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There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
 
With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
 
I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
 
Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
 
Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
 
With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
 
We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
 
Thanks for reading this.

Another option: I'd look at moving the rightmost shelf to the lower left corner and putting a nice L shaped desk in the lower right corner, so you can pivot in the chair to go from office to work and back easily.  Not sure if those shelves are separate or build together.  Might break up the space more, not sure of actual dfimensions.
 

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Ok so to put it short, I have made a wallpaper for the WAN Show... Why you may ask? Because it's nearly 3am and I can't sleep and I got bored  If you need it in any other resolution let me know. Enjoy!

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I respectfully disagree with you. I've been watching Linus for almost a year now, and I've always been happy with his content. Sure, his content did change, but I still find it useful for my needs. And the fact that he makes his videos fun and personal, doesn't mean they are not 'insightful'.

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Data Storage 3-2-1 is an important guideline and Synology NAS can help you meet the requirements in a elegant and scalable way - Are there others methods if reaching data storage 3-2-1 requirements that you would like us to try? Tell us in the comments below!
 

admin edit: added video inspired by this thread.
 

 
WARNING: I haven't seen anyone encountering this but just like overclocking, there is an inherent risk of damaging your display and it may not be covered by its warranty. It may not even be able to achieve the same settings other people are able to get.
 
Note: I did not make this guide but have used it on all of my monitors without any problems. Credits are due to the ones that originally posted these on another forum. 
 
What this guide is all about is how to get higher resolutions than what your display is capable of. It is called Downsampling. What it basically does is to have your GPU artificially push a resolution that's over what your display is able to do. The impact it will have on your GPU is equivalent to what it would do on a display that can actually output that resolution natively.
 
For example:
Your display is natively able to support a resolution up to 1920x1080. Using Downsampling it will send out a signal to tell your display to output a resolution of 2560x1440. Now on a display that can output a maximum resolution of 1080p has about 2 million pixels while a 1440p display outputs 3.7 million. Downsampling does not increase the amount of pixels being displayed. Itcan't go beyond that. What it does is bring that 1440p resolution to your 1080p display and compresses it to fit inside the screen. The effect it has is similar to zooming out on a lower resolution picture.
 
Below, you can see the difference in image quality on both images taken on the same display. Both images are using the same settings but with different resolutions.
 
 
Downsampling guide for NVIDIA cards: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=509076
 
Downsampling guide for AMD cards: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=366244

Intel is supposedly working on a new Thunderbolt-controller chip, which doubles the bandwidth from 20Gbit/s to 40Gbit/s.
This makes it possible to drive two 4K monitors through the so-called Alpine Rock-controller.

This information was released via an Intel presentation, which has been put online by the Chinese VR-Zone.
In this presentation, you can see that the Alpine Rock-chip doubles the bandwidth compared to the Thunderbolt 2-standard:
40Gbit/s instead of 20Gbit/s. A new name for the standard, like Thunderbolt 3, has not yet been released by Intel.
With a bandwidth of 40Gbit/s, the controller would be able to drive two 4K displays through one Thunderbolt cable.
This cannot be done with the current Thunderbolt standards and it should be useful mostly for video proffesionals.

Alpine Ridge is also capable of powering devices. A maximum of 100W can be delivered by a single Thunderbolt cable,
but Engadget says that Intel has to introduce a new connector to be able to achieve this. An adapter seems necessary
for older Thunderbolt devices. Besides, the controller should be compatible with Displayport 1.2, HDMI 2.0 and USB 3.0.
Intel also says that the new Alpine Ridge-controller should use 50% less power than its predecessor.

The Alpine Ridge-chipset will probably only be available next year.
With that, the controller should join Skylake, Intel's planned successor of the Broadwell processor generation.

 


Source: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/95570/nieuwe-intel-thunderbolt-controllerchip-kan-twee-4k-displays-aansturen.html (Be warned, it's in Dutch)

We learn over time.
 
Anyway, it's better than a knockoff charger for sure, but it's not amazing or anything - especially if you have other devices drawing a bunch of power from USB.
 
BTW here's a Fast As Possible on wireless charging that's coming later:
 
Just uploaded, so it might not be available yet.

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Finally a worthy replacement for my One M7 from a year ago. This phone features a stunning ID, lightning fast performance, and aside from a couple of small complaints... is damn near as good as it gets. I hope you guys enjoy this video because I feel like now, one year into doing phone reviews, this is about as good as we can make them... It's a lot of work, but if you guys enjoy it, then it's all worthwhile....
 

 
 
Now onto the good stuff. HTC is giving us up to TWO phones to give away. All we need to do is generate 10,000 unique impressions on this tracked product page link, and I will give away two phones to random posters in this thread no matter who you are or where you're from in the world. 
 
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One entry per person, but tell ALL your friends and family about it! Spread the word because this is a srs business opportunity to own what is arguably the best smartphone in the world right now!
 
The giveaway closes Apirl 19th and the winners will be announced on the WAN show before the end of April!