November 21, 2014 - The WAN Show Document

[LinusTech]

 

Table of contents courtesy of Smile from the forum

 

News

Oneplus Starts Digging! Ignores All Rma Requests For One

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Xtankslayerx

Source 2: talkandroid.com

Source 3: forums.oneplus.net

Source 4: reddit.com

n.b.: All complaints are from anonymous people on Reddit.

• A few customers have raised concerns that they are being ignored by OnePlus when requesting RMAs.

• One user stated on reddit that he was being helped to fix his audio issues and when a flash of the phone did not help CS ignored his RMA request. After 11 days he posted his concerns on reddit.

• Statement from OnePlus: “OnePlus prioritizes the experience of our users above all else. Our team is growing rapidly to offer all users a premium level of support and keep up with much higher demand than we had originally anticipated. We’re refining all of our support processes and adding new members to our team every day. We regret if some users experience a longer wait time in this transition period but all submitted tickets will be heard and addressed.”

• Linus thoughts: Great, balanced discussion in the LTT forum without personal attacks - check out the thread if you want to learn more!

Keyssa’s “Kiss Connectivity”

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Dizmo

Source 2: androidauthority.com

(Video in source 2)

• Demo showed a 1080p copy of Avatar being wirelessly (at a couple of mm away) transferred between a phone and a tablet in 5 seconds.

• Exact file size unknown. Could be between 2.5GB -12 GB which translates to 512MB/s -  2457MB/s.

• Initial demo of the technology by the CEO; Eric Almgrem.

• Keyssa claims the technology is capable of transfers of up to 6Gbit/s.

• The company’s chairman of the board is Tony Fadell, father of the iPod and head of Nest Labs, the smart appliances company that Google bought in January for over 3 $billion.

• Linus thoughts - integrated in laptops?

Snapcash

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Kingdaddydaniel

Source 2: techcrunch.com

• uses Square Cash

• add a debit card, type a dollar amount into Snapchat’s text-chat feature, hit the green pay button to instantly send a friend money

• now on Android, coming to iOS soon

• Snapchat has a trademark that allows Snapchat to set up e-commerce and merchant payments as well

• could also use payment data in the future to improve ad targeting

• available for age 18+ US users

Court Rules Google Can Arrange & Rearrange Search Results Any Way It Wants..

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Tech Dreamer

Source 2: engadget.com

• due to the First Amendment (freedom of speech, freedom of the press)

• ruling by a US court in San Francisco

• been fighting for this right for years

• judge cited freedom of speech as the main influencer

• this should help them against sites that file suits about lowering their rankings due to being viewed as competitors

Nyc To Replace Public Pay Phones With 10,000 Free Gigabit Wifi Pylons

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Theunconn3Ct3D

Source 2: techcrunch.com

Source 3: cnet.com

Source 4: theverge.com

Source 5: arstechnica.com

Source 6: businessinsider.com

• called LinkNYC

• replacing 10,000 pay phones with pylons (towers, posts) capable of providing free public wi-fi

• gigabit speeds 24/7

• also a charging station for your mobile devices, can call any number domestically in the US, and feature a tablet-like interface that can provide services like directions

• will be paid for entirely through advertising rather than tax dollars

• massive screens on both sides for ads

• residential version will not have ads

• project is estimated to bring $500 million revenue to NYC in its first 12 years

• available through all 5 boroughs in NYC

• not confirmed whether seamless hopping from pylon to pylon will be supported

Dell UP2715K 5K Monitor <$2000 USD

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Big Stroonz

Source 2: guru3d.com

• 27” 5k (5120*2880).

• 8ms G2G, 1000:1 Contrast ratio, 350 cd/m2 brightness.

• 178/178 viewing angles.

• Double anti reflective coating allows more light to pass through the glass in the panel.

• Anti-smudge coating helps wipe away fingerprints.

• 99% RGB, 100% SRGB and calibrated to a colour deltaE of <2.

• 12 bit internal processing and the panel is 10 bit.

• 2* DP to allow for 5k

Origin Pc To Sell Their Genesis And Millennium Cases For Their 5Th Anniversary (Full And Mid Tower, Respectively)

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Sephiroth

Source 2: originpc.com

• Pictures in Source 2.

• mentioned that they would never sell it separately when asked in the past

• multiple motherboard orientations, tons of space, lots of drive bays

Ubisoft removes FOV controls in some FC4 torrents.

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Inimigor

Source 2: tecmundo.com.br

Source 3: gamespot.com

• Certain Far Cry 4 torrents contain an error which removes the game's field-of-view controls.

• Alex Hutchinson, a creative director at Ubisoft Montreal, wrote on Twitter: "PC players! If you're online complaining about the lack of FOV control ... You pirated the game."

• In September, Electronic Arts spliced a bug into pirate copies of The Sims 4 where the image becomes increasingly pixellated.

• Linus thoughts: I think this is a great way to take a heated debate like game piracy and create social pressure on pirates to pay for stuff or stop complaining about the stuff they didn’t help fund.

Electronics Printed With A T-Shirt Printer

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Keystone Nyan Cat

Source 2: mumbaimirror.com

• The breakthrough may allow us to print low-cost disposable electronics.

• The electronic circuits are printed using unique materials in layers on top of everyday flexible materials such as plastic, aluminum foil and even paper.

• Resistors, transistors and capacitors, the key components of a complex electronic circuit, are printed using non-toxic organic materials like silver nanoparticles, carbon and plastics.

• A new start-up company is being established to commercialise the invention. A multinational biomedical company has also expressed interest to adopt the application of printed electronics for biomedical devices.

• The innovation has also attracted international interest with Chang delivering several keynote addresses at major conferences. He has also been recognised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Ubisoft will improve AC: Unity performance.

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Thatcoolbluekidd

Source 2: assassinscreed.ubi.com

Source 3: assassinscreed.ubi.com

Source 4: kitguru.net

• Plans the following revisions:

• Streamlining some technical aspects of navigation: We’ve fixed a number of edge cases with our detection system to smooth certain behaviors during parkour. We’ve fixed a few objects which were improperly tagged to smooth navigation.

• Improving task scheduling: We’ve tuned the way the computing tasks are prioritized and parallelized by the processor cores to improve framerate in certain edge cases.

• Tweaking performance for Reach High Points: We’ve optimized the reach high points, during the camera swooping sequence to improve framerate a little bit.

• Crowd size does not affect frame rate and is not the issue.

Nvidia Multi-Frame Sampled Anti-Aliasing (MFAA) Tested On Gtx 980

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Frosty11

Source 2: pcper.com

• The GTX 980 and 970 launched with support for Dynamic Super Resolution and MFAA.

• MFAA just launched with the release NVIDIA’s 344.75 driver.

• MFAA’s goal is to produce results that look like 4xMSAA with the cost of 2xMSAA.

• MFAA uses both the current and previous frame for AA.

• Fraps will not capture the effects of MFAA, you need hardware capturing.

• List of games to support MFAA available in source 2.

• MFAA is silent, it doesn’t tell you if it is running when you enable it in the NVIDIA control panel. It should activate if you choose 2x MSAA or 4x MSAA.

• Because it uses data from the previous frames motion may be affected.

• PCPer’s test’s found that 4x MFAA did look very close to 4x MSAA in most cases, only dropping to about the quality of 2x MSAA in some scenarios.

• The performance was almost as predicted with the performance impact of 4x MFAA being close to 2x MSAA or at least in between 2x and 4x MSAA in most cases. (Graphs on source 2 page 3).

• Currently no SLI support for MFAA.

Bittorrent Opens Paygate Premium Bundles

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Tech Dreamer

Source 2: techcrunch.com

• Artists will get a 90% cut for their work.

• The publisher is also responsible for payment processing fees, which is typically less than 5%

• You can take some content for free, get some behind a paywall; or see the content move to paywall after a certain number of visits for example.

• Platforms like iTunes take up to 40% of sales revenue - without disclosing fan contact information or data. Which means that, as an artist, you have no idea who’s buying your work, and how to reach them.

Toyota'S New Hydrogen Sedan Will Be On Sale Next Year

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Aniallation

Source 2: jalopnik.com

Source 3: theverge.com

• $57,500

• Goes on sale in 2015

• State incentives could push the price down to $45,000 in some cases.

• Toyota claims that its fuel cell stack will be refillable in about five minutes and provide a driving range of 300 miles.

• The Mirai will first be only available in California, where a hydrogen refueling infrastructure is currently being built out.

• By the end of 2015, Toyota says some 20 stations will be online, with another 28 launching in 2016 with 12 stations spread across five states (New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island) expected that year.

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Denuvo DRM degrades SSDs

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Ahhming

Source 2: gamemag.ru

• Used by games like Lord of the Fallen, FIFA15 and Dragon Age Inquisition.

• 150000 retry copying records in one hour. The DRM continuously decodes the game code into memory and encrypts it.

• The small pieces of data (kilobytes per entry at a maximum), are stored in one memory block.

• Transfers 30GB of data every 40 mins in very small bits of code.

World Of Warcraft Subscriber Count Up To 10 Million

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Johners

Source 2: blizzard.gamespress.com

Source 3: mmo-champion.com

• as of November 13

• most subscribers since Mists of Pandaria launch in 2012

• up 2.6 million from sub count at the end of Q3 2014

• still below the Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm all-time highs of 12 million

• some speculate (based on beta) that the raiding is good enough to bring those totals back

• also: blizzard apologizes for WoD launch, adds free time to active accounts (pcgamer.com)

• Linus thoughts: Luke……. did you succumb?

FAA Can Now Legally Regulate Small Drones Flights.

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Tech Dreamer

• Under FAA rules, any aircraft that flies more than 400 feet above the ground must be governed by its rules. Model planes that have been flown for years must stay below that 400 foot limit.

• "The National Transportation Safety Board affirmed the agency's position that unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) meet the legal definition of 'aircraft,' and that the agency may take enforcement action against anyone who operates a UAS or model aircraft in a careless or reckless manner."

• The decision revolved around a $10,000 FAA fine against businessman Raphael Pirker, who used a remotely operated 56-inch foam glider to take aerial video to make an advertisement.

New Times Square Digital Billboard

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Ahhming

Source 2: fireuser.com

Source 3: dailymail.co.uk

• The world's highest resolution screen of its size as the monitor was switched on in Times Square.

• The panel, located on the side of a hotel, is eight stories tall and 100 meters across.

• Intended for advertisements similar to those on dozens of other screens lining the bustling New York crossroads.

• The 24 million pixel display is driven by 3 AMD FIrePro W9000 GPUs

Intel's 3D Nand

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Qwertywarrior

Source 2: techreport.com

• Intel revealed that it will offer SSDs based on 3D NAND in the second half of next year.

• It is the result of Intel’s joint flash venture with Micron.

• It stacks 32 planar layers to deliver 256Gb (32GB) of storage in a single MLC die. The 3D NAND can also be packed with three bits per cell to hit 384Gb (48GB) per die.

• The 3D NAND will enable 10TB SSDs "within the next couple of years."

• The technology can also squeeze 1TB of storage into a mobile-friendly form factor just two millimeters thick.

• Crooke effectively demoed working silicon by running his presentation off a prototype drive.

• Samsung's 32-layer V-NAND has 86Gb per die in MLC mode and 128Gb in a TLC config, but a new generation of V-NAND should be ready by the second half of 2015.

CS:GO Pros Caught Cheating - VAC Banned

Source 1: http://www.hltv.org/news/13636-kqly-handed-vac-ban

Source 2: http://www.hltv.org/news/13641-epsilons-sf-vac-banned

• low-level German professional player smn caught using cheats on ESEA pug

• after being banned by VAC yesterday (reddit.com) he produced a list of high-level pro players he was “95% sure” are cheating using the same hack (facebook.com)

• following this, two pro players from top-20 global pro teams were VAC banned (1 from his list)

• KQLY (pronounced Cally) from Titan (globally rated 9th team overall by gosugamers.net), and SF from Epsilon (globally rated 19th team overall)

• Valve has stated that they are investigating the situation, no official comment on what the hack is or how it is used

• speculation that the hack is auto-downloaded to their account through the steam workshop (this is how they allegedly may have used it on LAN)

• smn allegedly confirmed that he was using an aim assist on stream today (puu.sh, German stream so I cannot confirm)

• there is speculation that the hack had capabilities for a button-toggled vision assist, audio-cued vision assist (player would hear a cue when their cursor passed over an enemy), and a “panic-button” one button toggled aim assist [ALL UNCONFIRMED BY ANY LEGITIMATE SOURCE. BASED ON CODE OF THE HACK BRIEFLY POSTED TO REDDIT]

• Titan and Epsilon have both been disqualified from Dreamhack Winter, which takes place next weekend, November 27-30

• according to Titan Valve did not contact them directly

• they found out they were disqualified through the public press release and were not given the opportunity to find a 5th player to take KQLY’s spot and compete at Dreamhack

• Valve is flying 4 teams to Sweden to participate in a LAN qualifier - two of which will take the available spots at Dreamhack

• UPDATES AS OF 4PM: KQLY’s team, Titan, released an official statement: titan.pro

• KQLY released a statement apologizing for his behavior and assuring everyone that the cheating did not occur in a competitive setting: facebook.com (English in first comment)

• Epsilon has released SF from their team (hltv.org)

• rumored that they may take legal action against him for the losses incurred by being DQ’d from Dreamhack Winter

• KQLY has been released by Titan

• both players claim that their cheating was very limited (one time by SF, one week by KQLY) and that neither used cheats in a competitive setting

RAPID FIRE

Playmute

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Devilzzz

Source 2: eteknix.com

Source 3: kickstarter.com

• Plugs in-line with the HDMI cable going into your TV.

• Powered by android.

• When an ad break starts you need to clap your hands, click your fingers or shake your phone to change the current content on the TV and do the same to resume the show.

• You can watch YouTube videos, get the news, check your Facebook, tweet about the show you're watching, share your pics of the day or play your favorite games during the ads of your shows and use your smartphone to navigate.

• Allows for Picture-in-picture so you know when the ads finish.

• Currently on kickstarter, scheduled to ship in June, will retail for $150.

Elon Musk Is Worried About Terminator

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Snowghost1212

Source 2: kitguru.net

• Elon thinks that AI could turn dangerous in 5 years, 10 at most

• original comment was on edge.org but was removed

• someone on reddit got a copy beforehand (reddit.com)

• “I am not alone in thinking we should be worried. The leading AI companies have taken great steps to ensure safety. They recognize the danger, but believe that they can shape and control the digital super intelligences and prevent bad ones from escaping into the Internet. That remains to be seen…”

Eizo Revealed A New Monitor With 1:1 Aspect Ratio

Source 1: linustechtips.com OP: Snowcomet

Source 2: eizoglobal.com

Source 3: pc.watch.impress.co.jp

• 1920*1920 resolution.

• 26.5”

• Convenient for longer content. It allows for a compromise between vertical and horizontal monitors.

• 178% of pixels compared to a standard 1080p screen.

• Anti-glare IPS panel.

• Professional grade model. Don’t expect it to be cheap

• Available in Q1 2015.

• Linus notes: compare to 5:4

Edited November 23, 2014 by looney
Changed for dark theme again....

[Vadisi]

OMG first!!!

[Speedbird]

Finally!

[TheRoss0411]

YAY

[Geekazoid]

Another day, another WAN Show! Sweet!

[Frosty11]

I was waiting for the upload. Thanks!

[UltraNeonGaming]

Thanks for the upload!

[Geekazoid]

OMG first!!!

Well, you know how the saying goes "The first shall be last and the last shall be first". So expect to be last next time.

[Forren]

When you guys started talking about the shaw wifi deal right after the nyc city wifi topic, I can tell you how it works.

 

Shaw's public wifi hotspots sounds like Comcast's.  It basically grabs your devices MAC address and remembers that on your account, Comcast's for instance will remember up to 10 devices.  So if you ever sell the device, make sure you de-auth it.  Though I can't say exactly how Shaw's work, but I'm taking a guess that it's probably like that.

[GSimon]

Just signed up to the forums today.

 

Linus, how dare you have a different feeling towards the 1:1 EIZO monitor than I do. A square monitor would kickass and yes there have been 5:4 but never perfectly square (that I'm aware of). As weird as it seems I've searched for a 1:1 monitor in the past and was disappointed to see that no one even attempted is, aside from maybe some sub 18" screens at low rez.

 

Think of the multi-monitor configurations, it would look awesome. It's portrait and landscape but with none of the compromise (black bars? you'll get over that me thinks). Yes, it looks weird now because it's kind of a mind bend to see something so unusual, but I hope you come around and have the chance to review one at some point.

[boboman342]

#JustWantedOnTheFirstPage

[backslash]

I'll just leave this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Sexual_social_behavior

 

#Monkeysex

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

@ Linus : I am familiar with being annoyed by Bing whenever I install windows on a PC, nevermind having IE open MSN's homepage and having to go through (or ignore) the setup menu. 

That's why I now carry FireFox Portable on a USB stick (together with several installers and portable tools).   This means I can hop straight into my preferred browser and use my preferred search engine.  On most PCs I build or format, IE doesn't ever get used.

[unijab]

I'd like to know more about why the site/forum was down the other day

[CerialKiller]

Have you considered reaching out to an even wider demographics? Your technical and detailed style would work on multiple platforms.

[MAXXHEW]

Am I the only person who watches these shows on the 1.5 speed setting? Normal settings sound like slow motion.

And about the OnePlus One segment of the show... people are so lame to think that a startup company that sells their phone for basically no profit is gonna have the best customer service team, before they bought the phone, they should have realized that. I am a OnePlus One owner... and the OnePlus One is so nice of a phone with such excellent quality, I'm having a hard time believing that there are customers who received defective products. I believe that the majority of people requesting RMA'a are idiots who bricked their phone trying to customize, or alter it in some stupid way... the rest of the RMA requests are from people that just want their money because they are broke back and should never have made the purchase in the first place. I am on the official OnePlus forums regularly, and there are MANY satisfied customers... the few trolls who should never have received an invite in the first place are trying to give the OnePlus One brand a bad name. They will not succeed and will be ignored.

[Adashmada]

Does anyone have the link to the unedited version of the rap?

[Smile]

Does anyone have the link to the unedited version of the rap?

http://bit.ly/1uNcqdH

[Ornstein]

I hear them mention after parties quite often.  Do they upload these after parties somewhere?  If so, where?

[Smile]

I hear them mention after parties quite often.  Do they upload these after parties somewhere?  If so, where?

http://www.twitch.tv/linustech/profile/past_broadcasts

[Ornstein]

Thanks Smile (won't let me quote for some reason).  Wonder why they don't upload those to YouTube.

[Majestic]

 

To Imagine that DRM doesn't stop some pirates is stupid... go be stupid somewhere else - Linus

 

And i'm going to call you equally stupid if you think stopping piracy increases sales. It's the lost-sale fallacy.

Good games boost sales. Being a trustworthy publisher boosts sales. Annoying customer-unfriendly DRM's don't.

 

In my opinion, there are a couple of scenario's that create piracy;

1. Kids/people with no income that want to play the games. (they weren't going to purchase the game, regardless of DRM).

2. People who have been burned in the past and want to test the game before buying it. (since demo's are no longer a thing).

3. People that want to play a game, but resent the company/dev/publisher and don't want to finance it.

 

Either you were going to buy the game, or you weren't. It's not like you encounter DRM these days and go "ok, i guess I will buy it now". No you fit into one of those 3 catagories. I can't believe you don't see the connection between publshers and developers of AAA titles becoming increasingly less trustworthy about performance or overhyping gameplay, and piracy. 

 

This is equally as stupid as DMCA flags on youtube or twitch. Claiming that people hearing a song on a stream means 1 lost sale. No, ofcourse not. They were there to watch that particular youtuber or streamer play a game. The music in the background is just a coincidence. 

 

I'm dissappoint oncemore linus.

[GuestForeverX]

I switched to Bing 4 years ago just because they Pay me to use it   (Bing Rewards = Amazon.com Gift Cards)

3400 Xbox Points == USD $42.50

1 month of Xbox Gold

$70 for Amazon.com

Pretty much the only reason I use Bing.

 

I like the bugs that happen midway through a game. What if someone is livestreaming it, or making a video on it. 

Boom their subscribe base could Rip them a new one.

 

Lets also have a bug happen at the Boss Battles of Certain Games. It will show they played pretty much the whole thing.

Also would really be a pain to being soooo close to finishing the game/story and not being able to finish. 

[redlukas]

Linus -  Production value is not everything. I like that your main set is a kitchen. Don't get me wrong, it is not the reason i watch your videos, nor will i stop watching them if you moved out of the kitchen. But it seems to me that your point for moving is a bit too focused on the kitchen thing and it seem to me that you are overstressing that point. That being said i hope the best for your future and wish that the investments you have made in the company were not in vain. I hope you get your new location, bronze gaben (praised be his name) included