and where audio problems are just the beginnings of our failure.
So today, I am even later than I was supposed to be,
because I had some audio issues there.
And I do apologize for that.
Every time I set up in a completely new and different environment,
it's always a new and different adventure.
So today, I put together my streaming pack, the XA20 camera, a tripod,
the razor blade laptop, a capture card, a mouse, a mouse pad,
a razor blade laptop, which unfortunately doesn't have wired ethernet,
so I had to bring along my handy-dandy little USB to ethernet adapter,
and then I borrowed a table, and I borrowed a place to stream from from the NCIX guy.
So my original brilliant plan was actually to film everything that I needed
back at our studio today, and then come out to NCIX to film later and do the WAN show from here,
which would save me a trip to Richmond later tonight when I come out to play badminton.
Apparently, my mic is too loud.
Well, I can't turn it down much, so okay, recording devices, blippity-bloppity levels,
whatever, there, hopefully that's fine.
Not much I can do other than just guess at this point,
because me having my monitoring on seems to be what caused the problems before.
So there you go, guys, apparently peaking still, it's echo in the room, mic good.
You guys drive me absolutely crazy with this stuff, you're killing me here.
So yeah, all right, we're just gonna have to roll with, you know what, maybe Jack can help me out.
Hey, Jack, are you on the stream, does it sound okay?
I've got people saying it's too loud, people saying it's too quiet,
people saying that they've had too much bourbon to drink today, and they can't hear anything.
They're blind and they can't hear, so yeah.
All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and kick off with our first topic of the day.
I do not have Luke on the stream today, he is actually on vacation today,
so he's gone to the Pemberton Music Festival, whatever that thing is called.
Fortunately, the wildfires haven't completely gotten out of control up there,
so the music festival is a go.
He and Nick and Berkel have all gone up for the weekend,
so that means I am on my own today for the WAN Show.
But the good news is that I have a bunch of great topics for you guys today,
including the recent reveal that Skylake Xeons are gonna be rumoured to have up to 28 CPU cores.
I mean, I thought the current 18-core Haswell-based Xeon that I had was like,
wow, that's so amazing, it's got 18 cores.
No, no, we're talking 28 cores.
Apple is apparently being sued over the iWatch trademark,
something that makes a ton of sense because their watch is called the iWatch,
at least I think College Humor told me that it was called the iWatch, more on that later.
Also, Boeing has apparently patented a laser-powered fusion fission jet engine concept.
Fusion and fission and lasers, I mean, does it get any better than that?
Yes, it does, when I roll the intro.
Well, as I fix it.
All right, so let's kick off our first topic of the day.
Actually, this is OK, we're apparently going to start with like the worst news of the day.
So Nintendo released a statement.
You can actually check that out here that you have noticed.
Wow, this is like, I just, it's hard for me to imagine if my life were to be summarized
in such a succinct and efficient manner, like if Linus Media Group issued a notification
of death and personnel change of a representative director.
So, president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata has passed away at the age of merely 55, which,
you know, a couple thousand years ago would have been impressive that he managed to be
so old and still alive, but today feels like he's been taken away from us much, much too
young.
I just, oh man, there's something very, there's something very cold about this document here.
Career record, June 2000, appointed as director, May 2002, appointed as president, June 2003,
appointed as CEO of Nintendo of America, Inc.
So that is, if you're into gaming, that is some pretty crummy news.
He actually has been with Nintendo for a very long time, started out with HAL, worked on
Kirby as well as Earthbound, total cult classic, a lot of people cutting their RPG gaming teeth
on Earthbound and other games of that era.
Later worked on programming for the Pokemon games, pushed development of the Wii and DS,
however you may or may not feel about this, it seemed like a good direction for Nintendo
at the time, they had some of their most successful years ever.
So pushed development of the Wii and the DS to appeal to people who weren't necessarily
gamers yet, so really recognized that gaming was becoming more than just something that
people do in their mom's basement, and passed away from bile duct cancer, so very, very
unfortunate news for this week.
Yeah, so there you go, I guess that's what we're starting with this week.
Star Wars Battlefront, more bad news for, I mean, obviously to a much lesser degree,
the original article here is from PC Gamer, and actually I'm totally thrown off by not
having my co-host with me today, so I'm gonna go ahead and pop that link into the Twitch
chat before I bring it up in my browser here, I actually really like this one host having
the article like quite large beside me and actually scrollable and mostly viewable kind
of thing, maybe I should just kick Luke off the WAN show permanently, nah I'm just kidding
I'm not gonna do that.
Star Wars Battlefront won't support split screen play on the PC, now I don't personally
understand why most PC gamers would have ever expected this, it's not like the typical PC
gaming, you go on r slash PC master race or battle stations or whatever, you're not gonna
find a whole lot of PC setups that are like, yeah here's my PC hooked up to a big monitor
with four controllers for all my split screen racing gaming with my friends, it's not something
that we've typically seen on the PC, but the flip side of that is I would love to see more
of those things that are taken for granted on the console supported on the PC, because
it's not like you can't hook up an Xbox controller or four to a PC and have a really great cooperative
or competitive gaming experience with your friends on a single display, and yeah so supports
co-op play on Xbox One and PS4, but not PC, so no split screen and no local co-op, the
lack of co-op games on the PC is another one that really grinds my gears, but I don't really
need to get too deep into that, because I'm sure that you guys have heard that in the
past from me a fair bit, so we've still got a lot of people saying the, Jack you're sure
the stream is not too quiet right, oh Jack is gone, Jack are you sure the stream is not
too quiet, he put on headphones, okay I'll tell you what, I will turn it up a little
bit there, are we happy, hopefully we're happy, I really hope we're happy, you guys are driving
me crazy, Twitch chat, now I know, I saw someone's chat, a message in the Twitch chat like, you
know you don't interact with your Twitch chat viewers at all, you know why, because you
guys are usually trolling the crap out of me, that's why I can't interact with you,
you have lost your interaction privileges, that is what happened here, that is what happened
my friends, so let's go ahead and move on to our next topic here, ah yes, IBM and Nvidia
launch super computer centres of excellence, you guys, super computer centres of excellence,
let's go ahead and pull this article up, news items, redirecting, so basically what this
amounts to is, here we go, at both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and I want to say some
other location, it's in my notes, but not here, so these are, oh wow, there's actually
oh, I remember reading this article and thinking oh yeah, this is all like interesting stuff,
blah blah blah, I hope it's in my notes, it's actually not in the notes, I'm just going
to cheat and look at the article, so Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore in, they're going to
be delivered in 2017 and operational by 2018 and they're going to be called the, yep, sure
wish I had this, oh okay, yep, there you go, got the memo, so they're going to be called
Summit and Sierra, so these are part of IBM's whole contract with the US Department of Energy
and they're going to be used for a number of really cool things, so some of it is going
to be kind of your typical super computing stuff like, you know, weather mapping and
all that kind of stuff, you know, just staying ahead in the super computer rat race of the,
you know, the other nations that are working on their own proprietary super computer systems
in China, and then some of the stuff that they're going to be doing is really cool,
so one of them is apparently going to be set to the task of mapping the inside of the earth,
I mean can you even begin to imagine what kind of useful information that we could possibly
gain about the inside of the earth, whether it's to do with the composition, whether it's
to do with, you know, wow, like it's, yeah, it's sort of more than my imagination can
handle, so yeah, mapping the inside of the earth, which actually leads me to another
really cool topic, Samsung has apparently filed a patent, so the original article here
is from Android authority, let's go ahead and pop this up here, alright, let's go ahead
and post this in the Twitch chat, Samsung has apparently patented a sensor to detect
your body fat, so we know that whether it's Apple or whether it's Samsung or whether it's
any other profitable smartphone maker, which more on that a little bit later, there aren't
a whole lot of them, whether it's Apple or whether it's Samsung, smartphone makers are
really into the whole idea of making your phone or your smart watch or whatever other
devices you're carrying around with you, making them into whether, wow, I want to be really
careful what I say here, because what I was about to say was making them into useful tools
for, you know, monitoring your health and living a more active lifestyle, when really
my personal philosophy on this whole thing is that it doesn't do much of anything other
than make you want to buy it more, like I think it's just a pure sales pitch, if we
can convince someone that buying this phone or buying this smart watch will make them
lose 20 pounds, then it's that whole buying something based on self-image rather than
buying something based on like a rational decision anyway, it's no secret that they
want not only to make us feel like they're useful for these things, but to actually make
them functionally better for these things, so this is a huge step in that direction,
because there's only so much information that you can get from a pedometer, and as my time
with the Apple Watch has definitely taught me, it's not that much, so I mean, I'd be
sitting there working on my review, one feature that I didn't use because I'm just not that
into the whole health features thing on phones and smart watches, so one feature that I didn't
touch the whole time I was naturally using the product for my review was one where you
can set a predetermined workout, so you can say like, hey, I want to burn X number of
calories by walking really fast, so hey, can you count me down on this and I'll go do that,
so I was just thinking around with the menu and I turned that on and then I kind of forgot
about it, and then I realized, you know, 10 minutes later that I had actually tracked,
I think it was something like 4% of my brisk walking exercise, and I had literally been
sitting there writing a review about the Apple Watch and how I don't actually think those
kinds of features are that useful, so Apple went ahead and proved my point for me there,
but if they could measure body fat, that may actually give us some usable data over the
much longer term.
The problem though is that that doesn't really tell us a big picture unless it's accompanied
by accurate data, and that's another real challenge, is even the Apple Watch which was
hailed as going to be game-changing with all of the health-related, body-related sensors
on it, even the Apple Watch has been found to not be that accurate of a heart rate monitor
unless you practically bolt it to your wrist, so this body fat thing without other accurate
data doesn't really give us a whole picture, but it's definitely a move in the right direction
because over a span of 6 months or whatever else, if you see significant changes, if you're
taking measurements daily, even if they're not that, and I'm going to say the wrong one
because accurate and precise are not the same thing, for those of you who didn't know that,
one of them means close to the real value, the other one means consistently a value but
maybe not necessarily that close, so even if the reading is not that precise, I think
that's the one where if you're not precise you could be scattered but probably around
you could still be accurate, so if they're accurate but not precise, taking many readings
over a long period of time could give you some really useful data about what it is you're
doing and whether or not it's helping and with the way that fitness vlogging and lifestyle
vlogging is taking off, even in the tech community of all places, you look at guys like Jay or
Jerry that are doing frequent updates on their personal fitness goals, that kind of stuff
is great and giving people new tools is great but it still doesn't change my perception
of these features as tacking things on to a product that seem to be designed to sell
them to us rather than designed for people to genuinely use them, so that patent was
just granted so there's no word as of yet on when we will see this technology in phones
but the idea is that you would just hold your smartphone and it would measure your body
fat percentage using electrical impedance readings, so very cool stuff, I guess that
leads us pretty well into this next topic here, this is absolutely mind blowing and
I will show it to you guys in a second.
So the latest estimates here, there we go, Luke always does it the not lazy way and makes
it so it doesn't leave that ugly Google link in the Twitch chat but sorry I'm running the
show by myself today here guys, I apologize, report Apple takes 92% of smartphone market
profits on just 20% of sales, so to put that number in perspective, this is a Wall Street
Journal quote, roughly a thousand companies make smartphones, one of those companies reaps
nearly all the profits, is that not absolutely mind boggling and you can point to a lot of
different causes for this, you can point to the fact that Apple's hardware is frankly
not that high spec compared to a flagship Android phone that's gonna have 8 CPU cores
in it, a high end GPU although Apple does put powerful GPUs in their smartphones, it's
gonna have 1440p display, Apple doesn't have any smartphones that feature 1440 displays,
they just finally went 1080p with the iPhone 6 Plus, Android makers have been putting NFC
in their phones for years whereas Apple only just finally rolled that out, Android phone
makers, I mean these are things that everyone has to pay the same amount for, in fact, thanks
to Apple's, well they're buying power, thanks to Apple's buying power, they probably don't
even pay the same for things like memory or flash storage, Apple doesn't put as much RAM
in their smartphones because they can control the operating system to the point where they
simply do not need it, so there's a lot of reasons, I mean Apple charges a high price
for every phone they sell, you can look at Samsung and go, oh well you know, they have
a 600 or 700 dollar phone or whatever line is, that's an S6 active, that's a 600 dollar
phone, S6 Edge is an expensive phone, yeah but the thing is that companies like Samsung
are also spending R&D money on developing low end phones where the sale price is actually
much closer to the bomb cost of the unit than you would probably think, because you know,
that's one of the things, you know those articles that come out every time a new iPhone or a
new Galaxy S whatever is released, where someone does a tear down and is like, okay well the
bomb cost for this panel and that motion sensor and that button is whatever it happens to
be and you kind of go, wow really, that thing only costs like 130 dollars to make and it's
600 dollars retail?
So think about this for a second, the R&D that goes into producing a phone is going
to be a lot regardless of whether it's a 600 dollar phone or a 200 dollar phone and if
your cost on a high end phone can only be as high as like 150, 170 bucks, then your
cost on a 200 dollar phone in order to make 400 dollars of gross margin on it, well gee,
that math doesn't work at all and something a lot of people don't realize is that a flagship
Snapdragon 810 actually doesn't cost that much more than an 808, there isn't a huge
discount because much like what you'll see on, you see this on desktop processors too,
you can buy an extreme edition for 1000 dollars or you can buy a 5820K for 350 bucks or whatever
that is, those two chips cost the same, so when you are responsible for actually manufacturing
the chips, you can actually, like you can sell it for a lot but then your cost to manufacture
it and therefore your discount that you can give on lower end products isn't necessarily
that different, so if you are making low end smartphones, you are basically buying market
share, you got to have some other kind of agenda, whether you want people signed up
for your partner apps that you are including on the phone or whether you want people locked
into like what Samsung was doing for the longest time where they'd include all their own mail
app and app store, like if you want to make future app sales and take a cut of that or
whatever else the case may be because you are not making money on that handset once
you factor in R and D and the margins that the carriers want to make or the retailers
want to make or whatever else, so just to give you guys some idea of what the rest of
the landscape looks like, Samsung took a further 15% of the profits which is kind of a funny
way of doing the math because if Apple took 92% and Samsung took 15%, well hold on a second,
it was 7% of the profit in the smartphone industry, Linus what are you doing?
Well that's because pretty much everyone else out there is making a loss on their smartphones
to make up for that money that Samsung and Apple are going to make and it's amazing what
a reversal there's been in the last few years, I mean it was a mere 3 years ago that, hold
on a second, that we were looking at 50-50 between Samsung and Apple for these numbers,
whereas Apple has just absolutely, you know it's really funny, go figure, Apple got even
more dominant than before by delivering what people obviously wanted, I mean how many people
bought a Galaxy Note simply because they had, this is a great straw poll, okay I want the
iPhone users to answer this for me though, let me just, apparently there's a new version
of straw poll launching at some point here, so how many bought a Note or similar large,
okay how many converted from iPhone to Android simply because Apple offered no, sorry I'm
talking really slow, no large screen offering, it's hard to talk while you type and not talk
at the same speed that you type while slowing down your typing because you're trying to
talk at the same time, so let's go with yes, no and turnip as usual, I actually really
like having the stream computer right in front of me here, it is super duper awesome and
nice, so there we go guys, vote in that straw poll, let's have a look at the results here
as they come in, many of you voting for turnip which by the way is our latest shirt and is
available right now at teespring.com slash vote number 4 turnip, let's go ahead and drop
that in there and go back to our straw poll here, really interesting, so there you go,
go figure, Apple's even more dominant today with their super premium pricing, high end
devices simply by giving the people what they have been asking for, for like what was it,
3 years between the release of the first note and the iPhone 6 plus, personally not a huge
fan of the iPhone 6 plus, I have small hands but hey a lot of people want it, it is better
for the media enjoyment experience, it's something that I have noticed going from the LG G4 to
the S6 active which is the phone review that I'm working on at the moment here, got 60%
of you voting for turnip, really do appreciate the turnip voters showing up in full force
here, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the Twitch chat is always trolling me when
I encourage them to you know turnip all over everything it is that we're doing, which isn't
to say that I want to hear about fire polls any more ever again at all, yeah I mean really
guys really there is nothing that I can do, I cannot put a fire poll in the office for
obvious liability reasons you guys, okay so we've got more news articles here, let's go
ahead and I'm gonna grab the Linus Tech Tips forum link here, I'm gonna wait for the redirect
this time, post that in the Twitch, where did my Twitch chat go, where's my Twitch chat
and the Twitch chat has exploded asking for fire polls, of course that was gonna happen,
researchers build a transistor from a molecule and a few atoms, it's funny because this lands
on the same week when we've got news out of Intel that they are going to be for the first
time and I think what is it, I wanna say like 6 years or something like that, Intel has
changed their forecast saying that they are not going to be able to stick to their Tik
Tok strategy, which is a die shrink every other cycle and then a refinement of their
micro architecture every other cycle and they have been like on schedule, they called it
Tik Tok because it was gonna be reliable like a clock, Moore's law was not going to let
us down, well for the first time ever Intel has stumbled and then boom, we've got news
dropping that researchers are building transistors from a molecule and a few atoms, so it works
similarly to quantum dots but the transistor depends on just the charge state of one organic
molecule, so just a single electron affects the molecule state with individual atoms of
indium surrounding the molecule and regulating the electron flow, this could lead to integrating
these sorts of transistors into traditional CPU's, so this isn't like some crazy like
oh it's only gonna be useful for like quantum computers that are liquid helium cooled or
whatever the case may be, no, this could turn into something that you could actually use
in your computer, extremely exciting stuff, which leads us into those other, I mean these
are fairly rapid fire news topics but I'm still gonna go ahead and post these bad boys
here, so TSMC is going to be starting testing on their 10nm process starting next year which
is another huge, huge bit of news, so competition between Samsung and TSMC in 10nm FinFET market
heats up, well hold on a second, where does Intel figure into all this, Intel, well that's
our next news topic, so for now let's just talk about TSMC and Samsung, so TSMC is apparently
ramping things up and really putting their foot on the pedal in order to have a crack
at Apple's A10 processor production, so I guess that also would align with the rumours
that Apple's A10 processor will be produced at a 10nm process node, so that could yield
apparently and this is sort of, this is all forecasty stuff so it's not really that meaningful
today, but we're looking at a potential 20% performance gain with a 40% reduction in power
consumption, who here, oh this is a good one, straw pull time my friends, if Apple gets
a 40% power consumption reduction on the A10, will Apple use it to extend battery life,
yes or no, remember guys, the other option is that Apple will simply turn it into thinner
iPhones and iPads yet again, completely ignoring the fact that some people like me legitimately
want just more freaking battery life, wow, we've got these votes coming in here guys
with 72%, even Turnip is losing this vote today, a massive 70% of you are saying no,
Apple will not use the power savings to extend battery life and there are legitimately good
things they could do with it, for example I've been saying, well since my MacBook review
that I think the direction that Apple is heading is a MacBook, like an ultra portable laptop
that is powered by their tablet processors and smart phone processors, so that's something
they could do, they could use that extra 20% performance and then 40% power to like actually
make a bigger chip that consumes a similar amount of power but is like actually like
way higher performance and they could go and put it in a laptop or on the phone and on
the tablet side they could just make them thinner and like how many bend gates do we
need, how many bend gates do we need, that's all I have to say, looks like the vast majority
of you are reinforcing my disappointing hunch that Apple is going to ignore people like
me who, I'm even, I even ran out on the S6 active one day, which kind of surprised me
because that's a 3500 mAh battery compared to I think it's, I want to say 3850 or something
like that on the Droid Turbo, so yeah, I actually ran out one day, usually I make it through,
like I'm sitting at 28% today though, but I have used it fairly heavily with GPS and
all that kind of noise, wow, I feel like I've been talking a mile a minute on this stream
but apparently you guys like that, we have 6400 viewers, what is going on, we are halfway
through the show, that is absolutely incredible, now I don't want to screw it up and talk about
like some kind of boring topic like let's play what's on the desk here at the NCIX studio,
here we go, oh look at that, we've got an Intel 750 series 1.2 terabyte SSD just sitting
here, we've got another Intel 750 series 1.2 terabyte SSD this time in a two and a half
inch form factor, no, no Jack that's cheating, I'm not taking your McDonald's happy meal
nonsense, only things that are within my reach, we've got a four way SLI bridge, a random
cheapo IO shield, yeah, what else we got here, oh, is this under NDA, what is this, Node
202, are you sure, oh, is there a computer in there, no, just a power supply, I'm just
weak, oh, well that's disappointing, so I guess we've got one of these, it's funny because
I had a call with someone today where I was told not to publish my review yet, so, whose
fault is it then if we break an NDA on my show with your review sample, yeah, I think
it's probably my show that's gonna take the fall for this one, oh, is this the curved
one, oh, that's a flat one, I can't tell, I thought it was a Samsung curved 24 inch
monitor but it turned out it was actually a Samsung flat 24 inch monitor, 24 inches,
the whole curved thing doesn't make a whole ton of sense to me personally, alright, we
don't have to play this game anymore, that was fun though, oh, actually these are super
handy, we are finally getting some of these in our studio, we're getting a bunch of clear
ones for storage of things, oh, here's the curved one, look a curved monitor, it's curved,
which is good, at least that's what I tell her, yup, curved for her pleasure, mind you
I'm pretty sure that depends on the direction of the curve and like the position at the
time, cause like, you know, like a 180 degree turn, you know, from certain angles might
actually be quite uncomfortable, oh, look, I haven't managed to scare off that many of
you, I was gonna see if I just go off on a completely stupid tangent, how many of you
are gonna hate me forever and tune out, wow, seriously, thank you guys for tuning in anyway,
let's move on to our next topic today, Intel reportedly delays their 10nm mass production
due to poor yields, so let's go ahead and post the link to the forum here, alright,
let's go ahead and pull the article up on Ars Technica here, alright, Intel confirms
TikTok shattering KB Lake processor as Moore's Law falters, so the company will make 3 generations
of 14nm processors delaying the switch to 10nm, and you know what, it might not necessarily
be the end of the world, I mean you look at what Nvidia has managed to do, stuck on 28nm
for a freaking dog's age, I mean think about that for a second, look at the improvements
we saw in efficiency as well as performance going from Kepler to Maxwell in spite of the
fact that they were stuck on the same manufacturing process node, maybe the engineers at Intel
can pull, you know, magic duck out of their hats and turn this into a positive, an opportunity
to optimise their 14nm processors in a way that maybe they didn't think about before
because they were just relying on process node shrinks, or maybe none of that will happen,
I mean what I would love to see happen, you know, we've seen a lot of bad news out of
Intel in the last few weeks here, whether it's the job cuts, or whether it's the,
you know, the stagnant desktop processor sales leading to, you know, an earnings shortfall
prediction, like that kind of stuff, maybe what this will do is be a bit of a, you know,
wake up and smell the coffee call for them to really innovate in terms of performance,
because we've seen them innovate in a lot of ways, like let's face it, as much as enthusiasts
might not get, you know, excited about 10 watts of better, you know, power savings or
whatever, the thing that we enthusiasts need to realise is that if Intel can build that,
that means that they could probably build a more complex, higher performance chip that
consumed a similar amount of power, even if it's not, you know, double the performance,
hey, I would take a, you know, 30%, you know, generation over generation performance improvement
like we used to see sometimes in an absolute freaking heartbeat, so I would love to see
Intel find a way to capture the hearts of the enthusiasts and not just the minds by,
you know, maybe dialling back all the graphics on board of an enthusiast grade CPU, maybe
dialling up the single threaded performance.
Would love to see them just kind of take a look, take a long hard look at where they're
heading and figure out if it's exactly the right direction.
And you know, I hate to do this, but AMD did their earnings call Q2 2015, hold on, I don't
actually have this in the doc here, but edited transcript, blah blah blah blah blah, dang
it, did anyone do an article, yeah, revenue falls again, this and this and this, blah
blah blah, let's see, blah blah blah, zen, whatever, et cetera, okay, so, crap, I can't
find it, I actually talked about it on Netlink daily today, but AMD has, can you remind me,
what was it, they're going 10 nanometer in 2017 or something like that, no, they've taped
out, they've taped out what, okay, AMD's first FinFET processor has taped out, which means
we actually could be closer than we thought, so that was one of the things they covered
on their earnings call, this is a huge opportunity with, because you've got to understand guys,
if Intel decides to build like a consumer grade, you know, like a something 770K processor
with more of an emphasis on CPU and less emphasis on GPU and power savings and blah blah blah,
that takes years, it takes years to turn that around, so if AMD is already waist deep in
the development process of zen and zen turns out to be a success, man, we could see another
you know, golden year or golden two years out of AMD on the CPU side and we could see
like some legitimate reasons for an enthusiast to buy an AMD CPU, I really hope for this
for two reasons, number one, you know, I put an AMD CPU, a lot of people call me a fanboy,
they'll call me an Intel fanboy or an Nvidia fanboy and something I'd like you guys to
understand is that AMD will always hold, and ATI for that matter, AMD will always hold
a very special place in my heart, even though they absorbed ATI, although funny thing is
AMD's worth, I think it was something like a quarter of what they paid for ATI today,
anyway, they'll always hold a special place in my heart because the very first computer
I built for myself, AMD processor guys, Barton 2500 plus, my friends overclocked the snot
out of that thing, made it 3200 plus equivalent, which I told myself at the time, because let's
face it, when I was young, I was a bit of a fanboy, I told myself at the time that that
was somehow equivalent to a 3.2 gigahertz, you know, P4C which come on, come on AMD fans,
let's let's be honest with ourselves for a second here, the performance rating system
was dead, was dead long before the the P4C launched, Pentium 4B was not that equivalent
to AMD's PR, or you know, press release, or public relations, or performance rating, whatever
they wanted to call that system, and actually, the first add-in graphics card I ever bought,
ATI my friends, 9600 all in wonder pro, bam, so you know, I'd love to see a return to the
glory days there, even if you know, I've been disappointed time, and time, and time, and
time, and time again, with the latest being the Fury X, and you know, AMD does it to themselves
guys, they build up this hype train, they build up this hype train, and then they under
deliver, and you know, the fact of the matter is, I can't help myself as an enthusiast,
I just want to see fast hardware, like I'm not that focused on who, what brand makes
it these days, I couldn't care less, I just want to make it go fast, you know what I mean,
I still, I still have some hope for the, this 19 centimeter Fury based card that's apparently
going to be launching sometime in mid August, I don't know if I actually have an article
here in the doc for that one, but that was just something that I was reading about, so
I think I just, I think I just completely broke the document, and oh that is so nice,
Ghost, who deserves a shout out, because he does so much behind the scenes for the WAN
show, member of the Linus Tech Tips Community, Ghost, he actually fixed me over writing a
bunch of crap in the doc, while I was looking at it, he helps flesh out the topics, he coordinates
the folks who put together the timestamps, and sends that to me, so I can go ahead and
get that posted for you guys, and look at this, has added the Kit Guru article that
I'll go ahead, I'll post this in the Twitch chat here, boom, and I'll go ahead and pull
this up here, about AMD's FinFET, whoops, I keep clicking the wrong thing, because I've
set up my scenes differently, AMD, we have taped out our first FinFET product, first
couple of FinFET designs, blippity bloppity, etc, etc, for production, etc, so tape out
is the final stage of the design cycle of an integrated circuit, the point at which
the artwork of the IC is sent to the maker of photomasks, okay, so once the set of photolithic
masks is made and verified, it is sent to a contract manufacturer for the chip which
produces the first working samples of the chip, so they should get their first samples
sometime in September, very exciting stuff, and hopefully they're headed in the right
direction here, alright what else we got here, oh, speaking of ball and processors, as much
as Intel hasn't delivered much for gamers to wet their panties over in the last few
generations here, this is gonna get some server and high performance computing folks pretty
freaking excited here, so original article here is from KidGuru, Intel's 28 core Xeon
code name Skylake CPUs to support 6 terabytes of RAM on an LGA 3467 form factor with a rumoured
6 channel built-in memory controller and support for up to 8 CPUs on a single motherboard,
yes, the pearly platform will be Intel's biggest server platform advancement in many years
when it's rolled out, okay, no time soon, unfortunately it's not gonna be rolling out
until 2017 and that assumes everything stays on schedule which, as you guys know, is not
always the case, but it's gonna use a new bus called UPI, operating at 10 gigatransfers
per second and Xeons themselves will have built-in 10 gigabit ethernet and or 100 gigabit
per second OmniPath integrated onto the dies, now that is some useful technology to start
building on die, because I mean I don't know if some of the younger folks are gonna know
this but on Intel chipsets for years and years and years, like remember when we, in the early
days of gigabit, remember when it was like really rare, like practically unheard of to
have an Intel gigabit network chip set on built into your motherboard, a lot of people
don't know this, it was all on there, it was on there all that time, Intel chipsets had
gigabit LAN on them, it was actually a licensing fee that the motherboard maker had to pay
to Intel in order to activate it, so wrap your brain around this for a second, it was
cheaper for the motherboard maker to buy a chip set from Realtek or Marvell or whoever
the case may be and put that physical chip on the motherboard increasing the complexity
of the PCB not to mention buying another chip than it was to just unlock the gigabit ethernet
that was on board, so yeah, so more Intel ethernet, I don't know if Intel has adjusted
their pricing structures or whatever's happened but we've seen a lot more Intel ethernet lately
and moving that on die is only good, wow excuse me that snuck up on me, that was rude, is
only going to be a good thing especially as network speeds ramp up and latency becomes
much more important to go along with the massive bandwidth that we're going to need in order
to achieve you know 100 gigabit per second connections and all that kind of nonsense.
This is definitely the day's most hilarious piece of news, Apple is getting sued over
the name iWatch even though that's not what their product is called, so let's go ahead
and test this, iWatch, look at that, the first search result is Apple, the next search result
is European lawsuit over iWatch name shows why Apple had to choose Apple Watch, that's
a really funny thing because I definitely did wonder why they went with Apple Watch
instead of iWatch, okay there's 9 to 5 Mac slash iWatch the European trademark holders
filed the lawsuit, Apple's getting sued, it's so funny the power of Apple even if they don't
call it something it still completely dominates the headlines, so anyway what their butthurt
about, so it's an Irish company that owns the iWatch trademark in Europe is upset that
Apple paid to put Apple Watch ads on Google for the search term iWatch which I can totally
understand why they did, I mean let's face it you're an average consumer who's not you
know hanging on to you know Joni Ives every word, you're gonna probably think it's called
the iWatch because that's what like Apple stuff that goes in your pocket or you know
on your wrist if you had one of those tricked out iPod Nanos, that's what Apple portable
devices are called, so for people to go and search on Google for iWatch and expect to
get an Apple Watch is a perfectly reasonable thing, so for Apple to take advantage of that
and convert those people to sales makes a ton of sense, so yeah but I can also understand
you know why this particular trademark you know upset is going on here, so apparently
the Europe iWatch trademark is valued at 87 million euros and Google is evaluating the
trademark complaint which apparently they do on a case by case basis, so it wouldn't
be the first time this has ever happened thanks ghost, in 2012 Apple actually paid 60 million
to settle a trademark dispute in China over rights to use the name iPad, hmm I should
start trademarking Apple things, I've been predicting for a long time iHome, I should
trademark iHome, I think Apple is gonna do like completely prepackaged homes that are
just fully automated and integrated with all of Apple services and everything, the iHome,
it's called an iHome, oh that's lame, well iHouse then, bam, iDomicile, iResidence, iStructure,
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Boeing patents, laser powered fusion fission jet engines, yes that is as complicated as
it sounds, so naturally the original source here for the article is Ars Technica, these
guys do such a great job of the highly technical topics because I'm a confess to you guys,
I am not some kind of, you know, physicist here and I am not going to be able to explain
to you exactly how the crap this works, but essentially there you go, that is a diagram
of the patent.
Now to be clear, we are nowhere near fission being useful for like, you know, pushing planes
around yet, but they're patenting the concept once the technology advances to the point
where they could build something like this, they're just sort of saying theoretically
like they could, so basically the way that it works is they are going to shoot lasers
at deuterium and tritium, so there's heavy hydrogen inside the engine causing the atoms
to fuse, okay?
So then gas from the fusion reaction would then be pushed out the back of the engine
creating thrust, leftover neutrons from the fusion bombard the inside of the engine which
is coated with fissionable uranium generating heat which powers the lasers, helping it sustain
itself as it goes.
So fusion, remember guys, is combining atoms, fission is breaking them apart, so fission
is the one that we've harnessed at this point with fusion being the one that we still have
a long way to go at.
I might have actually screwed that up a moment ago, but the point is lasers and nuclear reactions
tearing apart and combining atoms, wow, those should be some pretty badass, badass jet engines.
Alright, what else do we got here today?
T-Mobile has a new family plan, this is a pretty quick topic, not a whole lot to really
say about it other than that T-Mobile continues to put the thumb screws on the other mobile
carriers there, oops, I'm looking at the wrong, dang it, wait, there should be, yup, let's
go with Android authority today.
So their plan is 10 gigabytes per line which is pretty fantastic when you compare it to
what the others are offering and it's 120 bucks for four lines and it's pretty much
unlimited everything, so it includes 10 gigs of 4G LTE data.
Now you can say whatever you want about T-Mobile's coverage and my first-hand experience with
T-Mobile's network compared to AT&T has not been very favourable.
With that said, every time we go down to the US, we all refill our T-Mobile pay-as-you-go
sims because for 3 bucks a day or whatever for LTE, I think up to 100 megs of LTE data
per day, as far as pay-as-you-go plans go, it is pretty freaking fantastic especially
compared to what we can get in Canada.
So let me just have a look at what else is included here, 10 gigs per line, no sharing
and you can get 20 gigs for an extra 10 dollars per month.
Pretty awesome!
All right, what do we got next here?
Ah, yes, Microsoft CEO clarifies their mobile and Windows 10 strategies, so oops, original
article here guys, I'm going to pop that in the Twitch chat, boom, here we go and news
items.
All right, so it talks about his thinking around product differentiation and being ahead
of the curve in this Q&A, you know, this is the first time, wow, this is the first time
since Windows CE, just to kind of put it in perspective that I've had some kind of hope
that Microsoft knows what they're doing and could legitimately be a major player in the
Windows mobile, so like Windows phones and Windows mobile-based tablets or whatever else,
what other products we see roll out, especially phones, this is the first time that we've
seen so many dramatic changes for the better at Microsoft, like looking at how much feedback
they're taking on Windows 10, you know, seeing people posting stories about how they submitted
a bug report or a feature request and it showed up in the next build, I mean that kind of
crap is amazing, that kind of a transparent process is amazing and so this is the first
time in a long time that I've looked at Windows phone and gone, maybe there's hope for this
because there's a lot about Windows phone that's good, I know that I've crapped on it
a lot in the past and I have good reason to crap on it because let's face it, if you want
to win me as a customer, it's ecosystem, why is Apple so successful at charging so much
for their phones, ecosystem, how do they get away, like you look at the way they backpedaled
on the iPhone 5C, they even dabbled and okay, let's try having like a cheap option and they
got the crap out of there because they realised they were doing themselves no favours with
a plastic cheaper phone, no favours at all because their customers, they didn't want
them anyway, they wanted to be part of that premium ecosystem and so you have to sell
me an ecosystem and if I buy a new phone today, I expect to have a Sonos app or I expect my
you know, Spotify or Google Play Music or whatever account to be able to beam to my
wireless speakers in my house, like I expect all my crap to work, I don't want to be fighting
with third party apps that get broken with every other update of the OS or new hardware
from the hardware manufacturer, whatever the case may be but there are a lot of good things
about Windows Phone, it's really responsive, runs great on low end hardware, I mean seeing
the way that Android can bog down even something as high end as an S6 active or something as
high end as a Droid Turbo is so disheartening, I mean we're talking devices with three, we've
got ones coming with four gigs of RAM on them and it still can't handle this stuff okay,
so I would be really excited to see Microsoft not leave the mobile market and that has been
clarified they are not leaving the mobile market, you know the surface is a product
to show what the platform can do and the reason people should make universal apps is that
they will be on Windows desktop, HoloLens is apparently also made to be used in business
not just gaming so these are a couple of pressing concerns, no they are not leaving mobile which
is pretty freaking smurf, it's a little disappointing that Windows RT isn't going to be getting
an update to Windows 10, you know I'm sure that as disappointed as, yeah if people who
bought Surface RTs weren't already buried and disappoint that's just kind of the final
nail in the coffin but yeah, bummer I guess there's nothing we can really do about it
now, so let's go ahead and pop up our next topic here, bippity boppity woman changes
her name to get control of Facebook account, so the original article here is from independent.co.uk
oh wow sorry I had my sidebar running that whole time there sorry guys, so a London woman
has to change name by deed poll to log in to Facebook, I can't believe I'm stuck with
this stupid name and still can't get into my Facebook, freaking hilarious a little bit
of background here, so set up account with a fake name back in 2008, I mean I've struggled
with this kind of stuff in the past before too like the way that you know Google locks
down your YouTube username or your Google plus username to the point where it's like
why can't I change my YouTube username, what if I go from you know being a tech channel
and I have like Linus tech tips, what if I want to start vlogging, like is that not a
thing that I'm allowed to do, I'm not going to start vlogging anytime soon but the way
that we get like these arbitrary decisions that never used to matter, like you used to
just go oh yeah I'll create a new Hotmail account for you know whatever flavor of the
month stupid moo moo the cow at hotmail.com or whatever right, like you didn't really
think about it, all of a sudden these things are catching up to us you know 7 years later,
so the Facebook terms of service requires you to use a real name, so to be able to regain
access to her locked account, she changed her name on credit cards, that was not enough,
so she officially changed her name via deed poll to regain access to her account, absolutely
redonkulous, and speaking of redonkulous I guess this will actually be the official statement,
this will actually be the last article for the day and this news item comes right off
of thermaltake.com, I think you guys probably already know what I'm referring to what I'm
referring if you've been following the whole thermal fake fiasco that went on around the
Computex timeframe with caselabs calling out thermaltake as ripping off their design, so
this is a press release from yesterday caselab since right on the thermaltake website boy
are they proud of this because they said almost nothing like mum was the freaking word when
this whole thing was going down caselabs apologizes for accusations against thermaltake, so caselabs
has issued a letter of retraction and apology for its recent attacks upon competitor thermaltake,
another manufacturer of computer cases and other computer components, recently some of
their personnel including blah blah blah blah blah posted attacks upon thermaltake, these
attacks have included accusations that thermaltake and one of its employees, Shannon Rob, which
is a real bummer, I like Shannon, he's a nice guy, stole caselab's design and engaged in
unfair competition, caselabs now regrets those statements and apologizes for making them,
wow, how much more, like how much deeper could the bad blood run between caselabs and thermaltake,
I'm guessing lawyers were involved in this whole process and I'm guessing that caselabs
with gritted teeth issued this particular apology because they certainly weren't happy
about the whole, you know, thermaltake's designs looking admittedly very very similar to some
of caselab's designs, but we've covered this on the WAN Show before, the cold hard truth
of the matter is that there really isn't a whole lot that you can protect about the IP
of something like a computer case, you know, like look at Amtex, what are they calling
that, signature S10, is that what it's called, yeah, you look at the signature S10, which
I actually saw for the first time in person today, you know, you can't patent, you know,
crazy thick aluminum panels, if someone else decides that that's a good idea, which they
probably won't, they can manufacture a case like that and there's not really a whole lot
you can do, I think Josh from Fractal put it best, there's only so many ways you can
build a black box and, you know, have it not look, you know, the same as other black boxes,
so I'm actually, for the first time in a very long time, completely out of topics for today,
why don't we do a Twitter blitz, yeah, yeah, let's do it, 10 minute Twitter blitz, over
7200 live viewers on the WAN Show, for this special edition broadcasting to you live from
the NCIX studio, so Twitter blitz time, here we go, mentions, wow, not tech related, are
you a fan of Game of Thrones, that is a great question, I read the first book and I loved
it, I finished it after having bought the Kindle editions of the first five and realised
after finishing it that George RR Martin hadn't written the last couple of books yet, I got
super pissed off, because I like to binge consume things, which is just, it's my way,
I like to binge and I vowed to not glance at the rest of those books that I have already
paid for and will read at some point, I refuse to glance at them until I have read them all
or he dies and I've read as many as exist and I refuse to watch the show until I have
read all the books, so I absolutely love Game of Thrones but I'm mostly completely ignorant
about it, so there you go, funny question, ask a funny question, get a funny answer,
next car you plan on buying after the civic kicks the bucket, actually I just bought a
car, it's sitting out in the back, I bought my parents old Suzuki XL7 because I needed
something that could pull a trailer and they were selling it for $4000, it's like, I want
to say it's a 2009 with 180,000 kilometers on it, that's in like, I know it's all highway
kilometers because I know that they basically just drive up and down from the cabin in it,
so I needed something that could haul a trailer, so I will be trying to sell the civic to Edsel
or something because he just got his driver's license, so I don't know if I was supposed
to break the news, Edsel finally has a driver's license, I think a big part of it was that
our new office is not very accessible via transit, so Taran's solution was to move,
and this is horrible, so Taran's solution was to move into a new place really close
to the new office but not that close to the old office and then the construction project
got delayed by like 3 months, so he's been riding his bike 45 minutes each way for like
months thinking that we were moving in in like a month, so Edsel has gone ahead and
bought a car, okay next question, over 7000 viewers, yeah that's not really a question,
watching the WAN show, also not a question, but thank you for the shout out JD, Tom Hutchinson,
Hutchison, Hutchison, a peppermint scented butthole is the kind of butthole I want, yes
it is, my question is why is your background that color, because I am in a strange and
foreign land, alright, why is getting a shirt from Canada so much more expensive than normal,
already have 3 of your shirts, because Canada is Canada, and shipping is really expensive,
we're used to being bent over on shipping, whether we have to ship something somewhere
else or whether we have to pay for shipping for someone else to send it to us, unless
it's coming from like Hong Kong, where the government is subsidizing shipping, it costs
a lot of money to ship into or out of Canada, Cooper asks how did you get into IT, reading
forums and participating on forums, believe it or not, Daniel asks how's it going, pretty
darn good Daniel, pretty darn good, Brianna asks when are you making more cat videos,
I actually don't have any cat videos on the plan, my cats, the second I turn on the camera,
they're like my kids, they'll be doing something like super cute and funny and then I'll be
like, okay, please keep doing that, and it's like the second I pull the camera, they stop,
so it's just like, you know what, screw you cat, you don't get to be internet famous,
yeah, yeah, you missed your shot, you had your shot, and you lose yourself in the moment,
the moment you lose it, you want it, you better never let that go, yeah, that's what I said,
alright AJ says I have a business offer for you, will you pay for the transport, I have
no idea what you're talking about man, here's a question from my engineering teacher, isn't
VR headsets making people feel nauseated a good thing, as in is it immersive, no, that's
a terrible, terrible thing, because nausea is not reality, so virtual reality shouldn't
be nauseating, I hope that explained it, any more build logs in the pipeline, yes, I actually
have some pretty cool stuff planned, so I'm gonna be building a rig on the bottom of a
desk, I have ordered all of the mounting hardware that I need for that, it's gonna be a pretty
sick desk from UpDesk, so yeah, stay tuned for that one, I also heard from a little birdie
that I'm gonna be getting one of the first in existence, oh crap, I'm gonna embarrass
myself here, I only remember it as the murder box MK2, ex-forma MK2, I will be doing a build
log or a build guide in that, so stay tuned for that, yes, things are happening, you guys
saw me, you have to google that, oh dang it, there I thought I was buying myself time to
give the answer and you guys were watching me buy time, Keith asks why not sell the Civic
to Terran, because I don't believe Terran would be willing to drive any car other than
a Toyota Camry, his father had a Camry and it served his father well, therefore Terran
wants a Camry, that my friends is Terran logic, this is what we have to work with around here,
what do you think about APUs for budget gaming PCs, I think it's a really good thing, although
I think AMD's only got a generation or two left before Intel completely surpasses them
at all budgets, their latest on board graphics are looking really good, Z Biggie says you
should be sponsored by Dollar Beard Club, you know I really don't know, I really don't
know how that would go, because Dollar Beard Club has no affiliation to my knowledge with
Dollar Shave Club and they kind of like, like you can't patent like a shtick, but like Dollar
Beard Club kind of ripped off Dollar Shave Club's shtick and like I don't know, it seems
kind of weird to me, The Divine Gamer asks for tips on an IT career similar to mine,
what IT career is similar to mine, who does this job, I'm not even sure I have an IT job,
like the way that I see my job is like, it's like I'm an entertainer, I'm an educator,
I'm a business owner now, we have 9 people working at Linus Media Group, like my job
is, and sometimes like I really am ITing it up all day, like this week I've gotten very
little video stuff done, because I've been busy working on our new workflow for video
editing which is only sort of IT stuff, that's like content creation stuff, and so I've been
setting up virtual machines on the 36 core server, seeing if running multiple instances
of Adobe Media Encoder with multiple watch folders can give us better efficiency than
Sorenson squeeze server and like trying all this different stuff, so like I do that stuff
still sometimes, but like I don't even know what my job is half the time, I wear a lot
of different hats, I don't really have a favourite APU, yes we are moving all of our workstations
to Windows 10 as soon as we verified that Adobe Creative Cloud is going to run OK on
Windows 10, I'm really excited for the whole fresh slate thing that's going to be going
on at the new office, new organisational cabinets for all of our gear, you know new well designed
sets instead of just a pile of boxes behind me, you know upgrading the workstations to
Titan X's, that's going to be awesome, the new workflow with offloading footage, having
it duplicated, having it replicated right when we offload so we don't have to leave
stuff on SD cards and then not know whether it's safe to erase an SD card, like all of
these things, fresh Windows is going to be part of the fresh experience, I'm really excited.
And the new, yeah the new plate system, I actually just moved my personal workstation
to Windows 10 as part of a personal rig update that's going to be coming on Vessel this weekend,
so I installed the RTM and then I'm going to, I just skipped the product key entry,
so I'm just going to buy myself a product key as soon as you can go buy one.
Move in date for the new office Tom, not 100% sure yet.
Favourite food, wow, good question.
Really love my wife's pasta, yeah, there we go.
Where am I hiding Luke, ha, no I couldn't hide Luke, well I could hide parts of Luke
if you know what I mean, but his whole self is up at a music festival, oh, we just revealed
something I'm sure, so there you go, I just revealed, oh no I didn't, I didn't reveal
anything with that calendar popup, that's funny, ha, so you can see that there's a super
fun if you look really closely over there, but you actually can't tell what it is, which
is good because I don't want to reveal what that super fun is going to be, because it's
going to be super crazy fun, so let's do, let's go back to Twitter here, what is your
favourite console, the Super Nintendo, because it has the greatest game of all time, Final
Fantasy 6.
Would you say the Droid Turbo is still worth it?
The camera is subpar, especially the launch time and the shutter speed, that's a big problem
I have with the Droid Turbo, it did finally get a lollipop update, but that really doesn't
bode well, the fact that it took so long to get 5.1 really doesn't bode well for future
updates, I still love it for the battery life, and I do like the ergonomics better than the
S6 Active, stay tuned for my S6 Active review, because I will definitely be talking about
S6 Active versus Droid Turbo, because they're really going to be trading blows in a lot
of different ways.
I think that's pretty much it for the show today guys, actually, I think we're going
to go ahead and just end, wow, 7300 viewers, I should broadcast without Luke more often,
don't tell him I said that, he'll be all upset and you know, I really don't understand what
this plan was, exactly, I guess the NCIX guys wanted me to disappear in a puff of smoke,
or look like I farted a lot and it was cloudy, or like, well the fans are on for one thing,
so that's dispersing your smoke machine smoke pretty quickly I think, so now they're firing
the smoke machine directly at my butthole, which I guess they're hoping will result in
I, okay, so our sponsors today were people who, I'm going to just roll me out the row,
and I'll see you next week, same bat time, same bat channel, yeah I have the outro over
the thing, Jack tried to poke his head into view, and it didn't work.