Laura, the floor is yours. Thank you. Thank you, Nathan. Hello. Today I'm talking with you from Mountain View, and that's about 40 miles away, a one and a half hour trip south on 101. And it's amazing that with Beam I can literally be in two places at once. So I can present to you for 30 minutes here and then be at home when the carpool drops off my son from school. So I want to thank Krista and Michelle for their suitable technologies for providing Beam today. My name is Laura Lee, and I'm part of the marketing team at QuiverVision. Today at the Future of Libraries conference, you've heard from great speakers about new technologies in online communities and how libraries can tap into them. As you all know, libraries are being changed greatly by technology. How you interact with patrons through the resources that you offer, through the programming that enriches life facilities. Quiver is an augmented reality company. You've probably heard of augmented reality in the last months, mostly in June with the summer craze around Pokemon Go. Next slide, please. Many libraries are harnessing this interest in catching Pokemon through programming activities. They created programming around the game. For example, the Psyduck in the stacks above, that yellow cartoon duck waddling around in the Isle, was caught in the Canton Public Library in Michigan. Canton Library started a Pokemon Go group hunt for tweens, teens, and adults. The group met to scour the library of wild Pokemon and visit the surrounding Poke stops in the nearby park. Next slide, please. Other libraries like this one in Cheshire, Connecticut, use this cultural phenomenon to lure patrons into the library. Kind of like catching Pokemon. The sign says, the sign says, we are a Poke stop. Come in, hang out, charge your phone, collect Poke balls, snacks, lures and more. Maybe do something old school and check out a book or a DVD while you're here. Next slide, please. The Farmer's Branch Manski Library in Texas used the Pokemon game to advertise free library cards. Libraries have created programming around the game that includes introducing kids to physical privacy and safety issues in the digital world, how to become conscientious users of technology, and helping serve as media mentors for kids and families. Pokemon Go is still going strong, even though it is getting less press. As of yesterday, it regained its spot as the top grossing iPhone game in the U.S. and is number one in 15 other countries. The game was referred to as a social media phenomenon which has brought people together from all walks of life. Just in July, 231 million people engaged in 1.1 billion, billion interactions that mention Pokemon Go on Facebook and Instagram. Pokemon Go has also brought attention to augmented reality. Next slide, please. And Quiver Vision is benefiting from it because people are seeing how this technology can bring characters, stories, and learning to life. Quiver Vision is an augmented reality company that brings coloring pages to life. What does it mean brings to life? I'll show you. Cheryl, can you please click on the video link? Quiver Vision teaches and entertains children through animating 2D images, using a tablet or mobile phone, fish swim over a page, birds soar through the sky, butterflies split around flowers, dragons breathe fire into the sky, and planes fly through the air. Kids add coloring and texture to the 3D images after they color a page. It is rendered onto the 3D animation. So augmented reality can be more than Pokemon Go. It is a growing industry that Goldman Sachs estimates will be an 80 to 182 billion dollar market within the next 10 years. And it will be used in everything from games, education, training, interior design, construction, archaeology, engineering, product design, business to business sales, merchandising, marketing, and more. So what exactly is augmented reality and how does this differ from virtual reality? Next slide, please. Is this the virtual reality slide? Okay, great. Thank you. Augmented reality, abbreviated as AR, is a technology that creates computer generated sensory input, sound, video, graphics, GPS data, on top of a user's view of the real world. It seeks to enhance or augment reality. I think of it as essentially a data layer on top of reality that is viewed through such as a tablet. There's different are virtually virtual reality fully immersive environment while AR keeps us in the real world. One of quiver vision's goals is to use AR to make learning become alive to students. Next slide, please. Our vision is based in New Zealand with offices in Japan and the US. The technology was developed at the Human Interface Technology Lab in New Zealand, which is part of the University of Canterbury. The hit lab's mission is to put people before technology and support and empower them to solve real world problems and have positive global impact. Quiver vision was spun off from the lab in 2012 and has a strong focus in education. Next slide, please. Our flagship app is Quiver Education. Here's a picture of a coloring page from the Quiver Education package and a preview of how it works. Please click the link on the video. Thank you, Cheryl. I'm actually going to take a photo because I'm up here on stage. I want to show my husband. Through the Quiver Education app, kids can color animal cells and be quizzed on the different cell parts. They can test their plant cell knowledge, experience planet Earth from space, and discover the inner workings of a volcano and make it erupt. Next slide, please. Here are our fifth instance of learning about cells. You see in the large photo that the issue is quizzing about the construct of cells. Next slide, please. Here, kids are learning patterns and the rotation of the Earth. Next slide, please. Cheryl, the one with the app stores. Oh, cool. Thanks. Quiver and Quiver Education are available for download in the Apple app store, Google Play, and the Amazon store for the Fire tablet. Quiver is a free app that has many free features and a couple of in-app purchases. Quiver Education is $7.99 and includes 14 packages of different coloring sheets, which you can see on our website. We work hard to make our product very affordable for educational institutions and libraries. For purchases of the app on multiple devices, we also offer a discount. Please contact us if your library is interested. Next slide, please. Here are more features of our app. You can print coloring sheets directly from our website. One of the amazing features is that you can see the 3D object rendered with your coloring in real time as you color the page. We have a proximity feature that shows your 3D object changing in size and perspective as you move the device closer to the page. Many of the 3D objects have associated games and quizzes. You can interact with 3D objects. For example, in one of our coloring sheets with a fire truck, it fills up a water from a hydrant and then a child can use the controls to raise the ladder and squirt water from a hose. Next slide, please. Here's a screenshot of the many free coloring sheets that you can download and use for programming in your library. Next slide. We provide easy educational tech programming. One of our teachers tweeted, board kids, smartphone or tablet plus colored pencils plus printer plus download. Quiver vision as a solution. This New Zealand wetland bird called the pukeko was also tweeted about by the handle class tech tips. Here it is fully colored as it looks in nature. Next slide, please. Here's the blank coloring sheet of a pumpkin. Quiver vision has many coloring sheets for your library program. I provided the future of library conference with this free coloring sheet for you to use to distribute as you do last. It is a little different from the other in sheets.  You have it work. Next slide, please. I've written in thick black marker read on my pumpkin. Then I open the quiver app and hold my tablet or smartphone over the image. I want to make sure that my device captures the whole image. If it doesn't, the page will appear red like this page here on my left. Next slide, please. After the app recognizes the image, it will turn blue like this page and then render the 3D augmented reality object. As you can see, my jack-o-lantern has read now carved into it and a candle is burning inside. It is also accompanied by music when I view this through my iPhone. Next slide, please. What's amazing is that the pumpkin will change in size and perspective when I move the device closer and farther from the page. In these images, you see the jack-o-lantern from above and my three-year-old son is posing with the pumpkins in another view. This Halloween pumpkin coloring sheet is for your use. I hope that you can start introducing augmented reality to your library and bring learning to us, to life. Next slide, please. If you are interested in learning more about quiver vision, please connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, or email us at info at quivervision.com. We'll provide all this information to the future of library conference organizers to send out to you. Next slide, please. Also, we'd like to invite you to join the Quiver Vision Ambassador Teacher and Librarian Program. We'll keep you up to date on the newest educational material and advances in augmented reality. Please go to our website and sign up. We would love to have your libraries take part in introducing augmented reality. Thank you for your time today. Are there any questions? Is Angela there? I think she went out drinking. I think she was driving home, so I hope that's not true. Anyone have any questions? How are you driving that thing? Oh, so you're up for a treat because Krista is going to beam in, and she's going to tell you more about this amazing piece of technology. You mentioned that there are coloring sheets. Can you hear me? You mentioned that there are more coloring sheets that are available. Where would we get those? So if you go to the Quiver Vision website, you can download a free sheet. So we have two apps. We have a free app, and then we have an education app, which costs $7.99 for 14 packages of coloring sheets. Thank you. So just take a look at our website and email us if you have any questions. Great. Thank you. So I've taken a look at your website, and I'm just wondering what I mean, without going into obviously much detail, because it's probably proprietary, but I mean, what areas are you looking to open up your educational programs? Is it more science? Is it more kids with disabilities? What can we expect if we keep following you and keeping updated to your company's updates? So right now we have a lot of content in human biology for about the fifth and sixth grade level. So like understanding plant cells, animal cells, we have geography and learning about the earth. So teachers and librarians use this content for pretty much ages five to 11, 11 or 12. We're moving into more human biology in terms of understanding the whole human body. We also have many modules about nature, learning about birds, insects, different types of animals in their habitats. If you are interested in a certain area, we'd love to hear your input. So please send us an email if you see that we're missing a content area that you think children would really enjoy and would like to see through 3D models. You can also email the CEO. I'll give you the CEO's email address. It's NilesNILS at quivervision.com and he loves to hear from different users and how they're employing quiver vision in the classroom or the library. Okay, thanks a lot, Cheryl. Thank you guys.  My name is Krista. I'm with suitable technologies and we are the creator and maker of the Beam system. The device that I'm on is the Beam Pro. Thank you for inviting us to join your event today and to talk about the future of libraries. I am coming to you from Seattle, Washington and my role at suitable is director of education business development and that includes our university and education partners but also our cultural art partners and that includes museums and performing arts centers. On a personal note, I love libraries. I have my entire life. I don't remember a time that the local library was not part of my existence and I think the work that you do not only in educating your communities but also providing a space for programming and discussion and just continues to expand once they get into this new digital age that is just providing worldwide access to everything and I think telepresence really feeds into that. So with no further ado, let's move on to Beam. Slide, please. So what is telepresence and mobile telepresence specifically? So the Beam system is a mobile telepresence system and that means that it has wheels. So it's a video conferencing system that the user from their computer can log into and using their arrows on their keyboard, their mouse, however they control their computer, they can control the device and that provides the user with the freedom of being there, of choosing their path, of having control over where they go and when they go. What makes that different from traditional video conferencing is really that control and that you're not reliant on somebody else setting up the computer in the destination space that when an event is over you can roll out with a colleague, with somebody that you've just met and continue that conversation. So there's a casualness that comes with telepresence in a mobile way. The host site, so in our case, the library today, has control over who has access to their device. So our system has an administrative tool so you can grant temporary access, you can observe the device in time, certain day people, I have some clients that are being open to their user from 9 a.m. at those controls and provide some who has access to your space when. Slide. So where are themes being used? Slide. The workplace. So the beam was invented to solve a challenge in corporate America being launched in 2012, so went into development a couple years before that and at the time our parent company had a remote team, so one of our engineers had moved out of seat and he was getting very quickly frustrated with the difference and having been in the office and now being a remote employee. So he was, he is a robotic engineer so he took things upon himself and took the base of the robot that the garage had developed and used the laptop that he could remotely access and created the beta type of the game device. If any of you are big bang theory watchers, the shell bot was an early rendition of this device as it was being tested and developed into what you see today. So by using this in the workplace you are not only able to bring remote employees into the office for meeting, collaboration, brainstorming, discussions. My colleague Michelle who has been setting this up today, she and I are both remote employees and we see each other on beams and that is how we talk to each other. Rarely do we get to physically be in the same place at the same time. But it also allows companies to now bring their clients into their offices with ease. It allows manufacturing companies to be present in their manufacturing facilities. Oftentimes those are overseas abroad and the travel time can be expensive there but with a solution like beam mobile telepresence solution they can beam into that warehouse they can walk the line with their colleagues there and have real-time conversations. Slide. Another use that is part of my world with beam is education and as education has been evolving over the last decade distance learning has become an important component to what higher education is doing. Now with mobile telepresence remote students are able to be in the classroom. So for subjects that require interaction with fellow classmates like education classes, nursing, medical there's so many subjects that a big part of that learning is learning from others and having taking those ideas and really talking them through with your fellow classmates. We work with many research universities who are using our device for research in different subjects. One of them is Michigan State University and they are focusing on the question of what adding mobility to teleconference does for the user and they're finding so interesting. Some of them are hope to hear of it so it's always interesting to do the final study but they did find that remote participants who use versus a traditional video conference did feel that they had a greater sense of presence in the classroom and also had an ability to build with their fellow classmates and as a remote employee I totally get how this device would create an environment where that happens in that you can have those casual conversations that you would have in the lunch room or you would have at the water cooler but when you are remote and you're only just coming in for that video conference you don't have those casual interactions so it's building a community like you're part of that community. Another great example in education high school that we work with in Brooklyn is using the beam to bring subject experts into the classroom so to bring the curriculum that they're learning sort of alive and providing it with a real use case. I was in New York a couple weeks ago and I got to go to the high school to meet with their principal and their facilitators and while I was there they're like oh we have someone beaming in so one of the Latin classes would you like to see like absolutely. So go into a freshman Latin class so there are three years or three weeks into studying Latin and they have a priest semen from the Vatican to talk to these kids in Latin. You know these kids I'm sure are all like I don't know enough to talk to this guy but they all did and they all engaged with him and he was in control of that room that he had their attention for the entire half hour that he was there talking with them and I think it was just an exciting opportunity for them and that's why it was an engaging one. Another of our university clients is in the planning stages for a pilot program where they're going to work with three other universities and have a crossover STEM focused curriculum and that means that say these four universities will pick what classes they have their strengths in and then open up to the other three institutions that they will have eight of our devices on campus and eight students from those other universities can take that class so that each of these four universities don't have to duplicate those classes they're able to provide a pool of their resources. So that will be interesting because it will be a research project as well to see how the students what their takeaway is from that experience but I think it's really promising. Slide please. So next up is cultural sites and this is very near and dear to me because it was what I was brought into suitable technologies to do. My background is in museum technology and when I was approached about coming to work and seeing this device and the possibilities in the museum space which I think is somewhat relevant to the library space most museums are either public institutions or we would classify as public institutions and by opening up their collections and exhibits to a broader audience is part of their mission famous as I would suspect for libraries but unity and expanding access is important. Launched beam and museum beam is early adopters. It was important to find a key part and we were lucky to be on museum here in San Francisco so they launched a project with us focusing on accessibility and they plan extensive training with their docents and volunteers created a core group of trained docents to provide tours on the beam. They did a lot of research and feedback within the disabled community so they did a bunch of testing rounds to see what worked what didn't work same on the docent side to really get buy-in from the community that they were trying to serve but as though the people on the ground you had to make sure it was successful. At the end of that testing program which took about nine months the end result was that there was a value in this. There was a value to the users but also to the museum and they have launched a formal theme tour program as part of their accessibility program. As that program was developing and we started a couple of other pilot programs with other museums we started to think about how else could we use this technology to broaden the audience and the computer history museum in Mountain View was the first to say let's try bringing a school group in on beam and see if we can't provide access to underserved schools in our community a way to easily and with no cost and you know have a tour. So to test that out they needed a school and I happened to have the best friends in Brooklyn New York who is the fifth grade teacher so I talked to her can you get your principal to okay this and she did. So her fifth grade class sat around a large screen as you guys are today. The teacher controlled the beams of vice and they went on a tour of the computer history museum. I got to have extra feedback because the teacher as I said is a personal friend and she told me it was the first time that school years that they all required at the same time but she thought was remarkable. But the kids were engaged and it was about an hour and a half the tour they had good questions and we definitely found that there was a value in it. So computer history museum and the San Diego Air and Space Museum have both been sort of tweaking their educational outreach programs so that curriculum driven education programs are able to be conducted on beam. So that's pretty cool and then the last example I want to use share with you about the museum world is the American Museum of Natural History which is in New York City and they are using their beam in their one of their older exhibits that has not been updated in a couple of decades and it's their Indigenous People's Gallery. So the story that's being told in there is not necessarily accurate and it's not contemporary so it's a very dated exhibit and when they were talking about you know that it really requires a huge overhaul what else could they do and they have partners with a bunch of Native American communities across North America whose objects are part of a collection. So they reached out to this organization that is there a way and better tell your story from your point of view first and so then and we've talked to beam and how without work galleries well they're offering a program in this gallery where they house either artisans or curators these tribes beam in and talk to the visitors about like what is the importance of this object and how do we use it today and it's still important to our culture and really providing a point of understanding to these objects that are you know quite remarkable and are part of all of our history and that's been very successful and exciting so you know bringing bringing the subject expert to provide that unique point of view is something that's very exciting about a beam. Slide. So then it comes back to why is this important to you guys so I do think that there is crossover to other uses that we've seen beam successful in or telepresence in general successful in. Again that's bringing in subject experts and I would love to see the day where museums have a station on a computer and we have beams in libraries and museums and your patrons can come in and check out an hour on a beam you know at the Taj Mahal or at the Met Museum and that it's part of the services that your libraries offer their communities as well as if somebody you know comes in and they want to know more about 12th century manuscripts they can beam into University of Cambridge and meet with their library and who that's what they know about that their collection has so that that you're able to have expansive knowledge beyond what your library's resources are and really tap into a whole network of information. I think it also could be used in your community programming whether that's a lecture series I know a lot of museums provide professional service assistance so whether it's small business mentoring or tax assistance to be able to have that subject expert come in and meet with a small group of people I think including it in technology education so we have a library client who has one of our smaller beam beam plus in their collection now and is part of their educational training when it comes to technology so they'll have groups come in and they'll talk about remote telepresence we'll talk about robotics and this is just one of those tools that they use and then another very important piece of what beam can do is provide accessibility so libraries the famous museums are part of our communities and to be able to extend access to the physically disabled in a very easy way on their end is really a fantastic opportunity to serve your communities with that said I'm just going to quickly slide please so last year was the silver anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act we did a lot of conferences that focused on the ADA and and what the next steps in the future for that look like and we were had fantastic opportunity to have a beam at the White House for a woman and now the swan being honored as part of the White House's celebration of the anniversary and she has financial literacy and was unable to travel from San Francisco so it came to our attention we thought absolutely let's get a beam there um so we have a fun video clip of that moment so slide please slide please so um the use of telepresence devices for individuals with physical disabilities is really remarkable and I have had the the privilege of working with a gentleman by the name of Henry Evans who had a stroke about 14 years ago and that left him a quadriplegic he was 40 years old when it happened and it you know it changed his world entirely um in the years since he had founded an organization called Silver Humanity and focus is technology and seeing how it provides service to disabled groups who's disabled individuals and of course he's built amazing relationships with university computer labs um he's got research projects in Sydney Australia Carnegie Mellon at Georgia Tech at Stanford and just continues to to ask the question ask for access ask for solutions and through his his work and dedication he's really exposed beam to a number of organizations and people um and you know he was he was one of the main initiators that are museum programs so I just have one more short clip um and this is uh from PBS Sunday Morning who did a piece on Henry and the young allows you to explore the museum Henry Evans who is almost completely paralyzed been a long day huh okay actually I have a quick one for you I know a couple of the videos we were able to see your perspective or the perspective from the beam and I was wondering if you were able to show us that on your screen here so we could kind of see how you see us I don't know how helpful that'll be because the screen but that this is what I I see you it's a lot yeah um you can do you see the the blue line so that's to show me the path that I'm taking so I can see it oh I'm at something um and you have a couple of you have screen share and zoom a couple of books in there as well do you only need a laptop um on the other end there are you we're seeing you through the laptop desktop computer you can use we have a mobile app for iOS and Android um the tablet it works fairly well the phone I think the screen is just a little too small and I have the big iPhone so I think you know if you're using this for an hour plus you would want to use the laptop or a tablet the laptop's definitely the best experience what's the top cruising speed robot to two miles per hour which is a decent walking speed you're not going to go from San Francisco to Seattle on it well I mean you can do it the way I just did it but any other questions um I was involved in the beam project at the D young and so I was sitting here thinking I would love to see this used in libraries to have people use their laptops to call in and and be involved in a book discussion group or come to any of our programs yeah I think it's a great access tool absolutely you just think about if you're in Henry's situation that having those outlets that get you out of your room where you're spending 20 hours a day and just mentally be in a different place this can allow that to happen could you see well enough uh when you beam in say you were going to look at some microfilm and you couldn't physically come to the library to do that would you be able to see well enough that I could guide you to the microfilm and you might be able to see that on screen I'm not sure I mean I I haven't used microfilm in such a long time I do remember that that I didn't mean that in any way welcome to the library but um but the screen is fairly large and can be magnified um so yeah I mean if I beam into the office I can see somebody else's computer if they have it angled so the light isn't glaring on it um or I angle the beam um so I I definitely think it'd be worth trying let's see if that works hi um I was wondering if this has been tested at all with people with maybe like severe anxiety or like agoraphobia if this like makes a difference in whether or not they're able to like go out into the world and interact now it's an interesting question I do think for some people it makes things more comfortable so for me personally if I was physically standing there in front of you my heart would be palpitating but it's better on beam um so I definitely think that for some people it it removes the barrier we did a pilot program with a children's hospital and found that some of those kids were really overwhelmed by the experience because people came up to them and you know talked to them in a way that they were not prepared for were not comfortable with so and and that's that's more uh that I think on your side people will just come up to somebody on something like this and say what is this where are you what are you doing um so there's a curiosity there that uh you know people are going to be more approaching whether the person who's on the other side is more approachable that's a good question I think for some people it doesn't know that uh yeah would you come to my library and do story time for the kids I was thinking I was thinking how much my first job when I was was assisting with the summer reading program at my local public library so I would love to be very time I was thinking that maybe people that I'm bound or who can't get out what a wonderful way for them to interact with their community is for them to be able to come and you know maybe help with the story time there's another thing about libraries is that people often find things um you know when they come in the library they find things that they weren't looking for so to have somebody be able to come and roam the stacks of the library with that we have a lot of caregivers that come in to check out for people who are homebound but wouldn't it be awesome if they could come in with this beam with their caregiver and say oh I want to see that title there that one that I didn't know existed and here it is and I want to check it out but someone can help them do that you have him yeah I mean yeah it's it's part of the library experience that you you go to look for one book but you find seven because you get to browse the stacks thank you guys so much and with that thank you again for coming you should have received a survey so please fill that out for us that's how we decide what to do next year I'm going to take all of your feedback into account that makes a big difference


From London, England, it's theCUBE. Covering Discover 2016 London. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now, here's your host, Dave Vellante and Paul Gillis. Back to the banks of the Thames, sort of, at the London Docks. We're here at HPE Discover at Excel London 2016. This is theCUBE, the worldwide leader in live tech coverage. Dr. Tom Bradichic is here. He's the vice president and general manager of servers and IoT systems for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Dr. Tom, always a pleasure. Great to see you again, my friend. It's great to be here again. It's great to be at another HPE Discover, a lot of energy, a lot of activity. I think it's the best one yet and I think they just keep getting better. So, I have to say, I'm quite impressed. The first time we met you, you were sort of educating us on the seven principles of IoT. Now, we've got Meg Whitman on stage. We've got a partner ecosystem developing. It's one of the pillars of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. So, congratulations. Give us the big picture of the macro on IoT. Yeah, you bet. That is indeed a great word to choose a pillar. It's become a pillar of our company. You might say, well, that escalated quickly and we need to escalate things quickly. We need to be agile and be first movers and we're first movers in a couple of ways that we'll discuss. But you're right. Meg Whitman's keynote on day two was all about what we call the intelligent edge. In the intelligent edge, it would be effectively a superset of the IoT. The IoT has edges and edges are places. It could be a factory floor. It could be an automobile. It could be a wind farm, a power plant, an oil rig. These are places where the edge is that's not if the data center. That's a good way to look at the edge. But there are other types of edges, campuses and branches. So, we've consolidated this notion of the intelligent edge under a particular group. And it's a very significant part now of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. I'm very privileged and happy to be working in that organization, as you pointed out. And what we're doing in this intelligent edge, I like to portion into the three C's. Connectivity, compute, and control. And it's a good way, it's a good template for discussion. It's a good way to see what we're doing. What are we doing with connectivity, for example? Well, we have a world leading wireless connectivity, which is a big part of campus' branches and the IoT. We have the edge line system, which includes connectivity to things through data acquisition technologies. And then of course we have other types of connectivity with respect to the enterprise class IT we have in the data center that can apply to an IoT cloud or an edge cloud, you know, if you will. Or an edge that connects to a cloud, if you will. Now with that said, the second C is called compute. And this is where we're a first mover. Because we're taking unprecedented levels of proven HPE enterprise technology in computing out to the edge. Now the profundity of this lies in the fact that that compute was reserved or pent up, trapped if you will, inside a data center. And all the data had to go there to the compute to be computed. Well, we're reversing it. We're taking that compute capability. And again, we're a leader in compute, that's profound. And we're taking it out to the edge where we can compute at the source of the data capture. And there are many reasons, seven to be exact, why you would want to compute at the edge. One of them is latency, one of is security, one of them is bandwidth. But there's a lot of reasons why you have to in many ways or prefer to compute at the edge and not send all the data back. So that's number two C, compute. So we've got connectivity compute. The third C is control. This is overlooked by many IT companies, but not us, because we're again leading and differentiating in there. We're a first mover in integrating control systems technology, which comes from the operations technology world or the OT world, into and embedded in the same box as IT, meaning the compute and the storage that we talked about. And that control technology physically can reside at the edge in HPE offerings, but also control is built into our universal IoT platform. And the universal IoT platform does have a dimension of controlling devices. Our Aruba platforms have a dimension of controlling devices and managing them with respect to security, with respect to identification and discovery. So under these three Cs, we can partition the different products that we have to give a comprehensive offerings. That's the big picture. So in the third C, you're bringing, for example, factory control technology into your information technology systems. Is that right? I mean, I'm thinking about my sprinkler system has a controller, pretty simple, basic device. That's your irrigation technology with control technology. You could easily bring that into a technology system. There have to be just an enormous number of permutations, however. So how are you parsing through all those opportunities? I spent a lot of my career working with companies, convincing them to do something that it doesn't yet understand, if you will. And I don't mean that in a negative way, just mean simply, because it's new. And by definition, it's a new thing. This whole world of converged edge systems, that's a new product category. Because it's new, it has no history, by definition. But it will indeed disrupt, and I don't mean to overuse this phrase, but digitally disrupt, digital disruption, the control world and the embedded systems world that resides at the edge, at the factory floor, in the power plant, in different places. And we're in the forefront of thinking it as a thought leader, but we're also in the forefront of creating products. So we're not only a first talker and a first thinker, we're a first doer. And with these products. Well, the companies that dominate there, I mean, you're talking about Honeywell, and Rockwell, and Siemens, and companies that have not traditionally been constituencies of HPE or anybody in this industry. So what are you doing with those guys? Yeah, that's a great question. We have to create a new ecosystem. That doesn't exist, you're absolutely right. And that's what being a first mover is, you're first, right? So we created an ecosystem with many of the names that come up when you think about operational technology. We have a great relationship with General Electric, a big name, of course, National Instruments, we've talked about, and also startups in that area. And the idea is to cooperate with them and build a better solution because it's converged. And I might pick up a fourth C, if you will, converge, but that's really not the primary one. Convergence is, let me give you the example of a smartphone. You all have one, in fact, I see them here. In that smartphone is not just a cell phone, but it was converged the digital camera. You don't carry on a separate camera anymore, or you don't have to, is the point. In that is converged a GPS system, you don't have to carry on that separately.  It got all in one little box, if you will, and that's what makes it so powerful. A flashlight. And the question isn't what's in it, the question is what's not in it, right? There's an app for that, right? So you get my point on convergence of a smartphone. What about convergence of all the disparate systems, data acquisition, control systems, computing, IoT gateways, networking, what about all that? We'll put it all in one box.  We're not going to, we did. That's the edge line converged edge system proposition. You're absolutely right. The conversation with your partners is, look guys, we're really good at this. That part of it, yeah. You've got the compute part, you're really good at the operation. Let's partner together. We'll bring A, you bring B, we'll go to market together. And please let me elaborate on it because it's so key as you've brought that up, Paul. We're not going to create all the content in the soup. We're going to create some of it. Well, what are we good at? Well, we're good at computing, we're good at systems management, we're good at storage. That's our contribution to the solution or the soup. Other people have stuff like control systems, data acquisition, industrial networks. We're going to get their brands, we're going to get their cooperation inside the box. A perfect proof point is right now that one can purchase, national instruments creates data acquisition and control systems. We have their product that slides right into the HPE edge line 4,000 and edge line 1,000. That's a perfect example. And it's their product. And in fact, their skills are not taken over by us. Their skills are complimentary. It just happens to be in the same location now physically. Okay, so I want to understand differentiation. Why can't Michael Dell watch this video and say, hey, Dr. Tump, thanks for the idea. I'm now going to go to the edge. What's different about HPE? Well, first of all, I'd be somewhat flattered if he watched the video. Let me just get that out of the way. You'd be surprised. It's amazing, too. It's a tech thing, Dave, earlier today. All right, let me answer that. Let me not say it's not possible for a competitor to copy and do what we're doing, because we have smart competitors out there and I want to give all due respect. However, we're a first mover and there is a complication when it comes to how small it is and how compact it is. That's an integration, frankly, an engineering philosophy to get that business value. So I would say other companies could be more challenged. Could they figure it out? Perhaps. Are they a first mover? No, because we have taken that position, right? So we have a first mover advantage and also when you do something new, remember this is new, no history, really, our experience, you get the first learning and you're able then to continue to move forward. So the pace at which I can move forward in my business, talking as a supplier on behalf of our customers, is going to be faster than that which my competitors might copy. That's the philosophy here. Are there other technical advantages that you have? I mean, Aruba, I would think, is an advantage. Oh, let's talk about the Aruba product line. Clearly, some advantages in security. We have a really cool technology called Meridian which is taking location services that have traditionally been on the outside, helping you get an automobile to one place to another. And we're putting them inside, thinking that inside the building. So you can find printers, you can find other people, you can find conference rooms, et cetera. Now, how does that relate to the IoT? Well, those are things connected to the internet of things. That's how you find them, because they're internet connected. So we connect assets, we connect locations, we connect people. Okay, good. Give you the last word on, we're out of time, but the basic mega trends that you see that are tailwinds for Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the space. Yeah, very good. And some of them are quite in our favor. Others that we're jumping on and being agile to learn. The ability to run prognostics predict the future is a big, big trend, not only in the IoT, but because it's in the IoT, we've got other things coming in with data and we can help predict the future of their health, the future of people's buying patterns, the future of the healthcare of people, the auto industry, traffic patterns as well. And predicting the future through prognostics is big and the edge line platform, the edge line converged edge system platform is the first mover in allowing that to happen at the edge. So it's really a great trend and we're looking at that. A second trend is of course the ubiquitous connectivity. Excellent. Okay, I'm going to ask you to stay here. We've got a little tease, we've got a partner coming in, we're going to talk OT a little bit and how we're going to see how this is all coming together, okay? Very good. So can you stay with us? You bet. Good, well keep it right there, and Dr. Tom Bradiches, right back.


t local level have also opposed local rates relief schemes as well. We can hear the noise that comes from the Tories. They may make a lot of noise, but they do not make a difference when it comes to the decisions of our country. That is where the Greens have made a constructive contribution to the budget setting of this country. The Tories are for tax rises, but only if you are poor or if you are sick or you are seeking education, you are quite happy to raise and charge taxes in those areas. You may well be a strong opposition, but tonight you will be opposing. Oh yes, oh yes, a strong opposition, strongly opposing the police, strongly opposing the NHS, strongly opposing the extension of childcare, strongly opposing more support for business and strongly opposing connectivity, as well as a new skills fund. They are a strong opposition to the good ideas that are coming from this Government and this Parliament. Some have said that there was no support for this budget, although I will mention that, since the Conservatives do not want to hear from me but others who have commented on this budget, such as the chair of colleges Scotland who has said that the increased investment in Scotland's colleges is very welcome indeed, particularly in those tough financial times, or Liz Cameron from the chambers of commerce. We are pleased that the key infrastructure budgets, such as roads and digital infrastructure, are set to rise substantially in the coming year, or the EIS who said that they welcome the announcement of additional investment to support schools in the area, or the FSB who said that by giving full rates relief to 100,000 Scottish firms, the Government has lifted the prospects of smaller businesses facing a tough 2017. Further, on the new skills fund, FSB said that we called for a new flexible fund to help firms develop their skills, especially the ones that they need to tap the power of the digital economy. What was announced today, while we need to see the details, sounds like it fits the bill perfectly. Finally, from CBI, Q8, he said that the commitments in this budget on housing, digital and transport connectivity will lay the foundations to allow firms to get on with growing their economy and creating jobs for the long term. I think that Bruce Crawford very helpfully covered the points of the economic incoherence of the Conservative Party, who every time when asked how they would meet any new spending commitment said they would either, how they would spend the resources. Murdo Fraser is heckling me at the moment, but maybe I will recap his economic madness. He promised me a new economics book and all I get is daff dossiers from the Conservatives, which normally begin with inaccurate figures. He said that to fund their policies, they would respend money that has already been spent, or with a status co-tax policy, that would magically increase the revenues, which you could retrospectively spend at the start of a financial year, based on future economic growth. That is the economic madness of the Conservatives. I will not take your advice on economics and I will not take the advice of the Labour Party on how to run a budget. Let us just look at Clackmannanshire, who has administration faced a budget decision today. The Labour leader resigned, the whole administration resigned and they have no budget. I will not take any lessons from the Labour Party on how to run a budget. In my final minute, Presiding Officer, can I say that this is a budget that is good for Scotland, investing an additional £900 million in our public services, record investment in the NHS, expanding childcare, more to tackle the attainment gap in our schools, more support for colleges, more investment in infrastructure, expanding broadband and supporting our business environment. This is a budget of which I am proud and I urge every member to support it this evening. Thank you. Tavish Scott, first paper on Tavish Scott. Presiding Officer, a governance review into public bodies subjected to the Scottish Government school review was published this afternoon. It makes recommendations on the high board and indeed on others. As you know, Parliament has already voted to retain high strategic decision making board. The proposals now in front of Parliament would change that. In light of Parliament's vote, have you had any indication that the Government would wish to make a statement on the matter, given the vote that we have already had? I thank Mr Scott for the point of order. I am going to address that point imminently, given that it was raised by Rhoda Grant earlier this afternoon. Douglas Ross. I would like to raise a point of order under standing order 7.3. I seek your guidance after Gail Ross during the debate that is just completed.  In relation to the concerns that he was raising about maternity cover at Keith Ness General Hospital. When I raised this during the debate, the Deputy Presiding Officer and her official said that they had not heard it, but will you seek confirmation from the member that she did in fact use that word twice to allow that issue to be dealt with? If not, will you check the audio and the visual recordings of this meeting, which will show that even her colleagues sat next to her, were concerned about the language that she used? I thank you for both points of order. I can just address both in turn. Point of order, Mr Adam. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Under rule 7.3 of the standing orders, I seek your guidance on comments made by Kezia Dugdale today at First Minister's questions. Kezia Dugdale said that I couldn't even be bothered to respond to public consultation on paediatric services in the Royal Alexander hospital. I have this afternoon received a letter of apology from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that, due to an administrative oversight, my submission was not included in the report. In this age of alternative truths, I am sure that Kezia Dugdale would not wish to put petty political point scoring ahead of the facts. Can the Presiding Officer advise whether Kezia Dugdale will be given the opportunity to correct the record on this matter? Thank you, Mr Adam, for your point of order. That is not a point of order. However, it is a point. The member was named in the debate earlier. He has now had the point to correct and put his point of view, and that will be noted by all. It is not a point of order for me to rule on. Can I move to the two other points of order, one raised by Tavish Scotland earlier by Rhoda Grant? Rhoda Grant raised a point about the publication of Lorne Creerar's Enterprise and Skills review, and I have looked into the matter further. I understand that the cabinet secretary wrote to the convener of the Enterprise Jobs and Fair Work Committee just after 2.30pm today, and the report has now been placed in Spice. The news release that Rhoda Grant referred to was issued more than 30 minutes beforehand. The Scottish Government will be aware that there has been significant interest in this issue across all parties, and in those circumstances I would expect the Government to make all members aware of its publication at the same time. I would invite the cabinet secretary—I cannot see, but I would invite the cabinet secretary to consider this or to reflect on it. Burea members will also be aware, however, that the cabinet secretary has undertaken to come back to Parliament on this issue in due course, and so there is an expectation that members will have the opportunity to question the cabinet secretary or to discuss the issue further. If I may, Mr Johnson, I will just finish these points of order, and then I will take a fourth point of order. On Mr Ross's point of order, I have been following—I was in for the early part of the debate and I have been following the debate—and I understand that it is a heated debate and that members' emotions are running high. The Presiding Officer was in the chair and the clerks, and neither of them heard the remarks referred to. I would just take this opportunity to remind all members to cheat each other with courtesy and respect, and not to make personal remarks or use unpermential language. Mr Johnson, given your confirmation that Kate Forbes released the information 30 minutes prior to its placing with Spice, would you consider that 4.11 of the ministerial code has been breached where it states explicitly that PLOs are required to exercise care in the use of any official information to which they have access in the course of their duties as a PLO? Thank you, Mr Johnson. Again, that is not a point of order. The ministerial code is a matter for the minister and for the First Minister and the Government. However, I have made my views known and I expect the minister to reflect on the matter. Are there any further points of order? Thank you. There are two questions to be put as a result of today's business. The first question is that amendment 4168.2, in the name of murder Fraser, which seeks to amend the motion in the name of Derek Mackay on the budget Scotland, be agreed. Are we all agreed? Were not agreed, we will move to vote and members may cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment 4168.2, in the name of murder Fraser, is yes, 31, no, 94. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. The final question is that motion 4168, in the name of Derek Mackay, on the budget Scotland bill, be agreed. Are we all agreed? Were not agreed, we will move to a vote and members may cast their votes now. The result of the vote on motion 4168 in the name of Derek Mackay is yes, 68, no, 57. There were no abstentions. The motion is therefore agreed. The budget Scotland bill is passed. That concludes decision time and I'll close this meeting of Parliament.


This should not be a partisan issue, indeed, to almost a third of the democratic members I must say, recognized the desires of the people and were willing to support them. But House Joint Resolution 350 was delivered over several years by, or developed over several years by, or developed over several years by, or developed over several years by, or developed over several years by, or developed over several years by, prominent constitutional scholars. It was passed overwhelmingly by the Senate. The leadership in the House pasted together a phony, last-minute political sham with no teeth in it, which failed to pass. Their only concern was to defeat a real balanced budget tax limitation amendment, and this, they were willing to support them. They have choked off the chances for a balanced budget amendment this year. We'll fight on. The American people are overwhelmingly with us, and our numbers are growing. We can take heart from the fact that 236 Republicans and Democrats, a clear majority of the House, joined together in a bipartisan process. The constitutional amendment, however, requires a two-thirds majority, which would have been 290 votes, and therefore the measure failed. It was year after year of government living beyond its means that plunged our nation into a deep, painful mess. One that culminated in 1980 with double-digit inflation, climbing unemployment, 21.5 percent interest rates, and the highest peacetime tax burden that we've ever known. Yet today, incredibly, we heard the House leadership still claiming that a balanced budget would wreck the economy. For the overburdened taxpayers who are paying so dearly, for the mistakes of the past, I pledge to you we will redouble our efforts. We'll spin our amendment again, and with the support of the people, we'll keep up the pressure until Congress makes an ironclad commitment to bring spending in line with revenues. When the Congress busts the budget, it's the American people who are shortchanged. This vote today makes clear who supports a balanced budget and who does not. Work voters across America should count heads and take names. In November, we must elect representatives who will support the amendment when we propose it again. No one believes, Sam, I shouldn't take any questions and I'm not going to, but I'm going to answer that one, because no one believes that the passing of such an amendment means that instantly we could achieve this. There is a time lapse in between which gives us plenty of time to begin to bring spending in line with revenues. No one believes that the passing of such an amendment means that instantly we could achieve this. There is a time lapse in between which gives us plenty of time to begin to bring this budget back under control without devastating number of worthwhile programs that people are dependent on, and it's going to take some work to achieve that. And it can be accomplished, so it isn't a case that if this were passed that instantly after the vote we have to start, we have reduced the in-rate of increase in the budget from 17% when we started down to 4.5% in the next year's budget that has been proposed. I'm answering the question because the question you asked is the answer is so obvious that obviously after these years of out of control and build up to the level they have, there's no one that pretended that you could answer this would then have to go to the states for ratification. There would be a period of time before it was actually put in place, and in that period of time you have an opportunity to work out a budget which would not have to penalize people who are dependent now because on the government for help. Are you saying then, sir, that you think you could have a balanced budget by 1986, which was the goal of that amendment? Do you think that likely? Could you commit yourself today to that goal? We would have to, and I would be willing to go at it with that regard because I... I think that's likely, though. Isn't it really a case of politics by both sides? No. What's wrong with all the years that we've been advocating this? For eight years I served as governor of a state where we had it and it was never violated, except once by a Democratic administration and legislature in the state of California that used some bookkeeping tricks to conceal the fact. Are you sorry that it came to a vote today? Are you sorry that it came to a vote today? Yes, and I think that that was intentional. I think that we'd have more time for the people that know what was going on and make their wishes definitely known. I think the Congress might have acted it out. Can you tell us anything, sir, about the Habib mission, whether he has negotiated that with California? Is this one for TIP? Did TIP beat you on this one, sir? Did TIP beat you on this one? You've beaten him often enough. Is this one for TIP?


with the stock swush and here I'm taking a look at the market. This is the QQQs. It was a nice long day. Didn't have the big, big lift that, you know, the market's had some of the days in here, but considering the fact it's a summer, you know, it's the middle of the week. There wasn't any huge earnings out or news or economic data out today and the market held. And you know, I got to be honest with you. I mean, my bias in this market now is very, very different than it looked several months ago, you know, and there's still many issues hanging out there as far as news goes and world events and things that are happening all across the world, particularly in reference to the tariffs. And you know, that could, that could actually have an effect on the market. But all in all, the market made it through an earnings season and a lot of the big names, a lot of the big companies reported extremely well for earnings and the market held up and it's held up and it's held up here through this summer. And I'm just looking at the QQs, but the spy, I feel the same way. So the QQs have been pushing forward faster than the S&P. And the reason is because of Apple, Amazon, okay, you know, these are the leading, leading stocks that are in charge and they're moving it forward. Apple made a brand new all-time high just yesterday. So you had the QQs falling yesterday, even though they gapped up, had the rally, but recovered today, gapped up today. And this was a nice long, it was a late long, it was a late long, you could have just bought the market. I'm just going to go over this in here, right in here. And then you could have just taken it right up pretty much into 12 o'clock, noon, 12, 12, 15 ish, you could have got in, out, in, out. I wouldn't say this was a quick trade. Quick trades for us are five minutes, two minutes, three minutes, one minute, 10 minutes. This, you did have to wait in this trade and sit in this trade for about an hour, an hour and a half hour and 45 minutes depending on where you exited it. But the fact is that it worked. Some days you need to get something, you want to get something there isn't much to do. You can sit and wait around or you can walk away. This did work. I would be shocked, really, really, really, really, really, really shocked that the market didn't hold here tomorrow. So my call for the market tomorrow is we gap up or we open neutral and rally or a slight gap down and rally. Unless we gap down something huge tomorrow, this market will hold. So we look for follow through and continuation and possibly a new line in the market tomorrow and Wednesday for no reason. No reason whatsoever at all just because the market is getting bought. So we closed here today around 181.60. High in here is almost 183. That's $1.40 away. That's totally, totally doable. And I'm not saying we definitely do it, but we're, it's in sight. So I would be shocked if the market did not follow through higher tomorrow. If we don't, it could be an inside range day and then we follow through later on the week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Three more days this week. It looks like the market's gonna close out strong for August. Unless something disastrous happens, I don't see us not closing strong for this month in the summer in the QQQs. Again, a lot of it has to do with Apple and the strength that happened on the earnings that reported a few weeks ago in that stock, which plays a big portion of this Qs, which is kind of weird. I mean, it really shouldn't be like that, but the fact is it is. So you got to take it into account. If you're in this, if you did it today, it was a good solid, solid long. If you're in as an option, a clause is an option. You can stick with it, even though the fast exit was yesterday. This could continue. So good luck, everyone. We'll see what happens tomorrow in this and the other earnings that are coming out between now and the end of the week. Couple big names coming out this week, mostly retailers and you know, they could affect the market. Positive or negative, we don't know. Good luck, everyone.


Nigeria has recorded additional 123 new COVID-19 cases as a total infection from the deadly virus rose to 169,329 as of July 17. The NCDC made this known on its official website on Sunday morning. The new infections indicate a decrease from the 132 cases recorded on Friday. The NCDC however said there was no COVID-19 related deaths arising from the new cases. It stated that six patients who had recovered from the disease were discharged from isolation centers. According to the commission to date, 169,329 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed worldwide. 1,000 or 164,672 patients discharged and 2,126 deaths recorded.


So I have been asked numerous questions about how I've got so many of a certain material and although this method includes the duplication glitch which I'm certain most are aware of, there's also another bug or exploit you can actually do to get unlimited materials which in reality cost you nothing. How's it going guys, my name's DPG and if you enjoyed the video leave a like, it really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more slide upon kind of daily basis be sure to subscribe. So this method I do feel some people may already know about and have been using it to maximise materials but I do know many many people don't know about this hence the video as I've been asked numerous questions about how I've got so many other certain said material or item. So let's start from the very beginning this requires you to do the duplication glitch which if you don't know how this is done let me quickly explain find any drop point on the map once you have one sell it an item you want to duplicate then back at that drop point now all you have to do is if you play on xbox press the y button and the home button at the same time on playstation I believe it's triangle and start or triangle and the home button if there is one and on pcs are and escape if you turn this correctly you will enter the drop point machine but notice the background of this inventory is transparent this means the glitch has worked and if you click on the item you sold the machine you will purchase it but you will notice it stays in the machine this means you can spam purchase the item and dupe it as many times as you like by just continuously clicking it but I will state the more it dupes the more you click on it the more you spend it is in reality as simple as that and it does cost you money and today's method we use this more or less exact same thing but it's way way better now this glitch it helps depending on the amount of money you have the more money the better if you need fast money the space oddity painting exploit which I've also covered on my channel is your item for this quick rundown on that the space oddity side mission pops up on the map when you go near it at the end of this mission you get yourself a painting this painting can be sold to any source where there is money for 4k edits then also brought back for just five edits rinse and repeat selling it and buying it to get yourself quick money but yeah with today's glitch the more money you have the better so this is how it works firstly you need to dupe whatever item you want to do this with to a point of where you feel the turnaround is decent enough for you you'll understand what I mean if you continue on watching so for demonstration purposes within this video I'm using a legendary upgrade components so you will notice and this is how this works I sell the machine 300 of this item as I know they cost 1k eddies to purchase each back and because I only have 300k eddies I can purchase these over and over again using a duplication glitch and the reason I'm doing this is if what you are trying to dupe cost more than the money you have it won't allow you to dupe it so as you can see here I have 300k eddies so I can theoretically purchase 300 legendary upgrade components over and over again duping them again 300 every time I dupe or buy them back using this glitch well guys that's actually wrong that is not how it works for some reason you can only buy the 300 back once it doesn't matter how many times you click to buy the item when this glitch is active it still only allows you to purchase the full amount back because of your money and you can see this happening on the screen now I'm repurchasing them over and over yet I'll still only get 300 back so this is how this glitch works and it means you can get as many as you want of this item it's more or less unlimited now it still all depends on the money you have but what we are going to do is we're going to half things and what you'll see will shock you so I still have 300k eddies but what I'm going to do is I'm going to sell the machine a 150 of the legendary upgrade components which equals half of the amount of money I have buying them back and this is the trick so the machine now beholds 150 of these components I use the glitch and then when I purchase them back it costs 150k eddies but what happens is guys it actually allows me to repurchase them unlimited times now yes it takes my money when I am done but it stacks the material as many times as I repurchase them so you can do this basically forever earning yourself unlimited materials and I have no idea why this happens and at the end when you have all the materials you need and the drop point has all your cash simply use your paintings sell them to the machine and get your money back this means this is basically 100% free every single time so a quick rundown of how this works guys sell the machine a set number of materials in which it will cost half of your overall eddies to purchase back use the duplication glitch going back into the machine just repurchase them an unlimited amount of times when you are done you will have all these materials stacked then you can just use the paintings to get your eddies back from the machine and it is guys as simple as a vet and you can use this to do materials needed and crafting certain items so I hope this video helps people out who didn't know about it and on that note the end of the video has arrived if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out if you're new around here and want to see more cyberpunk on a daily basis be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always forced 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Hey everyone, welcome to I guess what I'm calling the Nintendo Prime show and I want to have a conversation with you guys about Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, not because I played the games and reviewed them and have deep intimate knowledge of Pokemon, really don't, but because I feel like there's a false narrative being made today about these games and this narrative seems to be built upon, well, a long standing held opinion about the Nintendo Switch itself as a platform and while I agree in some regards about, hey, it would be nice to have a new Switch, I would like to see this become a pro, I would like to see this be upgraded, new hardware, more powerful, yeah, I've been talking about a pro for like two years, so of course it's something that I want. But Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are not the use case to argue for a new Switch and I'm going to explain in a moment, first, if you end up enjoying the show, I'm going to ask you guys to like and subscribe to the channel, I really appreciate it, also leave your thoughts down below on this topic. So throughout the day, we've been seeing a number of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet reviews come out and needless to say, the game's scoring around a 78, 77, it might go even lower, maybe it's a 76 or 75, this is significantly lower than Pokemon Legends, Arceus earlier this year, Arceus, Arceus, do we ever get a consensus on how you're supposed to say that? Either way, that game scored an 83. So to have Pokemon Scarlet and Violet come out, the next mainline games in Pokemon and have them score significantly less than a Pokemon game from earlier this year does seem concerning, but what's interesting are two things that I noticed in these reviews and I probably went through over 15, 16 reviews, I stopped keeping count after I got through the first dozen. And I noticed two things come up that's dragging down the review scores of this game. One of them is this repeated line in many of the reviews of this is a good start to something grander, this is a good start, this is a good start, I don't know what this is, this seems to come up in every single Pokemon review, there's some new ideas, some new fresh thing to do and they always say it's a good start instead of just saying what it is now. I hate the idea of talking about what something is starting and not just enjoying what something is. I think this is a flaw in how reviews are done, but that's a personal preference thing, it's whatever. If people want to use that terminology and keep throwing that out there, that's fine. What I actually want to focus on though is the second thing that's causing the reviews to really be well below and 80 overall. And that is performance. So the game has graphical performance, FPS issues, every single review, even the ones that give it a 90 or so, bring up these points. The game apparently has massive frame rate problems, especially once you get your rideable legendaries and you're flying or zipping around on the ground or in the water, just moving freely in the open world at a fast rate is causing significant frame rate drops that are extremely noticeable and kick people out of the game. It's one thing to have frame rate drops. It's another thing for it to drop to a point you're noticing frame skipping, that is exactly what you don't want to see when you're playing games. Now technically we did have some frame rate drops in Pokemon Legends, Arceus, but they were not as drastic because while the world wasn't as big. Frankly your open zone, there wasn't you know as much stuff going on in the zone, it just had less going on. This game has a lot more going on and as much bigger in terms of it being completely open world. So because of this, it's causing a lot of chugging when you're moving at a fast rate. It's even noticeable apparently when you're not moving super fast, especially once you get outside the towns, but it's really noticeable once you get moving quickly. And I've seen reviews that have essentially called this a perfect Pokemon game until you realize how bad the frame rate is. And I find this to be quite interesting because the other complaints about graphics and we all know that, let's just be honest, Pokemon games you know outside of like the snap series you know Pokemon Snap and New Pokemon Snap don't necessarily have the best visual quality. It's just not something that I think Game Freak and the Pokemon company have really prided themselves on. I mean I guess Pokemon goes all right, but again not made by Game Freak. So I find this to be quite interesting, but I'm, I can let the visuals go. Look Pokemon Legends Arceus is not a great looking game and I still think it's really good and it's still got an 83. So what is the problem here? The problem is that because of the low frame rate, it's starting to become a common thread. The Nintendo Switch can't handle Pokemon. Can't handle open world Pokemon.  The Nintendo Switch needs to be replaced. The Nintendo Switch isn't even powerful enough to run Pokemon. I find this baffling since the Nintendo Switch launched with one of the greatest open world games of all time in Breath of the Wild that both runs at a higher resolution, has much better textures, has way more going on in the world and as of today you can not only ride horses in it, you can ride motorcycles and you can glide all over the world without major frame rate issues. That was there at launch. So what does that tell you? About fast forwarding five, six years and we get an open world Pokemon game and it looks worse, has less going on and yet it chugs. What it tells you is the issue isn't the hardware, it's the developer. Now I don't want to go too hard at Game Freak. It's not always up to them but whatever engine they are currently using was not intended for open world games. I could just tell you that out the gate. It's not intended for open world games because if it was this wouldn't be such a problem. Breath of the Wild runs as smooth as it does on Switch because the engine that was purpose built for it was also intended to run well in these sort of scenarios. The Witcher 3 which cuts back on resolution and does some things chugs less on Switch than Pokemon Scarlet and Violet which looks significantly worse than that game. How can a multi-platform third-party triple-A game that's open world run better on Switch? I mean you could even argue Skyrim looks better than this and Skyrim has no such problems on Switch. People bring up Monster Hunter Rise. I think it's a little not really the same thing. It's not really even open zone. It's got lots of loading and it's corridor based. There's a little bit of open areas but they're very small. I don't know that Monster Hunter Rise is a good comparison but the point I'm trying to make here is the Switch isn't the problem. It's the development studio and the Pokemon company not choosing the right technologies putting enough development time in or doing what maybe they should be doing and getting help from the parent that owns the Pokemon IP in Nintendo. They could easily reach out to Nintendo and ask for help. Nintendo would likely be willing to offer that help considering how many copies Pokemon sells every time. Hey let's give you a little bit of help from our team. Let's work on Zelda. We're wrapping up Zelda. Maybe we got a few extra bodies. We can help throw a Pokemon. Monoliths off. We use them in pretty much everything that we do now. Anything that's open world has Monoliths off involved. Why don't we give you a team from Monoliths off here. They just got to see nobody Chronicles 3 out. Maybe they could take a small break and help you optimize your game to run best on Switch. And it's an exclusive. That's the big thing. Your Scarlet and Violet is a Switch exclusive. It doesn't have the excuse of being a multi-platform game built for better hardware trying to run on Switch. It's supposed to be purposely built for Switch and it does not feel like a game purpose built for Switch. Like look we got some FPS issues in Bayonetta 3 to be sure and people have used that to argue we need new hardware and maybe that's the case. I don't know. It's a Switch exclusive so I don't really find that to be an excuse. I feel like there's development issues but that being said, whatever the frame rate issues in that game are nothing compared to Scarlet and Violet at least according to the reviews. So even Platinum Games who doesn't work as close with Nintendo as Game Freak does hasn't been releasing oodles and oodles of games. We did get some Astral Chain of course being one of the notable ones. Yet a studio that works primarily with Nintendo's hardware has had access to Nintendo's hardware longer than pretty much anybody else. Can't seem to make their games and engine run well. Maybe it's time to go back to the drawing board, rethink it, get a new engine, use a pre-established one from Nintendo or some other company. I don't care if it's Unreal Engine because even Nintendo's done that for Yoshi. They use Unreal Engine. So Nintendo's not even opposed using outside engines if it suits their needs and just do something else. It's very clear that you might have a really damn good game in Scarlet and Violet that's being hurt by how it runs. And that shouldn't happen when you're an exclusive. This is not a hardware problem. And to everyone out there using this to hate on Switch, this is not a Switch issue. And you want to know how I know this isn't going to be a Switch issue? When people go to emulate this game, it's going to chug on PC too. In fact, it probably would chug on PlayStation 5. You want to know why? Because Game Freak doesn't optimize the games correctly. Its engine's not meant for this. They are pushing things beyond their capabilities. And I love the ambition. Open World Pokemon is what I want. And a huge reason I think that we're hearing a lot of, this is a good start. This is a good start because people can see a future where we get an Open World Pokemon game that doesn't chug, that runs smoothly. Heck, it runs even at 60 FPS. Unfortunately, that's not this game. So I just want to take a moment and say, hey, we don't need to maybe worry so much about what the Switch is capable and maybe put more pressure on the Pokemon company and Game Freak just to do better. If they can't patch this one, make sure this doesn't happen again next time. And I hope this doesn't discourage them from Open World Pokemon because I do think that this is the future of the franchise. Now that being said, I do want to thank one of the partners of the channel, Ewan Racing, for partnering with us. If you guys want to check out Ewan Racing's products, they got chairs and desks and everything. 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Hey everybody welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be taking a first look at Sparky Linux 2021.3 now. This is a distribution based on the rolling version of Debian so Debian testing and It is the first Sparky Linux that has KDE Plasma So I've never actually used Sparky Linux before or if I have I've forgotten about it just in the Plethora of distributions I've tended to take a look at but I'm pretty sure I've never taken a look at it before And definitely not on the channel so For those of you who have I thought I would start off by looking at the change log So they say the changes are they packages upgraded from Debian testing repos as of March 5th 2021 So they're just updating the software Linux kernel 5.10.13 Firefox 86 Thunderbird 78 so we're getting all the most recent version of versions of these software of This software this software You're gonna have to forgive me. I don't know how to talk anymore.  Just more like grunting and you know weird sounds. Anyways, lx cute 0.16 mate 1.24 XFC 4.16 open box 3.6.1 And the new version of KDE Plasma 5.20.5, which is what I'm going to be looking at now The most recent version of of vlc A newer version of calamaris Which is gonna be the installer and that's Pretty much now it does go through if you've if you're using this, you know On your computer now you can actually go through and do an in-place upgrade But we're going to be installing this in a virtual machine. So let's go ahead and get started. Shall we? Well, yep Here we go. Let's see how this goes. Yeah Oh, we get full screen right off the bat, which is always a good sign We have a cursor And we have some animations KDE splash screen So that means should be probably going to take us into a live environment then Okay, so let's see here. We'll go through the actual desktop environment once we get it installed So we have calamaris as the installer here American English, that's what we want And then Detroit English us in default is good You raise disk and swap will do, uh, we don't need to swap We'll go ahead and do next and we'll type in a password here We don't want to log in automatically. That is weird that that's checked out checked by default That's not usually the case. Usually you have to check that, you know by yourself But it's a choice Use same password as administrator pressure Use the same password for the administrator account That is a good thing to have checked automatically because I think everybody pretty much wants that So go ahead and hit install I might have just missed it, but it's possible that there was no confirmation for Where usually where after you selected your drive partitions and stuff it asks for confirmation Are you sure you want to do this? I don't remember that happening I'm also interesting to see that this usually there's progress in this right away So far this says zero, but we'll see Because usually the first thing it does is oh, here we go All right, I'm going to cut away here And when it's done, I'll come back and let you know how long it took Okay in the grand scheme thing that took about four and a half to five minutes So we're going to go ahead and hit the read actually I'm not going to be restarting this I'm going to shut this down Because I have to remove the installation media from virtual box I'll do that and then then I will start it back up Okay, we're restarting back up here And we'll see how the boot up time is Lately these Debian based distributions have been really good and that was quite spectacular actually I'm always impressed with this boot up the boot up times of Debian I don't know if it's just because maybe it's really good in virtual box for some reason And it's not good on hardware and I just haven't you ever noticed But it's always so good Okay And that's another instance of KDE Plasma starting up really really fast so The first run of Sparky, thank you for installing Sparky Linux This lets you fully upgrade the system Install missing languages language packages You could perform all the jobs one by one or select one only English there, okay, would you like to do it now? Sure, so we'll just do this here So that's just going to update the system And because it's a it's Debian testing You're going to have a lot more updates than what you would on Debian stable Because you're going to it's more of a rolling release It's not complete rule completely rolling they call it semi rolling We'll see how it goes Okay, now granted this was just released yesterday or today So I'm not expecting a ton of updates You're just yeah that didn't take very long at all All right APTUS locale will install missing locale packages for your language I don't see any of these things that I actually need here Yeah, I think I'm just gonna exit that because I don't need any other languages It's weird that this comes up and They should separate the updates in the languages thing So you can choose to do one or both maybe there was and I just missed it Okay, so it's definitely still doing something Okay, so let's first open up console here All right, and we'll see So first we'll do free dash M Kind of make actually make it so you can actually see it. We'll run that again It's running on about five hundred and six megabytes of RAM out of the round six that I gave it Or eight eight that I gave it. Excuse me That's About on par with for kd plasma these days. Let's do a new name dash a so we're running linux kernel 5.10 which is Not the most recent but pretty recent 5.11 just came out in like this january or so So we don't quite got the most recent kernel, but this is much more recent than what you would get on a stable version of debian So let's uh, see if htop is installed By default nope pseudo apt install So we got 67 tasks and 159 threads And still running about 512 megabytes of ram even with htop open so overall Very light on the resources at least at startup. So Let's go ahead and see I hate console All right, but so the Wallpaper is very dark, but Not the ugliest thing I've ever seen So Going through the applications. Let's first check out the internet and check firefox So Sparky linux sets sparky linux as a their own Home page, but it's not online. It's actually a file on your computer, which is interesting So let's see Uh, let's see here. You never remember where the about thing for fire for Yeah, there we go. So we got eight version 86 which is the most recent version of firefox, which is good Other versions of debian always use the long-term support or the Stable support release of firefox esr extended support release. I think I don't know So this one you'll actually get the long the most recent version this just looks like is just basically using the Standard breeze theme. This is no there's no custom theme here. No, that's not That surprising given that this is the first version of sparky that has kte.  Maybe There's nothing wrong with using just the regular stock kte stuff All right going to so we got icon browser for development. That's literally all there is here There's not even the cute normal cute stuff that you'd normally get one view for viewing images Obviously ray offers is going to be here ocular Scan light is going to be for scanning Internet kte connect and firefox. Obviously k get which is I believe for github I might be completely wrong on that um conversation. These are all kte stuff k torrent You can always tell it's kte stuff because obviously it has the k in the front. That's how they spell stuff A little weird. It's always been a little weird quite This is quite rss So they have their own rss reader that is installed by default. That's Interesting never actually seen it before. It's probably like a cute version of an rss feed reader Thunderbird pre-installed for email multimedia Eliza's for I believe this is uh a music player Yep I do remember that k3b is for I believe like cd stuff um Komoso, I don't is Komoso like for cds All right. So Komoso is actually for um like webcams. The reason why I won't show up here is because I'm in a virtual machine okay SparkyTube is going to be like a YouTube client kind of thing vlc is here Voko screen and g. I think that's like a screen recorder app Office the standard library office stuff science and math is gonna be a library office settings. There's normal kte setting stuff so overall Very impressed with the minimalism and stuff on this because you there's not a ton of extraneous stuff that they've installed. So really all they've installed is a Media player Eliza and I believe Eliza's actually going to be the default kte player from now on I might be wrong about that The sparky tube thing is something that they've installed in the rss reader that we saw earlier Other than that everything else is kte kind of specific. That's very nice Now it was like a 1.5 or 1.6 gigabyte iso But you gotta remember kte has a ton of dependencies. So that's the reason why the isos of all plasma distros are always going to be a little bit higher Just because they have to deal with all those dependencies and stuff You know something that I didn't see here. Where's discover? Discover is not installed by default. I don't see it. Let's look Wow, that's that's fascinating. Okay, so they have synaptic here as the package manager, but No discover that is an interesting choice now. I've never been a big fan of discover. I think it's Bloated I mean, I hate to use the word bloat for discover for anything But it's not great. I mean, it's definitely better than it now than it was even a year ago But it's still not of the application centers discovers by far the worst And I mean, I hate to say that because I love the kte guys, but discover is not good It just needs a complete revamp. It's interesting here that they've chosen to Use synaptic instead of having at least having discover available especially because Synaptic's not the most new user friendly way of installing software It's actually kind of confusing I've at least I've always thought it was kind of confusing. It's just kind of it's not I don't know I Also didn't see Okay, so this is I think this is gonna be for like What the hell is what is this? these like, um app images APT us AP I don't I'm just curious. I mean Okay, so that's not the way you install a So this is what they're using in place of discover I've never heard of this before. It's really I mean, it's not I mean It's a little weird Let's see what this says Sparky APT us app center lets you perform many jobs on packages in graphical modes such as popular applications Installations packages upgrades packages remove and much much more The application the application uses yad and html technology to work Yeah, it has been compiled with that that html. I got this stuff. I don't really need to know But it's not actually saying where it's installing this stuff from and I'm interested because Given the name of it.  What the hell's wrong with you? This instead of discover. I mean It's a little weird that this is this instead of discover But It's kind of cool. I guess because I mean it's something that belongs to them Because what I was going to say before is that I didn't see a way that you could choose different repos Because that's one of the things that I never get really get into on my debbing reviews Is that you can choose different repos to be like subscribed to and that will give you different Packages that are available to you so debbie intestines going to be attached to the more Rolling type repositories That allow you to get the more recent versions of software and sell packages from repositories edit custom repositories Okay, this is what I was looking for earlier That I said I didn't see so I think you can Add different repositories Edit custom repositories. Yeah, okay, there we go You can download the list the repository list list and it will actually see it from there Not the most user-friendly ever, but at least it's there Okay, and you can use you can remove you can clear the cache and stuff from this as well I'll admit that this is not the most well-designed thing in the history of the world. I mean The whole you know some of these things aren't even in line with each other but It's possible. This is like the first version of this that they've used. Maybe this is just what they used for KDE I'm not sure but It's actually I mean it's not It's not the worst thing I've ever seen In terms of applications selection I mean, let's look at um, actually, let's go back here to graphics is like a graph multimedia. Maybe No graphics is right here graphics editors So you got blender and dark table and inkscape image magic gem Which is already installed now. Let's see. We know wait a minute. Gimp was not installed. That was something different Fairly large selection, which is fairly impressive. I mean, there's a lot of stuff in the stock Debian repos. So it's not surprising that so like we have grand gun view. Let's see if it see it shows that it's installed Yep, it shows that it's installed. So it's so it's a it's a very oh it's an aware Package manager so it knows that what you have installed, which is good. Uh, I don't know That is the cleanest thing ever because you go to the an app page and you get all this The list of all the dependencies and stuff Usually, I mean, they should maybe collapse that or something so it's not right in your face. I don't know That's very It's an interesting package manager I'm kind. I mean, it's weird that it reloads Every time you switch between pages Isn't that weird That is a little weird. I mean, it's fast. I'm not sure if that's supposed to be like an animation or if it's just it's if it's actually Closing between pages and reopening Okay, well that is just well totally blown out there. Sorry about the camera there And it's gonna get cooler and it's gonna get cooler At least a little bit I think it's because I moved my microphone The the focus on this camera is just horrendous. I had to turn the light off. Okay, so that was just a very brief look At sparky lineage with kde first impressions If you like minimal kde where you can just go through and install the things you want to install And you don't have to put up with other people's Decisions on what comes with the distribution This was really good. I mean Obviously, I haven't used it for very long, but in terms of just a stock kde experience on a Rolling type release that's not arch This was very good. I was very impressed with the startup times I was very impressed with the startup with the software selections that they have even if the software store was a little weird Uh, I mean, it's not something that I've ever seen before. It's it's Interesting that they've chose to do do something custom when discovered does exist Now I didn't go through and test and see like I'm assuming like snap and flat packs are I wonder You want to let's go find out. I'm just curious I want to see if Either snaps or flat packs are installed. So let's do um console and do We'll zoom in here so snap Install mail spring Nope snaps not installed. So flat pack Flat pack is not installed either Okay, so they've chosen to instead of Almost every distribution has gone through and chosen aside in the wars between snap and flat pack if you can call it a war Um, they've appeared not to choose either side Which is an interesting choice so that that means the only way you Can install applications on sparky apparently without installing one of these. I mean you could install them obviously Uh, the only way you'd be able to do install software would be through apt or their package, you know Their GUI application, you know manager this apt center apt center get it uh, I actually finally did eventually get it. They should just call the apt center Seriously somebody has to have trademarked that Anyways, so like I said it was a good little distribution if you're if you're looking towards debian for a Distro and you don't want to use stable, but want something that's you know, not You know not stable you can tell it's really late at night. Anyways, this would be a good choice I think now obviously I've only scratched the surface. I'm sure that in the comments below somebody's going to say Well sparky has this amazing feature that you didn't even cover This was just a for my first experience with sparky. So Uh feel if you've used sparky before feel free in the comments below to tell me What's great about it that I missed out on because I'm changed or I'll come back to it eventually and The more I know the better these reviews, you know become so if You feel the need you can follow us on twitter at twitter.com slash linux cast I really do got to come up with a better transition between Ending the video and getting into the social. I'll work on it. I'll be more professional or something. 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