The Lenovo S90: A Phone That's Too Bold to Be Released

Speaking of patent trolling, if anyone was going to take on Apple about anything, this is it. The Lenovo S90 is the most ridiculous phone I think I've ever seen. It's like they're trying to be the new iPhone, but with a bad case of identity crisis. On the left, you see the sleek design of the iPhone 6, and on the right, the...well, let's just say it's not as pretty. The antenna band is the same, but that's about where the similarities end.

But wait, there's more! The Lenovo S90 has taken to copying Apple's promotional images, including the infamous "no service" image. It's like they're trying to say, "Hey, we may not be able to compete with the iPhone in terms of design and features, but we can at least try to look good." And by "try to look good," I mean they're just plain embarrassing.

Apparently, this phone is only going to be available in China. That's right, folks. Lenovo has decided that their phone is not good enough for the rest of the world, but it's okay if you live in Beijing or Shanghai. We can't say we're surprised, though. I mean, who would want to bring a phone like this to the US market? It's just too...bold.

But hey, at least Lenovo has some sponsors who are trying to make up for their lack of design sense. Modus, a placement firm for coders, has been sponsoring live streams and interviews with folks from Code School, an online video tutorial site that teaches coding in a fun and engaging way. These interviews have been pretty cool, especially the one with a female coder who talked about what it's like to be a woman in the developer community.

One of the most interesting parts of these interviews is when the coders talk about finding inspiration for their programming projects in the real world. You know, like building apps that actually solve real-world problems. It's refreshing to hear them talk about something other than just coding for coding's sake. And it's also pretty cool to see how they get off their butts and go figure out what problems need solving.

But I digress. The Lenovo S90 is still a thing, and it's still not available in all regions because...well, who knows why? It's probably because Lenovo doesn't want to deal with the shame of selling a phone that looks like it was made by someone who's never seen an iPhone before.

AMD Responds to Richard Hues' Comments on DirectX 12

There have been some reports circulating about statements made by Richard Hues, a representative of AMD, regarding DirectX 12 support for versions of Windows. But what's interesting is that Richard Hues doesn't speak for Microsoft, which means he was essentially speculating about something he didn't understand.

Apparently, AMD has responded to these comments with some context and clarification. According to them, there have been reports based on a video of Richard Hues making some speculative comments about DirectX 12 support on various versions of Windows. But let's be real, folks - Richard Hues is not exactly the most reliable source when it comes to technical details.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enand we're live welcome to the W show sorry guys Luke couldn't join us yet don't worry he'll be here in a little bit but for now Slender Man will be taking his place while I introduce the topics for the day and all that good stuff because Luke is actually finishing up what will be tomorrow's video right now we're going to be covering the Asus Gladius Rog Mouse it was supposed to be an Assassin's Creed Unity performance guide with a bunch of graphics cards and benchmarking and all that stuff but I'll let him cover when he gets back why that didn't happen H yeah it was it was pretty bad so we've got a lot of great topics for you guys today aside from that an AMD has released the mantle public SDK so they are pretty much inviting everyone with some uh with some need to have a super like bare Toth Metal Graphics API whether it's game developers or say for example other Hardware manufacturers they're inviting everyone to the party AT&T is acting like a small child about the ongoing net neutrality debate in the US and uh honestly this is just unreal so we'll give you more details on that and the Nvidia Shield tablet is going to be one of the first devices not made by Google to feature the new Android 5.0 Lollipop Os Oh also I guess you know grid gam streaming went out of beta so we'll talk about that as well but for now now I got to roll the intro to buy myself some time to uh go ahead and get our announcement video up that we're live so that's a thing oh there's no music in this one I swear one of these days I'm going to figure out which one has the music and this is not going to happen anymore do oh yeah one of our sponsors today is Squarespace actually there's a bunch of new and really cool stuff about Squarespace for this week we'll be covering that a little bit later and our second sponsor for today ignore that one that flashed in between that's the wardrobe malfunction is Phantom glass visit store. phantom.in protector you will ever need that's their slogan and I actually believe it in this case it's a gorilla glass cover for your Gorilla Glass so you can gorilla will you gorilla all right now I'm going to go ahead and finish this click now to watch live httv twitch.tv LST Tech boom all right that video is up so let's jump right into our first topic AMD releases public mantle SDK well th this year so let's go ahead and um first give credit to our op so Tera flop posted this on the lens Tech tips forum and the original article is from and I know these guys aren't the most popular source of news on the Linus Tech chips Forum but W wccf Tech posted that it is coming this year and AMD has basically come out and said look Nvidia and Intel we want you guys to use it you can use it for free Now intel has expressed some interest in mantle apparently um Nvidia on the other hand has not been that warm and has not been that uh friendly to the whole idea but I mean this was something that we've talked about in the past as well it might not necessarily be about mantle being the API for you know every future game although they do have a surprising number of games on the list of already released to be released soon and currently in development that are supporting this technology but it might not end up being mantle API that you know the game runs on ultimately 5 years from now but what's great about them opening up the kimono a little bit like this is Kronos and Microsoft so the openg and direct X guys have already said that they're looking at mantle and possibly implementing various parts of it in their own apis so I mean openg has the advantage of its ubiquity I mean you can run openg games on a tablet or you can run them on a PC um so that's really cool direct X of course has that amazing backwards compatibility as well as that enormous industrywide support on the PC side of things and so if either of those get anything positive out of amd's public mantle SDK then that's uh that's absolutely fantastic so that's I mean it's it's incredible how much momentum it's gained and yet how it might not end up being the winner but there's no question that mantle has pushed the industry forward and we should definitely be thankful for that all right I just you know let's do a straw pull here I want to hear from you guys okay straw pole will Nvidia provide any kind of mantle support yes no and let's go with apple fritter for our third option because I know how much you guys love you know just not contributing to the poll at all all right let's go ahead and spam the chat with this bad boy boom boom boom ah I missed that first time yeah no matter where you click in that apparently the camera looks really bad today I don't know what you're talking about all right there we go all that's bam so we've already got uh who's this in twitch chat one man Pizza in twitch chat already says it's not even a question they will never I I don't necessarily think that's true I mean it's not like Nvidia is in a position where if some game comes out that that ends up actually running you know 20 30% better on mantle compared to directx12 which looks like it's going to offer many of the same benefits so this kind of thing seems very un likely but if there was a game like a really key game or a lots of games like a dozen games that run 20 30% faster on mantle you really think nvidia's not going to leverage that if they can I I don't think that's true at all but let's go ahead and see what you guys think let's fire up these results here while I move on to the next topic wow we've got 51% of you uh saying no 30% of you saying apple fritter and a um tiny 19% of you saying yes so it looks like you guys are pretty much on the same page about both apple fritters and uh the chances that Nvidia will provide any kind of support in their drivers for metal all right our next topic actually you know what this is a Ubisoft thing so I think I'm really just going to have to wait until Luke gets here for this um so first up is this was posted by Tech dreamer on the Forum let's go and the original IAL here is from Ang Gadget but Tom wheeler the FCC chairman says that he may ignore Obama on the topic of net neutrality now he made it very clear that even though he was appointed by Obama the FCC is a separate entity just because the White House says something like you know oh we want to classify the internet in the same way that we now classify telephone lines so there can be there can be no no messing about with the way that traffic gets allocated and and the way that bandwidth gets allocated so that you know large corporations would have an advantage if they're able to afford to pay for internet Fast Lanes so Obama's basically said look you know net neutrality is a really good thing but the FCC chairman has come out and said that he thinks that the solution while you know I I hopefully hopefully you know the the solution that the internet service providers are offering up which is that they should basically be able to do whatever they want as far as I can tell he's saying he prefers a or he prefers a more nuanced solution so you guys can interpret that however you want but it sounds like what we're likely to end up with isn't going to be straight net neutrality and isn't going to be straight the isps are allowed to do whatever they want but some critics and Advocates are expressing their concern that a compromise between these two might just end up with a muddy set of rules that doesn't actually have a whole lot of meaning in the real world so guys there are a thousand places that you can voice your opinion on the subject of net neutrality but the only thing I really have to say about it at this point is go voice it it's extremely important without net neutrality we could see situations where let's say a company like oh I don't know hypothetically Netflix were to try to start a let's say hypothetically streaming service where they deliver video programming to people's homes and let's say you know an incumbent let's say Comcast whose business happens to be and these are just examples these are hypothetical companies any semblance they bear to existing companies it's purely coincidental so let's say for example this company hypothetically named Comcast goes oh well you know we're in the business of providing internet connections to people's homes but we're also in the business of providing video content to people's homes and if these guys are going to use our lines for that well they should be paying us a lot more than necessarily the you know exact amount we would normally charge for the amount of bandwidth that they're using and if we don't maintain net neutrality we will be stuck in a situation where they would be free to do that and we could rely on the courts to enforce any kinds of you know anti- competitive laws or whatever else but we talked about this last week where oh shoot and I forget how long it took I think it was back in 2000 was the issue with Intel misrepresenting the performance of their Pentium 4 processors against amd's competitor and so 14 years later last week this was news people who bought that misrepresented processor got $15 I mean that's how long this takes and that's how ineffective it is um so I wouldn't I wouldn't rely on that we just need to make sure that we keep the the freedoms that we already enjoy in the first place place if we want to have any chance of of not living in a world where our isps are in control cuz we know how awesome they are speaking of how of how awesome our isps are AT&T has publicly okay this was posted by Dietrich W on the Forum the original article here is from The Verge I'll just pull this up here but AT&T has oh that's weird oops okay hold on a second let's just change my screen share around here wow it just decided that it was going to go into extend mode rather than duplicate okay what ah sometimes I just don't even you know like I just don't even get it so let's just show desktop only on one let's try that first okay keep changes sorry guys then let's try uh oh okay and then that display is completely not detected anymore which might explain some of why it's uh being a little bit borked anyway the original article is from The Verge here and AT&T's basically said well you know look we're not going to invest in high-speed fiber connections and there were they're in talks with something along the lines of 100 cities about getting high-speed fiber rolled out and this looked very reactionary to Google Fiber starting to roll out in selected cities and so they're saying okay look we're not going to invest in any of that stuff until we know the lay of the land with the new rules um so so basically how much money they're going to be able to squeeze out of every you know foot of fiber that they lay down in these cities and this is extremely disappointing to me not only because they already got the money to build a better infrastructure I mean this was this is this is well documented at this point they got the money they did nothing with it so aside from that they've already been paid um this is disappointing because it's not like they're not doing just fine today the plan to roll out this high-speed fiber networking is in place on the basis of they're already doing just fine charging people as much as they're charging them for internet connections that at some point they had to build the infrastructure for and at some point that investment paid off from a business standpoint investing in something that you can get someone to pay you 50 to $75 a month or whatever else for in densely populated areas is a winning proposition and the only reason that they can afford to just sit on ass until presumably sometime in early to mid 2015 when these rulings get finalized I mean if it even happens then the only reason they're able to do that is because it is so difficult for competitors to come in and force them to step up their game so I I I don't know how all this plays out I mean it's it's easy for me to say as a Canadian well this is all kind of us nonsense so it will never affect me here but the problem is that so much of what happens in the US does tend to become a precedent that's been set for it now and it does tend to trickle down to other places not everywhere but in the case of Canada that tends to happen a whole heck of a lot and our isps are no less evil than the American isps so they're going to look at what worked down there and they're going to push real hard to have it you know work up here and they're going to build case studies and they're going to Lobby our politicians and go oh well look how successful this was it you know did this for the economy because we're able to charge this much more to to whatever else so what a childish thing to do we're just going to stop building any more better infrastructure until you know we get and they haven't they haven't said that it has to be a favorable ruling they've just said that they are going to re-evaluate their plans once there's a ruling but I think we all kind of know how this is uh how this is going to play out got people asking where's Luke Luke is recording a video right now so as soon as he's done he's going to jump up here and join me and then boot Slender Man out of his spot all right so this is uh this is a really unfortunate little piece of news this was posted by Victoria Secret on the Forum and it is unusual for large companies like Nvidia to come and out and speak speak publicly to post on their blog about you know something like an ongoing lawsuit but uh this is this is really important not because of really I straight up don't understand where that's coming from that is oh I know what it is that's a that's a screen grab of the last thing that I was looking at it's not updating anymore I see okay well you guys will just have to take my word for it it's on nvidia's blog and uh basically I'm I'm going to kind of run through the whole thing here because it's super it's super crappy and Samsung is behaving like a spoiled child about this so they basically said look we filed patent lawsuits 2 months ago against Samsung and Qualcomm alleging that they've used our patented GPU technology without proper compensation to us when we filed those suits we fully expected to be sued in response it's a predictable tactic so we weren't surprised when earlier this week Samsung filed the lawsuit against us adding in for good measure velocity micro I don't know if you guys are familiar with velocity micro if you don't follow the boutique system builder space you know the Falcon Northwest and uh you know pit systems guys of the world you might never have heard of velocity micro but they're a a pretty small company okay they're not like a gigantic Mega corporation like a like a Dell where there could be some kind of you know collusion between Dell and Nvidia to allegedly break some Samsung patent or something they're just they're just a system integrator very similar to this could have just as easily happened to any other shop that builds custom gaming Rigs and sells them on their website so they included velocity micro a small customer based in Virginia so their action focuses on eight patents Nvidia is alleged to have violated six and included in the in the filing is a false advertising claim against Nvidia um that the statement about the Shield tablet with the K eger K1 processor is the world's fastest mobile processor there saying it's fals and misleading so Nvidia goes and like straight up puts here's our benchmarks against the exos 54 433 that's in the Note 4 yeah you're not faster yes Nvidia did include a lot of gaming focused benchmarks so are they spinning things a little bit uh yes but they also included some non-gaming Focus bench marks and it looks like if you were to just sort of you fire a shotgun and if you hit sort of you know the the Dozen or 15 or so benchmarks that they ran you would hit more that Nvidia wins than that Samsung wins and uh pretty much here we go it's unfortunate that Samsung sued velocity this isn't velocity's fight this is this is just extremely this is just extremely crappy a velocity and this isn't something that um that nvidia's put in their article but it is something that I've seen in some of the articles about nvidia's blog post but you know we got to consider when we shop a lot of different things that often we don't we tend to look at a spec sheet we tend to look at a benchmark Mar score and we tend to look at a price and then we go ahead and we we make a purchasing decision but I mean no one I shouldn't say no one I think a lot of us are frustrated at times with the way that Apple behaves with respect to its patents but is Samsung really being any less vindictive and it's one thing if they're going to go after another big boy you know if they're going to go after an apple or an Nvidia but it's a whole other one if they bring in a little company like velocity that didn't do anything other than put Nvidia graphics cards in their systems um just because and this is nvidia's Theory this is allegedly just because Virginia tends to process these filings extremely quickly and velocity had the bad luck to be located in Virginia so just something to something to consider oh there there is an open letter to the public from Randy Copeland the CEO of velocity micro where he basically says look we know nothing about thee previous issues between Samsung Nvidia and we don't care you know his response really had a very he had a very it had a very bitter tone to it and he basically said we'll have to use company resources to defend ourselves from Samsung and obviously mismatched opponent and he says if this is how Samsung operates we want no part of it and we hope others agree and we consider this during the upcoming holiday shopping season can't say I disagree Mr cop who I've actually never had the pleasure of meeting but seems like a nice enough guy and doesn't deserve this kind of nonsense all right I've got another Ubisoft thing here that I'm going to skip and wait for uh wait for Luke to come in so he can weigh on but I have the most hilarious thing that I probably saw this entire week to show you guys here and I'm going to I'm going to fire it up on on this computer so that I can screen share with you guys so you can see this but this is freaking unreal gig B releases a triple or show shows off I don't think you can buy it yet I'd be surprised if you can ever buy it to be perfectly honest um shoot where did it go I can buy you I'll buy your face oh all right so the original article here is from tech power up let's go ahead and do a quick screen share I don't know what's broken about my uh my stupid thing here but I can't screen share again this week all right screen region boom okay gigabyte announces gtx980 water Force Tri SLI all right so this is three GTX 980s each with their own individual 120 mm radiator and 120 mm cooling fan it features this massive like coolant exos style external radiator system thing and then presumably because gigabyte wanted to use a prepackaged solution um instead of going with a custom pump configuration and then allowing one pump or even dual pumps to power the whole thing each of these is its own separate allinone with its own separate pump and then its own separate set of Inlet and Outlet lines into the computer so you actually have to run all six of these tubes into your computer with this box sitting next to it how are you even going to be able to do that though uh because I could see like are they really really small tubing they look like quarter inch to me oh man so they're not hyper small like you're probably ripping a PCI like slot out of the back gross on the back of your case cuz like you're not going to be able to get through the included grommets and because it's pre-filled okay because it's pre-filled you can't even like go through a grommet unless you could thread your graphics card through your water cooling grommet oh my God so this you wouldn't be able to go through one of the expansion card slots either then oh yeah wait how's this even supposed to work I wonder if they do have go through the maybe they have quick connects okay maybe I'm wrong about this don't quote me on that the front you have to go through the front no that's horrible no they didn't even sleep the cable look look look look look this is worse than I could have Poss yeah they can yeah yeah they're looking at this right now come on is that okay do they give you a custom like B thing I guess so that is it isn't it yeah wow just wow mind you mind you here this is a value at it comes with this graphics card reinforcement cool bracket doohickey bracket do hii and and so yeah is that a custom that's a coolest lie Bridge yeah I'm not going to buy this to get that SL hybridge mind you but um but I wouldn't buy that to buy the like thing that looks like a BAL tire pump either so yeah welcome to the show thank you um so I was saving the Ubisoft topics oh yeah so I should probably finish up I should probably finish up that graphics card thing for you guys uh each of the cards is going to be clocked at 1228 MHz core 1329 boost although of course you'll be able to overclock them further at with 7 GHz on the memory um the front panel can control fan speeds and coolant pressure of each of the three Loops for whatever reason you wanted to do that and I think that's pretty much it it's fully assembled in the factory but I think that was implied when I said these were these were pre-built yeah okay so let's start with uh let's start with this article on PC pur.com and I apologize for for this just being sort of a little bit cluggy this week I will figure out what's wrong with the capture card um so here's the original article from pcp.com it was post posted by obscure mammal on the Forum where um Ryan had an article or had an opportunity to talk to the Ubisoft development team about hey actually didn't know about this article what the heck is what the heck is going on over there um so basically the development team came back and said that Assassin's Creed Unity is one of the most detailed games on the market it has a giant hold on hold on just calm down Luke it has a giant open world city with tens of thousands of objects visible on screen Paris is incredibly detailed for example notredam is millions of triangles itself it features Global illumination local Reflections realistic High dynamic range lighting they talked about scaling down the quality to allow for lower system requirements but decided against it because they were targeting existing PC Hardware not future cards but high-end existing PC hardware and this is a quote our position always came back to us ensuring that Assassin's Creed Unity is a nextg only game with breakthrough graphics with this Vision we did not degrade the visual quality of the game they are planning to continue working on optim oh I haven't been screen sharing with you guys I'm sorry there's the article on PC per so yeah basically it's it's just Ryan asking questions and then a big long thing oh there's some updates since the last time I I had uh okay so apparently okay okay okay so there's updates we can actually chat about these updates very briefly but the the the last part of what we originally sort of sort of knew about this was that they're going to continue working on optimizations and you'll hear more details shortly so here's an update a couple of other media Outlets have posted anonymous information that indicates that the draw call count for Assassin's Creed uni is at fault for the poor poor performance of The Game on PCS according to this quote unquote anonymous source while the consoles have lowlevel API access to Hardware to accept and process several times the number of draw calls that direct X11 can um direct X11 is limited to 7 to 10,000 Peak draw calls while um the game is apparently pushing in excess of 50,000 draw calls per frame and then if this turns out to be true it would be a confir confirmation that UBC didn't take the time to implement a direct directx11 Port correctly and if it's not true or that's only partially to blame then we're left with more meaningless finger pointing because people really want to point fingers I've seen fingers pointed at Nvidia Gameworks yeah I've seen fingers pointed at Ubisoft um I actually don't think I've seen anyone blame Microsoft for this one although you could make the argument that if we're draw bound um the overhead associated with DirectX 11 could be partially to blame given that it's no secret that graphics card makers like AMD have been pushing for a lower level API to the point where they went just went and created their own their own for an awfully long time now um but it makes a ton of sense especially because even though we weren't able to do our own performance testing of Assassin's Creed unity and I'll let you go on that very soon especially weren't able to do our own today and yesterday which is what we wanted to do um it makes sense given that we've looked at other people's performance analysis and it just doesn't make any sense yeah we don't seem to be limited by the traditional things like memory bandwidth or you know fill rates or at the same time though pretty much everyone that I've seen actually reporting numbers has had like fairly blatant disclaimer being like it's pretty spiky because like even even the amount of times that I was able to get it live like I could be just staring at one exact wall and like I lined up framings with like okay there's a Groove along the wall here I put my screen exactly on that Groove stand on this I stand on exactly the spot like I had the framing perfect and I'd look at it and get 63 FPS and I'd look away and come back and now I'm at 52 and I'm like wow bro I'm staring at the same wall like it should be the exact same performance and it's just not like why not what is wrong with you so are we actually here so why don't you give the update on your experience with Assassin's Creed Unity so far okay so I'm sure they want to hear from you it's awesome oh hold on hold on hold on yeah there's a the little look I don't know if we supposed to anyways um uh that's my that's on my shirt I'll hold really still yeah there you go um so it it started off I showed up to work quite early today cuz I was like I need to get this testing done before the W show trying to be all good Samaritan and get you guys a video Yeah didn't get a successful boot for what 2 and a half hours yeah no you were talking to me at like4 to 9 the first message I sent to you was I think you hadn't had it booted yet yeah I think the first message I sent to you was before 7 cuz I got to work pretty early I don't think I replied to that one no no not till later I was sleeping I I thought so I just wanted to send that message before I forgot about it anyways um had tons of issues like I I could load in and then take like two steps and I'd lose connectivity to you play so the whole game would just crash it wouldn't go like oh you're offline now you can't open those stupid freaking chests no you actually can't play at all and it's not like it just closes the game the whole thing just like gray screens and then does that like uh Microsoft is trying to figure out what just happened to this program we don't really know do you want to end it I like of course it's trash um anyways so then eventually I'm like I I messaged lonus and I was like should I just go offline mode or should I go online mode like there's a noticeable performance increase when you go to offline mode which is hilarious and I voted for offline mode because I figure they've got to patch this I'm sure that if there's that much of a performance disparity just between being and being offline they can probably implement that fairly easily so I was like okay test offline and then hopefully that'll represent what people will be getting once the next patch shows up okay go ahead okay so so we're going along it's it's it's kind of working now I still have a few issues but I get over most of those and I I I get through it and I'm finally like okay I need to finally find a benchmarking run I had planned to have a benchmarking run way before now sorry of course it's trash Luke 24 I had planned to have a benchmarking run way before now I'm kind of worried cuz I need to get all these cards done but at the same time I'm like 3/4 these cards aren't going to work anyways so whatever probably won't be as hard as I'm expecting it to be um finally loaded to the game and at this point I'm like okay I need at least at least a little bit of a fighting scene and I need a little bit of free running and then I'll be happy I don't need much like I just need something that'll work and I'll just say in the video that it's not great because I ran time CU it was broken and a benchmark run doesn't necessarily have to be representative of the most demanding scene in the entire game in fact a lot of the time it's not because we're looking for repeatability so a benchmarking run should should be demanding enough that there isn't an obvious CPU bottleneck and you're going to want to try and show some amount of variance so like explosions and wide shots and close shots and lots of people and different things well like we want to get a feel for how the engine performs and then we want to be able to rank graphics cards against perance quantif FPS will get if I'm running a similar configuration to them in this spot in the game if I upgrade my graphics card to this that's what we want you guys to know anyways so I I found a spot that was actually not too bad and it's pretty close to the beginning of the game you spawn in I'm not going to give any spoilers but you spawn in you run forward and follow some dude there's a fairly quick little sequence thing you run a little bit further you stab some dude you run a little bit further there's a little quick sequence thing you climb up some stuff you climb up some more stuff y y fairly straightforward and it captured the main things that I wanted to find and I was like okay this can kind of work but considering how fast I found that I actually have a little bit of extra time let's see if I can push on forward and see if there's maybe a little bit more fighting scene because I literally just ran past this dude poked him twice and then kept going that's all the fighting I got and I knew people would have been like H this isn't Assassin's Creed you have to stab more more people so I was like okay whatever I'll try to find something really quick run forward kill some guy that I didn't really seem was I didn't think was super important in hindsight like it kind of makes sense but it went into this crazy long stream of annoyingly not skippable for a lot of them cutcenes which ended up being like 8 minutes or something which if I had any amount of sound might have been good but I didn't cuz I'm on a benchmarking rig yeah so I'm just like sure I have no idea what's happening you guys are talking that's cool anyways it goes to the next sequence I'm like oh okay well how do I get back to the last one cuz that's where my benchmarking run is you can't you can't go back at least at this point in the game I don't know if maybe later on you're able to go into the the thing that I'm going to not spoiler and go back but at this point in the game you can't go back in sequences you also can't delete your save file and you can't restart the game so you have your one save file and you have the furthest progress you've gotten to in that save file what so for the next little while I was very surprised that you couldn't do that in game for one but then immediately I'm like okay whatever I'll just do the super ghetto option and go delete it from either I'm assuming my documents or app data or inside the game folder not super likely that it's inside the game folder because you'd lose your saves if you uninstalled the game but it's possible I start looking around and I can't find Jack I can't find anything I I found a save games folder with folders that were just extremely long random strings of characters and inside those folders just files that were just random numbers I'm like sweet found a couple that were from today but like I didn't want to delete the wrong stuff so I started looking online and I started tweeting and I asked people and some people shared some ideas someone was like oh it's file 740 or 720 or something I don't remember so are looking for that F 420 um so I I but they can't be high because you can only run the game on they keep on digging oh there's two jokes there good one um anyways So eventually I fig okay it was supposed to be a folder named 720 but there was no folder named 720 but I found a file named 720 which was created today so I was like oh awesome okay we found it successful delete load the game save still there what what okay so I go and nuke like every single file that's been created today like everything I can find just destroy everything whatever like if I have to redownload a small part of the game at least I have the bulk of it just go to like destroy everything mode it takes a while to find everything delete it all launch the game file still there I still have my progression file I'm like what the crap what is going on why can't I get rid of you why won't you go away and then I'm like oh okay someone posted online even if you're on offline mode maybe one of the things that keeps functioning if you have internet is your Cloud saves right so I'm like actually that kind of makes sense cuz maybe you go into offline mode to like hide from people maybe it's their version of anonymous but you don't want to lose your save files maybe like okay that's actually not a horrible feature I'm down with that okay fine I don't know how many people would I'd love it if we could just manage our save files normally anyway exactly yeah but or if it was like steam where you could be like I want to use the cloud SA or don't yeah yeah options are good thanks Ubisoft except no thanks steam um so I'm like okay disable go back through I find those old files that I just deleted again so I'm like oh they're Cloud syncing that totally makes sense cuz it recreated them right right so I'm like all right right cool delete them all loadad the game save file still there so basically in a nutshell we're going to try and figure this out yeah uh but it's just it just might take some time and normally finding an Assassin's Creed run is just a matter of me making sure Luke gets provided with a review copy of the game that he doesn't have to pay for and he just goes and plays it because he's going to play it anyway because he's the biggest fraking Assassin's Creed Fanboy ever like have you 100% did every game up till now yes yeah so there you go so usually finding an Assassin's Creed run is as simple as Luke kind of having it in the back of his mind while he sits and like yeah zombies out at his at his computer for 4 days after launch you know what I'm trying to think Black Flag you were a zombie for about a week after launch cuz as far as I can tell that was all you were doing outside of work time have you even been tempted to touch Unity no and I haven't wow I've been working in my spory time instead of playing and you've even played Assassin's Creed games 100% at Assassin's Creed games that by your own admission weren't that great no I hated three three sucked wow I was not a fan of three at all so in the spirit of keep on digging we are finally releasing the keep on digging shirt are we yes it's ready the campaign is ready we were supposed to have shirts to wear today you get banned from spanning your own channel really I think so oh all right well um just cuz that was that was just a lot I actually really want this shirt so oh I am I am super stoked on this shirt because the way we design the shirt it's not just to be used on Ubisoft necessarily you can keep on digging anything so the previous keep on digging even though we didn't use that terminology would have been EA so now we're just it's now Ubisoft and whoever e was brofist yeah that's true that's the origin of brofist that was the when we started brofisting on the show yeah wow that was so all these gaming companies start our memes I know thank you for being ter and keep on keep on digging like I I know that I didn't invent the phrase keep on digging but did did I popularize it yeah for Ubisoft yeah yes it's all over the place cuz there have been some fantastic keep on digging me St on like PC Master race on our own Forum um I've seen a lot of gifs of me digging on the show so guys if you want to rep if you want to rep just the keep on digging this the amount of hatred that this morning that is that is going on right now show your support for Luke keep on diing t-shirt um oh good we have hoodies oh I might have to order a hoodie cuz the uh the the the Highlander hoodie I have is awesome it's super nice is it the same kind yeah it's the same one it's the it's the same Gilden one I wasn't sure about Gilden hoodies when we first um there we go when we first ordered our our Highlander stuff and I just kind of ordered one hoping it would be nice and I was checking if there were better options and that was all they really had but it's like super nice you saw it right yeah so I I definitely want like a keep on digging hoodie yeah me too I'm going to buy one every every winter season I get like a new hoodie this was last season so I need a new one yeah so everyone was everyone was pretty darn stoked with the uh with the quality of the Highlander shirts so that's why we're going ahead with Teespring again cuz they did a great job of uh of that campaign I had uh a guy on the Forum and stuff Str strore map had two shirts from I think one from district lines and one from Teespring both show up with little holes in them and he got both of them promptly replaced nice yeah so that's good all right I feel like I had more crap to throw at e or Ubisoft oh no there there's more like there's a there's a there's some crap going on with respect to to Far Cry 4 review copies oh polygon didn't get one really yeah they have like a developer version that they can't use to actually review the game and then they couldn't get it working on any of their PlayStation 4s and then they just so they're just like so yeah we're other Publications got retail copies we don't really understand why we don't have one so we're just going to go buy a retail copy we'll have a review for you guys as soon as possible wow yeah they've got a blog post up I was like really messed up oh jeez and then what was it Assassin's Creed Unity the Embargo date was 12 hours after the release um total actually this ties into hold on let me just biscuit made a video for that didn't he I don't know if he made a video about it but um okay I here can I can I do our next news article first then um but this is great I'm so happy with this I'm going to talk about total biscuits thing so Ubisoft stock and I actually haven't looked at it today so this is the old headline but Ubisoft stock fell 99.33% um direct immediately after the Assassin's Creed Unity launch I mean we are talking not inconsequential amounts of money and I am so glad because I I am a huge advocate for gamers voting with their wallets if you don't like it not only don't play it or no excuse me not only don't buy it don't even play it don't even give them the opportunity to look at like piracy you know seeds and Torrance and and and try to extrap take those as positive metrics yes they can interpret that positively even by downloading it you can be supporting what they're doing if you ignore Far Cry 4 if every single one of you and all of your friends ignore Far Cry 4 and all of their friends and all of their friends if you can make a difference to the pocketbooks of these companies they will treat you like your voice actually matters because because as long as you keep giving them money your voice doesn't matter not at all y the only reason why we wanted to do and still kind of want to do an Assassin's Creed Unity benchmarking video and the only reason we will want to do a Far Cry 4 video is that we can warn everyone essentially like look at this crap it doesn't freaking work don't buy it we're not a we're not a gaming publication we are a hardware publication so we're going to look at it from a hardware perspective this is how well this piece of Hardware handles this game and then we're going to do some investigation which is going to take a lot of detective work in this case to figure out why this particular game doesn't run well on that particular hardware and we're going to come to a conclusion that should be fairly obvious by this point in time because it's trash because we want you guys to know this stuff but we're not going to be doing Let's Plays of Assassin's Creed Unity no well exactly two minutes yeah in a way that you probably shouldn't play the game unless you're so we're going to have it open on our computers un unless you're very specifically trying to B bench market so to be clear you know a stock dip like this can be temporary it might not be indicative of a long-term struggle I wouldn't be surprised if it bounced back at least a little bit but it can be a warning sign and it can be and at least if nothing else it's going to be an attention grabber because Executives and bean counters will notice that even if they're not reading you know every comment in the twitch chat of the Linus Tech W show stream you know yeah exactly not watching which I feel very disconnected from cuz I don't have my laptop right now oh you don't have a laptop wow you're like a you're like a you're like a peasant of no laptop of why don't you just um here why don't I message well no because the the the the peasants are defined by their disbelief of PCS being better that's true I didn't mean console peasant I just meant your a wow peasant because glorious wow Master race people have laptops so so okay yeah that's really unfortunate I'll ask Nick to bring you one okay cool um okay so let's let's sort of let's keep going here um right so it's it's probably going to bounce back at least a little bit I hope it doesn't bounce back that much um I don't want Ubisoft to die Ubisoft has been a good company at some points in time I think they just need a like massive B slap to the face so they wake the hell up and stop being idiots yeah let's just bring back our keep on keep on digging lower third because we're still talking Ubisoft they're like half the show this week and it's not like we want to talk about Ubisoft I'd love for us to be I'd love for us to just be talking about what like what a great game Assassin's Creed Unity is and how stoked we are for Far Cry 4 I would love that to be the topic that is the conversation we love Black Flag was amazing and Far Cry 3 was really really good and you know know what incredible okay what news did they get over last week what news did they somehow get through I don't even remember something really big last week that I don't remember oh yeah yeah they pulled everything from uh from Steam yeah but no yeah but then it's it's back now there was other news though that was really big and we were like I can't believe you were even noticed like you made yourself no this was going on either way oh blon BlizzCon right BlizzCon was going on and people still heard about what the hell Ubisoft was doing because they were bcon was such a big deal this year bcon was huge and then now there was just the uh warland of dra or release and everyone's freaking out over U soft what how are you that bad I'm kind of tempted to pick again really should I just not last time you got pretty I know last time was bad okay forget it I'm not going to I'm just going to repair my joystick and play more xwing um okay maybe wait till your kids are at like a minimum age so this was original articles here this was posted by I'm the wallus by the way the Ubisoft stock falling thing um original sources here were kit guru.net and finance. yahoo.com um but there were also some other things that were that were brought up by these other articles um we might not even need a charger I think it's charg right yeah yeah just uh yay Luke will have a laptop thank you but um one of the other things that was pointed out was that things are not looking that great for Far Cry 4 because some Publications didn't get review copies yeah so um yeah not necessarily a great sign and then and like with with stuff like that uh that polygon post like people are going to read that and that is going to be taken as a negative review if people are reading into it properly yeah I would yeah the fact that you for whatever reason are not enabling as many Publications as possible to get their hands on this game so that they can Rave about how great it is is a really really bad sign and I mean total biscuits comment I think is is awesome about the way that the Assassin's Creed Unity embargo was handled where the review embargo was not lifted until 12 hours after the game's retail availability which is given the way that games cannot be refunded anymore if you buy a physical copy or really any copy um is is really telling I mean that really says something about how they might have felt about how quickly they needed to cash in on the immediate launch sales before the reviews go up and people start maybe considering whether to wait for even Far Cry for or some other game to spend their money on um not not good not good I I would lose consumer confidence basically immediately if I had a Far Cry 4 uh pre-order which I don't but if I did have one I honestly probably would have canceled it once I read that polygon post cuz I'm I'm pretty skeptical already there's very few things that I'll pre-order I'll pre-order stuff like uh Smash Bros for Wii U you would have normally pre-ordered Assassin's Creed actually yes I would have normally done that I have done that for every single other Assassin's Creed launch but this one yeah so anyway total biscuit came out and said he is not going to accept review copies of any game that has an embargo that is after the launch time of the game which is awesome which is awesome and uh and I think I think that's I think that's great I think that's a great way to handle it and it just I I actually responded to I think it was that tweet or one of the related ones just cuz I was so blown away that you could have a review embar after people are expected to drop their money for the game I mean no one in the hardware industry does that no one and you know what and and you know what John John TotalBiscuit has has actually tweeted me as well saying that he has no idea how we seem to kind of pull off this weird thing where our advertisers are Hardware companies and yet we criticize these companies openly on our shows and in our reviews and and some somehow we've managed to take money from these companies for advertising maintain the trust of our viewers and maintain the relationships with these companies and do it all at the same time and he was just like how does this even work I think it's because there's a much different mentality with like computer hardware companies and gaming companies canuter Hardware companies seem like infinitely humble and they'll take whatever you say and they're just like yes okay next time we do better and and that's not true of all of them but that's true of many of them they just seem to be so much more mature than these gaming companies like someone like Corsair if I come out and I slam them about something I'll get an email but they're not going to pull our funding they're not going to pull they're not going to refuse to work with us they're not going to stop seing us review samples because they value the input what a what a freaking concept right oh my God amazing not really with gaming in gaming they they they they tote their marketing muscles as as much as they possibly can try to silence anyone that they possibly can that would say anything negative about them at all and then just try to slam games down your throat and then and it is a generalization pour the DLC water down not every gaming company is like this no praise G Ben um praise gin uh what is it super giant games does really well there's definitely developers and Publishers that are that are good and there's ones that mostly seem to try to do the right thing but sometimes screw up and we have to understand and respect that too and that's fine people are human they make mistakes we make mistakes um but it just feels Ubisoft screw up looks feels like some like Cartoon Network like where they just keep falling forever it's like EA last year yeah where just every week there they were doing something horrendous they they fall down the hill and gather so much momentum because the hill is so large that they have enough momentum to climb up the next one and then fall down it over again like ridiculous stop screwing up hit a wall at some point and then just be like no we will be better we're going to shut up we're going to say nothing we're just going to make games that hopefully people want to play yeah if they stop talking and start working some more maybe they can fix some of their crap I am just I am I I got to say the whole thing with the the draw call issue in Assassin's Creed Unity is so believable yeah because their whole thing their whole defense of unity to Ryan from PC per was is we weren't going to dumb down the level the detail and the objects in the city it like and every object is a draw call yeah and and when uh when when Call of Duty like massively outclasses you in every possible appearance aspect that's bad you did something wrong I know like Assassin's Creed is supposed to be the like holy crap this game looks good I mean Advanced Warfare should have been taking all the headlines for crap and instead I mean everyone's like oh it's pretty good you know it's probably unfortunate that they didn't publish after Assassin's Creed in Far Cry 4 so they could have cuz I suspect a lot of people because you know how it's always whatsoever The Horizon you never look back at what was that thing I didn't buy it's always like okay well Far Cry 4 is coming next or this is coming next or whatever's coming next we coming get later I feel like if they had just kind of waited for all the people who didn't spend their money on all the stuff that came before them they could have gotten an even bigger payday probably I I doubt they needed I'm sure they did fine yeah yeah I'm sure they did totally fine but it's just it's just like how did you get graphically outclassed whoa whoa Photoshop CS6 says lonus doesn't even play video games lonus doesn't game as much as he'd like to that doesn't mean lonus doesn't play video games he's starting to a lot more lately too yeah I've been finding a little bit more time for it especially on my shield yeah speaking of Shield um actually that leads us really well into not a Ubisoft topic y um and Vidia just announced that their grid streaming service and this was um this was posted by jper 10996 on the Forum and the original source is the Nvidia blog um but grid is coming out of beta so grid has 20 titles right now including actually I'm just going to fire up the grid game list here but they've got a Arkham Asylum Arkham City they've got Allan Wake uh American Nightmare they've got Darksiders Darksiders 2 Dead Island Psychonauts which is a freaking awesome game by the way if you have a shield and you have an internet connection that's good enough for grid go play Psychonauts if you haven't already Saints R II Trine 2 Witcher 2 Ultra Street Fighter 4 like there's some pretty great games on this list what's the like payment plan stuff for this does it just come with a shield or okay so the beta's been free for anyone with a shield and the non data is free for anyone with a shield until June 2015 okay so you get about 6 months of free access to the game pretty good actually that's a lot more than a trial yes which considering the cost of something like a Shield tablet and and a controller when you are when you look at the Shield tablet as oh it's also a very competent 7in tablet um is actually a pretty darn compelling value yeah that feels a lot like the I'm trying to remember the name of it but those HP things yeah yeah yeah the um streams yeah where you get so much stuff with them yeah where you get not just value ad stuff that's like hey you got a 30-day trial of maca can I interest you in paying us it's not even value ad just like where there's real value ads that are relevant to the people who are using that device so so you get 6 months for free if you buy if you buy a shield now um they're recommending 10 megabits per second down and 60 millisecond second ping or less to your nearest grid server but they're expanding their grid server Network so there's already the one in California they've added one in Indiana and EU and Asia are soon to come so they're it looks like what they're building is and they're it looks like it's meant to be about like Netflix for games yeah now you can say what you will about the 60 millisecond additional latency that is not going to be palatable for certain types of games are you going to play CSO with an extra 60 milliseconds of lag no no but you probably wouldn't have played that on a controller but are you going to play Darksiders sure sure why not probably that's probably fine cool yeah um all right they've also got other news The Shield tablet is getting Android 5.0 Lollipop in a few days yeah I they're going to be they're going to be I think I was on the phone with someone from Nvidia today actually and he was saying I don't remember if he said they're going to be the first or one of the first uh one of the first advice makers whose name is not Google to have lollipop on their device I mean Nvidia committed back when they launched Shield portable to prompt Android update but come on we've heard that we've heard it over and over again how many prompt Android updates have you gotten for your Galaxy Device one per device is usually about the general rule yeah and then you might get an update but everyone else has been using it for six months nine months by the time you get it if at all um whereas nvidia's like on this yeah it's actually kind of absolutely fantastic if I do say so myself it's nice to see that especially when you're getting a device that like talking to people that aren't you about Shield is like often they don't really know what it is or they're like H is there really a lot of support for it like I don't really see anyone using it now I see it around a fair amount when looking at stuff like the r forum and like within the office and like these closed ecosystems but I got a message from someone either on the for or Twitter where they told me how the shield was kind of embarrassing to be out about with because people kept asking if it's a portable Xbox sorry go on but yeah just to illustrate the point but yeah like it's it's it's it's very new and it's very different so people are a little bit skeptical about it so I think it's actually really good for them that they're getting these like they're pushing the update thing really really hard and they're actually repeatedly getting these really early updates which is awesome because that's just going to increase um confidence that they are interesting products and they are they're really good would you buy an Nvidia phone actually probably cuz I know you're not into the tablet thing so much not really and phones the only reason I'm not super into phones the only reason is because most of them are trash that's a strong statement it's true though like there's so like there's so many that have glaring issues that you like know someone must have figured out and then the Droid Turbo is just not coming to Canada at all in no form my brother tweeted them and asked and they were like no the droid turbo or variation Max are not coming to Canada officially from Motorola oh that's a bummer awesome what the hell the one phone that's like that's super cool nope god wow that's really sucky I mean it's not going to happen with Tegra K1 because Tegra K 1's power consumption is just straight up too high but if Tegra K2 or whatever they end up calling it came to a phone would you consider it I mean they're not that far away they've already got the the tablet 32 gig which has LTE and they did acquire that LTE radio technology maker not that long ago so they can build their own radios I I don't think it's that difficult to I don't think it's that difficult to I'd be really interested to I would check it out I'd want to check it out for sure definitely want to check it out uh if if they got the if they got the the battery capacity right and they had a not trash camera I would be definitely confident enough in the rest of the phone to be like all right let's do this Nvidia is one of those companies where I think the camera could go one of two ways they could either have a bunch of Knowledge from cuz they know a lot about image processing yeah that's interesting it's not like they don't have experience when it comes to image filtering to make things look better this is nvidia's freaking wheelhouse but that doesn't necessarily mean they know that much about sensor technology so so I I don't know which way the camera would go and that's a huge part of any smartphone purchase um one thing of just to note is that right now the 32 gig version of The Shield tablet lvid is on fire with this announcement here comes with Portal halflife 2 and halflife 2 episode one holy crap Android versions if you jump up to that one in addition to the grid thing and those are all pretty good to play on that device as well actually especially portal Portal's really good I play portal on the shield portable yeah yeah um and shield portable is getting lollipop support but we don't have an ETA for that yet so I'll have to wait cuz I don't really use my Shield tablet much I mostly use my portable yeah all right other Nvidia news this was posted by big STS on the Forum the original article is from techreport tocom the gtx960 has been found in an India Import and Export label or data or something the record States four GB of gddr5 a 256-bit bus 993 MHz core and 68 MHz memory it's unclear whether that is a base or a boost clock speed and the price translates to around 256 US Dollars although we don't know if that will be a retail price or if that's like an Nvidia to their board partner price or a board partner to retailer price or just an invented number or if they're going to flip it 18 times 3 days before it's out because they kind of do that sometimes because they do do that sometimes um the speculation on the internet right now is that this is going to be a GK 104 based card so actually the same chip as the 980 and 970 just like we saw with the 680 670 and 660 Ti um we should probably do our sponsor spots actually so we're going to start with the one that I hopefully label yay Phantom glass so phandom glass we love these guys uh for any of the viewers who have watched before you know what the sales pitch for Phantom glass doesn't really change so I do find myself repeating myself a fair bit but it doesn't need to change because it's good enough as it is the only reason that we started working with these guys was that and it's just kind of a funny story The only reason I reviewed the product at all was because the guy was Canadian because normally screen protectors I don't we've only done two screen protector videos in the entire time lus techtips has existed and they've both been like very oddly Innovative yes some kind of real actual important thing that happened with them so the only reason I would even listen to him was he was Canadian and then the only reason I wanted to review unit was because I I was like okay if this does what you say it does I will like it but if it doesn't do what you say it does then I'm going to throw it in the garbage and never talk about it again and he was like okay okay okay send over the review unit and then the reason that we're doing advertising with them is because it's freaking awesome basically it's a sheet of Gorilla Glass 3 that sits over top of the existing pain of Glass on your phone so if you already liked any kind of the you know the the glare Clarity um touch feel characteristics of your phone screen it will be exactly the same it does add a little bit of thickness to the front of the phone but it's still compatible with other third party cases and it has this like Nano coating on the bottom of it that actually works like it actually does what they say it does it's I think you'd have to work pretty hard to try to get a bubble under Phantom glass and if you apply it wrong you can just pull it up reapply it I've actually done it and it goes on perfectly second time around so pretty cool I mean if it's given that it's kind of expensive it's nice to be able to reuse it because I actually had to RMA my HTC 1 M8 so I had to pull my Fass off yeah you peeled it yeah so I put it in some Saran Wrap to keep it safe cuz I don't really have the original packaging anymore and uh there you go my One M8 is actually back as of yesterday and uh before we move into our next sponsor spot just wanted to share my experience with that so I was a little disappointed with HTC because the first custo I my one8 camera lens cracked on my rear camera cracked and so rather than work through my HTC rep I decided you know what just for fun I'm going to go have the regular customer defective product experience because it just cracked out of the blue there wasn't a single Mark anywhere on the entire phone other than a cracked rear camera screen so I would have had to I would have had to literally take like drop it on like a very point of a rock but then catch it before it actually hits the ground yeah or like take a chisel and like whack it or something in order to crack that thing so it in my mind this is not something that could have been feasibly broken by accident and I see it as a design like probably the one design flaw in that phone that I really dislike is that they used a plastic cover on it there's actual Flex to it okay maybe not actually it might not be plastic okay I shouldn't say plastic maybe it's some kind of composite or glass or whatever else but it's got some real Flex to it once it was broken and it has a coating on it that scratches off very easily just taking it in and out of your pocket and gives you blurry photos until you rub it off with toothpaste this is a documented problem so I talked to their customer service and they basically the first person I talked to said seem to be aware of the issue and said yeah that should be no problem to to for it to be covered under warranty but they asked me to call my carrier to ask if they'll deal with the RMA for me because I'm in Canada and that's the normal procedure I kind of went yeah sure okay so I called my carrier they didn't deal with it because I didn't buy the device from them I knew that was going to happen but I jumped through the hoop just to humor them so I called back and they told me they couldn't guarantee anything about the repair and then it turned out that they did want to charge me over $100 for the repair even though and the repair center was not willing to Advocate to HTC on my behalf or anything like that I basically said you guys are experts you look at phones every day is it even possible is it even conceivable in any way that I could have damaged the phone in this way at all or does this seem like the kind of cuz it just cracked out of the blue and they just went you have to talk to HTC so I didn't pay the money I ended up just going through my HTC contact telling them I was being jerked around and they got it taken care of within like an hour cuz that's normally the way that that I get treated but I was I was disappointed in the way that an actual customer um would would be treated in that case yeah that's kind of that's kind of sad the problem the problem too though is that like I get it physical damage is generally not not covered under warranty yeah but if it's a known issue it generally is so it's a matter of whether they're acknowledging the issue or not the internet knows about the issue I don't know if the internet knows about a cracking issue but the problem is that my my rear camera was scratched already before it even cracked so I should have been eligible for a replacement had i r made it sooner and it had not cracked on its own anyway so that's why I was so upset so I get it I understand I'm just a little bit disappointed I've had to deal with very few like very few uh customer service for like ship out and repair stuff uh one of them was uh an Xbox 360 which was hilarious um and that was actually super easy right because they were all red ringing so I'm sure their whole Factory was just like in- and out in- and out in- and out in- and out um because it was just a swap and then the other one was uh evj when I was doing my mineral oil computer and that was like the best on the phone experience with someone who is supposed to help me in any form Ever right yeah EVGA is kind of Legend always liked them because of that their their customer service was fantastic all right so let's move on to speaking of fantastic customer service and super easy to use squarespace.com oh yeah with their 247 support and their well basically it's just a great service we love Squarespace we love those guys and they are on fire L lately they recently introduced Squarespace 7 and it's a huge upgrade over the previous iteration so they've redesigned the interface they've got integration with Google Apps which is really cool for any businesses that use Google apps like say for example the one that you're looking at right now we use can I help you oops we use Gmail for uh for our internal email and all that kind of stuff um they've got their new partnership with Getty Images so that you can have greatl looking images to match your greatl looking site you know the the funny thing about Squarespace is it feels like some of the stuff they do is more selfish than anything else it feels like okay so the partnership with Getty Images is basically you can get very reasonably priced beautiful images to put on your site but it seems like they're just a bunch of Geeks care about websites looking really great yeah and they're then they don't want to see people take their beautiful template and put some crap image on it so it's like it's it's almost like and I'm not saying selfish in that it's not beneficial to the user I'm just saying it seems like like they just kind of are like oh they like don't screw their stuff in bad ways yeah take good images we really love our product and we wish you wouldn't like make it ugly than it has to be so we're going to get you guys this like great less expensive gy images thing and you can get that get go get good images don't pay much for them um they've got new templates they've got cover pages and um yeah I guess that's isn't isn't that it right yes um also I wanted to just cover the usual talking point so if you guys don't know what Squarespace is it's a fast easy affordable way to build your own beautiful website they've got uh only $8 a month and you get a free domain for your trouble if you sign up for Squarespace for a year they've got responsive design so basically that means your website scales to look great on any device and they've got integrated Commerce now that was actually one of the previous things that they rolled out that is pretty freaking cool so if you want to build a store on Squarespace then you can rock on and do that so you can start a trial with no credit card required and start building your website today and you get 10% off if you use offer code Linus and you decide to go ahead and use that website for your store or blog or restaurant or someone I don't know maybe you want to make a website dedicated to pictures of your junk wow I don't um preferably not please don't but you could yeah you could it's technically possible it's possible um some someone in the twitch yeah quite literally uh someone in the twitch chat was like please tell Squarespace to fix their documentation for developers it's really bad I've looked at it what are you talking about for one and for two I'm sure you can just contact them I've had to contact them about stuff before they've responded very well and very quickly so if you're having a problem with something which I'm not sure what you're doing because I've looked at actually a fair amount of their documentation for developers it was all fine from what I've seen maybe there's something that isn't I don't know but just them and it should be fine so this is the best way I think YouTube could have possibly done this they have implemented YouTube music key and this is the first subscription based YouTube service that we're seeing and I think they did it absolutely brilliantly so it was posted by Raph banan on the Forum and the original article is from official android. blogspot.com and basically it's going out of beta so it's not like it didn't exist already it's a monthly subscription service for $9.99 a month but it is $7.99 a month right now which happens to be exactly the same price as a Google Play music subscription so if you sign up now if you happen to be a Google Play music subscriber already yo then you can just sign up for this you get a full Google play music account for exactly the same price if you sign up during the promo and then you also get ad free music background play on music which is pretty nice if you like to listen to music on YouTube and offline viewing of Music on YouTube it's invite only right now and those who get an invite get to try it out free for 6 months if I can get this for $7.99 I'm sold done because I and even if I can get it for $9.99 you know what I will probably buy it that's actually pretty sick I really like the background play thing yep background play and to be able to listen to playlists on Monster cat for example and not have the ads interrupt your groove that would be really nice I I think they knocked it out of the freaking park with the way that they implemented this that's actually really cool music was the one to go after first and the way that they did it enabling it to be the same price as a streaming service that they already offer that's already great I love Google play music especially the curated playlists it's awesome Google play music is more for me than just I feel like I'm doing another sponsor integration but it really is amazing I'm just a paying customer it's just nothing special but the the way that they that they manage it it's more than just just not pirating music is it the same sorry I might not have heard that part is it the same thing as if you have the Google music that you have right now is it the same do you get this yeah yeah okay so they're together oh wait no no no no no no this is this is going to be a a more expensive subscription but would okay but it will also that one include that oneic yes and then for a promotional period of time you can get it at the same price okay so you should buy this one yeah yeah um but like I mean it's more than just not pirating music and and saving money versus going and buying albums it's it's for me it's all about the curated playlists um where I can it'll be like hey it's Tuesday afternoon do you want to listen to like you know pickme up music or do you want to listen to like Mello music and the I'm feeling lucky radio is is awesome and does a really really great job interesting uh Sharp's latest iGo prototype sets the stage for 4K faets as if it matters uh the oral say like sounds surprisingly excited for this what's happening obscure mammal posted on the Forum the original article is from techreport tocom and they have they have made a prototype 2560 x600 4.1 in panel oh jeez that is some incredible pixel density so we're talking 736 pixels per inch that is massively more than the Galaxy Notes 515 pixels per inch the Google NEX 6 is 493 pixels per inch and Apple's iPhone 6 Plus is 401 pixels per inch which quite frankly is already enough I should point out that the Droid Turbo has I really like the display but the issue is that I don't know if it's related to the fact that it's AMOLED and I'm really enjoying the Deep blacks or if it's related to that it's 2560 by 1440 yeah because on the G3 I didn't feel like there was a benefit to the higher density display but the contrast wasn't very good yeah it was icky and contrast is more important once you reach a certain point than you know I was really surprised at um Marcus MKBHD he did a a collaborative thing with the Verge like ultimate smartphone like dream smartphone like well I would take this one and then I would change this and I would squeeze this and I would do this and it would have a bigger battery and all that kind of stuff and I was really surprised he picked the screen from the G3 for his dream smartphone yeah he's wrong oh well that's one way of putting it I would have said I would have said to each his own but just no what so the latest iGo prototype will have 11.5 micrometer pixels that will likely be impossible to see with the naked eye um when okay when when was that article done which one was that uh was that done before like Note 4 came out and stuff no no it just went up two days ago okay I don't get it um okay so one one okay so so that's really cool that we won't be able to see the pixels but one potential drawback is that higher density displays typically require more power to achieve the same brightness because as you pack in more Electronics do hickory in order to actually get light through it to your eyes you have to have a brighter backlight now Apple seemed to figure out how to address this on their 5K iMac um and that thing is so bright and they've achieved the same brightness they say I don't have a last gen one but they've achieved what they say is the same brightness as their last gen one which is ridiculous I have it on like 10% at all times I don't understand why it needs to go that bright but um just in case you need like a random Spotlight yeah I mean honestly I guess here all I have to say about this uh mass production will reportedly begin in 2016 so all I have to say about this is by 2016 battery technology better have caught up in some meaningful way and I still don't care because I would still rather have a 1080P or if you have to have a higher spec to make your competitor look stupid a 1440p panel that gives me better battery life um on my device right and better performance in and better performance at Native resolution in games and other applications like I don't want to necessarily have a 4K display on something that gives me no benefit and tanks my battery life and means I'm I'm going to have to run interpolated resolutions in order to get decent performance in in in mobile games I don't play a ton of mobile games but I'm it's more of a I'm speaking on behalf of what you guys should be thinking if you do play mobile games yeah there you go ah rumors r9390x Fiji XT this is posted by Paragon X on the Forum and this thing looks banana hammers May feature 4,096 stream processor so 64 compute and 256 texture units with a 4,096 bit memory bus oh my God this is due to the fact that AMD is rumored to be using a completely new technology for the memory on this particular card the more traditional way is we've got the chips laid out on the card and then we've got contact points on the bottom of the GPU that lead out to them so that's why it was so costly to implement wider memory buses that's why we saw memory buses continue to increase on graphics cards until we reached 512 bit and everyone kind of went whoa hold on a second this is really expensive now in terms of the area that we need for the package in terms of the contact pins that we need to create on the bottom of the of the chip itself and in terms of the PCB design we need to lay out all those traces to all those memory chips this sucks so Nvidia just bailed and they stopped at 384-bit and amds actually I don't think Nvidia has ever done a 512 bit GPU was 480 512 bit that was the only one I could think of cuz 480 was an interesting card let's see 512 bit or was it no I don't think it was 285 was the 285 okay anyway I if Nvidia ever had when they bailed and they started doing 384-bit for their high-end cards and then now we even have a 256-bit GTX 980 which is passing for DDR3 okay so that was GTX 285 um so so it got really expensive but in it's in a similar so an analogous technology to what Samsung is now doing on their 850 Pro SSD where they're not using the latest super tiny manufacturing process and instead of trying to go wider with the design of their chips actually stacking them on each other so it looks like this technology is going to enable AMD to deliver massive massive memory bandwidth we're talking like a 1024-bit interface per chip um without hopefully a huge significantly much bigger incremental cost um One Challenge is that right now we're going to be limited to 4 gig configurations because uh this is this is a highx technology K highx technology and it's only the first generation but um yeah we could be looking at bandwidth for the memory bandwidth for the graphics card in the 640 gigabyte per second range that's nuts that is redonkulous I I I very reportedly am not a huge fan of just rumor mill stuff you very specifically hope this one comes through that would be really exciting to see this card I wouldn't be surprised I mean it's uh makes sense the the problem that I have with rumors is if you've been around for a long time it would be really easy to fabricate a lot of them yeah that's true CU you could be like these things would make sense rumor printed and a lot of the times I even wonder if people are just like yeah this is probably what it's going to be and just rumor drop and then they're like oh yeah look it was accurate because usually it's going to be accurate cuz you can look at things like road maps like if you know SK hinx says okay we're going to be sampling it here we're going to be going into mass production here and then you look at fairly credible rumors like when the 390x is rumored to launch and you go well gee why would they be Mass producing it if not for X yeah you know a lot of the time you can kind of guess yeah speaking of exciting memory technology uh this was also posted by big stuns on the form original article is from tweak Town SanDisk releases memory mounted ssds these fit in DDR3 memory slots and they're ailable in up to 400 gab capacities so either 200 or 400 GB oh crap I need to set this reminder for myself for uh for later otherwise I will not remember oh good I I already have a reminder for five minutes before it happens hooray yay back to the dock um yeah so 2 400 gigabyte capacities and basically you'll just slot ssds into memory slots what I mean this is not a consumer oriented technology you're not going to be putting this on your z97 Deluxe or whatever this is this is more for servers but what it does is it removes complexity components and cabling from server designs if you had a server where you didn't actually need a ton of memory but you did need a lot of storage but you wanted to be compact this could make a ton of sense and you need like crazy fast storage mhm yeah maybe not a lot CU these are actually very high drives well hold on a second 400 GB per drive on something like a 16 dim motherboard cost yeah it's expensive I didn't say it wasn't expensive and it's not even going to help that much in terms of space really like it's yeah it's largely going to be for Speed okay well it offers 880 megabytes per second of sequential read speed and 600 megabytes per second sequential rights but the big one here is actually the warranty so it's support it's got a 5year warranty at 10 full disc RS per day so the application for this looks like it's more like caching and less like mass storage which makes a ton of sense so you could build extremely compact racks that are just designed to cash data and they can actually do full fleshes of the entire for so we're talking four terabytes per day per drive in this cache server that has all these drives in it and is Lightning Fast Very responsive and has extremely low complexity and very small size incredible technology I mean I would have said and for a stor for because databases will need a lot of ram but servers that aren't going to need a ton of ram which there's definitely some of them if you want to cash some of your drives and you can fill those slots with these that would be sick because again the reducing complexity thing not having those extra cables and stuff that's super super nice and to be clear they're nonvolatile storage so they're not like memory and that as soon as the system power's off the data is gone so they're they're just ssds they just just go in a dim slot that that's freaking cool I want to see one is there a picture in here yeah I think so it's just my screen sharing is not working so I'll check it out later a BMW is developing street lights that can also charge your electric car now the whole idea of having roadside stations or parking stalls with electric Chargers in them was kind of like yeah okay I guess we slow this idea wow this is gamechanging because the okay the idea is not to that you would have to replace all the street lamps in your entire city the idea is that you would be able to retrofit your existing Street lamps with chargers and be able to monetize it brilliant What city doesn't sign up for that they get to go Greener they get to have an additional new Revenue stream in the longer term they can monetize things and and I mean you'll see this I think we're going to see this in obviously more densely populated urban areas first but all of a sudden the whole parking thing maybe you can have like like you know a bundle thing where you buy your parking for that spot and that also includes zapping your car for the time that you're there and ends up making a ton of sense for electric electric vehicle owners I think it's awesome yeah that's actually really cool um I don't think Tesla has commented on it yet at least not at the time that we were working on the dock but I would imagine Tesla and musk would be very supportive of a technology like this down yeah anything that expands the the infrastructure for electric vehicles is going to make a big difference to people who are considering buying one the only thing I can imagine musk being against is if he looks into it and realizes that it's like I'm completely hypothetical right so realizes isn't a fact I'm just saying like if this happened uh realizes that it's crap like if he comes up with something we didn't think of it's bad because of this reason or he tries it and it's bad because he observed this thing or whatever that's the only real reason why I could see him being against it cuz he a definite advocate for trying to get more of that kind of stuff out there and if he can suddenly utilize all of these things in that ever growing map that he's trying to do yeah which is you can travel here to here to here to here if he can suddenly just go there's all these spots now filled up of course we're going to keep putting superchargers y because those are going to be the super fast ones but this will massively expand your network I'm sure he'd be down for that yeah I I'm I'm I'm super excited for for the whole for the future of that I think this makes a whole lot more sense than uh than solar powered roadways in terms of how much thought appears to have been put into it you know so any I don't think I don't think musk doesn't seem like the kind of guy who gets all butt hurt because you know someone else came up with a good idea I think if it's a good idea he has no problem going Head to Head Tesla's EVS versus BMW's EVS he'll just try to do a better thing I I I think that's uh I think this I think this will happen this is the most sensible idea I've heard yet for how this could be implemented and I'm really excited for it yeah all right speaking of of bad ideas Google did a fishing survey not this kind of fishing P pH fishing which is a method of attack that actually gets you to give up your information voluntarily Yeah Yeah by by tricking the user similar to social engineering and you know how you know you and I have conversations where we we'll get a particularly stupid spam email or fishing email and we'll laugh it to each other trying to go really could anyone fall for this yes I used to work in tech support places they do Google's fishing survey revealed that 14% of people submit information to hackers wow Google and UCSD looked at 100 fishing emails picked out of a random sample self-reported by Gmail users the researchers also reviewed a random sample of 100 fishing websites caught by Google's safe browsing system to further understand how the scams work these websites were all created through Google forms which is how researchers were even able to access the data and even the worst performing fishing websites like think about some of the ones you've seen where it's just like obviously not a real website full of typos like you click on any navigation on the site and it doesn't go anywhere it just leads to a broken page like we've all seen them even on the worst performing 3% of users still submitted their data on the most effective sites as many as40 5% submitted their dat I wonder if this data took account for faked stuff probably not but I would speculate that most people aren't going to go to the trouble of even because okay the techsavvy user unless they're one of those super techsavvy users who runs you know a virtual machine on their computer solely for the purpose of opening up you know potentially malicious stuff you know unless you're one of those I would I would venture that most moderately power users are just not going to click it yeah yeah because you don't even want to go to that site that's bad you just don't even want to go there I used to okay when I used to work at certain shops uh depending on where it was situated so like depending on the demographics of the area around me um I could get from like one a week to maybe two a month um so like 0. five a week people coming in like oh I had this is even worse this is just phone calls someone called me from Microsoft and said that my computer was sending them messages saying that it was having problems and they need me to go on my computer and type all this stuff and then I'm like oh yeah you screwed up it's such an awkward situation like how do I get my money back I'm like you don't you don't like it's gone so according to Google's resear search here um hackers spend an average of 3 minutes figuring out how much an account is worth once they have access and will apparently move on if the account doesn't seem valuable enough so there you go the solution is to either avoid fishing websites entirely not give them your data or not have any money yeah yeah oh but then you okay you still need to not be a doofus because the hacker then tries to get money from your account's contact list so you can be compromising your friends and family members right yeah being dumb speaking of being dumb gizmodo.com article about this website I can't remember what it's called right now but this is just terrible so creepy website um insam claims to feature feeds from IP cameras all over the world including 11,000 in the us alone and uh Gizmodo browsed some of the feeds finding people's living rooms um parking lots porches and even bedrooms in these feeds and the site says that the way that they did this was by exploiting people who haven't changed the default username and password on their IP camera um that's creepy I don't even know if I should be saying this on stream but it's fairly widely known and spreading the knowledge that exists might help get it fixed um there's certain Google Search terms you can use to find uh open IP cameras and you can get straight up into their control panels to the point where you can move them around like it's crazy I was doing like a presentation in high school talking about like internet security stuff this was a long time ago and I did a live demonstration from the class and like moved the camera around and everything and it's like yep it's really bad I mean it baffles me that more things don't require you to change the password the first time that you log into them because anyone can be lazy even someone who knows better can be lazy but maybe you're just spamming next and you don't notice that one of them was whatever really important yeah H anyway Assassin's Creed Creator launches new studio the original article is from gamespot.com so following his reported firing from Ubisoft last year the Assassin's Creed Creator uh has opened a new studio in Montreal called panach digital games Pan's other co-founder another former Ubisoft veteran who was fired in 2013 uh or yeah sorry pacha's other co-founder um was another Ubisoft veteran so in June 2013 he sued Ubisoft for 400,000 and the rights to purchase 1666 which he was working on at THQ Montreal before its collapse cool interesting hopefully he does good things yeah well based on how good Assassin's Creed is with his involvement and how rubbish it apparently is without his involvement oh I guess we need to uh okay so just just just a I'm I I have to I have to kind of pitch this to you guys again because Nick will give me a hard time if I don't uh but the keep on digging shirt apparently has already sold like 40 shirts oh that's awesome because you guys are pretty into repping the keep on the keep on digging so we have yet another Ubisoft topic it's just a short one uh cuz they just can't stop can they so check it out it's over on oh no this one oh yeah I know okay brain's going to bleed before we're done this uh hold on I'm just trying to I'm just trying to post our uh our link here I don't know if that link is going to work hey look at that it works so if you guys want one of these shirts check it out I'mma spam my chat boom Nick's like here's one link I will do things the way that isn't obnoxious good job Nick and like says what it's for and stuff you're just like B no dog and it's funny because of the stream delay right yeah so just out of nowhere just huge amounts of nothing all right so Ubisoft patches microtransactions before frame rate issues so this is this is a post that has actually been pulled down already let's just go ahead and uh and pull this up here so this is on imer um there we go a patch has been deployed and the issues with purchasing and receiving Helix credits is now fixed on PS4 We are continuing to work to solve the issue on PC and Xbox One 214 thumbs up from the 24 members of the Assassin's Creed team that were told to thumbs up that post pretty much yeah unbelievable I just want to make sure it's pulled down when was this supposed to oh it just says 14 minutes that's not helpful yeah W the rest of their Facebook is just we are aware of the issues we are working on it yeah that's already November 11th so I think we're we're done yeah wow yep it's gone that post is gone they don't want us to they don't want us to talk about that nope all right recked I think we got not much El not much else Apple's chip suppliers are apparently gearing Up Get It gearing up that's a different company for mass production of the Apple watch I know it's a it's a competing product that's true that works I think it's funny I think it would have better or is my humor wearing on you oh there we go except that's still a different company I know you got to like it's got to be within the Apple ecosystem no it doesn't it does uh chip orders are estimated to be around 30 to 40 million units for a debut in early 2015 stainless steel and gold editions will reportedly retail for prices starting at $54,000 respectively uh the the Lenovo S90 is the most ridiculous phone I think I've ever seen speaking of patent trolling um oh no if anyone was going to if Apple was going to go after anyone about anything this oh right my screen sharing isn't working right bloody balls right uh this should have been this should have been it because this is absolutely brutal here we go on the left the iPhone 6 on the right the Lenovo S90 wow on the bottom the iPhone 6 no way on the top the Lenovo S90 they even copied the promotional images I mean the antenna band is the same wow wait are those different those are different oh no that's it's not good isn't that horrible apparently this phone is not going to be available in all regions and I'm guessing this has to do with that Lenovo knows they have no ground to stand on if they brought this thing to the US there would be a sales embargo like that that's uh it looks like it's a China only China only design not surprising this posted by Shadow captain on the Forum though I tweeted this out earlier this week rather I posted it on Facebook cuz I thought that was hilarious like just embarrassingly blatant copy that's funny all right so I think that's pretty much it there's only one other thing that I wanted to call out um we did a couple live streams if you guys are interested in programming so becoming a coder we actually did a number of live streams they were sponsored by modus the same guys that we partnered with for Geek Stakes uh earlier this year where they gave away a bunch of really cool stuff they're a they're a Placement Firm for coders so basically they work with companies that need coders and coders who need placements andies connect them wow um not as aggressively as that they're like pretty nice about it they're a little bit more considerate of each other's needs yeah so anyway they sponsored a series of interviews where we took some folks from code school which is um a video a video tutorial online uh online site where you can learn coding in a fun and engaging way and they had a few of those folks come and interview with us about sort of how to how to become a coder and of particular interest is number two um that one was really excellent especially if you know any females who are thinking about programming because she talked a little bit about what it's like as a female learning to program and being involved in the developer Community I thought that was really uh I thought that was really really cool and actually our third our third interviewee was um was really cool as well because a lot of what we talked to him about was not sitting in front of your computer you know Finding inspiration for your programming projects in the real world by being a real person and doing real things especially stuff um like apps or if you want to build a if you want to build a program which is going to solve someone's real world problem you probably need to get off your butt and go figure out what that problem is cuz we see a lot of uh we see a lot of a lot of solutions that are to problems nobody has yeah yeah yeah which is great if you like have a different job and you're just soling your own solutions that other people might not have that's awesome that's a really good way to program and actually most programmers that I know just do that because they'll have other jobs and they'll program their own solutions to stuff um but if you want to like make your job doing stuff like apps for phones you probably need to figure out stuff to go do huh look at this okay well we've got one more we've got one more news item hi lonus I'm sure you saw some news floating around today about statements made by Richard huie in regards to directx12 12 I wanted to provide comment from AMD to give some context around what has been said thus far there have been reports based on a video of Richard h of AMD making speculative comments about directx12 support on versions of Windows Richard Hy does not speak for Microsoft he was unfortunately spec speculating for Microsoft publication of key dates and milestones for Windows 7 life cycle and blah blah blah okay that's not very interesting never mind boring email okay well I think that's pretty much it no longer interesting goodbye all right all right so yeah I think that's pretty much it thank you guys for tuning in to the WAN show um we'll see you again next week same bat Time same bat Channel and thank you also to so many of you for tuning in we had almost 6,000 viewers we had over 6,000 viewers at one point not for a huge amount of time but we did well you guys are awesome and we will see youand we're live welcome to the W show sorry guys Luke couldn't join us yet don't worry he'll be here in a little bit but for now Slender Man will be taking his place while I introduce the topics for the day and all that good stuff because Luke is actually finishing up what will be tomorrow's video right now we're going to be covering the Asus Gladius Rog Mouse it was supposed to be an Assassin's Creed Unity performance guide with a bunch of graphics cards and benchmarking and all that stuff but I'll let him cover when he gets back why that didn't happen H yeah it was it was pretty bad so we've got a lot of great topics for you guys today aside from that an AMD has released the mantle public SDK so they are pretty much inviting everyone with some uh with some need to have a super like bare Toth Metal Graphics API whether it's game developers or say for example other Hardware manufacturers they're inviting everyone to the party AT&T is acting like a small child about the ongoing net neutrality debate in the US and uh honestly this is just unreal so we'll give you more details on that and the Nvidia Shield tablet is going to be one of the first devices not made by Google to feature the new Android 5.0 Lollipop Os Oh also I guess you know grid gam streaming went out of beta so we'll talk about that as well but for now now I got to roll the intro to buy myself some time to uh go ahead and get our announcement video up that we're live so that's a thing oh there's no music in this one I swear one of these days I'm going to figure out which one has the music and this is not going to happen anymore do oh yeah one of our sponsors today is Squarespace actually there's a bunch of new and really cool stuff about Squarespace for this week we'll be covering that a little bit later and our second sponsor for today ignore that one that flashed in between that's the wardrobe malfunction is Phantom glass visit store. phantom.in protector you will ever need that's their slogan and I actually believe it in this case it's a gorilla glass cover for your Gorilla Glass so you can gorilla will you gorilla all right now I'm going to go ahead and finish this click now to watch live httv twitch.tv LST Tech boom all right that video is up so let's jump right into our first topic AMD releases public mantle SDK well th this year so let's go ahead and um first give credit to our op so Tera flop posted this on the lens Tech tips forum and the original article is from and I know these guys aren't the most popular source of news on the Linus Tech chips Forum but W wccf Tech posted that it is coming this year and AMD has basically come out and said look Nvidia and Intel we want you guys to use it you can use it for free Now intel has expressed some interest in mantle apparently um Nvidia on the other hand has not been that warm and has not been that uh friendly to the whole idea but I mean this was something that we've talked about in the past as well it might not necessarily be about mantle being the API for you know every future game although they do have a surprising number of games on the list of already released to be released soon and currently in development that are supporting this technology but it might not end up being mantle API that you know the game runs on ultimately 5 years from now but what's great about them opening up the kimono a little bit like this is Kronos and Microsoft so the openg and direct X guys have already said that they're looking at mantle and possibly implementing various parts of it in their own apis so I mean openg has the advantage of its ubiquity I mean you can run openg games on a tablet or you can run them on a PC um so that's really cool direct X of course has that amazing backwards compatibility as well as that enormous industrywide support on the PC side of things and so if either of those get anything positive out of amd's public mantle SDK then that's uh that's absolutely fantastic so that's I mean it's it's incredible how much momentum it's gained and yet how it might not end up being the winner but there's no question that mantle has pushed the industry forward and we should definitely be thankful for that all right I just you know let's do a straw pull here I want to hear from you guys okay straw pole will Nvidia provide any kind of mantle support yes no and let's go with apple fritter for our third option because I know how much you guys love you know just not contributing to the poll at all all right let's go ahead and spam the chat with this bad boy boom boom boom ah I missed that first time yeah no matter where you click in that apparently the camera looks really bad today I don't know what you're talking about all right there we go all that's bam so we've already got uh who's this in twitch chat one man Pizza in twitch chat already says it's not even a question they will never I I don't necessarily think that's true I mean it's not like Nvidia is in a position where if some game comes out that that ends up actually running you know 20 30% better on mantle compared to directx12 which looks like it's going to offer many of the same benefits so this kind of thing seems very un likely but if there was a game like a really key game or a lots of games like a dozen games that run 20 30% faster on mantle you really think nvidia's not going to leverage that if they can I I don't think that's true at all but let's go ahead and see what you guys think let's fire up these results here while I move on to the next topic wow we've got 51% of you uh saying no 30% of you saying apple fritter and a um tiny 19% of you saying yes so it looks like you guys are pretty much on the same page about both apple fritters and uh the chances that Nvidia will provide any kind of support in their drivers for metal all right our next topic actually you know what this is a Ubisoft thing so I think I'm really just going to have to wait until Luke gets here for this um so first up is this was posted by Tech dreamer on the Forum let's go and the original IAL here is from Ang Gadget but Tom wheeler the FCC chairman says that he may ignore Obama on the topic of net neutrality now he made it very clear that even though he was appointed by Obama the FCC is a separate entity just because the White House says something like you know oh we want to classify the internet in the same way that we now classify telephone lines so there can be there can be no no messing about with the way that traffic gets allocated and and the way that bandwidth gets allocated so that you know large corporations would have an advantage if they're able to afford to pay for internet Fast Lanes so Obama's basically said look you know net neutrality is a really good thing but the FCC chairman has come out and said that he thinks that the solution while you know I I hopefully hopefully you know the the solution that the internet service providers are offering up which is that they should basically be able to do whatever they want as far as I can tell he's saying he prefers a or he prefers a more nuanced solution so you guys can interpret that however you want but it sounds like what we're likely to end up with isn't going to be straight net neutrality and isn't going to be straight the isps are allowed to do whatever they want but some critics and Advocates are expressing their concern that a compromise between these two might just end up with a muddy set of rules that doesn't actually have a whole lot of meaning in the real world so guys there are a thousand places that you can voice your opinion on the subject of net neutrality but the only thing I really have to say about it at this point is go voice it it's extremely important without net neutrality we could see situations where let's say a company like oh I don't know hypothetically Netflix were to try to start a let's say hypothetically streaming service where they deliver video programming to people's homes and let's say you know an incumbent let's say Comcast whose business happens to be and these are just examples these are hypothetical companies any semblance they bear to existing companies it's purely coincidental so let's say for example this company hypothetically named Comcast goes oh well you know we're in the business of providing internet connections to people's homes but we're also in the business of providing video content to people's homes and if these guys are going to use our lines for that well they should be paying us a lot more than necessarily the you know exact amount we would normally charge for the amount of bandwidth that they're using and if we don't maintain net neutrality we will be stuck in a situation where they would be free to do that and we could rely on the courts to enforce any kinds of you know anti- competitive laws or whatever else but we talked about this last week where oh shoot and I forget how long it took I think it was back in 2000 was the issue with Intel misrepresenting the performance of their Pentium 4 processors against amd's competitor and so 14 years later last week this was news people who bought that misrepresented processor got $15 I mean that's how long this takes and that's how ineffective it is um so I wouldn't I wouldn't rely on that we just need to make sure that we keep the the freedoms that we already enjoy in the first place place if we want to have any chance of of not living in a world where our isps are in control cuz we know how awesome they are speaking of how of how awesome our isps are AT&T has publicly okay this was posted by Dietrich W on the Forum the original article here is from The Verge I'll just pull this up here but AT&T has oh that's weird oops okay hold on a second let's just change my screen share around here wow it just decided that it was going to go into extend mode rather than duplicate okay what ah sometimes I just don't even you know like I just don't even get it so let's just show desktop only on one let's try that first okay keep changes sorry guys then let's try uh oh okay and then that display is completely not detected anymore which might explain some of why it's uh being a little bit borked anyway the original article is from The Verge here and AT&T's basically said well you know look we're not going to invest in high-speed fiber connections and there were they're in talks with something along the lines of 100 cities about getting high-speed fiber rolled out and this looked very reactionary to Google Fiber starting to roll out in selected cities and so they're saying okay look we're not going to invest in any of that stuff until we know the lay of the land with the new rules um so so basically how much money they're going to be able to squeeze out of every you know foot of fiber that they lay down in these cities and this is extremely disappointing to me not only because they already got the money to build a better infrastructure I mean this was this is this is well documented at this point they got the money they did nothing with it so aside from that they've already been paid um this is disappointing because it's not like they're not doing just fine today the plan to roll out this high-speed fiber networking is in place on the basis of they're already doing just fine charging people as much as they're charging them for internet connections that at some point they had to build the infrastructure for and at some point that investment paid off from a business standpoint investing in something that you can get someone to pay you 50 to $75 a month or whatever else for in densely populated areas is a winning proposition and the only reason that they can afford to just sit on ass until presumably sometime in early to mid 2015 when these rulings get finalized I mean if it even happens then the only reason they're able to do that is because it is so difficult for competitors to come in and force them to step up their game so I I I don't know how all this plays out I mean it's it's easy for me to say as a Canadian well this is all kind of us nonsense so it will never affect me here but the problem is that so much of what happens in the US does tend to become a precedent that's been set for it now and it does tend to trickle down to other places not everywhere but in the case of Canada that tends to happen a whole heck of a lot and our isps are no less evil than the American isps so they're going to look at what worked down there and they're going to push real hard to have it you know work up here and they're going to build case studies and they're going to Lobby our politicians and go oh well look how successful this was it you know did this for the economy because we're able to charge this much more to to whatever else so what a childish thing to do we're just going to stop building any more better infrastructure until you know we get and they haven't they haven't said that it has to be a favorable ruling they've just said that they are going to re-evaluate their plans once there's a ruling but I think we all kind of know how this is uh how this is going to play out got people asking where's Luke Luke is recording a video right now so as soon as he's done he's going to jump up here and join me and then boot Slender Man out of his spot all right so this is uh this is a really unfortunate little piece of news this was posted by Victoria Secret on the Forum and it is unusual for large companies like Nvidia to come and out and speak speak publicly to post on their blog about you know something like an ongoing lawsuit but uh this is this is really important not because of really I straight up don't understand where that's coming from that is oh I know what it is that's a that's a screen grab of the last thing that I was looking at it's not updating anymore I see okay well you guys will just have to take my word for it it's on nvidia's blog and uh basically I'm I'm going to kind of run through the whole thing here because it's super it's super crappy and Samsung is behaving like a spoiled child about this so they basically said look we filed patent lawsuits 2 months ago against Samsung and Qualcomm alleging that they've used our patented GPU technology without proper compensation to us when we filed those suits we fully expected to be sued in response it's a predictable tactic so we weren't surprised when earlier this week Samsung filed the lawsuit against us adding in for good measure velocity micro I don't know if you guys are familiar with velocity micro if you don't follow the boutique system builder space you know the Falcon Northwest and uh you know pit systems guys of the world you might never have heard of velocity micro but they're a a pretty small company okay they're not like a gigantic Mega corporation like a like a Dell where there could be some kind of you know collusion between Dell and Nvidia to allegedly break some Samsung patent or something they're just they're just a system integrator very similar to this could have just as easily happened to any other shop that builds custom gaming Rigs and sells them on their website so they included velocity micro a small customer based in Virginia so their action focuses on eight patents Nvidia is alleged to have violated six and included in the in the filing is a false advertising claim against Nvidia um that the statement about the Shield tablet with the K eger K1 processor is the world's fastest mobile processor there saying it's fals and misleading so Nvidia goes and like straight up puts here's our benchmarks against the exos 54 433 that's in the Note 4 yeah you're not faster yes Nvidia did include a lot of gaming focused benchmarks so are they spinning things a little bit uh yes but they also included some non-gaming Focus bench marks and it looks like if you were to just sort of you fire a shotgun and if you hit sort of you know the the Dozen or 15 or so benchmarks that they ran you would hit more that Nvidia wins than that Samsung wins and uh pretty much here we go it's unfortunate that Samsung sued velocity this isn't velocity's fight this is this is just extremely this is just extremely crappy a velocity and this isn't something that um that nvidia's put in their article but it is something that I've seen in some of the articles about nvidia's blog post but you know we got to consider when we shop a lot of different things that often we don't we tend to look at a spec sheet we tend to look at a benchmark Mar score and we tend to look at a price and then we go ahead and we we make a purchasing decision but I mean no one I shouldn't say no one I think a lot of us are frustrated at times with the way that Apple behaves with respect to its patents but is Samsung really being any less vindictive and it's one thing if they're going to go after another big boy you know if they're going to go after an apple or an Nvidia but it's a whole other one if they bring in a little company like velocity that didn't do anything other than put Nvidia graphics cards in their systems um just because and this is nvidia's Theory this is allegedly just because Virginia tends to process these filings extremely quickly and velocity had the bad luck to be located in Virginia so just something to something to consider oh there there is an open letter to the public from Randy Copeland the CEO of velocity micro where he basically says look we know nothing about thee previous issues between Samsung Nvidia and we don't care you know his response really had a very he had a very it had a very bitter tone to it and he basically said we'll have to use company resources to defend ourselves from Samsung and obviously mismatched opponent and he says if this is how Samsung operates we want no part of it and we hope others agree and we consider this during the upcoming holiday shopping season can't say I disagree Mr cop who I've actually never had the pleasure of meeting but seems like a nice enough guy and doesn't deserve this kind of nonsense all right I've got another Ubisoft thing here that I'm going to skip and wait for uh wait for Luke to come in so he can weigh on but I have the most hilarious thing that I probably saw this entire week to show you guys here and I'm going to I'm going to fire it up on on this computer so that I can screen share with you guys so you can see this but this is freaking unreal gig B releases a triple or show shows off I don't think you can buy it yet I'd be surprised if you can ever buy it to be perfectly honest um shoot where did it go I can buy you I'll buy your face oh all right so the original article here is from tech power up let's go ahead and do a quick screen share I don't know what's broken about my uh my stupid thing here but I can't screen share again this week all right screen region boom okay gigabyte announces gtx980 water Force Tri SLI all right so this is three GTX 980s each with their own individual 120 mm radiator and 120 mm cooling fan it features this massive like coolant exos style external radiator system thing and then presumably because gigabyte wanted to use a prepackaged solution um instead of going with a custom pump configuration and then allowing one pump or even dual pumps to power the whole thing each of these is its own separate allinone with its own separate pump and then its own separate set of Inlet and Outlet lines into the computer so you actually have to run all six of these tubes into your computer with this box sitting next to it how are you even going to be able to do that though uh because I could see like are they really really small tubing they look like quarter inch to me oh man so they're not hyper small like you're probably ripping a PCI like slot out of the back gross on the back of your case cuz like you're not going to be able to get through the included grommets and because it's pre-filled okay because it's pre-filled you can't even like go through a grommet unless you could thread your graphics card through your water cooling grommet oh my God so this you wouldn't be able to go through one of the expansion card slots either then oh yeah wait how's this even supposed to work I wonder if they do have go through the maybe they have quick connects okay maybe I'm wrong about this don't quote me on that the front you have to go through the front no that's horrible no they didn't even sleep the cable look look look look look this is worse than I could have Poss yeah they can yeah yeah they're looking at this right now come on is that okay do they give you a custom like B thing I guess so that is it isn't it yeah wow just wow mind you mind you here this is a value at it comes with this graphics card reinforcement cool bracket doohickey bracket do hii and and so yeah is that a custom that's a coolest lie Bridge yeah I'm not going to buy this to get that SL hybridge mind you but um but I wouldn't buy that to buy the like thing that looks like a BAL tire pump either so yeah welcome to the show thank you um so I was saving the Ubisoft topics oh yeah so I should probably finish up I should probably finish up that graphics card thing for you guys uh each of the cards is going to be clocked at 1228 MHz core 1329 boost although of course you'll be able to overclock them further at with 7 GHz on the memory um the front panel can control fan speeds and coolant pressure of each of the three Loops for whatever reason you wanted to do that and I think that's pretty much it it's fully assembled in the factory but I think that was implied when I said these were these were pre-built yeah okay so let's start with uh let's start with this article on PC pur.com and I apologize for for this just being sort of a little bit cluggy this week I will figure out what's wrong with the capture card um so here's the original article from pcp.com it was post posted by obscure mammal on the Forum where um Ryan had an article or had an opportunity to talk to the Ubisoft development team about hey actually didn't know about this article what the heck is what the heck is going on over there um so basically the development team came back and said that Assassin's Creed Unity is one of the most detailed games on the market it has a giant hold on hold on just calm down Luke it has a giant open world city with tens of thousands of objects visible on screen Paris is incredibly detailed for example notredam is millions of triangles itself it features Global illumination local Reflections realistic High dynamic range lighting they talked about scaling down the quality to allow for lower system requirements but decided against it because they were targeting existing PC Hardware not future cards but high-end existing PC hardware and this is a quote our position always came back to us ensuring that Assassin's Creed Unity is a nextg only game with breakthrough graphics with this Vision we did not degrade the visual quality of the game they are planning to continue working on optim oh I haven't been screen sharing with you guys I'm sorry there's the article on PC per so yeah basically it's it's just Ryan asking questions and then a big long thing oh there's some updates since the last time I I had uh okay so apparently okay okay okay so there's updates we can actually chat about these updates very briefly but the the the last part of what we originally sort of sort of knew about this was that they're going to continue working on optimizations and you'll hear more details shortly so here's an update a couple of other media Outlets have posted anonymous information that indicates that the draw call count for Assassin's Creed uni is at fault for the poor poor performance of The Game on PCS according to this quote unquote anonymous source while the consoles have lowlevel API access to Hardware to accept and process several times the number of draw calls that direct X11 can um direct X11 is limited to 7 to 10,000 Peak draw calls while um the game is apparently pushing in excess of 50,000 draw calls per frame and then if this turns out to be true it would be a confir confirmation that UBC didn't take the time to implement a direct directx11 Port correctly and if it's not true or that's only partially to blame then we're left with more meaningless finger pointing because people really want to point fingers I've seen fingers pointed at Nvidia Gameworks yeah I've seen fingers pointed at Ubisoft um I actually don't think I've seen anyone blame Microsoft for this one although you could make the argument that if we're draw bound um the overhead associated with DirectX 11 could be partially to blame given that it's no secret that graphics card makers like AMD have been pushing for a lower level API to the point where they went just went and created their own their own for an awfully long time now um but it makes a ton of sense especially because even though we weren't able to do our own performance testing of Assassin's Creed unity and I'll let you go on that very soon especially weren't able to do our own today and yesterday which is what we wanted to do um it makes sense given that we've looked at other people's performance analysis and it just doesn't make any sense yeah we don't seem to be limited by the traditional things like memory bandwidth or you know fill rates or at the same time though pretty much everyone that I've seen actually reporting numbers has had like fairly blatant disclaimer being like it's pretty spiky because like even even the amount of times that I was able to get it live like I could be just staring at one exact wall and like I lined up framings with like okay there's a Groove along the wall here I put my screen exactly on that Groove stand on this I stand on exactly the spot like I had the framing perfect and I'd look at it and get 63 FPS and I'd look away and come back and now I'm at 52 and I'm like wow bro I'm staring at the same wall like it should be the exact same performance and it's just not like why not what is wrong with you so are we actually here so why don't you give the update on your experience with Assassin's Creed Unity so far okay so I'm sure they want to hear from you it's awesome oh hold on hold on hold on yeah there's a the little look I don't know if we supposed to anyways um uh that's my that's on my shirt I'll hold really still yeah there you go um so it it started off I showed up to work quite early today cuz I was like I need to get this testing done before the W show trying to be all good Samaritan and get you guys a video Yeah didn't get a successful boot for what 2 and a half hours yeah no you were talking to me at like4 to 9 the first message I sent to you was I think you hadn't had it booted yet yeah I think the first message I sent to you was before 7 cuz I got to work pretty early I don't think I replied to that one no no not till later I was sleeping I I thought so I just wanted to send that message before I forgot about it anyways um had tons of issues like I I could load in and then take like two steps and I'd lose connectivity to you play so the whole game would just crash it wouldn't go like oh you're offline now you can't open those stupid freaking chests no you actually can't play at all and it's not like it just closes the game the whole thing just like gray screens and then does that like uh Microsoft is trying to figure out what just happened to this program we don't really know do you want to end it I like of course it's trash um anyways so then eventually I'm like I I messaged lonus and I was like should I just go offline mode or should I go online mode like there's a noticeable performance increase when you go to offline mode which is hilarious and I voted for offline mode because I figure they've got to patch this I'm sure that if there's that much of a performance disparity just between being and being offline they can probably implement that fairly easily so I was like okay test offline and then hopefully that'll represent what people will be getting once the next patch shows up okay go ahead okay so so we're going along it's it's it's kind of working now I still have a few issues but I get over most of those and I I I get through it and I'm finally like okay I need to finally find a benchmarking run I had planned to have a benchmarking run way before now sorry of course it's trash Luke 24 I had planned to have a benchmarking run way before now I'm kind of worried cuz I need to get all these cards done but at the same time I'm like 3/4 these cards aren't going to work anyways so whatever probably won't be as hard as I'm expecting it to be um finally loaded to the game and at this point I'm like okay I need at least at least a little bit of a fighting scene and I need a little bit of free running and then I'll be happy I don't need much like I just need something that'll work and I'll just say in the video that it's not great because I ran time CU it was broken and a benchmark run doesn't necessarily have to be representative of the most demanding scene in the entire game in fact a lot of the time it's not because we're looking for repeatability so a benchmarking run should should be demanding enough that there isn't an obvious CPU bottleneck and you're going to want to try and show some amount of variance so like explosions and wide shots and close shots and lots of people and different things well like we want to get a feel for how the engine performs and then we want to be able to rank graphics cards against perance quantif FPS will get if I'm running a similar configuration to them in this spot in the game if I upgrade my graphics card to this that's what we want you guys to know anyways so I I found a spot that was actually not too bad and it's pretty close to the beginning of the game you spawn in I'm not going to give any spoilers but you spawn in you run forward and follow some dude there's a fairly quick little sequence thing you run a little bit further you stab some dude you run a little bit further there's a little quick sequence thing you climb up some stuff you climb up some more stuff y y fairly straightforward and it captured the main things that I wanted to find and I was like okay this can kind of work but considering how fast I found that I actually have a little bit of extra time let's see if I can push on forward and see if there's maybe a little bit more fighting scene because I literally just ran past this dude poked him twice and then kept going that's all the fighting I got and I knew people would have been like H this isn't Assassin's Creed you have to stab more more people so I was like okay whatever I'll try to find something really quick run forward kill some guy that I didn't really seem was I didn't think was super important in hindsight like it kind of makes sense but it went into this crazy long stream of annoyingly not skippable for a lot of them cutcenes which ended up being like 8 minutes or something which if I had any amount of sound might have been good but I didn't cuz I'm on a benchmarking rig yeah so I'm just like sure I have no idea what's happening you guys are talking that's cool anyways it goes to the next sequence I'm like oh okay well how do I get back to the last one cuz that's where my benchmarking run is you can't you can't go back at least at this point in the game I don't know if maybe later on you're able to go into the the thing that I'm going to not spoiler and go back but at this point in the game you can't go back in sequences you also can't delete your save file and you can't restart the game so you have your one save file and you have the furthest progress you've gotten to in that save file what so for the next little while I was very surprised that you couldn't do that in game for one but then immediately I'm like okay whatever I'll just do the super ghetto option and go delete it from either I'm assuming my documents or app data or inside the game folder not super likely that it's inside the game folder because you'd lose your saves if you uninstalled the game but it's possible I start looking around and I can't find Jack I can't find anything I I found a save games folder with folders that were just extremely long random strings of characters and inside those folders just files that were just random numbers I'm like sweet found a couple that were from today but like I didn't want to delete the wrong stuff so I started looking online and I started tweeting and I asked people and some people shared some ideas someone was like oh it's file 740 or 720 or something I don't remember so are looking for that F 420 um so I I but they can't be high because you can only run the game on they keep on digging oh there's two jokes there good one um anyways So eventually I fig okay it was supposed to be a folder named 720 but there was no folder named 720 but I found a file named 720 which was created today so I was like oh awesome okay we found it successful delete load the game save still there what what okay so I go and nuke like every single file that's been created today like everything I can find just destroy everything whatever like if I have to redownload a small part of the game at least I have the bulk of it just go to like destroy everything mode it takes a while to find everything delete it all launch the game file still there I still have my progression file I'm like what the crap what is going on why can't I get rid of you why won't you go away and then I'm like oh okay someone posted online even if you're on offline mode maybe one of the things that keeps functioning if you have internet is your Cloud saves right so I'm like actually that kind of makes sense cuz maybe you go into offline mode to like hide from people maybe it's their version of anonymous but you don't want to lose your save files maybe like okay that's actually not a horrible feature I'm down with that okay fine I don't know how many people would I'd love it if we could just manage our save files normally anyway exactly yeah but or if it was like steam where you could be like I want to use the cloud SA or don't yeah yeah options are good thanks Ubisoft except no thanks steam um so I'm like okay disable go back through I find those old files that I just deleted again so I'm like oh they're Cloud syncing that totally makes sense cuz it recreated them right right so I'm like all right right cool delete them all loadad the game save file still there so basically in a nutshell we're going to try and figure this out yeah uh but it's just it just might take some time and normally finding an Assassin's Creed run is just a matter of me making sure Luke gets provided with a review copy of the game that he doesn't have to pay for and he just goes and plays it because he's going to play it anyway because he's the biggest fraking Assassin's Creed Fanboy ever like have you 100% did every game up till now yes yeah so there you go so usually finding an Assassin's Creed run is as simple as Luke kind of having it in the back of his mind while he sits and like yeah zombies out at his at his computer for 4 days after launch you know what I'm trying to think Black Flag you were a zombie for about a week after launch cuz as far as I can tell that was all you were doing outside of work time have you even been tempted to touch Unity no and I haven't wow I've been working in my spory time instead of playing and you've even played Assassin's Creed games 100% at Assassin's Creed games that by your own admission weren't that great no I hated three three sucked wow I was not a fan of three at all so in the spirit of keep on digging we are finally releasing the keep on digging shirt are we yes it's ready the campaign is ready we were supposed to have shirts to wear today you get banned from spanning your own channel really I think so oh all right well um just cuz that was that was just a lot I actually really want this shirt so oh I am I am super stoked on this shirt because the way we design the shirt it's not just to be used on Ubisoft necessarily you can keep on digging anything so the previous keep on digging even though we didn't use that terminology would have been EA so now we're just it's now Ubisoft and whoever e was brofist yeah that's true that's the origin of brofist that was the when we started brofisting on the show yeah wow that was so all these gaming companies start our memes I know thank you for being ter and keep on keep on digging like I I know that I didn't invent the phrase keep on digging but did did I popularize it yeah for Ubisoft yeah yes it's all over the place cuz there have been some fantastic keep on digging me St on like PC Master race on our own Forum um I've seen a lot of gifs of me digging on the show so guys if you want to rep if you want to rep just the keep on digging this the amount of hatred that this morning that is that is going on right now show your support for Luke keep on diing t-shirt um oh good we have hoodies oh I might have to order a hoodie cuz the uh the the the Highlander hoodie I have is awesome it's super nice is it the same kind yeah it's the same one it's the it's the same Gilden one I wasn't sure about Gilden hoodies when we first um there we go when we first ordered our our Highlander stuff and I just kind of ordered one hoping it would be nice and I was checking if there were better options and that was all they really had but it's like super nice you saw it right yeah so I I definitely want like a keep on digging hoodie yeah me too I'm going to buy one every every winter season I get like a new hoodie this was last season so I need a new one yeah so everyone was everyone was pretty darn stoked with the uh with the quality of the Highlander shirts so that's why we're going ahead with Teespring again cuz they did a great job of uh of that campaign I had uh a guy on the Forum and stuff Str strore map had two shirts from I think one from district lines and one from Teespring both show up with little holes in them and he got both of them promptly replaced nice yeah so that's good all right I feel like I had more crap to throw at e or Ubisoft oh no there there's more like there's a there's a there's some crap going on with respect to to Far Cry 4 review copies oh polygon didn't get one really yeah they have like a developer version that they can't use to actually review the game and then they couldn't get it working on any of their PlayStation 4s and then they just so they're just like so yeah we're other Publications got retail copies we don't really understand why we don't have one so we're just going to go buy a retail copy we'll have a review for you guys as soon as possible wow yeah they've got a blog post up I was like really messed up oh jeez and then what was it Assassin's Creed Unity the Embargo date was 12 hours after the release um total actually this ties into hold on let me just biscuit made a video for that didn't he I don't know if he made a video about it but um okay I here can I can I do our next news article first then um but this is great I'm so happy with this I'm going to talk about total biscuits thing so Ubisoft stock and I actually haven't looked at it today so this is the old headline but Ubisoft stock fell 99.33% um direct immediately after the Assassin's Creed Unity launch I mean we are talking not inconsequential amounts of money and I am so glad because I I am a huge advocate for gamers voting with their wallets if you don't like it not only don't play it or no excuse me not only don't buy it don't even play it don't even give them the opportunity to look at like piracy you know seeds and Torrance and and and try to extrap take those as positive metrics yes they can interpret that positively even by downloading it you can be supporting what they're doing if you ignore Far Cry 4 if every single one of you and all of your friends ignore Far Cry 4 and all of their friends and all of their friends if you can make a difference to the pocketbooks of these companies they will treat you like your voice actually matters because because as long as you keep giving them money your voice doesn't matter not at all y the only reason why we wanted to do and still kind of want to do an Assassin's Creed Unity benchmarking video and the only reason we will want to do a Far Cry 4 video is that we can warn everyone essentially like look at this crap it doesn't freaking work don't buy it we're not a we're not a gaming publication we are a hardware publication so we're going to look at it from a hardware perspective this is how well this piece of Hardware handles this game and then we're going to do some investigation which is going to take a lot of detective work in this case to figure out why this particular game doesn't run well on that particular hardware and we're going to come to a conclusion that should be fairly obvious by this point in time because it's trash because we want you guys to know this stuff but we're not going to be doing Let's Plays of Assassin's Creed Unity no well exactly two minutes yeah in a way that you probably shouldn't play the game unless you're so we're going to have it open on our computers un unless you're very specifically trying to B bench market so to be clear you know a stock dip like this can be temporary it might not be indicative of a long-term struggle I wouldn't be surprised if it bounced back at least a little bit but it can be a warning sign and it can be and at least if nothing else it's going to be an attention grabber because Executives and bean counters will notice that even if they're not reading you know every comment in the twitch chat of the Linus Tech W show stream you know yeah exactly not watching which I feel very disconnected from cuz I don't have my laptop right now oh you don't have a laptop wow you're like a you're like a you're like a peasant of no laptop of why don't you just um here why don't I message well no because the the the the peasants are defined by their disbelief of PCS being better that's true I didn't mean console peasant I just meant your a wow peasant because glorious wow Master race people have laptops so so okay yeah that's really unfortunate I'll ask Nick to bring you one okay cool um okay so let's let's sort of let's keep going here um right so it's it's probably going to bounce back at least a little bit I hope it doesn't bounce back that much um I don't want Ubisoft to die Ubisoft has been a good company at some points in time I think they just need a like massive B slap to the face so they wake the hell up and stop being idiots yeah let's just bring back our keep on keep on digging lower third because we're still talking Ubisoft they're like half the show this week and it's not like we want to talk about Ubisoft I'd love for us to be I'd love for us to just be talking about what like what a great game Assassin's Creed Unity is and how stoked we are for Far Cry 4 I would love that to be the topic that is the conversation we love Black Flag was amazing and Far Cry 3 was really really good and you know know what incredible okay what news did they get over last week what news did they somehow get through I don't even remember something really big last week that I don't remember oh yeah yeah they pulled everything from uh from Steam yeah but no yeah but then it's it's back now there was other news though that was really big and we were like I can't believe you were even noticed like you made yourself no this was going on either way oh blon BlizzCon right BlizzCon was going on and people still heard about what the hell Ubisoft was doing because they were bcon was such a big deal this year bcon was huge and then now there was just the uh warland of dra or release and everyone's freaking out over U soft what how are you that bad I'm kind of tempted to pick again really should I just not last time you got pretty I know last time was bad okay forget it I'm not going to I'm just going to repair my joystick and play more xwing um okay maybe wait till your kids are at like a minimum age so this was original articles here this was posted by I'm the wallus by the way the Ubisoft stock falling thing um original sources here were kit guru.net and finance. yahoo.com um but there were also some other things that were that were brought up by these other articles um we might not even need a charger I think it's charg right yeah yeah just uh yay Luke will have a laptop thank you but um one of the other things that was pointed out was that things are not looking that great for Far Cry 4 because some Publications didn't get review copies yeah so um yeah not necessarily a great sign and then and like with with stuff like that uh that polygon post like people are going to read that and that is going to be taken as a negative review if people are reading into it properly yeah I would yeah the fact that you for whatever reason are not enabling as many Publications as possible to get their hands on this game so that they can Rave about how great it is is a really really bad sign and I mean total biscuits comment I think is is awesome about the way that the Assassin's Creed Unity embargo was handled where the review embargo was not lifted until 12 hours after the game's retail availability which is given the way that games cannot be refunded anymore if you buy a physical copy or really any copy um is is really telling I mean that really says something about how they might have felt about how quickly they needed to cash in on the immediate launch sales before the reviews go up and people start maybe considering whether to wait for even Far Cry for or some other game to spend their money on um not not good not good I I would lose consumer confidence basically immediately if I had a Far Cry 4 uh pre-order which I don't but if I did have one I honestly probably would have canceled it once I read that polygon post cuz I'm I'm pretty skeptical already there's very few things that I'll pre-order I'll pre-order stuff like uh Smash Bros for Wii U you would have normally pre-ordered Assassin's Creed actually yes I would have normally done that I have done that for every single other Assassin's Creed launch but this one yeah so anyway total biscuit came out and said he is not going to accept review copies of any game that has an embargo that is after the launch time of the game which is awesome which is awesome and uh and I think I think that's I think that's great I think that's a great way to handle it and it just I I actually responded to I think it was that tweet or one of the related ones just cuz I was so blown away that you could have a review embar after people are expected to drop their money for the game I mean no one in the hardware industry does that no one and you know what and and you know what John John TotalBiscuit has has actually tweeted me as well saying that he has no idea how we seem to kind of pull off this weird thing where our advertisers are Hardware companies and yet we criticize these companies openly on our shows and in our reviews and and some somehow we've managed to take money from these companies for advertising maintain the trust of our viewers and maintain the relationships with these companies and do it all at the same time and he was just like how does this even work I think it's because there's a much different mentality with like computer hardware companies and gaming companies canuter Hardware companies seem like infinitely humble and they'll take whatever you say and they're just like yes okay next time we do better and and that's not true of all of them but that's true of many of them they just seem to be so much more mature than these gaming companies like someone like Corsair if I come out and I slam them about something I'll get an email but they're not going to pull our funding they're not going to pull they're not going to refuse to work with us they're not going to stop seing us review samples because they value the input what a what a freaking concept right oh my God amazing not really with gaming in gaming they they they they tote their marketing muscles as as much as they possibly can try to silence anyone that they possibly can that would say anything negative about them at all and then just try to slam games down your throat and then and it is a generalization pour the DLC water down not every gaming company is like this no praise G Ben um praise gin uh what is it super giant games does really well there's definitely developers and Publishers that are that are good and there's ones that mostly seem to try to do the right thing but sometimes screw up and we have to understand and respect that too and that's fine people are human they make mistakes we make mistakes um but it just feels Ubisoft screw up looks feels like some like Cartoon Network like where they just keep falling forever it's like EA last year yeah where just every week there they were doing something horrendous they they fall down the hill and gather so much momentum because the hill is so large that they have enough momentum to climb up the next one and then fall down it over again like ridiculous stop screwing up hit a wall at some point and then just be like no we will be better we're going to shut up we're going to say nothing we're just going to make games that hopefully people want to play yeah if they stop talking and start working some more maybe they can fix some of their crap I am just I am I I got to say the whole thing with the the draw call issue in Assassin's Creed Unity is so believable yeah because their whole thing their whole defense of unity to Ryan from PC per was is we weren't going to dumb down the level the detail and the objects in the city it like and every object is a draw call yeah and and when uh when when Call of Duty like massively outclasses you in every possible appearance aspect that's bad you did something wrong I know like Assassin's Creed is supposed to be the like holy crap this game looks good I mean Advanced Warfare should have been taking all the headlines for crap and instead I mean everyone's like oh it's pretty good you know it's probably unfortunate that they didn't publish after Assassin's Creed in Far Cry 4 so they could have cuz I suspect a lot of people because you know how it's always whatsoever The Horizon you never look back at what was that thing I didn't buy it's always like okay well Far Cry 4 is coming next or this is coming next or whatever's coming next we coming get later I feel like if they had just kind of waited for all the people who didn't spend their money on all the stuff that came before them they could have gotten an even bigger payday probably I I doubt they needed I'm sure they did fine yeah yeah I'm sure they did totally fine but it's just it's just like how did you get graphically outclassed whoa whoa Photoshop CS6 says lonus doesn't even play video games lonus doesn't game as much as he'd like to that doesn't mean lonus doesn't play video games he's starting to a lot more lately too yeah I've been finding a little bit more time for it especially on my shield yeah speaking of Shield um actually that leads us really well into not a Ubisoft topic y um and Vidia just announced that their grid streaming service and this was um this was posted by jper 10996 on the Forum and the original source is the Nvidia blog um but grid is coming out of beta so grid has 20 titles right now including actually I'm just going to fire up the grid game list here but they've got a Arkham Asylum Arkham City they've got Allan Wake uh American Nightmare they've got Darksiders Darksiders 2 Dead Island Psychonauts which is a freaking awesome game by the way if you have a shield and you have an internet connection that's good enough for grid go play Psychonauts if you haven't already Saints R II Trine 2 Witcher 2 Ultra Street Fighter 4 like there's some pretty great games on this list what's the like payment plan stuff for this does it just come with a shield or okay so the beta's been free for anyone with a shield and the non data is free for anyone with a shield until June 2015 okay so you get about 6 months of free access to the game pretty good actually that's a lot more than a trial yes which considering the cost of something like a Shield tablet and and a controller when you are when you look at the Shield tablet as oh it's also a very competent 7in tablet um is actually a pretty darn compelling value yeah that feels a lot like the I'm trying to remember the name of it but those HP things yeah yeah yeah the um streams yeah where you get so much stuff with them yeah where you get not just value ad stuff that's like hey you got a 30-day trial of maca can I interest you in paying us it's not even value ad just like where there's real value ads that are relevant to the people who are using that device so so you get 6 months for free if you buy if you buy a shield now um they're recommending 10 megabits per second down and 60 millisecond second ping or less to your nearest grid server but they're expanding their grid server Network so there's already the one in California they've added one in Indiana and EU and Asia are soon to come so they're it looks like what they're building is and they're it looks like it's meant to be about like Netflix for games yeah now you can say what you will about the 60 millisecond additional latency that is not going to be palatable for certain types of games are you going to play CSO with an extra 60 milliseconds of lag no no but you probably wouldn't have played that on a controller but are you going to play Darksiders sure sure why not probably that's probably fine cool yeah um all right they've also got other news The Shield tablet is getting Android 5.0 Lollipop in a few days yeah I they're going to be they're going to be I think I was on the phone with someone from Nvidia today actually and he was saying I don't remember if he said they're going to be the first or one of the first uh one of the first advice makers whose name is not Google to have lollipop on their device I mean Nvidia committed back when they launched Shield portable to prompt Android update but come on we've heard that we've heard it over and over again how many prompt Android updates have you gotten for your Galaxy Device one per device is usually about the general rule yeah and then you might get an update but everyone else has been using it for six months nine months by the time you get it if at all um whereas nvidia's like on this yeah it's actually kind of absolutely fantastic if I do say so myself it's nice to see that especially when you're getting a device that like talking to people that aren't you about Shield is like often they don't really know what it is or they're like H is there really a lot of support for it like I don't really see anyone using it now I see it around a fair amount when looking at stuff like the r forum and like within the office and like these closed ecosystems but I got a message from someone either on the for or Twitter where they told me how the shield was kind of embarrassing to be out about with because people kept asking if it's a portable Xbox sorry go on but yeah just to illustrate the point but yeah like it's it's it's it's very new and it's very different so people are a little bit skeptical about it so I think it's actually really good for them that they're getting these like they're pushing the update thing really really hard and they're actually repeatedly getting these really early updates which is awesome because that's just going to increase um confidence that they are interesting products and they are they're really good would you buy an Nvidia phone actually probably cuz I know you're not into the tablet thing so much not really and phones the only reason I'm not super into phones the only reason is because most of them are trash that's a strong statement it's true though like there's so like there's so many that have glaring issues that you like know someone must have figured out and then the Droid Turbo is just not coming to Canada at all in no form my brother tweeted them and asked and they were like no the droid turbo or variation Max are not coming to Canada officially from Motorola oh that's a bummer awesome what the hell the one phone that's like that's super cool nope god wow that's really sucky I mean it's not going to happen with Tegra K1 because Tegra K 1's power consumption is just straight up too high but if Tegra K2 or whatever they end up calling it came to a phone would you consider it I mean they're not that far away they've already got the the tablet 32 gig which has LTE and they did acquire that LTE radio technology maker not that long ago so they can build their own radios I I don't think it's that difficult to I don't think it's that difficult to I'd be really interested to I would check it out I'd want to check it out for sure definitely want to check it out uh if if they got the if they got the the battery capacity right and they had a not trash camera I would be definitely confident enough in the rest of the phone to be like all right let's do this Nvidia is one of those companies where I think the camera could go one of two ways they could either have a bunch of Knowledge from cuz they know a lot about image processing yeah that's interesting it's not like they don't have experience when it comes to image filtering to make things look better this is nvidia's freaking wheelhouse but that doesn't necessarily mean they know that much about sensor technology so so I I don't know which way the camera would go and that's a huge part of any smartphone purchase um one thing of just to note is that right now the 32 gig version of The Shield tablet lvid is on fire with this announcement here comes with Portal halflife 2 and halflife 2 episode one holy crap Android versions if you jump up to that one in addition to the grid thing and those are all pretty good to play on that device as well actually especially portal Portal's really good I play portal on the shield portable yeah yeah um and shield portable is getting lollipop support but we don't have an ETA for that yet so I'll have to wait cuz I don't really use my Shield tablet much I mostly use my portable yeah all right other Nvidia news this was posted by big STS on the Forum the original article is from techreport tocom the gtx960 has been found in an India Import and Export label or data or something the record States four GB of gddr5 a 256-bit bus 993 MHz core and 68 MHz memory it's unclear whether that is a base or a boost clock speed and the price translates to around 256 US Dollars although we don't know if that will be a retail price or if that's like an Nvidia to their board partner price or a board partner to retailer price or just an invented number or if they're going to flip it 18 times 3 days before it's out because they kind of do that sometimes because they do do that sometimes um the speculation on the internet right now is that this is going to be a GK 104 based card so actually the same chip as the 980 and 970 just like we saw with the 680 670 and 660 Ti um we should probably do our sponsor spots actually so we're going to start with the one that I hopefully label yay Phantom glass so phandom glass we love these guys uh for any of the viewers who have watched before you know what the sales pitch for Phantom glass doesn't really change so I do find myself repeating myself a fair bit but it doesn't need to change because it's good enough as it is the only reason that we started working with these guys was that and it's just kind of a funny story The only reason I reviewed the product at all was because the guy was Canadian because normally screen protectors I don't we've only done two screen protector videos in the entire time lus techtips has existed and they've both been like very oddly Innovative yes some kind of real actual important thing that happened with them so the only reason I would even listen to him was he was Canadian and then the only reason I wanted to review unit was because I I was like okay if this does what you say it does I will like it but if it doesn't do what you say it does then I'm going to throw it in the garbage and never talk about it again and he was like okay okay okay send over the review unit and then the reason that we're doing advertising with them is because it's freaking awesome basically it's a sheet of Gorilla Glass 3 that sits over top of the existing pain of Glass on your phone so if you already liked any kind of the you know the the glare Clarity um touch feel characteristics of your phone screen it will be exactly the same it does add a little bit of thickness to the front of the phone but it's still compatible with other third party cases and it has this like Nano coating on the bottom of it that actually works like it actually does what they say it does it's I think you'd have to work pretty hard to try to get a bubble under Phantom glass and if you apply it wrong you can just pull it up reapply it I've actually done it and it goes on perfectly second time around so pretty cool I mean if it's given that it's kind of expensive it's nice to be able to reuse it because I actually had to RMA my HTC 1 M8 so I had to pull my Fass off yeah you peeled it yeah so I put it in some Saran Wrap to keep it safe cuz I don't really have the original packaging anymore and uh there you go my One M8 is actually back as of yesterday and uh before we move into our next sponsor spot just wanted to share my experience with that so I was a little disappointed with HTC because the first custo I my one8 camera lens cracked on my rear camera cracked and so rather than work through my HTC rep I decided you know what just for fun I'm going to go have the regular customer defective product experience because it just cracked out of the blue there wasn't a single Mark anywhere on the entire phone other than a cracked rear camera screen so I would have had to I would have had to literally take like drop it on like a very point of a rock but then catch it before it actually hits the ground yeah or like take a chisel and like whack it or something in order to crack that thing so it in my mind this is not something that could have been feasibly broken by accident and I see it as a design like probably the one design flaw in that phone that I really dislike is that they used a plastic cover on it there's actual Flex to it okay maybe not actually it might not be plastic okay I shouldn't say plastic maybe it's some kind of composite or glass or whatever else but it's got some real Flex to it once it was broken and it has a coating on it that scratches off very easily just taking it in and out of your pocket and gives you blurry photos until you rub it off with toothpaste this is a documented problem so I talked to their customer service and they basically the first person I talked to said seem to be aware of the issue and said yeah that should be no problem to to for it to be covered under warranty but they asked me to call my carrier to ask if they'll deal with the RMA for me because I'm in Canada and that's the normal procedure I kind of went yeah sure okay so I called my carrier they didn't deal with it because I didn't buy the device from them I knew that was going to happen but I jumped through the hoop just to humor them so I called back and they told me they couldn't guarantee anything about the repair and then it turned out that they did want to charge me over $100 for the repair even though and the repair center was not willing to Advocate to HTC on my behalf or anything like that I basically said you guys are experts you look at phones every day is it even possible is it even conceivable in any way that I could have damaged the phone in this way at all or does this seem like the kind of cuz it just cracked out of the blue and they just went you have to talk to HTC so I didn't pay the money I ended up just going through my HTC contact telling them I was being jerked around and they got it taken care of within like an hour cuz that's normally the way that that I get treated but I was I was disappointed in the way that an actual customer um would would be treated in that case yeah that's kind of that's kind of sad the problem the problem too though is that like I get it physical damage is generally not not covered under warranty yeah but if it's a known issue it generally is so it's a matter of whether they're acknowledging the issue or not the internet knows about the issue I don't know if the internet knows about a cracking issue but the problem is that my my rear camera was scratched already before it even cracked so I should have been eligible for a replacement had i r made it sooner and it had not cracked on its own anyway so that's why I was so upset so I get it I understand I'm just a little bit disappointed I've had to deal with very few like very few uh customer service for like ship out and repair stuff uh one of them was uh an Xbox 360 which was hilarious um and that was actually super easy right because they were all red ringing so I'm sure their whole Factory was just like in- and out in- and out in- and out in- and out um because it was just a swap and then the other one was uh evj when I was doing my mineral oil computer and that was like the best on the phone experience with someone who is supposed to help me in any form Ever right yeah EVGA is kind of Legend always liked 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partnership with Getty Images is basically you can get very reasonably priced beautiful images to put on your site but it seems like they're just a bunch of Geeks care about websites looking really great yeah and they're then they don't want to see people take their beautiful template and put some crap image on it so it's like it's it's almost like and I'm not saying selfish in that it's not beneficial to the user I'm just saying it seems like like they just kind of are like oh they like don't screw their stuff in bad ways yeah take good images we really love our product and we wish you wouldn't like make it ugly than it has to be so we're going to get you guys this like great less expensive gy images thing and you can get that get go get good images don't pay much for them um they've got new templates they've got cover pages and um yeah I guess that's isn't isn't that it right yes um also I wanted to just cover the usual talking point so if you guys don't know what Squarespace is it's a fast easy affordable way to build your own beautiful website they've got uh only $8 a month and you get a free domain for your trouble if you sign up for Squarespace for a year they've got responsive design so basically that means your website scales to look great on any device and they've got integrated Commerce now that was actually one of the previous things that they rolled out that is pretty freaking cool so if you want to build a store on Squarespace then you can rock on and do that so you can start a trial with no credit card required and start building your website today and you get 10% off if you use offer code Linus and you decide to go ahead and use that website for your store or blog or restaurant or someone I don't know maybe you want to make a website dedicated to pictures of your junk wow I don't um preferably not please don't but you could yeah you could it's technically possible it's possible um some someone in the twitch yeah quite literally uh someone in the twitch chat was like please tell Squarespace to fix their documentation for developers it's really bad I've looked at it what are you talking about for one and for two I'm sure you can just contact them I've had to contact them about stuff before they've responded very well and very quickly so if you're having a problem with something which I'm not sure what you're doing because I've looked at actually a fair amount of their documentation for developers it was all fine from what I've seen maybe there's something that isn't I don't know but just them and it should be fine so this is the best way I think YouTube could have possibly done this they have implemented YouTube music key and this is the first subscription based YouTube service that we're seeing and I think they did it absolutely brilliantly so it was posted by Raph banan on the Forum and the original article is from official android. blogspot.com and basically it's going out of beta so it's not like it didn't exist already it's a monthly subscription service for $9.99 a month but it is $7.99 a month right now which happens to be exactly the same price as a Google Play music subscription so if you sign up now if you happen to be a Google Play music subscriber already yo then you can just sign up for this you get a full Google play music account for exactly the same price if you sign up during the promo and then you also get ad free music background play on music which is pretty nice if you like to listen to music on YouTube and offline viewing of Music on YouTube it's invite only right now and those who get an invite get to try it out free for 6 months if I can get this for $7.99 I'm sold done because I and even if I can get it for $9.99 you know what I will probably buy it that's actually pretty sick I really like the background play thing yep background play and to be able to listen to playlists on Monster cat for example and not have the ads interrupt your groove that would be really nice I I think they knocked it out of the freaking park with the way that they implemented this that's actually really cool music was the one to go after first and the way that they did it enabling it to be the same price as a streaming service that they already offer that's already great I love Google play music especially the curated playlists it's awesome Google play music is more for me than just I feel like I'm doing another sponsor integration but it really is amazing I'm just a paying customer it's just nothing special but the the way that they that they manage it it's more than just just not pirating music is it the same sorry I might not have heard that part is it the same thing as if you have the Google music that you have right now is it the same do you get this yeah yeah okay so they're together oh wait no no no no no no this is this is going to be a a more expensive subscription but would okay but it will also that one include that oneic yes and then for a promotional period of time you can get it at the same price okay so you should buy this one yeah yeah um but like I mean it's more than just not pirating music and and saving money versus going and buying albums it's it's for me it's all about the curated playlists um where I can it'll be like hey it's Tuesday afternoon do you want to listen to like you know pickme up music or do you want to listen to like Mello music and the I'm feeling lucky radio is is awesome and does a really really great job interesting uh Sharp's latest iGo prototype sets the stage for 4K faets as if it matters uh the oral say like sounds surprisingly excited for this what's happening obscure mammal posted on the Forum the original article is from techreport tocom and they have they have made a prototype 2560 x600 4.1 in panel oh jeez that is some incredible pixel density so we're talking 736 pixels per inch that is massively more than the Galaxy Notes 515 pixels per inch the Google NEX 6 is 493 pixels per inch and Apple's iPhone 6 Plus is 401 pixels per inch which quite frankly is already enough I should point out that the Droid Turbo has I really like the display but the issue is that I don't know if it's related to the fact that it's AMOLED and I'm really enjoying the Deep blacks or if it's related to that it's 2560 by 1440 yeah because on the G3 I didn't feel like there was a benefit to the higher density display but the contrast wasn't very good yeah it was icky and contrast is more important once you reach a certain point than you know I was really surprised at um Marcus MKBHD he did a a collaborative thing with the Verge like ultimate smartphone like dream smartphone like well I would take this one and then I would change this and I would squeeze this and I would do this and it would have a bigger battery and all that kind of stuff and I was really surprised he picked the screen from the G3 for his dream smartphone yeah he's wrong oh well that's one way of putting it I would have said I would have said to each his own but just no what so the latest iGo prototype will have 11.5 micrometer pixels that will likely be impossible to see with the naked eye um when okay when when was that article done which one was that uh was that done before like Note 4 came out and stuff no no it just went up two days ago okay I don't get it um okay so one one okay so so that's really cool that we won't be able to see the pixels but one potential drawback is that higher density displays typically require more power to achieve the same brightness because as you pack in more Electronics do hickory in order to actually get light through it to your eyes you have to have a brighter backlight now Apple seemed to figure out how to address this on their 5K iMac um and that thing is so bright and they've achieved the same brightness they say I don't have a last gen one but they've achieved what they say is the same brightness as their last gen one which is ridiculous I have it on like 10% at all times I don't understand why it needs to go that bright but um just in case you need like a random Spotlight yeah I mean honestly I guess here all I have to say about this uh mass production will reportedly begin in 2016 so all I have to say about this is by 2016 battery technology better have caught up in some meaningful way and I still don't care because I would still rather have a 1080P or if you have to have a higher spec to make your competitor look stupid a 1440p panel that gives me better battery life um on my device right and better performance in and better performance at Native resolution in games and other applications like I don't want to necessarily have a 4K display on something that gives me no benefit and tanks my battery life and means I'm I'm going to have to run interpolated resolutions in order to get decent performance in in in mobile games I don't play a ton of mobile games but I'm it's more of a I'm speaking on behalf of what you guys should be thinking if you do play mobile games yeah there you go ah rumors r9390x Fiji XT this is posted by Paragon X on the Forum and this thing looks banana hammers May feature 4,096 stream processor so 64 compute and 256 texture units with a 4,096 bit memory bus oh my God this is due to the fact that AMD is rumored to be using a completely new technology for the memory on this particular card the more traditional way is we've got the chips laid out on the card and then we've got contact points on the bottom of the GPU that lead out to them so that's why it was so costly to implement wider memory buses that's why we saw memory buses continue to increase on graphics cards until we reached 512 bit and everyone kind of went whoa hold on a second this is really expensive now in terms of the area that we need for the package in terms of the contact pins that we need to create on the bottom of the of the chip itself and in terms of the PCB design we need to lay out all those traces to all those memory chips this sucks so Nvidia just bailed and they stopped at 384-bit and amds actually I don't think Nvidia has ever done a 512 bit GPU was 480 512 bit that was the only one I could think of cuz 480 was an interesting card let's see 512 bit or was it no I don't think it was 285 was the 285 okay anyway I if Nvidia ever had when they bailed and they started doing 384-bit for their high-end cards and then now we even have a 256-bit GTX 980 which is passing for DDR3 okay so that was GTX 285 um so so it got really expensive but in it's in a similar so an analogous technology to what Samsung is now doing on their 850 Pro SSD where they're not using the latest super tiny manufacturing process and instead of trying to go wider with the design of their chips actually stacking them on each other so it looks like this technology is going to enable AMD to deliver massive massive memory bandwidth we're talking like a 1024-bit interface per chip um without hopefully a huge significantly much bigger incremental cost um One Challenge is that right now we're going to be limited to 4 gig configurations because uh this is this is a highx technology K highx technology and it's only the first generation but um yeah we could be looking at bandwidth for the memory bandwidth for the graphics card in the 640 gigabyte per second range that's nuts that is redonkulous I I I very reportedly am not a huge fan of just rumor mill stuff you very specifically hope this one comes through that would be really exciting to see this card I wouldn't be surprised I mean it's uh makes sense the the problem that I have with rumors is if you've been around for a long time it would be really easy to fabricate a lot of them yeah that's true CU you could be like these things would make sense rumor printed and a lot of the times I even wonder if people are just like yeah this is probably what it's going to be and just rumor drop and then they're like oh yeah look it was accurate because usually it's going to be accurate cuz you can look at things like road maps like if you know SK hinx says okay we're going to be sampling it here we're going to be going into mass production here and then you look at fairly credible rumors like when the 390x is rumored to launch and you go well gee why would they be Mass producing it if not for X yeah you know a lot of the time you can kind of guess yeah speaking of exciting memory technology uh this was also posted by big stuns on the form original article is from tweak Town SanDisk releases memory mounted ssds these fit in DDR3 memory slots and they're ailable in up to 400 gab capacities so either 200 or 400 GB oh crap I need to set this reminder for myself for uh for later otherwise I will not remember oh good I I already have a reminder for five minutes before it happens hooray yay back to the dock um yeah so 2 400 gigabyte capacities and basically you'll just slot ssds into memory slots what I mean this is not a consumer oriented technology you're not going to be putting this on your z97 Deluxe or whatever this is this is more for servers but what it does is it removes complexity components and cabling from server designs if you had a server where you didn't actually need a ton of memory but you did need a lot of storage but you wanted to be compact this could make a ton of sense and you need like crazy fast storage mhm yeah maybe not a lot CU these are actually very high drives well hold on a second 400 GB per drive on something like a 16 dim motherboard cost yeah it's expensive I didn't say it wasn't expensive and it's not even going to help that much in terms of space really like it's yeah it's largely going to be for Speed okay well it offers 880 megabytes per second of sequential read speed and 600 megabytes per second sequential rights but the big one here is actually the warranty so it's support it's got a 5year warranty at 10 full disc RS per day so the application for this looks like it's more like caching and less like mass storage which makes a ton of sense so you could build extremely compact racks that are just designed to cash data and they can actually do full fleshes of the entire for so we're talking four terabytes per day per drive in this cache server that has all these drives in it and is Lightning Fast Very responsive and has extremely low complexity and very small size incredible technology I mean I would have said and for a stor for because databases will need a lot of ram but servers that aren't going to need a ton of ram which there's definitely some of them if you want to cash some of your drives and you can fill those slots with these that would be sick because again the reducing complexity thing not having those extra cables and stuff that's super super nice and to be clear they're nonvolatile storage so they're not like memory and that as soon as the system power's off the data is gone so they're they're just ssds they just just go in a dim slot that that's freaking cool I want to see one is there a picture in here yeah I think so it's just my screen sharing is not working so I'll check it out later a BMW is developing street lights that can also charge your electric car now the whole idea of having roadside stations or parking stalls with electric Chargers in them was kind of like yeah okay I guess we slow this idea wow this is gamechanging because the okay the idea is not to that you would have to replace all the street lamps in your entire city the idea is that you would be able to retrofit your existing Street lamps with chargers and be able to monetize it brilliant What city doesn't sign up for that they get to go Greener they get to have an additional new Revenue stream in the longer term they can monetize things and and I mean you'll see this I think we're going to see this in obviously more densely populated urban areas first but all of a sudden the whole parking thing maybe you can have like like you know a bundle thing where you buy your parking for that spot and that also includes zapping your car for the time that you're there and ends up making a ton of sense for electric electric vehicle owners I think it's awesome yeah that's actually really cool um I don't think Tesla has commented on it yet at least not at the time that we were working on the dock but I would imagine Tesla and musk would be very supportive of a technology like this down yeah anything that expands the the infrastructure for electric vehicles is going to make a big difference to people who are considering buying one the only thing I can imagine musk being against is if he looks into it and realizes that it's like I'm completely hypothetical right so realizes isn't a fact I'm just saying like if this happened uh realizes that it's crap like if he comes up with something we didn't think of it's bad because of this reason or he tries it and it's bad because he observed this thing or whatever that's the only real reason why I could see him being against it cuz he a definite advocate for trying to get more of that kind of stuff out there and if he can suddenly utilize all of these things in that ever growing map that he's trying to do yeah which is you can travel here to here to here to here if he can suddenly just go there's all these spots now filled up of course we're going to keep putting superchargers y because those are going to be the super fast ones but this will massively expand your network I'm sure he'd be down for that yeah I I'm I'm I'm super excited for for the whole for the future of that I think this makes a whole lot more sense than uh than solar powered roadways in terms of how much thought appears to have been put into it you know so any I don't think I don't think musk doesn't seem like the kind of guy who gets all butt hurt because you know someone else came up with a good idea I think if it's a good idea he has no problem going Head to Head Tesla's EVS versus BMW's EVS he'll just try to do a better thing I I I think that's uh I think this I think this will happen this is the most sensible idea I've heard yet for how this could be implemented and I'm really excited for it yeah all right speaking of of bad ideas Google did a fishing survey not this kind of fishing P pH fishing which is a method of attack that actually gets you to give up your information voluntarily Yeah Yeah by by tricking the user similar to social engineering and you know how you know you and I have conversations where we we'll get a particularly stupid spam email or fishing email and we'll laugh it to each other trying to go really could anyone fall for this yes I used to work in tech support places they do Google's fishing survey revealed that 14% of people submit information to hackers wow Google and UCSD looked at 100 fishing emails picked out of a random sample self-reported by Gmail users the researchers also reviewed a random sample of 100 fishing websites caught by Google's safe browsing system to further understand how the scams work these websites were all created through Google forms which is how researchers were even able to access the data and even the worst performing fishing websites like think about some of the ones you've seen where it's just like obviously not a real website full of typos like you click on any navigation on the site and it doesn't go anywhere it just leads to a broken page like we've all seen them even on the worst performing 3% of users still submitted their data on the most effective sites as many as40 5% submitted their dat I wonder if this data took account for faked stuff probably not but I would speculate that most people aren't going to go to the trouble of even because okay the techsavvy user unless they're one of those super techsavvy users who runs you know a virtual machine on their computer solely for the purpose of opening up you know potentially malicious stuff you know unless you're one of those I would I would venture that most moderately power users are just not going to click it yeah yeah because you don't even want to go to that site that's bad you just don't even want to go there I used to okay when I used to work at certain shops uh depending on where it was situated so like depending on the demographics of the area around me um I could get from like one a week to maybe two a month um so like 0. five a week people coming in like oh I had this is even worse this is just phone calls someone called me from Microsoft and said that my computer was sending them messages saying that it was having problems and they need me to go on my computer and type all this stuff and then I'm like oh yeah you screwed up it's such an awkward situation like how do I get my money back I'm like you don't you don't like it's gone so according to Google's resear search here um hackers spend an average of 3 minutes figuring out how much an account is worth once they have access and will apparently move on if the account doesn't seem valuable enough so there you go the solution is to either avoid fishing websites entirely not give them your data or not have any money yeah yeah oh but then you okay you still need to not be a doofus because the hacker then tries to get money from your account's contact list so you can be compromising your friends and family members right yeah being dumb speaking of being dumb gizmodo.com article about this website I can't remember what it's called right now but this is just terrible so creepy website um insam claims to feature feeds from IP cameras all over the world including 11,000 in the us alone and uh Gizmodo browsed some of the feeds finding people's living rooms um parking lots porches and even bedrooms in these feeds and the site says that the way that they did this was by exploiting people who haven't changed the default username and password on their IP camera um that's creepy I don't even know if I should be saying this on stream but it's fairly widely known and spreading the knowledge that exists might help get it fixed um there's certain Google Search terms you can use to find uh open IP cameras and you can get straight up into their control panels to the point where you can move them around like it's crazy I was doing like a presentation in high school talking about like internet security stuff this was a long time ago and I did a live demonstration from the class and like moved the camera around and everything and it's like yep it's really bad I mean it baffles me that more things don't require you to change the password the first time that you log into them because anyone can be lazy even someone who knows better can be lazy but maybe you're just spamming next and you don't notice that one of them was whatever really important yeah H anyway Assassin's Creed Creator launches new studio the original article is from gamespot.com so following his reported firing from Ubisoft last year the Assassin's Creed Creator uh has opened a new studio in Montreal called panach digital games Pan's other co-founder another former Ubisoft veteran who was fired in 2013 uh or yeah sorry pacha's other co-founder um was another Ubisoft veteran so in June 2013 he sued Ubisoft for 400,000 and the rights to purchase 1666 which he was working on at THQ Montreal before its collapse cool interesting hopefully he does good things yeah well based on how good Assassin's Creed is with his involvement and how rubbish it apparently is without his involvement oh I guess we need to uh okay so just just just a I'm I I have to I have to kind of pitch this to you guys again because Nick will give me a hard time if I don't uh but the keep on digging shirt apparently has already sold like 40 shirts oh that's awesome because you guys are pretty into repping the keep on the keep on digging so we have yet another Ubisoft topic it's just a short one uh cuz they just can't stop can they so check it out it's over on oh no this one oh yeah I know okay brain's going to bleed before we're done this uh hold on I'm just trying to I'm just trying to post our uh our link here I don't know if that link is going to work hey look at that it works so if you guys want one of these shirts check it out I'mma spam my chat boom Nick's like here's one link I will do things the way that isn't obnoxious good job Nick and like says what it's for and stuff you're just like B no dog and it's funny because of the stream delay right yeah so just out of nowhere just huge amounts of nothing all right so Ubisoft patches microtransactions before frame rate issues so this is this is a post that has actually been pulled down already let's just go ahead and uh and pull this up here so this is on imer um there we go a patch has been deployed and the issues with purchasing and receiving Helix credits is now fixed on PS4 We are continuing to work to solve the issue on PC and Xbox One 214 thumbs up from the 24 members of the Assassin's Creed team that were told to thumbs up that post pretty much yeah unbelievable I just want to make sure it's pulled down when was this supposed to oh it just says 14 minutes that's not helpful yeah W the rest of their Facebook is just we are aware of the issues we are working on it yeah that's already November 11th so I think we're we're done yeah wow yep it's gone that post is gone they don't want us to they don't want us to talk about that nope all right recked I think we got not much El not much else Apple's chip suppliers are apparently gearing Up Get It gearing up that's a different company for mass production of the Apple watch I know it's a it's a competing product that's true that works I think it's funny I think it would have better or is my humor wearing on you oh there we go except that's still a different company I know you got to like it's got to be within the Apple ecosystem no it doesn't it does uh chip orders are estimated to be around 30 to 40 million units for a debut in early 2015 stainless steel and gold editions will reportedly retail for prices starting at $54,000 respectively uh the the Lenovo S90 is the most ridiculous phone I think I've ever seen speaking of patent trolling um oh no if anyone was going to if Apple was going to go after anyone about anything this oh right my screen sharing isn't working right bloody balls right uh this should have been this should have been it because this is absolutely brutal here we go on the left the iPhone 6 on the right the Lenovo S90 wow on the bottom the iPhone 6 no way on the top the Lenovo S90 they even copied the promotional images I mean the antenna band is the same wow wait are those different those are different oh no that's it's not good isn't that horrible apparently this phone is not going to be available in all regions and I'm guessing this has to do with that Lenovo knows they have no ground to stand on if they brought this thing to the US there would be a sales embargo like that that's uh it looks like it's a China only China only design not surprising this posted by Shadow captain on the Forum though I tweeted this out earlier this week rather I posted it on Facebook cuz I thought that was hilarious like just embarrassingly blatant copy that's funny all right so I think that's pretty much it there's only one other thing that I wanted to call out um we did a couple live streams if you guys are interested in programming so becoming a coder we actually did a number of live streams they were sponsored by modus the same guys that we partnered with for Geek Stakes uh earlier this year where they gave away a bunch of really cool stuff they're a they're a Placement Firm for coders so basically they work with companies that need coders and coders who need placements andies connect them wow um not as aggressively as that they're like pretty nice about it they're a little bit more considerate of each other's needs yeah so anyway they sponsored a series of interviews where we took some folks from code school which is um a video a video tutorial online uh online site where you can learn coding in a fun and engaging way and they had a few of those folks come and interview with us about sort of how to how to become a coder and of particular interest is number two um that one was really excellent especially if you know any females who are thinking about programming because she talked a little bit about what it's like as a female learning to program and being involved in the developer Community I thought that was really uh I thought that was really really cool and actually our third our third interviewee was um was really cool as well because a lot of what we talked to him about was not sitting in front of your computer you know Finding inspiration for your programming projects in the real world by being a real person and doing real things especially stuff um like apps or if you want to build a if you want to build a program which is going to solve someone's real world problem you probably need to get off your butt and go figure out what that problem is cuz we see a lot of uh we see a lot of a lot of solutions that are to problems nobody has yeah yeah yeah which is great if you like have a different job and you're just soling your own solutions that other people might not have that's awesome that's a really good way to program and actually most programmers that I know just do that because they'll have other jobs and they'll program their own solutions to stuff um but if you want to like make your job doing stuff like apps for phones you probably need to figure out stuff to go do huh look at this okay well we've got one more we've got one more news item hi lonus I'm sure you saw some news floating around today about statements made by Richard huie in regards to directx12 12 I wanted to provide comment from AMD to give some context around what has been said thus far there have been reports based on a video of Richard h of AMD making speculative comments about directx12 support on versions of Windows Richard Hy does not speak for Microsoft he was unfortunately spec speculating for Microsoft publication of key dates and milestones for Windows 7 life cycle and blah blah blah okay that's not very interesting never mind boring email okay well I think that's pretty much it no longer interesting goodbye all right all right so yeah I think that's pretty much it thank you guys for tuning in to the WAN show um we'll see you again next week same bat Time same bat Channel and thank you also to so many of you for tuning in we had almost 6,000 viewers we had over 6,000 viewers at one point not for a huge amount of time but we did well you guys are awesome and we will see you\n"