Day one patch is more of this, or day zero patch, like day negative one patch.
That's possible.
Yeah.
They could.
Yeah, that's right.
They patch the preload.
So you preload it and then you have to patch the preload that you preloaded before you
can actually play it.
Yeah, but that's better than having you patch it after the game is out because then you
have time to download it.
We should promote negative day patches.
Negative day patches are the way forward in the gaming industry.
Maybe that's how these games that always stay in beta work.
They're just like, we don't want to make a day zero patch or like a month in patch.
So it's the Google philosophy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Negative day patches.
Yep.
We are extremely happy with this idea.
So welcome to the WAN Show.
It's Friday, which means you guys have got all kinds of important plans.
I don't know who was being more annoying just then, you or me.
I'm implying they have no lives and you're singing that terrible Rebecca Black song.
I was going to vote for me.
You were going to vote for you?
I think even having someone tell you that your life is terrible is probably more bearable.
I didn't say terrible.
I just said that you're watching us on a Friday night.
Honestly, I think that's pretty all right.
Yeah, we're not that bad.
I'm not that bad.
What would you do on a Friday night?
Apparently the mic's a little low.
I don't know.
You know what?
I did a prerecording and I think it's fine.
What would you do on a Friday night?
Well, on Friday nights I play badminton.
I play video games.
So it's probably fine that you're watching this show.
Are you going to change it?
Okay.
People are insisting that I turn it up a little bit.
Are you watching the stream?
I'm watching.
Yeah.
You don't have headphones.
No, I don't.
Okay.
Fine.
I guess I'll do it.
I even did a prerecording, though.
This is the thing I don't understand when it's with almost everyone.
Hello.
Testing.
One, two, three, four.
I don't know if Linus is listening to this or not.
We're going to talk about some things.
No, no, no.
It's fine.
I have the show.
It's fine.
I know, but I have to talk so you can hear us talk in the thing.
Oh, well, no.
I was just going to carry on with the show and make adjustments as we go.
Oh.
Someone's like, this isn't free geek.
That was last week.
Rhyme, rhyme, rhyme, rhyme, rhyme, rhyme, rhyme, rhyme, rhyme, rhyme.
Most people are saying that it's good, but one person said that it's too loud, so I'm
pretty sure we should adjust it.
Okay.
Cool.
All right.
So let's go ahead and kick things off here.
So YouTube's Fine Brothers Entertainment will allow fans to create their own React videos.
So I guess the thing that confused a lot of people about this news is that they weren't
aware that at any point they were not allowed to make their own React videos.
So I'm going to go ahead and post this puppy in the chat here.
I'm going to go ahead and screen share with y'all.
So basically, the reason that we're talking about this is just to kind of help clarify
exactly what went down here.
So everyone probably who has been on the internet at some point is somewhat familiar with the
Fine Brothers React series.
So kids react, old people react, pets react, whatever.
Anything that can react, lithium reacts.
I don't know.
Anything that can react to anything.
Lithium reacts.
I don't think they've done a video on that.
I suspect they haven't.
I'd watch that.
Lithium reacts to...
That would actually be kind of a funny parody where you could have lithium reacts to dog
poo.
And so you just cut back and forth between just a static shot of dog poo and then lithium
like fizzing out of your mouth.
So basically, what they're doing is they are licensing their intellectual property.
To be clear, that is not, and they do not believe that that is the React classification
of videos.
That is not what they are licensing.
Anyone, and they've released a statement.
Even to quote, we do not own the idea or copyright for reaction videos overall, nor did we ever
say that we did.
You don't need anyone's permission to make these kind of videos and we're not coming
after anyone.
Yes.
What they are licensing is actually the format of the show, something that you can somewhat
protect.
That's a little funky.
It's a little fuzzy, but they're licensing the format of the show.
They're actually licensing the assets that are used in the creation of the show.
So they will actually give you a kit of materials to basically reproduce exactly the same bloody
thing.
They're gonna give you the formula and all the tools that you need.
And the idea behind it is localization, not just like, you know, putting, not just like
asking anyone who's making a reaction video for money.
So that is, yeah, yeah, I saw that I was gonna get through this topic first and then I was
gonna deal with it.
Sounds good.
Yeah.
We will roll the intro.
Everyone just calm your jets, cool your jets, calm your thighs.
So basically React and then React World.
This is another channel that they're planning to launch, will aggregate videos in one place
that are created by this wider community of licensees.
And so Fine Brothers Entertainment wants to monetize the React style videos through its
own channels there, rather than having the content appear on unaffiliated outlets.
So yeah, there you go.
Licensing to creators worldwide, 11 of their shows and trademarks in the franchise and
yeah, I guess there's not really much else to say about it.
Intellectual protection law is very, very complicated.
We're still gonna have to see how aggressive they're gonna be about things.
And they've said they're not.
They've said they're not issuing strikes, they're not stealing people's monetization
or anything like that.
And I think...
It's probably gonna be fine.
Well, I think they probably can't.
Quite frankly, for me to issue a copyright strike on someone, they have to rip content
directly out of my video.
They can't just have a sound effect that sounds kind of similar and a flow to the episode
that's kind of similar.
I mean, if you could trademark beautiful B-roll of phones, then none of us would be allowed
to compete with Marcus.
Before I knew enough, I almost tweeted a thing being like, hey, we're not the Fine Brothers,
make some Build Log videos, it'll be funny.
And then I was like, I should probably read more about this.
Yeah.
And yeah, it ended up being fine.
Someone's asking what the heck happened to Linus between the Intel thing and now I did
my hair.
I did a very poor job of it.
I think you almost went for a faux-hawk.
But like I failed.
So it ends up just looking like I'm balding more than I am.
See, you got kind of the...
Are you balding?
A little.
Yeah.
I mean, you get older and your hairline recedes.
Sorry, bro.
Mine's fine.
It'll come for you too.
You're younger than me.
My grandpa on my mom's side has wonderful hair, so I'm probably okay.
My grandpa on my mom's side was bald by the time he was out of high school.
So you're probably screwed.
Well, I'm not screwed yet.
But it's going.
So I'm saying it's not necessarily an indication.
Not necessarily an indication.
He's old.
I'm 29, which is old enough that you're allowed to have your hairline recede a little bit.
But also, also old enough that if you were like really gonna get hit really hard and
you haven't yet, then it's probably gonna happen slowly.
One of my really good buddies from high school had his hairline just...
But he went with the like, all right, whatever, I'll build a full beard and went bald with
a full beard.
Ashley looks way better.
I do not have that option.
So if I end up going like bald, bald, I'm just gonna be bic on top, bic on bottom and
bic on the other bottom.
Let's roll the intro.
All right, sorry.
I'll move those things.
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They can teach you how to film things and how to take photos and how to edit them.
Lightroom and After Effects and Photoshop and Premiere.
What is taking, why is this taking so long?
YouTube's like, oh my God, everyone's uploading React to the Fine Bros videos.
We can't process everything at once.
That's what's happening right now.
The amount of React to the Fine Bros videos that are out there is insane.
I am blown away by how slow YouTube's processing has been.
Between YouTube and Vessel, they need to put their heads together.
YouTube needs to figure out Vessel's processing because it's fast and Vessel needs to figure
out YouTube's downlink because it is fast.
We can upload one gig videos like ba-ba-bam.
They're up in like 20 seconds and then it's like, like I'm uploading a one minute video.
It's going to take nine minutes to process.
You have to be freaking kidding me.
That's crazy.
And the worst part is I think I interrupted the one that I tried before thinking that
it had completely locked up at 69% and oh, apparently it's still, it's still processing.
I want some other two minutes.
What did I upload?
Maybe I uploaded the wrong video.
Maybe it's like last week's WAN show and we're just going to, we're just going to have two
WAN.
We're live and then it's just a whole WAN show from Feeky.
We're live in the past.
That could be fun.
That could work.
All right, so let's move on to...
Instead of a time machine that goes forward, we made one where you, no we didn't.
I could make a time machine that goes forward.
It's called a cardboard box.
You just fall asleep in the cardboard box and open it up and you're like, wow, we're
in the future.
Yeah.
It's a cardboard box with like lots of like crazy syringes full of like all kinds of fluids.
What happened to the last 20 years of my life?
Sorry dude, you spent them in this cardboard box.
All right.
This was posted by CP Yarger on the forum.
Colton Potter Yarger?
No, I don't think it was Colton Potter Yarger.
He would have to learn how to use copy paste.
Just kidding.
He knows how to use copy paste.
So many people jumped to Colton's defense last week when I was really trying to pay
a positive statement forward to him about the unexpectedly high quality of the WAN show
document.
And people were all like, yo, Linus was mean.
He was all like, you know, if it was meant to be a compliment, you'd know.
And didn't you guys know that it was a compliment?
Apparently not.
I mean like.
So he's getting like inundated with tweets about how, you know, I'm, I'm mean and a bad
person.
Maybe that was your whole idea.
Yeah.
You were trying to blow up his Twitter.
You are so astute sometimes.
It's surprising
Oh wow, that just, that just, Oh man, that just lined up so beautifully.
No, but it was a compliment, wasn't it?
Yeah, definitely.
That's like, that's like you're holding, you're like, you know, you're holding a pool noodle
and someone just kind of walks up and is like, and you just have to, you have to give me
a little slap on the, slap on the cheeks.
I don't know if that's okay on Twitch.
I have no idea.
Wait, no, it's okay.
Cause there's that one freaking chick that does it for donations.
She'll drop something on the ground behind her and pick it up for donations.
For donations.
Yeah.
Because it's like, okay.
Cause she's not like showing cleavage or whatever.
So you can show your butt crack, but not cleavage?
No, but she wears pants.
Oh, but they're just really tight.
It's just like, look at the bum.
I see.
Ridiculous.
I wonder if I could get donations for that.
Maybe, but donations, but donate.
I don't want your butt donation.
Okay.
What's the next topic?
I am trying to load the page.
It is not doing a thing.
The next topic is that the U S Supreme court may rule cosplay illegal.
Now to be clear, um, here, I'm just going to post the original link here to be clear.
The Supreme court has bigger fish to fry than cosplayers.
This would be an unintended side effect of a larger legal battle that is going on between
a cheerleading outfit maker.
Here we go.
The article has finally loaded here between a cheerleading outfit maker and I believe
another cheerleading uniform maker.
Here we go.
So the parties to the case star athletic and varsity brands, both designed cheerleading
uniforms, varsity claims that major portions of their designs are entitled to copyright
protection while star athletic presumably the one that is, uh, that is said to be infringing
the aforementioned copyrights, uh, points out and is backed by a long line of case law
that clothing designs are explicitly exempt from copyright.
Their arguments rest on different interpretation of a legal concept known as separability.
So what does this have to do with cosplay?
Okay, well, we'll hold on.
We're getting to that.
Basically the way that it works now is that clothing maker, a clothes store actually,
cause this is, this is where it comes up a lot.
Clothes store X, Y or Z can take some designers like famous designers design and pretty much
clone it because the way that it is now, a functional piece cannot be subject to copyright
whereas a creative work can be subject to copyright.
So that's why you cannot copyright a sheet of paper, but you can copyright the art that
you draw on it.
Okay.
So the argument here being made by star athletic would be that a cheerleading uniform is functional.
It covers up the cheerleaders tatas or doesn't in some cases, whereas varsity brands is making
the argument that, um, well, no, there is an artful aspect to a cheerleading uniform
or to any other article of clothing, whether it be, if you took that piece of paper and
cut it in a certain way, yes, pretty much.
They're saying that, that this line that exists between utility and, and creativity, um, is
blurry, but that their uniforms are on the we've created art side.
And actually this article on public knowledge.org is excellent because it does a really good
job of illustrating this with a lamp and a lamp.
Obviously they both have the same base function that is to say, they'll light things into
the room.
Yes.
Whereas this one is clearly not subject to any copyright because every part of it is
pure function.
It's made of a fricking dowel and a thicker dowel.
Um, whereas this one is clearly more artistic and then this one doesn't really have much
function at all.
I mean, we don't even know how bright this bulb is.
It's, it's clearly all about the, the, the artful statement of the lady wearing whatever
these are.
Are those pantyhose nylons?
I can't tell the difference between leggings, pantyhose and nylons.
I don't know what they are.
So some kind of covering on the leg.
Last people to ask.
Yeah, totally not my department.
Um, so like literally at the store we work at, neither of us work in that section.
So the sort of the how co cosplayers get kind of stuck in the crossfire here is that they
could potentially be burned by copyright laws that consider the recreation of another article
of clothing if it is deemed as art, um, for the sake of dressing up as their favorite
characters.
Now to be very clear, I don't expect any, but the most draconian of companies to enforce
something like this, like Disney, um, like Nintendo.
Um, but okay.
And like a thing is captain, the, the logo for some of these guys, like the star on the
shield for captain America is probably under some form of, yes, definitely.
And people use that all the time.
People use that all the time.
So they're already doing these things.
You're probably okay.
So I'm not really expecting anyone to do it, but where the water gets really murky and
the article says cosplayers, but I think they kind of missed the boat on this.
This last point that I'm going to make here and that is that the odds of anyone enforcing
this on someone who shows up to watch the force awakens in a Kylo Ren mask is zero.
I don't think Disney's going after that guy.
The odds of them going after someone whose entire profession is becoming an Instagram
influencer who posts pictures of themselves wearing someone else's intellectual property
where someone is turning it around and turning it into monetary gain for themselves personally
without sharing any of the proceeds.
That's where I see this turning into a big problem.
And we ran into that at that Pax party that the guy tried to throw with the Nintendo themed
like Pokemon themed, I think it was party where he was charging admission.
Now the admission in that case was, and this is all according to the guy anyway, only to
cover the cost of the venue and throwing the party itself.
But that did not stop Nintendo from saying, yo, you cannot profit off of our intellectual
property.
So people who cosplay as a hobby out of passion are very unlikely to be affected.
I mean, there's a huge difference between doing something because you want to get money
for it and doing something because you enjoy it and find it kind of fun and want to go
to the Force Awakens opening in a Kylo Ren mask.
Whereas people who are professional cosplayers who show up at gaming events dressed up according
to the requests of their followers or whatever else, where they're making a business out
of it, this could be a huge deal.
Interesting.
I kind of get that.
That's going to get interesting.
There's a lot of people that do that as well.
That's turning into a serious industry, actually.
Professional cosplaying.
Not as much for guys, I don't think.
You walk down the strip in Vegas, how many Batman people do you encounter?
Again, it's like, yeah.
I don't think it's as much of a thing for guys, but it is still definitely a thing for
guys.
It's definitely a thing for guys, but I think that in terms of being an Instagram model
who is predominantly a cosplayer, I haven't seen a ton of dudes doing it.
I have seen at least one, but...
But compared to the female ones that seem to be crawling out of the woodwork, it's like
if you leave them in the fridge for too long, they'll actually replicate on a Petri dish.
This is interesting.
This was posted by aluminum tech on the forum, presumably an American.
Cortana now scans your emails to make sure you're keeping promises.
Did you know there's apparently scientific reasons as to why it should be aluminum?
Yeah.
It has to do with the EM at the end.
It has to do with the relation to other metals that are also called inium.
Yeah.
Anyways.
YOLO!
So...
Continuing onwards.
So this is fascinating.
Now to be clear, this is about as clickbait as it gets.
The title, I don't know if you've said the title yet, but the title is Cortana now scans
your emails to make sure you're keeping promises.
I know, but some people listen to the audio version.
Oh, that's right.
This is a podcast.
Yeah.
Well, sometimes I forget that.
Which we never tell people about and not enough people do it because so many people are like,
uh, I would love it if you guys made audio versions of the WAN show and I'm like...
It's literally linked under every single YouTube version of the WAN show.
They exist.
They're down there.
So yeah, if you didn't know that...
We even, speaking of copyright, we even allow it to be downloaded if you go on SoundCloud.
So like normally on YouTube, if you wanted to download and watch offline, you would have
to have YouTube read.
Or you could obviously download it, um, using a third party, I don't know, like, I don't
know the name of them.
Yeah.
They're not.
Yeah.
I don't.
Um, okay.
Anyway, they're out there.
So you could obviously do that.
Or you could just go onto SoundCloud where we actually have downloaded the podcast straight
up enabled, um, pre-optimized with its own, you know, title things.
And I think like, if you're, it's the same title, just repackaged.
If you're the Radeon R9 390, oh, okay.
Um, if you have like some podcast application that you like on your phone, it's probably
there as well.
So yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, is it that thing Colton's doing?
Yeah.
Oh, cool.
Like distributes it out to a bunch of things.
Cool.
Yeah.
So it like is a thing.
Yeah.
We do have an audio version of the podcast.
That's why I read things.
So this is a very click baity, um, click baity headline.
And what it's actually doing is really cool and not creepy at all.
Um, so yeah, on January 25th, 2016, which was four days ago, windows insiders got access
to a new commitment option in Cortana for windows 10.
And the commitments are actually really similar to features.
Just wants to make sure that you're going to be with her later on in life.
Thank you guys that don't commit these days are just, it's just, it's just annoying in
the dating scene.
Okay.
She just wants to know that you're going to be there for when she's not as pretty.
She'll always be pretty.
She's a computer program, literally in the lore and in real life.
She is a computer program.
Good call.
All right.
So when she starts to degrade or whatever it's called, cause that's actually in the
lore.
Bit rot.
That literally happens to AI's.
They, they start to like, it's bad.
And then they, that's part of the whole storyline of halo five anyways.
I thank you for the spoiler because I've only played up to like halo two.
Yeah.
Is there a PC version of halo five?
No.
Okay.
Well then I'm not going to play.
Okay.
So it's very similar to the flight and delivery tracking that already exists in Cortana.
So she'll remind you like, Hey yo, you know, you've got a delivery coming and stuff.
So it's designed to read through your emails and pick up on commitments that you've made.
So if you say something like, I'll get back to you next week, Cortana will actually create
a reminder around that and be like, yo, you said you'd get back to that person this week.
You can just say, but the reason it's not creepy is all of the scanning is completed
locally.
So this program is just installed on your computer, runs on your computer.
You can disable it if you don't want it, which is fine.
Isn't it not on by default?
I'm not sure.
I mean, right now it's not on for anyone cause only windows insiders are getting it.
But basically, yeah, it's, I dunno, I think, I think this is really cool.
But finding more ways to make, to make windows smarter and more predictive is definitely
good, especially if they're going to keep it out of the cloud.
Now obviously if you confirm that you want that appointment made, it's going to add it
to your calendar, which is cloud sync.
So you know, don't, don't be dumb.
Like if you know, you don't want something on your calendar about how you told your second
girlfriend that you're going to meet up with her at Starbucks, then you should probably
a not be such a sleazeball and be, um, hashtag no side chicks.
Yeah.
Keep that out of your calendar.
So you know, you can take whichever of those tips you prefer.
One thing that I found that was actually kind of interesting reading this article.
I'm not saying that I support the idea or don't support the idea, but a Swift key.
Oh, hold on.
Hold on.
Twitch chat.
Apparently it's really cool.
Signed windows insider.
There you go.
Cool.
Good to know.
Um, Swift key.
People freak out understandably when something new is going to read through all their email.
People didn't like that about Gmail.
People don't like that about this.
People don't like that about whatever.
Yep.
And then they sign up for Swift key and they're like, yes, please read all of my email to
figure out my exact typing patterns.
No one complains about that.
My one complaint about that is that Swift key cloud does not work on iOS.
Correct.
Yeah.
So it only uses its, its stock prediction and then I think it can learn, but I don't
think it can carry that to like a new iOS device.
Like it's, it sucks.
It like Swift key on iOS is terrible.
Which is weird cause usually it's the other way around.
And iOS is constantly changing its own keyboard back in as the default.
Right.
Yeah.
So yeah, there, I guess I don't really.
Not Swiftie, Swift key.
It's an application on your phone.
Yep.
Unless you have an iPhone, in which case you probably just shouldn't install it.
Yeah.
All right.
So it goes to Tesla as the vice president of autopilot hardware engineering.
Whoa.
Freaking cool.
So the original article here is from electric.co and this was originally posted on the forum
by Vaniard, Vaniard, Vaniard gaming.
So let's go ahead and pull this baby up.
Are you posting the link?
I'm working on it.
Awesome.
So the chip guru who built Apple's AX microprocessors, really?
They're not gonna, they're not gonna like call out that he also built the athletics
too.
Really is the PC that dead electric.co?
Correct.
Kind of.
Okay.
So, uh, who built Apple's AX microprocessors joins Tesla to lead the autopilot hardware
engineering team.
Now to be clear, you should not expect anything to come out of this appointment in the next
two years.
No.
It's fine, presumably mostly from scratch, a new way of processing camera and sensor
information for autopiloting cars is going to be a very large project, probably just
the sort that Mr Keller would love to wrap his magnificent brain around.
So this explains then why he fell off the map and left AMD a couple of months back.
Um, apparently he got a much, much cooler gig.
I mean as, as, as excited as I am to see what AMD Zen architecture, which he did work on
brings to the table.
Um, I am more excited these days about a car that like is legit awesome and revolutionary
and drives itself than I am about my PC going a little bit faster.
So I'm very excited to see one of the brightest minds in chip design focus his attention on
that.
It would be super great if Zen and their new graphics cards were faster than Intel stuff
and Nvidia stuff.
I would love to have, I would love to believe that, but I have been as, as a former, like
I straight up with you guys, I was an AMD fan boy, AMD fan boy, and probably AMD.
Yeah, I was, I was like, like I was like rocking the, uh, let me think, what was that?
I had this like freaking like UV green vinyl deckle on the inside of my P one 60 w that
was like a ripoff of the Intel logo, except it said AMD inside and I had like UV lights
and it glowed green and I was like, I was like hardcore, but they have disappointed
me so many times that I'm just not going to, uh, I'm just not going to get my hopes up.
And then if Zen is amazing, I really hope it is, then I get to be that much more excited.
That's cool.
Polaris.
I mean, I don't know how it's necessarily going to compare to what it was in videos,
Pascal, I think Polaris and Pascal, that's the ones that are coming out.
But they're both likely to knock our socks off in a way that a GPU release hasn't done
in quite some time.
Freaking better.
Yay.
Die shrink.
Yeah.
Um, anyways, that's cool.
And hopefully Tesla uses them well.
Yeah.
Um, I'm super, super excited to see whatever, whatever happens here.
Barnacles actually just messaged me and said that he had a chance to check out Tesla's
autopilot on the P 85 D. He said it was scary, but really cool.
So there you go guys.
I'm not surprised.
It was scary.
Yeah.
That would trip me out so hard, like just like I drive the most manually operated vehicle
on the road pretty much.
Even my windows are not automatic.
Like the only thing that could make it more manual is if there was a crank to like turn
the fan for my cooling and heat.
Like it's, yeah, my heat works, but I don't have air aircon.
So, so it's like pretty bare bones, pretty bare bones, my friends.
So going from like that level of connection with the machine to like hands off is going
to sketch me out hardcore no matter how much I inherently trust it.
I think I'm going to be one of the first people to be like, sure, drive me to work.
Cool.
Oh, I'll be exciting about it.
Are exciting.
I'm always exciting.
You know what's up.
I'll be excited about it, but it's going to trip me out too.
I mean, yeah, like other little things, other, other little things too is like I am not an
insignificant amount older than you and have been driving for not an insignificant amount
longer than you.
And on top of that, I guarantee you that the mileage that I have on the road is probably
five X.
Like I used to daily commute from Maple Ridge almost mission to UBC and I've if at all possible
been a biker.
Yes.
So like, yeah, I'd be a little bit probably like 10 X.
I have a lot of miles on the road.
But then I come from the standpoint where I'm already right now frustrated that like
my car can't just inch itself within a lane.
Like when there's very clearly defined lines, I'm just like, okay, like can you just do
this car so I can like go on my phone or something?
And then when the lanes are really sketchy, I'm like, all right, I get this.
Yeah.
All right.
I'll control that.
I'm like, I think the first level where it's like sometimes it's okay, like highways and
stuff, I would have zero problem with it all.
The when you're going through sketchy areas and it's going to try to figure that out,
that's when I'm going to be like, Oh, I would probably really like to just be turning the
wheel right now.
When there's like all the like, you know, people on the street, people everywhere, potholes
and stuff like that.
Yeah.
That'll be a little scary.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Old dogs.
New tricks, man.
I don't know.
Even if the new trick is sit.
Do nothing.
It's hard.
All right.
So the original poster here was Mr. Troll.
The original article here is from digi times.com and while this normally wouldn't necessarily
qualify as like all super amazing, Oh, okay.
The digit times article is only available to their paid subscribers.
So I guess we'll head over to WCCF tech suite suite.
The reason that this is significant is that these guys came out of nowhere is who's does
that a Seuss and like, I've talked about this on this show before they release some crappy
product that sucks.
And then they're like, okay, what did we learn?
And then they fix it, everything.
Then they release one that's okay.
And then they kind of go, okay, we learned a bit more.
Then over the next couple of iterations, they completely dominate the category.
They hold 40% market share of gaming monitors.
And you know what?
The incumbents have themselves to blame for that was just, yeah, they let, they let freaking
Ben Q walk in and eat their lunch.
They let a Seuss, what did a Seuss know about making a monitor five years ago?
They let a Seuss walk in and eat their lunch and they're still doing it.
I mean, I love the guys at LG as much as anyone.
Like I've got my bros over there and all that stuff.
We love working with those guys, but wake up and smell the coffee.
Your 60 Hertz, 34 inch ultra wide this year is 60 Hertz.
I know that you made some changes.
I think it has free sync.
Don't quote me on that.
I think it has free sync.
That is not enough.
Acer's XR something, C whatever, something that's, that's a free sync model.
Okay.
That's been out for like months at this point.
The G or the predator X, yeah, actually this ad is super annoying.
Yeah, I know.
Um, close it.
I don't even know how to close it.
Yeah.
What the hell?
Uh, so can I just not, is it, is it okay for them to cover up Google ads with their own
fricking stupid ad that I don't think you can close?
I don't know.
That's real classy.
WCCF.
I'm sure the people paying for those ads are super stoked right now.
X 34 predator, 100 Hertz, 34, 40 by 14, 40.
Even Samsung who's like last year at CES, not CES 2016, CES 2015 I think it was.
They were showing off a curved ultra wide and I was like, yo, what can you tell me about
this?
The guy's like it's 34 inches.
It's curved.
And I'm like, like refresh rate is like, sorry, we don't have that information.
So like that's the level of care at Samsung.
And even Samsung is talking up their upcoming 34 inch ultra wide at 144 Hertz.
So the incumbents have ignored this for far too long.
They've let someone like Asus who doesn't even make panels.
And when you're A U O or your LG or your Samsung, there is really no excuse when you have the
costing and engineering advantage of actually building the freaking panels.
There is no excuse for letting someone like Asus walk in and take over a market like that.
Someone said, please stop making game monitors that look like male chicken.
If you're talking about turkeys and you're talking about red because of their things,
you can turn off the lights, dude.
Yeah.
You can turn off the lights on the RG Swift.
In fact, you can turn off the lights on the, on the predator as well.
Like it has, it has RGB underglow effects, which you can turn on or off.
It's totally up to you.
So turn off the lights, bro.
Yeah.
I actually think if anything, gaming monitors have gotten a lot more tasteful.
Do you remember the Acer predator?
Do you remember when everyone put gloss on everything?
Hold on.
I'm going to see if I can find the old predator.
Cause that thing was bananas.
There it is.
Not okay.
That's what gaming monitors used to look like.
Oh God.
Not to call out gigabyte.
I was there at their booth at CES and the guy was showing me one of their new bricks
and he was asking what I thought about it and he sees, yeah, it had a, a matte finish
and I was like, Oh cool.
I'm happy you guys went with a matte finish and he was like, what?
I was like, yeah, I'm happy you guys didn't use glossy plastic.
And he's like, because I was like, it's not aluminum.
It's not like absolutely beautiful, but it's matte, which is great.
I'm happy you didn't use glossy plastic.
And he's like, why doesn't it look better?
I was like, no.
And he's like, Oh, I was worried we did the wrong thing going with matte instead of glossy.
I'm like, dude, you accidentally did the right thing.
Like don't put glossy on anything.
Come on.
He was like, Oh wow.
I haven't heard of that before.
I was like, how?
How have you not heard of that before?
Anyways.
Yeah.
Do we just need to make like out like a manufacturer best practices video?
I think so.
It seems like, like they just rules, like no gloss.
Don't use gloss on things.
Yeah.
That seems like the kind of thing we should do.
Cause like everything.
Unless the gloss is like for some reason under glass and not touchable by the user ever.
Yes.
So like it will always look the same.
Then like, like the glass, the glass coated bezel on a monitor like this, where it has
an edge to edge sheet of glass, even though the actual panel doesn't go right to the edge.
And then yeah, totally fine.
Cool.
Or the, um, some, some, some phones have like, like going all the way back to the iPhone
four, iPhone four has that the back panel is, is glossy, but covered in glass, which
is at least easy to clean.
I honestly though, I think everything should have this finish.
Oh God.
That nice textured, the truck bed kind of powder coat, black powder coat, like wrinkled
black is, is the ultimate finish.
Yeah.
Apparently Asus has also a 34 inch, 34, 40 by 14, 40 coming soon with a refresh rate
of up to 100 Hertz and G sync speculated price above 1200 us dollars.
So that would be a competitor for the predator X 34, 2000 Canadian dollars, 2000 Canadian
dollars.
Holy crap.
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So let's move on to our next topic here.
My friends.
Yes.
Oh, I am excited about this.
The timing for this is wonderful.
Nvidia launches the low end G force GT seven 10 graphics card.
It is based on the Kepler GK two Oh eight GPU and aimed at low cost PCs.
So it's apparently aimed at low profile platforms such as HTPC and media boxes that don't have
onboard graphics for some reason.
Hmm, I mean seriously, has there been an onboard graphics solution that hasn't handled at least
DVD decoding like hardware accelerated H two, six, four decoding in like the last four years?
I know.
I don't think five.
Don't think so.
I think it's been like a considerable amount of time upgrading with these.
I loved that test killing the seven 30 with just a CPU that was actually so cool and like
not even the best I GPU there is just, yeah, the sub headline is fantastic.
Faster than 80% of integrated GPS.
So we actually have a video that's out on vessel already, but not, is it on YouTube
already?
I think it is.
Yeah, yeah, it is.
It's on YouTube.
It's on YouTube already as well.
So to, as a follow up to the first time that I did a video about low end video cards being
junk and that no one should buy them, we're a surprisingly shocking number of people argued
this point with me with people even going as far as to say that I am, I am an Nvidia
fan boy and that's why I was hating on the AMD card that we happen to be testing.
Your gamer mind has clouded your judgment.
Yeah, my gamer mind cannot conceive of a use for a video output device that is not a video
game gaming card, like any number of things.
And I think Luke basically took all of the top rated comments that criticized my original
video, none of which was wrong.
There was absolutely no new point that we had to make about this.
So Luke basically just took all those comments and teabag them for like seven minutes.
That's kind of what happened.
And it was great because low end video cards are super, super, super, super dumb.
And the thing, okay, I think a lot of people get really angry cause they're trying to defend
their purchasing decisions.
And the thing that we're trying to do here is help you to not make that mistake again
in the future.
We're not leading like you guys are idiots.
We're trying to be like, don't spend your money on this cause there's more effective
ways to spend your money.
Cause there's a lot of misinformation out there and the, and to be clear, I am not down
on the, you know, 1999 after rebates, you know, 5450 or whatever on new egg.
That's not what we're trying.
That's not what we have a problem with.
We have a problem with stuff that is positioned as like a 9999 or like one 1999 offering that
is terrible.
And one of our points is that like at that price point, if that is your budget for a
graphics card, we're not being like, LOL, you're poor, don't buy a graphics card.
We're telling you to maybe consider other options like buying an older tier one or buying
a used card.
You can get a lot of value out of buying used cards.
Graphics cards are actually usually pretty okay.
So you can get really solid cards for that price instead of buying a new one, which is
crap.
That you'll need to upgrade in no time at all when you realize it.
And you know what, to be clear, like I'm, I'm using strong language, like it's dumb.
That doesn't mean that people can't make that mistake.
I did it straight up.
I did it.
I bought a crappy video card.
I just learned a lot longer ago.
And we're, we are trying to help people so they don't have to go through the expensive
process of learning.
Yeah.
Because you just watch a YouTube video.
Let's say, let's say for example, you didn't have a lot of money, then wouldn't it be that
much more devastating to waste a hundred dollars on something that turns out to be a terrible
solution?
I would way rather help the dude who doesn't have that much money spend it more effectively
than help the dude.
He'd be like, ah, I'll just like ignore this one and buy a new one.
I don't really care about that.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Got someone saying GTX 750s are ideal for watching Blu-rays.
I don't think you need a GTX 750 to watch a Blu-ray.
Anyway.
I don't know what his point is.
You know what?
I don't know what the point is.
Damboni posted this originally on the forum.
Oh, um, okay.
So that's not a thing.
Just a second.
Oh, that's so stupid.
Um, here we go.
We'll just have to settle for the artist's rendering of what's coming back.
Circuit city is coming back.
With revolutionary new stores.
With revolutionary new ideas for stores.
They want to appeal to millennials.
Whoa.
Wow.
What an innovation.
Brandon's laughing.
Brandon.
Brandon.
Hey, can you come up with some new ideas for our videos?
Okay.
Can you make them appeal to millennials please?
Thank you.
All right.
We need more couches.
I want our B-rolls to appeal to millennials, okay?
Thank you.
We need more couches to appeal to millennials, okay?
So anyone who's not allergic to work, we don't want them to watch our videos.
I am a millennial.
I'm allowed to do it.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm technically, I'm technically a millennial.
What is millennial?
Like what time frame is that?
I think you have to be born in the, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Uh, yeah, here we go.
Birth years ranging from the early 1980s to early 2000s.
Oh, okay.
So I'm, I am fun millennials too.
I am comfortably millennial.
We're all strawberries.
What's a strawberry?
It's a Chinese term.
Oh, for millennials.
Yeah.
Well, for like young people who bruise easily, which is where the thing comes from.
Oh.
So it's like, like easily offended, don't work very hard, all that kind of stuff.
Sure.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Fair enough.
We are kind of strawberries.
Our generation is not great for that.
And now the entire Twitch chat's like exploding like gas.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, okay.
So let's, so yeah.
Oh shoot.
I should.
There we go.
So circuit city's coming back.
So anyway, so how are they going to target millennials?
Great question.
I'm glad you asked.
They're looking to have an express section selling $10 to $30 products that are replenishable
via a business to business portal.
And to put products in C stores, bookstores, hardware stores, et cetera.
Okay.
Uh, they are also planning to focus on categories like mobile, 3d printing and drones, things
that millennials like, uh, I'm sure that, uh, what's their face best by never thought
of, um, trying to sell mobile devices or 3d printers.
Best by mobile would be an interesting name for that if they ever decided to do it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Or like the Apple, like if they had like a separate Apple section within the best buy
store where you could see all the latest mobile devices from Apple that had like its own kind
of table structure that looks more like an Apple store and like if it also had like kind
of like a, like a backboard on it so that while you were looking at the table, you really
felt more like you were having like the Apple experience.
Interesting.
Someone at Best Buy should come up with that.
And then, and then like other vendors, like whether it's like say for example, Microsoft,
they could, they could copy that idea and they could have a little section.
Yeah.
They could have their little section where slightly different uniforms.
So they still, you still know their employee, the store.
Oh my goodness.
Okay.
Okay.
Eva hot Q jog says best by mobile exists.
Whoa.
I can't even believe that.
How did we not pick up on this?
I am blindsided by this.
Me too.
I mean the next thing they're going to tell us is that the Apple thing exists.
Is that just cause they react so quickly to the show that they just did it right now?
They have to go look that up because I mean, do they even have that on their website?
Oh, you guys.
I love you guys.
Okay.
Let's move on to our, uh, let's move on to our next topic.
Okay.
In case you care, uh, they're planning to, they're projecting 5,000 to 10,000 locations
over the next five years.
I, I'm projecting all of them looking towards private label products to resell elsewhere.
I mean, what strategy is that?
I mean, do you, do you have any idea what the look on my face was when I was a product
manager at NCI X and Rose will approached us about carrying their products?
I was just like, are you high?
For people that don't know, are you high?
Are you drunk?
New egg does the Rose will.
Yeah.
That's, that's, that's new eggs.
Kirkland signature.
You know?
Yeah.
Kirkland signature is a Costco's Western family and we'll get there eventually.
Yeah.
Western family is, um, shoot, I can't think of any more house brands right now.
Dang.
Some people have one.
No, I don't think so.
I don't think so.
Best buys.
They have one.
B and H is impact.
There you go.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
What is best?
Best buy has a lot.
So rocket fish is one of them.
That's for like monitor stands and crap.
Sorry.
Dynex.
Dynex.
That's another one.
I think they have more.
Yeah.
Hey, hey, hey.
Future shop.
What else they got?
Insignia.
Insignia.
Westinghouse.
Westinghouse.
Westinghouse.
The Twitch chat is helping us now too.
Oh my God.
So yeah.
Best of luck with that circuit city.
HP's Compaq.
Is that?
No, I think that's just more of a like brand.
They bought them out and then we're like, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Poor HP.
Who bought Gateway?
Acer I think.
Yeah, that's right.
That sucks.
It's like, yeah, we see this innovative business model.
They've got like a cow on their, on their box.
So if you open up the box, it's like, I don't think they ever actually did that.
They should have.
Yeah.
All right.
I love this next bit of news from Ars Technica.
Thank you so much FCC ignoring cable industry protest.
The FCC says it will unlock the set top box.
This is all based on an investigation that they did into how the, the cable box has managed
to increase in price at a rate that outpaces other electronics and asking themselves the
critical question when the functionality hasn't changed and the cost of electronics inherently
goes down.
How is this happening?
So the average user pays an annual $231 and 82 cents in rental fees, which is more than
it should cost to just buy the thing for their set top box.
Thank you, Luke, because the hardware in there is not worth anything.
I mean, we're talking, you can buy return it when you're done.
You can buy a tag or a powered Nvidia shield console for less than what you would pay in
rental fees on this piece of crap in like 20 months.
Okay.
And that thing is a legitimately powerful piece of hardware.
There is nothing in this thing.
Okay.
Some of them have a hard drive.
I'll give you that.
But have you seen the price of hard drives lately?
Pretty cheap.
I'm probably giving you a 500.
So the FCC is planning for a software-based cardless replacement for cable card.
So without needing the card, consumers would be able to get the TV service that they already
subscribe to on tablets, smart TVs, or set top boxes.
So this is in opposition to the plan proposed by Comcast and other TV providers that wanted
a framework that involved the cable companies building proprietary apps for things like
smart TVs, apps that you know would be garbage and would be intentionally garbage so they
could push services like watchable.
Yeah.
Brutal.
Thank you, FCC.
So yeah.
So US senators found in a survey of TV providers last year that lack of competition has resulted
in prices rising much faster than in other hardware markets, said an FCC official.
This is originally posted on the forum by Cloaked, by the way.
Thank goodness.
I wish Canada would wake up in the same way that the FCC has over the last little bit.
And I don't expect the changes to happen overnight in America, and I don't expect them to happen
overnight anywhere, but it would be nice to see some progress.
We still don't even-
Luckily, if the states do it, usually Canada's like, whoa, whoa, okay.
And then does it afterwards.
Yes and no.
We still don't even have cable card.
That's true.
Like we straight up don't even have cards that we could plug into a TV tuner in like
a computer so that we could PVR things on our computer instead of on the proprietary
box.
Like it's actually worse.
Yay, Canada.
Go Canada.
I mean, there's just a lot of stuff I love about Canada to be very clear.
I'm not like down on my country.
You love their floppy heads and their beady little eyes.
And I love their accents too.
Hey, buddy.
So this is kind of your topic originally posted by Command Man 7.
The original article here is from Fuddzilla.
I would have loved if this was my topic, but I wasn't able to read the doc today and then
walked upstairs and tried to talk to Colton about it and read the notes that were on it
and was like, do more of them and then walked away because all that were really in the notes
were that it is a near-eyed light fields VR headset.
Okay, the long and short of it is that we are at least two to three years away from
this being in a consumer product.
It's something that Nvidia is working on with Stanford University and that it virtually,
apparently virtually eliminates motion sickness by being latency free.
Very, very cool stuff.
I mean, VR is going to be advancing so frigging fast over the next few years here.
So it uses two layered displays with back to back LCD panels that are separated by five
millimeters to also improve the ability to quickly refocus on objects that are near or
further from the viewer eyes, which is interesting because today's VR headsets, the user's eyes
are more focused on the display rather than the image, which is actually a huge problem
for motion sickness and for developmental reasons.
People have been bringing up concerns about kids using VR headsets because they're focusing
on a display all the time and it's not promoting eye development or whatever.
Yeah, so this should make it much more natural to use and whether or not that's actually
a thing.
Who knows?
But yeah, now what's unclear at this point in time is whether this will be an Nvidia
proprietary technology or whether AMD will even still exist for us to have that conversation.
So the algorithm used to compute the light field images in real time utilizes CUDA parallel
programming.
Now with that said, my understanding is that AMD can implement CUDA with the appropriate
license, which I think they have now.
They are going to or have, yeah, one of the...
So as long as Nvidia doesn't package this up into like a G-Sync type of proprietary
closed door deal, then this could be fantastic for the VR industry as a whole, whether you're
running green or red team hardware inside your rig.
You'll have to read a lot more about it later on, but yeah, I'm...
So far, two-layer PCBs, back-to-back displays.
Just LCDs is what I meant to say, not PCBs.
Yeah.
If you put just two PCBs in front of your eyes, there'd be no VR.
It could look maybe kind of cool if they're cool PCBs.
Speaking of PCBs, I checked in with the Free Geek guys and I don't know if it will be feasible
for me to buy the quantity of PCBs that I would want in order to use them as decorative
items.
Because they're too expensive?
They are $3 a pound.
$3 a pound.
That's actually pretty expensive.
That would actually cost a bloody fortune to do up a wall with or something.
I mean, I might still...
I don't know.
I might still do it or something.
But the thing is that I didn't really have a clear idea of where I wanted to put it anyway.
I was kind of thinking it'd be cool to do a wall in the benchmark room, or it'd be cool
to do a wall in my office or something.
It's probably inappropriate for my office.
I wasn't like, oh yeah, we need a PCB wall there.
But I think this place just needs more decoration and more spice in general.
Like doing up Yvonne's office really made it clear to me that the more stuff we did
like that, the more homey this place is gonna feel.
So I was just...
I don't know.
I was looking at the pile of them at Free Geek and I was like, oh yeah, that'd be cool.
Like a PCB wall.
Because I've seen it done.
And it looks really bad ass.
Yeah.
People are asking what a pound is.
Yes, it's about a little under half a kilogram.
Sorry.
Sorry to my non-American friends.
Floppy disk wall?
That would be sick.
You'd have to find enough colorful floppy disks though.
Yeah, they're out there.
Like yellow and pink floppy disks.
Yeah, man.
All right.
Original article here is from Engadget.
This was posted by Alex P something or other.
Sony creates a new company to run everything PlayStation.
So Sony Interactive Entertainment combines hardware and software with PlayStation branded
services and I guess the point of spinning this off would be that it will keep PlayStation
clear of the rest of Sony's abominable balance sheet.
Probably.
That's a pretty boring news topic, but yeah, I think they're probably trying to dodge financial
problems by moving them off to their own thing.
Yep.
Okay.
So there you go.
I'll talk about that very briefly, but the real news here is not necessarily that Samsung
is readying their first 144 hertz 3440 by 1440 ultra wide monitor, but rather the way
that that technology is going to be enabled.
Yes, my friends, DisplayPort 1.3 is coming to Polaris GPUs and presumably Pascal, although
I don't know if that's actually confirmed, and is definitely coming to monitors near
you, presuming that you have enough money to afford one of those monitors because they
aren't going to be cheap.
So the limitation with current 3440 by 1440 monitors, the reason that they're all 60 or
maximum a hundred hertz is that that's all DisplayPort 1.2 can handle.
And that's all we have on our video cards and on our displays right now.
DisplayPort 1.3 coming, blazing fast 144 hertz, 3440 by 1440, VA panels.
These are going to be pretty sick.
It looks like these two models, a 30 and a 35 inch, could also feature adaptive sync
like AMD FreeSync, although it is not clear exactly which it will be, if any.
So that article was from TechPowerUp and that was posted by Asim1999 on the forum.
It's funny, when I read yours like 1999, I'm like, oh, that was recent.
They must have created their user profile in 1999 and been one of those people that
wasn't sort of far sighted enough, not far sighted, but wasn't forward thinking enough
to use a username that doesn't sound stupid the year after they created.
But then I realize now that 1999 is actually like 17 years ago and he was probably born
in 1999.
And then he felt old and maybe the whole Twitch tat did as well.
All right.
Every time I reference anything like that on my stream, everyone's like, oh my God,
I'm so old.
iPhone 7 Plus.
Even 2009.
Yeah.
Sounds like yesterday.
Yeah, it's not.
There's like people from 2009 that are in like grade two and three.
Okay, so Apple's secret iPhone 7 Plus camera project revealed in the never ending battle.
This is verbatim from the Forbes article.
For smartphone camera supremacy, Apple is understandably keen to maintain its position
as the world's most popular camera.
Now according to a report from Apple Insider, famously accurate KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo
Kuo Kuo Kuo has released a note to investors containing some exciting details about the
next generation Apple supersized flagship handset, the iPhone 7 Plus.
Hopefully it doesn't have a camera bump.
So basically last April, Apple purchased camera technology company Lynx Computational Imaging
Limited for 20 million.
They acquired their technologies that enable the use of multiple cameras, which can combine
outputs into a single image with claimed DSLR like quality.
Are we ever going to get sick of calling smartphone cameras DSLR like?
I mean, didn't that start with the 5S or the 5 or something?
Something.
It's been around for a while and it has never been that.
Like where there's been a slide that says DSLR like.
It's like a bokeh effect is not DSLR like necessarily.
There's a lot more to anyway.
So Apple has allegedly been working on building a dual camera solution for three years before
eventually just purchasing Lynx to overcome technical barriers.
So the report claims Apple implement a pair of 12 megapixel sensors in the iPhone 7 Plus,
which doesn't surprise me that much because honestly, the camera sensor is not a huge
part of the bomb cost of a camera.
So if anyone can find a benefit to putting two sensors on the camera, then I don't see
that really affecting the cost much.
It's the technology behind actually utilizing them that gets a little bit tricky.
So one would apparently have an image stabilized wide angle lens, and the other would have
a two to three X telephoto lens.
So they're not the first company to implement a dual camera system HTC with the ever so
famous one M8 had a dual camera system that was terrible.
But given that it's Apple, maybe it won't be garbage and maybe, or maybe it will be
just like a lot less garbage, which is really all that it comes down to sometimes.
Yeah, that's very true.
Yeah.
Okay, so maybe not every iPhone 7 Plus will have this.
Apparently there will be two models, one standard and one with dual camera solutions.
Maybe.
Although if you're buying an iPhone 7 Plus, I know a lot of users that like it because
of the great camera.
So I wouldn't be surprised if the dual camera one sold more.
Yep.
This original article here is from WCCF tech and was posted by aluminum tech on the forum
and apparently more iPhone news.
Apparently the iPhone 5 SE has entered mass production, a device to target emerging market.
So Apple's previous strategy was to just have like super duper lingering models.
Like they were still selling the iPhone 4S like super, not that long ago.
But now they are kind of going, okay, yeah, we did that 5C thing.
That like kind of sucked, but maybe we were just, maybe we were just taking, going about
it the wrong way.
So now they're doing a dedicated, a dedicated cheapo device for emerging markets.
And I mean, it's Apple, so cheapo is obviously used in a somewhat tongue in cheek fashion.
We should expect to see the iPhone 5 SE and Q2 2016, you know, it feels like what Apple
was good at simplicity is thrown away a little bit.
It seems like what's happening is they are, they have reached with the phone cause it's
no secret that phone sales are not going to be able to continue to grow at the rate that
they are now.
There's only so many people on the planet that need a phone.
And there's the, the, the, the like amount of people being born thing, which is one of
the reasons why YouTube channels seem to just consistently get bigger is there's more people
in that demographic and whatnot and whatnot, but you will literally hit a wall eventually.
And you can't have explosive growth, like exponential growth forever.
If you grow by two every year, you eventually that's just, that just literally can't mathematically
work at some point.
So it seems like Apple is in, it's, this feels like a desperation tactic to be perfectly
honest.
It's saying what they were always so good at simplicity by an iPhone.
This is the experience you will have selling the experience versus selling a skew and saying,
okay, we need a product to target every different price point.
Apple was always, well, I guess elitist enough to kind of go, Nope, we're just going to build
the best thing we can build.
And if you can afford it, you can afford it.
And if you can't, then you can have what we built last year, two years ago.
And it feels like,
it might be really annoying to a lot of people, but they were good at it.
That's the thing is that has never worked well.
I mean, look at Samsung.
Yes, they sell a lot of smartphones.
Yes, it's a very profitable business for them, but it also brings with it a lot of challenges
like their smartphones are really poorly supported.
Like the things that Apple has done to differentiate itself.
Things like supporting the devices for longer are going to be much more difficult if they
broaden the product portfolio in this manner.
It's expected to come with an A8 processor.
It's expected to come with NFC off board for Apple pay.
And it's apparently been dubbed and upgraded iPhone 5S in internal Apple references.
So maybe it will have touch ID based on the picture.
It's going to be like plastic and stuff.
So there you go.
Here we go.
There's a better look at it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They've done it before, they're doing it again.
Desperation tactics.
It all happened after jobs.
Yep.
And like even the naming scheme is getting confusing.
There's a 5S, a 5C, a 5SE.
What does this all actually mean?
Yeah.
Oh, the point of clarification, this is a four inch model.
So it's small.
So it's going back to the one handed size, which I mean, and if they were just going,
okay, yeah.
Someone in chat.
Okay.
A bunch of people in chat.
Unapologetically plastic.
Unapologetically plastic.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for reminding me of that most hilarious.
Like I remember sitting watching that video.
I actually, I remember where I was when I watched that video and I remember sitting
there and I was like, I had to rewind it.
I had to rewind it and watch it again.
I was like, the poor guy, he looks like he has a gun to his head.
Yeah.
Like.
Yeah.
A little brutal.
Oh, this is cool.
This is not news at all, unless you're just kind of into whatever crazy crap Linus is
going to be up to in the next little bit.
So I just confirmed that I'm getting one of these and the first thing Luke's, yeah, that's
actually exactly, he didn't really say anything.
He did that.
And then the second thing Luke said was, yeah, that was the second thing he said.
Not really the point.
I don't even remember.
I was just like, that's probably what I did.
So this is far and away the BAist rig that I will have ever had my hands on.
It can hold eight dual slot GPU's.
It features 1600 watt redundant 80 plus platinum power supplies.
It can support up to one and a half terabytes of ECC memory.
It takes two LGA 2011 sockets, or 2011 three socket CPU's and I believe should be, and
this is mostly across the board, should be compatible with the upcoming rumored 22 core
Broadwell CPU's.
And in addition to the eight PCIE, I believe they are full 16X, although don't quote me
on that.
It doesn't actually say what they are electrically.
So they're either 16X or 8X each.
In addition to, no, they couldn't be 16X each, they must be 8X each.
In addition to those, it actually gets another three expansion slots for like raid cards
or whatever else, so, or even just like HBA's.
So I actually have a 24 port HBA, this is where it gets really bananas.
The front supports 24 two and a half inch drives, in addition to the eight GPU's.
So I am planning to actually combine the functionality of two of our mega servers into just this
one.
Yep.
Actually like two and a half, two and a half of our powerful machines will all be running
off of just this one in an upcoming project.
So I have a really cool plan to do kind of like a DIY, like NVIDIA grid thing, where
I'm gonna use this machine to support eight concurrent like Steam in-home streaming or
NVIDIA game stream streams, all on the network, because it also features dual 10 gigabit LAN.
So it'll be able to support that throughput without even breaking a sweat.
Yeah, well Steam is rolling out 100 gigabit LAN.
Don't make me come over there.
I would, that would actually be kind of neat, just as like a, just as like a, whoa, this
is bananas video, like set up a couple of RAM drives and like just a point to point
if we could get our hands on some 40 gigabit or a hundred gigabit cards, and just be like,
wow.
Wow, this network card is as fast as your internal drive will be for the next 10 years.
Okay, oh, this is an update.
This was posted by Seagirl on the forum this week.
Microsoft refunded the $8,000 worth of credit card charges for that dad from FIFA.
So they did say this is a once in a lifetime exception.
Don't do it again.
How much trouble is that kid in?
Wow.
A lot.
And like how screwed is he going to be when he's like further in life?
He's like, yeah, my dad's not going to notice, like I'm not, it's fine.
I don't know.
Maybe he learned his lesson.
Did he?
People can learn things like, okay, here, I'm going to tell a super embarrassing story
about when, when I was younger.
So when I was in, when I was in high school, a guy came up to me on the street and asked
me to cash a check for him.
And he was like, something, something, whatever the story was, you know where this is going.
So whatever the story was, he, he couldn't do it.
His bank was closed.
Something, something, something here, I'll endorse the check.
I'll let you cash it.
And if you can give me the cat anyway.
So long story short, being the naive, trusting individual that I am, I cashed it for him.
And ultimately I was out like $200 or something like that, which for me at the time was all
lot of money, like a lot of money today.
$200 is a lot of money, but especially when I was like 16 or whatever, that was a lot
of money for me.
That's an excessively considerable amount of money when you're 16.
Yeah.
So at least it was for me.
Basically my point here is I learned something.
It was an expensive lesson, but I learned something very valuable about how the world
works.
And sometimes you can have those experiences and they can turn you into a better person.
Yeah.
But that was someone tricking you and you unfortunately falling for it.
Yes.
This was him being like, well, I'll buy a whole bunch of things in FIFA, lol.
Dad won't figure it out.
I think they're different.
Maybe.
Yes, they are different, but you were unfortunately tricked.
I was, he repeatedly and excessively purchased something, right?
You didn't go to the store and click buy.
Like I don't know how many times until you get to $8,000.
I actually saw him on the street like a year later.
I was driving by in my car and I was actually had my girlfriend at the time who was with
me when the whole thing happened and I kind of went, yeah, no, just kidding.
Oh wow.
Rough.
Yeah.
You know, the funny thing is, is we even had the foresight to like take a picture of him.
We were like, yeah, we're taking a picture of you because like, you know, and he's like,
oh yeah, yeah, that's cool.
You know?
Yeah, that's cool.
Like, like he hesitated a little bit, but like, he was like, I don't really seem to
have a choice at this point.
So we gave the picture to the cops and everything.
I don't think anything ever came of it cause they didn't care, but uh, there you go.
Cause to them $200 is not that much cause they've got other massive cases going.
They've got other fish to filet.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I think speaking of fileting, that's pretty much it for the filet show today.
The filet show today.
The filet show today.
I wasn't sure.
Yeah.
And we'll see you again next week.
Same bat time.
Same bat channel.
Are you basically just saying that this show is about to lose its own culture?
I don't know.
Is that why it's so good?
That's why it's so good at the very end when it's like so intense you can't take it anymore
and it's going to be over in the mirror.
Oh wow.
No.
Okay.
Oh bro.
Thanks again.
We'll watch that.
You can't win things like that.