Jeremy is back from vacation this week to join Norm and Will to talk about Apple’s stance on user data, Google’s self-driving car accident, the new Phantom 4, and robots you can’t trust. Plus, more impressions from using the HTC Vive Pre!
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Adam and Norm assemble a beautifully machined replica prop k…
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Adam reveals his surprise Christmas present for his wife--a …
Wow, I got here really early, it’s from 2015. LOL
Nope, video not working
lol, it was showing 3/3/15 when i got here. I am sure its just in the middle of being uploaded.
video’s still uploading and processing, so it should be up in an hour or so!
Ok 🙂
Thumbs up for the GameFrame 2.0, really love mine.
LED’s are ridiculously bright, I have mine on the lowest setting and it looks great.
Great job on the sound this week. Perfect.
@ The dragon’s name was Toothless, my kids love those movies.
Trained firefighter from Canada here,
If you find yourself in an office building fire, and the door is cool, stay as low as you can to the ground (smoke permitting), and get to a stairwell. The high rise stairwells are pressurized to expel smoke, so unless the fire is in the stairwell or there’s a door blocked open into the stairwell, it will be clear (make sure you use the designated fire escape, some buildings won’t have every stairwell pressurized this way). I can’t stress enough how important it is that you have that memorized, if the smoke is down to the floor you wont be able to see a thing, and won’t have the luxury of checking every door on the floor.
Wow! Will two weeks in a row?
Please consider making the ‘VR Hour’ it’s own show on Tested. It has gotten too big and I have little interest in VR and the show doesn’t always go back cleanly into the rest of the show (hard to skip).
If you film it the same session as This is Only a Test this wouldn’t really be much extra work to do. Plus if you do this, it would be another show in the schedule to draw traffic to the site/Youtube.
Video works great for me but FYI the last 3-4 mins of the audio is cut out from the video right when the new Game Frame is being discussed. Also thank you for addressing the sound issues from previous weeks. I know it must be annoying.
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Every time I hear a Virtual Reality, I always sing Jamiroquai’s song with my own lyrics…would be a good fit for the VR
hourminute.I just took my daughter to Disneyland for the first time last week. It was absolutely perfect. She said it was everything she dreamed of and we got to do everything she wanted to do. She is 10. I think if you take kids younger than that, you are not going to be able to maximize your time efficiently because you need frequent bathroom stops, and going to the park for 16 hours just isn’t going to happen, meaning you don’t get “your money’s worth,” which is huge considering how expensive everything is.
We went on walks around the neighborhood before the trip to prepare her for the 5+ miles we’d be walking every day, and she was a total trooper. She walked everywhere and stood in line like a champ, no complaints at all, and had a smile on her face the entire time. You’re just not going to have that with someone much younger.
All cloud strategies from Google and Apple that are key to their future are threatened if the personal and enterprise interna are not confidential. Obviously much of the stored info is mined already by the companies themselves extensively. This is an issue hat impedes on privacy big time. And that is why one should be very cautious of what one makes public. Letting governments to do the same is dangerous as all countries will want the same no matter where it is stored and what dictator is in charge. How many governmental workers, military, police and officials are dismissed or even prosecuted each year for taking bribes? It is in the hundreds each year for cases that get some coverage. If there is a backdoor everyone with enough money and leverage over officials will have access no matter what laws will govern this officially. I would be surprised if the usually suspects don’t have tools already in hand. Can’t help think that this discussion is to force law makers to sanction this to absolve the companies.
oh gosh…. i was so close to thinking Devils Advocate Thoughts for a few moments in favor of software patents… surely they are good for something right? Or at least there is some valid argument somewhere in there?
Then I read today about IBM suing Groupon because it claims Groupon copied “intellectual property” from Prodigy. You know, Prodigy, the dial-up online service from the 80s and 90s.
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Had a similar situation regarding Apple …. It was very interesting to hear Jeremy’s take…sounded reasonable.
Then I heard Bill Gates talk about the case, about how it might be necessary for governments to use backdoors to stop terrorists.
Then I remembered that Microsoft signed agreements with the repressive dictator of Tunisia (before the Arab Spring), to sell custom bundles of Windows to their government, for example including the source code to the OS and special root certificate built in to IE, along with IT training for its police forces to “fight crime”… those security forces were well known as rapists and torturers. And the only reason we know about this deal is because of the Wikileaks of State Department cables.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/wikileaks-microsoft-aided-former-tunisian-regime
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2138565
So, Microsoft independently aiding an repressive regime means we shouldn’t have a discussion about warrant-proof spaces? I don’t know, I don’t have a solution. I just think we should have a serious, open-minded discussion.
Wait wedding invitations? Who is getting married?…
Will, you could probably get a used laptop cheaper than a toy, or chromebook. It might even work. If you ask around someone might have one they can give you. I have one, but international shipping isn’t cheap.
I forget the sauce, but Scott Kelly is (IIRC) 0.014 seconds younger in a gravitational perspective than his twin brother, due to his most recent trip.
Please, please, please, Norm, do like pilots and rocket scientists do, and create a CHECKLIST for the launch of the podcast!!!!!!
Is there more to this cast?
I am so tired of hearing about Quacopters and about VR. I really miss Will who keeps the podcast on topic, and keeps the discussion between all 3 people. Will and Jeremy and Norm are a good team, as long as Norm is not the leader. He seems to know nothing about diversity of topics, diversity of views, diversity of people. I am also so tired of Kishore interrupting anyone who’s speaking. He’s a real smart cookie, but he thinks he knows the most about any subject. Not respectful and not taking turns so everyone is heard.
I love Will, (I know he’s gone, more or less) I love when he visits the podcast. Always keeps it from being boring as it has come to be the last few weeks. Norm needs some lessons on how to lead a group, to encourage people to talk, and if necessary to encourage people to shut up when they are hijacking the podcast. To make sure that one particular subject doesn’t take over the whole show.
I’m a long time listener, and I keep trying to like the show as it is now, but it’s really difficult. I’m staying a long time listener, and I hope that the show changes course a bit.
I don’t know what to put in this required field. So I will repeat my comment. Sorry if I’m totally uninitiated into your format!
I am so tired of hearing about Quacopters and about VR. I really miss Will who keeps the podcast on topic, and keeps the discussion between all 3 people. Will and Jeremy and Norm are a good team, as long as Norm is not the leader. He seems to know nothing about diversity of topics, diversity of views, diversity of people. I am also so tired of Kishore interrupting anyone who’s speaking. He’s a real smart cookie, but he thinks he knows the most about any subject. Not respectful and not taking turns so everyone is heard.
I love Will, (I know he’s gone, more or less) I love when he visits the podcast. Always keeps it from being boring as it has come to be the last few weeks. Norm needs some lessons on how to lead a group, to encourage people to talk, and if necessary to encourage people to shut up when they are hijacking the podcast. To make sure that one particular subject doesn’t take over the whole show.
I’m a long time listener, and I keep trying to like the show as it is now, but it’s really difficult. I’m staying a long time listener, and I hope that the show changes course a bit.