February 7th 2014 - The WAN Show Document

[LinusTech]

 

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Outernet.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/109798-wifi-for-the-world-from-outer-space-outernet/

- 1 way broadcast

- Two way access will only be for a small set of users, reserved for people in natural disasters or man made restrictions to the free-flow of information

- Made up of hundreds of low cost miniature satellites

- UDP multicasting to continuously loop content until new content is served

- users, via SMS and certain phone apps, build the information priority list

- will deliver news and information, crop prices for farmers, bitcoin blockchains, ubuntu, wikipedia in its entirety, some music+movies+games, educational courseware, and emergency communications amongst other things

- they want to begin deployment in june of 2015

- They’re asking for support, and they even accept Dogecoin

- long term goal is 2-way internet access for everyone

SnycNet.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/111218-bittorrent-sync-used-to-create-decentralized-web-browser/

- “SyncNet is experimental, no security auditing has been done. Only use it if you know what you are doing.”

- Every time you access a website you would store that entire website on your local drive… you’re essentially file transferring entire websites back and forth and then sharing them yourself due to the torrent network

- Updates to a website would be streamed out through the BTSync network automatically as long as you are online to receive them

- When you create a new folder for a website it will give you a "secret". (A secret is a string of 33 characters - 160 bits encoded in base32)

- You can create read only secrets so the creator can keep integrity of the website intact, or give out the secret itself to allow for edits

- Soon an implementation of “Coloured Coins” or something similar like “Name Coins” will allow domain resolution as well as a way for users to look up the “secret” and the creator

- sync://<secret>

- only works with static content… no social networks or dynamic content

- “News”/”blog” style sites would be fine with little to no work due to the ability for BTSync to….sync

- There are ideas floating around to create a “converter” of sorts to turn current HTML sites into syncsites in the click of a button

- Also ideas floating around for Firefox and/or Chrome plugins to allow use of syncnet without a dedicated browser just for syncnet

Twitch sitting in 4th for internet usage in the NA. 3 year old company. Beast mode.

http://www.ongamers.com/articles/wall-street-journal-chart-lists-twitch-tv-fourth-in-u-s-peak-traffic/1100-824/

-League of Legends, Dota 2, and StarCraft 2 were the three most watched games on Twitch in 2013.

- League of legends viewing +258% since 2012

- Dota 2 viewing + 508% since 2012

- 2013 said to be the tipping point of streaming

- 99% of users watch streams, 61% chat, 38% watch video highlights, 25% broadcast

- Average age is 21 years old(liars)

- 68% of twitch users have decreased watching TV in order to watch more twitch

- 58% of their 45 million monthly unique viewers watch more than 20 hours per week

- Twitch users watch on average 106 minutes of content per day

- 12,000,000,000 minutes watched per month (12 billion)

- 900,000 broadcasters per month

- 6,000,000 total videos broadcast per month

- 5,100 of those broadcasters are partners

- minutes watched and videos broadcast have doubled since 2012

Air Dock Qi Wireless Charger and Dock

“magic” foam and magnets (which are also basically magic” and wireless charging (also magic) all rolled into one.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-air-dock

Oculus rift launch title - Eve valkyrie

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/02/05/oculus-rifts-first-exclusive-launch-title-is-eve-valkyrie/

- first game Oculus will co-publish

- first exclusive Oculus Rift launch title

- “PC Gamers Game of E3 2013”

- killer app?

- Oculus is currently recruiting 3D artists, animators, and gameplay engineers to help build "next-gen VR content."

- Oculus VR hired former Electronic Arts senior vice president David De Martini on December 20th~

- David De Martini will head up their publishing initiative

- “I’m figuring out how to partner effectively with big developers, small developers, all the way down to the individual who just wants to make something great for the Rift,”

- chat about gameplay experience

Sony to sell Vaio

http://news.yahoo.com/sony-talks-sell-loss-making-vaio-pc-business-000056198--sector.html

- Just in talks so far

- Estimated sale at about $493 million

- Sony said it now expects a net loss of $1.1 billion for the year to the end of March, a reversal of its October forecast for net profit of ¥30 billion~293million.

- As previously reported, when Macroaxis estimated a 78% chance of Sony going bankrupt we assumed they would downsize before doing anything that drastic… and it begins now.

- Worldwide PC shipments are forecast to total 278 million units in 2014, down 7 percent from 2013, according to research firm Gartner.

- Vaio could disappear from markets outside of Japan due to acquisition, at least for short term

- Will continue to make tablets and smartphones

- About 5,000 jobs will be cut as part of the reforms, including changes to manufacturing and other support functions.

- 1,500 positions in Japan and 3,500 overseas by the end of March 2015

Amazon bought another game studio

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/111814-amazon-just-bought-a-game-studio-double-helix/

- Not the first,  acquired casual game maker Reflexive Entertainment in 2008

- Double Helix fully intends to keep making killer instinct games for Xbone

- They will also continue to support the Killer Instinct with more content and characters

- Ties in to recent news about Amazon looking to make their own Gaming System

California mandatory kill switch

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/020714-california-bill-proposes-mandatory-kill-switch-278537.html

- "a technological solution that can render the essential features of the device inoperable when the device is not in possession of the rightful owner."

- sparked by increased muggings targeting mobile devices

- Doesn’t specify what type of technology so each company can use whatever it wants as long as it completes certain objectives

- once activated it should prevent phone calls, Internet access and the ability to run apps.

- It will have to be resistant to a hard reset, attempts to return the device to factory condition or a downgrade of the operating system. Users should have the option of deactivating it if they don't want the protection, but retailers will be banned from offering such a service.

- retailers will be subject to a fine of between US$500 and $2,500 per device sold that doesn't include the technology. The fines won't target private sellers of second-hand phones.

Enter Maxwell…

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/111843-enter-maxwell/

- GM107 is a hybrid between GK107 and GK106.

- The area of the die has been reduced by 30%, compared to GK106

- The slower variant GM107-300 will be used for GeForce GTX 750, while the faster GM107-400 will equip GTX 750 TI.

- may not require any power connectors or just a single 6pin

Titanfall min specs

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/111607-titanfall-min-specs-released-by-respawn-founder/

- OS: 64-bit Windows 7, 8, 8.1

- CPU: AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz or Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz 4GB

- RAM: 512MB

- GPU: Radeon HD 4770 or GeForce 8800GT"

- Origin

- These are the specs for windows 7

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Different companies now accepting bitcoins

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/111897-scancouk-now-accepts-bit-coins/

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/106025-tigerdirect-now-accepts-bitcoins/

- Runs through Bitpay

- The bitpay youtube account including their “how it works” video no longer exist

- Exchange rates calculated every minute, can be grabbed through an API and are shown on their website

- You can find sites that use it through this link https://bitpay.com/directory#/

- unless you’re doing above 29,000$/mo it costs 30$/mo to run bitpay

- the starter free service does not have support for any amount of domains, basically just for testing

Steam Music

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/111335-valve-announces-steam-music-making-steam-a-little-more-like-itunes/

- Join the steam music group much like you did for in-home streaming

- works with in-home streaming, not sure if its only while in game or not

- currently only game soundtracks for sale(they already exist, this is not new)

- Just MP3’s currently, more support on the way

- Player will work while in games

- Taking suggestions on where it should go… not many features in yet but many on the way

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steammusic#announcements/detail/1498873168504761775

COD to be on a 3yr dev cycle

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/112118-cod-gets-3-year-development-cycle/

-three developers will work on Call of Duty games in tandem from this point on - Infinity Ward, Treyarch and Sledgehammer.

-Activision will still release a Call of Duty game every year, which means that each studio will have three years to develop a game.

- The cycle between developers will be, Sledgehammer Games in 2014, Treyarch in 2015 and Infinity Ward in 2016.

- "Finally, it will give our teams more time to polish, helping to ensure that we delivered the best possible experience to our fans each and every time."

- For many people this simply means no zombies till 2015

FOLDING

Just a few notes for maybe a shout out tonight.... The team is in 52 position overall and should hit the top 50 within a week. We are 8 overall in active folders.

Star Citizen

 

[Assassin]

How much did the glasses cost?

[beebskadoo]

Wow such cool

Much sun glasses

Many indoor eye protection

total UV protect

wow

[That Norwegian Guy]

@LinusTech - on the Sony Vaio thing, back in November their duo 13 was declared trash by vg.no, I posted about it at the time in tech news: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/72548-sony-vaio-duo-13-almost-useless-gets-flunkie-score/?hl=vaio

[elkenrod]

Saltybet is probably a good 25% of Twitch traffic....

 

My numbers are totally made up, but somehow accurate.

[popman]

twitch.tv could probably benefit from buying hardware transcoders, like you find in video cameras to manage the stream transcoding.

You'd probably need to get a fully custom board made, but it would make the process a whole lot faster.

[Geran]

I love the giveaway except I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account

[CrappingZombie]

I say twitch(dot)tv and I'm only 16 so I guess I'm older than Linus.

[daldaren]

Honestly I hope there is some alternative entry to the contest than to Youtube Comment. I don't have google+, and refuse to support it/use it, so I can't comment on youtube videos. It's extremely discouraging to see giveaways on every channel that you watch religiously, but cannot participate because you don't support Google+.

 

That mixed with the "Become LinusTechTip's spambot for a chance to win extra prizes!" made this the most disappointing video I've seen in awhile. I don't like this one bit. I understand giveaways are typically marketing gimmicks, but asking people to spam out all the famous peoples they know on the internet, or be famous and spam it out to all your followers? That's a pretty scummy contest. I usually support LTT / their decisions, and defend them when I can to people I know/people I refer to the channel... but this? Not so much. Very disappointed in the lack of integrity if this kind of ploy actually comes to fruition.

 

tl;dr

 

I r disappoint.