The WAN Show - CARS don't kill people, PEOPLE kill people.. with cars!! - May 15, 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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that when you get your dog fixed, you actually limit his functionality.
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But you are fixing the problem of the dog having that functionality.
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But you don't say get your dog's problem fixed. You say get your dog fixed.
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What? Wow. That is some pretty spectacular uh
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that is some pretty spectacular kudo sponsorship of the WAN Show.
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I didn't I was on their network before. I didn't like it. So, so I guess there's that.
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You guys,
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You were on a Telus at that point, which is just Kudos.
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Their service was fine because Kudos service was fine.
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And at least Telus doesn't steal your information and sell it that we know of
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yet. So, they probably do.
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Welcome to the WAN Show. Yeah,
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the WAN Show where I realized I was wearing my Squarespace shirt and today
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wasn't. You know, every time up until now,
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happened to be wearing my Squarespace shirt, they've been a sponsor. And so,
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today it felt a little weird to be wearing my Squarespace shirt and and uh
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and not actually have them be a sponsor. So, I actually threw on a shirt from one
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of our other sponsors today. But first, we have some topic callouts. So, Windows
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10 versions have been revealed. That was versions, not virgins. Uh, the Oculus
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Rift CV1 has been revealed. Oh, I should
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have left that one for you. No, it's okay. There's actually not a
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ton of information in that that we didn't already know, but there is some things that are very cool that we'll
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talk about in depth. Anyways, FTC rules in favor of direct to consumer car
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sales. It's not the end of the whole equation, but we'll talk about that
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later. It's your birthday, Elon Musk. It's not. Yeah, it's not today. Anyways,
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self-driving cars don't crash unless
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apparently other people crash into them. Yeah, because that's
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which is a crash. Yes, technically. So, they actually do
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crash. They just don't cause the crash. Brandon Lee, can you close the door?
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And all of you viewers, can you hang on for a minute while we roll the intro?
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Do I need to ask their permission to roll our intro? Yes.
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No,
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we have sponsors today. Linda,
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we really need to get that fixed. Linda, take a linda.com course to show
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you how to fix our intro cuz ours sucks and you can do it for us. Yeah, they have Photoshop tutorials.
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I do. Fresh books. Wait a minute. Is that right? Yeah,
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that's right. That's not right. Is that right?
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Um,
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yeah, it is. And Luc
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10% with offer code light. Yes. You know what I should do? I'm
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going to put this back at the top so you could learn skills proactively this time.
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Wow. See that? Every time we switch to that
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scene. The problem is though that it's just not going to work. It might. Hold on.
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But we have to wait for the end of the show. Yeah, that's true. We'll wait till the end. We'll
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So you could you could learn skills with linda.com, manage your business with Fresh Books, and then spend your money
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on buying Loot Crate stuff because it's cool. People are refusing to help us with it.
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And they're saying buckets, by the way. So it was true.
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It It happened. It happened. The buckets are real. All right, so let's go ahead
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and uh let's move in right into our first topic. Actually,
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we need to cover these builds. Oh, are there build logs? There have
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been build logs for like 3 weeks and we just keep on just going right
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over top of them straight to the topic. Your level of incompetence is inspiring.
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But it's always been right there. I did not.
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You always pick the first topic and you always scroll right over it. I did not see them
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for three weeks.
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That is most excellent, sir. That's amazing. All right. So, the first one we've got
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is Lauram. Lauramum. Lauram. This is
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This is the voters's pick. All right. Nor a momentum.
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This is the voters's pick. The voters picked it.
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Kind of like their noses. Oh,
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it's okay to pick your nose. Sometimes you get like paint in there.
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Paint and crayons. All right, so let's go ahead. Lots of water cooling. A 4770K, a
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Z87i Pro, 16 gigs of Dominator platinum memory, an R9290 graphics card, and ooh,
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that is looking good already. Nice small
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ITX board. You got the graphics card presumably laid out somewhere where
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we're going to get a PCI Express um extension going on.
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Yes, sir. Yes, sir. A triple radiator. Totally
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flat build. I'm liking it. I'm kind of into that. You can ask my wife. Um
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so, we've got a nice big reservoir Samsung SSD.
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I am loving the coloration. This is a LAN rig, so you can take it to
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a land and have it look super cool. That is really cool. doesn't take up a
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lot of space and you can kind of pick the whole thing up like a like like a picture frame almost.
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And especially out of land if you could just put this like behind your monitor or even beside your going to save a lot
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of space compared to a giant tower. Look at that. Cable management on the back is almost as good as the front.
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That is outstanding. Really cool. All right, so let's do our second. And
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this was the staff pick if I recall correctly. Oh balls. Yep. This is the NVMK2
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which borrowed inspiration from Charles
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um at least as far as the name was concerned but not the loading of the website which
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is still going. Yeah, this website doesn't load very quickly
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although it works unlike the old system. So the the mods picked this one. It's by
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Pokemon Kid. Here's some progress shots. I love this.
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This is like the technique for leak testing your loop. Get that paper towel
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in there and make sure that she ain't uh she ain't leaking. All right. Case Labs
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Mercury S8. Two GTX 770s, 1200i power
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supply, 4770K processor, and water cooling. Water cooling. Water
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cooling. Some more in progress shots. Liking that reservoir placement. Look at
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that. It's like all water cooling. There's actually more water cooling than
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case. Yeah, you know a build is going to be good when it starts. Oo, that's sick.
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I had already seen these. I snuck ahead. That is absolutely disgusting. I love
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it. In a good way. Yeah, that is that is a really tight
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looks like extremely attack attractive vile virus.
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Yeah, I am I am really liking that. One
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of the challenges when you place your reservoir horizontally like this is
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keeping the air from getting sucked back into the one side. So, I'm guessing he's
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probably or she has probably had to do something about flow rates to keep them
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from actually being too high uh to keep
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that from being an issue. Mind you, it looks like the system's actually powered
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off right now because there's no way that would be just kind of sitting there
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like that if the system was actually on. So, very, very nice little rig. All
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right, so why don't we move into our first topic of the day? AMD does not
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want to be known as the cheaper solution anymore. And the original poster here is
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Zapion. And the original article here is from Ars Technica.
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This was supposed to be covered last week for those of you that may be confused.
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Actually, we missed a couple AMD things last week. So, they launched a new APU.
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It's totally unexceptional. It's actually really funny. I was saying on
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Twitter that um that I didn't have what
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was it I tweeted about why someone accused us of only covering Intel and uh
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I kind of went well we cover AMD graphics cards. In fact, we went as far
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as to borrow an R9295X2 back.
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We had to borrow a fair number of them. No, I think that's the only one we had
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to Oh, we had to borrow a low-end card once. I think we borrowed two.
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And the the one that came in the case, but not the most recent one.
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Yeah, that was that was the one we borrowed. Oh, there's one more. We only had it I
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think we borrowed it from NCX. Oh, the 6990 way back in the day. So,
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there's a few. All right. So, there's a few that we've had to borrow and I was
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like, "Okay, so like that's pretty much it." I mean, are we supposed to do
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reviews of R9280X's all day? There's
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they're 7970s. There's there's nothing different about them. Yeah, we've been
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doing the same review for years. Exactly. So, what's the point? And as
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far as the CPU side goes, I I said something along the lines of they
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haven't released a new performance CPU in like 3 years. And I was estimating. I
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think it's been longer than that. So, I had a couple people kind of give me
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crap, including uh my buddy over at a non techch Ian Katrris, who was like,
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"Well, actually, I'm finishing up on an
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AMD APU review right now along with some new testing methodology. It's actually
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it's actually a really interesting article because he tries to take a bit
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of a different approach to the way that
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he's to the way that he's benchmarking the chip um and get a more complete
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picture. So you guys can check that out there, the A87650K
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APU review, but I would point out to Dr. Ian Katrris that that's an APU review
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and I specifically said AMD hasn't released a new interesting CPU in quite
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some time. So, bum. Uh, I also got a uh
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I also got an email actually from one of AMD's marketing folks kind of asking if
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I needed the hookup to get this thing. And I kind of went, actually, it's okay.
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I'm going to read Dr. Cutras' review and then I'm going to find out if we should
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be making a bunch of videos about this. And it turns out that it is uh once
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again not exceptional. Uh, great performance with onboard graphics. APUs
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from AMD are great for entry-level gaming.
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Also, they're a good value um at the low
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end because they're cheaper and they perform okay. So, let's go back to that
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RS Technica article here. AMD doesn't want to be known as the cheaper
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solution. We'll refocus on performance, which really raises the question. Did
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they ever deemphasize performance? It never felt like it.
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It the community kind of did in their
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direction. They did stop developing CPUs. They did
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shift their strategy towards APUs, which we knew were going to be on a lower-end
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socket. They were going to have fewer cores. But did they do that because they
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wanted to, or did they do that because they couldn't build a competitive CPU
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for years to the point where they weren't making enough margin on them and
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they needed to find a different way to compete? and implementing the graphics
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IP that they acquired and have continued to develop since the ATI acquisition was
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the way that they were able to make something that fits in a socket that's competitive in some meaningful way. I
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mean, I I'm glad to hear them say this,
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but the thing that frustrates me, and this is a story that I've never told
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publicly, is it goes all the way back to
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the launch of the Phenom, whatever it was, 920 and 940. So, this is this is
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how far this goes back. Was that the Was that the Phenom one or was that Phenom
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2? Uh, Phenom 920. I think that was the
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original. No, that's a Phenom. Phenom 2 is a 920. What were the original Phenom
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ones? Just Yeah, there you go. Phenom AMD Phenom. Okay. Well, the 920
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and 940 were one of them. Um 8000
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series. Hold on. Hold on. I'm going somewhere important with this. Uh,
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Phantom X4. I'm just fascinated at how long you can delay a sentence
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essentially. Oh, thank you. It's quite good. List of AMD Phenom microprocessors. Here
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we go. You're getting there. I'm on I'm on the Wikipedia right now,
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you guys. I am like learning some stuff like live research. We should have a camera
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over your shoulder mid midflight here.
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So yes, that was the one that I was that
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I was super that I was super butthard about was the 920 and the 940 because
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and it was probably the fault of like our AMD sales guy. I was working at NCX
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at the time, so I didn't have like a PR contact. I just had like a sales guy um
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who was like, "Yeah, we're going to reinvigorate the sales. It's going to be
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awesome." So, um, in those days I I don't even
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think, no, I wasn't making videos yet, but I would still because I was in
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charge of system building stuff at NCIX, I would still get my hands on all the
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cool stuff and I would like validate it, right? Like I would tinker with it and
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I'd be like, "Oh yeah, is this like really good? Is this really fast? How high can we overclock it? Whatever
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else?" And I would sometimes post articles on hardware connects, for example, just as a guest writer. And so
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I took home the 920 and the 940 and I
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ended up pulling an allnighter because I
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ran them through the paces. And at that time it would have been up against what
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the E6600 or Q6600 or what whatever was
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the relevant Intel stuff in those days. And it it it was like terrible and and I
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and I couldn't overclock it worth a damn. And I was like, "Oh no, I must be
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doing something wrong. It's already 1:00 in the morning. I can't even call anyone
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and ask for help and the embargo is in the morning and I want to, you know, submit this for hardware connects
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because I've got access to this hardware and the embargo is coming up. And it's
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like I tested and tested and tested and in the morning I got up and everyone
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else's review went up and the thing didn't perform very well and I was like
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I sat here trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. I tried every memory
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setting. I tried every CPU setting. I tried and it turned out that it just
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wasn't very good. And so I want someone to log how many times
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he's told that story on stream. I don't think I have told that story before on stream. Oh well, whatever. I
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don't care. At least your third. I don't care. You're turning into like the old man.
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Every time you see him, he tells the same story. Wow.
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Hey, Lionus. Do you remember that story about that old phenom that that sales
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guy told you some stuff about? Well, back in the day, he told me it was going
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to be one heck of a ripper. and I took it home and I tried and I tried and I
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tried and I just couldn't get it to go. So, finally I went to bed and woke up in
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the morning and then everybody else couldn't get it to go and I was upset.
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It was disappointing. So, anyway, the
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point of the story is AMD has told me
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whether it was an individual's fault or company messaging or whatever else that
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they're going to build a high performance CPU for a long time and they
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haven't done it. So, I'm just a little jaded. And
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I want Zen to be awesome. Yeah, I do.
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I completely agree. If Zen is awesome, I win because I get
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to make videos about is awesome. Everyone wins. You guys win because maybe Intel will
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get the kick in the pants that they need to cuz I'm sure that Intel can make a
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higher performance CPU like tomorrow.
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I'm sure they can make a higher performance consumer CPU, but they don't
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have to. Instead, they're taking that
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sort of one-sizefits-all approach where they're going, "Okay, so let's build
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like really small CPU cores with lower complexity and let's put like 18 of them
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under a single chip for servers and then let's put like a couple of them
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and like a really great graphics core for like notebooks." And then well I I
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don't know maybe the desktop guys they can like have this one and
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so having like a a you know a 6970K or a
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7970K that just rips would be amazing.
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Um and they release a 6969K. Do you think the internet would just explode?
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Yes, I do. There is no way a
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conservative company like Intel would ever do that.
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That would be amazing though. Anyways, yeah, they they I really hope Zans can.
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So, at their analyst day, the company said they're no longer competing in a
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race to the bottom, which is uh Whoops. Which makes sense because their process
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is more expensive to manufacture anyways. So, they're trying to be the
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cheaper solution while it costs them more money to make it. Uh it's not going
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to work out very well. Yep. That's going to be a problem. Um
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CEO Dr. Lisa Sue says it's extremely important to ensure that we have
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competitive high performance cores. uh we have reduced our low-end PC exposure
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goes on to state they are an x86 company through and through and will be focusing
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on their opportunity to lead in that area and I think it is quite the
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opportunity I mean Intel for all the innovation that they do and there's a
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lot I mean stuff like you know um rapid
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start technology you know the fact that the computer turns on really fast that
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doesn't show up on a benchmark score but it makes the experience of using it
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better and and that kind of stuff is great but in terms of raw performance
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performance like single threaded performance. It's been like that incremental 6 to 8% for like four
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freaking years now, giving AMD once again an opportunity to step in and uh
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maybe kick some butt. So, Zen will be launching first as a new series of FX
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chips. They're promising a 40% increase in instructions per clock, particularly
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from switching to a new process node, although they haven't said what it is yet. It's going to have a new socket AM4
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about bloody time which will introduce
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uh DDR4 as well as I mean hopefully PCI
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Express. They don't even support PCI Express 3 on their current motherboards.
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Like AMD knows that their CPU enthusiast
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platform makes no sense. They know this. They're not even they're not even giving
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us a new chipset to put high performance graphics cards in it because apparently they don't think it's worth the effort.
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Um I mean it's sad but that's what it is.
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They even like they they even make high performance PCI Express 3.0 graphics
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cards and internally I'm sure someone at some point has put up their hand on
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guys shouldn't you be able to do like the whole solution thing like nah and
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like they try but it hasn't been a compelling story for a long time. Um so
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I'm excited as as excited as I can let myself be but I just am you know other
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than saying I really want it to I really want it to happen. And it's not going to
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be till 2016 either way. Um I I don't like rumors anyways, let alone
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when there's nothing really behind them and it's just someone saying, "I want to do this." Um so
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good for you, buddy. Yeah, that's basically what I'm getting out of this. I'm just going to wait. If
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it's awesome, then that's super good and I think it will help all the consumers
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and the industry as a whole. And if it's not awesome, I won't be that surprised
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and that will super suck because that would just hurt things.
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Yeah. So much more. Speaking of things that hurt, this was
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posted by 907 Rider and the original source is Lily. Camera. Something you
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would normally think would hurt a camera. Just taking it and throwing it
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doesn't hurt this bad boy. Now, we've seen this in certain drones, just
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not like consumer drones. This is a pre-order, and we are not
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suggesting that you pre-order it because Oops. There is a lot of room for this
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thing to totally suck donkey balls. Oh yeah.
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But these demos that they show are pretty freaking impressive.
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So cool. So basically, uh you can set it to
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track. So you throw and it just takes off. And then you can set it to follow
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or lead a particular subject. So here it is following this guy. Yeah, man. That's
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incredible. You control it with like a thing that you wear. So, you tell it to there's
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buttons for like, okay, I want it to follow or do whatever. Um, there's another really cool one
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where they uh here, where is it? Yeah, here we go. So, this guy just like
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hardcore is in sitting in his canoe and you kind of go, "Oh, well, hey, how can
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you?" Oh, no. Just what? What? Chucks it in the Oh, takes off from the water. Did
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you just say amphibious takeoff? Are you freaking for real?
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That's pretty freaking cool. I'm assuming it's going to have to be fairly calm. It was pretty calm there and
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whatnot, but that's still really cool. That's incredible. I don't know if I'd bother. I'd probably
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just throw it up in the air instead of throwing it in the water, but it's cool that it can do that.
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So, it does 1080p uh 60fps or 720p 120
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FPS slow-mo, 12 megapixel stills, has a 20-minute flight time, and they're
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pitching it as compact enough that you can throw in your backpack and wear the
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controller on your wrist, which is waterproof as well, and is pretty much
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off to the races. It's not cheap. I think they want $1,000 for it once it's
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out. And the pre-order is like 550. But holy smack, that looks awesome.
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That looks really, really, really cool. I'm excited for it. That's That's one
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that I legitimately think is cool because the lack of setup time. You
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don't need your phone or anything like that. It's something on your wrist. So the GoProers, like some guy on his
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mountain bike could just all of a sudden like if he strapped it to his back instead of
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a bag could just grab it, whip it out forward, and then go, and it's not going
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to be a big deal. It's it's it's the like GoPro catch it as you're going
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mentality instead of this like okay you probably need a dedicated dude
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controlling the drone and all this kind of crap like follow me go and then do
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whatever you want and like Burkel's been showing me some of the Cuz he's into mountain biking in
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particular and he's been showing me some of the techniques involved in getting
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some of the footage that as not a filming guy I just kind of take for
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granted like oh yeah you know the camera followed along the bike well hold on a
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second that's actually moving really asked, "How are they doing this
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exactly?" And they will, what they'll do is they'll like they'll map out a path
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for the bike and a path for a guy with a freaking gimbal rig to like book it down
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like like people could die running alongside these bikes filming them going
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down the sides of mountains. Like this is probably a better solution. No,
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you're not going to get that same level of of cinematic footage, but for what
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99.9% of people are going to be interested in. And this means that it'll get better.
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This looks very cool. Eventually, you'll have better battery life. Eventually, you'll get things that
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will be faster so they can follow or lead better and all that kind of stuff.
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Absolutely. So, yeah. Next up from Boou, the original article
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here is from Anantech and Intel has a new lineup of SSDs aimed at data centers
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coming. These are the S3510. And this is kind of a funny one to me
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because you look at Intel's push even on the consumer side towards NVMe and
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abandoning the SATA standard and you
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kind of go, what's the agenda here? And
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I'm not that surprised because okay, to move to NVMe, that's a
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huge platform change for your entire data center. People are still going to
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be interested in upgrading their drives without upgrading every single one of their server platforms.
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That was what I was going to say, but you did it better actually. Oh, you I thought you were attacking the
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idea that it was coming out and I was like, what? No, no, still makes sense.
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So, this is not a particularly high performance drive, which is a really
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interesting thing. And it also features 16 nmter flash. So, this is the first
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time that Intel has used that in actually I think that's the first time
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Intel's used 16 nmter flash. That's very interesting. So, not particularly
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amazing performance. Look at those sequential right speeds, particularly at
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the low-end capacities. 260 megabytes
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per second. They're not even saturating SATA 3. But what these drives are about
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is the endurance and the cost. So, Intel's trying to deliver something that
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is validated and reliable and is going to last for a long time, but is going to
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be cheap for those data centers that are not looking to roll out a whack ton of
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PCI Expressbased SSDs and completely rebuild everything. So, these are um
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just yeah, they are what they are. They support 256-bit encryption
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and they include uh full power loss protection that protects all data
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including in-flight user rights in the event of a sudden power loss
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which is actually funny. Like it's funny to me enterprise SSDs seem to feature
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this technology more so than consumer
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grade SSDs. But consider for a moment
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that at an enter in an enterprise environment, you're going to have
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battery backups on your controller cards
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in the event of like a raid or something like that. You're usually going to have
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I I mean any decent data center is going to have a battery backup
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or generator, whatever. Yeah. U so so not maybe not necessarily per
24:46
rack but um
24:49
there will be there will be something for each kind of you know set of of of
24:54
systems. Every big data center I've been to which isn't a ton but every big data center
24:58
I've been to has that like giant generator block just outside the
25:02
building and on top of that they're going to have backup power for the entire building.
25:06
Yeah. What are the odds of an unexpected power loss? But then again, I mean, I guess
25:10
layers of protection compared to an an end user who's usually not using a UPS,
25:15
who's usually like super screwed in that situation.
25:20
Oh well. Crap. I feel like a complete idiot. I I
25:24
completely lost the word for the thing the racks go into
25:28
while I was trying to do that thing. The thing the racks go? Yeah, the one we have downstairs.
25:32
It's just a rack, is it not? No. Server rack. No, no, no, A rack is a rack and then
25:37
the thing it goes into. God dang it.
25:40
Why? Why can't I remember remember this?
25:45
Now I'm going crazy. Uh
25:50
I hate I hate cabinet. Oh jeez. I couldn't find the word for
25:55
cabinet while I was doing that. I know what a cabinet is. Are they all technically cabinets?
25:59
Not necessarily, but racks go in cabinets.
26:03
Yeah, but you can have a a rack that isn't a cabinet.
26:07
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz a No, no. Like a like a Yes. You could just have
26:12
Right. You could just have a rack. You could just have a rack. You don't have to have the
26:16
And you could just have a rack mount thing and there could be nothing around it. But no, I was thinking of what they
26:21
go inside cuz on a per cabinet basis, you might have a large GPS unit.
26:26
Yeah. Yeah. In like the bottom of each one or something along those lines. That's what
26:29
I was going for. I can't believe I could. I just I hate it when I can't find the word and I'm live.
26:34
Drives me crazy. Yeah. It's cuz it's not universal cuz
26:38
you can have just a rag. I don't know. Anyways,
26:43
yeah. Yeah. Sorry, I just I had an itch there. Um,
26:46
the long life of AOL
26:49
is over. You will never receive another AOL CD in the mail. Original article
26:56
here is from the Wall Street Wall Street Journal.
26:59
Verizon agrees to buy AOL for No, I'm
27:03
not subscribing now. Go. There is no exit.
27:07
Does this come up every time you mouse over it? No, it doesn't. Okay, it goes
27:11
away. Um, Verizon agrees to buy AOL for $4.4
27:15
billion. They are predominantly interested in the
27:20
technology that AOL has been building for online video ad distribution. Um
27:26
it's not like they don't have Yeah, I I know. Um it's not like they don't have
27:31
other things going on. So subscription business, there's a content business.
27:36
What What content does AOL? I don't know who's still doing AOL
27:39
subscriptions. I don't know if you Google this. What
27:44
does AOL even do?
27:47
I haven't actually known for for years. Why and how does AOL still exist? The
27:52
first the first thing that comes up. This is great. So, let's find out
27:56
because I'm genuinely curious. I didn't uh I should have done this before the
27:59
show, but I'm just going to do it now. I saw the financial results for AOL in the
28:03
business section today. And the this is from 2012, and the first thing that came
28:07
to mind was AOL. Who the heck is using AOL? Uh posted 577 million in revenue
28:13
for the fourth quarter of 2011. And
28:17
Um, old people and Oh, two answers here
28:20
reminded me of two reasons why AOL is still alive. Old people and yellow pages
28:25
piled up in condo basement.
28:28
Ah, system did
28:31
not good. And has Google ads on it. What? I thought they were an ad serving
28:35
platform. There's a Google ad on the freaking AOL website.
28:40
So, this is still people talking about them as an ISP.
28:43
Is anyone still on AOL? Let's straw pull this.
28:46
Yeah, straw poll this. Uh, so are you or do
28:51
you know anyone? Someone in the chat just said 2 million
28:55
dialup customers. Okay. Okay. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. I
28:58
No, I want I want a percentage. Are you or do you know anyone still using AOL?
29:05
Uh, yes, no. And um uh I guess yogurt
29:10
would be a an excellent food. What type of yogurt? Third choice. Oh uh yogurt. Um I'm going
29:16
to go with pomegranate. Cool.
29:20
Actually, I might have made that too appealing. Banana.
29:23
Banana yogurt is awesome. Banana yogurt. I've never had that. It sounds very bland.
29:27
It has the It has that sort of fuzzy taste of banana yogurt. Okay.
29:32
Except it's kind of a slime that you put in your mouth. I would just eat a
29:36
banana. I can't I can't say that for all. Like I I I wouldn't just eat a
29:41
pomegranate if I wanted pomegranate yogurt, but I would just eat a banana if
29:45
I wanted banana yogurt, right? Yeah. Makes perfect sense to me
29:49
cuz like it's already a mush. I know. You chew it one time
29:53
and it's pretty much yogurt.
29:56
That's ridiculous. So, a tiny 15% of you are saying you or
30:01
someone you know is still using AOL. So, I think that's mostly going to be dialup
30:05
stuff. A bunch of people in the chat said dialup, and that actually does kind of make sense. Yeah, that makes that makes a ton. Who
30:09
else are you going to get dialup from? I I honestly have no idea.
30:12
I don't even know of any dialup providers in BC.
30:16
BC. I I'm sure there is obviously, but maybe Telus. Would Telus do it?
30:20
I have no idea. It's not on their website, at least not prominently. But then you have to think of like farm
30:25
farm net. Oh, yeah. No, like I Oh, I get it. I get that people have it. I just don't know
30:30
who they're getting it from. Yeah. AOL apparently
30:33
AOL owns N Gadget. What?
30:37
Well, there you go. So that's that would be the media that would be the content
30:40
business. Um so so there there you go. Um their
30:44
current CEO will still be leading AOL's
30:48
operations, but the acquisition is a done deal. And um Verizon said it has
30:54
plans to launch a video service focused on mobile devices featuring shorter
30:58
snippets rather than 30 or 60-minute shows in the summer. I think it's called
31:02
YouTube Verizon. I think it exists. But hey,
31:05
shorter snippets. So like everything YouTube
31:09
there's a smaller even shorter snippet one. Vine. Yeah.
31:12
Uh Instagram has video. But hey, I think I
31:15
Snapchat. Yeah, there's a lot of content developer. not
31:20
content developer like I don't know there's a lot of stuff on Snapchat now
31:23
you can watch like sports events and things and whatever one that you guys build I'm
31:27
glad that the ads will be integrated well and right from the beginning good
31:31
job Verizon I love you guys um so let's go ahead and move on to Google's
31:36
selfdriving cars oh dang it so this was
31:39
posted by Suika Sua Suika
31:43
and the previous one was from Alex goes hi and the original article here is from
31:46
the verge.com so Google is expanding
31:51
their testing um because their
31:54
self-driving cars have been in 11 accidents, but none, according to
32:00
Google, were the fault of the self-driving car.
32:04
Yeah, very interesting. Google claims that
32:07
thanks to all of the sensors and the frequency of data collection, their
32:12
self-driving cars are much more attentive than a human driver is
32:17
capable. attentive. I think you win no matter what. Um because if you just look
32:23
at polling rate, it's like, okay, you win. Um apparently there's been 11.
32:28
No, no, no, no. I want to polling rate. Humans don't have a polling rate. This
32:32
is kind of like the how many FPS can the eye see argument.
32:35
Oh my god. No, no, no, no, no. Just hold on a
32:39
second. So say compared to human
32:44
driver. Okay. So you're going to try Yeah, I know, right?
32:49
So human driver polling rate even an
32:52
infinite polling rate would not technically
32:56
well okay an infinite pulling rate would be equivalent. So anything but an
33:00
infinite polling rate would not technically be higher than the pulling
33:04
rate of your eye or ear. Okay?
33:07
Because it's a continuous stream. Okay? So my point was that you have a
33:13
huge amount of sensors constantly pulling in data whereas a human like you
33:17
will be eating or doing whatever else while they're talking.
33:21
Are we talking pulling in data or pulling in data? So an O or a U?
33:26
Either pulling rate. I don't think he knows what he's talking
33:30
about. Why? I'm just having fun. Okay. Sorry. You
33:33
can talk about the sensors now. Anyways, so there's tons of different
33:36
sensors all pulling in data all the time. A big problem with car accidents
33:40
is it usually happens in a momentary lapse. Like if this guy eating on the
33:44
right or a shoulder check. Yeah. If you shoulder check, you might not see that
33:48
guy merging into your lane. If you shoulder check on the left, you might not see the guy merging into your lane
33:52
who's not paying attention on your right. It might not be because you
33:55
screwed up. You just couldn't currently see in that direction.
33:58
So basically, Google is solving entirely the wrong problem. And they're going
34:02
about this the wrong way because what they should really be doing is figuring out how to give us cybernetic eyes in
34:07
the sides of our heads. That would be awesome. That would be awesome.
34:10
That'd be so confusing though. Imagine the first time you had it turned on. Okay.
34:13
And you could just see like No, no. This is this is the thing. So, have you heard of coclar implants?
34:18
Yeah. Okay. So, one of the big problems with
34:21
colear implants is particularly for people who were born deaf a lot of the
34:26
time they they're like scared or whatever. still. No, it's not even scared or not
34:30
scared. Like, they can know what's coming, but but they a lot of people,
34:33
especially older people, they they tend to want to do and there's like there's a
34:37
huge sort of debate about the uh about
34:41
the the ethics of of all of this stuff because they tend to have to do it with
34:45
people young in order for them to learn how to hear and how to discern speech
34:51
and all of these things. Because the older someone's being, especially if
34:54
they were born deaf, the more difficult it is for their brain to
34:59
Yeah. adapt to this completely new sense. I mean, imaginata.
35:03
That's right. And people who people who are deaf, I mean, they live perfectly
35:06
normal functional lives in many. I mean, I'm not saying every deaf person is like
35:10
a, you know, the best citizen ever or anything, but I'm saying I know plenty
35:14
of people who are just totally normal people. They just can't hear. And for
35:18
all we know, like, think about it this way. What if you were a perfectly normal
35:22
person except you had like another you had another sense normal person you had you had another
35:26
using the incorrect terminology well whatever the point is let's say
35:29
that you well no but I'm saying normal because of the point I'm trying to make
35:34
what if you thought you were like a normal person except there was another
35:37
sense in like your butt or something like if you had another organ there that
35:41
was an entirely new sense that you'd never experienced before that would like
35:44
explode your brain cuz what would that sense even be you'd have no concept of
35:48
it people could desri describe like a a a
35:53
proximity sense to you and you'd be like, "Oh, okay." But the first time you
35:57
walked down the street and you got close to something, you'd be like, "What's
36:00
going on?" Are are I don't know if I'm saying it wrong or not. Are colear implants
36:04
permanent? Like, if you get one, um,
36:08
can you not reverse? So, here's what happens with colear implants, and my my knowledge might be a
36:12
little outdated, but uh the way that my understanding is that it works is they
36:15
actually remove what was in there. Well, if it wasn't
36:19
working, well, some people can hear a little like enough that if you know a gunshot went
36:24
off, they could duck like like even though they might have a lot of
36:27
difficulty with speech. So, you'd be able to duck fast enough. So, without your colear implant, if they
36:33
put it in and take it out, there's nothing left. Okay. So, that's one of the challenges as
36:37
well. Okay. Well, that's an interesting conversation. But, if it was completely
36:40
non-functioning, I don't really think it's that big of a deal. Well, I mean
36:44
there's there's there's a lot of um the thing about the deaf community is they
36:48
have their own they have their own culture and they have a cultural pride and um forcing particularly young
36:54
children to have a coclar implant for
36:57
the sake of being more normal is something that and and it's that norm
37:00
it's the nword like well hold on a second what's wrong with the way that
37:04
you were made and that's an argument that a lot of people will make and you can and you can look and
37:08
pretty sure I'd want to hear you can be pretty sure but there's a lot
37:12
of people who don't feel that way and if they're having that decision made for
37:15
them, is that really fair? And if you don't make the decision for them, well,
37:18
maybe you can't make it till later on in your life and then maybe it doesn't work as well. So, it's actually it's a pretty
37:22
sensitive topic. Um, one that we're not going to I was just going to say we should
37:25
probably just move on. One that we're not going to get any deeper into. It's just it's just
37:31
interesting. So, anyway, there have been 11 accidents in total, all of which were
37:36
minor, uh, which Google asserts were never the fault of their car. Uh, seven
37:41
involved another vehicle rear ending the Google car. So, that's pretty much not
37:45
open for debate. Two of them were sideswipes, and one involved another car
37:49
traveling through a red light. Interesting thing here, though, is that
37:53
I have personally, and I'm sure you have as well, and I I know a few other people
37:57
have in the office because of stories that have been told, but avoided
38:00
sideswipes. You'll see someone merging into your lane, even if you're doing a shoulder
38:04
check and you look back and you see them with like a tire over the line, like, "Oh my goodness." And you can move over.
38:09
Yep. Um, why were there two sides swipes? If you've got all these sensors
38:13
and stuff, why were you not able to move or like honk your horn or do something
38:18
to try to avoid it? Like I I want more data on the sideswipes. Also, with the
38:21
one with uh another car traveling through a red light. Yeah. But one thing
38:26
that they teach you in driver training school and like I'm not discrediting people that get sideswiped and I'm not
38:30
discrediting people that get uh sometimes it's unavoidable. Yeah. And like if you get t-boned in a
38:35
red light, like that's horrible. I'm not saying it's your fault at all. I'm just
38:38
saying I want more information about those crashes because if it was
38:42
obviously someone coming Yeah. and a person would have scanned the
38:46
intersection and been able to stop or turn off or avoid or something then
38:50
maybe that's a problem. Bearing in mind though that a big part of Google's
38:54
argument is that this is going to be a numbers game and
38:58
and the more of them that there are it'll help because another Google car wouldn't RAM through a red light onto
39:02
another and their sensors and algorithms are
39:06
more attentive and less errorprone.
39:11
They're not actually saying that they're perfect. There will be situations where
39:16
a great driver paying a lot of attention would have happened to be looking the
39:20
other way and would have been able to do like a freaking wicked like E brake stop
39:25
and that car going through the red light would have would have blown blown by
39:28
them instead of hitting them. But what they're saying is and I'm a huge advocate for the this is
39:33
a lower percentage. I just want more data on those crashes. So it's one of those things where and
39:37
this is going to be such a big debate over the next 10 to 20 years.
39:41
self-driving cars will be at fault and
39:45
they will kill people at some point. It will happen. They just quote me on this.
39:50
It's going to happen and everyone's going to spaz. But the argument is going
39:54
to be and this is going to be no consolation to the family and friends of
39:59
whoever dies in this horrible situation
40:02
that is going to happen. The argument is gonna be, well,
40:07
I'm sorry it worked out this way for you with this, but
40:11
for the good of the collective, everyone in general, we still need to do this.
40:17
And uh, wow, that's going to be really tough.
40:20
It's easy. It's really easy for me to say now from my safe, you know, room in
40:26
our office where I'm not getting mowed down by a self-driving car or like, you
40:31
know, my three-year-old son isn't getting, you know, killed on his way
40:35
home from school in our family self-driving car or something like that.
40:38
It's easy for me to say, "Yeah, that's the right move." But once that
40:43
I think one really interesting thing that we're going to have to deal with at
40:47
some point, which I wouldn't be too surprised if it happened, is a
40:50
self-driving car getting hacked in some sort of way or a self-driving car going
40:54
haywire because of some other reason, whether it's like a failure somewhere or
40:58
whatnot. But if it just goes like, "Oh, the sidewalk is a street. Time to GTA
41:03
it." And just like, "Oh dear, I don't
41:06
know." Yeah. It's going to depend on the degree to which the self-driving car screws up.
41:11
Yes. But I mean I even see things like where
41:15
a person could have avoided it being a big one that people bring up. Like if
41:19
I'd been driving my son That's what I mean though.
41:24
Would we have gotten hit? Would he have died? And how do I live with that? For
41:27
example. Um so
41:32
yeah. And I mean oh this is a great point from is that Ghost putting that in
41:36
there? Yeah. Good good good work Ghost. Uh, what if the self-driving car has to
41:40
make a decision between the life of its passenger and the life of someone else?
41:45
What if swerving away from that person is going to cause it to strike a pole?
41:52
Uh-oh. Yeah, there's a lot of really nasty
41:56
stuff that we're going to run into like for sure. I just don't know what ones
41:59
we're going to win run into when all that kind of stuff. And if it all happens kind of right at
42:04
the beginning when they start selling them to consumers, they'll set us back 50 years. Yeah,
42:07
exactly. Yeah, I think it'll happen regardless. It's just Yeah.
42:11
Yeah. Um
42:14
I didn't even think about the decision between two lives thing. That's brutal. That's incredible.
42:18
Yeah. Um so Mosilla launches a new Firefox
42:22
version without DRM support. So this was
42:25
posted by XSilent X and there's a number of articles on it. TechCrunch has one.
42:29
So let's go ahead and pop that up so you guys can see what TechCrunch's website
42:33
looks like in case you had never been there before.
42:37
They have a Mozilla logo. That was awesome. Okay, so pretty much what's
42:41
going on here is in order to do away with sort of aging the aging plug-in
42:48
system for online video content, things like Silver Light, um, Adobe Flash to a
42:53
much lesser extent, and make way for HTML 5 as the savior of the modern
42:58
multimedia covered internet. DRM is going to be a thing whether you
43:03
guys like it or not unless you use Firefox apparently. So what will happen
43:08
here is that services like Netflix which
43:12
are going to rely on DRM in order to be
43:16
allowed through the agreements they have with content providers to stream video
43:20
to you. Services like that are going to require that you have a DRM enabled browser. And
43:25
Mozilla actually released one that supports HTML 5 DRM specs. Um, so now
43:32
they have one that doesn't have it. So you can get a DRM free version because
43:35
the closed source DRM solution uh didn't really jive that well with the free and
43:40
open Firefoxness uh sort of principles of the Mosilla
43:44
Foundation. So now you can download a DRM free version. So presumably you just
43:48
won't be able to like watch Netflix on it. Yeah.
43:52
So it's more of a rapid more things in the future though.
43:57
Netflix other things as well. I don't know.
44:00
Expect more DRM. Um I mean I wouldn't be that surprised
44:05
to see something like um you music videos on YouTube implement something
44:09
like this. Um you know any Y anywhere where there's
44:13
big money involved in the production of the content, you can bet that they're
44:16
spending big money to protect it from being taken by people and stuff.
44:19
Yes. Okay. Microsoft. Oh, what time is it?
44:22
Oh. Uh yeah. Um if only I knew how to read a clock. I
44:29
bet you could learn that on Linda. You could learn how to make your own
44:32
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45:33
It actually works really well in this case, though.
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It does. So, Freshbooks is a is like a it's a cloud-based online tool for pretty much
45:42
managing yourself. So, if you run a business, let's say you're a plumber,
45:46
for example. I always use that example. Okay, I'll come up with a different
45:49
example. Let's say you're a um a vigilante, for example, and you want to
45:54
go ahead and you want to log your hours. Let's say you're a vigilante who has
45:58
like a dirty cop, you know, paying him on the side, but you want to make sure
46:02
that, you know, you're getting your invoices sent out accurately and on
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46:14
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47:17
this one's going to be fun. I always have fun with these. Okay, so I think
47:22
there are notes on Loot Crate, but just to just to like just to make Nick come
47:27
in here all upset and butth, there's one that I think you'll be super
47:31
excited about, actually. I'll let you run into it. So, this, my friends, is the April Loot
47:37
Crate. Um although we should say that uh the
47:41
May crate theme will be unite apparently with a bunch of exclusive stuff. But
47:46
this is the fantasy crate. I don't know
47:50
if Loot Crate's uh if I don't know if Loot Crate's interpretation of my
47:54
fantasies would actually be a problem. When you said the fantasy crate, I was
47:57
like, "Oh dear." Well, this is about 8 in long and black.
48:00
Oh wow. Also square, which is odd.
48:04
That would be kind of physically unfortunate. And like cardboard paper
48:08
cuts are kind of a [ __ ] Oh my god. And like there too, they'd
48:11
probably get infected. Okay, so what does this say? Document
48:15
share. Enjoy. There's like a map with a sword on it. So I already know that this
48:19
is going to go well. You know what? I'm actually wearing a shirt from a previous
48:23
Loot Crate right now. So I'm going to make it part of the process. I'm going
48:26
to change into my new Loot Crate shirt. Ah, wait a second. I'm not allowed to
48:30
show my nipples on Twitch. So I think it's against the rules. Yes. Thank you.
48:35
Thank you for being my change room.
48:38
You can watch if you want. The hero always looks.
48:42
The hero always looks. That's true. Oops. Okay. All right. So, I got my new
48:47
I got my new Loot Crate shirt. Do you know what it is?
48:50
I'm kind of an idiot. Pretty sure it's No. Yes, it is.
48:53
Way. Yep. I That's That's what I knew you were going to be excited about. No, this
48:57
is not This is Yeah. No, this I This I'm not that excited about. Princess Bride playing
49:02
cards. I knew you'd be stoked for that. Yeah.
49:06
Oh, as you freaking wish, man. I love that
49:12
movie. I wonder if they have like a bunch of
49:15
Seriously, man. Andre the Giant taken from us too young.
49:19
Yeah. Oh, that Oh, these are actually pretty nice, too. They're not like like crappy
49:25
cards. There's There's noticeably differences between crappy and good cards.
49:28
Oh my goodness. That Joker card, man.
49:31
Oh, it's the it's a Dungeon Keeper. And we've got the RO US Joker card as well.
49:36
Oh, I'm loving this. Okay, what else we got in here?
49:39
I knew you'd be search for that. I love how it like took you completely
49:43
black tie geek bow tie just in case
49:47
you need one of those. Oh, this is an infl Okay,
49:50
I I'll work on this. You Okay, you work on that. What else we got? Uh Game of Thrones Stark Sigil USB
49:56
flash drive. How'd they pull that off?
50:00
That's awesome. It's probably not very high capacity.
50:03
Like, I'll be surprised. You know what? I have a computer here. Let's find out.
50:06
So, that's what it'll look like plugged into your computer. And I'll let you
50:10
guys know how big it is.
50:14
4 gigs. So, big enough for a Windows OS. There you go.
50:20
Can I help you? No way. It's a crown.
50:27
Okay. Okay, so we've got a Harry Potter um station or platform 9 and 3/4 sign.
50:33
I'm liking that. Wow, I'm actually getting most of the references these
50:36
days. Now, the thing is is that I'm not that into Game of Thrones. I have read
50:40
the first book, but I refuse to read the
50:44
rest of the books until uh George RR Martin gets off of his butt and writes
50:49
the last couple. And then I refuse to watch the show until I've read all the
50:53
books because that's how I roll. So, we've got So, it'll be a long time
50:57
before uh before Yeah. a lot of things. But, I mean, I know what winter is
51:01
coming is all about. So, these are Game of Thrones magnets with the house
51:05
sigils. Did you already take this out? Uh yes, we've got a pin. So, uh fantasy
51:11
loot crate pin. And finally, their usual
51:15
like magazine thing. Oh, yeah. Right there. Opens with as you wish. Loving
51:18
that. Oh, that's great. No offense. And as
51:23
much as I haven't seen Game of Thrones,
51:26
um, yeah, it'll never hold a candle to Princess Bride. Sorry.
51:30
Princess Bride's fantastic. I can't believe they went the Princess Bride
51:34
route. You know, like every dad that bought their kid Loot Crate got this one
51:39
and was like, "Yep, I'll take that. You can have the rest of it. Cool."
51:43
Yeah, dog. So, apparently this is a D&D t-shirt. So, that's why I That's why I
51:47
didn't catch. I think I told you. Not much of a D and D guy.
51:50
I might have brushed over. Oh, man. Princess Bride playing cards. I'm loving that. All right, so
51:55
lootcrate.com code line is to save 10%.
51:59
Which given how inexpensive these loot crates are is actually not that
52:02
meaningful unless you sign up for like a year or something. So definitely to get
52:06
the most out of your 10% off. Sign up for a year. Don't just do one crate cuz
52:10
they're like they're what, like 15 bucks or something like that? I don't I think isn't it on here?
52:16
I don't remember. They're they're not that expensive. They're relatively cheap. like how much
52:19
you get. It's like the cost of just the shirt.
52:22
So, basically, you're saving like a buck 50 if you use our code and you only buy
52:26
one loot crate. So, sign up for the subscription and uh
52:30
this is like a nice It's actually kind of nice. Yeah, it's not bad.
52:34
It's bulky, which is bulky. Not my favorite thing, but it looks cool. And
52:38
if you're just thread something through the teeth and then keep it on your
52:41
keychain. That'd be cool. That would be pretty sweet. All right, so let's move on to our next
52:46
topic then, shall we? All right. It's funny. He's always the one that
52:50
remembers now. I am.
52:53
All right. Microsoft reveals Windows 10
52:56
editions. Oh jeez. They're plated in gold.
53:00
Ah. No. Only the Windows 10 edition edition
53:05
is plated in gold. Edition edition.
53:08
Sorry. That's pretty funny. Um, okay. Do you want to handle this?
53:12
And I'll inflate my crown cuz you're wearing one. I want to wear one, too. Oh, dear. It doesn't take that long,
53:16
which is nice compared to all the other inflatable stuff we've been doing lately. But okay, so the main I meant
53:23
the for channel fun. You shouldn't tell them about that.
53:29
Okay, so go ahead. So, okay, there's Windows 10 Home,
53:32
Windows 10 Mobile, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 10
53:36
Education, Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise, and I thought there might have been one
53:40
more, but we'll just go with that. And I'm going to jump to the actual Windows
53:44
website because our notes here are kind of balls. So, moving forward, I hope I
53:49
posted this in the chat. I'm going to post it again. So, if that's a troll,
53:53
I'm sorry. Um,
53:56
so Windows 10 Home is pretty much exactly what you'd expect. What they're
54:01
listing here is stuff like Cortana, uh, Windows Hello face recognition,
54:05
fingerprint login, the Microsoft Edge
54:08
web browser, uh, mail, calendar, maps,
54:12
photos, all the things that kind of just come with Windows. Um, yeah, not a ton
54:17
of extra stuff, but you do get stuff like the Xbox Live gaming community if
54:21
you care about that at all. Um, it's there for you, so it has that, I guess.
54:27
And yeah, that's about it. Can I jump in and ask why code names are always so
54:31
much cooler than the actual product name? Why did they rename it Edge? They
54:35
should have just called it Spartan. Spartan. Yeah, that would have been so badass.
54:38
Actually, is that Spartan? It's called Edge now, I think. So,
54:42
that's really disappointing. Yeah. All right. Anyways, moving on.
54:46
So, what's douchier? Sunglasses or an
54:49
inflatable crown on and then wear the sunglasses? Oh, that could work.
54:59
Oh my god. The world's coolest king ever.
55:04
One of my crown things is all derpy. Sorry. Chrome crashed or I'd be showing
55:07
you guys the Windows blog page right now. It's making me
55:10
Anyways, Windows 10 Pro is for PCs and
55:14
tablets and twoin ones as I'm sure Windows 10 normal is as well. Anyways,
55:20
so it builds on top of that. It also includes Windows Update for Business,
55:25
which allows you to kind of peer-to-peer share Windows updates, decide when they
55:29
go out. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. You can decide when the updates go
55:33
out. So, if you're like, "Oh, well, we're kind of mission critical at like
55:37
400 p.m. So, no, you can do it to your
55:40
entire network at a specified time later on, which like that's not super new, but
55:47
is probably easier to set up now, I'm assuming. So, that's cool because it's
55:51
more centralized. I guess that's nice. I like the peer-to-p peer sharing one.
55:54
There's some other stuff for Windows Update Business, but that those are the main parts. Um, yeah. Then there isn't a
56:00
huge difference between those two. Then there's Windows 10 mobile, which is
56:03
essentially for phones. Um, and it's just more it's it's better for touch.
56:08
There's a touch version of Office, which is nice. And if you plug it into a large
56:12
format monitor, it will what is it called? continuum for phone which makes
56:16
it turn into uh basically just a PC experience so that you could have a
56:21
large format monitor and everything would be fine. Uh moving on to Windows
56:25
10 Enterprise. There's some other stuff
56:28
like long-term servicing branch um support.
56:33
Yeah, volume licensing. Other things that are probably not super
56:37
most of the stuff people won't really care too much about. Yeah.
56:41
It's not super interesting. So, you're probably fine with home, which has been
56:45
the story since forever, unless you want remote desktop connection, in which case you can get
56:50
pro. Yay.
56:55
Or if you want to like peer-to-peer share Windows updates with your roommate.
56:58
Yeah. Which makes absolutely no sense at all. So, I can't I can't get Chrome back
57:02
open. So, you're you're on point for the next one, too. Cool. All right. So, moving on.
57:10
Oh, also I wanted to add that apparently um
57:14
there's there's like certain specific games being included with it like Candy
57:19
Crush Saga. Oh yeah, that's been so that's been
57:22
making the rounds lately. So, okay,
57:26
there's two ways to look at this. Number one is, does Microsoft really need
57:32
whatever payout King Games is giving them to include this stupid game with
57:36
the operating system? And perspective
57:40
number two is does it really matter cuz it's going to take up like no space at all
57:44
and you can uninstall it. Is it any different from including Mind Sweeper?
57:47
Really? Yeah. I mean, I would argue that since it
57:50
actually has a a microtransaction
57:54
doesn't mind sweeper now. Shut up. Or you have to like
57:58
No. No. What's up with Mind Sweeper on Windows 8?
58:02
Try to launch it. It's not there, right? And then you have to get it from the store.
58:06
Mind sweeper. Results for Mind Sweeper.
58:10
Really? Do they not include it? Yeah. And then I think you you have to
58:13
like buy it or you can only play it a certain amount of times and you have to
58:17
refill your credits or something. I don't remember how it works, but mind sweeper on above Windows 7 is super
58:22
weird. And then even like I don't think Windows 7 has Mind Sweeper.
58:26
Interesting. Okay. I didn't know that. Oh, no. You have to turn it on or something like it's not the default
58:30
feature. So, the point is, is this really any different? And should we really be
58:34
concerned about it? Someone in chat's going to correct. I personally think it's a crappy
58:38
direction for them to be going. I think that including their own firstparty
58:41
games that don't have microtransactions
58:44
is probably fine, but this is exactly
58:47
the same kind of crap that I thought Microsoft was trying to fight against by
58:53
encouraging their PC makers to ship clean Windows and what and that they
58:57
were setting a good example for with the Surface Pro line not including any
59:03
bloatware. This just seems to fly in the face of the direction that pretty much
59:09
everything else is going. I mean, Apple doesn't ship a bunch of bloat. Even
59:13
Android is moving away from shipping a bunch of bloat. Even even like some of
59:16
the worst Android offenders like Samsung are moving away from shipping bloat with
59:21
their operating systems. So, I um yeah,
59:26
think that's pretty much all I have to say about that. I sure wish that this
59:29
would do things. That would be great.
59:32
Thanks. I don't remember what it is with Mind
59:36
Sweeper on Windows 8, but it has like a 4.7 out of 10 rating. So, something's
59:42
going on that I don't think the chat is entirely aware of. And I remember trying
59:45
to play it and there was really weird crap going on in Windows 8. But anyways,
59:49
in Windows 7, uh you're right, Chad, it is enabled, but exactly how I said, you
59:54
have to go and turn it on. So,
60:00
yeah. Anyways. Okay, so let's move on to
60:04
our next topic, shall we? FTC rules in favor of Tesla direct to
60:09
consumer sales. Um, they're saying it's legal, but it's not entirely through
60:13
yet. The the FTC will have a lot of sway.
60:16
Yeah. Um, but the conversation is not over. I was under the impression that the
60:20
conversation was over and it was fine. And then there was an update to the
60:24
article, which I don't know if it was actually this one, but there was an
60:27
update being like, whoa, actually it's not. the FTC is just kind of approving
60:32
it and then other things have to happen. Um, but it's it's moving along which is
60:37
good. Um, so Good Bites posted the Windows 10 editions edition stuff. Um, Silver
60:43
Draachi uh posted the Tesla bit. So here's
60:47
here's a quote from the FTC. A fundamental principle of competition is
60:51
that consumers, not regulation, should determine what they buy and how they buy
60:57
it. The FTC said consumers may benefit from the ability to buy cars directly
61:02
from manufacturers whether they are shopping for luxury cars or economy
61:05
vehicles. The same competition principles should apply in either case.
61:11
This is um a great show of common sense. The original article here is from
61:15
techdrive.co Co. And it's uh it's refreshing to see sensible quotes coming
61:22
from stuff that's all has emblems that
61:25
are blue and white and have America written all over them. So,
61:28
well, Canada hasn't really been doing much better lately. No, that is a tremendous tremendously
61:33
good point. But it's it's refreshing to see our neighbors to the south figuring
61:37
it out because usually we just follow whatever they do.
61:40
It just takes us a while. Yep. That's very true. Um, so yeah,
61:45
there's not really a ton to say here. It's moving along, which is super good.
61:49
Um, but it's not finalized, so we can't
61:52
really start the party yet, I guess.
61:55
All right. Um, scientists have invented a quadrillion
61:59
quillion FPS camera, also known as a one trillion FPS camera.
62:04
Yeah, that first number was nothing. It was awesome. It was absolutely nothing. This was
62:08
posted by Prashant Nani X and the
62:12
original article here is from science alert Japanese scientist a new trillion frame
62:18
per second camera so it can capture events occurring at 45,000
62:24
kilometers per second.
62:29
Wow. There's some limitations like last
62:32
August it could only capture six frames per shot. So, it was basically done
62:38
immediately. Um, and they're hoping to reach a hundred. So, it will still be
62:43
done immediately, but it'll allow them to observe events
62:48
like biological processes in far more
62:51
detail than before.
62:55
Very, very cool. So, this is more than a thousand times faster than a
62:58
conventional high-speed camera. So,
63:02
let's have a look at what else they uh think is really interesting about this.
63:06
That is really cool. So apparently each color uh each separate
63:12
color flash can be analyzed by string them together a moving picture blah blah
63:16
blah. So they they split each thing. How does it go? The technology works by
63:19
splitting a single light pulse into a fast barrage of rainbow colored smaller
63:23
pulses and then they analyze those individual pulses. Insane.
63:27
So there's another imaging technique apparently known as the pump probe
63:30
method. I'm not an expert on high-speed imaging. So there you go. Um, so this
63:34
can capture frames faster than stamp, but it can only capture one frame at a
63:39
time. So, uh, yeah. So, they're working
63:43
towards 25 frames per shot right now.
63:47
Last August they were at six. They hope to reach 100. So, just to put that in
63:52
perspective, 100 frames would be what? 110 billionth of a second of actual time
63:58
that they're capturing. Hold on. I'm probably doing that wrong. No, I think
64:01
that's right. Yeah. 110 billionth of a second is all they can capture at a
64:06
time. So they better get the timing of this thing freaking freaking right.
64:10
Exactly. They better not be like our camera people just, you know, holding pushing
64:14
the shutter button like whenever. Like Yeah, whatever, bro. They press Oh,
64:18
what? We missed it. Oh, I guess that's too bad. I guess we'll, you know, figure
64:22
out getting this whole apparatus set up again. Thanks for that, jackass. No,
64:26
they're going to need to be pretty precise about this. When did I have a feeling you're tying
64:29
this into something? Oh, no. Nothing happened. the the thing I just troll these guys. Yeah, it's
64:33
fine. Um, so the new Konami CEO, this
64:37
was posted by Boou and uh maybe there
64:41
was some booze involved. Probably not.
64:44
They probably got a point, but original article here is from Polygon. So, new
64:49
Konami CEO says mobile gaming is the
64:52
future and AAA will not be as much of an
64:57
emphasis.
65:02
not surprising.
65:06
I don't know. Yeah, lots of people are spending money on
65:10
microtransactions on phone games. I will never get it. I will never like it. I
65:13
will never understand and I will never do it. This is why I play retro games still.
65:20
I'm I think part of the problem with
65:23
like oh all the money's in mobile games is that people are making junk and just
65:29
terrible releases for fullfeatured
65:32
games. Yeah. When was the last time you were really
65:36
excited for a game release? Um well it's hard to get me excited
65:40
these days. Like I never got into GTA or I would have been probably really
65:45
excited for GTA 5. Um, realistically that came out like a year
65:49
and a half ago though. Yeah, I guess that's true. Well, so not
65:52
on a platform that mattered though to be perfectly fright. Not not on a platform
65:56
that I actually am going to play games on. So, um,
66:01
wow. Gee, I don't know. The last I guess the last AAA game I really really
66:06
enjoyed was probably Tomb Raider 2013.
66:09
Okay, that's not too bad. Yeah, I I thought that was I thought it was a great game. It was it like it
66:14
lacked certain things that older games had. There wasn't really a lot of
66:18
exploration to it. There's like three tombs
66:21
aside from just like story mission tombs
66:25
and like I think there was like some kind of game mode that by the time I
66:29
played it had been shut down or something like that. Like there's some
66:32
there's some pretty stupid stuff. But um
66:35
I don't know. I thought I thought it was really good. I definitely enjoyed it. I'm just trying to think like
66:39
I see a lot of people in chat saying Witcher 3, but like
66:43
a little scared for that game. Have you seen all the crap going around?
66:46
Yeah, it's kind of shaping up to be like
66:50
like Watchd Dogs Junior in some ways. Like not to nearly the same extent as
66:54
Watchd Dogs, but we're already discovering they dumbed it down. So,
66:58
it's not out yet. We'll we'll see once it's out. We'll see how console porty it is. You
67:02
think? Not sure we'll end up benching it. Is CD Project Red smart enough and troll
67:09
enough to just release it as the fullfeatured
67:12
one that they announced a long time ago to pretend that they're pulling a
67:17
Ubisoft and dumbing it down and then just not do and then not do that? Are they troll
67:22
enough? Wow.
67:26
We should ask Pasha. Pasha biceps. Are they troll enough? I
67:31
don't know. Um I don't know. That'd be really cool. I'm I'm just largely ignoring it until
67:36
it comes out. Yep. I just want it to actually come out. So, anyway, a little bit more from the
67:41
from the interior. All I know is that I used to pre-order
67:44
games quite a bit and I was never
67:47
dissatisfied and for the last in the last long time
67:51
I've basic I've stopped pre-ordering games to be honest and
67:55
it it it ended up being everything that I pre-ordered was a disappointment. Not
67:59
like a few things. You pre-ordered Assassin's Creed, that one that you
68:03
hated, right? Yes. Yeah, that was the beginning of the end. Yeah. Okay. Um, so some more some more
68:09
quotes. Um, yeah, there were a couple you hated actually.
68:12
Yeah. Just just to clarify this one that I hated. Um, so uh we will pursue mobile
68:18
games aggressively. Our main platform will be mobiles following the pay as you
68:24
play model of existing games. Our games must move from selling things like items
68:28
to selling things like features. We saw
68:32
with those games that even people who buy physical games are motivated to buy
68:35
extra content. The success of our current mobile game, Power Pro
68:39
especially, has motivated us to actively push more of our popular series onto
68:44
mobile than ever before.
68:47
We hope that our overseas games such as Metal Gear Solid 5 and Winning 11
68:51
continue to do well, but we are always thinking about how to push our franchises into mobile there, too. Wow,
68:58
that is like the single most depressing interview ever.
69:01
Yeah, there's been other fullfeatured game companies that have bailed out to
69:05
mobile, though. Like, I don't I don't know. I don't think they're speaking entirely on behalf of the whole gaming
69:09
industry. They're just speaking on behalf of themselves and probably a lot
69:13
of other companies. I don't know. I will never be into phone
69:18
games. I've tried a bunch of them and they're just all garbage.
69:21
I I used to actually play a lot more
69:24
mobile games than I do now. Like that uh the Jetack Joy Red thing
69:28
used to be a play. No, not not just that. Like Army of Darkness, I played
69:31
through the whole thing till the end. Um just trying to think of some other ones
69:35
that I got reasonably into. I haven't enjoyed pretty much any. I've
69:40
had some people suggest some. I I will probably try it again in the future.
69:43
I finished Reaper. Uh, Reaper is a lot of fun to play with a controller. Uh,
69:47
totally horrible on touchscreen controls. But on the Shield, it was
69:50
actually really fun. Just as stupid brainless hacken slash play on a Shield
69:54
though, I'd probably just play a full feature game off my PC. It it uh Reaper is a good toilet game
69:59
because you can like just like play one level and then peace out. So So that was that was a big
70:04
part of the reason I played it. Um, yeah. Wow. Okay. Oculus releases
70:10
recommended system specs for the upcoming CV or consumer version one Rift
70:17
and they have confirmed the resolution. So this was posted by Wii Maniac on the
70:21
forum and uh here is the post on the
70:25
oculus.com blog. So what else? What
70:28
else? So you want to run through the recommended specs there? Yes. I'm just trying to work on getting
70:32
the GTX 970 for one thing.
70:36
GTX 970 and an R9290. This has been something that I've been kind of
70:40
preaching about for a long time is that you need a hardcore system. This is a rich boy's toy, my friends.
70:44
Yes, exactly. Um, and that's it. Doesn't end there. I5 4590 equivalent or
70:50
greater. Like, you need good stuff. And the thing is, this is recommended specs,
70:57
not like not super high-end specs. Like,
71:01
there's I can guarantee you right now, there's going to be games that are going to need a lot more than that. Yep.
71:05
because you need uh have they talked about hertz? Yeah. So, you need 90 FPS
71:10
at 2160 by 1200 consistently. So, you
71:14
need above 90 FPS at 2160 x 1200. Good
71:18
luck on a lot of different high graphics games. Like, oh my god, that's not easy
71:23
to do. Okay, we've got people in the chat upset about it and upset at Oculus about it.
71:28
No. No, not at all. Nothing to do with Oculus. No,
71:32
this has to do with Oculus being realistic
71:36
about the way that they're presenting the requirements for gaming on this
71:40
platform to their customers. Oculus
71:44
doesn't want people buying this thing with their, you know, I'll pick on
71:48
something 5770, you know, uh, and expecting to have a
71:53
good good gaming experience. It stutters and I get sick. Oh, Oculus
71:57
sucks. Exactly. It's the de it's how demanding
72:01
the game is and the frame rate that you need to run at to have a good VR
72:05
experience that is prompting them to release these out of thisworld
72:10
recommended system specs. So they want a high-end quad core 8 gigs plus of RAM
72:15
HDMI 1.3 and a 970 or AMD 290 equivalent
72:19
or greater in order to and I'm I would
72:23
guess that this is sort of along the lines of what would give you a good experience playing something like E
72:28
Valkyrie. Yeah, based on that a lot of it black space.
72:31
Yeah. Um, if you're going to want to be playing, you know, something like uh
72:35
Grand Theft Auto 5 or Skyrim with a whack ton of mods on or something like
72:39
that, good luck. Yeah, it's going to be really, really,
72:42
really hard. It's basically all we have to say about that.
72:45
Yep. And like the thing is for people that are going to get mad, they need to
72:48
get these specs up there so that they can push higher resolution panels and
72:52
whatnot so it actually looks good, doesn't make you feel sick, and is
72:56
worthwhile even doing at all. It's a important thing to think about.
73:01
On the subject of Richard 3, Carol Karine posted Richard.
73:05
Did I say Richard three? I I don't know. I heard that. You
73:09
Oh, sorry. Witcher 3. Uh Carol Karine posted on our forum. This is from uh
73:14
reddit.com/witcher.
73:17
Well, r/witcher, I guess, is the way that people would normally say that.
73:21
I've left out the R. I'm sorry. R/witcher. Um, reviews have apparently
73:26
gone up a week before release and there's nothing lower than 8 out of 10
73:29
with Kotaku rating it yes. That's cool.
73:33
With that said, that doesn't Well, look at this. Games Radar four out of five. I
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dearly hope that the day zero patch eliminates the technical issues. It's
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literally the first line. Um,
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also known as there's nothing else interesting right now. Please read our
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article. We rated it really high. You know, that's another really interesting
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perspective because a lot of people will a lot of people will talk about how the
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game companies must be paying the, you know, the press to give a good game
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review. And you know what? I'm sure there are cases of that. But the way
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that it actually works, it's going to be a lot more complicated than that. It's
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going to be, hey, we're running a giant campaign with you to advertise for
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Witcher 3. And in most cases, uh, you
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know, an editor is not going to be blatant enough to tell a reviewer, give
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it a good review. It's going to be more of like an unspoken thing. But aside
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from the whole paid for reviews thing, remember these guys don't get paid
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anything if people aren't reading the reviews. So there's a lot of different
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ways that you can get people to read your reviews. You could be like Yatsi
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over at the Escapist. You can make them entertaining if not informative. Um you
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can be controversial like that ridiculous thing. I can't remember what
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site it was on about the uh the Shadow of Mordor scene where you learn your
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sneak attack by kissing the white. Well, exactly. I thought you were talking about uh
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stirring up stirring up controversy. Star Wars Battle
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something. The one that's coming out. Battlefront. Yeah. I always want to say Battlefield.
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They're so similar. Anyways, Star Wars Battlefront coming out with IGN being
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like there's no need to worry. Actually, we're really worried in two different
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videos like that. Yeah. Um, so, so you
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can be controversial or you can you can
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have an article that says the game is really great. So when someone's going
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and looking for an excuse to buy it cuz come on, let's face it, that's how we buy things. We look for someone to tell
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us we're making a good decision. That's what we want to hear. So you
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you think something's bad, you'll Google blah blah blah blah blah issues. And you
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think something's good, you'll be like top five
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features of The Witcher 3. Yeah. like
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it's a thing. Is The Witcher 3 worth buying? And you
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know the top one of course is going to be yes. Yeah. Um so so that's actually a really good
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really good point is you know what's in it for these reviewers giving it a good
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score. Should we pre-order it based on that the reviews are
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I don't like scores ever at all. At least they gave out review copies.
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Yep. That's better than some other folks are doing these days. At least the reviewers
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even got a crack at it before it was released. really rare that people allow
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reviews to go out before release at all anyways.
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So, that's kind of cool because usually it would go out on day of release so
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that all the pre-order guys already spent their money. Yeah. So, so that's been the trend
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lately. So, this is this is definitely better, but I would still wait for user
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reviews. Do you really need to play Witcher 3 one week early? You've waited
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this long. I mean, I guess if you're into having
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the experience at the same time as your buddies. Yep. Nah,
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I understand wanting it right away. I'm going to wait. I get I have enough backlog that it
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doesn't matter. So, whatever. I guess I won't wait cuz
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we're going to benchmark it. Good bites posted in the forum that
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Microsoft has released. Remember that super cool video stabilization thing
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they were doing? They have released Hyperlapse.
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This is freaking awesome. You can I think you have to apply for the beta.
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Yeah, we really need to uh you have to apply for the beta on uh Android, I
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believe, as well as uh Windows phone.
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Can't remember what all the rules are. Some of them you have to apply. Some of them you can just download it. But
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pretty much you can take crappy camera footage and turn it into like this super
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smooth uh this page isn't loading very well, but I hope you get the point.
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I want to do it with a GoPro. I want to go on a hike with a GoPro and then hyperlapse the whole hike.
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Man, that looks cool. So, it uses really advanced processing to turn the scene
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into like a 3D model and then it uses that to stabilize it instead of the um
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sort of the the the more reactive
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correction that more traditional shaky cam reduction techniques have used.
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Very, very cool stuff. Apparently works with phone footage, GoPro footage. Um I
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really want to try it out now that it's out. That just dropped uh today if I
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recall correctly. That's cool. I'm going to sign up for
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that beta. Um, Corsair has
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128 gig DDR4 memory kits. How much are
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they going to cost you? If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
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Yep. Over $1,000. RAM for the rich and nerdy, says the
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PCWorld.com article. Uh, so they have them up to
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2666 megahertz, I want to say. Um,
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Kingston is saying their upcoming big ass set will hit speeds of 3,000
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megahertz. So, what could you want to do with something like this? Oh, I don't
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know. You could create a 100 Gigabyte RAM drive with 28 gigs left for system
78:31
memory, I guess, if you're into that sort of thing. Here we go. Here we go.
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Here we go. The cheaper of the two is just shy of $2,000 with the more
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expensive 2666 kit running you $2120.
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I believe GSkill is working on something as well, but with them, I think it was
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64 gig four stick kits, whereas these
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are 128 gig 8 stick kits from Corsair
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and Kingston. So, I've already reached out to Corsair for a sample. Um, I
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really doubt we'll get to keep that sample. I was just going to say they're either
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probably going to say no or you can have it for like four days.
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Yeah. and then send it to someone else to to talk because there's nothing to
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really cover about it. You're going to put it in a system. You're going to be like, "Yep,
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the number of recognized RAM is very high."
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Yep. And hooray.
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Moving on. And it's We won't even be the first time we've put 128 gigs of RAM in
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a system. We have one downstairs right now with 128 gigs of RAM in it. What's
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interesting about this is the fact that it's um unbuffered memory and it works
79:37
on a consumer platform with a consumer grade CPU rather than being like an ECC
79:42
registered server gym. Yeah. Um I had one other topic that I posted
79:48
somewhere down below. Uh this is this is a rumor and this is in the rejected pile
79:54
but I just thought it was funny. Sam Fischer posted on the forum Netflix
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reportedly planning Top Gear revival called House of Cars. Uh there there is
80:02
no confirmation that if they went after Clarkson and his crew, which right now
80:06
it's up in the air, they could be negotiating with anyone. It is rumored that Netflix is negotiating with them. I
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really doubt they would call it House of Cars. That would be I really freaking hope they would.
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Pretty much the stupidest thing ever. I would still watch it, but I really
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hope they would. House of Cars. Um and this uh just
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dropped today as well. You can tour
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Razer's flagship store, the first of
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many according to Mintan CEO. So, it has
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a very Apple store, Microsoft Store kind
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of vibe, and much like those other stores is pretty much a one-stop shop
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for everything Razer. You can get hands-on with pretty much any of their
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products. Very cool concept. Two years ago, you
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would have told me Razer has a retail store, and I would have said, "What
80:53
would they need a retail store for? It could like you could put it in a closet.
80:57
Here's the wall of mice. Here's the wall of keyboards. And here's the trash bin
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out back with the headsets that you probably shouldn't buy. Um whereas now
81:05
they're getting to the point where they have enough really cool technology and
81:09
enough accessories to go with it that you can kind of go, "Oh yeah, crap. I
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guess I I kind of get it." Like might still be there. Yeah. The headsets I'm still not a huge
81:18
fan of and M knows that, but you know, uh whatever. Um there's there's cuz
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there's a lot of stuff that you could show off in a store like this that might
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not even necessarily run on Razer's own hardware, but is their technology. Razer
81:29
coms, for example. They could have, you know, like a little, you know, LAN
81:33
setup. I was going to say like a four four by four games for which even looks like
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they could be doing um just constantly set up with the headsets that they have
81:40
right there. So you could have a little mini land. Um so they could be showing off their
81:44
software technology. They could be showing off their streaming technology on the fourth console. if you could like
81:50
uh book time for like little gaming tournaments and stuff in there. I don't
81:54
know. So, they're apparently allowing fans to vote. Uh although realistically, I mean,
81:59
they're smart people. They probably already have a road map for where they want to launch stores, but they're
82:03
apparently letting fans vote on where they want to see stores next. And um
82:07
these guys really do look like they're on the fast track to kicking a whole ton
82:11
of ass. I don't like everything they do, but as you guys know, I'm a huge fan of
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the Blade 14 notebook in particular. Um,
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really love a lot of the other stuff that they've done. Not a big fan of some
82:24
of the other stuff that they've done, but you can't deny that they are a marketing juggernaut. And the brand
82:29
recognition that they have for what would have been a completely niche
82:33
business, gaming peripherals, you know, five or 10 years ago is absolutely
82:38
incredible. So, good on them. Good on them for figuring out a way to uh to
82:42
take their brand to the next level. And these boutique stores seem to be uh
82:46
starting with Apple, the way that uh the way that brands are doing this these
82:50
days. So, here's there's actually a video where Min shows you around the
82:54
store. So, I haven't actually watched it yet. I was just checking out some pictures of it. They actually apparently
82:58
had to shut down the mall uh because there were so many people that it was a
83:03
safety concern. Wow. Lined up to go to the Razor store in
83:06
Taiwan. Holy cow. These guys are so good at presentation.
83:09
Yeah. Like this stuff does not look like this when it's on my desk. It's like uh
83:14
jewelry jewelry shopping. It's low light in that specific area. It
83:18
looks really cool. Like it's like jewelry shopping, you know? The the the color temperature of
83:22
the light they use to illuminate the diamonds is specifically chosen to make
83:25
them sparkle better. Like it's it's down to a freaking science. And Razer is
83:30
really really good at that stuff. Yeah.
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So, uh there you go. That's what the store looks like, give or take two, two
83:38
and a half minutes of video or so. Um, so I guess do you have did you have
83:42
anything else? I'm pretty much done. That was all I wanted to talk about today.
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Uh, thank you guys very much for tuning in. Uh, we love the WAN Show, especially
83:50
when you guys watch. I guess finals must be over cuz there are 6,500 of you
83:54
watching live. Thank you. You're all awesome. It's so hot.
83:58
It is really hot in here even though the Windows open. We need that cross breeze.
84:02
I can't wait to move into the new office. We're like 6 to 8 weeks away,
84:05
though, guys. It's like not happening soon. And we have no space
84:10
here. We might have to do another U-Haul just to clear up enough space.
84:15
We might have to do like more than one. Yeah, there's like a lot of
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Oh, just to clear up enough space. Yeah. Yeah. To like survive here.
84:23
Yeah. No, I think we'll have to do multiple U-Hauls to the new place. I thought you meant like to move us. I
84:28
was like, dude, that wasn't even that much stuff at all.
84:31
No, that barely made a dent. And like a big problem is we're not going to be able to
84:35
make very efficient use of the U-Haul because so much of what we have has no
84:39
packaging or protection. So like unless someone's literally riding in the back
84:43
like holding things in place. That's not
84:47
that's not happen. Channel Super Fun. No. Channel Super Fun.
84:50
That's not fun. That's dangerous and illegal. We've never done anything illegal on
84:55
channel. We've done stuff that's dangerous.
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What did you just Hi. Thanks for tuning in to the W show.
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Oh, it didn't work. I knew it. I knew it. I
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win. I win. The game of this thing is super broken.
85:10
You win nothing. Oh, at least I don't have small butt.
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I'm dead though. So, thank God.
85:23
Whoa. Squish the stars. It like bumps up
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the rest of the uh some of us are actually working right
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now. Linda
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Hushbra.