January 31st 2014 - The WAN Show Document

[LinusTech]

 

Topic Callouts

Mantle is here!

Backblaze HDD test flawed

HSS

South Korea bans unremoveable bloatware

Source 2 Engine Leaked - HL3 confirmed

< News Items >

MANTLE!!!

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/109067-libreoffice-adds-support-for-mantle/

- MASSIVE spreadsheets, loaded more quickly

- Not just for gaming

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/109109-mantle-patch-released-for-battlefield/

- No drivers yet. Trolled.

- Leaks saying it was being compiled and uploaded… that was yesterday…

- The more CPU bound the test, the better the improvements are

 

Featured on Homestream group

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream#announcements

Yay Valve knows we exist

Bounty Winner for Candy Ass Candy Eater

http://armiferamortalis.itch.io/candy-ass-candy-eater-v1

- Gotta keep your momentum up

- Jumping is supported

- you can force yourself off the map and glitch out off the side but you can jump up

- hitting the walls slows you down

- if you run out of lives you get “sued” and must restart

- just for fun mode changes the sprite

Oculus body swap thing

NSFW VIDEO

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-23-watch-oculus-rift-virtually-swap-bodies-genders

NSFW VIDEO

- Be Another Lab has created the next best thing by staging a symmetrical set of two identical spaces, then having two participants wear Oculus Rifts to see what the other person is seeing. By doing this the participants are able to virtually body swap

- Entitled The Machine to Be Another, the goal of the project is to explore empathy and the nature of the self.

- the only way to get the simulation to work is if both parties follow the same movements, lest the illusion be broken.

NSFW VIDEO

Source 2 engine with HL3 leak?

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/107712-left-4-dead-2-in-source-2-engine-leaks/

- HL3 Confirmed?

- Didn’t see anything new on the snippet of slide 20, something about powerful front end gui + browser for finding, managing and editing assets

- Source 2 leak from highly reputable "CBOAT" (crazy buttocks on a train) user

- HL3 files link i can’t find a super awesome source for, and honestly it would likely be codenamed…. get it? source? I’ll see myself out

Google starts ranking ISPs similar to how Netflix did

https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/Google-Starts-Ranking-ISPs-Based-on-YouTube-Performance-127440

- Same idea as when Netflix threw everyone under the bus

- "We wanted to give users a measure of performance that they can truly understand," Google's Shiva Rajaraman

- ISP becomes Youtube HD Verified if it can play 720p videos seamlessly 90% of the time

- http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/#how_video_gets_to_you

Backblaze blog marketing with vague reports and sensationalized titles at it again.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html

- drives stripped from external enclosures are included in failure ratings

- very specific models with high failure rates, both main ones are 1.5TB and both are very consumer ( green/baracuda)

- they weren’t all deployed at the same time… that should be enough to negate everything right there

- older drive likely means older backblaze enclosure, and these enclosures are notorious for vibration due to their awesomely compact design and ability to hold 45 HDD’s

- drives in different areas have drastically different temperatures(drives at the top are hotter than drives at the bottom, drives on shelves in the middle of an aisle are hotter than on the perimiter)

- varying work loads, varying temp environments, varying vibration

- This really isn’t any different than their enterprise drives blog post

bewifi lets you share with and take from your neighbours wifi

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/bewifi-lets-you-steal-your-neighbors-bandwidth-when-theyre-not-using-it/

- Claims not everyone uses the internet at the same time, but instead people use it in bursts

- Claims it is mainly designed for dense areas with poor internet connectivity as that is the optimal situation for its use, aimed at developing economies

- Not REALLY designed for sprawling areas with lots of land per house, more for dense areas where wifi will overlap easily

- Focused on South America

- Deployed to over 1,000 people signed up in the north of Barcelona

South korea bans unremovable mobile bloatware

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/south-korea-bans-unremovable-mobile-bloatware/

- banned mobile manufacturers and networks putting un-removable apps on smartphones

- users will also benefit from the regulations in terms of battery life and data storage

- all pre-installed apps must be deletable, except for those that enable Wi-Fi connectivity, near-field communication, customer service, and an app store.

Samsung and Google hace also agreed that Samsung will stop duplicating coee Google app fumctionality on Android

Nintendo blocked from stopping hackers

http://bgr.com/2014/01/23/nintendo-console-hacking-court-ruling/

- Italian company PC Box argued that its hardware, which allows Wii owners to play games from any region

- Nintendo now allowed to stop people from hacking their consoles other than to prevent illegally copied video games.

- Getting around region locks is entirely fine

- “Nintendo cannot prevent its consoles from being tampered with to play multimedia from other providers, except in the case of illegally copied video games.”

- Nintendo is expected to fire back

Dutch ISP’s drop pirate bay blocks

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/28/5353236/dutch-isps-drop-pirate-bay-blocks-after-court-rules-them-ineffective

- Original lawsuit Initiated by the local anti-piracy group BREIN

- Original lawsuit sprung similar situations in places like the UK

- Blocks have already been lifted

- With today's reversal, BREIN will have to pay 326,000 euros in damages to the affected broadband providers.

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata to half his salary...again.

http://business.time.com/2014/01/29/nintendo-boss-im-sorry-let-me-halve-my-salary/

- Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata will half his salary

- Nintendo board members will receive a 20 to 30 percent cut in their salaries.

- This was surprisingly hard to find… let us not forget 2011, after slow 3DS Sales

- “For cuts in fixed salaries, I’m taking a fifty percent cut, other representative directors are taking a 30 percent cut, and other execs are taking a 20 percent cut,” said Iwata.

HTC One screen correction(IPS)

http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one/faq/2/

Google glass do come with prescriptions, wider range of frames

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57617792-93/google-glass-now-framed-for-prescriptions/

http://www.zdnet.com/google-puts-prescription-lenses-in-glass-frame-7000025667/

- $225, in addition to the $1,500 entry fee to the Explorer program.

- Google is adding four titanium frame styles -- Bold, Curve, Thin, and Split -- and two new tinted shade styles -- Classic and Edge -- to the mix. The tinted shades will cost $150.

- 40 combinations of colors, frames, and shades.

- "Extreme prescriptions outside of +4 or -4 won't work, but most people should be covered," he said. Bifocals and trifocals, he said, will depend on the optometrists' recommendation.

- People are already ghetto fixing glass onto their own prescription glasses, but now this is official and properly done

Biggest battle in EVE history

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/01/29/biggest-battle-in-eve-onlines-history-leads-to-an-estimated-50/

- Estimates range from $200,00 to $500,000

- involving more than 4,000 players. The fight saw the destruction of over 100 prized Titan vessels, which take months of gameplay to build and are worth around $3,000 each

- On a very basic scale Sovereignty over a system provides basic protection to things like stations

- When asked about the sov drop, Manfred Sidious of Pandemic Legion described it as the consequence of a bug, stating that he had enough isk in his holding corp wallet as well as having autopay checked.

Artificial Cheese

[Vindola]

forst

 

I'm sorry I just couldn't help it.

[hawaiims]

Finally! I was waiting for the darn thing to get posted on youtube... Watching it right after on twitch is not as nice as on youtube. 

[Jeroen1322]

Nice, when the WAN show is live i am sleeping and when i wake up it is one YT

[MegaDave91]

forst

 

I'm sorry I just couldn't help it.

*facepalm*

[TheCroaker]

@LinusTech Hey wasnt able to chime in during the show, but I wanted to say I think you should do it all with an R9 290x, different cpus, but 2 runs with each cpu one with mantle and one with DirectX

[Nineshadow]

Artificial Cheese?

What O_o

[Forren]

When most people find out they're broadcasting a public SSID, like Xfinity's Wifi Hotspot feature, they immediately ask to have it disabled.  Even if it requires a valid UID, and it's explained to them, they don't want it there because it does piggyback on your connection.

[PortentousLad]

Mantle:

Low-end cpu/apu and high-end graphics! (i.e. a10 7700 + 290/780) if that makes any sense or more does it with mantle.

going for a cheap system upgrade now and maybe add a 290 later is what I am thinking right now.

 

 

 

Bloatware:

I rooted my wildfire S with next to 0 smartphone exp - it took me about a week till everything was sorted.

And HTC is actually very rooting friendly... now. Expanding the phone memory was easy once I had figured out how to do it.

 

I have 0 desire to do it again!

 

 

Nintendo:

I didn't know what the hell the WiiU was supposed to be but I also didn't care one bit

 

Google ranking ISPs:

doesn't work here yet...

[Kip69]

Is this where you are putting the GMO talk too?

 

One of the key points of GMO foods is that they are substantially the same as regular food. Any change is precise, tested and controlled for. If you want to see scary, look at radiation mutation of hybrids like the "ruby red grapefruit". That stuff is freaky scary AND untested for safety.

 

http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/10/08/with-2000-global-studies-confirming-safety-gm-foods-among-most-analyzed-subject-in-science/
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6152/1320.full

[TheRuke]

@LinusTech If you would please mention my name next time that would be great!  :rolleyes:

[blastedryan]

Artificial Cheese?

What O_o

Look up American cheese.

[SwiftJustice]

About the Bewifi topic, BT in the UK already do this to create hotspots, customers can opt in to share some of their internet bandwidth to create the BT Wifi hotspot. It works really well.

[capawesome9870]

1st Twitter Blitz Response, because i did not catch this live. 

 

Running Dual, triple or quad GPUs 280x or R9 290x (or R9 290) with low, mid, and high end CPUs. 

[adhisakti]

bewifi lets you share with and take from your neighbours wifi

 

In my country, our national government telco use something similar to this, they give you free TPLink ADSL Modem with custom firmware that broadcast extra wifi SSID and everyone can connect to this SSID whether it is for free (about 20 minutes) or paid with prepaid voucher. As I dig into the modem settings, it seems that they use a different VLAN for this connection that will separate other people that connect to the public SSID with the computers on your house. I think that is not a problem for a lot of people but for me, I rather buy a new good modem that is more reliable and did not have that extra SSID.

[Safyle]

has htcsparechange winner announced? anyone can tell me?

[Weak1ings]

Linus, here is something that you should do!
A 3D-Printer
Printing something in the background.
Or your favorite stuffed animals

or something special to you guys.

 

Or just some crazy idea maker.