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I was born ready This is the daily tech news It's for Tuesday November 10th 2015 happy fallout day everyone. I'm Tom marriage order me today Mr. Patrick major DTNS contributor from Paris France or near near enough Close enough close enough. I do get to walk around with my scarf Flying in the wind on the near Parisian boulevard. So it does count. Yes. Do you have a baguette? Would you do that? Am I French? That's a silly question. Do I not eat kale and wear workout clothes when I walk the streets of Los Angeles, of course? Well, we are going to talk a little bit about study that came out yesterday that WordPress Runs 25% of the web depending on how you count it and what that means We'll talk a little bit about what the how the number got there, but whatever way you slice it. It's a pretty big chunk So we'll be looking at that, but let's start off with some headlines You can now pre-order the consumer version of the Samsung Gear VR from Best Buy for $99 US with a release date of November 20th The Gear VR comes with the 16 gigabyte micro SD card preloaded with 360 degree videos and 3d movie trailers It's also compatible with Netflix Hulu Twitch and Vimeo gear works with the Galaxy s6 the s6 edge the s6 edge Plus and the Galaxy Note 5 was developed last year in collaboration with Oculus Rift So it's it's the Oculus Rift you can buy Is it the Oculus Rift you deserve though? Yeah, it may not be the Oculus Rift you want, but it's the Oculus Rift you can get It's not actually an Oculus Rift. It's the Gear VR. It's Samsung Gear VR, but it is Developed with the Oculus so it's it's got some of their thumb prints on it some of their technology I'd be curious to hear from people who have experienced the Not the Oculus Rift the Gear VR directly. I'm hearing it's not bad But it's not great. I It does for a great demo, but I'm not hearing a lot of people using it extensively as a VR headset So I mean it is and it's it's yeah, you don't have an input method for it So so there's there's there's an issue right there And and people haven't developed that app that it can really be useful on it, but it is fun I guess for videos 360 degree videos and stuff. Yeah Google Maps will now work offline allowing users to search and navigate without a data connection When the area has been previously selected Google Maps will seamlessly switch to offline mode if a connection fails offline maps will not get real-time traffic updates da Pedestrian or transit options the feature is out now for Android with an iOS version to come shortly This is brilliant until I read about the pedestrian mode because most of my personal situations where I've wanted to use maps offline involved Visiting tourist touristy type things like New York City or Florence, Italy Where I didn't want to have to use data or I or I couldn't rely on data because maybe I was gonna be in a subway station And so it's kind of like oh well, I guess I guess that's good for driving. I Think so. Yeah, one of the use cases is Definitely when you're overseas and you don't want to use your Incredibly expensive data roaming charges, but I think by now most people will probably be buying a little Wi-Fi 3g 4g router. Yeah more subway stations and places like that got have Wi-Fi and stuff So I guess yeah, but maybe you know for for areas that are a little bit less Covered by data service, maybe people who are driving might have a use for it there But then you have to have already I I think it depends how you set up the pre-loaded Elements if you can say, you know, I have this route and I want it to be available offline and it stays offline Then you can do your coast-to-coast road trip across the US without any issue Yeah, you can pick a whole country. It seems like at least that was the implication So once you once you're going you're going it's not gonna give you real-time traffic and that makes sense because it can't You know, it's offline after all it can't get updates and and this will be good for places with With with more limited Plans places like India places like Nigeria South Africa, maybe Australia sometimes they still complain about having, you know limited caps on things So I I can see that It's I just like I'm like why not have the pedestrian thing in there is that much extra data? I guess it is When Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks publicly, it's most often treated as news in an interview with the telegraph cook said I think if you're looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore? No, really? Why would you buy one? You know, that's not how Tim Cook talks, but I think it's funny if he did got really aggressive with the telegraph owner He's basically talking about the iPad Pro launch as for the health industry He said he didn't want to put the Apple watch through the FDA process But Apple might put something else adjacent to the Apple watch through the health care Process, maybe an app. He said he didn't say that for sure. He said maybe an app He also re-emphasized his commitment to end an encryption saying to protect people who use any products you have to encrypt not an option Good on encryption Interesting to see what would happen on the health department. Why would anyone buy a PC? I'm sure there are a lot of people who have many reasons to buy a PC, but I think the real Answer to that question will only come once people have had their hands on the iPad Pro Which I don't think many people have at this point. So He's answering it Basically, he's saying the iPad Pro is awesome. You can do lots of things and blah blah blah I'm not sure that's the case But it seems to be overstating. Yeah, it's overstating the case Like yeah, there are lots of great reasons to buy a laptop and and some of the reasons not to buy a laptop are Maybe answered by the Surface Pro Better than the iPad Pro at which is basically yeah, which is basically a laptop So I'm not sure it you know and it's kind of it's a lie You buy the keyboard case for the iPad Pro and you've got kind of a laptop, so I don't I don't buy it Yeah, I think we're not yet at that stage. Oh Are you gonna buy an iPad Pro at the end? probably The only I don't really care about the 12 inches. I just this thing is starting to like just get slow and old Just get an iPad Air 2 it works pretty well, but it's a year old That's true Anyway, we're not there yet I don't think and we still have a little bit of ways to go if the tablets ever replace laptops Apple Music Beta for Android has launched in all countries that get Apple music for iOS Except China the app is missing music videos Which are coming soon and you can sign up for a family membership in the app You have to use a Mac or an iOS device for that Apple music requires Android 4.3 or later And yep has a has a free three months trial period with a $10 months fee after it ends Yeah, and if you already have tried out Apple music like I have for three months for free You either have to lie Sign up on Android and say no, I don't have an account create one for me Or you can't get the three-month trial period Well, it it would be kind of silly to not use your existing Apple ID for an Apple Product that create multiple IDs that you're not gonna be free three months 30 bucks like 60 euros what's 30 bucks for us wealthy podcasters Please send 30 bucks to my patreon so that I can do not have to lie BBC reports eyespeed printer that makes prototype circuit boards in a matter of minutes Just won the Dyson engineering award for students from the University of Waterloo in Canada built the Volterra v1 Which uses one conducting and one insulating layer to make a two-layer board It can also dispense solder so that you can add features right there on the board Volterra one because of the potential to speed up the hardware design process and they've already raised half a million dollars on Kickstarter for it earlier this year, so they get 30,000 pounds in prize money Volterra v1 is available for pre-order for $2,199 Now that would be for prototyping and stuff like that I imagine yeah, that's exactly right But if you're into chip design you could do home you could do home chip design and print out a prototype Like right there wait it prints boards not chips It prints circuits on the board and solder points right, but the chip you still you can't like all right No, you're not printing an integrated circuit. You're that right is correct. Correct, but I mean if you've got some if you've got those You could you could make a board. Yeah, it's good point. I think you're right I misspoke and said chips you can't print an actual chip right yet But you can buy the chips and you know make a board of your own and and sort of make the chips do the things They're supposed to do and that could be interesting. Yeah The BBC reports that 40 years after its introduction Sony will stop selling Betamax video cassettes sometime in March 2016 Sony is also ending sales of micro MV cassettes used by camcorders in the early 2000s Sony stopped making Betamax VCRs in 2002 and you know in the 2002,000s we still used Betamax cassettes in the broadcast industry at least you know in France in Paris I pour a little out Yeah, it was it just it was just so much higher quality than VHS They were still using beta tapes in the early 2000s at places that I was working with And I wouldn't be shocked if there's some stations out there scrambling at this point to be like Oh, I guess we have to retire that one beta unit. We're still using Possibly yeah, never not that many but and I also imagine someone is going to continue to make Betamax tapes It just won't be Sony at this point. There'll be some third party step in and fill in the gap and for a while They just maybe yeah, is it I mean I would guess that the entire industry is moving on very quickly now So I can't imagine it's gonna stay for too long and of course People who make VHS tapes But VHS was you know, there are still people who make 78 records. No, it's not true I don't think well, maybe there is actually it's probably more likely that than eight tracks isn't there No, but I think there probably is some niche uses of beta out there that will require a Smaller company to be able to make some beta tapes probably at a higher price I'm thinking VCRs would be the one that you need more because there are probably some archival Yeah, some places for with archives that have Betamax, but hopefully all of this is being transferred to digital formats T-Mobile USA announced new plans and features today And among the more controversial is likely to be the binge on service Subscribers to the simple choice amped plans can stream video from 24 chosen services without having a count against their monthly data limit That's a practice often referred to as zero rating video streams are optimized for quality with proprietary T-Mobile tech Meaning that they'll only be at 480p or above So not HD is what they're saying. How is this optimized for quality? for quality of this timing Not quality of the video So we know what I'm saying like you're not gonna buffer and chug along and all that It's gonna be nice and smooth. It just won't be HD and and to be honest 480p looks pretty good on most phone screens At least the ones below 5.7 inches But it's not HD. So maybe there's a reason to continue to not use it I wonder I have my first question was can I turn it off so that I get HD Will it detect if I'm on Wi-Fi? So I get HD services like Netflix Hulu HBO and even Verizon's go 90 and AT&T's Direct TV are part of the plan Significantly YouTube is not That depresses me a little bit I mean, I understand as much as anyone that video on Cell service has to be limited in some way or organized in some way but still, you know, I would echo that and you know thoughts when you discussed it was it last week or a couple of weeks ago and That the way all of this is going we had a Few months where it seemed like Reason was winning and now it seems like the opposite of reason. I don't think this is the worst example of what you're talking about No, it's not it's just it's just another example in that trend which I'm not saying, you know old doom and gloom It's just the the My optimism in that area has gone from going up to going a little bit down. It's not zero But it's not going up and if people are saying, what are you talking about Patrick? I'm getting free video. This is great Sure, and you you have choices in the United States If you don't like this practice, you can you can switch to another provider There is a little bit of competition and wireless But the people who are against this are people who are saying well T-Mobile is picking a winner or loser It'll be harder for someone to start a video company if those videos count against your data cap on Mobile especially if they're trying to start a mobile video company When people may say oh, I don't really want to watch anything on that service because it's not part of the the free plan Where you know, it'll count against my data cap and that can that can be a break that can be considered a break on innovation Yeah All right, the next Nintendo Direct will take place November 12th at 10 p.m. GMT with news and trailers for We you and 3ds games Oh Nintendo promises you will not I repeat not hear anything about the NX or it's mobile games This will be the first live-streamed announcement from Nintendo since the death of president Satoru Iwata was succeeded by Tatsumi Kimishima Yeah, I fully expect to hear some kind of honoring Of Satoru Iwata in this announcement. I can't imagine they won't make some knots It'll be interesting to see what they do there and mostly this is just gonna be games, right? We're gonna hear about some Zelda some Mario and more Probably I mean Zelda. I don't know because they pushed Zelda the Wii U version of Zelda Quite a bit and there are some rumors that it might be pushed so far that it would be a dual release for the NX and The Wii U possibly we'll see but I mean probably some Star Fox a few other titles It's not gonna be a major Nintendo Direct But it's very nice that they're still doing it because it was something that Iwata started and that is very marked by his image and his you know, legendary Bowing and with his white gloves opening the Wii U package and things like that that looked incredibly corny at first But that endeared him in the end to the to the players and it's nice that they're still doing it You're right. I fully expect that there will be a very strong Honoring of Iwata during that life thing his presence will be felt either way TechCrunch reports Tencent's Wii Chat now has credit card numbers attached to 200 million of its account The apps get 650 million monthly active users So it's a nice chunk of them Tencent had a profit of 7.584 billion RMB That's about 1.2 billion US revenue of 26.594 billion RMB or about 4.2 billion US big company Most of that is from WeChat and Weishan the Chinese version of WeChat Users can use the app to pay bills transfer money between people and buy things both on and offline So they want to see more credit card numbers attached Tencent also has QQ wallet and Weishan pay Which are ways to pay so you can pay with everything it seems like from Tencent Which means they're gaining on e-commerce company Alibaba and the Alibaba product Alipay Which was a natural attachment to an e-commerce company Alibaba sometimes compared to eBay It's not a one-to-one comparison, but they definitely started an e-commerce So when you're sitting there in WeChat all day and that's got a way for you to pay for things and don't forget I said offline they've got an Apple pay NFC like thing It it is making Tencent into a major player in what is often referred to as fintech Yeah, that market is I wonder if people in those parts of the world Look at our big companies in the same way. I mean some companies are completely global I imagine Google and Apple have brand recognition in those countries as well But we think of Alibaba we know them But we don't necessarily experience them on a daily basis same thing with WeChat or line or those apps I'm wondering if when they hear oh, there's a big company over there called Netflix or you know some some kind of Western-based company do they think oh it seems nice But I really don't care and it's not that we don't care about Tencent or Alibaba of course But it's very foreign to us and there's enormous. I'm just resisting the temptation to go all cowboy and be like Google's American. Where's your European company? We have a company called Daily Motion that I will have you know Skype oh wait, they sold that to Microsoft It was Swedish So I feel a little bit less of a kindred spirit with the although, you know, the sweet my wife speaks Swedish Yeah, exactly. So it's not far. No, but I know what you mean, right? especially when you consider the Google operates very minimally in China and Facebook Also not allowed beyond the firewall. So the perception there is of Alibaba and Tencent as the big players in technology I mean people know about Google and Facebook. I'm not trying to pretend that they're either that I just like we know about Tencent and Alibaba, I imagine they know more about Google and Facebook than most US citizens know about Alibaba and Tencent Yeah Frank Ramlins wanted to wanted us to make sure we mentioned a study from research firm Muffet Nathanson at the state of the on the state of pay TV in the US the decline continues with an overall loss of 350,000 subscribers in the last three months twice the number from last year, but still less than Q2's loss of 605,000 So slower decline depending on how you look at it I guess year over year that the decline is getting bigger this this may be a the sort of thing where people are more likely to cancel cable at the end of Spring or summer because the the TV series tend to end then still But it is definitely not huge. It's a trickle Percentage-wise, but it's consistent. This is that leak that you haven't been paying attention to you because you're like Oh, it's just a drip and now it's starting to become more of a stream And it's just really like ruined the tile under that place and you should have fixed it earlier Yeah, it's it I like your metaphor So pay TV is basically cable satellite Any service that you get on your TV you have to pay for which is not broadcast through the net Correct. I don't think they count Like the PlayStation view, I mean honestly PlayStation view and sling TV numbers are so small. They do meant the mitten Moffat Nathanson does talk about sling TV. In fact, they they admit they underreported their estimated sling TV subscribers After dish network, which owned sling sent them a response and they went back and refigured it But you're talking about sling TV having a total subscriber ship in the hundreds of thousands So in the in the hundreds of millions of potential TV viewers in the United States, it doesn't make much of a difference yet But that'll be interesting when that starts to become a breakdown of hey PlayStation view sling TV Maybe an Apple service. Maybe another service are rising while these pay TV Traditional services are falling. Yeah for me I'm I'm I've recently made peace with the fact that I had you know I've bought an Apple TV and I have YouTube which I use a lot two years ago, I would never have thought and you know YouTube Netflix Ted and a couple of others and I'm completely fine with that when I It's basically bringing me back to watching video content on my TV, which I did very little before So, I don't know. I thought I'd mention it. It's interesting that I'm going back to TV through the web services Yeah, so I'm I'm probably watching more TV now than I did before I canceled direct TV Because I I'm exposing myself to more shows Because I'm in the apps and they're doing a better job of telling me about things to watch then when I'm looking at a linear video box all the time and I Felt the same way when the DVR came along being able to record TV shows Meant that it was easier for me to watch them when I wanted and I think my TV viewing has only increased So overall, I think it's good news for television It's just that now we're making that jump that we had to make with music when we went from physical to digital Similar thing. 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We all like just stopped work because we couldn't do anything But you know, they they are what you use to create websites and update websites Wordpress is one square spaces one and wordpress according to these numbers from W3 tech is used by 58 point seven percent of websites whose CMS is known now There's lots of websites out there where they can't tell what the CMS is and a lot of times those are enterprise situations Like at CNET we had our own called Comet that was built by CNET and then something like W3 tech It's not gonna be able to detect that because I don't know what it is. It's an in-house solution There's a lot of those out there, but if they can detect it Wordpress makes up 58 point seven percent even counting the ones they can't detect wordpress is used by 25% of all the websites that they looked at Market share has actually been kind of flat. They say it's slipping depending on how you look at it Among CMS's but it's rising among all websites the height for wordpress in Q4 2014 was 61 percent But so they're not that far off Opportunity for wordpress is the fifty seven point four percent of websites who don't have an identifiable CMS because a lot of those may just be using Something that they don't like or something. That's not very good. W3 techs think wordpress is going to grow bigger They say that the gains are coming from places like Jumla, Drupal, and even Google's blogger They do point out that Magento, Squarespace, and Shopify have gained market share more From wordpress than they lost to wordpress, but they say the number is so small. It's barely six six significant And here's the one that got me Patrick Every 74 seconds a site within the top 10 million, which is by the way They don't they're not looking at moribund websites that started a wordpress blog five years ago and then never went back People familiar with the matter. They're looking at actual websites that are consistently used top 10 million websites Every 74 seconds someone starts a site with wordpress Second place is Shopify every 22 minutes Someone starts a website with Shopify Well, first of all 74 seconds 22 minutes. I think there's no it's not even a contest there but yeah, it's the the path that Wordpress has managed to you know Hmm go on not to go on but what they've managed to accomplish is it's pretty impressive I mean when you're looking at at numbers from last year or you know a couple of years ago I'm sure it's not that impressive, but I Started using wordpress What was it 10 years ago? I think for my first podcasting website and back then it was mess it was I mean it worked it was functional, but You could feel the Open sourciness of it, and I'm sure I'm gonna get some people unhappy about that Adjective that I just created but sometimes some Tools that are designed by engineers are a little bit less usable than once they've been around the block a couple of times And they get a little bit of ui revamp but the dream of Wordpress it was basically to make a free open Available tool for people to create websites in a new way because remember early two thousands The web was a very different place It was basically the stack static web was ending and those CMS things were coming around And there was no solution for that There were only property proprietary Solutions to do that and a lot of big companies has to had to create them all them their owns Wordpress has made all of this possible in a way that I think is a little bit undervalued sometimes or Passes kind of under the radar. I think it's really an incredible achievement that they've managed to do and You know it's it's if it wasn't there The situation would there might be someone someone else But if it if they weren't there the situation would be a lot worse for a lot of people who are trying to create content for a Smaller with a smaller budget independence, you know niche content that kind of thing so Yeah, and and keep in mind when we're talking about these numbers The numbers themselves you can slice and dice them the way W3 tech Qualifies whether it's a website or not isn't the domain Name so they don't look at the pages and they don't look at the traffic. They're only looking at did Hello Did press comm and wordpress.org? Yeah, so that so they're just saying this many 10 million domain names had wordpress operating somewhere Maybe in a sub domain, maybe not but even so 25% of all website domain names That are active domain names having wordpresses is big especially when you look at the fact that it's Such a big drop 58.7% of detectable CMS is wordpress next is jumelo with 6.6% Then Drupal with 4.9% then it dives down below 3% you get magenta and blogger, etc And it way down there Squarespace is only 0.8% Shopify 0.9% These these are growing domains, but wordpress is just easy and I think it like you said The open-source approach may in the early days have felt like it was limited But they stuck to it in a way that has benefited their product wordpress.com for somebody who doesn't want to do anything Just like please just let me do my blog They can keep bringing improvements into that from the open-source version wordpress.org where people can take it and install it on their own servers and Tweak it and run it themselves that encourages people to create themes that then they can share out There's a whole side business created a whole economy of people who do wordpress templates do wordpress themes Do wordpress management and tweaks for other people because they have created something that doesn't heal itself But improves itself And that's why a lot of these stories that I read today point out Well wordpress has been you know victim of some some pretty big security bugs Especially recently, but I think it is the kind of product where you're more likely to find out about security bugs because so much so many people use it and they do have a track record of patching those in an appropriately Fast manner rather than dragging along like some products have and just saying well, we'll fix it in the next cycle Yeah, no, I think this is the I think it's an example of the best of every world in Web development it is open source, but it also has the easy to use Wordpress.com. I mean it's still open source But I mean you don't have to muck around with the files and if you just want an easy thing You just go on wordpress.com get a blog and you're done and at the same time. It's very versatile. You have a lot of you know templates and skin skins and themes that you can use to make it your own you can go in and Use the content inside. I mean adapt and Customize the content inside and I'm using blogs that I created 10 years ago with skins from 10 years ago that I still update to the latest version of wordpress that still work and It's the ingenuity of those that that team still keeping it open source and so as I was saying it Brings to the world really it's not Exaggeration to say to the world the best that open source and Clever design can bring and and it's kind of I don't know if it's too strong a statement But it's kind of the most important open source project to me for public-facing open source project after Linux possibly because it enables for Anyone to have a presence on the web relatively easily without going through I mean we're talking about Squarespace and Shopify and some other CMSs, but they're very either niche or develop internally by a company that owns them And that I think is a separate a separate type of offering Well, they're comparable to wordpress.com where you don't make as many changes You don't have access to the underlying code You you pay wordpress to host it and serve it But you're benefiting from the open source product that's out there as well Yeah, no for sure for sure, but that's the thing. They don't have the other Alternative which is just download the thing and install it and and do whatever you want with it Which doesn't make wordpress a vector of attack though at 25 percent Does you know we talk about windows, you know having so many security problems, especially in its heyday because of its dominance on the desktop Does the is the dangerous then to use wordpress because so many other people use wordpress? Well, they is it dangerous to use wordpress is the type of question you might find on the sensationalist Blog that actually might be using wordpress by the way So I wouldn't say it's dangerous to use wordpress It's of course a bigger factor of attack just like windows is and you know the Mac is becoming now that it's seeing a little bit higher Market share But I think also first of all the other advantages you have for using wordpress are pretty obvious and very Important and the other thing is the team at wordpress has been so good at patching this these exploits that It's kind of difficult to say that it represents a real danger. There are some incidents that are going to happen Here and there of course, but I don't think you could say it's more dangerous than any other piece of software at there Out there because we know they they always have flaws somewhere Yeah, and the question you want with software security is How fast and how reliable are they at patching it? And and so if you're thinking about wordpress and you're worried about that go go take a look Go go poke around and do some research if you're on wordpress.com they patch it very quickly for you But if you're running it yourself You're going to be the one have to be the one that goes in and make those patches and how fast are they available? How easy are they implement ever since wordpress added the automatic update where you no longer have to actually Download the new version and then copy it over by onto your your installation I mean, it's dead easy even if you're hosting it yourself And I mean that's kind of what I was getting at when I was saying Initially wordpress was very rough and it felt like something you kind of had to really know what you were doing to handle but they've improved the usability of wordpress so much that it has become a Quasi consumer product it self updates for anything but major, you know, very important version it's not cool anymore Well, I personally as a non hipster who is behind the That's why I still use type pad exactly But you know, so it has automatic updates. It has Plug-in installation from within the Administrator's UI it has basically anything you can hope for Within the UI and the UI is very elegant. It's it works super well now So, I mean, I'm wondering how many people in our audience are using Wordpress at this point. I'm guessing I think all of your sites use wordpress. Don't know Tom Definitely not, but some of you. Yeah I guess so what other CMS's do you use? I've used blogger. I've used Squarespace. I've used type pad in the past I don't know if I still have anything on type pad anymore. No, but now currently wikis and I have done a little messing around not with Jumla Now I can't remember the name and I just said it I was just looking at it but Drupal. Yeah But yeah, I mean I it is very easy to start a wordpress site and so I've started a few of them And you know, I think that's another thing a lot of people might might say Yeah, wordpress is cool But Jumla can do so much more and Drupal is so has so many more capabilities and that's what that's great for those Uses but wordpress sort of strikes the perfect balance in my opinion. Well, it does Jumla and Drupal are I want to do more and I want to have more control and I'm willing to work at it a little more to get that Wordpress is the is the very basic level saying look, you're lazy like Tom Merritt You want to be able to just throw a website up and have it look halfway decent without a lot of work? Here you go. Well, so that's what I was gonna say I was gonna say it strikes the perfect balance as a consumer product Yeah, and you know, it's at the intersection of open source and commercial product and consumer and For that it has the the best version of what we have today For the con for the for the person who's not like I want to code it myself I'm looking at a darker dealer there in the chat room like I code everything myself I don't use a CMS and then he's he's right if you're if you're willing to put in that time That is the way to do it But if you're somebody who is like, you know, I don't really know coding Go to wordpress.com if you're somebody's like, I know it's some HTML and CSS I don't want to have to do it all the time you go to wordpress if you're like, well, you know I could do a little bit move of coding I don't mind do a little bit of coding then you then you step up to Drupal and and on and on and on But yeah, I mean we could have a whole conversation about Drupal and Joomla and wordpress and where they excel and where they fail But yeah, I guess I'll I'll take or you could be like Tim Beck who says Drupal sucks only Drupal devs like Drupal And then we start the the Joomla Wars or something. I don't know Yeah, I hear that's episode nine I believe that will be played by Harrison Ford's daughter Okay, that is all for for wordpress though We're not trying to say it's perfect But it is it is pretty good and it's it's kind of fun to see somebody Honestly, like Matt Get this kind of long-term success. He was working at scene at the same time I was still working on wordpress wordpress launched 2003 He came to work for seen it for a while in those early days And wow, see now you should have bought wordpress. I'm just saying glad you didn't though Pick of the day comes from rich and lovely Cleveland He says I think people forget about Google trends for a long time This was a simple way to check the comparative popularity of search terms over the course of Google's history But I've been blown away by how they've changed the site over the last year or so No better example of that than their coverage of the presidential debates Which show which of the candidates was searched the most during the course of the debate? The order in which people search the candidates which issue received the most search traffic Pre and post-debate search trends and the most common questions asked about them It's been a really great tool and Google is finding new ways to show that to people Google.com slash trends And we've got a link to a story about Google trends Particularly regarding debates. Thank you rich from lovely Cleveland Google trends I used to rely on to do my top fives when I'd be like what what are the hot search terms out there? Google trends was the way to find that out I was looking at the link that rich provided and there's one of the cards that is the search terms over the course of the debate and Without getting political at all. Wow that Bernie Sanders This was from the Democratic debate. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and specifically the Democratic debate But it's it's very interesting because there was a narrative about who was favorite whom in the in the Reporting on the debate on that debate specifically and Some publications might have favored one candidate rather than another and in this case it's very interesting because it's not a universal indicator, of course, but the the way that the graphs go kind of tell you a very Clear story about what has been happening on Google in a way that you might not get in some other publications So certainly it's gonna be true of any story the Republican debate that's happening Oh, yeah, you're gonna see interesting things like that or the elections in Myanmar You know, you probably be able to find some some interesting trends in that region anyway So so go check it out. Good pick rich. Thank you for that Send your picks to us feedback at daily tech news show calm You can find my picks at daily tech news show comm slash picks Mark bustle jr. Has our message of the day says I wonder if people aren't getting too focused on the book part of Amazon Bookstores the more of these the more of these that open and by the way They've only opened the one in Seattle and they haven't said they are ever gonna open another one They're they're like we hope this one goes well and then we'll want to open another but they there are no plans Mark says the the more they of these they open the more points Amazon has to ship zero-day delivery and offer pickup points having some physical Locations that also generate revenue by selling books might make other endeavors that much better Who knows maybe there will be a data center or two in the back room? I don't know about a data center because of the power and cooling requirements, but I could definitely see Amazon say Oh, well, let's have a camping gear store with lockers for you to pick up stuff Let's let's have a pet store You know, they could spin this off from bookstore for sure and definitely have pickup And lockers like they have at 7-elevens in their own stores that makes perfect sense I guess it could the thing is Amazon sells everything or almost everything and then they could do stores for everything I'm telling you man. You're your future shopping centers are just gonna be all Amazon stores Stores are going away. It's just gonna be one big Amazon world out there Don't say I didn't warn you But no, you they could they could do some other products. I'm guessing of course. Of course. Yeah. Yeah No, of course I mean if someone you know if there's a store that is selling stuff and that is making money out of those Stuff that they're selling enough to stay in business There's no reason that Amazon couldn't do it as well. Yeah, but will they interesting thought. Yeah, I Don't know. It's so it's really expensive to do those sorts of things and you certainly wouldn't not put pickup locations in them But I don't know that you would do them just to add pickup locations got to make the money On its own without that Twitter.com slash not Patrick if you want to follow Patrick and French spin calm to find the shows you just Fresh off record an affiliate club. Aren't you? Fresh off the presses that press MP3's Yeah, we just recorded a filious club with brekkie. Thomason we did a Saudi Arabia special a month ago and I thought we'd do another one about Sweden so if you think Sweden is some kind of Socialist paradise where everything is wonderful. 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Talk to you then The show is part of the frog pants network get more at frog pants comm Diamond club hopes you have enjoyed this program The fact that so many people hate wordpress is just an indication that it's winning Who hates wordpress Was the chat room are you I wasn't I wasn't reading the chat room Lots of people hate wordpress mostly people who work with it and then run into frustrating things with it And they're like oh, I can't make it do this and oh, I know I should be able to do this And why won't it work and I'm one of those people I've run into that sometimes Yeah, I can understand that but Yeah, I'm I'm Very happy for it to do what it needs to do and I don't want it's kind of like complaining about I Don't know Apple being Apple and not letting you do stuff on iOS exactly like that In so many ways Except that I feel that maybe automatic is a has a little less hubris than Apple. Oh Yeah, no, of course, I'm just talking about the way that the piece of software designed to do Things and it's popular enough for people to hate Yeah And if you want to do something else then obviously you should use something else because that's not what it's designed Well, and that's one of the problems too, right? Is that yeah, what else do you use? You know, I mean there's other options for sure, but like if you want to install your own Blogging slash CMS platform, right like not a Drupal What I mean Joomla Joomla works ish Yesh But you know, yeah, I guess I can feel the pain of people who have to work with it and who Constantly being asked. Oh, but we would need to do this by some person who doesn't know what they're talking about And you know, then they have to go and figure it out and or even just for themselves They're like, I hate the way it change and then they change right they change things And I've run into that or I'm like, wait, I used to be able to just go in and edit this. What's what the hell now? I have to oh Really, it's buried down there. I have to see each mod now. Oh You know, I've never had that these kinds of issues. Well, you're just more well-adjusted than the rest Maybe I just have less needs and requirements. Oh I can't update the theme because I made a cut I made a customization to it No, I've got these baby themes. I don't want to have to create a baby theme Why can't I just update the theme and just leave the change CSS file in place Patrick? Why? Well, I think you can No, if you update the theme without a baby theme it overwrites Oh, right, of course, but you should have a baby theme. What a child thing I don't have a baby theme. I didn't I did it before baby themes existed now I have to go make a baby theme and I'm gonna be a baby about it Well, just you know copy the theme the folder and then make it a baby theme and you're fine. Just I know I Just not that's the point. It's the principle Yes show about titles Okay, I'll stop being a baby about WordPress. I mean, you know, I'm sort of exaggerating my own frustrations for dramatic effect But that is that is the kind of thing that people talk about In fact, didn't that cuz like you're triggering my WPTSD Yeah, no, of course Ian I understand the pain of WordPress for these kind of things But you don't think it would happen if you were using something other than WordPress You don't think there would be vulnerable stop asking reasonable questions They just Yeah, I actually really like under word pressure Yeah, it's pretty good. What else we got a DDNS the musical is good, but it we did all of this before Stop the word presses code everything Unfortunately the one I love the most is too long. Yes the one that's winning right? It may not be the ocular if you want, but it's oculus oculus oculus, but yeah I'm not trying to Oh Sony out of beta Master, I like Sony out of beta That is clever Out of beta to the max What I'm gonna say beta max is going up a beta cam and digi beta are still floating around Well, that's good point. Did you bet I forgot about digi beta? I I've never even used digi beta Have you used dbc pro? It's just to say it's it's really similar No, that's what he came out of dbc pro. Yeah, php BB. Oh my god, I used to use that and then I stopped And that's your review No, it was good while it lasted but then you know, we had we just had to start seeing other pieces of software Yeah, it was what that was that was one of those things that like skyrocketed and everyone had one for a while And then it just it went it it crashed hard somehow for some reason. Well, I think it's just that forums weren't I think that's it. It's like it got popular right at the end of the life cycle of forums. Yeah, exactly Security issues too. I mean security issues do everything in Okay, so should I now buy a legacy of the void? I'm wondering if I should do we have Play legacy of the wood You could start craft to like like are you good enough that you enjoy the game? Our craft. Well, the the single-player campaign is yeah ways Roger was saying he didn't like the storyline in Starcraft 2. I didn't like the storyline I wasn't really enamored with the gameplay. I mean, it wasn't bad to just Are you interesting there are a few interesting modes in the legacy of the void for other things there are Co-op there's a co-op mode if you you're not into the player versus player aspect So you can play with someone and there are different commanders that have different powers And in fact total biscuit and Jesse Cox are playing co-op missions right now Well, there you go as a demonstration To the multiplayer game is like battlefield or Street Fighter My problem with gaming these days is that I don't like to play against other people You don't like to play against other people. Yeah, why I just want to play by myself. I Totally understand why because am I misanthropic? No, I used to play All the time and I loved it because of the online mode But man after all you got some serious jerks and although you could kick them out It just kind of made me it's like it doesn't even have to be jerks Although that's totally a problem like even friends. Sometimes I just feel pressure to be like What are you trying to say? I have to be nice to people. I have to talk. No, that's true That's true. No, I completely understand. I play alone most of the time but in the past few months there have been games that are That make it easy like you can play with them if you want to You don't have to if you don't want to and I think you have to be a little bit ruthless If you don't want to play with people you just say oh, hey, I'm just playing by myself now Well, and I do I do weird things like I'll start things and then quit in the middle And when you're playing with other people that's rude when you're playing by yourself, it doesn't matter I like to think here's a shrewd way to get new players that aren't the ones you're playing with right now I had a crash You never have to be polite to npcs. That's what I'm trying to say But I am that That could be the title of a book that would sell the knot That's going to be my my version of felicia day's memoir Yeah, exactly. Are you suggesting that you're like an absolute jerk to npc like this? You know I see that that's the problem, right? It's like if you say that then people will say oh, so you're a jerk and it's like no I just don't want to have to be nice. I don't want to be mean There's just that that sort of middle where you're just you just don't say anything I'm gaining tremendous insight into the personality of tom errick. He is such a nice Generous person in real life because he can take all those other I knew you're gonna go there just aim it at some poor npc Some third tier programmer had to create because the game's behind schedule I have to um, I have to work really hard to act like a human being roger. That's that's what you're trying to say I'm not suggesting anything And then and when I get into a game I can let that all go Hey, listen when I play fps is it's all headshots. I can release my dark passenger What does that tell you about me? I just like I I wish my fps's could be headshots. I just don't have that good of an aim Oh, the key is to camp out and then you know be a jerk and shake. Oh, you're one of those You're a griefer I'm I'm one of those that practices war as it is practiced in real life from a From a nice comfortable safe distance Well, I don't know whenever I try to play a sniper. I get shot in the head before I can shoot anyone so For some people war comes naturally roger apparently it's the case for you War is just a brand of conflict It's Grades You know pay raises You know things like that. You've lost me. I'm sorry And insert french stroke There's no french word for the french son of a hard project Hey, wait a minute. That's not true. Look at pat patrick sitting right here Do you know you're an entrepreneur patrick? I've I heard that I find it hard to believe or accept But I found it really odd the first time someone called me an entrepreneur Uh, when after I went I'm like, no, no, I'm a creative who's like just trying not to die Is that what an entrepreneur is? Oh my god Revelation okay, I think I'm out of the post Oh, I press save draft. Hold on. I'm not out of the post Now I'm going out of the post Ian is correct with what he wrote What is he right? He said he's detect us trouble passing the touring test You know, I wonder if aliens would pass the touring test And does that mean that aliens are ai's? How would you tell me they're just well, you know, it's interesting because it's a very cultural Bias test right you need to fully human Like I'm sure there are things the way you can you can fool a dog. It did make you know believing that Uh, a robotic machine is alive A lot so what you're saying is not so much that is a culturally biased test But rather a species bias test. Well, you know, it's culture. I mean, that's what we that's what we define as Our interactions with each other And what we oh, I okay. I see what you mean A human culture I mean, we could come across a species of living stone Like coral on a different planet Ah Run away the coral aliens are invading Slowly Accumulating on my foot But isn't that isn't that one of the Isn't that I should remember is it a book or a movie? But the whole thing for the alien invasion was it took place over generations And so no one knew what was happening until it was too late All right Well, we're not going to tell you the answer folks. You'll just have to find out for yourself. We'll see you tomorrow