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[Assistant] Kim Chi, loved Nexus for the low price point. After I heard the price, my heart sank down to the ground.


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[Assistant] Hmm, phantom fish, I think we saw this tweet before. Uh, nexus- nexus five is max size for my largest hands, nexus six is too big.


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[Assistant] Wow, there's not a whole lot of positivity about this on Twitter here, is there?


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[Assistant] Oliver says, looking forward to 60 FPS animations.


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[Assistant] Not looking forward to apps that don't support material design. Inconsistency in apps is ew. That is a very good point. Nexus 6 is most definitely flagship, but what about makes it more expensive than the Nexus 9 tablet? Huh, that's a, that's an interesting, that's an interesting point. That it can fit in your pocket, barely.


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[Assistant] No, that it's, that the, that the price is so much more than the Nexus 9 tablet in spite of, like, what are, what are the hardware differences here exactly? I guess it's...


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[Assistant] Yeah, but the funny thing about that is if you've ever shopped for replacement displays for a phone, I bought one for a droid DNA not that long ago.


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[Assistant] They're not expensive. Like even buying them on eBay as an end user, so there's basically like negligible sales volume and you have to pay shipping and so like I think I got it for like 70 or 80 bucks shipped.


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[Assistant] To me. So I'm sure Google isn't paying that much for a display for a 5 inch device, regardless of pixel density, because the DroidDNA was a pretty high end display at the time, that was one of the first 1080p phones.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'd be interested to see if we're getting more, more, if we're getting closer to apple-like margins on the Nexus 6.


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[Assistant] Yeah, better camera. Slightly higher pixel count. It's an AMOLED display, so battery life should be pretty strong. Like, there's stuff going that's good for it, but...


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's move on to our next, uh, next topic. This was posted by Bogus on the forum. And, uh, the source is Goodwin Proctor, and this is actually pretty funny if you...


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[Assistant] So there's some notes here. A dramatic surge in patent cases filed by NPEs has captured the attention of corporate America as well as state and federal legislators, both private and public sectors.


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[Assistant] ...fuel ongoing calls for new laws designed to mitigate or eliminate the perceived costs and inefficiencies of patent-troll litigation.


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[Assistant] So, in their, in their whole guide to how to deal with this, there were some interesting little nuggets. One of which was that it appears to be actually more profitable to patent troll than to deliver products.


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[Assistant] And, well not necessarily to deliver products. You're gonna make a lot of money if you make a good product and you sell a lot of them. But to be a company that actually makes products and try to sue companies that infringe your patents. So apparently since 2010, patent trolling has been more profitable than actually delivering a product or service to market.


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[Assistant] Non-practicing entities tend to be more successful in court than practicing entities, and it's getting to the point where legitimate businesses might start doing it as well.


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[Assistant] So the stats published by Goodwin Procter, uhm, say that so between 2010 and 2013, the median gain from a patent suit by trolls is 8.5 million. The median gain for legitimate businesses was 2.5 million. So that was in 2013, uh, US dollars.


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[Assistant] So, this is, this is, this is actually, this is great. So Michael Strapp, a partner at Goodwin, and one of the guide's authors explained, uh, why the, the damages awarded to trolls are disproportionately high. So there's an economic model.


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[Assistant] That includes building up like a legal war chest by squeezing settlements from dozens of smaller companies, then suing a big fish like a Google or an Apple or something like that.


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[Assistant] So the patent trolls are more capable of absorbing a loss in these litigations because they've got their war chest and they don't have


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[Assistant] Uhm, the trolls' victories in the small suits can be used as evidence in their suit against the big fish. Something that a big fish going after someone who's infringing a patent won't necessarily have because they might not be chasing down every Tom, Dick, and Harry.


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[Assistant] And then patent trolls normally try to settle outside of court, and the big fish will usually just take a big loss up front rather than the guaranteed legal fees to defend themselves and the threat of an even higher fee if the court does find in favor of the troll.


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[Assistant] Unbelievable. I mean, I'm not, I'm not a legal expert. I think that much should be obvious, but...


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[Assistant] Something has to be done. You can't have legitimate companies that are innovating and investing in technologies like Apple and Google and Microsoft being sued by people who aren't actually making anything every time they turn around.


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[Assistant] Well you can't do anything about it. That's the problem is the way the laws are set up now is you, you can't, you can't do anything. So, what are you supposed to do? Nothing.


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[Assistant] Lot of stuff for me to talk to you guys about this week because it has been a crazy


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[Assistant] Couple of weeks over at Squarespace. First up, I want to show off the winner of this week's Squarespace giveaway. Because remember guys, you can tweet at me with hashtag Linus Squarespace with your Squarespace site. And you can qualify. Whoooo. Oh, these guys are still here. Go away.


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[Assistant] Actually, let's just make all these people go away. And you can qualify to win your site free for a year. So in this case, we've got the, ahem, the Worchester BeachBots.


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[Assistant] So you can find some information about them. So you got like some nice pictures and stuff. You got an embedded Twitter feed. All their social media stuff. The site is of course nice. It's functional.


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[Assistant] Fast, because it's Squarespace, it's easy to use on their side, but of course that's something that you guys would have to actually try out Squarespace for in order to, uh, in order to be able to verify for yourself.


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[Assistant] But I would suggest trying it out, verifying for yourself how easily you can create a beautiful website for your blog, business, portfolio, whatever else, store, whatever else the case may be, because it's actually pretty super awesome.


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[Assistant] Now, it's gotten a lot more awesome in the last little while. They've actually launched a major, major overhaul. So this is now Squarespace.


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[Assistant] So your site, even though you don't have a DSLR and like, you know, professional photographer or whatever else, can look really good and have great stock images, very affordably. They've got new templates to cater to creators of all kinds. You can use an exact design, or you can take a design and customize it to make it your own.


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[Assistant] They've got a Google partnership to make it easier to manage everything on one platform, including branded email. They've got updated app integration to work seamlessly from computer to Android, so you can update your blog, take notes on the go, etc. And their dev platform is finally in full release, so as a developer,


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[Assistant] You actually have access to the same resource, the same platform that Squarespace uses for their own site. Which is pretty darn cool.


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[Assistant] And then they've actually got this video that they wanted me to show you guys. I'm just gonna go ahead and share this on my screen, I guess.


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[Assistant] Ah, there we go. That was just a pretty cool video. So let's go ahead and screen share with Linus, woohoo!


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[Assistant] This guy is freaking amazing. I had actually never heard of him before. But, uh, his name is, crap, Alex, Alex something. So they've, they've got this video, so the behind the scenes pictures of this video were bananas. Like getting this shot right here involved having a team of three people


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[Assistant] Basically, at the, at the edge of like this slope above him and then they had this massive boom arm that had the camera kind of hanging down. There we go, Alex Honnold.


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[Assistant] Yeah, his, his, his Instagram, I was looking at it, it was just incredible, absolutely incredible.


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[Assistant] So, uh, Squarespace is just kinda partnering with guys like this to bring you guys, well,


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[Assistant] This beautiful video, this, kinda this message about moving beyond the conventional limits, and, uh, I mean their whole vision is just a better, more beautiful web, so, if you guys want your site to be better and more beautiful, squarespace.com slash Linus for a free trial and for 10% off, use offer code,


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[Assistant] Great video too, you guys can check that out at squarespace.com slash seven slash templates.


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[Assistant] You should, you should probably try out Squarespace. If you buy a year at a time, then they throw in your domain cost for free. And, uh, and you get a discount, obviously, because you buy a year at a time. And, oh yeah, guys, check out this, so this Instagram picture is what I was talking about a second ago. Right there. Three guys.


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[Assistant] Uhm, du-du-du-du-du-du. Sorry, I will find that out for you. If not, I'll find it. Yeah, it's just his name. Alex Honnold. With two N's.


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[Assistant] Alright, so our second sponsor today is 5-4 Club, and they have a new offer that we don't normally do. 5-4 Club tries all kinds of stuff with us, so they've tried like, a discount, and they've tried putting like, cash in the box, and now they're trying something completely different, and I'm actually gonna get, I'm gonna get


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[Assistant] All the numbers right this time. Five Four Club is the sponsor whose integration spots I have screwed up more than any other sponsor. It's a bloody miracle that they actually even advertise with us anymore. Cause I've given the wrong pricing, I've given the wrong, uhm, like,


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[Assistant] Discount, amount, I've done it, I've done everything, everything wrong with these guys. Anyway, this time, we've got it right. Bit.ly slash LinusFFC, use offer code LINUS2 for an extra item in your first package. And what would the items in your package be, you might ask? Well, 5-4 club is the club that you join if you want to be well dressed.


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[Assistant] And you wanna do it without putting any effort into it whatsoever. Basically, you go on their site, you take a survey that takes literally seconds. So you just click get started, you go through a survey, you tell them, you know, about your style, what you like to wear, your sizing, and then they have your personal style advisor pick out clothes for you every month.


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[Assistant] And send them to you. So the membership costs 60 bucks a month.


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[Assistant] Double check that, make sure. Yes, good. See, I got it right this time. The membership costs 60 bucks a month, and compared to the retail pricing on their clothing, you're gonna be paying about half. So if you're on their site and you say, okay, well, these cost about 120 dollars, that's about how much, at least, at least, 120 dollars worth every month you get for 60 bucks, and,


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[Assistant] What they're doing for us is with offer code Linus2, you get an extra item worth 35 to 40 bucks in your package.


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[Assistant] Every, or not every month, the first month. See, I almost said every month and I almost screwed it up again, but I'm not gonna do it this time. 5-4 club guys, and I clicked the wrong lower third. Okay, I did manage to screw it up. Droppin' the ball, man. I can't do anything right. Something about 5-4 club.


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[Assistant] It's a curse. I wear their shirts in my tech quickie videos all the time because I really like that one shirt. It's just got a nice little, nice little 5-4 logo and it's like really comfy and the buttons look nice. People compliment me on that shirt all the time actually. I've seen that shirt, it's a nice shirt. It is a nice shirt, I actually really like it.


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[Assistant] Speaking of, uh, being willing to pay 60 bucks a month for compliments, I have something nice to say about Blackberry. Uhm, they can't keep their passport in stock. I don't know if this is more to do with the fact that they didn't produce enough of them or more to do with that they, uh, it's a really great, amazing,


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[Assistant] After six hours of sales, Amazon alerted purchasers by email that their passport had an expected delivery date of October 17th to 20th, with shop Blackberry quoting October 29th.


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[Assistant] So, things are looking up maybe for the Blackberry brand as they saw an operating loss of only 207 million last quarter below analyst expectations. Uhm, they expected a loss of 16 cents per share and only ended up losing 2 cents per share after exclusions.


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[Assistant] I kind of, I was very dismissive of it when I first heard about it, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Would love to hear what you guys think about the passport, actually. Uh, we're gonna do a straw poll for this one, rather than a Twitter blitz, just because, uh, that way we can have something up while we move on to the next topic. We don't actually have a ton of time left, which is sort of unfortunate. But, uh, blackberry?


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[Assistant] Yay, nay, nay. Those are going to be the options because I don't have a whole lot of time to create this poll.


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[Assistant] Alright. It's an important one. It is an important one. I really wanna know what people think of stuff like this. Like, what the heck is this thing?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, right? I should kick that Linus Tech guy. What a jerk.


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[Assistant] Uh, yes, but apparently the integration of the Play Store is much better now and you can basically just install Android apps.


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[Assistant] So they're not nearly as limited in terms of app support. Right, there it is. Alright, line of screen share. Boom! Blackberry passport!


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[Assistant] Got your full keyboard, also got a nice large touch screen, uhm, looks like a very, you know, a productivity friendly, more square aspect ratio, so I can see what people like about it. Uhm, I'm just, just not sure if it's, uh, if it's the right thing for me necessarily.


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[Assistant] Wow, there's a lot of topics that I haven't even touched yet. We're just gonna have to go through these pretty fast. Facebook's next phone might be built by Samsung. There's been a few meetings between top brass at both companies and the failure of the HTC first, which was the first Facebook phone, uhm, is not stopping them from planning a new phone necessarily.


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[Assistant] And I don't think we're gonna see like a, like a Facebook only phone or anything like that, but it's more likely to be something with some Facebook features integrated into it. I mean Samsung's one of the few Android handset makers that is still really sticking with their own


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[Assistant] Skin on top of Android that is really quite different from how Android is supposed to work. LG actually as well, I guess they still have quite a few differences, but uhm, I could see Samsung potentially working in more Facebook integration. Not sure how beneficial that would necessarily be to users, but hey, whatever, it's TouchWiz so it wouldn't be the first time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, YouTube ads linking to malicious sites. This was posted on the forum by Rainfall Within and it's from the Trend Micro blog that we got this information. Basically these ads were appearing in videos with up to 11 million views and they don't take you directly to malicious sites but rather first through advertising sites.


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[Assistant] So the exploit used in this attack was the sweet orange exploit kit, which uses certain vulnerabilities in Java, Flash, and IE. And the final payload of the attack are variants of the Covter malware family, which is known for ransomware attacks. So there have been 113,000 victims, with 95% of them being from the US.


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[Assistant] Mind you, there was a patch for this attack in May 2013, so if you keep your windows up to date, you're probably okay.


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[Assistant] Now we've got something that I'm sure Paul and Kyle are gonna wanna weigh in. Bethesda to officially support 60 FPS with the Evil Within on PC. This is posted by Spoodie on the forum and the original article is from PC Gamer. And it sounds like great news on the surface. I mean, we get...


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[Assistant] Some console commands for things like god mode, which is cool. No clip, which is cool.


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[Assistant] So you may run the game at 30 FPS, or 60 FPS, but not more FPS. And they are saying that there's gonna be potentially some glitches in the game at 60 frames per second at launch, but that they will fix them, and anything else...


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[Assistant] You can set whatever resolution you want, but it's gonna be glitchy and they're not gonna fix it.


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[Assistant] Also, I realized that I never showed the picture of the extra item from 5-4. So once again, I have screwed up a 5-4 integration. That is the Henley that you get. Don't worry, it doesn't have a crazy pattern on it, it's just made from a ribbed material, actually looks quite nice.


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[Assistant] So there you go, I screwed up all the things once again. Go team Linus.


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[Assistant] So yeah, because normally I can kind of do these things while he handles a topic on his own, but I don't trust you guys that much.


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[Assistant] So, oh yeah, back to the evil within. There are other problems too. You can change the aspect ratio.


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[Assistant] But some gameplay prompts appear in the cinematic black bars that are gonna only be there if you're running in the correct cinematic aspect ratio, so you just won't see those things if you change the aspect ratio, and no, that will not be fixed either apparently.


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[Assistant] Okay, so of course- oops, sorry wrong thing. So of course there was a Big Apple event!


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[Assistant] This week. Uhm, and I guess I'll have to do a very quick summary, cause quite frankly, there wasn't that much of interest. I mean, Apple Pay is coming Monday, which is really cool. They've got hundreds of banks signed up. They've got lots of merchants signed up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean, for me personally, the time savings of whipping out my phone and trying it first and then realizing that, you know, half the time plus it's not gonna work and needing to take out my card anyway is very limited. But the privacy improvements do look pretty impressive, so...


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[Assistant] Apple basically stores any of your card information in that


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[Assistant] Isolated non-network connected chip that's right on the phone, the same place they keep your fingerprint information. And they share none of this info with the retailer. Which is, which is very very cool. So you don't have to worry about...


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[Assistant] There was a leak this week, wasn't there? Another retailer lost a bunch of credit cards?


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[Assistant] Whatever, it happens from time to time, so the retailer themselves wouldn't even need your credit card information in order to process your payment, which is very cool, and it's coming. Also, we get a Retina 5K 27-inch iMac that's super thin, comes with mobile 290 GPUs, and a 295, whatever that is, I'm not 100% sure what that is.


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[Assistant] Actually, not really that special in terms of performance. This is not


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[Assistant] A mobile 290 to a regular 290 is not what a mobile, you know, GTX 980 is to a desktop GTX 980. AMD hasn't gotten there yet.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so 5K, 5120 by 2880 res, it's got Thunderbolt 2, SSD is not standard still for some reason, it's got the latest Core i7s, and that all sounds pretty good if you're one of those people who's into all-in-ones rather than having something that just functions as a display, and then something that you connect to it, because that is more modular.


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[Assistant] Which is good. Uhm, yeah, the new iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 are coming, so they've sold 225 million iPads, evidently, since they started selling them, which is unbelievable. That's like...


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[Assistant] Eight times the number of people in Canada altogether.


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[Assistant] So, and I think that's something like over four times what Samsung has sold total, in spite of them having so many models of tablets.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, the iPad is so, to the average person, that's just what a tablet is, iPad. Right, exactly. It's Kleenex.


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[Assistant] And it's, it's funny because in the tech space we don't think about that because obviously an iPad's an iPad and an other tablet's an other tablet, but no, to regular people they just don't give two craps and an iPad's a tablet.


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[Assistant] So the new iPad Air 2 is 18% thinner, the screen is less reflective, it's got an A8X SoC, which actually has 50% more transistors than the A8 that we find in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.


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[Assistant] Very interesting. Not sure, uh, necessarily exactly where all those transistors went, but performance should be pretty darn impressive. It's got a better camera, so you can be a padhole.


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[Assistant] Walk around, take pictures. And now it features Touch ID, which I guess is good.


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[Assistant] Uhm, also the, uh, the, uh, Mac Mini got an update with the latest Intel CPUs with Intel Iris graphics, two Thunderbolt, two ports, PCIe storage, and AC wireless. Oh yea, the wireless on the new iPad is apparently faster too, so I guess that's cool.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I guess I didn't really talk about the new OS X at all. I guess I just don't care.


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[Assistant] Well, it's not that I don't care because it's bad, I just don't care because I didn't use the old one, so all these new amazing differences mean nothing to me because I don't have any frustrations with the old one, or anything that I like about the old one, it just is what it is.


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[Assistant] But there's, this is a rumor right now, but Google and others may invest 500 million dollars into augmented reality company Magic Leap, who isn't gonna be putting a lens in front of your eyes, but rather is planning to basically beam the image into your eyes.


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[Assistant] So that solutions like Oculus Rift with a headset are going to have. So the vision would be to have the product display an image into the eye so that instead of having to pull out a phone,


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[Assistant] You would just see things in the world around you that, I mean, it's funny, they're calling it cinematic reality because they think augmented reality is a bit of a...


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[Assistant] Uh, looks incredibly cool and gaming with a technology like this where you don't even have to wear a headset and you just see stuff that isn't there? Wow.


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[Assistant] You could partner with uhm, partner with the guys that make Soylent.


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[Assistant] No, he seems, he seems all right. He's not entirely on Soylent though. He does, he does eat it for, you know, most of his nutritional stuff, but he still eats, uh, but mostly just because eating is kind of nice and things taste good and Soylent doesn't taste that great.


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[Assistant] Kick, I guess would be how we pronounce this. Q-I-K. This was originally posted by GoodBytes on the forum. The article is from theverge.com. And this is supposed to be a...


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[Assistant] An attempt to take over mobile video messaging. So, this actually started out as just a video consumption platform, but oh, I just realized I'm not actually screen sharing with you guys. So there you go, they're showing it running on Windows Phone, as if that matters, iOS and Android.


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[Assistant] For my negativity about the Windows Phone HTC One M8 in my review. And yet, I have never seen one. I've never heard any report of anyone owning it ever. And people misinterpreted a lot of what I said. I didn't say Windows 8 Phone is a platform for nobody.


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[Assistant] What I said was this is a device for nobody. A high-end, truly high-end, premium cost device that runs Windows Phone because the people who buy high-end devices are gonna have needs for their mobile devices that go beyond what Windows Phone can do because the app ecosystem is so immature.


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[Assistant] Speaking of which, I'm still super upset that the NFC chip in here only does Apple Pay and doesn't


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[Assistant] Anyway, it started as a video streaming service, was available on mobile devices before YouTube, so this is kind of an old platform. It's all done through your mobile phone number, no account signup is necessary. It's been being pitched as an alternative to text messaging and can easily switch between the front and rear cameras while recording.


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[Assistant] There's no preview or processing and it has a 42 second max recording you can send to one person or a group and if your friend doesn't have KIK they will receive an SMS with instructions on how to download it.


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[Assistant] So you can pre-record up to 12 messages for use when you're in a rush. So just pre-recorded, like...


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[Assistant] Hey, I can't talk right now! I don't know why people would want that instead of an SMS, but sure, whatever. And the messages disappear after two weeks if they aren't deleted.


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[Assistant] This feels, this feels like a step backwards. This feels like video voicemail.


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[Assistant] This is cool, this was posted by R. R. Boulson on the forum, and it's the Carl Zeiss VR 1. So we know about Samsung's VR headset for the note.


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[Assistant] And we know about, uh, Google Cardboard, which is obviously not gonna be the greatest solution ever, because it's like, gonna fall apart and stuff. But this is the VR One, which is a more flexible one. So you basically just buy like a, like a tray.


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[Assistant] Moving right along, uhm, PewDiePie may be starting his own YouTube network, so this was an interview with, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, pulse2.com and then he was also on the cover of iconmagazine.se. This was posted by TechDreamer on the forum and actually generated a lot of discussion.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he makes an estimated 4 million per year in ad sales, so that's gross. Uhm, and that was last year, so I'm gonna assure you it's a lot more this year. Plans to leave Maker Studios in December to create his own network.


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[Assistant] He thinks other networks have been managed in such an incredibly poor way that it's silly and would like to help other YouTubers. And say what you want about Pewds. You know, how you might like or dislike his content or whatever. The guy's smart and uh, maybe I should join his network.


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[Assistant] Anyone, anyone at the top of any field is smart, guarantee it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but that's not the top of a field. That's a 15 minutes of fame. I'm talking someone who has in a sustained, repeated manner beat everyone else who competes at something.


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[Assistant] Hold on a second. Okay, remember, some actors that are dumb, sure, but I said at the top of a field. PewDiePie is the number one YouTuber. Put me at the number one of anything where the person's an idiot. You can't do it. Are you still on a network at this point, Linus?


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, I'm, I'm with Twitch right now, but I'm actually probably switching on YouTube. On Twitch TV, I'm still gonna stay partnered with Twitch. I'm still gonna do all my streaming on Twitch. But on YouTube, I'll potentially be moving over to, uhm, wow, I feel bad for not remembering. Maker Studios.


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[Assistant] No, I think that might be why I have Maker Studios in my head. I'm gonna have to look it up now.


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[Assistant] Fullscreen, yeaah, fullscreen's awesome. Yeaah, so I, uhm, so I might be joining fullscreen.


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's go ahead and uh, see if we've got any more- Oh yeah, Netflix raises the price for 4K video streaming. This was posted by TechDreamer on the forum. And this is actually the second price hike we've seen from Netl-Netflix in like, what, a year?


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[Assistant] So, and that was after, for a long time, the pricing being very, very stable. So if you signed up for a 4k enabled account already, you get to keep your current subscription price until August 12th, 2016. But for new subscribers, the monthly price for 4k will be 12 bucks. So you can enjoy 4k content like Breaking Bad, House of Cards, and the Smurfs.


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[Assistant] On your 4K TV that you also probably don't own yet. Uhm, although 4K doesn't work on all TVs, you need to have a supported TV, so once again, early adopters for any new video standard get...


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[Assistant] The ol' kick in the teeth. Way to go. You spent way too much on something that not only didn't work when you bought it, but isn't even gonna work at the time that it was supposed to work.


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[Assistant] Alright, so, uh, next up we've got the Snappening. Snap saved images leaked. So 500 megs of images were leaked according to Snap saved.


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[Assistant] Snapsave.com is a website that allows users to save Snapchat messages, and it was compromised. Their database was immediately deleted when the hack was discovered, but there are concerns that many of the leaked images could be classified as child porn.


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[Assistant] I guess that's all there is to really say about that. Although, one Pirate Bay user complained that so far from what I've seen, the vast majority are just black screens with text overlayed or just a normal selfie.


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[Assistant] Nexus player is coming. So this was posted by lolz on the forum. The original source is Google's own page about it. So let's go check that thing out.


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[Assistant] Ooh, Nexus player. So uhm, you know, ooh yeaah. Good idea, but probably ahead of your time a little bit there.


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[Assistant] Is coming. It's gonna come with a remote and a controller. The remote has voice search, comes with apps such as Netflix and TED. There's a full list, uh, on the, on the Google page for it that I would love to show you, except that it's not loading right now. And it has free online multiplayer from Google Play games. So...


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[Assistant] The thing that all consoles should always have forever because it's...


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[Assistant] Just baffling to me that you have to pay to subscribe to a multiplayer service when you already bought the game and you already have.


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[Assistant] Your internet connection. Uhm, it's got a 1.8GHz quad-core Intel Atom processor, 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO, so that's a pretty good wireless solution, HDMI out, and it'll cost $100 and the controller will cost $40.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Thank you Kyle. We should end the show while he's gone. So that I don't have to talk about where people can go watch Kyle make videos.


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[Assistant] Yep. So original article here is from New York Times, and that is that HBO is to start their own standalone streaming service come 2015.


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[Assistant] Actually, very cool, because now you won't have to have a cable subscription in order to get access to HBO programming.


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[Assistant] So this intensifies their growing rivalry with Netflix. HPO is trying to cater to the new generation that doesn't have any interest in cable subscriptions. I have only had one when my cable provider offered it to me for free. I watched hockey games. That was it. 10 million homes in the US have no cable or satellite subscription but do have internet.


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[Assistant] Alright, we've got a few more rapid fire topics, but I gotta go through these incredibly quickly because we've completely run out of time. Amazon to open a physical store in New York, it could act as a way to highlight products like Fire TV.


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[Assistant] Yeah, opening a store. Maybe Newegg will follow suit. And then maybe NCIX will open a retail. Oh wait, no, they've already got them.


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[Assistant] Alright, Corsair RGB keyboards, allegedly only producing 512 colors. It is advertised as supporting 8-bit color, giving 16.8 million total color combinations. However, it has been found to support only 3-bit color, giving 512 combinations. Uhm...


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[Assistant] To people who are sort of blown away by this, all I really have to say is...


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[Assistant] Corsair is doing what they had to do here, I think. I don't think it's right. I don't think it's right for anyone to advertise 16.8 million RGB lighting in a product when it's obviously not actually 16.8 million color combinations, but like, let's take, ugh.


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[Assistant] The cable's trapped under something here. Let's take this mouse for example. This is a Logitech mouse. Logitech is a big company. A good company. Good people.


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[Assistant] That LED lighting is advertised as 16.8 million. There's no way. There's no way in hell that it produces 16.8 million colors. If you guys have ever had an RGB product, drag the color wheel around.


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[Assistant] You know, take two yellows that are similar and see if you can actually see the difference in the LED. There is no difference because it doesn't actually do it. It's never actually done it, and if anything, Corsairs...


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[Assistant] Transitions much more smoothly in my experience than the Black Widow Ultimate Chroma anyway, and a lot more smoothly than a lot of other RGB products I've seen. So I really wonder how many colors most RGB products out there actually support. Like I said, still wrong, shame on you Corsair, but...


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[Assistant] I don't think there's been an official statement from Corsair, but uhm,


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[Assistant] Futuremark launches the world's first 4K benchmark. This was posted by TechFanboy on the forum, and it's the sources from KitGuru.net. Fire Strike Ultra renders the Fire Strike benchmark in 4K. You need at least 3 gigs of VRAM to run the benchmark, and the leaderboards are live. There's a JBL special edition of the OnePlus One and earphones, but I don't really like talking about OnePlus One, cause I think that they're... OnePlus One.


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[Assistant] Um, Apple patents flexible device display input method. So the device would react to bending using that as an input method. Very cool. And ASUS Strix mechanical keyboards with blue, black, brown, and red key switches are either available now or coming soon. I actually haven't seen if they're on sale yet. This was posted by Quirtius.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, and the Apple patent thing was from TechDreamer. Uh, this was posted by Quertius on the forum, and this is the Strix Tactic Pro.


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[Assistant] Well, at any rate, it's a gaming keyboard, it's mechanical, it's got some macro keys on the left, pricing looks reasonable, it's got N-key rollover,


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[Assistant] And, uh, it's got three more macro keys under the space bar, a position that I personally really, really like for them. Because whenever you're not jumping, you might as well be macroing something, and maybe more than one thing.


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[Assistant] And I think that's pretty much it for my topic. So, I guess the, the rest here is, you know what, actually, maybe, do you mind, do you guys mind if we end the show and then we come back immediately for a quick after party? Maybe you guys can update me on how things are going. Now that you're free from the shackles that bound you.


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[Assistant] I don't know, AT&T, because everything's not awesome. Uh, Captcha- It's my bird impression. Captcha is dead.


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[Assistant] Why is 10 higher than 5? The ISP bird. Can you prove that?


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[Assistant] affordable grocery food style, not like pizza, but like grocery food style. I think we could basically round out everything that you would need to do other than go to work. So if someone was able to then get a work at home job, we, with, with the sponsor lineup that we have, we might be able to enable it. So they would never have to leave there.


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[Assistant] I just saw him go through that, and every single time, okay, I hate it, and I'm completely on board with you, that rant was brilliant, all good, everything, I'm cool with it.


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[Assistant] Nope. Because like, this is a big part of the reason why people push for certain FPS limits and why they say 30 FPS is bad. It's the exact same thing you were just talking about. If you're running at 30 FPS and it dips below, that's super not good. If you're running at 45,


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[Assistant] And it doesn't know when you're gonna wanna stop, and especially if you rapidly go back the other direction, like if you're just checking and then you go back, it's pretty, pretty bad.


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[Assistant] Obviously there's Tekkit going into this, but like I don't see it being like, oh yeah, they're running PCs which manage the windows for the natural light. No, no, I haven't seen any of that yet. Uh, but it is cool regardless. That'd be kinda funny.


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[Assistant] Like, oh, they're running Linux! Waaah! And people start freaking out. That would be pretty entertaining. That would be entertaining. I haven't seen any of that kind of stuff yet. Didn't happen. Nope. Not even, not even close.


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[Assistant] The park? Yeah, cause isn't it just like, they're raising money, right?


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[Assistant] After being in the EU and like Germany, especially, Germany has like basically no public Wi-Fi. And there's a lot of times where I was just like, I just really need to have Google Maps load for like a minute and then I'm fine. Yeah, Necrolev says yeah, they're going.


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[Assistant] We'd have to do like the acapella kind of thing where we both talk about the same topic at the same time but say different words.


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[Assistant] It's not acapella at all, but it's common in acapella for different people in the group to be singing different parts of the song.


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[Assistant] I just read the headline and I was like, what the hell? And I had to click on the picture, but it was uhm, it's like when that hot girl moves in next door and wants to hang out with you and now those girls that used to live next door are clawing for your attention. And then you click on it and it shows like a Google Fiber building being built. I'm like, oh my God, that's so true. And hopefully they build these buildings


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[Assistant] Everywhere so that that happens because everyone's gonna wanna get Google Fiber and then AT&T and all those other butt heads will have to be better or else they will crawl in a corner and die. And I think everyone would be okay with that.


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[Assistant] That's a good point because, like, I've always kind of talked about, obviously not on the WAN Show, but how, like, uh, phone lines are actually really impressive infrastructure. And then stuff like garbage collection, you don't notice it because it's never really going wrong.


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[Assistant] Isn't it amazing? That's beautiful. If we could have that with the internet, that would be fantastic.


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[Assistant] Is it, is it regular? Hours at work is regular.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't really have a ton to talk about. I didn't see any, um, like manual save option, which I think makes sense because I'm pretty sure it's like an MMO. So what I did was just when you first drop into the game, I believe it's the start of a tutorial mission.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you get into what's kind of like a cop chase. Uh, some guy calls you up and he's like, oh, what are you doing? He's like, I'm being chased by cops. He's like, you better get out of that because you have a race tonight. And then that's all I've seen of the game so far. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So I, I, I race towards the objective, and then I get to the objective, my two minute benchmark is not done, so I U-turn and go back. And then the two minute benchmark ends, and I close the whole game. And then just do it again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah. Action as a genre would become like...


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[Assistant] I know it was bad, I haven't looked exactly into what happened. The unreleased film thing is pretty intense. PlayStation 4 source code, that's, uh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] That's my, that's my point as to why they need to wait. This dock is huge, I can't find anything. Alright. Uhm, but yeaah, they need to clue in, stop holding things in plain text, entire excel sheets with people's passwords, that's not acceptable on any level for anyone.


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[Assistant] I found it and was like, wow, that's dumb. And then kept on looking for whatever I was looking for.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's much less likely than like scrubbing Word and Excel documents because it's way easier to just scrub Word and Excel documents.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I guess I do have it. I might try it tonight.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, for sure. And like, with all the Steam stuff, it changes so rapidly that who knows. Uhm, but what I might even do is just be streaming on Twitch and then try it, start Steam streaming while I'm streaming on Twitch and just see what happens.


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[Assistant] So, I could see this being pretty cool for a few reasons, like, uh,


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[Assistant] If, if someone doesn't feel like streaming at the time, cause streaming on Twitch


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[Assistant] I think one thing that people don't understand is like streaming games on Twitch isn't, isn't just playing the game and happening to have other people watching you. It's broadcasting, you're live, you have to be, it's energy draining, it's not the easiest thing on the planet.


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[Assistant] Your buddy at home is working on homework, but wants to see how your Dota matches are going. It could be cool for him to be able to just tune in and then it's just you and him maybe on Skype or vent or Teespeak or whatever. That's much more relaxing and just you and your buddy hanging out instead of you streaming to unknown amounts of people.


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[Assistant] I think it's pretty cool, I don't think it's gonna do anything in terms of like, trumping Twitch, cause it doesn't seem, that doesn't seem like their goal at all. I think this is another cool way to interact with your buddies on Steam.


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[Assistant] I've heard a lot of mixed information about this. Some people are saying it's Smash Bros, some people are saying it's just a lot of people are playing Smash Bros right now, which makes a ton of sense. Some people are saying it's based off of Smash Bros.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, it would be fun to like if you're walking through a park and like you find other people that are walking through the park and just like have you and your buddy in yellow vests like jog at a fairly fast, not running, but jogging at a fairly fast pace, run ahead of them and then just right in the middle of the walkway just


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[Assistant] Wait for CES though. Wait for CES. There's Oculus, and I can't remember the name of them right now, but another VR company that have booths really close to each other.


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[Assistant] No, I, I think, uhm, the idea behind it is when you pick a Model S, you pick like the baseline version, and there's multiple versions. So it's probably not the new, like how Nintendo does with the little like sticker symbol thing. New! New Nintendo!


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[Assistant] Yeah, you get an additional front motor, which, uh, has 221 brake horsepower, bringing the car's total power up to supercar-like 691 brake horsepower, which is pretty intense. The combined torque is even more impressive at 931 Newton meters going, uh, going from


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[Assistant] 362, which is actually kind of insane. And the car weighs 2239 kilograms. They're comparing it to, well, okay.


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[Assistant] I think this Gizmodo website is comparing it, I don't think Tesla is, to the new Dodge Challenger Hellcat, which produces 707 brake horsepower and 881 newton meters of torque and weighs a little bit less actually at 2018 kilograms. Uhm, now, obviously,


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[Assistant] One thing that has to be brought up is like, they're comparing it to the Hellcat. The Hellcat is like this crazy, massive, like, gasoline, petrol-based engine, and they're comparing an electric engine to it. These things are gonna perform very differently.


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[Assistant] But then, what I was talking about though is like, so you've got that 0 to 60, I think that's...


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, and then, but their top speeds, Tesla's max speed is 250 kmh, Dodge's max speed, or the Hellcat's max speed is 328 kmh.


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[Assistant] I totally agree, and I like the Tesla setup more. I just, I'm trying to make sure that everyone is on the same page, that these are very different.


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[Assistant] More than fine, yeaah. Uh, and I completely agree with that whole idea, but I'm just, again, just trying to make sure that people understand that these are two extremely different beasts and should be looked at in different lights, which are one you love more.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, at uhm, CTIA? Yeah, there we go, we got it eventually. I got to see one and that was by far the coolest thing about that entire show. But anyways, uhm.


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[Assistant] Hmm, anyways, uh, it's pretty cool, and like the whole how the handles go in the car for aerodynamic reasons. Right. Even if you just ignore the fact that that's for aerodynamic reasons, it's pretty badass. You have to have the key in your pocket, but like you walk up to the car and put your hand out, it's just like, brrrp. Oh, that's cool.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and, and I wouldn't be surprised if on the like much more reasonable version, which is gonna come out in however long, which is supposed to be like 30 whatever thousand. Yeah, the D. Birdie. Is that the D? I thought that was- I think that's the D.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, anyways, uh, I seriously doubt that car is going to have the automatic receipt. Yeah, so, it's no big deal.


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[Assistant] So many badass things were just said. I love that SwiftKey's working on this. Uhm, I love that Intel's working on this. I love that they're releasing everything publicly. Uhm, I'm actually super down with him not being into eye tracking because all of the eye tracking demos that I've used so far were kind of trash. So I completely understand why he's not into that. Uhm, I think this is great.


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[Assistant] Really cool. Do you sync it with like everything? Yes, I do. Yeah, yeah, me too. I know some people that don't and I'm just like, ah, I want my texting to slowly, I'm slowly getting more and getting away from like the shorthand texting stuff. Right. Because with full keyboards it's faster, so like, whatever. And if it's predicting so well...


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[Assistant] So I, I sync it with my email, which I try to write in more full sentences and I'm trying to move everything to better, better grammar and better formatting. So I like that SwiftKey actually works for that.


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[Assistant] One thing I want to point out is how tightly packed it is. I noticed this like immediately, like this is a shirt. Are you an expert packer? Uh, actually pretty good.


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[Assistant] There's an Assassin's Creed coin, so it's from Unity, so like if you, if the game is lagging out so much that you can't spend coins in game, you can like pretend to spend coins in real life.


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[Assistant] And if this was Assassin's Creed 4, and this had showed up before Assassin's Creed 4, and this was a coin from Assassin's Creed 4, you would probably be super stoked. You know what? And it's actually a really nice coin too.


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[Assistant] Whenever it happens, just in case my brother's watching this, like I'm not asking you to have one, obviously. But whenever it happens, if my brother has a baby, what I would do is just get Loot Crate, and then like every time that once it's older, uh, every time that it like comes to hang out with me, I can be that cool uncle that like has all that cool nerd swag stuff, and I'll just be like, here, you get these things.


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[Assistant] Isn't this the same company that was like, yea, you can play Halo with it?


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[Assistant] Starz isn't, obviously it's not out yet. I've had fun with it though, the dogfighting module stuff is pretty good and it looks like it is actually gonna happen, so that's cool. Shovel Knight, I backed that, it came out, it's awesome, super happy with that. But then I also have stories like the dude who was supposed to make a cookbook and then just ran away with everyone's money.


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[Assistant] Uhm, cause he was like, it'll be a manly cookbook. And like, he had like one example page and it was hilarious.


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[Assistant] Yeah, where is this? Okay, so it has, the counter has passed the, I'm going to screw this up.


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[Assistant] 2,147,483,647 view number, which is when you're pro- someone's gonna scream at me because I'm probably gonna say something ever so slightly wrong. But when you're programming, you put things into what are essentially little containers. So a 32-bit integer supports that number that I just said.


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[Assistant] And that integer supports a number that is above zero, I believe, uhm, and up to that number. So if they get above that number,


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[Assistant] Whoa. Uh, it doesn't have decimals or anything like that, but that won't matter for something like view counts.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, I don't know. Pretty intense. Signed, assigned 32 bit integer. There we go. My bad. Uhm, it's, it's.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. It's against Google's practices to use unsigned integers, uhm, which actually kinda totally makes sense and that's pretty much all we actually have to say. They have increased the possible amount and Gangnam Style will continue to go on as it always has.


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[Assistant] Over to you. It's gonna pre-screen your behavior and how you use the website to try and identify you as a human or a robot. If you take .5 of a second to go through the entire form and then try to click that you're a human and not a robot, it's probably gonna be like, nope, you're pretty much a robot, not gonna let you in.


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[Assistant] So instead of just having you read all this crazy annoying crap and entering it wrong four or five times in a row before you figure out that it's case sensitive because some of them aren't, uh, it'll, it'll just prescreen your behavior. It'll also have other potential things, so it could have


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[Assistant] Uh, like two things going on. So there's the pre-screening thing and it could show you a picture of a cat and be like, select a picture that's similar. Not that they haven't already been doing this. They just might continue to use that style instead of the really hard to read text.


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[Assistant] Until something figures out how to beat it. Until you figure out how to make a robot that perfectly can act like a human being. Which, I don't know. Robots have serious problems being random, so we'll see.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's true. Noah will be actually kind of entertaining though.


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[Assistant] I think you could, uhm, if you took like a mouse and were able to bind things on your keyboard to change your DPI, if you could change your X and Y DPI so much that you moved in exact perfect lines, I wonder if you would think you were a robot.


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[Assistant] If you only moved left and right at a very specific time, and if you like messed with your mouse so it could only move at one speed, ever, no matter how fast you moved it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sure, perfect. Keyboard input. And then like, move your mouse with your arrow keys.


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[Assistant] If someone can make it think that they're a robot, uh, post it on the forum or something, that would be entertaining.


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[Assistant] And like the, them thinking that it's actually gonna stop people from getting it.


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[Assistant] I didn't play the whole game, but up until the point that I had played the only, like,


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[Assistant] There was one thing that actually made me pretty uncomfortable, and it was directed at a dude, not a girl.


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[Assistant] Now, I'm going a route that I completely disagree with here, so keep that in mind. But with the whole, like, oh, there's tons of studies that say this and there's one that say this, but, uh, there has, I believe there's been a recent study saying that violence in video games may reduce violence in real life, because they're able to, kind of...


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's actually probably a much better way to go about it.


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[Assistant] One of four Bluetooth sources with function and number key shortcuts. That's really cool. So if you could just be like on your computer and be like, ugh, I've just done this big thing on my phone, but like I don't want to set up AirDroid or whatever.


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[Assistant] And jumping over to your recent handy tech episode, which people should watch because it's awesome. If you get one of those like internal USB header to USB plug adapter things and then just plug a Bluetooth dongle onto there, there you go. Problem solved.


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[Assistant] Like, I just thought in my head how I would write like, and like, it took me a second, yeaah, I got it, but like, if I just had to sit there and write a whole paragraph out, it would take me a while. I think this is cool, I wish it was happening sooner, I'm sure that's probably because they have to write out, like, the curriculum and how they're gonna run these classes.


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[Assistant] Uh, are we replacing it with typing and texting skills, or did we just ditch the class? Not texting, typing. Yeah. We've had typing forever though, and I'm sure they have typing as well. Anyways, so it's not happening until autumn 2016. So it's still not happening for a while, but plans are in motion, which is cool.


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[Assistant] And having more raw data of what happened at the scene, how is that a bad thing? Cause like, even if something happens in the background, maybe you see someone run off to the corner that the police officer didn't see cause he was talking to someone, if you could see that off of officer cam, then cool, sweet. Who knows. I don't think it's a bad idea.


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[Assistant] Maybe we should Shirookin the stream and have an after party. Shirookin, really?


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[Assistant] Oh wait, you do! Literally lots of water cooling.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, it's actually, actually awesome. And I love Fallout, so that's really cool.


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[Assistant] Sweet, I would have liked to see him at least have the, my OCD on the text on the AIO cooler not being read.


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[Assistant] Uh, Asrock has an x99 board coming out which has two 10 gigabit nicks and two gigabit nicks which is insanity.


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[Assistant] I was trying to find more Nick jokes. It is not December yet, so.


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[Assistant] No. I can't remember what it's called, but like if a cup breaks, they'll fix it with a golden filler. It's supposed to look even more beautiful. So as the land show breaks, we make it even better.


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[Assistant] They should've, I can't even find this topic. I read it, but I can't see it in there anyways. No worries, I know what's going on. I know a lot of people were actually talking about how they wanted a recall on the game entirely. Yeah, that's stupid. That was a stupid


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, that's a good point, because you could have already possibly had the experience. Uhm, but then you could recall a car after someone's driven it for a long time. That's true.


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[Assistant] Well, okay, I don't think that's fair because some patches could be like adding features, not fixing things.


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[Assistant] I'm okay with expansion packs, I'm even okay with, when they're like, yeaah, we're gonna finish the game at this date, and then we're gonna work on one, and it'll be ready, when it's ready, probably a year from now.


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[Assistant] Oh crap, I can't remember. I kind of ignore constantly, so I don't know.


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[Assistant] I actually had quite a few people, like, reading my shirt. I don't know, that's totally off topic, but anyways. Uhm, so the crew will not be given to reviewers before its release date. Ubisoft is claiming that this is because the crew is supposed to be a very large, expansive world experience with a lot of other players in it.


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[Assistant] And reviewers wouldn't have been able to experience that whole dynamic ecosystem, therefore rendering it invalid.


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[Assistant] The next part, where they see, where they say that the Ubisoft The Crew release will be smooth. I believe it was one of the lead designers says he's confident that it will go smoothly. Reason being, we've reaped the benefits of a long beta program with thousands of players all over the world.


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[Assistant] Playing the game at the same time. Why exactly weren't reviewers able to get this game? Was it because there weren't thousands of players all over the world being able to play with them? Oh, it seems like you solved that problem. Give reviewers the damn game. What are you doing? God.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a good call. Spoiler alert, don't listen to this part. So I guess, although it's like literally everywhere, so good luck.


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[Assistant] Hacking point people out game that's been going on, and a few of them have quite a bit of public evidence against them.


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[Assistant] Anyways, uh, the game was going 12-3 at halftime. LDLC was essentially wrecking Fnatic, uh, which is, that's fine. Uhm, but yeaah, 12-3 at halftime, and in the second half, Fnatic was on the CT side, that's Counter-Terrorist side. A boost at the A bomb site was found, where if they use...


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[Assistant] A couple players to kind of stack on top of each other. They can get up on top of something by pixel walking a little bit. I think they were pixel walking a little bit. All this is a little bit early on. So they could see the three main pathways on the map.


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[Assistant] from this kind of perch way on the back, and they could use a sniper, it's not like they could just see them, they could use a sniper to shoot people from there, uhm, and actually kill them from extremely far away from a position that you should NOT be able to see and or kill those people from.


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[Assistant] And like, this is, this is stupid. Most, like, uh, we've talked a lot about how, like, it's very specifically e-sports. It's not sports, blah blah blah. Uhm, that's something Linus likes to bring up all the time. Uh, but something notable about that whole idea is that


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[Assistant] Basically all the sports I've ever played have pretty aggressive sportsmanship, uh, like rules. Guidelines. You can get in trouble, you can get put in penalty boxes, you can be kicked out of games, you can be kicked out of leagues for sportsmen like Kondo.


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[Assistant] This is one of the least sportsman-like things you could ever do. I would almost argue that in a fit of rage, mid-match, swinging out at someone is almost not the same as this. Because this wasn't one round. This wasn't right after you got nailed by some dude. This was...


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[Assistant] For the rest of the match. It was 12-3, they ended up winning, what was it, 16, uh, 16-13.


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[Assistant] So the other team got one more game, one more match after they started using this, and I believe that match was pistol round before they were able to buy a scout on the second round so that they could start sniping from that position and then they won everything. I think that's how it went, I didn't actually see it.


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[Assistant] A lot of confusion. Trying to figure out where they were getting hit from. Guys were dying and then guys were kinda looking around going like where the heck?


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[Assistant] Uh, it was a mess. I think there might have only been one pathway that they could have possibly gone that wasn't under vision of this sniper. And eventually that sniper got an auto sniper, so it was just mowing people down, and then they could just essentially win everything. Because if there's only one path that they could possibly be coming from in Counter-Strike,


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[Assistant] You're, you're gonna win. Like, I don't know. Absolutely ridiculous, completely pathetic, insanely disrespectful, uhm.


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[Assistant] I have, I don't care about that team at all. Every one of the teams should just be kicked out.


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[Assistant] I don't know. That's absolutely ridiculous. I hope DreamHack solves this properly. I hope Valve solves this properly. There should be sportsman-like conduct rules. Uhm, there's rules against what they just did, so hopefully they figure it out. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I kinda hoped that they were pixel walking, just so that everything is no matter what, invalidated. Uh, yeaah. I used to watch Counter-Strike a little bit.


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[Assistant] I probably won't ever watch it again after the last little bit that's been going on.


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[Assistant] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm sure Nick would be able to send it to us.


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[Assistant] Unbelievable. And like how some of this stuff is working is you'd be able to see at a land, oh my goodness.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so one thing that I noticed even in watching one of these, uh, GIFs of Flusha was he was going smoothly across and then his cursor snapped onto someone's head and then he went smoothly across again and then came around the corner and shot at where the guy was.


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[Assistant] But by the time he had moved around the corner, that guy had happened to move. So he shot exactly where the dude's head was previously, but he hadn't moved. And I'm like, dude.


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[Assistant] The professional community. To help them fix and help them tune up and there's been patches and updates to that map. And if they knew this glitch was there, they probably would have fixed it.


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[Assistant] There's, there's obviously some diamonds in the rough. People like Pasha. Yeah, Pasha's awesome. There's other guys in the community that are awesome, but there's just so much junk to sift through to get to that. And obviously, like, there might be a disproportionate amount of good people in the organization, but how much


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[Assistant] The guys that are screwing around get attention makes them a much larger group.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I think that's what it was. Three main pathways on the map. Kind of ridiculous.


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[Assistant] Pissed and or disappointed would you be if you were LDLC. Wrecking that whole match going 12-3 at halftime like really really good setup for the next, uh, next team switch and then just getting killed from nowhere for the entire rest of the match just to come out of it and figure out that they were essentially glitching. Ridiculous.


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[Assistant] I agree with it, but like, if you're gonna do a poll like this, at least do one that matters and has a, like, number at the end that's like, oh, that's interesting instead of like, oh, that's people saying they like something because they already definitely like it. Anyways.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but if it was to like, move any political stuff, then I don't think it really mattered.


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[Assistant] I'm jumping back. What I found interesting is that Google is kind of solving this problem themselves. Uh, if you read part of this Google Fiber thing, you can get five megabits per second down and one megabit per second up with no monthly charge, just a $300 installation fee, which can be spread over 12 months, and then there's no charge.


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[Assistant] Supreme Court is talking about tackling online threats for the first time, and this is actually...


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[Assistant] Kinda scary for a few reasons. It's coming up because Anthony Alonis, I might be saying that right, is convicted after writing graphic gory fantasies about viciously murdering his wife and other women and posting them to Facebook. Ew.


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[Assistant] I already said the gross part, so we can continue on from there. I'm just hoping you all remember it.


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[Assistant] Where is it? Uh, essentially, I can't remember exactly where it's here in terms of wording, and I know exact wording is very important for legal stuff, but a lot of it is based around, uh, literally, would it be a teenager playing from League of Legends or a grandfather posting on his fly fishing forum? So what they're trying to describe with that is, is the threat real? If anyone here in the audience has played online video games,


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[Assistant] Kind of expecting everybody. You've probably heard at some point in time a really bad comment from someone.


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[Assistant] Or my mom. Because those are really common insults on the internet. But like, I, like...


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[Assistant] That's the problem with this is we have to be really careful with that line because like


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[Assistant] That negates almost anything said on so many platforms, but then that's gonna open the door to so many people slamming the legal system with like, oh look at this screenshot I got in legal legends of this guy saying he's gonna come attack my mom, like, oh my god.


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[Assistant] I don't know if she's seen the heat sink thing. Oh, probably. Uhm, yeaah. It's a very fine line that they have to watch.


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[Assistant] Kind of, maybe, I haven't read his posts, but just that description, and maybe I should if I want to comment, but I really don't want to. Uhm, but just that description is disgusting, and from that description, maybe he's-


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[Assistant] Disgusting person. I haven't read them again, and that could be glorifying whatever. It could be a, uh, what is that called, when the title-


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[Assistant] It could be a sensationalist thing. It might not be that intense. Probably is. But I don't know. Uhm, but while that is disgusting, there's gonna be a lot of people on the internet that might even just be joking to a friend.


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[Assistant] Some people thought my thing with you guys soaring at me was so- The main complaint I got was that they couldn't understand, but then like I rewatched it and I could hear everything, so I didn't really get that part.


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[Assistant] I've wanted this for a little while because there's a lot of people that want their phones to be able to last a while, be able to call and text people and take good pictures. That's all they really want. And there you go.


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[Assistant] Because dealing with those features on a touch screen is sometimes really not cool. So it's actually nice that they're making that hardware stuff.


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[Assistant] I do want to make progress on it though and I still plan on it. I also want to get a not Moto X so that I can take better photos to put on it. Right. Which is like a


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[Assistant] Like I would write essays on my phone, or I would do whatever on my phone. So then I was, uh, so I was on my phone a lot and now I'm not on my phone as much. So now I use it for like texting, hangouts.


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[Assistant] Like Instagram, Twitter, like all this stuff which is not difficult for your phone to do. And then I try to take pictures on it and I'm like, wow.


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[Assistant] It's really bad at doing this. All the photos look horrible. I tried to take a picture of that chunk that the fan took out of my finger. Right.


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[Assistant] My favorite one, aw man, so many people were focused on not liking the video that they didn't notice the awesome things that happened in it. But when like, my, my hand got cut or whatever, guys, no!


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[Assistant] That was fantastic. Anyway, sorry. I guess we can continue with the show. The amount of facepalms in chat right now is glorious.


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[Assistant] That's- it could be possible. One thing that I have to bring up about the brick thing. People wall mount their TVs, strapping it to the back of the TV is not as much of an option. If someone is playing in a dorm room and playing off a monitor, still could potentially be an issue because you're not gonna strap it to the back of your monitor.


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[Assistant] I was thinking something else. The size thing with the stuff. I'm trying to be super vague.


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[Assistant] Oh okay, so Smash Bros was, we used fastest selling title in the US, that's not surprising at all, I think everyone saw that coming. But it is official, and one of the biggest complaints I've seen about this launch at all is the fact that it's difficult to go out and buy the controller adapter so you can play GameCube games on it because they're selling out so quickly.


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[Assistant] Which, in comparison to a lot of launches lately, is not that bad of a complaint. Uhm, it's...


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[Assistant] Kind of awesome. I think it was the Watch Dogs release on Wii U, uh, was so underwhelming that it was outsold by some, like, super old game, but I don't remember what it was. The stats for that isn't in here. Cause, like, no one cared. And I know people at Nintendo are trying to push for, like, big new other, like, third party AAA titles on Nintendo, but


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[Assistant] No one cares. Just keep making games like Smash. That's all we really want anyways.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go off, off sheet and talk about what happened with Inquisition a little bit more, uh, stuff that didn't really end up in the video. So, we've had problems with the past where there will be DRM on games that doesn't allow you to activate it too many times, and it would automatically activate in the background if you change hardware on your computer. So if I'm testing graphics cards,


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[Assistant] I'm changing a lot of freaking cards. Uhm, especially if it's not working at the beginning. So...


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, so, anyways, that happened with Dragon Age Inquisition. It, it locked me out, uhm, after we had figured out, like, what exactly we wanted to do with the testing and how exactly we were going to do it, which was the unfortunate in-game benchmark. Uhm, so I called them up. I think unfortunate.


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[Assistant] It is, it is. Uhm, so I guess I didn't call them up. You have to go on their website and sign up for them to call you. Which is not that bad, I guess. It's not great. But I would rather that I could call them and then get on the list for them to call me back. Uhm, because doing the site thing was just kind of annoying. Anyways.


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[Assistant] They called me back in like an hour or something, and then the very nice lady on the phone, but very very nice lady, surprisingly nice lady on the phone,


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[Assistant] Uhm, had to send me off to someone else and that was fine. And then that dude that picked up was super nice. Uhm, and that whole experience was great. And that was awesome. And I was actually really, really happy because usually we trash on EA and I was like, I'm finally gonna have something nice to say about them. And then my game went invalid again and I had to get them to call me again and they never called me.


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[Assistant] The people behind the phones are super nice, and the developers are probably awesome. So who's bad? Someone's bad. Executives? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Well, what he did was he reissued me the game. He actually deleted the game off my account and then gave it to me again.


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[Assistant] So amongst robot chicken bird gambling badminton people decided that was true.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you get the combination of the annoyances that you've had, where if you're playing badminton, it's either gonna be a strobe light, or when you actually want to look at it, it's not gonna be able to turn on. So you have the annoyances of it just not always being on. Then you have it running off of a watch battery that only lasts for 60 days.


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[Assistant] As a smartwatch, I don't think it makes any sense. I think as like a fashion watch, maaaybe, but then you're probably better off getting something that isn't this and isn't gonna die off a watch battery in 60 days, cause replacing that's a lot more annoying than charging something.


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[Assistant] They'd have to come out with their own keyboard and it would have to be like, you know how old phones that work where you like tap something a number amount of times. So like if you interrupt these two beams twice.


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[Assistant] Original! He just ripped off the control delete keyboard.


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[Assistant] I know, but it's Christmas, so you're in Christmas shopping mood. Yeah. Annoying my mom if she buys it, I dunno, five years before Christmas, it's probably fine.


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[Assistant] Uh, like, of course there's, there's situations where you should probably use it, um, but like, don't, ugh. I hate social, I hate social media hashtags. I don't know. I've never really been into it.


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[Assistant] I mainly just wanted to talk about that whole, uhm, which we already talked about, Dreamhack, Winter. What a disaster, eh?


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[Assistant] I'm like, oh, so it's not real. So I saw a bit after that. I was like, oh, whatever. It's not real. It's just people trying to spread this Rick roll. Whatever. I guess Rick roll is coming back. So I was just ignoring it completely. And then today we're filming that thing that I'm not going to bring up this coming on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and Brandon's like, oh yeah, have you seen it yet? I'm like, well, I got Rick rolled. And he's like, what? Yeah, that's what it is.


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[Assistant] That reminds me of the World of Draenor trailer, where it's just like the orc facing at the screen, like breathing angrily. Like not showing you anything, but it was actually a really cool trailer.


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[Assistant] Alright, it's go time. I hope you guys enjoyed the pre-show today with, uh, this guy dancing.


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[Assistant] If I promise that it's gonna happen, and then I say it did happen, most people will believe it happened.


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[Assistant] There was dancing. Dancing did occur. And I'm sure the Twitch chat will back me up on this.


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[Assistant] Fairly certain indeed that is going to be a thing. Did we change the name of our broadcast already to something that makes an ounce of sense? Probably not. Cooler Master, live ca- Okay. Well, it would have been good to do that. Thank you for bringing it back to my attention. That, uh,


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[Assistant] I appreciate when you uh, when you point out errors, but then actually make no attempt whatsoever to uh, to rectify them. I opened a tab. You opened a tab.


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[Assistant] Razer mechanical key switches. We are gonna be talking about Firefox's $25 smartphone.


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[Assistant] Like 25 bucks, that's like basically, you can't go to like a chain restaurant. It's like a sim card. Yeah. Yeah, that's what we paid for our sim, for our T-mobile sim cards.


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[Assistant] It's like the SIM and the phone will cost the same.


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[Assistant] Uh, we've also got that in the EU, the regulatory bodies that be, don't want free to play, which is to say, supported by in-app purchases, to be allowed to be called free, and really are uncomfortable with the way that these are preying on children who don't necessarily understand the implications of


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[Assistant] Upgrade now. Or, uh, you know, similar calls to action that don't say, give us your parents money and then we will give you some intangible thing. Like, they don't want that in there anymore. What else we got?


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[Assistant] Our second show sponsor of the day is DollarShaveClub.com. Shave time, shave money. Don't slice your jugular open on camera. I don't know if you guys saw our dual graphics video, but we actually covered the benefits of Dollar Shave Club in depth. It took about two minutes, but I'll give you the briefer version right now.


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[Assistant] You get razors and shaving products, and actually you can get butt wipes as well, delivered to your door every month, and you save money compared to buying brand name products, without compromising on the quality. So without further ado, what? Hold up.


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[Assistant] In everyone's favorite segment, Better Than Bieber, there is some extremely cool research going on right now with respect to solar powered blimps. Now the blimps aren't necessarily going to have to be solar powered,


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[Assistant] But, we could be looking at a much less expensive way, I mean solar power seems like the most feasible option right now, but we could be looking at a much less expensive way of


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[Assistant] of enabling, I don't know, I mean something that wasn't really talked as much in the article as I would have thought it would be, but communications is a definite use for something like this, uhm, you know, internet coverage, uhm, I mean putting transmission, transmitting and receiving equipment on something like a blimp as opposed to a satellite,


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[Assistant] The Goodyear blimp is the only blimp anyone ever cared about. Other than like, using the word as an insult for, you know, obese people. Like, blimps just are not used much.


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[Assistant] Anyway, met to discuss the future of airships. Many believe they could be the future of surveillance and environmental monitoring and they are planned to be anywhere from 8 to 50 miles above sea level. At that height they could perform tasks similar to satellites while costing


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[Assistant] Much, much less. The estimated cost of putting a satellite into orbit from the article, uhm, on motherboard.vice.com was a billion dollars. The estimated cost of putting a blimp in the air once the, well, the wrinkles are ironed out in the technology could be as little as a few million.


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[Assistant] So when you consider that, I mean, and then you consider other things too. On a satellite, you're going to need a better camera in order to get satellite imagery of the Earth, whereas if you could just put crappier cameras on more blimps, you could get blimp imagery, and it would cost significantly less.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm sure Russia would be thrilled for the US to have, you know, blimps.


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[Assistant] So there's a long way for it to go, but this is extremely exciting for the future, especially as you know what, I uh, it's not actually in the doc.


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[Assistant] Uh, image reveals. I think it was Yahoo News somehow came up with this or something. This was yesterday. Anyway, I'm gonna screen share with you guys. I can't remember exactly what the details were, but check this out.


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[Assistant] This is a picture of every single satellite that is orbiting the Earth. So especially as Earth's, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, orbit becomes more and more crowded with junk.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Blimps could become necessary as much as just cheaper.


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[Assistant] It burns up in the atmosphere, but... Not always.


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[Assistant] Okay, so apparently it was posted by the chief marketing officer of network infrastructure company Extreme Networks. Okay. Really?


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[Assistant] I think we can all agree that even if you don't like seeing that image, it is more important than Justin Bieber. Yes.


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[Assistant] I'm like a, I'm like a live streaming, uh, shiny purple. Shiny purple guy. What are you talking about?


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[Assistant] So they were already losing money, widened from about 63 million to about 190 million. I mean, can you even...


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[Assistant] Fathom. A business that's operating that poorly. As like a retail store.


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[Assistant] Uh, he blamed the loss on poor shopper traffic, which makes sense, intense discounting by rivals, which makes sense, and tepid mobile phone demand as well as operational problems. I mean, let's talk about mobile phone demand.


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[Assistant] I mean, I know we talked about this a fair bit on the show last week, but


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[Assistant] This is the HTC One. The HTC M8 is our mate, or whatever we want to call it, the one-two.


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[Assistant] This is what we're gonna use as our, you know, uh, knockout strategy. The one-two punch.


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[Assistant] So the one launched last year, almost a year ago, and the new one's coming sometime I think there's an event, like later this month, like the 25th or something, they confirmed it.


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[Assistant] The one was head and shoulders above their previous top end phone, which was head and shoulders above the one before that.


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[Assistant] Well that's not even a rumor because of the leak that we'll talk about later, but two cameras on the back and like slightly bigger screen and like...


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[Assistant] Same thing with the S5, like what's really been improved here? It comes with like 50 pre-subscribed things, which we'll talk about more later as well. So where's the mobile phone demand gonna come from? So, okay.


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[Assistant] Tell you what then, what else would Radio Shack have done?


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[Assistant] And he's only been the CEO for like a year. I know but he's blaming- To be fair.


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[Assistant] What else are you gonna say? Are you just gonna hold no press conference? Are you gonna not even talk to your investors? Have some sort of plan?


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[Assistant] So sales fell from 1.17 billion in the quarter.


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[Assistant] It fell from 1.17 billion in the quarter covering the holiday season to 935 million in the quarter covering the holiday season year over year, which is just, I mean, if you're only selling 1 billion and you are losing 200 million,


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, they're losing tons of money. They are losing hundreds of millions of dollars. Like, that's as if you had a store. Like, let's say you're a theoretical store. You had volunteer employees and you had no rent to pay. That's the equivalent of buying dollar bills and selling them for 80 cents.


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[Assistant] That's what Radio Shack's doing, I mean it's... I'll be blown away if they still exist in another year or two.


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[Assistant] And like you gotta wonder who still owns shares in a company like that? Like what future does someone see? Maybe it's just people who have like diverse stock portfolios and they just sort of, they, cause people do this.


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[Assistant] Where they don't think about it much. They just kind of invest in everything and then don't look at it anymore and some of the stuff will do really well and some will do poorly and that'll be that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, so let's go to our next story, Firefox smartphone. So there's a hands-on review from PCAdvisor.co.uk and I think the biggest thing to take away from this is that the overall impression of the phone is that it doesn't feel great. I mean, it doesn't feel like a premium smartphone. But it's 25 bucks. And it doesn't feel bad either.


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[Assistant] Could you get a plastic toy for 25 bucks that kinda felt like it had okay build quality? Actually, yeah, maybe. Yeah! So if the internals...


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[Assistant] Have gone down in price to such a degree that now we can build a phone that has that toy-like, good enough build quality


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[Assistant] But has a super cheap set of internals that is...


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[Assistant] So this is a collaboration between Mozilla and Spreadtrum Communications, that's the Chinese chip company that is, uh, that worked on the project. It is intended for emerging markets, although...


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[Assistant] You know, I actually see, uh, some many practical uses for this outside of emerging markets. I mean, it's got basic functionality, so you can web browse. It's got Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, as well as Wikipedia apps already working.


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[Assistant] Clamshell boxed, uh, you know, standard phones, like I don't think they ever, did they even ever do flips? Like remember those, right? I think they did. Anyway, so like standard Clamshell super basic phones that would like come with some prepaid minutes and then it was like a pay as you go plan that you were expected to use with them?


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[Assistant] Those did reasonably well, and for some people that's as much as they would ever need. If you could have a smartphone at that price point, I think there is a definite market for it. Aside from drug dealers.


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[Assistant] Right, so that's just like a stopgap solution.


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[Assistant] But people could find this useful.


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[Assistant] So it's got 128 megs of RAM, a 1.2 gigahertz A5 processor, 3.5 inch HVGA, so that's half a VGA, 480 by 320 display, 2 gigs of storage, and a .3 megapixel camera, so I think .3 megapixels is 640 by 480?


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[Assistant] Yeah, whereas the Moto G is a truly current generation smartphone experience, like that you, you know, you feel like it's still very strong, uh, whereas this is like...


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[Assistant] Alright, so this was brought up to me by a viewer because we didn't have like a concise list of the features of Telegram last week. Uhm, I actually haven't had a look throughout the week to see how they're doing in terms of signups.


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[Assistant] So here are the features. I haven't personally switched to it. I don't actually use WhatsApp either because I'm old. SMS. I actually use- HEY KID!


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's private, cloud-based, fast, distributed, so their servers are spread worldwide, it is open, has an open API and is protocol-free for everyone, is free,


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[Assistant] And then their whole thing with, uh, the security is that there's a message that gets sent between two completely like, we've disclosed who they are and where they are and what time the message gets sent, uh, to clients that if you can interpret it, they'll pay you, I think it's $200,000.


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[Assistant] Features. Yeah, not really features. But anyway, there you go guys, if you're looking for something that isn't owned by Facebook to switch you and your grandma to, grandmas can use WhatsApp. My grandpa uses WhatsApp.


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[Assistant] Speaking of badass, I know, I know, this topic. Everything in this just sucks. I know, this is just a sucky thing for everyone. So this was posted by Dylan522p on the forum and the video was originally posted on the YouTubes and there's all kinds of


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[Assistant] Drama Llama stuff going on, but basically, this kid, uhm, just gonna-


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna mute it. This kid created a video about the new HTC One M8. It's like 13 minutes long, uhm, 12 minutes long, pardon me, and it's, you know, it's showing sense 6, it's showing the multiple rear cameras, it's...


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[Assistant] It's showing software features, it's really, it's like, it's not very well done, it's not like a leak by a professional reviewer or anything like that and-


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[Assistant] Uhm, so allegedly, and I haven't actually verified this, but allegedly HTC has fired both of his parents at this point in time. I mean, it's one of those things where, you know, I don't, I feel bad for everyone.


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[Assistant] I feel bad for HTC because this should have never happened. I mean, that is a fireable offense.


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[Assistant] That leaking confidential information subjects you not only to being fired, but also to legal ramifications, like I can sue you for damages.


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[Assistant] Yep, so, so like, NDAs are a big deal. Like I get people asking me all the time, hey Linus, when's Nvidia's new graphics card coming out? And the only time that I can speculate on it is when I don't know.