 We are live! Hooray! Hooray! Welcome to the show! We both have new attire today as you may or may not have noticed. Luke has my wonderful dolphin Christmas sweater. That thing that he's wearing. The best dolphin Christmas sweater ever. And I have what I think is probably gonna be our most popular t-shirt design ever. Good reason. Well I kind of do too. So we both rockin' the keep on diggin' shirts. And then truthfully I actually have a horrible Christmas sweater too. So it's getting to be that time of year. And here we go. Yeah, oh yeah. Shark Christmas. So I think obviously the first thing we're gonna talk about on the show today is sharks versus dolphins. Who is superior? Well I think sharks would be more superior in like a physical aggressive kind of manner. And then dolphins are more superior in like the logic and apparently sex kind of manner. Better at sex. Well aren't they the only other mammal that has sex for fun? I think this is the fact. No I think it's pigs actually. I think this is the fastest. No pigs have half an hour fun times. But I don't think they actually do it for like recreation. Now we're gonna have to consult the Twitch chat because if there's anything I would expect the Twitch chat to be an expert on, it would be animal sex. Oh no. Oh man. Someone just said dolphins can kill sharks. Maybe. But like no one's like oh no there's a dolphin. This is true. I was actually hoping you didn't know that. Dolphins can be a big problem if they get aggressive because they're super powerful. That's why whenever you go like swimming with dolphins you only swim with the female dolphins. Yes. You don't swim with the male dolphins because they'll wreck you. Okay we've got a lot of people saying that they're right. Luke's right. Dolphins have sex for pleasure. Apparently... okay I don't know if Twitch chat knows as much as they think they know. Dolphins kill more people a year than sharks and rape them. I'm thinking that's not actually what happens. It's possible they kill people. It's the second part that I'm a little uncertain about. There's... yeah I'm not gonna get into it. But there's some stuff for that second one. Yeah I'm sure there's... I'm sure there's an incident. But anyways moving on we have some pretty cool topics this week that don't have to do with sharks or dolphins actually. Like not at all. Yay Christmas shark Christmas dolphin. So some CSGO vac pros... CSGO pros got vac banned. There we go. I can talk. Vac banned. I got vac pros. Anyways we'll talk about that more later. CSGO pro. CSGO pro and it's like a little dude with a deagle but it's actually just a go pro. And now that we've started this it's only a matter of time until some like counter-terrorist agent starts... is that me? Hey turn it off. Look at this noob. It's only a matter of time until some like counter-terrorism agent starts wearing a GoPro on all his ops. CSGO pro. This becomes a YouTube sensation immediately. Anyways also BitTorrent is introducing some possible, if you want them to be there, pay gates which pay a lot more to the contributing artist than most other services. Dell's 5k monitor is rumored to be coming in at a much lower price than we had originally anticipated. I'm guessing they got somewhat surprised by Apple's pricing of the iMac Retina 5k and then Origin PC. It looks like, I'm assuming, I actually don't know if it's going to be a limited time offer but it sounds like it. For their fifth anniversary they are going to be selling their cases, both the mid tower and the full tower, standalone. So you don't actually have to buy an Origin PC in order to get that pretty fantastic Genesis and Millennium case that allows your motherboard to be oriented five different ways. Four different ways. There is no additional dimension that the case creates. It goes like flat. You don't have the side panel and it just comes flat. So it's like kind of a test bench but not really. And if you got it going fast enough you could probably get it to look like a flying case. Put jets on the back and put some little case wheels on the bottom and just hope it works. People are complaining about the background noise. The window's open because it's hot in here and we're wearing Christmas sweaters because tis the season to sweat buckets. Because we're in BC so there's no snow. Oh yeah. Oh yeah there's audio. I'm just singing for fun now. Our sponsors this week are linda.com. The fun place to learn. Look how much fun she's having. That's Linda. You can have that much fun online. I have that much fun. Actually I think there are sites where you can have a lot more fun than that online but this is educational fun. I have an adequate amount of fun online. Also 5-4 club. They are going to be reminding you guys or I guess I'm going to be reminding you guys on their behalf about their sweet fantastic amazing giveaway that's like actually the craziest clothing giveaway we've ever done. Kind of awesome. Well yeah. We haven't done many clothing giveaways. We have done a few I guess if we like throw shirts out. Yeah actually okay I have done clothing giveaways. I have actually thrown shirts at events. Yeah mainly the paintball one. Yeah yeah and and at NCIX events. I have thrown many shirts actually. So that is potentially not the biggest clothing giveaway I've ever purchased. No I think it would be still. I think it still would be. If you argue that a swag shirt is only worth the actual cost of printing it. And with the swag shirts like if you caught four of them it's not really. Yeah it's not a wardrobe. No. Unless your name is Luke. Well yes but then I do have different ones of all my swag shirts. You would wear two of the same one. Probably. I do have two of the same one. They would both be in the rotation. They are. You know the like teal blue twitch shirt? Yes I do. I have two of those. Okay. I like that shirt. That doesn't surprise me. It's good. I'm glad you have two because you'd probably just wear it twice as often if you didn't have two and then you'd smell. All right let's get into our first our first topic of the day. So this was posted by Tank Slayer on the forum and there's actually a lot of different sources for this one including TalkAndroid.com but that's the one we're gonna fire up here. Excuse me it's actually X Tank Slayer X. Yeah I don't care. So oneplus not solving issues with defective devices ignoring RMA requests. Now the article has been updated with one plus's statement that they are working on growing their team and expanding their capacity for for customer service related stuff but that doesn't change that some of these testimonials are pretty pretty condemning. So you know what they could do to completely solve this problem? They should just have their RMA system like a lottery. So you get invites to be able to RMA your phone. So like you sign up on their website. Oh wow. You have to already. Phone warranty lottery. Yeah. So your serial number just gets assigned an arbitrary warranty period. So some people get like a 10-year warranty on their phone and others get like 48 hours and it just averages out to you. Could you advertise a one-year warranty on your phone? If it was an average warranty. Someone gets like a hundred-year warranty and everyone else gets a couple hours and they just hope that that dude just throws the phone away after a while. Yeah so it's no secret that we're not huge fans of the way one plus has conducted themselves since their inception not very long ago. It's amazing how many people send me one plus one invites. I have some people just email them to me without even asking if I want them and I'm just like do you have any idea how many of these I've gotten? If I wanted a one plus one I'd have bought one by now. It's really not that hard to get an invite if you really want one. Especially now where they're not only accepting invite customers but they're even opening it up for pre-orders from time to time whenever they do production runs at the Oppo factory. So anyway what happened was I used her on Reddit stated that he was being helped to fix his audio issues and when a flash of his phone did not help customer service apparently ignored his RMA request and after 11 days he posted his concerns on Reddit. So the statement from one plus is we prioritize the experience of our users above our else our team is growing rapidly to etc etc etc etc. If you guys want to discuss this more actually the thread on Linus Tech Tips forum is one of the more I don't know just generally it's a really really good it's a really good thread. People being very respectful having balanced discussion bringing lots of fat look at look at look at ghost he's all on top of it's a lot it's awesome it's a bot yeah look bot how's that work so when you post something specifically when your account post something and then it has HTTP colon slash slash in it that bot will just nuke the how do I not know about these things because ghost is awesome because like I I've been spamming it and you guys didn't tell me it's fairly new yeah ghost got really tired of me not instigating like an actual chat bot so he's like I'm gonna just make my own so he did good job you are the man and like the best part is that I'm not gonna go over like all the different things that it does but certain things that it does are drastically better than all the free bots out there and are like reasons why I've been holding off because I'm like oh they just suck right so yeah he solved those two cool all right let's move into our next topic well this is cool that means this means there's actually a point in me posting things like the source links for the stuff that we're about to talk about oh and it did it doesn't have an HTTP colon slash slash it does it does balls well all right it didn't work that time ghost you are hereby no it did something else you are hereby deducted one internet cookie but it's okay because you earned six and he's the last thing you did all right so this is Keith's kiss coming only does it every 90 seconds this was posted by dismal on the forum I'm gonna go ahead and pop this up on my screen here anyway I'm sorry why does it have a cool down you can only do it once every 90 seconds oh all right then oh it's probably so if you span the crap out of it it's probably to keep me from getting banned there we go banning myself all right so this I mean I think the headline is a little bit sensationalist mr. Eric McBride over at Android Authority I don't think that kiss connectivity will make cords obsolete but I do agree that I mean if kissing made cords obsolete what would we need the internet for you could just kiss girls in real life well I guess boys yeah whichever anyway the point is that this is we don't really have a ton of confirmation about exactly how the heck it works but what they have said is it's all long-distance relationships I'm sorry long distance okay the connectors used in keys as wireless kiss connectivity are currently able to transfer up to six gigs of data per second to put this in perspective the latest Wi-Fi standard can handle up to 1.35 gigs a second and that's very theoretical I've never seen it go anywhere near that fast and that's using a bridge or like out like a media a media bridge and a high-speed router as opposed to a router and then the kinds of weak sauce clients that typically people are using so this they showed off transferring a 1080p movie file although we don't actually have confirmation of the exact size of the file but I would guess it's in the given that it did it in five seconds I would guess that it was in the six gigs range but it could be anywhere from two and a half to 12 gigs and that would translate to 512 megabytes per second to 2457 megabytes per second which is monstrous bananas did it hold on a second no I did the math wrong there it should have been 10 seconds to be whatever the speed I said was okay anyway somewhere between 512 megabytes to 2457 and it can only do it a couple of millimeters away right now so we're not talking about like you know I'm just like this and I'm like bibbidi boop and it goes over to his phone you know as fast as a USB 3 wired connection we're talking about more like an NFC touch style and like make sure you get it aligned just right yeah kind of arrangement the initial demo of the technology was by their CEO Eric Almgren and they claim that no I already said that so whoa yeah yeah it was touchscreen so I I don't know what else there's truly say about this other than the one big problem is that it doesn't use any kind of existing technology like one of the ways that we've seen NFC file transfers before in the past is things like and I'm holding up an iPhone haha and if Cderp I can pay for things yeah thank you so one of the ways we've seen NFC file transfers implemented in the past is with an NFC handshake and then a direct Wi-Fi connection for example whereas kiss connectivity is not going to rely on any kind of existing connection it will need a dedicated chip just for this although it looks like they're already in the process of working with a couple of large OEMs Dell is probably going to be one of them given that one of their devices was used for the demo and then Samsung and Intel are also investors so that's already some pretty heavyweight players even if just Samsung rolls it out that is a huge chunk of the smartphone market that could be enabled with this technology like to see it in palm rests of laptops yes did you read my comment and steal it I had that was that was gonna be my whole thing that I was gonna actually be able to talk about I put a I put an additional book see I'm not gonna put bullet points in the dock anymore it goes Linus's thought integrated into laptops question mark you know what would be great in your laptop you know what congratulations for your good idea yeah you did good you were in sight I was actually thinking about that I want to talk about this topic next yes sure we can do that I was actually thinking we might get more into that on after party or okay you know we get more into an after party sure let's do it during the show but maybe not quite next sure so so yeah integrated into laptops like right now one of the big problems with phones that faster wireless connectivity could fix is that you're either running around for a cable and using the old stupid traditional folder based file transfer technique or you're using something that's inherently slow like you're backing up to Dropbox herb derp I'm holding up an iPhone again well excuse me I mean airdrop to all of my other Apple devices that I don't have all my friends who use Apple who actually don't to my iPhone 4 that actually doesn't support airdrop every time I'm like oh yeah I'll just use airdrop for this nope nope not at all nope so yeah I guess that's pretty much it let's talk snapcash this is interesting I did not see this one coming so everyone knows what snapchat is you send picture messages to people in theory they're deleted I had finger quotes I had finger quotes I said in theory I think that pretty much covers so in theory plus finger quotes means like totally not at all we need a shirt that says that totally not at all in quotes so snapcash uses a square cache so if you guys have heard of square I actually signed up for square back when they first started up basically it was just a little dongle that plugged into your phone so that you could so anyone could accept credit card transactions with a very reasonable interchange fee or additional charge on top of it actually I've never seen that in Canada but multiple places when I was going around Europe was using square so square cash is just more like more more debit card okay so square square okay well hold on hold on hold on square cash on its own is you just key in your debit card and then it's more for like peer-to-peer transfers so you wouldn't expect to walk into a restaurant and have them accept square cash and you just kind of go you know bippity boopity in my app and you send it to to that person who then gets a notification that that they have been sent money and they can accept it so that's more for like you know you're meeting with someone you know behind the alley to trade computer parts I mean I wouldn't use an electronic if I was buying drugs I wouldn't use anything electronic but if you're buying computer hardware it's all good whatever you're about to say can you not still grow what still grow okay okay I wouldn't use square I wouldn't use my debit card can we say that much sure okay so square stores your debit card information securely they say I don't haven't verified that but they store it securely and then you can just use it so I've heard of people using it for things like tip splitting when they're up for dinner it's like hey I don't have any cash someone's got a credit card someone else squares them some money awesome so okay so all the credit card stuff is stored by square or snapchat not credit card yet dead it okay all that information is stored by square or snapchat if you use square cash square and I believe with snapchat it is going to be snapchat but don't quote me on that one either there's not a ton of information about this yet and honestly this is posted by King Daddy Daniel on the forum by the way and I'll post the original article from TechCrunch right here honestly the most information is in their hilarious video that has a bunch of dancers running around and you know it's it's it's probably worth us just firing up on the show here she's because it's pretty funny what it's very very over-the-top let's just go ahead and screen share here okay oh that's weird well I guess we don't get any audio but whatever he says by this can you send me some cash so the way it works is instead of relying on a dedicated financial app you just use snapchat you type in a dollar amount and slow motion for dramatic there you go the button turns green and you just send cash boom just like that if the other person doesn't have it set up then it'll prompt them to set it up and yeah so this is this is the video which is hilarious it involves a lot more dancing it it goes on for way too long it's over two minutes long so this is gonna be like the easiest way to steal money from friends wow I see this end up I see this end up being you always look at things from like this like dark dark but you what evil people will do with it was I'm like you have to oh this is such a cool way to be like you know bro here's ten bucks for the lunch you just got for me yeah bro at a frat party everyone passes out bro walks around because he wasn't drinking and goes to everyone's phone and just snapchats himself hundreds of dollars okay so the okay let's let's do let's do let's do benefits and drawbacks analysis okay so easy to steal yeah extreme I would say benefit is if you do send someone out to buy something for you you no longer need to give buddy your pin or your credit card which is something that which is something oh come on you're gonna use PayPal for that why would they have PayPal what everyone has PayPal do they I don't know anyone who doesn't have PayPal my mom has it my grandpa has it I don't think I have a personal PayPal account really yeah you're weird I have a company PayPal account my wife has a PayPal account I do not have a PayPal account what would I need it for I don't know I'm gonna buy anything with PayPal I get rewards on my credit card and then merchants get to pay for it that's right best by CEO man who hates interchange fees that withdrawing money from your card into PayPal still count as so you'd still get rewards your credit card mmm can't remember anyway no idea okay the point is if this is much faster it is much faster there okay so and and and you say PayPal but I know that you've given me your debit card and told me your pin go buy something for you it's still easier than this no no no no this looks legitimately pretty easy assume okay assume now that you're not 20-something and you're nobody the reason why you actually have snapchat but the reason why this is not as easy as just giving you a debit card I don't do that with everybody it's because you don't know you don't know what the price is gonna be so what like the guy like gets the store rings through the whole transaction and then calls you is like yo dog it was 1862 and you can be only that much yeah I think it I think it's awesome I think the potential to exploit it is definitely there I think that kids today need to learn to put pins on their phones that their friends don't know because the phone is more and more and more tied into so many things you can do I mean even Apple's way of validating Apple Pay with touch ID I believe you can also enter a pin so if someone knows the pin of your phone all of a sudden they can buy things which is a whole other ball of wax compared to they can like text your friends and be like no I'm ugly yeah phone pranking on Facebook I hacked your Facebook yeah no not so much all right so court rules this is posted by tech dreamer on the form yeah court rules yeah if I fought that then I would be alone me and lawyers so this was from it this is from endgadget.com and of course I don't have an HTTP on that one boom endgadget.com I'm originally posted by tech dreamer and US court had in San Francisco has ruled that due to the First Amendment so this is freedom of speech predominantly Google can arrange and rearrange search results any way it wants so this is this is from a complaint from a they figured they were a competitor of one of Google services that Google was intentionally down ranking them in Google search results in order to drive more exposure to their own services and basically this ruling it doesn't it doesn't rule out Google being attacked for this in other regions or by other by other companies but what it does do is it sets a precedent that Google can now point to and say well hey it was already ruled that we're allowed to arrange our search results however we want so yeah that's how like referencing different court enjoy that would be like Google versus whoever um I honestly they were already doing it anyway yeah even whether it was legal or not they were already doing it and they were gonna do it forever I mean it is it is no great secret that when Google launches some new service that everyone hates like Google Plus that all of a sudden it's everywhere yeah duh I don't know I don't think it's that big of a deal I think it sounds a little bit scary but I don't think it's actually going to be they can't abuse it any worse than they already are really because if they do people will stop googling things when Bing the second there's no loyalty to a search engine in particular the search engine things like their their applications like their calendar or their email there's there's some loyalty there because they've managed to drive us as a business to give them a monthly payment in order to use these services because of how well integrated they are but for especially something like using a search engine which is what this complaint is about there is no loyalty if Bing starts returning better search results for me I will switch tomorrow I'd love to use Bing it's just useless I switched from Alta Vista to Google that quickly because Alta Vista stopped working and Google started doing better same thing with dogpile like those of you who are who've been using the internet long enough to remember the pre-google days there are other search engines it's just that they suck so if Google degrades the quality of their results by prioritizing their own crap aggressively enough we'll just stop using it and they'll lose their primary source of income so it's not gonna happen I know ask.com is still a thing but like not really and I remember ask Jeeves yeah ask Jeeves was huge yeah I think I went Alta Vista ask Jeeves Google actually I think was was what I used Alta Vista used to be awesome you could find everything there and then it just went to complete garbage you know it is it is amazing how bad Bing is I know every time I install a new Windows OS I think I've told this story before every time I install a new Windows OS I have to use IE until I'm not lazy and I install some other browser so I'll use IE in the default search engine will be Bing because I'm not gonna go through all those other steps to manually change my search engine and then it's kind of a pain to add it so I'm lazy and I will use Bing until it infuriates me and I'm see it's usually gone within three searches because it doesn't find anything it doesn't find it yeah I don't know and like you search the exact name of a product and it will find you everything else it possibly can yeah and then you put that name in Google and the first result is the product page from the manufacturer yeah what am I looking for it like some obscure reference to like it's coming out in six months from some message board from six months ago no I want to look at it um New York this is the coolest thing ever what New York City to replace public this was posted by the uncon it's whatever something um so the original articles are from absolutely everywhere so the verge has got an article yeah I'm connected Tech Crunch ours technica business insider I'll post the verge one here because I'm apparently because that's the one I copied although I'm still mad at them about that really stupid piece they did on Gamergate yeah it was really stupid but like it was really stupid but like basically everyone else is really stuff like that too that has talked about it that's true everyone was stupid yes but the verges was like late to the party and stupid that's so they didn't have the advantage of not having everyone else's stupidity to look at and not follow them off the cliff like a Lenny so there you go this is gonna be called link NYC and they will be replacing 10,000 payphones who uses payphones with pylons towers posts capable of providing free public Wi-Fi at gigabit speeds 24 7 there's also a charging station for your mobile devices you can call any number domestically in the US and it features a tablet like interface that can service that can provide services like directions awesome not paid for with taxpayer money instead it is advertiser driven and the residential version will not have ads the project is estimated to bring 500 million dollars of revenue into New York City in its first 12 years and what a boon for the residents brilliant New York City planners you guys are awesome your kids are awesome your dogs are awesome and especially your ideas are awesome mainly your dogs are awesome they wear rocket packs and they're super stoked when you come home that's how forward-thinking they are yeah anyways I was when you when you first said ads I was working before the show so I didn't have a big billboards on the pile on yeah like that's cool like I was like oh you're gonna inject ads in my browser all the time it's gonna suck especially on mobile when you like can't say anything already but then no that's fine if it's on the side of the thing like it's New York City yeah stuff everywhere anyway it's not confirmed whether seamless hopping from pylon to pylon will be supported so you may have to treat it kind of like a phone booth you know where you actually kind of have to stand next to it to make a call and then kind of boogie on to the but and one concern that I have is if you're if you're set up and depending on the way the pylon works like even if you don't seamlessly roam if you do if you do our connection hop at all every mobile OS actually I haven't tried Blackberry you have so maybe you can correct me on this you know long time every iOS and Android both of them handle degraded Wi-Fi connections extremely poorly and they don't switch over to mobile data nearly gracefully enough Windows phone does it incredibly well it goes oh crap this is bad and switches over to your modal date mobile data connection so you hardly even notice when you're browsing but that's a big issue when you're at the fringes of a Wi-Fi coverage zone so if you were walking down the street doing something on your phone then if you reach edges of these pylons all the time and you're automatically jumping on them it could be very very disruptive so that's just my one thought on it other than that it's it's amazing in every way have you have you used shago Wi-Fi yeah it's surprisingly good yep and I wouldn't be surprised if it worked something like that yeah so the way that works is the the the internet provider that I'm on just by being a customer they have Wi-Fi hotspots in all kinds of places like they're all named the same thing and they're all open so you automatically connect and then there's like a web sign in thing but it's really good at remembering your account like really really good so every single time that it detects this open network your phone will connect to it and it signs in immediately and it's all fine yeah it's super cool like even my I don't know what are they what are they called baby doctor whatever the family doctor for for my wife's pregnancies like their waiting room has a has a shop and hot spots like awesome yeah yeah yes I won't be using my mobile data right now right okay Dell's up 2715 K 5k monitor this was rumored to be coming in at $2,500 this was posted on the forum by big streams by the way and the original articles from guru 3d comm but I think Apple might have forced Dell's hand a little bit here I think Dell was really hoping to have you know to resurrect the expensive monitor business that has basically disappeared since 30 inch 2560 by 1600 monitors okay well those never came down in price but the 2560 by 1440 27 inch varieties did and ever since that business kind of went away it looks like they were trying to resurrect this they wanted $2,500 for a monitor and then Apple turned around and bitch slapped them by giving you a fairly decent computer attached to that same panel in a beautiful enclosure for 3,500 so no brainer go for it and you could use that computer as a monitor right no really the iMac there's no functionality for that no older iMacs yes they had some feature forget what it's called who cares it's an Apple feature but I wish they just had a display input but this one uses so and actually Dell's implementation is very different from Apple's I'll talk about that in a moment but the Apple one uses a custom wider like it's physically wider and has more pins that is a non-standard display port connector interesting that they worked with AMD on presumably that they in order to drive that panel as a single tile display so what that means is there is no input right that could drive it yeah all right then yeah so I get it yeah and I understand that it is better to have a single tile display so you don't see that weird tearing we have one dual tile display in the office and it's not an ideal solution but Dell's is gonna be a dual tile display so it'll use two display port inputs because display port 1.3 isn't here yet and it'll have okay here I guess I might as well just do a general spec I don't know if I would move up yet then a 51 20 by 28 80 resolution with 8 millisecond graded gray response times a thousand to one contrast ratio 350 hold on what oh 178 178 viewing angles so basically basically anywhere you would ever be looking at the screen it's got a double anti-reflective coating to allow more light to pass through the glass in the panel features an anti-smudge coating to help wipe away fingerprints 99% RGB 100% sRGB color space and calibrated with a color delta color Delta E of less than 2 12-bit internal processing so it's a 12-bit lookup table and the panel is 10 bit so it would be potentially useful for folks who use Adobe applications on Quadro or firepro cards and they want to work in 10-bit color although the workflow is still fairly broken and yeah so yeah I guess there's not really much else to say about it other than I don't think it makes a ton of sense I was gonna say I don't I don't personally think it's ready I don't know if I would jump yet if I wanted a 5k monitor I don't think this would be it if Windows is able to start scaling better there's a big problem then this would be actually I would see this as the way to go for productivity applications versus media consumption because it is exactly four times 2560 by 1440 so the scaling could be relatively simple that's one of the reasons that it speculated that Apple went with 5k as opposed to 4k or ultra HD excuse me for the iMac retina because really you didn't need to go 5k on that to make it retina like it's overkill it's insanely sharp yeah but the flip side of that argument is that 5k is not going to be as good for content consumption because you are going to get interpolation because you're going to be running any movie content at a non-native res and there will be no 5k content anytime soon so upscaling from 1080p to 4k has that advantage of being exactly four times excuse me two times the resolution four times the pixel count and then scaling to 5k is just sort of a random arbitrary amount more than that so there you go I see 5k as the creator resolution and I see 4k as the consumer resolution but we're a long way away from either of them really being practical in Windows because of the way that UI elements scale so poorly so so so poorly not good at all and that was kind of almost like sad seeing you work on your Mac knowing that it's 5k and like it's fine yeah I know come on it looks great it does I'm like damn it like every single time we hook up a 4k monitor to a computer I'm like this is unusable like it looks so stupid and then you turn on the scaling and it's like now just some things are yeah yeah it's like this is still super stupid what are you doing oh it's really frustrating oh we've got scope of pecs on twitch chat saying letterbox equals no weird interpolation come on man you're gonna buy a 5k monitor and then you're gonna run black bars on all sides of your content are you kidding me that's even worse I would rather I would rather have approximations and gigantic black bars like all across all around the content speaking of black bars all around the content this was originally posted by sephiroth on the forum origin PC to sell sorry I'm just copying the link for you guys I'm trying to make a better habit of this black bars their job doing this they're gonna be selling their Millennium and Genesis cases standalone this is something that I okay we asked for actually yeah lots of people asked for it because it's a cool case so check this out guys have you ever called up a boutique PC builder and asked them to buy your case because I have never called up a boutique PC builder okay I did it once when here I'm just gonna I'm just gonna fire it up here Alienware Star Wars that's a drive cages on these cases are badass by the way there we go this is this is the one I called Alienware and asked them if I could buy one that was then that was back when Alienware's case was actually a reasonably quote-unquote cool design I was younger and vinyl wraps were not nearly as common or as accessible and I thought this was a stunning piece of Star Wars artwork that I would happily put my computer inside even though I had a better actual case like a better designed better laid out case at the time I thought that limited edition one was worth it and I know a lot of people asked for voodoo PC to sell their modified Lee and Lee case standalone it was a very beautiful case but origins is is really cool as well so the neatest thing about them is that and this is part of their five-year anniversary celebration the neatest thing about them is that you can mount your motherboard in whatever orientation you want so we'll go ahead and fire up their video here this is such a slick video they're just showing off yeah so right side up upside down facing up either which way whatever you prefer and then they're their drive drive mounting system is absolutely have cages are sick sick they've got us they've got an add-on thing that you can put underneath it so you can add more drive cages or more rads really cool case and I don't know how much they're charging for it but 399 and 499 not if you want the air wait no no 399 and 449 there we go not cheap I'm not out of the question either I believe the 449 one it says it's like the full tire whatever I think it's just the add-on on the bottom and the same case on top yeah I'm pretty sure yeah but yeah they're pretty sick I got to see them at what was that e3 I think I first saw one back at CES when they launched it yeah yeah and video had it in their booth yeah and yeah all right so why don't we actually do our why don't we do our sponsors all right in a timely manner for a change last few weeks I've like completely forgotten about well it's 550 let's cover our sponsors now yeah I guess we should probably actually do that okay so our first sponsor this week is Linda calm you can have as much fun as she does learning online Linda calm is a great way to pick up new skills whether it's photography video editing coding is a really really big one over at Linda calm huge I say video editing already we did now well video editing is very close to my 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extremely receptive and we've actually got over that is that right since we started the show it's gone up that much well remember it's being manually updated right okay so it might even be more than that's the Canadian value yeah yeah that's fine I know yeah okay well it'll be a little bit more than that some of you have been have been awesome you've been incredibly supportive whether you've actually contributed the campaign or not you've been supportive of the idea some of you have raised some objections to it raised some concerns voiced some concerns something some objections there have been objections so what I said on Twitter this morning was that I would try to address what I thought were the most common objections here on Wanshow today and then what we'll do is I'll commit to do a short after party with you guys where we'll do some some Twitter and twitch interactions so you guys can let me know if there's anything that you're still concerned about so question number one why don't you guys have lower contribution tiers like a dollar the answer is right now everything is going through PayPal and for very small transactions their proportion of the payment is actually much higher especially for something as small as a dollar so rather than encouraging the members of our community who can least afford it the people who can only afford to give a dollar to basically give money to PayPal I would just assume you guys keep it and support us in some other way by like say for example watching videos you don't have to give us money yeah watching videos describing liking disliking posting on the forum having a forum account all of that is is more helpful than padding PayPal's pockets as far as I'm concerned question number two your stretch targets are ridiculous why are they so high the answer is you're right they were ridiculous they were much higher than they should have been initially and a big part of the reason for that is we weren't really sure how much momentum the campaign would have like we didn't know if it was going to be overwhelming outpouring of support or if it was going to completely go nowhere and we didn't want to trap ourselves by putting ourselves in a situation where all of a sudden we've got to hit every stretch stretch target commitment in like a week or something like that so now that we can see how things are tracking we have completely rearranged the stretch targets to make them much more realistic and much more attainable in fact the first one has already been achieved we have finally fixed Luke's Twitter handle on the WAN show yes and it's possible that the second one has actually been achieved already it's possible that more have been achieved there's a slight problem thank you sorry I have to interject here for a little bit thank you mr. wizard there's like no way that anything would be even remotely running right now if it wasn't for mr. wizard like not even close so I just want to put that out there thanks mr. wizard and the the problem is Lord wizard from now on Lord wizard or the wizard the problem is the call that we're making to get the amount raised dollar value doesn't take into account money that is pending okay so we can't get the actual value so we're currently hard coding that just so you guys know like overnight or something if it doesn't move for a really long time it's not it's not because we're not counting your donations it's cuz sleep a little bit wake up and then we'll manually update it all right question number three aren't you guys a business why aren't you seeking investment or taking out a loan the answer is because some of you want to help us and no that's the wrong answer yes we are business but those of you savvy enough to figure out these types of business strategy should also be savvy enough to know that moving into a much larger space is gonna cost a lot more than $50,000 our goal for the campaign even in the short term so we're exploring every avenue necessary to grow and keep delivering the best content we can regardless of how much we raise during this campaign and then the question number four then is it so then why are you asking for money at all and the answer is because some of you want to help us in this way we've done campaigns like this before with similar rewards things like badges on the forum and people have said that they're happy to be able to contribute in this way in fact a lot of people don't like the recurring contributor system that funds the forum and prefer something that's a one-shot deal the last time we did this was over a year ago so it's not like we're turning around and running a new crowdfunding campaign every other month or anything like that it's something that we have been asked for so for those people who do want to help us out like this then we want to send our gratitude and to everyone else I mean we're still grateful because every contribution even one view on a video counts the thing to realize here is this is all optional we're not holding our content hostage we're not saying we're gonna stop making tech videos if we don't hit this goal nothing happens if we don't hit the goal it's just if you guys want to contribute if you want to see some of the cool stretch targets then go ahead and contribute to the campaign or don't it's fine it's cool like we're still cool it's all good yeah Travis just sent me fire in all capital letters and I'm like what he's like things are on fire I know what you did you announced oh my god so next question is why do you guys have any cool physical rewards and this actually ties into the last one we're asking for money so we can move into a bigger space hire more people and make better content not so we can sell you a bunch of stickers t-shirts and hats if you want to contribute to Linus Media Group by buying a t-shirt then go buy a t-shirt we have t-shirts you don't need to do a campaign for that so on both of our web shops we have a variety of different shirts the usual complaint about the web shops when people say well I'd like to buy a t-shirt except is OMG the shipping is so expensive to which I'd reply well then I guess you figured out why physical merchandise would basically kill any possibility from this campaign of this campaign funding a move the cost doesn't go away because it's a special crowdfunding t-shirt so out of that let's say a $25 reward here I'd say is pretty typical for a t-shirt actually on the high end we'd still be paying $8 a shirt because we do all of our shirts on American Apparel and up to another $13 more for international shipping and we're in Canada so we don't even get cheap domestic shipping to the US and people are people were wondering too about like like sign stuff that's even way worse because we'd have to give it you get it shipped over the border to us and then back over the border somewhere we actually wanted I mean and these are it's not like these aren't ideas we've had we wanted to do sign posters we had them printed they're here but the problem is that the design didn't end up looking good at all so we canned it but it is something that we do plan to do at some point it's just when we're doing a physical merchandise thing we we don't plan the idea of this is for us to be funding making better and more content for you guys not to fund us sitting in the new office you know packing boxes to ship t-shirts all over the world or whatever else and yes that's a bit of an exaggeration because you could get a service to do that but then again you're spending even more of the money on having a service take care of it for you yeah which leads us to the last question I don't want to contribute because investing in a company without any ROI is stupid I want to be a stakeholder to which I would reply we don't want stakeholders and I suspect neither do the people who are contributing to the new office expansion the closest thing that we actually have to direct backers for our company if we had stakeholders and all of a sudden there might be pressure to start paying dividends instead of using that money on responsible things like new gear and sets and employees we'd be a cat potentially accountable for the kind of content we're making to some random that the community has never even met people are contributing the ones that are contributing because they want me in charge not some shadow lurking in the background potentially pulling strings so we've stayed away from investment other than this crazy person investing everything because it is a scary concept of other people having control over the company so we're not really interested in that and I can't emphasize that enough by the way here's the link to the to the campaign I can't emphasize enough that just because we're crowdfunding this doesn't mean that I'm not personally invested and that we're not reinvesting the company's profits into it it's not like I mean you guys I think see that you know it's not like I actually drive a Lambo I don't actually just blow all my money on frivolous crap like we're trying to do something here we're trying to make more and better content all the time and I hope you guys do genuinely see that and right now being in a kitchen is just not the right way for us to move forward with this so so that's where we're at yeah I have to give a shout out again to Mr. Wizard for being awesome we were both up to ridiculous hours of the morning last morning this morning last night this morning anyways he had like three hours of sleep before he went to work and I think he's at work right now so hi Mr. Wizard you're probably not watching because you're probably busy working but yeah so anyway we we made the the big the big thing here is I think we we made the reward tiers a lot more fun super fun and a lot more attainable so we're like 400 bucks away from releasing the original stormtrooper rap audio something that a lot of people asked for and I said would never happen but Luke and Nick insisted when show made up as girls comes another 3,000 after that Luke does a Linus Tech Tips video under fire actually so excited so we get to throw stuff at him the entire time he's filming Linus does a Linus Tech Tips video in upper body paint that the entire rest of the company gets to draw on him and design channel super fun comes 22 22 hundred dollars or two thousand five hundred dollars after that and is gonna be a video where Luke and I each get the remotes for shot collars that each other wears for an entire day so it's gonna be the most aggressive day or the like most kind and polite day yeah we're like this meeting group ever really not sure which way it's gonna go with that but basically we think we fixed it I'll stick around for after party and I'll talk with you guys if you still have some concerns and let's go from there but for now I think we've spent enough time during and let's move on to Oh Oh balls oh awkward yeah there we go let's move on to keep on digging our Ubisoft segment of the week Ubisoft room actually oh no that one's that one's good I'm actually gonna move that lower third when I talk about the next one this is updated in real time okay cool in real time now like it's like oh just now yeah okay so we're like 150 bucks away from the stormtrooper rap in real wizard time and yes we're like 150 bucks away from stormtrooper rap all right so Ubisoft says they will improve Assassin's Creed unity performance they still don't seem to be actually acknowledging what the problems were this was originally posted by that cool blue kid on the forum and the original articles are from Assassin's Creed dot ubi.com and kit guru dot net I think I'm gonna go with the kit guru link for you guys since it's not a ubi page yeah basically they plan the following revisions streamlining some technical aspects of navigation so they this is really funny I love the way they word this we've fixed a number of edge cases with our detection system to smooth certain behaviors during parkour we fixed a few objects which were improperly tagged to smooth navigation okay because that was the only problem people had with the game I guess and edge cases no we're not talking edge cases guys we're talking performance issues across the board all right next up improved task scheduling we've tuned the way the computing tasks are prioritized and paralyzed by the processor cores to improve frame rate in certain edge cases parallelized okay and then tweaking performance for reach high points we've optimized the reach high points during the camera sweeping sequence to improve frame rate a little bit and they're saying crowd size does not affect frame rate and is not the issue I don't think anyone was saying crowd size with the issue because honestly the models are not that detailed compared to come on I mean they're detailed compared to like Rome total war but again I can't see this enough you're losing to freaking cod okay so the models aren't aren't that detailed in the first place I mean but they in their own in their own promotional materials in their own statements they're saying what was it Notre Dame alone was how many polygons yeah I don't remember at all but it was a crazy amount polygons all the buildings are absolutely insane and that's where the alleged rumored draw call bottleneck is occurring not from on-screen characters scaling Notre Dame sure not on-screen characters aren't exactly easy yeah but I can't imagine that reducing crowd size wouldn't help to say they don't affect it is silly yeah but to think that that's the problem yeah as I don't think correct either no all right so that would be nice if they just had a slider where you could just control crowd size so you're like hey done that was it for keep on digging let's move into something Ubisoft did that I personally like Ubisoft removes field of view controls in some far cry for torrents I just thought that was funny this was posted by in the Migor on the forum in the original article we have here is from gamespot.com so I'll go ahead and post that but certain far cry torrents contain an error which removes the game's field of view controls Alex Hutchinson a creative director at Ubisoft Montreal wrote on Twitter PC players if you're online complaining about the lack of FOV control you pirated the game in September electronics are electronic arts placed a bug into pirated copies of Sims 4 where the image becomes increasingly pixelated this is not the first time we've seen a strategy like this and personally I really I really like it because I really liked the what is it like game game game creation simulator a game tycoon or so yeah but not everyone can like include that game with their game or something like where the where the game you fail and your company goes bankrupt because because of piracy yes that was the best and like no I know of course not everyone can do something like that I just thought that one was super good what I like about this this strategy is how realistic it is instead of going okay our DRM is unbreakable instead of even bothering to say that they just go okay we're gonna put DRM and we're gonna at least get around the into to imagine that DRM doesn't stop some pirates is stupid it's stupid you're stupid go be stupid somewhere else because DRM does stop some pirates the problem is that it also interferes with regular players and I think you could make arguments for it getting being gotten rid of it all and but this is not a draconian DRM scheme in and of itself I'm not saying the game doesn't have DRM so just hold just just hold on I'm trying to bring up a different thing the digging thumbnail is coming back okay okay it's coming back for Ubisoft all right but what I like about little bugs like this is that they're realistic they accept that people are gonna pirate the game and what they do is instead of trying to stop them brute force they create social pressure on pirates to shame them into not pirating the game and the thing about putting in a bug like this especially one that appears later on in the game is that you're not punishing the guys who really did download it pirate it as a demo and then buy it if they liked it to play it you are punishing the guys who didn't pay for it and are playing through it you're punishing the people who actually did enjoy it enough that they really want to keep playing it badly enough that they really want that FOV slider and you are making them come out and say I'm using this I didn't pay for it and I'm gonna go and be a customer about it I'm gonna actually lodge a complaint I'm gonna actually have this company spend money answering my question when I didn't even have when I didn't even have the respect to pay for the game and I'm playing it Shrek's so I like that yeah I think I think it's cool having a little easter egg stuff by the way we just hit our rap goal thing oh lordy release original storm stream rap audio is that goal has been made I have Taron working on updating the Wanshow SoundCloud account for an audio version of Wanshow right now so I figure we can release that on that sound cloud account so I'll tweet that out tonight I'm gonna see if I can is there would you like playlists on SoundCloud because I wouldn't necessarily want that rap audio right in the middle because a lot of people listen to release it on the forum yeah that'll be do why don't we release it on the farm yeah I'll see if I can find it right now do you want to do you want to cover the the next Ubisoft I put the keep on digging sure I oh this isn't necessarily something else I just wanted to talk about the oh sorry this is nevermind okay yeah yeah oh okay sorry not a Ubisoft thing this is the Danubeau thing right no this is a Ubisoft thing oh okay well it's like it's like it's like a pretty much sure should I put the dirt back sure okay it's like in pretty much everyone that uses DRM thing you are saying that to say that DRM doesn't stop some pirates is wrong that's false you're right but you're not stopping the people that are just downloading the game really because there's gonna be one group of people that gets through and cracks it and makes it so it's just an executable and then releases it so you'll stop a couple different teams from getting it one will make through and it won't make any difference some games are still more complicated than just running an executable not most anymore that's true but some are especially multiplayer games are quite a bit more complicated well in a lot of cases yeah but then a lot of times they ignore the multiplayer game stuff like I don't know how it works but I'm assuming right now with Far Cry 4 you don't get access to the multiplayer part if you pirate it I would assume that probably just get the single player part yeah the only time I've heard of like cracked multiplayer stuff you play on your own private server which is usually kind of lame I really didn't want to release this stupid rap thing right and you know what I actually I think there's gonna be other stretch goals that you really don't necessarily want to do as well so yeah I think you'll just have to get used to that one I think there's gonna be I'm it's pretty embarrassing wrecked well the reason why I didn't want it to be in that WAN show soundcloud is you're listening to WAN show and then all sudden it's like do you know bleep about swag yeah blah blah terrible rap song pretty terrible I really I really didn't want because the filter was what I kind of you guys are taking away his auto tune what was what kind of made it okay for me but now it's just pretty embarrassing so I'm throwing I'm emailing myself the the wave sound right now and then I'll see if maybe we'll we'll play it on after party yeah let's let's play it on after party when we're doing the the Q&A and then we'll make it available for download on the form if you guys really want it all right let's move into our next DRM topic not related to Ubisoft so the keep on digging lower third can go away this was originally posted by someone on the forum my browser is just where are we looking what is it it's further down there we go denuvo DRM degrades SSD is this is posted by ah Ming on the forum and it's from game Meg dot are you dot Rue so games like Lord of the Fallen FIFA 15 and unfortunately Dragon Age Inquisition are affected by this it's EA time again yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's so old you know what's weird is I think that was probably more popular than the badger badger song but I hear people reiterating badger badger more than that those early internet days like it wasn't as good of a song no you're a jerk but you're badger so it's a lot more catchy yeah anyway so it's not like it's gonna instantly kill your SSD but users are reporting significant increases in the rights on their SSDs while running these games and it is being attributed to the denuvo DRM scheme up to around 30 gigabytes of data every 40 minutes in very small bits of code that's insane now to be clear SSDs are not as fragile as they used to be and as a lot of people seem to think they are in fact tech report has an excellent ongoing article I would like to find it to link it to you guys right now but chrome completely crashed the greatness of the stormtrooper rap crashed chrome so so I would I would love to link that to you guys but basically they've taken I think it was about a half a dozen consumer grade SSDs and just put them on a bench where they're being written to constantly and then monitored so every once in a while they take them off the bench and see if they're still working and they bought they all go way past their rated write speeds which is already way more than most people are gonna write to it but 30 gigs per 40 minutes we can extrapolate that to 45 gigs per hour for a game that you could potentially log a hundred hours on game like dragon egging agent position I logged a hundred hours easy on origin yeah origin origin I hate origin love origins I don't know if it's gonna be quite as big of a game but it'll still be a very expansive like it's gonna take a while for sure yeah but that is still a completely unnecessary thing to do that damages the computer hardware that the game is installed on and I do not approve of that all right what else we got here we got lots of great topics still this week there's the wow thing there's the counter strike oh let's do the counter strike thing okay how much do you know about this because this is very much an in development story right now yeah so you guys will have to forgive us if we're a little bit behind the eight ball or forgive us if we're a little bit behind and take everything with a grain of salt because a lot of this right now is kind of speculation speculation it's speculation that's happening now yeah there's definitely some weight behind the speculation yeah but it's still a lot of speculation now things that aren't speculation is that two players from top 20 global pro teams have been vac banned and I believe two teams have been dropped out of the winter dream hack tournament yeah so that we're talking a quarter million dollar prize and they have been disqualified for players on their teams and their teams have kicked those two players out of their respective teams at this point in time so they're not trying to back them up or fight it they got kicked out both players admitted to using to using an exploit I'm gonna call it an exploit as opposed to let's just call it a cheat I guess yeah yeah I mean the way that she was ex was executed is you could call an exploit theoretically theoretically this is spec this is all speculative but again it makes a ton of sense on a lot of people this has been going around like through the grapevine for a while now that this might have been happening so the fact that this is now going on validates that a little bit but the idea is that they were getting this hack or cheat or whatever exploit whatever you want to call it through the what is it called the steam workshop steam workshop so even if you were at a quote-unquote LAN event which is just where the other team you're playing against is also there and your team is there you're not just on LAN usually have an internet connection because they're usually streamed even at a LAN event where you're not using your own computer they would sign into their own accounts because they want to show if their skins and stuff because it's CS go and then the steam workshop would automatically download it onto that computer so you wouldn't see them like installing anything fishy it would just happen automatically in the background and the way it allegedly works it could be it could be done very very subtly so for example one of the ones I was talking to Ed about earlier today was a wall hack that all it would do was change the color of one pixel when there is an opposing character on the other side of a surface so even someone looking over your shoulder might kind of go well and then and then move on because if they weren't aware of if they weren't aware to look for something like that then how could they possibly know or even stuff like audio cues like it could ping an audio cue if you're pointing at someone through a wall so if you do a sweep across a wall it could ping at you if there's an if there's something there a lot of the guys wear earbuds yep there was a allegedly rumored Lee speculated Lee a panic button one button sort of toggled aim assist all of this is unconfirmed by any legitimate source since based on code of the hack briefly posted to reddit their speculation that there was so button toggle vision assist audio cued vision assist and then button toggled aim assist were all allegedly within this steam workshop allegedly downloaded hacks so all of this is maybe both okay what's not maybe is is both of the players that were banned so Cali spelled KQLY from Titan and SF from epsilon so these guys are from globally ninth ranked teams and 19th ranked teams overall have admitted to using them so Cali released a statement apologizing for the behavior and assuring everyone that the cheating did not occur in a competitive setting and then epsilon I think alleged admitted to using it once and also not in a competitive setting although that looks like it's been pulled out of the dock since I was reading it before the show so that might who knows everything is very much in flux right now but the big discussion here is what do we compare this to I mean what does no neither cheats were using a competitive setting it just dropped down so what does it what does it mean for for CS GO's credibility as an eSport it's rough that this made it through I know Nick has been talking about like hellfire essentially like if this if this gets proven and if like certain members not necessarily these two but certain very prominent members and he has very good reasoning for all of this if they get brought out because there's there's a list that the original guy that got banned posted yeah which was trying to take a bunch of other guys down with him where he said I think what he was in 95 he said he was 95% sure and produced a list of other high-level pro players that he thought were cheating using the same hack yeah so a certain members on there specifically the fanatic guys two of the fanatic guys if they got called out for actually doing this and they got a fact band it could cause some serious rifts I mean pro cycling has not recovered from yes yeah Major League Baseball is a joke because of steroids yeah shooters have always been a huge problem even on console there's hardware hacks you can do to controllers try not allowing people to bring their controllers to events no they want to use their scuff they want to use their whatever there's approved controllers for events and you can bring your own and you can hardware hack it you take the thing apart add in a little bit of the last one I saw was a PCB that you added in which made it so that you could just hold the trigger down and it would shoot a semi-automatic weapon as fast as it possibly could while keeping it fairly accurate right hold the trigger down it does it properly for you that's cheating super cheating and that's something you can do on a console so there's this cheating and shooters cheating is huge and it's super frustrating it's really annoying as a player just playing randomly because it happens a lot in lobbies I know yeah I mean imagine if this is happening professionally where people are actually looking over the shoulder of the person what's going on with people in their bedrooms playing the game where mom doesn't care if they're cheating at CS go and think about the amount of people that are cheating that you're not catching because they're being very subtle about it yeah compared to that dude that's like flying around the map insta killing everyone which happened the first day I tried to play cod which was hilarious his name was like 420 blaze at Yolo and he killed everyone on the map instantly and was just flying around I was like you are everything that's wrong with this game it's fantastic it happened on stream anyways like it's it's bad I don't know it's gonna I don't know if it's necessarily gonna be the hellfire that a lot of people are gonna talking about where it's just gonna destroy the entire sport because it is actually really old people have been playing CS go for really long Earth's counter-strike competitively for a really long time not necessarily CS go I don't valve seems to think it's a big deal they're flying is cracking down like crazy they're flying in four teams to replace the two teams that were disqualified from dream hack to do like a local pre qualifier which is sick that's super cool I'm happy they're doing that I'm not saying your choice they have to salvage their tournament yeah no it's true I'm not saying it's not gonna be a big deal I just don't think it's necessarily gonna destroy the entire thing I think it could seriously hamper the massive growth that they've had over the last little while and could seriously plateau them I mean a long time the thing about it go down a little bit the thing about games that has to grow up is is both sides the fans are already growing up in the sense that they're treating it more seriously like okay the thing about this is they were talking about this on that sports radio station that I listen to all the time they were talking about it when they got acquired by TSN and some of those guys were XT SN guys from back when TSN started and we're now being brought back into the TSN fold so they were kind of reminiscing about how 30 years ago everyone told them they were idiots for thinking that you could have an entire channel dedicated just to sports that's the stupidest thing I ever heard and then they're like yeah look at it now yeah TSN one two three four eight Ruby platinum emerald like so but the thing about the thing about sports and eSports do get qualified as sports in this way I guess okay they're not sports eSports but they get treated the same way this way is that the fans are very passionate and they take it very seriously and that's what eSports is finally gaining they're being taken seriously they're not a joke anymore so you're gonna lose that reputation if people start hacking turning it into a joke and not having the players and the organizations treating it as seriously as the fans are is gonna create a rift between the fans and the players and the organizers and that is really hard to fix and when you have this momentum right now I think if this goes as deep as the allegations would suggest that they could I think it could affect not just CS go but eSports in general because you because you look at the general complaints that people might have about an eSport oh well it's just software so how easy is it to cheat how easy is it to pretend that these guys playing are really that superhuman yeah apparently this easy how are we gonna take this seriously anymore at least with a physical sport yes there's there's blood doping there's steroids there's this there's that we can catch a lot of it and they are actually doing it on some level there's no cybernetic implant that you know tells the goalie where to be so when the pucks gonna be there and whatever and they just can be there already that's the difference between electronic cheating and physical cheating is it can happen in ways that the viewer doesn't even understand is happening and all the respect that they might have had for a player or a skill or a tactic I mean it's just gone how deflating is that this is actually a big part of the reason why some of the viewers I know are gonna be like what when I bring this up but I've a long time ago I played kind of strike at a fairly high level but I've never really been interested in watching Counter-Strike and playing on public servers has always been kind of rough because every single time that someone does something amazing you're like hmm they're probably cheating they're probably cheating or that was the luckiest thing ever and that's actually one of the reasons I'm gonna go on like an old Counter-Strike kind of binge here if you don't mind how old are we talking like 1.6 okay that's okay 1.6 1.5 like really you're gonna go back to 1.5 well old stuff if you were running and or jumping or doing something crazy with an op there was like the really weird really low percentage chance that you could shoot yourself if you tried to shoot while you're doing that if you like jumped off of something and took a shot it was a very low percentage chance but you could damage yourself so like no one really did it now some guy will jump off a ledge and like aim up here with a pistol and get a headshot over there and be like oh yeah I know man no no it's just randomly shot over there it's like no one of the videos that they have of one of the guys that got banned he shot way far away from someone and got a headshot and people were dismissing it like oh no it's probably just like bullet straight because he was jumping it's like no he was hacking then brutal come on I don't know so there you go I don't know um we can do a few let's do a few rapid-fire topics oh this isn't really rapid-fire oh we got to talk about this BitTorrent opens paygate premium bundles the original articles on techcrunch.com was posted by tech dreamer on the forum this is freaking cool I mean I don't think it's gonna turn BitTorrent into you know a legitimate content distribution network overnight but they're giving 90% of the funds to the content creator and when we compare that to other services that exist like if you were to say publish your song behind a paywall so that means people that just means people have to pay for the content okay so behind a paywall on iTunes Apple is taking what 40 cents on the dollar something along those lines yeah so this is fantastic for new artists using BitTorrent as a distribution platform so peer-to-peer not BitTorrent like Yarr BitTorrent like peer-to-peer connections um and getting 90% of the money for yourself that's fantastic that's actually pretty freaking awesome I guess that's all there is to say about it yeah there's not a ton to really add but I think it's awesome and I do really hope people start using it I expect kind of smaller groups to start using it and hopefully those like one or two really big bands to just jump on to it because that will popularize it and then it can grow from there because hopefully this becomes a big thing so great you can and the publisher has a lot of flexibility and I'd imagine they're gonna continue to tweak it over time but you can have some content for free there can be some behind a paywall you can have content moved to paywall after a certain number of visits for example that's cool also unlike iTunes you can potentially have access to your customer information that's one of the big problems that I have with platforms like iTunes and like YouTube or even twitch to a much lesser extent than than you actually know which is pretty much the same yeah is you guys I don't know who you are yeah I have no way to communicate with you okay yes you have a list of all your subscribers YouTube used to have that YouTube took it away so I didn't realize which still had it okay so I don't know if you okay I don't know if you have a list of all your subs I don't know if you have a list of all your followers I very different subs are paying right okay okay so I could be YouTube used to give you an entire list of your subscribers and even though you couldn't send a mass email to them say hey I'm moving over to Vimeo can you please make sure to subscribe to me over there because that would facilitate moving off of the platform right but what you could do is you could message them one by one and then the even earlier days you could even see the list of subscribers for someone else's YouTube channel so some douche canoe who was a competing tech youtuber at the time actually went through my entire sub list and messaged every single one of them I got so many complaints about it blow blood you know what this guy's doing no yeah go figure it's brutal so I understand reasons why this information isn't exposed and I know that Google has improved that recently through Google Plus where you can access some of your most engaged viewers and all that but that's the problem with these distribution networks is they lock you in like this whereas if you own the relationship with your audience then you can move wherever is best for you and or best for them as opposed to being stuck where someone just wants to take a big cut of the money for something they didn't even create and aren't even gonna watch this yeah that's kind of ridiculous someone someone in the chat sorry I was trying to watch the chat for someone to correct me apparently you do have a followers list okay so you got a list and a followers list apparently douche canoe is not a thing I've heard that really that was it me maybe that's possible I remember it was it was a big thing but we my group of friends got called douche carts one year at packs and we were like wow that's amazing and we kind of adopted that for a little while there are so many great topics left we have to go really fast keystone cat posted this this is from Mumbai mirror calm electronics printed with a t-shirt printer holy actual crap this combined with 3d printing would literally mean printing your own consumer electronics very simple ones yeah yeah I mean we're talking like what were they saying they printed like a four-bit hold on doesn't show yeah it's not in the notes it's in the article but but super super simple stuff but the electronic circuits are printed using unique materials environmentally friendly methods by the way on top of everyday flexible materials such as plastic aluminum foil and even paper resistors transistors and capacitors the key components of a complex electric circuit are printed using non-toxic organic materials like silver nanoparticles carbon and plastics so a new startup company is being established to commercialize the invention and a multinational biomedical company has also expressed interest in adopting the application of printed electronics for biomedical devices Wow what a big deal you just talked really fast sorry you got it though thank you it was a good job so that's cool oh and videos multi-frame anti aliasing is has finally been tested so our good buddy Ryan shroud over at PC perspective has taken a pretty I'm not gonna call it in depth Ryan but I'll call it I'll call it a pretty a pretty adequate look at MFA a now the problem with the way most people are gonna try and look at MFA a is they're gonna try and take a screenshot or a fraps recording that won't work because the way screenshots and fraps recordings work is they take an image of the frame that is being presented at an earlier stage than the actual display output now the way MFA a works is it actually blends the anti aliasing that it's applying in one matrix on the previous frame and in another matrix on the next frame together on the frame that the viewer sees okay so it it does 2x MF MSAA effectively in two different ways and then presented to the viewer as 4x MSAA but they're calling it MFA a because it's not quite the same thing because it's using this blending technique so in stills okay right so the way you have to capture it is by actually capturing the display output using a capture card something that PC per already does for all of their graphics card benchmarking anyway so they went ahead and did some captures and you guys should definitely check out the article where you can have a much better look at what they look like than this you know compressed video view here but it looks pretty darn good in relatively non-complex scenarios it looks a lot closer to MF to 4x MSAA then to 2x MSAA and the performance hit is not as much as 4x MSAA in more complex scenes so there was one from I think crisis 3 that Ryan was looking at it didn't look as good as 4x MSAA but still better than 2x and the performance hit is less so Nvidia's technology looks like a winner except right now it's only compatible 20 games now so it's a white-listed game support as opposed to blacklisting the ones that don't work so it looks like Nvidia is going through and specifically validating games once they add it to GeForce experience so it turns on and off automatically I guess this is less of a concern but right now it just doesn't give you any warning whatsoever if you launch a game and and it says it doesn't come up and say hey by the way your MFA isn't working there's gonna be more of a performance hit you might want to tweak your settings so it just happens in the background on white listed games and we have no idea what supports gonna look like moving forward there is no SLI support yet so only single card support but it's working for now for now in certain things Intel revealed it will offer SSDs based on 3D NAND this was posted by Cordy Warrior on the forum the original article is from tech report look at that we're posting all the articles from our buddies in the last couple minutes here we got Scott from tech report Ryan from PC for well mind you Ryan's not my buddy I kind of hate that guy but whoa even more shots fired yeah I'm just kidding Ryan if you're watching this I know you're not you don't watch cool programming like WAN show too busy watching the PC per podcast oh too many peas in that that's why I will never succeed well triple wrecked I guess all right so Intel 3D NAND Intel revealed it will offer SSDs in the second half of next year based on 3D NAND is the result of Intel's joint flash venture with micron it stacks 32 planar levels to deliver 256 gigabit so 32 gigabytes of storage in a single MLC die and the 3D NAND can also be packed with three bits for cell per cell to hit up to three hundred and eighty four gigabit or 48 gigabytes per die the 3D NAND will enable 10 gig SSDs within the next couple of years I'm sorry 10 terabyte yeah that's what I meant to say thank you 10 terabyte SSD yeah 10 gig SSDs would be less impressive I again like I said I was working before the show so I didn't get to see a lot of the doc so when you first said this I was like yeah not surprising but it's cool to be able to see some like the specs and the time frame I don't think the costs are gonna you know plummet immediately you know you look at Samsung they've got 3D NAND the actual cost per gigabyte right now it's not that much lower but give it a little bit of time and we could see SSDs much more competitive with hard drives be awesome so remember guys the benefits of 3D NAND are that they don't have to use quite the same crazy advanced process node technology so they can actually use less sophisticated fabs potentially also better reliability because they're using larger processes better speed because of using a larger manufacturing process so cool stuff all around everyone in the chat was all like oh my god 10 gig SSD not yet not yet sorry guys I got everyone's panties all wet and I'm not even gonna do anything about it all right New York Times square new Times Square digital billboard is a hundred meters across and eight stories tall has 24 million pixels and is powered by 3 AMD fire pro w9000 GPUs this is posted on fire user comm and are posted on the forum by ah Ming and the original article is from fire user comm I'm gonna go ahead and post that in here you guys Wow today I posted all the links in the chat but I completely forgot about just bringing stuff up on my screen and screen sharing so it's like one of these days I'm gonna learn to do both so here's the article from fire user comm it looks amazing 24 megapixels this is the highest resolution display in the world I believe that's right now saying yeah three that's such a beast machine it'll be really exciting to see the massive error message well that happens actually there might be higher resolution displays but certainly nothing this big yeah yeah and that page isn't loading anyway so apparently it was never meant so like when the page can't load on that screen it'll just be freaking huge that's my favorite thing you guys probably all hit that page well why I can't know the correct that's actually probably it I love seeing error messages on public machines I don't know why whenever you see like I remember when I used to go to BC IT they'd had these like tall very tall like a landscape why am I thinking this portrait portrait yeah portrait I don't know why I couldn't think of that properly a landscape that's kind of this way yeah hold your head like this if there's mountains on each side and you're looking in between them anyways don't worry about it yeah portrait mode monitors that would like show you a map of the school and stuff and when they blue-screened it was hilarious the giant super tall portrait blue screen oh thank you awesome super helpful speaking of super tall our last topic and this actually is a legitimate segue is ISO I always say it wrong I always say it ISO that's how it's pronounced in English if I look at it phonetically I think there's a different way of saying it has revealed a new monitor with a one-to-one aspect ratio 1920 by 1920 resolution what 26 and a half inches and they're saying sort of the sales pitch here this is a professional oriented monitor is convenient for longer content mm-hmm allows for a compromise between vertical and horizontal monitors that it does uses an anti-layer IPS panel professional glver-ade monitor don't expect it to be cheap available Q1 2015 and the least innovative thing ever because we already had we already had five to four monitors 100 bazillion years ago and everyone was like nah let's go wide screen so now it's an innovation to make it even more square than before that's super weird I don't think this is really gonna work out for them super well well remember they they're relatively low volume they're aiming at like professional applications where yeah the my god is like super good ball and it looks super old too yeah it's it's pretty silly look in here I'll screen share with you guys so this is the flex scan EV 2730 Q well apparently I'm on the wrong page there we go looks a little something like that like it actually just it looks just wrong yeah right so 20 pixels by 1920 it it's funny because you've never seen a square monitor before probably so like looking at one looks unnatural and yeah weird it's like there's something wrong with it so 78% more pixels compared to full HD cool man can I just have a wide screen please you know it's funny cuz like I was never much of an advocate for widescreen at the beginning when the affordable ones were 1440 by 900 and we didn't have enough vertical pixels but then that problem goes away as soon as you have enough vertical pixels on a Windows machine where scaling doesn't really work so you just actually need more pixels to fit enough stuff on the screen but as soon as that happened as soon as we got 1200 vertical pixels I was totally cool with widescreen then we moved back to 16 by 9 and then we didn't have enough vertical pixels again and now to compensate we're going all the way back to one to one apparently 16 by 10 is still a great aspect ratio and I wish that there were more monitors that you do huge fan 16 by 10 that's kind of sad which is I guess all there is really to the wind show today isn't it yeah there's a few other things but I don't know if they're super important you can do it if you want do what I don't know other things you think are important no I said I don't know if there's that hydrogen car that's coming that sounds super ball and cool yeah I I'm still more excited about oh yeah there's Elon Musk is still worried about Terminator yeah yeah I think he's talked about that before yeah we've talked about him talking yeah okay well on that high energy note yeah thanks for watching the WAN show next week same bad time same bad channel we'll be having the after party for more talk about the fundraiser right now let's do it yeah energy five Ford swamp but five for Linda five Ford swamp coach Linda coach five for Linda code five for land Linda five for plan energy power first