LTX 2018 Discussion Thread

[Canada EH]

372 gets you to petro and rink road.

509,595, 807,C62

 

gets you to highway 1 and rink road

[LienusLateTips]

1 minute ago, Canada EH said:

372 gets you to petro and rink road.

THAT'S A TWO BLOCK WALK FROM 72nd!

[Canada EH]

5 minutes ago, JDE said:

THAT'S A TWO BLOCK WALK FROM 72nd!

http://infomaps.translink.ca/Route_Diagrams/139/r372.pdf

http://infomaps.translink.ca/Public_Timetables/139/tt372.pdf

End of line King George Station Expo Line.

[LienusLateTips]

1 minute ago, Canada EH said:

http://infomaps.translink.ca/Route_Diagrams/139/r372.pdf

 

 

4 numbers in the street = one block

Langley Events is 80th Ave and 200th St

372 runs along 72th Ave

[Canada EH]

Just now, JDE said:

4 numbers in the street = one block

Langley Events is 80th Ave and 200th St

372 runs along 72th Ave

Take a bicycle, I would. Every single bus, even the short bus on the small islands off the coast of Vancouver Island even have bicycle racks. Alberta is jealous!

[LienusLateTips]

Just now, Canada EH said:

Take a bicycle, I would. Every single bus, even the short bus on the small islands off the coast of Vancouver Island even have bicycle racks. Alberta is jealous!

I have literally never biked in my life.

 

 

I'll just take the 501. *sigh*

 

Also because the 372 is even slower it would be faster to do SkyTrain > 555 > 501

[Canada EH]

19 minutes ago, JDE said:

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You need an electric bike!

I go everywhere, and do it from train stations. I can go 20km from train station in 35 minutes. I rock 55kph max on empty road, like rink road, on residential roads, 40-45kph, trails 35-40kph like walking paved pathways.

 

I never pedal, except to save battery juice on hills and starting off.

Every now and then when I get a flat tire, sometimes I gotta wait for 4 buses to pass before theres one with a bike rack. Like a bus stop with only one bus route. If I am lucky theres more then 1. Takes me to the train. Then call someone to pick me up. I bring my charger along, takes 1 hour to fully charge, usually Starbucks, Subway, any gas station, community hall, rink, block heater parking lot outlets, rotating signs, public washroom buildings. Yes I could ebike the 17km from Skytrain to rink, probably do 50-55kph easily, and take 16minutes. Thats if I dont stop somewhere, like seeing some hotties on a patio or sumtin. 30 minutes from downtown van, or 1hour from van airport sky train routes, plus the 15 minutes to ebike to the rink. Probably get pinched by the fuzz, I heard about your crazy laws in bc land. Gotta tap out at 35kph, so maybe get away with 40. My town, I get pulled over and they say nuffin, run my name see suspended license, no motorized vehicles, fuzz either to dumb or just dont care.

[LienusLateTips]

1 minute ago, Canada EH said:

You need an electric bike!

I go everywhere, and do it from train stations. I can go 20km from station line 35 minutes.

Every now and then when I get a flat tire, sometimes I gotta wait for 4 buses to pass before theres one with a bike rack.

1. I don't enjoy biking

2. All the hundreds of times I've tried to bike it doesn't turn out right

3. I don't even own a normal bike

4. I don't have the money to get a e-bike

5. My commute is a 7 minute walk

[Daniel Z.]

15 minutes ago, JDE said:

1. I don't enjoy biking

2. All the hundreds of times I've tried to bike it doesn't turn out right

3. I don't even own a normal bike

4. I don't have the money to get a e-bike

5. My commute is a 7 minute walk

Don't you have someone to drive you? I love running btw, near the top of my class for sprinting. 

[Canada EH]

Yeah Uber @Daniel Z.

Maybe Car2Go is in the zone for drop off.

Taxi cant be that much from King George Skytrain station.

I see the rate for Vic is

Flag: $3.30

Distance (per km): $1.93 times 17km

OUCH! PRICEY! $35 one way!

 

How about hoofing it 17km?

I see casual walking is 5kmh. so 3 hours.

9kph is good for people who run alot

running average is 4-6mph so a mile is 1.6km

 

Skateboarding is fun!

Electric skateboards

 

What about roller blading

thats fun!

 

If you book far enough in advance, you can rent a weekend car rate for $20-$25/day, unlimited km. Enterprise is great! I see looking at it now, $32 for a small car like a Kio Rio, and they are good on gas. Everytime I rent cars, I drive them really hard.

[Daniel Z.]

1 minute ago, Canada EH said:

Yeah Uber @Daniel Z.

Maybe Car2Go is in the zone for drop off.

Taxi cant be that much from King George Skytrain station.

I see the rate for Vic is

Flag: $3.30

Distance (per km): $1.93 times 17km

OUCH! PRICEY! $35 one way!

 

How about hoofing it 17km?

17km could be worse tbh for running. Most I have done is 3.5k, I am a short-medium distance runner. 100m is my best by far lol

[Syntaxvgm]

16 hours ago, CPotter said:

We're not sure if it'll be BYOC as that would be a logistical nightmare, but there will definitely be some sort of LAN present at our next event.

tbh lan parties are, and if if it's ever a serious all-in lan party, it should be separate from the main event, maybe even different time of year. Rotate locations. 

BYOC is the only way to have a reasonable size, and if you byoc you need to stay by your pc the whole event, partner system, etc. 

[porina]

I half considered doing international travel for the last one but a combo of factors worked against me:

1, more notice of date helps with planning travel a LOT

2, it was held in peak vacation season so ticket prices were through the roof unless you make reservations like a year in advance. July/August is about the worst possible time in terms of travel cost.

[3 Lions]

@CPotter

 

I have a good idea for the people that cannot attend the show...

 

So basically my idea is to have a live Cinebench R15 multi-core/single-core competition that would run throughout the day of LTX. There could be a link on the forum that would take us to a result submission page where we could submit our results along with a CPU-Z screenshot to show clear evidence, a team volunteers at the show could verify the result and put it on a leader board that would be on a huge screen. The people at the show would be able to see the leader board updating every few seconds however this is the twist, the person submitting the result will not know where they are on the leader board until near the end of the show when an e-mail could be sent with their place. The winners of both categories would win a huge prize set aside from the rest of the prizes at the show and would be recorded on another leader board that would be for LTX 2019. Do you think something like this would work? 

Edited January 26, 2018 by LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo

[CPotter]

15 minutes ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

@CPotter

 

I have a good idea for the people that cannot attend the show...

 

So basically my idea is to have a live Cinebench R15 multi-core/single-core competition that would run throughout the day of LTX. There could be a link on the forum that would take us to a result submission page where we could submit our results along with a CPU-Z screenshot to show clear evidence, a team volunteers at the show could verify the result and put it on a leader board that would be on a huge screen. The people at the show would be able to see the leader board updating every few seconds however this is the twist, the person submitting the result will not know where they are on the leader board until near the end of the show when an e-mail could be sent with their place. The winners of both categories would win a huge prize set aside from the rest of the prizes at the show and would be recorded on another leader board that would be for LTX 2019. Do you think something like this would work? 

We definitely want to have a few interactive activities that people can remotely engage with, not sure about this exact idea but we have a few others as well.  

[CPotter]

5 hours ago, porina said:

I half considered doing international travel for the last one but a combo of factors worked against me:

1, more notice of date helps with planning travel a LOT

2, it was held in peak vacation season so ticket prices were through the roof unless you make reservations like a year in advance. July/August is about the worst possible time in terms of travel cost.

We planned LTX 2017 in about three months so I completely agree with you there, we should have the date fully locked in within the next two or three weeks (Tentative July 14th).

[porina]

Just now, CPotter said:

We planned LTX 2017 in about three months so I completely agree with you there, we should have the date fully locked in within the next two or three weeks (Tentative July 14th).

Thanks, I can start looking to see what pricing is like... more notice like this really helps, but it is still in vacation season... really hope to meet up with the crew some day.

[CPotter]

5 hours ago, porina said:

Thanks, I can start looking to see what pricing is like... more notice like this really helps, but it is still in vacation season... really hope to meet up with the crew some day.

Yeah unfortunately that month in Summer works the best for us, hopefully if the event gets big enough we can do an LTXUSA, LTXEUR, etc.  

[unijab]

I want to see Ram & SSD pricing drop

[givingtnt]

On 24/01/2018 at 8:06 PM, CPotter said:

Hey guys!

 

We're planning another LTX event for this year, and I wanted to ask you all what you'd like to see at the event.

 

Open to all feedback and suggestions, even if you didn't go last year.  

 

 

I say defenitivly stream some of it.

Or at least something.

Live wan show ? 

Ninja throw cpus on a foam target ?

 

Make taran edit while people find creative ways to distract him ?

 

Do it closer to my city?

[LienusLateTips]

On 1/25/2018 at 9:36 PM, Daniel Z. said:

Don't you have someone to drive you? I love running btw, near the top of my class for sprinting. 

Parents say no, all friends are console peasents, yeah

[8uhbbhu8]

How about a video editing competition leading up to the even with those at the event voting on the winners. Maybe LTT posts some footage that never got made into videos and challenges us to come up with the best edit/compilation/whatever else we can imaging type of thing. 

(Would also be a good way to scope out hiring prospects for the future ) 

 

Live Rig modding competition

 

Had so many ideas after last years but can't remember any lol

[givingtnt]

I say

10keyless challenge

Get a few mechanical 10keyless 

Remove all key caps 

 

The game :

Who can put it back as quickly as possible.

1sec penality for missplaced caps

 

[AMDPRO]

I think that if they can get more new tech ie, Navi Gpu, Zen 2 (Not Zen+), Threadripper 2 etc. This would be amazing.

 

Also please consider a eastern location such as Chicago, Indianapolis(which has an amazing convention center BTW), New York etc.

[mech]

I'm going to try to come! Don't know if I will be able to because of other things and finances but will try my best!