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[Assistant] So we'll give them that. Anyway you guys, uh, so the games that you get are Dead Space, Burnout Paradise, The Ultimate Box, Crisis 2 Maximum Edition, Mirror's Edge, Dead Space 3, Medal of Honor, and if you pay more than the average price you get Battlefield 3, The Sims 3, plus the Starter Pack, which I believe is two extra content packs.


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[Assistant] From PC perspective to join us here on the WAN Show. So we're making our call. Remember guys, guests are powered by Razer comms. Download Razer comms. And let's add our guest lower third. Ryan gave us a fantastic number of, uh, options to choose from. Oh, hold on. I wonder if that's the thing.


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[Assistant] We're going to go ahead and delete system 32, which is one of the helpful tips that was given to us here on Twitter to, uh, help us diagnose any kinds of, uh, system issues that we might be having. There you go. Thank you, Christian Mole!


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[Assistant] Alright! So how's it going? How's, uh, how's the PC reviewing biz?


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[Assistant] But they were very wishy washy about it, and after they made the statement about stable throughout the year, how many weeks was it or how many days was it before they released 7790, which was actually not quite based on the same design as the previous GPUs.


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[Assistant] Which is funny because so many different companies take such different approaches to this. You look at Intel, where their roadmaps are, I mean,


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[Assistant] Even general consumers reading reviews on PC perspective or other hardware sites are gonna know what's coming for the next couple years. Uhm, and then Nvidia and AMD, like they hold their cards like close to their chest to the point where, is there a purpose?


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[Assistant] That is a very good point. You know what, this wasn't on our livestream document, but I wanna talk APU. Because these rumors have been swirling for a long time, and uh, there was an article recently that was on a fairly non-credible site, I think it was uh, PC Perspective or something like that, no I'm just kidding, it was a different site.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that AMD is going to abandon the high-end desktop CPU market. What do you make of this?


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[Assistant] And it's funny you mention that, because we talk about AMD and Nvidia, jealously guarding secrets from each other, even down to things like the, uh, the day of a particular launch when we're a month away, but like you said, adding a new architecture to a team, uh, or adding a new architect to a team, or new engineers to a team, uhm,


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[Assistant] Is actually a thing. And if you look at the cost of a socket, if they could stop putting a socket on a board, I think both Intel and the motherboard manufacturers would be giving it the ol' thumbs up.


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[Assistant] Like one in a thousand, maybe. Motherboards are a whole heck of a lot more than that. So I would actually argue that the CPU defects rate will affect motherboard RMAs less than end user error installing CPUs into sockets, which I've seen a lot of.


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[Assistant] And that'll be that. And I think, honestly, it's gonna cause more problems for the retailers than it will necessarily for the board makers.


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[Assistant] Like I'd put together bundles sometimes sort of on a whim. Oh, I need a, I need to fill up like a fourth bundle spot. And then that would be the one that would sell and I'd be floored.


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[Assistant] Fascinating. So I'd like to take this opportunity for a moment to ask you guys to direct some Twitter questions to Ryan. We're gonna do a Twitter blitz with him before he has to leave us. Again, he apparently has to sleep because he's weak unlike the rest of us nerds.


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[Assistant] Speaking of which, do take this time to pimp your podcast and anything else that you think people should definitely pay attention to on Twitter. Guys, you need to follow Ryan on Twitter at PCPer. But uh, Ryan, tell them a little bit about what you do if they don't already know. I just kinda came into this with that assumption.


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[Assistant] In fact, that was how Ryan and I met, was he invited me to be a guest on the PCPer podcast, which I would of course be happy to do again for you, man, so uh. Cool.


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[Assistant] Let's talk about one of the big things that PCPer has been doing that has sort of, uh, rubbed people the wrong way. Uhm, but, unlike Kanye West, has caused some definite positive change in the industry, and of course, I wanna talk about AMD's new frame-pacing driver.


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[Assistant] Thanks, man. So, uh, basically, here we go. This is one of the articles on pcpurr.com. Guys, definitely check it out if you search for a frame rating catalyst 13.8.


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[Assistant] Uhm, if you could summarize this in a nutshell, give us kind of the story. What you found out, what you reported back to AMD, what they said to you, and what eventually came out as 13.8.


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[Assistant] Oh, sorry. There was, I mean, you went on any forum, and there was a dozen people saying this, and a dozen people saying that, and no one agreed with anyone.


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[Assistant] And sustainable. If you drop one frame, you have to throw the whole thing away, correct?


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[Assistant] Oh, hold on Ryan. We're dropping, uh, we're dropping some frames on the stream here. Let's just see if, uh, it has to do with that. Sorry.


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[Assistant] So, I think we're back now. It looks like we're not dropping any frames. And, uh, okay.


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[Assistant] Well, nope, well, we're trying to bring Ryan back to the show. Okay, let's go ahead and give this one more try here. Man, I love this show! Anything can happen! You never know what's gonna happen! In theory, we've got like news,


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[Assistant] Yeah, like it could be absolutely anything. Oh, apparently, oh, Ryan Schroed is calling me.


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[Assistant] Alright! Okay, so let's, whoop, okay, let's go to mine and Ryan's conversation apparently. That's what we're gonna go to. Let's go, let's go to, uh, here we go.


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[Assistant] This. Okay, so you were telling us about how AMD's drivers basically were not up to snuff, the observed frame rate was much lower, and they pretty much rewrote a huge part of their catalyst driver to release 13.8, and this is a graph from pcper.com. Tell us about this.


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[Assistant] Hold on, audio quality is, uh, deciding that it hates its life here.


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[Assistant] We're not dropping any frames on the stream yet, but, uh, let's-


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[Assistant] We're dropping frames. Yeah, okay, we're down. And we're back with reduced stream quality again, which is a most excellent thing. So Ryan, let's pick up where we left off. Tell us about this graph right here to my camera right.


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[Assistant] I mean with that said, Witcher 2 is DirectX 9.


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[Assistant] Alright, well, you sound like you're on autotune. Uh, speaking of Kanye West again, because I think we're at the very limit of what our connection can sustain right now.


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[Assistant] I am very envious of you for even having the opportunity to pay however much too much you're paying for 30 30 fiber.


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[Assistant] Alright, why don't we schedule you in tentatively for after AMD releases their new graphics cards. I'm really sorry to the viewers as well as you, Ryan, because I really had a few more topics that I wanted to touch on with you that I thought you were gonna have some great contributions to. Uhm, so once again guys, Ryan from PCPer, who talks like a robot.


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[Assistant] Alright, hopefully, hopefully Ryan's wife is okay with us taking up far too much of his time here tonight. And...


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, nuke that. Alright, so, back to the regular show here, guys. I'm sorry we weren't able to do some of the Twitter questions for Ryan, uh, due to the technical difficulties with our internet connection. We're gonna get in touch with our provider and see if we can get


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[Assistant] This is freaking amazing. So this website...


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[Assistant] Is actually uhm, like a buddy of mine from the industry's website. I'm not gonna name any names. He actually recently left the company he was at and it's just like his personal site and I really hope it loads for me.


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[Assistant] We're not, we're not asking for that much. We're trying to load a page that is all text right now.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna take a sip of water. Calm my nerves.


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[Assistant] We're back at even lower quality. So there you go guys, back to the GTA trailer that we left off on here.


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[Assistant] So you can, you can rob liquor stores. This is like a classic online multiplayer gameplay mode is kinda what they're calling it. And then they've got like golf.


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[Assistant] So, Civilization 5 Online, or Civilization Online, or whatever you want to call it, because this would be Civilization 6 by this point?


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[Assistant] Because Civilization is one of the worst multiplayer experiences ever. I mean, I've been trying to get a Civilization online game completed since like,


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[Assistant] Alright, well that's, uh, that's kind of exciting. Speaking of extremely crazy, exciting trailers, guys, check this out. So if any children are watching, stop. Yes.


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[Assistant] And there's a bunch of like awards and whatnot. So this is the, uh, this is the Witcher 3 trailer.


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[Assistant] Okay, now hold on a second. They call the place Milk Guard, and then they're sentencing this woman to death by hanging? I mean, are they guarding them?


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[Assistant] Alright, so that was kind of the punchline there, killing monsters and there's a big... And we're hopefully back, so uh...


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[Assistant] Anyway guys, our ISP says through Twitter that they are not throttling us. We have no idea what else it would be. Uhm, however, we'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they're not. I don't know. But it looks an awful lot like that, because as soon as we start streaming up, our internet connection goes into the toilet. And decides to, it works. It works.


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[Assistant] But things are getting through until it screeches to a halt, so it really feels like whatever's being done is, uh,


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[Assistant] Is whatever. I, I really, I really can't think of anything else that would cause something like this.


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[Assistant] About me being fraudled that I should direct message them and they'll get it addressed. So I have direct messaged them. Hopefully they'll get it addressed. Hopefully we won't go down again. So let's just keep this rolling. So good trailer or bad trailer? The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt trailer. I think it was a good trailer.


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[Assistant] Cause the Grand Theft Auto Online trailer pretty much sold that game to anyone who watched it. Whereas the Witcher 3, cause what's the difference between hype and selling the game?


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[Assistant] I think around 5 or 6 hours on Witcher 1. Like I played through some. They didn't suck me in.


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[Assistant] Right. So, I don't know, I guess we'll, uh, we'll see. But I, I mean, from my perspective, as much as I enjoy watching these cinematic trailers, like the Dead Island trailer. Oh my goodness.


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[Assistant] So good timing would be Gamescom to actually release the gameplay.


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[Assistant] Their guidelines sounded pretty, uh, douchebaggy to me. Yeaah. Yep.


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[Assistant] So, uh, I actually didn't really like The Verge's coverage of this particular, uh, this particular thing. However, here's the link to theverge.com Google blocks Microsoft's new YouTube Windows Phone app. So here's the basic story.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Google has said we're not gonna build a YouTube app for Windows Phone 8. Okay? So Microsoft's all like, okay, well we'll make one.


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[Assistant] At our own expense, just give us, you know...


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[Assistant] Access to the API, let us do these things. Uhm, so then Microsoft released one that was actually pretty excellent.


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[Assistant] Well hold on, no, Micros, Google made them pull the first one. First.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so Microsoft broke a couple of Google's rules, so it allowed downloading videos.


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[Assistant] Uhm, stop that. And we need you guys to integrate support for ads, and you need to remove that functionality where people can download videos. So Microsoft is all like, okay.


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[Assistant] Back to the drawing board. We're gonna go ahead and do those things and hey, we're gonna add the functionality to upload videos while we're at it. So they re-released it and Google has pulled it again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, and what they're claiming is that Microsoft's implementation


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[Assistant] And Microsoft actually has an awesome, like awesome public letter right now to Google where they basically are like,


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[Assistant] Yo dog, you didn't build HTML5 versions of your YouTube app for iOS or Android.


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[Assistant] In fact, behind closed doors, you've agreed with us that HTML5 is more of a long-term goal, and in the meantime, we have to have something to give our users, so that's why we did it this way. Uhm.


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[Assistant] You know, I thought your whole business model was you want people using your services, not that you're going to try to differentiate your platform, Android, based on


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[Assistant] Oh no, their letter is fantastic. I absolutely love it. Let me just, uh,


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[Assistant] Let me just pull up a link. Yeah, Microsoft is hoping that a public message detailing the injustices. Here it is. They call it the limits of Google's openness.


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[Assistant] So this gives the whole history of what went on and also says, uh, Google raises concerns about their branding. The funny thing about this point is we've been using the same branding since 2010 for an inferior YouTube app. Now that we have an app that gives users a fuller YouTube experience, all of a sudden they object to the branding?


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[Assistant] Reviews of our new app are unanimous that the experience is much improved. We're committed to continuing to make adjustments. If Google were truly concerned about a degraded experience, experience,


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[Assistant] It would allow our users to access the new YouTube app that they love.


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[Assistant] We think it's clear that Google just doesn't want Windows Phone users to have the same experience as Apple and Android users.


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[Assistant] It says that we're streaming, however, we dropped frames immediately. So we're back potentially at 240p.


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[Assistant] We've got people asking all kinds of inane questions on Twitch chat. No, we're not uploading videos. Right now. Separately on the connection, because we aren't... stupid.


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[Assistant] Every computer in the house is off. Even my laptop is tethered to my phone.


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[Assistant] And of course, a much higher expense than a landline, which should in theory be giving me a reasonably decent connection.


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[Assistant] Right. So side projects are not really a thing anymore. They're gonna stay focused on the big biz stuff like self-driving cars or whatever else the case may be.


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[Assistant] So, ahem, Bruna Payne Tweets at United Airlines. Note the misspelling there.


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[Assistant] The United Airlines staff at Gate C8 in the airport, whatever that is, are a complete disrespect. Hashtag news. That just goes along so well with this profile picture right here. They are a complete disrespect.


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[Assistant] AdjetBlue, for one, takes tweets regarding their company Sirius. Might wanna take some tips. No, it's a very serious warning. We accidentally hired bounty hunters to run that desk, and now we can't stop them.


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[Assistant] Michael tweets, for those following, I'm still stuck at Buffalo at United Airlines. Thanks for trying to fight the weather. You're doing well. Here at United Airlines, we strive to not let a little thing like the fury of God prevent us from delivering tolerable service.


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[Assistant] Ahem, yes they're horrible in my experience, and I avoid them if possible. In our defense, it says on our website that we do not carry the equipment on domestic flights to cater to nerds.


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[Assistant] Shout out for stranding my wife at YWG for nearly 12 hours for a short flight to Chicago. Excellent service. After the first 6 hours, she technically belonged to us. You're just lucky we met our monthly quota.


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[Assistant] So this is amazing. So this is just a completely fake parody airline account. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So this, this guy found out that for months angry customers had been tweeting it and says, God has given me a great beautiful funnel through which angry people flow in the worst possible mood. This is comedy gold. I absolutely loved it. What is the recourse?


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[Assistant] For someone like United Airlines, how do they prevent this from happening?


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[Assistant] I can't even, yes. Verified by Twitter is not an application process. They have to reach out to you. So I can't even apply. So if someone else made at minus tick.


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[Assistant] But if someone made at Linus Tick on Twitter, there's nothing I can do to redirect people to the correct Twitter account.


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[Assistant] I tried to take over at Linus Tech Tips or at Linus Sebastian or something like that where it was an obvious, uh, Twitter account squatter and they basically said no.


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[Assistant] No, nothing we can do. So, I don't even know what United Airlines' recourse would be, because, I mean, they're, obviously they're United Airlines, so they're kind of a big deal. So there might be something we can do about it, but it's not in Twitter's terms of service.


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[Assistant] So I think Twitter needs to be aware of this. I think companies need to be aware of this and almost need to keep an eye out proactively.


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[Assistant] And I think customers need to be aware of this because just because you're tweeting someone who might look like they represent the company that mistreated you or didn't mistreat you or whatever happened.


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[Assistant] I don't know anymore either. Alright, so I'm gonna load up this other article here.


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[Assistant] So this is like, crazy as balls. A high-end flip phone?


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[Assistant] So, it features a micro SD slot, two SIM cards, which is cool, maybe it's going to be destined for China, or maybe it'll be somewhere else entirely.


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[Assistant] So two 3.3 inch 320x480 touch displays, which is actually not a bad pixel density.


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[Assistant] Five megapixel rear camera, so it's not great, but not terrible. It's certainly not fourteen megapixel. Okay, so it's not a high end phone, but it's certainly much higher end than other flip phones. Now I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I can probably type as quickly on a number pad, like a tactile number pad, as I can on a touch screen keyboard. Predictive text?


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[Assistant] Got a lot better after the initial sort of like...


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[Assistant] I mean, there's something to be said for tactile buttons, particularly old people.


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[Assistant] You know what though, uh, when we were over in Taiwan, what did you notice? Everyone uses a flip.


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[Assistant] And maybe it's a cost thing, maybe it's not. I mean, maybe the positioning here is premium flip. Is this baby's first smartphone, so to speak?


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[Assistant] Here the expectation is for, you know, a couple hundred bucks so I can save up, you know, my month of, you know, spares money this month and I can get a phone on contract that's top of the freaking line.


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[Assistant] Whereas you look at other markets, like, uh, South America is a great example, where they'll look at something like, you know, an iPhone 5 and just be like, oh my gosh, do you have any idea how much that, not only do they make less money,


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[Assistant] Okay, so she says these photos were art, not selfies she snapped to send to a lover. She never posted them on any social media, explained her attorney, claiming that his client kept them only for reference or professional use for art.


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[Assistant] Well that's just what they're saying is the evidence that it was in fact a Best Buy employee that


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[Assistant] Took the photos as opposed to her just, you know, leaking them on


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[Assistant] Yes, because it was art, which is exactly why she kept them for herself and never actually posted them anywhere, because one of the obvious sort of rebuttals might be, well, if you had all these naked pictures of yourself on your computer, how can we prove, how can you prove that you never sent them to anyone? So that's the argument here. So it may or may not be true, but, uhm,


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[Assistant] Okay, so I think the conclusion that we can draw here is that as much as uhm,


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[Assistant] Best Buy can have whatever policies they have in place. There's not really a whole lot they can do about deviant employees. So, you know, when people have unfettered access to other people's computers, if they're bad people, they might snoop around on the hard drive. And the other thing that there's nothing that they can do about is sheer customer stupidity.


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[Assistant] And let's face it, if you're bringing your computer to Best Buy to be fixed,


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[Assistant] You might not necessarily be the most technically apt kind of person. In fact, the article that we linked to in the livestream doc, which will be available under the video description, uh, pointed out


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[Assistant] That uhm, you know, well, they should have had these pictures in an encrypted folder, preferably on another drive, blah blah blah, et cetera et cetera et cetera. But, you know,


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[Assistant] Even, not, you don't necessarily have to be a complete moron when it comes to computers to not know how to do that stuff. So, there's, there's a whole bunch of factors that are going on here. And I think it's a little bit more complicated necessarily than


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[Assistant] You know, one individual's lawsuit might be, so, allegedly sort of accused, blah blah blah, all of that stuff, we don't know what happened here, but there's certainly potential for things to happen, as Slick was saying, that are not necessarily the fault of the employees. So, just kinda, throwing that out there.


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[Assistant] So I would like to take this opportunity to talk a little bit about our new sponsor for the WAN show, so I'm gonna go ahead and fire this up. So speaking of people who aren't necessarily the most technically inclined in the world, squarespace.com. They are officially


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[Assistant] Portfolio, uh, letting other customers have access to your portfolio, whatever the case may be, then I wouldn't recommend putting it on Squarespace, because the idea is that it would be publicly visible, or to, you can create a personal blog, so basically it's kind of like GeoCities, but updated for 2013, so the designs are not ugly.


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[Assistant] Uh, the designs have evolved in general on the web quite a bit since then, but Squarespace has over 20 customizable profiles and templates that you can go ahead and tinker around with to your heart's content. So you sign up for a free trial, which doesn't...


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[Assistant] They've got 24-7 tech supports, and our audience will probably also like that in addition to the drag and drop interface that allows you to kinda go, oh, well, okay, I'm gonna merchandise an item, just kinda drag and drop a picture in there at a price.


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[Assistant] At uh, on sale price and then it's pretty much ready to go. You can actually use the advanced tab or the developer mode tab to dink around with DCSS and HTML.


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[Assistant] So thanks Squarespace for your support of The WAN Show, and we're really excited to keep working with you guys, because so far, my mom's actually been trying to get a website going on it.


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[Assistant] And they've been pretty easy to use. She's actually at the cabin right now, so she hasn't worked on it in the last, uh, I think five days. But I am outright refusing to help her.


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[Assistant] And I'm telling her that I want her to go through Squarespace's tech support, because to me that is the ultimate acid test. If they can handle her, they can handle pretty much anything. Cause her question was, cause when you buy a year, they throw in a domain for free? So her question was, what is a domain?


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[Assistant] So that should give you some idea of my mom's sort of technical level when it comes to the interwebs and all of those related things. So speaking of the interwebs,


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[Assistant] Cisco, the company that powers, uh, a whole lot of the interwebs, slashed four thousand staff in spite of turning, ooh boy.


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[Assistant] Basically looking bad on their balance sheet. They have li-


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[Assistant] Slashed four thousand jobs, I mean think about that. You went to high school with probably anywhere from a couple hundred to five hundred people depending on the size of your high school. So that's about like them slashing.


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[Assistant] Your entire graduating class times probably anywhere from about 8 to 20. Unbelievable. So what do they have to say about this?


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[Assistant] The amount that you get on your paycheck in your bank account, so yes, Uncle Sam or, you know,


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[Assistant] Mr. Harper or whoever it is that represents your taxman in your country is definitely taking a cut.


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[Assistant] But there's also a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes. So let's say theoretically, I had an employee at Linus Media Group that cost...


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[Assistant] That's wage was ten dollars an hour. I'm paying anywhere from around twelve and a half to thirteen and a half dollars an hour. And we don't even have medical plan yet. Remember this is Canada, so when we don't have a medical plan that doesn't mean you're completely boned.


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[Assistant] It just means that you don't have, uh, extended medical, like dental for example. It's something we're working on, but the actual cost is, is, is double digit percentages higher.


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[Assistant] Then the employee even knows about, so I can definitely relate to that, but on the other hand, I take a bit of a different philosophy I think, and hopefully Slick can back me up on this, uhm, where I feel like if Linus Media Group is doing well, and we're making money,


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[Assistant] The people that got us there should be getting a reward as opposed to getting their jobs cut or getting their salaries cut. I'm assuming you're talking about Cisco. Yeah, I'm talking about the Cisco thing. I mean, I'm gonna be perfectly blunt with the viewers right now. I haven't given myself a raise since we started Linus Media Group. However, I have


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[Assistant] I've done some raises and some bonuses, so there you go.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's not to say that, you know, I'm gonna pay everyone, you know, $250,000 a year just for showing up to work.


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[Assistant] And definitely our ISP issues today haven't helped. But anyway, the point is, I really don't like this. At all.


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[Assistant] And with that said, if you've worked at a bigger company, you probably know that 1 out of every 20 people there at least is a complete idiot. So maybe that was the kind of layoffs.


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[Assistant] Friendships and seniority and just goofy stuff that's not actually to do with competence. I know really good people who have gotten laid off when I know complete morons at the same company that for whatever reason still have their jobs. So.


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[Assistant] Okay, well we don't really have too much left anyway. Uh, lots of rumors about the upcoming...


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[Assistant] Whatever it is they're gonna call it, let's just call it Volcanic Islands. So AMD's new graphics cards potentially that maybe are coming and I can't find the link in the doc for it.


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[Assistant] So, potential pricing has potentially been revealed, so according to Fudzilla, this was posted by Emma Long on the Linus Tech Tips forum, the HD9970 will cost less than $600.


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[Assistant] They speculate that it will cost between $549 and $599.


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[Assistant] Compared to what's available now because Nvidia just refreshed. They're not gonna be launching Maxwell.


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[Assistant] What Nvidia did, because the rumored performance of the potentially alleged 9970 is rumored to be around 5% better than a Titan.


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[Assistant] So they could have come in at a thousand dollars or even 899.99 and undercut Titan.


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[Assistant] But it looks like what AMD wants to do is put pressure on Nvidia to drop the price of Titan. Which is cool.


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[Assistant] You can hold onto your ticket. No way. Until December 31st at least.


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[Assistant] And hold out for upcoming games. For possible other games. Wow!


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[Assistant] Because, uh, yeaah. I mean, I've seen- I can't comment on the upcoming game titles, unfortunately. Because I have seen a deck, and I do know what it is. Hold on to your pants, guys. Hold on to your pants.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's uh, that's incredibly exciting. Have you talked about baby monitors? Nooo!


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[Assistant] Wow guys, secure your freaking wifi. Do it now. This was posted by, uh, IonBaza on the forum, and this was an article from CNET.com, and there's more on ABC.


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[Assistant] We're, we're, we're charging you to be personally responsible for protecting your friends and family and making sure that this kind of- because that is such a huge invasion of privacy.


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[Assistant] Go secure your wifi right now if you haven't done it. Moving into our next topic, Xbox One claims it can do 4K gaming. So this was posted on the forum by The Bloody Toxic. Here we go.


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[Assistant] There's no hardware restriction there at all. So in theory, the Xbox One could support 2K, or perhaps even 4K gaming, if there's content for it at those resolutions. The source is Forbes, and uh, I think the uh, the original poster of this, of this uh, link on our forum has some pretty good points here. Ahem. I have two main reasons why this is just stupid.


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[Assistant] And why it's basically just a lie. This is uh, quoting, quoting the bloody toxic. One!


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[Assistant] Two dual titans in 4K barely are able to throw 60 FPS at a screen with medium settings on modern games. We're not even talking next gen games. Number two.


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[Assistant] The Xbox One has one 1.4 HDMI output, which means 4K is going to be at 30Hz. However, I think the first one is probably the most valid because there was no way you were going to be pushing more than 30fps.


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[Assistant] You're just confusing people. Xbox One is not suitable for 4K gaming. Mark my words, 4K gaming is coming to PC now. 4K gaming is not coming to console for a very, very long time.


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[Assistant] You're too young to ever have actually had a situation where you had a report that you had to print out at school only to discover that your floppy disk broke or just was...


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[Assistant] Cause Valve said outright that they'll find a way for titles purchased through Steam to be still playable if they ever go completely insolvent or shut down the service.


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[Assistant] To copy Steam files to a disk? Do you? Yeah, sure. You can backup Steam files all day long. They even have a built-in backup feature.


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[Assistant] I think that we should probably all be able to agree that when it comes to movies, video games, and women, digital is just as good as physical.


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[Assistant] Let us animate PNG. So this was posted by Ghost on the forum. Ghost, you're awesome by the way. You were kind of annoying in the early days of the forum, but we both really like you now.


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[Assistant] So they have beat their $5,000 goal in only 8 days.


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[Assistant] No, just everything, half the things that are posted on there are animated gifs as far as I can tell, so. So now it can like, look better. Or we can-


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[Assistant] I mean, that's something that would be, uh, that would be great for even things like Wancho. If we could have like an animated thing that supports alpha channels that's transparent, so we could have like moving junk. Uhm, I mean- We're gonna go back to like- Xsplit's gonna have to, you know, step things up a little bit too, but-


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[Assistant] Speaking of going back in time, check this out. So the upcoming- oh. Oh wow, the page has been pulled down.


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[Assistant] Okay, well at any rate, uhm, the upcoming Ivy Bridge E 4670K has been delidded by one of the overclockers over on Koolowler.com.


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[Assistant] And basically, they've discovered that the IHS is soldered down to the CPU core. This does a couple of things. Number one is it makes it, uhm, harder to remove. Yep. He destroyed his chip doing that.


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[Assistant] Number two is it de-incentivizes people to remove the bloody thing because you're going to get better thermal performance by having the dye soldered to the top of the integrated heat spreader versus having a thermal compound in there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it also means that there won't be as much inconsistency because having a solid metal layer means no air pockets can get stuck and the IHS won't be as prone to, uh, being sort of not, not attached in one spot or whatever else the case may be. So that's great.


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[Assistant] I guess what Intel's saying is when it comes to our server-grade products, we do actually know that solder is better.


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[Assistant] He probably has a half a dozen of them. Like those, those extreme overclocker guys, they get like a tray of CPUs pre-launch and do a bunch of benching and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, I'm not too worried about him.


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[Assistant] Or however you pronounce that. Located in Belgium. That's Jackie! Yeah. Oh, I love that guy. He's awesome. Uh, anyway.


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[Assistant] So there's a product guided tour apparently. Apparently BitFenix thinks they can do them better than us.


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[Assistant] Instead of having us do their product tours. Actually, I just, uh, I just got off an email thread with BitFenix, uh, yesterday, where we were going back and forth pretty good. We are gonna be getting samples of pretty much every upcoming BitFenix thing, so we will be bringing you guys more BitFenix videos.


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[Assistant] We have, like, MATX cases that are smaller than this, that like, fit hardware.


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[Assistant] Pretty well too. So what they've done is they have completely rearranged the interior in order to accommodate an MATX board.


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[Assistant] So, here's where the motherboard is. It's an upside down motherboard arrangement. Drives go, I think, here. And then, uh, it supports liquid cooling in the back.


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[Assistant] Yes, they will. Which I think they're doing, yeaah, yeaah, okay. Yes, that is confirmed. We talked to them about it at Computex when I, I covered their booth, not you, so I have seen this already. The layout is actually pretty smart, it looks good. Cool. It looks good. Cool. Alright, unless you have anything else.


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[Assistant] Alright, Build Logs of the Week. Let's go ahead and download this mother.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, right? Like, my data builds, just like, whatever.


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[Assistant] Don't you hate that when you have two instances coming down and you cancel the one that's more complete? Yeah.


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[Assistant] FML moments. Or like, when you commit something to the printer queue, and then, because printers are apparently still stuck in the 80s, you can never- have you ever successfully cancelled a printer queue?


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[Assistant] There was one time when I really had to cancel it, like it was like 60 pages. And what I had to do was I unplugged the printer and then just replugged it in.


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[Assistant] Alright, so moving right along guys here. Project Cobalt by Jordan Mack. This one.


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[Assistant] It's just awesome. Holy crap, like I wish we could show this in its HD glory.


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[Assistant] Isn't this thing beautiful? I actually tweeted a picture of this mid-plate earlier this week because I was just blown away.


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[Assistant] Yes, no paint plating on the copper tubing.


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[Assistant] Yup, and Slick, this is the, I actually gave Slick a GTX 670, which he refuses to install on his computer because of the mini PCB. Boom. If it's good enough for him, it's good enough for you. Boom.


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[Assistant] Ghetto Mount SSD, you win for that, because I'm all about the ghetto mounted SSDs.


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[Assistant] And Neptune by Jojo69. Very inappropriate, Jojo. Disapprove of that number.


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[Assistant] Yep, nice straight tubing runs, always looks gorgeous. A lot of criticism for my overkill buyer's guide, minus you should have used better angled fittings, you should have done straighter tubing runs, you should have used clear tubing and a coolant, etc., etc., etc. Guys, it was a build that we were literally going to tear apart.


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[Assistant] You're not wrong, but you're also not necessarily right. Because one of the things that I personally don't do is invest in very specialized pieces of hardware that I can't continue to reuse.


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[Assistant] Because when I build a rig, my graphics card might be in there for, well, more so in the past. I don't change it as much anymore. But I would look at everything as it needs to be modular. My graphics card might be in there for two more weeks, who knows.


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[Assistant] I know, so it's less true these days, but that's always the approach that I've taken to a rig, is how hard is it to work on this bloody thing.


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[Assistant] So that was why I would never use hard fittings between my SLI'd cards. I always used tubing because I found it easier to disconnect and pull one card if there was an issue. Same thing why I never used particularly angled fittings because I'd be doing motherboard swaps every three to four weeks. So, no.


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[Assistant] I'm not buying full, full cover motherboard blocks. Not in my, not in my dictionary.


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[Assistant] No, it's not. It's just, that's why I took, that's my personal philosophy.


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[Assistant] No way, is that one of those old Zelman hard drive coolers? Wow.


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[Assistant] And it even matches the color scheme to the build perfectly. Oops. I wanted to go back to that shot again. There we go. Gorgeous machine.


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[Assistant] Alright, so I think that pretty much wraps it up for the WAN Show today, guys. Thank you very much for your patience. We are going to be on the line with Shaw pretty much immediately after this, and we are going to see if we can figure out these issues for next week, and uh, I'm just


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think we're off for after party because the stream has already run a full hour over time with us diagnosing technical difficulties.


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[Assistant] And if you guys follow me on Twitter, you'll have seen that I now have a new workflow for taking the, uhm,


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[Assistant] The video clips that we get out of Xsplit, which have our variable frame rate, and making sure that the video and audio don't desync, so I should be able to get the LAN show uploaded sooner than normal, and do you have any family functions this weekend? Yeah. Okay, well that figures.


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[Assistant] With everything they do working, the team goes for broke by trying the photocopy of Grant's print. No warmth and no pulse, just a licked piece of paper.


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[Assistant] That's right. Think of the children. Think of the children.


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[Assistant] I was actually pretty surprised at the KitKat thing because I haven't seen them be crazy for a while.


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[Assistant] My nice feeling is having that amount of money in my bank account. Yeaah. That I would have saved. That's a nice feeling. And like the four vacations that I could go on.


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[Assistant] But if you buy, if you buy a used car from a random person, it is highly likely that it will not have any form of warranty on it.


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[Assistant] An incredible amount of news. Like, I don't see this being super beneficial for Android.


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[Assistant] Well, how much do you think this cost, uh, Nestle? Nothing. That's so weird, because...


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[Assistant] Like, like I just said, Android could have picked any dessert. It doesn't matter. They could have gone cream puff.


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[Assistant] Like Mr. Big Nexus, or uh, Mr. Big, why can't I remember the name of it for it, but those big, those big ones, Edzel has one. Oh no. No, Mr. Big Note. Yeaah, or it's like- And it's like a note for it, but it's called Mr. Big Note.


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[Assistant] For clean rooms, I actually wonder. Probably take the walls down. Like, don't rebuild the whole building, but like just, you'd probably have to get rid of that stuff because, uh, I guess they're not using drywall. Plexi?


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[Assistant] The second I read this article, I checked NCIX.


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[Assistant] The RAM was the same price, but I don't expect that to last that long.


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[Assistant] He's in the chat, but he has not clicked because you'll see the mic symbol beside him if he's actually joined. Ah, yes. Okay, so let's go.


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[Assistant] One thing to add in defense of them, although as a consumer I don't think anyone would care is, uh, or that much at least if you're buying one of these expensive chips, is the lower power draw like you're talking about. If you're running servers, you can get charged per wattage. I'm getting this information from Winspeed, but he's completely correct.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so 120 watt draw per, you're getting $20 a month increase.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm saying, like for consumers, none of them are really gonna care.


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[Assistant] Interesting thing is that big giant companies that were super open like Google, Google's closing down every door ever as fast as they possibly can. That's true.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it looks that way. Uhm, and they're having some problems, but then...


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[Assistant] Amazon is like, yea, we sell stuff, so...


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[Assistant] We're just gonna give you all these options to buy things. So they're opening doors, but they don't have to open the doors that a company like Google would have to open, so it doesn't create other problems, like how Google wants to close them now. So they're just opening all the doors. Buy anything, any way you possibly can, and we'll take all your money.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. It doesn't matter that like, like nothing really matters just because they're so ridiculously massive they can do pretty much whatever they want.


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[Assistant] I was almost instantaneously not interested. And then almost instantaneously interested in the Qualcomm one.


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[Assistant] Compatibility issues. It doesn't work with like, anything. It only works with Samsung stuff, and even out of the Samsung stuff range, it only works with like, what, two or three phones?


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[Assistant] This is why I pulled this out, is because the whole one day battery life thing, how long is that actually going to be one day? This phone now, consistently over the last few days, S3, 100% at 9.30 in the morning, 10% at 4pm.


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[Assistant] I'm using it quite a bit right now, like a lot, but...


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[Assistant] Dale. Yea. What the heck. Yea. That will not last me close to a full day. That won't last me a full work day. Let alone a full day.


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[Assistant] Billion dollar idea. You know how they sell those like, you buy the table but then you can buy the glass top? Yes. Just have it so you buy the table and you can buy the like wireless charging top.


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[Assistant] This is a slightly off topic, but I don't remember who it is. I think it's Ford. Has a smartphone app for, I think one of their cars now. One of their consumer grade cars where you can lock it from wherever. That's awesome. You can lock it, unlock it, do whatever from wherever. So if you walk away from your car and you're like, oh crap, did I forget to lock it? And you just press the lock button and be like,


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[Assistant] Well, they're obviously going after both. I just think considering Samsung's branding.


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[Assistant] So that's why I was like, wow, that's pretty anti-Samsung. But it's definitely both.


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[Assistant] One that'll, like, mimic a kind of laptop style, so it'll feel like you're using a laptop, and another one that's better used for uneven surfaces.


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[Assistant] It's cool, and if I was in school, I think I would use it a lot more. Right. But when I was, I was just typing a lot, and the keyboard and that thing sucks.


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[Assistant] So, I put in another keyboard, meaning I'm even further away from the screen. Right. So I touch the screen, I'm like, uh, all the time. So it's not that usable.


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[Assistant] No, not really. Not creating the website and design and everything. He did that all on his own.


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[Assistant] And make it so that Google can control every application ever created.


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[Assistant] They're like, they're trying to control literally the whole planet. They're actually trying to be that.


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[Assistant] It's getting kinda nuts. And as they're doing it, they're closing more doors, which is scary to me, personally.


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[Assistant] That's all it is. But it seems to secure better in my experience.


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[Assistant] Everyone, everyone will say yes.


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[Assistant] Sony's going to release a VR headset, but it apparently is like not very comfortable and not that great.


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[Assistant] Like the Japanese trail rape or whatever it was called? Whatever that was called.


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[Assistant] No he's not. Uhm, I-I-I completely agree with you, although I do also understand where they were coming from. I-I think they should have gone the angle that you went, which is where it's not that out there, and if you put a high enough rating on it, it's fine.


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[Assistant] One thing, I don't even care, because there will always be that one group that's pushing really hard. Self-driving cars, there's certain companies that have switched to 30% self-driving vehicles already.


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[Assistant] There's some like, mining company, 30% of their trucks are all self-driving. And like, there's, there's Oculus Rift and like, there is a lot of innovation. Technology right now is exploding. Because certain companies are not doing anything. It's, yeah. Just pay attention to who's doing stuff, that matters.


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[Assistant] I think he's probably talking about, uhm, the soccer thing.


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[Assistant] One quick second, I want to jump back to that thing. Even if you're doing big office deployments, if you get NineEight Pro, you can distribute Classic Start across your whole network.


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[Assistant] And three people is an interesting balance and this week at least I was actually trying not to because my throat hurts quite a bit.


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[Assistant] When, when, previously when we were like, no, no, noctuids, because every product that noctuids come out with so far is ugly as hell and works really, really well.


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[Assistant] No, I'm gonna take that back until I build the system so that we can actually do it. And then once I build the system, then I'll...


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[Assistant] Everyone's wondering what it is now. Anyways, there's a thread on the forum that we can't blast right now, but we'll be blasting soon. I'll blast through Twitter. Uhm, but this is, I've been meaning to call this out for a long time, but we've been having a lot of problems with the show for a long time.


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[Assistant] I haven't been able to blast it out for a long time. So there's a section in, I believe, build logs. No, build planning. That's what I'm actually pretty sure it's in. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But it's fun. It's kind of interesting. You don't have to actually build the rig. You just kind of theorycraft the rig. I think the kind of rules are that you use PC part picker because it's just a lot easier for everyone to see what you're actually picking. Right. Which makes sense. Uhm, but.


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[Assistant] If you want to compete, if you think you have better ideas than other people, uhm, check out this thread. It's called the LTT build-off thread, no building required by Kornon Jacob in the new builds and planning section.


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[Assistant] So first thing you'll notice is some super cool mounted SSDs.


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[Assistant] Which is just awesome. I love how he did that.


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[Assistant] Right angle connectors right through the side. Really nice cables. Blah blah blah blah blah. But then you scroll down.


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[Assistant] BOOM! So there's some pretty hard point there, but he's got a window in there.


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[Assistant] There you go, so window. If you didn't notice already that you can see through the side, there is a window on there.


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[Assistant] So there's, there's one shot before this where he only has two hard drives in, but basically this is where the whole thing begins is he's like, okay, I'm going to build a hard drive cage. And then he has to build off that cause this has to be a full computer. This is where it ends. So he just keeps adding little areas and mounting things in here. And if you notice,


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[Assistant] He's got a big freaking CPU cooler and he had to add a graphics card, so he's got an extension cable. And he just built a little hang off the side thing. There's a better shot for it if you go forward. I got one more picture for this one. I should have done three pictures for the last one as well. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So check out the, check out the theorycrafting thing, check out those build, uh, build logs of the week. Those will be in the...


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[Assistant] Featured Build Logs of the Week section that is pinned in Build Logs at the very top by Winspeed. Those will be there at some point. Uhm, also...


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[Assistant] I'm going to be putting up a thread fairly soon asking you guys whether or not you think we should have a gaming specific channel or whether or not we should keep the gaming content that you s- the style of gaming content you saw at PAX and our future ideas for gaming content on the LinusTectives channel. So we should have one.


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[Assistant] Giant channel that does absolutely everything or if we should have another because we have a few already.


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[Assistant] Yep, so I'm going to be putting up a post on the forum and we will have it go to vote because this is ultimately your guys.


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[Assistant] So we have almost a thousand team members, 250-ish of which are actually active. And the Boink team is 372nd worldwide, which is actually quite good as well, and has 95 members with 54 active.


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[Assistant] And badges will be distributed to boink and folding members, uh, once you hit certain milestones. If you're more interested, there's posts about that. And if you're wondering why you're not getting a badge, feel free to PM whaler on the score 99 on the floor.


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[Assistant] Neither of us have played it, but like, wow, the reviews.


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[Assistant] So these guys have a few websites around, uh, like Europe and Scandinavia and a few other places, uhm, the pizza dot whatever. And if you go to their website, if you live there, you can put in your address and it'll show all the different options for pizza, like all of them that will deliver to your address.


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[Assistant] So say you live there, you can just be like, ah, I wanna try a new pizza place. My address. Oh, I have all of these options. Say you're a tourist, you can go to the website, select English, type in the address, which is possibly the only thing you know how to say in that country, because it was written down for you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and you can have pizza delivered, which is sweet. I know multiple times that would have been helpful when I was visiting somewhere, could not speak the language and wanted to eat something, because that can actually be surprisingly difficult.


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[Assistant] So like, it should be, this is the one for Belgium. Uhm, and it should be this easy everywhere, but this is the only one I really know of. I think they have like a UK one and a Belgium one and a Netherlands one. I like, think that's it. And I just thought this was fantastic, so I wanted to share the awesomeness with everybody.


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[Assistant] They have to find places to improve. We've had this thing forever. When you, when you double polygon count, it becomes less noticeable over time. Yes. Administering returns of noticeable improvements. So they have to find places to improve. That is somewhere that they could improve.


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[Assistant] The Super 3's processor was like, interesting. Hard to harness, but interesting.


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[Assistant] Right now. Like, before they tried really hard, so they got kinda close, to be completely honest, to what a lot of people were getting on a PC experience. Now they're starting so far behind at the start, that by the time they catch up, we'll all be so ridiculously far ahead that it will again not matter.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna talk too much about it, but the fact that I got under 30 FPS average running with the like baller sauce card from Nvidia at 2560x1600 actually...


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[Assistant] While it ran it very well in comparison to other cards, I was still like, I'm really not that impressed. I want one that's like twice as good, literally.


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[Assistant] See ya! That's actually really interesting. I can't wait. Modding consoles.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what kind of blew my mind about it. And yeah, I don't know. I understand the collector mentality, but like, jeez.


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[Assistant] But a, but a multi- like I said in the notes, but a multi-pronged approach is probably the best thing. You can't just improve one thing at a time or else it'll take infinite amount of time.


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[Assistant] Oh, this is gonna maybe sound brutal, but like, if, if you, if you cure them all of malaria, they still need to be able to develop their country. And one of the fastest ways they're gonna be able to do that is being able to have access to the internet so they can learn things very quickly and work on developing the area around them.


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[Assistant] Like, research websites, Wikipedia, all this kind of stuff so you can learn. Alright.


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[Assistant] What did you want to bet it's all, like, R9 290 and, yeah.


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[Assistant] We can do it verbally, so uhm, the second comment here which isn't quite on stream yet. Page unresponsiveness.


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[Assistant] Genius. Now I can't read it. There we go. Oh wow. Did it go past?


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[Assistant] Okay, here we go. Christopher, go. That really depends on how you want to see things. I'm probably going to be waiting for the 800 series just because I'm interested in the new architecture. But the 780Ti is a beast machine, so...


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[Assistant] I don't know. This kind of stuff, like, it's always impossible, because if you just wait for everything, you could just be waiting for everything forever. These things are released so quickly. So...


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[Assistant] Good job! Probably like the majority of our views on that if you watched it 35,000 times.


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[Assistant] One thing that I worry about, he said there like, uh, the older mentality, like you shouldn't be able to hide behind things. It also worries me though, because if you say something that's an opinion,


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[Assistant] Uhm, even if it's a widely accepted opinion, if someone disagrees with it, they can find your Google Plus page, and using certain things that they find on your Google Plus page,


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[Assistant] Also protects us from some possible issues, like I don't want someone knocking on my door with a baseball bat because they're pissed off because of something I said on the internet.


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[Assistant] If he says something, it instantly picks something up in the background.


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[Assistant] This is happening even more now though, with the closed garden that they have on the mobile side and with the basically closed garden that they have on YouTube now, like, they're beginning to just ignore all and tread forward and it's not their previous mentality and I don't know how it's gonna turn out for them.


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[Assistant] I understand my mom. If it comes with a TV clicker, which it doesn't, if it did, and there was a giant green Xbox button in the middle that said like, mode.


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[Assistant] If there's, if additional features are not bad, if they don't conflict with other features. So if they brought in all this home theater stuff, and experience stuff, and it didn't affect the gaming side at all, it would have been fine. I would have no problem with it.


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[Assistant] Yep, definitely. If they put enough beef behind it to actually support the system that they wanted to release, it would have been fine. No one could really complain when saying, oh well the Xbox One is considerably faster so it can support all these different systems and it's still better at gaming. Then they could also justify their higher price tag.


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[Assistant] So we should get the Twitter moving on these next two topics.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm probably more excited for the future of this card than many cards that I've ever seen before because it gets crazy hot and it could use more power. So once we get aftermarket designs that cool it the heck down, because as with this card literally, you get one degree cooler, it will go faster. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Because you'll probably get a better cooler that brings it colder but then you'll be able to clock it higher to max it out again and it'll just go even faster because this card is just endlessly crazy.


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[Assistant] I was so unfortunate that I had to clock it down just because it was crashing a tomb raider, but that's a thing so that's fine.


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[Assistant] This is actually part of the problem, uh, in a recent video we brought up that we're gonna be, uh, starting to use Hardwarebot. But there's a few problems with this which might not make it possible, but we're gonna try anyways. As, uhm, one, they're only validating with like 3D American stuff.


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[Assistant] No. So, and then it's everyone's as fast as they can possibly get at clock, and the only people that are using it are gonna be people that are really insane, so we might get some random binned card that might be a little bit lower and might be able to pull that in 3DMark but can't pull that in other applications.


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[Assistant] Should we try to pick like a cold night or should I go up to like a mountain and make it epic?


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[Assistant] And you know, I'm probably agreeing because, importance too, I'm looking at the price points, there's a bigger market for an R9 290 than there is for a 780 Ti. Yep. So how much it will affect things if you're looking at it that way, probably a 290.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, like we couldn't do that setup, you couldn't have like mirrored inputs so you're actually playing two computers at the same time even, like that doesn't even bring it close enough. Which is, is, ugh, kind of ridiculous.


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[Assistant] And everything that he brought up was very true and it should have gotten slaughtered. Maybe a little bit too much. But like, it did deserve it to a certain degree. And you know what? This is how the gaming community talks to people.


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[Assistant] So one of the things I'm gonna do when we benchmark it is I'm gonna benchmark it with


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[Assistant] Their thing enabled, whatever the crap, and then I'm gonna install the hackers tool to remove it, and we're gonna test it with 4 gigs compared to 6 gigs in those configurations so we can laugh at them because there's no difference.


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[Assistant] Better, I hate saying that, but it's true. Like this is why it's existing this strongly is because when people have to run away from legitimately buying it and legitimately playing it because that solution is crap and they have to run to these pirates that are actually saving them. That's a problem.


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[Assistant] Now, I've seen a lot of comments on this where people were saying, oh, why do we all hate DLC now when we, like, the community, the gaming community as a whole loves expansions, or loved expansions. It's not the same thing. Uhm, when Warcraft 3 got an expansion,


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[Assistant] Number of man, alright. But like, when a game like this gets an expansion, it's, it's, it's happy, everyone enjoys it because it's a while down the line, it adds a ton to the game and it's just adding life to the game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so that's probably part of it. And like, one of my favorite companies has been actually kind of known to be one of the worst for this. Uhm, although they've kind of fixed it was Bethesda when they released Horse Armor. That was hilarious and stupid, and that should not have happened.


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[Assistant] I wonder how upset they were when they were not consoled at all and they just probably randomly saw this ad through a news site and had no idea how.


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[Assistant] But they usually sell it like anonymously. They'll sell your data but without a name or something like that and when the NSA takes it, it's not anonymous. It's very attached and very utilized and it's...


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[Assistant] And one of the things with Shield, uhm, is if I wanted to play an Android game, the tablet-style surface is probably fine because they're all designed for it. And if I wanted to play a PC game, uhm, if I was gonna play with a controller, the mobile thing isn't super attractive to me. Like, it's pretty cool, but...


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[Assistant] I also want to see people just make their own, if the CAD files are freely available.


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[Assistant] Not necessarily for unmarked guns, yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no I know. It's just, it's not the, a lot of people are jumping on it going like,


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[Assistant] I like that, yeaah, there's a bullet hole in your case, like how sweet is that? It's not like that sticker bullet hole, it's an act, it got shot. Like, haha, that's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] I torqued my name with how much pressure he was putting on that. I think it flexed easier, but my phone, while it probably wasn't good for it, can flex quite a bit.


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[Assistant] And it not only was it not required, it didn't, it didn't bother. Just, yup, doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so 1.9 million people suck at passwords. And then if you, and then, unrelated, if you go to xkcd's post. Sorry, I misread this. Uhm, this was my addition to it, is like,


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[Assistant] The first one has a very interesting, actually they both have, yeaah, nevermind. They both have completely ridiculous, really interesting cases.


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[Assistant] Fendeck's been doing some really cool stuff. Uhm, anyways, you can see all the specs there and we're gonna move on to just some of the absolutely beautiful pictures that are in there.


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[Assistant] Awesome! That's so cool, and I love how they're actually everywhere, like Corsair did that where they're up the one side for the 24 pin. Yes. But they're all over the place, which is sweet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just sick. Here's some close up shots. The guy's, oh man, it's just beautiful. The way he did all the colors, how it all goes in together, and a lot of times we get billboards on here where people use perfectly straight tubing everywhere. That is a style, but I don't think it's required, and I think this guy did curved tubing in a really good way.


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[Assistant] Next one, another crazy weird case. So Vector Custom have been making, uh, PC table things.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Really hard to make. So it's interesting how you can just buy one. Uhm, but they're still like, yeah, like I just said, you can just buy one, but like, you still have to do all that to it. Like it's, it's not exactly ready to go. Yeah, plug and play. Not so much.


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[Assistant] Uhm, archives going up like normal, and there will be an afterparty with giveaways. It's coming. Sorry about my tweet earlier, didn't change the title.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much for joining us. We do truly appreciate it. Yea man, it's a lot of fun.


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[Assistant] Like, what to say. But if a state goes bankrupt, like- Well Detroit's a city, just throwing that out there.


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[Assistant] Right, I see some comments saying Lou is fine, so I guess they can hear me.


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[Assistant] What's up everybody? Thank you for having me on the show today. First of all, I want to get that out of the way.


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[Assistant] And, uh, yeaah, to answer your question, I've been doing this for about two and a half years, I think, and, uh, in the beginning it was pretty, it was amateur hour, and we've sort of slowly improved the operation, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, I think, yeaah, either today or yesterday. Uhm, yeaah, pretty crazy. It's just a lot of people, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I know, it's a, you could have an inbox full of those questions on a daily basis and I was actually on a broadcast yesterday and we sort of covered a similar topic because


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[Assistant] You know, honestly, when I started out, I didn't, I never, I don't think I reached out to anyone with that particular question. And part of that had to do, I guess part of that had to do with me making some assumptions, maybe some educated assumptions that


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[Assistant] This, having, having success in this particular arena being such a new one was gonna require some ingenuity and some trial and error and all of those things. And so when people ask me for a set of guidelines, I mean, there are way too many variables at play for me to give you a playbook on how to get


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[Assistant] Right, I mean it's never, it's never a bad idea to innovate, uh, you know, you can't go the other way where you try so hard to do something unusual and


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[Assistant] It can be terrible too, so, I mean, it really requires some attention to detail and some attention to...


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[Assistant] Uh, the reaction of your viewers, I mean, you do have to listen, you need to pay attention. If you can't answer every single comment or engage with every single user, you can at least read through some stuff and sort of get an idea of what's working and what isn't working. And that really helps you to edit yourself because that's one of the most difficult things to do.


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[Assistant] Uh, in this business when you're working in relatively small companies or even by yourself in the beginning is how do you, how do you determine what to leave in and what to take out? It's very difficult when, when it's only yourself working on it.


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[Assistant] You know, uhm, this is a pretty interesting topic to me, like I have a pretty significant level of interest, at least I think so, in social media and how it all...


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[Assistant] When we get into another topic that we're going to talk about today regarding the sub boxes on YouTube, but uhm, but before we get there, it's like yeaah, uhm.


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[Assistant] Facebook, I recently switched my regular human profile to one of what they call a brand page.


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[Assistant] And, uh, after doing that, I noticed a couple of things that occurred. First of all, I was reaching fewer people, but


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[Assistant] Uh, as a side effect of that, it meant that some things were modified in my account where I wasn't getting the same number of personal interactions in my inbox. Because for somebody who gets a lot of communication, an inbox, whether it be on YouTube or Facebook, is an incredibly terrible place to communicate.


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[Assistant] Because what ends up happening is that you end up...


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[Assistant] And when you're, when you're, when you become, uh, uh, uh, you know, a glorified, uh, administration person, you can't be making videos. It's impossible to handle both. So I much prefer Twitter from that standpoint because the conversations are generally public at mostly public and they're short. And so,


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[Assistant] And when you scan a newspaper, you can easily sort through, what is the relevant information? What do I need to get back to? You can triage the news essentially, and the communication that your audience has with you becomes news.


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[Assistant] Uh, versus this little thing off in private somewhere in an inbox that ha- that is very difficult to triage, very difficult to quickly look at an inbox and say this is important.


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[Assistant] This is not important and, and where can I start to work? I mean, I basically avoid inboxes at all costs now. Uh, Twitter, Twitter is probably your best chance to get in touch with me and to get a response because at least I know if I respond to you, other people can then go look at that response if they have the same question.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, I have heard, I have heard some people, some other YouTubers that I communicate with that have had contact with Google themselves and I have heard that it is intentionally broken.


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[Assistant] And the theory behind that is similar to what's happening on Facebook right now, which is that people are inundated with content that the power users are subscribed to so many channels that it becomes difficult for YouTube to figure out what it is that they actually want to watch. And that's why I think they moved to that activity feed.


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[Assistant] Possibly, they could be using previous viewership data to decide whether or not a subscription you have.


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[Assistant] Is something that you watch every single time and whether or not to feed that back into the sub box or to put some recommended video there or to, uh, you know, to leave it out. I think this is especially a problem when you produce a ton of content, especially like you guys do.


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[Assistant] Uhm, if you're putting up two, three, four videos in one day, it seems to me that the likelihood that that video is going to get lost and not reach the boxes becomes that much more likely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, I think, I don't think you're the only one who's had an experience like that. I get messages on Twitter.


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[Assistant] Uhm, fairly regularly that things aren't reaching the sub box and you end up figuring out that the ones who end up being that percentage that watch every single video, they're your super fans, they're the ones who actually go out of their way


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[Assistant] To like visit the channel to verify that they've seen everything and what's worked out on the network in terms of the number of fans that fit into that category is about


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, if you've got 400,000 users that share, uh, uh, you know, the same kind of opinion and taste when it comes to content and entertainment,


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[Assistant] Uh, subject matter, et cetera. You would assume that more than 10% would be interested in a razor blade unboxing. Like that is like right in line with the reason they subscribe. So I, I agree with you. There seems to be something else at play. Let's just hope it doesn't get to a point where we have to start paying to reach people like on Facebook.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is. I mean, it's, it's, it's pretty complicated. I don't know. I, I assume that there's some...


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[Assistant] And they may think that they can recommend content to users that might increase their session length and that's more important to their end game than it is for the user to get what they think they want. I think Google, much like in a bunch of their other products, thinks that they know what we want more than we do.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, I think like, the Twitter model should work just as well here. I mean, I don't click on every link that somebody posts, but it doesn't mean that I don't want to see their tweets.


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[Assistant] Yep, a hundred percent. I mean, there are a million ways to do this that are user driven, but Google finds automated systems to be much more interesting.


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[Assistant] I don't think so. I mean, I think my goals have sort of changed as things have gone along.


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[Assistant] You know, I think, uh, in, in the beginning I thought AdSense was the be-all and end-all, like it would, it would be sort of what we all relied upon, but, uh, going forward I realized that


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[Assistant] Real relationships, meeting people, creating connections in the entertainment business and elsewhere have the potential to bring real value to what you're doing and to


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[Assistant] But I think that YouTube for me, rather than be, uh, you know, my boss, like I originally looked at it, now it's just, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's an outlet. It happens to be the platform, the player essentially for what I'm doing. But I think that there are probably many different ways to create businesses around the idea of delivering video content online.


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[Assistant] That maybe aren't necessarily YouTube. I mean, I know a lot of networks, all the large networks, uh, the first thing they'll do when you sign with them is they will make sure that your content is places other than YouTube. I mean, they'll get it on.


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[Assistant] I mean, they'll put anywhere they can put it, they will put it, and if the networks continue to grow and continue to gather as much steam and be as powerful as they are, as they will be,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I could totally imagine them becoming their own conglomerate. I mean, the power that exists in networks now is unbelievable. I never would have imagined that that was what was going to happen here.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're still doing it. They're still letting networks sprout up from everywhere. Again, I think Google is one of those companies that


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[Assistant] It's very difficult to figure out. They play such a long game, you know, it's like, it's like a chess match.


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[Assistant] Their objective might be ten steps down the road. You never really know why they make the decisions they make.


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[Assistant] At first they might, they look really strange and like they won't work. But I mean, some of these.


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[Assistant] Some of those networks have been sold recently. Revision 3 sold to Discovery. Uhm, uh, Awesomeness TV sold to DreamWorks. And we're talking deals into tens of millions of dollars. Maybe...


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[Assistant] Google's goal in the short term is to bring some traditional Hollywood money into the productions that are occurring on YouTube and maybe they were prepared to do that at a relatively large cost.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, uh, I think, I think you're probably right, it'll probably end up somewhere in the middle. I think what'll end up happening is guys like us, regular dudes.


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[Assistant] We're going to enjoy, I mean, I really think that the internet as a whole from a media delivery, uh, uh, perspective has, has really


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[Assistant] That never could have happened on traditional media because you needed to find a message that was suitable for millions of people that you could, you know, cheaply broadcast on a dumb pipe to millions of people all at once. Since that's not the case anymore, I think everything's going to get more interesting. I think money in people's hands like you and I could produce some stuff that we never even knew we wanted.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, that's an important thing to remember, I think, is that, you know, the more opportunities that a content creator has to sort of hone their craft, the better the stuff becomes. If you look at our early videos are likely terrible. Uhm, I mean, I'll speak for myself, I'm not going to speak for you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I've been, I've been playing with the Chromecast, uh, since, uh, yesterday I first tested it out and then we've been messing around with it a little bit today as well. Uhm, I mean, it's 35 bucks. It's crazy.


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[Assistant] I remember as a kid sitting around thinking it would be amazing to broadcast wirelessly what's on my computer onto my flat panel onto my bigger TV. And the fact that we can do that now in HD with a device that is like the size of a USB key is pretty damn impressive. And so uhm, from a technical standpoint,


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[Assistant] It works exactly as they say it's going to work. You can broadcast a tab from your Chrome browser.


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[Assistant] You install a little extension, it takes a couple of seconds, finds it automatically, and then in the YouTube app on your mobile device as well, you'll see a Chromecast button and you can just immediately move anything you're watching from the couch up onto the flat panel.


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[Assistant] And what I said in my video was the reason that this is so interesting to me is because so far the YouTube experience from the couch is terrible, like on every device.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, whether it's a game console or the Apple TV or whatever, like searching for a video, trying to have that certain sort of be a video DJ with a bunch of people sitting around has been a bad experience. And this really changes that in a really big way. And it does so at a price point that a lot of people are going to be interested in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, no, I completely agree. I mean, it's amazing you walk into a Best Buy or Future Shop or whatever and you go through the TV aisle and they want to charge $1,000 for smart features or at least $500.


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[Assistant] And I mean, now they're going to have a little device sitting on the shelf next to it and any sales guy with a head on his shoulders is going to say, listen, get the dumbest panel you can and plug this little HDMI device in and you're going to be better off.


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[Assistant] No, no, they sold out of that particular promo, but going into it, I mean, this is a classic Google situation where they completely, either they do it intentionally or they underestimate the demand for their products and it becomes a shit show.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you won't regret it. I mean, it's a stupid easy device to take with you. I can see carrying this thing into board rooms, into hotel rooms. Hotel rooms, yep. It's crazy. It's really convenient.


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[Assistant] What makes great phones, what makes great consumer devices is mass appeal, is scale.


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[Assistant] You know, when they, when, when you have enough users that are out there in the public using them, it means you're going to have a better ecosystem of developers working on those devices. I just don't see the value proposition of having this, this device, you know, in the far corner of the room that you and 10 other people have. Um, I don't see how that can be all that compelling.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I tend to think, like, I personally think this thing's gonna be a disaster myself. If it does end up reaching it, I just don't think...


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[Assistant] That a crowdsourced phone is what we all need right now. There have been crappy enough crowdsourced products that have come out that aren't nearly as enthusiastic as trying to develop a phone using crowd money. I mean that's just an incredibly hard thing to do.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, it's, this is, this is, there's a terrible situation out there right now for Android phone makers who aren't Samsung in general, let alone a new player who wants to come along and compete in the space. HTC, they're flat. I mean, they're, they're barely making any money and they make beautiful hardware.


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[Assistant] For me, I don't put very much, uh, you know, there's, there's, I think that a lot of the products that have come out of it have proven to be less than what people expected and in the case of probably the largest product to date, which was the


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[Assistant] The watch, the Pebble watch, they even did something strange which was move units to Best Buy prior to fulfilling the people who paid in advance.


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[Assistant] Uh, there, there are no rules, you know, when you send your money, you're not guaranteed anything and you're essentially enabling a group of people who you don't know to go out and decide how they want to spend that and when they want to deliver something back to you for that, for that investment. I mean, I think


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[Assistant] I think crowdfunding can really go to the next level when...


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[Assistant] You can actually invest in a company, you can actually get a piece of the action. That to me gets a lot more interesting when you can say I really believe in this to the point where I want to invest in it. Anywhere else in the real world when a person makes an investment in a company they expect something


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, I think a lot, I think a lot of people fall in love with, with the concept and, and when you...


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[Assistant] When your product becomes a message and not an actual physical product, when you boil a product down just to its advertising components, you realize that that's actually where the magic is. Like when a company tries to convince you to buy something, generally speaking,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, sort of, yeaah, it plateaus, or hopefully if you like the product it plateaus, it might even...


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[Assistant] No, no, no. I, I want to be clear too. It might come off like I'm bashing it. I absolutely love the idea of it. I think the idea of crowdfunding is fantastic.


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[Assistant] But I think that there's the potential here that if enough people get screwed, it can be that sort of one rotten apple situation where it can spoil the public perception about the entire platform.


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[Assistant] So it's important that they make it very clear how you're supposed to engage with it as an end user because if there's enough press about bad things occurring,


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[Assistant] But can they not do a pre-authorization on it?


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[Assistant] Uhm, that, that is currently illegal in the United States. I don't, I don't know about Canada. Uh, but there is talk that eventually things might...


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[Assistant] It could bring a lot of heat onto the entire platform and,


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[Assistant] It could, it could end up being fairly destructive. So it would need, you would need to have some kind of authentication system to determine if people were a good fit. I think that the, the producer would have to look at each person's, uh, submission and determine whether or not they wanted to work with that person and accept even if, even if it's a tiny little stake.


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[Assistant] You would have to look at it and do some quick analysis to determine whether or not you want to accept that bid.


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[Assistant] Listen, I did one before and it was not the most fun experience ever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's a really strange way to interact with people you've never met.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, plastic is, I mean, that's one of my most major criticisms of the S4. The S4, the texture of the plastic on the S4 is so slimy, it just doesn't have that same sort of,


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[Assistant] I mean, these are, these are going to be cheap. These are going to be the first, Apple's first foray into the, I suppose the budget market and have, and, and they're definitely their first foray into having multiple devices available in the phone segment.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think there's pretty much one reason they did it, not, not, there's two reasons, I guess there's the expense, so they could sell them cheaper, and second, they're gonna do colors, and they've had incredible success in the past with the iPod lineup going, you know, having different colors for,


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[Assistant] A different audience and I don't know, I mean, I personally don't care that much about colors, but I guess there's probably a youthful audience out there that might.


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[Assistant] You know, and, and they, uhm, you know, they've going, been going with more embedded solutions where systems aren't as upgradeable as they once were. Uhm, you know, one of the most major consumer decisions they made was to put their stores in malls where if anybody does any research on malls, you know that like,


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[Assistant] 8 out of 10 people at any given time in a mall are females. Uhm, I remember, I remember, I'm not trying to be sexist or anything, but generally speaking, enthusiasts are males. Uhm, if you look at your analytics of your channel, you'd know that, but,


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[Assistant] Uhm, but anyway, yeaah, it's, it's, they've been making decisions the whole way that have been mass market decisions where they want to reach consumers who they don't care if they were previously their consumers, they're always targeting


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[Assistant] New users, even though their loyalty numbers have traditionally been.


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[Assistant] It's been incredible, but one of the things just regarding development that still remains to be, uh, that they're, that where their dominance is, is in getting people to pay for apps.


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[Assistant] Because on the Android side, as many downloads as are going on and as many developers are focusing in that area, you'll see an app that costs $4 on iOS and the developer has to give it away for free with ads on the Android side.


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[Assistant] Because the user base has a different mentality regarding.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, the pur- the purchasing of an app, uhm, the app store,


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[Assistant] An end user would walk home with a new iOS device, even if that's an iPod Touch for that matter, and not launch into the app store and see what's hot on the charts. I mean, that's just the next thing that you do. I see kids who have iOS devices and their parents' credit cards are hooked up to them because it's a pay-to-play type ecosystem.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because of the in-app purchases.