 time for some reason the San Francisco server hates our life right now and why did we have some audio issues when we went live for a second there before why did we have that well gee it's because someone why are you looking at me oh no no no no no no no no no no knocked our mixer off the table okay okay someone's bright idea was to glue the power into the mixer okay so it falls off the table onto the power connector which which which breaks two of the pins off into the back of the connector which now have glue all over the place and someone me I'll be you know clear about who this was I was trying to salvage it by pulling out and so basically long story short the mixer's okay the input the power input for it is not so we need a new one so so so we had we had some issues there and someone is responsible for them I you know I don't want to name any names or anything but that someone would be totally okay with having the whole company transferred into his name if he's gonna have to be blamed for things that he didn't do he might as well have the things that the person that did them has I'd be cool with that so we've got a great show for you guys today in video still has a shovel but this time they're filling up holes but not like screwing anyone no like not that kind of filling up they're like planting trees in the holes that they dug yeah see they're there they're restoring overclocking to their mobile GPUs also Apple may enter the car game this could be fun to see would you buy an apple car yeah we'll discuss it later your fantasy fun to see okay okay tell them tell them topics no snow in Sony is attempting to sell snake oil it's not going very well for them everyone on the planet has pointed out and no one's believing them at all so yep also DNA hard drives sound pretty freakin cool maybe not crazy usable and crazy feasible right now but pretty freaking cool regardless all right let's run that intro so are we allowed to show like our logo sponsored by us so are we allowed to show like our own logo on this thing because I'm not really sure wait are these are these graphics on the they're oh they're probably on that USB drive yeah so there's no logos because in other news this week YouTube no longer allows brand logos in like we'll go back to so this week's show is brought to you by I fix it by Luke also Linda dot-com you're much hotter than her and Squarespace wait yeah that's it is that okay I don't know I think so logo but it's not a title card yeah it's not a title logo but it's on a focus horrible it's here I promise you it's there oh apparently there was no sound at some point other people can hear just fine so I think it's just someone's got that someone's got their volume muted all right so why don't we jump right into our first topic of the day in video to restore overclocking in mobile GPUs this was originally posted by QWERTY warrior are you gonna throw the article in there so basically what it comes down to and we talked about this last week is Nvidia took out overclocking from a mobile driver and we discussed this last week and the general I think we pretty much agreed on all points dick move but you probably shouldn't be overclocking a laptop probably that was that was kind of the and I had some people get really upset about me making that statement because there are laptops that do have beefy enough cooling systems to be able to handle overclocking just fine a CST 751 there are some some clever made machines that definitely have enough cooling and are and are overbuilt enough but it should be fine but in in general in general people shouldn't be overclocking the GPU in their laptops anyway but basically having received a lot of pressure from oh I never actually brought up the tech power up link here we tested your push yeah everything's fine cool so basically users were super super mad and that did that did that did that with its most recent driver update the company decided to restore overclocking with its next driver update scheduled for March so you won't have to wait that long and in the meantime you can revert to the older 344.75 drivers so I guess that's pretty much all there is to say about that that's two super positive things I've seen from them in the last little bit are we over GTX 970 VRAM gate oh probably not and I've had some users bring up some really good points about that but I got a sweet update for my shield to help with emulation performance and they restored overclocking on their mobile GPUs so maybe they don't just hate their customers after all yeah on the along the lines of the G huh can I help you oh yeah I can't do anything with that um no we can't because there's more USB stuff I don't know I'll figure it out I'll figure it out don't worry I was going to put it in the front yes that would work do you want to do that I left it on top of the chassis okay in the meantime what was I even talking about you were talking about Nvidia being right 970 gate so I actually got a oh my god can we not call it gate I'm so tired of everything being called whatever it is and then gate how about break the VRAM internet did I make it worse yes I wanted to make it worse that was what I was going for I was I was I was trying to pretend I was making it better but actually I made it worse yeah that was my intention so so I actually had someone PM me on the form and go well hey hold on a second line as you said that even though that memory is much slower that 500 meg chunk of memory is is much slower it's still faster than system memory but I checked mine and my system memory is faster and while this user did have like 2,000 megahertz DDR3 or something like that like it was some super high-end premium memory and a lot of users wouldn't be running system memory that's as fast as that chunk it still brought up an interesting point I mean what about those users whose system memory is significantly faster than that slow chunk of memory they wouldn't even want Nvidia's tomfoolery with overflowing into that I mean you might as well just go to system RAM and be able to turn it off so I thought that was a really interesting point and I guess that leads us pretty well into our next topic here this was posted by this little sma thing did okay whatever you know what no new policy unless your username on the form is an actual I don't care unless your username on the form is an actual name or word I'm not even gonna try it's a car well I'm not much of a car person so and did he get hit with a false advertising suit over GTX 970 performance so pretty much that is what it sounds like some people are mad and claims that Nvidia misled customers about the capabilities of the GTX 970 claims the last half gig runs 80% slower than advertised and can cause images to stutter at high resolutions and cause poor in-game performance and for some reason gigabyte is the only OEM being named as a defendant so yeah Nvidia declined to comment about the suit and the lawsuit seeks a jury trial and damages that apply under California law filed on behalf of all US customers that purchased a GTX 970 the judge has to approve it as a class-action suit before it can proceed so lawyers make money and everyone else for $12 in five years yeah those things are just the worst unless it's for like actually substantial amounts of money which it never is then it's just the worst where you I'm largely just worried that I'm gonna kick it right oh it's under it's under there okay we're gonna kick it unless you if you manage to kick that then you are one talented kicker I don't see I think you'd hit your shin here before you could put your foot okay look this this is why I hate this show pointing at yeah that's not a kick if you kick like that I'm not playing so I'll play sports with you but not on your team all right Samsung sues LG executive LG sues Samsung this is posted by SS OB on the forum and I love this story because this is the pettiest nonsense that I have read in quite some time you want to go you want to go through it happen here the worst series events ever okay so what is it LG home appliances chief and two of his employees were addicted for deliberately damaging Samsung washing machines at like some store something Germany yeah yeah and then where is it they admitted to it yeah and then they agreed to pay the damages after some German authorities were like what and then I think they made fun of Samsung quality or something yeah they took a pot shot at the quality of Samsung products and Samsung was like you can't watch the formal complaints yeah then separately Samsung display said that four of its employees were indicted charged with stealing OLED display panel tech from LG display Co. limited charged with illegally obtaining the information from an LG contractor this is the these Korean rivals over here are getting it I mean they're getting real high school up in this can you can you even imagine like I worked at a retailer for a long time I like even literally if I like I can't even begin to imagine like our Intel rep okay like comes to tour a store with us and I turn my back on him for a second and he starts beating up and he sticks a screwdriver into like the cooling fan of like an AMD computer like that's the kind of stuff we're talking about here oh man that is that is some serious like grade 8 grade 9 stuff appliances chief like it's not even like some it's yeah yeah it's not some like you know some like that store yeah I was trying to make his products look better like it's not that no like that's fairly low level and actually like I understand that it's not even like out like a country like a country sales representative who's like you know trying to like how could an executive do something like this probably on a business trip officially in Germany like if you if you're some vigilante employee yeah like I can see stuff like that happening like the whole thing with who was it was it Verizon or AT&T or something where they're renaming customers names to butthead and okay whatever like there we're talking about the actions of one employee for a high level executive to behave in such a manner as that is just crazy that reflects a mindset at the company that is just not very mature and whatever whatever comes of the lawsuits I think this is just embarrassing enough that no matter how much they're forced to pay in damages for you know ruining someone else's washing machine they should just be the embarrassment should be worse than any of that it's probably not that's just what it should be ridiculous yeah I can't even I was reading through that story and I clicked through the link being like this isn't gonna be real this isn't gonna be real at all this is ridiculous there's no way oh it's real oh apparently it was apparently it was Comcast apparently it was Comcast with the sure they're all ridiculous it doesn't it doesn't it doesn't matter because it could have just as easily been anyone yeah all right so this your favorite topic of this is some serious serious rumor mill stuff going on here so original article here is from nine to five Mac this was posted by pit five thousand and we've also got another post from blaze 756 and Apple is rumored to be entering the car game now this is something this is actually a debate I had post iPhone but pre iPad with the with the NCIX cameraman who a lot of people seem to think is Luke but NCIX cameraman was always a different person NCIX cameraman is a person and then the people who operated the camera while I was at NCIX all had their own alias it was one specific person that was the NCIX cameraman yeah and he was like the Mac guy and he's the one that I always had that that Mac banter back and forth with and he was the one who convinced me to get an iPhone 4 and like all that all that stuff so so we were talking he goes you know what's Apple's next big move and not having thought of smart watches unfortunately I said an I could have already done that I'm sorry they already done that's true they had already done a watch but that was right that was that was that was Jonathan Morrison's very silly video and where he blindsided me with the Apple watch and it was very funny actually you can check that out it's on TLD today on YouTube but he asked me what's their next big move and I said I said I car and then I want to I want to get this out there again before I get into all the rumors about the about the Apple car but then my next prediction was I home and he said no impossible because Apple's design philosophy is that you know it's almost it's almost early Ford like here is the one color or maybe if you're lucky three different colors and here are the two models and or you could have last year's if you're some kind of scrub like that's that's that's a that's about all they do and he goes no no no the car is too personal a thing and and a home is too personal a thing there is no one size fits all and I kind of went well Apple's whole thing is they figure out the one size fits like they're gonna have like half of people cases for your car and that's good enough and so so right so so the cars so Wall Street Journal reports Tim Cook approved Apple electric car project a year ago and there are apparently rumored allegedly hundreds of employees working on it so Steve Zadeski a former Ford executive is leading the group and Apple is working on something that will quote-unquote give Tesla a run for its money so he was given permission to create a thousand although okay there's there's we have to be careful about a lot of different things in this article in my opinion because every single car company that's trying to make an electric car it's like we're gonna give Tesla run for its money so like take statements with a grain of salt they might it's Apple they might it's Apple I mean there's something that Tesla is good at it's battery and design and just general attitude and if there's something that Apple is good at and sex appeal Tesla's really good at sex appeal you know and if there's anything that Apple's good at it's all that stuff I just listed they're really good at that stuff and they have a lot of money so although it's funny I was reading another article not not one that I that I can pull up right now about the the poaching wars that's going on between Tesla and Apple right now and apparently Apple is having a hard time wooing people over from Tesla people believe in the direction that company is headed and believe in Musk as a leader so that's that that's really interesting but anyway so Zadeski was given permission to create a thousand person team and poach employees from different parts of the company and and then though this is actually sort of only slightly related but there are some rumors floating around that it looks like Apple might want to acquire Tesla I personally those I think it's stupid those rumors are very baseless they're speculative rumors it's speculative rumors of some investor that's probably like if I make this rumor really big and then it happens I'll be super rich and I'll be people will think I'm super cool and they will want to swim in my pool with me yeah like it's it's not I'll have a pool it's it's one we could play pool in a pool I would have like I would have like a floating pool we should tell Lou to install an indoor pool and then put a make his pool table like take the legs off and put it on a floaty boat that would be awesome and then you could play pool in the pool pool in the pool like pools pool in the pool while watching pool so you have like a TV while you're in the pool too and you can watch pool tournaments while you play pool in the pool so anyway yeah there's the sort of the the speculation here is that no one else in the world could try to acquire Tesla because they either don't have the cash and they don't have the ability to give assurances to Musk that they won't screw it up Apple's design team so a software global distribution would actually level Tesla up in some ways and that this all may be the case but I think I think that Musk is early enough in the Tesla project that he's not gonna just hand over the reins because it hasn't it hasn't even begun must have sold to sell things that's old to his his two previous companies but he also seems to get them to a certain point and that was where I was going it's not there yet it's nowhere near the potential that he probably sees for it and that many people see for it not even close I think he would want to get it to a certain level before he'd be willing to and I think to him like when you hear him talk about money like 75 billion dollars sounds insane but to him that might not sound that insane and that might not sound like enough he values money in a very different way than most people because he's looking at projects like sending people to Mars where he needs incredible like sending armies of people essentially to Mars like thousands of people so he needs incredible incredible amounts of money so his scale is very different to other people's so he might be looking for a lot more than that he might be looking for that I don't know what he's looking for speaking of Mars Mars one selects oh sorry about that Mars one selects one alien and 99 human finalists that title makes no freaking sense that I've never been able to figure out why it makes any sense it's just 50 guys and 50 girls no idea why it's one alien nine nine humans I dug very deeply trying to figure that out no no clue okay so basically they have narrowed it down to 50 finalists of each gender that are going to be going through some physical testing and they're gonna be they're gonna be evaluated in terms of their suitability for you know well leaving behind everything and everyone they've ever known or loved did I did I mention who this was posted by Rohit Kumar SP yeah there we go and I cannot I can't I don't know why it's like bugging out oh nope nope nope okay there we go um okay so what else we got for this one so I didn't get picked did you apply a long time ago I had actually forgotten that I had it was like well before I started working here because this has been a really long time coming right so I think when I was at like UVic oh okay so like a while ago right like I don't know how many years but like so they had two hundred and two thousand five hundred and eighty six applicants and the scary the scariest thing about this project is this is a one-way trip these people would die on Mars so they're gonna have to prove that they can demonstrate okay you are completely correct but I hate that people are saying that sentence in that way well they would live on didn't send they would die on earth yes like people are saying like oh yeah they're sending a hundred people to go die on Mars it's like yeah what I mean by die on Mars is they're not coming back yeah they would they would never find out how you know I don't know what's the some show people care about they would never find out how Game of Thrones ends because well you can send data it's just be really slow really slow you're not gonna you're not gonna be sending like Game of Thrones you're gonna be sending much more important things than that I would think. Game of Thrones in like 250 by 250. Look I see a sword. I really appreciate how cinematically shot this blocky pixel-y mess is but they'd be able to like they'd get pictures of their family and they'd be able to like essentially email back and forth and what not like you could yeah still still still pretty crazy crazy so they and they're not just gonna be selecting people one by one they're gonna have to also demonstrate their ability to work as a team because you are not gonna be able to be a lone wolf on Mars expect that to go real well for you this is not the way I mean this kind of segues well because we were just talking about Elon Musk this is not the way he thinks this should be done no not at all I mean a hundred people is not a colony that's not even that's not even a small town in central BC for the most part although there are some smaller ones than that but but that that's not gonna be like a functional society it would I I don't know I don't know it's certainly cool I wouldn't apply to go but apparently younger me did would you apply to go now not for Mars one I'd be much more interested in the Elan's implementation of it right but Elon's implementation of it is very different than Mars one right so yeah and like I don't know when or if that's even gonna happen so that's also a completely different conversation it's it's Elon so I will never say it won't happen right the Hyperloop everyone reported will not happen being worked on yes so there's that yeah so I will there's no way I'll say it won't happen but it just looks not super crazy likely right now that's all alright so tech radar has this is a pretty quick one but basically an investigation into whether we should unplug our chargers at night this is something a lot of people are really confused about and justifiably so because the guidance we get from manufacturers you know in the quick start guide for your new cellular phonemolator this was posted by I have me yeah I have me on the form doesn't actually tell you what you're supposed to do and a lot there's a lot of misinformation out there like oh if you leave your phone plugged in it over charges your battery and ruins it actually it doesn't any smart charger for any reasonably modern device is going to trickle charge once it reaches a full charge which while not perfect for your battery and not actually as good as simply charging it and letting it discharge to a reasonable level and then charging it again well not as good as that is not nearly as harmful with a lithium polymer lithium ion battery as just continuing to charge it which will nuke it like right like that and sometimes spectacularly too yes lithium is awesome so basically the article summarizes that the best time to charge your battery is after work so after your after you've done the bulk of your use for the day and then before you go to bed so you can actually just leave it in standby or with your phone off on your nightstand while you are sleeping that is the healthiest more standby time and less plugged in time although while that might be the best way to do it I will never do it that way yeah it's not gonna happen for me never not because I wouldn't be able to usually just have it plugged in that whole time but because there's no chance in hell I'm gonna risk my screen turning on and not turning off and then powering down in the middle of the night not having my alarm going off yeah I for people who use their phone as an alarm clock anything that any habit that isn't every day so anything I don't do every day I don't work every day I can't make that a routine but I do go to sleep every day so if I plug in when I go to sleep like it because the way that I work is on cues yeah so I take my like I have I have a medication that I have to take every morning and every night so I'm supposed to take it 12 hours apart and for a while I was trying to do it like based on meals I'm supposed to take it with meals mostly for nausea for you but I eat so irregularly and all that stuff so I'm just like okay I take it you know 16 hours and eight hours apart when I wake up and when I go to sleep and sometimes I go to sleep pretty late so it's like four hours that's gonna have to be the way that it is fortunately the way that that med works is it actually doesn't even kick in for a couple weeks because it's more like it accumulates in your system it's not personal or anything so in case anyone's wondering I'm on hydroxychloroquine brand name Plaquenil it's there it's it's for it's for rheumatoid arthritis so I'm not it's not like it's it's like I just want I don't want people to be concerned people get really worried about me sometimes it's actually got the AIDS it's kind of bizarre no not not that so much how do you know it's not that so much it's it's like wow wow anyway you know what let's just let's this is a topic that I really want to talk about this is awesome we've talked about this we have talked about this this one this one was actually sent by a friend of mine so I we usually quote whoever whoever referred us to it and this was a buddy a badminton buddy of mine who used to coach me and I had this was back when I was before I had kids right because he was coaching me to play badminton like who has time for that and we would often go I never paid him for coaching oh this dude yeah yeah Billy so I never paid him for coaching but I would just buy him food afterwards it was about equivalent to if I was you know paying you know 14 15 bucks an hour for coaching we'd go have a meal together and just kind of hang out we're buddies right so because I have friends so this one time I'm talking to him and I'm like you know what what if in what like is our older games really better like our older video games better because I think they are yeah I think Final Fantasy 6 is the best Final Fantasy ever made is that only because of the date that I was born and how old I was when I played it was I was I at that magic many arguments for that where I was old enough to appreciate that level of complexity and not so old that I was jaded but not so young that I couldn't enjoy it is enough to be super impressionable and all this and that's when that game came out is that why I think it's great and and he was like yeah probably and I went well no I I legitimately think having played it again later that it is it is legitimately better than the ones that have come afterwards with some being very good Final Fantasy 7 was pretty good Final Fantasy 9 was really good and he kind of goes no I think it's just I think it's just chance so I was like well here's what I'm gonna do my kid is not gonna be allowed to play the latest video games he's not gonna be allowed to play whatever comes out when when he's age appropriate for its release date I'm gonna make him play older games and then I'm gonna find out if he appreciates them if he appreciates the older games the same way I do even if he plays new games while he's still young and has time to enjoy video games because that's another really big thing too I have a hard time having getting the same enjoyment out of newer genres like MOBAs compared to ones that I was able to play extensively as a kid like 2d platformers I because I can pick up you know a new Raymond game like that and be good at it in the same way that a younger person like Luke might be able to pick up a new MOBA or a new MMO and be good at it stuff that I didn't invest the time into building the fundamental skills to be good at when I was younger and I had a lot more time the way it is now you know it's funny is oh who was it EA was getting a bunch of flack for saying that their games were too hard to pick up really I can't remember who it was yeah where they were saying like that the problem with the game with games is that it's too hard to learn and that's what that's what keeps it from reaching a broader audience I actually agree with that a hundred percent not because I'm an idiot not because I don't know how to you know use a controller not because I'm some kind of a chimpanzee but because I have a really busy life and I'm gonna tangent off a little bit and then I'll let you keep going sorry you know what had a really good tutorial which one shadow of Mordor it did I had to go through it again because of the thing that I'm doing but I will actually point out problems with even the shadow of Mordor tutorial for someone like me I had a hard time getting into shadow of Mordor because I rarely have longer than about 30 to 45 minutes to sit down and spend with a game at a time so that means my first play session was basically just the tutorial and then the next couple of hours where they start to sprinkle things in was split up among another two or three play sessions so I would be expected to know a mechanic three hours into the game that I literally haven't touched in two weeks and that can be hard and you know I can figure it out and there is a legend and there's nothing you can look stuff up online and all that stuff but that doesn't change the fact that it makes it less accessible and less drop-in and have fun the way that's something like a racing game might be so anyway this guy did it and I love this guy from this dude are hilarious this guy is a hero oh my god and and so playing with my son an experiment in forced nostalgia and questionable parenting the guy talks about like you know experimenting on children some other thing he wanted to convince his kid that he was living inside a computer simulation until his wife vetoed the idea but this is fantastic so I'm just gonna I'm just gonna drop drop away from so the article here is on medium comm and so over ten years this guy Andy bio performed an experiment on his son so this is the quote if you have a kid why not run experiments on them it's like running experiments on a little clone of yourself and almost always probably legal wow you are fantastic so anyway he didn't buy his kid the latest and greatest games made him work his way to modern it modernity playing through the history of gaming starting with 1979's Galaxian calls it a decade-long experiment in forced nostalgia and questionable parenting meant to give his son an appreciation of older or or fruiter games that he otherwise may have dismissed as relics I mean it's no secret if you drop someone into you know Wow okay and they play that for a year and then you're like try to appreciate Zork that's gonna be pretty tough yeah yeah yeah that's true and and and the dad didn't go quite as far back as text-based games because even even for you know a pretty sort of nerdy kid that kind of thing it's probably gonna be a little tough but if you're young you know if the idea was to start him young playing games like if you're like a five-year-old I don't think you're gonna get much appreciation from a text-based game so so anyway the the result was that his son became very good at old and more difficult video games so there's another quote from the article Elliot just beat the first Zelda entirely by himself I only helped by showing him a map of dungeon 9 that's my boy is actually a lot of that's pretty impressive I know a lot of you right now that would just bail out hard and you know what's funny what's funny about you saying that's impressive is that it's not I know because a generation or two ago there were nine-year-olds playing the first Zelda game and that's why all those people are our age or older now and look at modern games it's impressive because people quit too easily that's right it's impressive by today's standards because like what what driving game were we playing the other day where like we weren't looking and forgot to steer and it's just the car state on the road I don't remember which one it was I know dirt 3 does that but yeah the point is games have gotten trivially easy and it looks like it is as simple as limiting exposure to modern easy games and just kids can handle older games just fine I may do the same thing I may not when we were talking about this a year ago or whenever we talked about it I told you you should do this and I totally agree and like I already save and collect old games I know you'll probably do that thing that is possible but if you need I have like Kalika visions and I have I would fuel this and I would be so entertained by watching this process go down I am thinking of setting up you know those two little rooms I have beside my office you know how there's a bigger one yeah I'm thinking of setting up like the retro gaming lounge there awesome so I need to get like an awesome big CRT and I need to get my hand there's some stuff that I'm just gonna have to actually obtain like a duck hunt like gun and stuff like that yeah oh I know they're easy to get but I'll just I'll just have to do it yeah and and you know it's it's one of those things where it's like I think some people might misinterpret this article and kind of go oh we should give me straw pull this should minus make his kid play through historical games before playing modern games if people say no their butts well we're supposed to let them answer before we tell them your butts if you say no if not you're very attractive butts so some people not a chunky butt you know so some people might misinterpret this isn't it's not like he has to play every game you know it's not like you made him play every game but I think the idea was to cover different genres you know not necessarily be locked into whatever is popular right now whatever you know encouraging bejeweled stupid thing but you know start with something that insults you when you die you know and is and is legitimately difficult and just have an appreciation for different genres in the way that they changed over time you don't have to play every game the idea would just be over over a period of time would be like okay you know you're six so this is NES here and all you can play is you know here's the NES games I have you can play some blades of steel you can play some whatever else and then maybe one year later you get a super nests and a Genesis or whatever so I don't think that's how he did it though no he he did this was the original idea we had yeah yeah so he actually locked in the titles yeah you whereas for me it would probably be more like here's your console here's the era the era that you exist in and here's a bunch of games you can play whatever you like what do you see then PC yeah no problem with that but like well we would go by release years so we would maybe go with like an excel give them like brackets or whatever so yeah how to SNES you give them the bracket that SNES existed for yeah yeah yeah so it'd be easier to go by the console but then just give the PC yeah because like playing or sources humans and stuff like that would be really cool yeah yeah I think that would be just stomped on by the AI wasn't good it just cheated yeah it cheated so hard and you know orcs versus humans was a funny one like I would end up in I ended up one time on on a mission map where it actually got to the end of the game and neither of us had an offensive unit left and all the resources on the map were depleted because the the units were so equivalent that you could literally you know fire and you know your last two catapult volleys eliminate each other's armies and it's just it's a stalemate there was no real tactical re maneuvering so it was it was really tough I can you send me that straw pool so I can screencast it but yeah I I think I think I'm I think I'm going to do it and it's not like my wife's gonna care you posted in twitch chat alright so here's the results from the straw pool for whether I should make my my kid experience gaming chronologically basically super yes yes attractive butts and and 11% of you are ugly butts okay yeah so attractive butts is literally just yes is literally yes yeah okay I was not paying attention to how you were structuring this poll I see that you've taken the mature road to it's like banana and stuff what do you want me to do banana at least leaves it to the imagination little I should have put yes no attractive butts ugly butts yes just left out no entirely and made them click yes and ugly butts there we go alright so I guess now is actually a pretty good time for us to do our sponsor messages which ones first so did did Nick even manage to okay well remember it's the thing yeah let's start with hopefully work nope because the drive letter changed oh did it now yeah okay well the drive is not working oh is that oh oh does the front USB not even work that's maybe there's two in there though so one of them might the other one might not alright so I'll do another topic in the meantime I guess or something like that in order to sort of try to seem like this show is somewhat professionally run yeah that was that was never that was never a thing alright so this is a WCCF tech rumor and I was posted by GPU expert on the forum and I'm just gonna go ahead and copy the link myself since Luke is currently in disposed and basically there's a there's actually I'm gonna kind of riff on riff off of this one because there's some stuff about in this article and there's some stuff that's just kind of been floating around lately but Fiji XT r9 390 X rumored to be coming with the acts working out rumored to be coming with a cooler master liquid cooler so it will be water cooled out of the box just like AMD's previous dual GPU solution that to me is some pretty crazy stuff and pretty nuts pretty indicative of the thermals of AMD's upcoming flagship which is which is terrifying I mean we know that they couldn't shrink the process yet much enough I don't know why actually no I thought this was gonna be strong can their first event be in a volcano this time you know what I actually can't I can't remember I can't remember if this is supposed to be a if this is supposed to be a smaller trip or not someone's gonna correct me so we'll figure all that out when the time comes but basically here we go so here's a look at so here's the leaked r9 390 X shroud right there so you can actually see the gap right there for the liquid cooling solution it's also rumored that AIB so addin board partners will be able to make their own solutions that do not involve so this is the existing 295 X 2 I believe so they'll be able to make their own solutions that do not involve liquid cooling although it's you're gonna need a case with like pretty great ventilation or something like that we've got rumored specs that is some fast memory double the memory throughput of r9 290 X which was already a 512 bit beast of a card with 4096 stream processor I mean it's looking pretty amazing but the other rumor floating around right now is that everything under the 390 level so like the 380 X 380 is gonna be rebadged no had you heard this no yeah this is all rumor right now but it is rumored that 380 X will be will just be rebadged to 9 DX ish maybe clock speed bumps right that is that is some scary stuff so AMD is gonna have potentially a 300 series time frame lineup that has several generations of GCN architecture all as current products that is terrifying I mean it what does that say about AMD's R&D budget and how it's doing right now because they have cards that are literally well over two years old that are still part of their current lineup and if those get recycled again that is some that is some scary stuff that's kind of nasty because the costs only go down so much if you don't shrink down the manufacturing process or make the make the PCB design less complex so if AMD has like mid-tier you know $200 grade cards that have like 384 bit memory buses these are complicated PCBs it means you have to at least have X number of memory chips in order to even populate the whole thing you have like it that yeah that's some scary stuff it is a rumor the good news is 390 X according to the rumors looks like it's gonna be an absolute beast 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dark is sprint an ISP um well they do mobile internet sure okay yeah yeah man um and and so then some of the new some of the FCC's new new initiatives would involve title two for mobile broadband as well okay yeah so so yes sprint as you know it's funny is I used to have sprint as an ISP back in the dial-up days but I don't know if they do that anymore I don't think so yeah and like that was in Canada no yeah sprint.ca man long distance plans that are affordable I can't remember what their starting I remember that I remember the pin drop though yes that was like I remember that but they're not really a thing anymore so sprint has basically spoken up and said you know we need it to be light touch you know we're not looking for heavy-handed regulation or anything but that you know it it didn't seem to hurt the phone business so that was good for us when we got into that and that seems to have inspired competition so you know yeah as long as we're not looking at heavy-handed regulations this is not gonna affect our investment into infrastructure yeah that's really cool so that's cool so this is this is in the wake of T-mobile, Verizon and AT&T all all claiming that it's going to be a problem so split sprint has officially broken ranks and is like nope we will continue to invest in data networks regardless of whether they're regulated by title to section 706 very cool so the original article here this is posted by spartaman64 do you post this already no original article here was from Ars Technica I love Ars Technica what a great great site there were some really good quotes in here regardless of the legal grounds proposed sprint has emphasized repeatedly that net neutrality rules must give mobile carriers the flexibility to manage our networks and to differentiate our services in the market so Sprint's not saying yes we will offer only one speed to all of our customers and it will all be unlimited we still they're saying we still need to be able to you know have you know if you go over a certain data limit we might have to throttle you in order to manage our network and manage the load to provide the best experience to the bulk of our customers as we can because mobile data in particular is really not as simple as you know throwing in some new switches at the hub and adding more capacity I mean it is an extremely expensive rollout and the capacity is limited in a much harder ceiling sort of way compared to you know something where your fiber installation could be X deep into the double digits percentage dark fiber that's not even being used yet where there is literally almost no cost yeah to just turning on more of it so so I totally get it and I think they couldn't be reached for comment by ours when they asked to clarify what they mean by managing their networks and differentiating their services but I kind of get it and I think I have a pretty good idea what they mean by that and I think the fact that they're coming out and saying this publicly is pretty pretty positive so cool good on you Sprint yeah I'm saying everything you do is great I'm just saying this is this specifically was very cool this is pretty cool yeah um so this was posted by a Pras du Poc and the original article here is from wallstreetjournal.com and apparently we're getting we're getting more and more leaks this is not that this is not that customary for an Apple product launch for us to get people internally who are talking about the development process and challenges well this is this is a real weird situation there are some some allegedly sort of oh I'm sorry I'm not sharing I'm not screen sharing right now there are some allegedly inside sources claiming that originally the Apple watch was intended to be more of like a multifunctional health monitoring device with sensors for heart activity blood pressure stress levels and all kinds of things that Apple wanted to monitor with the watch but over time the sensors weren't accurate enough they had problems with hairy people or people with dry skin not getting good readings there were challenges with potential regulatory issues like if Apple is gonna sell a device that claims to make you healthier all of a sudden they have to deal with I believe it's the FDA sorry I'm not American so I try to keep up with with might make sense yeah the Food and Drug Administration or other regulators if they're gonna make claims like oh it you know helps you monitor your your heart health yeah like all of a sudden they blew that there could be a disaster I don't know how I had a cardiac arrest I was wearing my Apple watch at the time and battery died because Apple's internal battery targets look abominable that that's just me and injecting my own let me just let me just weird you keep talking I'm just gonna solve a problem keep going keep going is that like happening right now yes it is the whole you were supposed to keep talking oh yeah whatever no no it's okay my people are adding me on Steam friends I'm gonna completely ignore all of them the same way that I have been you know there's an there's an ignore all button the yeah I know it's beautiful but I usually don't do it because you know what happens is if you let it sit for long enough your friends request list actually fills out it maxes out and so then so the only reason that I ignore all a while ago and the reason people are able to do this right now is that I tried to legitimately add someone to my steam friends not that long yes yeah you were there yeah yeah I added Josh or something yeah so anyway um what else we got here so the Wall Street Journal source describes the four-year watch project as a black hole that sucked in resources from elsewhere in the company features like measuring blood oxygen levels and blood pressure are said to have only been shelved so it's possible we'll see this in future iterations but for now I really do believe the Apple watch is gonna be the first generation is just gonna be a complete stopgap solution different from any other stopgap solution like the iPad one was actually kind of a stopgap solution like if you look at it compared to any other iPad it had the shortest shelf life I believe I'm doing this off the top of my head it had an extremely short shelf life it was discontinued much more abruptly than other Apple iPads that have continued to exist even with their their successors available in the market since then and it just they dropped support for it extremely quickly compared to iPad 2 yeah like it was just it was a bit of a redheaded stepchild even though it was the one that created the tablet category as it is today as it is today yes as it is today oh no I know tablets existed before that but the the Apple watch looks very different to me it looks like like with the iPad it was like yeah we like we did the best we could and we're like pretty sure this is pretty good and it's gonna be like a better way to browse the internet and with your fingers and stuff with the watch it really does look like we just kind of have to release something yeah it doesn't seem very Apple a lot of things Apple's been doing lately doesn't seem very Apple I'm conflicted on Apple right now because I really like things in terms of the security and stuff that they have on their phones the security the app support the camera that they have on their cameras but then I dislike things like some of the design choices that were made which are super stupid and then just different directions that Apple's going in right now but then Google is doing way worse in my opinion so then like what one do actually follow Windows phone oh I wish it was better I really wish it I really want to like Windows phone I have taken so much crap for the stuff that I say about Windows phone and you know what's funny is when Windows phone eventually gets good I switch to it yeah people are gonna be like whoa boy yeah I hammered on it cuz it was terrible it was a terrible terrible ecosystem and that's not to say Windows phone is terrible terrible ecosystem because it's just bad and people can go oh well you can do this and you can do that that's nice you can but I'm not gonna invest that kind of time into doing stuff that I can do in like four seconds on an Apple or an Android device I got super excited when I heard the Ubuntu phone was coming out and that's like where did that even go did that just disappear no there's a new thing there's a phone actually coming out but it's not gonna be anything like that original one that they announced right it's like a super cheap like very cheap phone oh I remember that project yeah that that totally died I really wanted to try Ubuntu phone like a badass sapphire glass one no I know I just wanted to try the OS Brandon brought in his Galaxy Nexus S specifically for me to install Ubuntu on it because I wanted to try it out and then I just yeah like I kind of never got around to it yeah unfortunately um it's probably gonna be bad it's probably but like could you be slightly more negative I was just thinking I needed more negativity in my life you know this company sucks this one sucks this show sucks I would like this one but it sucks I hate this show this one's interesting but it sucks oh whatever I wish my co-workers weren't such but heads this is great oh my god someone made me the wow can you link me that oh wow okay we got to show you guys this we are we are taking a break in the middle of the show to show you guys this because it is awesome oh do I have to sign in in order to search for things on Twitter oh that's okay I'll just do this is this is amazing where did it go I just saw it oh okay that's it my Twitter feed moves too fast here yeah there you go if you click on it it will give you a better that's fantastic so someone recreated the Linda comm logo with Luke as the Linda mascot I absolutely love it I wonder if we'd be allowed to use this it's not their logo we should ask Linda though like we should ask Linda if they'll let us use we should we should I was bringing this up earlier if we did like kind of funny recreations of all the logos like I was talking to Nick so it would be tough for a dollar shave club I don't remember what it is crossing but it's razor blade it's razors yeah so I just held two razors and went like this we like 3d printed two really big razors and then take a photo of that could probably work like that's not really their logo no it's not that's we're gonna start something here and then we're gonna draw a bunch of attention from Google that we don't even want we're gonna be the martyrs that we don't want to be yeah yeah all right so posted by F not on the forum Cognitoys huggable dinosaur is connected to IBM's Watson supercomputer imagine Dollar Shave Club sponsored Wolverine sorry keep going okay I do want to play this video because this thing is hilarious so let me just I hope the volume works hold on my my set my system sound is muted just like okay hold on hold on hold on hold on okay I think I just I've got the wrong audio device set give me give me just a second here don't worry I will I will get this sorted out so is it supposed to sound like a dinosaur because that sounded very well on hold on hold on hold on hold on I'm on I'm on this one can you just can you just can you just not like can we just what's what what what is X split stream audio render okay just everyone just calm down okay I think it's working now okay this thing's voice this the sound of this dinosaur thing is like some scary scary stuff now to be clear this was actually clarified in the article to be clear the voice is supposed to sound more cookie monster like in person but right now it's just like I'm going to murder you like it really sounds it really sounds awful so basically it's a smart toy it's on Kickstarter it's gonna be a hundred dollars I'm actually thinking of funding it just so I can get my hands on one and play with me because this this tickles my tech I love that kind of stuff my parents techie sort of I just yeah I love things that you can talk to you and the idea is that it'll use machine learning to interact with children so it'll be little plastic monsters that use that then communicate to with the Watson supercomputer to basically answer questions and interact so you push a large button on the belly ask a question and Watson excuse me Green Dino will come back with the answer and so elemental path is pitch here is that as your child ages the toy will monitor their progress and ask more sophisticated questions and provide more detailed answers when it is dialoguing with them now to be clear IBM's involvement in the project is purely to let the company connect to Watson yeah like they're not actually developing this it's just we got the supercomputer yeah this is a way that we could maybe make money off of it if people wanted to like use it for stuff so that's pretty much it so I have about as much hope for this product as I do anything else on Kickstarter which is about this much but who knows might be great might be terrible and I might try it out just like because like I wonder how I wonder how old of a child it would think I am yeah I'd be like oh my goodness that would be so much fun yeah like how old are you in in in Dino calculated years because the new IQ test yeah really right um let's talk let's talk DNA storage this is really cool so this is supposed to buy system 32 on the forum I'm gonna go ahead and pull up the the National Geographic article here that's probably a first yeah I don't know if we've ever posted anything that you know so this is this is just one of the one of the aspects of yes can be a good photo when it has that little yellow rectangle yeah man anyways alright so well preserved specimen pushes back the timing of modern horse evolution basically oh basically they were able to read DNA data from a 700,000 year old horse bones which is pretty freaking intense and that's actually I don't know how related that really was they because they're able to sequence that genetic code I think that's maybe a proof that if they were to store this stuff they would be able to access it way later in the future right I think that's actually more part of the whole point they they're calculating that one gram of DNA which is actually a lot but one gram of DNA would be capable of holding 455 exabytes which is insane so here's the science alert comm article that actually talks about what they what they did with with using DNA to store data subjecting it to some pretty rigorous environmental and aging testing so they've actually got it contained within what is it like tiny micro glass yeah 150 nanometers 150 nanometer glass capsules diameter 150 nanometers to keep to keep them safe and they figure they could preserve the world's data for millions of years how many exabytes in one gram of DNA it's 455 which is pretty insane they do it by coding A and C pairs of DNA as binary zero and T and G pairs as one so they can yeah you're essentially putting huge amounts of binary which is kind of what's always happening so it's not too surprising now to be clear this is not affordable technology so the 83 kilobytes of data that they encoded for the study cost around 1500 US dollars and you wouldn't be able to use it as like a hard drive or an SSD this is not yeah stuff is specifically encoded onto this and then hoped that you would be able to specifically take it off later not like you can actively use it for re-grate yeah like the DNA inside the glass spheres would be extracted using a fluoride solution it's not like it's not like you just you know drop some drop some haploid cells into your computer there and you've expanded your hard drive that I'm hoping that eventually we're gonna have biological hard drives to some degree because I think that could be pretty crazy cool but this is not it but this could be extremely large extremely long-term data storage so people were to back up like a library that could be super cool or back up like the current state of the public internet that could be super cool stuff like that time capsules kind of stuff could be really cool but it's yeah it's not a hard drive Wow this stream like people are all over the place some people are just seeing like my chat just saw the dino video link your chat could be behind and then some but some people in chat are commenting on what I just said with the haploid cell joke that some people I was hoping some people would get that that's why I was looking at chat okay so Megan it this was posted my Nardar on the forum and article here is from the hacker news dot com so I'm gonna let you mostly handle what are you gonna let me mostly handle my did my output like Bork again okay well here you want to talk about this in the meantime well I try to fix this your email open man anyways Kim comm is jumping on the whole like kind of private internet style stuff just like a couple other projects have their own in this there's made safe project maelstorm and zero net or a couple other examples so they're all just like like peer-to-peer networking hosted websites stuff so you're still using internet infrastructure for the most part or entirely but you'd be able to do it peer-to-peer what's kind of cool but a lot of these is I don't remember what country this is going down on right now and I'm not gonna be able to bring up this article right now but a lot of people are having issues having internet at all so people are running their own lines North Korea secretly North Korea no you said people's having trouble having internet oh Korea I don't think it's North Korea but either way um I'm pretty sure it's not no it's not but anyways they're running they're running their own lines and creating their own kind of internet with their own websites their own game servers which people can connect to and play on like it's actually pretty sick what's going down I don't remember where the country is you can try to look it up it's a cool article anyways yeah so he's trying to make the it's gonna use trying to make that mainstream more so you don't have to run your own lines this would run on the internet but you're kind of encrypting things using the blockchain that was used for Bitcoin there's no more IP addresses because it's using the blockchain that was used for Bitcoin I suggest looking at how the blockchain works if you want to understand how that makes any sense and yeah it's not actually a super complicated idea it's just a different way of having websites on the internet you'd be utilizing stuff like the bandwidth and the storage on your phone right because it would be distributed all over the place peer-to-peer style network yeah very much so phone although not exclusively phone a lot of what he's talking about is the data on your phone which you probably have excess of which is not that surprising because you probably actually do and the storage on your phone which you he's saying probably have excess of but I'm not super agreeing with I don't really think so 16 gig phones still exist at all is just before I reformatting my phone I couldn't do anything with it I'd take a photo and it'd be like max capacity and I didn't have that much stuff I'd like two or three self-taken videos a very small library of songs of like a stuff that I saw while I was traveling damn it like really cool diseases that you acquired while you were whoa whoa how do you take a video of a disease oh I can imagine how oh anyways yeah it's not a super new idea but it's Kim calm doing it so it might actually become a big thing instead of not well maelstrom is the bit torrent guys so like yeah yeah then again bit torrent sync hasn't exactly completely no you know like dropbox like it probably should have you know it's funny again I'm gonna bring up I'm gonna bring up my neighbor again because last night I was I was like I was helping him with this thing he's kind of like an older guy and he was telling me about his he was telling y'all I'll bring that up later he was telling me about his like his setup he's got like mostly older computers like he has like this guy is like crazy technical in ways that I'm not like he built his own CNC and I'm just like that's cool and then and then the idea of like I mentioned a NAS because he just has all his computers like not networked to each other and he whenever he needs to store something longer term he pulls out a terabyte that's what he calls an external hard drive and I'm just like wow like I'm looking I'm looking past dropbox for how I can control my my cloud storage myself and use my NAS as a as as like a cloud device and like there's there's people that haven't even have that haven't even got like the idea of central stores like technical smart people who are like scratch building like he scratch builds the entire electronic scoreboard you know sources solar panels CNC cuts all the metal components welds them programs the microcontroller that controls the solar panel charging and controls the functionality of the board and builds this crap in his garage and the guy has like never heard of the idea of a NAS and I'm like how do we reach these kids anyway media tech media tech of all people showing off 480 FPS 1080p video the article here is from next power up calm 480 FPS video is his laptop speed of but yeah sorry not an attractive but I'll have the I'll have the right thing up in a second here with their with their with their upcoming okay so there we go super slow motion 1080p video with their upcoming what is this an eight core eight cores clocked at 2.2 gigahertz now remember gigahertz is not important that actually is completely meaningless but check this out like I I wouldn't have I wouldn't have figured it's gonna be media tech pushing things forward in terms of of the processing power required for super slow motion video capture so here we go so 1 16th speed of course this is all totally simulated that's one quarter speed so that's 120 FPS this is hard course 480 FPS dat slow mo now this was obviously not captured on a phone yeah simulated imagery you can see all the depth of field that would not be present on a phone in the image but the point is if it can do this at all that's still pretty freaking cool who knows and I mean the thing is is that we've gotten to the point where the CPU in your phone is pretty darn fast and is it worth spending an extra you know like a flagship phone is gonna be 600 700 800 plus dollars depending on your storage configuration if you can get a phone for a couple hundred bucks with a media tech chipset that might start to look pretty compelling I mean there's still value adds to high-end phones things like the because there's more to it than just you got an image sensor and like a fast processor you actually have to do a lot of software work to make a phone camera good yeah but the hardware is the hardware is getting pretty pretty terrifyingly cheap direct X 12 this is posted by rafi on the forum original article here is from tweek town reportedly treats multiple GPUs and we're back to not every tweek town has autoplay stuff yeah not like I can screen share it anyway because it's herpaderp using it every time okay what articles is where did you go I just did the next one it's up up there I can treat multiple GPUs as a single there we go as a single entity so this is not actually that new as far as I know so no yeah pooled memory could be a thing and well okay AMD was doing this and basically perfect scaling could be a thing so as we like super hardcore we're like this is definitely gonna happen to everyone I guess now it's officially gonna definitely happen it's officially going to be easy apparently okay so that's that's pretty much it so Brad Wardell the CEO of Stardoc tweeted that they did a test of direct X 11 versus direct X 12 on an unreleased GPU with an 8 core CPU and direct X 11 managed 13 FPS with direct X 12 managing 120 what is Stardoc even still doing lighting and the lens effects were were apparently cited as one of the reasons why direct X 12 performed much better so one thing it does make is it easy to treat multiple GPUs a single GPU all right so we're into our we're into our quickfire topics here this one's from kit guru posted by Rohit Kumar SP and Sony to launch smart glasses in March they look absolutely abominable yeah this will not be the savior that Sony is likely looking for for their company it has a single color green display it's like what is this we're going back yeah it's gonna cost 520 pounds in the UK and eight hundred and forty dollars in the US it will use augmented reality to place an image in your field of view in the center it's gonna have 85% opacity so you'll be able to see through it. I said 85% opacity transparency only 15% opacity. 85% opacity would have been so bad. I wear my sunglasses with augmented reality at night so I can not see things that are very high resolution. I crash my car into the bridge all day and I don't even care. I crash my car into the bridge and then I let it burn. So the resolution of the screen is totally impressive. 419 by 138 and you'll be pairing it to a phone with kitkat 4.4 or later. Android. Gonna be garbage. Nobody should buy it. I still want to check it out. Sony invested 842,000 to buy 2% of SMP, a Japanese startup making self-driving cars. So this was supposed to buy NumLock on the forum. I believe it said MPE. Whatever. Sony joins self-driving car chase. So basically the point of all this is that Sony wants to leverage one of the business units where they actually are a market leader which is imaging sensors. So it's no secret Sony is pretty good at that stuff and they figure that self-driving cars are gonna need a whole heck of a whack ton of them over the next 5 to 20 years. So Sony's like, holy crap if we market this properly we might not go bankrupt. This could actually save the things that we want to do that are not this. Neil Young's $400 high-def music player. This was supposed to buy Victorious Secret on the forum. I think saying loses to Apple's iPhone in blind audio test is a very sensationalist. It's just not better, right? The most famous headline, appleinsider.com. That is actually not how it went down. The original article is from CNET, although I'm showing the appleinsider.com one. And what actually happened is people couldn't tell the difference conclusively enough to pass a blind taste test. That is how it works. I forget what the numbers are because I don't stare at this stuff all day. So it's not necessarily better. It's not that it was definitely worth. People could not consistently enough conclusively tell the difference between the $400 Pono player and the iPhone 6. Something that I could have told you guys. But David Pogue, former professional musician over at... Sorry, did I say CNET? I'm sorry, I meant Yahoo. Yahoo Tech. That was terrible. I'm sorry. Yahoo Tech, Yahoo Tech. So it wasn't the most scientific test, but he did set it up reasonably well. It wasn't ABX, but it was blind AB testing and he had, I think, just over a dozen, like 14 people, including self-professed audiophiles come in and try to tell the difference between them. And more people did select the iPhone 6 as the winner. But the way that a blind test works is I think you have to be able to tell 90% of the time or something in order for it to be considered that you could tell. So that's not good. Because random guessing could cause serious issues with statistics, and it does cause serious issues with statistics. Oh, this is cool. GamingTheatre.net. This was originally posted by Mystical on the forum. Zelda Wii U's open world is apparently as large as the system can handle. This was like... When I first saw this topic, I was like, that's not new information. What? This was highly hinted towards, like very freakishly highly hinted towards. They basically said it, but I guess now they officially said it? When they were first announcing the game, they were like, yeah, we weren't able to properly do this with Wind Waker. That's why there were islands and stuff. And now there won't be. And we're going to use as much as we can. And now it's like, it's going to use as much as it can. I don't know. This isn't really new news. That's basically what I was trying to say. I mean, what's exciting about it to me is that Nintendo is treating large, explorable worlds seriously again. I mean, we got away from that. Again, it always comes back to Final Fantasy VI for me. That world was massive and had a lot to explore. And that was like SNES days. If I was going to ask, if I was going to create a Christmas wish list of what I want RPG makers to invest their dev time in, it wouldn't necessarily be fancy graphics. It would be lots of NPCs that I can interact with and lots of cool stuff that I can explore. Because that is what makes that kind of game fun. You did like Oblivion, right? Yeah, I did like Oblivion. I was going to say, well, why don't you play it? And I was like, wait. Because I lost my save game. Way to rub some salt in that wound. Yep, I forgot. Jackass. Sorry about that. I actually do feel bad. Oh, we teased this. So we have to talk about it. Original article here is from PCWorld.com. Sony Pedals Snake Oil. Why wasn't this in the main thing? A 64 gig micro SDXC card for premium sound. Are we going to need a weekly audio file Snake Oil segment? We had the Ethernet cables, the $10,000 Ethernet cable last week. The Pawno player. We've got Pawno player. I think I talked about the week before. And then we've got Sony's premium sound SD cards. Spoiler alert. There is absolutely nothing about an SD card that makes it better or worse for audio. Could it be something to do with EMI connections between the SD card and the player? That you wouldn't hear anyways. But could it be? Is that what they're referencing towards? Let's find out what they have to say about it. Because if it just says high speed, then... That would be junk. Okay, okay. They're selling it in Japan. It's four or five times more expensive than a typical 64 gig card. It is supposed to produce less electrical noise. Okay. So yes, it is supposed to produce... You wouldn't like... Yeah. Still Snake Oil. I'm just saying. Because the register and PC perspective put it out like, oh yeah, they're different type of storage medium. But like, no crap. I don't think that's what they were going for. Of course. Still, you know... Even Snake Oily things try a little bit harder than what the register and PC perspective pointed out. That's obviously not what they were going for. I still think this is totally Snake Oil, but it has to do with EMI stuff. Ah... Yeah. Now we're just ending the WAN show on a sad note, because someone somewhere is going to buy it, and they're going to think that they got a good deal. Well, mine doesn't hum as much because of the electrical magnetic interference reduction of my SD card, so therefore is superior, especially when I play it in my Pano player, and when my computer is hooked up via ethernet cables that are specifically made for audio. My cables are very danceable. That's a good thing. Kill me. Kill me now. Okay, so 9to5Mac reports Pebble teases a new model. Sources say, thinner watch with color screen in the works. I really hope Pebble actually manages to seat us a unit this time, because I'm happy enough with my G-Watch R that I'm not going to buy it this time. Rumors are that pricing will come in around the price of the Pebble steal, and it will be initially sold via Kickstarter, not Pebble's retail partners or official website. Really? That's kind of been their model. It's not like they didn't start their business on Kickstarter. I've got to wonder if companies like Pebble that have demonstrated the success of Kickstarter are probably getting a deal from Kickstarter to continue to support the platform. Probably. In fact, I wouldn't even be that surprised. If Kickstarter was paying them? If Kickstarter was maybe not paying them, but maybe throwing a lot behind it and kind of going, yeah, we're not going to take a cut or we're going to take a very small cut. Maybe advertising or something? Yeah, I would expect this to be more of a trade now that Pebble is the monster that they are. You can't really call Pebble a monster, but it's... They're fairly monstrous. They're a big deal now. A lot of people know about Pebble. They are a much bigger deal than I would have ever expected a Kickstarter founded company to be. Yeah, well, they're bigger than I would have ever expected it to be too. They both are. I didn't expect that kind of success out of it. It's not happening nearly as much anymore, eh? Especially the Kickstarter hardware guys glory days seems to be largely gone. It feels kind of like that whole... See, I don't even remember what they're called anymore. Groupon. It feels like that whole Groupon thing. Groupon made it big and everyone was really excited about it. They were huge. It blew up. A bunch of copycats showed up. And then when's the last time you heard about a Groupon deal? Or similar. They're still around. They still exist. You can still get good deals there. And there's all the different ones. But no one cares anymore. So it's like the Kickstarter fad seems to be mostly over. So I think that's pretty much it. Thank you for watching the WAN Show today. Like this video if you liked it. Dislike it if you disliked it. Are we doing a thing? A what thing? An after thing? After... Are you doing stuff? Oh, Garage Sale. Yeah, I am planning to do Garage Sale today. I actually didn't go find stuff for it yet. So there might be a bit of a delay. But I'll be back. It will be Garage Sale time. I'm going to try and sell that Mac again. Bleh. Wish me luck with that. Yeah. This problem is like... It was like the Pano player last week was hilarious. I was like, I can't tell you this thing is amazing. Because it's not. But I spent $400 on it. So I'm in need... I'm in need someone to give me some money for it. Did you sell it? Yeah, I got $190. Shipping in. So I had to pay shipping. But why did anyone buy it for that much? For $190? I don't know. It's got a 64 gig SD card in it. So there's a value add. I don't know if it's audiophile grade. It's EMI is pretty bad. I don't know. Did you hear that EMI on that Pano player? Maybe that's why the Pano player lost. Funny story. You have an equivalent level SD card. My neighbor again, he met Neil Young. Like way back in the 60s. That's awesome. I shouldn't name any names, but he didn't speak very charitably of him. Mwaaah. Because he mentioned he was like... Because he toured with the Guess Who. Like as an opening act or whatever. And I was like, no way. That's ridiculous. I was like, you have got to be kidding me. He's like, yeah, we were just like... I don't need it big or anything. But me and some buddies, we had a really good agent. Who got us into all the parties. So yeah, I met Neil Young. And he was telling me all these people he met. And we finally arrived at Neil Young. And I was like, Neil Young, yeah, I know who that is. Because I didn't know who a lot of the people were. And he was like, ohhhhh. He's like, Chris Christopherson. I'm like, I don't know. I know who that is. So he finally got to Neil Young. Yeah, Neil Young. We kind of burned him pretty bad on our show not that long ago. He's like, oh yeah, well he's a... Whatever. So we got to talking about that. Anyway, I think that's it for the show. We'll be back with the garage sale in a little bit. And thanks for watching. You guys are awesome. Roll the outro intro thing. We had like 7,000 live viewers today. We did. You guys are good people. I like you. We all have attractive butts. Regardless of that straw pole. Some of you don't have attractive butts. That's maybe true. But I'll say that you do. And you'll take a compliment because you're a good person. Inside. Wow, really? That's what they did? That's terrible. I am going to fire whoever did this. It got worse because before the color was different. But now the whole freaking couch moves. And we get bigger for some reason.