October 24, 2014 - The WAN Show Document

[LinusTech]

 

Crowd sourced table of contents: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SFdsFIYpeoeKNUqtic9LPgesVuJW533E8M07FizQDYM/edit?usp=sharing

 

News Google Inbox by Gmail

Source 1: google.com/inbox/

• Not a replacement for Gmail

• Bundles similar emails together. (Promos, purchases, travel, etc)

• You can see highlights at a glance. Pictures, order tracking links, travel details. Simplifies your emails so you don’t have to open them to read them.

• Add reminders at the top of your email. Google will even attempt to do them for you.

• Snooze allows you to re-remind you about emails at a more appropriate time.

• You can request an invite at google.com/inbox

Apple Beats Bose Out Of Their Retail/Online Stores

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Victorious Secret

Source 2: 9to5mac.com

Source 3: store.apple.com

Source 4: macrumors.com

Source 5: theverge.com

Source 6: theverge.com

• Bose took headphone contract with the NFL

• players not allowed to wear Beats (Apple owns Beats)

• Apple has pulled Bose products from their online store (have had a long-standing relationship in the past) (search for bose: http://store.apple.com/us/search/bose )

• 9to5 Mac has reported that brick and mortar Apple stores they’ve called have already pulled Bose from the shelves

• - Link to NFL player fined for wearing  Beats at NFL event due do Bose sponsorship http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/09/colin-kaepernick-fined-beats/

• The speculation is whether they’re removing a competing product form the shelves or targeting Bose specifically as retribution for noise canceling patent dispute and NFL thing

Ibm Pays $1.5 Billion To Get Rid Of Foundry Business

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Svinsparbriivu

Source 2: linustechtips.com

Source 3: arstechnica.com

Source 4: bbc.com

Source 5: techreport.com

• GlobalFoundries will acquire IBM’s chip manufacturing business

• deal expected to close in 2015

• $1.5 billion going to GF over next 3 years to complete transfer

• chips designed are for power servers and mainframe computers

• IBM continuing $3 billion investment in semiconductor tech research over 5 years

• GF to be the main beneficiary of ongoing research and will acquire thousands of patents

• GF to keep substantilly all IBM employees and facilitites other than one in Bromont, QC which will continue its current mission of developing advanced semiconductor packaging solutions for IBM server & storage products

• GF also becoming “IBM’s exclusive server processor semiconductor technology provider for 22nm, 14nm, and 10nm semiconductors for the next 10 years”

• deal will require approval by “as many as 200 regulators worldwide” as IBM supplies chips to some governmental agencies

Two Year Sentence For 3D Print A Gun.

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Terere93

Source 2: 3dprint.com

• Back in May 28 year old Yoshitomo Imura was arrested after he was seen test firing a Zig Zag revolver which he had 3D printed.

• Japan is known for its strict gun laws.

• He claimed to be unaware of any law prohibiting the 3D printing of firearms.

• He received a two year sentence.

Far Cry 4 Pay For Multiplayer?

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Tie Lightning

Source 2: pcgamer.com

• season pass is $30

• includes exclusive launch-day mission, PvP multiplayer, five missions to come at a later date, and “a Yeti or two”

• if you buy the season pass, it’s 20% less than each DLC item individually

• game and pass can be purchased in all-in-one “Far Cry Gold Edition” for $90 (no discount over buying the two separately)

• Far Cry 4 comes out November 18

• https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/denis/14933079754f39f9

Gtx 970 Itx From Gigabyte

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Rasq

Source 2: tomshardware.com

• The VRM circuitry isn't as elaborate, and the cooler certainly isn't either.

• The card is overclocked, running at 1076 MHz Base with a Boost clock of 1216 MHz.

• It is powered by a single 8-pin PCI-Express power connector.

• Heat is transferred to this fin array through two 8 mm heatpipes and one 6 mm heatpipe.

• Gigabyte says the card runs at about 62C while running the Metro Last Light benchmark, compared to a reference card running at 76C.

• Two DVI ports, three DisplayPort interfaces, and an HDMI port.

• $330

• Ships early November.

Kickstarter For Hoverboards

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Liam Mcshane

Source 2: kickstarter.com

• It hovers, and it’s a board.

• Hovers about 1 inch off the ground

• uses magnets - how do they work

• can only be used on metal surfaces

• most packages on kickstarter involve coming in to their facility to ride the board

• purchasing one costs $10,000

• only 10 production hoverboards available - all gone already

Apple's New A8X Processor Dominates The Benchmarks

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Solosdk

Source 2: bgr.com

• iPad Air 2 will have 2GB of RAM and a 3-core CPU.

• iPhone 6 and 6+ only have dual core processors and 1GB of RAM.

• Apple simply tells fans that the A8X is 40% faster, and the integrated graphics processor is 2.5 times faster than the A7.

• Benchmarks not yet optimized for the A8X.

[RUMOR] 14Nm Broadwell-E Will Enter Mass-Production In Q1 2016

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Big Stroonz

Source 2: chinese.vr-zone.com

Source 3: translate.google.com

• Chinese site VR-Zone reports that Broadwell-E will not be mass produced until Q1 2016

• using 14nm

• will continue to use LGA 2011-v3, X99 chipset

• current X99 motherboards will be compatible with Broadwell-E

• Intel will send Pre-ES processors in Q2 2015

• ES in work week 36, QS in work week 47

• 40 PCIe lanes, up to 20MB of cache, support for quad-channel DDR4, 140W TDP

• also reports that Skylake-S is in the sampling phase

Nsa Approves Samsung'S Galaxy Phones For Classified Work

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Tech Dreamer

• Samsung phones and tablets

• first consumer mobile devices approved by NSA to carry classified documents

• result of successful testing and certification under US gov’t Common Criteria Mobile Device Fundamental Protection Profile (MDFPP) and VPN Protection Profile (VPNPP)

• covers newer Galaxy devices including S5, Note 4, and Note 10.1 (2014 edition)

• devices also included on Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) “Department of Defense Approved Products List for Sensitive But Unclassified use”

• only manufacturer with mobile devices on both lists

• devices based on the Knox security platform

• full list of devices approved by NSA: (All Galaxy) S4, S5, Note 3, Note 4, Note 10.1 (2014 Edition), Note Edge, Alpha, Tab S 8.4, Tab S 10.5, IPSEC VPN Service

Apple: Beginning February 2015, App Store Submissions Need To Be 64-Bit

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Samfisher

Source 2: arstechnica.com

• 64bit binaries support both 32 and 64 bit systems.

• Only developers submitting new apps or updates to existing apps will need to comply with the new rules.

• For ARM processors the move to 64-bit isn't just about addressing more RAM—64-bit ARM chips come with a new ARMv8 instruction set that cleans up some of the cruft found in ARMv7.

• An Apple A7 can run 64-bit code up to 30 percent faster than it runs 32-bit code. An A8 can be as much as 40 percent faster.

• iOS developers have had 13 months to get on the 64-bit train, and they've only recently started doing it—to be fair to them, though, they've also needed to adjust to iOS 7's new design, iOS 8's new APIs and Extensions, and the new screens on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.

G.Skill'S Phoenix Blade Pcie Ssd Has 2000Mb/S Transfer Rates

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Big Stroonz

Source 2: guru3d.com

Source 3: techreport.com

Source 4: techpowerup.com

• built on x4 LSI SF-2281 SSD controller setup in RAID0, then combined with NAND

• 480GB SSD array

• speeds of up to 2000 MB/s and 245K IOPS

• PCIe Gen 2.0 x8

• TRIM and SCSI UNMAP support, S.M.A.R.T.

• 3-year warranty

• will be available at Newegg next week for $699—or $1.46/GB.

The Pirate Bay Is Endorsing A Vpn Service - Frootvpn - It's Free

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Shalashaska

Source 2: frootvpn.com

Source 3: Torrentfreak.com

Source 4: Scamadviser.com

Source 5:isup.me

• Not the first VPN The Pirate Bay has endorsed

• Apparently it isn’t a paid spot, “It’s merely a friendly plug for a startup run by some guys they know.”

• they started the free VPN to counter the commercialization of the VPN business.

• we will be forced to charge something for the service in order to maintain it

• 100,000 new users in a week, struggling under the strain

• promises that when it is monetized it will be very cheap

• Not much information out there about them

Nvidia Titan-Z Prices Cut Down Again (And Even More)

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Carde

Source 2: kitguru.net

• Now £899

• Was £2300

• Fairly cherry picked numbers (EVGA version is 1200)

Full Body Mouse , Dynamic Chair That Turns Your Body Into A Computer Mouse

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Tech Dreamer

• currently in prototyping stages

• click with your legs, scroll with your hips

• in response to the media proclaiming “sitting is the new smoking”

• being sedintary increases risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer

• “Western society is so over-organized. I found it odd that we create tech that’s so efficient that it takes over psychical efforts, so we go to fitness centers to create the movements” - Govert Flint, designer of Dynamic Chair

Dsl Connections To Get Gigabit Speeds

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Poofu

Source 2: cnet.com

• Broadcom, China-based Triductor Technology, Israeli startup Sckipio and others are announcing and demonstrating products that bring DSL -- or digital subscriber line -- into a future with a speed of 1 gigabit per second.

• The DSL upgrade comes through a new technology called G.fast.

• The technology itself should arrive in homes starting in 2016.

• 50 meters = 1Gbps. 200 meters = 600Mbps

Photomath, App Which Solves Math Equations Using Your Smartphone's Camera

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Tech Dreamer

Source 2: photomath.net

• Uses OCR to scan Maths equations.

• It’s free for now.

• Available for iOS and Windows Phone. Android users need to wait until 2015.

• Can only do arithmetic expressions, fractions and decimals, powers and roots and simple linear equations.

• Microblink also makes blinkID (ID scanning app), photopay (payment scanning app) and blink barcode (fast and robust barcode scanning SDK)

Iphone 6 Catches Fire In Mans Pocket

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Tygron

Source 2: nydailynew.com

• man was riding in a penny cab

• cab almost tipped over, he was thrown into the side of it

• somehow his phone was bent nearly in half (nydailynews.com)

• felt a burning sensation on his leg, realized his phone had caught fire

• lithium battery had “popped”

• suffered second-degree burns on the top of his thigh and hip

Confirmed: Assassin’S Creed Unity Pc System Requirements Are Official.

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Mindtrickz

Source 2: blog.ubi.com

• Min specs HD7970 or GTX680.

• Only NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or better and AMD Radeon HD7970 or better will be supported.

• Other min specs are in source 2.

 

Officially Done With Humanity

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Amorassofpixelz

Source 2: popularmechanics.com

• comic sans typewriter

• names “Sincerity Machine”

• comic sans is “a mark of sincerity for those who do not have graphic design experience.”

• creator doesn’t think comic sans deserves the flak it gets

8 Player Smash Bros

Source 1: smashbros.com

• 8-Player Smash cannot be selected in online battles

• Only the Time and Stock rule settings can be used in 8-Player Smash.

• In Team Battles, you can fight with up to four teams. (Team colors are red, blue, green, and yellow.)

• Only some of the stages are available in 8-Player Smash.

• In an eight-player battle, the following controllers can be used: Wii U GamePad (Max 1), Wii Remote or Wii Remote Plus (Max 7), Wii U Pro Controller (Max 7), Nintendo GameCube controller (Max 8) or Nintendo 3DS series system (Max 8).

• In order to use a Nintendo 3DS as a controller, each Nintendo 3DS system must have Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.

[MegaDave91]

Hi Linus, you signed my older Antec 300 when you worked at NCIX.

[Jerakl]

Linus it's 10 PM! Go home!

[Geekazoid]

@LinusTech, are you trying to go for the longest post ever?

[Clyne]

Linus it's 10 PM! Go home!

He's probably at home when he was posting this....

[ClownFace1511]

Isn't linus a celebrity endorsement?

[werto165]

Why am i up at 6am reading this? 

[LinusTech]

Linus it's 10 PM! Go home!

 

I am definitely at home. Just finished putting the kids to bed.

[alby800]

I am definitely at home. Just finished putting the kids to bed.

Can you put me to bed too? :lol:

[Decon]

I am definitely at home. Just finished putting the kids to bed.

yo Linus shield tablet or portable for some android gaming and lots of nvidia grid and gamestream use. Just curious about your opinion since you have both. Thanks

[Jerakl]

I am definitely at home. Just finished putting the kids to bed.

Well that's good

[Decon]

@Jerakl found this the other day lol http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik49aju9fSk

[Decon]

@Jerakl found this the other day lol

totally should have been mentioned on the WAN show this week IMO

[Jerakl]

totally should have been mentioned on the WAN show this week IMO

That was glorious.

 

 

THE HYPE TRAIN NEVER STOPS

 

 

Totally should have, only reason it wasn't was because a mod moved it from news to off topic. Or maybe I posted it there, I can't remember.

[Smile]

@LinusTech I would have used the Google doc but anonymous animals like to mess with it..
 

0:00:45 Luke has not been fired
0:01:15 Intro topics (Far Cry 4, hover boards, G.fast DSL tech, Assassins Creed Unity specs)
0:02:37 Intro
0:03:00 Sponsors - Lynda & Phantom Glass
0:04:15 Luke's German stories
0:06:45 Inbox by Gmail
0:11:23 Apple removes Bose from their stores
0:13:20 Celebrity endorsements
0:15:35 Kim Kardashian "story"
0:16:30 Twitter blitz about celebrity endorsements
0:20:25 IBM-GlobalFoundries deal
0:23:37 Japanese 3D printed gun case
0:26:00 Far Cry 4 Season Pass
0:32:24 Gigabyte Mini-ITX GTX 970
0:34:45 Hover boards Kickstarter
0:38:58 Gigabyte Mini-ITX GTX 970 picture
0:39:14 Apple A8X benchmarks
0:43:33 Rumour: 14nm Broadwell-E mass production
0:46:50 NSA approves of Samsung phones with Knox
0:49:15 Linus corrects mistake about 64bit apps
0:50:20 Apple App Store going 64bit
0:52:44 G.Skill Phoenix Blade PCIe SSD
0:55:24 Pirate Bay promotes FrootVPN
0:59:10 Scamadviser for linustechtips.com
0:59:42 Sponsor spot - lynda.com/WANshow
1:02:10 Sponsor spot - store.phantom.glass
1:04:54 Nvidia Titan Z price drop
1:06:07 Mouse chair thing
1:09:35 LMG is moving soon
1:12:20 G.fast DSL tech  
1:14:13 Photomath app
1:21:02 Man claims his iPhone 6 bent and caught fire
1:23:30 Assassins Creed Unity specs
1:28:20 Planning of next t-shirt design 
1:31:45 Comic Sans typewriter
1:32:55 Smash Bros. Wii U
1:36:25 Zotac 980 competition
1:37:34 $130 motherboard usability roundup
1:38:55 Zotac 980 competition winner is BarryPrestonSladeJr
1:41:20 Ruckus ZoneFlex R700 Access Point
1:44:35 More people watch WAN show with Luke
1:46:42 PC build logs
1:49:10 Outro

[Decon]

That was glorious.

THE HYPE TRAIN NEVER STOPS

Totally should have, only reason it wasn't was because a mod moved it from news to off topic. Or maybe I posted it there, I can't remember.

lol I dragged out my bionicle last weekend and built a bunch of my old of my old stuff. Even made a bionicle modpack for Minecraft. #adding2hype

[SirSquid]

This episode is dumb awesome.

[MeltingPoint]

*cough*

[Pounds]

Linus, stopped saying costs are irrelevant in setting prices! Costs are extremely relevant!

If prices were only based on what people will pay, does that mean I want to price my graphics card extremely low so I can sell tons of them for a little money, or do I want to price it extremely high so I can sell a few for a lot of money? It depends, because what I'm actually trying to maximize is PROFITS, which takes costs into account. 

 

As illustrated in this supply and demand graph, price and quantity are both affected by my supply and market demand. You keep talking about market demand, but my supply (affected by costs) also changes the prices. In this particular graph, we can think of the increase of supply being caused by a new manufacturing process that lowers the amount of time/labor required to assemble a graphics card. I can now make more at a lower price, which shifts my supply curve to the right, increasing the quantity of graphics cards and also lowering the price. So price IS affected by me and my costs, not JUST what people are willing to pay (which only affects the demand curve).

 

 

PLEEEEEASE stop saying that prices are only determined by what people are willing to pay. There's always people willing to pay any price. There are people out there that will pay $2,000 for a 980. There are even more that are willing to pay $200 for a 980. I could probably sell more than 10 times as many 980s if the price is $200, meaning my revenue would be much higher is I priced it that low. But if my costs to make one is $250, I'm not going to price it that low.

 

COSTS ARE IMPORTANT TOO!!! That's the second WAN show in a row where you've tried making a firm point that prices are only based on what people are willing to pay. Knock it off! You're too smart to be saying things like that!

 

PS: If any white knights feel the knee-jerk obligation to defend Linus and argue with me, please don't be annoying about it.

[Majestic]

Why doesn't Ubisoft just launch a single player title and not get shit for holding a pvp-mode ransom behind a paywall. If you wanted to detract time and resources away from designing PVP modes and into single player experiences that's fine by me really. I never really liked the tacked-on multiplayers. But this is really unacceptable, it's obviously already been made but just hold at extra ransom, and ubisoft deservers every slap in the face it gets for it.

Also, the theory of unlocking content after a certain effort-wall is just as bad. EA did it with Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare. They just create the illusion of choice but make it nearly impossible to reach without microtransactions, incenting people to buy it anyway. I think excluding content from videogames on launch-day will always be a bad thing, sorry Linus but that idea wasn't really great.

[pk-man]

The link to this topic in the video description is wrong.  it links to last week's show

[Guest]

Appreciate the effort to pronounce my user name, Linus.

I got it from first logging in here with my Steam account and would have changed it to something more pronounceable a while back if that was a feature in the account editing section.

[Guest]

I could probably sell more than 10 times as many 980s if the price is $200, meaning my revenue would be much higher is I priced it that low. But if my costs to make one is $250, I'm not going to price it that low.

Everyone understands that.

That's like writing a long rant (with the most basic ideas condescendingly presented in graph form) about how the new features in Smash Bros are not a sign of Nintendo wanting to sell as many copies as possible, because that should be a given, because they're a company and want to gain as much profit as possible and selling many copies helps with that.

[Hans Power]

I bet that the person who wrote the system requirements had no clue about PCs at all. Almost nothing about it makes any sense. As they said the CPU requirements don't make any sense and with the GPUs I bet that they just assumed that anything on the 700 series would be faster than a GTX 680! It is unbelievably embarrassing that a giant publisher like ubisoft can't get this done somewhat properly!

[Majestic]

I bet that the person who wrote the system requirements had no clue about PCs at all. Almost nothing about it makes any sense. As they said the CPU requirements don't make any sense and with the GPUs I bet that they just assumed that anything on the 700 series would be faster than a GTX 680! It is unbelievably embarrassing that a giant publisher like ubisoft can't get this done somewhat properly!

 

I think Linus was pretty much on the ball with this one. They know the system requirements are too high, they're just covering themselves for a possibly horrible running PC port.

 

On that same topic though, Linus pointed out the difference between the 2500K and the X4-940, but then contradicts himself (or fails to mention himself) the obvious fact that 8350 and the 2500K are nowhere the same either. Especially since he mentions/predicts the engine to run at 3 threads at most (which i agree on). At 3 threads, the 2500K will dominate the 8350 (inb4 amd-fanhate; relatively, which does not imply in absolte values in all situations) just as much as it will the 940 since IPC-wise the 8350 and 940 don't differ that much. The 8350 just runs at 4.0, and the 940 at 3.0.