The Motive of Gang Stalkers In this video I am going to discuss the nature of this Phenomenon. I don't believe it is controlled by the government, although we already know that governments do track us through electronic devices that can tap into all of your camera, microphone and audio devices which include your smart televisions, mobile phones, top computers and anything else with camera, microphone or audio capabilities. They can also track you through GPS, read your emails, text messages, social media and listen to your phone calls. It's not just the government who are able to do this. Large companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and many others also have the ability to do this.  You have already agreed to this. Now that you have this knowledge and awareness, you might notice after you have sent a message or had a phone call about a certain topic, suddenly advertisements on Facebook or videos on YouTube are showing up that relate to the topic you spoke about in your message or phone call. You might not seem like a coincidence at first but over time you will realise that all of your electronic devices are being tracked. Large companies like Google can track your exact location with their specific times and they can even tell who you are with since your family or friends will be tracked by Google too. But enough about that, this video is about Gangstalking. In certain communities, certain individuals will group together to prey on a target. You have heard of bullying in schools where other children will join in because they don't want to be victimised too. It's the same thing just outside of the playground. The gangstalkers are narcissists or have cluster B personality disorders. They have the emotional development and maturity of toddlers. Life is a game to them and the world is their playground. Gangstalking can begin with a smear campaign where fly monkeys are enforced. For those who don't know, smear campaign and fly monkeys are psychology terms. I have done a video on both of these, please check out the fly monkeys and the smear campaign. I don't believe that Gangstalking is associated with the government. In fact I think the government is the only group that could help these people. But there are groups of people who do gangstalk and try to control and empower individuals life. These groups of people must be narcissistic or have a cluster B personality disorder to have the capabilities to gangstalk. What drives them to do this is their own hate, anger, envy, insecurities and inferiority complex. They have an obsessive desire to control certain individuals and isolated them from the rest of the world. It gives them the narcissistic supply, a feeling of attention, validation, power and control. The narcissists or disordered personalities feel worthless, alone and miserable. Joining these gangstalking groups is their way of managing their loneliness. It makes them feel as though they are a part of something and they have a purpose. It's exciting for them and it gives them something to do in their otherwise boring and miserable lives. Everything can make you paranoid and hyper-vigilant. I believe that there may be an element of this in some cases. But the root cause of their paranoia and hyper-vigilance is that they are actually being stalked.  They will use it to further re-engineer and reconstruct your mental composition.  You must recognize the difference between your paranoia and what is actually happening to you.  You could have been paranoid or hyper-vigilant in the beginning. But at some point you realize that something was not right. Their narcissists and people with cluster B personality disorders became aware of this. This is what can attract these predators to play these sick and twisted games with you. They realize that you have become cautious and hyper-vigilant. So they group together to toy with your mind while you could never imagine yourself doing something like this. Believe me there are sick and twisted people like this out there. They get off on your confusion and disorientation.  They are easy to play with, distort and confuse and no one will ever believe a word they say. Gangstalkers need someone who is easy to isolate and control. Dr. Ross Rosenberg has done a video which compares narcissists to child molesters and I believe that this resonates very well with what I have just described to you. What is the perfect prey or target for the gangstalkers? Someone who has good qualities but also a vulnerability or mental illness. Their good qualities could be their looks, money, a big house, high self-esteem, self-worth or self-belief. When these qualities are paired with vulnerability or mental illness it creates the perfect prey for these predators. Their motive is to sabotage all of your good qualities and isolate you and they have a way in through your vulnerability or mental illness but what keeps them coming back is your good qualities. It drives them to keep doing what they do because your good qualities are a reminder of everything they are not, everything they wish they could be so they will continue to target you through your vulnerability or illness. Their goal is to tear down anything and everything that ever made them reflect on what they don't have driven by hate, anger and envy it becomes their new found purpose in life. But it is not benefiting them in any way they are actually self-harming and destroying themselves by continuously consuming the very thing they hate. They can't stand you and your good qualities it makes them sick it makes them want to harm you but they keep coming back they think they are driving you insane but as long as you maintain your positive energy and assure yourself it will affect them far more than it ever affects you. Do not give them any attention or validation do not let them have power or control over you let them waste their own energy and their own lives and as time goes by you will notice a change in them they are no longer the people they used to be their hate, anger and envy of you has driven them to become everything they try to prevent everything they thought you were and now they are stuck in this endless loop trying to get your attention trying to get you to validate them trying to prove their self worth trying to control you but remember that you have the power you hold the attention and validation that they are looking for so put yourself in place let them watch let them stalk you let them chase after the one thing they will never have


Hello everyone, so we're in our binary search tree handout right now We're going to dig into this thing a little bit more and see how it works So as a reminder a binary search tree is a binary tree Meaning every node has at most two children a binary tree in which each data value is greater than all its left Descendants and less than all its right descendants. So this is an example of a binary search tree, right? Because here's eight eight is the root of this tree the root node And you can see just at a glance that it is greater than all of its left descendants and eight is less than all of its right descendants okay, so What we will want to do is we want to create one of these binary search trees in code And use it as a data structure because it has some interesting properties What we are going to use it for specifically is to implement another version of the map Right, so you used an assignment 7 you used a hash table to create a map and a map is like a dictionary in Python Hash table was good. It had some upsides to it You can insert usually in big O of 1 you can search in big O of 1 The downside to the map that we didn't a hash map that we didn't talk about is deleting from the hash map deleting from the map a hash table is not so trivial So what we are going to do is we're going to implement another map with kind of the same dictionary behavior But using this data structure And that this data structure the binary search tree has a few advantages one It's always sorted right so if you kind of look at this tree from left to right You'll see it's sorted which is nice the hash table isn't sorted And it's there's no wasted space in a binary search tree At least not the way we are going to implement it in a hash table You've got to have all these empty slots and every once in a while You've got to resize the thing and resizing is expensive the binary search tree. We're not going to waste any space whatsoever All right, so the way we're going to do that is with nodes, right? So the binary search tree is going to have these things called tree nodes in them and the tree nodes are going to hold some Data that we care about and then they're going to have a left child and a right child Okay, so with the binary search tree. We need to be able to do a few different things, right? So we want to be able to insert into the tree And that's what we'll talk about now. We need to be able to delete from the tree Get things out of it. That's something again. We didn't touch with hash tables We want to be able to search it And then the final thing we need to be able to do is we're going to traverse the tree right traversing means we visit every node and There may be good reason for us to do that like if we want to print out the contents of the tree We're going to have to visit every node. All right, but we're going to start by talking about insert inserting into the tree We are going to implement this using a recursive algorithm And the reason for that is that you can define the whole tree itself recursively, right? The tree is the root node The left subtree and the right subtree And no matter what node you look at you can say hey It's me my current node and then my left subtree in my right subtree So all the algorithms that we write for insert delete search and traverse We are going to implement them recursively because it's a more natural way to think about this data structure You can't implement them iteratively, but the code is not nearly as neat. Okay, so we're going to do recursive algorithms Before we get into the algorithm for putting data for inserting into this tree Let's just make sure we're real clear on conceptually what that means. Okay, so here's a binary search tree and We're going to insert into it Right now the property of the binary search tree that we have to preserve is that everything to the left of the node is Less than it and everything to the right of the node is greater than it. Okay, so What will the tree above look like after performing the following inserts in order, right? So just glancing at this tree when you can see the whole tree You can probably figure out well one is probably going to go over here, right? but You're the computer when you derive an algorithm for inserting the computer is not omniscient It doesn't know the whole status of the tree. In fact the computer whenever it starts It only knows about the root. Okay, the root of the tree and So how can we create an algorithm that starting with the root of the tree figures out where this goes? Well, because this is a binary search tree We know that everything to the left of eight in its eights left child is less than it and everything in Eights right child must be greater than it. Okay, so Start with one Let's ask you the very simple question is one less than eight. Yes So we're going to take a look at eights left child. Well eight does have a left child So we need to go pay it a visit Okay, so we go over to five is one less than five. Yes. Okay, let's take a look at Fives left child. All right, there's something there. So we need to go visit it. We go to three is One less than three Yes All right. Does three have a left child? No. No, it does not Okay, and what we are going to do is our goal when we insert is to insert a leaf node Okay, so I'm gonna grab My leaf over here off the screen put it over here Okay, so every time we insert we are going to insert as a leaf node We do not want to upset the tree. Okay, so at no point Are we gonna like say we were inserting ten? We are not gonna like unhook eight from eleven Hook it up to ten and then ten to eleven. We're not gonna do that too much work We're gonna instead just go down to the tree Until we find where one should go where a node should go and shove it in as a leaf. Okay So let's do it with negative one. Where does negative one go? Negative one is less than eight.  So that is where we're gonna put negative one All right, so take a minute pause right here and insert these values Okay, 14 6 and 9 in that order. So while you're figuring that out. I'm gonna copy them over So 14 is not less than eight. It's greater than eight. So we got to visit the right child So 14 go visit the right. It's 11. 14 is greater than 11. So we got to go visit 15 14 is less than 15. So we go to 15's left child, but they don't have a left child So that's where we go 14 becomes a left child there 6 Gonna go here 9 It's going to be I want to copy one thing over there. Sorry about that nine is gonna wind up Here, okay, so this is what our tree will look like now I'll encourage you I want you to go ahead and do questions two three five four five six seven and eight Pause here for a second while you do that and answer these with respect to this completed tree Okay, so pause the video work through these real fast right the height of this tree the height is The depth of the deepest node in the tree So just glancing at this negative one is the deepest node and what's the depth? The depth is the number of edges between the deepest node and the root Okay, so to get from negative one to the root we got to go up one two three four steps So the height of this tree The height is the depth of the deepest node and the depth of the deepest node is four The depth of 14 is one two three The depth of eight Well eight is the root and the depth of the root is always zero because there's no past edges between the root and itself Does node three have any siblings? Well to answer that question you look at three's parent Which is five and we see that five does have another child seven so three sibling Is seven because they share the same parent the right subtree of 11 is going to be 15 and 14 Subtree is everybody all of 11's right descendants What does the binary search tree look like if the data is inserted in ascending order? So one two three four five, right? So you're going to get a tree where One is at the root And then it's right child is two and two's right child is three and three's right child is four and four's right child is five Conversely, what does the binary search tree look like if data is inserted in descending order? All right, so we first we're talking about inserting five And then four four is less than that three is less than four two is less than three one is less than two So we get these chains right if we're doing an order Insertions, we get these chains that are basically lists. We don't have a tree looking thing. It's a chain of things Um Does every unique arrangement of data values yield a distinctively just shaped tree? No, not necessarily if you insert these two things like in these in this order they will both Um Look like this, right? So the order that you insert the values Uh, there's not guaranteed to give you a uniquely shaped tree All right, so, um, what is the worst case scenario for the binary search tree? Well, the worst case scenario are these scenarios right here when you Insert the elements in order or reverse order, right? Because then you don't get a tree and we want that tree shape It's the tree shape. It's like this kind of balanced shape That's going to make our algorithms or divide and conquer algorithms insert search. It's going to make them Uh efficient, but if the shapes look like this Right, these are effectively linked lists And so if you want to go find say five in here, you've got to look through one two three four five nodes okay, so Um, what is the big O of insert? Well in the worst case big O then in a worst case But it'll be if this tree is nice and balanced if all the leaves are filled out if it is a complete tree in other words if every child if every node Has two children before going on to the next row Then Your insert will be big O log base two of then In the best case, right? So we're at a point where we need to start thinking about best case scenarios and worst case scenarios, all right So, um, what I would like you to do is create a tree a binary search tree Using the names of the characters in your first name Okay, the lesser of two characters is the one nearest to a an alphabet So use the characters of your first name create a binary search tree Um using alphabetical comparison, right? Just make sure you really understand how insert works, right? So this has been our algorithm, right our algorithm is we start at the root And then we say is the thing we're inserting less than or greater than And depending on that answer we either go left or right and ask that same question Is the thing greater than or less than and we stop Whenever we find hey, I want to go left or right, but there's nothing there I've hit a place where I can insert a leaf node And that's going to be our algorithm. Okay, so if the item is less the item We want to put in is less than the data. That's good Okay Now we need to ask the question. All right. I want to put it in is there room to put it in, right? So when I got to four, right say I need to insert the value Three and a half, right Is this empty if so put three and a half here So if current dot left is none Then yeah, put it there current dot left gets your new tree node With the item in it. Okay, but if it's not Empty right if there is something here like I want to insert six Well, I can't insert it here because it's not empty. So what do I want to do? Well, I need to get down to this point here, but how can I do that? I just go over here and I say insert six here and figure out where it goes Okay, so we go left By simply calling recursively insert Curr dot left the item if the data is greater than current data We go right, right? So if curr dot right is none Insert it if they use red to be consistent show that I added them. Okay Curr dot right is none. There's space I'm trying to insert something greater than the current node and he has no right child So put him there. Otherwise. Oh, he's already got a right child. Well, let me go into that right child and try and insert from there Okay, so else Insert into the right child the item. Okay, and that's it nice elegant algorithm It's recursive. It's got two base cases When the curr dot left is none and when the curr dot right is none otherwise Call insert on the subtree, right? So this is our algorithm. Let's hop over to the code and start writing some code


What's up everybody I'm EvilRabbit we're here on iRacing on the PC so we are starting the iRacing career here on the channel so the reason is is there's some big things happening in the channel very shortly with iRacing so we were in here trying to get our first few races in this is actually the first race I did race it and now we're gonna talk about it a little bit here today so my goals for my first race in the rookie class because you have to get your license up was to be as clean as possible get as limited amount of instance points as I can I qualified in fourth and we were just waiting on grid getting ready for the start of the race I had my little timing down there so I could see when the races will start so I knew these four drivers in front of me were a lot faster than me so I ended up getting a very very good jump off the start I hesitate a little bit like I really want to do this but like I said my goal was to get the least amount of instant points as I can I was in the Oculus Rift S on the on the fan attack at 900 degrees full you know gas break clutch shifter in the MX5 cup so I did realize that my cursor was actually in the middle of the screen so you see that in the middle screen I apologize couldn't actually see it in my headset so more videos I will make sure there's a gunk like I said we are doing a lot of big things on the channel here with iRacing so like I said we were in the MX5 cup that was in the Seca that guy lost it over the curb and I was like oh cool but I looked in my mirror and that guy was right on my tail so I knew he was much faster so I kind of stayed high let him take the inside because I knew I didn't want to fight him too much because like I said I was just trying to get no instant points I wasn't really trying to fight for the win in this first race because this is my first official race in iRacing and I didn't want to wreck out I didn't want to get dequeued I didn't want to get too many incident points because I'm trying to get my DNC class license and stuff like that because if you're not familiar with iRacing and the way it works is you start off at 2.5 safety rating and the more incident points you get the lower your safety rating you go and you have to get up to a certain safety rating in the class that you're in level to get the next license at the end of the season or get an auto license if you're at a certain safety rating so more incident points you get the lower your safety rating that get caused by going off track hitting another car spinning out is in control so my goal was to not hit anybody now there is other ways to get incident points by like going off track and stuff like that you can't protest it if somebody hits you really hard and you know it wasn't your fault so right now we're just sitting comfortably in second place I knew there was another guy behind me because he's using my mirrors at the Rift S right here is a very sketchy moment car kind of gets a little loose I was able to gain control of it and not lose the car I got off gas got our clutch you know made sure that I kind of let it drift a little bit but didn't let it snap back on me and after that I was like alright dial back a little bit more I'm not gonna catch that guy because I was trying to catch him through the first turn so I'm like I'm not gonna catch him he's much faster than me maybe he'll make a mistake so we were pretty much just trying to run a smooth line I kept looking back which is one thing I guess I'm doing I gotta stop driving in my mirror I gotta be more focused on what I'm doing you know on the track so the Rift S is very very nice to be able to you know see your mirrors and see everything around you I kept adjusting my seat position because I was trying to get the best view so still trying to figure out some settings and stuff like that and the cars had fixed settings so everybody was running the same tune he was just much faster on the line but like I said I was not 100% in the car I was not trying to push my lines too much because I didn't want to run off track I didn't want to lose points and stuff like that so I was just trying to run a very smooth conservative line I qualified fourth I figured oh that's right that dude lost it and I was like oh man I'm in first and he's back there I'm gonna be able to lead a lap or two before he ends up catching up so I was just trying to run cleanly I didn't want to hit anybody if some of the fastest me I was gonna get out of their way let them pass I didn't really care where I finished in this first race but I was at the point now where I'm like dang I'm in I'm in first right now and I got a bit of a lead I was a little bit excited you know pump the fist bumping right there like okay I got a lead I get to lead a lap which when it comes down to it it was it was great you know to be able to lead that lap and know that hey I can actually do this now whether he was gonna come back past me I didn't know at this point so it was more so trying to just run smooth now I know my line my racing line is not exact and my braking points and I could probably be taking these turns a lot faster like here I could probably not break probably just lift and drift out onto that outer part of that rumble but like I said I was trying to stay on track I was trying not to crash because getting in dirt in these cars or really any car is very very treacherous and you will lose it instantly so I had also only had probably I want to say 25 minutes behind the wheel of any car here in iRacing before I hopped into this first-ranked race I did do like an oval track race and stuff like that and I thought maybe those you know usually create races you give me credit they don't you have to do the official races which are every I think every hour or stuff like that and you know those are how you actually get your safety rating now right there as you can see one of 17 incident points I did come down that turn and clipped the dirt didn't lose control but it was technically off track so I did get one incident point I ended up getting two incident points on the whole race which to me was actually very good and two of those were for track cuts now the second incident points which you guys will see a little bit later in the race was it was kind of an evasive maneuver that's all I'm going to say and if you looked in the mirror when I looked up that guy's catching me so he did spin out but he was able to bring back you know and come back these mx5 cup cars the global cup cars very fun driving cars amazing cars to drive just got to get used to the physics and the grip level my racing because it is a hardcore sim did mess up my shifting there I think because I have I have auto blip turned on I think it was causing some issues when I was actually shifting so I think I need to turn that off so I keep looking in the mirror because I want to give him a clean line so I kind of ease through there slow down I was going to give me a line he's really close to me where he was going to hit me and then I kind of ease off he got close and I thought he was going to bash into me but he didn't he stayed clean so I let him by and then I kind of just filed in behind him because I knew him and those two other drivers were much faster than I was and I wasn't going to try and fight them for position because I knew if I tried to fight them try to block them there was going to be some serious issues and either I was going to wreck or I was going to hit them they were gonna get in I don't want to do that I'm trying to race clean I'm trying not to cause accidents because I want to get my license and I want to keep my safety ratings up because that's how what you need to do you need to be a clean driver and that's something I've been working on religiously with a couple of my buddies and so like that about racing clean whether it's with AI or the cars with them trying not to you know be too aggressive try to be patient and wait for them to make a mistake in front of you or find that turn where you know you are much faster so getting a little bit more into the hardcore simulation racing is definitely helping my racing lines and stuff like that my dog over here squeaking a toy like yep yep you were losing that man that man was passing so the Oculus Rift S is definitely very good for you know perspectives in racing and if you guys watch the other video I had before about are you faster in a rift s well I did find out when I was in iRacing I was a little bit faster with the rift s I was going to make a video about being on a monitor with rift s and do rift s first on a track and then go to the monitor so it's not like I got more practice this was a dicey time where he was inside I laid off way off the throttle and passed me I was worried that he was gonna drift up into me but he was gonna hold his line I didn't have to worry about him too much he is a clean driver so kudos to him for being you know a clean driver and passing clean so at this point we're in third and I figured this is probably where I was gonna end up staying was in third place because fourth place guy was nowhere to be found and well I just was not sure if I was gonna be able to pass these guys the dog is going ham over there with that squeak toy so the one thing I did notice recently with the oculus rift s is I'm more getting more and more comfortable with it and I'm not noticing any type of you know face sweating or dizziness or anything like that and it's becoming much easier for me to drive in this you know in any racing game with it and I know a lot of people are probably gonna like your line is way off and I know my line my racing line here at the music it was off on this race I am going to go back and watch some other drivers racing lines I'm gonna watch some of the actual mix five cups for the actual racing lines so I can dial my racing line in a little bit better because I feel like if I had a better racing line I could be a lot faster keep having to adjust my position my seat so I think I need to start wearing maybe shoes on my pedals so that my heels don't slip on a little plate or maybe put some grip pads on the metal plate where my heels sit because they're causing me to slide around a little bit which isn't going to cause that much of an issue when it comes to lap times or anything like that it's just something that was starting to bug me so for the remainder of the race I kind of just knew I was not gonna catch them so I was just gonna run my line and just you know try be as clean as possible not cut the tracks not doing anything like that because well I didn't want to cause any more incident points than I have now like I said I do get one more by the end of the race but here's kind of an avoidance so we're going to let you guys watch a little bit of the driving here for a second and I'm going to take a second and just let you guys enjoy the sounds and the look of iRacing because it is a fun game if you guys don't play iRacing because it is a bit expensive with the subscription everything for the year and all the cars but it's an amazing game if you're really into hardcore sim and a lot of the pro drivers and everything are using them so enjoy this course crew moment and this rest of the half lap and then we'll come back and do a little more commentary on the racing here on iRacing so if you do notice in the wheel camp my I did have the window open and the drape kind of was blowing into my perspective I didn't realize it until it hit my hand so there's a couple things that I need to adjust when I'm using the Rift S because there's some things that I don't notice in the real world I would say so if you guys are not subscribed to the channel which I know a lot of you guys aren't because well I can just tell make sure you tap that subscribe button and I do appreciate our support if you guys want to help support the channel all you gotta do is subscribe tap that like button that's all I ask don't kind of donate money and we're gonna do anything like that just subscribe to the channel come back watch the videos that's all you need to do support this channel and I would definitely appreciate it like I said big things coming here to the channel with iRacing and stuff like that don't want to tell you any more than that but some big things are coming so this is going to be a point where I get another incident point now I say it was evasive and at the time I thought it was this guy was going into into the you know and he kind of went way off track and I kind of cut it because I was worried that he was gonna lose it and hit me so I did get a black flag slow down section to where I had to slow down and go down a certain speed because I cut the track and I didn't get my second incident point but it was either that or I was probably gonna barrel right into that guy because well I didn't want to hit him so we did get our second and incident point but that was our only other final incident point of the day for our first race first official race here on iRacing in our career so if you look in the mirror there's an orange mx5 back there he's actually fourth place and I'm like okay well I'm gonna let him pass because he was one of the other cars I knew was faster than me so I was like I got a couple laps to go I could probably just let him pass and you know take fourth so I was just gonna continue to run my smooth line and not worry about it I know I kept looking in the mirror looking at him seeing how close it's gonna get because I was trying to if he got really close give him the clean line to pass I wasn't gonna try and block him I didn't want to like I said many times cause a wreck because I was trying to be clean and be smooth so if I work on my racing line and work on my braking zones and get more comfortable in the cars I probably will be able to run much faster lap times it'd be very very very competitive because my lines are close they're not perfect but they are close I'm just not as aggressive coming out of some of the turns like here I probably don't have to break as much and I could probably clip that and run it a much wider there and much faster but I'll get there so definitely very impressed with how the cars drive and you know why wouldn't I be iracing is the pinnacle of racing sims they dedicate all to racing and that's why all the pros and all the you know professional drivers and all the big main teams and the biggest mainstream esports use iracing so a couple of my buddies and I are gonna be racing and not gonna give you any more than that but things are gonna happen in channel hopefully very soon and it would be a big deal so we got the two more laps to go and I'm like okay we got two laps this guy is a little bit behind me I might be able to hold them off so I keep checking my mirror to see how he gets off the turn and like I said it's a bad habit I need to stop doing so that's one thing I need to stop doing second thing I need to stop doing is I guess not practicing the race line I need to get more into practice and practice the race line to get my times down in a situation where incident points wouldn't be an issue on like test driving because test driving doesn't go against your race records so I could push the car to the limit and see what the limits of the car are and the track before actually going to win this ranked races which would give me a better chance of you know finishing higher even though I say finishing higher but at the end of this race we did get a very good finishing position we started fourth with qualifying which is a pretty good deal I was pretty excited to qualify fourth now some people didn't qualify but you know they were trying to probably stay in the back and I was thinking about not qualifying either or qualifying bad and staying in the back and just running my race because running the race cleanly with no incident points regardless of your finish will still increase your driver ranking because you had no incident points to optimize your time on the track and everything like that so we're coming around to you know to the final lap was super excited about it ended up finishing third overall in the race was definitely a very good race for me and you know great way to start my racing series unfortunately that was number nine not number seven because somebody had my number seven so the one thing you don't hear in the game is the actual spotter so when I'm using my Rift S my game audio is coming through my surround sound for the car but my spotter is in the headset of my Rift S which is really cool that the spotter is just there it's kind of like I actually had a headset in with the mics in so when I did do racing in on a cross or when I was on the track at Daytona and Sebring when I had the helmet with the crew chief and spotters in my ears it's kind of you feel the car you hear the car outside of the car but they're just in your head so the Rift S does a very cool job of putting the spotter in your head and everything else outside so make sure you guys follow my Instagram and Twitter all of your found in the description box below I'm gonna let you guys watch this final lap here on Laguna Sagan UX5 and iRacing hope you guys enjoyed this video if you guys want to keep seeing more tap that like button I would appreciate all the support subscribe if you're not a subscriber that's the only way you need to support me and support the channel and the content so as always I thank you guys for watching I'm Evil Rabbit I'll see you guys on the track


In 1964, the American government funded two-thirds of all R&D in America, two-thirds. If you were a Midwest company wanting to do research, you wrote a grant to the Commerce Department, absolutely insane. And since 1964, this has now gone down, and today the American government like OECD governments everywhere, the American government funds only 20% of American R&D, and half of that is defense, only 10% of American civil R&D is funded by the state. In that time, there therefore has been across the OECD a fall in the public funding of R&D. I could give you the data, but let me just say that. But the consequence has been a growth in the private funding threefold. For every dollar, the public sector has withdrawn from the funding of research, the private sector has put in three extra dollars. More than compensate. Now, Archie Bujji and Filippetti say, admit that this is crowding out. They don't pretend it's not crowding out. They claim it's a bad thing. We could go into that, that they are, of course, wrong. But the reason is, why? No, it is a good thing because it's where that, it's the industries where technology comes on. What is the mechanism of crowding out? The mechanism is scientific quality. If the government creates universities that all the best scientists go to, and the best scientists go to universities, I mean, we're all used to now Silicon Valley and that sort of thing. We all understand that good scientists can create companies and do, none the less the majority of scientists are like Jane Austen, they're looking for fame. They go to universities. If you take the best scientists out of the market and put them into universities, you leave industry with the not so good scientists. And therefore, industry doesn't get a return on its investment. And therefore, it looks for other ways of making money, marketing or something. And so the government funding of research, which others, not me, I mean, I have also shown it, but the point is, others have shown, create crowding out, three to one, it's a very serious crowding out, takes the best scientists out of industry and therefore damages rates of economic growth. Now we are told that governments have to fund science because the market disincentivizes companies from doing science. So the myth that we are told by the economists is if I do science, I would be disincentivized because my discovery, which costs me a lot of money to make, Tony will take for nothing in his company. And therefore, for him, the discovery is free for me, it costs a lot of money. Therefore, he will outperform me, I will go bust and he'll make all the profit. That is the story the economists tell. And it is a story based on an utter myth. That assumes that knowledge is what's called explicit, but actually knowledge is tacit. There's no way that I say making iPhones and going to be competed with except by other companies making mobile phones. And they are capable of copying my research. Only by the research they themselves have done over the previous 20, 30 years, which has given the expertise to copy my research and vice versa. So the costs of copying you can show are actually 100% on average. The marginal costs are less than 100% but the average or the total cost is 100%. It costs as much to copy on average as it does to innovate. So it's just a myth that the market doesn't reward science. Actually, the company that says that it's not gonna do fun science, because it's worried about its discoveries being copied by other people, should be told fine, don't do science, and see how long it takes you before you go bankrupt, not very long. So to summarize, the American government didn't fund science. Here, Tony and I agreed on the facts until the Second World War, and particularly Sputnik, when the Americans suddenly thought, my heavens, we're going to be overtaken by the Russians. That really was the belief. And what is interesting is what the American government funded in 1957, because it's exactly as Tony says, NASA and ARPA, now known as DARPA. The American government recognized that the linear model, the National Science Foundation model, had failed. The Russians were in space. And so they went back to the traditional model of mission science. When you have a particular mission, governments can actually deliver on that mission. Governments can actually deliver on atom bombs. They can deliver on operation warp speed. Give a government a mission, and it can succeed. The myth, the dangerous myth, is that the government funding of pure science through the linear model is itself a stimulus to economic growth. Someone whom Tony and I both know wrote in the magazine that Tony once edited New Atlantis that the linear model is a lie, and it is. It's a lie. It's been promoted heavily by governments. It's promoted by, because they want the glory. When the human genome was sequenced in the year 2000, who announced it to the world? Bill Clinton, the great patron of science. So governments want to fund science. Industry wants to fund science, because it thinks, wrongly, it's getting money back for its taxes. It thinks it's getting a subsidy. Scientists want government to fund science, because they don't want to work for industry. They want to work in a peer reviewed system, so they basically fund themselves according to the science they want to do. And the general public believes somehow that governments should fund science, because we all want to see programs on Netflix about penguins and things. What has actually happened is that that model has failed. The government knows it's failed. There's been this fantastic collapse in the government funding of research and development, and the consequence has only been an accelerated rate of economic growth. Thank you very much.


or ignite a huge ball of incandescent gas over an area and see what kind of reports they would get in terms of observations of how people explained it, because they wanted to kind of get a general idea of how many people were maybe embellishing what they were telling the authorities or what they saw and what actually people would have seen. Interesting. You, I knew you'd have something about that to know, though you always know stuff, I'd bring up anything. I could say, there are lizard people and you'd have some story to tell me about lizard people. Oh, lizard people. Aren't there? Well, if you believe in the hollow earth theory, there is lizard people. All right. Of course, one leads to the other. You can't have a hollow earth without lizard people. Well, that's a Donald Trump. You watch Doctor Who, right, Scott? On occasion, I'm not a huge diehard. But you know the episode where there's that kind of Victorian lizard lady or reptilian lady that's pulled off that myth, tall, tail, extravagant conspiracy theory. I've seen a room. Well, this is way more interesting than these computers. Yeah, I was going to say, I was going to say in the next files episodes we could refer to, there's all sorts of. Well, let me ask you this, Evan. Of any vintage computer, are there any computer lines or models that specifically, that stand out to you? Like for me, it's always been the Amiga. Whether it's the 500, 1200, or a thousand, or three. The last one was the three or 4,000. I was always been fascinated because that whole thing was started by a bunch of doctors. And initially it was supposed to be a video game console. And the bottom fell out of that in the US market. And it's like, well, let's just make it a computer. And through a quirk of the way to design it, it became a super awesome tool for TV studios and doing video work because you could basically run with the call of Genlock, which is basically a time sink to allow you to insert graphics in between the frames. Right. There's a wonderful book. There's a wonderful book called The Future Was Here. It just came out a year or two ago. And all about how the Amiga was more advanced in the Macintosh, even though it was a year later, had the color and the video capabilities and everything else. And the author argues that, and this is not my personal opinion, the author argues that the Amiga is where modern multimedia computing started, not the Macintosh. Yeah. It's an interesting argument. Yeah, it is. And there's some, I think there's some validity to that. That's super interesting. It is. I think I have the book somewhere right about... I love that. I love the fact that you have the book right behind you. Yeah. Like Tom never left you. Here it is. Here it is. Here it is. There's a book. It's called The Future Was Here by Jimmy Mehar. Here it is. Oh. I'm gonna have to write that down. It's a good book. That sounds great. The future was. Let me answer your question, Roger. For me, I grew up on an Apple II. Platinum right here. That's just the computer we had in my middle school and everything, learned basic on it. And so that's the one that made me a computer geek. Yeah. Oh, nice. Yeah, Apple II.  You spent your formative years in the 80s, I take it. Right, I'm 41. I was born in the end of 74. So I have a picture on my wall here, which you can't see, but a picture on my wall here from December 79 when I was five, my brother was eight and we're unwrapping our Atari we got for Hanukkah. And then, you know, my bar mitzvah present was the Apple II. So that's my background. Was that something that came as a complete surprise or did you drop hints? I don't, I think it was a surprise because we already had in television and the only game we had was Pong.  And I always wondered, I don't think I said anything to anybody, but I always wondered why the controller had other buttons on it beside the paddle. We didn't know what they did. We didn't know there were other games. We just thought it was a Pong machine. And we had no idea there were other games. Like for life and me, I couldn't figure out what all those other buttons were for the controller. And then we got Atari. So I never stopped and thought about it any further than that.  But now I know there were lots of other games you could have got. We just didn't know. So I went in television, Atari, and then Apple II, and then, you know, 46 from there, I guess. So you had... You got the Compute Magazine, right? I know we got Byte. I remember, I'm not sure if Byte did, but I know definitely Compute used to have those programming pages, which would be like six pages of essentially just assembly for the Motorola or whatever processor, and you just type it in one by one. And if you wanted to learn as a kid what was logo and then basic, I never got that far in some way. Well, you had to because initially, the Commodore and a lot of the other computers didn't really offer any really useful, interpreted languages until basic started shipping. Yeah, I think actually, I think I was in... So fifth grade was my last year of elementary school, and they had this one computer, it was either a VIC-20 or a 64, I don't remember which exactly, and they went the week or so they roll around to the kids, and me and a couple other kids just took to it, and we learned logo and turtle graphics, and it was okay, but when I got the Apple II and learned basic in sixth grade and middle school, that's the one I really associated with. So sorry, Commodore people. Family computing used to do that. They used to offer basic programs in the back and you would have to type those. What did you say? My parents would buy me books, you know, you would have to do programs. I loved Byte. Yeah, Byte was great. Where's Byte now? It's gone, I guess. Yeah, it's gone, yeah. In fact, I have here where, I don't know, where somewhere on my shelf I have the first basic book my parents bought me when I was a kid. Oh, basic. Very basic. I like about Evan's camera frame is, it is like a window into like 1985, that's great. Platinum, I think came out in 86 or 87 or something. Okay. Yeah, it says like a third power parties, or power party, power supply on the side of that. This is the very famous Kensington System Saver. Every one Apple II. Yeah, so the Apple II power switch is on the back and everybody had to have one of these, Kensington System Saver, so you plug from the computer to the back of this and from this to the wall and it's got this great red switch on the front here and turns on as a separate fan and it goes into where the vents are. But everybody had an Apple II, so it was almost like your Apple II. They gave you a Kensington System Saver and they gave you a TV computer switch, which I'm gonna call it. It's like a case on a smartphone, you can't plug out of there with that one. Yeah, or those switches called. I should know this. Oh, the search, no, no, the, I don't know this. You know what I'm talking about. The UHF, the UHF plug, yeah. So those are two pretty standard features on this. My kid's not gonna know what that is. What is dad? What's UHF, VHF? Well, the radio frequencies and the most famous for basically bringing TV in your dad's home. And I remember the day we got this computer and my parents went to a place called Hammett Computer Center on East Punzik, New Jersey and buying a computer back then was a big deal. And I remember, so they were doing the paperwork for the Apple II and the salesman was trying to keep my brother and I out of our parents' hair. So he said, kids, look at this. And he showed us what I now know was a Mac. And I remember, again, very distinctly, he showed us a mouse and it just made sense because we already knew how to control a joystick on a sprite on Atari, you know? And I remember, like it was yesterday, no one had to show us how to use a mouse. It just made perfect sense. And yet my parents were, you know, perfectly educated people. As an adult, I had to sit down and show them, okay, this moves in proportion to that and you press the button. For me, it was a joystick. And it's bright and perfect, you know, just there was no explanation needed. But I'm glad my parents did it. My parents, hey, we want this computer. And they said, no, no, no, we're getting Apple II. And I'm glad we did because with a Mac, I might not have learned basic and stuff. And I also know all my parents had a Commodore budget but we got the Apple II because my mom worked for the school district. So we had to pay discount on the Apple II. That's the way to do it. Yeah, I was lucky.  Doing that. Roger, I think we have everything, are we good? Yeah, you can. Sorry, you got me started. Oh, no, no, no, I'm, the audio's, other than AGR, it's, I think everything's good. So let me get. I think there's a working. It was working the other two days. The difference is unlike Tom, my system, or the way I'm doing it is essentially scraping the YouTube feed. Typically, it comes in maybe 30, 60 seconds. Comes in a little later, yeah. What channel do you want me to do it? Sure, I mean, I have it running now so I don't know if that will. Oh, is it running? It didn't show when I got in, hold on. Oh, no, no, I do see, it doesn't say live and that may not mean anything. So usually what he has me do is, he has me do the data tech news show server side audio, like the DTNS2 and then I run, oh no, it says you're running these. Yeah. No, it must be working then. Okay. Something's cashing on the images, it must not, it must be me. All right, so I am going to hide my video and silence my audio and then, so basically Evan, Scott's gonna start the top of the show.  Whoa, why do I see you, why do I see Engadget on my screen? Oh, that's me, we do a screen share, this is for the news bit, I basically poll open the story. Yes, when I'm talking, he'll throw those up for the audience that are watching live and they'll see some of that stuff as we go. So we are good right now, so I'll leave it up to you when you wanna start, so like in the next 10 seconds. Yeah, it's ready, so I'm gonna hit record on my side, everything sounds good on levels. Do this intro and I'll bring you in and off we'll go, so here we go. Cat room hides, good to see you all, glad you're here. Amish, you're listening, offer this and have fun in Japan, all right, what are you doing? All right, here we go. In three, one. The Daily Tech News Show is brought to you by listeners like me. To find out more, visit DailyTechNewsShow.com slash support. Hey everybody, welcome to the Daily Tech News Show for Wednesday, August 31st, 2016. I am Scott Johnson, I am filling in for the still vacationing Tom Merritt. You've been listening to all this week, you know that Tom is in Asia, getting the best ramen, perhaps known to man. I know actually what he's doing today, but I know he's in Asia for sure and I'm thrilled to be here. We got a bunch of stuff to talk about, we're gonna talk about vintage computing today. I have a guest with me who knows all about that, it is Ev Koblenz, he's the author of Abacus to Smartphone, The Evolution and President and Co-Founder of Vintage Computing Federation Incorporated, that is a 501C3, non-profit, so good to have you here Evan, thanks for being on the show. Thanks Scott, it's a Vintage Computer Federation Inc. Oh, did I get that wrong? I thought I had it. I always say computing, didn't I? Well, look at me, it does not compute. It's good to have you here, I'm excited to talk about some of the stuff that you've been dealing with over the years and some of these awesome collections that you have and what people might wanna look for today if they're looking for a way to maybe recoup some of the cost of their 20 year old Mac in the garage or something. We'll get onto that in a second, but real quick, this is just a side note for folks, Bill Nye lands a Netflix show, it's called Bill Nye Saves and the show will feature Bill Nye tackling specific topics from a scientific point of view. I think it's a marriage made in heaven, I'm pretty excited about it. The show is set to debut in spring of 2017 and now some top stories. So last week, Dropbox forced password resets for all accounts that have not changed their passwords since 2012. If you think you're maybe one of those people, I wanna listen to this. Motherboard followed up that story with a report that it has uncovered some 68,680,741,000 Dropbox account details. That's a lot of account details. The accounts were found in four files, the total is five gigabyte in size. Currently circulating the database sharing community, both Dropbox and security expert Troy Hunt have confirmed the data is legit. However, Motherboard does note 32 million of those passwords were found to be secured by a strong hashing function. I checked my email, turns out I was notified, but I had changed, apparently I've changed my password since 2012 because it never gave me the prompt when I logged in to Dropbox the next time, which is what the email said. People at home, check your email boxes, make sure it didn't go to spam, make sure you're okay with Dropbox because that's a pretty big leak of a lot of data and you wanna be safe. Apple also launched a two terabyte Alclide, or as Alclide, iCloud storage tier today. That's two terabyte plan, which is their largest available. It'll set users back $19.99 a month. I think that's too expensive. We'll talk about that in a second. Nine to five speculations because of the previous largest tier, one terabyte was roughly 8x larger than the largest iPhone device storage option. It suggests that a 256 gigabyte iPhone skew might be in the works and they put this out ahead of that that would make a little bit of sense. Evan, does it strike you as a little expensive for two terabytes? It seems like not a lot of space for 20 bucks a month. It does strike me a little bit expensive, although if anybody paid for it, it's Apple. Yeah, they will, right? Well, here's the problem. I'm an Apple person, but I've never fallen for the iCloud pricing. It just is kind of a bad deal and the starter amount, which is what, five gig a month for free is nothing. It just doesn't account for anything. I can't really use it for anything meaningful. So I use the aforementioned Dropbox and a million other services that work pretty well for what I need to do with apps and that whole ecosystem. So it's just not been an issue for me. But I wonder out there if the rest of the sort of the iCloud world's looking at this and watering at the mouth that they can now have this much space for only 20 a month and I look at it and I think that's just, I feel like Apple is not, how do I put this? It's not an honesty thing, but they're not being too forthright on at least acknowledging the current state of storage costs, which is almost nothing these days. And the fact that I can get 30 gigabyte a month from Google for a buck 99 or whatever it is, is kind of ridiculous. So... And also security-wise, people for whether a Dropbox or Apple or anyone else, people forget that cloud just means someone else's computer. Right. There's no magic cloud. Yeah, the cloud. Just someone else's computer. It's fun to dispel that cloud thing with people who really do have this vision in their head that there's like something floating up there and all secure and everything. It's just somebody else's computer, that's it. Just a server farm somewhere. Yeah. That's how it works. Anyway, we'll see how that goes. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that sources familiar with the matter. Say that Google is planning on rolling out a carpooling ride share service in San Francisco. That may sound familiar. In May, Google began a pilot program around its California HQ allowing Waze users. So that's the Waze app. If you're not familiar with them, buying Waze, they actually own that. This allowed them to connect with other commuters. The company plans to expand the program this fall. The program charges $0.54 a mile and Google doesn't charge a fee. And the talk is that Google believes the income would be taxable or wouldn't be taxable because the payment would effectively just be gas money. Any thoughts on Google getting into the ride sharing world? No. Right on. I'll say this. Whenever Google gets their hands in a new place, a new part of the industry, I always imagine that those who already occupy that space get nervous as to what they're gonna do and maybe there's nothing to worry about here. Maybe both Lyft and Uber can just sit and smile and not worry about it too much, but just the idea that Google's moving in on your potential market can be a little frightening. In a blog post, Google announced a new search mode called in apps. This is interesting. In apps will allow users to find content-installed apps on your device. The new search mode works with Gmail, Spotify, and YouTube and will feature support for Facebook Messenger, LinkedIn, Evernote, Google Keep, Glide, and to-do list in the coming months. To access the feature, users need to go to the Google app on your Android phone and or device and find it in the apps tab. The LG V20 phone owners will be able to access the new apps mode directly with a dedicated shortcut on the home screen. Seems like a nice feature. I wish I could do a little more sort of smart searchy between apps and within apps and that sort of thing. Do you think it'll be hard even for other third-party app developers and some of the bigger boys to get involved so that they can have the same functionality? It depends how well Google puts out SDKs and how well they advertise it, I guess. My idea of apps is, this is my idea of apps. Yeah, I like it. Five and a quarter inch flat for those at home are listening to the audio podcast that there's some vintage flop you got right there. I like it. I have to ask you, actually, I'm glad you brought that up or you held that up, brother, because later I've got to ask you about this giant one I've got over here. It's like 10 inches of this thing. It's an eight-inch one. Eight-inch, that must be it. I don't know what it ever went into or whatever, so when we get to the part of the show, I want to know all about it. I want to know if it's worth any money and whether or not I should just hang it on the wall and appreciate it for what it is. You got it. All right, we'll get to that in a second. Oh gosh, what else? Hey, check it out. Acer in the news that they unveiled a slew of new laptops, including a new convertible Chromebook R13 Plus, a new line of Windows 10 Swift notebooks and spin convertible laptops with Intel's seventh-generation core processors. What we've really got our heads spinning is what Acer is calling the first laptop with a curved screen. This is the Predator 21X notebook. It comes with a 21-inch, as you might guess, curved screen. And I don't know how that's gonna shut. I still have questions about this, but hey, until we see it, I guess who knows. It also has the Tobi eye-tracking technology. The machine will come pre-installed with Windows 10 Intel's latest seventh-generation processor, 2G-Force GTX 1080s. Those are two fast freaking GPUs, man. And five cooling fans. Oh, and you need two power supplies to run it. Comes with a hefty 17 pounds. That's eight kilograms for those in the metric. And it ships first quarter of 2017. We'll retail for, get ready for this, $5,000. Evan, that sounds like when you had to go buy a computer in 1986, does it not? Not even half that much. If you ask me what I think of a curved screen or laptop, the answer is nothing nice. Oh, really? Nothing nice to say about that. Why would you not want a curved screen laptop? Just curious. Why would you? It's a fine question. I mean, I'm kind of racking my brain now. I will admit. I suppose, being open-minded, I suppose if you had a curved screen laptop, maybe you could help with security, because people sitting next to you couldn't see it. If it's pointed at you from both directions, maybe a little, I don't know. And if that is the case, if they were immediate enterprises, maybe they could price hike the price a little bit, but not $5,000. It's a lot of money. You can get a security filter for 20 bucks. Yeah, I kind of agree. As far as curved screens go, I used to be, I'm not really that big of a proponent of it when it comes to televisions, but I've kind of been converted to a 20s, how big is this thing? It's a six-inch curved screen that I bought from my PC for gaming, and I like it because there is this weird effect of only sitting a few feet back from the screen of it kind of wrapping around you and creating, I don't know, a more immersive experience. Oh, well, I've never had one, so maybe I'll try one day. It's pretty cool, but anybody telling you that you need to pay 5K to have the privilege, I think is, maybe that's a little much for now. But hey, I know there's a market. I know some guys that are ready to throw cash down on something like this. Dual GeForce GTX 1080s, that is just about as fast as you're gonna get, and you're gonna be fast for a very long time. And it makes that two terabytes of 20 bucks a month in like a bargain. You know what? I clad for everybody at this rate. Lots of people buying this notebook.  I have been asking for this forever. People say why, who needs it? Well, I want detail. I wanna like zoom in.  And it always drove me crazy that I was limited to this tiny little few inch sort of view and not be able to zoom and pinch, where I can do that with every other photo service with every other app. And even on the web, when I would look at an Instagram photo, I could do something to make it zoom there. I could do Command Plus or something to get a little closer to the image. They're gonna let you do it now. This also goes for videos and profiles to explore. The feature is coming to iOS today, an Android version of the ship in the coming weeks. Not sure what that means. Probably the next couple of weeks. Very excited about that update. I think that's gonna be great. Are you a user of any of these social networks, Evan? Not so much on the image side. I mean, we have an Instagram for the nonprofit, but no. Obviously Facebook and Twitter and stuff, but I don't use the image ones. I'm not really much of a photography person. Sure, sure. Well, for those out there who've been begging for this, your day has come. And for those who don't care, it's not really that big a deal, but it's about time, guys, way to go. I wanna thank, big thanks to JJ Hessman, PC guy 8088, and all those who participated in the subreddit, bring us stories each and every day, submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.com, or sorry, I got that wrong. Dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. So many people contribute, and it's really, really nice when you do. So continue doing that, and that is a look at the headlines. All right, Evan, let's dig into this. I'm a big man of old stuff. I think this was a feature of my personality passed down from my dad. He kept everything. I wouldn't call him a pack rat necessarily, but we hung on to slide projectors a lot longer than I think you're supposed to. He had old Super 8 cameras and stuff that were long past functionality, yet there they were in the basement. And it was always fascinating for me to go downstairs and say, what's up with this real to real thing that was bought in 1954 and try to record on it.  He's a little bit before the time that we would have started to collect our computing devices. And that was just a little bit after his prime. Had he been around, or had it been younger during that time, I'm guessing he would have storage units full of Apple II E's and Commodore 64's and Amiga's and what have you. You're kind of that guy, or at the very least you're an expert on what it means to be a collector of vintage computing. How much of that stuff do you have? Just give us a ballpark of the kind of the range of things that you've got at your fingertips. Our organization has a 7,000 square foot warehouse. And we have everything from, I believe our oldest individual artifact is in IBM 026 Key Punch or an IBM 083 Sorter. I'm not sure which one's actually older. They're both from the 40s. Up to early 90s, some internet appliances and Newton and that kind of thing.  Yeah, you never have too much stuff. But you don't want a hoard. You want to collect with a purpose, right? When I got into the hobby, the vintage computing hobby about maybe the 2002, 2003, people talked about, oh, the 10-year rule. And then somebody said, well, that could be Windows 95. Okay, well, the 15-year rule. And after a while it got ridiculous because it kept tagging years onto it. So most of us have stopped using years entirely and it's more of a, I know it when I see it. There are some people who say, well, if it can run DOS natively, if it can't do modern software or vintage, well, that means Windows 98 or that window is ridiculous. Most of us, these are just used commodity PCs. So I stick with, I know it when I see it. Most of us who are active collectors are, say, 30 to 50. So for our generation, vintage is eight bits, right? With a couple of exceptions, Amiga, SGI, some release on, but pretty much 60s to 80s, before which only museums like ours have this stuff, after which it's pretty commodity. But for the last couple of years, I am seeing quite a few people who are half my age, even their late teens, who are digging out their parents' Pentium-1 and say, wow, retro, man. Yeah, big time. My head exploded, but hey, when I started collecting Apple IIs, I'm sure there were many computer people who made their hair explodes too. Well, they probably had big vacuum tubes or whatever they were into and punch cards or what. And so the best analogy I use to explain our hobby is we do the exact same thing as people who collect antique cars, right? No one's saying they're better, but they add chrome and fins to white walls.  The big difference is that when I was a kid, my dad took me to old car shows and I said, this is awesome, someone's 34, 457 Chevy, let's go for a ride. It was obvious, it's an awesome thing to do, let's take a ride.  And that was very insulting, it's a machine. So at our events, we require the exhibitors to have everything up and running. Oh, and that's actually one of my questions. If you can say that I have, oh, this ancient Mac up in the cellar, it's a Mac classic and it was made in 91 or whatever and it's old and dusty, but I don't think it works, but hey, shouldn't that be worth something? Your answer to that would be no, like a vintage car, you need to have that in some kind of shape, right? No, it's worth something. Generally speaking, the more they made, the less it's worth. So a run-of-the-mill Mac classic or a run-of-the-mill Commerce 64, TRS-80 is not worth, it's worth something, but not much because there's simply so many of them. However, every day there are fewer of them. On the other extreme, last week we saw an Apple One go for $815,000. And the winner openly said in public that he was willing to bid up to a couple of mills. Yeah. So, there's a whole range in between. It's obviously, there's some money. There's a Wall Street Journal article that came up that kind of prompted this discussion today about how much is that PC in the attic that's titled, that's by Andrew Blackman. Yes, yes, I was part of that story, I believe. Yeah, and you were featured in here. Was I? Well, I don't know, maybe featured a big word, but they talk a lot in here about establishing value, who's got passion for the sort of thing, how you know if you've got something that's rare or not. Yeah, by the way, the guy in the picture with the niner shirt on, he's my group's West Coast VP. Oh, cool, all right. And he's representing the finest team in the NFL, I would argue. Well, I'm a New Jersey Giants fan, not New York. So, if I came to you though with something I actually have, I have an old Apple Newton, the original model sitting over there actually would work if I put batteries in it. Yeah. As the box and all that other stuff. Is that a thing that I could take some place, have evaluated, decide to sell it, that sort of thing? Absolutely, Newtons, and a lot of the early handhelds are quite collectible. And the oldest thing you've got is what? How, what's the oldest single device you've got? Well, I mentioned earlier, I'm pretty sure. I have to look up the chronology, but either our 026 Key Punch or our 083 Sorter, are probably our oldest. Now, our oldest full computer is a Bendix G15 from 1956, serial number three out of 500 made. Wow. And it's a fun story with that one because Bendix made that computer from 56 to 64 unchanged. And ours says control data on the front, CDC. And CDC acquired Bendix in 63. So we just assumed ours was one of the last to the run.  It was an eight year lease turned back in. CDC bought the company, rebadged and sold to the next customer. So it actually is a 56 model. That's incredible. So do you think there's much of an impact on these kinds of older computing devices on contemporary technology? In other words, places I might see it as like, musicians are making chip tunes and they're doing it with old eight bit processors and old eight bit computers. You see it in other aspects of technology where vintage equipment is being used, not just in artsy fartsy ways, but in some sometimes, you know, technically helpful ways. Do you think that's a thing that we can, you know, look at this old stuff and find? Well, I mean, every once in a while, there's articles in the news about, you know, the Air Force and nuclear silos to us on the vintage floppies or whatever. And what gets me is the art of the people who write that always spin it as, oh, look at our pathetic government, how backward they are using this old stuff and they should be mocked. But quite the opposite is true. If it works and it's that important, keep it, you know? They use some of these old machines because they're that reliable. So the government should not be mocked for this. Right, and it doesn't always mean that they're behind the times or their IT people are out of touch or anything like that. It could just literally mean they finally got to a place that is secure enough where they're comfortable enough with it that you can't swap that out every year. And that's actually, that leaves me my other question. How long is, well, I mean, it feels like if I buy a new computer today, I feel like I'm getting way more years out of it than I did even 10 years ago. Do you find that that's true? Actually, I find this true with cars and other things too. It just seems like stuff is lasting longer in the computing age than it used to or we are perhaps diminishing returns on processor power, RAM capability, that sort of thing. I think it's true and I think the numbers would show whether it's a PC or especially a mobile device, people are upgrading less because you just don't need to. The hardware is good enough. I mean, in my pocket, my Delhi phone is a Galaxy Note 4. And so there's the five and the seven now, this gets the six, but this is perfectly good. It's Android 6 and it does everything I need. Even it's a three-year-old phone, it's still better than most phones. Yeah, look at that phone and go, oh man, I wish you were the latest thing ever. That sort of thing just doesn't get to you. Once in a while, like for example, I upgraded from the three to the four because I wanted Android 6, you know? But I agree with you generally that today's hardware is so advanced and there's fewer reasons to upgrade the software unless you're operating system vendor makes you. Well, it's one company out in Seattle, I think. But there's fewer reasons to upgrade, I think, in general. So obsolescence comes slower is the bottom line, right? Like that just is gonna be a slower process. I'm still using a Mac that's, I think, seven years old upstairs, no problem. I think I'm... Yeah, I mean, my Delhi PC is just a five, six-year-old PC but it's perfectly fast because it runs Linux.  Your computer, tell them your computer's fine. It's not your computer, it's your bloated operating system. That's a good point. So to finish things out, I'm very curious, what are the hot ones to have right now? What is it someone should have in their attic that if they can go find it, they're gonna be lucky dogs? Like what are the hot movers, C64s, Amigas? Like what? Well, as I said, that stuff is still very, very popular and commonplace. I think if I were starting to collect today, I would focus on newer things that are going to be collectible. The original first gen iPod is already going for big bucks on eBay as a collector's item. Yeah, that's true. Things along those lines, I would focus on things that are novel now that maybe hold on to rather than throw out or upgrade it because they're gonna be collectible one day. One day, original iPads will go for money. One day, I have this Creative Labs Nomad MP3 player that came out prior to the iPod. It looks like a CD player, kind of, this big chunky blue thing. I really want that to be worth something one day because I've still held on to it. I'm frustrated that I've gotten rid of all my game consoles as new ones have come out. I wish I would have held on to all of that. Do you find game consoles are kind of in this ballpark as well, old NESs, Super Nintendo's, Genesis, that sort of stuff? Actually, we're happy on the computer side to be in their ballpark. The vintage gaming world dwarfs the vintage computing world. Interesting. They have their own, I mean, our shows are, Computer History Museum will get a couple thousand people, et cetera. The vintage gaming world rents out convention centers. They have massive events there. They dwarf us. But what's interesting to me is a lot of people I meet are collectors and don't know it yet. To use the computer term, they're accumulators. And they think they're the only one. And then one day by accident, they realize other people do this too and they realize it's a hobby they're part of. They just didn't know it. If you ask me when did our hobby, the vintage computing, become mainstream, I say the day Steve Jobs died. Because that's the first time there was a public figure beyond the computing world who passed away and everyone felt kind of sad and looked back and started to care about computer history even if they themselves weren't computer people. That's very interesting. So I think Steve Jobs' death is the day Computer History became a mainstream thing. Wow, that's a big moment that I'm not sure I even noticed, but now that you say it, I think I didn't. Yeah, because I meet a lot of people. If I used 100 people on the street, hey, do you know about old cars? For most people, the cars is the point and point B. They're not car people. But they know car people exist. They know old car people exist whether they're personally interested or not. And yet, before Steve Jobs died, if I put the 100 ID guys, they would say, well, why would I want an old computer when I can have a new one? Right. Why should that be? When Steve Jobs died, suddenly people cared and realized that there is a history of computing. Well, I have a 19-year-old that wants nothing but typewriters and weird old technology and tapes, so I totally get it. I think they will help keep this world alive. Let's get to a message of the day. We got an email here from Brett Stewart. He mailed us regarding the Chromebook story yesterday and he writes this. I wanted to write in regarding Patrick inquiries about the Chromebook and its use purposes. By the way, we should mention, Evan, you're using the Chromebook right now, right? I love my Chromebook. It's my favorite computer since the Tanya Model 100. Oh, wow. See, that's some high praise. I even have an old vintage computer to compare it to. That's fantastic. The Tanya Model 100 ran for eight hours on four AA batteries. Oh, my goodness. Now, granted, it'll have a power was a little tiny screen, but the Chromebook, you open it up and it's on and it just works. And by the way, people dig on the Chromebook for not having offline apps, but it does and they're good ones. Yeah, they're good. I really like my Chromebook. I think it's awesome. I love my Chromebook. Well, as he says, it goes on to say, as a big advocate of the hardware for select usage, maybe I can shed some light on it. He says, I have a lot of older people in my life. My grandparents, aunts, uncles, and my mother are approaching 60. None of them understand computers very well. The Chromebook has been the solution for them. It's really easy to use. It's portable. It's got great battery life and there's less room for error. I can worry less about them clicking something they shouldn't with Chromebooks, due to the limited capability versus them wandering around on a Mac or Windows OS. I can't tell you how many times I fixed windows for one of these people. Chromebook, I remote in on a rare occasion and fix a simple issue. As a family gatekeeper of tech, I couldn't be more pleased at how well the older folks had done with them. For my usage, I have a Chromebook stowed away for simple uses, take quick notes, writing music, clicking into my apartment's sound system, and so on. For me, it's more effective than a tablet for those uses. I imagine students in high school or younger would find valid uses too, especially in low income school districts. The catch, none of these devices cost more than 150 to 250. The $1,200 Chromebook has always been an absurd idea, the completely wrong price for the demographic, which I agree with, by the way. You know, I bought my Chromebook for $199 brand new and it's perfectly good. I have a lot of friends who are teachers and they love them in their schools. What brand did you get? Just curious. I have a Acer. Oh, okay, yeah. I've heard great things about the Acer's. In fact, I've gotten in the market. I have an older HP and I think I'm in the mood for something new, so I may be looking at it. I wouldn't mind buying the kind that flips over to become a tablet, but I'm very happy with this. Well, that's awesome. Big thanks for that email, Brett. I think we here generally agree with you. I think Chromebooks are coming into their own and I'm excited about what the future holds for that stuff. Hey, real quick, we got a Amateur Traveler podcast minute with Chris Christensen. He's awesome. I know him. You know him. You love him. And here he is. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler with another Tech in Travel Minute. When I was on the Daily Tech News Show recently, both Tom and I mentioned that one of our favorite travel apps is the Tripit app, but I don't really think we mentioned what it does. Tripit is both an app and a website and a service. With Tripit, when you get an email from your hotel or airline reservation, you can simply forward that to plansattripit.com and Tripit will recognize the email that it's getting this from and will automatically add it to an itinerary for a trip for you. And so if you wanna keep track of multiple upcoming trips, you can do it very simply. And some days I wouldn't even know what city I'm in if I couldn't open up Tripit and find out. Tom mentioned to me after we stopped recording that he also uses Tripit's feature that lets you keep track of your airline miles and how many you have on different carriers. The paid version of Tripit also lets you get notifications when there are gate changes or delays in your flights and that has come in very handy sometimes. I'm Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Thank you, Chris. That's awesome. Tripit's everybody. Use it, have it, live it, catch it. Hey, I cannot say enough thanks to Evan. Evan Koblenz, author of Abacus to Smartphone, The Evolution of Mobile and Portable Computers and president and co-founder of Vintage Computer Federation Incorporated. Again, that's a 501C3 non-profit. Love the work that you're doing there. Is there anything else you'd like to tell us or where people can go to learn more? Sure thing. People can visit us at VC Fed, Vintage Computer Federation, so VCfed.org. We have our museum in New Jersey. We own the largest discussion site for the hobby on the internet called the Vintage Computer Forum. We put on events like VCF East and VCF West every year and please check us out on social media as well. You said you had an eight-inch disc you wanted to show me. Oh yeah, and I don't know where it is, but okay, so I got this, I'm glad you reminded me. I've got a big eight-inch floppy. I don't know where it is, dang it. I'd love to hold it up for the camera, but I don't know where it came from. I don't know how I got it. It is definitely before my time in terms of when I started doing things, five and a quarter is about as far back as I go. What was that used for? If I had somewhere to put it now, where would it be? It's the exact same thing as a five and a quarter, just older, bigger, less reliable, hell less data and cost more. Just as I suspected. Eight-inch disc really are quite floppy, that's what I call it, I mean. So, well, throughout the late 60s and 70s, there were plenty of computers, business mini computers and even consumer computers that at eight-inch drives. Eight-inch drives weigh 20, 30 pounds, they're beast, and they simply had anything else had to get smaller, cheaper, better, but they even look like five and a quarter is just scaled up. They're really are the same thing. Wow, well, all right then. Now I know exactly what to do with that thing. It's probably not worth anything, right? Like you can't sell it on eBay for, I mean, probably sell it for something. You probably could, but if I were you, I just had the one, I were you in unknown condition, now we just hang it on the wall. Yeah, I just want to hang it up, make it look cool or something. I don't know what to do with it. What you need to do is get yourself an eight-inch drive. There you go. Let's see what data's on there. Finally, we'll know what important data has been on that eight-inch. Send me the disk, I'll read it for you. All right, sweet. You probably have plenty of those things, I'm guessing. We do. That's insane. And teletype and punch cards and paper tape, you name it. My goodness. A huge pleasure having you on, Evan. Thanks so much for being with us. All right, thanks for having me. I want to thank everybody else out there for supporting the show. As you know, I'm just sitting here taking over for Tom for a day. I have other days to him doing, but it's not because I'm better than Tom. In fact, Tom's just towers over us all, like the Time Lord that he is. 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It's gonna do it for us, for me, for Evan and for the vacationing. Tom, we'll see you next time. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. Fireman Club hopes you have enjoyed this program. And we're clear. Hey, here's Scott. Yeah, that was great. Evan, I'm so glad you were my guest today. Thank you. I had to restrain myself from making a sarcastic comment about your eight inch floppy. That's all right. Everybody has to hold back. No, because you said something a lot of lines of, I have an eight inch floppy. I don't want to hold it up for the camera. And I was like, I was like trying to arm out the crack up, but he said that. I tend to throw people softballs all the time like that and not even notice I'm doing it. I restrain myself. Family friendly show. It's all good. Hold it up for the camera. Roger, we all good on your end? Yeah, let's quickly go through titles. All right. You can help us pick a title if you want. Top of the heap is Retro Tech News Show. Followed up by Vintage Computing Never Gets Old. That one I like, it's pretty funny. There's the iGouch. They should call it Goober. I'm a big fan of old stuff. They should call it Goober? Goober. All right, we're probably not gonna use that, but I'm gonna vote for it, because that's a great... What I used to be at eWeek every April Fool's Day, we had an internal, you know, spoof head cuff out cover. And one year there was Earthquake in Seattle. So the spoof headline was, God Smites Microsoft Misses. That's great. It's not a horde, it's a collection. Drop box drops, the ball, accidental collectors. When Tom's away, I rush away. That's not a floppy, this is a floppy. Someone had to put that in there. They don't make tech like they used to. I like the one, it's not a horde, it's a collection. I like that one. That was not bad. And I also like vintage computing, never gets old, because it's a funny ironic. It's a nice plan words. I'd vote for that, I'd vote for vintage computing. It never gets old. All right, let's do that one. You do Twitter and Facebook all immersion, we call you twitface. Yeah, you twitface.  It was the best day of my life when we could do that. I have a cat named Floppy Discat. Of course you do, Evan. I call her Flops. Of course. Floppy Discat. I'm not surprised. You probably have, I don't know, a dog named USB stick or so. I mean, this is just, this is amazing. Floppy Discat. That's really great. All right, yeah, so there's your title. Cool. We'll do that one. And I guess Evan, we can let you go. Again, man, it was awesome having you on. That really made my job easier today. Thank you for having me. I hope I didn't sound too dumb. Oh, no, no, no, no. It was great, it was great. I got a thing that's made for radio and a voice made for print. Well, I've got some combination of those things that I'm not sure with. All right, so people are already asking me, when should I have a link I can send them? The link will be in the show notes for the, oh, for the show. I'll email it to you this evening. I basically have to post everything, but I should have it after. Feel free to put my email in there if you want. Just Evan at vcfed.org. Okay. Perfect. Into the actual show post. Sure, it's fine. I like email. Okay, cool. All right, have a good night guys. Thank you so much. All right, my pleasure. Later. I will start the broadcast now. Thank you everyone for listening. You've been awesome and thanks for supporting the show. Yeah, thanks guys.


Hey guys, today's video I'm going to talk about a thing called learned helplessness Learned helplessness. What is it and what it can tell you about? Maybe sometimes you feel Hopeless you feel like everything you've tried before hasn't worked. I'm going to tell you why you feel that way and how you can overcome it Learned helplessness, right? What is it? It's important to know this because it's a very very important discovery in psychology Okay, so it was discovered by Kai in the 60s Martin Seligman famous psychologist well-known psychologist He was involved in this movement of positive psychology. Okay. He later became more involved in that movement That was really that the idea that psychology tends to focus on people who have serious serious problems Okay, dysfunctional problems and he said well, yeah, it's great That psychology is helping those people but psychology in general should be helping everybody Should be helping people live complete happy lives live Optimally in the world. Okay, achieve happiness. So that's Martin Seligman, right? So he was interested way back in the 60s in how How learning occurs and how can people learn through negative experiences, okay? That's kind of what he was interested in. He was kind of following up on work from Pavlov You've probably heard of Pavlov's dogs and conditioning. Okay, so basically what Seligman wanted to find out is He used dogs in this experiment and by the way the experiment I'm going to tell you about here. It's quite cruel Okay, so back in the 60s the ethical guidelines around psychological experiments were much more laxadisical even nonexistent than they are today, right and So you could kind of get away with a lot of the things back in the 60s that you couldn't do now You couldn't do this type of an experiment nowadays Okay, certainly with dogs. So what he did was he wanted to find out well, okay Dogs can they learn through negative experiences? So what he did was? He had these dogs in his laboratory and he would put them into this sort of cage right this box and he would tie them down and While they were tied down he would administer these electrical shocks to the dog. Okay And at the same time there would be a sound made Okay, so after time what he learned was the dog learned to fear The sound even when it wasn't being shocked So for a while it would shut it would shock the dog they would shock the dog and make a noise Okay, and over time. Yes, the dog learned to fear the noise even when it wasn't shocked So basically the discovery there is and it might seem obvious to me and you because we know how clever dogs are sometimes The discovery was dogs can learn to associate okay associate two things But the interesting thing was In the experiment the dog was tied down Okay, and they figured that okay well untied dog now and We'll continue to give them the electrical shocks and the assumption was of course now that they're free They're going to just jump away from the electrical shock Every time it's administered. Okay That is not what happened though When they untied the dogs who had been in the experiment they found that the dog just stood there Okay, helplessly. It wasn't trying to escape even when they weren't tied down anymore And there was an easy way for the dog to escape right, so they were trying to figure out what is happening here and They figured out because they put new dogs in who hadn't been shocked in the past through the experiment And gave them shocks and straight away they would jump out when they're not tied down so The outcome of this experiment the takeaway from it is the dogs learned to be helpless Through the experiment because when they were tied down and they were given the electrical shocks Initially, they try to escape. Okay, try to escape try to escape try to escape, but they're tied down so they learned Trying doesn't work. That's what the outcome was for the dog the takeaway message for the dog If I try it's pointless doesn't work and then even when a solution was there for the dogs Okay, when they actually could escape they refused to see it. They refused they couldn't see it. Okay So that's what learned helplessness is when you try something. That's a bad strategy Okay, over a long period of time You you begin to accept that any strategy I now take on in the future even if it's a different strategy Or the same strategy at a different time It's pointless trying doesn't work now that was with dogs Okay, and you can induce this in all sorts of other animals another example is fish Okay, so if you have fish in a fish tank, and you have maybe one predatory fish and a bunch of smaller prey smaller fish if They're left to their own natural devices What will happen is the big fish the predatory fish will eat those but in an experiment what you can do is you can divide the fish tank with a Sheet of glass or perspex and you can have the predatory fish on one side and the prey fish the smaller fish on the other side What will happen is the big fish will start charging at the paint that the sheave glass trying to get to the smaller fish And because you know fish don't learn as quickly as we do it takes a long time for the fish learn This isn't working, but it takes a long time, right? So they keep trying over and over again hitting their their face against the glass, right? After a while the fish learns this is pointless this won't work Okay, and at that point if you take out the glass What you'll see is the smaller fish will swim right up to the predatory fish. They'll even start cleaning his teeth Okay, so again we can see the learned helplessness all the fish has to do is try again And it'll be successful Okay Now in the animal kingdom we can see that and if you think humans are not susceptible to learned helplessness think again We absolutely are one hundred percent, okay? Humans are very susceptible to learned helplessness and you can eat they've even done experiments on this You can induce learned helplessness in humans in a matter of minutes Okay, take away from this is and why it's important for you to understand what learned helplessness is all about Is that if you are thinking about your life and your future Okay, and the things that you would like to have happen in your life the nice experiences you would like to have and You have a sense that it's pointless. It's hopeless. It won't work for me. I've tried everything before okay Remember the dog remember the fish, okay? There is always a strategy It's just that you haven't come across the right strategy yet or You gave up using a strategy that wasn't useful at one point in your past, but now might actually be useful, okay? so there are always New strategy there is always a strategy that will work for you no matter what area of your life you are interested in improving, okay? So I want you to just Be aware that you are susceptible to that Trick of the mind, okay? And if you feel hopeless and you feel like there's no point in trying anything anymore Always remember now is the time to start reevaluating my strategy Okay, if I think about my strategy and I believe that it's it's possible for me to move forward in this area I know I can find a strategy Maybe that involves looking at your old strategy and say you know that wasn't work That wasn't working and I know why that wasn't working Okay, and it's hard to do that right because it would be great if just every strategy We stumbled upon was the right one But we need to continually reevaluate our strategies and maybe try strategies that we've given up on in the past Okay, so guys bear that in mind and that's Martin Seligman's learned helplessness and Hope you found it interesting and I will talk to you guys soon. Take care