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all right Oh welcome to the wine show guys it's Friday I'm broadcasting live from the studio here in lovely Langley British Columbia and quite frankly I'd rather be at home playing games on the HTC vive I will definitely be spending some time on the show today talking about that I will definitely acknowledge my unfortunately downgraded but still somewhat sexy co-host here and I will definitely tell you all of the topics that we are going to be covering on the show today after the intro hold on I got this there may even be music today let's see if I fixed it also whoa some of you guys were asking where Luke is Luke is in a place doing a thing the place is called PAX East and whoever whoever did up the pax thing here doesn't realize that packs is Penny Arcade Expo not a word that starts with a P and has two small letters after that's okay taxis 2016 so huge thanks to Logitech G and discord for powering our pack C's 2016 content yes my friends for the first time ever Linus Media Group actually had two away teams at the same time so Taryn and Brandon were down at NAB in Las Vegas and before they returned Luke Burkle and Dennis actually left to go cover PAX East so we're gonna have like an entire week of show coverage for you guys and in the meantime I've been back here in the studio with David and Edie and well yeah I guess that's about it and we've been working on some really cool stuff so we've got the review of the iPhone se coming up we've got a power bank like battery bank showdown coming up we've got um I don't this is a video nobody asked for but I was kind of interested in and so I decided to make but I've got a video up coming on IPMI which is a remote management interface that exists on some motherboard so it allows you to log in from anywhere and like power on the server power down the server change BIOS settings even all kinds of cool stuff like that so so I've been working on some videos and they've been working on some videos and it's all good stuff and okay right so I will I'll answer those questions that I said I was gonna answer this is my new co-host her name is Kay ku something I'm making that up I know she's an actual character from an actual show I don't know what it is I've got people talking about wake-on-lan yes yes I go through wake-on-lan in the video I actually have some other cool solutions that I guarantee you've never heard of as well yes I know Yoko apparently it's Yoko I don't know I'm sorry you know for me it's just you know a pillow I was on Amazon and I was just browsing toys not those kinds of toys I was browsing toys and I was just trying to find stuff for channel super fun so this was around the time leading up to the big move into the new studio and so I was just like what the hell is this it's a it's a waifu pillow you gotta be kidding me so I ordered it having no idea what I was gonna do like I was I was thinking initially I would try and do some kind of a prank where I called people down to help me with something and then like I'd have a hidden camera and then I'd be like making out with it or something and I'd get like reaction shots from people but we ended up coming up with the channel super fun where we did the cuddle challenge I think that ended up being a lot better anyway I don't know how well that video is doing you know honestly I feel like I feel like channel super fun just should do so much better but like nothing ever really catches on for us on that channel like it doesn't go it doesn't go viral or whatever else forgot people telling me to get another human the office is like empty I mean do you really want me to pull Nick light in here alright come on it'd be like the worst thing ever so I promised to discuss if okay before before I get into that I will go through some of these some of the top topics for today Intel to cut 12,000 jobs as PC demand wanes ouch researchers accidentally discover technology that could lead to batteries that can be charged many more times than current ones nerd sports has launched on vessel so this is something that we've had a lot of people asking about seeking clarification on so nerd sports is a new series that we developed it was funded by vessel comm so if you guys are familiar with vessel it's the early access platform that our videos go up on generally speaking one week before YouTube but this is different nerd sports is exclusive to vessel and it's a series that we developed we've done five episodes are filmed episode so far three of which are actually done one of which is released where basically the linus media group team we call ourselves the keyboard warriors takes on actual sports teams so the first sports that we did were paths actually we filmed it like eight years ago at this point there's projects like this takes so long so volleyball dodgeball lacrosse ice hockey and curling so the first episode is volleyball it's awesome we actually take on the Trinity Western Spartans who are the top college women's volleyball team in the country as of last year and it is it is actually pretty hilarious I don't think I'm technically supposed to do this because like there is a trailer and stuff but I will I will play just I will play just a little bit of it so where videos here we go I'm just gonna grab some grab a couple of chunks out of it here fit loads of course everyone's probably like hitting it all at the same time now thanks guys that's weird yeah that's working no we'll be back um so nerd Sports is available now it's gonna be released weekly for the next four weeks over on vessel comm what else do we have uh yes a mosquito killing billboard pretty freaking cool okay so now with all that aside I have to take some time to talk about the HTC vive and I know you guys are thinking all right Luke's not here on the show I don't have to listen to anyone talk about talk about VR for the next hour and a half but you were wrong everything about everything about that was wrong I'm definitely gonna be talking about V R so the HTC vive arrived yesterday afternoon at which time I promptly completely abandoned everything else that I had planned for that evening I got home I was like hi kids by kids and locked myself upstairs they were allowed in afterwards but only if they agreed to help me set up the vibe I locked myself upstairs to set up the vibe it takes the moat it's the most agonizing like hour ever because I kind of thought it would come with like floor stands or something for the lighthouse units it does not they just expect you to wall mount it so I was like ah Vaughn I'll be painting this room soon because we've actually discussed it and she's like yeah I think I think so we had we had said we were going to him like okay I'm putting about two holes in the wall so I'm just in there just like drilling random holes in the wall mounting light house it takes about an hour to set up and you just like I just want to play VR games I just buy the archives um so then at that time I kind of realized again that I had derped and that I should have done this at the beginning but I realized oh I I don't have any VR games downloaded so I had to I had to go buy some VR games right away and then I had to go ahead and wait for those to download while I finish the setup and then I spent about two hours straight for the first time playing a single-player experience in I don't even know like I can't even begin to imagine how long it's been since I've since I've done that in a single-player game like I'll drop in and like I was playing Team Fortress 2 if with Luke actually the other night he was streaming on his twitch channel and stuff but like just playing single-player games it's been a long time but I was playing a space pirate trainer it is freaking cool you've got like a shield and a blaster and you can like switch out your shield your blaster it is unbelievably fun I had I had a lot of people say yeah enjoy your enjoy your headache after 30 minutes you know what two hours almost uninterrupted my wife was playing for a little bit two hours almost uninterrupted and I was feeling good like I was 100 percent fine at the end of that it was it was freaking awesome I can't wait to go home and play with it more there are still issues like the setup process is not perfect I ran into a couple of issues while I was setting it up number one was I ended up with the bug where you can end up standing like six to ten feet below the floor for the entire like introductory video segment and I was just like okay well this is really frustrating I like is it is everything's supposed to be up there am I supposed to be down here because there's like a weird like golf cart next to me but what I was actually standing in was like a little room that's supposed to lift the golf cart up like it's supposed to seem like the golf cart emerges earlier but I was just stuck down there and I didn't come up with my golf cart went up either so it was just sort of confusing and then the other issue I had was my my motion controllers my my handheld motion controllers just weren't picking up until I uninstalled and reinstalled the software and like there there were some issues with the setup but once it's going man is fun like the resolution does bother me like you take off the goggles and you see the preview window on the screen you're just like oh man what if it looked like that but not to the point where the gameplay isn't immersive and the gameplay isn't ludicrously enjoyable so it was I tell you guys it was an absolute it was an absolute blast I had a lot of fun with it last night I will I suppose I will get on with the show now let's jump into our first topic here so the original article is from a non tech dot-com and Intel is slashing oh right this was posted originally on the forum by no one so Intel is slashing a huge number of jobs over the rest of 2016 and even leading into 2017 about 11% of the total workforce 12,000 people CEO Brian krzanich says Intel has been known as a PC company it's time to make this transition and push the company all the way over to supplying chips for things like smartphones cloud computing sensors and other devices getting heavily into Internet of Things and mobile products I mean he's not saying that CPUs as you know them are going away they're just diversifying their portfolio and focusing their R&D very clearly on those other possible revenue streams to be clear also sixty percent of the revenue does still come from PCC to use but most of the layoffs are expected to occur inside the PC business to allow them to focus on these other categories I really I really hope that they know something that AMD doesn't know about the possibility for improving CPU performance over the next few years here because we've we really have seen them de-emphasize the CPU long before there were mass layoffs associated with it like this where they're kind of going okay yep more power efficiency we're putting more GPU on it we are not really doing a whole lot in terms of the overall horsepower of it keeping the the computing experience of the desktop user relatively stagnant while the mobile users are getting real tangible benefits out of each coming generation like the better connectivity I would say even benefits notebook users more than desktop users because desktop users can throw an add-in card in their system say for example whereas laptop users these battery life improvements these connectivity improvements you know things like Thunderbolt 3 make a huge difference I mean you can only have so many ports on something like a laptop something like Apple's MacBook yay whereas on a desktop you don't really need a single port that has such high speeds and can handle you know LAN and sound and USB and HDMI and DisplayPort all out of this one connection because you could just plug all those things in it's not really that big of a deal um where was I going with this right so we've we've seen this D emphasis coming but it's frustrating because when you look at when you look at Intel's CPUs on the on the mainstream side like on the LGA 1150 even if they can't increase clock speeds dramatically and even if they can't increase IPC that's that's the that's the performance per clock dramatically they could be putting more cores on them if they opted to give us a pure CPU rather than an APU something with CPU and graphics built into it at the same time they just don't they reserve that for the high-end platform the enthusiast and the server platform and that's pretty much all she wrote on that now this is really weird and I am going to have to find out what it is regarding by having Nick find out what it's regarding sorry just one moment can you take this for me fees thank you and I'm going to move into my next topic here well actually we'll hold on I guess I should give a little bit a little bit more clarification so this is the largest set of layoffs in 10 years since 2006 when they let 10,500 people go profit margins in q1 were lower than expected with a net income of 2 billion dollars so on the revenue of 13.7 billion um yeah there I don't know I I hope for their sake they know something AMD doesn't know because if they're planning to let a lot of people go on the desktop CPU side if AMD really does see a resurgence with Xen get some more revenue coming in potentially allowing them to pick up some of that talent there could be a big opportunity for us to have competition again due to Intel not accidentally but making a conscious decision to take their foot off the pedal on the on the desktop CPU side of things ok ok ok ok cool all right so let's move into Intel announcing up no yeah we already got that oh let's move into this one this one's fun so original article here was off of PC perspective and basically it's amazing how this happens but researchers accidentally discovered nanowire based technology that could lead to batteries that can be charged hundreds of thousands of times so you guys are probably familiar with the way that almost as though by planning phones become obsolete thanks to their batteries just going through the maximum number of charge and discharge cycles until they die like there's lithium-ion batteries are inherently not stable over many charge and discharge cycles well here we go accidental discovery nano wires which are several thousand times thinner than a human hair extremely conductive and have a large surface area to support storage and transfer of electrons let's highs team so this is mild at I fixed the issue where these these tiny wires are fragile and don't hold up well to repeated discharging and recharging they fix this bike holding a gold nano wire in a manganese dioxide shell and then placing it in a in a gel that's like plexi guy Plexiglas to improve its reliability again totally by accident so Maya was apparently playing around and she coated the whole thing with a very thin gel layer and started to cycle it and discovered that by using this gel she could cycle it hundreds of thousands of times without losing any capacity or any power output so this was tested more than two hundred thousand times over a three-month span and they are reporting the findings now I would love to see this technology and my new smartphone and I share I believe it was written by Ryan shroud over at PC per but it could have been one of their other writers but I share their concern about this technology ultimately being patented and ending up in a warehouse somewhere never to be seen again because it is a good thing for phone manufacturers his bottom line wise for the phone to effectively not be usable anywhere from three to six years after it was originally manufactured would they want the battery lasts forever I don't know okay so moving along to our next topic AMD is set to receive two hundred and ninety three million in fresh cash from a deal with the Chinese government this of course raises any number of questions I mean this comes on on the heels of the Chinese so okay it's kind of complicated because the Chinese government and and companies in China are intertwined in a way that you wouldn't necessarily expect if you come from like a more Western or more capitalist society I mean yeah but Chinese claim that capitalism is alive and well but the reality of it is that state funds make a lot of the businesses that run in China possible so in here the original article is actually from guru 3d I'm just gonna go ahead and pull that up so in the guru 3d article they say the Chinese government has attempted to make CPUs and develop their own CPU architecture many times before they want their own hardware and software for government-funded institutions but they have not yet succeeded and it looks like AMD is going to be the beneficiary so AMD has made it clear in their strategy in their marketing strategy that they're ready to customize modular CPU and SOC or system-on-chip designs by the client specs so similar to what they would have done with Sony and Microsoft for the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox one so the deal was mentioned in their last quarterly results and basically the deal would involve AMD licensing its x86 processor technology and the IP related to designing an SOC like memory controllers input/output and caching but possibly not their GPU technology architecture has not been confirmed but Forbes is claiming that it must be Zen as their previous server CPUs hadn't had much if any success it's actually been it's been a while since Opteron has has been much of a big deal this is this is this is very this is very very interesting I mean AMD is you could see it as AMD getting in bed with China you could also see it as China eventually giving in and using using American technology in order to I'll catch up to what the Americans were able to do with respect to with respect to supercomputing and yeah I see I don't even know if this is going to be used in a supercomputing context to be very clear because all we really know is that the deal would involve licensing x86 processor technology and IP related to building x86 architecture chips and SOC s so I've got people saying aimed use Americans since when okay so so there is that significant amount of their company is owned by overseas investment that is true but they are American in the sense that their headquarters is in America I guess yeah I guess this is interesting so I actually I don't have I don't have a source link for this or anything like that but AMD will not be seeding FirePro Suri's dangit colton so they will not be seeding their upcoming dual Hawaii card I forget what they're even calling it I think it's like Radeon duo Pro or pro duo there we go so the Radeon Pro duo will not be seeded to conventional gaming press I'll go ahead and show you guys on the sort of the announcement for their supercomputing performance to VR so what I was pretty much told is that this this product and I can't say anything about it for a couple of reasons number one if I want to get a deck about it prior to the embargo so I can prepare any Content that I have that I will be able to release without an actual card I do have to agree to the NDA and number two because I haven't received and hit the deck materials yet so all I know is going off of room so it's supposed to be dual Hawaii chips it sounds like it's gonna be dual four gig it'll be it'll be uh it's okay this is off of AMD site so anticipated selling price of fifteen hundred dollars us and basically the reasoning that was given to me was well it's not really sorry did I say a dual Hawaii sorry dual Fiji dual Fiji so it's effectively to UM it's effectively like two are nine like are nine fury /vx kind of class GPUs that's that's what we can that's what we can glean from the details we have so far sorry I can't believe I said dual Hawaii's I've been running around trying to trying to get our internet back up and running over here and sorry I'm struggling a little bit because I'm not sure how much of what they told me is stuff that is on this page I'm looking at and how much of it is stuff that's going to be in the deck that's going to be nd aid so so this is good it offers a complete solution aimed at all aspects of the VR developer lifestyle developing content more rapidly for killer VR experiences while at work and playing the latest DirectX 12 experiences at maximum fidelity while off work so it's no secret that dual GPU support on recent generation games has not been what it was even before and by the way guys we are live something about time zones not time zones it is 537 and we are live so even even a year or two years or even three years ago dual GPU support wasn't perfect a lot of the time it required patches from Nvidia or AMD or previously ATI in order to function but it's actually gotten worse and worse and worse as time has gone on in fact some games over the last well even games that have been you know you know the ones where there's like the Nvidia logo or the AMD logo that pops up at the beginning with you know game works technology or whatever else it just flat out the developers going yep that's a lie crossfire forget it forget it we're just yeah it just doesn't matter it's it's too small of a portion of customers so for that reason the pro duo was not realistically going to get very good reviews from the gaming press because it frankly just doesn't make a ton of sense as a gaming card it's only got 4 gigs of effective video memory because it's four gigs per GPU that doesn't add up to eight gigs that means four gigs it's to presumably fairly power-hungry chips that perform okay but not well enough to charge $1500 for two of them and like we've run into this before but typically the dual GPU solution has been closer to the thousand dollar range and not so close to the $1,500 range where you can't just kind of go okay you know like here this is a fun experiment let's just fire up new egg shop AMD Radeon fury X no new Wacom is fine okay I don't Wow Wow the world's most boring sale monitors and Printers unless you're shopping for a monitor or a printed in which case what just happened to my search result Oh new egg anyway oh okay so about six hundred $29 so you're paying this huge premium to have a card that does save you on PCI Express apparently 2295 x2 launched at $1500 yeah that's a good point but how many units did 295x2 sell like this is a this is a this is a dinosaur the Radeon Pro dual in a gaming sense is a dinosaur because you can get to fury X's for 1,300 bucks after taxes kind of thing so unless you desperately need those two slots what are you even what are you even doing and if you desperately need those two slots why don't you just water cool water cool a couple of fury axes I mean that actually pays for your water blocks right there so yeah it's gonna be power-hungry it's gonna be super expensive so basically they're kind of going okay yeah it's for developers and I don't really I don't really I guess what I don't really get at this point I understand why they're not seating it to reviewers because it wouldn't have gotten a positive review from us it wouldn't have gotten a positive review from probably anyone they'd say you know it's it's always that sugar-coated conclusion right this is the ultimate graphics card for AMD enthusiasts who want the highest performance single AMD card see you go like you go like this this sliver of this slice of the available market if people who are interested in graphics cards and that is pretty much all that is left for someone who for for gaming purposes might be interested in a radio and pro duel I'll be interested to see what they can come up with in terms of value ads for the pro duo that would make it makes sense for developers but I just have a hard time imagining what would make it better for developers than just picking up a couple of theories or a couple of theory X's alpha 17 X in the chat this is a this is a really good this is a really good point I'm a developer I use what the end user would be using so I know what the crap I'm something twitch chat moves too fast I mean that is uh that is a really really great point um and depending on what kind of development you're doing like if you're working on digital assets you might be interested in something like a fire pro or something like a Quadro card but in those cases you'd want a lot more than four gigs of VRAM per GPU so I still don't understand why they're even releasing this card that's the question I understand why they don't want people to review it I don't understand why they even kept it in development after all this time because it's like it's no secret that V directx12 is where we're headed and dual GPU something of a dinosaur at this point I mean Nvidia didn't even bother do you think do you think Nvidia couldn't have built a dual 980 card come on they totally could have done it you think they couldn't have built a dual 980 card with eight gigs of ram per GPU like that they managed to build an MX M they managed to put a 980 in a laptop the power efficiency was there the thermal output was there they were just like yeah why bother I mean Titan Z was such a flop I mean the price that presumably it had to be in order to build it because they had they had lots of time to drop the price on it and just go okay yeah we'll just take less margin on it and sell some more units like the price it must have cost to make it just made it untenable so yeah I mean to me this is kind of like the the final swan song for dual GPUs on one card outside of outside of you know professional like scientific like high-performance computing based cards that you might expect to find in a in a like a huge server farm somewhere so hopefully Polaris is the answer and and we can all look forward to that hey Brandon can you uh help me with something for a minute very very quickly by running thank you can you find out what this is and direct it to the appropriate place it may be something quite important all right so this is a cool piece of technology the original poster here is aa Ming and the original article here is from the verge this is a cool way to use technology this is a mosquito killer billboard that is targeting mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus in Brazil now if you have been if you've been watching the development of Zika in the news you're probably aware that it is a huge concern not necessarily for perfectly healthy people but especially if you're pregnant Zika could be a major problem because it can cause I believe it's um it's either macro or micro I'm gonna go with microcephaly which is a condition where your brain depending on whether it's macro or micro I think it's micro where your where your head is super small which causes all kinds of developmental problems so what the what the bill so Zika hasn't has been a problem in warmer climate areas jungle areas because it's spread by mosquitoes it's actually transmitted sexually as well but it has been a huge problem in Brazil so this technology is apparently using this like carbon dioxide and lactic acid solution to mimic human breathing and sweat and then zapping the bugs killing them so it can actually lure insects within a radius of up to two and a half kilometers this is something I've always wondered about like how do mosquitoes find us so there you go apparently it's by smell now to be clear always wondered about doesn't mean like it was a burning desire because I could have just googled it it's just something that kind of like wow so it can lure insects within a radius of two and a half kilometers and um let's see do and kill them but there are some concerns that have been raised so two of these billboards have been installed in Rio de Janeiro and they're using technical specifications that they've actually published for free online by Chris Jackson Jackson ejection Jackson a pest control expert at the University of Southampton told the BBC that the billboard could inadvertently cause more people to be bitten depending on where it is placed and just give me one second Brendon who did you give that phone to okay King bring him back here thank you so I've actually got a pretty cool graphic for how it works here I'm just gonna go ahead and pull this up on the screen so a device spreads in the air and a solution containing the lactic acid and co2 okay so it spreads in the air this solution the combination of the two substances attracts mosquitoes that this claims the distance of up to four kilometers fluorescent lights enhance this attraction facilitating the approximation and I think they need an approach of the mosquito and then as the ADEs flies on average four feet above the ground the catch mechanism was designed to be there it draws the mosquito into the panel and after being stuck the mosquito dies dehydrated so it doesn't zap them in the sense that it like those like those awesome paddle bug zapper things but it does kill them eventually which i guess is is all we can all we can really ask hey Brandon where is he okay did you tell him to move quickly I can't hold on I'm streaming from that phone I'm dropping frames he needs to get over here right away thank you sorry all right so this was originally posted by Yami Yuki senpai and this is pretty much the worst news ever la eco formerly who formerly went by the name of lit CV Lee TV revealed their low to range of smartphones none of which have a three and a half millimeter jack so instead the phone supports USB type-c digital headphones through the charging port they also launched a USBC earphones Q and a USB C headphone skew to accompany it so let's have a look at the original article over on Android Authority which I would I would love to click on but Google talks is being such a dirt bike now and making it hard for me to click stuff there we go so after all the rumors about Apple launching a phone with no headphone jack it turns out that an Android phone maker is going to be the first one I really I get I get a kick out of it what are they why why what is the point like I get that they're kind of going oh yeah well you know we're gonna build this ecosystem with like earphones and headphones that work with it but it's like such a hassle like what if I don't know say for example you were sitting down to stream LaLanne show and you wanted to quickly plug your your headphones that you normally use with your phone into your streaming computer so you can check audio levels it's alright Oh bummer it's USB type-c I guess it's just not gonna work with anything and it's one thing if you were to release like some kind of a killer pair of headphones that rounds up the ecosystem and makes it make a ton of sense but that's not yeah that's not gonna help if you're just some random Android maker and your headphones and earphones to be clear haven't heard them but are probably terrible like probably just just awful let's go ahead and see if we can find any pictures of the device that would be that'd be super cool I mean to see if pocket now has pictures up on their site but yeah I mean there's really not much else to say it's not it's not a product that I would be that I would be especially interested in one way or the other and unfortunately the pocket now article is not loading for me at the moment but yeah speaking of products that I'm not particularly interested in this was originally posted by lots of unexplainable lag on the forum and the original article here is from Mac rumors calm but Apple has updated not the MacBook Air not the product we were actually hoping that they would update you know one that has enough thinness but maybe not quite as much thinness but you know good battery life but maybe not as a good battery life but actually has ports on it no no they didn't give the MacBook Air Retina display so it really does look like the MacBook Air is is a is a foregone conclusion at this point I think it's a done deal it's gone they have updated the 12-inch MacBook so now it has skylake CPU options a longer battery life and a rose gold option so six generation skylake dual core Core M processors up to 1.3 gigahertz HD graphics 515 delivering 25% faster performance for all the games that you will presumably be playing on your macbook faster PCI Express base of storage okay I can't complain about that an additional hour of battery life faster 1866 megahertz memory gold full addition to the existing gold silver and Space Gray colors unfortunately Apple in its infinite wisdom did not feel it was necessary to add any ports to it so while I wasn't gonna buy one anyway I find that frustrating just because for the sake of the people buying this product it would be it would be considerate of Apple to you know care about them enough to give them some ports to use you know man I just I feel bad for the Apple people Apple people buying this yeah all right uh-oh more car scandals the opie here is num lock 21 I'm gonna see if refreshing Google Docs helps here this is driving me crazy it's doing that weird thing where there's like the line you're trying to click on and you put your mouse there and it clicks like an inch higher or something like that yeah there we go reloading the page hub so euro news.com has the original article about Mitsubishi Motors faking their fuel economy tests they actually got raided like go figure raided so their shares plunged on Thursday following an admission that they faked fuel economy data on car sold in Japan they ended up losing 3.2 billion in market value over a mere three days they apologized on Wednesday saying they will make a sincere effort to make amends to car owners and Transport Minister the Transport Minister of Japan wants Mitsubishi to look at the possibility of buying back the cars that could be even more costly than what Volkswagen went through Wow Mitsubishi will also have to pay subsidies granted to consumers if data shows its cars do not meet the necessary fuel economy standards I mean I don't know I don't know what the takeaway here is part of the takeaway is these companies are bad and they did really bad things and you know I don't know if that makes some bad people sometimes good people do bad things but faking fuel economy ratings is pretty bad I mean you're lying to your customers you're lying to your government you are polluting the economy aren't polluting the economy you're polluting the environment more than you said you were like these these targets exist for a reason we're trying to reduce our ecological impact but with that said it also raises questions about the about whether introducing laws governing how much you know co2 or how much are governing the emissions that cars can output whether that's actually the solution or if you have to do something else I mean I've argued for a long time that here in Vancouver public transit is basically unusable if you have a job public transit is is pretty difficult to use Vancouver is such a suburban sprawl it just it just spreads and all in all directions rather than building up like many other cities have and our infrastructure is just awful outside of the of the urban core to the point where something that is a half an hour drive could easily take two two and a half hours on a bus and if you value your time at all like you could even just work another job in the four hours of commuting that you save per day in order to have a car and not just sit around on the bus so rather than just kind of tell companies hey you have to have lower emissions you know maybe making changes that make it easier for people to use mass transit would be a better solution but of course that's very easy for me to sit here and say I mean I don't actually have to run the country thank goodness alright Oh more bad news posted by Phoenix arising on the forum and the original article here is from the CNN Money Microsoft's profits fall by 25 percent not an insignificant amount sort of a sort of a lousy quarter but not all of this is necessarily entirely their fault so q1 2015 5 billion dollars profit q1 2016 3.8 billion but part of the reason that it fell 25% was due to a higher than expected tax rate and a strong US dollar okay sales are down from 20 points 21.7 to 20 point five billion sales for consumer versions grew 15% Enterprise version declined 11% for Windows although this I don't know could have something to do with that we got a consumer version of Windows that was not accompanied by server version I mean sir Server 2016 is nowhere to be found yet if anything it's probably kind of happy but you know enterprise sales will need a client a little bit like I personally would be trying to put off a server purchase until Server 2016 shows up if I had any say in the matter at this point office 365 consumer base reached twelve point four million in 2001 2015 and grew to twenty two point two million in 2016 I will say I contributed to that I love office 365 as your is up Xbox is up so basically yeah OS is OS is not growing the way they would like and they were taxed higher than they thought I'm glad they're at least paying taxes so you know good guy Microsoft I guess anyway well so we got this is interesting so original a post tears from Engadget the Canadian province of Quebec contemplates mandating home evie charging stations expects a decision by the start of this summer I don't really understand what they're hoping to accomplish by that I mean I can see how investing in infrastructure throughout the province like public infrastructure could help the adoption of an e V because in my mind like as someone considering purchasing an electric vehicle I would love to buy an electric vehicle it's just not really in my price range right now but as someone considering it after I've spent the 25 to 30 thousand dollars on an e V you know hundreds more or even you know low thousands more for the charging station is not the end of the world I mean you think about it like a phone like if you walk in you buy a $500 phone are you that concerned about the $30 charger at the same time like I consider it part of the purchase part of the decision that someone buying that vehicle would have to make so this really and and and my decision as far as what the government can do to help would have more to do with mandating businesses or installing these charging stations in public places than to do with whether or not I have to buy a charging station to put in my garage so this again smacks of the government thinking that just introducing a regulation is going to somehow address some kind of a problem and change consumer behavior at no cost to themselves because basically they're just making builders stomach it and they're making consumers who don't necessarily want one and aren't ready for one and could have easily waited another five years when they were ready for a new car and bought one then when it's cheaper and they're making them foot the bill instead of just investing in the infrastructure themselves see oh yeah yeah speaking of investing you know who invested in our trip to PAX East yes my friends our friends from oh that uh oh my lower third is gone hopefully I can find my lower third come on lower third whoo let's see what path it's supposed to be in of course of course mousing over it didn't help and of course I do understand why that's not working and there is basically nothing I can do about it right now so our sponsors were Logitech G and discord so Logitech G you're probably familiar with you can check out their new G 900 Wireless Gaming Mouse over at amazon.com I will link that in the twitch chat this is the one that Luke went all the way to Switzerland to check out and basically see how it is that Logitech validated it to run as effortlessly and as stable E as a wired mouse even though it doesn't have a wire pretty freakin cool little piece of 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watching this on YouTube then you can go ahead and you can check that out at the link in the video description but it looks pretty freakin good I know that Nick and Colton actually did their conference call with discord about this deal on discord so yeah I mean what else would ease it's like you know hey do you wanna I don't know use the telephone be like telephones ancient technology Oh what else we got here other sponsor lynda.com if you somehow are not familiar with lynda.com by this point then I will tell you about it lynda.com is used by millions of people around the world they have more than 3000 courses available and they are taught by experts in the topics of things like web development photography visual design video editing business productivity application use pretty much whatever you could want you Excel WordPress Photoshop whatever you could want to kickstart your hobby or your career they have new courses that are added every week and they've got a lot of new tools that 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lunch elves but ten and a half years ten and a half years ago the Xbox 360 launched and we are finally finally rid of it Microsoft's phil spencer wrote a few paragraphs about its success saying xbox 360 means a lot to everyone in Microsoft and while we've had an amazing run the realities of manufacturing a product over a decade old are starting to creep up on us which is why we've made the decision to stop manufacturing new Xbox 360 consoles we will continue to sell existing inventory with availability varying by country xbox live will remain active as will the Xbox 360s various stores and online services and the Xbox one is actually adding support for backward ways adding backwards compatibility support for some 360 games so there you have it there you have it the Xbox 360 is finally no more I'm actually probably gonna pick up a handful of Xbox 360 controllers before like getting peripherals for dying console madness hat I want to get a couple that are in good condition because it's still my favorite controller I really don't like the shape of the DualShock and I really do prefer it to the Xbox one controller so there you go let's see what else we got hmm oh this is interesting original article here is from a non tech comm WD is introducing WD gold hard drives they have added yet another color it's available in capacities from four to six to eight terabytes and effectively pretty much replaces the SE lineup oh that's funny and pretty much four places their existing se lineup which was kind of like like a high capacity enterprise but not as expensive as re not quite as expense not quite as high performance as re so basically the the color branding is almost complete I'm surprised they called it gold I would have thought they would save gold for our II but maybe they're gonna call that platinum or something I don't know it's tuned similarly 2 WD red drives rated for 24/7 use and workloads of up to 550 terabytes a year with a five-year warranty cool ah this is this is just kind of funny this is originally original post here is over on cbc.ca rust players outraged after half of them given female avatars in some kind of attempt to appease sjw's I suppose now this wouldn't be that big of an issue if they hadn't been changed without the players even being notified and permanently so your player just boom they didn't fell under a feature that randomly makes your character a man or a woman they actually randomized features for your current permanent character like skin color Lin length and even penis size so developers Gary Numan and Taylor olds expected this backlash and addressed it on their community dev vlog that's great we understand this is a sore subject for a lot of people we understand that you may now be a gender that you don't identify with in real life we understand this causes you to suppress and fix you not want to play the game anymore technically nothing has changed since half the population was already living with those feelings the only difference is that whether you feel like this is now decided by your steam ID instead of your real-life gender this is really just the first pass of an ongoing rework of the player model I'll continue to add variations over the coming weeks which means you're probably not stuck with your new face forever we've got a decent synced workflow between the assets I make in ZBrush and the assets you'll see in-game now so it opens up a lot of scope to easily add or change features without a great deal of technical faffing in between what so we heard that lots of people you know don't identify with gender X or Y or some combination of the two and that makes them unhappy so we thought as a game developer we take our customers and we would have them experience that on some scale because we something okay ah we've got more details about the PlayStation 4 K which we don't know if it's the confirmed name I don't know if we talked about some of this stuff last week I believe we actually did but we've got a handy dandy little chart this time so I can go ahead and fire that up for you guys so eight Jaguar cores eight more Jaguar cores we'll know exactly the same number of eight jaguar cores in fact same architecture but higher clock speed ok GCN better GCN ok higher clocked more compute units memory looks like it's got a bandwidth increase but is actually still the same eight gigs so there you go yep this is cool so this was originally posted by strider 721 on the forum the original article here is from the verge counter-strike hacked to run on android phones this is cool now to be clear this is not csgo this is kind of strike 1.6 but how cool is that right play this love it oh man so let's get some details here so this is the work of programmer that a Lebec Oh merav who's experienced in making old PC games run on Android he's created touchscreen controls for the game so to get it to work on your Android device you download the sash X ash it's XA sh 3d software have the games on your steam account to copy the files across and the port does apparently support peripherals which is pretty cool because with an on-the-go cable I have actually tested this with an OTG cable and a film that supports OTG and just a normal USB hub you can plug in pretty much whatever you could possibly want powered USB hub otherwise you are definitely going to have issues running like you know large 104 key like RGB backlit keyboards so I think that pretty much does it for the win show thank you to all of you who went ahead and stuck with me through the technical difficulties on the show today really do appreciate it I will see you guys next week same bat-time same bat-channel actually we will I see you guys next week I may be traveling next week we have a lot of like a lot of the team is traveling a lot no I wait what yeah Brandon's like gone forever yeah Linus and Edie are in San Francisco until yes next Friday so I'll see if I'm remoting in or I'll see if I'm not but if I don't Luke will be hosting the show cuz he'll be back by then this is the problem with like you tell people take your vacation and then no one does it and then you tell people look you're not gonna be able to take it in q4 cuz it's busy and then everyone just takes off mind you most of this is work stuff actually only Brandon's taking vacation cuz he's not a team player you heard me all right see you guys