28:14
locks. Yeah, my first time. I love it. I have no idea what you're talking about,
28:19
Teddy. Feels like the first time. It's really
28:23
hard to sing with your voice in your ear slightly delayed.
28:27
Uh, just embrace iTunes, man. No, I
28:31
don't want to. I might build like, you know, my like secondary computer that I
28:34
let people use when they come over to land. I might just like put iTunes on that.
28:39
Screw you guys. We are not doing the bronze gay Ben statue. I'm sure that
28:43
would creep him out way too much. If big movie companies don't want to be stolen
28:47
from, they can't charge what they charge and expect to be profitable. Yeah, but
28:51
this is another thing that isn't really the right of the consumer to decide. Um,
28:55
you don't get to decide a car's I mean, and like I know this is the analogy they
28:59
use, but they're right. You don't get to decide that car is too expensive, I'll
29:03
just steal one. If it's too expensive, and I've said this so many times, don't
29:08
buy it. But you also don't get to watch it or listen to
29:12
it. That's just how it works. And if enough people don't buy it, they will
29:17
lower prices. But people refuse to just
29:20
boycott things. You know what? You don't like as a whole, we just can't seem to
29:25
do that. No, we just can't do it. Like, we've tried so many times. People are
29:28
just like, "Nah, because I won't make that big of a dent." But then hundreds
29:32
of thousands of people are like, "No, my dent's not that big." I feel like that's
29:36
the same as ad block. If I don't like um
29:40
you know, say for example, an artist, who's that one that was caught with the
29:44
child porn? I don't know. I can't I can't remember off the top of my head. I
29:48
thought it was the the guy making the
29:51
Oh, yeah. Uh oh. Apparently, he was
29:54
acquitted. So, allegedly child porn, R. Kelly, whatever. He can be acquitted all
29:59
he wants. I won't listen to any of his songs. Comes on the radio, won't listen to it. Pay or not pay, if you don't like
30:04
something, don't use it. And then it will go away, you know, if you if people
30:09
don't like that. Uh oh, who's that? It won't go away because no one else is
30:13
gonna do what you do. Who's that other stupid guy?
30:17
Um the uh the South Park fish fish
30:20
stickicks one. Uh Kanye. Kanye. Yeah. If
30:23
you don't like Kanye selling a plain white t-shirt for however much he
30:26
charged for it, do you remember that thing? Wasn't it like $500 or something? I don't remember. I could be totally
30:30
wrong. I don't remember. I remember it sucked. $120 plain white t-shirt that
30:34
had nothing special about it. If you don't like it, don't buy it and it'll go
30:38
away. But people cannot handle that. All right, so back to this. So $500 was a
30:42
lot higher than it actually was. Um, YouTubempp3.org. Okay, that's no idea
30:47
what that is. Not allowed, I believe. Haven't actually used it. Um, about your
30:52
new segment, better than he who must not be named. Never show his face or I
30:55
mention his name again. Did that end up in the news in our news this week in our
30:59
doc? I don't want to talk about that. It's awesome. But that is about him.
31:04
Well, it's Oh, come on. That's completely against the segment. Oh, no.
31:08
Not as the as the segment. Can we just talk about it very briefly? That's
31:12
completely against the whole ideal moral
31:15
of the show and the point of having that segment in the show. We can't talk about
31:20
news. It has to do with him on the show when we have a segment
31:24
that's about how much people have to do with him. But that's why everyone's
31:29
talking about him all the time. All right, fine. We need to stop. I'm from
31:32
the US, so every time I hear about content restrictions, my jaw drops. Yep.
31:36
Yeah. I mean, even here in Canada, we're relatively sheltered. Um, I refuse to
31:40
use iTunes and Google Music isn't available in the UK, but then you just
31:45
Well, you you can't just refuse to use gas stations and then expect to still be
31:50
able to drive. Like, if
31:56
the h maybe I don't even want to hear from you people about this.
32:01
Let's go ahead and move on to our next topic. What was it again? Uh there's the
32:05
the Time Warner bandwidth cap voluntary thing that no one did because it's dumb.
32:10
Yeah, that was ridiculous. So, we were talking about uh would you rather pay
32:14
for higher bandwidth caps or would you
32:17
rather pay for um where is it? Like to
32:21
use services because someone has to pay at some point for something. So, you're
32:25
either going to be contributing to a peer-to-peer network or you're going to
32:28
say, "Okay, no centralized servers are better for me, but I have to pay for this somehow." Whether it's through
32:32
watching ads or whether it's through um whether it's through just paying for it
32:36
outright. So, here I'll let you cover this one. So, they decided that you can
32:41
save about $60 a year, which is like
32:44
really not that much. time winner. $5 a
32:47
month and have bandwidth caps of 30 GB
32:51
to which less than 1% in the thousands
32:55
of their 11 million customers decided to actually opt in for because it's a very
33:01
terrible thing and you're
33:05
dumb. I don't even like know what else to say. Um, he said practically the CEO
33:11
Rob Marcus said practically no subscribers took the ISP up on its offer
33:15
for cheaper service. Cheaper service. $5
33:19
a month. Shut up. Give us a halfp price service with a very limited bandwidth.
33:23
Now maybe we're talking. Yeah, exactly. $5 a month. Like you're not winning
33:27
battles there, man. Um, for service with
33:30
a data cap. A data cap. It's 30 gigs for a home internet
33:35
connection. What? Like I just downloaded Titanfall that would have crushed the
33:39
whole cap. What the heck? I don't know. This
33:44
is This is something that I brought up before though actually when we were talking about Call of Duty Ghosts when
33:48
people were talking about how it was like 50 gigs, right? Yeah. And I was saying physical media might come back
33:53
for games specifically because if you're downloading these like 50 Gigabyte
33:56
games, it took me all freaking night. I I started downloading Titanfall after
34:00
work. Couldn't play it that night. Had to play it the next day because still at
34:04
2 in the morning. It wasn't done right. and like I have a pretty good internet
34:08
connection. It was not my side. It took way too long. If I just decided to go to
34:13
the store and drive back, I could have had the game in 15 minutes, 20 minutes.
34:19
So, I've got a straw pull for you guys. I'm going to go ahead and post that in the chat right now. Would you agree to a
34:25
30 gig per month cap for half of your
34:28
current rate that you're paying? And I think I already know the answer, but
34:32
whatever. Wow.
34:36
Thank you. I wouldn't
34:39
either. Two people. Two people. Yeah.
34:43
You guys rock on. You rock on all two of
34:46
you. All right. So, we'll go ahead and leave that for a little bit. But
34:52
crushed. So, you know what? This actually looks
34:57
in line with the number of people who actually did it according to Time Warner
35:02
Cable. Couple percent. They said less than 1%. Did they say less than 1%?
35:06
Yeah, but people are probably trolling as well. So, yeah. Well, considering it
35:10
sat at two for a really long time and then we called it out and then everyone was like, "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes."
35:13
Yeah. So, it's one of those things where
35:17
Yeah, I think we can just all agree on this one except you 16 people. And I'm
35:21
sorry, but you're but you're you're probably watching this show. Yeah, if
35:25
you're watching this show, your like whole bandwidth is going to get taken up
35:29
from watching Wan's show for a month.
35:33
Maybe they are so hardcore that this is the only the only thing they do on the
35:39
internet is watch this show. They get to
35:43
watch one twoour segment four times a
35:46
month of this show. That's it. And we
35:50
love you guys. You're awesome. Thank you. You like 20 people or whatever it
35:54
is. That's great.
35:57
Oh man. The best part is it's still slow.
36:02
So you're you're paying half the price, but it's still a lot of money because
36:05
half the price is still not that cheap. It's still really slow
36:09
internet and you have this crappy data cap. Or you can be San Antonio and
36:15
possibly be getting Google Fiber. Yeah.
36:18
Okay. Okay. Let's move on to that. Like actually both of these topics the the
36:23
upcoming ones are about how infrastructure it just like needs to get
36:27
better and uh may may just be getting
36:31
better. Hold on. Where where is it? You can use the headers, but it's right there. I'll use your headers. All right.
36:36
So, let's go ahead and pop over to this. So, this is from my San
36:41
Antonio.com. San Antonio city council's
36:44
Google fiber contract. San Antonio, you
36:48
guys are awesome. The people who live there are awesome and Google is awesome.
36:53
My favorite thing about reading this article, everyone that's watching right now, I highly suggest checking out this
36:58
article. Maybe I'll post it. Post. Okay. Um, read through it and read the quotes
37:01
from the guy that's on city council who's pushing for it mainly. He is the
37:05
biggest, and this is awesome. I'm not saying this in a negative way. Usually when I say this word, it's negative, but
37:10
he is the biggest fanboy ever. And it's
37:13
hilarious. The whole time he's just like, "Yes, he's saying like, "Win it
37:17
tier. Win it here. Win it here." And then he goes into like, "A big important part of my job is managing expectations.
37:23
We don't know when it's coming or if it's coming." Blah blah blah blah blah. All of his other quotes. When it's here,
37:27
when it's here. It's like, yes. And then
37:30
right at the end, he says, "I don't actually see where it is right now. Uh,
37:34
when when we get this, remember what I just said. When we get this, and I
37:37
believe we will. I would I would like to request a San Antonio themed Google
37:42
homepage. That would be really nice."
37:47
Awesome. Like that's so cool. Oh wow. I
37:51
want this guy on my city council. Me too. Me too. That's fantastic. So good.
37:57
So what else is there about it? I mean there are some challenges. Um right now
38:02
the company or the cityowned CPS Energy
38:06
owns 86% of the telephone polls but AT&T
38:12
owns the other 14%.
38:16
Oh no. Although I do bet you those are in fairly confined areas. And while 14%
38:22
is still very large when you're talking about this kind of stuff, it's probably
38:25
able to be bypassed and probably won't be the biggest deal. It's still going to
38:28
be a hurdle that they're going to have to jump over. Yeah. What else? What else they got? Something interesting that I
38:32
noticed was that they haven't pinned down the locations yet, but they're planning to install them in libraries.
38:37
We haven't said what they are. Oh, for fiber huts. So, they're planning on
38:41
installing 4B 40 fiber huts, which are 12 by 26 foot communication. I would
38:46
live in a fiber hut. Even if it was just a hut, I would just live there. Like 40
38:51
gigabit in up and down.
38:55
You just want anything click. Yes. So
38:58
good. Sorry. Go ahead. Um, so yeah, 12 x 26 foot communications shelters, which
39:03
are just going to house all of the fiber communications infrastructure that they
39:06
need. They're going to install these in most likely, they don't have pinned
39:10
locations yet, but most likely libraries, fire and police stations and
39:14
other city properties across San Antonio, which I immediately thought
39:17
about. This seems like the setup and
39:20
like windup part of the next Batman movie.
39:24
Google Google this big corporation
39:28
installs these these fiber huts in big
39:31
city buildings and then they collect all the data because um have you read and
39:36
Eric Schmidt is the the Joker or something like that and then Batman has
39:40
to come in and like shut down all these individual huts that are protected by I
39:43
hope Warner Brothers is watching because they're stealing because they might
39:47
actually do this because they're stealing data from because like police
39:51
fire libraries and other city properties. So if they install it at
39:54
like city hall, all the police stations and all the fire stations, they could know all the foot traffic of all the
39:58
different things. Oh yeah, totally seems like next Batman movie.
40:02
Fantastic. This just immediately thought of that. And what made me mainly think
40:05
of that is if you've read the thing on John McCaffy, his recent thing about how
40:10
the he was spying on police in Bise or
40:13
something like that. I was like because he donated computers. It's like this is
40:17
like Google Fiber except for instead of donating computers, they're just
40:20
installing little structures inside the instead of spying on police, they're
40:23
spying on everyone. Yes, but
40:26
specifically mainly government. This doesn't even necessarily have to be
40:30
Batman. This could be almost anything. This could be pretty much whatever.
40:34
Yeah, you could call the movie like The Biggest Brother, Die Hard. And it
40:38
wouldn't be about a large black man. It would be about your idea. I mean, it
40:41
could be about both. the large black man is the one that
40:46
takes down all the Google. To be clear, I know some people don't like black or
40:50
white or whatever, but I'm just kind of going treat others as you want to be
40:54
treated. I'm totally okay if people call me white. I know their skin's not black
40:58
and my skin isn't white, but it's very convenient. Um, that's all I have to say
41:03
about that. What was I going to say? And I apologize in advance to anyone that I may have offended cuz I probably did
41:09
offend someone. disclaimer. You know, I've I think the last like six WAN shows
41:13
in a row, I've had someone message me after the show and tell me how upset
41:17
they are because of something I said. I'm sorry. It's a live show and sometimes I talk without thinking. Um
41:22
anyway, was there anything else to say about this? There was, but I don't even
41:27
remember. Um right, so despite the excitement of the city council member,
41:31
which is fantastic. You have to read through the article. Um he said it's
41:35
still going to be a really long time coming. They still have legal loopholes to jump through like the AT&T owning a
41:40
whole bunch of the um polls thing and
41:43
other legal loopholes that they have to go through. It's been approved. They
41:46
still have to go through a huge process. They won't even be done doing Google's
41:50
required paywork for at least two weeks and then they have to get through
41:54
testing and figuring out where all these
41:57
fiber huts actually even should go. Then they have to build them all and then
42:01
they have to run lines to everyone houses and like blah blah blah blah blah. going
42:04
to be a really long time, but it's going to be like full scale Google Fiber, not
42:09
in like the middle of nowhere. So freaking awesome. Well, I kind of want
42:14
it in the middle of nowhere. I want it here. Yeah, I want it here, too. Okay,
42:18
so this article is from Business Insider. This is supposedly the
42:23
technology that is going to make your phone's internet a thousand times faster
42:28
than 4G. Now, to be clear, guys, a
42:32
thousand times faster than 4G is probably more like network capacity
42:37
because we're a long way away from flash chips that are capable of leveraging
42:43
that kind of throughput. That's what I thought when I first read that. I was
42:46
like, "Oh, this isn't real at all." This is kind of like when we talk about, you
42:49
know, 100 gigabit, you know, internet
42:53
because we're so far away from that even mattering. Um, we're going to need like
42:57
light based storage in our computers for that to even be a thing. But, um, okay.
43:01
So, what's it called? PEL. PEL. And the idea is getting away from giant, very
43:06
widespread out cell towers so that when you're kind of in between, you're
43:09
running at like a bar or no bars. And the idea is installing these fairly
43:14
small boxes kind of all over the place so that you constantly have really good
43:18
signal. And then the individual boxes will be very powerful, just not as wide
43:22
range. So, you'll be able to get a lot faster speed while you're in range, then
43:25
they're all over the place. Um, which has its own complications because now
43:29
instead of having a tower that's kind of away from being in the middle of
43:33
anything or on the top of things like on the top of buildings or something like that, you now have to have these boxes
43:39
freaking everywhere. So, figuring out where they can put it, stuff like that
43:42
could be an issue. That is one of the biggest uh that is one of the biggest
43:46
logistical challenges I see with something like this because at least thing about a cell tower is yes it's a
43:52
process to get the permits and get it get it built and buy the land and
43:56
whatever else you have to do but it's one project whereas I mean if you've
44:02
ever tried to do any kind of project management even something as simple as
44:07
planning a kid's birthday party if all you had to do was invite like one kid
44:12
but like it's complicated and you have to like go to their parents house and
44:15
you know prove that you're going to be feeding them you know a vegan diet and
44:18
they're going to have a nap at 3:30 and whatever else you're doing one thing
44:23
whereas if you have to invite a hundred kids even if it's as simple as emailing
44:28
them all and then managing the email responses it's still a ton of work so um
44:34
we have the results for our straw poll by the way there you go 5% said yes so a
44:39
lot than the not necessarily fairly
44:43
hardcores on Time Warner service. So I I don't think our poll is accurate. Yeah,
44:47
I don't think so. I wasn't really expecting it to. Um I mean there's a lot
44:51
of uncertainties with the new technology. Um the idea is you could
44:55
combine the signal for many Pwaves to get a full signal at all time. They cost
44:59
less. They're smaller. Um of course they're going to cost less. There will
45:03
be an initial roll out in Q4 2014 in San Francisco. So I guess it just kind of
45:08
remains to be seen. It it theoretically will use less power. Although if you're
45:12
running a phone that is natively LTE, you won't see any of the power savings.
45:17
You need a native PEL phone to see the
45:20
power. But LTE phones will work on PEL networks in theory, which is actually
45:25
really cool. So you could take advantage of this. Now, the speed though, not
45:29
necessarily the and the coverage. And the coverage, I mean, especially
45:32
coverage in places where they just can't justify a massive tower project. Yeah.
45:37
Makes a ton of sense. Um actually we have one more infrastructure improvement
45:41
thing here. This is a collaboration between Brazil and the EU that is um
45:49
basically just a direct response to
45:52
spying by the NSA on foreign dignitaries. And this is like spying on
45:57
their allies. And one of the comments in the article, which I just found
46:01
laughable, is that President Obama has
46:04
since banned spying on the, you know,
46:08
uh, spying on close allies. I'm just like, or you could
46:15
like there are so many. One, there's no way that's actually true. He's probably
46:21
publicly banned it and it's still totally happening.
46:25
Um, two, I I don't know. That's that's all I really have to say about that. One
46:29
thing that I noticed with this article is, hasn't Brazil been flamed recently
46:33
for spying on their residents? Anyways, so this is like, hooray.
46:40
We don't want other people spying on you. Only we get to spy on you,
46:44
citizens. So, it's $185 million project.
46:47
Um it's going to be a joint project between some of various ISPs and uh it's
46:53
going to basically the only existing line right now. So it'll run from hold
46:57
on a second I forget whoever whoever wrote
47:02
this down forgot to say where it actually runs from. Ah there we go.
47:05
Lisbon to forella. And uh the only
47:09
existing line between Brazil and the EU is so slow that it's only used for voice
47:13
communication. So, you know what I mean? Infrastructure upgrades in general, you
47:18
know, is never a bad thing. And it's really interesting to see how quickly
47:23
the US is losing its very tight grip
47:27
over its position as the hub of the
47:30
entire internet. Interesting. Um, what is it? Ukraine is dealing with Russia
47:34
right now. Um, server hosting has been
47:38
hopping out really quickly, right? Okay, so like server hosting for different
47:41
games and stuff has been hopping out and you would expect oh they might go to the
47:45
states or somewhere like that. None. We've even seen some of them hop
47:50
to Canada. Who hops their server hosting
47:53
to Canada? Yeah, no one. Those people
47:57
apparently not to the states though. Like
48:01
I mean it goes to show you, you know, power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts
48:05
absolutely. Yeah, I know it's been said over and over and over again, but that
48:08
doesn't make it any less true. As soon as someone is in a position where they
48:12
can control something, they'll abuse it
48:16
every time. Not necessarily every time.
48:19
At some point, someone will abuse it. It's a high possibility. I'd say I don't
48:26
think everyone is inherently bad except for Lionus. I'm not
48:31
inherently bad. See, there you go. We agreed. Now you're agreeing with me. We
48:34
agreed I was chaotic neutral. Or was I lawful neutral? I
48:40
don't remember. You were chaotic neutral. I was chaotic neutral. Edel
48:43
thought you were lawful neutral. Yeah, Edel figured that I was um Oh, no. I
48:48
think you said I was lawful evil and
48:51
then we agreed I was No, I said lawful evil and then we agreed I was chaotic.
48:56
But then I think Edzel figured I was lawful because I operate based on a set
49:01
of rules even if it's not necessarily everyone else's rules. I'm like uh I'm
49:06
like that uh the the kid and family guy. I don't play by anyone's rules except my
49:11
your whole piracy stance is a little weird now. My piracy stance is weird.
49:15
Yeah. Yeah. It's probably weird. All right. So Tesla, I still think you're
49:19
lawful evil, was banned in New
49:23
Jersey, not from selling cars, but from
49:27
selling them directly to customers, which is how they sell cars, which is
49:31
how they sell cars. So they've been kind of banned from selling cars. Now, you
49:36
could you could take either stance on this. Okay. Why don't you give the
49:39
overview and then I'm going to kind of jump in and make everyone mad.
49:43
Oh, really? Yeah, I'm going to do that. just just h I don't even have the topic
49:48
up, but essenti Oh, there it is. Um, essentially cars can be sold by
49:52
dealerships. So, there has to be a middleman. Uh, you know how dealerships
49:55
work. It's usually like the guy's name who opened the dealership and then like
50:00
Chrysler or Oh, Shay Chevrolet or big
50:03
thumbs up to anyone who gets that reference. Go ahead.
50:06
Or or or whatever else, right? Like that's often how guard car dealerships
50:10
are done or other ways or whatever, but there's always a car dealership. You don't usually order like mail order a
50:15
car or order it online, but that's how Tesla does it. And they've banned that
50:20
in New Jersey. You have to have a dealership, which isn't yours as far as
50:25
I know. Yeah. Like someone else has to open a dealership for your cars and then
50:29
buy them from you essentially. Yeah. Um, so Texas and Arizona have the same law.
50:34
However, New Jersey is been becoming a big hub for luxury cars and Tesla is
50:38
luxury cars. So Tesla wants to be there because they want to be able to sell their cars, which makes tons of sense.
50:42
Um Tesla is claiming it's claiming I can
50:46
talk that it is an affront to the very concept of a free market and I
50:51
agree. They also say it isn't just about
50:54
cutting out the middleman. It also wants to give buyers an experience to which I
51:00
would say BS. It is about cutting out the middleman whe like okay well if you
51:06
agree with that then we have nothing to argue about because Tesla's concern here
51:11
is strictly self-interest it has nothing
51:15
to do with a better experience for the customer necessarily I'm sure I'm sure
51:19
there's some of that because if they can give a better experience and it's more
51:22
premier and they can control the whole thing they can charge more well there's
51:28
there's always profit behind the idea but creating a better experience
51:31
experience for your customer creates a premier shopping experience which is
51:35
literally some of the target audience for I mean they have the option okay I
51:41
agree with Tesla that they shouldn't be banned but I think a middle ground might
51:47
have been that New Jersey could say okay
51:50
well then you're going to have to open up um negotiations with x number of
51:56
dealerships per square whatever mileage
51:59
to have the option to sell your cars and you're going to have to offer them a
52:03
reasonable margin structure and all that stuff. And if you can provide a better
52:08
shopping experience your way, then customers will have a free market right
52:13
to choose. I still don't understand why they're banning that though. That still
52:16
doesn't make any sense. That's stupid. Banning makes no sense. Yeah, that's
52:20
But for them to for to but to protect an industry that is very very
52:24
important to the local economy. I understand even if I don't necessarily
52:28
agree with I do understand it and I think he's totally right. It's yeah it's
52:34
an affront to the concept of a free market. Totally agree. The part that I
52:37
was upset about was that Tesla was saying that it wasn't about cutting out the middleman which it absolutely is.
52:41
Yeah. I mean it's all about cutting out the middleman. Look at he says it's not
52:45
it isn't just about
52:49
it's very carefully worded. Yes, it is. And yes, it is just about cutting out
52:53
the middleman. I mean, look at I like Okay, I'm going to It's not just It's
52:58
just mostly
53:02
I'll pull up Apple as an example here. Apple stores deliver a better experience
53:06
than Best Buy. Have you ever shopped at an Apple store? Uh, I haven't shopped
53:11
there. I've been inside an Apple store though with someone who was shopping.
53:14
I've I've bought stuff there. I have gone through service there. I've gone
53:18
through their service because my girlfriend at the time had to repair iPhone. Okay. Outstanding experience.
53:23
You feel like you're in like this, you know, zone where you're going to be
53:27
helped and it's like very futuristic. The one thing that I did really like is
53:32
that we never got approached by someone in the way that you get approached going
53:35
to Future Shop or for people not in Canada, Best Buy or something like that
53:39
because I didn't feel like I was beingounded. More than once I had someone come up and ask me how my day
53:44
was and I was like, "That's an interesting intro. I've worked in retail
53:47
before. No one has ever told me to start with that." Um, so I talked to him for a
53:52
little bit about like random stuff. Then he's like, "Is there anything I can help
53:55
you guys with?" like and she saw that he saw that she was holding her phone. He's
54:00
like, "Is it broken?" And I was like, "Yeah, we're having problems with it." So he's like, "All right, I'll be back
54:03
in a sec." Go grab goes and grabs the tech and has the same intro. They have a
54:07
service first approach, which I thought was cool. And so if
54:10
Tesla with a service first approach can
54:14
effectively out compete car dealerships,
54:17
then great. But I don't think they should be forced to allow to sell their
54:22
cars through other dealerships. That doesn't that's against the free market
54:25
thing. That is when I said I was being very literal. That's very
54:29
backwards. That is pulling back. That is I didn't
54:32
say that was the right solution though. I said it would be a middle ground. But
54:36
it's a bad that's that's a middle ground where there should not be a middle
54:39
ground. There should only be the one side. Sometimes the world is about baby
54:43
steps. And this is baby steps in the
54:46
wrong direction. No, no, no. Okay, hold on. Hold on. Okay. Well, let Okay. So
54:51
right now what exists is a law that you
54:55
may not run your own dealership. Yes. Okay. So you're saying okay. I'm saying
54:59
it's a baby step. I see towards the right direction. And it's better than
55:03
just saying no. Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm I'm applying my when I was saying it's
55:08
backwards. I was applying my logic to before this law existed. You're talking
55:12
about what we have to do now that it's already here. So I Yeah, that makes more
55:16
sense. Uh, it's just like why stop them?
55:21
Because it's it's it's an established
55:25
it's an established part of the local economy and you can talk about how
55:30
that's part of the economy and what kinds of kickbacks exist where and what
55:35
going on, but it's established and it takes baby steps to
55:40
change something. You're not going to be able to walk in and replace VHS with
55:46
digital downloads overnight. It took us
55:49
what, 15 years? That's laws in place stopping for people
55:54
from selling DVDs. No, but there's all kinds of legislative issues associated
55:59
with streaming videos online. And we're still working our way through that. It
56:03
we go through this every time there's a shift in technology that means that
56:07
someone is not making the money that they're used to making. and really like
56:11
making. That's all. But I also wonder if it's not even just the dealerships
56:15
though. Like is this another step from big oil to try and stop electrical cars
56:20
from being sold? I don't know. I mean, everything in the States somehow comes
56:24
back to big oil. Ever since the NSA thing broke, I have not been able to
56:29
just say, "Ah, that's just a conspiracy theory anymore." Yeah, I
56:34
know. It's horrible. Everything sucks.
56:38
Anyways, yeah. On that note, um Verizon
56:42
wants to charge. This was a topic we talked about last week. You know what?
56:46
We talked about it briefly. Okay. Yeah. I don't want to uh I don't want to jump
56:49
into that. Okay. Let's talk good news. Haswell E and X99 look like the schedule
56:56
has been stepped up. This was posted by Milner Fred and the original article is
57:00
from Kit Guru. And so we're looking at
57:04
potentially a Q2 launch. What's up? Oh
57:08
yeah, a Q2 launch on the LGA
57:12
2011-3 socket. Like really Intel, just
57:15
call it like socket Blackbeard, isn't it? Like I don't know, something cool.
57:20
Um, so on a new socket from Intel, we're going to be looking at up to 20 megs of
57:25
level three cache, quad channel DDR4
57:28
memory, 40 integrated PCI Express 3.0
57:31
lanes. Um, and then I believe the rumor on the street, although I haven't seen
57:36
any kind of um, confirmation of this is that the extreme edition will be an
57:41
octoore finally. So, that's extremely exciting
57:46
and I am uh, very very happy about that. Is it only the extreme edition and not
57:50
the highest end K edition? No idea. Okay. Not sure. If they keep with their
57:56
what they've done for the last two gens, then it will be the extreme edition and
58:00
the like $600 piece. But going back to
58:04
when they first launched six cores with Gulf Town and the 980X. So if we go to
58:11
when they first launched a new number of cores and when they first launched quad
58:15
core, Yep. Yep. Quad core was for an entire generation extreme edition only
58:21
and six core was for an entire generation extreme edition only. Yeah.
58:25
So we'll see. So maybe I will be waiting for the next version. Yeah. Because
58:30
remember I was like I might Yeah. Anyways, so very flexible tuning and
58:34
overclocking capabilities are what they're saying. But uh I think that
58:38
basically just means they'll all be unlocked. I don't think that's going to mean anything in terms of actual
58:42
overclocking ability compared to Haswell and LG 1150. Although I'd love to be
58:48
wrong. Yeah, cuz it's not been fantastic for a little while now. Uh we're going
58:51
to get six USB 3.0 ports. We're going to get uh 10 SATA 36 Gbit per second ports.
58:58
Um no SATA Express, which is an interesting omission. I mean, I would
59:02
love to see an Intel chips. Is there actually anywhere saying no? No. Okay,
59:07
so maybe I'm wrong. And maybe I mean I wouldn't be surprised if we see SATA
59:11
Express being implemented um with third-party controllers and then
59:15
utilizing those 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes, but I
59:19
don't see any guarantee that it's happening and I would have liked to see a native solution because I think you
59:24
and I are very much on the same page as this on this. Um third party chipsets
59:29
are okay, but if I can use an Intel LAN controller, an Intel USB controller,
59:35
they just even just the drivers
59:38
I've been so big about drivers lately because I'm testing stuff all the time
59:41
and swapping benches and doing all this kind of stuff. And like when I did that recent platform swap and I was like it
59:46
was fantastic. It just worked. That's one of the nice thing about having
59:50
native stuff. Uh and other good news,
59:53
Google slashed prices on Google Drive.
59:56
So let's go ahead and head over there. So um I did a few comparisons and some
60:01
of these comparisons were in the news articles but not all of them. My
60:04
favorite one was actually a comparison that I didn't see anywhere else, which
60:08
was comparing to the launch prices for Drive. So, the launch prices for Drive
60:13
were Wow, awesome. Yeah, there we go. 5
60:18
gigabytes for free, 25 gigabytes for 250. So, I see people going for either
60:22
the free version or the one step up mainly. So now it is four times the data
60:28
for 50 cents less because it is a $1.99
60:33
for 100 gigabytes and that's per month per month and it was 250 for or 249
60:38
sorry specifically for uh 25 gigs. So you're getting four times the data for
60:43
50 cents less is actually pretty solid
60:47
for two years. Like you you expect it to get better. You don't necessarily expect
60:50
it to get cheaper. Um, but you do expect there to be more hopefully. Um, but
60:55
they've done four times the amount in two years for less, which is kind of
60:58
awesome. And then 10 bucks for one terabyte and starting at a hundred bucks
61:03
for 10 terabytes or more of Google Drive
61:07
storage. I mean, the future is going to be fantastic, eh? if you could pay, you
61:12
know, um, like let's say, okay, so let's say another 10 years down the road or
61:17
another five years down the road or whatever. Let's say we get another 10x
61:21
increase in the the storage space or whatever that you know it happens to be.
61:25
If you have a Google Fiber account at that point, you will actually have a 100
61:30
megabyte per second connection to terabytes of storage. You will not need
61:35
local storage anymore. But personally,
61:39
and I think a lot of other people still will, and there are still a lot of
61:42
arguments for personal cloud versus cloud storage. And you know what? I I
61:45
see a lot of people going the route that we have, which is where you just have both. Yep. You have public cloud storage
61:50
for stuff that isn't super important and
61:55
well, it could still be important if it's on the cloud, but isn't super like
61:58
personal. Yeah. And then that you can access really easily. You want to be
62:01
able to access it all the time. Blah blah blah blah. And then very personal stuff uh you store on your own kind of
62:06
cloud thingy with a NAS. There's free NAS. There's tons of other things out
62:10
there. And especially with computers lasting for so long these days. If you
62:14
upgrade your computer down the line, you can still use your old computer, install
62:17
free NAS, and then have like a beast NAS
62:21
for relatively nothing. That's actually a really great way to set up a NAS. If
62:26
you're not concerned with getting a really nice prepackaged software suite
62:30
like Synology's DSM and you're willing to do the work yourself, you can build a
62:34
NAS on the cheap with like old parts on
62:38
eBay or whatever and get just beastly performance and you know and it can and
62:43
it can have so much more functionality like the ability to I just found out that Emit has a web client. Really?
62:49
Yeah. So you could stream you can stream video and music to yourself through emit
62:54
over the web. It's not going to be as like clean and yeah, it won't be as
62:58
clean and shiny as a prepackaged solution like DSM or whatever, but you
63:02
can do it for it's called freess. So, I
63:06
guess you can figure it out.
63:10
I don't know. All right. So, this is neither good nor bad. Uh, Google has
63:14
removed underlined links from their
63:17
search results. So, if you uh here, I'm just going to just going to blow this
63:21
up. So, you can see that the blue one is
63:24
underlined. And then if you click the image, you can see what a new search
63:28
looks like where it is no longer underlined.
63:34
I actually think it's more interesting than you do. My favorite part was that
63:37
was a legitimate yawn. Okay. Okay. Uh
63:40
the original article is from The Verge, by the way. And you know what? I I
63:46
actually I like underlined links. Me,
63:49
too. Because it's very obviously a link. But I have noticed over time no one
63:55
really does it anymore. That no one really does it anymore. And so much of
63:59
the internet experience is clickable and the web design has gotten so much better
64:04
in terms of making things look clicky. Yeah. That I guess it's okay. But if
64:08
they do away with blue for hyperlinks, that's Yeah, I don't see that coming
64:13
anytime soon, though. Look at our Google Drive right now. Yes, the clickable
64:17
links are blue. Every every like clickable link everywhere is blue. Um,
64:22
yeah, I don't see the blue going away anytime soon. I wouldn't be too worried about that. All right, so this article
64:27
is on time.com and Google will start
64:31
encrypting your searches. Now, I'm going to do the I'm going to do the fairy
64:35
tales and butterflies and sparkles version of this, and then I'll let you
64:39
do the like the the cane version of
64:43
this, the gloom and doom. All right. So, the good news here is
64:47
that this will make it more difficult for your data to be intercepted by third
64:52
parties. And of course, the the Edward Snowden leaks are a big part of why this
64:57
is happening right now because Google doesn't want their customers information
65:03
being stolen. Another big awesome happy
65:06
time thing about this is that it can potentially allow them to circumvent
65:10
censorship and make the internet more free because it will not allow ISPs or
65:16
other intermediaries to not only not to not only steal the data, but even know
65:20
what the heck it is. So, a more encrypted internet is better. And they
65:25
say the reason that they're doing this is to encourage other companies to take
65:30
a more security-minded approach to what they're doing. Now, let's get the sort
65:36
of what they're doing part. They're saving their profit
65:40
margins because they can do this to help protect against ISPs replacing ads and
65:45
gathering data on their customers, which is talk about what that is.
65:49
What what is ISPs replacing? ISPs can detect ads. Ad block can detect ads. Ads
65:55
are incredibly easy to detect and an ISP could remove that ad and input their own
66:00
uh therefore taking all of the profit for that and screwing with customers
66:05
essentially and potentially making websites a lot worse. Like if an if an
66:08
ISP is injecting ads like we were talking about earlier like the pirate
66:12
bay does, no one's going to want to go to your website. I don't think they
66:15
would do that. I don't think they would either. But it's but even if they were
66:19
injecting ads that we're not approving like linesttips.com has ads but we
66:23
refuse to have things like those splash splash screen ads. We don't want any
66:28
that have sound. Like we have guidelines. We can blacklist ones that
66:31
we don't like. Whereas if our ISP or your ISP was just injecting crap, we
66:37
can't control the web experience of our users. And that's not right. And like
66:42
okay, what if you are a religious website? Yes. Yes. And you get ads for a
66:47
religious dating site, which is not the
66:50
religion that your website is, which is awkward. So, if you had like a like a
66:54
like a Christian site and they didn't and it was like um you know, find Muslim
66:58
singles or whatever. And none of these are necessarily bad things. It's just
67:02
not a very good like why is that there?
67:05
Um so yeah, and then and then collecting data on you, which is what they do, and
67:10
then they sell that. So the ISP won't be able to do that. And then they have more
67:15
market share in that area as well. Mind you, if if they're so okay, I guess that
67:19
aligns with what they said about Google Fiber where they don't want to be an
67:23
ISP. They just want the ISPs to sit in
67:27
the corner like little children and do what they're told and collect no data
67:31
and just plug the thing into the thing and then transfer the thing to the thing. That's why Google has no interest
67:36
in being an ISP because there's absolutely no value in it whatsoever and
67:39
they are determined to take all of the value out of it.
67:43
Yep. So, I hope that they have to be coming at high speed because I'd rather
67:46
have Google Fiber. Anyways, yeah. So, there's that.
67:52
Uh, another thing is Whoa, my thing just
67:55
went totally away from that article. Yes. Oh, I don't remember where it went.
68:02
But it's not 100% security either. I don't know where the article is, but I'm
68:05
just going to wing this. Uh, it's not 100% security either, which is something
68:09
fairly important. They've been talking about uh they started doing this in China. I
68:14
believe they moved their offices in China to Hong Kong in I believe 2010.
68:18
That's actually what I was looking for in the doc, but I believe that's how it's done. From Beijing to Hong Kong,
68:22
which is Hong Kong is now a part of China again, but it's still
68:25
semi-autonomous. Um, so they dodged that and they started encrypting searches in
68:29
China already. Um, but they're scared that people are going to think that it's
68:33
100% security because it's not 100%
68:36
security. It's nothing is. It helps you.
68:39
It's not if if you start searching very incriminating things, whether or not
68:44
that incriminating thing should be incriminating or not doesn't matter. If
68:47
you start searching those incriminating things, people could still potentially
68:51
find it. So, don't don't just be like, "Yeah, Google searches are encrypted
68:55
now," which they're not yet. Probably where you are. Um, but once that
69:00
happens, don't just think you're behind the iron wall because you're not
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70:18
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So guys uh let me know in Twitter actually if you'd like for us to do that
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again and I'll reach out to Squarespace and I'll ask them if you've been thinking about starting your own
73:46
website. It is a great way to differentiate. I know Unbox Therapy uses
73:50
Squarespace for his site now. His old one was kind of terror bad and our old
73:54
one on WordPress was kind of terrible too. And this one we created. Did we
73:58
spend more than two days on this? Total total man. I think so. But I think it
74:04
was rebranding, right? Not like like art
74:07
assets, not building the site. Yeah. And it was like ideas and oh, we don't
74:12
necessarily like how that looks. Let's go a different direction with it. Yeah,
74:15
like stuff that wasn't complications. It was more furthering of the Well, what
74:20
happened was when you create your account, you select a template based on
74:23
the kind of site you want to create and I just picked a random one because I
74:27
wasn't sure. And what I didn't realize is you can't go back and just change it
74:30
because the way the templates work is they're very tightly integrated. That's
74:34
how they get it to work well on the desktop, well on a phone, on a tablet, or whatever else. Um, so I think we had
74:39
to we were trying to use the wrong template and then we had to undo it and
74:42
then start over. And if we hadn't wasted time because I just was like click click
74:46
click click click then it probably would have been fine just like you did with
74:51
our original forum software.
74:58
I love you man. That sucked. Anyways, continuing time.
75:04
Uh smart cover. Yeah. Ah I don't really
75:08
care about that. Let's just we'll talk about that when they actually send us a phone and a smart cover. Um
75:14
All right. Oh, something that doesn't suck. Razer Blade
75:19
14 new edition.
75:23
Wow. This is the notebook that I want.
75:27
Like are they sending you one? I don't know
75:31
yet. For for Blade 14 original, I think
75:35
I was like number four on the list. So, and then just despite despite the uh the
75:41
call out and everything, yeah, might not might not be number four. You know what
75:44
I mean? This is something I hope that viewers understand is my relationship
75:49
with Razer is not always peachy keen. They they
75:55
they sponsored the WAN Show for like months. So, yeah, we've taken money from
76:00
them, but if you look at our my Razer Blade 14 video, I call them out pretty
76:04
hardcore on that screen. and we don't have them as sponsors on the way
76:07
anymore. And yeah, but that's not why that just ran out. They're still willing
76:11
to sponsor it. It's just that their internal targets for how many new comms
76:15
users per dollar doesn't align with how much a W show sponsorship costs. So
76:20
that's that's the only reason we're we're asking for too much money. And so
76:23
they're just like, well, whatever. Then we just won't advertise with you. And so so that like that's fine. So I called
76:28
them out on that. I called them out on like they weren't even talking about who
76:32
was manufacturing their switches in my video. I'm like, "Yeah, they're, you know, kale switches." You know, like,
76:38
uh, what was what was the other one that I was pretty brutal on? The Kraken Forged Heads
76:42
headphones in my video. I'm just like, I don't like it, but you might if you like
76:48
this thing that, you know, I don't personally like. So, like, it's not
76:51
always 100% Peachy Keen. And then, you know, I had a meeting with them that was
76:55
about an hour long at CES where they're awardwinning, what's it called? The
76:59
Naboo, their smart wrist thing. Oh, yeah. I was just like, I don't think it
77:03
makes a ton of sense. And they're just like, well, we think it's great. I'm
77:06
like, okay, well, when I see the final one and you guys send one, then I'll
77:09
make up my mind at that point in time. But like, we had a pretty strong
77:12
disagreement about that, too. So, this one
77:16
though, if this arrives and it's what
77:19
I'm expecting it to be, then I personally told Minlang Tan, their
77:25
CEO, when I did my original review, I he
77:29
he made me promise. He's like, "Look, if we fix the things you complained about,
77:34
will you say that the Blade 14 is your ideal perfect notebook?" And I said,
77:39
"Yeah." Cuz I couldn't think of anything else that was wrong with it. So, the new
77:44
one is the world's thinnest gaming laptop now
77:49
with a what is it?
77:52
2800 by 1800
77:56
display. Holy crap.
78:00
And the way or no sorry 3200 by 18800
78:04
display. And the amazing thing about this is that while they did upgrade the
78:10
graphics card. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Not TN anymore. Exo. So that's a Sharp IPS
78:17
panel. So, they've put an Exo and it's a
78:20
touchscreen, which was my that was my off thereord complaint about the Blade
78:24
14 because I felt like most gamers wouldn't really care about touchscreen
78:29
as a feature, but when I talked to them, I said I personally like the touchcreen
78:33
and I'd love to see it implemented. Um, it's got new uh NVIDIA graphics. So,
78:38
it's got an 870M in there. Solid, which
78:41
is solid. That was like the only thing I cared about. And I don't I don't know if
78:45
you know this, but some 870M are going to be Kepler based and some are going to
78:49
be Maxwell based. Yeah. So, I'm hoping
78:54
that it's a Maxwell one. And if it's a Maxwell, this is going to be one power
78:59
efficient. And they're both about the same speed. Um, but it depends how many
79:03
functional cores they have versus what clock speed they're running at. But anyway, anyway, so if this one has the
79:08
Maxwell version in it, this thing is going to blow your mind. Now, I've had
79:13
people say that even though they amped up the graphics card in it, they amped
79:19
up the resolution to the point where it's just stupid and nothing can drive
79:23
it anyway. And you'd be right. This is pretty much a 3K resolution. But this is
79:29
something to remember. The reason that I
79:32
ponyied up like $750 when I was a student, which was a lot of money for
79:36
me, I like I bet the rent or like I paid
79:39
spent the rent on Adele 2405 FPW was
79:45
because even though LCDs have a native
79:48
resolution, you can work around it if
79:51
you can get um if your resolution is an even multiple of the resolution you're
79:57
trying to run. So, what's cool about
80:00
3200 by,800 is that it divides evenly
80:04
into 1,600 by 900, which on a 14-in
80:08
display higher than 720p is going to
80:11
look really good, and you're not going to get any BS interpolation because it
80:16
will be a 1:4 pixel mapping ratio. So,
80:20
everything's going to look crisp. So you can have beautiful, super crisp text and
80:26
you can have your gaming look fine and not be too demanding to run. I I have to
80:30
throw a joke in here before you keep going. Um I just want this notebook. So
80:35
it's uh Intel chipset
80:38
HM87. And when I read that, I actually read it wrong. I read as TM87 because
80:42
I've been playing too much Pokemon lately. So, for Pokemon fans and anyone
80:46
who wants to see a joke, Google TM87 and look at the first link and it plays into
80:51
how excited he is about this and then just keep going. I'm not even going to
80:54
explain. Okay, it's got a quadcore processor, Haswell, etc., etc., etc.
80:59
Anyway, I'm really excited about this notebook and I'm trying to convince
81:03
Razer that they should send one without
81:06
like a proper loaner
81:10
agreement cuz like a lot of the time I have to sign a contract that says that
81:14
they'll just bill my credit card if I don't return it. So, I'm going to be
81:17
like, "Yeah, you know what guys, we go way back. Just send it. Don't worry
81:20
about it." cuz I would trade in my
81:23
XPS12 like that even though it's a
81:26
convertible and I actually do use tablet mode once in a while. Oh,
81:32
I am Everyone in the Twitch chat figured it out. I am le
81:37
stoked. Oh my goodness. TM87 is Swagger.
81:42
Okay, I'm not even going to look at it. It's Swagger. It's TM87 is Swagger.
81:47
There's actually a song about TM87 and it's actually pretty I haven't played
81:51
Pokemon since like Pokemon Blue on I
81:55
played Pokemon Blue and then on Game Boy Color. Yeah, I played Pokemon Blue on
81:59
Game Boy Color and then I skipped everything and then Well, TM87 wasn't in
82:04
Pokemon Blue, so that's why you don't know it yet. And I never watched the show, so I got nothing. Yeah. Well, I
82:09
watched the first season and so and then I started playing X and Y because I've
82:13
played I'd play like 10 or 20 minutes of all the Pokemons between here and then
82:17
where we are now with X and Y and Blue and Red and I actually see X and Y as a
82:22
really good improvement. Okay. I didn't see the other ones as like major
82:26
improvements and changes, but I like the new one. Are you still using your DS all
82:29
the time? I really want to play Bravely Default. I'm at the Elite 4, okay, of X
82:33
and Y. So, when I'm done, you can play. Maybe we can work out a deal where I borrow your DS for like a month and then
82:38
you own the Bravely Default cartridge or something. I was going to see if I could
82:42
make that deal cuz I looked it up after you told me about it and I was like, "Wow, I want to play it. I want to play
82:47
it." Yeah. When people suggested it to me, I was like, "Oh, cool." Uh, I've
82:52
seen ads for it and I went on Steam cuz I didn't even I had no idea what it was.
82:56
You went on Steam, so I was like, "Oh, cool. I have a game." Oh, it's on the
83:00
DS. My DS Lite is broken. Oh, it's not available for DS Lite
83:05
anyway. And I really don't want to buy one because I'm not going to play any
83:10
games on it other than I just I want to play that. It's like I could play that
83:15
and like remakes of like older Final Fantasy games and that's the only thing
83:18
I could possibly care about that came out of Square Enix in the last like 5
83:21
years. I've been having a great time with Pokemon X. That's the one I have.
83:25
But I'm so stoked on Bravely Default. Like it's a JRPG that has like I think
83:30
it's like an 85% plus rating on Metacritic, which is like that's a
83:34
pretty strong indicator that it probably basically kicks ass. Yeah. So, okay.
83:39
Things that don't kick ass. No, expect not to talk for 5 minutes because I am
83:44
so mad about this. So Microsoft and
83:48
Google like okay this was one of the cool this was you know what some of the
83:53
stuff that won awards at CES like
83:56
honestly like I'm like shaking with rage right now. I'm going to jot in before
83:59
you keep going while you search for that. This brings in the brings up the trade agreement thing that we debated
84:04
about with Tesla. Anyways, keep going. Okay. Okay. I'm just gonna I'm you know
84:09
what? I'm gonna make you guys sit through this. I'm gonna make you I'm gonna make you watch my video from CES.
84:15
Let me just see if uh I don't know. Make sure your levels aren't broken. You guys
84:19
will have to let me know if you have audio here. I'm sorry. Okay, you know
84:23
what? Maybe I'll just maybe I'll just like go along there. This So, this is
84:28
the Transformer book duet. I'm going to go ahead and maximize it. Didn't even
84:32
get that many views. It didn't get that much attention at CES. It didn't win any
84:36
amazing CES Innovation Awards, but this was one of the coolest products at the
84:40
show because what it is is it's a
84:43
transformer. So, you can actually pop the top off here and turn it into a
84:47
tablet or it's a notebook. That's fine.
84:51
It runs uh Yeah, that's fine, guys. I'll walk you through it. So, it runs an
84:55
Intel processor, which means that the Windows experience is your normal full
85:00
Windows experience, not some ARM Windows RT BS. Full Windows experience. It runs
85:06
that same Intel processor on Android. They had games running like butter
85:11
smooth, man. It was amazing. outstanding Android experience. And what was cool
85:17
about it is you could actually switch. So all the hardware was actually in the
85:22
top half and the bottom half was just IO and keyboard and maybe an extended
85:26
battery. I can't remember. But what was cool about it was check this out. You
85:30
just hit the button and it takes literally this long. We didn't speed up
85:34
the footage. We didn't play around with it. You can see me. I'm just sitting there. Boom. Windows Android. And what's
85:38
cool about that is not necessarily that I think everyone, you know, needs to
85:44
have an Android tablet in the same way that I don't think everyone needs to
85:47
have a notebook, but if you were to offer me a device that is a hybrid
85:51
between the two so that I can enjoy,
85:54
maybe I actually really like Hangouts on
85:57
Android and I just want to sit with my tablet on the couch and, you know, video
86:02
chat with someone. That's fantastic. and I'm having like that Google native
86:07
experience, but maybe I want to get some real work done, which you cannot do on
86:11
Android. I'm sorry, but it just Android tablets are not up to the same level as
86:16
what you can achieve with a Windows notebook that is properly integrated and
86:21
this one was really wellb built. So, what if I want to have that experience
86:25
and the other one and I'm willing to pay a premium for it? That's where a product
86:28
like this made a ton of sense. Switching back to Windows took like five seconds
86:32
as well. So I could have my cake and I
86:36
could eat it too and it was amazing. And Microsoft and Google have collectively
86:41
screwed us by saying no, we don't want
86:45
hybrids between Android and Windows now.
86:49
ASUS has been doing this for a while and they have, I guarantee you, put a ton of
86:54
work into this. It started at CES 2013
86:58
when they first showed off the Transformer AIO and that was an
87:01
all-in-one PC that docked to a Windows machine and then you pulled it away and
87:06
all the Android hardware. I think it was a Tegra 3 processor was actually inside
87:10
the tablet itself. They have refined that technology over the course of a
87:15
year to have it all running on the same hardware seamlessly, letting you switch
87:19
between it. And Microsoft and Google have basically spat all over that
87:23
innovation and that R&D work and taken an extremely important product away from
87:28
customers. We should have the right to choose between the platforms that are
87:33
available on the hardware that we can get. And even if we can't necessarily
87:38
install it and dual boot it ourselves, someone like ASUS or MSI or Gigabyte or
87:42
I don't care who should have the right to deliver that to us if they're the
87:46
ones who did the work in the first place to allow us to have
87:50
it. So that's all I have to say about that. Um I don't know where my notes on
87:55
this went. And I don't always defend ASUS because they're not always right,
87:59
but in this case they got screwed. Uh I
88:03
don't know where my notes on this went. they seemingly have been deleted, which is weird. But um one thing that I find
88:09
interesting is that they didn't care. I know it's a different platform entirely,
88:12
but Android did not care about the Ubuntu Android mixture,
88:18
which is interesting because it's an OS. You could plug it into a hub of sorts
88:23
and then have a desktop experience and all that kind of stuff. It's a completely different platform, which is
88:27
a problem for the comparison, but still, they didn't really care. But now that
88:31
it's Windows and now that it makes more sense. And Microsoft has never cared
88:35
about dual boot. Microsoft has never cared about that. And this was so much more elegant. You didn't even have to
88:40
dual boot. You just switched. And like I
88:43
I actually really wanted this because there's a lot of really interesting
88:47
Android games coming out where you play it and you go, "Wow, this is a really
88:50
good game. It would be a lot better if I had a different interface." And with
88:54
Intel's improved onboard graphics, we were going to be able to get a decent
88:58
notebook grade gaming experience and with I mean now I'm even
89:02
more mad. Steam in home streaming would have run perfectly on this notebook. You
89:07
could play every Android game and every Windows game under the sun with one
89:12
device in your home and they just took it away from us. It was a fantastic
89:16
laptop. Absolutely fantastic laptop. Had actually already talked to people about
89:20
recommending. I know it wasn't a huge video. Um, but I liked it. I didn't even
89:24
get to go see it, but I liked it a lot. Um, and I've talked to multiple people
89:27
about it. I have people that like developing things for different platforms. One thing that's really
89:31
frustrating for those type of people is having to have some type of platform
89:35
with iOS on it, which is frustrating
89:38
when you don't want to buy an iOS platform designed device. I had to buy
89:42
an iPad mini because we couldn't test something that was only available with
89:45
that and we got a sample of it and committed to do a review. Yeah, it's like crappy. So, that that's frustrating
89:49
and annoying, but Android is usually easier to get. But if you this made it
89:54
so elegant it was ridiculous. I would have bought one of these and I I mean to
89:58
to be clear about that like I don't buy a ton of hardware because we get a lot
90:03
of samples and there's you know if I really need something get a lot of
90:06
laptop samples. We don't get a lot of laptop samples. This one was a sample though. This one wasn't. That's your old
90:10
one. This is my old one. Um, but I mean if I really really need something,
90:14
there's usually some way that I can figure out, you know, like, hey, we'll,
90:19
you know, we'll run an ad for you there or or like, hey, we we really need some
90:23
RAM for our test bench, so when we do testing, we'll like make sure we say
90:28
that it's your RAM in the test bench. Like simple stuff like nothing that
90:31
compromises integrity, but I it's not hard for us to get hardware if we really
90:35
need it. But this was the kind of thing where ASUS doesn't sample notebooks, but
90:40
I would have just bought it because it's an amazing product and it's a great user
90:44
experience and I'm I don't want to talk about this anymore. Why don't you do
90:48
builds of the week here? I'm going to leave this with you because um we have
90:53
something interesting coming up. I've been trying to figure out for quite some
90:57
time how we can how we can get rid of
91:00
some of the like buildup of tech stuff
91:04
that we have lying around here. And the Linus TechTips store, which you have to
91:09
log in on linesttips.com. Don't worry, it's easy to log in on linesttips.com.
91:14
You can use Facebook, Steam, or Twitter. Um, but if you go to the store, which is
91:18
right here, you can actually see that there's a bunch of stuff in there. But
91:21
it's hard for me to really publicize it because, you know, I don't want to I
91:25
don't want to turn it into like a mad rush of people heading over there. Um,
91:30
because a lot of this stuff won't have any warranty because it's a sample or whatever else. And honestly,
91:35
coordinating this many giveaways, you guys have no idea how much work
91:40
giveaways are. This stuff can help contribute to our daily operating costs.
91:44
So, we'd love to get some kind of um some kind of monetary compensation for
91:50
it so that we can reinvest that money into new equipment. And of course,
91:55
something that we've started doing more lately, reinvested into buying samples
91:59
of stuff that we otherwise wouldn't have access to, which lead us into the topic
92:04
about the things that are going to be released this video, this week. The video really the video that is going to
92:08
be released. Yeah. So, so there's lots of new stuff that we that we want to
92:12
reinvest in and this will actually help us. So, I am going to go and I'm going
92:16
to just go get some stuff that I'm just going to add to the store and we're
92:21
going to do like live like garage sale after the WAN Show today. So, once we
92:26
end the show, stick around for like a couple minutes if you guys are interested in the garage sale. Shouldn't
92:31
Yeah. So, we're still doing the show. You're not going right now, right? No. Yeah. Okay. I thought you were going
92:35
right now. Oh, I was going to. Yeah. No. Oh, you need me here? Well, there's the
92:40
leak thing about the video that's coming this weekend. Oh yeah. So, we are going
92:46
to be doing a couple pilots for you guys. Luke's wanted to do a gaming
92:50
centric show forever, basically since he started. Um, and then I have wanted to
92:56
do a toy centric channel ever since I
93:00
never grew up and like toys. So, we are
93:03
have each produced a pilot episode and we're going to create a thread on the
93:08
line of tech tips forum. So, stay tuned for this. I think the video is going to launch Saturday or something. Saturday.
93:12
Saturday, Saturday or Sunday night our time. And uh we'd love for you guys to
93:16
vote and let us know what you think of the concepts, uh which ones you think we
93:21
should pursue, what you guys would like to see changed because it is a ton of
93:25
work to build up a new channel. Techquy is one that I was really certain about.
93:30
Like I I knew that we needed that format that was really concise and well edited,
93:35
but this is going to be completely new territory for us. gaming or toys.
93:39
They're both like they're both geeky just like the tech that we already do,
93:43
but they're they're different. The the voting options, there will be four of
93:47
them. There's uh games only, toys only, mixture, or none. Personally, I think we
93:52
should go with mixture because I actually want to see you're coloring the
93:56
results when you tell them what we think. But I that's the one I hope everyone
94:01
votes for. So, if you're if you're a slick fanboy,
94:05
then I guess you could vote for his option. Well, what's yours? Probably a mixture
94:09
of the two. But I want to know what they think. I
94:14
do, too. Okay. But I'm just saying what one I We can vote. It's a public poll.
94:19
I'm voting for mixture.
94:23
It's only one vote. It's not really going to do things very much. Uh I'm
94:27
mainly going to be announcing the new system, but I'll also brush over those.
94:31
I'm going to go find some stuff. Okay.
94:34
Garage sale after the show. So, bill logs of the week have been a thing that
94:38
haven't existed for a long time. Luckily, that unplugged your headphones
94:42
and not this cable because it's screwed in. Good
94:45
job. Okay. Um, build logs of the week are something that existed for a long
94:50
time and then kind of disappeared. I've had a lot of people ask me about that.
94:53
Uh, the reason why was when the forum first started, there honestly wasn't a
94:58
ton of people around. There was a lot of people, but not nearly the amount of numbers that there is now. And it was
95:03
fairly easy for me to manage going through every single build blog posted
95:08
in a week and literally rank them
95:11
internally in an Excel sheet, giving them like letter grades and then going
95:15
through the ones that got A's at the end and then shuffling down to two and doing
95:20
all of that footwork. That was possible at the beginning. It's not really
95:24
possible now. I don't have the time to do it. It's way too difficult. And near
95:28
the end there when we were still doing build blogs of the week, every single
95:32
week I got tons of messages saying, "How did this one not make it? It's so much
95:36
better." Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And I'm like, "Okay, well, it
95:41
maybe should have made it in as a third one. I've done three because there's too
95:44
many that were awesome before or something like that." And it's just like
95:48
I didn't see it. it it came up on Friday
95:52
or it was on the second page when I was looking and I didn't make it there or it
95:55
bounced around while I was looking and I missed it or something and that was
95:59
happening way too much and it just became way too ridiculous. So, I dropped
96:02
support for it because it was not able to do it anymore and left it pending on
96:07
the we need a better option for this stance. Now, we do have a better option
96:12
for it, but it's going to take a lot of editing to the website. And we're
96:15
actually waiting for the next version of Envision Power Services software suite,
96:20
which is what we're using, to come out of beta and then maybe get an update or
96:23
two before we adopt it because we're done with forum software betas. Oh my
96:27
god, we're done with forum software betas. Um, so we're waiting waiting for
96:30
that to happen because tons of things are going to change then and then once
96:33
that happens, we're going to release the new system which will be very nice and elegant and all that kind of stuff. But
96:38
as a standin for now, what we're going to do is we're going to have it set up
96:42
so that your submission, so your completed build log, not your build log
96:46
in progress, your completed build log has to be completed and submitted in the
96:51
week before voting, not the week during voting. Um, and your submission has to
96:56
be up to a maximum of 200 words. You can have a little description right up, one
96:59
picture, and a link to your thread. Um, after submitting all of these things,
97:05
uh, that will be in one pinned thread. There will be another pinned thread of
97:08
voting. So after submitting all these things, I'll g gather up everyone's
97:11
submissions and put them in a voting thread. So everyone will get their little blurb, which will be their one
97:16
picture, their 200word maximum description, and a link to their thread.
97:19
Um, so you can kind of see a picture of the idea of it. Go to their thread to see more information, to see their
97:23
description of their computer, which is very likely just going to be components, but we'll see what people do with that.
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And then there will be a poll and you can vote and the top two voted systems
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uh unless it's like a off by one situation where I might include three or
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something like that will get through and then we'll talk about those on the way show. So that's how that's actually
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going to work. Um if I go through here but that being
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said, you know how many people used to complain when I would stall for time in
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the middle of an unboxing by saying and say it was unprofessional. Really? Yeah.
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I never cared. I just I noticed you doing it and I'm just wondering if it's something you've always done or if it's
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something you picked up. I don't know. I
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think I've always done that. I'm sorry I interrupted. Go ahead. No, no, it's fine. I I think I've always done that.
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I'm not really sure though. You're logged in as Lionus Tech. Oh, yay. It's
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not showing. Um that's weird. Can you log in as the other person? Yeah, sure.
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Lionus when? Is there anything the talk?
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Yeah, I think I'm just gonna I'm think I'm going to ditch the talk. It just
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didn't impress me that much. It's not gonna help you sell it. That's fine. I
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don't want people I don't want people like paying an unfair amount for anything. That's true. Well, yeah. It's
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all going to be super underpriced. Yeah. The Sentinel. The idea here is that I
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want people to be getting a deal and I want us to have a slush fund so that we
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can buy stuff that we otherwise couldn't review. Like stuff for the toys channel
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cuz we've done some of that already and the toys channel is going to have no
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funding whatsoever out of the gate. So, that'll help a lot for that. Um, but
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like I I right I had to buy um the Pebble Steel
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that I have coming. I wasn't I wasn't seated a review unit. Yeah. Um I had to
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I have a couple Kickstarter things that are still coming that I had to buy. Um I
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had to buy that that one toy thing. Um
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Kickstarter things that are still coming. It's it's so My dad will call me
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every once in a while and just be like, "There's a package here for you." I'm
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just like
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what what is it? I haven't ordered anything. And he's like, uh, it says
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whatever the heck on it. And I'm just like, I have no idea what that is. Cuz
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it's usually from like some random fulfillment center. Yeah. It's like, uh,
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okay. I'll be over in a little bit. Go over and pick it up. I'm like, oh, I
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bought this on Kickstarter like over a year ago.
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There you go. Okay then. Oh, man. It's kind of fun
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receiving like random presents that I've forgotten about though. Oh, Kickstarter.
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Or there's the guy that made the What? No, that's me again. Okay. I don't know
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what we can do about that. Okay. Either way, everyone knows the new process
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that's going to come out. Okay. Um I guess I'll actually go over these in the
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afterparty next time. This time, I guess. Um because last week I was like,
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"Oh, they should be in the actual show." But if we can't do it for whatever reason, then oh well. Okay. But yeah,
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everyone knows the new system that's coming. So, I will be putting up that
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thread for people to put their suggest or submissions in. I want the person
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that actually made the build to actually
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submit their own thing. If you're submitting for someone else, please don't. No, I'm just going to not take
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it. Um, so yeah, we'll I'll put that thread up later tonight and then we can
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start voting for next week. So, this is disappointing because it looks like I've
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I forgot to bring my charger today and it looks like I've only got 11 minutes left on my notebook. Um, but I think
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that's pretty much it for the official show. So guys, uh, I'll be back with a
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QVC stuff. I've decided that I'm just going to like lower prices until someone
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buys it because I have to get rid of this stuff. We have no space. We're out
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of room. Okay, I'm not leaving then. Oh, all
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right. Okay, guys. So, stay tuned. We'll be right back.
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I don't know where it is. I'll try to find it. Don't do that one first. They
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can hear you.