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[Assistant] But a lot of the argument that I make for boycotting something like PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold, where I just kinda went, look guys, if we all refused to pay for it, it would go away.


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[Assistant] Like that. A lot of the argument that I make for that is based on the fact that we have it for free on the PC so you have other options that you could take advantage of. If you were taking away


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[Assistant] An additional fee for, for, for the, like, the overlay. Like even something like Steam Big Picture you could look at as a value add.


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[Assistant] For, for people who want to use Steam to even just manage their library of games. So if I had no choice and the only other option was like, like Windows Explorer, C colon slash program files slash, you know, code master slash grid slash. Like if, if that's it, would I pay $5 a month? It's not a lot of money. I probably would.


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[Assistant] Can you, uh, hang out with me this, uh, this thing? Yeah, this drop pool. Sure. So I can go ahead and, uh, post the results link. Oh crap. Do you want the results? I didn't realize I was still screen sharing. Uh, yeah, I want the results link. It doesn't really matter. I can navigate to the results link on my own.


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[Assistant] Alright, here we go. I'll get those results visually for you guys there. There we go. So...


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[Assistant] Yeah, a lot of no, a lot of, I refuse to say anything relevant about this. And then actually, the fact that 26% of you are saying yes is a strong indicator to me that if Valve did decide to charge for the service, uhm, they, they might actually generate a lot of subscriptions. I mean, I, we're probably not a long way off. I suspect they'll never make it mandatory, but an optional subscription that gives you extra features.


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[Assistant] I don't think multiplayer will ever be one of those additional features for something like Steam, but if it gave you additional,


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[Assistant] But if it gave you additional community interaction features or some other, some other benefits, I mean people pay for hats.


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[Assistant] Like, what if it- what if all it did? What if all it did was drop you a care package from time to time with a hat in it that's exclusive to people who are Steam Plus members? I bet you they-


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[Assistant] Oh, uh, there's the Marriott abandoning their quest to block personal wifi hotspots. This is from INC.com. I'm gonna go ahead and fire this up. You wanna post it in the chat?


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[Assistant] Uhm, so this was ridiculous. Basically, they got slammed with, I think it was a $600,000 fine when it was discovered that they were intentionally blocking their users' personal wifi hotspots, like on their phones.


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[Assistant] Uhm, from functioning in the rooms, and then they apologized, and then they turned around and tried to get permission from the FCC to implement that technology in places like conference rooms.


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[Assistant] Freakin' for real, and they claimed this was to prevent people from showing up in Marriott Hotels creating unauthorized hotspots with the intention of stealing data and information from the patrons of the hotel. And I kinda go, okay, that is a scenario.


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[Assistant] That probably happened like once. And there are other ways to get around something like that. And I think it was fairly obvious.


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[Assistant] At the, on the surface of this, that this was all about trying to get people to pay additional for wifi in the hotel, especially business customers who are coming in for conferences. And the FCC received 39 comment letters. This is from the inc.com.


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[Assistant] Uhm, article, received 39 comment letters on the issue of which 38 were negative and one was either neutral or off topic.


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[Assistant] Google and Microsoft were among those registering their opposition. So at least they're on the same side about something right now.


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[Assistant] Uh, let's do the Obama, Obama thing. Sure. Yeah, so, uh, this was originally posted in the forum by Lightning. I got it. And, uh, you got it? Okay, Obama calls for an end.


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[Assistant] This is, this is, this is awesome because uhm, Obama calling for, calling for the internet to be reclassified as a utility marked a bit of a turning point maybe not in the FCC chairman Tom Wheeler's thoughts about


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[Assistant] Obama's gonna kinda go, keep moving forward with this whole, yea, if we wanna, if we wanna be a developed nation, let's face it, we've already got, you know, sewage, we've already got electricity,


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[Assistant] Mostly, other than that it can be extremely expensive. We've already got water, again, mostly. Actually, really interesting conversation with, uh, Taryn.


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[Assistant] About how, how things work with the Colorado River and allocating the water. Yeah. Yeah, he was saying that the way, like any downstream states get an allocation in gallons. So if the flow is less.


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[Assistant] Colorado is actually the first one to not get any water from the Colorado River. Anyway, I thought that was interesting. So anyway, they've got most stuff mostly figured out, and yet they're lagging behind on broadband because of either cost or legislative challenges that exist that prevent any startup


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[Assistant] From becoming an internet service provider and kinda going, you know what, hey, those margins, that profitability, that's not good enough for AT&T, yea I'll take it.


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[Assistant] I'll take it, I mean it stifles competition, that's the, that's the principle that this entire country, and I mean by this I mean the USA, I don't live there, you know, but, but that that entire country was built on was, was competition and capitalism and if you just legislate the crap,


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[Assistant] Out of anyone being able to compete, then you end up in a situation where it's this monopolistic nonsense, and it's not quite a monopoly, so uhm, this was a really interesting...


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[Assistant] Uh, chunk of the article, uh, yes, here we go. At speed, so with the old broadband classification of, I believe it was three down, one up? Four down, four down, one up.


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[Assistant] Abominable. Yeah, it's terrible. However, in the market for internet service that can deliver 25 megabit downstream, I mean we're talking the speed at which you, you could pretty much do anything on the internet, you know, Netflix.


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[Assistant] Uhm, three out of four Americans had no choice between providers. I mean, when was this ever acceptable?


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[Assistant] I hate to be critical when they're finally speaking up and doing the right things, but why did this take so long? And when's Canada gonna...


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[Assistant] And, you know, I've seen a lot of people wearing their cynicism hats, uhm, and especially on our forum, where a lot of our community is international, and sort of going, well, this is only because the election's coming up.


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[Assistant] I mean, okay, maybe there's some pressure from the Democratic Party to, you know, improve Obama's popularity, so whoever their new candidate coming in will have a better chance of winning the upcoming election, but


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[Assistant] Uhm, guys, Obama cannot be re-elected.


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[Assistant] So smaller, uh, smaller community, ISPs, or even municipalities themselves, enabling them to utilize their existing infrastructure, so whether it's power or sewage or whatever else, to run lines and create their own broadband providers. Uhm, don't remember where I was going with that, the sentence kind of ends here.


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[Assistant] And it's not just pop- it's not a popularity contest. I mean, it's- it's- it's a fact that access to high speed internet breeds creativity and- and gives people more options to better themselves. I mean, let's go back to one of our sponsors for a minute here.


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[Assistant] Linda.com! What, are you gonna, are you gonna use Linda.com video tutorials on dial-up? No? That's ridiculous. I mean, what if you have, what if you have


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[Assistant] But your internet connection has such a small cap that by the time you watch the instructional videos, you're actually paying a ton more just to educate yourself and potentially improve your prospects in terms of your career path. I mean, it's absurd. Inexpensive broadband has become something we need.


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[Assistant] Not something that should be a privilege for the wealthy. So, just, there, that's it. Kudos.


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[Assistant] The FCC is already examining these state laws and considering whether it can invalidate them by using its authority, uh, to promote competition in telecommunications already. So...


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[Assistant] Good. All the progress. Let's make it happen.


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[Assistant] Alright, here we go. Okay, I'll, I'll post it. Our original source for this was CNET. Uhm, but their article is down, so the Telegraph article is still live. This is a restaurant.


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[Assistant] Okay, so this is, there's a restaurant that promises free meal for good looking.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, showed up with a wrecking crew. It was like, we are taking down that sign. Cause that's embarrassing.


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[Assistant] For a sponsorship. Paying a sponsorship. Oh, sorry, I'm in the dashboard now.


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[Assistant] And so apparently it's not flat out like you're good looking, uh, you get a free meal, you're not good looking, you get a full price meal. It's like there's a sliding scale. So you could be pretty good looking and you could get like 30% off or something like I'm making up the exact numbers.


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[Assistant] Really? Like that's just, that's just gross.


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[Assistant] Ohhhh, I see. I think they probably would catch on to that. It's a very smart idea though, you did very well. Thank you. You did very well, I'm very proud of you.


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[Assistant] This was posted by, uhm, this was posted by Tedster, and, uh, since we're on the topic of just completely stupid things right now, uhm, this Kickstarter, by Paul Boyle, is... 30 euros, he probably did it himself. Well, he has seven backers.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, you can see that this is clearly not intended to be serious, but the plan is to reconstruct the player Michael's house from the game Grand Theft Auto V to scale, and the rewards are ridiculous. I mean, uhm, for, okay, so for four-


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[Assistant] For 4 euros, you get pictures and a video of it. For 400 euros, you get a personalized title with image and info of your choice added to the bottom of Michael's swimming pool. For 900 euros, you get to visit the house and have a tour around it at your leisure. And for 5,000 euros, you get to visit and stay in it for three nights.


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[Assistant] I just thought it was kinda funny. He figures he needs, uh,


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[Assistant] The FAQ, this is pretty good. Who will the house belong to? Will the donators get a share in the final build? Are you giving it to charity? No shares, I'm afraid. Given the small chance that it's funded, the final build will be sold and donated to the choice of charity voted by the backers.


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[Assistant] I don't know, 2013? Yeah, not that long ago. Yeah. This key story hasn't been around that long.


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[Assistant] Alright, so this is, this is interesting to me because I'm Canadian. Sony is shutting all of their Canadian stores. Uhm, I've got the article here.


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[Assistant] I totally get it because I don't think Sony stores really have any reason to exist. Uhm, especially when a lot of the time they were just a place where you couldn't shop for any other brand of product.


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[Assistant] And the pricing wasn't better, often worse, because it wouldn't have the same promotions, because it's really awkward. For most manufacturers, Apple doesn't seem to give a rat's ass, but most manufacturers to have their own branded store that competes head to head against their customers.


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[Assistant] So they have to prove to their customers, whether it's a Best Buy or whoever else, that they're not trying to undercut them and steal customers from them. And at the same time, they have to sustain their employees and the retail spaces.


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[Assistant] Well, it's only barely 2015 right now. Anyway, the point is, uh, Target actually purchased, at least here in the, at least here in BC, all of the Zeller's locations when Zeller's went bankrupt and disappeared.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so they had a total of 133 big box stores, and they will be exiting, okay, apparently they launched in Canada in March 2013.


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[Assistant] So they didn't even last two years. And they will be shutting all of the stores, putting 17,000 employees out of work, and taking a 5.4 billion dollar loss in that period of time. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So, uh, Target said exiting Canada would allow it to focus resources on the US market.


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[Assistant] But honestly, I don't think that has anything to do with it. I think it was just too much, too fast. I mean, we were talking to, uh, to Burkle about this before the show started, and he's like, yeah! They opened one in, what did he say, Vernon? Vernon. They opened one in Vernon! It's like...


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[Assistant] And I think, I think Vernon has a Costco too. So it's like, you're gonna go up against Costco and Walmart, which have been there for years already, and you're gonna just hope that, what, people magically sprout from the earth and come shop in your store, like,


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[Assistant] And uhm, we still have, from the previous owners, the brochure.


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[Assistant] That, like, was like the sales brochure for people shopping for houses in that neighborhood. And it's really cool, it's like-


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[Assistant] An accessible place to live. Easily accessible from virtually any direction. The property is bounded by a bunch of places. The first project of its kind in this area, blah blah blah, provides quick access to the interior of British Columbia and to the rest of the lower mainland. On the other hand, it's only two or three minutes away from, uhm, okay, so there's a shopping center. Home to Woodward's, Eaton's, Woolco,


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[Assistant] Marks and Spencer, and over 200 other fine stores. Have you heard of any of them? No.


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[Assistant] No. A few minutes further, you'll find Simpson Sears. So, okay, Sears. Oh, okay. Simpson Sears and the Bay. Okay, the Bay. And that Bay and those Sears, neither of them exists anymore.


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[Assistant] And like that, but that's exactly it. Like it's been tried and failed so many times that you would think.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they would have done at least a couple sort of case studies and tried to make sure that they were going to have a chance of success in Canada.


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[Assistant] So you could lose, uh, let's see, let's do the rough napkin math. So that's about one fiftieth as many stores as they open. So it would be one fiftieth as much loss. So like, okay, so a loss in the order of what? Tens or hundreds of millions as opposed to billions. Which is still a lot. Which is still a lot, but.


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[Assistant] This was posted by Cobbs360 on the forum, and you're not allowed to mislead people into thinking it's a Microsoft video, but uhm, I think that was just people freaking out over a wording issue. I'm glad Microsoft got it rectified. Pretty quick.


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[Assistant] The main concern was that you couldn't call something like Red vs. Blue the Halo show.


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[Assistant] Or something along those lines, like using the trademark incorrectly, you had to come up with your own name. If you were going to do something that was more along the lines of a show, and less along the lines of strict gameplay or multiplayer footage. But you could do like a Halo gameplay and it would be fine. Yep. As long as you have your disclaimer. Yep.


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[Assistant] Independent.co.uk. Let's go ahead and pull that up. Very, very unfortunate. Uh, two were killed. Uh, four have taken ill since the, since the incident.


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[Assistant] Uh, basically not, not a whole lot is known, uh, one of them died on the scene, one of them died on the way to, uh, on the way to the hospital. Uh, I mean, that's, that's something that we often don't consider about these electronic doodads that we enjoy so much, is there's a lot of harmful and dangerous stuff that goes on, uh, in order to manufacture them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the NZXC DoCo, this was posted by BrownNinja on the forum, original article here is from TechPowerUp.


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[Assistant] Yeah, looks cool. The only disadvantage right now, so it's got USB ports, and it uses USB over IP in order to make it so if you plug in a keyboard, it's basically like having that keyboard plugged into the computer you're using.


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[Assistant] It's just LAN, nothing. This is the least prepped LAN show, I think, ever. Cause usually even if we don't have a doc, we'll like kinda know what happened that week. But, nope. You know Title 2 happened?


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[Assistant] Other than that, CES, there you go. Alright, intro time!


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[Assistant] I love how, I don't think like, almost anyone's commenting about the fact that people are just straight up playing pool in the background.


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[Assistant] Awww. Awww. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Alright, I'm out. See ya. Awww, that was rough. Someone's gotta tag you out. That's how this system works, I think. Uhm, yeah, but anyways, show highlights. Ooh.


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[Assistant] So I was going around Las Vegas and they had like the route that you were allowed to go on. But my plan was, I'm hoping I'm past statute of limitations here. My plan was we were going to swap out drivers because I wanted Brandon, my cameraman, to be able to try it out as well.


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[Assistant] It was beautiful, it was amazing. And that was the first time that I got to experience, uhm, the braking in electric cars. Okay. Which was interesting as well because I maybe almost hit someone and had to change lanes like a couple times just for between them. That's- Because I was going too fast. Yeah. But, uhm, anyways, statute of limitations, whatever. Yeah, it was cool. What other car stuff have you checked out here?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, it's, it's, okay, so it's, it looks really similar to micro USB cable. That small? Which is scary. It's quite small, yeah, it's a little bit longer it seems, and the locking connector on it is pretty intense. You don't see teeth or anything, it's internally locking. Right. So, actually the first couple times that I plugged it in, I didn't realize that it was...


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[Assistant] Yea, honestly, right now, uhm, and it's not the same as when, like, let's say 10 years ago. But right now, most people entering the gaming scene can buy a pretty freaking affordable computer and be totally fine.


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[Assistant] No problems running high frame, I told him to stop. The second you jump to VR, if you wanna run 1440p screen, 90 FPS.


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[Assistant] But then again, experiences that are designed and tailored.


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[Assistant] They're gonna be updating stuff like the screen. So hopefully they'll solve those issues. Like it's, it's very early on.


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[Assistant] The other demo that I had from them was, so same kind of like rectangular room, there's an engine in the middle.


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[Assistant] And it remapped the room so I could see the wall, so I could walk up to the wall and touch it. And the wall was actually there.


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[Assistant] Proof is an interesting thing, like we did a video where we were trying to check the fire resistance on a NAS. Yeah. And the whole time all the firemen were like, yeah, there's nothing that's really, like, fireproof.


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[Assistant] Okay. Okay. Either way, uh, if we want to not stay in Vegas. Right. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Or P find or community service or whatever real world consequences exist for real world crime.


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[Assistant] $5,000 of in-game boots is still $5,000, and that's still about


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[Assistant] You know, I set out a tweet because a whole bunch of people apparently thought that this WAN Show wasn't gonna be a thing, so I sent out a tweet being like, it's actually a thing, we'll be live in, check the time, it was 3.30 and I was like, about an hour. I could have said exactly one hour. You could have. But I was like, no!


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[Assistant] Oh, that's nice. Mine didn't. My wife did it. If I want a zero dollar haircut, my dad will grab the shaver, put it on the minimum setting, and just go whoosh.


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[Assistant] It lasts longer than- Quality too though, because you have such a bigger zone where you could potentially cut yourself. Yep. And shaving your face is actually relatively easy.


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[Assistant] Feel good. Feel good. Well maybe the person that started this company, maybe their last name was... Good.


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[Assistant] It's like naming your company Linus Media Group. It's not quite the same. You just put your name in it. Okay, it's like, uhm... It's but your first name, cause you're just that kind of a person. Nothing of the crap.


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[Assistant] That's true. The most awkward party when someone will be like, what's your boss's email? I'm like, uhm, Linus at blah. Like, okay, that's, that's, oh no.


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[Assistant] Well I'm wondering if part of the damages part is that they didn't want to be associated with the movie.


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[Assistant] What a disaster. Because it would be super easy for them to be like, well we saw this coming, didn't want to be a part of it.


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[Assistant] They polled about 2,000 people ages between 13 and 54 about their piracy habits and


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[Assistant] It's, it's not huge and the problem is with that number, it, it gets to, like it's only Kansas City.


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[Assistant] Distribution's the problem, and when it comes down to the question of, I've even had friends who have been in situations where they'll properly buy something.


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[Assistant] But then it's broken or some process is messed up or because of some DRM or some other reason they can't even access their freaking game or it makes it incredibly hard to play and it has become easier for them to just download the pirated version.


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[Assistant] And run that one. Even if they've actually paid for it, it's easier to just run the pirated copy. And especially when you get stuff like Google Fiber, which will make that downloading process extremely easy, uhm, it makes that more likely. Distribution is, and basically has always been the problem.


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[Assistant] I don't remember the guy's name right now. Uhm, John Oliver, I think. I really like his show. I watch the YouTube highlights all the time.


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[Assistant] I don't have any way to actually watch it properly. I haven't pirated or anything, but I've just been living off the YouTube thing, and I would love to sign up for HBO Go just to be able to watch John Oliver's show. Right. But I can't, cause it's not in- well, can't, because it's not in Canada.


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[Assistant] People that are interested in big new kind of bleeding edge powerful services are gonna want to do a lot with those things.


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[Assistant] I have, uh, Oceans, I have the Oceans series. Those are kinda good. And I think that's it.


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[Assistant] So I don't know if it's the overall cost, it says the access to poles, uh, ducks and conduits at a tenth of the cost is limited by federal law. So it's probably not the overall cost, it's probably those aspects individually, but that's still a huge savings.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and like they'll only go to like some office buildings essentially, and that's like it because moving it around is so expensive. But if you make it much cheaper for them, they're going to be able to spread out those little awesome companies like Novus.


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[Assistant] That would be awesome. I'd love for just a whole bunch of startups to pop up. That'd be great. Uhm, former FCC chair Reid Hundut, Hund, Hunt, Hunt? I hope I'm saying that right. H-U-N-D-T told the Washington Street Journal that if Title II gives Google poll access, then it might really rock the world with broadband. Dang.


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[Assistant] I think that's all we need to talk about with Google. We might take a little short break here. I just want to bring up that the new Office campaign has ended. Right, it's over. Thank you very much for your contributions. I kinda maybe didn't update the total yet.


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[Assistant] It worked though, that's so cool! You're basically a bad guy. Okay, so we need to add a number to this, which is gonna make this more complicated.


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[Assistant] Yes, and another thing that I want to call out is that UOLTT, or the Linus Tech Tip Star Citizen Organization, is going to be having our battle extravaganza thing starting on the 16th of January. So there's a forum topic dedicated to that.


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[Assistant] Show up, and then maybe, so we'll see. I'm, I'm gonna be fighting and I'm gonna be joining in, so hopefully everyone kinda rejoins. I know the, the, the start has been kind of slow, it's cause there's nothing for us to do, so. Yeah. I gotta fix my joystick. I gotta buy a joystick.


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[Assistant] Also, someone just purchased joystack.com.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, I know it was like about two years from now. So 2017 sounds about right, but like I wouldn't be surprised if it was late 2017.


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[Assistant] It's interesting how companies like Qualcomm now, okay, I'm gonna say this, and please take it with a grain of salt, may not have been that big, and then just exploded, and then Intel's like NO!


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[Assistant] And even like general public is starting to get quite, um, really savvy. Yeah. Especially about phones. Like, like I'll overhear people talking and like maybe it's not the most accurate stuff ever. They'll be like, oh yeah, it comes with the Qualcomm. Yeah. I'm like, okay, well.


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[Assistant] And like, I know it's not really ready yet, but I like the Cortana idea more than most of the, I'm really into voice activation stuff. I like the Cortana idea much more than the other things. Now Google Now isn't exactly that amazing either, but I think it might work better right now.


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[Assistant] Now if it's say like a movie or a book or something like that and you open it, they reserve the right to not.


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[Assistant] Uh, honor your return, which I honestly think is fine. Because, uh, you don't want that, that situation where like someone goes to the store to return their jug of milk with five drops left in the jug of milk being like, actually I didn't like it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but like if someone watches an entire movie and then tries to get a full refund, nah. Uhm, I'm hoping they have some sort of like, amount of time it was opened tracking or something like that.


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[Assistant] I think it's nice that they have the refund thing, especially for people that might be sharing, uh,


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[Assistant] Sharing a phone with their kid might not be the right terminology, but like letting their kid use say like a tablet or something.


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[Assistant] They accidentally go to the store and they're just like, Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. Hopefully you can return all that junk.


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[Assistant] And like, even just have, like, and make it so you can have the overlay on or off and make the default off so it doesn't bother anyone, who cares. But like, have a timer. Like, amount of time you're allowed to be in playing a game.


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[Assistant] What if you have eaten three quarters to half the food and then you find the


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[Assistant] Unless I'm like crazy hungry. I've waited before, and I've returned food that had hair in it before.


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[Assistant] I would, if it's something that's, especially if it's like a multi-part meal, so like if there's some meat and then vegetable and something else, uhm, I will wait until they come around at least within range to flag them down. Like if they're back in the kitchen, I'm not gonna go up to the kitchen.


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[Assistant] But I'll wait till they come out and then I'll flag them down, but I might have a few bites of whatever until they get there, just cause I'm like, okay, well, I don't really want to wait longer to be able to eat, but I'm also not going to sit here and try and scam you at a whole bunch of food.


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[Assistant] I said specifically blog thing because they're doing a post every day for the next 365 days. That's definitely a blog thing.


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[Assistant] Anyways, it's for uh, I'm not gonna get into it, but anyways, uh, they used WordPress.


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[Assistant] But I was like, you are using good images, and you are using good formatting, and you are using good blah blah blah blah blah blah. But then there's like weird stuff, and it doesn't look great because it's on WordPress. So I hadn't looked into the specific blog features of Squarespace yet because I was just looking at building a website for myself.


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[Assistant] So I started looking into that and then I'm like, let me make you a website. Let me Squarespace you. So, I don't know. I just had to bring that in.


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[Assistant] Some screen protectors feel like that. Some feel terrible. Not this one.


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[Assistant] I was wondering if it was like a compression of a word. Maybe he's fairly young and it's Alex goes to high school. Probably not. Nope.


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[Assistant] Which is pretty sick. I don't know, I like that kind of stuff. I like it when they bring back like the old Halo stuff, like how their voice AI is Cortana, and their new browser might be called Spark.


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[Assistant] What a weird guy. Why do we employ him?


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[Assistant] Uh, if you open a, uh, open network. If you post an open network.


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[Assistant] But then you're just gonna run into complications there with them claiming that it seemed like there was spoofing or some crap like that. Because there's also problems where even if they're not spoofing, like the Hotel Marriott's wifi, if someone just opens an unsecured network and is like, free internet! People are gonna wanna connect to it.


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[Assistant] Uh, so basically the- Then this should just be a thing in the room saying like connect to this exact SSID.


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[Assistant] Which is not too surprising, if you think about it.


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[Assistant] So, I've had people be like, this series is useless! But then I've also had people be like, thank you, this is amazing! So, those of you that are saying this series is useless, I think you guys will start having your answers in the next two because we'll be covering stuff like, uh,


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[Assistant] Uhm, mine's working totally fine, but, uh, the link that we had in the doc was a repost, because someone's a butt, so I'm going to post the proper final topic now. Oh, alright. Yep, no problem. Although I still don't know why yours isn't loading because it's working totally fine on mine. I'm going to throw this link right there. I think it's just that site.


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[Assistant] All I even use Facebook for right now is group networking so I can plan events with different groups that I have and chat. That's it.


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[Assistant] Even if they, uh, did display the amount that the, uh, uh, update took. Even if they were like, you only have this much available.


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[Assistant] Really? The largest most ridiculous thing ever. And it leaves the leg on it.


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[Assistant] So you actually have to just leave the foot on the new iMac. You can use it as like a phone tray. You know, you know those things that they have where you plug your phone into the wall. Yes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, so I've been speculating for quite a while that it would be Q4, maybe Q3, but probably Q4, so this wasn't too surprising. Uhm, but I have a theory that part of the reason why it was redacted was uhm, they probably want it to be a big thing at CES.


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[Assistant] They need to super duper make sure that their first consumer version is 100% okay. Because if, if there's any problems with their first consumer version, that's gonna cause serious issues for the VR community as a whole. We need the first


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[Assistant] Like so stoked. Valkyrie will be sick. I'm, I'm excited for something I'm not going to tell you guys a ton of yet, but a company that I will be going and seeing at CES that has a VR AR mixed headset. That should be really cool. Hopefully we'll see.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, but, I dunno. Companies do that a lot.


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[Assistant] Buy all another phone. We're gonna get into the motherboards territory there. You're just like, protecting your phone when you could just buy another one at that point.


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[Assistant] I just wanted to do like a quick glance through to see if there was anything else, but I think that was it. There's that lamp that lasts for 40 years.


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[Assistant] So, hearing yourself talk for an hour and a half is like not great.


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[Assistant] Totally unprepared, although I did- I need to shop tomorrow. I already did. I need shirts. I got some.


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[Assistant] The shirts did not help, actually. I didn't wear any of them for that.


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[Assistant] I don't know, Assassin's Creed Unity looks like it's gonna be a bit of a beast. We've got a great show for you today, guys. As you can see, my wonderful co-host was not actually fired. You know, I get it.


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[Assistant] Because I haven't really made that joke in months. And so we've got a lot of new viewers who legitimately were concerned two weeks ago when he wasn't on WAN Show that he had been fired. Because I was like, yeah, I fired him.


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[Assistant] And there's a lot of it. Wow, we even have some more details about that. Uh, also, there is a real live hoverboard. And if you were to move faster than hearing about it from me and then going to buy it, you would have been able to buy one. All of the production units from the first run have been sold. More about that later.


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[Assistant] That's like a bazillion bits. Actually, it's a very specific number of bits that isn't a bazillion. I knew that. Don't worry.


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[Assistant] Actually, there could be two words. We could use a synonym like stupid. No, I don't think stupid is right because stupid can even have like a positive meaning like, like that car is so fast, it's stupid or it's like stupid fast. You don't say dumb fast. No.


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[Assistant] And our first sponsor today is lynda.com, the fun, fast way to learn online! You visit lynda.com slash wancho, and you can learn more about learning more about things that might even-


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[Assistant] Sorry? Smart Awesome. Smart Awesome. Yea, lynda.com. Hashtag Smart Awesome.


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[Assistant] And, uh, oh, I clicked the wrong, oh, uh oh. Okay, hold on, hold on, I can fix this. Okay, I'm just gonna talk over the music. Phantom Glass is our, okay, I'm not gonna talk over the music, go away. Uh, so Phantom Glass is our second sponsor today. Phantom Glass is a fantastic...


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[Assistant] Covering for the front of your phone. Basically, it's exactly the same gorilla glass that you already had on your phone, except it's got this super...


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[Assistant] Super nano coating and it's awesome. Visit store.phantomglass.com for more details. So thanks to our sponsors, Lynda.com and Phantom Glass for making the WAN show possible today. And thanks to you for coming back. I was worried you might not. You loved Germany so much. I did.


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[Assistant] Wanna tell us a little bit about your trip before we actually talk about the things that these people paid good money to hear us talk about?


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[Assistant] So this was right after, right as you guys, right after I left, okay.


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[Assistant] From first glance, it looks like a new way of organizing your Gmail. I actually really like what I've seen so far. I did request an invite, which is actually the only way to join, so there's a request invite button up here.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we can go ahead and, yeah, you better, you better do that, Luke, cause it looks like it's, looks like it's pretty cool. Actually, the invite system is redonkulous. You send an email to inbox.gmail.com.


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[Assistant] Not even kidding. And the button's broken. When I click the link...


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[Assistant] Oh come on, Google. Anyway, so the way that it works is that, you know how we've had for a little while ways of organizing messages, uh, promos,


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[Assistant] I think right now I've got promotions and then something else anyway. The point is it adds more options like that. You can now add your own categorization. So things like purchases, like receipts, uhm, things like tracking numbers for orders you've made online will be sorted out for you and


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[Assistant] This one I really like, so now you can actually preview stuff like, okay, here's your flight information, here's a quick link so you can check in. It's right there. You don't even have to open emails in order to get all the information that you need from them.


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[Assistant] It feels very separate from everything else about Android. Reminders are just kind of this thing, like you kind of have it sort of next to your email or


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[Assistant] So having something like this right in my inbox and with ways to manage it, now you can do things like snooze both reminders and emails, something I've been asking for for ages because I loved that about Windows Pocket PC.


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[Assistant] It's the way that you can manage notifications and reminders if you're someone who might be, say for example, on a-


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[Assistant] Filming set, and you can't deal with it right now.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I think this is great, being able to manage notifications, being able to snooze an email, like, hey, let me deal with this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's great, like, cause I use my email as my to-do list. I just have a to-do list draft email to myself that I just edit because it's more handy for me than...


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[Assistant] Having a separate app for that, like Evernote. Uhm, I do use Keep anytime I needed a location-based reminder, but other than that I use Gmail for that, and I use it as a scheduler as well. So the calendar will have like our video release schedule, but Gmail unread messages is really my to-do list.


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[Assistant] Alright, speaking of things that are ridiculous, and this was originally posted on the forum by VictoriousSecret, Apple beats Bose out of their...


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[Assistant] Uhm, so they have, they have kicked them out. There's some speculation right now. 9to5Mac did go ahead and phone some Apple stores and confirmed that they are no longer carrying those products. I don't know that that's been rolled out to all stores, but it is unknown at this time whether this is more to do with Apple's recent acquisition of Beats and the associated headphones.


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[Assistant] Bose, uhm, threatening beats with a lawsuit over use of their noise cancellation technology. And then there was also the NFL deal where Bose is sponsoring the NFL.


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[Assistant] And, uh, NFL players, some of whom have lucrative beat sponsorship contracts, are not permitted to wear their headphones.


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[Assistant] At NFL events. So this was actually another 9 to 5 Mac article that I'll just bring up for you guys. So, uh, 49ers quarterback was fined $10,000 for wearing Beats headphones to a press conference.


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[Assistant] You know, not that I necessarily think celebrity endorsements are the greatest thing ever when it comes to, you know, selling headphones that aren't worth what people are paying for them.


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[Assistant] Yes, if you want to support that person specifically, that counts. Have you ever let a celebrity endorsement affect your purchase decision? We're not going to do a straw poll, I want to do this as a Twitter blitz. And I want to move on to the next topic while I think about whether or not I've had a celebrity endorsement affect something.


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[Assistant] You know what? I'm trying to, I'm trying to think of a product that I've purchased based on someone, and I can't really think of like a consumer electronics product, but I have purchased books based on who wrote the foreword.


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[Assistant] Definitely. Uhm, I forget what book I, I forget what book I bought because it had a forward by Steve Wozniak and he said it was good and so I bought it. I've done that with books for sure. So, so I, yes, and I don't know if Steve Wozniak counts as a celebrity in the same way that a sports icon does because the book was, I think it was a business book.


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[Assistant] I actually recently found out how much, uh, they were talking about it on the radio. So my source for this, for this story is, uhm, shoot, it's not Team 1040, a TSN 1040, it's a local radio station. And they were saying that Kim Kardashian charges a million dollars just to show up.


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[Assistant] Is, I found, I figured out that for things like, you know, Nvidia mod 24, I don't think we've been charging enough. Because I did a rough calculation, and I kinda went, okay, Kim Kardashian's Twitter followers, my Twitter followers, Kim Kardashian a million dollars, and how much I charge for things. And I went, shoot!


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[Assistant] Sort of, sort of unrelated. Let's go ahead and start doing that Twitter blitz, because I think I, I think I figured out that yes, I have purchased books based on four words. I didn't even think about books. I've even done...


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[Assistant] I don't think buying a 780 Ti after our review counts.


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[Assistant] Oh, alright, I think, uh, here we go. Josh says, of course, started with Nike Air Jordans.


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[Assistant] I'm just trying to think, did Happy Gilmore affect my subway purchasing patterns? That's more of a product placement than a celebrity endorsement, but he does do a celebrity endorsement within the movie as happy. I don't know. That's like endorse-ception.


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[Assistant] Uh, when I was younger, didn't know any better. Example, uh, player boots. Oh crap, yes. I have not actually bought one based on this, but I have shopped for badminton rackets based on who uses the racket.


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[Assistant] Alan says, no, my money is too precious to waste on eSports. Yeah, but we're talking about everything here. Yeah. Joshua says, yes, I've bought something because you endorsed it before. Pom says, no.


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[Assistant] CJ says, if you count yourself, then yes, I got a 1M8 because of your review. Again, review. I was not paid to endorse it. In fact, HTC's never paid us anything. Yeah, we've never done a paid deal with them.


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[Assistant] Definitely. I didn't know what Be Quiet was until I saw them as a sponsor of Dignitas. There you go. There's a good one.


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[Assistant] Interesting. Does it count as a celebrity endorsement if they actually buy the product and wear it?


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[Assistant] There's actually quite a few people, here's three in a row, saying that yes, they are, they have purchased something because, because we talked about it or endorsed it in some way. Uhm, Duncan says to subscribe to someone on Twitch count. No, I don't think so. That's more like just paying that person. Uhm, wow. Interesting.


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[Assistant] Interesting. Yeah, really, uh, thank you guys very much for your comments on that. That was actually very, uh, very interesting to see, more than anything else, how many of you were honest about it.


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[Assistant] I'm just trying to think, like, some celebrity endorsements have stood out to me a lot more than others, like, uh, shoot, that guy who did the stupid Subway commercials with the silly voice, Subway EAT FRIDGE! I can't remember this guy, he used to do silly movies like Pauly Shore style crap.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I can't remember. It stood out to me. Definitely didn't buy more Subway because of it.


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[Assistant] I like Quiznos. Not because Don Cherry endorses it, but, uh.


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[Assistant] Originally posted by S. Vinsparibburevue, whatever, I don't care. Uhm, I tried, man.


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[Assistant] Alright, Ars Technica and BBC.com and Tech Report have all had- aww, I love Scott Lawson, so we're gonna pull up- we're gonna pull up his article on this. But this is really interesting. IBM pays.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so right, 1.5 billion going to global foundries over the next 3 years to complete the transfer. IBM continuing their 3 billion dollar committed investment into semiconductor tech research over 5 years.


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[Assistant] Global Foundries will be the main beneficiary of the ongoing research and will acquire thousands of patents as part of the deal.


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[Assistant] And Global Foundries is required, presumably, actually I don't know that they're required too, but they're saying they're gonna keep substantially all of the IBM employees and facilities other than one in Bromo, Quebec.


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[Assistant] But they're entering into a 10 year deal for Global Froundries to produce all of their 22, 14, and 10 nanometer semiconductor products for, I think I said 10 years already.


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[Assistant] So they're still gonna be designing chips for mainframe products, and they're still going to be having global founders produce them, so they'll still be selling them. They just are trying to move their business gradually away from lower profitability businesses, things like, say for example, making laptops.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, so two-year sentence handed down to Yoshimou- Yoshit- excuse me, Yoshitomo Imura in Japanese 3D-printed gun case. So this was back in May of this year, I believe, that he was originally arrested, but uhm,


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[Assistant] After he was seen test firing a zigzag revolver for which he had 3D printed. Japanese is known for their strict gun laws, but I am surprised to see them crack down this hard on...


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[Assistant] What appears to be the first offense here?


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[Assistant] I'm surprised it was two years. I would have expected the first time around to be more of a slap on the wrist. So like slap on the wrist and in state laws. And then, and then make sure that it's super clear and then beyond that, it's like, okay, look, you guys knew at this point, so too bad.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think he probably also underestimated how much trouble he was going to get into. It seems like one of those things where...


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[Assistant] Some leniency, well I guess you have to decide. Do you give some leniency and then, you know, just hope that others following don't expect any leniency or do you just crack down on it super hard, make international news, here we are talking about it, and make it really clear that


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[Assistant] And it's not like that wasn't illegal, so, in places where- It's just a different form of manufacturing. Yeah, it's just a different way of making your own gun. That doesn't make it any different, really. People make guns in prison. It's doable.


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[Assistant] It has been pointed out by a Ubisoft employee who shall remain nameless who was like, yo dog, I can't believe you posted, you know, that inflammatory link on your Facebook because it's just...


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[Assistant] General PvP multiplayer, it's just the overrun mode, so you team up in this PvP mode and control a series of neutral locations, so yeaah, it's just a territory control mode.


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[Assistant] So like, the one that will probably be fun in the context of Assassin's Creed, and the one that- Far Cry 4. Yeah, excuse me, yeah, Far Cry 4, and the one that is included in every other game ever, and, so my response to that, I didn't reply to the email, but I'm gonna respond to it now, my response to that is,


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[Assistant] It should be inflammatory. Ubisoft should be torn a new one for turning something that was already included with every other game ever.


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[Assistant] Valley of the Yetis, so you've crashed in a blah blah blah with single player and co-op options. It looks like it's just a survival mode. You know, I think Left 4 Dead 2 had that, you know.


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[Assistant] This was a lot of stuff that was produced for the sole purpose of selling it to you on launch day so that you could pay a higher sticker price for the game. We discussed this last week, you weren't here for this, but we discussed based on inflation, based on the increased general number of


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[Assistant] I know. There's a lot more to look at than that, but let's just go pure inflation, okay? A game should be 75 bucks.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's rarely to do with the cost of making something. It's always to do with the value that the customer gets from it. That's how things are priced. Unless they're commodity items. And I would argue a game is not a commodity item.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's not about cost. I think movies are a great example because with the exception of services like Netflix,


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[Assistant] Okay, then we could pull up an example like the billion dollars that, uh,


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[Assistant] League of Legends. Okay. Yeah. Uh, we could pull, we could say the example of, you know, the billion dollars that League of Legends makes, they could afford to do a skin for a penny, but they don't, because it's about the value that the consumer places on that item, not about the cost of creating it.


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[Assistant] Okay, but they also have heroes that they do lock. But that you can unlock for free. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And that's fine. So for the people who really, really would have used the extra content, okay, you guys can prove to us that you really need it. You could even make it 100% of the game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, so, so, and then, okay, then go ahead and we unlock it automatically for those people, but if you're one of those people who just wants to dink around with this particular thing, and, or you just don't feel like doing side missions and you just want to play through the story mission and it's worth the thirty dollars to you making it an optional upgrade, would gamers feel better about that?


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[Assistant] That would be cool, I would like that. If you buy the season's pass, it's 20% less than all the DLCs individually. Game and pass can be purchased in all-in-one Far Cry Gold Edition for 90 bucks. But it's not necessarily actually cheaper. Which is not a discount over buying the game and buying the DLC separately.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's coming out November 18th. Why are we, why are we, why do we care if it comes out November 18th? Because you should probably buy it on November 25th when it's 10 or 20 dollars off.


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[Assistant] But we don't really have any clarification as to, like, is that on an open testbench? What about when someone actually tries to build a mini-ITX system with this? I would definitely like to investigate that a little bit and find out, find out what's up with that. That'd be really cool. Excited for that card to show up.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. So far, so far we haven't got a confirmation that we'll be covering it, but I would really like to.


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[Assistant] Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-boop. Does this feel to you like they're actually trying to make a company? Or does it seem like they're just trying to cash in on making a flashy video on Kickstarter and having a bunch of people give you money and then...


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[Assistant] Like, I would be, like, looking at this video, looking at the way this was shot, is, uh, this wasn't cheap.


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[Assistant] So the way this tech works, it seems very magnificent when you, when you consider that holy crap they've got a hoverboard. Look at this. Wow, he's on a hoverboard. Except that the issue is that this hover, oh I guess we should probably, we should probably show this. The issue is that this hoverboard only runs on metal.


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[Assistant] Sooo... It's just magnets. And I mean, yes, it is still an achievement, because if you've ever taken two magnets with similar poles facing each other, and like, tried to have one of them sit on top of the other one, it ain't that simple.


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[Assistant] Does it look like they're trying to create a viable business? Not really. Because they've only committed to producing ten hoverboards. If they were trying to make a business out of making hoverboards, you would think they would want to sell as many of them as possible. And that wouldn't be ten. Because the reality of it is, you're not going to be able to ride it anywhere.


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[Assistant] Like, at all. Like, at all. Because there's no metal in the sidewalk.


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[Assistant] So you're not gonna be Marty McFly. Or any skatepark. Or yea, or over like, you know, the fountain as you run away from the bullies or whatever. So yea, very cool. No makes no sense. I don't understand how they managed to raise $350,000. You do get a pretty cool thing for some of the funding tiers. You get this little...


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[Assistant] That's super cool, but I don't understand why anyone bought a hoverboard for $10,000.


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[Assistant] Yep, uh, it happens about an inch off the ground, but I guess you guys saw that in a video, so there you go, I guess that's all we really have to say about that.


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[Assistant] Since you won't be riding this hoverboard. Uh, I can show you guys a picture of that, uh, GTX 970 ITX now. So there you go, that's what it looks like. It's small and it's a GTX 970. Yep. So, that picture's on Tom's hardware, if you wanted to look at it some more.


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[Assistant] Alright, posted by SoloSDK. This original article is from BGR.com. Apple's A8X dominates the benchmark.


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[Assistant] Sure. Alright, so let's see if this page is gonna load at some point, and if it doesn't, then you'll just have to, uh, you'll just have to count on me to sort of talk about it. Now, Apple's been really cagey about the specs of their A8 chip. I mean, this is pretty typical for them, but it looks like all they were really saying in their event was, 40% faster!


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[Assistant] Which is very typical Apple speak. Yeah. Does things two times as well.


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[Assistant] So, so basically, uhm, looks like it's gonna be a three core processor, looks like it runs at something like 1.4 gigahertz, I don't know, that article's not loading for me anymore and the detail was in there. Ah, yes, here we go.


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[Assistant] And it looks like it freaking trashes everything else that Apple has ever released in terms of performance. So the iPhone 6, which runs the A8,


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[Assistant] So we're not seeing the same chip in an iPad and an iPhone product this time around is much, much, MUCH slower. So the CPU mark rating is 44,000 for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and 73,000 for the iPad Air 2.


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[Assistant] Looking pretty spiffy. Nothing special about the memory except that- Oh wait! Apple finally put two gigs of RAM in a product!


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's, it's, okay, there's a couple things that are interesting to me about this. So ARM at 1.5 GHz, one processor, three cores, very, very cool stuff. Uhm, the one interesting thing to me about them finally increasing RAM is because Apple tends to support the iPad products with new OS's.


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[Assistant] For longer than the iPhone products, from my experience. Like, my iPad 2 is still getting updates. So I still get iOS 8. How great the experience it is? Eh, who knows.


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[Assistant] Yep. So, okay, so the only thing that this indicates to me is maybe at some point, whether it's iOS 9 or iOS 10, we are finally going to see the phones move to 2 gig and we're finally going to see some kind of better multitasking experience on iOS.


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[Assistant] Something I brought up in my review that went live last night about iOS is that it's not all about speeds and feeds on this thing. Yes, it only has a gig of RAM, but what multitasking are you doing on iOS anyway?


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[Assistant] And the management of background resource usage is excellent. That's why you can go to bed with an iPhone on your nightstand and wake up with 2% or 3% of your battery drained. That does not happen on Android because Android doesn't shut down background apps and


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[Assistant] Yeah, I installed Plex on my 1M8 and I was getting 65-70% battery drain just sitting on my pillow from when I wake up until I get home from work, which is at around 8pm.


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[Assistant] So yeah, this is all interesting, uh, so the iPad Air 2 crushes the benchmarks, cool. Uh, I guess that's all we really have to say about...


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[Assistant] Yeah, so this is a pretty far off rumor. It also indicates something that makes me pretty sad, and that's that Broadwell for consumers is gonna come significantly before Broadwell for enthusiasts. So we're going back to that whole enthusiasts get things after everyone else.


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[Assistant] Which was unavoidable, I guess, because really this is more of a, really this is more of a server enterprise product anyway, because it's a Xeon platform, that's where they're doing the bulk of the business, with quad channel memory and all that stuff, enthusiasts just kinda get to also enjoy it.


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[Assistant] And that space moves a lot slower.


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[Assistant] And so, you know, I guess we should be happy it's only a six month lag as opposed to the year that we were seeing before.


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[Assistant] And at least we're still gonna have, so it looks like it's gonna be 8 and 6 core options again, support for overclocking with K-Series SKUs, Intel Turbo Boost 2.0, up to 20 megabytes of cache, and the power is gonna be 140 watts with up to 40 lambs of PCIe 3.0. So I think we're gonna see a very, very similar to Haswell-E type of product lineup.


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[Assistant] 8 core, 6 core, 6 core with cut down PCIe lanes on the bottom one, but I have no problem with that. Haswell E is a great product, especially the 5820K, and this looks like that plus 10% IPC and better power consumption.


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[Assistant] So there you go. Uhm, actually, 50, 5820k I think is not getting enough credit. I see a lot of people really questioning the use of fewer PCI Express lanes on that product, 28 versus 40, and


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[Assistant] Contemplating stepping up to the 5930k, which I don't think makes a ton of sense.


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[Assistant] No, that video's out, the one where we showed SLI scaling with the different CPUs. Unless you're going quad SLI, I can't come up with a reason.


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[Assistant] Which you probably shouldn't. I can't come up with a good reason why you need to buy a 5930k or 5820k. There are some things, okay, if you want to really leverage M.2 storage expansion.


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[Assistant] So if you want to be plugging an SSD directly into PCI Express, and you want two graphics cards, and you want a 10 gigabit NIC, and you want a RAID card for your other storage array,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're probably not doing all that stuff. You might be. If that were to happen, you might need the PCI Express lanes, but even with 28 lanes, two cards running at 8x8x is only 16 of them. That's still 12 more.


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[Assistant] Alright, so we're expecting pre-engineering samples processors sometime in Q2 2015.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and they will continue to use the LGA 2011 v3 x99 platform. That's great news, so we're getting small, small incremental improvements.


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[Assistant] The NSA approves Samsung's Galaxy phones for classified work. This was posted by TechDreamer on the forum.


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[Assistant] So there's, I guess there's two ways to read this. Number one is Samsung phones are really secure. Number two is, and this is the tinfoil hat version, Samsung phones are gonna tell you to say everything!


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[Assistant] Come on. It's approved for use by the NSA. For themselves. Not approved for use. Like it's not the NSA signing off on this phone, it's approved for use for people.


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[Assistant] Not all. So it's NSA, and there's another specific one that it's approved for, uhm, Defense Information Systems Agency. And I suspect once those ones approve it, the others will start to fall very quickly. But, uh, basically it's what, is it the Note 4, the Galaxy...


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[Assistant] Alright, oh, now this was something, okay, so I have a couple things to talk about here. Apple, this was posted by Sam Fisher on the forum, original articles from Ars Technica. I have a couple things to talk about here. First of all, uhm, I did say...


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[Assistant] Mistakenly, that applications will not benefit from 64-bit inherently, and it's mostly to do with architectural improvements in a fast as possible. Very recently, there are workloads that will benefit very significantly from 64-bit.


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[Assistant] I should have phrased it better because most of those workloads aren't something that are going to be a major concern. Things like encryption benefit from 64-bit enormously.


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[Assistant] It doesn't really matter because a phone is already fast enough to handle encryption very, very easily. So yes, incremental power savings.


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[Assistant] Great incremental performance in things like, you know, touch ID recognition. Yes, all very good stuff. Love it. Fantastic. It's just not a big, big deal when it comes to browsing the internet typically, unless there's encryption involved.


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[Assistant] So, there's that. And number two is I said I


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[Assistant] Really didn't see how Apple was gonna handle smoothly transitioning to 64-bit on their phones? Looks like this is it. Beginning February 2015, App Store submissions must be 64-bit.


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[Assistant] So they've, they've had a 64-bit CPU for a long time, the 5S launched with a 64-bit CPU, but developers have kind of been dragging ass, although in developers' defense, they did go ahead and release iOS 7, and then they did go ahead and release iOS 8 with two new screen sizes.


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[Assistant] Apple's never done that before. Two new screen sizes on the phone at the same time. Never done that before.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so okay, yeah, devs have been busy. But...


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[Assistant] Now it's gonna be mandatory, as of February. So that's how they're gonna do it. By the time a third generation iPhone with a 64-bit processor launches, it will have been mandatory for six months, for your app to be 64-bit.


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[Assistant] I guess if you don't update it, it'll stay there. But, uh, but yea, if you were to deliver an update or do whatever else. Now, to be clear, these 64-bit apps will still have to work on 32-bit devices, unless they specifically say that they're compatible only with the 5S, 6, 6+, and then 7, or whatever the case may be. But...


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[Assistant] They will at least be able to take advantage of the performance improvements and whatever else comes along with 64-bit. And there were some examples of non-encryption-based applications that did speed up significantly, and Nantech actually did an excellent article looking at just no optimizations at all.


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[Assistant] Just compile it in 32-bit, compile it in 64-bit. What kind of a performance improvement do you see? And there were some that did quite well, and some that even small performance gains are important, because it's about more than how fast does that app launch. It's about CPU idle time.


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[Assistant] So when an app is done being worked on, done being launched, your device isn't really working on it anymore. That's great for battery life, which is great for the mobile experience. So if you can get an extra 10% of battery life on your phone, would you take it? Sure, I would.


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[Assistant] Alright. Speaking of frustrating things with phones, Gskills Phoenix Blade posted by BigStroons. Yeah, I know the segue didn't make sense to me, but original articles.


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[Assistant] From Guru3D, Tech Report, Tech Power Up, lots of good stuff here. Do you wanna, do you wanna cover this one while I pull it up on the screen here?


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[Assistant] It looks badass. It has FOUR SandForce 2281 controllers on it. Yes. It's a quad SSD array in, behind a PCI Express, what is it, 8x interface, did you say? Uh, yes. That is unfreeking believable. And, uh, no, I think that nine was a typo in there.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yeaah, that looks, that looks fantastic. I guess this is, this is just because LSI slash, didn't they get sold to like, Pixar or something? Like the Sandforce unit keeps getting shuffled around. Can't even remember who it belongs to anymore. But the new generation Sandforce controller that we saw for the first time over a year ago at Computex?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, still isn't here. So, this is the closest thing we have, is throwing more last generation sand force controllers on a better bus in raid operation and then just kind of brute forcing the heck out of it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's all we got. And the fact that it supports Trim is very surprising to me. Most raid controllers don't support Trim. In fact, the one that I'm aware of that does do it is Intel's onboard raid. And other than that, even add in like $607, $800 raid cards, most of them don't support passing Trim through to SSDs in raid 0, so.


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[Assistant] Alright, the Pirate Bay is endorsing a VPN service, FruitVPN, and it's free for now. So fruitvpn.com, the original article here was from TwartFreak, and this was posted by Shalashalaska on the forums.


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[Assistant] There's no real reason why VPNs need to be as expensive as they are, and it takes, it takes someone to come in and shake up these industries. I mean, you look at what Blackmagic Design has done to the production industry, you know, where they just kinda go, no, we're gonna make it, and then this comes back to our discussion about


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[Assistant] What is something worth? Is it worth what it costs to make plus a markup? Or is it worth what it's worth to someone minus nothing?


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[Assistant] And Blackmagic came in with a bit of a different philosophy, where they went, well, it's gonna cost us this much to make this thing. Yeah, it's gonna be a little bit buggy. The firmware updates might come a little bit slow, but we're gonna do our, we're gonna do our darndest to deliver this thing for you. Versus what the guys like Canon or Sony were content to do, which was build the least


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[Assistant] Good, possible thing that is just incrementally better than the last one, charges as much as they possibly can for it based on how much money they know that people can generate with this equipment because professionals will just


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[Assistant] So yeaah, that's I guess pretty much it. So basically their whole thing is they want to make this VPN make sense from how much it actually costs to deliver VPN service to someone and a markup and how much people are paying for it.


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[Assistant] So speaking of scam advisor, I brought up our scam advisor, LinusTechTips.com. High trust rating, this site looks safe to use. 100% looks safe.


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[Assistant] Linus Tech Tips Community Forum, Domain Age, 6 years. Oh, that's right, because it used to have that silly blog on it. Owner country hidden. Haha. Alright, so let's go ahead and go back to...


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[Assistant] It's not gonna be that. Alright, so moving on to- Oh, we should do our sponsor spots, right! Speaking of-


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[Assistant] Learning and learning being awesome, lynda.com. So you can get a free trial of lynda.com if you go to lynda.com slash when show. It's seven days. It's all you can eat and what would you want to eat? You might ask. Well, knowledge.


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[Assistant] Which is probably fine. They do have lots and lots of serious courses. So 3D animation, audio, music, business, education, development, video, photography, marketing, uh, just web stuff. Learning about it on Lynda.com is a great way to do it.


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[Assistant] I would be amazed if in the next ten years CAD isn't something that gets taught as part of the mandatory curriculum in school as opposed to something that you can sometimes take as an elective.


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[Assistant] Not even just in the home. If 3D printers are something where you're gonna be expected to know how to use one,


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[Assistant] Like at a job the way that word processing is today


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[Assistant] I can totally see that being part of, of a forward thinking educational curriculum. So being able to, to learn some things about, about 3D modeling would be an amazing way to leverage lynda.com. So guys, lynda.com slash wan tro show for a free seven day trial. You can decide if you like it, if you feel like you're learning and it's worth the


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, so we get real proud whenever Canada comes up with anything.


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[Assistant] It feels just like your phone already is. All it does is add another layer of the same Gorilla Glass that your phone was already using to make it so not only is it gonna resist being scratched by your keys in your pocket, if in the event it does actually get scratched because you drag it across the pavement, you can just peel it right off and replace it just like that.


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[Assistant] Another cool thing is I actually just RMA'd my HTC One M8, cause I had an issue with the lens. They did get back to me, it has all been resolved, so I'm still going through my as a customer RMA experience.


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[Assistant] So I sent that back to them and uhm, I was able to remove my phantom glass from it without any issues with it and I'm gonna put that right back on the new one. It is fully removable and it is, I think I can even say this, it is bubble proof.


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[Assistant] It is, you can't get a bubble under the glass because it just magically does itself. I did a review for Phantom Glass before we ever took them on as a sponsor because I've always been pretty sketched out by cases and screen protectors because they're all garbage. Cases for phones, yes.


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[Assistant] They're all junk. And so having a sponsor or even doing reviews, I reject almost, I don't think, have we ever done a case review?


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[Assistant] I think I did an Otterbox once and then I broke it on camera and then they never talked to me again.


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[Assistant] Alright, speaking of must watch, this was supposed to buy card on the forum. KitGuru.net has an article about how the Titan Z has dropped in price to the point where it might actually even make sense to buy one if you really want a Titan Z.


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[Assistant] Personally, I'd pick up a couple 970s, but whatever.


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[Assistant] When, when, when like computer peripherals are created by artists as opposed to engineers, you end up with solutions like this. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Now in his defense, you haven't tried the body mouse. Ni impossible's strong statement.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well he's at a standing desk now, and when we have the space for it, I will do some kind of ergonomic improvements for everyone. So, we're probably, actually the chair review that comes out this weekend, I'm gonna look into having chairs of that caliber for everyone. Uhm, so all that kind of stuff. Speaking of which,


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[Assistant] This is gonna be coming in a couple of weeks, and I actually didn't tell anyone that I was gonna tease this at all, but yea, let's talk about it. The decision's pretty much made. I talked to our accountant, who's my wife.


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[Assistant] About, you know, how we're doing and we're, we're kind of, it's, it's borderline, but it's, it's time. We don't have enough space here, so Linus Media Group will be moving. We're in Nick's office.


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[Assistant] We kicked him out of the other one, uh, because we have too many people in that room now. And it's just, it's gotten kind of ridiculous. I mean, for those of you who watched our studio tour, you'll have seen that our server room is in a bathroom.


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[Assistant] That's because there's literally nowhere else to put it, where it won't be too loud to film. It hurts my soul. Yeah, it's really bad, so...


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[Assistant] We're gonna be doing some kind of a crowdfunding campaign, we're gonna put together some really cool stretch goals, we're gonna put together some really cool rewards, and that's gonna be coming probably sometime in the next couple of weeks.


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[Assistant] Not this. We gotta get this fixed. Maybe, maybe, maybe a stretch goal will be to get your Twitter handle fixed on Wanshell.


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[Assistant] Thanks to have your support, uh, because we're looking at hopefully moving into a space where we can really continue to develop other channels like Channel Superfun. I wanna add a couple more people, which is part of the reason we need to move, because there isn't space for more people here, so that we can have the time.


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[Assistant] Ohhhh, that's terrible. Alright, so let's move on to lowly DSL, poised for gigabit speed boost. This is pretty exciting, because DSL does tend to give you better latencies than cable.


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[Assistant] And it's been limited in terms of the speeds that they've been able to roll out with.


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[Assistant] Cause it's, it's over the phone line. So, anywhere with a phone line can theoretically get DSL technology at some kind of a speed. So...


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's go ahead and move on to our next topic here. And then now it says 1 hour and 37 minutes. Photomath. Now you were geeking out over this one. Oh, this is awesome. Also posted by TechDreamer on the forum. The source is Photomath.net.


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[Assistant] So this is basically gonna take needing to keep electronic devices out of exam rooms.


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[Assistant] And problem sheets from a professor might not necessarily have all the steps. In fact, most of the professors I ever met were phenomenally lazy. Yes. So you'd be lucky if you got an answer sheet at all.


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[Assistant] Someone high up at that company has to be a Windows Phone dork because it's available for iOS and Windows Phone so far. And not Android yet.


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[Assistant] Yup, and when, when Google Glass-like devices become just looking like glasses, and people figure out, like, I mean, okay, I'm, I'm sure it's a matter of time before people figure out, you know, two-way mirror-type systems to cover up LEDs and, and lenses and stuff like that to make it just look like glasses, I mean,


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[Assistant] And you think about how tech savvy the average TA would be at a typical university. Are they gonna recognize every model?


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[Assistant] Once Samsung, LG, HTC, Google themselves with a Nexus device, you know, Huang Wei or whatever, once they all have glasses.


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[Assistant] How hard is it going to be? And then there was that cool technology that we talked about last week where, uhm, augmented reality was going to be done instead of with a screen in front of you by projecting an image into your eyes. So when that hits, along with all this other stuff, I don't know what they're going to do.


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[Assistant] If the guys who are the math geeks already, who are gonna do math because they're interested in it and they love it, and if those guys are gonna do math anyway, and those are the ones that are really advancing mathematics, do I need to know how to do any of this stuff, or can I just use an app for my whole life?


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[Assistant] So when mom and dad understood this umpteen bazillion years ago, but- And now it's like, what? I could probably barely do long division the first time around if you put a problem in front of me.


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[Assistant] Once you see it once, it'll be fine. Once I see it once, no problem. So I could use photo math to just be like, aw crap, how do you do that again? Okay. And then you can really explain it to Junior.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like, sorry, first, outside, inside, last, right? Like if I don't remember something like that...


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[Assistant] Alright, so, iPhone 6 catches fire in a man's pocket, allegedly. This was, uh, posted on the forum by Tigron, and I- okay, now-


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[Assistant] Okay, I was about to say I'm not sure what the liability implications are of us just completely calling BS on this, but my BS meter is pretty, pretty going off the charts here. So, Arizona man suffers second degree burns when iPhone 6 bends and catches fire in his pocket, he claims.


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[Assistant] So here's, here's the picture. I don't know, is there still above this? Let me just scroll past it.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, there it is. Okay, so unless your leg is broken at that angle, I fail to understand how a phone breaks at that angle in your pocket.


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[Assistant] That and I mean, the whole bend gate thing I think is grossly exaggerated. It's not that easy to bend this phone. Was that a 6 plus? This is not a 6 plus.


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[Assistant] We probably shouldn't even be talking about this other than just to say it's like, poopy. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Dumb. They are super dumb. They are so dumb that it's just too dumb. They're not dumb awesome. Dumb dumb dumb. Okay, so get this, get this, get this, okay.


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[Assistant] So processor. Minimum required processor is an i5-2500K or an AMD FX8350. Are you freaking kidding me? Oh, I love that they threw in the Phenom II 940 because that is so much slower than an i5-2500K that it is not even funny.


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[Assistant] Sooooo much slower. So that's a minimum requirement, and then the recommended requirement is a 3770. Now the funny thing about this is the 3770 supports more threads than an i5 2500K.


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[Assistant] When it was a minimum requirement. So why did you need to upgrade your Intel CPU and not your AMD CPU? Unless this engine is


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[Assistant] Heavily threaded, which I call complete BS on. If we get more than three threads, I will be floored. Yeah, I would be surprised. And that i5 has four threads, which is fine. And for that matter, that Phenom X4 has four threads that are super not super duper fast. Minimum system RAM of six gigabytes. Now that I... maybe.


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[Assistant] I think the recommended makes no sense on video card though. The minimum makes no sense on video card.


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[Assistant] Here's a couple things about the minimum video card spec that make no sense. Number one is that the GTX 680 is a very, very powerful card. And for that to be the minimum to run the game based on the gameage I've seen so far,


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[Assistant] So why can't that run it? Why is 680 the cutoff for the minimum? I don't buy it. Okay, number two.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the recommended one is, uh, sorry, did you just talk about recommended? I tuned in. Okay, so the recommended one, I'm okay with that, especially because if the point of this is, look, we're building a game that's gonna really, really push the hardware, uhm, so we're just gonna recommend basically the highest end thing that exists today.


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[Assistant] And 780 is pretty darn close, I mean it's X percent behind 780.


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[Assistant] Laptop versions of these cards may work but are not officially supported. So basically, the minimum requirement just looks like a pure cop-out laziness thing.


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[Assistant] We are just not gonna bother to validate this game on any graphics cards. We are gonna put the onus on the graphics card makers to ensure that their cards are compatible with this game going back a couple of generations. Cause let's face it, if a GTX 680 runs it, a GTX 590 is gonna wreck it. So...


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[Assistant] Speaking of keep on digging, we actually are planning our next, next t-shirt design. So uhm, I guess I should probably, I should probably like open with an application of some sort or something.


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[Assistant] Come on, go faster, you. Yeah, we have- we have our ne- our next- our next t-shirt design is Ubisoft inspired.


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[Assistant] You have a lot of games in you, you play account. I was logged into it a little while ago because I was benchmarking. With your, with his permission. Yeah, yeah, it's fine. It's all good.


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, at a five star. Okay, sure. Cause I was gonna say, somewhere like Red Robin, you could argue they had it without you knowing. Cause you can buy fries.


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[Assistant] Alright, so here it is. Design! Wooo! So that's gonna be on the front of probably a black shirt. And, uh, we're gonna launch this, I think, when? Show next week we'll have the Teespring campaign up and, uh,


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[Assistant] Alright, so this was posted by Amoris, Amoris? Something of pixels, anyway. Uh, original articles from Popular Mechanics and the thread title on the forum, I have to agree with so much, uhm, is I have lost faith in humanity or something like that?


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[Assistant] Uh, officially done with humanity. A Comic Sans typewriter has been created.


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[Assistant] So there you go, and remember guys, this is not as simple as just putting Comic Sans on the keys. They actually had to create the metal arms with Comic Sans print on the end so that you could- the sincerity machine. I hadn't even noticed that before.


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[Assistant] So if you thought the world needed a Comic Sans typewriter, A, go jump in a fire, and B, there's officially a typewriter for you. You know what the funny thing is, is I'm making fun of Comic Sans and jump in a fire and all that. I used nothing but Comic Sans pink, bold, italicized for the entire time that MSN Messenger existed. I know. Oh yeah, I used to chat with you on MSN. Yeah. Yeah. Fuchsia, sorry. Fuchsia.


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[Assistant] Smash Bros for Wii U. Nintendo apparently wants to sell 100 bazillion copies of this game because they are making it look freaking amazing. Yep.


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[Assistant] 8 Player Smash is the headline, but honestly, there are a dozen other features. They did, what was it, like a 15 minute video with 50 features of Smash Wii U, that are just, all of which are good, and many of which are just blowing the minds of the entire internet.


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[Assistant] You can use your DS as a controller. You can use pretty much any controller you want, unless you're like, want to use a Sega Genesis controller for some reason, like Gamecube, Classic Controller, Wiimote, Nunchuck, Wii U Controller, 2DS, like, I think it's 3DS only, isn't it?


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[Assistant] Uh, four player online. Yeah, only four player online.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you guys should definitely check out the video. It is worthwhile because it looks fantastic. Team battles with up to four teams.


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[Assistant] And oh, in the meantime, we want you guys to think about this and start hitting up at Luke underscore LAFR on Twitter with some suggestions because we are doing a hundred and thirty dollar motherboard roundup spectacular. This is going to be a multi-part video and we're not going to be looking at performance.


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[Assistant] So put that out of your mind. That's specifically what we're not looking for. We're not looking for that. Overclocking, we might briefly validate that they all kinda get to the same level, but they all do that anyway. We're not gonna be looking at overclocking, we're not gonna be looking at performance, we're gonna be looking at usability.


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[Assistant] So, some examples would be things like, how fast are there download servers when you're looking for your new drivers, when you build your rig.


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[Assistant] Uhm, examples like for USB BIOS updates, how easy is the process? How's compatibility of the back USB ports with a variety of USB drives when you're reading off of it in order to flash your BIOS? We're gonna be looking for


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[Assistant] How good is the experience of this mother word? Because really that's what I think is more important than performance these days, where they're all pretty darn similar.


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[Assistant] How efficient is the BIOS to navigate? Great example. If you need to change to raid mode on your SATA controller or whatever else, like I think we won't look at it that granularly when we actually do the video, but that's what the evaluation will be based on is how navigable is the thing.


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[Assistant] Barry Preston Slade Jr. So let's go ahead and find Barry Preston Slade Jr. on the forum. The lucky winner!


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, don't worry, it's all good. It's all good. I'm okay. Everything is okay. Oh, here, here, here, here, here. There we go. Boop.


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[Assistant] And let's just go ahead and have a look.


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[Assistant] Yep, everything's cool. I mean, posting is great because helping other people is like what it's all about, but being someone who was on the forum two hours ago.


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[Assistant] So is an active forum member, even if maybe not the most active contributor, I think is super cool. So we're gonna push build logs to, oh did you find them? Got it, so forwarding to you now.


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[Assistant] Is an eight, no actually, this is a thousand dollar access point. Yeaah. This is the R700. This is their highest end access point.


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[Assistant] It is a thousand dollar access point, and I am going to be having a, we're going to be looking at a series of videos about this. And the way that we're going to be approaching this, this is an enterprise grade, this is like for airports.


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[Assistant] Ruckus is some serious stuff. So the way that we're gonna be looking at this ruckus gear is...


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[Assistant] High end. Very high end enthusiasts. Don't blink twice about spending $700 on a graphics card. Some of them will even spend...


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[Assistant] And, if you were to look at it and go, okay, I'm, instead of investing in three-way SLI, I'm gonna skip a generation, I'm gonna put a controller and a couple of really high-end access points in my house, I wanna look at what the benefit will actually be, so I'll be taking a real-world scenario, in this case, a house,


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[Assistant] And I will be putting a controller and two of these access points in it and having a look at how it compares to one central AP the way that most people do it today with just your router access point combo unit.


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[Assistant] I'm going to be looking at it compared to ubiquity because I have those AC access points.


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[Assistant] That we're doing really well for me at first, but now I'm having actually a lot of problems with. I had to RMA both of my first ones. And then we're going to move to Ruckus and we're going to see what range looks like throughout the house with really demanding applications. Things like Nvidia Game Stream.


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[Assistant] And have a look at if it really makes a difference and if something like that is, is worthwhile. So that's...


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[Assistant] That's gonna be a really interesting video and at the same time, I'm gonna do it in my house because that way I can justify upgrading to cat 6 all over my house at the same time.


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[Assistant] I can promise, I can promise this, I can promise when, when we move, we will get some kind of managed multiple access point system at the new place. We will need one at the new place.


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[Assistant] We need, we need a shirt for cute and dirty too. Yeah. Cute and dirty. And it should be like a CPU with like thermal compound.


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[Assistant] That's actually pretty good. I'm, I'm dirty with like a CPU that hasn't been cleaned off. I kinda like that. We should probably do that. Alright.


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[Assistant] Sure, thank you. Wow, I can't believe, uh, how many more people watch the show when you're around. We peaked at like 5,500 viewers today, when with you gone, I think we peaked at around 4,500. So, you're officially still justifiable as a Lotus Media Group employee. That was close. Good job.