GeekNights Monday - Kaby Lake and Adblock Wars

MrPeriod

Tonight on GeekNights, interrupted as we were by meat courtesy of the Queens Dinner Club: Mothership Meat Company, we talk about the new Intel Kaby Lake architecture and what it means for HTPCs. Android 7 Nougat is coming, but not to the Nexus 5. The Adblock Wars intensify, though we will win in the end. Also pedal hydrofoils, new bikes, and new skis.

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Victor Frost

Apparently we don't have permission to enter the Salon.

Coldguy

Rym did you also watch Dinner and a Movie in the 90s on TBS? I thought I was alone...

Matt

Two of these three statements are true:
I watched Dinner and a Movie in the 90s.
I was a big fan of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
I have eaten a baby


As for Scott's new media empire, let us remember the original mega-popular board game podcast (circa late 2005):

Dazzle369

Rochelle

Beans and cornbread.

Rym

This is the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Third-Reich-Richard-Evans/dp/0143034693/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1471034912&sr=1-2&keywords=the+rise+of+the+third+reich

The thread and the rest will come later.

ninjarabbi

If you just want a cheap tablet for a teleprompter, you could just get an Amazon Fire when they have them on sale for like $35. It's pretty easy to install the play store, but as a teleprompter you'd probably only need to sideload the teleprompter .apk off of your phone and be done with it.

Andrew

I'm 1000% down to doing F1 Singapore

sK0pe

Surprised you didn't talk about the new Intel / Micron nonvolatile memory.
Essentially you get mobile devices which don't need RAM, only need this xpoint memory. Also 6 TB of storage in a form factor that looks like 2 RAM sticks. Programming applications may start changing if your load time is relatively non existent or if you don't need the separation of RAM and memory. Only requiring storage and CPU cache.

While CPU speeds have slowed down, computer still continue to improve performance when you factor in the change in performance of storage.