 We had a couple of complications before the show, but you guys aren't going to concern yourselves with that So let's get a rousing chorus of nah They're late in the twitch chat and we can all get it out of our system Linus later late Linus or whatever. I don't remember they say something. They're probably saying it right now They're probably saying it right now So it would be helpful if we actually looked at that you're kind of cut off I kind of scooched over a little bit with that help. I didn't really scooch. I just want to sit closer to him So let's go ahead and have a look at what our topics are for the day It's actually a surprisingly jam-packed show. So it's unfortunate that we weren't able to get started on time We had to replace the batteries and the microphone. I Realized right before the show normally we leave everything all set up so that we can get things going pretty quickly and I was like Oh, yeah, our last when show was in Vegas. We took our streaming gear to Vegas It's not set up. So we had to get everything all set back up again But other than that we are pretty much ready to rock here. So some some sort of top topics today Microsoft and Google are scrapping over patch fixing Policies and sort of you know airing dirty laundry in public about each other's bug reports The new Nintendo 3ds to not include a power adapter in North America Are you beautiful? I am you might be able to eat for free at a certain restaurant and GTA 5 has been what exactly? Generally food super normal things I'm trying to make like a beautiful face. It's not going very well. Okay, go ahead. I'm done. Oh That was it. Do you see if I've delayed that's all you're gonna say about it Yeah, right because we're gonna save it for later on you go boom intro Not the music for our intro it's Intro it's dude. Oh, yeah, yeah Welcome to the web show Ramstein intro metal edition And our sponsors today are Squarespace make an awesome website with Squarespace Doesn't have to be square. It could be wide-screen and And Linda calm you don't have to read a book, but you could but that's not really what Linda calm is about All right, so it's gonna be a good show today guys We're gonna kick off with something that's actually not new at all. This article is from like fairly old No, or three weeks ago. And we even okay like I know it says it's old but we never discuss it. We did oh I just both were like whatever I just agreed that it was stupid and moved on at any rate. Boom. Here's the BBC article I'll go ahead and screen share with you guys, but Wow, wow, wow maker says that video games should be in the Olympics and There there are some arguments on either side of this or that really that okay video game see I went and I used one Of those words that mainstream media uses to you know, make it seem less legitimate What did you say? I called them video games. Oh, I should have called them eSports. Excuse me. Very different What I'm being a little bit facetious, okay, just just a touch just touch Okay, so so there are a couple there are a couple good points that the that the Wow creator brings up I'm just gonna go ahead and switch back to my laptop here so I can look at what they were because I don't memorize all These things so number one is that they're well positioned to be a spectator sport Given that you can fill up, you know tens of thousands of spectator Coliseum for a live event In some parts of the world and I mean the North American viewers out there might kind of go well Yeah, but just because you can kind of do it there doesn't mean that it should be a big deal I mean the reality of it is North America is not the center of the universe and I don't know if this is still true and it was either 2008 or 2012 My facts are a little bit hazy here But I believe it was the badminton men's singles gold medal match that was the most Watched sporting event of that entire of that entire Summer Games Olympics and it's basically non-existent in North America Yeah, I thought you were gonna say like ever and I'm like, I'm pretty sure that was something to do with soccer But yeah, yeah No, just because just because no one watches it here doesn't necessarily or watch it here and people go to live gaming events It's pretty rare. I know they did one at the Staples Center Yeah, but that's kind of it is like yeah There was that one they did at the Staples Center that doesn't make it an Olympic it happens But not on the same scale at all. It's same I guess similar with tennis people watch it but not on the same scale So and then the other argument is I think the way you look at esports is as a very competitive skill set and you're looking at these professional gamers with reflexes that are lightning quick and the and quick decision-making You know upwards of 300 actions per minute, although the whole actions per minute metric is one of those ones that I think we've pretty much Stopped acknowledging at this point. I hope And so, you know the comment is video games would first need to win a cultural battle over physical sports so with all of that said the the IOC the International Olympic Committee has already kind of laid down the law as far as you know new events goes They're only gonna have a fixed number of events So that means that if you want to add something you have to remove something else and as Questionable as some of the things in the Olympics I actually don't follow summer Olympics as closely as I do winter Olympics But I mean come on figure skating and ice dancing like really and I'm someone's gonna give me crap over this in fact, I hope my new contact at Sony isn't watching right now because Yeah, she's actually no she's a she's a figure skating judge not an ice dance judge And my understanding is figure skaters for the most part look at ice dances kind of Why are you even here figure skating in its own regard is pretty freaking intense? I don't know much about ice dance ice dance is kind of like figure skating but More dancing no figure skating has partners to like that's exactly I don't know much about where it's just like why do we need both of them? Okay? Yeah, we should probably just like it's figure skating is it's quite physically challenging So okay, I guess whether or not they win this battle is going to come down to whether they can find something less worthy to knock out and Whether or not it's possible to win the battle of should should what is effectively yes, there's a physical component, but Yeah, you can't really even say well no like the the the a point at the bottom of this where it's a mind sport is a really good point Because chess chess supporters have wanted chess to be in the Olympics for a long time And I think if you were to look at the Olympics as sort of you know, it's a traditional thing It's all about the legacy of whatever it is and eSports being very new probably don't necessarily Follow fall under that chess would I mean? Chess has a long history and if we're not going to include that then should we include these sports first if we included stuff like chess? I think it would make more sense Because we have added newer sports to the tradition of the Olympics But of course there's the like there's the business aspect as well going back to the if you're going to do eSports You should probably do chess argument because compared to eSports chess doesn't draw nearly the same kind of a crowd No, I meant the other way around if they were doing chess already make more sense for them to do then eSports is a no brainer Should we close the door? Yeah, I'll close the door because those guys are loud. Do you want to move into our next topic? Sure, I don't think there was really much to say on that It's just the mind sport thing that comes down to it in my opinion. They don't do the mind sport stuff I mean what that says, okay something like throwing a javelin Okay, this is not a mind sport, but I thought you were gonna be like that's not a mind sport I thought you were gonna be like that's a mind sport. I was like dude No something like hockey on the other hand though. There is a huge mental component. So yes, it's physics There's there's a mental component to every sport javelin throwing. There's a mental component to it. Okay, there's a mental Okay, I shouldn't have said mental I should have said mind because they're not the connotation is slightly different You don't use your mind to throw a javelin But there there's like a mental resilience under pressure component to any competition whether it's a physical one or anything else You still use your mind to throw a javelin Okay, you use your mind to throw a javelin. We're not talking freaking telekinesis here We're talking about you use your mind to tell the arm that it should probably go ahead and do this No, I know but also if you're in outdoor stadiums, you have to judge other things like it's anyways, there's no point in arguing this But there's you have to use your brain in every sport, but it's like anyways, whatever Uh Google what? Oh, should we just go into the Google versus Microsoft thing? Yeah. Sure. Why not? Oh god. Okay So there's essentially two stories to this so I'm gonna start with the first story Google what the Okay, so I mess with my notes here. Did you copy the link already? I'm doing no I did not. Okay. Sorry I will do that from now on If I make sure I'm logged in Google release details on a security vulnerability in Windows 8.1 48 hours before Microsoft was ready to release a patch for it Microsoft claims and I believe Google is not refuting this at all that they were in contact with Google and we're like guys We're releasing a patch for this in two days. Patch Tuesday. Please don't Do this and then Google was like nope releasing it Google's whole idea for this And Microsoft is calling for them to be more flexible and work with them in the future when it has to do with the vulnerabilities of millions and millions of users Google's rebuttal is that they have a standard 90-day policy when it comes to Releasing data about vulnerabilities and the policy and the reason this exists and all that kind of stuff is to pressure companies into fixing vulnerabilities more quickly Now when it was already fixed and it was coming out in two days Maybe that shouldn't apply but that is their policy So that's what they're doing. Story two is that So there's that fight already going on story two is that while Google is slamming on other companies to fix vulnerabilities They have their own problems. Google has received reports for vulnerability in web view, which is a web renderer for Android And it affects Jellybean users. The article that we have linked here to NeoWin Is claiming that Jellybean is 60% of users It's actually more about 46% of users of Android users of Android users. Yeah If it's 60 if you include the things before Jellybean But I wasn't entirely certain if this vulnerability affected things that were before Jellybean as well, right? So it's 46 or 60. I'm not entirely sure. Either way, it's hundreds of millions. Yes It's a massive percentage of people and Google is refusing to fix it and will not work on it at all Because they will not work on anything at all that is pre 4.4 KitKat Google is stating that if someone wants a fix for this they can submit the patch in the report and then Google will be Will check it out and if it's legitimate they'll send it to OEMs and see what the OEMs does And then the other option is they're saying the OEMs are more than welcome to patch it themselves Which I mean if anyone here has ever bought Like I'm gonna pick on Samsung because they're the biggest one in the Android space. Any hardware manufacturer that makes software? Yeah, any any any handset manufacturer that makes their own skin on top of Android and basically supports it until the next flagship is out Oh, what's that? Hold on new ones out. Oh, but bye. See ya So so pretty much that's it You get you get to buy a new device your you get to and I mean I'm so sick of people saying oh well you should just root and run a different ROM Nobody does that like someone does it. Yes, you do. That's fine But when you're looking at that 46 to 60 percent possible metric of people an extremely small percentage of that The people who are still running Jelly Bean probably don't do that because they probably wouldn't still be running Jelly Bean And when you consider that there are new devices being sold today that have now running Jelly Bean This is a huge problem and like not a small amount of them There's a fair amount of devices being sold now that have Jelly Bean on them And I understand Google's issue here where they have such diversity in the in the hardware that Android can be running on that They they can't individually support every device and ultimately it does fall on the handset makers to support the devices that they sell But the cold hard truth is the handset makers or device makers aren't doing it and if Google doesn't support these older devices At least with something like a like a widespread fundamental flaw like this If they opt not to support it it ultimately reflects poorly on the Android experience and gives more ammunition to people like me You know it's amazing how many people called me an Apple fanboy or like iPhone fanboy in my Nexus 6 review You know okay I haven't even watched it I've heard of it and I'm going to watch it I just this last two weeks has been a blur But can I finish that thought first? Sure It gives more ammunition to people like me who praise Apple for supporting their older devices much much better than handset makers on the Android side I still use my iPhone for almost every day as an mp3 player and a video streamer just if I'm in the bath or something And I don't want to risk dropping my actual phone I'll grab it and I'll throw it there and it still runs everything I needed to do My wife's Samsung Galaxy S vibrant that was the equivalent flagship Android phone Okay aside from the micro USB connector obviously dying because every single micro USB connector with I think the one on my Moto X is already going Because they will all die eventually it's a terrible terrible connector Aside from that dying on it that thing was freaking useless by the end of its life And that is a pattern that continues and comes right from Google on the Android side when Apple does not do that But that said I'm not an Apple fanboy in fact my daily driver right now is an Android phone Whoa look at that well you can't really tell because that's a Twitter app but Okay sorry what were you going to say? I'm conflicted now because you've probably known for a while now I haven't been super stoked with my Moto X because it only lasts for half a day But this is my problem consistently with phones is there's no real great solution I don't want to go to iOS because I don't like iOS But things that I do on the phone a lot Twitter Instagram social media stuff email all of that would work totally fine on iOS Actually Instagram would work considerably better and I would know the cameras good now I could just do more research and find an Android phone that has good camera But iPhone cameras are very good and it would be totally fine and my Instagram would work better A lot of app support on iOS is better which is frustrating because I'm an Android guy and I want to stick with Android Now I'm interested in a turbo but they don't even really sell them in Canada They don't sell them at all in Canada Yeah like you can you can try and import them you can do all this other crap but it's super frustrating like God this sucks There's no good solution on the Android side in my opinion at all Nexus 5 was excellent I'm honestly not really Well it was cheap Battery was crap Yeah That's a huge problem Right God phones just suck The iPhone's battery is crap too I know that's what I'm saying there's no good solutions The standby is excellent but the actual in use battery life is terrible like at CES I was using the iPhone 6 because Phantom Glass doesn't have a cover for the Droid Turbo so I wasn't able to use it But yeah so I was using the iPhone 6 every day I was down to single digit battery at the end of the day and one day it just died while I was out and about I had to charge it I'm kind of sitting here going I can't even get through a day with this phone this is ridiculous Whereas the Droid Turbo is awesome like every single day no matter what I do to it And like people in Twitch chat are referring phones that are not good OnePlus One Not good Actually the OnePlus One is supposedly okay Have you used it? I haven't used it yet The experience is not great I've used one of my friends it's not awesome and there's like stuff you have to go and fix yourself because it's just broken It's way too big for me It's so stupid yeah or they're too big or like other crap it's just ugh I do not like phones because I think they're garbage You should get the um ah crap the Syncophone you know the Syncophone right? Yeah isn't this Yeah okay we have to play this we have to play this this is an Adult Swim thing who knows I might get a copyright strike or whatever I don't care okay Or it should be like cannot be played in your region oh no you're good Hold on hold on Simply press no times for zero Have you seen this? No What? So is that your phone like is that the point we're at right now? That doesn't solve any of my problems at all No it really doesn't They don't even talk about battery life Speaking of not solving problems on Nintendo to halt console and software distribution in Brazil So this article is from digitalspy.co.uk I'm gonna go ahead and post that in the chat here And what a bummer for Brazilians Yeah really Like just I don't blame Nintendo for this at all Yeah and like it's not like they're like oh we're never gonna be distributing in Brazil they're just talking about how they're having issues with it right now I assume they're gonna try and fix those issues and then come back but So basically they and their Brazilian distributor who is apparently still handling distribution for that area just not in Brazil specifically Are have both said yeah like we're still we still have a relationship and we're committed to reevaluating things as time goes on But basically due to the and apparently there are other issues as well that they're not really getting into But they're saying the distribution model in the country is unsustainable And most of this is thanks to the extremely high import tariffs on anything that's manufactured outside of Brazil Now this is something that the Brazilian government did a number of years back to I guess incentivize companies to make their own manufacturing facilities within Brazil Because if you make something in Brazil whether it's a car or a PlayStation 4 if you make something within the country it's not subject to those tariffs And I can understand why they might want to do this from a job creation perspective Did you link this? I'm sorry Did you link this? I mean I mean they're trying to go to encourage foreign investment into high technology manufacturing facilities within Brazil But the reality of it is Brazil is just Brazil and setting up new manufacturing in every country started doing this And you had to set up manufacturing in every single country not only would it drive up the cost of that product within that country It would drive it up everywhere because it creates all this overhead for these companies So I mean to put this in perspective like people might be going well you know there's import tax in the UK and in Canada and everywhere But to put it in perspective the $400 PlayStation 4 this is from the digitalspy.ca article was priced at $1800 after import fees when it arrived in Brazil And that's converted that's not in Brazilian dollars or anything like that that's just that's a straight currency conversion I mean it's not like it's not like Brazil is Dubai where you might expect the average resident to be able to afford to pay four plus times more than you know anyone else in the world And obviously I'm generalizing I know not everyone in Dubai is loaded but the point is it's not like Brazil is an extraordinarily wealthy country Where everyone is going to be walking around with two grand to drop on a game console and then you know over a hundred dollars per game I mean that's ridiculous So basically yeah they're gonna re-evaluate and I hope it really sucks for people in Brazil It really does because now how are they gonna get them the only other option is gonna be I'm like okay how does it work if you bought something on like amazon.com and got it shipped to you Yeah same thing the import tariffs will still over you get hit by import tariffs? Yeah absolutely Alright so this is from hexus.net I'm just gonna go ahead and you got it? Yeah SSDs? Yeah This is from hexus.net and a report on the state of flash memory and disk storage has predicted that using SSDs will become more economical than hard drives for most purposes from 2016 onward The prediction applies to almost all storage but seems like the highest capacities will remain the forte of spinning disks for a little bit longer Wikibon followed up its 2009 report with another recently focusing on evolution of all flash array architectures blipity blipity blipity blip So this one right here shows four year cost per terabyte for capacity disks and NAND flash So they figure in 2016 so between 2015 and the beginning of 2016 we're gonna go from flash costing you know let's see a scale of this here So whatever 40% more all the way down to only about wow less than less than half. It's a massive drop Yeah so for one thing I haven't really seen this exact ratio at this time so they're assuming that will happen in 2015 so good luck And two talking to a couple SSD makers at CES they kind of went 2016 are you high? We're a long way away and you look at the difficulty that even Intel has had moving to 14 nanometer although we haven't seen any indication that 10 nanometer is gonna slip But yeah it would be great It's kind of insane like at the same time I just had the problem where my SSD completely died And while all right SSD failure rates are actually really good the problem is not really recoverable so I'm still gonna want to have most of my mass storage on hard disk anyways That's actually a very good point not something that I thought about when it comes to mass storage Being able to buy like a terabyte SSD for my boot drive sweet and have it be like totally affordable like that's awesome I totally want to be able to do that You're still not gonna archive on it My NAS will be running hard disks unless something super major changes but I seriously doubt it because that way if there is a huge failure I can just be like okay well I can probably scrub data off this That's a good point because I hate running hard drives on anything portable like I thought iPods were insane when they had hard drives in them Are you just hitting the bottle? Are you asking for this to die? I was one of those freaks that bought an RCA Lyra because I bought a Zen Creative some other stuff because it wasn't a hard drive I paid way too much for my Lyra and it only had I think I had one and my girlfriend at the time had one one of us had a 64 meg and the other one had a 32 meg so we're talking like 10 to 20 mp3 music files on this thing I missed those things But that was like compared to people with iPods right but there was a justification behind this so number one is it wasn't a hard drive based so flash storage yay throw it around and all that's good And number two is that at the time I was using a Sony Discman anyway so when you're burning yourself a mix CD that's only gonna be about 16 to 22 songs because you didn't have mp3 CDs at the time where you could just burn the files to it So you were only gonna have about 20 songs on a disc anyway so I was like okay well this thing is the equivalent of whatever mix CD that I would be burning for myself and yeah it's a couple hundred bucks or whatever but at least it's pretty rugged I used to love the days of like alright I have woken up time to change what songs are in my mp3 player because I can only hold one album worth at a time That was always entertaining But yeah I don't see myself changing archival storage mediums for a very long time On the subject of archival storage mediums this is really interesting maybe I just haven't been paying attention to We haven't been saying who's been posting articles in the forum we're bad people it was iHani for the eSports thing goodbytes shout out to you for the Google not patching the security hole thing Opcode for something X tanks lair X for Nintendo to halt console and ah oh nope okay that was it okay so this one's by Ah Ming New service allows you to rent your hard disk space have you posted the article already? Yep Okay awesome I'm gonna go ahead and pull up the myce.com article here but it's called storage and it's spelled wrong because that's the hipster web 2.0 thing to do Yeah like the razor siren it's like what are you guys doing? It's like your celebrities and you're naming your children or something So storage s-t-o-r-j dot i-o is where you can go to learn about this and it sounds really cool on the surface Last year they raised about two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars in bitcoins apparently according to this article that's using today's bitcoin valuation so at the time if they converted them Promptly then that was actually a lot more money but the way it's gonna work is it's a peer to peer network that allows you to allocate storage on your computer so on your hard drive or ssd whatever the case may be And go okay yeah I've got 300 gigs of storage I'm not using and then it actually gives you that much storage space elsewhere on the network to use as cloud based storage Very very cool and then sorry go ahead There's other ways you can utilize this too I believe you can request more but you have to pay for it and then other people can kind of rent out their space Yes so that's pretty cool One quick thing to note about the rent out your space is you get paid in I don't remember exactly what it's called but it's like storage i-o coin Storage coin x a digital valueata valueuta I haven't seen this word before I'm gonna call it currency which can be exchanged for real money Yeah so you don't actually get paid to like your PayPal in dollars you get paid in this thing so you can figure that out convert it or whatever But I mean think about it like if you planned to use this service in the long term you could go ahead and invest in a large rate array or something like that You could rent out until you fill it and then you could start using your your storage like your your your built up storage currency to rent from other people until you can save up some money in order to you know buy a new rate array or whatever else Like I can I can see this being a really really cool way to get the most out of your personal storage Which is not that expensive to be completely honest and this is not that cheap no this is supposed to be a lot cheaper so you're probably not and then after their cuts and stuff you're probably not going to get a ton for renting out your space but if you weren't using it anyways then that's still cool and you might actually be able to theoretically make more money off of renting your hard drive space use a lot less power compared to running Bitcoin miners Right which would be kind of funny and I mean one way to look at it too is your it's it's more like storage shifting almost at a certain point because you could kind of go yeah I don't need all the space I have on my desktop computer which I hardly ever touch anymore because I'm always running around with my notebook or my smartphone or whatever else But you're converting that to cloud storage that you can use in your smart with your smartphone pretty cool and so the way it the way it works is it actually breaks up blocks and those are either 32 Meg or 8 Meg if I recall correctly yeah 8 Meg or 32 Meg blocks and then it actually distributes everything all over the place so aside from encrypting them you shouldn't act like one person's hard drive aside from having an encrypted version of your data shouldn't even have the entire the entire piece of data in many cases so it's in theory secure I'm not endorsing its security yeah let's be really clear about that this is something I hadn't heard of up till now and there is definitely a gray zone here so each block each block of data has a unique hash it should be possible to add illegal content to a so-called gray list and then it should be possible for users to allow or disallow gray list content to be stored in a gray zone because this creates a huge liability concern like what if I get raided because my hard drive has a bunch of child porn on it like let's go worst case scenario it's got a bunch of child porn on it that I didn't even know was there and was encrypted so I didn't even have any way of discovering that it was there and so probably and then the other way around what if you use this maliciously to try and take blame off of yourself for doing something like that so yeah and it'll use your bandwidth of course because the way it works is it's kind of a it's a mesh based network so in order to keep speeds high you're actually pulling from multiple sources and in this much the same way like just like torrenting you would have multiple seeds including yourself uploading files to other people at the same time so very cool idea I might consider you know giving it a try it's a very interesting thing I'd be interested in giving it a try to I'm definitely not going to check off that gray content thing I definitely not even though it might not even help because I don't know how they're flagging gray content but I'm sure it's not very effective yeah I'm sure it's not going to capture stuff like child porn I'm sure if it captured anything it would be stuff like used read the file name it's not very effective called jpeg one didn't work but yeah I'm sure it's more for like movies more Nintendo this file match iron man 4 ok well you can't have it more Nintendo BS on Nintendo is no longer including in the new DSX cell or excuse me 3DS XL this time it's their fault like really guys this time it's like super their fault this is posted by Rohith Kumar SP gonna go ahead and pull this up on my computer here but the the new Nintendo 3DS XL does not come with an AC adapter Nintendo says there's a good reason for that and that's that rather than to raise the cost of the 3DS XL by charging consumers for a component they may already own we are giving them the option to only buy it if they need an AC adapter and that is an interesting argument and you could probably make that argument for something like a smartphone that uses micro USB instead of a proprietary connector that they haven't even been using for that long I mean if you're a DS light owner that's not going to work so Nintendo and apparently it's an 8 dollar adder although Luke was saying that when he saw them in the store they were significantly more than yeah well it's an 8 dollar from Nintendo if you buy it from a brick and mortar or something it could be more expensive I mean can you imagine getting giving that to someone for Christmas there's stories in the news article about people that bought it for Christmas for their kid with a game the kid opened both of them and was like oh crap because this is already a thing in certain Asian markets Europe and Japan for sure yeah yeah so like it's it's a thing in places and people are already upset about it people are going well like you don't do this in the States so their decision was to also do it in the States that's not how you solve that problem oh my goodness you just stop doing it everywhere because like okay I've owned iterations of DS where I've got a 2DS now right yeah where if I bought this new one it would be fine but if I bought the new one I would give my 2DS to someone with the charger and not everyone makes it not everyone is Brandon and just buys half a dozen charging cables for everything they own and yet and another simple solution here would be for Nintendo to stop using a proprietary connector it's just a 5 volt power source there is absolutely no reason on I thought it was mini be it looks like mini be when I had what was it my DS light so admittedly a different connector I thought it was mini be so I lost my charger for a while and then just went and found a mini be cable and was like why doesn't it work what's wrong what is this oh so there's new MacBook error rumors and there's there's conflicting reports I was hearing for a while that they were going to do away with the mag dot connector their magnetic charging cable I was hearing so this is this is the most recent this is the most recent version so it's rumored that it will be so thin that it will not have room for a 3.5 millimeter audio jack which is absolutely ridiculous I cannot I cannot imagine Apple being I shouldn't say that I truly hope Apple wouldn't be that stupid so stupid as to remove the 3.5 inch connector maybe the justification is you know we're going to have an awesome new Bluetooth Beats headphone or something like that but that is ridiculous so there's other stuff it will apparently have a retina screen der its a 12 inch it's going to be super thin it's allegedly going to have a fanless design so so far it actually sounds very similar to the ZenBook UX305 that we checked out at CES which is also extraordinarily thin has a 3200 by 1800 pixel display is fanless which is cool and features a Broadwell M processor which is what allows it to be fanless and still deliver decent performance so the new MacBook Air will apparently have a USB 3.1 interface rather than thunderbolt which is fascinating to me because Apple's been the only one that really has glommed onto the thunderbolt standard and many Mac people are already invested into the thunderbolt ecosystem now bear in mind USB 3.1 at 10 gigabit per second is and with up to 100 watts of power output is a very capable capable connector but um it's still a little weird it's still pretty bizarre to me because the footprint of a USB 3.1 a plug is actually quite large they might have been able to get two thunderbolt plugs in that area yeah and this picture shows shows like a thunderbolt shows an a connector and also shows what appears to be a thunderbolt connector but this might be an older one or something like I'm not sure the rumors are kind of all over the place right now but one challenge right off the bat although USB 3.1 just shows a thunderbolt plug and it's a little weird because it's still a little weird the reason why USB 3.1 should address this with display over USB being much easier is that people are not necessarily going to be set up but then again as I was going to say set up with all the you know cables and everything they need but then Apple's never been ashamed of charging you $60 for a cable with your MacBook anyway so who knows what they're going to do but I know for sure that I want to check out the UX 305 that Zenbook from Asus because that one looks outstanding Broadwell while not exciting on the desktop looks like it's going to be really cool on laptop really cool on notebook did you see the 12.5 inch Asus like super thin as a transformer book Qi T300 tablet no I was checking out all the Lenovo stuff they have a lot of really cool yogas which are super crazy thin right because that are basically as thin as tablets when you fold them a yoga could could win me over I'm really disappointed that Dell kind of abandoned the Ferris wheel design for their convertibles because I mean the new XPS 13 we do have a review coming and I am going to check it out it does look it does look pretty awesome but I really really wish it was a two in one because even though I use the tablet functionality of this only very rarely it's still nice it's nice to have and the hinge mechanism has been robust enough that it hasn't been a problem for me at all and I don't mind the extra the extra thickness in order to have that so I would have I would have liked to still just have the opportunity the other thing I'm really disappointed about and I'm already planning to rip into Dell about for a good minute of the review is that the top end skew has only eight gigs of RAM yeah like really it's like they it's like they want me to only get a year out of my XPS 13 eight gigs of RAM is like when I'm like yeah buy this kit so you could upgrade later yeah um all right AMD employee confirms new GPU with HBM so HBM or high bandwidth memory is a stacked RAM technology co-developed by AMD and SK Hynix similar to a hybrid memory cube which is something that Micron was working on and that Nvidia was backing and what had planned to release a GPU with this year but since Nvidia bet wrong it looks like they're going to be stuck with GDDR5 until 2016 when they are going to be apparently jumping on the HBM bandwagon as well so why do we need HBM well there's a couple of good reasons dramatically better bandwidth we're talking on the order of four and a half times right from the start and higher bandwidth is good not only because it allows the GPU to transfer data extremely quickly from its video memory and to its video memory but also because it simplifies the design of the chip and the PCB is lowering the cost of the of the graphics card for the end user in theory probably not probably they'll just take more margin on it but you know how it is in the long in the very long term it will drive costs down because if you don't have to have these massive 384 bit 512 bit designs that's a lot of pins on the bottom of the GPU that's a lot of memory modules and that's a lot of traces then it does lower the cost significantly so there's that oh the rumored r9 380x will include it that is supposed to be a 20 nanometer GPU and do sometime in the next few months here the r9 390x is also rumored and is rumored to come with water cooling from the factory just like the wow I'm drawing a blank r9 295x2 and I think that's pretty much it it should be noted that our source for this is WCCF tech so I'm saying that at the end so everyone wouldn't just tune out immediately and most of this stuff looks pretty credible and does align with stuff that we've heard already and the fact that the source for some of this info at least was the LinkedIn pages of AMD employees one of which seems to have been made at least not public because I couldn't see it at this point looks like it could be pretty credible yeah and it's not like it's been it's not like HBM has been a secret Hynix has been sampling it since late last year so it's been available I'm pretty excited to see what that brings Nvidia may end up in a position where for the first time in a while they have maybe a performance competitive part but perhaps not a cost competitive part and they might have to give up some of those juicy margins they've been making for the last couple of years because Titan X which is what the internet is kind of calling it now the fully enabled Maxwell that should power you know Tesla, Quadro and then very high end Titan grade GPUs on the desktop is still out there you know we don't know too much about it other than it will apparently have around 3000 CUDA cores but it's gonna be a really large die and therefore very expensive to produce since Nvidia is had planned to skip 20 nanometer and instead go straight to 16 nanometer except that that's been delayed by TSMC due to difficulties and Samsung as well for that matter Intel's the only one with working 1x class nanometer manufacturing right now and I don't think Intel's gonna run around making GPUs for Nvidia anytime soon although maybe that would be a really interesting collab I seriously don't think it would happen totally not happening Intel always reserves their best for themselves and apparently Apple so that was rumored a couple weeks ago I think but hmm could be an interesting year AMD might be able to fight back I mean FreeSync is a big one because I've been blowing that G-Sync trumpet for a long time not because I love Nvidia so huggy muggy much and I think they're just the cuddliest most wonderfulest people ever but because it's a legitimately much better gaming experience and if FreeSync delivers on what it promises and we're gonna have FreeSync monitors coming into our our office here soon then that'll be a cool showdown I mean what else is there Nvidia still has GeForce experience which I personally don't use because I have no problem configuring my in-game settings their 3d is much better but stereo 3d is basically dead in the water at this point and then multi-monitor and then multi-monitor I'd say AMD is gonna have the edge there yeah so FreeSync could be a huge win for them especially if monitor availability is as good as they're saying with I think it was 11 monitors now and then up to 20 by the end of the year wow that's solid and talking to ASUS they were it's funny talking to them at CES they actually weren't sure if their monitor that they know works with FreeSync was even gonna work with it because communication was kind of bleh all over the place but now it's come out that even though that monitor is not FreeSync certified there is no mandatory certification process or anything like that so if ASUS wants to have a FreeSync compatible monitor that's not certified that's fine and it'll work just fine interesting very cool as long as the scalar technology and the firmware on the monitor both support the tech right cool hey that's interesting all right I wonder what the certification process is because I still see buyer confidence being a little iffy if it's not actually certified I think so too and AMD I believe said that there's okay I can't remember what they said about the fee structure so basically don't quote me on this but 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So there's that delayed again to the 24th of March and what I have to say about all this is a screw you Rockstar for not at least trying to get the PC version out in a somewhat timely manner like right near the PS4 and Xbox one versions at the very least. And to screw you guys who are complaining about them delaying it because they've come right out and said it needs a few more weeks of testing and polish to make it as good as it can be. Yes please shut up. Just shut your mouth. They've said we're getting it. They're not just going console exclusive on it which is something we could legitimately be mad about it. And they've said the reason we don't have it yet is because they want to port it properly. I mean again screw you Rockstar for opening up your pre-orders and all of you guys please don't pre-order it because we shouldn't be giving them money until they deliver it to us. But we also shouldn't be upset that they haven't delivered it to us yet. If it's not ready yet. I'd rather have a finished game and you know what I've even seen people posting on Reddit and even in our forum I thought I saw one of these is like I'd rather have it have a few bugs and be playing it now. You would be saying the exact opposite thing if this was Assassin's Creed Unity or Watch Dogs. We have a Far Cry come out, we have Watch Dogs come out, Ubisoft hooray. We have H1Zen1, we have all these other various problems. We're going to get such a huge viewer count. But yeah so like all these launches that just go terribly. If I cover the nipples with the powered by Linus Tech Tips I should be okay. I'm going to claim that Twitch told me that but they definitely didn't. I feel like you're going to screw up at some point. Oh no, no, no. He made it. I'm a nipple management expert. We have all these terrible launches that people freak out about justifiably and then we have someone go like okay we don't want to be in that boat. Let's fix this before we launch it and people freak out. What are you doing? God. We have to be united and decide what we want. What we want is games that work at the beginning. When we first install them without 20 gigs of patches or whatever else. Oh man, what was it? Unity that came out with like you should probably have a 680. Was that Unity? I don't remember. Some game, I don't care already, but some game came out probably Unity that needed way too high performance stuff and everyone freaked out because they couldn't run it. And then GTA comes out and they're like oh I expected it to look better and have higher requirements. I'm like god damn it PC community. Anyways, sorry. Alright. Yeah, I guess that's all there is to really say about that isn't there? More gaming news. This is from PlayStationing.com. Sony is making 50 million dollars a month from PlayStation Plus. Isn't that incredible? Do you want to post this? It's okay, I can do it. You sure? I got it. I got it. I got it. I did it first. Boom. You lost. So let's go ahead and fire this up. No freaking wonder Microsoft got all over that Xbox Live gold nonsense and turning multiplayer into a paid service. If you're going to try and tell me that you're spending 50 million dollars a month to make the online gaming experience... Would you pay 5 bucks a month for Steam? Does it include content? No. No, of course not. Well it includes free games. TF2. Stuff like that. No. I don't want to play TF2. Yeah, absolutely not. So you wouldn't use the Steam service if it cost 5 bucks a month? No. I think I'm already paying for the Steam service by buying my games through them. So they're already taking a cut. No, like we have to assume you don't have a Steam account yet. Like this is not this realm of reality. So your options are buying things on the Steam service or buying them directly. Like buying them at a store. Or there's like a download link from the company. So if they forced me, if I wasn't allowed to play online, unless I paid 5 dollars a month for Steam. No, that's not even... That's an interesting discussion but that's not the one I'm trying to find out. Oh, okay. So would I pay 5 dollars a month just for what Steam is today? Essentially. Steam in-home streaming, free games, some free games, the unification of chat, Steam overlay, the download service which is a lot better than most. All of that kind of stuff. Would you pay 5 dollars a month for that? I feel like straw-pulling this. Wow, straw-pull it, straw-pull it. Wow, that's tough. If my other choice was to not have it. Because a lot of the... Okay, you'd still be able to play multiplayer and stuff. But you'd have to deal with all of that. But a lot of the argument that I make for boycotting something like PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold, where I just kind of went, Look guys, if we all refused to pay for it, it would go away like that. A lot of the argument that I make for that is based on the fact that we have it for free on the PC, so you have other options that you could take advantage of. If you were taking away my option of not having any platform where I don't have to pay an additional fee for the overlay, even something like Steam Big Picture, you could look at as a value-add for people who want to use Steam to even just manage their library of games. So if I had no choice, and the only other option was Windows Explorer, C-Colon slash program files slash Codemaster slash Grid slash... If that's it, would I pay $5 a month? It's not a lot of money. I probably would. I would probably sign up for it once out of frustration, and then I'd forget about it, and I'd just kind of do it forever. That's kind of how it was, and I think if Steam wasn't there, a lot of those services that you have that bring them all together wouldn't exist. Now, to be completely honest, if Steam wasn't there, I bet you the Windows games folder kind of idea probably would have actually stuck around, and that was fantastic, and that really should still be a thing. But, yeah, I don't know. It's just an interesting idea that popped into my head. Can you hang out with me this thing? The straw pool thing? Yeah, the straw pool. Sure. So I can go ahead and post the results. Do you just want the results? Oh crap. Do you want the results? I didn't realize I was still screen sharing. Yeah, I want the results link. It doesn't really matter. I can navigate to the results link on my own. Doop de doop. Thank you! So far, it's looking like about 43% of people are saying no, 31% of people are saying Austin's nipple, and 26% of people are saying yes. Alright, here we go. I'll get those results visually for you guys there. There we go. So, yeah, a lot of no, a lot of I refuse to say anything relevant about this. And then actually, the fact that 26% of you are saying yes is a strong indicator to me that if Valve did decide to charge for the service, they might actually generate a lot of subscriptions. I mean, we're probably not a long way off. I suspect they'll never make it mandatory, but an optional subscription that gives you extra features, a la, you know, gold or plus. Yeah, yeah. I don't think multiplayer will ever be one of those additional features for something like Steam, but if it gave you additional... Well, that's why I took the multiplayer element out of the whole discussion. Yeah, but if it gave you additional community interaction features or some other benefits, I mean, people pay for hats. Like, what if all it did was drop you a care package from time to time with a hat in it that's exclusive to people who are Steam Plus members? I bet you they'd get way more. Oh my God. And that's something that, oh my God, and that's something that Steam would totally do. Oh, man, if you got like random indie items in Valve games... I hope Gabe's not watching right now. He's like, hey, we could have this rolled out like tomorrow. Oh my goodness. And the thing is, okay, not harping on the people that said no too much, but I myself kind of sit in the no camp right now because I could see myself using other systems to manage my games. Right. Although however annoying that would be, myself and a lot of people in the no camp, that might change if you didn't have limited of like five minutes to think about this answer. If you were then sitting on your computer months from now and you couldn't remember what freaking game you owned or where the key was that you could download it off the website because they have bad account management and you're dealing with all these other crap things and you could just be like, well, I could just get Steam, inject all my games there and then be fine. I don't know. I see more of those no's changing. I see myself maybe being a little bit more flexible. I don't know. It's interesting. All right. What's our next topic here? None of that is a thing at all. It's just kind of a thought experiment. Yeah, this is just us making things up. Yep. Okay. So, yes, very fortunately. We can jump to a few things actually. Oh, there's the Marriott abandoning their quest to block personal Wi-Fi hotspots. This is from INC.com. I'm going to go ahead and fire this up. You want to post it in the chat? Yep. So this was ridiculous. Basically, they got slammed with I think it was a $600,000 fine when it was discovered that they were intentionally blocking their users' personal Wi-Fi hotspots like on their phones from functioning in the rooms. And then they apologized. And then they turned around and tried to get permission from the FCC to implement that technology in places like conference rooms. Are you freaking for real? And they claimed this was to prevent people from showing up in Marriott hotels creating unauthorized hotspots with the intention of stealing data and information from the patrons of the hotel. And I kind of go, okay, that is a scenario that probably happened like once. And there are other ways to get around something like that. And I think it was fairly obvious like on the surface of this that this was all about trying to get people to pay additional for Wi-Fi in the hotel, especially business customers who are coming in for conferences. And the FCC received 39 comment letters. This is from the INC.com article. Received 39 comment letters on the issue of which 38 were negative and one was either neutral or off topic. Google and Microsoft were among those registering their opposition. So at least they're on the same side about something right now. Yeah, really. And I'm glad it's that. Not really getting along everywhere, but they're such big companies that I guess parts of them can get along with other parts. Sigh. All right. We've got the Tesla thing. Let's do the Obama thing. Sure. Yeah, so this was originally posted in the forum by Lightning. I got it. And you got it? Okay. Obama calls for an end to 19 state laws that harm community broadband. This is awesome because Obama calling for the internet to be reclassified as a utility marked a bit of a turning point maybe not in the FCC chairman Tom Wheeler's thoughts about whether or not it would be Title II. Maybe he was already leaning that way, but it definitely brought about a change in his actions and what he was saying publicly about it. And it looks like Obama is going to kind of go keep moving forward with this whole, yeah, if we want to be a developed nation, let's face it, we've already got sewage. We've already got electricity mostly, other than that it can be extremely expensive. We've already got water again mostly. Actually, really interesting conversation with Taron about how things work with the Colorado River and allocating the water. Yeah, he was saying that the way like any downstream states get an allocation in gallons, so if the flow is less, Colorado is actually the first one to not get any water from the Colorado River. Anyway, I thought that was interesting. So anyway, they've got most stuff mostly figured out, and yet they're lagging behind on broadband because of either cost or legislative challenges that exist that prevent any startup from becoming an Internet service provider and kind of going, you know what, hey, those margins, that profitability, that's not good enough for AT&T. Yeah, I'll take it. I'll take it. I mean, it stifles competition. That's the principle that this entire country, and I mean, by this, I mean the USA. I don't live there, you know, but that entire country was built on was competition and capitalism, and if you just legislate the crap out of anyone being able to compete, then you end up in a situation where it's this monopolistic nonsense, and it's not quite a monopoly. So this was a really interesting chunk of the article. Yes, here we go. At speeds, so with the old broadband classification of, I believe it was three down, one up, four down, four down, one up, 75% of consumers have a choice between two or more fixed providers, and 15% can select among three or more, which I would even still say is abominable. Yeah, it's terrible. However, in the market for Internet service that can deliver 25 megabit downstream, I mean, we're talking the speed at which you could pretty much do anything on the Internet, you know, Netflix. It's acceptable. You know, HD YouTube, stuff like that. Modern day acceptable. And three out of four Americans had no choice between providers. I mean, when was this ever acceptable? I mean, I hate to be critical when they're finally speaking up and doing the right things, but why did this take so long? And when's Canada going to follow suit like we always do? Yeah. It'll take us a couple years, and then we'll get there. And, you know, I've seen a lot of people wearing their cynicism hats, and especially on our forum, where a lot of our community is international, and sort of going, well, this is only because the election's coming up. I mean, OK, maybe there's some pressure from the Democratic Party to, you know, improve Obama's popularity, so whoever their new candidate coming in will have a better chance of winning the upcoming election. But, guys, Obama cannot be re-elected. This is a second term. You can only serve two four-year terms in the United States. So it's not like Obama personally wants to be the president for another four years and is therefore trying to win a popularity contest by, you know, making— especially—a lot of this focuses on community broadband initiatives. So smaller community ISPs or even municipalities themselves, enabling them to utilize their existing infrastructure, so whether it's power or sewage or whatever else, to run lines and create their own broadband providers. Don't remember where I was going with that. The sentence kind of ends here. It's not hugely beneficial for himself, necessarily. Yeah. Because you were talking about elections coming up. And it's not just pop—it's not a popularity contest. I mean, it's a fact that access to high-speed internet breeds creativity and gives people more options to better themselves. I mean, let's go back to one of our sponsors for a minute here. Yeah. Lynda.com. What? Are you gonna use Lynda.com video tutorials on dial-up? No? That's ridiculous. I mean, what if you have—what if you have— Okay, what if your Lynda.com membership is really reasonably priced, but your internet connection has such a small cap that by the time you watch the instructional videos, you're actually paying a ton more just to educate yourself and potentially improve your prospects in terms of your career path? I mean, it's absurd. Inexpensive broadband has become something we need, not something that should be a privilege for the wealthy. So, just—there, that's it. Kudos. Yeah. Very happy about that whole situation. The FCC is already examining these state laws and considering whether it can invalidate them by using its authority to promote competition in telecommunications already. So, good. All the progress. Let's make it happen. Jumping to a not necessarily happier note, but a funnier note, we can do the beautiful thing. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. This is ridiculous. We just want to have some entertainment. I mean, speaking of things that should be illegal, let's—dang it. All right, here we go. Okay, I'll post it. Our original source for this was CNET. I got it. Our article is down, so the Telegraph article is still live. This is a restaurant— There's actually a different CNET article now, but don't worry about it. I was trying to figure—I should have fixed the link. I was trying to figure that out earlier. Okay, so there's a restaurant that promises free meal for good-looking. Now, they've been forced to take down that sign. Yeah. The local government forced them to take down the sign. Yeah, like, showed up with a wrecking crew. It was like, we are taking down that sign. Because that's embarrassing. But they have vowed to continue the promotion regardless. How this works is there's a scanner, and there's a panel of surgeons, which are plastic surgeons, which are in cahoots with the restaurant for a sponsorship. Yeah, like, paying a sponsorship—oh, sorry, I'm in a dashboard now. I was trying to help out. For essentially advertisement, so you can go there, get told you're not good-looking, and then be referred to those people to become better-looking. Oh, ridiculous. And so apparently it's not flat out, like, you're good-looking, you get a free meal, you're not good-looking, you get a full-price meal. It's like there's a sliding scale. So you could be pretty good-looking, and you could get like 30% off or something. Like, I'm making up the exact numbers. But really, like, that's just gross. And I'm not just saying this because I don't think I'd be getting a discount. I just think that is absolutely disgusting. One thing I noticed is that OP, Mr. Amp12345, states in his second paragraph, as someone who has had things given to me or gotten discounts because of the clerk thought I was good-looking, I was unsure how I felt about this. So my new idea is that we, as a Linus Tech Tips community, need to find Amp12345, take him, bring him to the restaurant, and then just all eat there until they're bankrupt. So we're going to force-feed Amp. No, no, no, no. He can get all the food when you just eat it. Oh, I see. I think they probably would catch on to that. No, no, that's fine. It's a very smart idea, though. You did very well. Thank you. You did very well. I'm very proud of you. I just want to utilize Amp's obviously tried-and-true, amazingly good looks. This was posted by Tedster, and since we're on the topic of just completely stupid things right now, this Kickstarter by Paul Boyle is... 30 euros. He probably did it himself. Well, he has seven backers. Seven backers totaling 30 euros. That doesn't even divide easily. So he made seven Kickstarter accounts and then got bored and went and ate a burger. So, I mean, you can see that this is clearly not intended to be serious, but the plan is to reconstruct the player Michael's house from the game Grand Theft Auto V to scale, and the rewards are ridiculous. I mean, for... Okay, so for $5,000, you can stay there for three nights. For four euros, you get pictures and a video of it. For 400 euros, you get a personalized title with image and info of your choice added to the bottom of Michael's swimming pool. For 900 euros, you get to visit the house and have a tour around it at your leisure. And for 5,000 euros, you get to visit and stay in it for three nights. I just thought it was kind of funny. He figures he needs... Oh, the FAQ. This is pretty good. Who will the house belong to? Will the donators get a share in the final build? Are you giving it to charity? No shares, I'm afraid. Given the small chance that it's funded, the final build will be sold and donated to the choice of charity voted by the backers. Which, I mean, the last time anyone believed that a Kickstarter for charity was actually going to a charity was, I don't know, 2013? Yeah, not that long ago. Yeah, this Kickstarter hasn't been around that long. No. But, yeah, in internet years, it's been quite a while. Yep. Um, I don't know, is there anything else interesting? There's the not super amazingly interesting Tesla news, but I can talk about it regardless. Sure, yeah, let's talk about the three. So there's honestly not a ton to say. This article exploded. Posted by Victorious Secret, by the way. Yep, this article exploded. I can get this into the chat. Um, and it's kind of an interesting conversation, but people were like, oh my god, the Tesla 3 is so amazing. There's not actually that much information here about the Tesla 3. This is the Model X delay again. That's the Model X, yeah. And once again, we shouldn't be complaining about the delay, even though it kind of sucks because they're saying that they're just trying to do it right. They've sold out like the first manufacturing year of this thing anyways, so whatever. Um, anyways, the feds give about $7,500 for electric cars, apparently. This is in the States. I don't really know. So when Chevy came out and was talking about their Bolt, which is supposed to be a Tesla competitor, they were toting it as a $30,000 price tag vehicle. This is a response. Elon Musk in an interview was like, well, ours is, what is it? $35,000. So using their logic, it's actually $27,500. Right. That was the whole actual point of this article. Now this thing exploded. This got everywhere. Like automotive subreddit, it was like massive at front page, all this kind of stuff. It's all he's talking about is that he didn't include incentives in the price of $35,000. That's all it really was. Um, as we already knew, you're going to be able to customize it, add options. A lot of things that are actually on the Model S. If you like something very specifically, it's on the Model S. You might be able to include it on your, on your three, but that will obviously increase the cost. So it could be more expensive in the end. So your version of the Model 3 might end up being the same cost as a Bolt. Who knows? Because you can configure them. Yeah. One cool quote that came from it, though, which is interesting, is that Musk said the Model 3 in brackets will be way different from any other car on the road. But in a way that's really useful and doesn't just make it a weird mobile. Weird mobile. So I don't know what that means. But yeah, this, I love Tesla news. This exploded, but it wasn't actually. Yeah, I don't know. Alright, so this is, this is interesting to me because I'm Canadian. Sony is shutting all of their Canadian stores. Um, I've got the article here. When was the last time you went to a Sony store? Um, wow, I posted it already. I totally get it because I don't think Sony stores really have any reason to exist, especially when a lot of the time they were just a place where you couldn't shop for any other brand of product. And the pricing wasn't better, often worse, because it wouldn't have the same promotions, because it's really awkward for most manufacturers. Apple doesn't seem to give a rat's ass, but most manufacturers to have their own branded store that competes head to head against their customers. So they have to prove to their customers, whether it's a Best Buy or whoever else, that they're not trying to undercut them and steal customers from them. And at the same time, they have to sustain their employees and the retail spaces. The one Sony store I've ever been to, the one time I went to it, was just terrible anyways. They had a really bad selection of Sony products. Yeah, so anyway, Sony stores are closing. Oh, apparently Mechs and Jacob are closing a whack of stores, but for me the big one right now is actually Target. So, Target opened up the Canadian territory in 2012, I want to say. I thought it was 2013. I could be wrong. Was it 2013? Has it really been that short? I believe it's been two years. I think it's been two years. I could be wrong though. Well, it's only barely 2015 right now. Anyway, the point is, Target actually purchased, at least here in BC, all of the Zellers locations when Zellers went bankrupt and disappeared. So they had a total of 133 big box stores and they will be exiting... Okay, apparently they launched in Canada in March 2013. So they didn't even last two years. And they will be shutting all of the stores, putting 17,000 employees out of work and taking a $5.4 billion loss in that period of time. There's a lot of problems. One of the huge ones was distribution. They came in and got 133 stores going, but didn't have a proper distribution chain for them. So you'd have a lot of issues where you'd go to Target and there's just nothing on the shelves. So how are you supposed to buy it? How are they supposed to make any money? So they were just hemorrhaging money, didn't have distribution going, went in way too fast and way too hard, totally screwed up, and then their solution was to just close everything and bail. So in under two years, they got 133 stores going, filled them with 17,600 employees, fired all those employees, closed all of those stores and took off. So Target said exiting Canada would allow it to focus resources on the US market. I read one article that suggested that the lack of staples that Canadian consumers are used to going down to Target US and buying and bringing back up here, things that just don't exist in Canada. I can't remember what the example of it was, but it wasn't this article. It was one that suggested that the lack of chocolate might have been the reason for Target's failure. Because maybe people walked in thinking they were going to buy cool stuff that they're used to buying at Target and they weren't able to. But honestly, I don't think that has anything to do with it. I think it was just too much, too fast. We were talking to Burkle about this before the show started and he's like, yeah, they opened one in, what did he say, Vernon? They opened one in Vernon. There's not even that many people in Vernon. Did they even check? And they already have a Walmart. They barely need a Walmart and they already have one. And I think Vernon has a Costco too. So it's like, you're going to go up against Costco and Walmart, which have been there for years already, and you're going to just hope that people magically sprout from the earth and come shop in your store? So I try to build a sustainable business model first. And obviously, I'm not an expert. I've never run a big box store. But it just seems like there's a lot of mistakes in the past that we could have learned from. And this is actually just the Target shutting down reminded me of this. My housing development that I live in was built about 30 years ago. And we still have, from the previous owners, the brochure that was like the sales brochure for people shopping for houses in that neighborhood. And it's really cool. It's like an accessible place to live. Easily accessible from virtually any direction. The property is bounded by a bunch of places. The first project of its kind in this area, blah blah blah, provides quick access to the interior of British Columbia and to the rest of the lower mainland. On the other hand, it's only two or three minutes away from... Okay, so there's a shopping center home to Woodward's, Eaton's, Woolco, Marks & Spencer, and over 200 other fine stores. Have you heard of any of them? No. No. A few minutes further, you'll find Simpson Sears. So, okay, Sears. Oh, okay. Simpson Sears and the Bay. Okay, the Bay. And that bay and those Sears, neither of them exists anymore. Oh my goodness. That is so hilarious. Canada has proven to be an interesting market because of how we're laid out. And one of the huge, important, super crazy, obvious things about opening a very large amount of stores, especially in somewhere super huge like Canada, is freaking distribution. What are you thinking? Like, yes, we're maybe not the most educated people on opening a massive amount of stores, but like, do any amount of research at all. Look at how Best Buy came into Canada, which was actually a very effective takeover. They bought Future Shop, which was kind of our version of Best Buy, and then just took over all their warehouses. They bought Future Shop for their warehouses. That was the reason. Because they're like, oh, distribution will be a problem. Let's solve that problem. God, that's so dumb. Like, there could have been so many problems, but their whole thing like, well, it was hard to make money when we couldn't keep things on the shelves because not necessarily that too many people were buying them, but we couldn't put things on the shelves because we didn't have them. That's so bad. We're getting a bunch of people talking about how apparently a couple of those are big over in Europe. But that's exactly it. It's been tried and failed so many times that you would think they would have done at least a couple of sort of case studies and tried to make sure that they were going to have a chance of success in Canada. Or even open like five stores and just slowly figure it out. Maybe you could lose, let's do the rough napkin math. So that's about one fiftieth as many stores as they opened. So it would be one fiftieth as much loss. So like, okay, so a loss in the order of what? Tens or hundreds of millions as opposed to billions. Which is still a lot. Which is still a lot, but less. And for a company of that size, more growing pain size instead of, oh my god, complete failure size. There was a whole thing this week where apparently Microsoft appeared to be not allowing YouTubers to put the title of a game in the name of their YouTube video. But they've clarified it's apparently not that big of a deal. You are apparently supposed to add a disclaimer in your description saying something along the lines of that the game was made by Microsoft and the video is not endorsed by them. There's official text for it. This was posted by Cobb360 on the forum and you're not allowed to mislead people into thinking it's a Microsoft video, but I think that was just people freaking out over a wording issue. I'm glad Microsoft got it rectified. Pretty clear to be honest. The main concern was that you couldn't call something like Red versus Blue the Halo show or something along those lines. Like using the trademark incorrectly, you had to come up with your own name if you were going to do something that was more along the lines of a show and less along the lines of strict gameplay or multiplayer footage. But you could do like a Halo gameplay and it would be fine. Yeah, as long as you have your disclaimer. Yep. LG had a nitrogen leak in their factory. This was the original articles from independent.co.uk. Let's go ahead and pull that up. Very, very unfortunate. Two were killed. Four have taken ill since the incident. Basically not a whole lot is known. One of them died on the scene. One of them died on the way to the hospital. I mean, that's something that we often don't consider about these electronic doodads that we enjoy so much is there's a lot of harmful and dangerous stuff that goes on in order to manufacture them. The NZXC doco. This was posted by Brown Ninja on the forum. Original article here is from Tech Power Up. It promises 50 to 80 milliseconds of latency and promises basically your computer experience on, well, basically anywhere you want on your TV. Luke has a review unit and I know he's planning to work on it maybe once you've got the motherboard roundup done. I've got to do the motherboard roundup and maybe one other thing and then I'll probably be on doco. Yeah, it looks cool. The only disadvantage right now, so it's got USB ports and it uses USB over IP in order to make it so if you plug in a keyboard, it's basically like having that keyboard plugged into the computer you're using. I've been able to use it to a certain degree. Have you used it already? Not my own unit, but I was able to use it while it was still under NGA at CES. And the USB over IP is actually pretty freaking good. Cool. I was able to use a keyboard and mouse and I was able to use a flash drive and I was able to use a, they plugged in the Microsoft wireless dongle and then had me using a wireless controller, which I was actually more worried about than just plugging in a controller directly, but it worked totally fine. That's awesome. Pretty cool. It's only 1080p 30fps, but I'm hoping that we'll see a doku extreme or doku plus or something along those lines. One thing I can leak a little bit, because it's not under NGA anymore, is that the processing power and stuff in that unit is not exactly amazing. Right. And if there is a lot of interest shown, they could release a higher end version, which could do more fps or whatever. So yeah, tell them that you want one. Okay. Well, I think that's pretty much it for the show today, guys. Thank you so much for tuning in. We are planning to do more videos about the NGA. We are planning to do more videos about the NGA.