 Hey, how's it going? It's Friday. TGI Friday. I'm out of water. So welcome to the... Cars. You're out of cars. Because you had a supply of cars before and now you don't. And water. Can you? See... I'm out of crime, man. There's no more crime in this town. It's not an issue when I throw things on the ground because I'll clean them up. Yeah, your crime came back. That's what happens with crime. You lock up crime and the crime comes back because it doesn't pay. And if it doesn't pay, it can't afford the rent where you sent it. Oh, so it has to come home. Yes. It's like living back in your parents' basement. Yes. All the criminals are like, man, we tried to leave and then we weren't very successful so we came back. Just tell them to steal better stuff next time. They need training. Crime training. Can you imagine? Surely people must learn crime somehow. Like crime school? Yeah, like crime school. Obviously not in North America or anywhere with a government that's paying attention at all. But can you imagine opening up a crime school in the middle of Africa somewhere where it's like, okay... But not have it be like Child Soldiers? Like actually have it be like, we're just going to teach you how to do the things. Like a pop-up ad in your browser that's like for only $5,000 will help you make however much a day through a life of crime. And it actually includes like a legitimate plane ticket. You go there, there's classes, there's practical studies. You say use a bull cutter. Yeah, bull cutter. Well, no, no, because there's a lot more than that. There's a lot of tricks of the trade. When we had a lot of the security done on this place, they're like, yeah, this is what they do and this is what they do and this is what they do. And I'm sitting here going, how did they all know how to do this? Well, crime school. Maybe you and I are just smart enough that we never clicked the link. Maybe this woman is making $10,000 a week in Canada. Is actually crime school. Maybe it's crime school. Canadian crime school. Yeah. Wow. But not the crime school in Canada. The people come back to Canada with criminal knowledge. Oh, okay. Yeah. But you can advertise to people currently in Canada. Yeah, because I mean, it's like it's sketchy advertising, sketchy sites, you know, where you see those kinds of things. I mean, obviously, you know, LinusTechTips.com is not going to have crime school banner ads. No. And if we did, you know, we'd charge a lot for them. So there'd be a good justification for them to be there. Yeah. We should probably start a show. That's because one of our guys went to marketing school. Which is maybe not that different from crime school. We also have someone who went to law school. Not that different from crime school. In fact, they learn a lot about crime. Pretty much the same. Yeah. I mean, it's just- So maybe the school of law. The school of law are crime schools. Yes. Police academy is crime school. Yes. Okay. So the law academy is like metaphysical crime school and the police academy is like quite definitely physical crime school. Yeah. Like practical. Yeah. Practical application crime school. So it's like theory versus practical. Yeah. PCI-TE versus UPC. Well, I think they both have the opposite as well because in law, you'll have some practical training, like how to write a letter that will- Courtroom, essays, written letters. Yeah. And enable a crime to be committed and not be punished. Right. And same in police academy. They're going to have like, they're going to have theoretical studies as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That totally makes sense. I get it. It's just like what one you want your strength to be in. Yeah. So I mean- You do get an all around either way. Yeah. We still have, I mean, if you went to super- We just have formal crime school. Super criminal school. That would be both law school and police academy and maybe like- Get a degree in both. And maybe like some programming mixed in. Okay. Yeah. Super criminal school. Yeah. Networking stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. Basic scripting. I mean, that's the only difference between the so-called first world and the rest of the world is that- Naming. It's all spin. Yeah. It's spin. People are probably wondering what the hell show it is that they're watching. This is the WAN show. It is the WAN show. We are going to actually have a show at some point today. The sometimes unrecognizable, the unapologetically unrecognizable WAN show. So this week we've got some call out topics. Hulk Hogan might have single-handedly taken out both his friendship and Gawker Media. Actually, if I remember correctly, his friend was cool with it. Oh. I don't know if that story's true. There's a grocery store in Sweden with no staff. None. None at all. AMD made announcements. Many announcements. Lots of them. Also, Oculus has 30 VR games that'll be ready at lunch. Oh, hi. Well, I'm just trying to center the heads on the table. Let's just roll the intro. What the crap? Oh crap. I'm a duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. Duck. There. Hold on. I got this. Backspace. Oh, deep dive sessions. Oh, dang it. Dollar Sheep Club. Dollar Sheep Club. Square Space. You should. You should. No, no, you have to. You should Build it beautiful, but that's not their current. Do we care? No, not really. All right guys, so we've got a pretty good show for you guys today I hope. That was definitely not prepped at crime school. Yeah, that was not, that contains none of our knowledge from crime school because quite frankly if you're gonna go to crime school you're gonna have to pay for tuition. That's how school works. Okay, crime school tuition. It's like, I mean can you imagine the invoice they send you? Like I would double check that. Invoice from criminals. Extra zero here and there. Extra zero. Give us your credit card, trust us. It's okay. And then if you pay for, you know what, that's probably the final exam. If you pay for crime school, you fail. You fail. So you have to find some way to not pay. And then they just have to make the tuition insane so the people that do pay end up paying for everyone else. Yeah, and I mean, you know, not every criminal is the most brilliant person on the face of the earth, so you gotta imagine that some of the people who fail their final exam probably pay to try again. So they can subsidize the people who are passing. Oh definitely. And not paying. Yeah. I like it. I like it. I like it. Strong business model. So you know, you have a much more interesting story about this than I do. This was originally posted by ChevBHD on the forum. I'm just gonna pull up the original article here from AnonTech and post it in the good old Twitch chatamaroonie. Here we go. AMD to showcase latest innovation. Okay, well this is just the general coverage. Dang it, where's the... There's an Ars Technica article about it if you go back to the thing. Bleeding heck, sir. Bleeding heck indeed. In crime school they teach you how to say cool things like bleeding heck. SulonQ, hold on, I'm just gonna throw this in the Twitch chat so you guys can check that bit. Already did. Oh, alright. AMD powered SulonQ is like wearing a VR capable Windows PC on your head. Can you tell me a little bit about your experience with this? When was it? Because that's important. A little bit ago, it wasn't this year, so I believe it was CES 2015. Okay. I'm pretty sure it was CES 2015. There was the Sulon Cortex. We figured out that they were on the floor. But we never covered it. No, but we really tried. We super duper tried. Brandon's walking over there. Brandon definitely remembers. Hey Brandon, remember the Sulon Cortex? Yeah, he just said it was terrible. That's basically the conclusion here. When I saw this headline, AMD announces SulonQ, I did multiple double takes, which actually equals something that isn't a double take. I did like a quadruple or whatever the sixth version would equal. But I like, I checked multiple. I think you can find out what he wants. He doesn't usually do that. That's a problem. Hello, Mape. One of our forum moderators. When you're screen sharing, there's really, really loud chirping and it's quite painful. Chirping. Fantastic. We had problems screen sharing last week too. Thanks, Mape. Thanks, Mape. Okay, bye. Okay. Well, I'll attempt to diagnose that in the background here. So, carry on. Anyways, so yeah, so it was at that point in time called the Sulon Cortex. I can tell you right now, it's changed a lot. Even just the specs are way improved. We don't know the battery life, all that kind of stuff, but it has a built-in 256 gigabyte SSD, four compute cores, eight cores unlocked through heterogeneous system architecture. And it has a four core FX8800P processor, OC to around 3.4 gigahertz. It runs Windows 10. Has an R7 graphics card. No information other than that. Yeah, so the specs have taken a big jump upwards. That might have something to do with AMD theoretically acquiring them. It just says with Toronto based startup, Sulon Technologies. This is another Toronto startup that I was super excited for and then was super let down by. The watch was one of those as well. But basically what happened was we went there. I was super excited that Sulon Cortex was at CES because I had seen and heard tons of stuff about them. It was supposed to be this awesome experience. They had cameras on the front of the headset so you could do like augmented reality stuff, but then it was completely tether free because it's all in the headset. Super cool. Brandon and I went to go check it out almost first thing, CES 2015. I'm comfortable saying literally didn't work at all. So we were like, can we come back? They encouraged that so we went back later. Still didn't work. Did that again. Went back later. Still didn't work. I think we did it one more time. Went back. Was able to fight our way through two demos that were both gratuitously horrible so I didn't end up releasing a video about it because I didn't think the communication to the audience would have been worth them watching. Now AMD has announced iteration two, I guess, called the Sulon Q. Hopefully it's good. Okay. Hopefully it's good. That's all you have to say. The specs look way better. If AMD can pull those specs off, it could be sweet. All they're saying is Radeon R7 graphics card, which tells us absolutely nothing, basically. You could call anything an R7 graphics card. It could be a 240. That's true. It could be a 240. It could literally be not much more powerful than a high end tablet. I'm hopeful. This seems like the wrong direction for AMD to go with. There's another thing that I don't really understand about this product. Did you watch the video? No, I actually didn't. Oh, that won't help you understand things. They spent the entire video just saying first. It might be really loud chirping noise. Nope, I fixed it. I haven't used this capture card in a long time because I was having some issues with it but the new driver fixed some issues but didn't fix the issues that it seems to be my laptop having. I think I need to update my sound drivers because I was trying to stream from my laptop yesterday and I was having issues with that too. Oh my God. What is this? My dad texted me so I thought it was important because it's during the show. He just texted me. He just wanted to say you're a noob. Your dad's awesome, by the way. Thanks, dad. I like your dad. He's a cool guy. What is this? Yeah, it's really, really, really close up shots of the headset. There you go. That's the headset. The compute unit, I think, is partially on the back or entirely on the back. Basically it's Gear VR but bulky. I mean... It's probably... And it won't be running experiences that are tailored for lightweight hardware and operating systems like Android. It'll be running full fat Windows 10 with VR experiences that aren't... It's all about when you want to adopt something, you want to adopt the same one that everyone else is adopting to have at least some chance of ongoing support from third parties because it's simple business. If I'm a third party making a piece of software, a PC VR experience, am I going to target the HTC Vive which sold what was it? 15,000 units within 10 minutes or something. I'm just completely obscene. Like looks amazing. Looks awesome. Or would I go after the Oculus Rift which is the just favorite, favorite nephew of the entire industry where both of those companies... It will be amazing once the touch control is coming. Where both of those companies are saying, yep, you're going to need a super powerful PC in order to have the experiences that we expect you to have on our headset. Or are you going to target this thing which... Who's going to buy? Who's going to buy this? You and the other 16 people who buy it are going to expect a software developer to make an experience for this that's going to be good. I genuinely don't know if I will. And I know that might be kind of surprising because I basically said I'm going to buy it. If you will what? If you were considering it? No, well you said you and the other... So like I'm not... Oh, no, yeah. I mean... The main reason why I didn't release a video, I've released videos from shows and I've released videos from around the office where I tear things apart before. I could have done that again. The reason why I didn't was because I didn't want this thing to get press. I've been actively worried it was bad. I've been actively worried the entire time since DK1 was announced that I don't really want bad press about bad products around VR. If there's bad press about the Vive or if there's bad press about the Rift, maybe they deserve that. I don't know what it would have been. There's been pretty good press about both of them. So I'm not saying anything. If there happened to be for whatever reason, then they need to get their act together and keep on moving up and they can fix it and then they can keep going. Both of those headsets and the Gear VR to a lesser degree are doing a good job of showing like this is what VR can be. Actually the Vive especially has shown off that like this can be for a wider audience. You can walk around and explore Everest. You can do all these like super cool things like awesome. You guys are doing great. I want to talk about that so that people hear it and get excited. I don't want to talk about this. You don't want to talk about how long an FX8800P processor overclocked to 3.4 GHz is going to run on battery when it's strapped to your head. Yeah. Like actually specifically I don't really... Can you imagine how warm that would be between the headset across the front of your face and a computer taped to the back of it? I think it will wait for a second. Yeah. I mean did they even say anything about weight? No weight or battery. No weight or battery spec. That thing is not big enough to have a decent battery and it is too big to be light. But then you know here's something though. I don't know what an FX8800P is. Does anyone know what an FX8800P is? I've never heard of that. FX8800P. This is a notebook processor. I didn't even know any of these don't make notebook processors. Oh did you see that? I think the R7 bit. Okay. So what is it? Integrated. So this is some kind of like APU or something like that by the look of things. So let's just have a quick look at what this... A little gander over here. Products.amd.com page has on it. Man their site is slow. Okay. Because everyone's just super excited for the Suvalon Q. Specific... Why am I on the French page? Well whatever. Okay. Fondation. Opien. Opien... Trey? Yeah. Okay. TotalCache L2. I love how French just gets butchered when it comes to technical terms. A lot of languages do. Yeah. Okay. Version. PCI Express. Okay. So four hearts. 8 GPU cores. So here are their cores. Here are their cores. AMD, you don't get to do this. You don't get to add up CPU and GPU cores and just be like, yeah, that's 12 cores. Four threads. It's kind of 12 cores. Vitesse d'hollage de bas. Okay. So the 24 GHz is not overclocked so the article seems to have missed that. That is a Max Turbo. And it is a 15 watt TDP processor. Okay. So we're not talking about necessarily like a tablet processor but it's definitely a notebook processor. It's one that I've never seen in a laptop. 800 MHz R7. Wow. They're not even saying like how many stream processors it has or anything like that. So this is some underpowered nonsense. So what this means to me then anyway is if we're looking at a 28 nanometer AMD chip with four cores, maybe this just isn't about gaming at all then. This was the first VR experience that I wanted to quit. Oh. I mean, they're talking about the virtual mapping of the environment around you. Well, okay, not this. The Su-Long Cortex one. Yeah, right. I have not tried the Q. I have no idea what the experience is like. I can guess. Why would you even need wireless keyboard and mouse support? What would you do with a keyboard and mouse with this thing strapped to your head? I can't think of a reason to have a thing. How does it have wireless keyboard and mouse support? I don't know. Well, Bluetooth, I guess. But like why would you ever care? Why? Okay. Fine. We're done. Let's pull up the Anontac article that should have some... Oh, no. This article is not an article. This is just a link to an investor relations page and their webcast announcement page. So way to go, Colton. Okay. Let's talk GP roadmap. So yeah, original article here is from PC perspective. Good job, PCper. Yeah. Go Mr. Shroud. Actually, John Walriff, but whatever. Mr. Shroud gets at least some of the... Did I say John? Oh, sorry. Sorry. I still had the Hulk Hogan story on the mind. We'll talk more about that later. So some hints at what comes next. I love these GPU architecture roadmap slides because they're just so completely meaningless. Okay. So A, it's gazing into the crystal ball, which hasn't actually worked out very well for us over the last two to three years where we've been looking at these great slides of how much better GPUs are going to be. But then you have to read the fine print too, because the thing that they're telling you doesn't necessarily even have a whole lot to do with what you would want to know. This is a performance per watt graph, which is like... It could potentially even get worse in terms of... I'm not saying it is. I mean, Intel came out and said that. Yeah. Our CPUs could get worse. Yeah. Theoretically, the performance could go down. If the wattage used goes way down, that graph is still possible. Then we end up with a really super awesome looking graph. So Polaris is two and a half X performance per watt. So what we're sort of hoping for, I guess, is between sometime in 2016, we're going to get that and we're going to see maybe similar power draw or hopefully a little bit less. Maybe a little bit less power draw than current AMD top tier cards and maybe about, hey, one and a half to two X the performance. Then Vega is even way better sort of ish. About as much better again. Three times or... Really? Features HBM2. Yeah, maybe actually. Yeah, it's actually not that much different. It just, it looks more impressive because nothing happened between the end of 2014 and the middle of 2016. Literally nothing happened on the AMD side of things. So Vega is looking like another similar improvement and then they're like, oh yeah, it's going to take a little bit longer and then we're going to have Navi sort of later. Okay. Cool. What else we got here? Why can't I, why can't I move over? What's wrong with your thing? There we go. HBM1 is limited in the next gen parts. Okay. So that's some more news out of AMD that I guess is fascinating. I guess we already kind of knew this. The word on the street is that Nvidia's flagship, at least to start with Pascal, which is not big Pascal. That's going to be the next step down Pascal. It's going to be using GDDR5X. So it's probably just one of those things where Nvidia would have maybe loved to use HBM, but because they're moving a much higher volume of parts than AMD, there may simply not be enough HBM for AMD, let alone for someone like Nvidia to come in and put it on, you know, a hot selling skew like a replacement for something like the GTX 970. What else we got here? AMD announces the absolutely most powerful graphics card in the world. So our original article here is from Legit Reviews. And this, my friends, is the Radeon Pro Duo. It features three PCI Express 8-pin power connectors. Wow. Woo. It features liquid cooling. Which is probably smart. And it features pretty much two R9 theories on a single card. Pretty impressive. So having a look at some Fire Strike numbers here, it is, you know, definitely faster than an R9 295X2. It is definitely faster than a GTX Titan Z, which is the last dual GPU card that Nvidia released. Total, total flop the Titan Z was. They didn't even bother to redo a Titan, a dual GPU card for the flagship GPU of this generation. And yeah, so it has, it has definitely taken back, you know, if 3DMark scores are something to sort of go on, it has definitely taken back the most powerful graphics card award for AMD. We don't know if we're getting one. I have been in touch. They had said they wanted to give us a briefing before talking about sampling. So I actually CC'd you and John on the email, because you guys would probably be the ones to get briefed on it. When did you do this? Earlier this week. When was the briefing? Well, no, they never replied. So they haven't actually, they haven't actually sent any information about the briefing. So hopefully that's coming soon. Hopefully we will get some kind of coverage for you guys. The card has a combined eight gigs of HBM memory. So we are seeing, I guess, GTX 690 syndrome again, where like, yeah, okay, it's like really powerful. But the problem with the 690 is that because it only had two gigs of RAM per GPU, that was effectively two gigs of RAM. So whether it's an HBM allocation or whether it's the complexity of adding more of it to the board, AMD is limited to four gigs of HBM memory per core, which is effectively four gigs for the entire system, because the way that Crossfire and SLI work at this time is that they are not able to just go, okay, well, each GPU has four gigs. Now we've got eight gigs total making, you know, making other cards of similar power that come out in the future, whether they are based on Pascal or whether they're based on Polaris, probably make more sense to wait for. I'm not a huge fan of dual GPU cards, and there are a wide variety of reasons for that, not the least of which is the fact that the drivers for them, it comes down to what I was talking about before. You are better off investing in something that more people are going to buy because it puts more pressure on the manufacturer to fix it if there's a problem. So we had an issue in Scrapyard Wars 3 where Austin's system, because he had, what was it? 295X2, wasn't it? No, no, it was a 6990. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Had a 6990, couldn't run PCMark because there is no way on AMD's dual GPU cards, so single card dual GPU, to disable Crossfire. There were some guides we found and there were some people suggesting that there were ways to do it, but we did not successfully disable Crossfire because even though you can do it when you've got two cards in one system, you just, no, you just can't. And it felt like, because you were supposed to do it on an application-based level in order to disable Crossfire. There was some weird tool. Yeah, there didn't seem to be any, well, it's not that weird, it's a pretty common tool, but anyways, it does other stuff. It wasn't the AMD driver, which means it's not good enough. Okay, yeah, that's true. I'm not going to argue that. It is a relatively common tool, though. Anyways, so you're supposed to disable it on an application-based level. You don't just turn off Crossfire at all and let your computer see two individual, separate GPUs. Which I kind of get. PCI Express is complicated. It's not simple. Yeah, that's fair. So having a single interface, like, okay. But then I guess it didn't pick up the application properly or the application wasn't reporting properly or something. I don't know what was going on, but it just wasn't working and was going straight Crossfire right into the application. So it was like, nah, okay. Nothing else we can really do. So yeah, I would recommend, whether you're on the red team or the green team, I would wait for a single GPU card that is going to not only deliver probably very similar performance, but sort of what? Echo? Echo? Echo? Echo? For what? I don't know. Apparently there's an Echo? I have literally not touched the computer. So. Why is this happening? Everything is awesome. Everything is cool when you're on the WEN show. Everything is awesome when you Echo Echo. Oh, that was pretty good. I wonder how many Echos they're going to hear of you saying that. Echo, yeah. Got some people saying it's fine. What if we Echo ourselves? This is good enough. What if we Echo ourselves? What if we Echo each other? What if we Echo each other? Each other. Each other. Each other. Each other. Each other. Um. People are like you unplugged something. No, I didn't. My hands have been visible the whole time. You actually didn't. If I unplugged anything, it was definitely in my pants. So, okay, let's go ahead and move on to our next topic. Polaris 11 running 4K VR content pictured. Few Polaris 10 details. So Ryan Shrout tweeted, I did get to see AMD's Polaris 11 GPU running passively while playing back 4K VR content last night. Pretty impressive. Dun dun dun. For Polaris 10, the sample used during their event had 5 display outputs, 3 display ports, 1.3s, 8K, 8K, HDMI 2.0, finally, thank you AMD, and DVI-D dual link. Although it still bothers me that AMD has removed VGA output from their cards entirely. I don't remember why, but it inconvenienced me not that long ago when I was stuck with VGA and I had an AMD card and I was like, oh crap. Cannot do. According to VR World, the PCB of the Polaris 10 engineering sample was not much bigger than the R9 Nano. So AMD has taken this whole, yep, we are serious about improving efficiency and resizing the efficiency and reducing the size. Let's see if we have a picture. Well the Nano is a damn cool card. So like, I don't blame them for going that direction. And if you are running HBM memory, you don't have to have all those traces and all that additional PCB complexity, so you might as well simplify things and improve compatibility with smaller cases while you are at it. Now with that said, what we have observed about the R9 Nano is there aren't really a whole lot of cases that can handle the thermals but are not designed for a larger 10.5 inch sort of Nvidia reference card these days. But if AMD keeps this up, maybe we will see that change. I think the problems with the BOM were as much operator error as anything else. Hey, that was mean. I thought it was cool. Hey, it's not like you don't go after me about the servers, period. Frequently. Well it's a fair game. Frequently, like quite frequently. To be fair, I think the servers have more problems than the BOM, Dan. Had enough of your crap. Want to talk about the crazy NUC? The like absolutely insane NUC? Yeah, let's talk about the NUC. So this was originally posted on the forum by Alex Goes High. Have you already posted the PC Prilling? I'm doing it right now. Alright, let's do it. Meet the new Intel Skull Trail NUC changing the game. No, no, this is a reference to a demo that Intel did, I think, I think this is a reference to a demo that Intel did back at CES 2015 where they had a Skull Trail system and they were showing a Skull Trail system accelerating a demo where you could zoom in and zoom out of this really cool photo manager that in real time was resizing pictures as you moved in and out of it. And then they also had a NUC running that demo at the same speed. Now that's not because the NUC had the same CPU performance, but because the Skull Trail was running purely on CPU and the NUC was GPU accelerating it. It was a demo of how the change in the way that we have, in the way that Intel has approached, and the industry as a whole actually, but the way that Intel has approached improving computer power has allowed new experiences with much lower power consumption. I love that logo. I never looked at a NUC and be like, that looks sick. So this is the actual device. So tell us about it then. I just... You're just staring at it. It looks nice. You're just agape. It has an i7-6700HQ processor with a 45 watt TDP. Holy crap. Like real deal kids. I wasn't sure if I cared when I saw a NUC, because I don't really care about NUCs. And then I read that and was like, okay. Dual M.2 slots, you know, whatever. Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580, which you probably could have discerned. Thunderbolt 3, 40 gigabit per second with USB 3.1 and DisplayPort 1.2 over USB-C. Holy crap, that's badass. Port for DDR4 memory up to 32 gigs at some speed, which probably doesn't matter, but is 2133. Full size HDMI 2.0 port, so he's going to be happy again. Intel Dual Band Wireless AC. HDMI 2.0 is kind of a big deal. It is, I know, I know. I was just saying like specifically... Just saying, everyone should be happy. I'm not saying they aren't. SD card slot. That's good. That's good to have. Hey, I like the SD card slot. You should be happy to... Audio gigabit LAN, stuff like that. Infrared sensors, so that could actually be kind of cool. People could do some stuff with that. This is like one BA little machine. It's just with two lids. One with the skull logo, which you should probably use, and one with a plain matte black, which is a good idea for them to include. Also matte black. Good idea for them to include. You know, it's really funny talking to Intel people, and I hope I'm not like saying something that I, you know, someone told me the in confidence or anything. I don't think so. But talking to Intel people about how edgy putting a skull on something is internally at Intel. Meanwhile, it's like skulls are so passe, man. When was that even edgy? Like we're talking like no fear clothing. Like putting evil eyes on things is like edgy. Intel, you're like stuck in the 90s. On the one hand, you're like... And it's not even like a bone style. It's like this cool like computerized, outline. It's very stylized. Yeah, like it looks like a circuit board. Like it's very Intel. So on the one hand, you're this like forward looking, like working on crap that you and I won't touch for 10 to 20 years company. And on the other hand, you can't figure out that a skull is not edgy anymore. We're not sure about skulls. Yeah. Maybe it's, you know, too aggressive. We might scare the children. Make sure you ship it with a matte black cover as well. Yeah, you know, just in case because we're too afraid of skulls and something. So now to be clear, it's not as small as your grandpa's knuck. It's a 0.69 liter though, which is like pretty damn small. So it's still small. So, you know, like a quart of milk for the Americans or a liter of milk for the non-Americans, it's still only about 70% of that, which is not that small. So it's about 20 centimeters long, about eight inches long. I'm doing rough math. I know that's not quite right. By 11 centimeters wide by 23 millimeters. So only about an inch thick. So it is very, very small, pretty darn high powered and still not good enough to run a VR experience and be strapped to the back of my head. Oh my God. Shots fired. I did not expect that. I was not prepared for that. That was good. That was that was good. But what you could do is, you know, like this doesn't work. Don't worry. It doesn't work. It's okay. You could get one of these and then get one of those like external graphics card enclosures. Just hang the whole thing. It actually could work. How could you hook it up to this? Thunderbolt. It's got Thunderbolt, yo. No, but wouldn't that be... Oh, because then you could go out from that. Oh, that could, oh, that could sick work. We have to do that now. That could totally work. No, because... Because in my head I saw one output, but then you just go to the graphics card and then go from the graphics card to the... How long do you think... Okay. How long do you think you... I didn't think that was gonna work. How long do you think you could carry like an APC UPS around on your back in a backpack? I'll do it. If we could run one of these NUCs with like a Razer Core, okay? So like with like a GTX 980 Ti... This is the stupidest thing because we could just do a laptop. Oh, but that's so mainstream. That is way too mainstream. Not cray cray enough for Linux 10. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm down. I'll like specifically work out for this. Like we would have to actually get like a metal-framed hiking backpack. Yep, we have one. No, but we'd have to butcher it. We should go to like a SWAT store. Buy a used one and chop it up. Yeah, yeah, like Sec Play. What is that? Sports Replay or like a secondhand equipment store. Because all we really want is the metal frame. And then we would have to basically find a way to get like some kind of a UPS on there to power the graphics card and the NUC. And you'd only be able to play for probably like nine minutes. Like I hope you know that already. Because the battery? Yeah. Because like that kind of a graphics card sucking back like a couple hundred watts, like no UPS that you can physically carry is designed to run for longer than like, you know, 10 to 15, maybe 20 minutes. But that would be bananies. Does HTC and Valve, do HTC and Valve intend to have like lighthouses on steroids? What do you mean? Do you know? Like lighthouse units, but like on steroids. So you could, you know they're lighthouses, right? Yeah, but I don't understand the on steroids. On steroids is like if we had an empty warehouse, say for example, putting it in the corners of it. Oh. And theoretically. They have the playbox dimensions like, no. So we'll have to wait for a new generation of UPS batteries that is much lighter and a new generation of lighthouses. We should just get like attached like a wire frame around my waist and have like big long wire arms go out that hold the lighthouses. Now that's just done. It was a great idea up until then. What a dick. We could also just like have a helmet with a pole going out on it and then hang an Oculus one. Or a Mac Pro so you could selfie your VR experience. The Mac Pro is just for selfies. Did you see that? Did you not see the Mac Pro selfie stick? Someone did it as an art project. Oh no, I didn't see that. Okay, yeah, yeah. People are like the VTF Luke. This used to be a Dennis stream. We need to bring back Dennis. I tried last time. It didn't really work that well. Someone's like worst WAN show ever. So not worst, but it is worse. So as long as it's not the best, then technically it is the worst. The worst WAN show. But is it best or best? I don't know, but what I do know is that the longer we make fun of the grammar and spelling of our audience, the closer we're getting to it being the worst WAN show ever. Speaking of worst WAN show ever, why don't we talk about the sponsors of today's WAN show. DollarShaveClub.com, proud sponsor of the worst WAN show ever. 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If you have a problem on Christmas Eve, or even Christmas Day, that is one of the 365 days in the year, and they will take care of it. Now, this year was a leap year. So, unfortunately, 19 days ago, you were pretty much SOL. Not true. Because this year had 366 days. They advertise 365, okay? They're better than advertised. Once every four years. They under-promise over-delivery. Rackspace takes a day off. They don't. They don't. What are we talking about? Rackspace. They're inviting you to deep-dive sessions. They take one an hour every week or two to discuss benefits of dedicated solutions in a large leap file. I have a link for that. So if you want to take a Rackspace deep-dive, you guys can check that out. The long and short of it is they will discuss... You just said it. Yep. On March 23rd, they'll have one on improving your operational efficiency, which is good for everything ever. They typically do about three sessions a month via Google Hangouts. And they will provide you with downloads to reference architecture, e-books, and white papers on the session's landing pages. So it's live with active participation so you can go ask your questions and interact with them. So there's deep-dives coming up on March 23rd and on March 30th. The second one is how to optimize SQL Server for performance and reliability. This kind of stuff is just plain beneficial. So check it out. Give yourself a chance to talk to Rackspace experts and learn a little something while you are at it. Which leads us to our last sponsor of the day. Which has out-of-date notes. A totally serious one as well. Squarespace. Yeah, yeah. When is the sales team ever going to update our Squarespace notes, sales team? Maybe this is part of their crime school. You know what we should do? Is we should completely ignore any new Squarespace talking points until they update our talking points. I'm going to pretend that I still think Squarespace's slogan is... You know what? You probably should. Simple, powerful, beautiful. You should do that. You know what else I'm going to say? I'm going to say that they have 24-7 support via live chat and email. You should say that. Thank you. That would be applicable. I'm going to say that Squarespace starts at only $8 a month and you get a free domain if you buy Squarespace for a year. You should also say that. That would be accurate. I'm going to say that their templates feature responsive design so your website scales to look great on any device. You should also say that they have commerce modules so you can buy stuff. Yeah, yeah. Or you can sell stuff or buy stuff from other people. And if the notes said anything about cover pages, then you should... Talk about how you can have a cover page if you want to do something like a resume-style website. Just like a simple online presence. And the most important thing that you should cover is that when you decide to sign up for Squarespace after your two-week free trial to try it out and see how simple it is... You should save 10% by using offer code LINUS. You should do. You should do. Thank you. Build it beautiful. Thank you for watching the Lanshow. You should probably build it beautiful. You should probably build it beautiful. You should probably build it simple. And powerful, too. It is a miracle that anyone sponsors us. Making Colton and Nick cringe. Good. Brandon informs us we're making Colton and Nick cringe. I wish we could do more to them. But alas, our words are only so powerful from down here. They learned to get away from us in crime school. Yeah, crime school. What have we even talked about on the show today? I don't know. Broken baby food jar leads to Sweden's first unstaffed grocery store. How does that make any frickin' sense? I don't know, but I'll tell you. Fascinating. Sweden IT specialist Robert Woh. Eliasson? I'm gonna, I tried. Swedish IT specialist Robert owns a store that is unmanned. It's a town, yeah, it's in a town in Sweden. The store, basically he's trying to feed his, ha! I didn't see Nick behind the camera. I see him now. Yeah, basically he's trying to feed, I believe it was his baby daughter? Baby whatever. And he broke a food jar and had to drive really far to find somewhere that was still open because it was really late at night or early in the morning or something. And he got frustrated and was like, why don't we just have stores that can be open all the time, everywhere? So he made a store that can be open all the time. You sign up, there is a credit check that you have to go through. You get an app on your phone so you can manage your purchase and stuff. You can just walk in, scan the things that you want and walk out and then you get a bill once a month. That is so cool. If the door stays open for longer than eight seconds or is tampered with, Robert will receive an alert. There you go. I mean, to be clear, this isn't the kind of thing that we're expecting. Is it Iliason? I don't know. Iliason? This is not the kind of thing that I'm expecting personally to be able to be rolled out in New York or that was terrible. New York? I tried. I'm going there so I was trying to like. Oh my God. New York? Just screw off. New York? Or like LA or whatever anytime soon because you need a fair bit more security. But right now it's deployed out in a small town, only about 4,200 residents. So exactly the kind of town, especially in Europe, like I've noticed that, where the grocery store would close at like 4 p.m. Oh my God. And you'd just be like. Switzerland. Everything closes so early. Well, it was the same thing in Germany. Yeah. Remember the day we landed in Germany? It was like two in the afternoon and freaking everything was closed. Like we couldn't get food. This is ridiculous. So it's exactly the sort of environment where something where you would have a lot of trust between members of the community, very small community. And you would have the frustration of not being able to buy baby food in the middle of the night when your baby's freaking hungry. And like I don't give a crap about, you know, Sweden's and the Swedish people's philosophy about not working too hard and all that stuff when my baby's hungry. So if you can have a store that just plain doesn't need anyone working in it and I can go get a freaking thing of baby food and hey, maybe it could be more expensive so that, you know, you could offset the jobs that will be lost or whatever and justify something. My first like legit non like I'm a ref or a paperboy or I mow your lawn, like that kind of stuff. My first legit like I get a paycheck every two weeks from a big corporation kind of job was at a grocery store. So part of like this story is cool. When I go to grocery stores, I use automated tills. When I go to Home Depot, I use automated tills. I'm that person already. Probably horrible because it's contributing to stuff like this, which is contributing to massive amounts of especially low end jobs going away. With that said, if there was anywhere where I would want to be working at an entry level job only to have it swept out from under my feet, it would probably be Sweden. Because they will probably figure out how to support those people before other people. But a lot of other countries won't. Can you imagine a Donald Trump America supporting people who have lost their jobs? This is really, this is really funny. This is like super, super funny. I was reading an article that was about it was it was talking to a writer of an episode of The Simpsons from 16 years ago where like I'm pretty sure every show has done this. Oftentimes it's a Christmas special where the ghost of the future comes back and shows the character how how their life is heading anyway. So it's the episode where Bart gets to see his future self and he's in like he's in like a crappy band and he works in gigs at like Nelson's Club. And his sister has just just won the presidency of the United States and Milhouse, one of her top aides, comes in and holds up a chart of the of the staggering deficit that they've inherited from President Trump. Seriously, it was so it was so ludicrous. And so the writer's saying like we were trying to write an America's Gone Crazy, like completely unbelievable worst case scenario. Simpsons has done that like a few times. And that's what we came up with. Like not like once. Like they've made crazy predictions like quite a few times. And I just I thought it was I thought it was amazing. Didn't they do something with like the iPad or something? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Extremely accurately. What's up Nick? Can I help you? Yeah, I'm just gonna say if you ever actually read the notes maybe you wouldn't get any of the notes. Sorry, I can't hear you. Sorry, the microphone can't hear you. Nick's trying to give us crap about not reading his notes. I'm just sitting here judging you. Maybe I should come down and talk about how the manager is always there. Hey, hey, that was because my capture card stopped working today. This week is my capture card. Last week it was my camera. This week it's gonna be my laptop. It actually might be his laptop next week. We had some problems this time. My phone's not working. That's why this dream can't start. This phone's not working. I'm just gonna build a wall so we can't get any notes in. My dreamcast stopped working. Is that where you cast your dreams a little far for any notes in the card? Yeah. Hey, that's a that was a cool article. All right, so this next article the original one it was posted by Dave has landed. Sup, John? On the forum. Nick, John needs you. It was originally posted on oculus.com and this is looking pretty impressive we hope except we've all seen this story before. I mean, do you remember do you remember Valve's whole like, oh yeah, there's so many games for stream OS. Who cares? Because just because you have a lot of games doesn't mean that they're good. However, 30 games is more than I expected Oculus to have as like actual VR games, not just games that like will work. Although I said that and I was told that but looking closely at the list there's some things that I didn't actually really notice the first time like keep talking nobody explodes. Actually, no, that was originally a VR game. It was later made into a non-VR game. The where was the absolute Elite Dangerous? No, that's not the one I was looking for. Where's the sniper one? I swear to God, I just read a sniper one. Project cars. No, that probably I'm crazy. I think I dyslexia the crap out of Elite Dangerous and thought it was like the elite sniper sniper elite sniper elite. Yeah, so I guess that's not in here because dyslexia. So everything's fine. Never mind VR tennis online. Some of these things like okay Adventure Time Magic Man's head games makes me excited because it's Adventure Time makes me worry that it's rushed because it's $5. Do you still follow Adventure Time? No. Oh, okay. Do you? It was like good and good and good and good and good and then it kind of lulled and this kid seems to be getting good again. Cool. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, Gun Jack is like that's a that's a gear VR game. It like has no place on Rift because it's just way worse than Valkyrie and that's like about it. Okay, cool. You just can't move and it's now a turret game. Okay. I don't know. I am I'm like this. This doesn't really. A rapid fire topic, I guess. Yeah, doesn't really make much of a difference to me because these could all suck. You get Lucky's Tale for free with every purchase and Eve Valkyrie with pre-orders. Yeah. Wow, I can't believe they're not just going to ship it with Valkyrie. And another thing that worries me which we already knew but that worries me is the Eve Valkyrie is called Founder's Pack. Yep. Super makes it. So, yep. DLC! DLC or it's like even possibly going to be free to play with purchases, which might even be worse. Okay, so so much for WD not completing their acquisition of Sandisk. It has been overwhelmingly approved on both sides. Sandisk, 98% of their shareholders approved the merger and WD it was about 90%. So, yeah, there you go. So WD officially has NAND fabrication capacity. Good for them. Yeah. Russian billionaire is saying that he can put your brain into a robot in 30 years. Hosted by NoNerg on the forum. He's really confident. He spent a lot of money on it. I think he wants to live forever. I think that's what's going on. I wouldn't mind living forever. You know, it's actually kind of sad because looking at a lot of the advancements that are being made in both transferring consciousness into a machine and slowing or reversing the aging process, I feel like our generation just barely didn't make it. Yeah, we're going to just slightly miss. Yeah. Like I could totally see a near future reality where if you agree to a sterilization or something like that, you can prolong your life indefinitely or something. Like I hope they make people agree to sterilization because the last thing we need is a bunch of people living forever and procreating at the rate that humans do. But anyway. Although if you get turned into a robot. Yeah, that would be yes, then sterilization would be a thing. But unless you like have a little manufacturing plant. So he founded the 2045 initiative in 2011 with the goal to create a more advanced non biological carrier for an individual's personality. I'm 100% confident it will happen, he says. Otherwise, I wouldn't have started it. Doesn't have a God complex of all. I have no idea what you're saying. Yeah. Okay. First part of the project is to create a robotic version of a human body that can be controlled by the brain, which is scheduled to be completed by 2020. I mean, it's amazing. We're only hearing about this now when like, you know, we're at CES watching 3D printed prosthetics need to be controlled via muscle movement. I mean, surely if you can build a whole body in the next four and a three quarters of. Well, they have they have the monkey that was walking on the treadmill, I think in the States, who made a robotic version of the monkey walk on a treadmill in, I believe, Japan. Both of those locations could be super inaccurate. Anyways, it was super far away. So he has poured 1.43 billion into the project so far. Who says money doesn't buy happiness if living in a robot makes you happy? Very interesting. Team is made up of Russian specialists from the fields of neural interfaces, robotics, neuroscience and artificial organs. This was originally posted on Ars Technica. One hundred and fifteen million dollar verdict in the Hulk Hogan sex tape lawsuit could wipe out Gawker. Which, if you guys don't know, would include, let's see, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Deadspin, Kotaku, Jezebel and Jalopnik. Gawker employs about 250 people and they were sued for publishing a sex tape showing Hulk Hogan having sex with his friend's wife. So Hogan's lawyer says that the Gawker editor was playing God with my client's privacy. The sum may have punitive damages added to it as well. And the jury found two men personally liable in addition to Gawker Media. Wow. So I guess the lesson that we learned here is that Linus Media Group should only publish sex tapes if they are of its employees. With consent, yeah. Sure. That too. Theoretically, yeah. That's a good idea. So now we know. Now we know. Good to know. I'm glad we know. We've got another really cool thing to show you guys. For those of you who tuned in to the Twitch chat earlier this week, or the Twitch chat, the Twitch stream earlier this week, where I basically was only intermittently streaming, there was a reason for that. It's really cool. Eight members of Linus Media Group have Counter-Strike models with their faces on them, and they look freaking awesome. I don't have the application installed, so unfortunately I can't show you guys the... Oh, here we go. Here we go. There we go. You don't have to have the... That's a better look at it. How do I pan? Do you know how to pan? Well, okay. Go to edit. Yeah. Once it loads, there's some problems. It's very beta, which is why we couldn't get it working. They tell us, though, that the server should be back up next week, and we can try again, because... Well, I think the server might even be live right now, but it's not... With how hard we hit it, trying to put a whole team on there and stuff, it has major problems, and they're making a North American one just for us and all this kind of stuff. Okay, well, that is not loading, so... Anyways, it's pretty cool. It's cool. The RealSense part of it is not beta, and actually works super well. I'm impressed. RealSense with ICs 3D scans really well. If you guys saw the... What was it called? 3D scanner that I did probably about a year ago. I don't remember what it was called. I'm sorry. I had to attach it to an iPad. I scanned Taron. I scanned the room. I remember what it was called. Anyways, it's better than that other than... Does it do room scanning? The program I used doesn't do room scanning. I think it theoretically could do room scanning just fine. Just the program I specifically used does not do it. But, yeah, you can kind of see... I wasn't that bullish on RealSense, to be perfectly honest. This demo has sold me on it in a much, much bigger way. I mean, look at that. If that doesn't look like a terrorist, I don't know what that is. He's making a crazy smile and stuff, which is actually cool because it made some differentiation between different people's avatars. And if his head's at a weird tilt or something, don't... What just happened? Look, it's like a pixel. Whoa, if his head's at a weird tilt and stuff, don't worry about that because you can fix that. But anyways, the RealSense scanning went really well. Then we had to import it into this thing, which, you know... Didn't work as well. It, uh... I usually got to work. I don't know what's going on with his laptop or what's currently going on with the site. They have like two different beta sites they've been having us use, and one's kind of better than the other one, so I don't really know if this is the right one or not. Anyways, this part had some problems, but we got through that, made it all work, and then when we tried to integrate it on the server, it was kind of weird. It's supposed to attach with your Steam ID so that when you connect, it puts your model mesh onto your character and only you onto your character. But there were some major problems, like everyone spawning in as Colton. We have like four Coltons. By the way, guys, this is important to note. This is a low resolution preview. This is not nearly as good as it is. It actually looks considerably better than that. I sure wish I could... It looks really good. Yeah, it looks shockingly good, and I wish I could show it to you properly, but I'm kind of giving up on that at this point. I mean, you guys can probably try to launch it. Launch it! Just stream some Counter-Strike, dog. Deploy. Do it. It might work. It might work. I don't think it's gonna work. I guess no one will be able to see you, actually. Because you kill yourself and you look at yourself on the floor. Yeah, but you... Okay, so I'll have to be running backwards while I kill myself, so I ragdoll backwards. Do you want to do the next topic while I try and get this working? Sure. PlayStation VR to release October 2016, which is not that bad. And it costs $399 USD or $549 CAD. Oh! Remember when that used to be? $399 CAD? Yeah, I do remember that, actually. Thank you. Oh my god. Anyways, that's really freaking cool. Might not exactly be what everyone expected me to say, but that's awesome. Because the cost of a PlayStation 4 and a PlayStation VR is cheaper than some entire VR solutions. Which is true, but the thing that we're ignoring here is that a PlayStation Move is not included. Okay, you could play with the controller. And what else was not included? I forget what it was. There was something... You could definitely just play with the controller. Yeah, but there was some other... and I can't look it up on my laptop right now, but there was some other super important peripheral that would dramatically improve the experience. I think it was a camera that is also not included. Oh, because the camera does need to see the lights that are on the headset. So I don't... yeah, I don't remember what exactly the deal was. Either way, it's actually a pretty low-cost solution to getting into VR, which does have a dedicated processing unit, which is a lot better than a phone or something. And if Sony's optimizations are as good as they say they're going to be, then... It could be a pretty good solution for its price. It could be. They're doing actually very respectable things, like saying if people's frame rates are too low, we're just not allowing them to have the game on the store. Which is awesome, because they don't want to allow shitty experiences. I'm actually really excited for it. Yeah, there's the other article. Sony to reject any PlayStation VR games that drop below 60 FPS. Good! Yeah, like that's awesome. Good job, Sony. So they should. So I'm actually kind of stoked for this, because... Yeah, hopefully it's actually good. That's why I wasn't stoked for the SuLan G or Q or whatever it was, because it doesn't look like it's actually going to be good. Dang it. Shit. I think you have to restart the round or something. So I think I'll actually have to wait three minutes and 40 seconds to find out if my thing will load. This is a weird server, man. Like the chickens have Playboy bunny ears on them or something. What the heck is up with these guys? Easter. Oh, Easter! Not Playboy bunny ears. Easter chicken. That makes perfect sense. Why didn't I realize it? I don't know. What else we got? George Hots, so GeoHot, you guys might know him, attended Self by Southwest this year to announce his new company, Comma.ai. Discuss his plans for replacing many jobs with AI. He's going to start by eliminating all jobs in the global transportation sector, replacing them with self-driving cars. Says his self-driving tech will ship for no more than $1,000 and will work on any car made after 2012. Once driving jobs are gone, he plans to go on to the cashiers, the secretaries, the salespeople, quote unquote, those people that are easy to replace with AI. All right. Correct. Okay. I'm not surprised. It's GeoHot. Original article was from The Verge, so there you go. The Razor Core finally has a price. I think I nailed it. I don't remember what I said I thought it was going to be at the time, but it'll cost $500. So you will actually have to pay $500 just for the privilege of putting a $500 graphics card into it to run off of your laptop. You can save $100, however, when pairing it with a Blade or a Blade Stealth notebook. I hope they've got the hot plug issue sorted out because if they do, it is going to make the Blade Stealth 2, the next-gen Blade Stealth, a very compelling option. Current gen, too little RAM. Current gen is limited to 8 gigs of RAM, which as people who have paid attention to what I think about 8 gigs of RAM will know, I do not think is enough. I don't know that that sentence made any sense, but it doesn't have to. I ran out of memory. I almost just did a spoiler. I did? I almost did. Oh. And then I didn't for Scrapyard Wars. Oh, yeah. Don't spoil Scrapyard Wars. I didn't. But yes, Scrapyard Wars is being worked on. So as of today, all the footage has been logged. People keep asking, why does it take so long to edit a video? Because it takes a long time to edit a video if you want it to be good. So many stages. So the first stage is to take all the hours and hours of footage. Oh my God. And not just watch them, but actually log in an application that is for logging footage. What kind of happened? How important was it? How did it apply to the storyline? What was happening elsewhere? Where should this go? Grading it. Is there a problem with the audio, for example? Does it need extra work? Is there a better clip that could also fill in this gap? Did they retake it? So logging is now done. So now the editing... Well, no, now I think Ed is currently working on putting together the story arc for the season. And this is part of the issue that we've run into with previous seasons. I am so happy he's doing this. We haven't taken the time, because we've been too swamped to do that. And even then it takes a long time, just to be clear. We haven't taken the time to do that. So we've ended up with sort of like action-packed and then kind of boring, and then action-packed and then kind of boring. So we're getting away from that. Not going to be a thing. When I saw him doing storyboarding stuff, I was like, what is this? And then he explained it all to me. I was like, thank you. And then I think I just walked away. So it's super awesome, and I think we'll make a huge difference in the watchability of this Scrapyard Wars. A big part of the issue is we just haven't had the manpower for it. I get it. And we've had Ed creating graphical assets and editing LTTs and even things like Fast As Possible in between trying to get Scrapyard Wars done in the past. But this time, he's going to put in his earphones for a month, and no one will talk to him. And I am really excited, because Scrapyard Wars Season 4 is going to be the best ever. Alright, so there's a new Blade 14. I have checked in with Razer. We are definitely getting a review unit. So basically, not a whole lot has changed. It's got a Core i7-6700 now instead of a fourth-gen processor, which is what the existing Blade had. The 256-gig model gets a price reduction. It still has a 3200x1800 QHD Plus display. It now has an RGB backlit keyboard, a PCI Express SSD. GPU is the same. Still a 970M. 970Ms are pretty solid. And that's pretty much it. Not much else to say. Probably a thermal thing. Original article was from NGadget. USB charging and it has support for a Thunderbolt 3 graphics amplifier upon release. So if a 970M is just not enough for you, or you don't want your palms to sweat while you're gaming, you can use one of those puppies. If you're plugging into something, you could probably plug in a keyboard as well. Just saying, man. I'm just saying. That's it. Show's over. I'm just saying. Nope. Nope. Show's over. We gotta go study for crime school. Yeah, we gotta go study for crime school. Okay, there's a couple topics here that I do want to hit next week. But I'm tired and it's time to go to crime school. Alright, so we'll see you guys again next week. Oh, you know what? I don't think we're gonna get away with not talking about this. GameSpot.com, original article. Oh. Sony responds to Microsoft's invite to connect the Xbox One and PS4 networks. Doesn't directly acknowledge Microsoft's open invitation, but suggests that it is open-minded to partnerships. That is pretty exciting. Opening the door to cross-platform play was such a huge thing for Microsoft to do. Shouldn't have been a huge thing. It should have been a thing from pretty much day zero since Microsoft owned a console and a PC platform. Just saying. But at least we are finally making progress. Thanks to Microsoft finally pulling its head out of its butt and saying that they wanted cross-platform play to be a thing. So developers building games for the Xbox One and Windows 10 will be able to support the feature. Rocket League will be one of the first titles to support this. Makes perfect sense given that it's a controller-optimized game. So the Xbox One owners won't have to feel too bad about their controller in that game. That'll come later. Too bad? It's actually... I know, it's like totally controller-optimized. Yeah. So that's pretty much it. Oh man, there's... Okay, fine. We'll just have to blow through this as well. There's a bunch of actually really important stuff that we sort of didn't talk about this week. Originally posted by iCushDreams on the forum, T-Mobile is back, baby, announcing YouTube streaming that no longer affects your mobile data cap. Dun, dun, dun. So they now have more than 50 providers including Discovery Go, Fox Business, Google Play Movies, Red Bull TV, YouTube, and more. Pretty freaking cool. It's part of their Bin John program. Now with that said, this is a post on the T-Mobile.com site, and some of the customer feedback of Bin John hasn't been as positive, saying that the coverage of it is not necessarily that great. But, hey, it's a whole lot better than a big fat load of nothing, which is what the other providers are offering you. That's true. So there you go. Apparently these bundled services represent 70% of all the video that T-Mobile customers watch on their phones and tablets monthly. In four months since Bin John was launched, these are pretty crazy statistics. Customers are watching twice as many hours per day. More than 57 petabytes have been burned up without using customers' data plans, and one video provider has seen number of active viewers spike by 90%, and watch times nearly triple from customers. Very nice. I look forward to a future where every carrier has been John. I'm just kidding. It's not happening. All right. So thanks for watching the WAN Show, guys. We will see you again next week. Same bat time, same bat channel. And I know the intro isn't going to work, but it's okay. I will make it work soon. Yay. That was pretty quick. Yeah. I think you get a pass for that. Oh, right. Boop. Boop. Boop. Also, I need to see a thing real quick before I actually end the show. What is going on here? Come on. Come on. Come on. I'm just seeing if I can show you guys that avatar before I take off here. Continue. Wait, do you happen to know if that one that I loaded was CT or terrorist? Terrorist, I think. Maybe that. Oh, oh, yeah. It's you. It's me. Okay. So, okay. The only way to kill yourself on this map is to jump onto the railing or kill. That also works. Get up. Get up. There. Look at him. Oh, he's so happy. There he is. Look at him. Look at him. He sure doesn't stay dead long, that guy. You can just up arrow enter. There we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. Look at him. Look at him. All right. So there you go, guys. That's what it'll look like. It's pretty good.