 It's all right. We're live ladies and germs, and I'm not gonna forget to start off a gig media after that. Better not. Okay, let's do this. A miniscule portion of the Daily Tech News show was brought to you by me, because I went to patreon.com.asetect and donated a dollar a month to a podcast that I really enjoy. Won't you join me? This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, October 27, 2015. I'm Tom Merritt joining me today. Mr. Eric Franklin, managing editor of CNET Reviews and Man About the Gaming Universe. How's it going, Eric? Yeah, I don't know if I would have claimed to be the man about the gaming universe, but I'm doing okay. You're a man about the gaming universe. Yeah, that's true. Okay, a man. Yeah, we're just humans. We're gonna claim to be more, but we are gonna talk about Halo 5 Guardians and the decision of 343 Industries to prioritize 60 frames per second above all else. If your game console is about to explode, they don't care as long as they can maintain 60 frames per second. Yeah, exactly. So we're gonna get into that. There was a really good article about it from Digital Foundry, but let's start off with some headlines. This isn't necessarily big news, except for you folks who like to listen to podcasts and us folks who like to make podcasts, but Google Play Music has added a podcast section. Several of you were mentioning this on Twitter. Thank you for the heads up. Daily Tech News Show has been submitted. And let me reload the page right now. We are currently pending approval. But I don't think it's launched yet for people to subscribe anyway. But yeah, you'll be able to get podcasts in Google Play Music soon. Now, depending on what news outlet you looked at, Europe either passed net neutrality rules or voted against net neutrality rules. It was kind of confusing the way people reported it based on their own particular biases. European Parliament did kind of do both. The MEPs voted to pass EU-wide net neutrality rules to come into force April 30, 2016. What they did not do and what those other headlines are referring to was pass any of the amendments that are meant to close perceived loopholes or clarify vague language. ISPs in Europe will soon be free to offer specialized services, but they're not well defined. Zero rate other services manage traffic due to impending congestion. That means congestion that hasn't happened yet. And discriminate based on a class of data. And one of the objections there is that encrypted data is a class, whether it's got video or email because you can't tell what's in it because it's encrypted. Parliament also voted to end mobile roaming charges within the EU by mid 2017. And here's the key, Eric, they couldn't pass any of those amendments on net neutrality because that would hurt the finances of companies and prevent them from innovating. But they did change the ability to charge for mobile roaming because they didn't care if that would affect the ability to charge and innovate and cost money. They wanted to be able to roam anywhere in Europe without having to pay extra. Yeah, I think it's kind of interesting that that isn't coming till mid 2017. As soon as I read that story, my first thought was like, if you're going to announce that when I just do it now, you know, well, and they're going to phase it in. I guess that that is the one stop they gave to the carriers is there will be a rate cut coming soon. And then they'll step down until eventually there's no roaming charges at all. Why do you think they take that step approach then instead of all across the board just do it? Because the carriers wind and screams. And I was hoping you would, you know, might not have wind, but I bet they said I bet a couple of them screamed. Yeah, they might have wind. Cisco announced it will pay 452.5 million dollars to acquire the security company LandCope TechCrunch reports LandCope uses behavior analytics threat visibility and security intelligence to recognize suspicious and sometimes malicious activity on enterprise networks. LandCope will become part of the Cisco security business group. Cisco and HP have both been among its clients, but HP has been divesting itself of security companies and Cisco's picking some up, which means that I don't know I go back and forth whether I think HP would be allowed to contract LandCope as a third party in one of their enterprise offerings because HP is going to be competing with Cisco for business, but Cisco would then get more business. So be interesting to see. Verizon announced the Motorola Droid Turbo 2 featuring Turbo Shatter Shield technology today. Every every time I think I'm not going to report on a phone, they do something that's just interesting enough to get me to mention it. Verizon demonstrated the 5.4 inch screens resilience by dropping the phone onto a concrete block multiple times. The anti-shatter screen uses multiple layers of material to flex and absorb and the shock impact rather than crack. The Droid Turbo 2 will be available October 29th at a $26 a month rate for the 32 gig model and $30 a month for the 64 gig model on a 24 month plan. Yeah, it's the phone for Patrick Norton, Eric. Well, it's interesting because you said they dropped the phone onto a concrete block. And my first thought was like, why not drop the concrete block onto the phone? Let's actually, you know, be a little daring out here. You know, we're probably going to be getting this phone pretty soon. I'm trying to come up with ideas of how to actually test that. And the only thing I can think of is just like, you know, getting a sledgehammer or something like that, you know, and just start tapping on it, you know, just harder and harder and see how much you can take. Oh, yeah. No, you, you want to build up. That's a great idea. Like start with a few taps, then get harder and harder and harder. And if it doesn't crack, then you drop the concrete block on it. That's your final bit. I think that was a good ending to that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mastercard announced a new program today to allow you to pay with more objects than just a credit card or even your phone. GM has worked with them to develop a car key fob that integrates payments. Ringly has a smart ring. Nymie, NYMI, Nymie offers a wristband that it's like a fitness tracker, but also has payment integration. Designer Adam Selman is going to help make some fashion accessories that can act as credit cards. Capital one cards are supported to begin with. They do want to expand it to more master cards. Master cards aiming to launch the system in the US next year. Pay with everything. Why not? It's to me, it's it's less about that like that's not the hard part figuring out how to integrate payment into a ring. Motorola was experimenting with that when they were part of Google years ago. It's getting the payment system in place like which system is this going to work with that will allow me to do it because you know, Apple Pay is great when I'm at a place where I can use it. Yeah, exactly. And that's one of the great things about was it I think Samsung pay is that it just works as long as you have a bank of America, it just works everywhere. Yeah, because it does the emulates the card swipe. Yeah, exactly. And I use Apple Pay when I'm at Walgreens or there's this local grocery store I go to. But other than that, I haven't really used it. Yeah, see, I've got a CVS near me and they're notoriously one of the holdouts on Apple Pa. HTC clarified that the promotional price of the HTC one a nine in the US will go up from $399 to $499 at 1201am. So don't get stuck outside the door at midnight on November 7. Android Central points out the a nine sells for the rough equivalent of 725 bucks in Europe. So wow, that's a price difference. HTC's sales regions are given the freedom to set their own prices and promotions. Hence the big gap there. I guess they're eating the cost. I guess so. But I mean, it looks like they, you know, they're not eating as much as they thought they were going to eat before, because I remember when that first that price was first talked about the $399 price, it was like, oh my God, that's incredible. That's great. And they push it up 500 bucks. It's a little disappointing. Yeah, and also that was one of the biggest features of the phone, frankly, was that cheap price in at least in the US it was. Yeah, for sure. John Z 776 sent us the story of a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Odessa, Ukraine that has been converted into a statue of Darth Vader with a Wi-Fi hotspot under the helmet. Artist Alexander Milov covered the statue's face with Darth Vader's mask and transformed the coat into Vader's cape using a titanium alloy. Ukraine's parliament passed a bill last April, removing some communist monuments and place names. So this is government sanctioned Darth Vader with a Wi-Fi hotspot. That's hilarious. I mean, how long before we, you know, some dictator just comes out dressed as Darth Vader? You know, seriously, because I feel like this pop culture is influencing our decision so much these days that that's going to happen something. You don't know the power of 802.11 AC. That's what I want to know is actually what kind of Wi-Fi who's it connected to? Is this government? I mean, I'm not connected to Darth Vader's hotspot without doing who's behind it. Yeah. JSN Phil and Motang both wanted us to mention that Pandora co-creator Tom Conrad told the world his discovery that Siri won't answer questions about music charts if you don't subscribe to Apple music. Same thing happened to me. I tried it. When you ask Siri, what is the most popular song in the US today? Siri apologizes that she can't look up music charts because you're not subscribed to Apple music. Siri forgot she's connected to the internet. I mean, Siri, what is the most popular song in the US today? See what she says. Sorry, Tom, I can't look up the music charts for you. You don't seem to be subscribed to Apple music. Come on, Siri. The bogus answer right there. Now, I think this is not a conscious decision. I don't think they're blocking people. I think it's there are a set of answers that are tied into Apple music like very, you know, very rationally like play my Apple music playlist. And then Siri says, Hey, I'm sorry, you're not subscribed to Apple music. I can't do that. Which would make sense. It just happens to be that the charts is in that pathway. So they just need to make the charts move out of that pathway. You think they will? No. That's the other thing about Apple is they may not have done this on purpose, but they also don't care. Microsoft Executive Julie Larson Green will take over management of Microsoft Office while retaining her current duties as Chief Experience Officer for Microsoft Services Group for to recode Kirk Konigsbauer, the former head of office will move into CMO Chris Kaposella's marketing group. Julie Larson Green kind of cut her teeth at Microsoft working in the office and Windows Group was the first woman to head the Windows Engineering Group. So good, good stuff there. Good move for her. Congratulations. TechCrunch reports several European tech companies have formed a new lobby group called the European Technology Alliance to become a member. A company must be European in origin or perceived to be a European company. You're just so Euro. I always thought you were a European company. The 25 initial members include Spotify and Swift Key, among others. Groups founder and president is Skype co founder and Atomico founder and CEO, Nicholas Zenstrom. So in the wake of losing safe harbor and the net neutrality vote, it seems like tech companies in Europe are like, we should probably lobby. Yeah, probably not a bad decision. Business Insider reports that Facebook is launching a new initiative called 2G Tuesdays. Every Tuesday morning, employees will see a prompt at the top of their newsfeed asking if they would like to experience a slow connection for an hour. Engineering director Tom Allison and his team have been reworking Facebook's newsfeed to optimize it for slower networks often found in emerging markets. 2G Tuesdays is meant to let employees experience what those networks actually feel like in practice without having to actually travel to places like India or Africa. Thank you, sir. Would you do it? Do you think you'd do it? I may I try it just to see I mean, look, I I'm old enough to have lived through connections back in, you know, the early 2000s late 90s. So I don't know if I really need to experience that again. That was compared to the pain. We all know what I remember edge, which is which is fast, which is a faster 2G. I'll grant you. But yeah, slow enough that I don't really need to go back either. But no, I actually, in all seriousness, think this is a good, a good move to sort of spread that awareness. If you really are trying to design a product for areas that that rely on this is their fastest option. It's good to let people know what that actually means in practice. Twitter announced revenue of 569.2 million and adjusted earnings per share of 10 cents that beat expectations. They expected 559.6 million and only five cents a share. But the big number everybody cares about is users Twitter announced 320 million monthly active users that's up from 284 million a year ago and 316 million last month. But it's not bad enough to be concerning. It's also not good enough to get really excited about on the revenue side 86% of Twitter's revenue came from mobile. So there's that. I think the stock market is not excited about this. They're they're sort of like, Oh, really? That's all you got 300? What is it 320 million? I want to see more dramatic growth. Yeah, for sure. And that's like, what, 10% 15% growth? Apple also announced its quarterly earnings company reported quarterly revenue of $51.5 billion. Remember, I just mentioned Twitter had 569 million. Apple has $51.5 billion earnings per share of $1 96 that beat expectations of earnings per share of $1 88 on 51.11 billion dollars company sold 48.04 million iPhones in the fourth quarter as well as 9.883 million iPads. International sales accounted for 62% of the quarter's revenue revenue from other products. That's Apple Watch, Apple TV, any high fives laying around. And and and Apple music was $3.05 billion. Also beats headphones stuff like that revenue from services. Oh, I'm sorry, Apple music is not in that music is in services, which includes iTunes and Apple Pay. That was $5.09 billion. Tappel CEO Tim Cook said fiscal 2015 was Apple's most successful year ever. Take that people who compare me to previous CEOs like John Scully. No. Yeah, so it seems like a pretty decent quarter for Apple, but the spin will begin now. We'll get we'll get the spin from the stock market and then we'll get the spin from Tim Cook in the earnings goal. And that my friends are the headlines as you noticed, we had a few in there from that I credited to folks on the subreddit but the subreddit really does help me take into account the broad swath of stuff that we cover. So do let us know what you want us to cover a daily tech news show dot reddit dot com that there is that. Alright, let's talk about this digital foundry article over at Eurogamer.net. Good good in depth review of Halo five guardians. Not so far as those guys do an amazing job with every game they take on. The interesting thing was this was 343 industries first big test since taking over Halo from from Bungie. It's not their first product but this is the one everybody's looking at like, okay, can they get it right? Yeah, brand new game, new hardware. Oh, yeah. And yeah, first one on the Xbox One, right? First one on the the this gen. Can we call them this gen consoles? I think we can now. Yeah. They prioritize 60 frames per second across the entire game and digital foundry does a great job. They have an excellent video if you don't have time to read the whole article, explaining what that means. But it does mean some weird stuff. You get a lot of pop in effects. You can like lean in and look at a flame. And and those those kind of alpha effects sometimes disappear when you lean in, because they're sacrificing everything else for performance for 60 frames per second. Now you you played Halo five last night. How did how did that feel? I gotta say it felt great. Now, we first I played with a friend of mine last night and the first I played, we were watching a cut scene. Like, now the cut scene was awesome, but it was not 60 frames, it was about 30 frames per second, but it was amazing. And really well done. It felt like 343 was saying, you know, remember how you didn't make that Halo movie? Well, this is what you're missing. It was great. But then we actually started controlling the game. It was 60 frames per second. And what it really kind of made clear to me was that this was the first Halo game for me that actually felt like a nine foot tall super soldier. And I feel like the 60 frames per second of that, you know, aspect of that and like the speed in which you can move and the jumping and like you're doing these dashes and you're punching down walls and stuff like that. And it all looks really smooth. All of that, you know, six frames and contribute it to that feeling of being like this, you know, weighted up super soldier, which is I don't think any other Halo game is really giving me that feeling. So I really enjoyed it a lot. So for those who don't maybe understand gamers get this, I think intrinsically, but but for those who may be trying to understand this from the outside, the frame rate is your your ability to feel like you're you and the character are the same, right? Everything else is the looks. Sure, sure. So there's graphics or textures, there's like, the kind of the prettiness of the game, you know, and then there's a frame rate, just the smoothness of the movement, really, like that's the best way I can describe it. I mean, if you ever played like an old, I guess, now they're, I guess they are old, like 90s Sega arcade games, like pretty much all those games are running at 60 frames per second. A lot of people can't tell the difference. But I think when you see them side by side, a 30 frames per second game and a 60 frames second game, you can totally tell the difference because a lot of those save a games were 60 frames per second. And I feel like they contributed to those games being better games overall. Well, and it's the performance, right? It's the responsiveness, like you, you get, I mean, you're still getting one to one action, but you feel you feel like it's doing exactly what you tell it to do, right? It's not that slight delay that your brain is kind of picking up with your consciously, maybe not picking up with your, but there's a little disconnect there with 60 frames a second, you definitely feel like you're doing this movement and it's happening right now. Now, the trade off here, though, is that, you know, the mountains in the distance look fuzzy until suddenly they just pop into clarity. Because again, what they're doing here is dynamic resolution scaling. So sometimes, at least according to Digital Foundry, they would get a different X and Y value randomly. They're controlling each of those resolution values randomly to, to keep 60 frames per second up. They said the lowest they ever detected was 1152 by 810, which is still better than a 720p image. But you basically don't get a 1080p image out of this. And that also means that weird things happen like fire disappearing and all that. So that didn't bother you. The weirdness of like maybe another character is operating a little jerky in off to the side. Didn't matter to you as long as you were smooth. So I can't say that. Definitely, it definitely mattered that I was smooth and I contributed to my enjoyment of the game. But I did notice some weirdness and I hadn't read this article before I played last night. So I didn't notice like people kind of popping in up in and out of view or disappearing like, okay, that's supposed to just be a glitch or something like that. But when you're playing, the thing about playing a great game is that after a while you start to forget about that stuff. You start to forget about what's going on in the background, unless you need to shoot someone way in the background or something like that. So the game is really like controls really well. It's really fun. You know, definitely playing with other people is really fun. So I kind of forgot about the glitches. I was kind of, my brain was kind of half noticing. You know what I mean? It feels like the fog of war. And this is totally just an excusing it. But you could write it up to the fact that like, hey, I'm in the middle of a battle. You know, our brains are definitely selective in what we see in those situations anyway. Yeah. So it kind of could be chalked up to that as an experience if you wanted to. Sure. Sure. That's the my wrestling nerds will understand. That's the kayfabe reason for that. So in the end, okay, you've experienced this once, right? This isn't definitive. But to oversimplify it, do you care about looks or performance? And if you had to choose, now that you've run through it, which do you think is the right priority? I mean, and granted, let's just be clear, they don't always have to make these tradeoffs, right? Part of the problem is that the Xbox one has certain hardware parameters that lock them down and they cannot achieve 60 frames per second and 1080p all the time on that hardware. So they had to pick one. Do you think they do you like the one they picked? I do. Like I said, I feel like it really does contribute to my enjoyment of the game because of that, because that smooth movement makes me feel like a Spartan, makes me feel like it's, you know, this bad ass super soldier. But, you know, it depends on the game really, you know, beyond Halo 5, I think, you know, if you're playing a fighting game or maybe a racing game or a first-person shooter, you know, I think it matters more with those games. You know, in other games, it may not matter that much, you know, 30 frames per second is totally fine for you doing some kind of like, I don't know, like Hearthstone or something like that, you know? Yeah, yeah. Although, you know, if the animations pile up in Hearthstone, there could be a problem. But yeah, most of the time. Yeah. But those never stop you from playing the game effectively, you know what I mean? Right. Exactly. Because it's a strategy. Yeah. Well, cool. Anyway, again, if you're interested in this sort of thing at all, highly recommend going over to your gamer.net and reading the Digital Foundry write-up of this. They say it's clear that hitting 1080p while maintaining 60 frames per second would not have been possible in Halo 5, but rather than simply opting to render at a lower resolution across the board, 343 has implemented one of the most impressive dynamic resolution scaling systems we've seen to date. So they are, in fact, saying what 343 did was try to achieve 60 frames per second and still keep things looking as good as possible, rather than just saying, we'll do a 720p game, at least. Yeah, I mean, overall, I think the game looks great and I didn't really notice the trade off, you know, it felt smooth and look great. So I was happy. All right, let's get to our pick of the day, a pick that does not care about frame rate at all. It's from Nick. He'd like to let the audience know that if you're wanting to play Crossy Road on a bigger screen than an iPhone, there's a way that doesn't involve shelling out for the Apple TV4. If you have a Windows 10 PC, you can get a free Windows Phone version of Crossy Road that runs on the PC version of Windows 10. Just search for it in Windows 10 App Store and you will find it. It's an official port done by Yota 1 LTD. The original dev is, of course, hipster whale. Yota 1 also did an official Android port of Crossy Road as well. So there you go. If you're like, ah, first person shooter is too much for me, just want to take a chicken through some traffic. Now you can. Send your picks to us, folk feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. You can find my picks at DailyTechNewsShow.com slash picks. A few emails here. Rusty liked our discussion yesterday about social media and the news and he was saying while listening, I kept thinking about Twitter's overtures to developers last week. Jack Dorsey made a big plea to Twitter developers saying, look, we've messed up in the past. We want to repair this relationship. Rusty says, I hope we get back to the happy days of innovation and iteration with Twitter as the platform and doing that for hyper local news and information seems like a great idea to me. With the right APIs, a savvy news organization could create something much more than the current trending hashtag and list based stuff we have today. I like it, Rusty. I've always liked the idea of Twitter being more open about its API, but it seems to have been going the other direction. Dorsey may change that now that he's in charge. 37 year old Isaac Johnson wrote in to say he is sold on YouTube because of four factors. Here's the four factor test for a 37 year old Isaac Johnson wanting YouTube red and paying $10 a month for it. First, training videos. He says go to any tech company. If you wanted the hallways, you'll know lots of developers stay up on their game by watching YouTube training videos. So that's important to him. The ability to pull up a specific song and not have to sit through an ad to watch it. You just like I got the song in my head. I want to play it. He says it's MTV for the 2000s at home. If my daughters want to dance about the living room, it's the Vivo channel or just hashtag popular music videos from YouTube. And finally, he calls it the functional equivalent of Spotify slash Pandora. I spent at least half my time music wise on eight tracks dot com YouTube. And I listen to YouTube music in the car. I need something quick to entertain the kids and don't want to fart about skipping lullabies in the toddler station on Pandora. He says so there you go. He's a he's a big fan of YouTube red. And he's not in that young demo. I guess that's what I was trying to say is like, the young demo is what YouTube originals is after, but these all there are these other things that might appeal to other demos. You have to say I really appreciate Isaac's four things to look for. It seems more like two things like music and training videos. Yeah, he did break music up into three different parts. That's a good point. Simon wrote into his member of parliament after hearing the court case saying that UK citizens did not have the right to rip MP3s from a CD. And so he got an email back. John Whittingdale, the minister in charge of the Ministry of Culture, Media and Sports, said that one all MP3s ripped from a CD in the UK, regardless of when they are ripped, are deemed an infringement of copyright, although the government is not aware of any copyright holder prosecuting any individual for this act. Wink, wink. I added the winks. Number two, Amazon's auto rips are perfectly legal. That's when you buy a CD at Amazon, but you get the MP3s added to your Amazon music account as a freebie. Number three, it is legal to sell software to rip CDs as it could be used for non copyright infringing purposes. So Simon thought we might like to see the official position of the UK on this. Well done. Thank you, Simon. And then from Estonia, T2T2, the man who does so many things, including making sure our chat room runs, runs clean, hosting it, said he's also says, I swear I don't work in Estonia's PR department. On this Friday show, Swift ID was mentioned as a way to authenticate users using the phone to confirm logins. He says as a continuation from a previous Friday's email on ID cards, Estonia has been doing mobile ID since 2007. In addition to using ID cards, it is possible to get a special SIM card from a phone carrier. Then it can be used in the same way as a normal ID card, log into banks, government sites, signed documents, vote in elections by entering the appropriate pin card, something you have as a SIM, something you know the pin two factor authentication. Also, it can be used across device login, enter info on the computer, confirm it on the phone. And as I mentioned, it being available since 2007 before the release of the first iPhone and way before the first iPhone in Estonia. It also works on non smartphones, which is important, especially in Eastern Europe. In related news, Japan will be launching their ID card system called My Number National ID in January 2016, that is based on the system that was developed in Estonia. You know, how do you feel about, I know it's just kind of moving to Estonia? Is that one? Yeah, I was thinking of moving it. Yeah. No, um, how do you feel about like internet voting and elections? I think it could be done. Right. I mean, when you think about the system we have now, especially in most states in the United States, you don't even have to show your ID card or it's illegal for them to ask you for an ID card. And the system we have for voter registration here, I feel like we could probably come up with some system, you know, given that and given the fact that we can do banking, you know, and you can make all the jokes you want about banks getting hacked because they do get hacked. We do function as a society with online banking in place. I feel like it could happen. And Estonia is a great example of one country who has done it. Like E voting is the norm there now. Yeah. Yeah. They probably think we're some kind of ass backwards country. But I kind of feel that way. It feels like it's long overdue to me. Yeah. You know, I mean, obviously, there are situations in Estonia and other things they have done technologically that make it easier to do it. Sure. You know, it's not like you could just take their system, plop it down in the U.S. And it would work right away. You'd have to adapt it. But Japan has has done that with this ID system. So anyway, yeah, that's a that's pretty cool. It does kind of make me wish we had all of that here as well. Thank you, T2, T2. And thank you, Eric Franklin for joining us, man. This was fantastic, as always. Yeah, thanks for having me. That was fun, especially the I love talking about frame rates and stuff like that. And if anyone was wondering where Patrick Beja was because it is, in fact, a Tuesday, he's at the Games event in Paris. Sony had a lot of announcements for dates for their games there and all of that. And he will be on the show with Scott Johnson tomorrow. But yeah, we should have you back. Talk talk some gaming with Patrick and Patrick gets you on pixels, man. Yeah, not to volunteer not to start booking him. But yeah, that's it's really it was a really good conversation with you today. That was fun. Twitter dot com slash need Opel N I D O P A L. And of course, you can follow Eric's fine works at CNET dot com. Anything in particular to let folks know about? 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Our website is daily tech news show dot com. Back tomorrow with Patrick Beja and Scott Johnson. Talk to you then the show is part of the frog pants network. Get more at frogpants dot com. I hope you have enjoyed this program. Yes. Yay. I haven't heard that sign off yet. Who did that? Which what? Which part? The laughing part. Oh, that's Justin Robert Young and Brian Brushwood. Okay, that's good. Brian is the laughing part. Got you. Thanks for having me guys. That was awesome. Yeah, thanks for being on man. That was really good. It was fun. As always. Something that I would never have talked about on my own. But I felt like we did a great job talking about it. So I think yeah, you did a great job explaining it. And yeah, luckily I had some experience from last night. That's perfect. Perfect team up. Yeah. Um, so we have some really spectacular titles. Eric, if you have to run if you're on the clock, we're just going to hang around and do our thing. Okay. Yeah, I do. No worries. It's okay. Tell everyone who remembers who I am. Hello. That's pretty much everybody. Oh, please. It's not everybody. All right, man. All right. Thanks guys. Take care. Bye. So really Darth Vader brings out the poetry in our chat room because we have I find your lack of Wi-Fi disturbing. There's Rome where EU wants to or want to. Oh, man, you guys are killing me today. These are good. Schmoke Schmugel played DTNS, which there is a correct way that said and my favorite, this is too long, but connect to me and we can move the internet as father and son. Oh, connect to me and we can move the internet as a server. Yeah, oh my God. Minor, minor edit. Uh, say hello to my 60 frames per second. Nice. Hey, that's the best on topic one for the main discussion. Yeah. Say hello to my 60 FPS. Look, I am your wife, father. I know that is amazing. Lenin, I am your statue. OK, yeah. Come to the Wi-Fi side. Come to the Wi-Fi side. You're so excited about my Wi-Fi went dark side. Darth Vader's hotspot. Oh, this is great. Do you want to connect to Darth Vader's hotspot? You don't know the password. I like I like Rome where you want to. Yeah, that's pretty. I just like that. I just like to be 50 days. Of course, who doesn't? Some people. It is technically Rome, if you want to. Rome, if you want to. But I think it's the word. I don't even remember that guy's name, who does nothing but talk. Fred. Is that it? Oh, he's Fred. It says 15 miles. That guy, right? Love shock. That's Fred. It's so disturbing to hear at any point. It's weird. But every time I think of that band, I think of Cape Patella. Really? Yeah, I don't know. I just as a very beach battle on. Sure. Sure. I can see that. I always think of Rock Lobster and the 1986 state championship Greenville Comets Women's Basketball team. Because they were lobsters? No, they were not lobsters, but that was their that was their like psych up song before they played. Yeah, that was and so we had to learn how to play Rock Lobster because the JJT combo that I played drums for played at all the home games in the night like during timeouts and stuff. You should every time you do a meet and greet, you should just have a drum set with you now. I can't play. I tried playing at Scott Johnson's during your tackler like four or five years ago. So bad. It's really hard what you if you've done it for a while and then stopped for a very long while, it's really hard to pick back up. Yeah. Especially like any any instrument that requires muscle or actually all instruments require muscle memory, it totally goes away. Say hello to my 60 FPS. I'm going to go with that. It hurts me. I'll just be honest. It hurts me a little to leave some of these others behind because they're so good. But we got an on topic one that is also so good. So. There you go. Say hello to my 60 frames per second. I mean, it's it's a very interesting topic. I mean, if you broaden it out more, you wondering, like, well, did Microsoft really make the right decision in investing? Yeah, money into the connect into developing that because they had they had to carve out silicon space on the chip. For that. And so they had to cut into the GPU budget for it. Right. And at this point, could they they have integrated the connect into the system, even without games, right? In so many other ways with voice command and everything, like, could they even save that that silicon space anymore? I don't know that they could. Well, it's I mean, they've done some minor tweaks that basically they freed up or they quote unquote freed up. They basically told developers you can you can get 10 to 15 percent more CPU speed. But I mean, ultimately, they just need to kill her out for the connect to justify why they went in that direction. I know, I know. Baby program put that you know, actually, I've always wondered that because the Xbox watch movies or TV in a picture in picture mode, it'd be great if you could have a viewing buddy that was your connect and it would just totally be like how or whatever or like Cortana, I guess you just hit it up. It's like, Hey, who's that actor? Why why can how can he looks familiar? That's what Siri is supposed to be able to do. It would be great if you make Cortana do that because then you could just watch. I think Cortana can do that, actually. Really? Awesome. You know so much for more of a fan of Alexa. Let's set off all the voice assistants. Well, I mean, I wonder if anyone's done that yet, have all the voice assistants kind of converse with each other? Yeah. They have. I've only seen the series and Siri. I haven't seen like there's a there's a there's another one and I can't remember who it's. It's Siri and somebody else. I want to say it's Google, but the Turing test. The Cannelly passed the Turing test. Yeah, I feel like everything we've just said has happened. Like I feel like I know there are voice assistants on. Set top boxes that can identify, like you can say, who is that? And it'll say I'm pretty sure it's Siri and the new Apple TV. It'd be kind of cool. If Netflix can. They get sick. Yeah, it probably only works with iTunes videos, though, because somewhere it has to be coded. It's not doing a facial. Cool app would be six degrees of Kevin Bacon. And then every time there's a Kevin Bacon movie or a cameo, sadly gives you the six degrees of how that that exists, too. How can that not exist? But I mean, like, you don't have to do anything. You don't have to think you just just set it on. Let it run. Go Kevin Bacon. I wonder if Kevin Bacon is now considered a percentage. I am confirmed to attend the Walking Dead Fireside chat tomorrow evening. Nice. Do you watch that show? What? I watch it every week. I cannot speak about this week's show. That's the other one I kind of started and fell off the viewing train. Yeah, you can you can get back on now. There was a time when I did not fall off the viewing train, but lots of other people with better taste than me did. But they have recovered from that time. It's pretty spectacular now, especially this season. I think this season is the best yet. Yeah, I would agree. I mean, is this the fourth? Sixth, right? Sixth. Yeah. I'll just keep to my once upon a time. I want that too. Yeah, that's gotten much better this year. I think it's because it's it's kind of getting a little like pretty. Not just kind of. Well, they gave. Well, I shouldn't say that spoiler, but. Also, they stopped trying to wedge in particular properties. Yes. That was kind of obnoxious. Although it's kind of cool when they do it well. Yeah, and they've done it well. In fact, this year's Brave Girl is a little bit of that, but it works the way they're doing it works. I feel like the frozen stuff just and wait for jungle. It left me cold, bro. I love that. That was the one season I watch consistently. What the frozen one? Yeah. Oh, yeah, I didn't I. I liked the people they got to play the frozen characters. I just didn't feel like the stories meshed. Yeah. No, you're right. I think that I feel that way about every single episode of What's About a Time. I feel like. Yeah, I feel like that is their biggest problem. Overwhelm the flaws in what I think the network has made the show do. And I praise that very carefully for a reason. It is you definitely feel the heavy hand of Disney. Yeah. I think I do feel like this is the strongest season as far as meshing. I really like how the characters developed over time. And it wasn't it wasn't just like, you know, this person's always going to be this way and this person's always going to be that way because that's the way they are. Yeah. Although really for the first couple of seasons, it just felt like jilted women. Not to be not, you know, it just felt like that was kind of the mean they were on women. Got all these women were somehow wronged by someone close to them. Sure to lie, Roger. Um, one of my friends just posted on Facebook a job as the social media engagement strategist for Star Wars. Are we are we losing you? Jenny? Is that what you're telling me? No, I would never ever in a million years want that job. But I just wanted to think for a second about what that job would be like. Well, that's what Bonnie Burton used to do. Right. I mean, that was that is a sliver of everything she did there. But now they're slivering it off and giving it to someone else. But like the idea of the coordination involved in that job, I think would outweigh the awesomeness of it. Whoever is doing the Instagram account currently has been doing a pretty damn good job, I feel like. Yeah. So I hope that person, I hope this doesn't mean that person is leaving. I know. Well, no. All right. Would you like to hear about the job? And I'll let it into. I mean, I'll interview. Roger. It's in San Francisco. Do you want to go be the social engagement strategist for Star Wars? No, because I talked to Bonnie about a similar position that she explained. It was perhaps not. Excuse me. Not so much with the company, but with. Yeah. Personalities. All right. Yeah. Speaking of mesh. Let's just all think about ourselves in this job for a second while not actually taking it. So I'm going to talk about the job. I'm going to talk about the job. I'm going to talk about the job. I'm going to talk about the job. I'm not actually taking it. Social media strategy, content planning, story ideation, content curation, and direct fan communication for the Star Wars franchise social channels. This is the part that sounds like a nightmare. This person worked closely with stakeholders across the Lucasfilm digital team and Disney interactive to develop social content that supports brand building and marketing initiatives. Oh. That doesn't sound like a conflict beyond management at all. Yeah. That sounds like trying to run an empire from Coruscant. It's what it sounds like. Remember when you had to pick between mommy or daddy in an argument? Yeah. Imagine you had 15 mommies and daddies. I do. My thing would be simple. It was like, did JJ Abrams agree with this? I agree with this. That would be it. Yeah. But see, that's why I shouldn't have that job. Do that job. I know. Hey, guess what? Daily Techno Show is live in the Google Play Music podcasting store. That was fast. Yeah. I was pretty fast. Maybe they heard me say still pending during the show. Everybody watches this show. Thank you. Whoever that one. Yes. Well done. Good job. We appreciate it. Okay. What does that mean though? Can we send people to it? Does it give me a link? Yeah. Does it have a link? Yeah. I'm going to look in the Google. It may not be indexed yet, right? It does. It also says missing four enclosures because feed burner still shows the non podcasting posts, which by the way, feed burner owned by Google. Oh, I know. Now that's just that's just the feed. Share this account. No, I don't know. Oh, I could share the account. Actually, I probably will do that. I'm going to share it with this person. Her name is Jenny. Are you sure? Yes. There's no podcast section yet for Jenny. It says Oh, so they're like, they haven't made a page yet. It just means we're in the catalog. So as soon as that, as soon as the catalog launches, we'll already be there. Take that. All right. I need to write to. Well, it looks like Scott. Scott and Slack said that he, he submitted everything. Or are you sure? Are you sure? Yes. There's no podcast section yet. For Jean. Yeah. He submitted everything. I don't know if he submitted everything, but he said he submitted stuff. Dear Google godmother. Sort of laser is still pending approval. Could you also take a look at the frog pants that work and sort of laser please. We think you're terrific. Thank you. Also you rock. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. My wife works at YouTube. So there you go. Um, get that disclosure. I'm not over this job yet. No, I know exactly what that means. That means you're sitting in San Francisco dealing with the folks that up in Marin, the folks over in the Presidio, the folks down in Burbank, the folks out in Florida, and whoever the hell, wherever the hell else. And you have to get to the question. Anyone's mind going after this job is. Hey, would it kill your love of Star Wars, in which case the job is not worth it? Or would it just be so awesome to be involved in the world that you would love it despite its inherent disastrous job? I think you would still like the universe and you would still like the content. However, the whole experience might put you off ever having to work with it again, other than just being a fan of the properties. Yeah. That is a problem. I think there's no better company than like a three-person company. I think I'm going to that conclusion. Well, the key is that is being able to do what you want. Yeah. It's funny. Eileen was showing me, she's doing Eileen's doing management training. Oh boy. And she was showing me this grid she had to fill out and like you're supposed to circle the things you know you need to improve on and put a check mark next to the things you know you're really good at. And I think there was a lot of things in the middle. But there was stuff in there like get stakeholders on board. I'm like, and a doesn't apply. Like, you know, I mean, I mean, I guess it applies in that in a contributor sense, but there were some were like facilitate upper management to make decisions. I'm like, that's me. I'm done. I facilitated myself. But yeah, I mean there was a half dozen of those things. They're like, wow, those are the things you only have to do at a company versus, you know, what you have to do when it's small. I don't know, you know, small homes, small batch. Yeah. All of that stuff. That's that's the way of the future, right? No, I just feel like it's the gig economy. Man, really what what you need is having a corporate structure that isn't so reliant on personalities to to function normally. Well, yeah, there's a there's a disconnect. And when I say this, don't get me wrong, that I think one of these approaches is better than the other. But there's a disconnect between most companies plan as if they will have the right people reporting to the right people in a structure that makes sense. And then most companies hire and move people into structures based on what's around. Right. And the biggest issue are like you have, you reach, you reorg the company and you're like, well, Jane isn't really good with data, but we don't want to let her go because she's so talented. We'll just put her in the data position and we'll morph that position to give her something. And then all of a sudden like you've messed your structure up for a good cause. But it's like you either need to have an amorphous structure or you need to only put people in jobs that they're good at. Right. Yeah, I that was basically you just described Jenny's year on the business side of Yahoo. It was the biggest challenge at Tech TV when I was in charge of the web was like them saying, okay, well, you're only going to get this many positions and trying to figure out like, okay, let's do this by figuring out who we keep and what they can do rather than what is normally done, which is, okay, we have 15 positions. So we're going to have these positions and then shoe-horning people into them. I'm not saying I did it right, yeah. That's, that's the, that's his bio novel. I'm not saying I did it right, but at least I tried. A Tom Merritt story. I mean, I screwed it up, but at least I tried. DTNS, your curated bespoke podcast. It's not really bespoke, is it? That would mean I made it just for you. No. But I did. You did it. You did this just for yourself. No, just for you. Oh. The listener. All right. We out. Thanks everybody. Thanks again, Eric Franklin. Talk to you later.