**A Sneak Peek into Upcoming Tech: Intel's Wi-Fi 6 Docking Technology**

For those who have been eagerly waiting for the latest innovations in wireless technology, Intel has just unveiled its Wi-Fi 6 docking solution, which promises to revolutionize the way we connect our devices to the internet. With a claimed transfer speed of up to 7 Gbps, this technology is set to become a game-changer in the world of wireless connectivity.

The Intel Wi-Fi 6 docking technology uses a triple-band approach, combining the benefits of 2.45 GHz and 60 GHz frequencies to deliver fast and reliable internet connectivity. The 60 GHz frequency band is specifically designed for applications that require high-speed data transfer, such as displaying high-definition videos or streaming games. According to Intel, this technology can support up to two full HD displays, making it an ideal solution for anyone looking to upgrade their home office setup.

One of the most exciting features of this technology is its ability to auto-dock with your device, eliminating the need for manual connection. Simply place your laptop or tablet on the docking station, and it will seamlessly pair with your desktop computer. This feature makes it easy to work from anywhere in your home or office, without having to worry about connecting cables.

Intel claims that this technology has low latency, making it perfect for applications that require real-time data transfer. With a claimed transfer speed of up to 7 Gbps, this solution is set to become the go-to option for anyone looking to upgrade their wireless connectivity. Whether you're a gamer, a content creator, or simply someone who wants to stay connected on the go, Intel's Wi-Fi 6 docking technology has got you covered.

**Travel and Technology: The Future of Passport Security**

In an effort to improve passport security, Ireland has introduced a new type of travel document that can be used as an alternative to traditional passports. This new ID card is designed to reduce wait times at border control, making it easier for travelers to pass through security checkpoints. According to reports, the cost of this new ID card is approximately $40.

While this may not seem like a significant innovation in and of itself, it's clear that technology is playing an increasingly important role in shaping our travel experiences. As we look to the future, it's likely that we'll see even more advanced solutions emerge to make traveling easier and more secure. Whether you're looking to upgrade your passport or simply want to stay informed about the latest developments in travel technology, this new ID card is definitely worth keeping an eye on.

**Financial Report: Apple Dominates Q4 Earnings**

In a move that's left many in the tech industry stunned, Apple has just released its Q4 earnings report, which reveals a staggering revenue of $74.6 billion and profit of $18 billion. This marks the company's largest quarter ever, with sales exceeding expectations by a significant margin.

Meanwhile, Samsung has reported a significant drop in profits, falling short of analyst estimates. According to reports, the company lost approximately $2.8 billion, which is significantly less than their previous estimate of 28.8 billion. While this may be a setback for Samsung, it's clear that they're not giving up.

In contrast, Qualcomm has reported an unexpected drop in earnings, falling short of analyst estimates by 0.8 billion. According to reports, the company's Snapdragon 810 processor will no longer be used in the upcoming flagship device from Samsung, citing overheating issues as the reason for its exclusion.

**Industry Developments: Qualcomm and LG Set to Make Waves**

In a move that's sent shockwaves through the tech industry, Qualcomm has confirmed that it will no longer be using its Snapdragon 810 processor in the upcoming flagship device from Samsung. According to reports, this is due to overheating issues with the processor, which were discovered during testing.

Meanwhile, LG has announced plans to use the same processor in their upcoming G Flex 2, despite Qualcomm's best efforts to convince them otherwise. While it's unclear how this will affect LG's earnings, it's clear that they're committed to using the Snapdragon 810 processor in their next flagship device.

**Miscellaneous Musings**

As I sat here typing away, I couldn't help but notice that my phone was still on, even though I wasn't looking at its screen. It got me thinking about the importance of self-control when it comes to our devices. With so many temptations and distractions available to us, it's easy to get sidetracked.

I also found myself wondering if anyone would miss me if I weren't here anymore. It's a morbid thought, but it's one that I've had before. As I sat there, I couldn't help but feel a sense of unease about the state of our technology and how it affects our lives. But perhaps that's a topic for another time.

**Outro**

And so, with that, we come to the end of this episode. It's been a wild ride, full of twists and turns that have left me feeling both excited and frustrated. As we look to the future, it's clear that technology is going to play an increasingly important role in shaping our lives.

Whether you're looking to upgrade your wireless connectivity or simply want to stay informed about the latest developments in tech, I hope you've enjoyed this episode of [insert name here]. Until next time, farewell.

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anything else could hurt but if you f while skateboarding on your butt your butt would probably hurt your butt would probably hurt I also know people that have had tailbone injuries which usually reference that as a butt injury right unless you were wearing a helmet on your butt yeah yes butt helmet Kim Kardashian probably needs a butt helmet a butt I wouldn't think so I would think it would be more she has like a built-in air bag yeah didn't one of her sisters have her butt in implants leaking or something like wasn't that I don't know they're gross I don't even find them attractive to be completely honest no my my whole thing is this is I get all of my celebrity gossip from the from the magazine stand at the grocery store because I go to the grocery store exactly often enough that I'm hearing about it within my tolerance for how much I can hear about it and and I'm not learning too much you don't like watch TV or anything really but I'll also be aware of sort of what everyone else is talking about stuff so I find it's a good balance for me right so this this week on The W show Nvidia did a bunch of things and people didn't like it um and so did Comcast no one liked those either Comcast did lots of stuff people didn't like um the FCC did stuff people liked and what else we got and there's uh Oculus technology that can make it so you don't see advertisements in real Oculus technology it has nothing to do with oculus and it isn't even it isn't even virtual reality it does have stuff to do with oculus well it's augmented reality it uses an OC it has to do with Hollow lens it uses an Oculus you use an Oculus it is you use an Oculus you can't we're trying to have a debate here and you're ignoring the things I'm saying that are true seriously look the guy's looking through an Ulus with a camera in the front of it I could argue that someone looking through any kind of of optical viewing device is looking through an are mainly based off of the windshield yeah it's a windshield Oculus I hate this show doesn't even make any sense our sponsors today our Square Face they're going to have a Super Bowl Oculus and Loot Crate you might just be looking at your loot through an Oculus craze and finally I fix it need to fix your Oculus bam right there they've got the tools for you to get that job done so thank you to our sponsors let's move on with the show yes it is still Christmas yes we know the problem is that Luke's Twitter handle isn't fixed on the non-christmas one and we did promise as part of tip Starter by the way we still need to do the body paint one that's going to be hilarious but one of our like a few yeah one of our tip starter commitments was to fix Luke's Twitter handle so if we undo it now then we're basically terrible people toally screwed up okay so let's see we have done the well okay the Twitter handle thing we released the Stormtrooper rap audio we did WOW as girls we did LTT Under Fire we have not done body paint we still need to do clown costume wow and body paint and we need to get wingardium get the bleep back to work Luke so we need to get our Harry Potter uh Daniel Radcliffe a standup cardboard guy to stand over your desk and we need a speech bubble as well oh that's going to be awesome it's going to be kind of great I'll look to that for inspiration every time I find myself on imager all right so what I think we need to do here is is basically just get right into the big topic this week I mean um there there was an absolute bomb so the the the story kind of broke simultaneously on overclock.net and on Reddit with people running a utility where they discovered that's usually how Reddit works yeah yeah so so users of gtx970 graphics cards were running a utility that was showing them the memory uh the memory bandwidth they were getting from the board's vram sort of block by block as they made their way through the entire capacity and what people discovered is that the first three and 1 12 gigs of the four gigs of advertised vram were running at full speed and that the last 500 Megs or so we're actually running at a speed of about 17th the rest of the vram so initially Nvidia was saying not a whole lot of much of anything and they were just kind of going we'll get back to you on that and then from there Nvidia kind of reached out to some key members of the press so the articles that I personally read were on a non-tech PC per as well as tech report since I have a lot of respect for the Ryan and Scott it's like ran and Ryan Smith Ryan Shrout they're both Ryan I could call them I could call them Shrout Smith and wson there you go no one would know what the devil I'm talking about and a Smith and Wasson kind of sounds a gun I actually recognize uh and when you fire it it goes shout yeah I actually recognize shout more than Ryan I don't know why he does go by that okay yeah so anyway so I read their articles and basically Nvidia reached out to these guys and explained in much further detail than we had been had access to in the past how exactly the memory controller works on the GTX 970 now the gtx980 is completely unaffected by the issue because it features all of the RS all of the cach and all of the memory controller goodness of the Maxwell uh excuse me uh GM 204 chip whereas the gtx970 has instead of what we've seen in the past where we'd have like a a chunk of memory controller R smm caor where we'd have an entire unit kind of shut off the gtx970 only has it sort of partially shut off so the way that that works in the real world is you don't get the cash you don't get the RS but you do get to put the memory on the card and you do have access to it albeit at a significantly reduced data rate so what that means is nvidia's done some Tom Foolery with the drivers and the firmware of the card to ensure that the first three and 1 half gigs the high performance part gets used first and some applications will see that as a limit While others will fill up the rest but only once it's done with with the first 3 and 1/2 gigs now this is still faster than swapping out to main memory over PCI Express although not by as much as I would typically like uh can I help you with something yeah go to that link and put it on screen oh yeah for sure uh oh your thing's different that's why yeah I'm not signed into what the I got signed out too I don't know what's you are logged in successfully you can now refresh thanks for that super useless page what the heck was that anyways guys give just one moment I'm trying to get a diagram on screen so people can know what you're talking about this is the one where it shows the crossbar yeah you I'm sure you've seen this um it's just it's helpful there we go there we go okay so got oh oh oh um hold on I can just post it in chat but like I want the archive viewers to be able to see it okay just Z just Z like you guys too just just Z oh um oh that's weird I'm going to post it in chat in the meantime oh we didn't check that today oh that is extremely unfortunate hold on a second uh well I'm going to let the I got it I got it I got it I got it I got it okay we have a directional HTMI cable and it's going the wrong way way yeah fun oh I love the show I love the show best show on the internet the more I say I love this show the more you guys know that I am hating my life right now yeah I love this show let's plug this baby in it's the best show on the internet and let's go it's got the greatest Technologies running it they've got completely the improper mic they have a mixer and a condenser which is not even plugged in it's not even it's not a condenser what is it it's a compressor compressor one does not condense One does not simply condense audio all right you could condense audio you just have to take like a two-minute audio clip and put it into one minute you just like fast it's like fast forwarding audio all right so uh basically the way it works is and this is perfectly normal for CPUs gpus Ram whatever else the case may be when something doesn't get baked just right and there's a couple bits that are broken what they'll do and and this diagram shows it pretty well so here's the level two cache that's disabled here are some of the SMS that are disabled is what and and they won't necessarily be in this spot like if this SM is broken and this one and this one or something that's fine too that part becomes a GT x970 instead of a 980 so basically we've got all the memory controllers and this was something that we'd never seen before Nvidia being able to with a great degree of granularity disable only certain parts of the chip so nvidia's story and I I think I'm with the other guys on this one I I think I believe this is that the engineers and the technical marketing guys weren't synced up correctly on how this worked and the technical marketing guys assumed that they couldn't disable with this level of granularity and gave an incorrect spec initially for the gtx970 saying it had the same number of rups as the gtx980 and the same amount of cash which in the end it turned out it did not so Nvidia kind of went yep hey whoa we y we flubbed on this and uh and sort of you know that that's all very well and believable but I think where people are truly upset is because Nvidia is now saying so we we've gotten further into this Nvidia is saying blah blah blah yes it's by Design here we're showing you how the crossbar works and how the communication works because in video is saying that this is by Design I think the reason people are upset is because for all intents and purposes the gtx970 you said it does have 4 gabes of gddr5 memory on it but given that an eighth of it runs at only about 50% faster than swapping out to system memory the reason people are upset is because I mean is that really usable it almost doesn't count it's there sure whatever I guess you can put that on the box but like it's not really effective and that's kind of bull crap now I've seen a lot of different arguments here um things like uh AMD tweeted actually we've got a we've got a link to this um here we go so Robert HCK from AMD tweeted oh oh AMD 4 gigs means 4 gigs um which been taking shots all over the place yeah they've been just like they've got like Nvidia in the headlock and they're like yeah how's your kidney like that one yeah how about this one yeah um but quite frankly I see some parallels that people are drawing that I can kind of get on board with like the fact that both AMD and Nvidia advertise dual GPU graphics cards as having 8 gigs of RAM or 6 gigs of RAM when anyone technical enough knows that effectively it's only half that amount a lot of people don't know that a lot of people don't know that and to me that has always been a very gray way of advertising but honestly that was a confusing thing when I like first got into computers and they first started releasing those cards I was like oh sweet they just like ramped everything up like even even knowing how that works I just assumed that there was just more RAM but that is not how it works so so again that's always been very gr to me but the thing that made it somewhat okay is that without really doing any digging an educated user could go and read up on it and they were always very upfront about doubling a vram by adding two gpus each with their own frame buffer does not effectively double the amount of texture information that you can store in the video memory with this one it really feels like having been at the Maxwell launch event it really feels like they were intentionally not giving us any more information about how Maxwell worked than they absolutely felt like they had to and I feel like even though they screwed up perhaps unintentionally in fact I'll tell you what I'm going to say I believe them I believe that the r and cash thing was unintentional because there are utilities that'll even pick up the GT x970 doesn't have the full two EGS of level two cash so this that one we probably should have noticed but the fact that they didn't tell us that an eighth of the memory was running at a significantly lower speed I don't believe they didn't know that so the fact that they decided not to tell us um and waited for this to come out means they either thought no one would ever notice which again seems very unlikely I mean Nvidia knows that obsess like uh like shroud over at PC per the guys I listed before Scott at tech report Ryan at a ntech Ryan Ryan Scott they they they they know that these guys are going to obsessively poke and prod at this thing surely they couldn't have imagined that no one would figure this out at some point so was it stupid was it mismanagement was it deception I don't know Mis communication for like a crazy long time cuz one of the engineers must have seen some documentation at some some point in time that was released by Nvidia and been like that's not actually right and even not that's not actually right but even just something as simple as a memory bandwidth spec I mean if they had done something kind of shady like average it like if they'd kind of gone okay well like it's a weighted average you know seven portions this and one portion that and kind of gone here's the memory bandwidth of the card if they had done something like that I kind of mind have gone yeah okay they were it's gross but sure I guess super groy and if they had been up front and said okay well look we're rating this as and they put an asterisk on it look we're rating this as a as an average um like I I'd have felt a lot better about it but right now it really does feel like we were intentionally deceived about the fact that some of the memory doesn't run at a faster speed with that said it's it's like you buy a box of cookies and 1/8 of the cookies is 17th the size of all the other ones yeah like seven of them have like cream cheese icing and like one of them has lard on it and it's like well you probably weren't going to finish all seven of those because they're really rich and delicious and big so the fact that one of them has lard on it shouldn't be an issue to you but I that still bothers me if I paid for eight cookies that are cream cheese icing yeah and if you put it in the closet for future use when you buy your larger stomach are you going to work the wordof into here yeah yeah that's proof that you haven't mastered the segue yet oh but yeah essentially like I think part of the reason why I think a lot of people didn't notice yet is I don't know that many or like anyone who's actually really gaming at 4K all the time right now yep once that becomes more of a thing a lot more people would have noticed a lot faster and maybe not I actually I spent some time with the NC Tech tips guys today and they we filmed a video about it there as well and they threw a bunch of games at their GTX 970 at 4K and we're kind of like let's see how much vram we use and what they discovered is that until um Battlefield 4 they managed to get over three and a half gigs at 4K yeah and what they realized is that when it's it's it's that classic how much vram is the right amount for a graphics card question because once you start just piling it like if you put 16 gigs of memory on a GTX 970 that would be asinine because it there's no way that any game that ever exists that would require 16 gigs of vram would run on that GPU so what they discovered is that running Battlefield 4 at 4K was resulting in such a low frame rate that they had to turn the details down which brought the video memory usage back into the comfort zone right so I understand why owners are mad but I understand nvidia's statement about the gtx970 still being a rock and awesome product and we're not going to cut the price on it because it's still awesome at that price and sorry about the miscommunication they need to be for the rest of the 970s lifespan they need to be a lot more clear yep because just the people that paid attention during this and like 6 to eight months down the line when this isn't as well known because it's faded away it still needs to be well known and Nvidia rarely makes a mistake like this twice um I I feel like over the last few Generations they've been trying to get you know flirtier and and flirtier about sort of how things are actually working how the technology Works behind the scenes I mean um arguably because they don't want their competitors to learn too much about it and find a way to clone it in their next you know lineup of gpus or or whatever else they're they're worried about but I hope that this is a bit of a wakeup call that they have to at least clearly communicate the speed at which the hardware is running to the members of the tech press that are going to figure this out and call them on it anyway and I've got a lot of people saying lonus come on don't defend them do I sound like I'm defending them devil zzz is like lonus I am disappointed they didn't make a mistake they lied lying is different from misrepresentation and I do believe that there had to be a significant degree of unintentional going on over here because there is absolutely no no way that Nvidia completely missed something like they have the wrong amount of cash on a spec sheet intentionally there is something to be said about realizing that and then not fixing it though well there's nothing they can really do to fix it they can't add more cash no fixing it uh I don't mean in in in that but like not notifying the public in any way right they waited for it to God my throat today I thought I was better um they waited for it to blow up before trying to contain it you know what I mean yeah I and the thing is is that I'm not like I'm not sure how long of a delay there was between Nvidia realizing this and I can't imagine it that long I don't think it was that long because the thing is is that okay like the way this works behind the scenes is when you're launching a product whether you're at the retailer side like I would have been or whether you're on nvidia's side you've got everyone working around the clock to you know get the gussied up pictures looking good and get the spec sheets all right and get the you know the video you know scheduled to launch on YouTube at the right time that's like Tom Peterson being all like oh the 970 is amazing so the 980 it's even more amazing that's why I should pay more money for it um and then when the launch is over everyone kind of goes and then sits and and monitors and makes sure everything's kind of going okay for a couple days and then it's time to get back to work and there's something new to work on whether it's a you know a g-sync you know monitoring phase they probably didn't realize yet cuz I had imagine okay think about think about this the engineers when you're if you're an engineer yeah and your baby gets released yeah you're not going to look into any of the release products from your company and the amount of Engineers that must have worked on that the amount of Engineers that must have known the specs for that card and then seen that release documentation I don't know the amount of not my job that I've seen in my life I I got a Wonder like I really got a Wonder I've got to imagine there's there's engineers at Nvidia that care enough to look into that documentation I'm I'm I'm willing to assume to a large degree I'm not sure but I'm willing to assume to a very large degree that there was at least some amount of internal communication going on okay well whatever ended up happening whatever CU I don't know cuz you can choose to believe whatever you will but the reality of it is no one outside of Nvidia will ever know the truth the takeaways here are that they've got their tail between their legs right now people are understandably extremely upset I mean I've even seen I'd be pissed I don't have a 970 but I would be pretty upset I I mean we've seen high level Nvidia staff on Twitter promising to help people get refunds on their cards if they're if they're that upset about it um amds come out and offered uh yeah Good Good Old Roy oh my God just shots everywhere yeah here I'll pull this up uh AMD has has started offering people deals on R9 290s with a full four full 4 gigabyt of memory uh to anyone returning a gtx970 good good Old Roy um does this apply to Canadians 2 or am my so nope we love Canucks 2 oh man those guys kind of funny actually so I guess what else is there to really say about this other than people are people are people are butt hurt which is why we were debating whether or not we can use that word and we've decided apparently yes yeah yes we can because we're not relating it to other things people are butt hurt their butt hurt because they got screwed and how hard they got screwed well it's really difficult to say we're not relating it to other things their butt hurt because they got screwed damn it uh have you ever heard of something called a quk screw oh if you were to stick that into your gluteus maximus that would hurt that yes that yes all right so now that we've put that issue to bed yes damn it um always home free and then you're like no I guess all that's really do you want to straw pull this like why don't we just why don't we just what we what are we straw pulling straw pull um you know H gee I don't know how about just let's straw pull misspelled it let's straw pull how upset are you about gtx970 so uh option one should be storm in a teacup which I've seen a lot of people I've seen a lot of people use that exact wording for it and not to sort of sway the results of the poll at all but I think that's a load of malarkey um so you know six or let's go with I'm upset but you know I'd still buy a 970 and then let's go with um upset would not buy a 970 and then let's go with upset would not buy any Nvidia product anymore so we want we want to we want to cover the whole Spectrum here and then we'll put in the usual like I don't know um cucumber diama or whatever all right are you posting that in twitch chat yep all right I'll I'll get the link from there so we'll uh we'll go ahead to do straw P ones cuz you have to go to the results page sure yeah no problem are you not logged in twitch why you do this to me Monsters has to load the chat separately because it's not running their own thing I'll load your chat separately come on spinny wheel please Sarah please Sarah don't worry about it is that the name of the spinny wheel no all right okay uh can you just Google Google Chat it to me yeah I can do that I mean Hangouts it that is not catchy at all it's like binging things like nobody Bings things you want to hang out with me on my browser because no desktop application or I guess there is but it's garbage yeah yeah so there's that the chat never loaded wait what's up oh my gosh you know that obnoxious BS thing that Google does where if you rightclick um copy Link in the Google search like you should control C control V there no no it it no no not that the one where instead of just being the link it's a Google trackable link oh yeah yeah uh so they've they're doing it in Hangouts now really so the link I posted in here instead of just being straw poole. is like Google do whatever yeah pretty pretty obnoxious whoa I've never see it's new whoa that's gross that's really long like can you just not can you just actually stop doing that thank you Google that would be great wow that's garbage like I see what website I'm going to you butts all right speaking of butts um upset but I'd still buy 970 I think this is the reaction Nvidia is kind of hoping for here is they I'm sure it is they know people are upset but they kind of are like well the 970 is still awesome so yeah uh two and you know what's kind of funny is I remember thinking when the 970 launched that it was so close to 980 and yet the price Gap was so big it's almost like whoever was doing pricing knew that they were cutting it down a lot more than whoever was doing technical marketing yeah if that makes sense yeah yeah that actually does make sense so a lot of uh a lot of cucumber diarama um a lot of upset would not buy a 970 a lot of storm in a teacup uh not a lot of butt hurt and uh surprisingly little upset would not buy any Nvidia product I bet you a large amount of that um is people that weren't going to anyways yep AMD guys I mean to imagine that we have fewer than 7% sort of team red members in our audience would be completely ignorant of us so yes all right we've spent enough of this show on butts and this topic so let's move on to Nvidia is in another bundle of hot water can you have a bundle of hot water um so this well I guess if you had like a waterproof Satchel of some sort so that was in a bundle I'm going to go ahead and post this link in the chat like if you had a waterproof jacket B Boop oh right I have to spam it now all right so this was uh a great little discussion on the PC per YouTube channel as well as uh on an article on pcp.com but there were reports running around and this was post by m mvi m mkin sure mkin on the Forum and uh there were reports on the internet of some guy uh sorry did you yeah I posted already of some guy like supposedly modifying a GT uh a GTX 980m notebook to run g-sync on its integrated panel and I saw the rumors late at night and I kind of didn't have time to look into it and I kind of forgot about it which is kind of embarrassing because I really should have looked into this it's a huge deal but PC per ran out a ained that exact model of notebook got their hands on the driver that the guy supposedly modded turns out they didn't mod anything it was just uh it was an alpha level driver that someone in asus's like Nordic support team or something gave to a customer to try to fix a different unrelated issue and then they had the desync notification pop up in the corner and it turned out that it worked yeah um so so that's how that driver got leaked out there and basically what they did was they took the laptop verified that it worked and it did so nvidia's pendulum demo works perfectly you go vsync on no vsync you get your tearing you go gsync and you get no stutter and no tear and then they completely tore the laptop apart piece by piece and they claimed to have pictures in their article but I'm going to go ahead and uh here we go so they completely tore apart I tried to get Ryan on the show today actually but I think he he's I think his wife told him he couldn't come or something like that so uh wow you guys can give him a hard time about that on Twitter but they they tore this baby apart even peel back the LCD examined every component there is no gsync module so this raises a lot of questions about nvidia's communication with respect to gsync as well because they've been telling us we need a special module to communicate with the graphics card and obviously the same is not true for free sync or for adaptive sync the Vasa spec upon which free sync amd's equivalent is based because AMD is not making any claims about having a special module the only thing they're saying is they have to have a GPU that supports it correctly so nvidia's been telling us we need this module and that it does some stuff like it goes ahead and compares the data from the previous frame to the data on the next frame with a little built-in buffer and they uh actually PC Pur discussion of this whole thing says that nidia's claiming they have some additional functionality they can potentially unlock with the gsync module in the future we don't know if this is true we don't know if it's untrue we don't know anything right now but um basically there is no g-sync module and this raises questions about well why exactly did we need a g-sync module in the first place I'm going to bring up some things first of all this is very much one of those things that I um well okay this is actually not very much but a little bit one of those things that I don't like where it's heavily kind of it's not a rumor because we know officially fromia but it's so early on and there's been one call and there's a ton of speculation they're like okay it exists let's tear apart this one laptop and then not find something and then slam them for it which is Justified definitely to a certain degree but a lot of the things that are being said including by you I don't think are necessarily fair not necessarily needed a g-sync module they may no longer need a g-sync module so and and nvidia's claim that they will be able to add more functionality with a gsync module with its own built-in memory buffer and all that stuff could be very true yes that could be 100% true and 100% valid in fact it could be that mobile g-sync which for power reasons and complexity reasons may never use a g-sync module it could be that mobile gsync may not be as good as desktop GYN in the long term GYN M or something it could be an entirely different version um and that would make a ton of sense as well like we're I I feel like because we're pitchforking I'm using pitchforking because I don't know what the chat's doing but those look like pitchforks those are pitchforks um because we're pitchforking Nvidia so heavily for the 970 thing we just immediately started re pitchforking them for this one before gaining a ton of information was an early driver that that frankly doesn't work correctly I mean actually again shout from PC per did a great job of covering this because they even talk about like guys look it's not working we did manage to dis they did manage to discover that the panel on this laptop actually is a 100 HZ IPS panel which I certainly didn't realize it's rated at 75 and we've got one of these laptops as well and so that's super cool but then they also discovered that it's running with g-sync but uh when you go particularly when the frame rate drops or drastically dips and it's funny they used Assassin's Creed Unity to demo that but when it drastically dips it can actually cause the screen to disconnect temporarily or even for a while so it's it's not working yet and their speculation based on the conversation with Nvidia is that mobile gsync Bas because we've got better scaler technology now than we did back when Nvidia was developing gsync and this whole thing didn't exist yet is that mobile gsync may end up being more of a certification yeah process similar to the free sync idea as opposed to just Hardware now to be clear the one of the differences between the way AMD works and the way Nvidia works is that AMD has a freesync certification process but that doesn't mean that a monitor that has the supported Hardware but does not have the certification will not work we had this conversation with Theus where they didn't intend to certify one of their monitors but we have heard I don't have one of those monitors yet that freesync works on it just fine with Nvidia I would not expect that to be the case because that's the way they function they validate a use case thoroughly and then they put their stamp of this is the experience you will have on it and that is how they control their ecosystem s stuff like GTX 770 and GTX 680 they're the exact same damn card with the exception of the GTX 770 has faster clocked memory there is no reason why the GTX 770 couldn't have its memory clocked down and run an SLI with a GTX 680 at least without you know extensive tweaking of firmwares and drivers or whatever else to make it work there's no real reason those couldn't run an SLI that's not the way Nvidia does things AMD on the other hand allows Crossfire to run on an r9280x and a 7970 or a 7970 GHz Edition all of which are sort of different cards although they're based on the same GPU with the same memory configuration in much the same way that 770 and 680 are so it's a different philosophy I mean another great example Nvidia slii requires an SLI certified board even though there's no technical reason it couldn't work on any board as we've seen with hacked drivers in the past and requires 8X pcie operation regardless of the fact that that doesn't matter pcie gen 34x is plenty fast for SLI with a modern card you can quote me on that but Nvidia doesn't allow it they say look 8X is the is the minimum that's what we validate for so that's it that's final so the mobile g-sync one I think the takeaway is we need to wait and see we need to wait and see I don't think they lied I think they wanted desktop gsync in our hands a lot sooner hence the event that happened like months and months and months before we actually got our hands on retail monitors um and I think in that time a development happened a lot faster than Nvidia expected on on the on the third party scalers that could be implemented in monitors for another solution like adaptive syn and I I think this this was not supposed to be talked about yet this was an accidental leak that turned into a now kind of huge thing and as we've seen from freaking star seon when you have uh fan interaction before something is ready it's sometimes ugly so that's why I brought up the rumor thing at the beginning no it's not a rumor but we just kind of need to wait until we get like an official working driver um stuff supplied from them to be like yes try this experience and see what it's like um yeah I think we're going wait and figure it out and I think like you were saying that there's going to be different g-sync there'll be g-sync mobile and Gynt and there going to be I think very different experiences especially because they explicitly said that there's features that they still have to unlock on the actual g-sync module and there's no doubt in my mind whatsoever that Nvidia is developing a better g-sync module than the one they have I mean back when they did the event before it even launched they said look this solution's really expensive and produces a lot of power we need to shrink it down and I'm sure they haven't been sitting on their butts for the last year and a half so yeah I mean I'd expect to see a gsync module that allows for more inputs than just display port for example cuz that's like stupid you buy a $1,000 monitor with one in I come on it's not like Nvidia hasn't thought of this maybe it should have HDMI in or something be helpful for like like yeah I mean they're the only video card maker in the market with HDMI 2.0 on their graphics cards and then their own display controller doesn't accept HDMI 2.0 in it doesn't make any sense many monitors that I use on a daily basis have more than one of their inputs plugged in so I can swap between inputs that's that's a thing so the exciting thing here is that mobile g-sync is coming uh the unfortunate thing is owner of the g751 I doubt very much that they're actually going to get it because it looks like this is a very Alpha thing right now but um very cool stuff I I I wish that Nvidia was more upfront with us I understand why in their competitive clo and Dagger industry they're not but I don't understand how people in the chat are trying to say that this is an Nvidia sponsored stream when have we been not slamming on them this stream anyways sorry keep going that was stream is sponsored by Squarespace uh Loot Crate and I fix it I just thought I'd clarify that you know what let's do our sponsor spot I'm excited about mobile gsync but I think that can that can actually wait so let's start with Squarespace these guys are kind of crazy this is the second time they have done a Super Bowl commercial so I'm going to show you guys the uh the teaser here we also have like an animated lower third from them now that I'm we had this last week did we well I don't know how much I like it I think it should go for a little while and then stop yeah maybe okay wow they have like maybe if maybe if these lines and dots come on screen and then like form something like maybe if there isn't the for free trial and 10% off click get started and those lines and dots like form into that that would be 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Super Bowl ad and and all that stuff but what I didn't realize is that this isn't some weird contrived Squarespace thing this is something Jeff Bridges was legitimately working on um this Ikea one is pretty bizarre yeah so you can buy the album digitally and the proceeds go to no kid hungry which is pretty cool or you can buy a physical copy if you're into that sort of thing when I die there will be no I think the proceeds this could I have contracted with space Mater toor my remains aboard an etern a satellite so I'm not actually sure that any of this would help me sleep any better than um than I otherwise would on own there's parts of it that would cuz there's parts of it where he isn't talking but parts of it where it gets super bizarre a lot of his speech stuff though is is intended to make you uh dream about weird things that will throw you into a dream state like there's there's reasoning behind a lot I don't know if it would work for me there I'm just saying so you can get an LP 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these go pretty well with the lest Tech tips thing that we got going on here the 8 bit shirt he needs 8 bit glasses now yeah all right what else we got in here sweet it's shaped like a nest cartridge what is it it's like a dude you have to build it really yeah so analog retro inspired products yeah take it out so there's your your cartridge but then you he has like feet and stuff which is in there oh so he's like a little guy we should do this like we should have the the cameraman like pre-research products then you just do unboxings for them so it's like Linus's discoveries but the cameraman knows what's actually happening yeah so if you're confused about anything I can be like hey yeah no it's this it's cool and then you can be like waa that's super cool cool L's First Impressions plus knowledge The Best of Both Worlds yeah and then you you can put like the gun in his hand I did actually figure that out on my own thank you yeah I just wasn't sure okay oh sweet it's a light gun yeah 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it through is it's like the Nvidia and people you want to slam on EA yeah it's been so long yeah what did EA do oh yeah that's awesome yeah okay oh I can't contrl F EA I'll control F micro transaction wrecked uh this was posted by and then there was one on the Forum have you posted in twitch I'm ready I'm ready I got this all right contr v wait what oh I think I did it wrong wait really oh Google freaking Google Docs does it now too oh really yeah jeez guys you're killing me here all right well it's from Android police and EA that's why I haven't noticed I always do it that way I open the website and then I link it all right EA will be charging for gas in the ironically named Need for Speed Unlimited or No Limits excuse me no limits which is totally different from unlimited um so basically well I don't know cell phone companies might actually agree with you unlimited for cell phone companies is 2,000 whereas No Limits might be something else entirely no no no no oh no no limits is actually 500 no no there's no limit when you advance and you're a cell phone provider oh it's a 90 song You Don't recognize it do you no I kind of do oh that's a shame all right well at any rate um the brand tough Meter whatever that oh this is a different language fuel fuel meter I was like what are you trying to read I haven't read the rest of it yet um so basically you can use in-game currency to buy gas for your car or you can sit and wait for your gas to refuel on its own which is exactly how the real world works I'm sure someone someone on the team was like how will we make people feel like microtransactions are a more natural part of gameplay wait racing okay so you can buy things for your car everyone needs to fuel their car bam instant success executive promotion one thing that executive promotion one thing that I'm not entirely sure about because I couldn't really find it and watch it be in the article but um wow people are doing the Pitchfork thing and then putting an A on the end so it's a pit EA Pitchfork because it would normally have the e already cuz the that's awesome um Pitchfork not instead of digging so oh EA pitchforks Ubisoft digs eventually we'll have a full Farm of game developers Nvidia back hos shovels weren't fast enough for them this week yeah um anyways I I think it might be a free-to-play game yeah in which case that's totally expected because that's how every single free to-play game works ever and this isn't new yeah it's just annoying yes it is annoying one thing that I kind of found was funny though is that they still used gold like what like you you couldn't use like like Karma or something I know need for speed's done that before haven't they wasn't it karma I know I don't no I don't Kudos I haven't played Need for Speed since underground that's probably a good choice so right there underground was pretty good yeah it was underground was great what game was it that used Kudos maybe it was a different game maybe I'm thinking of a different racing game twitch chat's going to slam and all right well end gadgets article here the FCC redefines Broadband I'm a little confused on this topic I thought they already did this no they were talking about it and it was looking like it was going to go through so now it's like totally definitely through yes it's done okay it's done but the truth of the matter is this doesn't really change anything because it's not like it's not like the Telos have to start giving you 25 megabit down they just can't call their crapp Broadband anymore yes that's the only change this only changes in America um one of one of the folks that was uh that was voting on the issue said something or oh I hope she was one of the people voting control F 100 uh FCC commissioner Jessica Rosen Mor still stated today that she thinks the BR Broadband threshold should frankly be 100 megabit per second a move would finally put the United States in line with the Speedy connections available in countries like South Korea so was 25 enough some would argue no um I would probably agree especially if we're trying to call like Broadband what's the what's the implication here yeah and a big problem with this too is when's the next time we're going to redefine this not for a long time so it should have been a lot higher 4K TVs are affordable today and 25 megabit down is not going to be especially with the kind of data cap that's going to come with that speed of connection is not enough for you to be watching your 4K Netflix all day mind you if you're watching 4K Netflix all day I mean what do they have like four shows in 4k I mean you probably watch a lot of the same shows slick as sick slick as sick there we go what do you mean he says he's going to start a monthly subscription if you say that till what uh probably the Forum Netflix The Forum oh The Forum oh okay so now he has to contraction comp or contraction contract completed contract completed what are you a Hitman I just I I saw video game mechanics in twitch chat and I had to like I was it was like Quest acquired say this twice and I was like sure completed the quest contract completed he now has to go sign up on the Forum boom done all right so we haven't done some of the uh credits for people posting things on the Forum the Bony King posted at least one of the bazillion topics on the Forum related to the Nvidia thing Carlos Rex also in there the m night narwhal was in there somewhere Sergeant ballistic posted the FCC thing and top war gamer posted this next one the original article here is from Venture beat so let's go ahead and drop that in the twitch chat we'll drop that drop that drop that that Venture beat God one thing that's been constantly confusing about this article for me is they didn't drop uh Flash no but they changed the def fault yeah but like the title is freaking dropped like I saw this everywhere before I read it and like the title everywhere is oh they dropped Flash and I'm like wow that's a really aggressive move this is going to be a lot of like older stuff that's Flash and it's not going to work at all it's like how you're intended to read the title yeah how the title actually oh wait that by default just like kind of hitched on the back I'm like okay sure all right so um this brings with it a few sign significant advantages so number one and this is going to be great for folks who had their nonb Broadband redefined but haven't actually had their speeds increased uh we are going to get adaptive bit rate streamings to quickly and seamlessly adjust resolution and bit rate depending on the network connection uh media Source extension so oh that was what I just said uh the vp9 video Codec will be used Which is higher quality video and an average bandwidth decrease of 35% um okay encrypted media extension soel lets content providers use a single HTML 5 video player across a wide range of platforms web RTC so realtime communication lets internet users communicate in real time oh my God this is amazing uh so using a compatible browser from broadcasting tools from within the browser and full screen API immersive full screen experiences with a standard HTML interface cool so HTML 5 is doing what it's supposed to be doing making the web seamless and good and content rich just generally better yeah this isn't this might not be new for everyone because I know a lot of people have been using uh Force HTML 5 and Firefox for a long time and various other Solutions and various other browsers but it's always cool when they change defaults y because there's a lot of people that aren't going to change the defaults on things and they didn't just change the default on Chrome which has been kind of a Google thing it's like Yay the latest experience if you use Chrome haha uh they've changed it on Chrome i11 Safari 8 and beta versions of Firefox which knowing Firefox that means you'll have it pretty soon yeah you know what I was using um uh my wife uses Firefox still as her default browser and so I was using her computer and I went to search for something and I was like WTF Yahoo search and then I was like oh right yeah that it's fine it yeah yeah I told you about that I know I didn't I I didn't believe you yes but uh but is terrible and like immediately Yahoo is powered by Bing in the back end how is this possible mind explosion and Bing is apparently uh why is Bing so crap Bing judging by Google Blog which I don't really know if is actually Google or not at this point uh is bang is apparently stealing from Google but that was a long time ago maybe they're not anymore not that long ago and like the the the way that they figured it out was actually really good it was like the old cartographer trick thing you put the fake town and then you see if other people copy your fake town is the same idea they put a completely fake search thing and then they searched it on Bing and it came up with the same thing that Google did and it was totally fake it was to some like random website that had nothing to do with the string that they typed in it was nowhere on the website and then it showed up on Google because they Implement implanted it there and it showed up on Bing as well so apparently Bing was stealing stuff from Google okay apparently Yahoo officially takes things from Bing so like it's all possibly flooding down from Google but then the other ones aren't as usable why is it that Bing's results are always so bloody useless then I don't know and I installed Windows 10 I told you that for a little while Cortana was garbage completely ignoring the fact that she like is never able to do anything so forcibly opens a new tab and Bing searches it which is the least elegant way of doing that like if you don't know the answer please just don't answer or tell me that you don't know don't be like I'm going to just open either a new window if you don't have one open or and like force it to the front or I'll open a new tab force that to the front of everything that you're doing and just Bing search it which will never give me the right results but yeah her her ability to pick up speech is very bad in my opinion I don't know that was a terrible experience but hopefully they fix it hopefully Timmy Tech's watching because he was he was not super happy when I was complaining about Cortana but it's garbage so there you go there's my there's my overall impression if you don't if you want to do anything other than like start playing a random music on your computer there's no point in having that's something that you know what's funny is I found after our discussion last week about uh voice control and where we got all annoyed with each other I'd say that was probably about our fourth best our fourth best on camera Tiff um yeah I was I was using I think voice control is extremely important yeah yeah yeah I don't want to have will be great the point is this week I found myself using it a fair bit and uh and using it for things where it was really useful and then using it for things where it was totally rubbish and the funny thing about that is one of the experiences I had with it where I was just like yeah this is never going to be useful for this was playing music and you were I remembered you telling me well no the the the only reason why it was useful was you just say hey C Cortana can you play some music well yeah but I could do that play Okay Google Play Music and it's like here we go I'm going to play music and it's like what what M what music are you playing do I do I even want to listen to that oh I don't want my twitch stream turned off wait stop okay Google don't play music whoa that worked oh no you paus it finger okay I was like holy crap one thing that's really annoying with Cortana too is you know how with um like Okay Google or Okay Google now yeah it it will hey shut up it will hear you and then go like B and then you respond to it right like it's it's it hears you lets it lets you know that it heard you and then you respond this is how a conversation works it's fairly natural with Cortana which is supposed to be like talking to your computer you have to communicate like me yeah like yeah there's no there's no Gap C to do this yes yeah and if you don't it's like what was that and then turns off the mic what are you kidding me what was that I'm just not going to listen to you and the thing stays up and like the circle stops spitting but just sits there and I'm like are you are you are you still listening the next big step for natural interaction with voice control has to be angry interaction yeah shut the hell up and your phone has to stop doing everything it's doing and shut up yes that should be a thing when that happens then we'll talk again hey Cortana stop that should be like a yeah that should work that should definitely work and like there needs there needs to be more settings especially for the desktop one because man having it open a window or a tab and bringing it to front and being searching something not cool and like it again if you if it didn't know the answer I'd be totally fine with that if it was like uh sorry I don't know I'd be like okay I'll go open a tab and I'll freaking thing in when I want it when I want to which is probably not now if I'm busy with something and you're going to Bing search the whole point of using voice control was I had stuff to do yes yeah like so I'll do that later and I'll use Google so go away um politicians are supporting Comcast's Time Warner Cable merger with letters ghost written by Comcast yay United States we should be interesting to be a politician sometimes because like the people that are paying you to do things don't even trust you enough to do them so they just do it for you so do you actually have to do anything don't they have like 33 days off or 33 weeks off couldn't be I don't Congress or something has something insane I don't remember what it I don't remember what it is but it's a lot and then like when they do decide to actually go to work it's like oh well this was Ghost written by someone else so just there you go I'll just sign it and put our official you know letter head on it and all that stuff so basically um email correspondence was obtained through a public records request so nothing special uh showed that the letter from the mayor of Rosewell Georgia was actually written by a VP of external Affairs at Comcast the letter was part of what Comcast called an outpouring of thoughtful and positive comments about the controversial merger um this was money of many letters that were the same or similar in origin and neither the corporation nor the states that the officials represent made any attempt to notify the public that the corporation had any role in writing the letters um so this got me thinking sorry I'm going to completely change gears I don't think we really need to have a long conversation about how this is BS and needs to not happen so here's what I was thinking what if we brought politics into the 21st century so I run for office just wait I run for office buy gas hold on hold on okay I just thought you you know the campaign bus you could buy gas for the campaign anyway sorry keep going okay so I run for office with the campaign promise that every day when I wake up in the morning with the exception of when I go to the bathroom or am being intimate with my wife or whatever the case may be I wear a GoPro seriously a streaming GoPro a streaming GoPro so if anyone wants to know anything that I any Shady underhanded dealings that I was participating easy though oh I'm with my wife again and just go to a meeting okay but I think people were going to figure out that like I'm at the office and someone goes bing bong and I'm like oh it's my wife I mean that that's inexplicable right there what's my wife doing at work why are we having relations in the middle the day at the office well maybe you maybe her name is Monica Lewinsky I don't yeah I don't know I I have to imagine it would be too easy to get around but it is an interesting idea it's completely impractical for a lot of different reasons you know there's all the privacy concerns I like what they're doing with the the police where they're getting the police to wear the cameras and all that kind of stuff I think that's cool I don't know if it makes sense for your president for someone like a president obviously not cuz there's a lot of top secret stuff but for someone like a municipal official I can't imagine they're doing anything top secret I see no reason why people shouldn't have a live feed to the conversation we're having about why the toll on this bridge is so bloody much and you're doing this other stupid thing with the taxpayers money I do think that should be a thing and every like like the municipality of whatever on their website they should just have an area where you can click on it just has a log of all the videos they just have a YouTube account and just every meeting every every Gathering of people that they have just whatever just stream it but I I just I was thinking some dude is going to be interesting the social media politician would be a really interesting New Concept well the social media astronaut is a big deal right now so the social media politician would also make a ton of sense and certain politicians have done that to a degree some of them have done it a little bit but I think they I think they no one's really outed themselves over controversial decisions that they've had to make or they've been involved in whereas I think the true social media politician would have to just say and and you know what they'd end up they'd end up getting kicked out immediately like we knew this was going to happen but it would be an interesting experiment because it would be like you know blah blah blah had this conversation blah blah blah obviously doesn't understand the issue and then the next day you know when it turns out that other person was right they'd have to be yep turns out you know I was completely wrong this like if we actually had a stream of Consciousness feed that'd be interesting I actually wouldn't mind that because one thing that I think is a little all right apparently Rand Paul is doing this who the devil is Rand Paul got to be American that's an American yeah yeah some dude said that he's going to sign up as a contributor to The Forum for a year if I say AMD eats Nvidia so I just said that thanks for your wow that you you could be a politician Contrition you know yeah I don't know that could work I could rally for more internet and better better computer labs and high schools and yeah stuff like that investment less into Hollywood and more tweets fake phone call between Jeb Bush and someone fake phone call that wasn't I think really what we meant by all of this slams Bush hypocrisy on something something anyway um I think I think the the like the video feed of meetings would be really interesting like if we could if we could just see what complete idiots a lot of these people are um I think that would heavily affect voting all right so let's move on uh Cooler Master is doing the case mod World Series and this was it's actually you know what's really funny is the most unusual thing about the case mod World Series was um I I keep like someone that I used to work with at ocz started like favoring my tweets and replying to stuff that I was saying all of a sudden I was like what the what the devil does Jess want all of a sudden we haven't talked in like 2 years and uh and it turns out that ocz is one of the sponsors of the case mod World Series I was like oh okay she's following the stuff that I'm saying about this so what's cool about this is that you've got about a week to enter so not a whole lot of time but unlike a lot of the other modding contests where it's like yeah we've got great prizes of Hardware that the top modders have unlimited access to uh this one has some prizes provided by Dremel which is a little unusual like tool companies get involved in like car modding stuff but generally not in computering stuff so this is like a whole other level of acknowledgement that's super cool the community's never seen Dremel is a big deal in the PC Community but like the fact that they're acknowledging that they're a big deal in PC Community is actually kind of cool that's really neat and the other really cool thing about this one is anyone can register and unlike most case moding competitions that I've seen um there are different tiers so you don't have to compete against heavyweights if you're a beginner modder so um so yeah you guys should check it out how do the tear work it's mod. coolermaster decom I think there's about $25,000 in prizes uh up to $2,000 cash prize so first place X1 second place X1 Tower builds uh scratch build people's choice Rising Star so there's a new category where our judges select the most promising young star in the modding scene so someone who's relatively unknown very very cool so there you go there's a bunch of cool stuff mod. master.com they've got the winners from last year this isn't the first time they've done it it's sponsored by Intel Asus Cooler Master presumably although this is funny they're logo is not down here I mean they have one up here but like sponsored by and Cooler Master is not on your Cooler Master case mod World Series sponsored by these guys hey we're a media partner that's cool Nick does all kinds of things some days I'm not sure what it is but you're not the First Media partner no apparently bit tech.net is first damn you bitn bit man then I said dot neck we're not doing great right now did you have another one of those weeks bit neck no actually oh that makeup uh pirate B staff kicked from the website no one caught that one now in Revolt well I did I show up to the office and he's getting he's getting our makeup artist who's actually here to make us up as Paul and Kyle applying makeup to his neck I'm like gee I'm sure glad you're using company resources for your covering up your personal time all right so go watch this and just be like a so this article is from Torrent freak.com Pirate Bay won't make a full comeback staff revolt so basically some admins and mods on the Pirate Bay are butt hurt we've decided that word is okay to use over the fact that um they basically have been shown the door with the new lighter Pirate Bay that figures it doesn't need a whole lot of Staff in order to do its thing yes and as someone who at least knows the administrator for a fairly popular but not nearly as well trafficked as the piratebay.com orse or whatever it is they're doing these days site I will say that they are probably right yeah although I'm sure they're like comment moderation wait wrong they're probably wrong that they don't need people that's what I meant to say yes yeah yeah I'm sure their like comment moderation and stuff is not really like I bet you most of those guys are mainly focused on just keeping the website alive more than anything like I bet you it's it's slightly different than what we do so basically um the the guys that are splitting off are going to make their own site with Blackjack and hookers presumably and uh basically they have a backup of the Pirate Bay site before it went offline and they're just going to start their own thing the the seemingly lead guy behind it the WTC swe is very openly very mad yeah something along the L pretty golden quotes horse plop or something yeah you know Brandon do you know the number of times I've had the conversation with him about how bleeping works online as Tech tips he left the word h I know in one of our episodes recently he's like well I didn't know I was supposed to bleep that whereas he bleeped ass in the Stormtrooper rap and I'm just like TV rules Man TV rules you watch TV he's like I watch HBO and I'm like but one am I one of I I still don't understand this about our censorship which you think is okay I still don't okay we're going to straw pull this cuz I know where you're going I'm going to straw pull this if you're if you're saying a word and like let's say it's f u c k and you say you you can fully hear someone say you can fully hear someone say F and then you hear them start the U like uh and then they drag it out for a long time and you bleep and then the bleep goes away before the U is done being said so f u uh bleep uh c k so you def obvious what you said you definitely hear every single part of the word there is zero if you cut out the bleep it is the full word and it was pronounced remember we're talking a one syllable word here in this case where it's like okay so here here's the straw pull guys so we're talking a one syllable word so but you're not even you're you're if you have the the sound of the first letter and the sound of the last letter there's it's obviously going to be clear what you were intending to say which I maintain is is the correct type of censorship because you're not actually trying to take away the meaning of what the person's saying you are just trying to make it so you didn't word like the U or the c or or both I mean like you didn't even chop out the middle of the word you didn't even fully chop out one letter well I think the issue with the one that you're all butur about is that it was a beep over top of the audio track instead of cutting the audio track during the beep so that's part of why you could hear it so very well okay I'm talking about more than one but that is probably that was probably the the one that me to start talking about it yeah it looks like people are divided 5050 on this issue well see so we're both right are exactly aligned with how we should be part of this is I bet you some people are saying that it oh bleep middle of the word bleep the whole word yeah see I bet you the people that are saying bleep the middle of the word again it's not you're not bleeping the middle of the word that's part of the problem you you you didn't bleep out a whole letter yeah like like there was it it was not effectively bleeped at all and then there's some people that are going to argue that it just shouldn't be bleeped and like there's yeah I left that out because I was more interested in how it should be bleeped as opposed to that you know the I think we can all see a lot of people in chat are saying no bleep and like that that has its own Merit but I'm saying if you're going to anyways you might as well do it effectively instead of just but not cutting any I would make the opposite argument you might as well not do it effectively because I don't think we need to censor the word anyway if you're going to say the word say the word and to me the bleep is like the bleep is like appeasing the censorship deities that's all it is uh okay see if that's the goal then that's fine then that's fine goal that's all I want to do cuz I don't really care about the censorship stuff either and but I think we can all agree the wrong way to do it is the way we did it on Stormtrooper rap where the music it cuts the that was not how that was no was I know why there were time constraints yeah yeah basically I know why it was a problem but yeah that wasn't that wasn't the right way to do that that was a draft that was a draft of the song that was was never the finished version yeah um wow we have a lot of stuff left does does any of it matter yeah um The Witcher 3 stuff is all kind of bull why don't we just do kind of headlines sure so there's new evidence of Counter-Strike Global Offensive match fixing not surprising so basically CSG go is a gigantic pile of garbage right now in the competitive scene and we should all be completely ignoring it because there's match fixing there's cheating at the very highest level and until valve can get their game figured out basically quit yeah until the tournament organizers can figure out how to fix this it just needs to completely go away and all these people involved in this crap need to stop making money which is a real shame because for the honest players out there this is their livelihoods that are being damaged by the actions of others which is UN out there I mean it's it's kind of like if honest YouTubers like us that are making a living by making YouTube videos um all of a sudden have the credibility of YouTube as a platform damaged by other people who are I mean I can't imagine what you could do on YouTube that would be equivalent to this but but it it's totally unfair and it's crappy but until people vote with their wallets and just don't watch and just don't get involved it's not going to go away uh so that was posted on the Forum by Rahi Kumar SP speaking of Rahi Kumar SP he also post posted that Bill Gates tricked Jimmy Fallon into drinking poop water which is a bit sensationalist as far as headlines go but this is a great segment and we're just going to play it for you guys it's awesome hopefully CH it down a little bit it's yeah yeah yeah it's like four minutes I'm going to skip to the uh the stunning conclusion so basically um Bill's talking or Mr Gates is talking about um hold on we have to get the Princess Bride uh sequence in here um so is talking about this water purification system where um it's inexpensive and produces both electricity and clean water from sewage so um Mr Gates challenges Mr Fallon here to choose whichever glass he prefers one of which he says has poop water and one of which has regular bottled water so oh you can't oh you can't see that he's not looking he's just like look I don't I don't I don't I don't know I I trust you to be a good person and give me the glass with the with the non poop water yeah so they both drink I'm going to turn the audio on here what do you think which one did you get making sure that you drank it all right no no I I I this one actually tasted pretty good you just drank yours cheers you watched this right I actually didn't oh it's great wow I didn't just cuz I I I knew what the conclusion was going to be but I probably should watch I'm pretty confident that that was this was the bottle of water I didn't realize I did a spr thing which is really was all all poop water so there you go guys the whole thing the whole thing was poop water um always falls off his chair he does that like all the time uh but basically it tastes fine it's perfectly safe looks absolutely fantastic um Mr Gates wants to get this rolled out in Africa as widely and as quickly as possible um it's much much less expensive I mean it's not like technology doesn't exist like this already today I mean it's it's space station where do you think they're getting water from recycling uh your TAP where do you think you're getting water from recycling so just I mean it's not a new idea it's just this new inexpensive omn processor way is uh I know someone who works at a water recycling planted BCS less expensive who does I know someone who does you don't know them yeah probably gross yeah gross me out to see what they're doing but it is what it is I've been near their work disgusting yeah yeah doesn't smell good what else we got Witcher three footage is out obvious texture downgrade from the old videos so uh this was posted by death Jester on the for that's a great name for someone posting about something like this yes it's like serious joke there's there's a lot of like okay just just don't pre-order it like you shouldn't have anyways and just wait till it comes out we'll figure it out then feel like a broken record sometimes just trying to get like the rumor stuff to just like shut up and wait till they figure it out and trying to get this to just just just shut up and wait till it comes out don't pre-order it don't buy it right now don't do any of that junk just freaking wait till it comes out we'll figure it out down sampling is not going to be or Uber sampling sorry is not going to be there when the game releases that'll be a big deal once it's available um it's freaking CD project red so there's going to be DLC like crazy for free um after it's out so like don't pre-order it and probably don't even buy it right away just wait they are saying that the uh the minimum the recommended settings are targeted at 30 FPS but they don't say it'll be locked to that and I really can't imagine it would be from those guys and they're not saying PC and console will look the same just that they'll be based on the same starting point so I think this is a lot of freaking out over nothing and I think what they're probably doing is just demoing the same version across the board so they're not setting un realistic expectations for the users of one platform versus another one which as far as marketing things go is pretty benign it's fine just wait till it comes out it doesn't matter oh my God I know so many people have been freaking out and my general message so far has been it's very possibly a lost and translation thing cuz he said something that sounded kind of like it could be taken poorly so one just exploded over it but it's probably just an equalization for expectation like he was talking about and you'll if you have a NASA supercomputer you'll probably be able to run it great it's a CD project Red game so for the first little while that it's out it'll be very hard to run and then better Hardware will come out and it'll be totally fine um but yeah just a little more reason to wait and buy it later yes uh so our next our next topic here oh for crying out loud this is really making me mad now that I have to uh now that I have to open it and then copy the link from URL bar of my new town this is why I used to do it for you is I thought you were doing this cuz that's what I was doing it takes so long ah okay so next one's this is uh Intel's y gig 7 gbit per second wireless docking Tech that looks pretty freaking awesome you know a fair Mo about this cuz you did the laptop thing at CES right this was posted by a Ming on the Forum and oh that site is not a thing anymore or that article uh this was actually we were going to talk about this last week and we didn't get to it yeah but you have firsthand experience with this right no I haven't tried it Oh I thought you had a I thought you tried a laptop with this so it's very short range 60 GHz and delivers up to 7 gbit per second and basically like by short range we mean like short range like within sort of your your desk um but the idea is that you'll be able to run things like displays peripherals even highspeed USB devices wirelessly as long as you are close close enough to your docking station so this would be like a triple Band Wi-Fi 2.45 and 60 GHz where the 60 gz would be used for this uh y gig docking technology truly wire free in the triband AC 17265 um Wireless module so you've got your fast AC you've got your 802.11 a y gig and any laptop tablet or twoin one featuring this technology is already set up to seamlessly pair with a DOT featuring an Intel wireless gigabit sync cool pretty freaking I'd love to test this out yeah me too I really want to try this yeah yeah yeah um let me just see it can auto dock with your Dev with your desktop wirelessly uh yeah I guess that's pretty much it can support up to two full HD displays so we're talking like two 1080p monitors can you can just wirelessly dock with them and I their claiming latency is very low so pretty exciting I'm excited Ireland apparently will accept selfies for passport photos it's not it's it's like a kind of more of a local tra uh travel thing and within the EU thing it's not like a full world passport so it's a passport like ID card available for about 40 bucks passport like it's not a passport all right Apple made a ton of money qb1 earnings of 74.6 billion in revenue and profit of 18 billion biggest quarter ever for Apple uh by contrast Samsung's profits fell significantly it's hard to be an Android phone maker hey it's like yay we have this free OS that we don't have to pay for but we still can't make any money super unfortunate uh qualcom confirms loss of a large customer speculated to be Samsung this was posted by GeForce FTW on the Forum by the way the last one was from Sir numbers um Q4 earnings release the company revealed expectations that our Snapdragon 810 processor will not be in the upcoming design cycle of a large customers Flagship device speculated to be Samsung as they're set to use their own exos CPUs in the next Galaxy S because of overheating of the Snapdragon 810 so qualcomm's expected earnings fell only by .8 billion from between 2.8 billion and 2.6 2 28.8 billion and 26.8 billion to 28 and 26 LG has already confirmed it plans to use the 810 and its upcoming G Flex 2 which should make up for the losses due to this galaxy srop who wrote that no it won't but a Flex 2 is going to be equivalent to the upcoming s whatever I think not oh no I just swiped something away I think I just archived something and that is incredibly bad who was that uhoh who was that email from I should not play with my phone no during not looking at its screen time anyways uhoh is is this the show over should we after party sure okay while I try and figure this out I'm going to start playing roll the outro that's not the music can I just fix this well you broke it so yeah you broke it look at how you're breaking it that's you did you iix it with your square space I found it in my Loot Crate which just my pants was your ey fix a kit in your Lo cre oh yeah here are our sponsor did you post a cool website about the fact on squ spaceright guys welcome to the W show here do you want to scooch over where we debate whether or not it's okay to say the word but hurt on the W show I personally think it's okay because that okay hold on hold on hold on hold on because it can't really be uh like okay H without this getting too V hold on just cuz it's not it's not a sexual preference thing everyone everyone has a butt and there's plenty of okay there's plenty of stuff that can be of sexual orientation it's not you know a female or male thing everyone has a butt everyone's butt can hurt yes okay ignoring the gender thing entirely you could even take it from The Stance of like well what stance would you take it from exactly usually a slight anyways um but you could take it from like a fwell skateboarding yeah butt hurt your butt would probably hurt as long like a you know a rail or anything like that lots of things could hurt yes well and like of course while falling while skateboarding anything else could hurt but if you f while skateboarding on your butt your butt would probably hurt your butt would probably hurt I also know people that have had tailbone injuries which usually reference that as a butt injury right unless you were wearing a helmet on your butt yeah yes butt helmet Kim Kardashian probably needs a butt helmet a butt I wouldn't think so I would think it would be more she has like a built-in air bag yeah didn't one of her sisters have her butt in implants leaking or something like wasn't that I don't know they're gross I don't even find them attractive to be completely honest no my my whole thing is this is I get all of my celebrity gossip from the from the magazine stand at the grocery store because I go to the grocery store exactly often enough that I'm hearing about it within my tolerance for how much I can hear about it and and I'm not learning too much you don't like watch TV or anything really but I'll also be aware of sort of what everyone else is talking about stuff so I find it's a good balance for me right so this this week on The W show Nvidia did a bunch of things and people didn't like it um and so did Comcast no one liked those either Comcast did lots of stuff people didn't like um the FCC did stuff people liked and what else we got and there's uh Oculus technology that can make it so you don't see advertisements in real Oculus technology it has nothing to do with oculus and it isn't even it isn't even virtual reality it does have stuff to do with oculus well it's augmented reality it uses an OC it has to do with Hollow lens it uses an Oculus you use an Oculus it is you use an Oculus you can't we're trying to have a debate here and you're ignoring the things I'm saying that are true seriously look the guy's looking through an Ulus with a camera in the front of it I could argue that someone looking through any kind of of optical viewing device is looking through an are mainly based off of the windshield yeah it's a windshield Oculus I hate this show doesn't even make any sense our sponsors today our Square Face they're going to have a Super Bowl Oculus and Loot Crate you might just be looking at your loot through an Oculus craze and finally I fix it need to fix your Oculus bam right there they've got the tools for you to get that job done so thank you to our sponsors let's move on with the show yes it is still Christmas yes we know the problem is that Luke's Twitter handle isn't fixed on the non-christmas one and we did promise as part of tip Starter by the way we still need to do the body paint one that's going to be hilarious but one of our like a few yeah one of our tip starter commitments was to fix Luke's Twitter handle so if we undo it now then we're basically terrible people toally screwed up okay so let's see we have done the well okay the Twitter handle thing we released the Stormtrooper rap audio we did WOW as girls we did LTT Under Fire we have not done body paint we still need to do clown costume wow and body paint and we need to get wingardium get the bleep back to work Luke so we need to get our Harry Potter uh Daniel Radcliffe a standup cardboard guy to stand over your desk and we need a speech bubble as well oh that's going to be awesome it's going to be kind of great I'll look to that for inspiration every time I find myself on imager all right so what I think we need to do here is is basically just get right into the big topic this week I mean um there there was an absolute bomb so the the the story kind of broke simultaneously on overclock.net and on Reddit with people running a utility where they discovered that's usually how Reddit works yeah yeah so so users of gtx970 graphics cards were running a utility that was showing them the memory uh the memory bandwidth they were getting from the board's vram sort of block by block as they made their way through the entire capacity and what people discovered is that the first three and 1 12 gigs of the four gigs of advertised vram were running at full speed and that the last 500 Megs or so we're actually running at a speed of about 17th the rest of the vram so initially Nvidia was saying not a whole lot of much of anything and they were just kind of going we'll get back to you on that and then from there Nvidia kind of reached out to some key members of the press so the articles that I personally read were on a non-tech PC per as well as tech report since I have a lot of respect for the Ryan and Scott it's like ran and Ryan Smith Ryan Shrout they're both Ryan I could call them I could call them Shrout Smith and wson there you go no one would know what the devil I'm talking about and a Smith and Wasson kind of sounds a gun I actually recognize uh and when you fire it it goes shout yeah I actually recognize shout more than Ryan I don't know why he does go by that okay yeah so anyway so I read their articles and basically Nvidia reached out to these guys and explained in much further detail than we had been had access to in the past how exactly the memory controller works on the GTX 970 now the gtx980 is completely unaffected by the issue because it features all of the RS all of the cach and all of the memory controller goodness of the Maxwell uh excuse me uh GM 204 chip whereas the gtx970 has instead of what we've seen in the past where we'd have like a a chunk of memory controller R smm caor where we'd have an entire unit kind of shut off the gtx970 only has it sort of partially shut off so the way that that works in the real world is you don't get the cash you don't get the RS but you do get to put the memory on the card and you do have access to it albeit at a significantly reduced data rate so what that means is nvidia's done some Tom Foolery with the drivers and the firmware of the card to ensure that the first three and 1 half gigs the high performance part gets used first and some applications will see that as a limit While others will fill up the rest but only once it's done with with the first 3 and 1/2 gigs now this is still faster than swapping out to main memory over PCI Express although not by as much as I would typically like uh can I help you with something yeah go to that link and put it on screen oh yeah for sure uh oh your thing's different that's why yeah I'm not signed into what the I got signed out too I don't know what's you are logged in successfully you can now refresh thanks for that super useless page what the heck was that anyways guys give just one moment I'm trying to get a diagram on screen so people can know what you're talking about this is the one where it shows the crossbar yeah you I'm sure you've seen this um it's just it's helpful there we go there we go okay so got oh oh oh um hold on I can just post it in chat but like I want the archive viewers to be able to see it okay just Z just Z like you guys too just just Z oh um oh that's weird I'm going to post it in chat in the meantime oh we didn't check that today oh that is extremely unfortunate hold on a second uh well I'm going to let the I got it I got it I got it I got it I got it okay we have a directional HTMI cable and it's going the wrong way way yeah fun oh I love the show I love the show best show on the internet the more I say I love this show the more you guys know that I am hating my life right now yeah I love this show let's plug this baby in it's the best show on the internet and let's go it's got the greatest Technologies running it they've got completely the improper mic they have a mixer and a condenser which is not even plugged in it's not even it's not a condenser what is it it's a compressor compressor one does not condense One does not simply condense audio all right you could condense audio you just have to take like a two-minute audio clip and put it into one minute you just like fast it's like fast forwarding audio all right so uh basically the way it works is and this is perfectly normal for CPUs gpus Ram whatever else the case may be when something doesn't get baked just right and there's a couple bits that are broken what they'll do and and this diagram shows it pretty well so here's the level two cache that's disabled here are some of the SMS that are disabled is what and and they won't necessarily be in this spot like if this SM is broken and this one and this one or something that's fine too that part becomes a GT x970 instead of a 980 so basically we've got all the memory controllers and this was something that we'd never seen before Nvidia being able to with a great degree of granularity disable only certain parts of the chip so nvidia's story and I I think I'm with the other guys on this one I I think I believe this is that the engineers and the technical marketing guys weren't synced up correctly on how this worked and the technical marketing guys assumed that they couldn't disable with this level of granularity and gave an incorrect spec initially for the gtx970 saying it had the same number of rups as the gtx980 and the same amount of cash which in the end it turned out it did not so Nvidia kind of went yep hey whoa we y we flubbed on this and uh and sort of you know that that's all very well and believable but I think where people are truly upset is because Nvidia is now saying so we we've gotten further into this Nvidia is saying blah blah blah yes it's by Design here we're showing you how the crossbar works and how the communication works because in video is saying that this is by Design I think the reason people are upset is because for all intents and purposes the gtx970 you said it does have 4 gabes of gddr5 memory on it but given that an eighth of it runs at only about 50% faster than swapping out to system memory the reason people are upset is because I mean is that really usable it almost doesn't count it's there sure whatever I guess you can put that on the box but like it's not really effective and that's kind of bull crap now I've seen a lot of different arguments here um things like uh AMD tweeted actually we've got a we've got a link to this um here we go so Robert HCK from AMD tweeted oh oh AMD 4 gigs means 4 gigs um which been taking shots all over the place yeah they've been just like they've got like Nvidia in the headlock and they're like yeah how's your kidney like that one yeah how about this one yeah um but quite frankly I see some parallels that people are drawing that I can kind of get on board with like the fact that both AMD and Nvidia advertise dual GPU graphics cards as having 8 gigs of RAM or 6 gigs of RAM when anyone technical enough knows that effectively it's only half that amount a lot of people don't know that a lot of people don't know that and to me that has always been a very gray way of advertising but honestly that was a confusing thing when I like first got into computers and they first started releasing those cards I was like oh sweet they just like ramped everything up like even even knowing how that works I just assumed that there was just more RAM but that is not how it works so so again that's always been very gr to me but the thing that made it somewhat okay is that without really doing any digging an educated user could go and read up on it and they were always very upfront about doubling a vram by adding two gpus each with their own frame buffer does not effectively double the amount of texture information that you can store in the video memory with this one it really feels like having been at the Maxwell launch event it really feels like they were intentionally not giving us any more information about how Maxwell worked than they absolutely felt like they had to and I feel like even though they screwed up perhaps unintentionally in fact I'll tell you what I'm going to say I believe them I believe that the r and cash thing was unintentional because there are utilities that'll even pick up the GT x970 doesn't have the full two EGS of level two cash so this that one we probably should have noticed but the fact that they didn't tell us that an eighth of the memory was running at a significantly lower speed I don't believe they didn't know that so the fact that they decided not to tell us um and waited for this to come out means they either thought no one would ever notice which again seems very unlikely I mean Nvidia knows that obsess like uh like shroud over at PC per the guys I listed before Scott at tech report Ryan at a ntech Ryan Ryan Scott they they they they know that these guys are going to obsessively poke and prod at this thing surely they couldn't have imagined that no one would figure this out at some point so was it stupid was it mismanagement was it deception I don't know Mis communication for like a crazy long time cuz one of the engineers must have seen some documentation at some some point in time that was released by Nvidia and been like that's not actually right and even not that's not actually right but even just something as simple as a memory bandwidth spec I mean if they had done something kind of shady like average it like if they'd kind of gone okay well like it's a weighted average you know seven portions this and one portion that and kind of gone here's the memory bandwidth of the card if they had done something like that I kind of mind have gone yeah okay they were it's gross but sure I guess super groy and if they had been up front and said okay well look we're rating this as and they put an asterisk on it look we're rating this as a as an average um like I I'd have felt a lot better about it but right now it really does feel like we were intentionally deceived about the fact that some of the memory doesn't run at a faster speed with that said it's it's like you buy a box of cookies and 1/8 of the cookies is 17th the size of all the other ones yeah like seven of them have like cream cheese icing and like one of them has lard on it and it's like well you probably weren't going to finish all seven of those because they're really rich and delicious and big so the fact that one of them has lard on it shouldn't be an issue to you but I that still bothers me if I paid for eight cookies that are cream cheese icing yeah and if you put it in the closet for future use when you buy your larger stomach are you going to work the wordof into here yeah yeah that's proof that you haven't mastered the segue yet oh but yeah essentially like I think part of the reason why I think a lot of people didn't notice yet is I don't know that many or like anyone who's actually really gaming at 4K all the time right now yep once that becomes more of a thing a lot more people would have noticed a lot faster and maybe not I actually I spent some time with the NC Tech tips guys today and they we filmed a video about it there as well and they threw a bunch of games at their GTX 970 at 4K and we're kind of like let's see how much vram we use and what they discovered is that until um Battlefield 4 they managed to get over three and a half gigs at 4K yeah and what they realized is that when it's it's it's that classic how much vram is the right amount for a graphics card question because once you start just piling it like if you put 16 gigs of memory on a GTX 970 that would be asinine because it there's no way that any game that ever exists that would require 16 gigs of vram would run on that GPU so what they discovered is that running Battlefield 4 at 4K was resulting in such a low frame rate that they had to turn the details down which brought the video memory usage back into the comfort zone right so I understand why owners are mad but I understand nvidia's statement about the gtx970 still being a rock and awesome product and we're not going to cut the price on it because it's still awesome at that price and sorry about the miscommunication they need to be for the rest of the 970s lifespan they need to be a lot more clear yep because just the people that paid attention during this and like 6 to eight months down the line when this isn't as well known because it's faded away it still needs to be well known and Nvidia rarely makes a mistake like this twice um I I feel like over the last few Generations they've been trying to get you know flirtier and and flirtier about sort of how things are actually working how the technology Works behind the scenes I mean um arguably because they don't want their competitors to learn too much about it and find a way to clone it in their next you know lineup of gpus or or whatever else they're they're worried about but I hope that this is a bit of a wakeup call that they have to at least clearly communicate the speed at which the hardware is running to the members of the tech press that are going to figure this out and call them on it anyway and I've got a lot of people saying lonus come on don't defend them do I sound like I'm defending them devil zzz is like lonus I am disappointed they didn't make a mistake they lied lying is different from misrepresentation and I do believe that there had to be a significant degree of unintentional going on over here because there is absolutely no no way that Nvidia completely missed something like they have the wrong amount of cash on a spec sheet intentionally there is something to be said about realizing that and then not fixing it though well there's nothing they can really do to fix it they can't add more cash no fixing it uh I don't mean in in in that but like not notifying the public in any way right they waited for it to God my throat today I thought I was better um they waited for it to blow up before trying to contain it you know what I mean yeah I and the thing is is that I'm not like I'm not sure how long of a delay there was between Nvidia realizing this and I can't imagine it that long I don't think it was that long because the thing is is that okay like the way this works behind the scenes is when you're launching a product whether you're at the retailer side like I would have been or whether you're on nvidia's side you've got everyone working around the clock to you know get the gussied up pictures looking good and get the spec sheets all right and get the you know the video you know scheduled to launch on YouTube at the right time that's like Tom Peterson being all like oh the 970 is amazing so the 980 it's even more amazing that's why I should pay more money for it um and then when the launch is over everyone kind of goes and then sits and and monitors and makes sure everything's kind of going okay for a couple days and then it's time to get back to work and there's something new to work on whether it's a you know a g-sync you know monitoring phase they probably didn't realize yet cuz I had imagine okay think about think about this the engineers when you're if you're an engineer yeah and your baby gets released yeah you're not going to look into any of the release products from your company and the amount of Engineers that must have worked on that the amount of Engineers that must have known the specs for that card and then seen that release documentation I don't know the amount of not my job that I've seen in my life I I got a Wonder like I really got a Wonder I've got to imagine there's there's engineers at Nvidia that care enough to look into that documentation I'm I'm I'm willing to assume to a large degree I'm not sure but I'm willing to assume to a very large degree that there was at least some amount of internal communication going on okay well whatever ended up happening whatever CU I don't know cuz you can choose to believe whatever you will but the reality of it is no one outside of Nvidia will ever know the truth the takeaways here are that they've got their tail between their legs right now people are understandably extremely upset I mean I've even seen I'd be pissed I don't have a 970 but I would be pretty upset I I mean we've seen high level Nvidia staff on Twitter promising to help people get refunds on their cards if they're if they're that upset about it um amds come out and offered uh yeah Good Good Old Roy oh my God just shots everywhere yeah here I'll pull this up uh AMD has has started offering people deals on R9 290s with a full four full 4 gigabyt of memory uh to anyone returning a gtx970 good good Old Roy um does this apply to Canadians 2 or am my so nope we love Canucks 2 oh man those guys kind of funny actually so I guess what else is there to really say about this other than people are people are people are butt hurt which is why we were debating whether or not we can use that word and we've decided apparently yes yeah yes we can because we're not relating it to other things people are butt hurt their butt hurt because they got screwed and how hard they got screwed well it's really difficult to say we're not relating it to other things their butt hurt because they got screwed damn it uh have you ever heard of something called a quk screw oh if you were to stick that into your gluteus maximus that would hurt that yes that yes all right so now that we've put that issue to bed yes damn it um always home free and then you're like no I guess all that's really do you want to straw pull this like why don't we just why don't we just what we what are we straw pulling straw pull um you know H gee I don't know how about just let's straw pull misspelled it let's straw pull how upset are you about gtx970 so uh option one should be storm in a teacup which I've seen a lot of people I've seen a lot of people use that exact wording for it and not to sort of sway the results of the poll at all but I think that's a load of malarkey um so you know six or let's go with I'm upset but you know I'd still buy a 970 and then let's go with um upset would not buy a 970 and then let's go with upset would not buy any Nvidia product anymore so we want we want to we want to cover the whole Spectrum here and then we'll put in the usual like I don't know um cucumber diama or whatever all right are you posting that in twitch chat yep all right I'll I'll get the link from there so we'll uh we'll go ahead to do straw P ones cuz you have to go to the results page sure yeah no problem are you not logged in twitch why you do this to me Monsters has to load the chat separately because it's not running their own thing I'll load your chat separately come on spinny wheel please Sarah please Sarah don't worry about it is that the name of the spinny wheel no all right okay uh can you just Google Google Chat it to me yeah I can do that I mean Hangouts it that is not catchy at all it's like binging things like nobody Bings things you want to hang out with me on my browser because no desktop application or I guess there is but it's garbage yeah yeah so there's that the chat never loaded wait what's up oh my gosh you know that obnoxious BS thing that Google does where if you rightclick um copy Link in the Google search like you should control C control V there no no it it no no not that the one where instead of just being the link it's a Google trackable link oh yeah yeah uh so they've they're doing it in Hangouts now really so the link I posted in here instead of just being straw poole. is like Google do whatever yeah pretty pretty obnoxious whoa I've never see it's new whoa that's gross that's really long like can you just not can you just actually stop doing that thank you Google that would be great wow that's garbage like I see what website I'm going to you butts all right speaking of butts um upset but I'd still buy 970 I think this is the reaction Nvidia is kind of hoping for here is they I'm sure it is they know people are upset but they kind of are like well the 970 is still awesome so yeah uh two and you know what's kind of funny is I remember thinking when the 970 launched that it was so close to 980 and yet the price Gap was so big it's almost like whoever was doing pricing knew that they were cutting it down a lot more than whoever was doing technical marketing yeah if that makes sense yeah yeah that actually does make sense so a lot of uh a lot of cucumber diarama um a lot of upset would not buy a 970 a lot of storm in a teacup uh not a lot of butt hurt and uh surprisingly little upset would not buy any Nvidia product I bet you a large amount of that um is people that weren't going to anyways yep AMD guys I mean to imagine that we have fewer than 7% sort of team red members in our audience would be completely ignorant of us so yes all right we've spent enough of this show on butts and this topic so let's move on to Nvidia is in another bundle of hot water can you have a bundle of hot water um so this well I guess if you had like a waterproof Satchel of some sort so that was in a bundle I'm going to go ahead and post this link in the chat like if you had a waterproof jacket B Boop oh right I have to spam it now all right so this was uh a great little discussion on the PC per YouTube channel as well as uh on an article on pcp.com but there were reports running around and this was post by m mvi m mkin sure mkin on the Forum and uh there were reports on the internet of some guy uh sorry did you yeah I posted already of some guy like supposedly modifying a GT uh a GTX 980m notebook to run g-sync on its integrated panel and I saw the rumors late at night and I kind of didn't have time to look into it and I kind of forgot about it which is kind of embarrassing because I really should have looked into this it's a huge deal but PC per ran out a ained that exact model of notebook got their hands on the driver that the guy supposedly modded turns out they didn't mod anything it was just uh it was an alpha level driver that someone in asus's like Nordic support team or something gave to a customer to try to fix a different unrelated issue and then they had the desync notification pop up in the corner and it turned out that it worked yeah um so so that's how that driver got leaked out there and basically what they did was they took the laptop verified that it worked and it did so nvidia's pendulum demo works perfectly you go vsync on no vsync you get your tearing you go gsync and you get no stutter and no tear and then they completely tore the laptop apart piece by piece and they claimed to have pictures in their article but I'm going to go ahead and uh here we go so they completely tore apart I tried to get Ryan on the show today actually but I think he he's I think his wife told him he couldn't come or something like that so uh wow you guys can give him a hard time about that on Twitter but they they tore this baby apart even peel back the LCD examined every component there is no gsync module so this raises a lot of questions about nvidia's communication with respect to gsync as well because they've been telling us we need a special module to communicate with the graphics card and obviously the same is not true for free sync or for adaptive sync the Vasa spec upon which free sync amd's equivalent is based because AMD is not making any claims about having a special module the only thing they're saying is they have to have a GPU that supports it correctly so nvidia's been telling us we need this module and that it does some stuff like it goes ahead and compares the data from the previous frame to the data on the next frame with a little built-in buffer and they uh actually PC Pur discussion of this whole thing says that nidia's claiming they have some additional functionality they can potentially unlock with the gsync module in the future we don't know if this is true we don't know if it's untrue we don't know anything right now but um basically there is no g-sync module and this raises questions about well why exactly did we need a g-sync module in the first place I'm going to bring up some things first of all this is very much one of those things that I um well okay this is actually not very much but a little bit one of those things that I don't like where it's heavily kind of it's not a rumor because we know officially fromia but it's so early on and there's been one call and there's a ton of speculation they're like okay it exists let's tear apart this one laptop and then not find something and then slam them for it which is Justified definitely to a certain degree but a lot of the things that are being said including by you I don't think are necessarily fair not necessarily needed a g-sync module they may no longer need a g-sync module so and and nvidia's claim that they will be able to add more functionality with a gsync module with its own built-in memory buffer and all that stuff could be very true yes that could be 100% true and 100% valid in fact it could be that mobile g-sync which for power reasons and complexity reasons may never use a g-sync module it could be that mobile gsync may not be as good as desktop GYN in the long term GYN M or something it could be an entirely different version um and that would make a ton of sense as well like we're I I feel like because we're pitchforking I'm using pitchforking because I don't know what the chat's doing but those look like pitchforks those are pitchforks um because we're pitchforking Nvidia so heavily for the 970 thing we just immediately started re pitchforking them for this one before gaining a ton of information was an early driver that that frankly doesn't work correctly I mean actually again shout from PC per did a great job of covering this because they even talk about like guys look it's not working we did manage to dis they did manage to discover that the panel on this laptop actually is a 100 HZ IPS panel which I certainly didn't realize it's rated at 75 and we've got one of these laptops as well and so that's super cool but then they also discovered that it's running with g-sync but uh when you go particularly when the frame rate drops or drastically dips and it's funny they used Assassin's Creed Unity to demo that but when it drastically dips it can actually cause the screen to disconnect temporarily or even for a while so it's it's not working yet and their speculation based on the conversation with Nvidia is that mobile gsync Bas because we've got better scaler technology now than we did back when Nvidia was developing gsync and this whole thing didn't exist yet is that mobile gsync may end up being more of a certification yeah process similar to the free sync idea as opposed to just Hardware now to be clear the one of the differences between the way AMD works and the way Nvidia works is that AMD has a freesync certification process but that doesn't mean that a monitor that has the supported Hardware but does not have the certification will not work we had this conversation with Theus where they didn't intend to certify one of their monitors but we have heard I don't have one of those monitors yet that freesync works on it just fine with Nvidia I would not expect that to be the case because that's the way they function they validate a use case thoroughly and then they put their stamp of this is the experience you will have on it and that is how they control their ecosystem s stuff like GTX 770 and GTX 680 they're the exact same damn card with the exception of the GTX 770 has faster clocked memory there is no reason why the GTX 770 couldn't have its memory clocked down and run an SLI with a GTX 680 at least without you know extensive tweaking of firmwares and drivers or whatever else to make it work there's no real reason those couldn't run an SLI that's not the way Nvidia does things AMD on the other hand allows Crossfire to run on an r9280x and a 7970 or a 7970 GHz Edition all of which are sort of different cards although they're based on the same GPU with the same memory configuration in much the same way that 770 and 680 are so it's a different philosophy I mean another great example Nvidia slii requires an SLI certified board even though there's no technical reason it couldn't work on any board as we've seen with hacked drivers in the past and requires 8X pcie operation regardless of the fact that that doesn't matter pcie gen 34x is plenty fast for SLI with a modern card you can quote me on that but Nvidia doesn't allow it they say look 8X is the is the minimum that's what we validate for so that's it that's final so the mobile g-sync one I think the takeaway is we need to wait and see we need to wait and see I don't think they lied I think they wanted desktop gsync in our hands a lot sooner hence the event that happened like months and months and months before we actually got our hands on retail monitors um and I think in that time a development happened a lot faster than Nvidia expected on on the on the third party scalers that could be implemented in monitors for another solution like adaptive syn and I I think this this was not supposed to be talked about yet this was an accidental leak that turned into a now kind of huge thing and as we've seen from freaking star seon when you have uh fan interaction before something is ready it's sometimes ugly so that's why I brought up the rumor thing at the beginning no it's not a rumor but we just kind of need to wait until we get like an official working driver um stuff supplied from them to be like yes try this experience and see what it's like um yeah I think we're going wait and figure it out and I think like you were saying that there's going to be different g-sync there'll be g-sync mobile and Gynt and there going to be I think very different experiences especially because they explicitly said that there's features that they still have to unlock on the actual g-sync module and there's no doubt in my mind whatsoever that Nvidia is developing a better g-sync module than the one they have I mean back when they did the event before it even launched they said look this solution's really expensive and produces a lot of power we need to shrink it down and I'm sure they haven't been sitting on their butts for the last year and a half so yeah I mean I'd expect to see a gsync module that allows for more inputs than just display port for example cuz that's like stupid you buy a $1,000 monitor with one in I come on it's not like Nvidia hasn't thought of this maybe it should have HDMI in or something be helpful for like like yeah I mean they're the only video card maker in the market with HDMI 2.0 on their graphics cards and then their own display controller doesn't accept HDMI 2.0 in it doesn't make any sense many monitors that I use on a daily basis have more than one of their inputs plugged in so I can swap between inputs that's that's a thing so the exciting thing here is that mobile g-sync is coming uh the unfortunate thing is owner of the g751 I doubt very much that they're actually going to get it because it looks like this is a very Alpha thing right now but um very cool stuff I I I wish that Nvidia was more upfront with us I understand why in their competitive clo and Dagger industry they're not but I don't understand how people in the chat are trying to say that this is an Nvidia sponsored stream when have we been not slamming on them this stream anyways sorry keep going that was stream is sponsored by Squarespace uh Loot Crate and I fix it I just thought I'd clarify that you know what let's do our sponsor spot I'm excited about mobile gsync but I think that can that can actually wait so let's start with Squarespace these guys are kind of crazy this is the 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like a copyright infringement thing if we read a comic book on stream I'm not reading a comic book like I don't know what you're talking about let's players would argue it's not look that's the audio setup that's not fully set up yeah I know right all right so thank you to our sponsors the Squarespace Loot Crate and I fix it for making the W show possible let's move on to our next topic which is I have no idea I don't know we actually have a lot of topics left and there's like do we half an hour left cool so cuz all we've made it through is it's like the Nvidia and people you want to slam on EA yeah it's been so long yeah what did EA do oh yeah that's awesome yeah okay oh I can't contrl F EA I'll control F micro transaction wrecked uh this was posted by and then there was one on the Forum have you posted in twitch I'm ready I'm ready I got this all right contr v wait what oh I think I did it wrong wait really oh Google freaking Google Docs does it now too oh really yeah jeez guys you're killing me here all right well it's from Android police and EA that's why I haven't noticed I always do it that way I open the website and then I link it all right EA will be charging for gas in the ironically named Need for Speed Unlimited or No Limits excuse me no limits which is totally different from unlimited um so basically well I don't know cell phone companies might actually agree with you unlimited for cell phone companies is 2,000 whereas No Limits might be something else entirely no no no no oh no no limits is actually 500 no no there's no limit when you advance and you're a cell phone provider oh it's a 90 song You Don't recognize it do you no I kind of do oh that's a shame all right well at any rate um the brand tough Meter whatever that oh this is a different language fuel fuel meter I was like what are you trying to read I haven't read the rest of it yet um so basically you can use in-game currency to buy gas for your car or you can sit and wait for your gas to refuel on its own which is exactly how the real world works I'm sure someone someone on the team was like how will we make people feel like microtransactions are a more natural part of gameplay wait racing okay so you can buy things for your car everyone needs to fuel their car bam instant success executive promotion one thing that executive promotion one thing that I'm not entirely sure about because I couldn't really find it and watch it be in the article but um wow people are doing the Pitchfork thing and then putting an A on the end so it's a pit EA Pitchfork because it would normally have the e already cuz the that's awesome um Pitchfork not instead of digging so oh EA pitchforks Ubisoft digs eventually we'll have a full Farm of game developers Nvidia back hos shovels weren't fast enough for them this week yeah um anyways I I think it might be a free-to-play game yeah in which case that's totally expected because that's how every single free to-play game works ever and this isn't new yeah it's just annoying yes it is annoying one thing that I kind of found was funny though is that they still used gold like what like you you couldn't use like like Karma or something I know need for speed's done that before haven't they wasn't it karma I know I don't no I don't Kudos I haven't played Need for Speed since underground that's probably a good choice so right there underground was pretty good yeah it was underground was great what game was it that used Kudos maybe it was a different game maybe I'm thinking of a different racing game twitch chat's going to slam and all right well end gadgets article here the FCC redefines Broadband I'm a little confused on this topic I thought they already did this no they were talking about it and it was looking like it was going to go through so now it's like totally definitely through yes it's done okay it's done but the truth of the matter is this doesn't really change anything because it's not like it's not like the Telos have to start giving you 25 megabit down they just can't call their crapp Broadband anymore yes that's the only change this only changes in America um one of one of the folks that was uh that was voting on the issue said something or oh I hope she was one of the people voting control F 100 uh FCC commissioner Jessica Rosen Mor still stated today that she thinks the BR Broadband threshold should frankly be 100 megabit per second a move would finally put the United States in line with the Speedy connections available in countries like South Korea so was 25 enough some would argue no um I would probably agree especially if we're trying to call like Broadband what's the what's the implication here yeah and a big problem with this too is when's the next time we're going to redefine this not for a long time so it should have been a lot higher 4K TVs are affordable today and 25 megabit down is not going to be especially with the kind of data cap that's going to come with that speed of connection is not enough for you to be watching your 4K Netflix all day mind you if you're watching 4K Netflix all day I mean what do they have like four shows in 4k I mean you probably watch a lot of the same shows slick as sick slick as sick there we go what do you mean he says he's going to start a monthly subscription if you say that till what uh probably the Forum Netflix The Forum oh The Forum oh okay so now he has to contraction comp or contraction contract completed contract completed what are you a Hitman I just I I saw video game mechanics in twitch chat and I had to like I was it was like Quest acquired say this twice and I was like sure completed the quest contract completed he now has to go sign up on the Forum boom done all right so we haven't done some of the uh credits for people posting things on the Forum the Bony King posted at least one of the bazillion topics on the Forum related to the Nvidia thing Carlos Rex also in there the m night narwhal was in there somewhere Sergeant ballistic posted the FCC thing and top war gamer posted this next one the original article here is from Venture beat so let's go ahead and drop that in the twitch chat we'll drop that drop that drop that that Venture beat God one thing that's been constantly confusing about this article for me is they didn't drop uh Flash no but they changed the def fault yeah but like the title is freaking dropped like I saw this everywhere before I read it and like the title everywhere is oh they dropped Flash and I'm like wow that's a really aggressive move this is going to be a lot of like older stuff that's Flash and it's not going to work at all it's like how you're intended to read the title yeah how the title actually oh wait that by default just like kind of hitched on the back I'm like okay sure all right so um this brings with it a few sign significant advantages so number one and this is going to be great for folks who had their nonb Broadband redefined but haven't actually had their speeds increased uh we are going to get adaptive bit rate streamings to quickly and seamlessly adjust resolution and bit rate depending on the network connection uh media Source extension so oh that was what I just said uh the vp9 video Codec will be used Which is higher quality video and an average bandwidth decrease of 35% um okay encrypted media extension soel lets content providers use a single HTML 5 video player across a wide range of platforms web RTC so realtime communication lets internet users communicate in real time oh my God this is amazing uh so using a compatible browser from broadcasting tools from within the browser and full screen API immersive full screen experiences with a standard HTML interface cool so HTML 5 is doing what it's supposed to be doing making the web seamless and good and content rich just generally better yeah this isn't this might not be new for everyone because I know a lot of people have been using uh Force HTML 5 and Firefox for a long time and various other Solutions and various other browsers but it's always cool when they change defaults y because there's a lot of people that aren't going to change the defaults on things and they didn't just change the default on Chrome which has been kind of a Google thing it's like Yay the latest experience if you use Chrome haha uh they've changed it on Chrome i11 Safari 8 and beta versions of Firefox which knowing Firefox that means you'll have it pretty soon yeah you know what I was using um uh my wife uses Firefox still as her default browser and so I was using her computer and I went to search for something and I was like WTF Yahoo search and then I was like oh right yeah that it's fine it yeah yeah I told you about that I know I didn't I I didn't believe you yes but uh but is terrible and like immediately Yahoo is powered by Bing in the back end how is this possible mind explosion and Bing is apparently uh why is Bing so crap Bing judging by Google Blog which I don't really know if is actually Google or not at this point uh is bang is apparently stealing from Google but that was a long time ago maybe they're not anymore not that long ago and like the the the way that they figured it out was actually really good it was like the old cartographer trick thing you put the fake town and then you see if other people copy your fake town is the same idea they put a completely fake search thing and then they searched it on Bing and it came up with the same thing that Google did and it was totally fake it was to some like random website that had nothing to do with the string that they typed in it was nowhere on the website and then it showed up on Google because they Implement implanted it there and it showed up on Bing as well so apparently Bing was stealing stuff from Google okay apparently Yahoo officially takes things from Bing so like it's all possibly flooding down from Google but then the other ones aren't as usable why is it that Bing's results are always so bloody useless then I don't know and I installed Windows 10 I told you that for a little while Cortana was garbage completely ignoring the fact that she like is never able to do anything so forcibly opens a new tab and Bing searches it which is the least elegant way of doing that like if you don't know the answer please just don't answer or tell me that you don't know don't be like I'm going to just open either a new window if you don't have one open or and like force it to the front or I'll open a new tab force that to the front of everything that you're doing and just Bing search it which will never give me the right results but yeah her her ability to pick up speech is very bad in my opinion I don't know that was a terrible experience but hopefully they fix it hopefully Timmy Tech's watching because he was he was not super happy when I was complaining about Cortana but it's garbage so there you go there's my there's my overall impression if you don't if you want to do anything other than like start playing a random music on your computer there's no point in having that's something that you know what's funny is I found after our discussion last week about uh voice control and where we got all annoyed with each other I'd say that was probably about our fourth best our fourth best on camera Tiff um yeah I was I was using I think voice control is extremely important yeah yeah yeah I don't want to have will be great the point is this week I found myself using it a fair bit and uh and using it for things where it was really useful and then using it for things where it was totally rubbish and the funny thing about that is one of the experiences I had with it where I was just like yeah this is never going to be useful for this was playing music and you were I remembered you telling me well no the the the only reason why it was useful was you just say hey C Cortana can you play some music well yeah but I could do that play Okay Google Play Music and it's like here we go I'm going to play music and it's like what what M what music are you playing do I do I even want to listen to that oh I don't want my twitch stream turned off wait stop okay Google don't play music whoa that worked oh no you paus it finger okay I was like holy crap one thing that's really annoying with Cortana too is you know how with um like Okay Google or Okay Google now yeah it it will hey shut up it will hear you and then go like B and then you respond to it right like it's it's it hears you lets it lets you know that it heard you and then you respond this is how a conversation works it's fairly natural with Cortana which is supposed to be like talking to your computer you have to communicate like me yeah like yeah there's no there's no Gap C to do this yes yeah and if you don't it's like what was that and then turns off the mic what are you kidding me what was that I'm just not going to listen to you and the thing stays up and like the circle stops spitting but just sits there and I'm like are you are you are you still listening the next big step for natural interaction with voice control has to be angry interaction yeah shut the hell up and your phone has to stop doing everything it's doing and shut up yes that should be a thing when that happens then we'll talk again hey Cortana stop that should be like a yeah that should work that should definitely work and like there needs there needs to be more settings especially for the desktop one because man having it open a window or a tab and bringing it to front and being searching something not cool and like it again if you if it didn't know the answer I'd be totally fine with that if it was like uh sorry I don't know I'd be like okay I'll go open a tab and I'll freaking thing in when I want it when I want to which is probably not now if I'm busy with something and you're going to Bing search the whole point of using voice control was I had stuff to do yes yeah like so I'll do that later and I'll use Google so go away um politicians are supporting Comcast's Time Warner Cable merger with letters ghost written by Comcast yay United States we should be interesting to be a politician sometimes because like the people that are paying you to do things don't even trust you enough to do them so they just do it for you so do you actually have to do anything don't they have like 33 days off or 33 weeks off couldn't be I don't Congress or something has something insane I don't remember what it I don't remember what it is but it's a lot and then like when they do decide to actually go to work it's like oh well this was Ghost written by someone else so just there you go I'll just sign it and put our official you know letter head on it and all that stuff so basically um email correspondence was obtained through a public records request so nothing special uh showed that the letter from the mayor of Rosewell Georgia was actually written by a VP of external Affairs at Comcast the letter was part of what Comcast called an outpouring of thoughtful and positive comments about the controversial merger um this was money of many letters that were the same or similar in origin and neither the corporation nor the states that the officials represent made any attempt to notify the public that the corporation had any role in writing the letters um so this got me thinking sorry I'm going to completely change gears I don't think we really need to have a long conversation about how this is BS and needs to not happen so here's what I was thinking what if we brought politics into the 21st century so I run for office just wait I run for office buy gas hold on hold on okay I just thought you you know the campaign bus you could buy gas for the campaign anyway sorry keep going okay so I run for office with the campaign promise that every day when I wake up in the morning with the exception of when I go to the bathroom or am being intimate with my wife or whatever the case may be I wear a GoPro seriously a streaming GoPro a streaming GoPro so if anyone wants to know anything that I any Shady underhanded dealings that I was participating easy though oh I'm with my wife again and just go to a meeting okay but I think people were going to figure out that like I'm at the office and someone goes bing bong and I'm like oh it's my wife I mean that that's inexplicable right there what's my wife doing at work why are we having relations in the middle the day at the office well maybe you maybe her name is Monica Lewinsky I don't yeah I don't know I I have to imagine it would be too easy to get around but it is an interesting idea it's completely impractical for a lot of different reasons you know there's all the privacy concerns I like what they're doing with the the police where they're getting the police to wear the cameras and all that kind of stuff I think that's cool I don't know if it makes sense for your president for someone like a president obviously not cuz there's a lot of top secret stuff but for someone like a municipal official I can't imagine they're doing anything top secret I see no reason why people shouldn't have a live feed to the conversation we're having about why the toll on this bridge is so bloody much and you're doing this other stupid thing with the taxpayers money I do think that should be a thing and every like like the municipality of whatever on their website they should just have an area where you can click on it just has a log of all the videos they just have a YouTube account and just every meeting every every Gathering of people that they have just whatever just stream it but I I just I was thinking some dude is going to be interesting the social media politician would be a really interesting New Concept well the social media astronaut is a big deal right now so the social media politician would also make a ton of sense and certain politicians have done that to a degree some of them have done it a little bit but I think they I think they no one's really outed themselves over controversial decisions that they've had to make or they've been involved in whereas I think the true social media politician would have to just say and and you know what they'd end up they'd end up getting kicked out immediately like we knew this was going to happen but it would be an interesting experiment because it would be like you know blah blah blah had this conversation blah blah blah obviously doesn't understand the issue and then the next day you know when it turns out that other person was right they'd have to be yep turns out you know I was completely wrong this like if we actually had a stream of Consciousness feed that'd be interesting I actually wouldn't mind that because one thing that I think is a little all right apparently Rand Paul is doing this who the devil is Rand Paul got to be American that's an American yeah yeah some dude said that he's going to sign up as a contributor to The Forum for a year if I say AMD eats Nvidia so I just said that thanks for your wow that you you could be a politician Contrition you know yeah I don't know that could work I could rally for more internet and better better computer labs and high schools and yeah stuff like that investment less into Hollywood and more tweets fake phone call between Jeb Bush and someone fake phone call that wasn't I think really what we meant by all of this slams Bush hypocrisy on something something anyway um I think I think the the like the video feed of meetings would be really interesting like if we could if we could just see what complete idiots a lot of these people are um I think that would heavily affect voting all right so let's move on uh Cooler Master is doing the case mod World Series and this was it's actually you know what's really funny is the most unusual thing about the case mod World Series was um I I keep like someone that I used to work with at ocz started like favoring my tweets and replying to stuff that I was saying all of a sudden I was like what the what the devil does Jess want all of a sudden we haven't talked in like 2 years and uh and it turns out that ocz is one of the sponsors of the case mod World Series I was like oh okay she's following the stuff that I'm saying about this so what's cool about this is that you've got about a week to enter so not a whole lot of time but unlike a lot of the other modding contests where it's like yeah we've got great prizes of Hardware that the top modders have unlimited access to uh this one has some prizes provided by Dremel which is a little unusual like tool companies get involved in like car modding stuff but generally not in computering stuff so this is like a whole other level of acknowledgement that's super cool the community's never seen Dremel is a big deal in the PC Community but like the fact that they're acknowledging that they're a big deal in PC Community is actually kind of cool that's really neat and the other really cool thing about this one is anyone can register and unlike most case moding competitions that I've seen um there are different tiers so you don't have to compete against heavyweights if you're a beginner modder so um so yeah you guys should check it out how do the tear work it's mod. coolermaster decom I think there's about $25,000 in prizes uh up to $2,000 cash prize so first place X1 second place X1 Tower builds uh scratch build people's choice Rising Star so there's a new category where our judges select the most promising young star in the modding scene so someone who's relatively unknown very very cool so there you go there's a bunch of cool stuff mod. master.com they've got the winners from last year this isn't the first time they've done it it's sponsored by Intel Asus Cooler Master presumably although this is funny they're logo is not down here I mean they have one up here but like sponsored by and Cooler Master is not on your Cooler Master case mod World Series sponsored by these guys hey we're a media partner that's cool Nick does all kinds of things some days I'm not sure what it is but you're not the First Media partner no apparently bit tech.net is first damn you bitn bit man then I said dot neck we're not doing great right now did you have another one of those weeks bit neck no actually oh that makeup uh pirate B staff kicked from the website no one caught that one now in Revolt well I did I show up to the office and he's getting he's getting our makeup artist who's actually here to make us up as Paul and Kyle applying makeup to his neck I'm like gee I'm sure glad you're using company resources for your covering up your personal time all right so go watch this and just be like a so this article is from Torrent freak.com Pirate Bay won't make a full comeback staff revolt so basically some admins and mods on the Pirate Bay are butt hurt we've decided that word is okay to use over the fact that um they basically have been shown the door with the new lighter Pirate Bay that figures it doesn't need a whole lot of Staff in order to do its thing yes and as someone who at least knows the administrator for a fairly popular but not nearly as well trafficked as the piratebay.com orse or whatever it is they're doing these days site I will say that they are probably right yeah although I'm sure they're like comment moderation wait wrong they're probably wrong that they don't need people that's what I meant to say yes yeah yeah I'm sure their like comment moderation and stuff is not really like I bet you most of those guys are mainly focused on just keeping the website alive more than anything like I bet you it's it's slightly different than what we do so basically um the the guys that are splitting off are going to make their own site with Blackjack and hookers presumably and uh basically they have a backup of the Pirate Bay site before it went offline and they're just going to start their own thing the the seemingly lead guy behind it the WTC swe is very openly very mad yeah something along the L pretty golden quotes horse plop or something yeah you know Brandon do you know the number of times I've had the conversation with him about how bleeping works online as Tech tips he left the word h I know in one of our episodes recently he's like well I didn't know I was supposed to bleep that whereas he bleeped ass in the Stormtrooper rap and I'm just like TV rules Man TV rules you watch TV he's like I watch HBO and I'm like but one am I one of I I still don't understand this about our censorship which you think is okay I still don't okay we're going to straw pull this cuz I know where you're going I'm going to straw pull this if you're if you're saying a word and like let's say it's f u c k and you say you you can fully hear someone say you can fully hear someone say F and then you hear them start the U like uh and then they drag it out for a long time and you bleep and then the bleep goes away before the U is done being said so f u uh bleep uh c k so you def obvious what you said you definitely hear every single part of the word there is zero if you cut out the bleep it is the full word and it was pronounced remember we're talking a one syllable word here in this case where it's like okay so here here's the straw pull guys so we're talking a one syllable word so but you're not even you're you're if you have the the sound of the first letter and the sound of the last letter there's it's obviously going to be clear what you were intending to say which I maintain is is the correct type of censorship because you're not actually trying to take away the meaning of what the person's saying you are just trying to make it so you didn't word like the U or the c or or both I mean like you didn't even chop out the middle of the word you didn't even fully chop out one letter well I think the issue with the one that you're all butur about is that it was a beep over top of the audio track instead of cutting the audio track during the beep so that's part of why you could hear it so very well okay I'm talking about more than one but that is probably that was probably the the one that me to start talking about it yeah it looks like people are divided 5050 on this issue well see so we're both right are exactly aligned with how we should be part of this is I bet you some people are saying that it oh bleep middle of the word bleep the whole word yeah see I bet you the people that are saying bleep the middle of the word again it's not you're not bleeping the middle of the word that's part of the problem you you you didn't bleep out a whole letter yeah like like there was it it was not effectively bleeped at all and then there's some people that are going to argue that it just shouldn't be bleeped and like there's yeah I left that out because I was more interested in how it should be bleeped as opposed to that you know the I think we can all see a lot of people in chat are saying no bleep and like that that has its own Merit but I'm saying if you're going to anyways you might as well do it effectively instead of just but not cutting any I would make the opposite argument you might as well not do it effectively because I don't think we need to censor the word anyway if you're going to say the word say the word and to me the bleep is like the bleep is like appeasing the censorship deities that's all it is uh okay see if that's the goal then that's fine then that's fine goal that's all I want to do cuz I don't really care about the censorship stuff either and but I think we can all agree the wrong way to do it is the way we did it on Stormtrooper rap where the music it cuts the that was not how that was no was I know why there were time constraints yeah yeah basically I know why it was a problem but yeah that wasn't that wasn't the right way to do that that was a draft that was a draft of the song that was was never the finished version yeah um wow we have a lot of stuff left does does any of it matter yeah um The Witcher 3 stuff is all kind of bull why don't we just do kind of headlines sure so there's new evidence of Counter-Strike Global Offensive match fixing not surprising so basically CSG go is a gigantic pile of garbage right now in the competitive scene and we should all be completely ignoring it because there's match fixing there's cheating at the very highest level and until valve can get their game figured out basically quit yeah until the tournament organizers can figure out how to fix this it just needs to completely go away and all these people involved in this crap need to stop making money which is a real shame because for the honest players out there this is their livelihoods that are being damaged by the actions of others which is UN out there I mean it's it's kind of like if honest YouTubers like us that are making a living by making YouTube videos um all of a sudden have the credibility of YouTube as a platform damaged by other people who are I mean I can't imagine what you could do on YouTube that would be equivalent to this but but it it's totally unfair and it's crappy but until people vote with their wallets and just don't watch and just don't get involved it's not going to go away uh so that was posted on the Forum by Rahi Kumar SP speaking of Rahi Kumar SP he also post posted that Bill Gates tricked Jimmy Fallon into drinking poop water which is a bit sensationalist as far as headlines go but this is a great segment and we're just going to play it for you guys it's awesome hopefully CH it down a little bit it's yeah yeah yeah it's like four minutes I'm going to skip to the uh the stunning conclusion so basically um Bill's talking or Mr Gates is talking about um hold on we have to get the Princess Bride uh sequence in here um so is talking about this water purification system where um it's inexpensive and produces both electricity and clean water from sewage so um Mr Gates challenges Mr Fallon here to choose whichever glass he prefers one of which he says has poop water and one of which has regular bottled water so oh you can't oh you can't see that he's not looking he's just like look I don't I don't I don't I don't know I I trust you to be a good person and give me the glass with the with the non poop water yeah so they both drink I'm going to turn the audio on here what do you think which one did you get making sure that you drank it all right no no I I I this one actually tasted pretty good you just drank yours cheers you watched this right I actually didn't oh it's great wow I didn't just cuz I I I knew what the conclusion was going to be but I probably should watch I'm pretty confident that that was this was the bottle of water I didn't realize I did a spr thing which is really was all all poop water so there you go guys the whole thing the whole thing was poop water um always falls off his chair he does that like all the time uh but basically it tastes fine it's perfectly safe looks absolutely fantastic um Mr Gates wants to get this rolled out in Africa as widely and as quickly as possible um it's much much less expensive I mean it's not like technology doesn't exist like this already today I mean it's it's space station where do you think they're getting water from recycling uh your TAP where do you think you're getting water from recycling so just I mean it's not a new idea it's just this new inexpensive omn processor way is uh I know someone who works at a water recycling planted BCS less expensive who does I know someone who does you don't know them yeah probably gross yeah gross me out to see what they're doing but it is what it is I've been near their work disgusting yeah yeah doesn't smell good what else we got Witcher three footage is out obvious texture downgrade from the old videos so uh this was posted by death Jester on the for that's a great name for someone posting about something like this yes it's like serious joke there's there's a lot of like okay just just don't pre-order it like you shouldn't have anyways and just wait till it comes out we'll figure it out then feel like a broken record sometimes just trying to get like the rumor stuff to just like shut up and wait till they figure it out and trying to get this to just just just shut up and wait till it comes out don't pre-order it don't buy it right now don't do any of that junk just freaking wait till it comes out we'll figure it out down sampling is not going to be or Uber sampling sorry is not going to be there when the game releases that'll be a big deal once it's available um it's freaking CD project red so there's going to be DLC like crazy for free um after it's out so like don't pre-order it and probably don't even buy it right away just wait they are saying that the uh the minimum the recommended settings are targeted at 30 FPS but they don't say it'll be locked to that and I really can't imagine it would be from those guys and they're not saying PC and console will look the same just that they'll be based on the same starting point so I think this is a lot of freaking out over nothing and I think what they're probably doing is just demoing the same version across the board so they're not setting un realistic expectations for the users of one platform versus another one which as far as marketing things go is pretty benign it's fine just wait till it comes out it doesn't matter oh my God I know so many people have been freaking out and my general message so far has been it's very possibly a lost and translation thing cuz he said something that sounded kind of like it could be taken poorly so one just exploded over it but it's probably just an equalization for expectation like he was talking about and you'll if you have a NASA supercomputer you'll probably be able to run it great it's a CD project Red game so for the first little while that it's out it'll be very hard to run and then better Hardware will come out and it'll be totally fine um but yeah just a little more reason to wait and buy it later yes uh so our next our next topic here oh for crying out loud this is really making me mad now that I have to uh now that I have to open it and then copy the link from URL bar of my new town this is why I used to do it for you is I thought you were doing this cuz that's what I was doing it takes so long ah okay so next one's this is uh Intel's y gig 7 gbit per second wireless docking Tech that looks pretty freaking awesome you know a fair Mo about this cuz you did the laptop thing at CES right this was posted by a Ming on the Forum and oh that site is not a thing anymore or that article uh this was actually we were going to talk about this last week and we didn't get to it yeah but you have firsthand experience with this right no I haven't tried it Oh I thought you had a I thought you tried a laptop with this so it's very short range 60 GHz and delivers up to 7 gbit per second and basically like by short range we mean like short range like within sort of your your desk um but the idea is that you'll be able to run things like displays peripherals even highspeed USB devices wirelessly as long as you are close close enough to your docking station so this would be like a triple Band Wi-Fi 2.45 and 60 GHz where the 60 gz would be used for this uh y gig docking technology truly wire free in the triband AC 17265 um Wireless module so you've got your fast AC you've got your 802.11 a y gig and any laptop tablet or twoin one featuring this technology is already set up to seamlessly pair with a DOT featuring an Intel wireless gigabit sync cool pretty freaking I'd love to test this out yeah me too I really want to try this yeah yeah yeah um let me just see it can auto dock with your Dev with your desktop wirelessly uh yeah I guess that's pretty much it can support up to two full HD displays so we're talking like two 1080p monitors can you can just wirelessly dock with them and I their claiming latency is very low so pretty exciting I'm excited Ireland apparently will accept selfies for passport photos it's not it's it's like a kind of more of a local tra uh travel thing and within the EU thing it's not like a full world passport so it's a passport like ID card available for about 40 bucks passport like it's not a passport all right Apple made a ton of money qb1 earnings of 74.6 billion in revenue and profit of 18 billion biggest quarter ever for Apple uh by contrast Samsung's profits fell significantly it's hard to be an Android phone maker hey it's like yay we have this free OS that we don't have to pay for but we still can't make any money super unfortunate uh qualcom confirms loss of a large customer speculated to be Samsung this was posted by GeForce FTW on the Forum by the way the last one was from Sir numbers um Q4 earnings release the company revealed expectations that our Snapdragon 810 processor will not be in the upcoming design cycle of a large customers Flagship device speculated to be Samsung as they're set to use their own exos CPUs in the next Galaxy S because of overheating of the Snapdragon 810 so qualcomm's expected earnings fell only by .8 billion from between 2.8 billion and 2.6 2 28.8 billion and 26.8 billion to 28 and 26 LG has already confirmed it plans to use the 810 and its upcoming G Flex 2 which should make up for the losses due to this galaxy srop who wrote that no it won't but a Flex 2 is going to be equivalent to the upcoming s whatever I think not oh no I just swiped something away I think I just archived something and that is incredibly bad who was that uhoh who was that email from I should not play with my phone no during not looking at its screen time anyways uhoh is is this the show over should we after party sure okay while I try and figure this out I'm going to start playing roll the outro that's not the music can I just fix this well you broke it so yeah you broke it look at how you're breaking it that's you did you iix it with your square space I found it in my Loot Crate 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