 Alright ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the WEN show. Start your coolers. Start your engines running. Wait, no, motor is usually the... Get your engines. Get your motor running. Like we get your motor running. We crank your engine. Crank engine could kind of work. We plug your tailpipe, if you know what I mean. Oh wow. Anyways, we have topics this week that aren't about cranking engines. The first one is WD acquires... What about tailpipes? WD does not acquire tailpipes. WD acquired Sandisk for 19 billion dollars. Yeah, they stuffed 19 billion up their tailpipe. And that made them theirs. Prison rules, man. Oh my god. Also, YouTube did something with Red. YouTube Red. It's different than YouTube Blue. It's less sad. Oh, I feel bad for YouTube Blue now. Yo, listen up. Here's the story about a little... I love that song. Guy that lived in the Red World. And he paid for YouTube and got some cool stuff. Except people don't like it. But we'll talk about that later, sorry. 10 terabyte PCIe and 8 terabyte SATA drives. Also, the USA is enforcing mandatory drone registration. Well, trying to. More on that in a minute. Every time I say more on, I'm like, that must be a stupid news topic. And intro. Maybe that's the person's last name. More on that in a minute. Visit gaming.logitech.com to learn more about cool, sweet Logitech stuff. Yeah. Also, freshbooks.com slash when for cool FreshBooks stuff. And dollarshaveclub.com slash Linus for cool dollar stuff. Sorry, shaving, shaving. That's what it is, shaving. And butt wiping. Okay, and then I'm going to put this here. See how I blanked it? Now it'll load right away next time. You just have to remember... No, I did. I did. I did. Because that's the end screen of the intro MP4. But we always forget to do that. Well, technically, I'm not the one that's in control. Yeah, technically, maybe if you would actually, you know, tailpipe something. I don't know where I'm going with this. So we've got a great show for you guys today. We've got a ton of topics, some of which are interesting, some of which are total shite, but we won't talk about those ones for too long. And I'm getting an ad for, wow, Scouts versus Zombies. That can't be good. Someone taking... Oh, this looks like one of those terrible joke movies. Yeah. Scouts guide to the zombie apocalypse. Wow, that looks awful. Sorry, a bunch of people in chat were saying that they have no video feed. Refresh. Refresh the page. Everything is good. I was just making sure it's working. I've got a lot of people talking about Star Wars trailer hype. I have not seen it. What? No, no, no, there's a reason. There's... Okay. I have a policy. I don't read the back of books. Okay. I do not watch trailers. Okay. That's very fair. That is my policy because I take spoiler alerts to like... Like, I have no idea. You just baited everyone. Don't read the chat today. Well, you can't spoil a movie that's... And like, there were no plot points. I've talked to Brandon about it already. I've talked to Brandon, which is all I need to know. Brandon says the trailer was flippin' awesome. I think there were minor plot points. Okay, well, either way, I will ignore it because I know the chat is going to be half full of people trolling anyway. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's fine. Yeah, yeah. It's fine. The leaders won't believe it. The Twitch chat will literally cancel itself out in this case. Yep, it does in most cases. One type of troll working against the other type of troll effectively trolling each other. So anyway, I have not watched it. The internet. Because like even Game of Thrones, I have literally no idea what happens after the first book because I am determined to wait until either all the books are out or George R.R. Martin dies. At which point, I will read all the books that are available and then I will watch the entire show and I will binge watch it and that will be... That's funny because that's exactly my plan. That will be exactly how it's going to go down. So I take this whole thing very seriously. So I don't even... I watched the first Force Awakens trailer. I let myself have that. I watched it. I kind of went, yep, those are X-Wings. Those are lightsabers. This movie cannot be bad. Oh, it's George R.R. Martin. No, no, he's not there. That's good. So I am going to... So I'm going to wait. I'm going to wait. So people were asking for impressions. My impressions are that I am cautiously optimistic that Abrams is not going to do anything to my tailpipe with the new Star Wars movie. And you know what's funny? I was looking at... So that he will in just the right way. Yeah, in just the right way and he'll look me in the eye. So I was looking at top grossing movies of all time. And you know what's funny is even corrected for today, Star Wars is not that competitive. Like it's good. It's good to be clear. It's good. It's good for today though. Yeah, because like you correct for inflation. Yeah, but that's not fair because population increases. That's true. And people who would be able to go to the movie also increases. But if anything, that's advantage modern movies. So like Gone with the Wind is still the number one grossing movie of all time. Corrected for inflation. So here, let's just bring it up. It's top grossing movies of all time. There's like a Wikipedia article which hopefully is somewhat accurate. See, it's purple. I was just looking at it. So yeah, when you actually look at it, Avatar crushes everything by a long shot followed by Titanic. Jurassic World is number three. What? What? I had no idea Jurassic World performed that well. It beat Avengers. Like really? Like I didn't know that Jurassic Park as a franchise had... Here, I'll screen share with you guys. Did you see Jurassic World? I haven't. I want to. I heard it wasn't that great. I didn't think it was very good. The only good thing about it was the one dude that I can't remember the name of right now. I'm terrible with actor names. Yeah, we know. If we ever make a show about movies, don't break me up. Yeah, you're not invited. Yeah. But yeah. I think I'd have fairly good comments, but I wouldn't know who anyone is and that would be kind of weird. But like looking at this, I kind of go, you know, you compare Marvel, right? Like Marvel Comics and the reach that something like that has compared to the reach of the Star Wars universe. And I would have expected even the crappy Star Wars movies to perform relatively better than that compared to like all the Avengers and all these Iron Man 3, all these Marvel movies. Like this is the top Star Wars movie. I'm surprised Pirates of the Caribbean Stranger Tides did more than like Toy Story 3, Iron Man 3. Here, let's look at the corrected one. So here's the corrected one. So Star Wars itself, the first movie actually compares very favorably, but the other movies actually were nothing special. And Phantom Menace is probably the most telling one. So Star Wars fans are fans of Star Wars kind of regardless of whether they go see the movie or are even a fan of the movie. I guess was my realization. Like Star Wars is so much more than the movie. So I'm not even sure if this movie being amazing or being a total flop will actually impact anything about the Star Wars universe and its success as a franchise. Because you could argue Star Wars is the most recognizable brand that came from a movie ever. That came from a movie. Yes. Didn't the books originate? No, no, no. Star Wars, A New Hope was the first Star Wars thing. And yet they actually compared to, especially in recent times, like in the generation that I grew up in, haven't really performed that well at the box office. I'm not saying a billion dollars is anything to sniff at. I'm just saying that for what an international phenomenon Star Wars is, I just would have expected it to outperform Pirates of the Caribbean. There's a fair amount of people saying random things in chat, like Harry Potter I saw a couple times for more than one person. That's from a book for sure. Yes. I mean, like Frozen did $1.279 billion. I'm kind of looking at this going, really? Yeah, it was a good movie. I saw it. But like... A lot of people saw it. I know a lot of people saw Frozen. I get it. I've appealed to all ages, let it go and all that noise. But if you compare the fleetingness of what Frozen's impact will be on popular culture. Yes, it's highly impactful now. And if they do a sequel, then it will get some more momentum. But you compare that to what Star Wars has done over the last 77 years. And you know what? The global warming's effect will be on the Frozen franchise. Yeah, I think that's been done with Ice Age. Where the planet heating up affects a Frozen movie. No, I mean, it'll be kind of not really a thing at one point. Because it's based in... So what? Where is it based in? Queen Elsa is going to combat the... Norway? Oh, I don't know. It's based in an actual... and the kings that visit and stuff are from actual places. Oh, I did not know that. Yeah, I read something about it. Scandinavia somewhere, I think, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So those places might not be frozen at some point. No, but I thought it's her power that made it frozen or some crap. Oh, so that it won't. Yeah. Okay, okay. So you're bad at actors and movie plots. Well, no, because they're from a place that was... When she's a kid, they're pulling ice out of the lake. Okay, tell me this. Indiana Jones carries a whip or a crowbar? A whip. Okay. Just making sure, because I don't know. You might have had him confused with Gordon Freeman at this point. That's not the beginning of the movie. They're cutting ice out of the lake to take back for cooling stuff down. They're in a very cold area. Right. But that's because they don't... And her power is also freezing things. Yeah, okay. All right, all right. Oh, no, our polar bears will have nowhere to go. People are like, Luke, just stop. What? I wasn't even wrong. Apparently, it is Norway, so it's very cold there. Oh, that's good. You should just stop. You should just stop. We should both just stop. That's it for the show. We're done. Thanks for tuning into Movie Chat Friday. We will see you guys next time. All right, why don't we do an actual topic here? The US is planning to enforce mandatory drone registration with the Transportation Department by Christmas. They are taking this ball and running with it. This is... Wait, how... This is a stupid, stupid article. How does Apple owing a bunch of money for patent violation have anything to do with drone registry? Way to go, Stuff.TV. What? You don't even know what your article is about. This is like a two-liner anyway. I'm gonna go to NBCNews.com. Yeah, fine. And I'm gonna link people to that. Yeah, link people to that. So let's go ahead and play up what we got here. That looks a lot more interesting. So according to NBC News, the US federal government plans to require all flying drones to be registered with the US Department of Transportation by Christmas. And basically, this will... What's up? Oh, is the NBC site not even loading? It's just down. Oh, no. God. Damn. Maybe USNews.com. Anyway, so they're gonna be working with the drone manufacturers to put a system in place that... And with retailers, presumably, that at the time of purchase will require people to register that drone. What if you sell it? So there's gonna be a lot of issues. Obviously, the system is not gonna be perfect immediately. And people are gonna find a way around it. And there's no clear system in place for what happens to all the drones that are out there today, what happens to hobbyist drones. I was gonna say, what if you build your own? Yeah, if you build your own drone. I mean, maybe they would make you register the chassis but you could build your own mode. But then who cares? Maybe it would be the controller board or something like that. Like, if you could get the... Great. So you can make like... I almost just had a name of a model in our forum, Erdino. I think you can get like Raspberry Pi or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, you can. So it's not really clear to me how they would regulate these custom drones. But the point is that... I have a feeling this is gonna be... Kinda sorta like this is gonna get a little bit controversial. But I think it's... I have a feeling it's gonna be kinda sorta like gun laws but even easier to get around. Where like the gangsters aren't gonna care. Like the people that are gonna do something illegal with it aren't gonna care and they're gonna just go around it. And then it's just gonna be annoying for the people that try to use it properly. Yeah, so they're apparently trying to take public feedback into account as the rules are formed. But there's a lot of questions. Will there be a registration fee? Should certain drones be exempt from registration? What constitutes a drone? Are we talking like this thing now? I mean I think there are some guidelines with respect to the functionality of them. But I mean it's not like in the next five years you wouldn't expect to be able to buy micro drones that can mostly pilot themselves that have first person view cameras. As the electronics get smaller and cheaper. So would I have to register this thing? I mean if that got, you know like a parrot mini drone gets sucked into a jet turbine it's gonna disintegrate. It's not gonna, yeah. And it obviously can't fly that high. So this all comes on the heels of a huge number of obvious violations of the existing laws where people are flying them next to airports. Flying them next to forest fires. Flying them around in the city at night when if it fell out of the air for whatever reason. Let's face it flyway drones are a thing. Where if it fell out of the air it could hit someone's dog or child or you know, yeah. Otherwise cause a problem. So the Consumer Electronics Association predicts something to the tune of 700,000 drones will be sold this holiday season. So that's a lot of potential hazards flying around in the air. I can understand why they're doing it. I can understand why drone enthusiasts are mad. Most of the reasonable drone enthusiasts that I've either talked to or seen posting online are directing their hate at the people who are just screwing around with them. Doing particularly stupid things. Because let's face it. The laws in Canada are kinda dumb. Like you literally cannot fly a drone pretty much anywhere in a city. Because you can't be within, I forget what it is. I think it's like a hundred meters of an animal or person. And it's just like, okay. You can't be, I forget what the rules are with respect. I think you're not allowed to be in a park. You're not allowed to this, you're not allowed to that. Like there's all this stuff. So you can't be within a certain amount of animals or people but then you also can't go to a park. So you just can't go to anywhere. Right. So basically it pretty much is like, yeah you can't fly them. So I'm just like, okay. But no one was really enforcing that until people started doing really, really stupid stuff with them. So that's basically where we're at on that. This is kind of a big deal. Our original article here is from overclock3d.net. Let's go ahead and pull that up. But WD has been confirmed to be in the process of acquiring Sandisk for 19 billion dollars. So for those of you who are not familiar with Western Digital, they make hard drives. For those of you not familiar with Sandisk, they make flash products. So SD cards, compact flash cards, SSDs as well. Basically what Western Digital is seeking to do here should be fairly obvious. They are trying to gain actual manufacturing capacity for solid state products because they've dabbled before. WD has had hybrid drives for example. They had that black squared product that actually had a 128 gig SSD and a hard drive. They were in one and it was kind of a bizarre product. But unless you own manufacturing capabilities, you're always going to be paying someone else to manufacture the flash chips for you. So you're never going to be price competitive in a commodity market like storage. So WD basically went, okay, let's bite the bullet. Now is the time. We're going to go ahead. We're going to acquire someone with actual fab capacity. And they bought Sandisk for 19 billion. Now it is contingent on WD getting something to the tune of I think 3 billion dollars in funding for x percentage of their company from some capital firm. So there's actually two different proposed prices. One, if that deal goes through, which will be sometime I think second half of 2016. And then there's this price. And then there's another price if it doesn't go through, which it is expected that Sandisk would reject if that were the case. So WD is not putting themselves in a bind where they might not actually have the cash to do this when the time comes, which is pretty smart. But it looks like if all goes according to plan, WD will have the entire gamut covered. Pure SSD. So it says now it's official. It's official that the deal, which is contingent upon those conditions, is in place. Okay. Yeah. So the actual shares and cash have not actually changed hands yet. So this will allow Western Digital to bring hard drives, SSDs, and hybrid products to market with bare cost costs on both of them. The only thing that WD would then be missing is actual, because they can manufacture the chips themselves. So they wouldn't actually be developing NAND flash technology, like someone like Micron Intel with their joint venture or like someone like Samsung is doing. So there you go. This is really interesting. Like one of the notes says in the doc, this is combining two massive storage providers. And like WD, as everyone knows, are legendary in terms of hard drives. And then SanDisk is huge, actually in terms of like camera storage, too. SD cards. Very well respected. Both are very well respected for their quality and the longevity of their products. So this is a pretty huge merger, actually. Yeah. SanDisk has been working very closely with Toshiba, another actual NAND technology company. And the only statement that I've seen about that so far is that that will continue. So yeah, what a situation for someone like a Seagate out there, kind of looking at this going, okay, well, that leaves us not a whole... because there are not a lot of companies that actually manufacture flash chips. Like very few. Very few companies own fabs and now WD does. And a lot of them are in partnerships and stuff already. Yep. So best of luck to Seagate and yeah. I'll be interested to see how they tackle this. Here, this is interesting. YouTube read. So why don't we jump right into this? The original article here is from Recode. YouTube will make you pay to see some of its new videos. Which is actually, and like a lot of people's coverage of this topic, actually a little misleading. They are not going to be necessarily YouTube's videos. I am aware that there are some creators, we are not among them, there are some creators out there that have been approached to do exclusive, like YouTube originals content, but it's not 100% clear to me that YouTube would own those videos. And it's also not 100% clear what would happen to that content in the very long term. It's possible that like our arrangement with Vessel, where the content is behind a paywall and then comes out onto the free platform later. So it's not clear if it would be a similar arrangement or not. But I do want to clear up some of the general misconceptions about YouTube read. Because much like our video where we announced that we were going to start launching our videos on Vessel, and in the first 30 seconds of that video I said we are not abandoning YouTube, half of the comments under the video, why are you staying on YouTube? Why are you abandoning YouTube? That was insane. That was absolutely insane. And it feels like from even some fairly large creators, I've seen some really ignorant statements about this, like did you even bother to read the YouTube blog post? Just read the blog post. This is very simple. Okay? If you're not being commissioned to make YouTube originals content, it's business as usual. Everything is normal. Everything is fine. Everybody calm down. Nothing is changing. Ad-supported YouTube is not going anywhere. And I doubt we'll ever go anywhere because ad-supported is a legitimate model. What YouTube is doing is they are adding a tier. They're adding a premium service that exists on top of, in addition to, the ad-supported free model. And what you get in return for a, I think it's a $9.99 subscription, is you get YouTube music. After one month free. After one month free, you get YouTube music, and then you get YouTube gaming, which YouTube gaming, I'm actually not 100% sure what the benefit is of having a subscription, but you get YouTube music, which means that you can listen to music in the background. You can download things. Okay, hold on. Let's stay focused on Red, anyway. So YouTube music's not launched. We'll talk about that later. So YouTube Red allows you to save videos to watch offline. It allows you to play back in the background while you do other things without interruptions, both of which are very cool features, and they allow you to watch videos with no ads. So what that means is your membership fee that you pay, and it's actually not 100% clear how much the split is. So it looks like they're saying their quote is, the vast, vast majority of revenue will go to creators, but it's also been mentioned that creators would be paid the standard 55%. And then the way that it works is the money from your YouTube Red subscription will be split among the creators that you watch according to watch time, which as we know is YouTube's primary metric that they're looking for in terms of gauging the popularity of a channel and the excellence of a video and all that kind of stuff. Like a 24-hour random video, just so you can be like, I want to support this channel mainly and just idle it when you're not there. That's called gaming the system, and we don't participate in that. Our one and a half hour podcast, notwithstanding. So playlists. Okay. So there are a lot of questions here that do remain, even though the actual premise of this is very simple. No ads, being able to download videos officially and watch them later, and being able to have them continue to play back in the background. Download videos officially? Yep. So you can download them and watch them later. Yeah, so through the app. Of just Red content or of all of it? All YouTube content is Red content. That's another thing. A lot of creators are super upset that... I meant Red originals. Oh, yeah, no, nothing to do with Red originals. All content. So a lot of creators are upset that they're being forced into this agreement. I don't really see why they care. Why does it matter? Our audience, it super doesn't matter because they could just download the videos anyways. Yeah, it changes... You probably know how to do that. It changes nothing. All it means is that instead of an AdSense revenue that you get for that view, you're getting a Red revenue split share. And in theory, based on... It would be higher. Yeah, in theory it would be higher unless people are very, very heavy consumers for their $10 a month, which they're not. Like, I've run the numbers. A view is not worth a lot of money. Like, a single view. And another thing too is some creators are upset... Okay, so first of all, why YouTube is forcing all creators into this is because that's the whole service. Is YouTube without ads. So yeah, you're going to need... As a creator, you're going to need to sign up. And it's all beneficial to you because people can either choose to pay or they cannot. And then we've got creators that are kind of worried about... Well, hold on a second. That means that I'm not getting my ad revenue for that. So then... But hold on. What if I'm... Oh, hold on. What if I'm in an area where YouTube Red hasn't launched? We're a perfect example. YouTube Red is launching in the US exclusively for now. So what if someone's a YouTube Red subscriber and they watch our video, but we're not a YouTube Red creator? We're not getting a payout. Or are we? So this is all not very clear, but what I will say to the creators out there and to the viewers out there is I wouldn't stress about it. I really don't think this is a big deal. I was looking at it last night and only about a third of our views in the last month on YouTube were monetized. All of our videos have monetization enabled. So whenever you click on our videos and there's no ad, that means that view was not monetized or you have ad block. So what that means to me is that even if... So 40% of our audience is in the US. So even if a fraction of a fraction of our audience subscribes, there's plenty of video views left over for people who are not having views monetized. And thankfully we have a lot of people that help us in other ways. Like the Amazon affiliate codes, like the shirts, like the forum contributions. But even without that, my point remains, business as usual on both the creator side and on the viewer side, you shouldn't care. With the one exception being the YouTube original content. But the cold hard truth there is that if YouTube is funding this content to be created and it wouldn't have existed without it, then if you want it that badly, much like the PewDiePie game is a perfect example, do you think you should get that for free because you watch him on YouTube or something? If it's something that wouldn't have existed otherwise, then guess what? You got to pay to play. A lot of people have asked us what we have planned for YouTube Red. So far nothing. My YouTube contacts have not talked to me about it at all. It's not being rolled out in Canada, so I can understand why they wouldn't have talked to me at all. We have committed many times to our viewers that our content will always be free. It may be windowed, released, periods. It may be this, it may be that, whatever. But you will always have access to all of our content for free. So depending on the structure of the YouTube Red paywall, we might do something with it, but only if it would be a windowed release and we could release it to everyone eventually. So yeah, right now business as usual, and if you don't like it, you probably misunderstood what it was. Because it's nothing. It makes no difference. I plan to subscribe because I already subscribed to Google Play Music for 8 bucks a month. It's another $2 a month to not see ads on videos. So yep, I'm going to do it. Does it still have the family thing? I'm not sure. But if it does, you can still be my family. Sorry for people, a couple people started mentioning I'm doing weird things with my jaw and stuff. I'm currently deaf in my left ear and it's actually very weird being on the show. That's why I'm also doing this, looking behind his head so I can hear him with his ear. Sorry. I'm going to switch sides today. I've got a lot of people asking what this means for Vessel. Nothing. Our Vessel contract is still very much in place. So our videos will be a week early on Vessel. And anything we were to do with YouTube Red would be within the confines of our existing release schedule. So if YouTube came to us and said something like, okay, we're going to do windowed release for YouTube Red content, and I was kind of looking at it going, okay, so we'd have a one week window on Vessel, another week window on Red, and I don't know if we're going to do a two week release window here. So we would probably not participate, at least until the landscape becomes more clear to us in that case. Right now as a creator, everything's very up in the air. Clear as mud, but it also totally doesn't matter. You can completely ignore it and everything will be the same, which is fine. Which is good. If you don't want ads and you want YouTube music and stuff, sure. If not, don't worry about it. Yeah, I'm totally going for it as soon as it's available. I'm super stoked. Are we that deep into the show already? It's 520. How is it 520? 520! Why don't we do this next thing real quick then? Large Esports Max Fitching. Match Fixing. Thank you. Revealed in Korea, one coach and two players arrested. So basically, I'm going to get a link going fairly soon, but if Linus could take over because I'm currently posting a link. Why is there an NCIX ad on TeamLiquid.net? That's awesome. Yeah, I can buy... Oh, this must be like a Google ad or something. I was looking at Server Essentials R2 last night. Mine was TD. Isn't TD a Canadian bank? Yeah. Toronto Dominion. So Prime Starcraft 2 head coach, Gerard, and programmers, Yoda, and... Whoa! I bought this last night. Yeah. I didn't know that... I looked for a camera once on one website, and every website I went to that had Google ads after that had this kind of stuff. No, but I didn't know NCIX was this clever. I didn't know they targeted ads like that. Back when I worked there, we didn't have any of... We didn't log what people were viewing and then hit them with ads about it. So this is... anyway... I wonder if Google has a tool or something. That seems likely. Yeah. All right, sorry, go ahead. I don't... Did I say programmers? I meant pro gamers, my bad. Yoda and Bong Bong, there's two Bs on Bong Bong, I hope I'm saying Bong Bong correctly, have been arrested in connection with match fixing in Korea. Sorry? Boom? Beboom? Beboom? Anyway, yeah, sorry, I'm not familiar with this particular gamer. Where was I again? 12 individuals have been arrested in total, including financial backers and a journalist who acted as a broker. Two of the financial backers were ex-gangsters who provided the funds for betting to occur on illegal websites. Five matches were found to have been fixed. I think it was around like nine grand. Yeah, US. Yeah, Gerard was charged with receiving an equivalent of about 9,000 USD. All of these figures are apparently approximate. And Yoda, to intentionally lose a match in GSL Season 1. Yeah. Yeah, so there you go. So basically, they're going to jail. Yep. And they've been banned for life. From the Korean Esports Association. And so, and, KESPA, I don't know if we call it that, but I don't care, has said that even if the criminal suit, even if the criminal charges don't end up putting these guys in jail or anything like that, they're still going to be pursuing a civil case against them. Yeah, basically, they're taking it very seriously, and so they should. This kind of stuff is total crap and undermines all the efforts of everyone else. So many people. In esports, elsewhere. The fight to make esports as legit as possible has been huge. And crap like this continuing to happen is just hard. And yes, we know, it happens in every sport, I get it, but they're currently going through growing pains, and it makes it that much worse. Yep. I'm going to turn down our saturation a little bit. Someone complaining we're too saturated. All right, so what else we got? This is just a quick one, but here we go. AkibaPC.watch.impressed.co.jp is our source for this one. This is great. So pretty much we've got confirmation that there's an 8 terabyte SATA SSD in the making right now with a 10 terabyte PCI Express SSD also in the making right now. This website is amazing. I know, right? Oh my god. PC Hotline. Man, that's great. Oh my goodness. We're probably the only visitor on this site right now. Look at how far it goes down when there's no content left. It just keeps going. There we go. Okay, so here we go. That's the site. And it's over. And it's finally done. And a banner ad. I really hope these guys aren't paying too much for that banner ad placement because that is terrible. So basically there's not too much to say about this other than that as expected SSD capacity continues to rise. This is a Korean company called Nova Chips that's working on them. They're using a technology called Hyperlink NAND. So it's this daisy ring architecture that outpaces the parallel bus architecture used in industry standard NAND flash products, apparently. Point to point ring. You can preorder it today on oleospec.com in Japan, but you would basically be a complete idiot if you were to do that because the pricing is about $10,400 for the 8TB SATA 3 SSD and $15,600 for the 10TB PCI Express SSD. And they're not estimated to ship for another 3 to 4 months depending on the SKU. So given the volatility of flash pricing, I would probably just wait until it's on a shelf. Maybe it'll be $8,000 by then. Honestly, that's the conclusion of so many things these days. It's just, just, just wait. Just wait. Honestly, at one point in time, pre-ordering games wasn't that bad. Well, yeah, they only asked for like a retainer. Yeah. Yeah, you just put your five bucks down and you could actually cancel your pre-order. Yeah. Now it's like, nope, nope, nope, it's yours now. We gave you early access. It's yours. Nope. No special buy the whole thing immediately. Yeah, and the season pass, by the season pass too, we'll give you like five bucks off. Yeah, what the hell is that? Oh my God. On that subject here, we've got a... And like, collector's edition's not coming with season's passes? Yeah, I know, right? What? It's like, well, we did give you like a sick, you know, metal tin. Yeah, I was going to say, it came with a metal tin case, collector's edition, limited edition, oh damn. You know what, everything is technically a limited edition. That's true. There is not an unlimited amount of anything. You're a limited edition. Oh. So on that subject, it's unusual for a hardware maker to get involved in this kind of nonsense, but Sapphire, maker of graphics cards, put an opinion piece on their blog about pre-ordering. And you can obviously tell based on the Assassin's Creed Unity screenshot that they got going on at the top of the blog post here that they're not in favor of pre-ordering. But yeah, basically, they're just like, yeah, blah, blah, blah, paid a test, it hurts the whole industry. Today, you have to put all this money on the table. That's really... I had no idea this was even in the doc. 50 DLCs of pre-ordering gray, that's kind of a cute subheader there. Yeah. But yeah, there is... So basically, the question at the end is this. So there's nothing about the current prepay model that helps or is good for PC gamers, or I would say gamers at all. How do we fix this? It's easy. Stop pre-ordering. The group pre-order thing is so crap. God, I hate that. Tomb Raider did it too. And they're just like, oh, the more people that pre-ordered, convince your friends. No, shut up. Don't convince your friends. God. It's like drug sales tactics. Get your friends hooked. When the stupid elementary school is like, yeah, go to everyone's door in your neighborhood and make them buy random crap. Those assemblies, which should be straight up illegal. God, those are bullshit. I cannot believe at any level... Sorry, this has always pissed me off, even when I was a little kid. I can't believe it's legal on any level to take everyone out of class, put them in an assembly, and give them a sales pitch that they have to push towards their parents so they can win a stupid toy. What the hell? How is this okay? Okay, now, in certain cases, it was used as a legitimate fundraiser for legitimate things that the legitimate needed. Also, I won the five pound Hershey bar at my school one year. So get wrecked. You're probably just jelly. I literally never did it. You're literally just jelly. And my parents, I don't even know if they would have stopped me or not, but I was like, this is dumb. Your parents are literally jelly. I got a real job, and I could have just bought the five pound Hershey bar. You know how much chocolate I had? Get wrecked. I could have just bought it. My dad made me share it with my class. I was so mad. Like, beyond all mad. Like, I had to help cut it up into chunks to give to all my classmates. I was like, I would rather just not eat it. I would rather mount it to the wall forever. That totally sounds like you, too. No, I won this. Let me see if I can find the one. Yeah, here, I've got some pictures online. So this is the one that I won. It was one of those. Yep, five pound Hershey bar. Apparently, they're more common than I had thought. We've got lots of people. Apparently, there's a whole thing. Oh, there's a whole thing of them. Yep, there you go. Hershey five pound chocolate bar. Everyone's excited. I would have been excited, too, if I didn't have to share it. What were we talking about? We were talking about pre-ordering games. We ended up there. Speaking of pre-ordering, the HTC A9. Oh, yeah. Okay, what's their point? I don't get it. Oh, this is so mean. The Verge's headline, how to copy. Dun dun dun. See how they cleverly capitalized the T, which normally wouldn't be capitalized. Because of that campaign. I got it. So the iPhone clone could be the one I'm waiting for. So basically, it's kind of a mid-tier spec phone. It's got a Snapdragon 617, which is super not that exceptional. It's got a 1080p front-facing camera, which is kind of nice. I do support the better selfie camera thing. Because, yeah, for better or for worse, I do find myself taking them from time to time. My kids. That's my excuse. Okay, sorry. Not caring about selfies. But what is this? I don't understand. HTC president says we're not copying Apple. It's Apple that copies us. What? Oh, okay. So that's a separate article. We can discuss that later. Okay. But no, we can tie that in here. So I wanted to give a brief rundown of the phone. It has kind of middling specs. It's good enough. It comes in at a fairly reasonable price in the US. So it's $399 off contract. It's not clear to me if this will be a carrier phone or not. Dun dun dun dun dun dun. Not sure. The Verge article doesn't cover it. But basically, yeah, it's got supposedly a really great headphone jack. So like a better DAC. That's actually something a lot of guys are talking about. Rumours about the Galaxy S7 seem to indicate that Samsung is putting a lot of emphasis on better sound quality. They're putting a really great DAC in it. Personally, I haven't really had an issue with anything from the past couple of generations. And I suspect most people don't either. But hey, whatever. Where are you going to improve things now? Yeah, where are you going to improve things? Well... The battery! Improve the battery! Thank you. God. Now I don't have to say it. Well, apparently HTC thought they could improve their phone by basically copying the iPhone from pretty much every possible angle. So this is again the Verge. Like, holy crap. The only differences that I can see between this and an iPhone are that it says HTC on the back. Like, there's more buttons on this side instead of that side. And the camera bump is in the middle instead of there. I mean, even looking at the bottom. There's more pictures here. Even looking at the bottom. Oh my god. Wow. Yep. Yep. That's a very similar thing that you're doing there. Pretty crazy, hey? Wow. That's closer than I even thought. And so in light of the accusations that HTC has copied Apple's industrial design, HTC president has come out and said, We're not copying Apple. It's Apple that copies us. We came up with the idea of putting an antenna band on the phone like this. Apple copied that. No, I don't think that's a design choice. I think if Apple could avoid an antenna underwear line, they would probably do it. Oh no. Poor HTC. Just so silly. With that said, so this phone doesn't seem to... To be clear, the $399 pricing is pre-order only. So it's going to be going up to, I think, $449. But don't quote me on that. Basically, I see where they're going with this. Because while this phone is not really capturing the hearts of enthusiasts, I was actually on the XDA Developers podcast earlier this week, which I don't know if they've posted yet because I should probably pimp that spot. It was actually a pretty good podcast. I enjoyed it. While it's not necessarily winning over the tech heads, I can see this selling in a store. If I was shopping in a store and I didn't have enough money for an iPhone, and this HTC, the one thing they have done well is the fit and finish of the phone. So if they achieve that fit and finish and they compromise some specs to have it feel really good in the hand, I think they could sell a ton of units. I think there's potential there for that. Yeah, I mean, I'm really disappointed that it has a really, really, really small battery. It's 21 something. It's about 2100 milliamp hours. So HTC claims that the battery life with the phone is going to be very good, but my sort of counter to that would be, well, you're running Android Marshmallow. It will be one of the first phones with Android Marshmallow. So you're running Android Marshmallow, which is probably where your power savings is coming from. So every other phone that actually also has a decent battery is also going to be running Marshmallow, assuming it gets the upgrade. So this is a very Apple's to Orange's comparison, or at least it would be if Android phones ever got updates to a whole other conversation. So 2150 milliamp hour battery. I guess, I don't know, sponsor spots? Yes. 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It's really funny how like headphone marketing comes down to all these like points that actually mean nothing because it's all about the tuning of the drivers as opposed to the actual size of them. So the Pro-G. Yes, that's the key. Whereas gamers are so used to being marketed to with like driver size. More cores. That you kind of have to get in line or you're going to have a hard time selling your headset. Really I don't think Logitech should worry about that stuff. But Linus, megapixels. Yeah, megapixels I know right? Megapixels and megahertz. And color contrast. So they're compatible with the PC as well as PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. They've got adjustable RGB lighting and custom tags. And they feature a cardioid boom mic. The very best sort of boom mic because an omnidirectional boom mic would be super duper dumb. Have you seen how the boom mic is super ninja? Yeah, actually. Yeah, they showed it to me at PAX. Do you want to show them though? It might be. It's available now on Amazon. You can pick them up at the link in the video description which I will also be posting in the Twitch chat. Which is now. So they go like over me so they can see it because my shirt's black. So I put it over my throat so they can see it. Yeah, so the point of the mic positioning is just because it's actually really funny to me. How many microphones? You literally cannot position optimally. Because most people think the best place for the mic is right in front of the mouth. That's terrible. Because you get that pop pop pop pop pop the plosives. You actually want it at the corner of your mouth. So having the length be adjustable is as important as having the height be adjustable for a microphone. Plosives. Plosives. I love it when words kind of like are the thing that they're describing. Like cacophony. I noticed that. You know how I'm deaf in this ear or whatever? I still hear bone conductivity stuff. It's when I was nodding my teeth rattled and it was like super loud. So I just kind of kept doing it. Okay. In the shower this morning the like water falling on my head sounded so cool. We need to have a segment of the show called Cool Story Luke. All right. So Tesla's autopilot got a speeding warning. To be clear it was a warning. Not a ticket. But it was basically doing what 75 miles an hour in a 60 zone. And like okay there's some thing I could get to the topic that was a lot. There's some things that people have to realize I'm not at the topic yet. But it's like you're still supposed to kind of drive the car. Like we talked about that last week. Like you're supposed to still keep your hands on the wheel. It's supposed to kind of try to figure out zones. But it's not going to stop you from going too fast. So... Yeah it can know the speed limit without necessarily enforcing it on you. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. So like... And also this was... The video in question shows it being used on city roads where the beta is actually only currently intended for highway use. Where 15 miles an hour over is still significant but not as big of a deal as it would be within the city. Like you're a lot more likely to get a ticket within city limits than you are on the freeway. Yeah. Like it doesn't enforce a speed limit at all. It's able to detect the speed limit or it should be able to detect the speed limit. But it doesn't enforce it in any way. So some folks are saying the drivers at fault and the autopilot did what it was intended to do. As soon as it detected a possible collision it issued a collision warning and disengaged. And the driver was prompted to take control of the vehicle. And this is why Musk went straight up and said, okay, this is beta. Keep your hands on the wheel. This is beta. And people disregarded that immediately. There's so many videos on YouTube of like, oh look, it's driving itself. And I'm like, don't do that. Not the point. You're going to ruin self-driving cars for all of us. Yes. Please don't screw up right now. Yeah, thank you. We need you to just participate in the beta. Be a good beta tester. You can just go on with your life. Or don't. Also would be fine. Speaking of going on with your life, how could you go on with your life if you didn't have one of these amazing LTT ugly Christmas sweater design WAN show shirts? I haven't actually seen these. What? The green one is awesome. There's a red one. The green one is ballin'. I didn't know there were so many different colors. We've got like gray and stuff. I legitimately have not seen these before. Yep. I'm definitely getting the green one. There's still a couch. Yeah, I know. All Ed did was like, kind of modernize the existing focused design. So both of our shirt graphics are replaced by Christmas trees. There's a Christmas tree in the background. And there's like, pixelated snow. Wait, so are we going to get the shirts that are on the shirt? Or are we going to get the shirts? We're going to get these that we're looking at right now. Okay. Yeah. So these are over at teespring.com slash WAN Christmas. No, I like the green. I think the green is the ugliest one. Green's pretty fantastic for a holiday sweater. So I'm pretty stoked. My holiday sweater last year was green and yours was red. So this year we can go you green and me red. I saw mine in my drawer today because I was pulling out my keep on diggin' hoodie. Which was awesome because Ubisoft did something stupid, if I recall correctly. And I was talking about it on Netlink today. So I was wearing my keep on diggin' shirt and I was like, yeah, baby! But yeah, I am super excited about this design. It's going to be awesome. I don't think there even was a minimum goal for how many of these we were expecting to sell. I think this is very much just to like... We kind of wanted some. Hey, if you're into this, then cool. We're getting some. I want one. I want to be more than one. Yeah, I'm definitely getting one because I think it's awesome. Yeah. Nick told me that there's some kind of complicated rollout of these. Like we're doing a campaign on Teespring and then it's like a short one. And then we're doing another one or something. Anyway, I don't know. For now, teespring.com slash when, Christmas. All right, what else we got going on here? This is... I love this kind of news where it's just like... Yeah. MicrosoftNews.com. Microsoft confirms the Surface Book is two times more powerful than a MacBook Pro. Okay then. So it's okay, Nick. I don't care. So basically, they said something along the lines of that during the original unveiling of the Surface Book. And then many articles out there were kind of going... Well, hold on a second. What the crap are you guys actually talking about? So Microsoft claimed, this was the claim. It is ounce for ounce, pound for pound, the fastest 13-inch laptop ever made anywhere on the planet. So when asked for clarification, they gave the following statement. Our validated performance claims are for the Microsoft Surface Book with an Intel Core i7 and 16 gigs of RAM and custom discrete Nvidia GeForce GPU against the MacBook Pro 13-inch with Retina display with an Intel Core i7 with 16 gigs of RAM. We used third-party benchmarks to test the best available Surface Book against the best available MacBook Pro. But what they're not saying is what benchmarks? Because you could run a game on it and be like, yeah, it's twice as fast, so it's really good. Which would have zero applicability to me as a Surface Book buyer. Like what, I'm going to game on this thing? For real? Just because you guys call something Xbox doesn't make it gaming. Like that console that they released. Well... Aw dang! That's a little rough. It's best for watching TV, mainly sports. I don't know, like you said at the very beginning, it's from MicrosoftNews.com, so I don't really care at all. I'll wait till someone else validates this. Like us, are we getting one? Well, no, yeah, I bought one. And Microsoft News is even, this is not Microsoft's own site, it's just Microsoft.News.com. But they're even saying, like, this is stupid. You have told us nothing. And because we already know, like you can't, you don't just get to defy the laws of physics. Our Core i7, based on a slightly newer design and a slightly higher clock speed and actually very similar performance per clock... Well, doesn't the Pro throttle?...is twice as fast. No, the MacBook Pro doesn't throttle. If it does, it doesn't much. What when throttled then? The 2015 MacBook performs about half as well as it could in multi-threaded workloads. And that's another thing, because we don't know what benchmarks, we know nothing about the workloads. And it's basically meaningless. Speaking of things that are basically meaningless, this is great. Fallout 4, the disc, will not actually contain the entire game. I hope... that's so stupid. It's apparently in some effort to stop piracy, but as everyone ever should know, that will mean absolutely nothing. So, yeah. Hopefully it comes with the vast majority of the game. Because a lot of people that I know these days, including me at this point, are still interested in physical games because of download cap. Yep. It's a lot to download some modern games. There's quite a few modern games that are like 50 gigs. If you have to update Star Citizen, oh god, it's a lot of data. And every so often I do that, like 50 gigs is 10% of my download cap. For the month. For the month. Yep. So like if I download a game or two, like oh dang, there goes 20% of my download cap. Holy crap. So buying physical games is still a thing for quite a few people. And if you leave a huge chunk of your game off, that can be a problem. So hopefully it's just like a couple key files that are small. Yeah, that's kind of what I'm hoping. So the PC will require activation on Steam, the console does not. Yeah, I mean I get using Steam as DRM. I especially get if the key that they provide is also a Steam key. So that I at least have the option to download it because, I mean, not that I'm condoning this, but that at least gives gamers the option to download it at work or something and take it home on a thumb drive. Which I'm sure you've probably done already. I've done that tons of times. Yeah. We don't have a bandwidth cap here. I've abused that to no end. Me too. I've come to work with flash drives so many times. Yep. That's like why Steam is installed on my work computer. Yeah, I mean, on Steam it particularly helps, but on some of the other ones where it's much more difficult to download the game files and then just drag and drop. I really don't understand. If anyone from EA or Ubisoft is watching right now, drag and drop install is like half the point of Steam for me. Being able to put all my game files on a NAS and then just drag and drop a game over to my SSD that I want to play at that moment versus downloading the stupid thing again has a huge value. And you would get rid of a lot of this whole data cap issue because you got your group of gamer friends or whatever. You take turns being the sacrificial lamb to download the game and then just share it on a USB driver. There's still a place for physical data sharing. Every time I go to a LAN party, you make sure someone shows up with the USB hard drive that has everything on it. And you just pass it around whenever you need to. I don't have a problem with online validation of the license. That's fine. Make it simple. Make the files easy. I make the files easy. So here's a rumor and the original post here seems to be from Nintendo forums, so I'm really not sure how this qualifies as news, but it's in our doc for some reason, so we might as well talk about it. If for no reason other than to talk about how console rumors should all be completely ignored because most of them come from console fans, and no offense, but it seems like a lot of the really rabid console fans have no idea what the hell they're talking about when it comes to hardware. The Xbox One can play 4K. Remember that? Remember how big of a thing that was? Yeah. It's like, actually... 720p on like everything. And you know what the stupid thing is? You can't even talk to these people because you're like, okay, let's take a step back for a minute here. Okay. It has an HDMI 1.4 port. Okay, so let's take a step back from that and let's look at it. An HDMI 1.4 port... No, the Xbox One is not magic. No, it is not magic. Okay, so let's take a step back again. Not magic. It's not magic. Okay, HDMI 1.4. That means 3840 by 2160, 30 FPS max. Okay? So you're either playing at 30 FPS, which is not cinematic. No, no, no, no, it's not cinematic. Or you're playing at 1080p. And then they didn't even get that. Or you're actually going to end up playing at 720p. They got cinematic 960p. Oh, that's rough. Anyway, so the rumor here at any rate is that... And part of this makes a little bit of sense because relative to what console gamers are used to, an updated Nintendo console might look like something super powerful right now because Nintendo has gone ahead with that rumored strategy, it looks like, of more frequent release cycles. I mean, the other console guys are also rumored to be working on replacements much sooner than the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 got replaced, now we're seeing rumors that Nintendo is actually pushing forward with the Nintendo NX, and we could be seeing it relatively soon. So a faster refresh cycle midway through a longer cycle from your competitors could put you, hardware-wise, in a much more competitive place without spending more. This is something that we've talked about a lot regarding future-proofing, the concept of future-proofing on the PC, where actually, compared to buying a single $5,000 computer, you are much better off buying a modest $1,500 computer today, modest, waiting, well, relatively modest, versus going completely over the top and quad SLI this and that, buying just sort of a bang for the buck computer now, waiting two years while you're having a great gaming experience with that, buying another one, then you have like an extra computer, waiting another couple years, buying another one, that strategy, you spent $500 less, and I guarantee you, by the end of that period of time, by the time games are coming out that are actually leveraging the better hardware, that last computer you have is way better than the one that you would have bought for $5,000 in the first place. This is something we've talked about time and time again. You only buy a super-offensive computer if you just don't care. If you're just like, whatever, don't care, then that's fine, that's cool, go for it. There's even better reasons for stuff like water cooling because a lot of times you can step those up very easily. Yes, things like, well, monitors, not so much anymore, I used to say that, but monitor technology is moving so fast right now. Speakers, okay, speakers, a great pair of headphones. Actually, I think peripherals are changing slowly enough now that you buy a great gaming mouse. They had like a little crazy burst, and then they kind of stopped. And then now it's kind of okay, you either want Cherry or Kiowa switches, or Razer switches. So I would say, yeah, you buy peripherals, things you interact with every day. I do believe in spending a fair bit of money on, but the actual CPU or the storage is a great one. Never overbuy storage, just get what you need and expand it as you go. Anyway, so the rumor is they will have incredibly powerful hardware in the Nintendo NX, and it was said that one software demo included with the kit crunches so many polygons that it's currently impossible to run at 60 FPS using a current generation Intel CPU and near top-of-the-line graphics card, which means nothing. Nothing. Can't emphasize that enough, it means nothing. So the point of this rumor topic is that we should ignore rumors. And the next rumor. Yeah, and the next rumor, the Snapdragon 820 rumored to be 50% more powerful than the Samsung Exynos 7420, which actually makes a whole ton of sense because finally, for the first time in a while, we've got a manufacturing process shrink that will account for that 50% performance improvement pretty much right there. And back to you, Tom. And our next rumor, nope, not a rumor. Microsoft is apparently, is there more rumors? Okay, let's see if there's more rumors. I hope we have more rumors. It's rumored that China is still hacking the US. Okay, that's not too surprising. It's not really rumored, that's more accused, they're denying it. Of course, of course they are. Wow, we've actually still got some great topics. Samsung Galaxy S7 specs leaked, although I think we mentioned that slightly earlier. Okay, okay, okay, okay. We've got another rumor, boys. Yeah, we've got another rumor. This one's from WCCF. WCCF Tech! So they just got a picture, I love it when the rumor articles just have a picture of the current product because it's like, yes, this rumor is so unsubstantiated that we couldn't even find a render that a user created. We actually just need to use the current phone. So the S7 is apparently getting, this is great. When a phone rumor, it's rumored it will feature better performance, better multimedia capabilities, and an improved camera. Not a battery. Nvidia's new flagship graphics card rumored to include better display interfaces, faster processing, and more RAM. Maybe even Cuda cores. More Cuda cores? You have got to be kidding me. So basically, that's the rumor, though, 20 megapixel camera. Exynos 8890 or Snapdragon 820, it's not clear if they're going to do one or the other or a split strategy. They have done that before, different processors in different markets. Let's go back to something that's not quite as rumored. Not rumors? Yeah. Whoa. Oh, I wanted to talk about this. What? It's a UCF Tech article, actually, but one of the recent fast-track builds of Windows 10 has introduced a new prompt when you try to switch your default browser from Edge. It was already super annoying, where it actually is like, can you confirm versus just immediately applying it once I click Chrome? So it already did that, but apparently it's something along the lines of give Microsoft Edge a shot. It's just like, come on, you guys. Edge is a piece of trash. It's almost as bad as Bing. I'm sorry. Almost as bad as Bing. Why did they change how you change program defaults? Why do I have to go into some stupid menu now? Yeah. That's so dumb. They're trying to make it harder. So let's bring up... Let's go to bing.com. Let's try and search for something. So this was something I was looking for the other day. Dude Perfect Social Blade. Okay? User Dude Perfect. Oh, that must not be the real Dude Perfect. Hold on a second. Okay. Oh, must be Dude Perfect TV. Yeah. Okay. So it like super gave you the wrong... Except that's not it. What? Nope, not it either. They only got 150,000 subscribers. I think it's a secondary channel or something. Okay. Maybe... Oh, no. Wait. That's... Oh, oh, hold on a second. Here it is. It's Cory Cotton because he's been grandfathered in under the old rules. He had a bad name that wasn't changed. Oh, okay. So I was searching for this. I'm like, how did this not find this? So every time I use Bing, like I swear, every time I use Bing, and it didn't even manage to bring me the Social Blade page. Every time I use Bing, it's like, why do I hate this? This is why. First hit, Cory Cotton, Social Blade. This is the real Dude Perfect channel with all six million of its subscribers and all that crap. It's like, Bing, you're even ripping off Google search results. You still can't get them right. You still are not even close. Why don't I use Bing? That's why. Because every single time I use it, like probably half the time I use a web browser, I'm trying to troubleshoot something, and I swear, you can put in quotes an exact error message in Bing. It manages to find something else. That had nothing to do with Edge, though. Yeah, sorry, back to Edge. So basically, they're just like, give Edge a shot. Have you given Edge a shot? Yeah, I have. I don't like it. I have not. When you first launch it, it hides your stupid, it puts your stupid address bar in a different place. Yes, that is very annoying. I'm just like, why do I have to click here to move the address bar here? Who thought that was an intuitive design? No one, I hope. Yeah. Anyway, sorry, where I was going with this is Google's been slinging some crap at Microsoft for sort of their behavior with Edge and making it more difficult for people to switch to Chrome, but I actually noticed something absolutely hilarious on the iPhone the other day, and I wish I could screen share this with you or something, but I'm really not set up for that. But you'll just have to take my word for it. So in Google Docs, when you click on a link that you want to open, can you go over, open link, this is great. The menu is, from top to bottom, download Chrome, open in Safari, or cancel, and you cannot say, don't ask me again. So for Google to be slinging crap about this kind of stuff, it's like, you know, it's like, yeah, can you not please? Because it's not like you're not guilty of this, too. That's pretty rough. Like, that's some pretty brutal stuff. Like, trying to read the articles from the WAN Show doc earlier today, the number of times I almost accidentally downloaded Chrome was pretty frustrating. And I use Safari on the iPhone now because Force Touch is freaking awesome for web browsing, or 3D Touch, or whatever they call it. But the pressure sensitive touch screen. Right. Do we have anything else? Yeah, there's a couple more cool things. This is really neat. The Apple patent for an active screen, shattered screen protector. So these drawings are really cool. So basically, in much the same way that hard drives are capable of using accelerometers to detect that they're in free fall and brace for an impact, park the heads, Apple has patented a system that would allow corner little like rubber or some kind of protectors to pop up when the phone detects it's in free fall and keep the screen from impacting the ground directly. Very cool technology. Would love to see this implemented. That won't fully protect it at all. But it will help. It will help. It's a whole lot better than nothing. That's true. Which is what we have now. Because like, if you have a rock still fall, if you have the phone fall with the screen, with the rock hitting the middle of it, it won't matter at all. But if you drop it on a tile floor, or a concrete floor, or a wooden floor, like there's a lot of places you can drop it where it would help. So here's the proposed mechanism that would have the protector kind of roll up inside the phone. Interesting. So basically, I guess they still don't intend to give me better battery life, but at least my screen won't shatter. This is very beneficial for Apple, along with the way that they stealthily mostly waterproofed the 6S, because the reseller and trade-in market for the iPhone is huge business for them. So preventing shattered screens and water damage is actually in Apple's best interest for the sake of that whole ecosystem, protecting the resale value of these products. Very cool. Very cool stuff. We already talked about the Sapphire blog post, we already talked about China. Yep, yep. Sprint find, who cares. Another ISP find for doing another stupid thing. Oh, this is great. Facebook is draining your battery because it's tracking your location. So this is actually something, oh, Facebook has identified two issues behind the battery drain the company announced and said it has solved the problem with an update. So I would like to see if I log into Facebook now on my Droid Turbo if it still drains my battery. Right, yeah. But there you go, apparently this is resolved. I guess we didn't pull it off the dock. Oh, EACOO Peter Moore criticizes HD remasters and backwards compatibility. So kind of went and took the high road on the one thing and then went and was kind of a butthole on the other thing. Yeah. Because like I can think of a lot of reasons why backwards compatibility is super important. Reason number one, my Wii's optical drive is dead. So if my Wii U, which I don't have one, but if I ever were to get a Wii U and I wanted to play Wii games on it, if I were to get a Wii U it would be super cool that it could play Wii games because hardware that is end of life and is not being manufactured anymore can die and that's a thing. So backwards compatibility is actually super cool. As for criticizing HD remasters, I have very mixed feelings about this. This is something I wanted to discuss. I don't mind HD remasters at all. I'm okay with them too. I would actually super love for there to be a remaster of Final Fantasy 6 for example. I'd love for there to be a remaster of Morrowind. Yeah. I don't mind remasters at all. Not even slightly. Some, it's a little bit frustrating when it seems like all a company does is remaster old games. Yep. But I'd rather they remaster their old good games than make new crappy ones. Yes, I also agree. But maybe we're just getting old. There's a sad thought. I kind of doubt it to be completely honest. You don't think so? Yeah. Who cares? All right. Fair enough. I think the remasters of old movies don't really work the same way. I'm sorry. I think you changed gears on me a little bit there. Was I talking about movies? No. Oh, okay. You remember us being old, but it's not just because we're old. Oh. Because I don't just like, I still like the nostalgic value of old movies. So do movie reboots work for you or no? It depends. Usually not. I would say there's been some pretty good ones. Like what though? Let's have a look. Okay. Google can answer this for us. Let's give Bing a shot. Oh, God. Top movie reboots. Yeah. It's probably been good like a few times, but not always. So top 10 movie remakes. Okay. Okay. So they managed about.com. Okay. Let's let Google try. Top 10 movie remakes. All right. Oh, look at that. We get, I don't know if some of these are really that applicable. Remakes? Movies frequently mentioned on the web. Yeah. Google let us down because I'm pretty sure no one wants to remake true lies. Pretty sure that's not a thing. Like, hmm. Yeah, that's very interesting. Okay. So anyway, okay. Well, let's find out which one of the top linked articles is better. So about, so the Magnificent Seven. Haven't seen it. Casino Royale. Okay. There, there's, there's, there's. Wait, hold on a second. What? That's not a remake. Oh. Okay. What? Some may not consider this a remake. But George Lucas acknowledges a debt to the hidden fortress as a source of inspiration. What? Okay. All right. All right. So let's have a look at this one. 310 to Yuma. Top 10 best remakes. The Fly. Okay. I haven't seen either of those. They're both from before I was born. Well. Okay. I don't remember going with this topic. So maybe they're not better because they're not really a thing. Because reboots I'm definitely okay with. I mean, looking at, I loved the way Star Trek got rebooted. Some people might hate on me for that. Certain reboots I think are okay. Like I joked on Twitter about how like the only movie that matters is Hackers and it should just be remastered and rebooted and Hollywood should just quit. It was an obvious joke. Some people thought I was serious, which was weird. But like I don't want them to remake Hackers. Right. That would be the worst. Hackers doesn't make sense in 2015. Hackers makes sense when it was filmed. Right. It was great back then. And like I don't know. I don't know. You know what else would be better in a year that wasn't 2015? Fake reviewers. This is great. I am so glad to see Amazon going after people for this. I'm always glad when I see good Amazon things in the news because like we pimp Amazon at the end of like all of our videos. We're like, yeah, buy from Amazon with our affiliate code. It's cool. So this is a great thing that they are definitely doing for the industry. So they're actually going after fraudulent reviewers that are using multiple accounts and ordering empty parcels to avoid detection and who are working with manufacturers to post fake five star reviews on the website. So the defendants named as John Doe's and referred to only by their usernames offered to write fraudulent reviews for as little as $5. And this is an Amazon statement. Takes the credibility of its customer reviews very seriously. An unhealthy ecosystem has developed outside of Amazon to supply reviews in exchange for payment. And I mean things like verified owner do help a lot. I generally speaking ignore anything that's not a verified purchase on Amazon. But that doesn't change that the like the overall star rating is affected by all of them. One thing Amazon could do actually, this is kind of a smart idea. Sometimes I have those. If anyone from Amazon is watching, maybe give us a way to filter the verified purchases from the non-verified purchases in the star rating. That would be super cool. Yeah. So I don't know. I guess that's all there is to really say about it other than that that practice sucks and we hate it. Everyone in the chat is freaking out about Fallout 4. But Fallout 4 is not for like three weeks or something, two and a half weeks. Yeah, you got a collector's edition, right? Yes, very narrowly. Yeah. There was there was wave one, which like I was at work or somewhere. I was doing something so I didn't have a chance to get it. And then there was wave two, which I didn't hear about until it was over because they like stores randomly got more stock like all over the place. But there wasn't that much stock and I didn't hear about it. So I didn't get the collector's edition thing. And then a while later, I was trying to see like, oh, I wonder how much they are on like eBay or something, because if it's like slightly more than sure. But I knew it would be ridiculous. And it was like seven hundred dollars. And I was like, OK, nope, not doing that, obviously. So on Twitter, I'm like, does anyone know of anywhere where it's not ridiculous? And some dudes like, oh, I have a huge backlog and I'm just going to cancel my preorder so you can just take it. I was like. Wow, that's pretty nice. So he messaged me on the forum and we worked out everything and it's going to be fine. This is so funny. I can't believe we didn't mention this. YouTube calling sorry, back to YouTube read them calling it YouTube read. Like, really? Did no one at YouTube figure out the similarity to another online video site that's also red and also has to name? Yeah, I just can't even I can't even. Yeah, I just can't even. Like, yeah, this week's show brought. Yeah, you know, here, why don't we let's end it. Let's end the show and let's let's kick into after party mode for a couple of minutes here because I got a couple of sort of not safe for when show topics. So let's go ahead and roll the outro. My ear like.