The WAN Show: Cell Phone Kill Switches & Outernet Global Broadcast System, Feb 7th, 2014

Linus Tech Tips ·Linus Tech Tips ·2014-05-07 · 18,789 words · ~93 min read
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0:00 Welcome to the WAN Show. I'm sorry you had to see what I was doing there right
0:04 before the show started, but you know, I mean, I'd hate to have that hanging over
0:08 me during the entire show, so it's better to get things out of the way.
0:12 Um, so we actually've got a pretty short
0:16 show for you today, guys. We've got uh
0:19 mandatory device kill switches potentially coming to California. So
0:23 that is to say that the owner, not the manufacturer,
0:27 I mean, oh, the potential for abuse is so there, but the owner of a device
0:32 could go, "Hey, that jerk mugged me. Well, I'll show him what for and just
0:38 turn the thing off." Or, uh, maybe you could disable certain functionality.
0:41 Right now, it's not like there's a standard that's completely ratified or
0:44 anything like that, but that could be coming. And as a consumer, I think that's a fantastic idea.
0:49 There's a standard for what it has to be able to do. Yes. And we'll talk about that when we
0:52 do the actual topic. But right now, we're teasing them. Teasing. Sony is in
0:57 talks to sell off their Vio line in much the same way that IBM sold off their
1:02 ThinkPad business. So, we might see Vio notebooks in the future. Uh, but they
1:08 might take on a very different form if at all. So, stay tuned for that as well.
1:14 More information from uh Bit Torrent Sync. Someone is actually making
1:17 something called SyncNet, which is essentially a a a way for you to access
1:22 web pages without them being um like
1:25 normal IP domains, but because it's all sourced through Bit Torrent Sync, so
1:30 we'll talk about that later. And Oculus Rink Rink.
1:34 Oculus Rift has its first launch title, which will be Eve Valkyrie, which has
1:38 been kind of thrown around at all the different trade shows lately and looks amazing. So, that was probably the
1:44 smartest move they could have possibly done. He's got hockey on the brain because Olympics, Oculus Rink, VR hockey
1:50 would be so awesome. It's uh they have every sport VR.
1:54 There's like not AAA version already. People are working on it.
1:57 Oh, I'm so stoked. It's going to be awesome. Pretty epic. Have you seen the flight
2:00 one? Someone's like there's no echo. No, no, the echo usually comes when I switch to
2:04 my notebook as a source, but I have already disabled it this week. Sorry.
2:08 What' you say? Yes. Um uh yeah. No. Have Have you seen
2:14 the flight one? No. Flight simulation VR as like a bird.
2:20 You fly around. I did hear about that. Yeah. Yeah. You just like you just like fly around. It's
2:24 like so good. A so good. I'm so excited for stuff like
2:27 that. I'm so excited for like But then they need like a combat mod.
2:30 Well, yeah. Bird dog fighting and like hawks and like a bird MMO.
2:37 You don't get an epic mount. You are an epic mount. I know. I'm an epic mount.
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3:51 jump into our first topic here. Um
3:54 do outer net or sync net all the nets. You can decide which net you want to
3:59 talk about first. I want fish nets, but I'll settle for outer net. Let's go ahead and uh get
4:03 this bad boy fired up. All right. So, just before we even start
4:07 going in, I I found their uh it's it's about this, but before we start like
4:11 talking about how it actually works, why is my screen sharing not working? I went down to their like like support
4:16 us donate area. They they support PayPal, Amazon
4:20 payments, direct payments through their website, Dogecoin, and Bitcoin.
4:24 Really? I was like, wow,
4:29 you guys spent a really long time on your like ability for people to support,
4:33 maybe spend more time building outer debt. Um, it's a really interesting
4:37 idea. They want to support it. Hopefully, Linus gets his laptop working at some point in time.
4:41 Yeah. In the meantime, go ahead. But they want it to work through hundreds of miniature satellites that
4:45 orbit around the Earth. And all these satellites would be constantly
4:48 broadcasting um like like Wi-Fi data essentially, but
4:53 broadcasting it downwards. So, for the mass majority of people, this is going to be one-way communication. you'll be
4:57 receiving the information and they'll transfer stuff like uh news and
5:03 information, crop prices for farmers, Bitcoin blockchains, Ubuntu, Wikipedia
5:08 in its entirety, uh some music, movies and games, but that's not necessarily
5:13 the main focus, uh educational courseware, emergency communications,
5:17 and many other things. And this is uh mainly designed for people that don't
5:22 necessarily have access to the internet because the goal of this project is that
5:25 everyone should be able to be connected. Ow. Um two-way communicate communication
5:30 is only going to work for very specific uh users and very specific use cases. So
5:35 it's going to be more focused on say there's a big natural disaster and mo
5:38 most communication lines are down. You'll still be able to access out internet for two-way communication but
5:43 most people are not going to be able to. This will also extend to certain people
5:47 in in areas where some sort of regime regime not regime regime might be
5:52 restricting you from accessing the internet. Um Lionus feels
5:56 in its unfiltered in its unfiltered entirety. Speaking of unfiltered
6:00 entirety, um you know what? Oh, I do have one more idea. So go on if there's
6:05 anything else you have to say. I mean really guys, okay, so to be clear, this is not internet for everyone. The outer
6:11 is not the same as the internet. The idea is it's more like um like the radio
6:16 would have been um you know 60 years ago.
6:19 So they can push you information and and uh one thing that's cool that makes it
6:23 not like the radio actually is that users can help push uh what what is
6:27 priority on the internet at that point in time. So if something really big is
6:31 going on like what's been going on in Ukraine um uh users could push that so
6:36 that it's on the outer internet. So you can push it through SMS or certain phone
6:39 apps so users kind of control what's on there. Obviously, Wikipedia in its
6:44 entirety is kind of a really important thing to be on something like the
6:47 internet because it's a massive source of information. Um, but more news and
6:52 that kind of stuff I think is going to be very userdriven. Um,
6:57 yay. That's honestly about it. But it's
7:00 actually really interesting. My favorite thing is the like in case of disaster,
7:04 you will gain two-way communication. And something that they're thinking about a
7:07 long-term goal is that everyone will always have two-way communication, but
7:10 that is not a launch goal at all. That is a like, hey, maybe way the heck down
7:16 the line, this can be supported because that would be awesome. Even one way is amazing. I mean,
7:21 something that has really baffled me is with everything going on in the Ukraine
7:25 right now, why is it that every headline
7:28 is about Justin Bieber? Yeah. Because I mean, and it's one of those
7:32 things where look guys, I'm not I'm not going to make this show about Justin Bieber. I've had a lot of people asking
7:36 me to talk about Justin Bieber for whatever reason. Um,
7:39 I think it's cuz we're Canadians. I don't know anything about him. I don't really care.
7:43 I don't know what songs he sings. I don't know how old he is. I don't know
7:46 who he's dating. And I really don't care. And the thing about all this
7:50 sensationalized uh celebrity gossip is that the harder
7:54 you ignore it, the more it will actually disappear from your life. You won't even
8:00 notice it anymore if you just stop caring. And the outer I think would be a
8:04 fantastic way for people who don't care about Justin Bieber to hopefully
8:09 be able to tune in. Yeah. Hopefully.
8:12 Although it could turn into another Twitter. It's userdriven. So,
8:15 but it's nerdy enough that I think it'll be users that aren't
8:19 Bieber. Yeah. Um but I mean, you know, like anything, it might turn into that eventually. But
8:23 I still I still believe that looking at looking at the technology in the way
8:26 that it is intended to be used um this
8:30 there's so much potential for it to be more like an unfiltered in terms of
8:35 censorship but filtered in terms of nonsense and garbage news source that
8:40 people could really come to rely on. I mean, one of the problems with the
8:44 internet is that it relies on
8:47 groundbased communication hubs that can
8:50 be located within areas that restrict
8:53 their citizens from having access to information. And that's what the
8:56 internet was intended to be used for. Unrestricted access to information for
9:00 everyone and the ability to contribute to that information that everyone has
9:04 access to. outeret might not allow everyone to contribute immediately but
9:08 it will give everyone access to it which is um quite frankly
9:14 amazing. I mean it's it's if they achieve this then I mean this is
9:19 to me that it's a step that's as big as
9:22 the internet was in the first place from my perspective from a from a human
9:26 rights and equality perspective because because people uh say people in
9:30 the Ukraine that's where that short-term two-way communication could be dropped
9:34 in is you could get help while you're in the Ukraine if something's going on if
9:39 you're somewhere else if there's a natural disaster like I don't think it's necessarily only natural disasters
9:43 because right when the Ukraine same thing started going on. There was all those live streams, right?
9:47 Mhm. And you could actually fairly easily figure out what was going on. I don't
9:52 necessarily know what happened, but I'm not getting as much information out of there as I was before.
9:56 And now I'm not hunting for it super actively every day. But it would be nice
10:01 if there was a stream of information that I could just go to easily all the
10:06 time and get updates because for me so far, it's been honestly a lot of manual
10:10 hunting just to figure out what the heck's going on. And it shouldn't be. I
10:14 mean, it doesn't make sense. It's such a big deal. It is compared to Bieber
10:17 and everyone's focusing on I can't even remember what the most recent thing is.
10:21 Olympics, but well, I wish it was the Olympics. Do you?
10:25 Instead of Well, instead of Bieber. Well, okay. Yeah, Olympics greater than
10:29 Bieber less important than almost anything else. I mean, don't don't get
10:33 me wrong, national pride is great and
10:36 the spirit of sport and people cooperating and competing, it's all
10:41 great. I just don't think the Olympics is as big of a deal as,
10:47 you know, giant super important things. Yeah. Like what's going on in the Ukraine
10:50 like like super important things. I think Coca-Cola should find some other
10:54 way to get their message out there. I don't even know if Coke is I know Samsung is a sponsor of the Olympics.
10:58 You hear about Samsung um because
11:01 they're a sponsor of the Olympics. Any athletes that are using non Samsung
11:06 devices have to cover their logos. It might have been specifically Apple, but
11:10 uh but yeah, they they like during the ceremonies and stuff, they have to like
11:14 cover up the logos on their device. I'm just sitting here going, it's like,
11:20 okay, that's brutal. There's a lot of comments about my
11:23 sunglasses. Well, it happened to be sunny out today
11:27 and so you should wear them for the entire had my sunglasses on and because
11:32 I would rather put them on my head than hang them around my neck with a strap,
11:37 which are the two options if they're not on your eyes, I went and I put them on
11:41 my head when I came in. But because you guys want to uh talk about the
11:45 sunglasses, I'll give you something to talk about. I'm wearing them for the rest of the stream. So there you go.
11:50 All right. So the next topic is actually another net that is
11:56 exciting and terrifying at the same time. This one doesn't feel This was
12:00 posted by Oh, shoot. Our last topic was posted on the forum by Sorry. I
12:04 sometimes forget to do these calls for you guys
12:08 by is it Sean the by I said showing the dock.
12:11 Altis Altis.
12:16 If people want me to be able to pronounce their names on the stream, they need to have names that I can
12:20 pronounce. So that's all I have to say about that. Anyway, the next one's from
12:24 Top War Gamer. So this is SyncNet.
12:29 Syncnet. SyncNet is interesting. My favorite thing is like one of the first
12:33 quotes you see when looking for this thing at all is SyncNet is experimental.
12:38 No security auditing has been done. Only use it if you know what you're doing,
12:41 which is insane. Which basically means don't use it.
12:45 Don't. I mean the way Okay, so the way that it works if you guys aren't
12:49 familiar with Bit Torrent sync why don't I do the Bit Torrent sync rundown and
12:53 then you can do the um the how it relates to this rundown.
12:56 Okay, so Bit Torrent sync is actually magical. It's it's one of the easiest
13:02 ways to share files um with yourself
13:05 remotely or with other people in a in a secure and private manner. So, Bit
13:10 Torrent Sync is an application that you install on any PC with storage or any
13:14 device. It actually works on iOS and Android phones as well. And uh what it
13:20 does is it actually allows you to create
13:23 shared folders that use a 33 character
13:26 secret, which is just another way of saying password or whatever. Anyway,
13:30 they call it a secret. A 33 character secret to determine who has access to
13:35 it. So, what you can do is you can create this folder, create a secret,
13:40 enter the secret on your phone, which is as simple as scanning a QR code when
13:43 you're sitting in front of that computer, and then you'll have access to those files on the fly. Between phones,
13:48 it's also amazing. So, you can use Bit Torrent Sync to send files between
13:52 phones using a local Wi-Fi or data or whatever it is that you want to do
13:56 simply by sharing a secret or scanning a QR code with each other. It's faster
14:01 than almost anything else out there. And unlike um things like Samsung's
14:06 proprietary technology where they want you to put the phones together and then
14:09 it'll transfer. It's like but only if your friends all use Samsung. No, come
14:14 on. Uh it is completely not locked down to any particular platform. So uh Bit
14:19 Torrent Sync is awesome. And one of the other things that it does is the more uh
14:24 the more shared folders there are distributed on devices all over the
14:29 place um the faster you can get access to it. So, if I had my photo library,
14:35 um, say I had it on Bit Torrent sync here at the office, I had it on Bit
14:39 Torrent sync at my house, and I had it on Bit Torrent sync at my parents house.
14:43 If I wanted to grab one of those photos on my phone, I would get the cumulative
14:48 upload speed of those three locations. So, I've created a private cloud all
14:54 pushing to me at the same time, which is
14:57 awesome because if you get together with some friends and you create Bit Torrent
15:01 sync shares, you have to trust your friends. It has to be, you know, not private data, just to be clear. I'm not
15:05 suggesting this, but if you bit torrent sync each other's stuff, you can take
15:09 advantage of your own private internet, which leads
15:12 into or your own private cloud storage, which leads into a new concept. So, how
15:17 this works is what you're doing is instead of transferring just random
15:21 files, you're transferring somewhat specifically tuned HTML files and then
15:27 uh there's a specific browser that's going to be made that can access that.
15:30 So, what you're doing is instead of going to a URL, you're typing in this
15:34 secret into the URL bar and then that instead of going to sorry, an IP is just
15:40 going to a folder. So, when you go there, you download it.
15:43 You download the entire website. entire website which is a security hole
15:47 and then you become a node. It's one big hole. That's all it is is a
15:51 hole. Like it's not secure at all. No. And then and then you become a node.
15:56 So it actually essentially if if someone has a massive website on here, it
16:00 becomes easier for them to host it as time goes on because more and more
16:04 people will access it. Then they all become nodes. So instead of bandwidth cost going up, they either stay the same
16:09 or go down. Um, now it wouldn't work for content like a
16:12 forum because you can't download the entire
16:16 Linus techtips.com forum. Well, you could, but you get a singular snapshot and it's
16:21 not going to update very well. Like, you can update it because it's Bit Torren in
16:25 sync. So, as changes happens, it can be synced out, but something like a form
16:28 where it's moving that quickly is not really going to work very well. Um,
16:31 something like uh a chat box is not going to work. Um, something like a news
16:36 site or a blog would actually work really well or just anything static in
16:40 general is going to work fairly well. And then if you have updates like once a
16:43 day or something like that, that's not going to be that hard to sync out to
16:46 everyone because it's a synchronization folder. It you can just get an update
16:49 while it's sitting there. Um, as he
16:52 said, you can make a secret key. What you can also do is actually make what's
16:56 called a read key, which is a read only key. So people can't if if they tamper
17:00 with your files, it won't be streamed back out under that key, which is
17:06 interesting and a good idea. You're still harboring a whole bunch of files
17:10 from some random dude. Yeah. And those files that are on your
17:14 computer can be updated just like that at any
17:18 time by that dude. So if someone
17:27 say that they don't get possessed by a demon and decide to do something evil
17:31 and completely take over your computer steals their secret, but let's say someone steals their
17:36 secret, breaks into their house. Okay, figure we're talking realistic stuff
17:40 here. Someone break figures out who they are, breaks into their house, sits at
17:44 their computer and updates the website and does whatever they want because they
17:50 have all this data stored on your PC that is just going to sync itself to you
17:54 and then next time you access it, it can do probably whatever it wants. There's
18:00 now there there are ways that they could figure out how
18:04 to advance this and possibly put security in place and all that other
18:08 kind of stuff, but it's sketchy as all hell right now. So, be careful if you
18:12 want to go test this. Um, I think that we should probably go as
18:15 far as to say don't test this. Probably let's do that. Don't test it.
18:20 But here you go. This is what it is. Uh, it's it's really interesting anyways
18:23 because in the future, like I said, certain security things can come in hand. maybe only certain file types can
18:28 be transferred over this system, blah blah blah blah blah. Uh certain things
18:31 aren't going to be supported. It'll probably be very raw, a lot of textbased sites, stuff like that. Um which which
18:38 is interesting enough, but we'll see where that goes. There there's ideas for
18:41 things like colored coins and name coins being brought in so that you can have
18:46 more easily accessible things like actual domain names going to uh secrets
18:51 because right now it's sync colon slash and then a 33 character secret which is
18:56 uh a little bit crazy. Um so hopefully
18:59 that gets easier at some point. Namecoin can al also make it so you can easily
19:03 look up who's running a website instead of just this random secret key. Um, so
19:09 yeah, I don't know. It's freaky and scary and possibly amazing and possibly
19:15 one of the scariest things on the internet. All at the same time, it's going to enable things like um certain
19:21 groups that could otherwise be oppressed to be able to get information out there.
19:25 It's also going to enable things like really, really, really, really creepy
19:29 people on the internet having stories of images and websites and stuff like that
19:33 being really hard to take down. So yeah,
19:36 we always have to look at the bad side, but then there's also the good side.
19:40 It's like the force, basically. It's like those Jedi we saw fighting in the
19:43 park the other day. Yeah. Awesome little Jedi.
19:46 I know. Um, baby Jedi. There's ideas in the future for
19:50 converters of sorts. You can convert a website uh like just a standard website
19:54 into something that can work on this this SyncNet thing. Um, and there's
19:59 ideas for maybe Firefox and Chrome plugins, so you don't actually have to
20:02 have a dedicated browser for it, and you could just type into the URL bar or
20:05 something else, whatever the plugin works, and then Firefox and Chrome could
20:09 interpret that. By the time my son is in
20:12 high school, the internet as we know it could be a
20:16 marginalized part of the internet because there's going to be pirate bays
20:21 internet. There's going to be syncnet internet. There's going to be
20:24 potentially outer net. Some of which will provide services that are actually
20:29 more important than what the internet does today.
20:32 Isn't that amazing? Especially because the internet is being like it's losing net neutral net
20:36 neutrality. It's being way more commercialized every single freaking
20:40 Was Verizon throttling was Netflix, right?
20:43 Yeah, I think so. But then they're denying it, I think. Yeah, they can deny they can deny
20:47 whatever they want, but they were denying it. Yeah. Yeah. So, allegedly.
20:51 Allegedly. As long as you say allegedly, then nothing really matters. It's like that
20:55 NBC story. It's like the phone was hacked while I was in Sochi. It's like
20:59 no, you were in Moscow and it was hacked because you did something stupid, not
21:04 because someone there was actually attacking you. You're an idiot. Um,
21:07 allegedly an idiot. Allegedly an idiot. We don't want any lawsuits here.
21:12 None at all. I Yeah, I don't know. That whole thing is so stupid. He just went
21:16 to some site and clicked on something that he shouldn't have. And then was like, oh my god, people are hacking
21:20 people in Sochi and it's like, what? Oh. Oh god. Anyways,
21:25 I mean, there are problems in Sochi, but that just isn't one of them.
21:29 Or it might be, but it didn't happen to him. It was this completely different
21:33 thing that happened to him. All right. So, uh, next, this is unbelievable. So,
21:38 um, believe it or Okay, believe it or not, this unbelievable thing is not
21:43 being reported on by us because we happen to be a Twitch partner and we're
21:47 streaming on twitch.tv right now. I think they don't call it twitch.tv. I
21:51 think that's an old people thing. Twitch.tv saying dot.
21:55 Really? I think so. Yeah. Guys, let let us know.
21:58 Let us know. What would you say? Twitter. Twitch TV.
22:01 I think it's an old people thing to say the dot in a website.
22:05 So you'd be like Facebook com. No, that's just Facebook. Like I don't
22:09 think you say dot like you never say the ending.
22:13 Yeah, I don't I don't think so. But maybe I'm mistaken.
22:16 But I don't say facebook.com. I say Facebook. I read something really interesting. Um
22:21 apparently, you know what? I don't know if I put it in the doc or not. Let me
22:24 let me check. Okay, don't worry. We're going to get to this in a moment. I say twitchtv.tv when I'm referencing
22:28 the company. I say Twitch when I'm referencing the website. Okay, this is sort of unrelated. Oh,
22:34 bollocks. Where did it go? Okay, I saw an interesting article. Um, it was like
22:39 a linguistics article about the way that the period is changing in meaning to
22:46 mean um irony or anger because so many
22:51 sentences in text message communication and without periods. And I have at times
22:58 been called a grammar Nazi. And yet I find myself very often not using a
23:04 period. Question marks, exclamation marks are much more likely to be used
23:09 when appropriate. And I think it was even commas, but don't quote me on that
23:12 part. But the period was much less likely to be used. I think it was
23:16 something like 30 to 40% of the
23:19 situations where it would be appropriate, a period was being used.
23:23 Uh, I see I see on forums and stuff I see it much more commonly properly used,
23:27 but if I'm doing instant communication like like Steam chat or something like
23:30 that or if I'm doing text messages, if someone uses a period, I'm usually like,
23:34 whoa. And that's exactly it. Online communication, I think, was something
23:37 like 10 to 15% more likely for people to use a period. And then text messages
23:42 were the worst. And it stems from things like 160 character or 140 character
23:47 limits on SMS and Twitter. But um the the reason the article was written was
23:51 because uh a textbook writer's son was
23:55 reading the textbook, I guess, you know, proofreading exercise. Got to leverage
23:58 that free labor when you can uh before they move out and was like, "It it seems
24:03 like you're angry and the way it's written." And then the example given in
24:08 the article was like like a it was like a text message screenshot that was like,
24:11 "Are you mad?" And then it said, "No, period." What does that mean?
24:15 That means yes. Right? Because when I was reading the
24:19 article, I was like, "No."
24:22 And then I saw that example and they're like, "Are you sure?" No. Period.
24:28 Absolutely. That means yes. When did this happen?
24:32 I think that's been going on for a really long time. I don't think that's very new.
24:35 No, it's not new. But why didn't I notice? I'm old.
24:39 You are old cuz I noticed and everyone else noticed.
24:43 Why you remind me of these things? Why do I ask you these things?
24:47 Someone says, "Dots's not an old thing." I either say Twitch or twitch.tv or
24:51 lines techtips.com. Um, the septagon is digging the shades.
24:56 Thank you. These were these are the most expensive I think these are the most
25:02 expensive piece of apparel I own.
25:05 They're Oakley's maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Because I uh like I always used to
25:10 lose sunglasses. So what I did was like I really wanted some nice sunglasses and
25:14 I and my wife believe it or not was basically like look we'll get you cheap
25:19 sunglasses and if you cannot lose them or break
25:23 them for about whatever period of time she gave me then you can buy whichever
25:27 ones you want. And I was like okay. She
25:30 really does have to manage me that way. It's sort of sad. Um but I made it
25:34 through the trial period. So I got myself some nice some nice Oakleys and
25:38 I've taken extremely good care of them. You've had those as long as I've known
25:41 you. They don't have any scratches on them pretty much whatsoever. I keep them in
25:44 their case, but um I I digress.
25:48 All right, we should do a Twitter blitz on the period thing and we should move on to the Twitch thing.
25:52 Yes, I do want to move on to the Twitch thing. Uh please inform everyone about
25:55 the World Cancer Day folding week. Yes, World Cancer Day folding week. Only two
25:58 days left. Better than nothing. Uh there's more information in the line of
26:02 tech tips folding at home forum section. Do you think NVIDIA will come out with a
26:05 GTX 7? I got no idea, man. Uh, I don't want to speculate on cards that uh that
26:10 aren't out yet. Where did I get my Domo plush? Uh, it was on Amazon. Bummer
26:15 about Austin Evans's pad and burning up. Yes, it was. Although there should be
26:20 some news about something to do with that tomorrow. Uh, do you think the
26:23 concept of transcendence is possible? By the way,
26:28 love the show. Constantinos
26:32 C. Do I think the concept of
26:36 transcendence is possible? It depends what you mean. I think
26:39 I think a genre can be transcended.
26:43 I think a state of consciousness can be transcended.
26:47 Would you disagree with that? Depending on what state you're in in the first
26:50 place? Yeah, I'm going to say that that really I think there's a top level. You know, I
26:55 think if you spend your life in a drunken stuper, you can transcend that.
26:59 Yeah. But I don't think if you're in a coma, would coming out of the coma be transcending? a mental state
27:05 potentially. Okay, you know what? I don't want to get into this.
27:08 We're defining it way too much. Michael says Terminator. Thank you,
27:11 Michael, for bringing us back on topic. All right, so let's
27:15 Terminator. Yeah, I think he's talking about your
27:19 glasses. Oh, that makes more sense. Yeah. All right, so Twitch TV is fourth in US
27:26 peak traffic as of the uh I think it was
27:29 a week ago. What?
27:32 You have got to be kidding me. The companies only existed for three years
27:37 now. Okay. I think the stat is a little
27:40 bit deceptive. And I will explain why. Okay? Because one of the things about Twitch
27:45 TV is the inefficiency of their broadcasting. They do not
27:51 transcode their broadcasts prior to
27:55 broadcasting them. So that's why when we
27:58 cranked our bit rate up to 8500 kilobit
28:01 per second basically no one could watch the stream
28:06 which we didn't really realize because I assumed that they were that they were
28:12 able to more easily transcode on the fly but what they can transcode on the fly
28:17 and that's how people can watch a 1080p stream at 720p. But when you feed them a
28:21 huge file, like a massive bit rate file,
28:25 they have a lot more difficult time with it. They're not able to do that much with it because even with their one
28:30 minute delay, that's not a ton of time.
28:33 And I remember talking to their COO uh
28:36 back at PAX uh where he was just basically saying he's like, "Yeah, look,
28:40 one of the reasons that we need so much bandwidth is that a lot of the content
28:46 is going out in pretty much the form that people are broadcasting it in. So
28:51 when you watch something in original quality on Twitch TV, you are getting
28:55 original quality if both of the network connections and Twitch at the time can
29:00 handle it, which is insane. When you select original on YouTube, even for
29:05 something like 4K content, you are getting a seriously downsampled piece of
29:09 content. In fact, a great example of that is uh look at that. I still have
29:13 the tweet up. Um Marcus Brownley, MKBHD,
29:17 is actually um I don't want to use the
29:20 word bitching, but it seems appropriate here. Is complaining about the
29:24 compression on YouTube. Yeah, it's not can't zoom for some reason. is
29:29 complaining about compression on YouTube changing even the colors in his videos
29:34 to the point where his shirt goes from looking vibrant and orange to looking
29:38 kind of dull and red. And so that is what you're getting on other platforms
29:43 whereas Twitch is pretty much giving you what
29:47 exactly what it is. Yeah. So while their bandwidth use is
29:52 through the roof, I don't necessarily think that gaming is more popular than
29:57 Hulu. necessarily, right? Because Hulu is going to be
30:01 much more efficient. Yeah. As is Netflix, as is YouTube.
30:04 It still shows growth. It still shows So maybe maybe like bandwidth isn't the
30:10 best way of measuring this while your computer crashes, but um it still does
30:15 show growth. So there's some actually really interesting stats. Uh the three
30:18 most watched games in 2013 were League of Legends, Dota 2, and Starcraft 2,
30:22 which is all not surprising whatsoever. League of Legends viewing has gone up
30:26 258% since 2012, which is insane. But even
30:30 more insane, I guess, because it's newer, is Dota 2 viewing has gone up 58%
30:36 since 2012. Um, they're they're saying that when people look back in the
30:41 future, they will see 2013 as the tipping point for streaming. And I don't
30:45 see that surprising at all. Basically, everyone I know now has a Netflix
30:48 account and is streaming movies. And basically everyone I know that's into
30:52 gaming has watched some sort of Twitch stream at some point in time, even if
30:55 that was just for a gaming competition. Um, and then I do know a few people that
30:59 just watch Twitch streams almost 24/7, which is pretty insane as well,
31:03 which is another thing that I actually think is probably a little bit deceptive
31:06 about these numbers. Uh, because I think
31:10 that compared to a service like Netflix
31:13 where if someone starts streaming in Netflix, they're going to sit and watch,
31:16 they're very likely to be actually in front of that screen. Um, you look at at
31:21 the way that game streaming works, people aren't a lot of the time watching
31:26 the game. This is this is a radio broadcast and watching the game is
31:31 often, yeah, it's entertaining and it's there, but you might actually have it
31:35 minimized or you might actually have it tucked away on a secondary monitor.
31:39 Tab in and out every once in a while. Tab in and out. You got it running on your tablet next to your computer and a
31:43 lot of the time you're not you're not giving it your undivided attention. So, Twitch is a big deal. gaming is a big
31:48 deal. I just don't think that um you know com you know comparing it to some
31:54 of these other things I don't think that it's one of what YouTube or
31:58 of what you do. Yeah. And I don't think it's it's a 12th of
32:02 YouTube either because it is pushing that much. Well, that the the Google thing
32:07 the bandwidth. Oh, okay. That's true. Yeah. So, I don't think it's even one 12th of
32:11 YouTube. Never mind being whatever proportion of that is actually YouTube.
32:15 Um so, yeah. So, yeah. Anyways, uh the average age of users is 21 years old,
32:19 although I seriously doubt that. Just
32:23 putting that out there. I mean, it's one of those things where I can't tell people what to do, but I had
32:27 someone um ask about registering on our forum. Um they said that they put in
32:32 their birthday and the forum said they couldn't join because they weren't 13.
32:36 Um, I suspect that a lot of people um
32:39 circumvent that in a way that um is is
32:43 pretty evident if you look at Steam's stats for how many of their users are
32:48 born on January the 1st.
32:52 Last time we brought that up, someone was like, "But I'm actually born on January the 1st." Like, oh wow, that's
32:57 actually surprising. Most people that say they're born on January the first
33:00 really were not. 93%
33:04 This is old news. This is from like 2011, so it might have changed now. But
33:07 the point is that people don't fill out their their birthdays correctly when
33:11 they I'm going to be 100% honest. When I go fill out a birthday, it's too I'm too
33:16 lazy to actually put in the accurate one. Like I'm always old enough for everything, but I just click on the drop
33:20 down spin and then click on something. I actually do it really.
33:23 I enter my birthday. I never do. I know. No, I it's it's a weird like OCD
33:28 thing. I do for things that I'm like, "Oh crap, I'm really worried about recovering this
33:31 account at some point in time and they might ask me how old I am." M.
33:34 So I do for that kind of stuff, but a lot of the time on Steam, it's actually nothing to do with your
33:38 account. You might even be signed in, which is ridiculous. Which is ridiculous.
33:42 Yeah. Except if they have family sharing enabled.
33:46 So like in the future, this might I know. I know.
33:49 I've always been like, "What the hell? I'm logged in." And then when you accidentally just click next and its
33:53 default is not old enough and you just get locked out for like a day.
33:59 Like come on. Like please stop. Um some other interesting stats. So 68%
34:05 of Twitch users have decreased their TV watching in order to watch more Twitch.
34:09 58% of their 45 million monthly unique visitors watch more than 20 hours per
34:15 week. And again, I think this is a stat that might be a little deceptive because
34:20 idling and whatnot. It's easy to leave a Twitch stream on while you're sleeping. In fact, uh we
34:24 had uh we had a problem back somewhere I used to live where one of the tenants
34:29 would just leave Twitch streams on all night and we had some bandwidth usage
34:35 problems that our ISP was pretty annoyed about because even streaming like you
34:40 know hours on Twitch like not an entire day on Twitch you can use like 15 20
34:45 gigs like no problem in a day and uh you
34:48 know that that full quality streaming. So that uh that's that's just something
34:54 you know that I think is you know we have to temper our enthusiasm a little
34:57 bit. No, I know like it's still huge but it's still massive.
35:00 Yeah. So that that comes out to Twitch users running an average of 106 minutes
35:04 of content per day and 12 billion minutes every month. Not each user but
35:10 in total 12 billion minutes every month which is
35:14 how many lives is that? Does someone want to do the math and maybe tweet me
35:17 with how many lives that is per month that are basically sacrificed to the
35:22 Twitch gods? You know, I was I was wonder how many lives have been
35:26 sacrificed to the Linus. I was just going to tell you um I I
35:29 looked at it the other day. That's what made me think of this. Actually, this
35:32 made me think of that and I went and looked at our number. So, every day I
35:36 think about a year and a half gets sacrificed to the Linus Tech Tips gods.
35:41 Um in terms of minutes watched. So, has
35:44 that been a life yet? Oh, more. Oh, yeah. Every day, a year
35:48 and a half. So, that means in a year about Oh, wow.
35:51 Yeah. 500 years or so get sacrificed to
35:54 the Linus Tech Tips gods. Oh, wow. Isn't that crazy?
35:58 That is pretty crazy actually. Yeah. I mean, you spread it out among
36:01 enough people. Increase that number. We have to increase that number. We need to commit our genocide.
36:06 Our genocide. Our based genocide.
36:11 So there's about 900,000 broadcasters
36:14 per month. 5,100 of those are partnered.
36:18 So a mass proportion of the broadcasters are not actually partnered. And there
36:22 are about 6 million total videos broadcast per month, which is pretty
36:26 crazy. An interesting statistic would I didn't think about doing this would be
36:29 to split down like how many broadcasts there are versus um how many
36:33 broadcasters versus how many videos and how many videos versus how many minutes.
36:37 So, like how long is the average broadcast seen for?
36:41 Right. Be pretty interesting.
36:44 All right. No one no one has done the math yet on our bill. Oh, okay. There we
36:48 go. About 325 lives, says Mitch. Oops,
36:53 wrong one. So, uh, yeah. Yeah.
36:56 Yoinkerman's like, "Yep, I always fall asleep to Twitch." So, that's a thing
36:59 that I just think is less likely to happen with a service like Netflix.
37:03 Yeah. Um, if they all stop at the end of the movie anyways, wouldn't it?
37:08 Depends. If you're watching a show, it'll keep it'll keep running. Like,
37:11 I've fallen asleep to net. I'm sure that's happened at least, but
37:14 not nearly as much. Yeah, I think it seems less likely. And
37:17 I've got a few people backing me up on always filling in the correct birthday.
37:21 Looney, thank you. Yamuda says 86% of statistics are made
37:26 up. Thank you for that. Um, okay. I had one person backing me up on always.
37:32 Looney, too. Then it would be Looney, wouldn't it? Okay, I love you, Looney. Fine, be like that.
37:38 That's awesome. I see how it's going to be. All right, talk about your
37:41 Yeah, I want to talk about this. So, this is an Indiegogo campaign that I
37:44 actually um that I Oh, you know what? I
37:49 don't know if you guys are going to get audio from this or not. Where is the uh
37:55 where' the Where' the plug go? Is that it? Oh, I'm stepping on it. Well, that
37:58 explains it. All right, here we I'm just going to throw this in. So, this, my
38:03 friends, is the aird do. And I actually tweeted out about it and I uh and I
38:08 posted a link on the forum before I had actually tried it just cuz I kind of
38:12 looked at the video and I was like, "Oh, that's really cool." Potentially,
38:17 I was totally not interested and then I watched the video and I was like, "Yep,
38:20 okay, cool." Also a car dock all built into one
38:24 charger built into the base and then on the face here is a phone. Yeah, I just want to skip to you know
38:28 what, whatever. Uh, so the point is he got in touch with me and uh, so guys,
38:33 it's here. I'm just going to throw the Indiegogo link in here. It's not cheap.
38:39 I think it's about 75 bucks um, even
38:43 with the Indiegogo discount. So, I think it's going to be about a hundred bucks
38:47 retail, but it's really cool. So, check
38:51 this out. Here it is. Oh, it's stuck. Okay, so it's a Chi wireless charger.
38:56 And I should probably do this. Okay. and
38:59 uh or charging dock. So, you got a micro USB here. You can run that down to uh
39:04 your your cigarette outlet in your car or whatever else. It comes with a kit
39:09 that has Where is it? This is just like
39:12 a pre-production one. We're going to be doing an unboxing and review. So, I'll
39:16 give you guys full impressions once I've really had a chance to use it. But, I
39:19 just want to give you my initial impressions right now. So, it comes with the cigarette adapter. It comes with a
39:24 cable. comes with. Uh, see, I never really do unboxings like this anymore.
39:29 So, it's like it's like back to the old days. This thing is like batshit crazy.
39:34 Feel the material on there. This could stick to anything. I'm like I
39:39 could probably stick it to your ARM.
39:43 Yep. Nice. Not going anywhere. We should leave it and see how long it lasts.
39:46 Yeah, we should see how long that stays there on his sweaty ARM. So, it comes
39:50 with all that stuff. Then it comes with another another piece here that is got
39:55 to be the best bendable ARM I think I've ever encountered. It's about the
39:59 thickness of my pinky. And check this out.
40:04 That's what it takes to bend it and then it stays. It doesn't go. It just doesn't
40:09 move anymore. And then it's got uh an articulating ARM here. And then it's got
40:14 like a more standard suction cup on the bottom piece here. Okay. But the real
40:19 magic and they actually this is hilarious because they call it magic.
40:23 Okay. Let's see what does he say. Okay. Okay. And I got to I got to call him out
40:27 on this. Magic foam
40:30 and magnets hold the phone to the air
40:33 dock here. Really? Magic foam anyway.
40:37 And magnets is basically the same as saying they're magic. So that's like
40:41 saying that there's magic holding the magic and then it has wireless charging
40:45 which in my mind is also magic because it works with magnets which are magic.
40:50 So it's like magic cubed. And the thing
40:53 that really got my attention when I looked at the Indiegogo video was the
40:58 demo where he takes a phone, puts it on like this, and listen to this.
41:06 He loves the sound. The sound is amazing. Okay, so this one
41:10 came really dirty out of the box and really wasn't working that well and I
41:14 was like, "Oh, my one doesn't stick to it at all. I'm I'm not impressed. I
41:17 don't like it." So, but then what I did is I washed it. So, it's just you just
41:20 wash it with water. I mean, be careful. Don't put like water all over it or
41:24 anything like that. Um cuz there's like electronics inside and stuff, but you
41:29 just kind of wash off the surface and then boom. You throw a phone on it,
41:33 shake it around. It's going to Whoa. Okay. So, it's not perfect. uh it's
41:37 going to hold up pretty well to any kind of normal vibration that you would have
41:42 in a car, especially if you're at an angle that's somewhat reasonable. And
41:45 this is on an HTC1, which is not a validated device. Um if you give me your
41:51 G2 for a sec. Okay, let's just go ahead.
41:57 There we go. So, let's go ahead and stick the G2 to it. So, this is not a
42:00 validated device either, but plasticback devices are going to be more able to
42:05 stick to it. So, I can shake that around
42:08 and listen to this.
42:12 So, I don't know. Scared of it ripping the back off at some point in time. If you have a if you
42:16 have a back removable device, like I bet you my old S3 Yeah. it would just take the back right off.
42:21 So, and it does have magnets in it, too. So, some phones and tablets actually
42:25 have metal plates in them for magnetic mounting. So, that holds it on. And then
42:30 the magic foam, which is actually I think it's some kind of nano thing. The
42:34 magic foam holds it in place. So, I think it's really cool, especially cuz
42:37 just having it in your car and then just being like bloop and it charges and it
42:42 sits there well enough that you can easily do whatever navigation you're going to do. It's not going to come off
42:46 in transit. So, we're going to do a full video of it, but I just thought that was
42:49 really cool and I wanted to call out their Indiegogo campaign and give you
42:53 guys an opportunity to get it for $25 less. This thing is still sticking to my ARM
42:57 somehow despite being bumped like Yeah, of course it's sticking to your
43:00 ARM. Oh, hold on. Can I get it off? Yeah, there we go. Okay, so I was able to pull it off. So, you can see how
43:05 dirty he is. It was gross before you put it on my
43:08 ARM. See the skin cells? Ew. How would you
43:13 got to troll you, you know? I know. It's all about the troll. Are we moving on to the next thing?
43:17 Yeah, let's move on to the next thing. Okay, so Oculus Rift, it has a launch
43:21 title and they're actually going to be co-publishing it, which is really interesting. Uh they've been doing a lot
43:26 of stuff lately in that realm, but the idea that they have an actual exclusive
43:30 launch title and the fact that it's Eve Valkyrie is kind of huge because Eve
43:36 Valkyrie has won tons of awards like uh PC game of the year at E3 2013 or PC
43:41 game of 2013 um from PC gamers, which is
43:45 pretty crazy awesome. And it's also, in
43:49 my opinion, probably the most well-developed game for Rift.
43:52 There's been games that have been made for Rift. I have not. Oh, it's amazing.
43:55 I've seen like every possible video on the internet. It is so amazing. It's like it's unlike
44:00 anything you've ever tried. Exactly. Which is exactly what they
44:03 need. Oculus Rift needs that killer app to bring people to Oculus Rift because
44:07 there's all these different virtual reality goggles coming out and they're
44:11 going to need something that splits them apart. So, they're obviously moving in
44:14 that direction with this and other things. Those other things being
44:18 recruiting people like 3D artists, animators, gameplay engineers, and more,
44:22 which they're doing right now. They're actively trying to hire these people.
44:25 So, if you are one of those, be sure to check it out. Also, um they have hired
44:29 David De Martini, which is kind of scary
44:33 because he was the senior vice president at Electronics Arts.
44:38 Yay. Helping publishing.
44:41 Don't like it. Anyways, moving on. I have another thing I don't like about
44:45 it. Um, I mean, okay, I guess it's fine
44:48 as long as it's not exclusive, but
44:51 you've written here first exclusive Oculus Rift launch title. Is that
44:56 correct? Launch. Yeah, at launch. It's only going
45:00 to be on Rift at launch. Okay. I don't know if it's like forevers.
45:03 Yeah, because I mean the the the direction that I see the industry moving
45:07 is less exclusivity and more openness.
45:10 And I just I feel like if you try to turn Rift into
45:15 it it says exclusive. Yeah. Um now I don't know if that's going to
45:19 be forever exclusive. I don't know if that's just some games are launch
45:22 exclusives, right? Uh we've seen that actually quite a bit where it's exclusive at launch and then
45:26 it can be distributed after that. And I mean I get it. I mean I get it
45:30 because developing for a particular VR goggle is going to be different from
45:34 developing for another one. And if I'm Oculus and I'm investing heavily into
45:39 this piece of hardware and the marketing and the production and all and and
45:43 hiring John freaking Carmarmac and all this stuff, I want to make money on my
45:49 investment, but I just, you know, I don't want to see
45:54 I mean, even Nintendo has finally begun to yield on firstparty
46:00 titles for their first party systems. They haven't said what they're doing
46:04 exactly, but they'll have some mobile content coming.
46:07 Yeah, but most people are assuming they're going to be extremely short demos.
46:11 And I'm assuming that, too. Wallpapers. And I'm assuming that, too. But progress
46:16 is progress. Yeah, that's true. But like a two-minute
46:19 demo and a wallpaper, I don't think is exactly what we need. Um, need more than
46:24 that. But I don't know. So, David D. Martini is going to be working with uh
46:30 he's going to be figuring out how to partner effectively with big partners, small developers, all the way to the
46:34 individual who wants to make something for the Rift, which is interesting and a
46:37 good idea. He's from EA and that's scary. I mean, I don't know. With all of that
46:41 said, just because someone's from EA doesn't mean that they're evil.
46:44 I know. And I'm hoping that maybe he left EA because he wanted to do
46:49 something different. And I'm hoping that Oculus was clever
46:52 enough to hire someone that has a philosophy that's similar to theirs. And
46:56 I mean, anything that pushes more Oculus Rift development and more titles
47:01 honestly is is big thumbs up for me because I am buying one 100%. You guys
47:07 can mark my words. If I don't buy one, then
47:11 you can I don't know, call me foul names or something like that. I'm very
47:16 probably planning on just whenever the next developer kit comes out, retiring
47:20 mine and giving it to like the high school I went to and then just moving on to the next one
47:25 because if they release a developer kit for Crystal Cove, oh,
47:31 all over that. Like that thing looks so cool. And I'd love to have a 1080p panel
47:35 and the OLED thing. Uh the the low persistence OLED. Yeah.
47:40 Oh my goodness, that sounds amazing. So down for that.
47:44 All right. So Sony
47:48 does something that's not surprising. Well, I was going to pretend it was a
47:52 little surprising. It's not that surprising. I mean, when's the last time you
47:55 actually saw someone using a Sony Vio
47:59 notebook? Um, probably when I used to work in a
48:02 repair shop. And not not not I'm not saying
48:07 I didn't I didn't mean it that way. I just meant because I saw a lot more
48:11 laptops then. Um, we didn't particularly see a lot of vios there. Um, but like
48:17 yeah, honestly I don't see them a ton to be completely honest. Usually in
48:21 classrooms you see either an army of Macs or you're somewhere that isn't
48:26 business and you see an army of cheap laptops. So it's
48:30 or an army of expensive laptops that are HP or Dell.
48:34 Yeah. Or like business class or ThinkPads.
48:37 Yeah. Yeah. I I just and and you know looking
48:41 at some of the stuff that they've done over the last little while I just kind
48:44 of scratch my head like the the the the
48:47 Vio Duo 13 is actually an Ultrabook that
48:51 I will be giving away shortly. I have a huge giveaway to announce in the next
48:55 little while here. Um there will be a proper video about it, but I'm going to
48:58 give you guys a sneak preview. But as much as it's an interesting notebook and
49:04 it's a high-end notebook and to to get it for free in a giveaway will be
49:08 awesome, don't worry. It has some design decisions that were made that I just
49:13 kind of look at and I go, "What were you thinking?" Which one was that? This was the one it So, it's a it's a
49:18 convertible. So, basically, when the screen comes up, it goes I want to sort
49:21 of make this visual for them in a way that's easy to understand. So, the
49:25 screen comes up like this and then slides down like that. So, it only goes
49:29 at a fixed angle. You can't adjust it. And then the hinge back here is actually
49:34 exposed. Whereas something like this,
49:37 which I think is called a pin wheel twoin one, makes a ton more sense. It's
49:42 a notebook. It's a tablet. Nothing is exposed. And I
49:48 can fully adjust the angle of the screen when I'm not using it as a tablet.
49:53 So, yeah. I like and I saw someone in the
49:59 Twitch chat, well I'm on a V laptop right now. It's like yeah they exist.
50:02 We're not trying to say that. Um it's just quite a few years ago I saw them
50:08 all the time and now not nearly as much.
50:13 That's more where I'm I mean it can't be helping that the uh
50:16 that PC sales have gone down what was it 7% in the last year. And when you're
50:20 someone like Sony where your market share is
50:25 not uh you know dominant um that 7%
50:29 hurts a lot. That might have been the difference between scraping by and not
50:34 making it. And I mean Sony hasn't quite gotten over that they're not a premium
50:38 brand anymore. So they designed these products. They put a lot of money into
50:43 the R&D of bringing them to market and then they're not a premium brand
50:48 anymore. And I don't think people really
50:51 accept it. And I mean, there are regions where Sony still has um some brand
50:56 mystique. And quite honestly, I find it baffling when there are products that
51:01 just aren't that great that somehow manage to have like this that get put on
51:06 this pedestal. I mean, products like honestly Samsung um a lot of their stuff
51:12 fantastic. Some of their stuff, how was
51:15 anyone even accepting this? I mean, their Galaxy high-end phones, the the S3
51:20 and the S4, particularly the S4, how was
51:24 that competitive with a lot of the other stuff? Yes, S3 was. Sorry. S4
51:29 build qualitywise, it just it was not up to par with other devices that cost the
51:34 same. And I mean, Google came in and, you know, crapped all over everyone.
51:38 Yeah, that's interesting. Right now, like people have asked me about buying phones. I'm like, well, you have a few
51:42 options. They're all in the Google store. If you're if you're trying to buy
51:46 a brand new phone, like just full out buy a brand new phone. I'm like, "Yeah,
51:51 like there's there's not a ton of options. They're all in Google Store because if you try and do price
51:54 performance outside of the Google store, like you're screwed. Everything's going
51:58 to be $800, $900." And yet someone like Samsung gets away
52:01 with it. I mean, you look at stuff like their smart TVs. I've complained about this in the past. None of the features
52:06 work. like motion control this uh you
52:09 know tracking that you know it voice control none of it works how do we
52:15 accept this how do we let them get away with delivering something that's just
52:19 not polished like at all um so I don't
52:22 know plug in a chcast so some people I'm sure still feel that
52:27 Sony is super awesome apparently Sony doesn't think so anymore so they're
52:31 selling off that business unit I think the the rumored sort of on the table
52:36 price is somewhere some more in the $500 million range. Yep.
52:39 Uh the the random estimation is about $493 million.
52:43 Um yeah, it's it's kind of interesting. Although not surprising, we were
52:47 actually fairly recently talking about that like massive ridiculous
52:51 over-the-top percentage of Sony bankrupting. Oh yeah, someone said, what was it?
52:55 There was a uh there was an an article that claimed there was a 78% chance,
53:00 we talked about this on the W show. Yeah. of Sony going bankrupt in the next
53:03 I think it was some ludicrously short period of time like 2 years or something
53:07 like that and I think what we said was well no
53:10 they have a lot of assets that they could sell to keep them going for a
53:14 really long time before they just declare bankruptcy. So
53:18 yeah and we see the beginning of it and I I expect them to liquidate certain
53:23 assets and then try to empower others to try and get profit going again and that
53:28 looks like exactly what they're doing. If you were a buyer, would you even be
53:32 remotely interested in this in the Vio brand? Because does the Vio brand mean
53:37 anything without Sony attached to it? Is it the Vio brand you're buying though
53:42 or are you buying infrastructure? You're well, you're buying both. You're
53:45 buying a distribution system. You're buying the Vio brand. But the rumor
53:49 right now is that Vio notebooks will probably disappear outside of Japan for
53:53 a while anyway. So you're you're probably going to lose whatever momentum
53:57 you had. But then look at this. They forecasted 293 million profit and lost
54:03 1.1 billion
54:06 for the year. Would you buy this business unit and this brand that
54:10 obviously doesn't resonate with consumers?
54:14 I think that was a total for their company. Um I'm not entirely sure but
54:18 Oh yeah, sorry. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. So not just Val Laptops, but like there
54:22 there's interesting people looking into it. There's that investment group from Japan. There's also Lenovo or uh uh uh
54:30 what am I trying to say? Is it Lenovo? Lenovo is a company that owns IBM or
54:36 owns ThinkPad rather. Yeah, there we go. So, it's Lenovo that's looking into Vio, which is
54:39 interesting because IBM just sold them ThinkPad. Yeah. So, I could see I could see them
54:44 consuming it. IBM just sold them their server business as well.
54:47 Really? Yeah. Is IBM just going to sell them everything? I don't know. I guess so. Maybe Lenovo
54:52 is just gonna buy everything just like Amazon and Google are buying everything.
54:57 It's interesting how these massive companies are just going on insane
55:00 shopping spree. In the last few years, Lenovo came from
55:04 absolutely not significant at all with funding from the Chinese government to
55:08 being a dominant PC manufacturer. It's
55:11 amazing that Chinese government backing
55:15 is pretty strong. So, there's going to be quite a few things hit by this. um
55:19 about 5,000 jobs are going to be cut. That's about 1,500 in Japan and 3,500
55:24 overseas. Uh so it's not all just randomly Sony dropping part of their
55:29 business. It's also Sony dropping 5,000 jobs, which is not good to hear as the
55:34 job market in many places isn't super great right now. Um so
55:38 could be worse. They could work for Linus Media Group.
55:42 I mean, how likely is your job to end? I fire you Well, I haven't fired you in a
55:46 long time, actually. Speaking of acquisitions, Amazon just bought a game
55:50 studio. So, this was posted by Top War Gamer. And Top War Gamer, can you please
55:55 not post mobile links when you link people to things on the forum? Come on,
56:00 man. Lol. Lol. I don't think it's that hard to fix.
56:03 Yeah. Yeah. But at least I I would Okay, I'm not going
56:07 to harp on him that hard because he always fills things out. That's true.
56:11 And I would way rather it was filled out and had a mobile link than wasn't filled
56:14 out and had a normal link. True that. All right. So, there you go. Here, carry
56:19 on. This isn't, in my opinion, that super
56:22 interesting yet. Um, it it's interesting because of what might happen in the
56:26 future. There's been a lot of rumors spinning around about Amazon maybe releasing a set top box console, which
56:31 is interesting. However, that might possibly work. I don't know. Is it a
56:36 Steam box? I don't know. Is it an Android system? Who knows?
56:39 Does it use their cloud to do cloud
56:42 gaming? Maybe. I don't know. Oh, there's a lot of different stuff spinning around about
56:46 this, so we'll see what happens there. Um, it's also not the first gaming
56:50 acquisition they've made. They they got casual game maker Reflexive
56:54 Entertainment back in 2008. So, they're adding um these guys to the list. Double
56:58 Helix is still fully intending to support Killer Instinct, which was a
57:03 Xbox One game. So, they're going to be releasing more content, more characters
57:06 into it. Um, and they fully expect to release uh more Killer Instinct games
57:11 for Xbox One in the future. not that very many people watching this show
57:14 care. Um, and yeah, so a lot of what Double Helix
57:20 is doing is not going to change, but they're going to be a part of Amazon Game Studios. And there's all this other
57:24 stuff going on about Amazon Game Studios. So, while this isn't interesting now, once Amazon actually
57:29 does make a proper announcement about what their gaming system set top box
57:34 possible, maybe possibly thing might be,
57:37 uh, this might become interesting. And once they make announcements about what
57:40 these gaming studios are actually doing, that might also be interesting. But
57:45 right now, it's just they bought something and yeah, that's about it. So,
57:50 there's not a ton we can actually say about that right now. Speaking of things
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58:55 Yeah. of how absolute rubbish a lot of a
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60:09 looks like it at least was when this was released going to be cable and satellite
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60:24 happy with your coverage here, I'm going to post that link again. And someone's
60:29 like, why didn't you go to Sochi to cover it? Well, it isn't technology.
60:35 There's no like overclocking Olympics there.
60:38 It would be in the mountains though. Although
60:43 actually we don't really cover the overclocking Olympics either anyway. So
60:46 No, frankly, they aren't that interesting.
60:49 No, I'm way more because it's not representative of what you're going to
60:53 be able to do. I don't know. I mean, my problem with professional overclocking really comes
60:57 down to the personalities. Like remember
61:01 how hard it was for you to get an interview from anyone? God, I felt so
61:06 useless at that event. I was like, okay, they're focused on working and I have to
61:11 stand. And that's fine. I respect that. I get that. But at the end of the day, in my
61:17 mind, it is the obligation of a professional
61:21 sports person or a professional competitor to advocate for what they do
61:28 to make people interested in it because there was stuff there that was really
61:33 interesting, but no one wanted to show it to us or talk to us about it. Like
61:37 when I was at Gigabytes thing at uh CES,
61:41 uh one of the overclockers there had a graphics card that was had a full PCB
61:47 and then it had the back PCB of a
61:50 different graphics card or like some EVGA like weird thing like soldered to
61:54 it so they could like plug in more PCI Express connectors and get more power to
61:58 it. And I'm like who's covering this? That's awesome.
62:01 Yeah. And that's really cool. But then no one will talk to you about it.
62:05 Yeah. It's interesting. Um, also a problem that I have with it is it's so
62:10 hard to replicate at home. There's a lot of insane binning that's
62:14 going on. Uh, like just throwing away tons of parts because they're not good
62:18 enough. People are like, "Trade secrets, my friends." You know what? I don't care
62:22 because you can have a trade secret that no one's talking about and no one's
62:26 watching and maybe doesn't exist 5 years
62:30 from now. If you care about having a job, you have to be open about it. It's
62:35 like look at any professional sport. Do they hide how to dribble a basketball or
62:41 do they want all the youth in the world dribbling wanting to dribble a
62:45 basketball just like LeBron James? That
62:48 is how it works. That is how you get
62:51 people engaged and excited about what you're doing. I don't hold anything back
62:56 from you guys about what we do here. I'm willing to explain anything we do,
63:00 whether it's on the computer side or whether it's even on the YouTube or
63:04 social media side. And I love answering questions about this stuff because I've done it quite a few times even.
63:08 The reality of it is if you're not constantly innovating, people will catch
63:12 up to you anyway. So if you just sit there and jealously guard your secrets
63:16 and try to prevent other people from furthering what you're doing, well, how
63:21 are you ever going to learn from them as well when they innovate and they
63:24 discover it's all about sharing? And that's what I think a lot of people
63:27 don't understand, which is actually exactly Have we released that video yet?
63:32 Which one? The 2014 update. No. So, which is exactly what a future
63:35 video will actually be about is how we're planning on trying to be agile
63:39 again because we always try to plan on being agile, trying to change things. It actually
63:43 Okay. Right. I promised to give some information about the giveaway. So, this
63:47 giveaway is going to be for the crate computer. So, that's a 4670K
63:52 GTX 780 500 gig SSD PC that's built onto
63:57 the back of a 27in gaming LCD. Worldwide
64:00 giveaway. Okay. We're also giving away an ASUS GTX Titan.
64:04 Boom. And we're also giving away a Sony Vio 13
64:08 Ultrabook. Boom. Three things all at the same time. And
64:12 all you're going to have to do, there's going to be a video coming up on Techquickie that you're going to have to
64:17 comment on. And then the Titan and the Vio Ultra book are going to be a little
64:22 bit different. So, the main prize is the
64:25 crate computer, and anyone can enter that one. But to enter into the other
64:29 draws, you must either be a social media
64:33 influencer with 10,000 followers on some
64:36 platform or another and share the video,
64:39 or you must get a social media influencer to share it and credit you
64:45 for sharing it with them in the first place, and then you will be entered for
64:48 a chance to win the Titan. So, I am I am
64:52 enlisting you guys to help spread the word about the crate computer giveaway
64:57 by incentivizing you with a chance to be in a much smaller pool of people who
65:03 could win a GTX Titan. Imagine someone wins both.
65:06 I'm sorry. Imagine the dude that wins the crate also wins the Titan. Is that possible?
65:10 Are we allowing that to be possible? I don't think we can allow that. Just roll.
65:13 Yeah, we'd have to roll. We'd have to draw the crate computer first. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then the Vio Ultra
65:17 book is for the influencers. Yeah.
65:21 So, anyone who shares it who is an influencer is in the bucket to win the
65:25 Vio, which I don't think there'll be that many. Maybe 10 or 20 influencers
65:28 tops. That's great odds on a thousand notebook. And then the Titan for the
65:32 people who get influencers to share. And then the crate computer, which anyone
65:36 can join. Y. So, it's going to be crazy.
65:39 Someone's like, "Of course you have to have a a stupid garbage book or Twitter
65:44 account. What the hell are you talking about?" I said you have to leave a
65:47 comment on the tech wiki video for a chance to win the crate computer.
65:50 I did that. That actually that No, no, no. Yeah, good try though. Someone's like,
65:55 "Sell out." Sell out to who?
65:59 I don't understand what just happened. But let's ignore the Twitch chat right
66:02 now. Wow. Most people have said good things about
66:06 it. Yeah, I I love you guys mostly, but some of you don't get it. All right, so let's
66:10 move on to our next topic. Uh here we
66:13 go. Ah, yes. California.
66:18 There's a California bill that's proposing a mandatory kill switch for
66:23 phones and tablets in 2015. Really cool. That's actually really cool. So,
66:28 more than down. So, there's some requirements that it has to make. They're not making you use like a
66:33 specific one. They're not like, "Oh, yeah. Lowjack has to come pre-installed
66:36 on every single mobile device." No, they're not doing that. But, but it has
66:40 to meet certain requirements. So, those requirements are if I can find it really
66:43 quickly. Uh, of course I can't find it really
66:47 quickly. Once activated, it should be able to prevent phone calls, internet
66:50 access, and the ability to run apps. Um, you can also
66:55 It also has to be able to restrain people from doing a hard reset. Um, it
66:59 has to be able to restrain them from returning the device to factory condition or downgrading to a different
67:03 operating system. So, basically, it has to be able to be on there all the time.
67:07 Yeah. because you shouldn't be able to remove it and it should be able to
67:10 restrict you from phone calls, internet access or running apps. So, it
67:14 essentially renders your entire phone useless and you can't remove it.
67:19 So, this comes this stems from um an increase in muggings that are targeting
67:24 mobile devices. I mean, what is something that you could basically
67:28 assume someone will have on them that they can give you in less than 10
67:33 seconds that is reasonably valuable and
67:36 easy to flip? Super easy to flip. Super easy to flip. It's not going to be
67:40 jewelry necessarily. Actually, I was reading a really interesting article on
67:43 the resale value of diamond jewelry, and it's like nothing. It's it's like
67:50 pennies on the dollar basically because the assumption is that it's probably
67:54 stolen. Plus, there's the fact that uh diamond retailers are buying at
67:59 wholesale that is so much lower than the retail prices that people bring in
68:03 diamond jewelry for trade-ins and they're just like they usually just end
68:06 up keeping it anyway because it's just not actually worth anything.
68:10 And so, so jewelry is not necessarily the answer. So, you just walk up like,
68:14 "Give me your phone." Because people's wallets won't necessarily have anything
68:17 of value in them. uh card now. Yeah. It's going to be plastic. It's
68:20 like, "Yeah, here. Go ahead. Take my wallet and just let me take my driver's license and like, you know,
68:25 and the leather and you can have everything in it." Yeah. You can have everything in it
68:28 because I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to place a phone call right now with
68:32 like someone else's phone because you probably just stole my phone, which is the only valuable thing. And I'm going
68:36 to cancel all those cards. Yeah. I don't know. Oh.
68:40 Uh, they're going to be pushed pretty hard. Retailers are going to be fined around uh $500 to $2,500 per device
68:46 that's sold that doesn't have this type of technology. Yeah. So, it's not set in stone or
68:50 anything, but the fine could range anywhere in there. And it's important to
68:54 note that per device word. So, a retailer that sells 10,000 phones that
68:59 aren't equipped with this technology in California could be looking at whatever
69:05 the math is for 500 five, you know, millions of dollars
69:09 in fines potentially. So, kind of a
69:12 really big deal. Um, I think it's awesome. One thing that they are
69:16 expressing worry about is that no one's really going to want to make a phone just for California. Um, but they were
69:21 saying that if that does even look like it starts to happen, uh, they're going
69:25 to push really hard for basically everyone else in the states to back this
69:29 as well. And it looks extremely possible that that is going to happen regardless
69:33 of whether or not people are worried about making phones for California. There are other states that are very
69:38 interested in proposing a bill that is essentially the exact same thing. And
69:41 I'm totally down for that. Totally, completely down for that because phones
69:46 getting stolen is a huge deal.
69:50 Yeah, that's that's about all I have to say. I'm happy. Me, too.
69:55 Something less happy. This is the rumor mill. That's my
69:59 on-screen keyboard. Posted by a Hi,
70:02 Carrie. I should know how to say this by now. Uh, you post a fair bit of news.
70:06 So, the rumor mill says GM107
70:10 is a new core that could be coming from AMD at some point here. This is from
70:15 videocards.com. What's up? You said it. AMD.
70:19 Did I say AMD? Yep. Oh, sorry. NVIDIA. The NVIDIA logo is
70:22 clearly visible there. So, don't mind don't mind the man behind the curtain.
70:28 Um, so there's a even bigger NVIDIA logo
70:32 there. Thank you for that. Okay, you've got the summary in the dock. So, so
70:37 essentially it's a hybrid between GK 107 and GK 106. For all of you guys that
70:41 were super excited for a big massive card, maybe not so much. Uh, the slower
70:45 variant. Oh, I don't think we ever said this. Yeah. So, rumor on the street, word on
70:49 the street is that this is Maxwell. Yeah. Maxwell, but 700 series Maxwell.
70:54 700 series Maxwell. So, not GTX 800 series. Um, not a 20 nanometer chip. So,
71:00 this is still at a 28 nmter manufacturing process. And then like you
71:04 were saying, somewhere between GK 107 and GK 106. Okay. Go ahead.
71:08 Um, so the the focus of it is extremely low power. So, the slower variant, the
71:13 GM107-300 will be used for a GTX 750.
71:17 Rumored allegedly. Rumored. And then the GM 107-400 will
71:21 rumored allegedly be used for a GTX 750
71:25 Ti. Rumored allegedly. Um, we have a chart down here that shows speeds. And
71:29 the speeds are not oh my god fast. But the power usage is
71:35 oh my god low. Some of these are actually going to be able to even be
71:39 used without any extra power or just a
71:42 single six pin, which is interesting and
71:46 boring. Well, come on. You can't call power savings boring. You know what? I
71:51 actually had a really interesting conversation with a guy from Intel um
71:54 when and it was just like everything is off the record. It wasn't like official
71:58 Intel, you know, jargon or anything like that, but I was he was like, you know,
72:03 what's your take on what we've been doing for the last few years? And I'm
72:06 like, it's boring. It's the typical enthusiast response.
72:10 You guys haven't done anything that's lit my world on fire in terms of driving
72:14 up performance. And he's like, you know what? You know, power savings aren't
72:18 boring or aren't interesting. And I'm like, well, no. And he's like, well, you
72:21 know, what about this? What if that die area that we saved on making the CPU
72:26 more powerful is what enables your notebook to go from sleep to wake in
72:32 like, you know, a second. But they're not talking about that.
72:36 Who? Intel. Intel. I know. Um, no, no, no. I'm just
72:40 talking about like the the conversation I was having. No, I I know. But he's
72:44 like, but you have to consider like, have we not introduced exciting
72:48 technologies? And I'm like, okay, yes, you've
72:52 introduced exciting technologies. It's just that the performance hasn't excited
72:57 me. And I kind of go and I'm kind of sitting there going, "But I see your
73:00 perspective because just because saving some power doesn't excite me personally,
73:05 the enthusiast, doesn't mean that it isn't having an impact." I mean, if we
73:08 can take this card and have it be fairly
73:12 close to this in terms of performance, so it's probably going to have jacked up
73:15 memory frequency because that's what NVIDIA's been doing lately. So even though it's only got a 128 bit,
73:20 it's hard to see. Sorry. So I can't highlight. It's a picture. Way to go. Uh, so even though
73:24 it's only got a 128 bit bus compared to
73:27 192bit bus, the overall specs are similar and if it has faster memory, we
73:32 could be looking at very similar performance, but at just over half of
73:36 the power consumption. And then something else to think about is the global impact of this. I mean, if a
73:43 hundred thousand people, hypothetical number, are using this card versus that
73:47 card, we are saving all of that power and all those resources for the world
73:53 when we're gaming. And that is awesome. It just it's not exciting.
73:57 And it's not exciting.
74:00 Like like it's cool, but it just and like with the the the technologies that
74:04 Intel's coming out with, like that's cool, man. But
74:08 well, it's more of an expectation management thing, I think.
74:11 Yeah. Like like you expect there to be a significant difference between 3000
74:15 series or between 2000 series and 4,000
74:19 series Intel processors and when overclocked, it's just like
74:24 meh. So, I don't know.
74:28 Yeah, the Twitch chat seems to be with us that power savings are boring.
74:32 The Twitch chat also figured I was selling out because I was doing a giveaway. I don't get that.
74:37 I I think people are selling out. Are you selling out to yourself because
74:40 you're driving techquicki which is us? Yeah. So you're selling to yourself. So it's
74:45 like a loop transaction and I'm using my own stuff. Yeah.
74:48 Like all this all So you are losing things
74:52 to buy things for myself. For yourself.
74:56 Is that selling out? I'm curious. I'm
74:59 not going to ask the Twitch chat though.
75:03 Except Except we're both staring at the Twitch chat. Except we're both staring at the Twitch
75:06 chat. Yes. Yes, we are. Okay, we're not going to look at the Twitch chat anymore. Sorry, Twitch chat. All right,
75:10 Titanfall minimum specs are out. And this is both surprising and not
75:16 surprising at all. I mean, it it is based on the source engine, which can
75:20 basically run on this, which I think was the point of the uh picture that Nice
75:24 Hat decided to post, which is awesome. Which is awesome. Um, but I guess just,
75:29 you know, next generation game, you know, super exciting AAA title that
75:34 people are stoked about. I was expecting it to not run on an Athlon X2 2.8 GHz.
75:40 My favorite part is the requirement for Windows 7 and then the 512 megaby RAM
75:44 requirement and then Windows 7 having a it's not you can go lower than that, but
75:49 Windows 7's like, yeah, you should probably go about one gig or two gigs.
75:53 And if you're having a 64-bit operating system, which this game also requires,
75:56 you should probably go about two gigs. Then the game's like, 512 megabytes,
76:00 it's all good. Yeah, I don't know if I'd really want to play it with these specs.
76:04 I don't think so. I don't think so. I think like I think it's going to
76:08 install and you'll load it and then you'll probably want an upgrade. But I
76:13 mean, for particularly laptop gamers, I mean, I don't know how many lands you've
76:17 gone to, but a lot of the Yeah, I know you've gone to a lot of lands.
76:20 I was like, what? It's just usually how I preface things. I know.
76:24 But the ones that I've been to, there's a lot of people gaming on older
76:28 notebooks because that's the kind of machine they needed. They're not going
76:31 to buy a notebook and a desktop. And gaming notebooks out of all the types of
76:37 gaming devices, even tablets that are optimized for gaming, I feel like uh
76:42 degrade in relative performance to everything else slower than gaming
76:47 notebooks. Um, if you buy on a bad generation of gaming notebook, you could
76:52 have the next gen of gaming notebooks be a quantum leap forward in performance
76:56 because it actually gets a core change in addition to a branding change and
77:00 then it could stagnate for two or three years. So, you you either are are kind
77:05 of up there or or like you're not at all and the the industry just moves forward
77:09 without you. So, I think this is great for people who have a several year old
77:12 gaming notebook and actually want to be able to play Titanfall because it looks
77:16 pretty exciting. Yeah, actually I'm actually pretty
77:20 stoked for it. Um, but then I'm kind of scared as well. But I don't know. We'll
77:23 see how it goes. In other news of things that I'm excited for and scared, but I
77:28 think the scared level, like the excited level this time last year was the exact
77:32 same as the scared level is this time, like around now is the ESO beta.
77:36 No, hold on a second. They do say that. Uh, no. You Oh, right. Never mind.
77:40 That's Windows 7. ESO beta. Where is that? Uh, it's not in here, but ESO beta is
77:45 this weekend. Um, I don't think that part's under NDA, and if it is, the
77:48 entire internet knows, so shut up. Um, but like the the the NDA behind ESO beta
77:55 is ridiculous. They're doing like a server load balancing level beta and
78:00 it's still under NDA. Like everyone and their mom got a beta key, but they're
78:04 like, "Nope, nope, don't talk about it. Don't stream it." Blah, blah, blah. Because it's ugly as hell. which is part
78:08 of the problem and a whole bunch of other problems. But yeah, anyways, I'm
78:12 going to stop talking about things that are scaring me. Okay, what else we got? We have the different sites supporting
78:17 Bitcoin payments. Yeah, so you can buy uh
78:20 you can buy things off Tigerirect and scan.co.uk
78:24 by using Bit uh Bit Pay, which is using
78:27 Bitcoins. Bit Kay Bitay is a little bit
78:31 uh I don't know.
78:34 I was trying to figure out like how Bit Pay works. So, I went on their website
78:38 and went to the like how it works area
78:42 and the YouTube video that they have specifically made for that is showed up
78:47 as set to private. So, I was like, that's weird. So, I went to YouTube and
78:52 was like, Bit Pay. I find their channel. I'm like, okay, cool. Maybe they have a
78:57 new updated one and they just forgot to update the website. Click on the channel. This channel was like removed
79:02 or deleted or something. I'm just like, "Oh,
79:05 okay." So, in theory, the way Bit Pay works is
79:09 that exchange rates are calculated every minute and can be grabbed through an API
79:13 and shown on a website like tigerdirect.com or scan.co.uk, UK,
79:18 which is kind of awesome because one of the things that was happening in the past uh was very early adopters of bit
79:24 pitcoin payments. What they were doing was just taking like
79:29 the high point and then going a little bit higher and then being like uh I mean
79:34 sorry the low point and going a little bit lower and being oh sorry yeah the
79:39 high point going a little bit higher than being like that's how much it actually costs. So that you'd get crazy
79:44 charge whenever you tried to buy anything with Bitcoin. So, it's actually a lot more worth it to just go exchange
79:49 exchange your bitcoins in to dollars and then buy the thing with dollars. But,
79:52 this makes it more realistic to buy things with bitcoins. Um, it's honestly
79:57 actually pretty easy and cheap for someone to set up. It's about 30 bucks a
80:01 month to run as long as you're doing under about 30,000 20 $29,000 a month.
80:06 Um, but then I worry about a few things
80:11 on it. Like it it doesn't seem I don't know. It doesn't seem like the most
80:14 secure thing ever. and their website's a little bit sketchy. Um, but it's
80:18 probably entirely fine. I just worry about a lot of things like that a little
80:21 bit more than I probably should. Here's a bunch of folks that are using it.
80:26 Yep. So, it's not like they're really small
80:30 and nobody's using it at all. That's very true. But then when you look
80:34 into a lot of these websites, they're there are ones I recognize. NameCheep.
80:38 Yep. A lot of them are just straight up
80:42 Bitcoin websites though. Yeah. A lot of them are like an extremely large portion.
80:47 Yep. Okay.
80:52 Wow. There's a lot of stuff on this page. I'm not going to scroll through
80:55 the whole really really long. Uh that's actually why I brought that out too is I have
80:59 sketchy feelings because of like the YouTube page disappearing and all that
81:02 other kind of stuff. But then there's also this which is
81:06 actually really cool. They're like look at all the things we're working on right
81:09 now, right? So you it might work. It might be
81:13 entirely fine. Um, I don't know. I don't know how big the team is. Maybe it's a
81:17 small team thing, so they just haven't noticed the YouTube thing yet, right? Uh, maybe it's something else. It's
81:22 probably entirely fine. Massdrop uses them. That's kind of cool.
81:25 That is actually kind of cool. Lots of good stuff on Mass Drop. Yep. All right. Well, I think we're about
81:31 five minutes from the end of the show, so let's go ahead and see if there's uh
81:34 We have quite a few things left, actually. Do we? Call of Duty is now on a
81:37 three-year dev cycle, so this is interesting.
81:41 uh they they added a a developer, it's called Sledgehammer, which I believe
81:46 worked on a previous game in conjunction, which with another one of
81:49 the teams, and apparently this was a knee-jerk reaction to uh the crazy low
81:53 ratings that Call of Duty Ghost got. Apparently, it's sold fairly well. Um,
81:58 the sales are going down a little bit more rapidly than they had hoped, but the initial sales were actually pretty
82:03 all right, but I think that has in no smart small part due uh due to the new
82:07 consoles. Um, because people just wanted games for them. Um, but yeah, they're
82:12 saying this should help their teams be able to polish and ensure really high
82:17 quality games every single time they have a release because now they have a three-year cycle instead of a two-year
82:21 cycle. So instead of releasing a game and then trying to support it for
82:25 another year while kind of working on a new game and then crazy working on a new
82:30 game for one year, you kind of have supporting your game for a year and then
82:34 crazy working on a game for two years, which is actually a lot more time.
82:38 Yeah, that's that this makes such a big difference because I mean you look at even something like Battlefield 4, like
82:42 how much patching is going into that game realistically?
82:46 How much work is getting done on Battlefield 5?
82:51 Okay. No. Yeah. Like you have to support the game. Yeah.
82:55 At least in theory. Uh for for a fair amount of time after you've released it,
83:00 which really eats into that time for the next game. Whereas this I mean this is
83:04 great. So by adding a full another development studio as long as they as
83:08 long as they do a good job of it. Um they've they're able I believe this is
83:12 the same number of teams that NVIDIA uses. So for new GPUs, I believe, don't
83:19 quote me on this, but I believe NVIDIA has three teams. So each new graphics
83:23 core, each new graphics architecture has a different team that worked on it every
83:28 three cycles. That's how long it takes to develop a GPU. If NVIDIA only had one
83:32 team, they would have fallen behind AMD
83:36 years and years and years ago. And so that's makes sense. This is a business model that exists
83:40 outside of games. And uh I mean if they're going to jam a new Call of Duty
83:45 down our throats every year, it might as well be one that was worked on for a
83:48 reasonable period of time. Honestly, I don't even mind the one-year
83:52 cycle. I've talked to different people about this before. I just It has to be
83:56 good. It has to be really good. And I haven't been I I was in like a love
84:01 affair with Call of Duty 4, the first Modern Warfare, and a lot of the Call of
84:05 Duties before that. And then it's kind of just gone down pretty hardcore
84:08 lately, and I have not been interested. If they can fix it with this three-year
84:11 dev cycle, I'd more than happily go back to Call of Duty. I just hate it right
84:15 now. Right. Not into it at all. And I mean, you know what? That's a good
84:19 point because I have no problem with a month-long release cycle. The more
84:23 content you throw at me, the better. You look at something like episodic gaming,
84:26 like what Walking Dead's doing, like what Wolf Among Us is doing. So, that's
84:30 Telltale. I got no problem with that. Give me short content that's inexpensive and
84:35 throw it at me really often. People don't have an issue with that. It's just
84:38 something that doesn't meet their expectations. Speaking of which, I had
84:42 completely forgotten about Wolf Among Us and Ed's
84:47 out, so I am playing that tonight. I'm definitely playing that tonight. So
84:50 stoked. Um, then there's Steam Music. Yeah, Steam Music.
84:54 I'm less excited about this than I am about in home streaming.
84:57 Yeah, this isn't the most crazy thing, but it has it's going to work within
85:01 home streaming. Yep. So, this was posted by Neuronite. So, this still ties in with the idea of
85:06 having a semi- lowowered device with almost no storage on one end and then
85:11 having your beast machine on the other end because you can store all your music somewhere else in the house and then
85:15 stream from it. Um, there is basically nothing in terms of features right now
85:20 other than a play button that's almost a direct quote from one of their developers. Um, but they're taking
85:25 suggestions and they're planning on putting in a ton of new features. If you
85:28 want to sign up to be a part of the Steam Music beta, it's the exact same
85:32 way that you'd signed up for Steam inhome streaming. You got to go to the Steam Music community page and join the
85:38 community and then you will be in. Right now, it's only working with MP3s, but
85:42 that's not going to last for too long. They are already working on bringing in
85:45 a bunch more support for different formats. Um, like I said, it works
85:48 within home streaming. And the idea is that there will now be an in-game player
85:53 for your music. So you can change things without tabbing and you can it's it's
85:57 just going to be a lot more easily integrated. It's not a music store at
86:01 least as of yet. You can get game soundtracks through through Steam that
86:04 has existed for a very long time. Um but it's not a music store in itself. The
86:10 idea is you point it towards a directory on your computer. It finds all the music
86:14 and then you can play it. That's pretty much it. And you can play it by using
86:18 like the Steam overlay and it's super easy and super integrated. It's It's not
86:22 the most exciting thing ever, but it's cool and I think it's a good move. I
86:27 think it makes a lot of sense. Um,
86:30 Lionus is looking up Goat Simulator. Well, yeah, we have to talk about this.
86:34 I had totally forgotten until someone mentioned it in the Twitch chat. I
86:37 posted this on Facebook earlier this week, but this looks like the kind of
86:42 thing that if it's like five bucks, I would probably pay five bucks and play
86:47 it for a little bit. This also isn't the first time we've seen it. This is just the first time
86:50 we've seen uh this awesome demo. So, this is uh some alpha gameplay
86:55 footage.
87:03 And when you climb the ladder, the head just like goes like this. You can move
87:08 stuff around, climb into stuff. See, you
87:11 get the door for just doing things. Oh, his head is banging on the run.
87:16 Yeah,
87:19 because this is a, you know, game mechanic that makes sense.
87:23 This better come with physics. Yeah.
87:26 Oh. Oh, car plus ragd doll 64* 2.
87:33 What? So, okay. I think we're done here. Yeah.
87:36 But, uh, there you go, guys. You can check that out. Goat Simulator first
87:41 alpha gameplay on YouTube. Uh, if you want to watch something that makes
87:45 absolutely no sense but just somehow
87:48 inten need to buy it. Yeah, I like really want it to be a
87:52 benchmarking video. How to build a rig that's perfectly optimized for Goat Simulator.
87:57 Yeah, we should actually do it. Um, for updates that haven't happened in quite a
88:01 while. Um, the folding team is doing quite well. We're in 52nd position
88:06 overall for folding, which is actually like kind of insane with how young the
88:11 team is. um and just cuz like the forum hasn't even existed for that long and
88:15 that's what drove the start of the uh Linus Tech Tips folding team. So that's
88:19 epic. Uh we should be within the top 50 in about a week which is also really
88:23 cool and we're number eight for active fold folders which is also huge and
88:30 extremely cool. Um, the Star Citizen team, which you should join, is I think
88:35 that we're we're number one in activity right now and we're number six in the
88:38 world for member count. And I think honestly within the next day or two,
88:42 we'll probably be number third, meaning we will be front paging for most members
88:46 and we will be on the top and front paging for activity, which is epic. So,
88:50 if you're looking for a team to join for Star Citizen, I would definitely join
88:54 us. It's funny you mentioned the um the
88:58 Steam music uh streaming because it's
89:02 not in Big Picture on the Windows client, but I swear there was something
89:07 about video in Steam OS and I'd have to
89:11 fire up my Steam machine to to have a look at it again. But I wonder if uh
89:16 local video streaming is something that they're looking at adding the idea. Yeah. And if if you read
89:21 through the music thing, it plays into that very well because the guy's talking
89:24 about how they're they're trying to be they're trying to make it so that's all
89:28 you need. Yeah. You won't need anything else. So, so
89:31 supporting video makes a lot of sense. And it's probably not going to be a
89:34 thing where you can buy movies through the Steam store. It's probably going to
89:37 be a thing just like how music works, which is where it's like point at this
89:41 directory and then you can play things. Yeah, that makes a ton of sense. That's
89:45 probably how that's going to work. I really really hope that that comes because that would mean that I would
89:49 pretty much never need to leave Big Picture on my HTPC. Whereas right now I
89:53 was like, "Oh, okay. I guess I need like a video player if I'm going to legitimately replace my Windows
89:58 machine." Not happening yet. Speaking of my Windows machine, I discovered
90:01 something interesting about Steam and home streaming. And that is that even if
90:05 you have a pretty powerful CPU,
90:08 the CPUbased decoding is just not uh not
90:13 low latency enough. It's not good enough to have a 1080p or even really
90:17 stutter-free experience overall. I'm still using a Linfield
90:22 760 or something like that. No, seven. Crap.
90:27 I can't even remember anymore. Anyway, the point is that it was the last Intel
90:32 CPU that didn't have a hardwarebased
90:36 H.264 decoder on the integrated GPU. So,
90:40 what I'm going to do uh this weekend is I'm going to take this graphics card
90:43 home because it's the only one that we have that's actually short enough to
90:46 install in my home theater PC. And I'm going to see if this makes the
90:50 difference between that PC being able to run in home streaming satisfactory or
90:55 doesn't. Cuz initially I thought it was power line network that was causing the
90:59 frame drops as much as 20 to 30% of my frames were were being lost. Wow. And
91:04 then I concluded that that wasn't it when I bought a 50 foot Cat 6 cable, ran
91:09 it down my stairs like across my hallway and I was like, "Oh,
91:13 oh, it's not fixed. Okay, I guess it's time to get a graphics card then." So, this
91:18 card has a built-in H.264 decoder. Actually, this is a Kepler card, so this
91:22 has an encoder as well. But there is so much more to be done within home
91:26 streaming. For one thing, they've added some more resolution, so you can stream
91:29 at 480p now. And I saw some interesting behavior when I was playing around with
91:33 it. I haven't really dug into it again since I did my video. And they've
91:37 changed some stuff since then, but I saw the resolution changing dynamically
91:40 during a stream rather than just frame rate resolution.
91:44 Yeah. And and it was like 1600 by 900 or 1680 x 1050 or something like it was in
91:49 between. It was a tweener res. It wasn't 1920 and it wasn't 720. But maybe it was
91:54 like my eyes playing tricks on me. I got to play around with it some more. Uh,
91:57 but there's still so much more that they can do if they can figure out how to
92:02 take advantage of Kepler's onboard hardware encoder, which I don't believe
92:07 they're doing right now, and they can find a way to take advantage of, which
92:11 they've already done, the hardware decoders, we could be looking at a a low
92:14 enough latency experience that it will be kind of like sitting in front of it.
92:19 Uh, I mean, and with good enough hardware now, even you can get pretty
92:22 darn close, but we're just not quite there yet. Some people have raised
92:26 concerns about the California bill, saying that's the exactly the same as
92:30 what the um Ukraine government wants and how the Uncle Sam's going to have a kill
92:34 switch on your device. I don't think I'm
92:38 pretty sure it's 100% user controlled. Yeah. But I mean, it's I mentioned this
92:42 earlier in the show, too. Just because it's user controlled doesn't mean it's
92:46 doesn't mean that there isn't some sort of back door. And with all the stuff NSA
92:49 is doing lately, that is actually kind of freaky. Usually, I do think of those
92:52 things. Yeah. didn't really think about it this time. So, that's something definitely
92:57 really important to consider. And to those speculating that I'm wearing sunglasses because my wife beat
93:01 me, you are 100% correct. I knew you were going to say that.
93:06 Thanks for watching the show today, guys. If you tuned in late, the archive
93:09 will be up later. And nah, I changed my mind. Um, I think that's pretty much it.
93:14 Yeah. Peace out, guys. Thanks so much for watching. See you later.
93:19 Thanks for watching.
93:22 Are you sure you thanked them enough? Thank you for Thank you for listening to
93:27 me. Thank you for watching over top of this music that we love so
93:31 very much. I really like this music. I do too. You're not even listening to
93:34 it. I am. But I I'm vicariously listening to it
93:38 through you cuz I'm dancing. Yep.