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and where audio problems are just the beginnings of our failure so today I am even later than I was supposed to be because I had some some audio issues there and I do apologize for that every time I set up in a completely new and different environment it's always a new and different adventure so today I put together my streaming pack at the XA xx camera a tripod the razorblade laptop a capture card a mouse a mouse pad razor blade laptop which unfortunately doesn't have wired Ethernet so I had to bring along my handy dandy little USB to Ethernet adapter and then I borrowed a table and I borrowed a place to stream from from the NCIX guys so my original brilliant plan was actually to film everything that I needed back at our studio today and then come out to NCIX to film later and do the LAN show from here which would save me a trip to Richmond later tonight when I come out to play till 8:00 to play badminton apparently my mic is too loud well I can't turn it down much so okay recording devices blip Adeeb Wapiti levels hopefully that's fine not much not much I can do other than just guess at this point because me having my monitoring on seems to be what caused the problems before so there you go guys um apparently peaking still it's echo in the room mic good you guys drive me absolutely - you guys drive me absolutely crazy with this stuff you're killing me here so yeah all right we're just gonna have to roll but you know what maybe Jack can help me out hey yeah Jack are you on the stream does it sound okay I've got people saying it's too loud people saying it's too quiet people saying that they've had too much bourbon to drink today and they can't hear anything they're they're blind and they can't hear so uh yeah alright so I'm gonna go ahead and kick off with our first topic of the day I do not have Luke on the stream today he is actually on vacation today so he's gone to the Pemberton Music Festival whatever that thing is called fortunately the wildfires haven't completely gotten out of control up there so the music festival is a go he and Nick and Buerkle have all gone up for the weekend so that means I am on my own today for the land show but the good news is that I have a bunch of great topics for you guys today including the recent reveal that skylake Zeon's are gonna be rumored to have up to 28 CPU cores I mean I thought the current 18 core has well beast Xeon that I had was like wow that's so amazing it's got 18 cores no no we're talking 28 course Apple is apparently being sued over the iWatch trademark something that makes a ton of sense because their watch is called the eye watch at least I think CollegeHumor told me that it was called the eye watch more on that later also boeing has apparently patented a laser powered fusion fishin jet engine concept fusion and fishin and lasers I mean does it get any better than that yes it does when I roll the intro I fix it all right so let's kick off our first topic of the day actually this is okay we're a parent li gonna start with like the worst news of the day so Nintendo released a statement you can actually check that out hear that yeah no different wow this is like I just it's hard for me to imagine if if my life were to be summarized in such a succinctly ficient manner like like if linus media group issued like a notification of death and personnel change of a representative director so president of Nintendo Satoru Iwata has passed away at the age of merely 55 which you know a couple thousand years ago would have been impressive that he managed to be so to be so old and still alive but today feels like he's been taken away from us much much too young I just oh man there's something very there's something very cold about this this document here career record June 2010 as director May 2002 appointed as president June 2003 appointed as CEO of Nintendo of America Inc so that is if you're if you're into gaming that is some that is some pretty crummy news he actually has been with Nintendo for a very long time started out with Hal worked on Kirby as well as earthbound total cult classic a lot of people cutting their RPG gaming teeth on earthbound and other games of that era later worked on programming for the Pokemon games push development of the Wii and DS however you may or may not feel about this it seemed like a good direction for Nintendo at the time they had some of their most successful years ever so push development of the Wii and the DS to appeal to people who weren't necessarily gamers yet so really recognize that gaming was becoming more than just something that people do in their mom's basement and passed away from bile duct cancer so very very unfortunate news for this week yeah so so there you go I guess that's what we're that's what we're starting with this week Star Wars Battlefront more bad news for I mean obviously to a much to a much lesser degree the original article here is from PC gamer and actually I'm totally thrown off by not having my not having my co-host with me today so I'm gonna go ahead and pop that link into the twitch chat before I bring it up in my browser here I actually really like this this one host having the article like quite large beside me and actually scrollable and mostly viewable kind of thing maybe I should just kick Luke off the wind show permanently no I'm just kidding I'm not going to do that Star Wars Battlefront won't support split screen play on the PC now I don't personally understand why most PC gamers would have ever expected this it's not like the typical PC gaming you know you know like you go on you know are / PC master-race or or battle stations or whatever you're not going to find a whole lot of PC setups that are like yeah here's my PC you hooked up to like a big monitor with four controllers for all my split-screen you know racing gaming with my friends it's just it's it's not something that we've typically seen on the PC but the flip side of that is I would love to see more of those things that are taken for granted on the consoles supported on the PC because it's not like you can't hook up an Xbox controller or four to a PC and have a really great cooperative or competitive gaming experience with your friends on a single display and yeah so supports co-op play on Xbox one and ps4 but not PC so no split-screen and no local co-op it good black of co-op games on the PC is another one that really grinds my gears but I don't really need to get too deep into that because I'm sure that you guys have heard that in the past from me a fair bit so we've still got a lot of people saying the jack you're sure the stream is not too quiet right Oh jack is gone Jack are you sure the stream is not too quiet he put on headphones okay I'll tell you what I will turn it up a little bit there are we happy hopefully we're happy I really hope we're happy you guys are driving me crazy twitch chat now I know I saw someone's chat message in the twitch chat like blah you know you don't interact with your with your twitch chat viewers at all you know why because you guys are usually trolling the crap out of me that's why I can't interact with you you have lost your interaction privileges that is what happened here that is what happened my friends so let's go ahead and move on to our next topic here ah yes IBM and Nvidia launched supercomputer centers of excellence you guys supercomputer centers of excellence let's go ahead and pull this article up bippity Boppity news items redirecting so basically what this amounts to is here we go at both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and I want to say some other location it's in my notes but not here so these are oh wow there's actually oh I remember reading this article I'm thinking oh yeah this is all like interesting stuff blah blah I hope it's in my it's in my notes it's actually not in the notes I'm just going to cheat and look at the article so Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore in they're going to be delivered in 2017 and operational by 2018 and they're going to be called the yep sure wish I had this oh okay yeah there you go got the memo so they're gonna be called summit and Sierra so these are part of IBM's whole contract with the US Department of Energy and they're gonna be used for a number of really cool things so some of it is going to be kind of your typical supercomputing stuff like you know weather mapping that kind of stuff you know just staying ahead on the in the supercomputer rat race of the you know the other the other nations that are working on their own proprietary supercomputer systems China and then some of the stuff that they're gonna be doing is really cool so one of them is apparently gonna be set to the task of mapping the inside of the earth I mean can you even begin to imagine what kind of useful information that we could possibly gain about the inside of the earth whether it's to do with the compensate composition whether it's to do with you know Wow like it's yeah it's sort of more than my imagination can handle so yeah mapping the inside of the earth which actually leads me to another really cool topic Samsung has apparently filed a patent so the original article here is from Android authority let's go ahead and pop this up here alright let's go ahead and post this in the twitch chat samsung has apparently patented a sensor to detect your body fat so we know that whether it's Apple or whether it's Samsung or whether it's any other profitable smartphone maker which more on that a little bit later there aren't a whole lot of them whether it's Apple or whether it's Samsung smartphone makers are really into the whole idea of making your phone or your SmartWatch or whatever other devices you're carrying around with you making them into whether wow I want to be really careful what I say here because what I was about to say was making them into useful tools for you know monitoring your health and living a more active lifestyle when really my personal philosophy on this whole thing is that it doesn't do much of anything other than make you make you want to buy it more like I think it's just a pure sales pitch if we can convince someone that buying this phone or buying this SmartWatch will make them lose 20 pounds then it's that whole buying something based on self-image rather than buying something based on like a rational decision anyway it's no secret that they that they want not only to make us feel like they're useful for these things but to actually make them functionally better for these things so this is a huge step in that direction because there's only so much information that you can get from a pedometer and as my time with the Apple watch has definitely taught me it's not that much this so I mean I'd be sitting there I'd be sitting there working on my review one feature that I didn't use because I'm just not that into the whole health features thing on on phones and smartwatches so one feature that I didn't touch the whole time I was naturally using the product for my review was one where you can set a predetermined workout so you can say like hey I want to you know burn X number of calories by walking really fast so hey can you count me down on this and I'll you know go do that so I was just dinking around with the menu and I turned that on and then I kind of forgot about it and then I realized you know 10 minutes later that I had actually tracked I think it was something like 4% of my brisk walking exercise and I had literally been sitting there writing a review about the Apple watch and how I don't actually think those kinds of features are that useful so Apple went ahead and proved my point for me there but if they could measure body fat that may actually give us some usable data over the much longer term you know I you the problem though is that that doesn't really tell us a big picture unless it's accompanied by accurate data and that that's another real challenge is even the Apple watch which was hailed as you know going to be game-changing with all of the health related body related sensors on it even the Apple watch has been found to not be that accurate of a heart rate monitor unless you like you're practically bolt it to your wrist so so this body fat thing without other accurate data doesn't really give us a whole picture but it's definitely a move in the right direction because over a span of you know six months or whatever else if you see significant changes if you're taking measurements day you know even if they're not that and I'm gonna say the wrong one because accurate and precise are not the same thing for those of you who didn't know that one of them means close to the real value the other one means consistently a value but maybe not necessarily that close so so even if the reading is not that precise I think that's the one where if you're not precise you could be scattered but probably around you could still be accurate so if they're accurate but not precise taking many readings over a long period of time could give you some really useful data about what it is you're doing and whether or not is helping and you know with the way that with the way that Fitness vlogging and lifestyle vlogging is taking off I mean even in the the tech community of all places you look at guys like like Jay or Jerry that are doing frequent updates on their personal fitness goals I mean that kind of stuff is great and giving people new tools is great but it still doesn't change it still doesn't change my perception of these features as tacking things on to a product that seemed to be designed to sell them to us rather than designed for people to genuinely use them so that patent was just granted so there's no word as of yet on when we will see this technology in phones but the idea is that you would just hold your smartphone and it would measure your body fat percentage using electrical impedance readings so very cool stuff I guess that leads us pretty well into this this next topic here this is absolutely mind-blowing and I will show it to you guys in a second so the latest estimates here there we go Oh Luke is Luke always does it the not lazy way and makes it so it doesn't leave that ugly Google link in the twitch chat that sorry I'm running the show by myself today here guys I apologize report Apple takes 92% of smartphone market profits on just 20% of sales so to put that number in perspective this is this is a Wall Street Journal quote roughly a thousand companies make smartphones one of those companies reaps nearly all the profits is that not absolutely mind-boggling and you can point to a lot of different causes for this you can point to the fact that Apple's hardware is frankly not that high speck compared to a flagship Android phone that's gonna have eight CPU cores in it a high end GPU although Apple does put powerful GPUs in their in their smartphones it's gonna have you know 1440p display apple doesn't Apple doesn't have any smart phones that feature 1440 displays they just finally went 1080p with the iPhone 6 plus you know Android makers have been putting NFC in their phones for years whereas Apple only just finally rolled that out Android phone makers I mean these are things that everyone has to pay the same amount for in fact thanks to apples well their buying power thanks to apples buying power they'd probably don't even pay the same for things like like memory or a flash storage Apple doesn't put as much RAM in their smart phones because they can control the operating system to the point where they simply do not need it so there's a lot of reasons I mean Apple charges a high price for every phone they sell you can look at Samsung and go oh well you know they have a 600 or $700 phone or whatever line is that's an s6 acting that's a $600 phone s6 edge is an expensive phone yeah but the thing is that companies like Samsung are also spending R&D money on developing low-end phones where the sale price is actually much closer to the bond cost of the unit then you would probably think because you know that's that's one of the things you know those articles that come out every time a new iPhone or a new Galaxy S whatever is released where someone doesn't tear down and is like okay well the bond cost for this panel and that motion sensor and that button is is whatever it happens to be and you kind of go wow really that thing only cost like 130 dollars to make and it's $600 retail so think about this for a second the R&D that goes into producing a phone is gonna be a lot regardless of whether it's a $600 phone or a $200 phone and if your cost on a high-end phone can only be as high as like 150 170 bucks then your cost on a $200 phone in order to make you know $400 of gross margin on it well gee that that math doesn't work at all and something a lot of people don't realize is that a flagship you know Snapdragon 810 actually doesn't cost that much more than an 808 there isn't a huge discount because much like what you'll see on you see this on desktop processors - you can buy an extreme edition for $1000 or you can buy you know 5820k for 350 bucks or whatever that is those two chips cost the same so when you are responsible for actually manufacturing the chips you get actually like you can sell it for a lot but then your your cost to manufacture it and therefore your discount that you can give on lower end products isn't necessarily that different so so if you're making low-end smartphones you are basically buying market share you got to have some other kind of agenda whether you want people signed up for you know your your partner apps that you're including on the phone or whether you want people locked into like what Samsung was doing for the longest time where they'd include all their own you know Mail app and App Store like if you want to if you want to make future app sales and take a cut of that or whatever else the case may be because you are not making money on that handset once you factor in Rd and the margins that the carriers want to make or the retailer's want to make or whatever else so um just to give you guys some idea of what the rest of the landscape looks like Samsung took a further 15 percent of the profits which is kind of kind of a funny way of doing the math because if Apple took 92% and Samsung took 15% hold on a second that's 107 percent of the profit in the smartphone industry Linus what're you doing um well that's because pretty much everyone else out there is making a loss on their smartphones to make up for that money that Samsung and are gonna make it's amazing what a reversal there's been in the last few years I mean it was a mere three years ago that hold on a second that we were looking at 5050 between Samsung and Apple for these numbers whereas Apple has just absolutely you know it's it's really funny go figure Apple got even more dominant than before by delivering what people obviously wanted I mean how many people bought a Galaxy Note simply because they had this is a great strawpoll okay I want the iPhone users to answer this for me though let me just apparently there's a new version of strawpoll launching at some point here so how many bought a note or similar large okay okay how many converted okay from iPhone to Android simply because Apple offered no sorry I'm talking really slow no large screen offer yeah it's hard to talk while you type and not talk at the same speed that you type while slowing down your typing because you're trying to talk at the same time all right so let's go with yes no and turnip as usual I actually really like having the stream computer right in front of me here it is super duper awesome and nice so there we go guys vote in that straw poll let's have a look at the results here as they come in many of you voting for turnip which by the way is our latest shirt and is available right now at teespring comm slash vote number four turnip let's go ahead and drop that in there and go back to our straw poll here really interesting so there you go go figure apples even more dominant today with their super premium pricing high-end devices simply by giving the people what they have been asking for for like what was it three years between the release of the first note and the iPhone six-plus personally not a huge fan of the iPhone six-plus I have small hands but hey a lot of people want it it is better for the media enjoyment experience it's something that I have noticed going from the LG g4 to the s6 active which is the phone review that I'm working on at the moment here it's about 60% of you voting for turnip really do appreciate the turnip voters showing up in full force here I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the twitch chat is always trolling me when I encourage them to you know turn up all over everything it is that we're doing which isn't to say that I want to hear about fire pools any more ever again at all yeah I mean really guys really there is nothing that I can do I cannot put a fire pole in the office for obvious liability reasons you guys oh okay so we've got more news articles here let's go ahead and I'm gonna grab the Linus tech tips forum link here I'm gonna wait for the redirect this time post that in the Twitter where'd my twitch Django where's my twitch it and the twitch chat has exploded asking for fire poles of course that was going to happen researchers build a transistor from a molecule and a few atoms it's funny because this lands on the same week when we've got news out of intel that they are going to be for the first time and i think what is it i want to say like six years or something like that intel has changed their forecasts saying that they are not going to be able to stick to their tik-tok strategy which is a dye shrink every every other cycle and then a refinement of their microarchitecture every other cycle may have been like on schedule they called it tick-tock because it was going to be reliable like a clock moore's law was not going to let us down well for the first time ever intel has stumbled and then boom we've got news dropping that reese our building transistors from a molecule and a few atoms so it works similarly to quantum dots but the transistor depends on just the charge state of one organic molecule so just a single electron affects the molecule state with individual atoms of indium surrounding the molecule and regulating the electron flow this could lead to integrating these sorts of transistors into traditional CPU so this isn't like some crazy like oh it's only gonna be useful for like you know quantum computers that are liquid helium cooled or whatever the case may be you know this could turn into something that you could actually use in your computer extremely exciting stuff which leads us into those those other I mean these are fairly rapid-fire news topics but I'm still going to go ahead and post these badboys here so tsmc is going to be starting testing on their 10 nanometer process starting next year which is another another huge huge bit of news so competition between samsung and tsmc in 10 nanometer FinFET market heats up will hold on a second where does Intel figure into all this Intel well that's our next news topic so for now let's just talk about TSMC and Samsung so TSM C is apparently ramping things up and really putting their foot on the pedal in order to have a crack at Apple's a10 processor production so I guess that also would align with the rumors that Apple's a10 processor will be produced in 10 9 out of 10 nanometer process nodes so that could reeled apparently and this is sort of this is all for caste stuff so it's not really that meaningful today but we're looking at a potential 20% performance gain with a 40% reduction in power consumption who here oh this is a good one strawpoll time my friends if Apple gets a 40% power consumption reduction on the a-10 will Apple use it to extend battery life yes or no remember guys the other option is that Apple will simply turn it into thinner iPhones and iPads yet again completely ignoring the fact that some people like me legitimately want just more freakin battery life Wow we've got these votes coming in here guys with 72% even turnip is losing this vote today a massive 70% of you are saying no Apple will not use the power savings to extend battery life and there are legitimately good things they could do with it for example I've been saying well since my MacBook review that I think the direction that Apple's heading is a MacBook like an ultra portable laptop that is powered by their tablet processors and smartphone processors so that's something they could do they could use that extra 20% you know performance and then 40 percent power to like actually make a bigger chip that consumes you know a similar amount of power but it's like actually like way higher performance and they could go and put it in a laptop or on the phone and on the tablet side they could just make them thinner and I like how many Bend gates do we need how many Bend gates do we need that's all I have to say it looks like the vast majority of you are reinforcing my disappointing hunch that Apple is going to ignore people like me who I'm even I even ran out on the s6 active one day which kind of surprised me because that's a thirty-five hundred million power battery compared to I think it's I want to say 38 50 or something like that on the Droid turbo so um yeah I actually ran out one day usually I make it through like I'm I'm sitting at 28% today though but I have used it fairly heavily with GPS and all that kind of noise Wow I feel like I've been talking a mile a minute on this stream but apparently you guys like that we have 6400 viewers what is going on we are halfway through this show that is absolutely incredible now I don't want to screw it up and talk about like some kind of boring topic like let's play what's on the desk here at the NCIX studio here we go oh look at that we've got an Intel 750 series 1.2 terabyte SSD just sitting here we've got another Intel 750 series 1.2 terabyte SSD this time in a 2 and 1/2 inch form factor no no Jack that's cheating I'm not taking your McDonald's Happy Meal nonsense on only things that are within my reach we've got a 4 Way SLI bridge ah random cheapo IO shield yeah oh is this under NDA what is this no - OH - are you sure Oh Oh is there computing there nope just a power supply I'm just weak oh well that's disappointing so I guess we've got one of these it's funny because I had a call with someone today where I was told not to publish my review yet so whose fault is it then if we break an NDA on my show with your review sample yeah I think it's probably my show that's that's gonna get the take the fall for this one oh I can't tell I thought it was a Samsung curved 24-inch monitor but it turned out it was actually a Samsung flat 24-inch monitor got 24 inches it the whole curve thing doesn't make a whole ton of sense to me personally all right we don't have to play this game anymore that was fun though Oh actually these are these are super handy we are finally getting some of these in our studio we're getting a bunch of a bunch of clear ones for storage of things oh here's the curved one look a curved monitor it's curved which is good at least that's what I tell her yep curved for her pleasure mine so I'm pretty sure that depends on the direction of the curve and like the position at the time cuz like you know like a 180 degree turn you know from certain angles might actually be quite uncomfortable oh look I haven't managed to scare off that many of you I was gonna see if I just go off on a completely stupid tangent how many of you are gonna are gonna hate me forever and and to note wow I'm seriously thank you guys for tuning in anyway let's move on to our next topic today Intel reportedly delays their 10 nanometer mass production due to poor yields so let's go ahead and post the post the link to the forum here alright let's go ahead and pull the article up on ARS technica here alright Intel confirms tik-tok shattering kb lake processor as Moore's law falters so the company will make three generations of 14 nanometer processors delaying the switch to 10 nanometer and you know what it might not necessarily be the end of the world I mean you look at what NVIDIA has managed to do stuck on 28 nanometer for a freaking dog's age I mean think about that first I can look at the improvements we saw in efficiency as well as performance going from Kepler to Maxwell in spite of the fact that they were stuck on the same manufacturing process node maybe the engineers of Intel can pull you know magic duck out of their hats and turn this into a positive an opportunity to optimize their 14 nanometer processors in a way that maybe they didn't think about before because they were just relying on on process node shrinks or or maybe none of that will happen I mean what I would love to see happen you know we've seen a lot of bad news out of Intel in the last few weeks here whether it's the job cuts or whether it's the you know the stagnant desktop processor sales leading to you know an earnings shortfall prediction like that that kind of stuff maybe what this will do is its be a bit of a you know wake up and smell the coffee call for them to really innovate in terms of performance because we've seen them innovate in a lot of ways like let's face it as much as enthusiasts might not get you know excited about 10 watts of better you know power savings or whatever the thing that we enthusiasts need to realize is that if Intel can build that that means that they could probably build a more complex higher performance chip that consumed a similar amount of power even if it's not you know double the performance hey I would take a you know 30% you know generation over generation performance improvement like we used to see sometimes in an absolute freaking heartbeat so I would love to see Intel find a way to capture the the hearts of the enthusiasts and not just not just the minds by you know maybe dialing back all the graphics onboard of an enthusiast grade CPU maybe dialing up the single threaded performance would love to see them just kind of take a look take a long hard look at where they're heading and and figure out if it's exactly the right direction and you know I I hate to do this but AMD did their earnings call q2 2015 hold on I don't actually have this in the dock here but edited transcript blah blah blah blah blah dang it did anyone do an article yea revenue Falls again this and this and this blah blah blah let's see blah blah blahs and whatever etc okay so crap I can't find it I actually talked about it on net link daily today but AMD has can you can you can you remind me what was it they're going ten nanometer in 2017 or something like that no they've taped out they taped out what okay AMD's first FinFET processor has taped out which means we actually could be closer than we thought so that was one of the things they covered on their earnings all this is a huge opportunity with because you gotta understand guys if Intel decides to build like a consumer-grade you know like a like you know like something 770 K processor with more of an emphasis on CPU and less emphasis on GPU and power savings in blabbity blah that takes years it takes years to turn that around so if AMD is already you know waist-deep in the development process of Zen and then turns out to be a success man we could see another you know golden year or golden two years out of AMD on the CPU side and we could see like some legitimate reasons for an enthusiast to buy an AMD CPU I really hope for this for two reasons number one you know I put an AMD CPU a lot of people call me a fanboy they'll call me an Intel fanboy or an Nvidia fanboy and something I'd like you guys to understand is that AMD will always hold an ATI for that matter AMD will always hold a very special place in my heart even though they absorbed ATI although funny thing is AMD is worth I think it was something like a quarter of what they paid for Haiti I think today anyway they'll always hold a special a special place in my heart because the very first computer I built for myself AMD processor guys Barton 2500 plus my friends overclocked the snot out of that thing made it 32 hundred plus equivalent which I told myself at the time because let's face it when I was young I was a bit of a fanboy I told myself at the time that that was somehow equivalent to a 3.2 gigahertz you know p4 C which come on come on AMD fans let's let's be honest with ourselves for a second here the performance rating system was dead was dead long before the the p4 c launched Pentium 4 B was not that equivalent to aim DS PR or you know press release or public relations or performance rating whatever they wanted to call that system and actually the first ad in graphics card I ever bought ATI and my friends 9600 all in wonder Pro BAM so you know I'd love to see a return to the glory days there even if you know I've been disappointed time and time and time and time and time again with the latest being the fury accent you know AMD does it to themselves guys they they build up this hype train they build up this hype train and then and then they under-deliver and you know the fact of the matter is I can't help myself as an enthusiast I just want to see fast Hardware like I'm not that focused on who what brand makes it these days I couldn't care less I just want to make it go fast you know what I mean and I still I still have some hope for the this this 19 centimeter theory-based card that's apparently gonna be launching sometime in mid-august I don't know if I actually have an article here in the doc for that one but that was just something that I was that I was reading about so I think I just I think I just completely broke the document and all that is so nice ghosts who deserves a shout out because he does so much behind the scenes for the way and show member of the Linus tech tips community ghosts he actually fixed me over writing a bunch of crap in the doc while I was looking at it he helps flesh out the topics he coordinates the folks who put together the time stamps and sends that to me so I can go ahead and get that posted for you guys and look at this has added the kick guru article that I'll go ahead I'll post this in the twitch chat here boom and I'll go ahead and pull this up here about AMD's FinFET whoops keep clicking the wrong thing because I've I've set up my scenes differently Andy we have taped out our first FinFET product first couple of FinFET designs blip Adeeb Wapiti etcetera etc need for production etc so tape out is the final stage of the design design cycle of an integrated circuit the point at which the artwork of the IC is sent to the maker of photomasks okay so once the set of photo lithic masks is made and verified it is sent to a contract manufacturer for the chip which produces the first working samples of the chip so they should get their first samples sometime in September very exciting stuff and hopefully they're headed in the right direction here all right what else we got here oh speaking of ballin processors as much as Intel hasn't delivered much for you know gamers to wet their panties over in the last few generations here this is gonna get some server and you know high performance computing folks pretty freaking excited here so original article here is from kid guru Intel's 28 core Xeon codenamed skylake CPUs to support six terabytes of RAM on an LGA 3467 form factor with a rumored six channel built-in memory controller and support for up to eight CPUs on a single motherboard yes the Perley platform will be Intel's biggest server platform advancement in many years when it's rolled out okay no time soon unfortunately it's not gonna be rolling out until 2017 and that assumes everything stays on schedule which as you guys know it's not always the case but it's gonna use a new bus called UPI operating at 10 Giga transfers per second and Zeon's themselves will have built in 10 Gigabit Ethernet and or 100 gigabit per second omni path integrated on to the dies now that is some useful technology to start building on die because I mean I don't know if I don't know if some of the younger folks are gonna know this but on Intel chipsets for years and years and years like remember when we in the early days of gigabit remember when it was like really rare like practically unheard of to have an Intel gigabit network chipset on built into your motherboard a lot of people don't know this it was all on there was on there all that time Intel chipsets had Gigabit LAN on them it was actually a licensing fee that the motherboard maker had to pay to Intel in order to activate it so wrap your brain around this for a second it was cheaper for the motherboard maker to ayuh chipset from Realtek or Marvell or whoever the case may be and put that physical chip on the motherboard increasing the complexity of the PCB not to mention buying another chip than it was to just unlock the Gigabit Ethernet that was onboard so so yeah so more Intel you Fernet I don't know if Intel has adjusted their pricing structures or whatever's happened but we've seen a lot more Intel you for net lately and moving that on dye is only good Wow excuse me that snuck up on me that was rude it's only gonna be a good thing especially as network speeds ramp up and latency becomes much more important to go along with the massive bandwidth that we're gonna need in order to achieve you know 100 gigabit per second connections and all that kind of nonsense this is definitely the day's most hilarious piece of news Apple is getting sued over the name I watch even though that's not what their product is called so let's go ahead and test this i watch look at that the first search result is Apple the next search result is European lawsuit over I watch name shows what Apple had to choose Apple watch that's that's that's a really funny thing because I definitely did wonder why they went with Apple watch instead of I watch ok there's 9 to 5 Mac / i watch the european trademark holders file the lawsuit apples getting sued it's so funny the power of Apple even if they don't call it something it still completely dominates the headlines so anyway what they're butthurt about so it's an Irish company that owns the iWatch trademark in Europe is upset that Apple paid to put Apple watch ads on Google for the search term i watch which i can totally understand why they did I mean let's face it you're an average consumer who's not you know hanging on to you know Joanie Ives every word you're gonna probably think it's called the eye watch because that's what like Apple stuff that goes in your pocket or you know on your wrist if you had one of those tricked out iPod nanos that's what Apple portable devices are called so for people to go and search on Google for I watch and expect to get an Apple watch is a perfectly reasonable thing so for Apple to take advantage of that and convert those people to sales makes a ton of sense so yeah but I can also understand you know why this particular trademark you know upset is is is is going on here so apparently the Europe iWatch trademark is valued at 87 million euros and Google is evaluating the trademark complaint which apparently they do on a case by case basis so it wouldn't be the first time this has ever happened thanks ghost in 2012 Apple actually paid 60 million to settle a trademark dispute in China over rights to use the name iPad hmm I should start trading my trademarking Apple things I've been predicting for a long time I home I should trademark I home I think Apple's gonna do like like completely prepackaged homes that are just fully automated and integrated with all of Apple's services and everything the AI home it's called an AI home oh that's 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be clear we are nowhere near fishin being useful for like you know pushing planes around yet but they're patenting the concept once the technology advances to the point where they could build something like this they're just sort of saying theoretically like they could so basically the way that it works is they are going to shoot lasers at deuterium and tritium so does heavy hydrogen inside the engine causing the atoms to fuse okay so then gas from the fusion reaction would then be pushed out the back of the engine creating thrust leftover neutrons from the fusion bombard the inside of the engine which is coated with fissionable uranium generating heat which powers the lasers helping it sustain itself as it goes so fusion remember guys is combining atoms fission is breaking them apart so fission is the one that we've harnessed at this point with Fusion being the one that we still have a long way to go out I might have actually screwed that up a moment to go but the point is lasers and nuclear reactions tearing apart and combining atoms Wow those should be some pretty badass badass jet engines all right what else do we got here today t-mobile has a new family plan this is a pretty quick topic not a whole lot to really say about it other than that t-mobile continues to put the thumbscrews on the other mobile carriers their web side looking at the wrong dang it wait this should be yep Wow let's go with Android authority today so their plan is 10 gigabytes per line which is pretty fantastic when you compare it to what the others are offering and it's a hundred and twenty bucks for four lines and it's pretty much unlimited everything so it includes ten gigs of 4G LTE data now you can say whatever you want about t-mobile's coverage and my first-hand experience with t-mobile's network compared to AT&T has not been very favorable with that said every time we go down to the u.s. we all refill our t-mobile pay-as-you-go Sims because for three bucks a day or whatever for LTE I think up to a hundred Meg's of LTE data per day as far as pay-as-you-go plans go it is pretty freakin fantastic especially compared to what we can get in Canada so let me just have a look at what else is include here ten gigs per line no sharing and you can get 20 gigs for an extra ten dollars per month pretty awesome all right what do we got next here ah yes Microsoft CEO clarifies their mobile and Windows 10 strategy so oops original article here guys I'm gonna pop that in a twitch chat boom here we go and news items hmm all right so talks about is thinking around product differentiation and being ahead of the curve in this CUDA you know this is the first time Wow this is the first time since Windows CE II just to kind of put it in perspective that I've had some kind of hope that Microsoft knows what they're doing and could legitimately be a major player in the in in the in the Windows Mobile so like windows phones and in Windows mobile based tablets or whatever else what other other products we see roll out especially phones this is the first time that we've seen so many dramatic changes for the better at Microsoft like looking at how much feedback they're taking on Windows 10 you know seeing people posting stories about how they submitted a bug report or a feature request and it showed up in the next build I mean that kind of crap is amazing that kind of a transparent process is amazing and so this is the first time in a long time that I've looked at Windows Phone and gone maybe there's hope for this because there's a lot about Windows Phone that's good I know that I've crapped on it a lot in the past and I have good reason to crap on it because let's face it if you want to win me as a customer its ecosystem why is Apple so successful at charging so much for their phones ecosystem how do they get away like you look at the way they backpedaled on the iPhone 5c they even dabbled in okay let's try having like a cheap option and they got the crap out of there because they realized they were doing themselves no favors with a plastic cheaper phone no favors at all because their customers want them anyway they wanted to be part of that premium ecosystem and so you have to sell me an ecosystem and if I buy a new phone today I expect to have us a Sonos app or I expect my you know Spotify or Google play music or whatever account to be able to beam to my wireless speakers in my house like I expect all my crap to work I don't want to be fighting with third-party apps that get broken with every other update of the OS or or new hardware from the hardware manufacturer or whatever the case may be but there are a lot of good things about Windows Phone it's really responsive runs great on low-end hardware I mean seeing the way that Android can bog down even something as high-end as an s6 active or something as high-end as a Droid turbo it's so disheartening I mean we're talking devices in three we've got ones coming with four gigs of RAM on them and it still can't handle this stuff okay so I I would be really excited to see Microsoft not leave the mobile market and that has been clarified they are not leaving the mobile market yeah the surface is a product to show what the platform can do and the reason people should make universal apps is that they will be on Windows desktop a hololens is apparently also made to be used in business not just gaming so these are a couple of sort of pressing concerns no they're not leaving mobile which is pretty freaking Smurfs it's a little disappointing that Windows RT isn't going to be getting an update to Windows 10 you know I'm sure that as disappointed as yeah if people who bought surface Artie's weren't already you know buried in disappoint that's just kind of the the final nail in the coffin but yeah bummer I guess there's nothing we can really do about it now so let's go ahead and pop up our next topic here bippity Boppity woman changes her name to get control of facebook account so the original article here is from independent co uk oh wow sorry I had my I had my sidebar running that whole time there sorry guys so a London woman has to change name by deed poll to login to Facebook I can't believe I'm stuck with this stupid name and still can't get into my facebook freaking hilarious a little bit of background here so set up account with a fake name back in 2008 I mean I've struggled with this kind of stuff in the past before to like the way that you know Google locks down your YouTube username or your Google+ username to the point where it's like what why can't I change my YouTube username what if I go from you know being a tech channel and I have like - tech tips what if I want to start vlogging because that is that not a thing that I'm allowed to do I'm not gonna start vlogging anytime soon but but the way that we get like these arbitrary decisions that never used to like you used to just go oh yeah I'll create a new hotmail account for you know whatever flavor of the month stupid move the cow at hotmail.com or or whatever right like you didn't really think about it all of a sudden these things are catching up to us you know seven years later so the Facebook Terms of Service requires you to use a real name so to be able to regain access to her locked account she changed her name on credit cards that was not enough so she officially changed her name via deed poll to regain access to her account absolutely ridonculous and speaking of redonkulous i guess this will actually be the official statement this will actually be the last article for the day and this news item comes right off of Thermaltake dot-com I think you guys probably already know what I'm referring to what I'm referring if you've been following the whole thermal fake Fiasco that went on around the Computex timeframe with case labs calling out Thermaltake as ripping off their design so this is a press release from yesterday case lab since right on the Thermaltake website boy are they proud of this because they said almost nothing like mum was the freakin word when this whole thing was going down case lads apologizes for accusations against Thermaltake so case labs has issued a letter of retraction and apology for its recent attacks upon competitor Thermaltake another manufacturer of computer cases and other computer components recently some of their personnel including blah blah blah blah blah posted a tax upon thermaltake these attacks have included accusations that Thermaltake and one of its employees shannon robbed which was a real bummer I like Shannon he's a nice guy stole case labs design and engaged in unfair competition case labs now regrets those statements and apologizes for making them Wow how much more like how much deeper could the bad blood run between case labs and Thermaltake I'm guessing the lawyers were involved in this whole process I'm guessing that case labs with gritted teeth issued this particular apology because they certainly weren't happy about the whole you know thermal takes designs looking admittedly very very similar to some of case labs designs but we've covered this on the land shield before the cold hard truth of the matter is that there really isn't a whole lot that you can protect about the IP of something like a computer case you know like look at an techs recent what are they calling that signature s10 so it's called yeah you look at the signature s10 which I actually saw for the first time in person today you know you can't you can't you can't patent you know crazy thick aluminum panels if someone else decides that that's a good idea which they probably won't they might they can manufacture a case like that and there's not really a whole lot you can do I think Josh from fractal put it best there's only so many ways you can build a black box and you know have it not look you know the same as other black boxes so I'm actually for the first time in a very long time completely out of topics for today why don't we do a Twitter blitz yeah yeah let's do it ten minute Twitter blitz over 7,200 live viewers on the LAN show for this special edition broadcasting to you live from the NCIX studio so Twitter blitz time here we go mentions Wow not tech related are you a fan of Game of Thrones that is a great question I read the first book and I loved it I finished it after having bought the Kindle editions of the first five and realized after finishing it that george RR martin had written the last couple of books yet I got super pissed off because I like to binge consume things which it's just it's my way I like to binge and I vowed to not glance at the those books that I have already paid for and will read at some point I refuse to glance at them until I have read them all or he dies and I've read as many as exists and I refuse to watch the show until I have read all the books so I absolutely love Game of Thrones but I'm mostly completely ignorant about it so there you go funny question asked a funny question get a funny answer next car you plan on buying after the Civic kicks the bucket actually I just bought a car it's I it's sitting out in the back I bought my parents old suzuki xl7 because I needed something that could pull a trailer and they were selling it for $4,000 it's like I want to say it's a thousand nine with a hundred eighty thousand kilometers on it that's in like I know it's all highway kilometers cuz I know that they basically just drive up and down from the cabin in it so I needed something that could haul a trailer so I will I will be I will be trying to sell the Civic to Ed's allure something because he just got his driver's license so I don't know if I was supposed to break the news Edsel finally has a driver's license I think a big part of it was that our new office is not very accessible via transit so Terence solution was to move it and this is this is this is horrible so Terence solution was to move into a new place really close to the new office but not that close to the old office and then the construction project got to laid by like three months so he's been riding his bike 45 minutes each way for like months thinking that we were moving in in like a month so ed zl-- has gone ahead and bought a car um ok next question over 7000 viewers whoa yeah it's not really a question uh watching the LAN show also not a question but thank you for the shoutout JD Tom Hutchinson Hutchison Hutchison a peppermint scented butthole is the kind of butthole I want yes it is my question is why is your background that color because I am in a strange and foreign land alright why is getting a shirt from Canada so much more expensive than normal already have three of your shirts because Canada is Canada and shipping is really expensive we're used to being bent over on shipping whether we have to ship something somewhere else or whether we have to pay for shipping for someone else to send it to us unless it's coming from like Hong Kong where the government is subsidizing shipping it costs a lot of money to ship in to her out of Canada Cooper asks how did you get into IT reading forums and participating on forums believe it or not Daniel asks how's it going pretty darn good Daniel pretty darn good Brianna asked so when are you making more cat videos I actually don't have any cat videos on the plan my cats the second I turn on the camera they're like my kids they'll be doing something like super cute and funny and then I'll be like okay please keep doing that and it's like the second I pull out the camera they stop so it's just like you know what screw you cat you don't get to be internet famous yeah yeah you missed your shot you had your shot and you lose yourself in the moment the moment you lose it you want it you better never let that go yeah that's what I said all right AJ says I have a business offer for you will you pay for the transport I've no idea you're talking about Matt here's a question from my engineering teacher isn't vr headsets making people feel nauseated a good thing as in is it immersive no that's a terrible terrible thing because nausea is not reality so virtual reality shouldn't be nauseating I hope that explained it any more build bugs in the pipeline yes I actually have some pretty cool stuff planned so I'm gonna be building a rig on the bottom of a desk I have ordered all of the mounting hardware that I need for that it's gonna be a pretty sick desk from updesk so yeah stay tuned for that one I also heard from a little birdie that I'm gonna be getting one of the first in existence oh crap I'm gonna embarrass myself here I only remember it as the murder box m'kay to X forma mk2 I will be doing a build blob or a build guide in that so stay tuned for that yes things are happening oh whoops I'm you know that you guys saw me have to google that oh dang it there I thought I was buying myself time to give the answer and you guys were watching me buy time Keith asked why not sell the Civic to Taryn because I don't believe sin Taryn would be willing to drive any car other than a Toyota Camry his father had a Camry and it served his father welfare for Taryn wants a Camry that my friends is Taryn logic this is what we have to work with around here what do you think about a ps4 budget gaming pcs I think it's a really good thing although I think Amy's only got a generation or two left before Intel completely surpasses them at all budgets they're our latest onboard graphics they're looking really good z biggie says you should be sponsored by Dollar Bird Club you know I really don't know I really don't know how that would go because dolly beard Club has no affiliation to my knowledge with Dollar Shave Club and they kind of like and like you can't patent like a stick but like dollar beard club kind of ripped off Dollar Shave club's stick and like I I don't know it seems kind of weird to me the divine gamer asked for tips on an IT career similar to mine what IT career is similar to mine who does this job I'm not even sure I have an IT job like the way that I see my job is like it's like I I'm an entertainer I'm an educator I'm uh I'm uh I'm a business owner now we have nine people working at Linus Media Group like my job is and sometimes like I really am i teeing it up all day like this week I've gotten very little video stuff done because I've been busy working on our new workflow for video editing which is only sort of IT stuff that's like content creation stuff and and so I've been setting up virtual machines on the on the 36 core server seeing if running multiple instances of Adobe Media encoder we'll watch folders can give us better efficiency than Sorenson squeeze server and like trying all this different stuff so like I do that stuff still sometimes but like I don't even know what my job is half the time and I wear a lot of different hats I don't really have a favorite APU yes we are moving all of our workstations to Windows 10 as soon as we verified that Adobe Creative Cloud is gonna run okay on Windows 10 I'm really excited for the whole fresh slate thing that's gonna be going on at the new office new organizational cabinets for all of our gear you know new well-designed sets instead of just a pile of boxes behind me you know upgrading the workstations to Titan X's that's gonna be awesome the new workflow with offloading footage having it duplicated having it replicated right when we offload so we don't have to leave stuff on SD cards and then not know whether it's safe to erase an SD card like all of these things fresh windows it's gonna be part of the fresh experience I'm really excited and the new yeah the new plate system I actually just moved my personal workstation to Windows 10 as part of a personal rig update that's going to be coming on vessel this weekend so I installed the RTN and then I'm gonna I just skipped the product key entry so I'm just gonna buy myself a product key as soon as as soon as you can go buy one moving date for the new office tom not a hundred percent sure yet favorite food Wow good question um really love my wife's pasta yeah there we go where am i hiding Luke yeah no I couldn't hide Luke well I could hide parts of Luke if you know what I mean but his whole self is up at a music festival but hold on a second oh we just revealed something I'm sure so there you go that I just revealed oh no I didn't I didn't reveal I didn't reveal anything with that calendar pop-up that's funny ha so you can see that there's a super fun if you look really closely over there but you actually can't tell what it is which is good because I don't want to reveal what that Superfund is gonna be because it's gonna be super crazy fun so let's do let's go back to Twitter here what is your favorite console the Super Nintendo because it has the greatest game of all time Final Fantasy 6 would you say the Droid turbo is still worth it the camera is subpar especially the launch time in the shutter speed that's a big problem I have with the droid turbo it did finally get a lollipop update but that really doesn't bode well the fact that it took so long to get 5.1 really doesn't bode well for future updates I still love it for the battery life and I do like the ergonomics better than the s6 active stay tuned for my s6 active review because I will definitely be talking about s6 active versus droid turbo because they've they're really gonna be trading blows in a lot of different ways I think that's pretty much it for the show today guys actually I think we're gonna go ahead and just end Wow 7300 viewers I should broadcast without Luke more often don't tell him I said that he'll be all upset and you know I really don't understand what this plan was exactly I guess the NCIX guys wanted me to disappear in a puff of smoke or look like I farted a lot and it was cloudy or like well the fans are on for one thing so that's dispersing your smoke machine smoke pretty quickly I think so now they're firing the smoke machine directly at my butthole which I guess they're hoping will result in okay so our sponsors today were people watching guys and I'll see you next week same bat-time same bat-channel yeah I have the outro over the thing Jack tried to poke his head into view and it didn't work