Recently the Burpit were invited to join VKB's official partner program and as part of that the company sends out hardware for review. Just so we're clear their partner program contains no monetary element whatsoever this means we're free and indeed encouraged by VKB to be completely impartial. For this review we're taking a look at the VKB Gladiator NXT EVO with the right hand version of the premium space combat grip. VKB are a premium level joystick and flight game hardware manufacturer, their Gladiator NXT range of joysticks fall into their entry level premium gear catalog which makes it a much more affordable version of their more pricey counterparts. I want to preface this review by saying plenty of flight and space simmers on the internet will give you a blow by blow very technical breakdown of why they feel this or that stick is better for this or that game. I'm not that guy. As such we want to approach our reviews from the perspective of a more general user. Does the product work as advertised? Is it reliable? Is it overall a good product? And is it worth the money? I've been a flight sim and space sim enthusiast for over 40 years now and during that time I've used just about every flavour of joystick and hotas that is available. The primary motivations for me when making hardware choices these days are functionality followed by sturdiness of construction and reliability but also cost. So what exactly is the VKB Gladiator NXT Evo? As this is their entry level joystick it features some different design choices and construction materials to the top tier equipment but it also shares a lot of the unique design and construction choices that made VKB so appealing to us here at the pit in the first place when we first purchased our own kit a few years ago. When you purchase a stick from VKB you choose a base unit and also a grip. The bit that unsurprisingly sits in your hand that you grip. Different grips are better suited and designed for different theatres of operation depending on what you're predominantly using them for. VKB's current lineup of grips features a World War II grip, the modern jet fighter themed F-14 edition and the space combat grip which is what they've sent to us for I hope fairly obvious reasons. When your stick and base choice is delivered by VKB it comes very well presented and smartly packaged as two distinct pieces the base and the grip and the two must be assembled by the customer before they can be used. This can initially seem quite daunting if you're used to buying regular boxed off the shelf joysticks but VKB actually supplies all the tools you need to assemble your stick it takes just a couple of minutes to put it all together and it's actually this user serviceability aspect to VKB's rather unique model that is actually for us key to their appeal and as I mentioned the ethos also extends to the gladiator series of sticks. Unlike the higher tier VKB kit the gladiator is of an almost entirely plastic construction inside and out however the plastic used is incredibly tough and resilient VKB tell me it's glass fiber reinforced PA if you know your plastics and that means anything to you then I hope that information is useful I don't know anything about plastics whatsoever but I will say that the base in particular feels like I could drive a car over it and it honestly wouldn't notice although obviously it's on you if you decide to test VKB have also advised that whilst the stick base etc are made of the aforementioned plastic the plastic gimbal inside sits on metal ball bearings and they consider it so tough that the wear and tear over time should be largely negligible for the purposes of this review I've been using the stick for the past six weeks so I can't speak to the truly long-term wear and tear but I can tell you that it feels extremely solid significantly more solid than any stick from any other manufacturer that I've used before when it comes to smoothness of operation for me the stick feels easily as smooth as the higher tier VKB equipment that both Rini and I already own but actually in many ways it's a good degree more subtle in its operation the base unit comes with different springs that can be easily changed out by the consumer to give the stick firmer operation if desired and again VKB provide the tools necessary to change the springs there are also adjustment screws on the gimbal inside the base unit that can be easily tightened or loosened to provide resistance against the springs increasing the time to reach the zero position overall the feel of the stick in everyday use is very user configurable you can even choose to run it without the centering springs useful if for example you'd like to make the stick operate as a realistic helicopter cyclic control buttons wise the base has three programmable function buttons a mini throttle a two-way switch and a wheel when it comes to the grip it's fairly well covered in buttons and hats there's a total of six individual buttons or triggers and different mini stick style hats each of the hats also has a push-in function that essentially adds another button as well as the eight directional pushes that they have that's all except the top left thumbstick pushing the stick in on that particular thumbstick switches it between analog and digital modes indicated by a small red led next to the stick I use an identical space combat premium grip on my personal vkb stick as does rene and the operation of those sticks is absolutely identical in every regard and this operation extends to the more unique functions of the grip the main trigger for example has two stage functionality that triggers when initially pressed and then triggers a further function if squeezed tighter there's also a secondary trigger above the main trigger that fires if pressed as you'd expect but if you place your trigger finger underneath it and push it away it triggers yet another function all very handy particularly in a game like elite dangerous that is a wash with potential keybinds I mentioned that this base and grip combination features vkb's signature user service ability earlier in this review which is an important tenet of vkb so I do want to touch on that really quickly vkb kit the gladiator included features a highly componentised design ethos if you've never opened up a joystick from another manufacturer then allow me to offer you some hard fought enlightenment they are invariably a complicated tangle of wires and springs all glued into place and are very much not designed to be operated on by the user typically if a component or feature of one of those sticks fails and if you don't have a covering manufacturer's warranty for whatever reason then you're looking at buying a brand new stick the design ethos from vkb means that their sticks and grips feature a number of singular components that are held in place by screws and then connected as necessary by wired plugs the end result of this is that if any one component fails you simply open up the stick unplug and remove the faulty component get another one from vkb replace it yourself and move on with your life contrary to any other stick I've ever opened up the interiors of vkb kit are clean accessible glue free and importantly user serviceable I could speak from personal experience here as well earlier versions of the space combat grip featured thumbsticks that were fully plastic vkb identified this as a weak point and changed the design to be now fully metal but not before a few of the thumbsticks snapped off with extended use this happened to both mine and rene sticks after about three years of use after contacting vkb they quickly supplied replacement thumbsticks free of charge we opened up the grips dismantled them replaced the faulty units with shiny new metal ones and put them back together again vkb maintains an online library of videos and guides on youtube that can take you through step by step just about any adjustment or maintenance work that you may do on your chosen stick the gladiator included which is hugely valuable it's worth noting here also that although I didn't attempt it for this review vkb does sell what they call an omni throttle kit for the gladiator this angled armature can be fitted between the base and the grip and with the use of an appropriate left or right handed grip whatever works best for you can turn the unit into either a six degrees of freedom thruster unit perfect for fa off manoeuvring or with some small internal adjustments to lock off the appropriate axis a more traditional forward and reverse style throttle unit you can obviously purpose purchase a gladiator for this feature or this extra functionality can give the stick a second life as a throttle if you ever decide to upgrade from it further extending its value for money I did have a couple of minor gripes with the gladiator base I found that my hand very occasionally activated the function buttons on the base on occasions where I wasn't fully holding the stick and resting my hand this isn't a problem if you're holding the stick correctly but honestly I personally sometimes fly lazy I also found that the base unit wasn't as wide as the vkb gunfighter that I'm used to and during more violent maneuvers it sometimes tended to tip left or right off of the desk both of these are likely a symptom of my muscle memory from years of using a vkb gunfighter which features a very different base design but exactly the same grip and the gladiator does include screw points on the base's corners to allow its attachment to a desk mount or indeed a desk if you so desire it also has a very sticky pads under the base which prevent any sliding around in normal operation I found the extra functionality of the switches and wheels etc on the base that are missing from the much more expensive gunfighter unit I'm used to a real bonus and when I go back to my gunfighter I do think I'll miss them to a degree I have to say overall I was extremely impressed with the gladiator to use I found it extremely smooth robust and very precise its construction and serviceability leaves you with the confidence that you'll be able to rely on it for many a long year and if something does fail unlike other joysticks you'll be in a position to do something about it I'm a huge fan of the space combat grip from vkb already and the extra buttons provided by adding the gladiator base to it are a very useful bonus I would have no hesitation recommending it as a my go to entry level premium flight controller as at the time of recording the vkb web store lists the gladiator nxt evo space combat premium edition at 213 euros that's around 185 pound sterling if you're buying from the us store it's currently priced at 165 us dollars if you are planning on picking up a gladiator or any of vkb's gear be sure to use the discount code burp it at the checkout to bag yourself a 5% discount off your purchase you'll find that and a link to all vkb's international outlets linked below I hope you found this review useful if you have any thoughts or questions do let us know in the comments section below this video that's it for now thanks very much for watching if you enjoyed this video consider subscribing to the channel and maybe take a look at one of our other videos linked on screen right now


Live from Austin, Texas, it's theCUBE, covering KubeCon and Cloud DatavCon 2017. Brought to you by Red Hat, the Linux Foundation, and theCUBE's ecosystem partners. Okay, welcome back everyone, live here in Austin, Texas, theCUBE's exclusive coverage of KubeCon and Cloud DatavCon, it's third year, not even third year, I think it's second year, not even three years old as a community, growing like crazy, over 4,500 people here, combined of all the other shows, it's double than it was before, I'm John Furrier, co-founder of Silicon Angle with Stu Miniman, analyst here, next guest, Gabe Munroy, who's lead PM, product manager for containers from Microsoft Azure, Gabe, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks, glad to be here, big fan of the show. Great to have you on, I mean, obviously container madness, we've got past that, now it's Kubernetes madness, which really means that the evolution of the industry is really starting to get some clear lines of sight, it's a straight and narrow, if you will, people are starting to see a path towards scale, developer acceleration, more developers coming in than ever before, there's cloud native world, Microsoft's doing pretty well with the cloud right now, numbers are great, hiring a bunch of people, give us a quick update, big news, what's going on? Yeah, so a lot of things going on, I'm just excited to be here, I think, for me, I'm new to Microsoft, right? I came here about seven months ago by way of a dais acquisition, and I like to think of myself as kind of representing part of this new Microsoft trend, right? My career was built on open source, right? I started a company called Dais, and we were focused on really Kubernetes-based solutions, and here at Microsoft, I'm really doing a lot of the same thing, but with Microsoft's cloud as sort of the vehicle that we're trying to attract developers to. What news do you guys have here of some services? Yeah, so we got a bunch of things we're talking about, so the first is something I'm especially excited about, so this is the virtual kubelet. Now, I'll tell a little bit of story here, because I think it's actually kind of fascinating, so back in July, we launched a thing called Azure Container Instances, and what ACI was, first-of-its-kind service, containers in the cloud, right? Just run a container, runs in the cloud, it's micro-built, and it is invisible infrastructure, so part of the definition of serverless there. As part of that, we want to make it clear that if you were going to do complex things with these containers, you really need an orchestrator, so we released this thing called the ACI connector for Kubernetes along with it, and we were excited to see people just were so drawn into this idea of serverless Kubernetes, right? Kubernetes didn't have the VMs associated with it, and folks at hyper.sh who have a similar serverless container offering, they took our code base and forked it and did a version of theirs, and Brent and I were thinking together and we were like, oh man, there's something here, we should explore this, and so we got some engineers together, we put a lot of work together, and we announced now this in conjunction with Hyper and others, this virtual kubelet that bridges the world of Kubernetes with the world of these new serverless container runtimes like ACI. Okay, can you explain that a little bit? Sure. People have been coming in saying, wait, does serverless replace? How does it work? Is Kubernetes underneath though? Yeah, so I think the best place to start is the definition of serverless, and I think serverless is really the conflation of three things. It's invisible infrastructure, it is micro billing, and it is an event-based programming model. It's sort of the classical definition, right? Now what we did with ACI and serverless containers is we took that last one, the event-based programming model, and we said, look, you don't need to do that. If you want to write a container, anything that runs in a container can work, not just functions, and so that is I think a really important distinction that I believe it's really the best of serverless, is that micro billing and invisible infrastructure. Well, that's built in, isn't it? Correct, yeah. What are the biggest challenges of serverless? Because first of all, it's nirvana in the mind of a developer who doesn't want to deal with plumbing. Yes. Meaning networking plumbing, storage, and a lot of the details around configuring, just program away, be creative, spend their time building. Yes. What is the big differences between that? What are the issues and challenges that serverless has for people adopting it, or is it frictionless at this point? Well, it depends on what you're talking about, right? So I think for functions, it's very simple to get a function service, add your functions and deploy functions and start chaining those together. And people are seeing rapid adoption and that's progressing nicely. But there's also a contingent of folks who represented here at the show who are really interested in containers as the primitive and not functions, right? Containers are inclusive of lots of things, functions being one of them. And betting on containers as like the compute artifact is actually a lot more flexible and solves a lot more use cases. So you're making sure that we can streamline ease of use for that, while also bringing the benefits of serverless, really the way I think of this is marrying our, AKS, our managed Kubernetes service, with ACI, our serverless containers. So you can get to a place where you can have a Kubernetes environment that has no VMs associated with it. Like literally zero VMs, you scale the thing down to zero and when you want to run a pod or container, you just pay for a few seconds of time and then you kill it and you stop paying for it, right? All right, so talk about customers. What's the customer experience that you guys are going after? Did you have any beta customers? Who's adopting your approach? Can you highlight some examples of some really cool and you know the name names or you can't? Anecdotal date will be good. Yeah, well, I think on the blog post, announcement blog post page, we have a really great video of Siemens Healthineers, I believe is the name, but basically a healthcare company that is using Kubernetes on Azure, AKS specifically, to disrupt the healthcare market and to benefit real people. And to me, I think it's important that we remember that we're deep in this technology, right? But at the end of the day, this is about helping developers who are in turn helping real world people. I think that video is a good example. And what was their impact, speed? Speed of development? Yeah, I mean, I think it's really, the main thing is agility, right? People want to move faster, right? And so that's the main benefit that we hear. I think cost is obviously a concern for folks, but I think in practice, the people cost of operating some of these systems tends to be a lot higher than the infrastructure costs, right, when you stack them up. So people are willing to pay a little bit of a premium to make it easier on people. And we see that over and over again. Okay, why don't you speak to kind of the speed of a company its size of Microsoft? So the day of acquisition, of course, was already focused on Kubernetes before inside of Microsoft. See, I mean, big cloud companies moving really fast on Kubernetes. I've heard complaints from customers, like I can't get a good roadmap because it's moving so fast. You know, I would say that was one of the big surprises for me joining Microsoft is just how fast things move inside of Azure in particular, right? And I think it's terrific. You know, I think that there's a really good focus of making sure that we're meeting customers where they are and building solutions that meet the market, but also just executing and delivering and doing that with speed. You know, one of the things that is most interesting to me is like the geographic spread.  We take all that stuff really seriously and being able to do all those things, be the enterprise-friendly cloud while also moving at this breakneck pace in terms of innovation, it's really spectacular to watch from the inside. A lot of people don't know that when they think about Azure, they think, oh, they're copying Amazon, but Microsoft has tons of data centers. They've had browsers, they're all over the world, so it's not like they're foreign to region areas. I mean, they're everywhere. Microsoft is everywhere, and not only is it not foreign, I mean, you've got to remember, Microsoft is an enterprise software company at its core, right, we know developers, that is what we do. And going into cloud in this way is just, it's extremely natural for us. And, you know, I think that the same can't really be said for everyone who's trying to move into cloud. I mean, we've got history of working with developers, building platforms, you know, we've entire, you know, division devoted to developer tooling, right? I want to ask about two things that came up that comes up a lot. One is very trendy. One is kind of not so trendy, but super important. One is AI. Yes. The AI with software going to impact and strep storage and with virtual cube leds, this is going to be, change the storage game, it's going to enhance the machine learning and AI capability. And the other one is data warehousing or data analytics. Two very important trends. One is certainly a driver for growth and has a lot of sex appeal as the AI and machine learning. But all the analytics being done on cloud, whether it's an IoT device, this is like a nice use case for containers and orchestration. Your comment and reaction for those two trends. Yeah, and you know, I think that AI and deep learning generally is something that we see driving a ton of demand for container orchestration. I've worked with lots of customers, including folks like OpenAI on their Kubernetes infrastructure. You know, running on Azure today, something that Elon Musk actually proudly mentioned. That was a good moment for the Azure containers. Get a free Tesla on that. Broke some Chessos and get that new one that goes from zero to 104.5 seconds. Right, yeah. So you got a good customer in OpenAI. What was the impact of them? What was the big? Well, you know, this is ultimately about empowering people. In this case, they happen to be data scientists. You know, to get their job done and in a way where, I mean, I look at it as, you know, we're doing our jobs in the infrastructure space if the infrastructure disappears, right? Like the more conceptual overhead we're bringing to developers, you know, that means we're not doing our job. All right, so question then specifically is, deep learning in AI is enhanced by containers and Kubernetes? Absolutely. In what order of magnitude? I don't know, but in order of magnitude enhancement, I would argue, right? So just underlying that, you know, the really important piece is we're talking about data here. Yes.  And that's carried over to Kubernetes. How's Microsoft involved?  Yeah, that's a fascinating question. And I actually, so back in the early days when I was still contributing to Docker, I was one of the largest external contributors to the Docker project in the earlier in my career, I actually wrote some of the storage stuff. And so I've been going around since Docker's inception in 2013 saying, don't run databases in containers. It's not because you can't, right? You can. But just because you can doesn't mean you should, right?  And so this leads you to another one of our announcements at the show, which is the open service broker for Azure. Now, what we've done, you know, thanks to the Cloud Foundry Foundation who basically took the service broker concept and spun it out. We now are able to take the world of Kubernetes and bridge it to the world of Azure services, data services being some of the most interesting. Now the demo that I like to show this is WordPress, which by the way, it sounds silly, but WordPress powers tons of the web today still. WordPress is a PHP application and a MySQL database. Well, if you're going to run WordPress at scale, you're going to want to run that MySQL in a container? Probably not. You're probably going to want to use something like Azure Database for MySQL, which comes with an SLA, Backup Restore DR, Ops Team by Microsoft to manage the whole thing, right? So, but then the question is, well, I want to use Kubernetes, right? So how do I do that, right? Well, with the open service broker for Azure, we actually shipped a Helm chart. We can Helm install Azure WordPress and it will install in Kubernetes the same way you would a container-based system and behind the scenes it uses the broker to go spin up a Postgres, sorry, a MySQL and dynamically attach it. Now, the coolest thing to me about this, yeah, is the agility. I think that one of the underrated features is the security. The developer who does that doesn't ever touch credentials. The passwords are automatically generated and automatically injected into the application. So you get to do things with rotations without ever touching the app. So we're publishing WordPress. We'd love to help us with scale if we did Azure. Absolutely, after this is over, we'll go set it up. I mean, I love WordPress, but it breaks down. Well, this is the whole point where auto-scaling shows a little bit of its capabilities in the world, is that PHP does, we'd like to have more instances. That would be a use case. Okay, Redshift in Amazon, wasn't talked about much at re-invent last week. We don't hear a lot of talk around the data warehouse, which is a super important way to think about collecting data in cloud. And is that going to be an enhanced feature? Because people want to do analytics. There's a huge analytics audience out there that are moving off of Teradata, they're doing, you just have a lot of analytics at Microsoft, they might have moved from Hadoop or Hive or somewhere else. So there's a lot of analytics workloads that would be prime, or at least potentially prime, for Kubernetes. Yeah, you know, I think that it's on the radar. No, no, I think it's interesting. I mean, for us, we look at, I personally think, using something like the Service Broker, Open Service Broker API to bridge to something like a data lake or some of these other Azure hosted services, is probably the better way of doing that. Because if you're going to run it on containers, these massive data warehouses, yes, you can do it, but the operational burden is high, it's extremely high. You were pointing at the database earlier. Yeah, it's the same general point there. Now, can you do it? Do we see people doing it? Absolutely, right? They do think something they shouldn't be doing. That's IT. Yeah, of course, and then back to the deep learning example, those are typically big, large training models that have similar characteristics. All right, as a newbie inside Azure, not new to the industry and community, share some color, what's it like in there? Obviously, a number two to Amazon, you guys have great geography presence. You're adding more and more services every day at Azure. What's the vibe? What's the mojo like over there? Share some inside baseball. Yeah, I got to say it's a really, I don't know what I'm just saying, it's a really exciting place to work. Things are moving so fast. We're growing so fast. Customers really want what we're building. And honestly, day to day, I'm not spending a lot of time looking out. Spending a lot of time dealing with enterprises who want to use our cloud products. And what are the top things that you have on your PM list that are top stack ranked features people want? I think a lot of this comes down, in general, I think this whole space is approaching a level of enterprise friendliness and enterprise hardening, where we want to start adding governance and adding security and adding role-based access controls across the board and really making this palatable to a high trust environment. So I think that's a lot of our focus. Stability ease of use. Stability ease of use are always there. I think the enterprise hardening and things like VNet support for all of our services, VNet service endpoints, those are some things that are high on the list. Gabe Monroy, lead product manager for containers at Microsoft Azure Cloud. Great to have you on. I'd love to talk more about geographies and moving apps around the network and multi-cloud. But another time, thanks for coming on. It's theCUBE live coverage. I'm John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE and I'm meeting with Stu Miniman, looking back on more live coverage after this short break.


Good day, fellow investors. This video is called Been There, Done That and we talk a lot about economic environments, macroeconomy, potential hyperinflation, political turmoil, stock markets that never recover like the Japanese market or so and I really want to discuss here where I come from. I had the luxury to be born in the former Republic of Yugoslavia, a communist country, so I come from the eastern block and when you say inflation, war, stock market never recovering, Been There, Done That. I have seen it all from my perspective, from where I come from. I've lived through everything and I just want to show you in this video that I'm sure 90% of my viewers never seen such things because either they are very young or they don't even imagine that can happen because they are biased by the current stable market environment, stable interest rates, stable inflation, stable long-term economic growth. Even if we had the crisis in 2009, many of you were still in high school but even that was just a blip, okay, 2009 crash, huge intervention and everything was stable. Things can get unstable and where I come from Yugoslavia, small country, an isolated ecosystem where all these things happening now in the global world might develop much faster and that's why I see what happens when you do certain things. I want to show you what happened there because it can apply to the global world in the long-term cycle. It just on small countries it happens much, much faster. Let's see. This is something very nice. Yugoslavia's 1970s deficit and debt. So the total external debt spiked, the cumulative trade deficit spiked. Let's see the US total debt spiking. Do you see that? And total cumulative trade deficit also spiking. Where did this lead back in Yugoslavia? Well over the next 10 years from 1970s that continued and then at a certain point in time when inflation went out of control you had inflation, yearly inflation of 1,252%. I remember I was a kid and we were given a pen so that we can write over the four zeros and make the nodes of a smaller nomination but that's crazy. But I've been there. I know how that works and how that ended. Then as Delio says, and I hope it doesn't happen, this is Dubrovnik not from a medieval artistic picture but this is from 25, 27 years ago as we had a war unfortunately. I hope I never see a war again. We never see a war but I've been there, done that. So I know how it looks like and it's not nice. However afterwards the situation got better and then we have a real stock market boom everybody was exuberant price earnings ratio went to the sky and then 2009 small economy Croatia in this case and everything crashed and it didn't recover forever. Now the stock market is even lower than it was in 2005-2012 so really really bad performance because of valuations because of the quality of the businesses over the long term. Similarly to what happened in the 1930s it took 30 years for the stocks to recover from back then. So just a quick video to share with you the message that anything can happen. You can just kick the can down the road but when these economic forces get into the game from debt, trade deficit, low production, long-term cycle, increasing debt, debt, doing everything with debt instead of productivity, sometimes down the road it has to explode. You can kick the can down the road using the military power you have, using the currency power you have which Europe doesn't have for now for example and then try to enjoy the system for as long as it takes but sometimes somewhere down the road you have to pay your dues. Smaller countries pay them extremely quickly and there we have this huge boom and bust cycles, huge inflation rates and that's what I've been through that is what I've seen through my eyes but I want to also to give you the positive picture. Life in the 1980s in back in Yugoslavia was much worse than what it is now in Croatia. People live better, technology improved, they have all internet, they all have mobile phones, they all enjoy their coffees at their cafe in the sun. So things are from a perspective GDP perspective not that much better but life goes on no matter what even if inflation life goes on people still use products so you can still be invested in businesses that have pricing power etc etc so the key is okay well if that happens how am I prepared and as always if whatever happens if you are prepared then you can take advantage of it. If you're not prepared the situation will take advantage of you and that's the key when it comes to whatever investing life job business whatever and my message for the channel and for this is be prepared because anything can happen and you you can predict them because those things happened when we had exactly the same conditions we have now and that's what Dalio keeps mentioning with the long term cycle with the short term cycle it might happen tomorrow it might happen in 2035 but it will probably happen over the life cycle of most of us and that's something we have to always keep in mind okay we can have hyperinflation we can have this we can have that we can have stocks not recovering what will I do in that situation and when you think like that then you are divided diversified across different asset classes uncorrelated asset classes and then you rebalance between them depending on what is cheap at the moment and then you do extremely well over the long term you accumulate wealth you accumulate value and when you accumulate value nothing can stop you because value is value forever if it's really real value not even inflation not even wars in the worst case scenario so that's the message for today looking forward to your comments to your comments share your stories if you have similar stories or share if you have never seen such things as stock market crashes of 80 percent that I show shown you I remember watching the screens fortunately I had no stocks in 2008 but it was minus 10 minus 10 everything read back then hyperinflation I'll bring the notes one day when I get back to Croatia I have a pile of money like this that didn't even buy you a loaf of bread so thank you for watching I'll see you in the next video


How do you see the broader mass adoption of the Lightning network in the future? The broader mass adoption of the Lightning network will happen through the primary user interface and the primary user interfaces wallets. This is exactly the same issue we have with every other blockchain. A blockchain is only as good, is only as capable, and its features advance only as fast as its most popular wallets do. A feature that you wrote in the protocol that isn't in the wallet is a feature that doesn't exist as far as the users are concerned. A feature that you wrote that isn't a wallet but is too difficult to use is a feature that doesn't exist as far as users are concerned. So the front line of development of any blockchain or layer 2 network is the development of the wallet technology itself. The more sophisticated the wallets are, the better the user interfaces are, the more they are able to abstract the difficult parts and complex parts of this technology and make it appear simple to users, the more successful they will be. If you followed previous technology development over open protocols, you will see the same trends everywhere. The very early web browsers were a mess and they had a lot of the difficulties of the underlying protocol being reflected in the user's face and made it very, very difficult to use web browsers for certain types of applications. Imagine when you're waiting for the latency of a reload of an entire page over TCP in order to move your map one inch to the right when you're mapping. That's how maps worked in the beginning if you don't remember it. Congratulations, you're younger than I am but I certainly remember it. Web browsers were difficult to use and nowadays it's not that the backend protocols got significantly faster or significantly better, it's just that the browser has buried that complexity. Browsers have become infinitely more complex and sophisticated and they present an infinitely simpler interface to the users by hiding that complexity and also managing the complexity of the underlying protocols to make the user's life easier. That is a very difficult task. It requires a lot of sophistication in user interface, user experience design as well as the management of very large software projects and still in the Bitcoin and Lightning space we're still in the very, very early days but you can already see the trend. The Lightning wallets are getting much better just like the Bitcoin wallets got much better over several iterations and the better and simpler wallet gets to use the easier it is for people to use. Now the other thing is the fact that in the long term I expect the wallets will completely hide the difference between Bitcoin and Lightning. A wallet shouldn't need to tell the user what channels they have, what balance they have in the channels, whether the channels are properly balanced, whether the payment they're making is on-chain or off-chain, whether the wallet is rebalancing channels in the backend or any of that. All of that should be hidden. You say I wanna pay this recipient by scanning a QR code and your wallet figures out if the payment is going to be over Bitcoin, if it's going to be over the Lightning network, if channels need to be created or rebalanced in order to effectuate that payment, how long it's going to take, what fee it's going to take and acts accordingly invisibly in the background and some Lightning wallets are already doing that. So in the future I expect the user experience will effectively be seamless. You scan a QR code, you say pay and your wallet figures out the rest just like a modern web browser does when it comes to the underlying HTTP, TCP and IP protocols. If you enjoyed this video, please subscribe, like and share. All my work is shared for free. So if you wanna support it, join me on Patreon.


All right. Good afternoon everybody. Aisha triggers from the City of Columbia Office of Business opportunities. We're so excited here to be here and welcome Roy to court right and North Main and we're excited about having our grand opening. Small businesses are so important to the city and there's so much history in this building which we'll hear more about. So now I'd like to welcome brother Michael Jacobs for a prayer. That's right. Lord we thank you for this day. We thank you for this gathering. We thank you for this business that you have allowed Roger to open in this area. I pray God that as he work his entrepreneurship in this area that it will be a blessing not only to him but those who are here. I pray that you will put your protective hand around him as he work in this neighborhood and all those who will join him in this business. We thank you now. We give you praise. We give you honor in Jesus name. We pray. Amen. Hey everybody. How y'all doing? First let me say thank you of course to the City of Columbia for this this event and for the ribbon cutting. But when I graduate from high school in 98 and I started hair school I would come past this building literally every day and Dr. Austin he was a dentist out of Orangeburg and he wanted to make this his second location for his dentist office. And every time I stopped he would be on the grass whatever. And I would always ask him can I rent the building to do Harry and he would always say son if you want a building you got to buy it. And this has been going on since 1999 and the building set empty since 1980. So the building never sold and me and April happened to come past it one one week and it was for sale sign in front of the building. So we were just like April called a number. Let's see what's up. We called the number. Got things moving. The city got involved. The OBO office the OBO office got involved. Thank you, Britt. And it just went to I now own the building. And the most beautiful piece of the puzzle is I keep telling people that because of God so many things happen and it just happened to be a full circle moment for me because my mother when we get when I got the building I later realized that this is the office that Dr. Allen used to have and all of the blacks would come here to the doctor's office but they would have to enter the back. They cannot enter the front of this building. They will enter the back and the colored waiting room was on the side where the office is. And I preserved that room. I wanted to make sure that the panel and every state up stayed up in that room. But my mom said that Roy this is the very building that I found out I was pregnant with you in. So I was like okay so maybe this building was really meant for me because this is literally where it all started for me. Literally. So it's just a beautiful a beautiful moment for me for my family for just a community period. Y'all know I'm a Sharon Rock to the day I die. And this is old collab born and raised all day every day. But Councilman Herbert I would love for you to come and join me at the podium. I understand you have something to say. So Roy come over here. So first of all I want to make sure you take a moment to look at all of these people who are out here to support you in all the love. I feel the love and I'm so appreciative for everyone is here but I'm appreciative to you because don't think the city because we ain't really do a whole lot. I mean no you know y'all know I'm pretty honest. But when you miss one thing that he said is building have been empty since when 80 1980 and this is my district and one of the things we want to do is make sure we start using these empty buildings and putting some life in them. And if you were to ask me I really want black people to own the buildings. Okay is that okay for me to say. And so I'm not a shamrock. I'm a raider and there are a few raiders out there. I mean I just gotta say it. I gotta say it. I'm a raider. But for me it's always been critical and one of the reasons why I ran for city council is because this area is changing and I want to make sure that African-American people who've been here all these years have some ownership. So thank you for helping us to reach our goals in this area. Thanks to the staff anything you need. Well I don't even have to tell Roy if he needs something to call because it's if y'all know Roy he don't have a problem calling. He does not have a problem. But anything you need from us.  Thank y'all for making him who he is and anything else you need just let me know. I'm so proud. So again congratulations Roy. Welcome to this building. We know it's going to be very successful for you and we wish you continued success. And it's my understanding you're going to have some office space in here as well as well as some community space for after school. Yes. So that's wonderful. That's a great asset to our community. So at this time we would like for you to you and your family to come and cut the revenge.


All right, dudes, let's do it. Shocking. Shocking. Absolutely. What's the best method? They're like, let's make this. I don't know when you're good. Solidarity? Go.


The senior pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Center, Dr. Paul Enenche, has tasked Nigerian political leaders to live up to their leadership responsibility of good governance by giving dividends of democracy to the citizens in their country. Pastor Enenche, who made the appeal during his two-day Kaduna healing and deliverance crusade at Amadu Belestadium in Kaduna State, not West Africa, said every leader will account for his steward, noting that as religious leaders, they will continue to contribute to their quarter by praying to the nation to overcome its present challenges of economic hardship and insecurity. We see Kaduna as a very, very important and strategic state in this nation by the history of Kaduna and the history of this nation. And so we believe that Kaduna is strategic, and Kaduna has had a lot of diverse challenges and security-wise and otherwise. I would trust that we will contribute our quota in praying, in declaring, and trusting a lot that the great potentials of this land be realized by the help of the music. My message for the people of Kaduna State is in some 34 investors. They said they looked up to him and they were lighted and their faces were nourishing. They were expecting of the challenges that we have had. If our people in Kaduna will look up to God solely and make him their first and foremost, I would trust that we will intervene for Kaduna State. He added that Kaduna State is strategic to the nation while appealing to the residents not to lose hope as the challenges will be things of the past. Everybody should live in such a way that they can be accountable to God at the end of their journey. Whether you are president, you are governor, you are saying anything you are.  So it's very, very important both the government and the populace to live in such a way that will be accountable to God at the end of the journey.


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That was supposed to start off as a joke cough and then it turned into a real cough. Now that Barry Sanders is on the Wheel of Mud team, this is the only thing that I can wear for my videos. This is my Barry Sanders 2D. Hi Barry, I love you! Welcome back, Wheel of Mud Episode 38! I'm like addicted to recording these now because like I'll go two weeks without recording them and then miss it and then I'll record like three straights. So here's the only thing I'm gonna say. If by chance, Ray Lewis Ultimate Legend comes out this weekend, which is in like four days, I will be supremely pissed off because you won't be able to see that Ray Lewis. But I promise after this episode if any of these players get upgrades, they will get upgraded. So Ray Lewis is a possibility, there's also a possibility that they come out with like a really good Bojax and Halfback, but at the same time I'm gonna prestige Barry into his card so I don't even know what we do with that. So I might keep my tie net. Only time we'll tell, all I do know right now is that this team is still a 78 overall. We're clutched up last episode. Okay, Wheel Spin number one of, I don't know how to say that, Wheel Spin number one of episode 38 is gonna give us Easter random scroll. Okay, there's a lot of potential here. We could very well get literally Lawrence Taylor and at the same time we could get literally nothing. So this one will be interesting. So we're literally just gonna go, I'm saying literally too much, losing its effect. Gonna go to Easter scramble and I'm just gonna scroll. One, two, three. Here we go. But I have a feeling it's just gonna be like an 87 right end or something. All right, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna make this fun. I'm gonna stop where I'm at right now.   No, no, no, no. I'm gonna go right. I'm gonna go right one and then I'm done. One, two, three, four. And open the eyes. Let's go. Oh my God, I am a God. I am actually a God. And if I'd gone up, it would have been Eric Fisher, if I'd stayed as Jaycee Jenner, left was literally nothing, it was cap value, and right was 95 Juju Smith, and I needed another wide receiver too. 88, 500 for Band-Aids Man himself, dude. Juju Smith Schuster, welcome to the team. And that, of course, ladies and gentlemen, is only spin one for this wheel episode of nuts.  Our second wheel spin, though, is gonna give us mud draft, mud draft, mud draft. Woo!  I love this one. Okay, so I haven't, I don't think I've even done that in this season of Wheel of Mud, but I have a wheel here, I have a wheel here for mud draft. Now, there's 20 rounds in mud draft. I get to take any player from the round that this wheel spin determines for me. So this will tell me right here, if it's the quarterback round, I'll literally throw myself off a cliff, because I do not need a quarterback. So it's gonna be round number 16, I think. Okay, round number 16. So I just gotta make myself all the way to round 16. Really doesn't matter what I draft in these first ones, so I'm gonna skip through all this. All right, ladies and gents, here we go, we're on round 15, moving into 16. I'm not too keen on this round right here. We haven't gotten any too many crazy rounds in this one, so I'm hoping this will just be like a super crazy one right here. Travis Kelsey. No, I have two tight ends. Rod Woodson, actually, this is actually really, really, really good. For a second I thought, because I already have Mel Blunt, but then I need other corners than just Mel Blunt. So I think I'm gonna get him. I don't want Joe Staley, I don't want to work on, I do want to work on my offensive line. Rod Woodson has a 97 or 98 overall. He came out with Barry Sanders and he is incredibly good too. He's one of the most sparse players in the game. So we're gonna go with Rod Woodson. That's gonna be the player I can add to my team is 91, Rod Woodson. And then hopefully I could prestige him and Barry, oh my God. Wow, that would be unreal. All right, so I gotta go get that, that Rod Woodson right now. Probably not the big hitter one, right? Dude, Rod Woodson and Mel Blunt, oh my God. That's like dream team. Rod Woodson, welcome to the team. So two episodes in a row, we're adding just one player at a time, but that's totally fine. Well, like one for each spin. Some spins give you like multiple players down. So Juju Smith going in for Chester Rogers, that is needed too. I was so sick of looking at him, 95 speed, let's go. Such an upgrade, 12 speed upgrade there.  Boosted up to a 92 too, what can I say? Oh my God, last episode, I completed the challenge wheel. And I didn't spend my 10K yet.   What do you know? Walter Jones just got posted, 87 overall, regular legend Walter Jones. This is where Vic rolls out too, and I run a lot of like run plays to the left side. This is a great pickup for my free 10K. That's why that's actually huge. Like that's so good. All right, awesome. Now we're ready to hop into the game and spin the challenge wheel for this episode, so that I can use another 10K and probably get like a right tackle. I just hate getting blitz out of the edge. We're going to get, again, two episodes in a row, we get 21 plus points. That's kind of sick. Also, if you guys want to give me some suggestions of stuff to add to the challenge wheel and to the wheel of mutt, we can totally, totally do that. I think I'm going to put up a poll on my YouTube pretty soon so you guys can give me some suggestions on stuff you want to see. So I'll do that soon, but let's hop into this game. We got a win to keep those players we got, and we got to get 21 plus points to get 10K to spend. Let's do it. All right, his team is an interesting one. I don't think I've ever seen someone with that as their top three, and our top three is the same as always, but Mel Blunt is a 98 over all now. Somehow. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Let's start out this game strong. Let's see if this is a run play. Come on, do it, do it, do it, do it. Yup, yup, yup. Ray Lewis with the fill. God, these jerseys are so intimidating to these black and yellow Steelers jerseys.  I don't know how bumblebees are. Honestly, no, I almost just said I don't know how bumblebees are scary. Bumblebees are terrifying. Don't at me either. Oh, no, you're kidding.  Whack, that is whack. Let's talk about bumblebees and I get all these yards on me. All right, I think he's going to be doing a whole hell of a lot of running the ball. Yeah, sounds like it. But we get a swallow up right there. That's Christian McCaffrey. Nice work team. I'm going to spread the linebackers out. Don't want him to do that to us all game. And let's see if he's going to throw it. Throw it right here. Come on. I knew he was going to throw it and I was going to pick it up. All right, I don't think he's I don't think he's a good player. I think he got pretty lucky on those run plays right there. So I'm not concerned. Let's see if he goes to an inside run. Nope, he's got a little slant action going here. He might throw underneath. Got to be careful to throw underneath. He gets a block.   That was so, oh, that sucked. I'm not concerned. That sucked, but I'm not concerned.  Whatever, dude. I don't even care. I don't even care at all. We're going to go inside zone it right up the middle. He's expecting. He's probably going to send a full blitz right here. Yeah, full blitz. Give me some blocks. Nice work, gentlemen. Nice. I love it. And the cheeky. We got to do it, dude. You got to cheese him every time and he's blitzing off that edge. That's it. If they blitz off that edge, you automatically get it. Yep, blitz off that edge. And I will take my two points. See you later, buddy. It's too easy. All right, I'm just going to not. I'm going to not play action. I'm just going to run it. Yeah. Well, OK, his users on it now.   I'm so good. I'm really so good. I don't I didn't really say that how I wanted to say it, but I was going to fake step up and then play make. This is what I did. Look, you can all like congratulate me later. But for now, I got a score. OK, so let's be patient.  Oh, Barry. You're so good. Barry. Oh, do I hit Gronk with the fade? Or do I just take this in with Vic? I'll just take it in with Vic. Oh, just kidding, Gronk, because I want to Gronk. He didn't get that touchdown. Oh my God, Gronk, how's he doing?  So don't score that. So I can score the next. And that's exactly what happened. And there's our touchdown. Now we really got to hit him with this. Oh, wait, shoot. If I don't get this and he quits, I won't have completed my challenge. So I really have to get this. Playmaker, playmaker. I'm a God. Oh, wait, shoot. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, simmer down there, fella. He just made a, he came out of nowhere.  Oh my God, I'm so good. Ray Lewis, Ray Lewis with the shimmy.  Oh my God, if he hadn't, if he had not stumbled right there, no, he's going to quit. And I can't complete my challenge. This is what happens when you're greedy like me. Oh my God, he quit. So I do get a rage quit spin, but if I had just kicked my PAT, I would have scored 21 plus points and I would have 10 K to spin. Either way though, I do get another spin on the wheel and that's like almost more important. In fact, that's not almost more important. That is more important. So, so I'm going to spin this wheel.  Nice little reflection there. I hope you guys like to see that.  That's kind of cool. We're going to get a mutt head pack. We get to pick one of the players in the mutt head pack. So usually I've been doing insanity packs, right? Which were the super crazy juice packs, but I had to pick which slot I wanted to get the player in before I opened it.  You can still get really good stuff in it. It's kind of comparable with like a premium pack, I guess. You can get any player in the game in it, but it's nowhere near as good as an insanity pack. So let me show you an example of a mutt head pack and I can choose any player from this pack to add to the team. So, this is what, oh my God, and this one is already so good. I'm pissed. They're usually not this good. I should have used this one as mine. So I could have picked any one player from this. I probably would have taken Bruce Matthews. Wow, that was a good pack. Okay, so this next pack is going to be the real one. My mutt head pack. I get any one player that I choose from this pack. So, I don't have to predetermine. We're off to a rough start. You can kind of see in the corners who they are, what they are already. So if I click reveal all, it'll open everything, but they're really good stuff. Okay. So worst comes the worst, we get terrible. I guess that's not terrible. Right here is a knight, it's, let's go. Oh my God. Oh my God, guys, who do not pull stuff like this in mutt head packs, like very up and all.  You're not going to pull an ultimate legend just like that. And my other one is a fullback, bro. I can add 97 Eric Allen to the team.  He's got crazy everything. He's an ultimate legend. He should have crazy everything. Eric Allen, Rod Woodson, Mel Blunt. If I prestige Eric Allen and Rod Woodson, I would literally never have to worry about anyone throwing the ball on me. Unless like they, unless they know because I've Ken Houston and Bo Jackson.  All right guys, the team is an 82 overall, but like it feels a lot better than 82 overall. Like Juju, Mike Vic, Otrosynco, Bo Jackson and that secondary bro. That's it for this episode. This was a killer episode. We got so lucky with that stuff there at the end.  But anyway, that's it for now. Thank you for watching as always. I'm gonna stay, I'm gonna stay. Peace out.


Richard Byrd, welcome to WPC-TV. You're the former U.S. ambassador to Germany and now, of course, the managing director of McLarty Associates in Washington, D.C. Now, that's good to talk to you. What is the... I'd like your view really on the Trump presidency. Well, that's a big subject. Now that you're not in politics anymore, you can speak frankly. Well, it is, first of all, obviously unique. He has developed his own personal style. It doesn't resonate with the establishment. He's not a conventional politician, but he's somehow been able to establish a bond with a group of people who are angry, who feels like Washington has ignored them, and he's established with his famous tweets an ability to communicate over the heads of the media. That's what he calls the fake news. The real question is, how much damage will he do to America's position in the world with this very unconventional focus on a very unilateralist and some would say even selfish promotion of American interests? Are you thinking in terms of the JCPOA, for example, the Iran nuclear deal?  He hasn't torn up the deal. Are you handing it to Congress? He's told... he wants the Congress to handle it. So in that way, he sort of dodged a very controversial issue. But no, I'm talking more a little bit about his approach to trade deals where he's pulled out of the TPP, the Big Asian Multilateral Trade Agreement, the Paris Environmental Accords. He clearly doesn't like multilateral international deals. He's much more focused on bilateral U.S. first negotiations. What a final question then. I mean, he succeeded as one of 17 Republican candidates for the nomination. He succeeded in the presidential election itself against all the pundits. Is this a sign that presidents in the future will be of an entirely different nature? They won't come from conventional politics. I think that's a great question because I think it does represent a change in American politics. I think you're going to begin to see people that either come out of the media, maybe people who have been even film stars. There's talk, for example, of George Clooney running for president, or you'll get the well-spoken articulate billionaires. Howard Schultz, the man who founded Starbucks. People like that, I think, maybe Zuckerberg. But big personalities, people who believe that they have something to say and have the money to back it up. Richard Byrd, thank you very much for those insights. Thank you.