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That's patreon.com slash a C E DT ECT This is the daily tech news show for Wednesday July 29th 2015 I'm Scott Johnson. Tom Merritt is out of town still in Seattle Although I'm gonna see him this weekend joining me today the one the only the how stuff works God and FW thinking comms own John Strickland John. How you doing, man? I'm doing great Scott fantastic to be on a show with you again. It's been a long time I feel like it's been ages and that's too bad because when we're together Stars fall from the sky Magic happens all those things are true. Yeah, but thanks for joining me I'm usually the regular dude here on Wednesday and with Tom out of town Before I knew who I was gonna get a little bit of nervousness like who who am I gonna be matched with today? And it turns out it's my old pal John. So it's all good. Everything's good in the world today. Yeah, I'm really excited Well, good. Let's get to the headlines and see how excited we are then All right, there's so much to talk about holy crap It is freaking Windows week if there ever was one Windows 10 is out in a hundred and ninety countries today Microsoft wrote a very nice blog post reminding everyone to run Windows 7 or 8 on a PC or a tablet and then upgrade to Windows 10 for free You need to have a Good bit of eyesight when you're looking at that blog though because there's a few Astrix's that send you down to the bottom and remind you how you qualify for a free upgrade to Windows 10 So I recommend people do that they promise Windows 10 will be improved performance and have better security over all their previous versions We'll talk more about that later in our main topic Windows 10 also offers new enhancements including voice pen and gesture input Skype integration in a messenger app Continue. Let's see. Oh continue them to optimize apps and interface across touch and desktop modes New Edge web browser, which a lot of people are talking about the Xbox app and the Siri like Cortana digital assistant Windows 7 and 8 users will get a notification in their task bar This will tell you when the update or the upgrade is ready to install for business customers Windows 10 will be available August 1st and then other countries other parts of the world will get all this shortly thereafter Now remember that story that Scott just said well if you upgraded to Windows 10 And if you don't like the way it automatically updates drivers fear not Wired has a post on how to turn that off first you download the troubleshooter from the Windows 10 support page Next you'll see a list of automatic updates with boxes next to them So you can click on any of the boxes corresponding to the updates You don't want and then you hit next if you ever want to see which automatic updates you prohibited choose show hidden Updates instead of hide updates on the initial screen This will reveal the list of hidden updates and give you the option of unchecking them You'll still need to manually uninstall any drivers previously said on that auto update. All right Big question before we move on. Yeah, what are you gonna do? You're getting it right away and wait like what are you gonna do man? I am a I'm a cautious wait-and-see kind of guy I like to wait and make sure that initial blast of bugs get squashed before I jump in Because I don't want the experience of going to my computer and not being able to play Civ 5 I See where your priorities are. That's just fine Well one more exciting feature of Windows 10 is the ability to stream Xbox one game To your PC we'll talk more later why I still think this is weird But later for that the Verge is now reporting Microsoft working on a plan to stream PC games to the Xbox one You know the natural direction According to Xbox and head Phil Spencer the challenge is quote encoding games and having the right amount of bandwidth to stream them To the Xbox one he also talks a bit about mouse and keyboard and interface, which I think is important No timeline on when this feature might arrive But we'll be talking a lot about it the discussion today. So hang tight for that. Yep trend micro published a blog post in which they describe an Android vulnerability that can render a phone almost dead Silent unable to make calls with a lifeless screen. It's pretty much a worst-case scenario The vulnerability is present from Android 4.3 jelly bean to 5.1 0.1 which is lollipop and the vulnerability can be exploited either via a malicious app Installed on the device or if you visit a specially crafted website hosting that malevolent content No patch. She has yet been issued. So I'm not an Android guy But if I had an Android phone and let's say it was a Samsung phone Okay for them to patch it or am I waiting for? Google to patch it your this is an operating system level vulnerability This is something that affects all Android phones. So really we should be looking to Google to address this and in fact This is a vulnerability that trend micro has known about since May So so it's a vulnerability. They've just now started to talk about publicly But they've known about since May and have been in contact with Google and Google's response was that this was a low-level Vulnerability so perhaps the hope is that by making it public it will escalate Google's response Yeah, it doesn't sound low-level and I also wonder if it affects forked versions of the OS if somebody using I don't know I know there weren't very many but somebody using an Amazon fire phone Which is a very forked version of that OS I wonder if those vulnerabilities exist there and if they do what that means for them That's a that's always scary to me and if they're calling it low-level. I don't know man. I don't know Yeah game over man. You know over is right. All right Where we're going. This isn't the movie reference you're making But it's close. We might actually need roads Marty The verge has a big write-up on Amazon's plan for the multi-tiered superhighway in the sky I do not like that terminology, but whatever One in which all drones flying above 200 feet would have the ability to sense communicate and avoid other aircraft Why does Amazon care they want to ship you stuff that way? Amazon's proposal similar to ideals floated by the NASA and Google would create a slow lane for traffic below 200 feet and A fast lane for long distance transport between 200 and 400 feet above the ground attitudes between 400 and 500 feet will become a no-fly zone and Everything above that is already against FAA regulations for hobbyists So we couldn't go up there if we wanted to unless they made drastic changes to those rules Amazon also imagines a central command and a control network similar to the FAA air traffic control It takes in data about the position of each drone and then shares it with the other vehicle connected to the network In other words the idea would be the entire swarm would not only be self-aware But aware where all other drones are at any given time and therefore police itself so that nobody Crashes and loses my copy of whatever book I ordered gosh Scott. It's almost like there would be a net in the sky Sky net if you will no, what have you done? That's a terrible idea. We can't go that way I think you were just making movie references at this point So we Tom and I had a conversation a little bit on the show a few Wednesdays ago regarding Amazons desire and ability to ship stuff to us and there's a lot of upsides to that Quicker having it come straight to the door You didn't have to have a truck get lost in traffic and have it come late Like there's a lot of things that this seems like that addresses But I still nobody's giving me a good reason to believe that the punk 15 year old on the street over for me Isn't going to try to BB gun that thing every time it comes near my house. Yeah a lot of questions about these UFOs coming over into the yard to bring me my stuff and not having somebody mess with it steal it take it Shoot it out of the sky before I even get it or whatever And they and I don't hear anyone talking about that stuff. So well, you know, yes seeing the recent news about drones interfering with rescue operations as well there are a lot of questions that have to be answered and some of it could be done through policy like what the story is covering but Honestly without having all those drones already in the air It's very difficult to predict exactly how things are going to go and my worry is that by the time we figure out Hey, this wasn't such a good idea. It's already too late. Yeah, it's a good point But moving on some Ooya news from Polygon earlier this week razor announced that it purchased Ooya Now the games company says it will pay more than $600,000 potentially owed to indie game developers as part of Ooya's free the games initiative Razor CEO Min Liang Tan found out about the debt spent some time sorting out the details and Plans to offer up a new contract for the devs who still haven't completed milestones required to receive those funds One major change the games would no longer be exclusive to the platform while Tan is working out the specifics He did tell Polygon that quote my lawyers don't even know they're probably going to have a heart attack in This is such a what a storied history Ooya has at this point We don't know what to expect out of this acquisition even I mean it's nice to see Razor expanding into markets that it didn't previously have and doing things more than just high precision mice and things like that You see him doing very similar things. So that's all great I think that kind of expansion is awesome, but I really don't know what benefit they're getting out of this team I really I don't either. I mean this is well it's it's an approach that lots of different companies have attempted and Everyone's sees potential there, but no one has actually really realized it And I think in large part because the market itself has changed quite a bit from the days when People started thinking about streaming content and that you wouldn't need a powerful computer at home The the the economy has changed lots of things have shifted since that time that make it less of Less of an important initiative, right? The people don't see the value in that as opposed to owning the device that's capable of playing all the games natively in your Environment and like I said that day it was gonna be like if the diamond Rio was before the iPad came or the iPod rather and That's exactly what's happening here in other video game news CNET or friends at CNET report that Nintendo has lost or excuse me They haven't lost they have sold its 10. They're 10 billion We you during the quarter ending June 30th, would that be a real shame to lose your 10 million one that really would However, the company sold 470,000 units worldwide during the same three-month period Compared to 510,000 a year before the year before they had a lot of a lot of good luck writing on the backs of things like Mario Cart and and some good some good first-party games remake of Zelda title and so on 3ds has over just 1 million in unit sales during the same period up from 820k last year So sales are up on 3ds on the software side Nintendo saw Wii U game sales jump year over year 4.4 million units to 4.6 In the last reported quarter you could probably blame a lot of that on Super Smash Brothers Nintendo's 3ds software sales fell from 8.6 million to in 2014 to 8 million this year So it's weird sell more 3ds hardware sell less games sell less Wii U hardware sell more games It's kind of a strange seesaw effect on that stuff And I think this next year's gonna be really interesting for them They've they they lost tragically their CEO to an early death and nobody quite knows what's gonna happen next there They need some good leadership. They need some smart ideas They have an NX console nobody seen yet or heard from but supposedly that's in the works Real weird time for Nintendo. Yeah, this could be a transformative time for that company So definitely keep our eyes on that Tech crunch reports that the Google Translate mobile app has added new languages to its instant translation tool for a total of 27 Just point your camera at something written in English French German Italian Portuguese Russian Spanish Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Filipino Finnish Hungarian Indonesian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Romanian Slavic Swedish Turkish or Ukrainian and the app will translate it into your language in almost real time The app is rolling out over both iOS and Android There an app that did this a few years ago, but just You know there's been a few that have done this but obviously the languages are limited and you know It's it's one of those things where certain languages get translated faster. So or so the capability is made faster It's also interesting that if you listen to that list of languages I rattled off so professionally just now There aren't any of the Asian ones. Yeah, those are tricky, right? Yeah, because of the the characters are different characters It's basically trying to tell me what a painting means which is unfortunate. I'm sure that'll come But here's the thing with that with what I like about Google doing this They they're translate stuff's been around for a long time and has steadily gotten better over the years Just from basic stuff in the early days of you know 2005 or six to what it is today, which is pretty dang good at doing what it's doing And on the other hand they've had visualization software that takes photos and says I know that's a box of tissue And I'm gonna tell you that and then search for it and get you the best price on it They've gotten good at that this sounds like a combination of those two things and can only speedle speed up the whole Skynet problem You were talking about earlier Right soon droids will be translating all of our street signs. Can't wait Facebook earnings are in Recode says Facebook reports profits of 50 cents per share on 4.04 billion That's billion with a B in revenue last quarter those numbers beat analysts estimates Facebook's mobile ad revenue now accounts for 76 percent of all Facebook ad revenue That's up from 73 percent last quarter more than 1.31 billion people That's a lot of people visit Facebook each month from a mobile device That's a mobile device not just desktop not a combination of desktop and mobile mobile 23% more than the same time the year before that is a huge uptake social network now has 1.49 billion total users Daily active users reached 968 million a 17% gain over the previous year But less than the 19% it grew in the same period the year before Mobile da use also slowed Gaining 29% from last year down from 39% rise in in those users the last year rather COO Cheryl Sandberg pointed out to recode 65% of Facebook's users visit the site every single day Good job Facebook. I suppose you're growing Yeah, I you would think that at some point you'd have to level off You know there are only so many people left who haven't created a Facebook account Well, the next one's the VR stuff and that finishes our headlines You get news from you all the time You guys put it up on the subreddit as well as sending emails and all kinds of ways of getting back to Tom And giving them cool ideas like Captain Kipper did he sent us a threat post calm report that security researcher Maxim Rupp Hold on. I just want to say that name one more time Maxim Rupp Let that sink in let it soak in what a name that is it's as good as riptorn as far as I'm concerned anyway He's found two bugs that make Honeywell home controllers vulnerable to attacks and hacks the tuxedo touch controller allows users to control home systems Such as security climate control than lighting first vulnerability. Let's an attacker around the auto Or excuse me around the authentication mechanism in the system and the second is a cross site request forgery flaw Say that 20 times fast. It can be exploited if there's an authenticated user With an active session So the lowdown on this the uptake The quick the quick mode is if a hacker can find your Honeywell home controller online It wouldn't be all that hard to open your door and to open your door They will then have access to you and your things so don't let them do that Honeywell's release software updates to fix the vulnerabilities according to Rupp and You if you have this and you don't know what you're doing talk to someone who does because that's an important update and D8 UV would like you to know that giga ohm is back The tech news and research site shut down in March after being unable to pay its creditors The site was purchased by knowingly founder Byron Reese who kicked off the relaunch by interviewing Stephen Wolfram about the future of AI a post by Tom shutter Sheridan are sorry Tom states that the site is still building back and it will take some time to Retain its former glory goodness gracious send your own pics by the way to feedback at Daily Tech New show comm you can also find Tom's pics at Daily Tech new show comm slash pics All right, why don't we get into the the the main topic here a little bit? Let's sit down. Let's relax Let's talk about Windows 10 It launched 191 or 90 countries rather today. I haven't seen a little thing pop up on my PC yet In fact, let me check it one more time. Nope Still not but I'm hopeful although. I don't know if I wanted talking to you makes me think I should wait Because here's what we're hearing Well, first of all, this is the first thing we heard here's there's their hot new slogan. You're ready here It is let's upgrade the world together How will you upgrade your world now? There's more to that than just that's our Windows slogan That's them also saying go it's a lot of pure hype but it's a lot of go out into the world and improve things and filter people's water and help grow a goat or Whatever to improve the lives of those around you. Oh and then upgrade to Windows 10, you know Scott I'm pretty sure that they were considering put help grow a goat on the box But it was it was struck down at the last second Yeah, they weren't they weren't such and Adele was like come on guys a goat Windows 10 help grow a goat they they do seem to be I mean, I'll take him at their word They seem to be interested in doing something more there and it does it kind of jives with the new such and Adele Microsoft, which is Seems to be more interested in Services how they can actually help people they're taking that some marketing pages from Apple in this regard It's a little bit less about the corporate rigidity of what Windows does for a company and a lot more about What does it do for you and your personal life? How was a teacher better teaching? How was a kid better learning? I don't really have a problem with it. I mean I'm being a little snarky about it but they all do this and if anything I see this is as a sign that Microsoft is genuinely interested in pulling back that veneer of cold dark corporate and Showing up on other platforms and other devices and having services that don't feel like you have to be a complete Devotate of Microsoft in order to enjoy do you feel like you are you getting that same feeling from this launch? Yeah, I mean any time you approach a big marketing push It's it's easy to get snarky because the very sleek marketing Style that you encounter with big launches like this Mean that you can come to the conclusion that perhaps the message isn't sincere that people that a company is trying to Capitalize upon a particular message or thought but I honestly think that there are plenty of people at Microsoft who sincerely do believe that Computers I mean there it's clear computers have transformed our world without computers our world would be very different from what it is now They've opened up lines of communication and productivity that were Impossible to realize before computers came around. So I think that there really is sincerity behind the belief It's just the presentation is a little ostentatious. Yeah, so far. So you might not think it's sincere I don't think that I'm very hopeful that it ends up being an incredibly useful tool because I run Windows machines So obviously I've a vested interest in being able to use an operating system that can do what I need it to do and Possibly make it even easier than what I've done before I always get cautious about these things because there's always a learning curve when you Transition from one operating system to another well Peter bright at ours technica says it is the best Windows version yet Saying that of ten, but he does add the caveat once the bugs get fixed and that I'm hearing that a lot today there Bugs not necessarily to show stopper destroy everything. Oh, no, what have we done kind of bugs? But more bugs than say the launches of seven and even eight although you could argue eight was maybe a bug in its own right, but There's more of that snark, but it's the first version. I've been this excited about a windows update In a very long time and I think even with small bugs I'm gonna be okay with it. You know those things will get fixed and it'll be pretty quick You get your own personal assistant now. So you get your you get your Cortana there. Mm-hmm. I Feel like that's a weird relationship for me because I only think of her as as a halo Person yeah, it's difficult for me to think of her as anything else So I'm I this will be my first experience using Cortana in any way I know there's a recently an Android version of Cortana and also of course Windows phone version and iOS version coming But you know if it'll be interesting to see if that has any impact on my voice to computing kind of relationship that I currently have Edge is supposed to be a better browser and Something a little weird little feature called the start menu John. You heard of that Hey, wait, I'm sorry a start Yeah, I don't want to blow your mind or anything but way back in 2000 or excuse me 1995 Yeah, something called the start menu which become became kind of synonymous with Windows users as the thing they use to do things Like it became the most productivity based function of Windows for a lot of people and we have they use Go ahead use the Rolling Stones song start me up as their promotional material back then They did that was the probe that was the song that promoted the Windows was start me up It was a big deal Yeah, they had the huge start menu or the start button thing in the middle of that commercial and they read They really focused on it in in Windows 8 they got rid of it A lot of people didn't like that Windows 8.1's update sort of brought it back in a way That wasn't exactly the same, but it was it was a nice edition This appears to be more like what you're used to but also has its own set of quirks And the reason I'm focusing on this is I just think it's an important feature of the OS or it's it's one of the big ones that was Criticized so much with 8 and to have it back in 10 is exciting But right now the way that that stuff is indexed is kind of out of control You'll get like 500 entries and it's a little tricky right now to go through it and figure it out This the reviewer Peter Bright also suggests this that at some point They'll update that and make that a little bit more usable, but it's still the step in the right direction Mary J. Foley has written up a non-reviewers review of Windows 10 here's some highlights Likes to start menu or likes at the start button and menu or back although she would like more custom customization It's interesting it feels like Microsoft's gotten further away from customization Do you think they'll let us start messing with UI elements and putting our own icons in again? And I mean I know some of that stuff's kind of easy, but but it seems like since Windows 8 it's less Less friendly to those that want to come in there and make their own kind of custom UI experience I think there will at least be some level of customization. I'm not confident that it's going to be a return to earlier Versions of the operating system, but I think that I think the message was received loud and clear that Windows 8 was a bold but misguided choice that that the approach to go such a dramatic You know divergent path from what had been done before was Probably something that the company needed is just unfortunate that it didn't work out that they they had misjudged how important certain elements would be that that the tablet Style of navigating through a computing system would not necessarily translate over as easily to a Laptop or desktop mode like I have a Windows 8 machine at home because I purchased it and that was the operating system that came on it and Don't have a touchscreen monitor. So guess what I do I use the desktop app so that I can navigate through everything because Navigating through the tiles on a desktop computer with a mouse and keyboard. It's not not intuitive to me also, I'm old I Wasn't gonna say but sure Mary's final verdict she likes the edge browser. She likes a lot of other stuff her final verdict is kind of goes like this She likes Windows 10 more than 8 or 8.1 Especially that now she's got a laptop. So her portable world has gotten better But says she is not quite ready to install it on her main production machine And that would be the only thing I would say out there is if you've got a machine that you rely on every day for Very mission-critical tasks probably not the one to do right away Give it a month give it 30 days give them time to put out some hot fixes and patches like anything video games Whatever if you've got to have a day one then you know what you're getting into But if you can wait and those things are mission critical give that stuff a little bit of time Also kind of came out at a similar time They're working on ways to switch or not switch but get games from your PC to your Xbox or as I would like to Say it the way it was supposed to be in the first place. So a while back and a d3 Microsoft announced we will be able to stream Xbox one games to the PC and I was kind of scratching my head over that because First of all, if it's a third-party game that's available on both platforms You would want the PC version because you're gonna get better fidelity and higher-end stuff with that That's just the way it is. It's fine. It doesn't mean it's a bad console It just means why would you do that when it comes to first-party stuff like Halo or something else? Most gamers I think would just hope Microsoft would port the game and do a proper conversion for the PC a platform They have near complete ownership of in the company, you know in the market and put it put it on the PC natively What they're finally talking about is going the other direction Which is taking PC PC games and streaming them to an Xbox? This isn't all that different for example than what the Steam boxes will do this fall It's no different than my I just have it right over here a brand new Nvidia shield TV which is based on the Google TV platform that lets me stream Steam games and all my PC games Directly to that box via Wi-Fi with zero lag. It looks amazing. It's really well well done. We'll well implemented And then one of the other advantages these competitors have is they're all including steam They're all working on their own ecosystems as well So not only can I take my existing PC games and stream them there, but I can also rent by or subscribe to games Like PlayStation does with their their PlayStation now offerings and play those on that same device on that same TV For games you don't already have on the PC So I think it's really smart for Microsoft to get into that side of the market and let people take PC experiences to the Xbox that will be a much more sensible Transition and ironically games that look great on PC are gonna look incredible on your Xbox one on the TV because it's just Streaming it doesn't have to have the hardware that your brand new, you know expensive video card has so What's your take? You think this is the right move for them? I Like both directions of this and I'll tell you why so I own an Xbox one And I own a Windows based machine and the reason why it appeals to me is that While I agree with you that if I wanted to get a game and it was available both on the Xbox and on the PC Simultaneously for the same price. I would want to buy it for the PC for the very reasons you mentioned it's when you get to a point where a Title is on sale or is offered up for free as part of Xbox Live Gold Where you're thinking oh I get this game for free But wouldn't I like to play it on my PC then it suddenly makes a lot more sense in that approach So if you're trying to save some money in that case That's when I would think it would really become valuable, but I agree entirely It is a great move to have this this streaming capability in both directions because I Think if we've learned any lesson Netflix has taught us The more places you are available the more places you can let the users Experience your product the more ways they are able to do this in a seamless manner the happier people are Yeah, and it's when you start Compartmentalizing that people ask questions like well. Why is it this way? So I think this makes a lot of sense Yeah, I do too and one day on live will be remembered as innovators I'm telling you because there this was their stuff man. This is originally their thing They just didn't know how to market it didn't have the money to do it or whatever and now everybody's getting in on it And that's just gonna gonna be the way it's gonna be for a while I do think Microsoft before we finish this out needs to clear up a couple of things one thing Phil Spencer says in that Verge article quote we understand if you're going to be going PC to Xbox We need to get the keyboard and mouse working completely so you could play those games. I don't think I agree I don't think people want to play mouse and keyboard games in front of their TV the entire point of streaming that other direction is To take the games and experiences that can be played with simple inputs and controllers Into the other room where you're sitting on your couch hanging out with your buddies So I don't I hope that isn't the thing they get it all hung up on Because I don't think that matters to gamers as much as he thinks it does I mean valves got their answer with that weird controller and the touchpad the haptic feedback and all of that We still haven't had hands on with that so nobody knows if that's really gonna work the way they've told this It's gonna work I mean there's a lot of questions about that that even they have conceded. Yeah, we can't just do keyboard mouse There's nowhere to put it. You're not gonna have it on your lap. It's kind of a nightmare So I'm not sure he's right in that in that regard But I do think microsoft needs better messaging when it comes to streaming From windows 10 to the box or from the box to windows 10 Or which side the hollow lens works on and which side the oculus rift works on There's really confusing messaging coming out of them or has been since e3 really or even since gdc I don't think anybody clearly knows Which hat fits on which head right now? And I think that needs to be cleared up Yeah, I think that might be due to You know some some internal things where within the company itself not all those decisions have been made They just know they want to get ahead of Other stories so that they are you know that they get people excited But I think they might be laying the track down while the train is already in motion So it may be one of those things where they're trying to work things out And they themselves don't know the answer to all these questions, which is why the messaging has been a little muddled Yeah, I completely agree. 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It's dumb. I and also Sorry for making you read the pics twice. No, it's fine. God when I saw the second one. I went. Oh, I'll do that again Why not? No, I um I it was really stupid It was that I was going to give you language about the subreddit And I was like we have that written and I just ran to the thing that was written You may be familiar with the state of the brain that I'm in right now Not a problem last time Tom had me read an email twice. So that's Well, we liked it so much. We asked for it twice He usually makes me read the email from whichever user has the most difficult handle Yeah Like one that was clearly never meant to be spoken aloud much like cthulhu Yeah, or the I always get the user or the emails from people who uh, You know had just terrible grammar or not enough punctuation. I think tom says those for us. It's his Little joy I think that went all right. Oh, it went so great made me so happy Um, I will scott need your copy of it because another hilarious thing my brain did was When you read the pics the first time and I realized it was wrong I actually said and I was muted on the show, but I said oh god damn it jenny And I realized I was also recording Ah crap. I wish I had that version. That's funny Uh, because it was just me like muttering to myself. So like all over the show is just me muttering Do you want the raw a for wave or do you want an mp3? Maybe maybe a whatever if you want to send it for faster sending an mp3 would be fine And then I can unpack it or if you want to send me a wave, that's awesome, too Let's see the wave is gonna be I'll say how big it is Um, how no Too soon. Yeah, it's almost a gigabyte. So you probably Send me the mp3 and then I'll do with it when it needs to be done. All right, I can do that Oops I've all recorded everything. Well, let me just test some was too thing. Yeah, it worked Yeah I mean mine will still work and I'll just take my stuff out But if I could have one day of not actually editing the inner content of the show, that would be amazing That'd be nice. Yeah That'd be so cool Okay, I will I will send this to you shortly via draw box and uh, we'll go from there Um, would you would you like to go so that you can go do all the super important things you need to do? I do need to roll, but um title if we know Yeah, let me to throw you some titles. Uh, okay. So the top vote getter right now is amazon skynet Uh, we've got microsoft now with more cold metal corporate Uh, microsoft's windows streams both ways which isn't quite true yet. Yeah They want but it's not confirmed. So yeah, and then I have microsoft now with less cold dark corporate And windows 10 the return of the start menu, which I kind of like actually I kind of like that one too That rolls on this I think I'm gonna go with it. I think that's what we're gonna call it. All right Um, well, I didn't get to say because I was listening to myself twice But I'm super excited to get to intertacular tomorrow and see everyone and meet everyone and it's just I'm super excited I'm sorry john. I'm sorry It's okay Your joy your joy is something that I wish for so I I am sad that I will not be there to partake of the festivities But I am very happy so many people will be there in an environment filled with laughter and love and happiness That's what we need in this world. So I am just glad it's happening. Well, just you're so nice If we end up with extra swag bag, I'll send you one. How about that? Oh, you're sweet. Well, I do it Yeah, make sure make sure uh genie gets it first because oh, yeah You can take the stuff out of the bag and put the bag over her head and Say Back Uh, thank you guys you did such a great job. I really appreciate it I'm glad you're saying that because I felt it felt all right to me, but I can never tell from my vantage point So I'm glad it turned out all right. I know John. It was it was awesome I will send you Roger doesn't like anything and he just gave a thumbs up. So there you go He hates everything. Yeah, he can't talk I think because there's baby noises Um He gave the up thumb of approval. All right, get thee to a nertacular. Go do all the things you got to do Thank you so much. I'll see you soon. See you John. Thanks so much. See you man. Roger That was awesome. Uh, thank you. That was really awesome. It just it felt like It just felt a great way to go into nertacular for me. Yeah, great. Good. I'm glad we could be fairly low maintenance Yeah Yeah So, uh, oh, so you're taping forward thinking which is why you're not coming to nertacular Yeah, I'm shooting I shoot on fridays now and I write I write the episodes and I shoot them the same day um And we're we've been ramping up production. So it's yeah fridays are pretty much At least for the foreseeable few months are gonna be pretty hairy We might eventually examine different days to shoot instead of on fridays Originally, we shot on weekends, which was even worse. Oh, yeah On because I would work a full week and then on saturday. I would be in the studio from Usually 8 a.m. till about 4 or 5 p.m. Just shooting Over and over and that's that cool because that takes away your weekend. Well and at least saturday is shot because Killing your energy up your enthusiasm and I don't use a teleprompter. So I'm delivering these forward thinking really dense scripts Without the use of a teleprompter And after about three or four my brain turns to mush and the most I've ever had to do in a day is eight Oh Yeah, and it was that was hard. I never want to do eight in a day ever again if I can help it. So That's some serious business But it does mean that I shoot them more frequently the nice thing was that if I shot eight I could take a lot of Time off like I could like well for the for the next five weeks I don't have to shoot or or write anything uh for forward thinking I keep trying to get ahead. I keep trying to get ahead on my podcast. Tell it anyway Oh, it's impossible. It's impossible. So I applaud your efforts. It's crazy, right? Because what you'll do is you'll sit down You'll record extra episodes and it feels like you've done You know Four extra weeks worth of work. You're out for one week and suddenly you're behind How this is not how time works. What's happening? It is really really tough. Yeah, that's why I rarely take vacations and Um, what is a vacation? I have two I've got two planned and I'm actually scared because they're so close together That knowing knowing what I'm going to have to do in order for those two vacations to work is Terrifying me And it's three weeks total three weeks That's you know, that's six episodes of tech stuff six audio podcasts of forward thinking three videos of forward thinking Oh, it's just gonna be It's gonna be a rough time. Yeah Well, thank you so much for being here. Thank you super awesome And uh, I I can't tell you how much I appreciate it really Yeah, anytime you just let me know and uh I love being on the show. So it's it's a lot of fun for me, too And I hope I hope your travels are Swift and safe and that you have a wonderful time this weekend. Yes. I I'm really looking forward to it I'm just gonna get in that gondola and go up That's yeah, I can't anymore I I haven't done that yet. I was at the uh I was at nerd tackler a couple years ago, but I did not get a chance to go on the gondola Mostly because that was the year of the mudslide. So I miss I missed the first day Yes, because I was one of the people who hadn't made it up there yet better miss the first day than be up on the gondola during the mudslide I guess I mean you're above it, right? So at least at that point you might be like, well, I don't know what I'm getting down, but at least I'm up here on a mountain All right, take care. I'm gonna go publish and thank you again so much. Thank you. You have a great one. All right. Bye