The WAN Show: Content Needs to be Available Everywhere in a Timely Manner Edition - April 25th, 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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18,465 words · ~92 min read
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that feeling where you're about to go live and broadcast to like thousands of
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people, but like you're missing something. Something's not quite right.
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Like every single time we host the W show. Um,
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yeah. Okay. I guess that that could be cuz there's like there's there's always
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the Okay, something's probably wrong.
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No, we did a pre-show today. There's nothing wrong. Everything is fine.
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I'm not hormonal right now. We didn't test any of the scenes.
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Uh, that's okay. Most of them are the same. And
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you didn't test your laptops. Um, uh, no, we tested the laptop.
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Oh, we did? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I tested it while you weren't looking. Boom.
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I test all kinds of things while you're not looking. That's awkward.
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Do you test poll results while I'm not looking? Poll results? No, we're not going to get
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into that yet. I have a whole I have a whole thing I have a whole thing on
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that. Speaking of a whole thing on stuff, um,
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hold on a second. So, the WAN Show
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Soundcloud, I'm going to try and find it, but we actually have a WAN Show
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podcast feed now. So, Teran, uh, Taran
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set it up and I don't know where the email is about it. And apparently, you
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can't just Google podcast. Hey, uh, Taran,
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can you send me the link to the SoundCloud thing so I can share it with
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the peeps? Thank you.
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Thewan show. Oh, we got it.
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Got it. Yep. Okay, so guys, it's
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soundcloud.comthewanhow. I don't think we are quite caught up yet
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because we don't really have like a smooth procedure for
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taking the video feed which is a stupid LV file with the desync audio and the
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all that kind of stuff. But uh there you go guys. All the entire history of the
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WAN Show has been almost almost has been
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archived on Soundcloud. You can download it as a podcast. Listen to it in the car
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or wherever else people listen to podcasts. I've never been much of a
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podcast listener myself, but not even almost. This isn't into 2014
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yet. October 11th. Well, hold on a second. Are you sure
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it's not just like later on or something?
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I looked down there. It went further back. August 2013. July 2013. Well, whatever,
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guys. We'll get this We'll get this all caught up for you and everything will be all good and fine and dandy. So, all
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right. Let's get into our first real topic, shall we? Oh, no. We have to do
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our introductory topics, which unfortunately these guys already saw,
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which is a real shame because we accidentally streamed while we were
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creating our YouTube intro instead of um
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recording that locally and then uploading it. So, uh why don't we pick
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different highlights for the folks here? Right now, ASUS has demonstrated a VRAMm
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defroster feature. So, you're actually going to have a separate plug on your
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graphics card dedicated to heating up
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your memory, which sounds bad, but it actually makes
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sense. Yeah, we'll explain that later. Also, Intel has a new Thunderbolt controller
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that they are working on that should be able to derive two 4K displays off of a
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single connector. They should be wearing my Holy Balls shirt, not my professional
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unboxer shirt, because that's a big deal. It is actually. What else we got? Um, Google is is going
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to be ending forcing Google+ integration towards everyone. And there's more
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details on that later. Yeah, that's huge. And then Facebook has actually finally
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been approved to actually buy Oculus. So, yeah, that'll be a short topic, but
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we'll talk about that later. All right, so without further ado, intro
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time. I really hope there's music. I didn't test it.
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All right, there's music.
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You know, I saw there was a poll about whether there would be music or whether I'd have to sing.
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This is what happens when people let me see the polls ahead of time. So, never
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show me your poll. All right. So, Hotspot Shield is one of our sponsors
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today. Hotspot Shield is the fast, easy, and expensive way to set up a VPN. You
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can access content that's outside of your region. You can browse more
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privately and all that great stuff. Also sponsoring the show today, actually our
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title sponsors, you can see powered by Seuss G750 JZ is a Suss with the, as you
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may or may not have guessed, G750 Jay-Z
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gaming laptops. Most gangster of all laptops. This Yeah. Yeah. Well, it kind of it
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kind of went that way. Drop the Jay-Z thing.
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You're going to keep You know what's even funny is I conceded I made your
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joke. I made your joke in the video thumbnail of the actual review of the
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laptop. And I figured that would get you to stop
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making the joke. No, the joke isn't played out for you. The
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joke is just going to carry on until eternity. All right. Well, that's that's probably it.
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That's fine. That makes me very, very pleased. So, thank you, ASUS Sand
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Hotspot Shield for sponsoring the show today. Let's get things going. Getting
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to our first topic here. What should we get started with? Why don't we start at
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the top? Let's start at the top and work our way to the bottom, if you know what I mean.
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I didn't need it, if you know what I mean. That was fine.
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If you know what I mean. You're all fine.
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Oh man. Hitting on the entire audience one step
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at a time. So, okay guys, we've got a fantastic topic here. This was posted by
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Kaca Day G DJ DG whatever it happens to
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be. What is that? Oh, I see it. No, no, it's okay.
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This needs to be removed. There we go. Um, so this is an ASUS ROG article that
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What are you doing? I'm modding certain people. Don't worry about it. Keep going.
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Oh, okay. You can mod people. I've heard
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of computer modding and car modding.
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Well, there's body mods, right? Body mods. Yeah. Like tattoos and piercings.
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Do you have any? No. I guess I would have known. You actually probably would have at this
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point. So, there's an article on ASUS ROG that outlines why a graphics card
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could ever want a separate heater module
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for the memory. So, this is called their matrix memory defroster. And if you look
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at the page you're supporting, I don't care. Go. I don't care. Go away,
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Internet Explorer. Okay. So, it shows you a graphics card that's being cooled
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by presumably liquid nitrogen or okay, looks like liquid nitrogen since there's
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a uh a canister here. So, being cooled by liquid nitrogen and it shows how this
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frost can accumulate on the back of the card. Now, memory can suffer from
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certain issues like uh cold bugs in much the same way that processors can. So,
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what this does is it actually keeps the memory at a temperature that isn't so
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cold that it bugs out, but is still cold enough that you're going to get better
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overclocking out of it. And it's just one less thing for pro overclockers to
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worry about. I think my comment on this uh back when I first saw it is probably,
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you know, about as as right as anything could ever be, just like anything I say.
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I'm just kidding. I I can be wrong about all kinds of things. In fact, I was
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wrong about something on the show last week, and I I owe an apology to someone
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that I was wrong about something about um GPU versus CPU, actual total thermal
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output. I was going based on temperature, not based on the actual
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thermal output. So, GPUs, I have been informed, although we're probably going
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to just test it at some point, even though I I believe them. I believe them.
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So GPUs just have lower thermal density which means their temperatures are lower
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even though the thermal output is actually quite high. So there you have
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it. I can be wrong about things and I don't even remember what I'm talking
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about anymore. Right. So the comment I made at the time was okay. So ASUS has
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developed a feature for their ROG class cards that is going to have probably
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thousands of people who know what it is and what it does and and why it exists.
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It's going to have maybe hundreds of people who care and then it's going to
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have maybe dozens of people who are actually going to use it. But you know
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what? If you, you know,
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it's easy to just throw up your hands and say, "Okay, it's impossible to
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innovate on graphics cards. It's hard to
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keep trying to find ways to push the envelope." And without, you know, guys
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like ASUS building in features like this, we wouldn't have things like
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built-in voltage checkpoints to actually
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monitor the voltage of your GPU. Something that is a very cool diagnostic
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tool when you're overclocking and like very usable even if you're not doing L2 cooling.
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You can you can buy a multimeter for like 20 bucks at Canadian Tire if you're
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Canadian. Um or wherever you buy those things.
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American Tire.
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Walmart. Yes, probably. Yeah, that's fine. Uh, so you can buy a multimeter on the cheap and
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then it can really help you diagnose whether that voltage slider is actually
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doing anything, whether your card overvolts or undervolts. So all this
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stuff's really great. So without these kinds of innovations that might seem
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useless one by one, we wouldn't have the great graphics cards that we have today.
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So kudos to ASUS for thinking outside the box on this one. And I guess that's
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all I pretty much have to say about that. What's our next topic? Because I'm
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trying to do a thing here. Uh, sorry. I was also trying to do a
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thing. I will find a next topic though. The next topic is Supreme Court decides
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on the future of TV featuring Ario.
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Oh, this is this is cray cray.
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Is it Ario or Arrow? Ario, I would guess. Sure. Okay.
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All right. So, this is actually probably the biggest topic of the day. So, the
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way that Ario works is by Okay, by it
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all depends on how you word it. So original article here is from
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washingtonpost.com. Although there was another one that was actually uh quite
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helpful when I was when I was reading up on this. Yeah. From the Guardian. And
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there was another one I was reading. And another one I was reading that I mean the information about this is hard to
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find from an unbiased source because
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this is a topic that is extremely polarizing. So let's start with how
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works. What it does is it takes OTAA TV
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signals. So, these are just broadcast TV signals that anyone with, you know, a
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duck, a hamster, a piece of toast, and most importantly, an antenna and a
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television, especially those last two. Yeah. And then anyone with an antenna
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and a television can tune into these signals and watch TV.
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So, all the TV that I had when I was a kid. Yes. So, overthe-air television. What
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ARIO does is it takes overthe-air television, lets you subscribe,
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rent an antenna in their array of
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antennas, rent because it's not
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subscription, they don't Okay, they let you rent an antenna in their antenna
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array, rent cloud storage space, and
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then it allows you to tune in to OTAA
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broadcasts through your internet connection and even use their um their
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rentable storage space as a PVR or DVR
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whatever video recorder without with a P with a D I don't care. So
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what the Okay, so the issue here it's hard to not it's hard to not say
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things that are worded as if they come off negatively or positively.
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Yeah. So, the issue is that other broadcasters
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are alleging that ARO is no different from cable and satellite firms that are
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required to pay fees to rebroadcast their shows. What ARIO is arguing is
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that a private broadcast, and this is this is like 40year-old rulings that
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they're going back to here, that a private broadcast is not the same as a
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public broadcast. because it's an individual user accessing content that
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they would have otherwise had if they just got an antenna and hooked up a DVR.
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Like they're not doing anything they couldn't have otherwise done there. It's
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so it's a private broadcast. So I I
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don't remember if that sentence made any sense. You know what guys, I have slept so little this week like even less than
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usual. And this topic is very convoluted and awkward and
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and the topic is convoluted. Whereas what the broadcasters are saying is that
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Ariel is taking copyrighted material and
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profiting off of it without paying
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anyone any fees. So they're just taking
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money and profiting off of it. And then advocacy groups for the other side are
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saying, "Well, hold on just a minute. Why should they be paying for it anyway? There's already commercials on it." So
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you guys, so start firing back at the broadcasters. You guys are just trying
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to maintain your whole double dipping business model and squash a potential
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competitor who really all they're doing is enabling consumers to use the
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technology or to use the content that is already there. Use the technology they
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have to access content that is already there and already accessible to them.
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One thing that was missing from both this Washington Post article and the
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other one that we're referring to here was actually posted by a commenter on
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one of the other articles I was reading about this who said, "Well, hold on a
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second. Something people are kind of missing here is that Ariel only allows
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you to subscribe within your own catchment area." So you you actually
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can't subscribe to Ario in, you know,
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New York if you're in Florida, for example. you you have to subscribe and
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of like anything there are workarounds and actually that's another big thing is
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uh is that even on the dock? I think it is that Hulu is shutting down VPN users.
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If it's not just throw a note in there and we'll we'll make sure we talk about
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that later. But there are of course ways to circumvent it. But the way that it's
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supposed to work is just as a way for you to access the OTAA content without
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subscribing to an expensive cable package that contains a lot of stuff
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that you likely don't care about.
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So, I see both sides of this one. So, that
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was the whole me struggling through the the explanation of what's going on. I
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hope you guys kind of get it. Let me know if you don't. Post in the Twitch
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chat if if it doesn't if what I said didn't make any sense. But I'll give
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sort of my two cents on both sides of this. On the one hand, if you're
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creating premium content and someone is
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profiting off of the distribution of it, they are effectively undercutting the
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distribution partners who are paying you. And I can understand why you're
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going after someone who's pursuing that model. Uh, one of the justices that's um
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I don't think they're actually going to be involved in the case, but one of the
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one of the US justices that has commented on the situation said that
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looking through Ario's business model, they seem to be it seems to be
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structured entirely to circumvent the
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existing laws and that the actual the
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essence of what they're doing is just flat outright wrong. And I'm
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paraphrasing a little bit here because I can't find the quote right now, but I
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don't necessarily I I see it from Ariel's side as well because what
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they're doing is just allowing people to use 21st century technology that they
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have. And I mean, quite frankly, you're you're already going to be helping out
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your local cable provider by paying for an internet subscription anyway. So,
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they're using technology that we have to just do something that already exists
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and do it a little bit better.
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One interesting thing that someone has brought up is that you can rig this up
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yourself. Yes. And that's that's the whole defense
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here for Ario is that this is something
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you can do yourself. Yeah. It's just that they're making it
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accessible and they're charging people a convenience fee.
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Yeah. Now, if they were if what they were doing was they were tuning into
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OTAA and then they were um and then they
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were like retransmitting
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it over the the airwaves or if they had
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um a site I guess that you that you went on to and then anyone like a site like
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twitch.tv, okay, where anyone can tune into their rebroadcast. That would be a
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public rebroadcast. But the way that it's structured is that antenna, you're
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you're renting it, you're leasing it, you're you're whatever. I guess if you
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really wanted to, you could buy an antenna, but then you'd just be doing it yourself. But like instead of buying it,
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you are renting it. And that antenna is just for you. So they're not
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rebroadcasting it publicly. I think they're going to lose.
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I think so, too. But it's a really interesting argument. I think they're
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going to lose, but I think at the end of the day, this is just going to be
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whack-a-ole where someone else will find
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a similar loophole and the conventional
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media guys are just going to have to keep knocking these little guys down one
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at a time and something will get through. I mean, the thing here is that Ariel has Sorry,
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Ariel. Yeah, sorry. Really tired. Ariel
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has already won a couple of cases in lower courts. This is the first time
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it's going to the Supreme Court. They've already won a couple. They lost one. They lost the most recent one. So, this
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really could go either way. And I I think according to the letter of the
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law, Ariel is probably right currently. Yes. But like what I've been
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reading on some of what the justices have been saying is they might need to
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kind of fix things. This can't happen because when they wrote that law,
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it was a long time ago. That was a long time ago and they didn't expect stuff like this to be able to happen.
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So now that it can happen, maybe the laws have to change, which is annoying
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to preempt to like after the fact change a law. I hate doing that with things
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like the COC on the forum and stuff because it's really annoying. But
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but the thing about it is that laws need to adapt. I mean, how would you make a
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law about cyber crime 50 years ago when it doesn't exist?
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When it doesn't exist. Yeah. you know how. So I I totally
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understand the issue here because
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the entire business model of creating this content is based on getting
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kickbacks from the distributors of the content. I understand that. But on the
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other hand, I understand the argument that that system is fundamentally broken
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right now and something needs to shake it up. I don't know if Ario is going to
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be the thing that shakes it up, but what I do know is that something
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will have to shake it up because it's a problem. I mean, it's gotten to
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the point where I will not pay to watch
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a hockey game because for me to pay to watch a hockey game, and I just don't
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watch them. That's that's the solution for me. because for me to pay to watch a
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hockey game, I have to buy a cable TV subscription that includes a bunch of
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crap I don't care about and I have to pay a whole whack ton of
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money for it. And I'm kind of sitting here going, "No, I refuse. I won't do
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it." For for big events like uh the Super
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Bowl and all that kind of stuff, we we just we all my friends pack up because
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we all don't have cable TV. None of us.
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And we all go to my parents. Well, it's funny because everyone talks about cord
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cutters, but there's a whole other the like the entire the group of people my
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age are I I heard the term cord nevers and I really liked it because the only
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time I've ever had a cable TV subscription that I've well I was going
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to say that I have paid for was when they gave me a free trial with my
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internet that I didn't pay for and then canceled as soon as I had to pay for it.
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I never even took the free trial. It was kind of handy. I don't even want it.
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It was playoffs. That makes sense. I took the free trial and I was like,
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"Oh, it was great." By the time this is over, I don't have any hockey to watch
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anyway. Yeah, exactly. My thing was I I was
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scared because I just assumed that after the free trial, it was just going to start billing me.
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Yeah, it does. Yeah. And I was going to school at the time and I was like, I'm going to forget about this and I'm going to get a bill
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and I'm not going to be able to afford it and it's going to be bad. No, I just I just set up a Google
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calendar reminder and then I just I the the Shaw office is actually between mine
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and my in-laws house. So, I just grabbed the box, dropped it off there. I'm like,
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"Yeah, we're done." Like, do you still want your internet?
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Yeah. Yeah, I'm good with the internet. Thanks for the trial, though.
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So, I mean, for me, the fundamental problem here is that the is that the the
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providers, the cable providers in particular, can't decide how they want
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this to work. Okay. When it comes to TV,
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they want us to pay for large all you can eat packages
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and then just give us whatever we whatever we could possibly want. And
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then when it comes to cell phone and internet, by the way, in Canada anyway,
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and I know in a lot of places there's a lot of overlap between TV, cell phone,
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and internet. So, so when it comes to cell phone and internet, oh well, hold
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on a second. We want more of a pay as you go type model here. And you you pay
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for the things you use. And I'm kind of sitting here going, "Okay, you know
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what? I get it either way. Okay, you
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want to you want to package things. You want to have a flat rate sort of fee.
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Okay, I get it. I won't I'm not going to subscribe because I don't care about
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that stuff. But I understand your point. Okay, you want me to pay per usage
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because there's a certain amount of congestion on a network or whatever
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else. You want to minimize that. I get that. But you got to make up your mind.
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You can't be like, "Oh, well, when it suits us, you can pay as you go, and
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when it doesn't suit us, then we we want you to take the the whole thing."
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saying, "You got to give me options here because that just that does not that
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does not fly for me." Cuz I would have no problem paying for TV if I could say,
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"Okay, I want Sports Net, TSN,
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and like I don't know, Cartoon Network.
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It's like it I remember when when my
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parents were actually somewhat interested in getting a cable connection way back in the day and we went through
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the show catalog and I was like I want that one and maybe that one and then I'm
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done. Yep. So I don't care about like any of that.
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And my dad, my brother and I had overlaps on all of those and then that
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was about it. Right. And you guys never did end up getting one, did you?
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I think we had one while my grandpa was here and then I think it was gone rightly after.
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And then that's about it. All right. So, why don't we talk about your back door here?
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Oh, wow. It's not my back door. Well, it's a back door. It's many people's back doors.
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All right. Cuz that makes it better.
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So, um, a security researcher has found that there was a back door at DSL
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routers that was found a little while ago. I think like a month ago or something. And then there was a path.
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You should talk about what the back door does. So, the back door allows you to I was
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getting into that after the cover up and then I was going to tell them what that
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was. So essentially there was there was then a patch which fixed the problem.
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The same guy then found that the patch was just kind of a cover up and it
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couldn't be removed very easily. So what it does is it allows you administrative
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access to the router. So all administrative controls you can control.
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So GG router um you can flash lights,
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you can do you can see packets, you can do all that kind of stuff. It's pretty
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aggressive. The way that the secret is removed is just literally by sending a
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knock. That knock though is in an Ethernet packet. So like a raw data
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Ethernet packet. So it can only be sent from inside the network or from an ISP.
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So this scares people because of NSA's level stuff. Um it's on 25 rout 24
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models of different routers it has been found on so far ranging from I believe
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like Lynxys and Cisco so both levels there and Netgear different routers. But
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then this is one guy, so I fully expect it could be more than that because the
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problem is actually based around a piece of firmware that they all share. Um,
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yeah, it gives it it gives them root shell access for people that knows what
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that really means. So this is kind of scary just because everything in this
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form is scary right now um because of like what the NSA was doing. What were
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they up to last week, right? Heart bleed. So it's just like every single
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week it's just like one more terrible thing. Um, oh, I al I forgot Diamond.
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Diamond is also another brand that's having problem with them as well. That's
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actually pretty much it. So, there you go, guys. We don't have a
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solution for you or anything. No, because it it has to be fixed unless
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someone's going to make their own firmware, but I don't even know if these
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routers are susceptible to that. Um, it's it's it's not going to be fixed
24:48
because they obviously don't want to if they just made a cover up. Um, so yeah,
24:53
I guess I guess we'll see where this goes. But all we can really do is just pay attention and hope that it goes away
24:57
and check to see if your router is on that list so you know you have if you
25:01
have to change something. Does it sound bad or Yeah, a little quiet. Oh, okay.
25:04
People are people are asking for you to be louder. Oh, the mic's in the shot
25:08
now. If you It's It's the source was from RS
25:11
Technica. So if you want to see those routers and other stuff, go to the RS
25:15
Technica article. Easter egg DSL router patch merely hides back door instead of
25:19
closing it. you'll find that article and then you can find other stuff out to see if your router is a problem or not.
25:24
Absolutely fantastic. So, speaking of things that are absolutely fantastic,
25:28
assumptions about the OnePlus 1. Very few people have actually had their hands
25:33
on this incredibly
25:36
confusingly named phone. I mean, what
25:39
the heck? So, the company is OnePlus
25:44
and then the phone is called the One. And it absolutely baffles me. As much as
25:49
I as I hate to see uh needless lawsuits
25:53
between companies, like I it just it drives me crazy. It baffles me that they
25:57
can get away with this. Did is is HTC's the one or is just one,
26:01
right? It's just one. It's the HTC one. Can we stop naming things one?
26:06
Like they named their entire even company one plus.
26:10
Yeah. So like any anyway anyway. So specs have been
26:14
revealed. Um, can we nickname it the two? No, cuz I already call my HTC1 M8 the
26:20
two. But this is one plus one.
26:26
Breathing intensifies. You're you're you're freaking me out
26:30
here. I don't know what to do. Anyway, so it's going to arrive in midMay. Right
26:33
now, you actually can't pre-order it in the same way that you could pre-order a
26:37
normal phone. And they're doing a weird invite-based system, but the full specs
26:41
are out there. It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801. It's got four Crate 400
26:46
cores. They're clocked at 2.5 gigahertz, making it the fastest phone on the
26:51
market. It uses an Adreno 330 GPU. It's got a 1920 x 1080 screen. It's a 5 and a
26:56
half inch screen. So, this is quite a large phone. Yep. Like coming in on fabt territory there.
27:02
It's got 401 pixels per inch in terms of
27:06
its pixel density. It's got a 5 megapixel front camera with a 13
27:09
megapixel rear camera. It's available in 16 gig or 64 gig configurations. They've
27:14
all got 3 gigs of RAM and
27:18
it's $299 for the 16 gig and a mere 3.49
27:22
for a 64 gig phone. Very cool.
27:26
Yeah, that's a big deal because I've been upset about this for a long time. how
27:31
much cheaper flash storage has gotten and yet how we're stuck with the same
27:36
price points on these phones with the same capacity as like four years ago.
27:42
And like this is fantastic, but that price jump of 50 bucks is they're
27:46
they're still making money off that which is like that's still fantastic
27:50
though. I'm I'm happy to pay that compared to other phones where it's like
27:53
you get eight more gigabytes, we'll take $100. So the phone runs on Cyanogen Mod. It
27:58
has an anodized faux metal rim and swappable back plate. It's going to be
28:02
manufactured in the same factory as OPPO phones. It packs triple noise cancelling
28:06
microphones for allegedly superb call quality and packs stereo speakers
28:12
similar to HTC's one series. However,
28:15
one extra thing is the the back is supposed to be removable and you're
28:18
supposed to be able to customize your back similarly to the the Moto X
28:22
customize your own X style thing where you can get like wooden styled ones and
28:26
all these other stealthy ones as well. That's cool. Yeah. And then this is
28:30
this is this is a marketing disaster in my mind. So, they're running a they're
28:35
running a never settle campaign called
28:39
talking about trademarks. Smash your phone. I know, right? Like
28:43
AMD does that, man. Smash your phone.
28:47
Okay. So, what they're saying is you can buy the OnePlus 1 for a dollar by
28:53
applying to be one of the first to own it. So, you'll also be one of the first
28:57
to have it. Okay? So, you apply, you stand out. So, they're going to choose a
29:01
100 applicants to be the Smashers. Smash and share. Share a video of your Smash
29:06
on YouTube and a OnePlus 1 will be yours. you will get a 16 gig silk white
29:10
and three invites for other people to purchase the phone. Something that's
29:15
actually a pretty hot item right now. People people want to buy these phones.
29:19
Now, one sort of challenge here and I Okay, I see they don't have their uh
29:25
There we go. There's a list of the qualifying phones which I can't find
29:29
right now. I think it's on. If you click on I'll smash my right there.
29:32
Ah, there we go. Yep. There you go. There we go. So, there's a list of the
29:35
qualifying smashable phones. So, a few problems here. Problem number one is
29:39
that the vast majority of those smashable phones can probably be traded
29:43
in for anywhere from $200 to $300. So,
29:47
you could do the um environmentally and
29:50
just generally responsible thing and
29:54
trade in your phone and then just buy one. Number two, actually is is a sort
30:00
of part of that last thing I just said is the environmental impact of smashing
30:04
phones. I mean, some of the chemicals that that are in phone screens, phone
30:09
batteries are things that should really be disposed of safely. Not just
30:14
if you're going to do this, like at at the very least, go remove the back,
30:18
remove the battery, put the backpack on so no one can tell, and then smash it
30:22
because on the other hand, you know, iPhone 5 is on the list, so it's not like you can
30:26
remove the battery from that. Like this is this is like really brutal.
30:29
Um, so that to me just smacks of irresponsibility.
30:33
And then on top of that, we've had this issue a number of times where we
30:39
announce a contest and people just don't
30:42
listen. Completely don't read. People can't listen for 20 seconds
30:47
like at all. For example, the HTC1 M8
30:52
giveaway. We've got two phones. I am announcing the winners during this show,
30:55
by the way. the HTC1 M8 giveaway that we did. I said, "Click the link in the
31:02
video description. There are instructions there." The
31:07
number of people who posted their favorite thing about the 1M8 under the
31:11
video was like in the hundreds. And I'm like, you guys, you you didn't you
31:16
didn't listen. You're not entered in the giveaway. And I'm sorry. I mean, it's
31:20
great that you posted that. It actually generated a lot of great discussion. And
31:23
maybe some people double posted. I know some people did, but guys, you're not in
31:28
the giveaway. You got to pay attention. So, here we go. Example of not paying
31:34
attention being a big problem. Ahead of the contest, people are already smashing
31:39
their phones. This is an article on Android Authority where they complain
31:43
about some of the same things that I really didn't like about this whole
31:47
contest. So, uh, this was this was an Android Authorities, uh, article where
31:52
apparently one of these guys here didn't even fully understand what product was
31:56
being given away and thought that it was actually an HTC1. Yeah.
32:03
So, here this guy, I don't know if this was the one or not, but this is this is
32:07
painful to watch because unless OnePlus
32:10
decides to do some some PR, you know,
32:15
fixing here and give phones to the
32:19
people who already smashed them before they knew they were entered. This guy
32:22
just wrecked a perfectly good iPhone
32:27
and it's dead now and he's not getting a
32:31
OnePlus 1. So
32:34
Oh, wow. Yeah. No, no. Okay. Yeah. Not recoverable.
32:38
No. No. This will not be being used anymore.
32:41
At first I was like, uh, it's not that hard to replace iPhone screens in the
32:45
back. It's probably Nope. Snap a nap.
32:48
Kind of brutal. I was looking at this earlier. Um, and I wouldn't be surprised
32:52
if a massive amount of the entrance are Z10s because you can get those a lot
32:57
cheaper than the rest of the phones. And because you don't have to you don't have
33:00
to smash your phone first. Yeah. Just making sure people got that part.
33:05
Um, people entering could say that they have one and then go out and buy one and
33:08
smash it if they get selected. Not that that's a good thing, but like I
33:13
fully suspect a lot of people are going to do that though. We still don't want people to do that.
33:17
Okay. That's also not the point at all of what they're trying to do. So, their
33:21
whole PR thing is also not going to work because it's just a whole bunch of
33:25
people going, "Oh, well, I don't have to smash my phone. I can retire it to my
33:29
mom or do whatever and get someone else's or it's going to be a lot of
33:33
phones that don't work right already and then they're going to smash
33:37
them and then throw them away." I don't know. So, those should still be disposed of
33:41
environment in an environmentally friendly manner. All right. All right. So, this was posted by Jop Pat Jop
33:46
whatever that guy. Um, Intel is
33:50
allegedly working on a new Thunderbolt controller chip to drive two 4K displays
33:56
at the same time. So, it will use PCI
34:00
Express Gen 3, which means that hopefully by the time this rolls out,
34:05
AMD and NVIDIA will be like comfortable
34:08
enough with the level of performance that Thunderbolt is delivering to give
34:12
us drivers to enable external GPUs because you can already hook up a
34:16
graphics card on a PCI Express to Thunderbolt bridge that should work.
34:22
It's AMD and NVIDIA not providing a driver that is causing it to not work.
34:25
And I don't know the reasons they're not providing a driver. There could be very good reasons, but hopefully when this
34:31
happens, we'll get that. What we'll definitely get is 40 Gbit per second
34:36
bandwidth and enough to, like I said, to drive two 4K displays off of a single
34:41
cable. I mean, that's one of the reasons probably why Apple has six Thunderbolt 2
34:47
connectors on the Mac Pro. because it's not uncommon for a creative professional
34:51
to have two, usually two, and often
34:55
three or even more displays connected. So, even though we joke about the Mac
34:59
Pro and we go, "Oh, that's all the external expansion it has." And you and
35:03
there's that there's that awesome picture of of the then and now with the
35:07
old Mac Pro and the tower and the new Mac Pro with all the like with like the
35:10
CD drive like connected externally and all the crap piled around it. We joke
35:15
about that, but a big part of the reason is actually well, you just need to be
35:19
able to drive displays off the thing. So, right now, you can't do a single 4K
35:24
display yet off of a Thunderbolt connector or so,
35:27
right? You can, sorry, you can do only a single 4K display off of a Thunderbolt
35:31
connector. And with 4K coming down in price so quickly and so dramatically,
35:37
running multiple 4K displays, it's going to be a thing really soon.
35:40
One of the coolest things, too, is its ability to drive up to 100 watts of
35:43
power. I know that's solid. So get this. I mean again like the
35:49
notebooks of the future, right? Where you take I mean this has Thunderbolt
35:52
like not Thunderbolt 40 gigabit per
35:56
second charges off of things. So, the way this is going to work, guys, is
36:01
you're going to plug into your your Thunderbolt enabled monitor that also
36:07
has a Thunderbolt, you know, external GPU slot that also has a Thunderbolt
36:12
everything else you're going to need. You're going to plug your laptop, one
36:16
cable, your laptop will be charging, it
36:19
will be running, it will be outputting to the display,
36:23
and like all your other peripherals,
36:26
mind blown. They need to start calling these things really cool names like
36:31
Alpine out the the chip.
36:34
I actually had a call with someone from Intel today and I found out how Intel
36:39
does their code names. Really? Yeah. That's actually really cool.
36:43
Yeah. So, um, sometimes and like there's no there's no hard and fast way, but he
36:48
gave me two scenarios. So sometimes they
36:51
the the the project lead, whoever owns the project, literally picks from a list
36:55
of code names and goes, "That one seems pretty neat." And assigns it.
36:59
Do you know how Devil's Canyon was done? No.
37:02
There's a group within Intel that puts on, I believe it's Landfest is the
37:07
events that they work on. And the way that the whole Landfest project works, I
37:10
had no idea, and this is really cool, is that Intel employees who are passionate
37:14
about gaming donate their time really. And then Intel pays but not the
37:20
employees. They pay to a charity of the choice of the employees donating their
37:25
time to the project. So Intel is ultimately still paying for all the
37:29
Landfest stuff, but it's the employees who are truly passionate about it
37:33
driving it and then Intel is turning that into a charitable donation.
37:38
So I thought that was really Anyway, that is really cool. So, the way that Devil's Canyon, the alleged rumored
37:44
upcoming Intel uh CPU refresh, was named
37:48
was by polling those guys.
37:52
That's kind of cool. So, they gave them a bunch of options. They were like, "What do you think is
37:55
like the coolest one for an enthusiast grade product?" And they're like
37:59
overwhelmingly Devil's Canyon. Devil's Canyon. And I was like, "Oh,
38:02
that sounds badass." Yeah. So, like that's cool. I think that's fantastic.
38:05
Just It's like Alpine Ridge, which sounds like a body wash.
38:10
Or like maybe a sports refresher energy
38:13
drink. Yeah. Yeah. It could be a drink drink. It could be like um it could be like ski
38:18
goggles. Yeah. Like I could see it being a piece of apparel.
38:21
Definitely. But why not like Thor? Thor. Well, I think there's issues there
38:26
with Marvel. But it's a Greek god.
38:30
That's true. You shouldn't be able to. You're
38:34
probably not wrong. But that's stupid that you're probably not wrong.
38:38
Yeah. I don't like that. I mean, they wouldn't like it.
38:41
No, I'm sure not. Isn't it like Sony owns the rights to Mutant or something?
38:46
Oh, I don't know. I I don't remember what it is. There's like some super common word and it's
38:50
part of the reason why Spider-Man kept whatever. So, one issue here is that the powered
38:55
Thunderbolt 3, I guess, whatever we're going to call it, the 40 Gbit per second
38:59
Thunderbolt connector would actually have to be a different connector,
39:03
unfortunately. But there'll probably be some kind of an
39:06
adapter system. I mean, the thing about PCI Express, which is what Thunderbolt
39:09
is based on, is that it is forwards and backwards compatible. So, as long as you
39:14
had a physical adapter, your older Thunderbolt gear should still be okay.
39:18
Something that will be good news to folks who have heavily invested in Thunderbolt
39:22
to whom I would say, why?
39:27
I still don't quite understand why people buy Thunderbolt gear.
39:31
It's so much more expensive. I know. But you're saying that's why
39:35
they buy it? No. I'm like agreeing with you being like, "Yeah, I don't know. I don't get
39:39
it." We don't use anything that's Thunderbolt. We actually do own one Thunderbolt piece
39:42
of gear. What thing? We didn't pay for it though. Oh. Um, we have an external drive from
39:47
Western Digital. Oh, yeah. That's like a dual drive drive and uh
39:52
it's kind of cool actually. Yeah. But we didn't pay for that.
39:56
That's true. We did not. I don't know. We own two pieces. We have a hard drive
39:59
dock also we didn't pay for. Okay. I'll
40:04
let you handle this one. This one's really short, but has Virtuix managed to make themselves
40:10
relevant again? Uh, no. Okay,
40:13
this isn't going to consumers, at least right away. Um, so that's why it's like
40:18
what? Um, anyways, there's a there's a modif modifi modification kit thing for
40:24
the Virtuix Omni. Right now, it's one package. Hopefully later it'll be a kit
40:27
that consumers can buy, but right now it's upgrade existing Omnis.
40:31
Yes. But it's it's right now it's just for it's it's it's a design project with
40:36
the UN with Rice University in Texas.
40:39
It's R&D for possibly military training applications. It's not a consumer level
40:44
thing, but I fully expect people to scream for it. So, it'll probably become
40:49
a consumer level thing at some time. They said they may offer it, but they're
40:52
not dedicated to anything right now. And like Lina said, it's going to be an
40:55
upgrade kit to the existing Omni. So, if you already bought one, you don't have to worry about buying an entirely new
41:00
kit, which is going to cost way more money. You just buy an upgrade kit,
41:03
which could possibly be even more looking at the size of the thing, which
41:07
we have only the one picture of. So, you can show that. Oops. Sorry, just poked
41:11
the crap out of your screen. Sorry. So, you you can see it's it actually looks a
41:16
lot more like the ghetto omnis that people have been making, having the four
41:20
post system with the supports coming in. So, the idea with this is that it can go
41:26
up and down with you, but then still provide support,
41:29
right? It's a pretty interesting project, but I don't expect it to be cheap. And I think
41:33
that's part of the reason why it's more of a uh military training application
41:37
idea and not necessarily consumer idea is even as an upgrade kit, I expect this
41:42
to be really expensive. So, current
41:45
level omnis, you can run around and you can jump.
41:48
Yeah. Um, can you imagine jumping on that thing though? That'd be tough. I was actually just
41:52
going to bring this up is that currently you can run around and you can quote I
41:56
should have done quote unquote jump because that makes more sense. Um and now you'll be able to crouch. Part of
42:01
the problem with them claiming jumping is one of the abilities is I fully
42:04
expect if you did that all the time, you would end up breaking things or yourself
42:10
because they have essentially if you've ever been longboarding or if you have
42:13
friends that have been longboarding, if they have those longboarding gloves with
42:17
the like slick plasticky kind of pad things on their gloves, you're
42:21
essentially wearing those on your feet on a plastic surface. So you slide a
42:26
lot. That's the whole point. So it feels like you're running as you're putting your feet on plastic. It's because it
42:30
slides down. So jumping on that type of a surface if you're actually trying to
42:34
get a lot of air. Yeah, it's going to be kind of scary. So there's not a ton to
42:38
say in there. If you do want it, I'm sure contacting Virtuix would help it
42:42
come to the consumer end. Uh but just remember it's going to be really expensive.
42:46
How would you feel as an Omni Kickstarter backer at this point? That
42:50
thing has been so up and down with the recent thing out of um out of Oculus
42:55
being Yeah. We're focused on a sitting down experience, not on a moving around
43:00
experience. So there's there's
43:04
I know someone who backed it. Do you? Yeah. And like bought the whole thing.
43:08
Yeah. Like a fold back like the $400. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I don't um I I don't
43:14
know. Um I would be paying a lot of attention to the the small groups. very
43:19
small groups right now that are working on a I can't even call it ghetto
43:23
solution because it has to be pretty advanced for this to work properly. Um,
43:29
but like the the the the the moving of
43:34
the camera, they're trying to make that a reality, but having it based off your physical
43:39
movement is going to impede you a lot for one, right? And there's gonna be if unless
43:44
it's like hardcore strapped in, which is going to be highly uncomfortable,
43:48
there's going to be mechanical lag because you're going to turn and then
43:51
it's going to have to pick up with you, right? And then there's software problems with
43:55
it shifting too much. And then motorized
43:58
versions that detect your movement based off of the connect are going to have
44:02
problems again. And there's Yeah, I
44:05
don't know. They're they're trying to make something work, but none of the
44:09
solutions are very feasible yet. And they're all aftermarket ones. Omni
44:13
hasn't said anything, right? About it actually happening.
44:17
You mean Oculus? No. Or Omni? Omni. Oh, okay. Sorry. Yeah.
44:21
No worries. Virtuix, I should have said. Yeah.
44:26
Huh. It's It's an interesting situation, but
44:30
I just people do have to realize that that quote is very real. Um they're
44:34
they're focusing the seated forward- facing this box of field of view from
44:39
the camera position. I mean, cool stuff's going to happen in the future,
44:42
but for now, they want to focus on one thing at a time, and I totally get that,
44:46
and I respect that. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I hope it happens fairly quickly, but
44:50
yeah, I respect that. Wow, what's going on? Yeah, it's okay. Anyway, speaking of
44:55
things that are are good, I guess, uh, the Facebook Oculus acquisition is a
45:01
done deal now. It's been approved by the feds. So, there you go. I guess that's
45:06
all we really have to say. that the last thing is and I apologize guys this is
45:10
another Oculus um this is another Oculus story but it's
45:16
one that leads into a very interesting conversation Oculus Facebook sees movies
45:21
as the next big thing for Oculus Rift. So this is an article from Techraar
45:27
and I would like for us to have a bit of
45:31
a conversation here. We haven't we haven't primed this one at all. Um other
45:35
than just to have sort of notes on it, which I just closed. So now I've got
45:39
nothing. But you know what? Here, why
45:42
don't you do the facts and then we'll have the discussion. This one?
45:45
Yeah. So, uh, what do you mean by facts?
45:49
I mean the things in there. Okay. So, according to Corey, I can't
45:53
say your last name. Facebook's VP of mobile engineering, virtual reality is
45:57
destined to go well beyond gaming and movies seem to be the obvious next
46:00
conquest. People have been talking about going to IMAX essentially and wearing an
46:05
Oculus and how that experience could be with the the awesome audio and
46:09
everything else that there is in an IMAX. Um, another quote by the same I
46:14
can't pronounce your last name, I'm very sorry, Facebook's VP of mobile engineering. Uh, I am completely excited
46:20
about the intersection of Hollywood and virtual reality. I think we're going to
46:24
I think we're going to see the next uh
46:28
I think what we're going to see I've missed one word there over the next coming year is going to be truly
46:33
spectacular. So essentially there's just a lot of were interesting. One of the
46:36
problems is going to be you're not going to be able to shoot content that's
46:40
actually properly designed for a Rift by
46:43
using the same kind of camera setup that we use and what a lot of much better
46:48
camera setup but what a lot of movies would use, which is like a prime camera
46:51
and maybe one or two other shots and then that's it. You're going to need an
46:56
insane amount of cameras because you're going to have to be able to capture everything. And part of your problem is
47:00
going to be like people and stuff which would normally be behind the scenes.
47:03
Well, if someone goes like this, what's going to happen? It's Yeah.
47:08
So, in my mind, the only way for a VR
47:12
film to work properly would be autonomous an autonomous array of
47:17
relatively inexpensive um omniirectional cameras. So if and you
47:24
won't be able unless you can make drones much much quieter than they are and much
47:29
much more advanced than they are. You're not going to be able to record sound
47:33
with any I guess okay you could mic up everyone and everything but still that
47:37
wouldn't help for ambient sound collection. So, you're going to need an
47:41
autonomous array of drones, and then you're going to need to have a crazy
47:45
sophisticated way of having each of them
47:48
overlap each other's images enough to cancel each other out so that you can't
47:54
see the drones or whether it's drones or whether it's something else, the way
47:58
that the camera arrays will have to work will have to be so that for every camera
48:02
that's positioned, so so let's let's say you guys are looking at a top down view.
48:05
So, for every camera positioned here, there's going to have to be one here and
48:10
here so that we can see anything that would have been blocked by this one from
48:14
this camera position here. Because someone has to be able for to for me for
48:19
me for VR to be a way for me to compellingly be told a story, um,
48:25
it's going to have to work the same way that VR would work in a game where I can
48:30
walk around in the environment. Which leads us to the other reasonable future
48:35
scenario, which is maybe we just do away
48:38
with sets and actors and the whole thing
48:44
goes full CGI. Um, I mean, you're still
48:47
going to have that you're still going to have that not it's not quite real. It's
48:53
it's still a little bit creepy effect,
48:56
but not if it's not if it's designed to not look real.
49:00
Okay. Okay. If it's not designed to look real, then I guess there's that. But
49:04
that still doesn't address any kind of um
49:08
any kind of footage of anything that's like actually
49:12
real. Like I I don't know. I don't know if I'm explaining this properly. I think
49:16
this could be the first the first technological thing that happens that
49:21
really makes me feel old because I get
49:25
the feeling much like anyone who, you
49:28
know, kind of looked at MP3s or still looks at MP3s today and goes, "Well, the
49:35
radio was good enough when I was a kid, so the radio's good enough now." And you
49:38
know what? The radio is still great. But I think for me, this is not going to be
49:43
a compelling way to watch a movie for an hour and a half.
49:47
I don't think it will be. Now, one of the problems you see when you uh come
49:50
out with a new medium, like let's look at video games. When video games first
49:54
started being a really big deal, what a lot of people started trying to do was,
49:59
and now I'm not saying Pong, I'm saying
50:02
stuff beyond that. They tried making movies that were interactive. Like you
50:07
remember that people were trying to merge movies and video games and they try to make these like stupid playable
50:11
on your DVD player video games because they were like movies and games. Yeah.
50:16
The second you try to merge things like this, there's going to be the people
50:20
that kind of halfass it at the beginning and it's not going to work very well.
50:24
What people are going to have to actually do is create an experience
50:27
focused around the idea that it's a
50:31
movie for virtual reality. And it's going to have to be filmed
50:34
completely differently. is going to have to be written completely differently. All the sets are going to have to be
50:38
made completely differently. Everything is going to have to be totally
50:42
different. I think it's going to be a long time till we get there. Even if we start trying now, I think everything's
50:46
going to be kind of crap at the beginning. Um I mean, there's a lot of different ways
50:50
VR could work for a movie. I mean like um I guess you wouldn't even need to be
50:56
VR in order for like as camera technology changes. if you could watch
51:01
the movie flat or if you could watch the movie from the perspective of any one
51:06
character that you pick, like if you could cycle through or whatever else.
51:10
Like there's a lot of different things that can happen here. I just don't know
51:13
which one of them which ones of them will be enjoyable. That's something that's interested me as
51:17
well is if you can be like I am the lead character or I am the supporting role
51:22
and you want to see it from their angle. I want to be Sauron. Yeah. Like something like that. But then
51:26
what's your movie going to be? Yeah. That's another part of the problem. when
51:29
I brought in sets and scripts and all that kind of stuff because he's not
51:32
actually in that much of the movie. So, how do you make that a movie,
51:36
right? Well, there'd be much more filming. And then part of the problem is you're
51:40
you're bringing in way more angles and you're bringing in way more possibilities. So, that is going to
51:43
raise cost by a lot. If you have to produce an entire movie from different
51:47
people's perspectives, but the same feature length,
51:51
that's a lot of editing and production. It sounds like a crazy Kickstarter
51:55
project that just might work. Yeah, that's what it sounds like to me. It
51:59
sounds like someone's going to try. Someone will try. Oh, definitely. Like
52:03
this will happen. And I fully expect I think it's all I'm all I'm trying to say
52:06
is I think there's going to be growing pains. I don't I don't think it's not going to grow. I don't think it's not
52:10
going to happen. I'm pretty sure Facebook has made it extremely clear
52:13
that they want this to happen. Um
52:17
yeah, I don't know. It's going to be interesting.
52:22
I have a feeling I'm going to be a geyser about it though because it just
52:25
doesn't sound that appealing to me. gaming VR. Yeah, heads up. Or like
52:29
definitely two thumbs up. Um, augmented reality VR. Oh, yeah. I'm so into that.
52:34
Yeah, for sure. That's I'm actually more excited about that than sitting down in VR.
52:38
Me, too. But I don't see that as being very good for a while.
52:42
Oh, it's going to be a long time. But that's that's the holy grail to me.
52:45
That's why I'm focusing on VR. I mean, that goes all the way back to our virtual like flying RC things at
52:51
each other. Yeah. The football field worth of Yeah. That goes all the way back to that. That
52:56
is exciting. That's the kind of thing that I would have seen the the digital trips thing
53:00
from Watchd Dogs. No. When you go around, I'm trying I'm I'm
53:06
going to This is stuff that's been already released. So, if you're waiting for Watchd Dogs, maybe plug your ears,
53:10
but this is not I don't think they're trying to hide this. This isn't really a spoiler alert or anything like that. Um,
53:15
but digital trips, you can walk around and people on the street will just try and sell you like digital trips and you
53:21
will it it like changes how the game plays
53:24
and like one of them I can't remember what it's actually called. Um, but you
53:27
turn into this giant spider tank, right? So you're a tank but it has like spider
53:32
legs and stuff and you just run around and jump around the city and just blow
53:35
crap up and you have like a cannon and it's just ridiculous. But you're it's a
53:40
digital trip and I I don't remember exactly if there's like side effects or
53:43
crazy things that can happen or anything like that. I haven't looked way too far
53:46
into it, but like that kind of stuff would be really cool. Like altering that
53:51
like alternate reality with the the football field and stuff if you take
53:54
that idea where you're just like sitting on the bleachers and it's a normal day,
53:59
but then all of a sudden there's spider tanks and helicopters and stuff and
54:02
you're fighting your buddy and like Yeah, it's going to be awesome. That would be really cool.
54:08
All right. So, that's that's it for virtual reality stuff for today. Don't
54:12
worry, guys. Yep. Um, Amazon Amazon has secured a deal to
54:18
provide HBO premium content to Amazon
54:22
Prime members. That title is You will be able to access HBO shows,
54:27
not all of them. Um, HBO is going to be sticking to like a multi-year
54:33
delay between when they release content
54:36
and then when stuff's available sort of
54:39
elsewhere. But what's amazing about this whole thing is this is this is HBO's
54:44
first move towards any kind of purely
54:47
digital distribution network. So, uh,
54:51
HBO content has already been available as on demand, but this is the first time
54:56
you're going to be able to stream it in an unlimited fashion using just your
55:01
Amazon Prime membership. Now, Amazon did recently increase the price of Amazon
55:05
Prime, but as you can already see, it
55:09
looks like that was for good reason, and they are looking to add more value to
55:13
that increased subscription in order to continue to justify it for people. So,
55:17
um, but the first question in my mind was, oh, are they going to have Game of
55:21
Thrones on it? Nope. No, no Game of Thrones. So, it's going to have Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome, Six
55:26
Feet Under. Um, so all seasons of some
55:29
of the some of the older stuff. It's going to have select seasons of newer
55:33
stuff like True Blood. It's going to have some original movies like Too Big
55:37
to Fail and You Don't Know Jack and some documentaries, some comedy specials from
55:42
Ellen Degenerous and so folks like that. Uh, it's going to have some of the
55:46
miniseries like Band of Brothers and there you go as an Amazon Prime member.
55:51
So, if you have a Kindle TV or whatever that Fire TV, thank you. If you have a
55:55
Fire TV, then you I'm really off today. That's cool.
55:58
Then you're going to be able to stream these to yourself. And I think that's
56:02
that's great, but just plain not enough.
56:07
Yeah, I h I HBO needs to figure it out
56:11
in my opinion. They need to they need to start because what was it like Game of
56:15
Thrones was the most downloaded thing through Torrance ever? Didn't they win
56:19
that twice or something? I think so. And like come on guys, maybe figure it
56:24
out at some point in time. Get a website. I'll pay a subscription. I
56:27
don't even have a cable connection, but I'd love to watch your shows. I honestly
56:32
haven't. I think I've watched like the first almost the first season of Game of
56:37
Thrones because I watched it at my parents house. Like I'd love to see it
56:41
going through the books, but I I'm kind of holding out because HBO's got to
56:46
revolutionize in some form at some point in time. They have to. Like, come on,
56:51
guys. Every everyone's moving off the TV. Maybe they'll get intented at some
56:56
point. And what was their name? Ariel. Maybe Ariel will figure out some way.
57:00
Oh, that would be tough. That would be tough. I'm pretty sure they'd lose that fight.
57:06
What's up next? Um, well, I wanted that to lead into uh here we go.
57:10
Right here. Uh, oh, is that is that the article? Awesome. I couldn't see that for so I
57:15
can't see that for some reason. Where is that? Oh, it's way down at the bottom.
57:19
There we go. Okay, so here we go. So,
57:24
again, it's not good enough and the situation is terrible. So, this is from
57:29
slash dot. Actually, there was I had a better article on it before, but
57:32
whatever. The point is Hulu, apparently worried that too many non- US residents
57:37
are using cheapVPN services to watch its US programming have started blocking IP
57:42
address ranges belonging to known VPN services. Hulu didn't announce the ban,
57:47
but users of affected VPNs are getting this message. Based on your IP address,
57:51
we noticed you are trying to access Hulu through an anonymous proxy tool. Hulu is
57:54
not currently available outside the US. If you're in the US, you'll need to
57:58
disable your anonymizer to access videos on Hulu. So the problem in there now
58:02
there's there's the link I meant to put in there now. That's okay. So the problem here is that
58:08
it denies access to Hulu from people who
58:12
are in the US just because they want to use a VPN to have a slightly more
58:17
anonymous internet browsing experience which is okay. Like that's fine. Um, the
58:24
other issue here is that this again, so HBO, it's not good enough to kind of go
58:30
like, oh yeah, well, like some of our old stinky content that is still good,
58:34
but quite frankly, if you were that interested in watching The Sopranos,
58:38
you've probably already seen it. Yeah. Um, like some some of our old stuff,
58:42
it's like, yeah, it's okay. We need legitimate ways to access premium
58:48
content in a timely manner. Blocking
58:51
things and holding on to things is not
58:55
going to last forever. And I wish we would just hurry up and get over it. I
58:59
can't even remember what it was, but I tried to watch a video last night or the
59:02
night before on some website and it was like, "You can't watch this because
59:07
you're in Canada." And I was like, "Oh geez." piece and then as I'm going to
59:11
close the site, it has a popup which is like, "Can you answer our survey about
59:16
using our website?" And I was like, "Yes, I hate everything."
59:21
Like, this is so stupid. I can't use your website. It's a pretty big problem.
59:26
It's so frustrating. I I like it's not clear
59:30
to me what the solution is because I mean, you know, part of the problem is
59:34
that advertisers aren't going to want their advertising impressions wasted on
59:38
people who can't even benefit from their find a monetization platform that works
59:43
so that ads are different on when it's in being viewed in a different country.
59:47
So your solution is to create a a ginormous, you know, advertising network
59:52
that gets puts ads everywhere. I don't think anything like that exists.
59:59
At first I thought you were serious. I was like what?
60:02
It's one of those things where to me if the issue is is advertising and
60:06
licensing then figure it out. But what the real issue is is protecting the
60:11
providers the the existing relationships with providers that are geospecific and
60:16
geospecific just has to go. It was
60:20
stupid back when certain game consoles worked in certain regions.
60:25
I know. And it's stupid now. It the whole thing is stupid. DVD region locks
60:30
are stupid. Everything is stupid. You create the content, you get it in front
60:36
of the eyeballs, you collect the advertising revenue. If the model needs
60:39
to change, the model needs to change. Yeah. Um, so
60:44
it's just frustrating and like I'm I'm honest. I I could have VPN to watch that
60:48
video. I could have figured it out, but I was just like, no. Speaking of which,
60:53
speaking of VPNs, I actually haven't that the way that I It's funny. The way
60:57
that I did my Hulu Plus integration not that long ago on Alinus Tech Tips video
61:02
was by using Hotspot Shield, our other sponsor to let me access it so I could
61:08
watch the videos. And I haven't actually tried again since this news came out
61:14
like hours ago to find out if Hotspot Shield is one of the ones affected. But
61:18
but anyway, when it comes to Netflix anyway, or you know, at least other
61:23
video streaming services that aren't specifically blocking VPNs, I can say
61:26
with certainty that Hotspot Shield is the fast, easy way to access content
61:30
that is locked out of your region. So, Hotspot Shield anonymizes you and also
61:36
provides you with an IP that is based in a completely different location. So, you
61:41
they have UKbased ones, they have US-based ones. So if you want to go on
61:46
comedy central.com for example, you can watch whatever videos you want, just
61:50
boom, make sure and you enable hotspot shield. You can actually turn it on and
61:54
off. And uh so you just kind of turn it on whenever you want to use it. You turn
61:57
it off whenever you want to play games and you don't want your ping times offend offended affected by the fact
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Thank you hotspot shield for sponsoring today's episode of the WAN Show. We've
62:30
also got Barnacles. Get out of here.
62:34
That was from Barnacles last week who was weighing in on our G750 Jay-Z's.
62:38
Isn't that awesome that we have like matching laptop? What's that guy's name? Who? Who hides
62:42
behind the fence? Yeah, we'll have a Wendle. No, the guy. No, where he's facing.
62:47
Yeah. Oh, well, Wendell from Tech Syndicate does it, too. I know. He never shows his face,
62:50
but it's more Wilson. Yeah, we'll So, we'll have You'll still hear us.
62:54
Um, it's all right. It's not great. Yeah, it's the audio is not great. So,
62:57
maybe we'll just we'll we'll go with this. So, the G750 Jay-Z is the next
63:01
evolutionary step in the G750 series from ASUS. And what it basically brings
63:07
to the table is a lot closer to desktop
63:10
grade performance and a lot closer to desktop pricing than we've ever really
63:15
seen before. Now, we had some people question our desktop. You remember the
63:21
Yeah, you ran the benchmarks. Okay. So, we had some people question our desktop
63:24
when we did our comparison because what we discovered was that matching this
63:28
feature for feature, spec for spec, it was going to cost us about 200 less to
63:32
build an equivalent desktop in terms of sort of, you know, the similar Intel CPU
63:38
and a GPU that performs about the same and all that stuff. But this one
63:42
actually performed within what it was about 70 to 80% of the performance of
63:45
the desktop. I I said on the stream though that if we went for just performance on the
63:49
desktop, I could have smoked it. Yeah, we were going for feature. We were going for feature parody. So, a
63:54
lot of the things that we included are things that maybe you wouldn't choose,
63:58
but you still have to acknowledge that they're features that are going to
64:02
matter to some people, and they're features that do cost money. Like, for
64:05
example, we could have bought the cheapest possible motherboard, but we
64:09
didn't. We bought an ASUS motherboard because we were looking for quality
64:13
parody and then we bought one with Thunderbolt because this laptop has
64:17
Thunderbolt which is a feature that some people use. So that's that's that's all
64:22
there is to it. We threw in, you know, a $20 webcam budget with the desktop
64:27
because a lot of people use webcams. This notebook includes a webcam, so
64:31
we're going to have to include a webcam to make sure it's fair. Because while
64:35
you guys might not look at that and go, "Oh, well, it's, you know," you might look at that and you go, "Well, oh,
64:39
that's not the hardware I would have bought, therefore it's not fair." Well,
64:43
the laptop's available in different configurations. This is the one we
64:46
happen to have, so we have to build
64:50
something that's equivalent to it. So, that's basically all there is to it. It
64:53
runs extremely quietly at idle. Here,
64:59
that's our microphone. He put the vent. Yeah, he put the vent of the laptop like
65:02
inside of the fur of our whatever this is called. It's called a dead cat.
65:06
I don't like calling it that. I know it's called a dead cat.
65:10
Anyway, so the point is it is extremely quiet when you're not doing anything
65:13
intensive. It runs cool when you're doing crazy intensive stuff. And I think
65:18
is it fair to say you were blown away by how well it performs?
65:21
Yeah, I I I'll be completely honest while doing this ad integration, which
65:25
might not be the greatest thing, but I generally don't like laptops. But I've
65:29
used this a couple times now and like when we used it in Boston to output
65:32
videos really fast which is really nice and I used it to play I don't even
65:36
remember what quite a few different games with my buddy Victoria and never
65:39
had a single problem. I think this was actually faster than his desktop.
65:43
You took this on a trip to Victoria? Nope.
65:47
Seriously,
65:53
it's company property, man. You can at least tell me. I didn't. I was talking
65:57
about my laptop. No, you weren't. It doesn't even have a
66:00
video card in it. It does, actually. So, we've managed to make it serious.
66:06
We've managed to make it this far into the integration without even explaining. So, it's got a Core i7 4700HQ. It's got
66:12
an 880M, which is actually just about equivalent to a GTX 770. Delivers a
66:16
great gaming experience. It's still portable even though it's obviously not
66:20
a Zenbook. And there you go, guys. is the ASUS G750. Jay-Z, sponsor of today's
66:26
episode. I can't even believe you. Jay-Z would have just owned his own to
66:30
bring it to Victoria. Yes, Jay-Z the rapper would have
66:36
You know what's You know what's the worst part is I'm going to have to listen to this joke for another five
66:41
weeks.
66:44
I'm not going to give up. Speaking of jokes that lasted longer than five
66:48
weeks, Plus integration on YouTube,
66:53
Google has allegedly, well, no, it's
66:57
happened. Google has cut between 1,
67:01
and,200 people from the Google+ project and
67:05
reassigned them to other divisions with
67:08
a huge chunk of them going over to the
67:11
Android side of things. So that means
67:15
that products like Hangouts, for example, they're not being cut. They're
67:19
still going to exist. They're just going to be less focused on Google+ and more
67:26
tightly integrated into Android or or other YouTube or Google projects. Sorry,
67:31
I got YouTube on the brain. So, one of the one of the reasons for this,
67:36
actually, we don't have a clear idea about the reason, but one of the reasons
67:39
for this that I think is just how much
67:42
negativity there's been around Google+ and how it's been forced on users. It's
67:47
one of the few things that Google's really done that has made literally
67:51
everyone mad. Like, the entire internet was upset about this. Google has always
67:55
been really, really good at making something and then just having it exist
68:00
and people find out about it and then people do their own marketing around it.
68:04
They've always been incredibly good at that. And that might have worked for Hangouts
68:07
if it wasn't such a giant piece of crap. Yeah, Google+ is terrible. Hangouts,
68:11
did I say Hangouts? I'm sorry. Okay. No, I I'm okay with Part of Hangouts is terrible.
68:15
I'm getting better. I'm I'm more okay with Hangouts now. I still don't like the SMS integration. I still don't like
68:20
the fact that it doesn't have a proper desktop. You need to fix that. I can't use it as
68:23
my main thing until it's on all platforms. So, okay. Okay. So, so hold on. But
68:27
Google+, sorry, giant steaming pile of garbage. I mean, honestly, I'm not the
68:33
best at navigating social media websites. I hardly know how to use
68:37
Facebook. The only thing I know how to do is to reply to people who post on my
68:42
posts and post on my page. Other than that, I figured it all out at one point
68:47
and I like integrated my Twitter feed
68:50
and I did all this stuff and then
68:54
I forgot everything because I don't use any of that stuff cuz I don't care. Like
68:59
I don't care that my cousin's second
69:04
nephew's nephew. I'm really tired. My like like my
69:09
cousin's third cousin had a birthday. I don't care. So, I basically don't even
69:14
open it other than to manage the Linus Tech page. Um,
69:17
you can like filter people out of your So, I forgot how to use all that stuff.
69:21
Google+ I couldn't even figure out in the first place. And not because I'm an
69:26
idiot and I can't figure out how to add someone to a circle and post some
69:29
something that they can see. What I couldn't figure out was how to make it
69:33
part of a workflow for me. How to integrate it into what I'm doing on
69:37
Twitter and Facebook. how to manage it
69:41
so that it is correctly tied to some of
69:44
my YouTube channels but not my other ones and so that I can have people
69:49
administering it. And these are the logistical problems that I had with
69:53
Google+. The fact that it was a little bit confusing in the first place because
69:58
nothing's really labeled. So yeah, I imagine once you're a Google+ genius,
70:03
it's pretty quick to navigate, but nothing's really correctly labeled in
70:06
the first place. And second, because of Google's history of permanently tying or
70:13
untying accounts to each other and being fundamentally broken from then on, I was
70:18
afraid to experiment. And so unless I created an entire new
70:23
batch of YouTube channels, an entire new Google+, and like trial and errored it,
70:28
it just wasn't going to work. And that's the problem. Pretty big problem.
70:32
Pretty big problem. If you if you expect a social network to work, you're going
70:38
to have to have influencers on it. I'm already in your ecosystem, Google. I'm a
70:43
YouTuber, okay? And you can't manage to
70:46
capture me. That's a problem. It's pretty bad.
70:50
It's terrible. You know, when when when when they first started talking about how they're going
70:53
to integrate Google+ with everything and how it was going to be this giant ecosystem, I was really excited.
70:58
Yeah. And then I was like, "Wow, this is bad." And now I'm no longer excited. It could
71:02
have been amazing. Should we explain why we're both tired and why laughing at your jokes hurts?
71:07
Uh, it's going to have to do with the poll. So, let's let's finish up first
71:11
here. Okay, I think we kind of are. We're kind of done. There's a couple other things. I just thought this was
71:14
awesome. This is posted on the forum. All of Denmark has been recreated in
71:18
Minecraft. What? Posted by Joners now. Not now. Okay,
71:22
this has kind of been done before. Like the UK did a topographical map, but no,
71:27
no, no, no. this is the Denmark like
71:30
buildings and stuff. So, they're releasing it. Uh the only the only
71:35
things that have been changed to to make it not completely uh sandbox is they
71:41
have removed explosives and they have there's one other thing.
71:46
And all the roofs are flat. That's it. Other than that, it's Denmark.
71:50
Wow. Isn't that amazing? That's pretty cool. I love it. I think that's fantastic.
71:54
That is actually really cool. Uh, and then I had one other thing I think,
71:59
right? Um, okay. Someone someone figure
72:03
out the logistics and kickstart this. I wanted to make it myself, but I give up
72:06
because I just don't have time. And if you can give me like a couple bucks for
72:10
the idea, then I'd appreciate that. Otherwise, just make it and send me one.
72:14
And if you can't even manage that, then just make it and I'll buy one because I
72:17
really need this. I want a smart lamp. Okay, lamps. The only innovation that
72:24
has existed in the lamp market has been aesthetic design and putting different
72:28
kinds of light bulbs in it. What I need and someone please make this for me is
72:33
an LED smart lamp that is that is for
72:38
your devices. Okay, so I think maybe the
72:41
Gen two product. Okay, maybe Gen two product gets wireless charging on one of
72:46
the levels. But basically the way I want the smart lamp to work is I want it to have a lamp on the top lamp shade. I
72:51
want it to look pretty nice, modern aesthetic. So maybe like white shade,
72:55
black structure. And basically, I want the entire thing to be kind of shaped
72:59
like this and have shelves on each level. And then down one side, maybe you
73:03
can turn that into like some kind of of a stylized thing. So one side's thicker.
73:08
I want cable management. And then I want the whole smart lamp to have one plug
73:12
that goes into the wall and then maybe a base that has a whole bunch of USB ports
73:17
in it. So, what you can do is on your shelves, you can have little wires
73:21
coming up so that basically all you do is you you can plug all of your devices
73:24
into your smart lamp so that they don't all take up a bunch of space on your nightstand. That's what I want. It needs
73:29
to exist. It couldn't be that expensive. It couldn't be that difficult to build.
73:33
But there is, for some reason, there's a
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crazy shortage of multiple hub chargers.
73:40
Ant has one that's pretty good. There's another one that's pretty good. But why
73:44
isn't there one that just has like six, seven, eight ports, all of which are 2.1
73:49
amp capable with all the latest charging schemes? Please, someone make this for
73:54
me and then follow it up with one where the bottom one is the large wireless
73:58
charging pad and I think slides everywhere. You might not even have to follow it up
74:02
with that. That could just be like the more expensive tier.
74:05
I think because that also doesn't sound hard to set up. So yes,
74:09
like at all. Lamp with lamp with hub would like it.
74:13
people asking what happened to my hand. That actually ties in pretty well to the
74:16
next thing as well. Yeah, that's coming later. So, um, do you want to do Okay, here. Do
74:22
you want to do a random.org um prize winner pick for the HTC1 M8s?
74:28
Sure. What's the number range? Which uh Oh, here. No, no, it's okay.
74:32
Here, just um use my computer. Okay,
74:36
I want that one. Okay.
74:40
So, just do it do it in our standard way. So, uh, random
74:43
I know random.org random page and then random person on
74:46
the page. And then guys, we're going to validate to make sure that you haven't
74:50
posted twice. Do we know how many pages there are? Yes, we do. It's on the forum.
74:53
We know how many pages. 490. I know. We got a lot of entrance.
74:58
Oh, no. And HTC has confirmed. They were super
75:02
nice about it. Again, not not reading the fine print for giveaways, you guys.
75:07
Uh, you were supposed to click the bit.ly link that HTC gave us. Yeah, I'll
75:11
I'll do that. Uh, you were supposed to click the B.ly link in order to qualify
75:16
for us to have two phones to give away. We needed to get 10,000 clicks. We have
75:19
over 10,000 entries and yet we don't have over 10,000 clicks, but HTC was
75:24
super cool about it and they gave us two phones anyway. So, what are terms? They just have to
75:28
post in here at all. They have to post in here at all without double posting. So,
75:32
so the the content of the message is not Nope. Don't care. Okay.
75:35
It's supposed to contain their favorite thing about the 1M8, but come on. Whatever.
75:41
We're not going to draw someone and then not give them the award. We're just going to We're just going to scold them
75:45
for not paying attention. So, scold everyone for not paying any
75:48
attention.
75:54
210. Of course, 210 of what?
75:57
It's page 210. Oh, okay. Cool. So, yeah, we're picking
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those winners, guys. Stay tuned.
76:05
Picking them winners. All about them winners. And we are also going to
76:10
explain why my hands are black. Oh, are you out?
76:14
Yeah. Uh, is the fastest possible ready to rock?
76:17
You are the man, man. Four. Have a great weekend.
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10. See you Monday. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. So, you have 20
76:30
per page. Okay. Yep. Sorry. I could have told you that,
76:35
but I was not listening to you cuz I don't care. Number 11.
76:40
Got to find him now.
76:44
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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eight, nine, 10, 11. George Hart, the
76:52
best thing is the build quality. No replacement for metal.
76:55
Nice. Yeah, metal. Yeah, there we go. Now I put up these two. I'm
77:01
like, nope, that's hanging loose. Got to fix that one. Okay, so do I just
77:06
message him? I don't think there's Yeah.
77:10
Uh, whatever message later. Yeah, it's all good. I'm going to copy the name down though.
77:17
You don't think there's what? Uh, I don't remember.
77:21
Sure. Okay. So, are we going into the thing now? Uh, no. You got to pick one more.
77:25
Another one? Yeah. Pick another winner. We got two phones, man.
77:28
Okay. 420 it was for pages. Uh, 490, I think.
77:31
490. Yep. 490. The result is
77:36
129. Can they even see that? Oh, I don't know. I can zoom in on it.
77:39
No, it's okay. Probably doesn't matter. They trust us. What was it? 129.
77:43
129. Yep. Checking. Oh, yeah. They can see it. Never mind. It's all good. So, page 129. Here we go,
77:48
guys. HTC18. Just in case people are confused, I'm
77:53
URL editing to get to the page. Screw clicking next that many times. 20 per
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page. Here we go. Second phone winner.
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Nine. Nine.
78:06
I feel sorry for anyone that we're scrolling over right now.
78:10
Seven, eight, nine.
78:13
Let me recount that just in case because I laughed partway through. One, two,
78:17
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, n.
78:21
Yeah. Okay. All right. 8878.
78:25
There's an N in there. Oh,
78:30
I like the 1080p screen and build quality and but Battery Buri.
78:36
Better. Yeah, Buri and cameras and speakers. And I liked the video about it. So, he likes
78:41
everything. Apparently, a ber is kind of like a wh house where you have to take care of yourself.
78:45
Oh, no. That's horrible.
78:49
Wow. Or a place where you uh you get stuff to
78:54
feed fish. Yeah, there we go. That's Yep, that's
78:58
it. Oh, these stupid stupid high bit
79:03
rate clips. These aren't going to play over wireless.
79:06
Oh, that's that's that's super unfortunate. Okay, hold on a second.
79:11
Okay, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna find a clip for you guys that um here. Okay,
79:15
you know what? Why don't you do like drag that one over a Twitter blitz or something?
79:20
I have another topic I can talk about. Do you? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do a topic. Do a topic.
79:23
All right. Is this going to work? Whoa. Yeah, that should be fine.
79:27
So, where is it? Let me get to this. Bit
79:30
Torrent is suggesting that Netflix should move to peer-to-peer networks uh
79:35
because of all the crap that's been going around right now over people
79:39
charging Netflix, like ISPs charging Netflix and ISPs charging other people
79:43
for premium bandwidth lanes and all the net neutrality issues that are happening
79:48
right now. That may still be resolved at some point, but for now are not.
79:52
But for now or not. So, they're suggesting that, like I just said,
79:55
Netflix goes to a peer-to-peer network. Um, the reason why we hadn't covered
79:59
this topic yet is because I have no notes about it at all, but it's been
80:03
proved that this could work because of stuff like Popcorn Time. Imagine you had
80:09
Popcorn Time, but on the scale of Netflix, I don't think the bandwidth
80:13
issues would even have a problem be a problem because uh Popcorn Time seemed
80:18
fast enough. I never even ended up trying it, but from people that I know that tried it, it no one had any
80:23
problems watching videos in high high quality. So, this would totally work and
80:29
it actually does totally make sense. It does pose a problem though um as that
80:35
would be like super easy as you're storing the file on your computer,
80:38
right? And I don't think right now with Netflix, even if you view it through a
80:42
website, it's just streaming. You're not actually saving a file or anything,
80:46
right? Yeah. No. So, is this working fine now?
80:49
Yeah. Yeah, this is working. Actually, the solution was just to plug in wired. By the way, don't gunk up the uh
80:54
Yeah. Okay, here we go. So, couple of things.
80:58
So, number one, actually, before we uh
81:02
hold on before we get too far into this, first up is guys, uh we need your help
81:07
because we have a shoot. The link is in the dog.
81:11
Yeah. Which browser are you using? Firefox. Okay. Right. That figures. Okay. Link is
81:16
in the doc. Okay, so guys, we are posting this in the where is it? Oh,
81:21
I hate that how sometimes it has the drive favicon and sometimes it has a
81:26
little document one. It's ridiculous. Yep. Okay, so there is a problem on the
81:31
internet right now on Twitter
81:34
where the problem is that here I'm just going
81:39
to post this guys. We need y'all I posted that as Luke in in the Twitch
81:43
chat. We need everyone to get on the Twitch chat. Click that link. Um, we
81:47
were actually losing this straw poll
81:51
earlier today for which tech YouTuber
81:54
would be the last one standing in a winner takes all free-for-all fight. And
82:00
first of all, this is a problem because my team as of May 1st will contain six
82:07
people. So, we would obviously win. Number two, our team has this massive
82:14
hulk of a warrior specimen, so we would
82:17
obviously win. So, I need you guys to
82:20
take care of this poll because And if
82:25
you're on the fence, if you've already voted for someone else or if you're on
82:28
the fence about voting at all, what I need for you guys is to here, I'm just
82:33
going to I'm going to keep posting this. I need for you guys to check this out because this is is from the shoot uh
82:39
that we were on yesterday where we were dressed up and where my hands got all
82:44
covered in black marks that I actually can't remove and the reason why both of
82:48
us are incredibly sore today but should tip you over the edge and help us secure
82:54
your vote. So, if you want to just keep posting the Yeah, you handle that while
82:59
I show them what went on yesterday. So
83:02
that first I'll give you guys the view from a distance here. All right. So
83:06
did you watch this one already? I haven't watched this one. I don't know. It's pretty good.
83:10
I don't know how how great how great it is. So this is this is all
83:14
Is this just preamble set up? Yeah. Okay. So preamble preamble.
83:18
There you go. Starts soon. Okay.
83:25
So this is for this is for an upcoming commercial that we're making. We we do
83:29
that now apparently.
83:36
I don't know if there's audio. I don't want there to be audio. Hold on.
83:39
I don't think there's audio. Is this clip 426? I don't know.
83:42
Okay.
83:46
I don't think so.
83:53
Like to see Logan take this on.
83:58
I think we go off screen on this one. I'm not. Let's see. Why are they sore
84:04
today?
84:16
This one might not be as good as some of the other ones. It's not. That's why I asked you what
84:19
clip number it is. Oh, okay. I'll grab the other clip after
84:24
you appear on the other side of his head. Yeah, that might not be the best clip.
84:28
It's not. That was like the first one we did, wasn't it? Oh, okay. Okay, hold on. Hold on. It
84:32
gets a lot better. Okay, let me find a better clip. Hold on. Hold on. I'll be back. Anyway, guys,
84:36
go vote. Post the link. Post the link. Post the link. Post the link.
84:39
Vote for the night. Sorry, which one is it? I think it's 426. Try that one. I can't
84:45
verify the exact number right now. And guys, let me tell you, when this
84:49
kind of stuff happens over and over and over again, Yeah, we did it many, many times.
84:54
It becomes pretty challenging. That one was missing some of the best
84:58
stuff. I know this one has a flying double kick and like
85:02
Hold on. Don't Don't spoil it. I think this is the good one. I'm not
85:05
sure.
85:09
Trust me, guys. This was real tiring.
85:17
And uh So, how much did your chain mail weigh?
85:21
I we didn't weigh it, but I'm guessing 40 45 pounds.
85:39
Oh, this is the one where I lost my helmet. Yeah. Or one of the ones where I lost my
85:43
helmet. The helmet, in spite of being not that strong, actually helped a
85:48
little bit.
85:55
Yeah, there you go. All right. All right. The the like close-up awesomeness is
86:00
Yeah. There's one more clip. We don't have any of the slow-mo, you guys,
86:04
cuz we captured that in RAW. Yeah. So, unfortunately, we can't share that
86:08
with you. But, I'm going to look for the clip of the uh of some of the more
86:12
close-up shots, and then you guys will see it. It looks
86:15
It looks interesting from that far away, but up close, uh, honestly, even the
86:20
guys filming it, so Brandon was like,
86:24
"Uh, okay, that's a lot faster and a lot
86:28
more intense when I'm right next to it."
86:32
He got hit once. Uh, what's this one? One, take three.
86:37
Hold on. Do you know what one you're looking for? Did Brandon get hit
86:40
once? Yeah. Did he by my axe? Really? Or wait, no, that was the
86:44
camera. Never mind. Yeah, my bad. The camera got hit once.
86:48
When did we do the long take?
86:51
I don't know. I don't remember. Wasn't that near the beginning of these
86:54
ones? I think so. That's what I'm looking for. But in the meantime, do we have any
86:58
topics to keep people busy with? I don't think so.
87:02
There's the uh winners of the build blog contest, but I kind of want to go
87:06
through that with you. I can bring it up on this laptop, though. Oh, okay.
87:10
Cool. because we're doing the voting thing now and there's all that stuff
87:14
going on, right? That makes sense.
87:17
No, I keep forgetting it's this laptop. Be careful.
87:22
Okay, so build logs. I was going to do this after, so just give me a sec, guys.
87:27
I will be ready, though. Um,
87:30
this is I hate the way that this camera adjust. This is terrible. If if you guys are
87:34
wondering why it's taking him so long, it's
87:38
dancing. Hey, Nights Danced.
87:43
Okay, I think this is the one, right? It might be. How long is it?
87:47
It's pretty long. Very possibly. Yep. Okay. Okay. So, here you go, guys.
87:53
Sneak preview. Sneak preview.
87:56
So, here we are up close. These costumes, they were cool until it like
88:01
rained and we'd been wearing them for six hours. So, we had we were essentially wearing
88:04
towels and then under chain and scale and then plate on top.
88:13
What's up? I'm just curious.
88:18
Is it going to take a while for him to catch up? Did I already do my goofy little dance?
88:23
I think so.
88:29
I think this is just repeated slam and Oh, is that all this is?
88:32
Yeah. Oh, this is the wrong clip. Well, whatever. Okay, you guys will have to
88:36
wait to see some of the crazier stuff later. stuff like that like legitimately hurt
88:40
though, especially when he hits me in the face.
88:45
So yeah, that was just us getting some clips of of like me hitting him. Okay,
88:49
well I'm sorry guys. You'll have to wait till we actually release our commercial.
88:54
Um something else that you guys should definitely check out is by far the best
88:58
promotional video that my team has ever made. I actually had very little
89:02
involvement. This thing was awesome with this one. But you know what? Maybe we'll just play
89:06
it on the stream. Maybe we'll just play this one on the stream. Twitch does sometimes have problems just
89:11
like streaming YouTube videos for whatever reason. I don't know how that
89:15
even happens, but just a heads up. Um, it might work. We'll see.
89:19
Okay. Well, hold on a minute. Let me uh let me see if I can Where is Kingston's
89:23
channel? Nope.
89:30
So, this is actually posted on Kingston's YouTube channel.
89:35
I think they're under Kingston memory or Kingston technology. There we go. All
89:40
right, you guys. You guys should check this out. Check this out.
89:45
Wait, where is it? They Oh, that's weird. They posted it on Twitter, but I
89:51
don't actually see it here.
89:54
Bizarre. Um,
89:58
it is weird because it has way more views than like anything that's on there as well.
90:02
Yeah. Okay. A Uh, well, I'll tweet it
90:05
out later. Okay. Anyway, you you on that laptop need to go to the forum and then to the build log voting
90:10
thread. So, nope.
90:13
You're not streaming. Okay. You need to change accounts.
90:16
I need to what? Log out of mine. Oh, well, here. Just switch.
90:20
Sure. We'll do the old laptop switcherooni. Here you go.
90:25
Whoop. Oops. Sorry. Did I just get you in the junk?
90:29
Nope. It's close again. Just like the hammer.
90:34
Oh yeah. Or was it your foot? No, it was my foot.
90:38
Oh, okay. Yep. Junk foot. Yeah. Okay. So,
90:42
you are now here. It was Hivefire and
90:46
Project Rampage that won. So, Hivefire
90:49
is luckily the very first one on the list. Sweet. Wow. Look at that thing.
90:54
I haven't even seen this yet. Pretty ridiculous. We haven't done build logs of the week in a long time.
90:58
It is now builds of the month. Of the month. Yeah, that is of the month.
91:02
This is part of the reason why we made it build logs month. Unfortunately, last
91:06
time I checked, I don't know if it's still this way or not, but the build
91:09
logs actually for this coming month only had one submission. So, just so everyone
91:14
knows, if you want to be on build logs of the month, go to the forum um and
91:18
post your submission, read the rules because for this submission, I I let all
91:24
the people through that broke the rules, but for next submission, I made it very
91:28
clear who did it wrong. next submission, please do it correctly and then we'll be
91:31
we'll be good to go. This I like almost don't even know what to say.
91:35
It's crazy. So cool. Yeah, I mean different colors on every
91:39
Dominator module. Yeah. I mean, coloring the accents on this
91:44
motherboard looks outstanding. An insane amount of time went into this.
91:48
I mean, the amount the It's funny because stuff doesn't match, but it
91:52
almost looks better that way. Like we've got clear tubing, braided tubing. We've
91:58
got like a black and red and gray color
92:01
scheme here with black, yellow, red, orange here. And like
92:06
Oh, it's just it's just utter chaos. It actually plays into the whole hive
92:11
fire idea because the fire is not going to look identical all over the place.
92:14
That's fantastic. It's really cool. So, we're doing a
92:17
little bit. These are all crazy good. Yeah, for sure.
92:23
I was very obnoxious by my you broke the rules thing. This was the other winner
92:27
was Project Rampage. So again, check out the check out this thread on the forum
92:31
and you can click through to their individual forum threads by doing so. So
92:35
you can go down to Project Rampage on this thread. Click on his link and then
92:39
you'll go to his full build log which will have all the pictures and all the details and all that kind of stuff.
92:43
These are just short snippets. Look at this bent tubing. Oh man, I love
92:48
that. It looks really good. That looks clean. I mean, I'm not I'm
92:52
not much of an overdone fittings guy,
92:56
and this to me is a little bit extreme.
92:59
You can see how many fittings are stacked on top of each other here. I
93:02
don't like unnecessary points of failure. So, that's one thing. Um, but
93:10
love the aesthetic. Love the way these PCI Express connectors come in. Uh,
93:15
absolutely love this bend right here. Like bringing it up and then away really
93:21
breaks up that normal look of trii or
93:24
triric crossfire graphics cards with this kind of this red line on the bottom
93:28
one. Looks fantastic. Memory cooling is again something that I'm not a huge fan
93:32
of because it's completely unnecessary. Although that GSkill RAM that we have,
93:38
the 2400 MHz 64 gig kit does benefit
93:42
from active cooling. though I shouldn't say completely unnecessary cuz I don't
93:45
want to put fans on things either. Yeah, that's true. Especially if you're
93:49
doing like a crazy watercol build, you want your fans in very specific locations.
93:52
Fantastic builds, you guys. Those are amazing. Absolutely awesome. So, I'm going to try
93:56
and get something worked out in terms of like build of the month badges or
94:00
something. We'll figure that out. That's probably not going to happen immediately. Um but yeah, the build of
94:05
the something is back. We're going to be
94:08
doing another one next month. Cool. Um, and yeah, remember to go on
94:12
the forum, vote, and submit, and you'll be Oh, yeah. And remember to vote for us in
94:15
the straw poll as well. Yeah, I'm gonna post that in the chat somewhere.
94:19
Yeah, hold on. I'm I'm gonna post it in the chat, too. Guys, go vote for the
94:23
Knights. Go vote for the PC Knights. All
94:26
right, there's a straw poll. Go vote. My Twitch chat is disconnected because
94:30
who knows? Uh, because I turned your Wi-Fi off. Oh, that makes sense.
94:34
That is Everybody go vote. Go vote. Am I allowed to spam my own chat? Um, I think
94:39
eventually Twitch gets mad. Really? I think so. I'm not sure.
94:43
Interesting. We should have a look at how the where the results are sitting
94:46
now. Oh, yeah. We're ahead by a solid couple thousand now. Thank you guys.
94:51
Thanks everyone. Yeah, you took care of that stunning
94:55
abomination of a pole result that had us
94:59
losing. All right. How long did we fight for yesterday in full armor?
95:03
Hours. Like seven hours.
95:07
No, I think it was more like five because we had the armor on for a while
95:10
and we were just like kind of doing stuff. But like you were doing tiring things like you moved all of our gear
95:15
from the one table to the uh to the bleachers. All right, good night
95:18
everyone. Thank you for watching the WAN Show. I changed my mind about garage
95:22
sale because I'm just really tired. I want to go home. Um peace out.
95:27
Bye everyone. I got to sleep last night. You didn't. So that's very justified.