Thank you. Oh, we're live. We are What's happening? Are we are we? How do we know? Welcome to daily philosophy news show That would be an awesome show because I kind of want to do that. So don't you want to cut it specifically specifically about philosophy news You can't believe You can't believe what just happened in the world of philosophy Guard your assumptions It's the philosophy pun show I'm trying to think of a Nietzsche one. I probably should just stop and do this show instead, so Are you are you prepared? I was born prepared Tom was a man I didn't personally know but every day I listened to his tech news show if you have a dollar to spare To keep mr. Merritt on air to patreon forward slash I used to take you should go This is the daily tech news for Tuesday, June 16th, 2015 I'm John Murray joining me as he does most Tuesdays. Mr. Patrick of Asia DTNS contributor independent podcaster man of the letters. How are you and of Leather's? Man of the letters Where's many many pieces of leather? I Wasn't aware but I guess you know having seen Mad Max two times I could be into that. Yeah Yes I am I am Patrick Beja and I am an extremely tired version of Patrick Beja again because I've been following all of the Conferences from E3 and the the Sony one was from 4 a.m. To 6 a.m. My time That was harsh. Yeah, that's anything in the three or 4 a.m. Region no matter where you are if you have to get up at that time That's that's just hard.  So yeah, life is hard, right life as a yeah, so hard full disclosure though That that Patrick is very tired when we tell you whether it was worth it for him to get up At 4 in the morning might affect his mood on that Matt. What was announced? We'll find out Let's talk about the headlines See that called Sony's E3 press conference a mix of nostalgia and exclusives Okay, Halo creator bungee announced a new expansion for destiny. That's coming in September Sony also has exclusive deals for early access to Square Enix's next hit man called hit man as well as exclusive access to Street Fighter 5 And Call of Duty Black Ops. That was a steal for him Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Syndicate will offer PlayStation only missions and the next Disney Infinity game will come with an exclusive Star Wars figure in a PlayStation only bundle Square Enix remake Final Fantasy 7 is a timed exclusive for the ps4 Sega launched a Kickstarter for Shenmue 3 which funded its first 2 million dollar goal in 9 hours making it the fastest Funding video game on Kickstarter yet Sony introduced a first-person shooter called Riggs Exclusive for Sony's Morpheus virtual reality headset although We don't know exactly when that headsets coming and Sony PlayStation view the TV service Expanded to San Francisco and Los Angeles while Sony also made vague promises about future a la carte channel purchasing options Oh, oh, oh, I'd apparently last Guardian is coming in 2016 You thought I was gonna leave that out didn't you yeah, we thought yeah They they opened with it So that was pretty big and and it was oh just to be clear the exclusives on hitman and Call of Duty are The maps are first on PlayStation For for Call of Duty and a few missions on hitman. It's not the entire games like it is for Street Fighter 5 But there's a lot to say about Sony. I don't know if you want to do it here or in the discussions Topic, but yeah, let's hold let's let's hold off. We'll leave it with the details here We'll tell you our thoughts in the wider e3 discussion in a bit and Until then we're gonna talk about Nintendo's e3 digital announcement conference that had a lot of new titles for 3ds And a lot fewer new titles for the Wii U Nintendo will release Amigos for Bowser and Donkey Kong that will work in the Wii U version of Activision Skylanders superchargers in September or maybe they're gonna be Skylanders that also work as amiibo's no one's sure the legend of Zelda try four zeroes comes to the 3ds a Three-player cooperative take on the classic adventure franchise that has online play and arrives this fall It's kind of puzzly. I think it's reminiscent of four swords for those who remember that title for 2016 the 3ds will also get Metroid Prime Federation Force which is not quite a Metroid Prime game It's a multiplayer focused online shooter set as a spin-off and also Mario and Luigi Paper Jam, which is another installment in the paper Mario series of RPGs for Wii U owners this year There's Super Mario maker coming September 11th Yoshi's wooly world October 16th and later this year animal crossing amiibo festival Sorry, I was yawning there Mario tennis ultra smash and of course Star Fox zero is coming towards the end of the year during the holiday season Finally nintendo nintendo also teased fire emblem fates, which is the western version of fire emblem if and Xenoblade chronicles the next installments in the popular JRPG series That's Xenoblade chronicles X So the two things I took out of Nintendo was oh clever cooperation between Activision on Skylanders because obviously it just means more people are gonna buy games for the Nintendo, which is good for Nintendo and more Skylanders, which is good for Activision It's not I don't think it says revolutionary as some people were saying when they first heard it also yarn is apparently the new big thing 83 this year.  You have those characters in Skylanders and honestly again, I have quite a few things to say about Nintendo's conference. It was this Summary makes it seem soup kind of exciting It was the opposite of that and it was even a mistake for Nintendo to do to do one at this stage We're gonna talk about it during the discussion topic Alright, I've got some non-e3 news as well. Twitter is going the way of autoplay the next web reports that video and gifs will now play Automatically, but the sound will be muted until you click on the video or turn the phone to landscape view It's similar to what Facebook does users can opt out But you have to opt out and Twitter automatically Disables the feature if it thinks you have low bandwidth change rolls out today to Twitter comm and Twitter for iOS Android doesn't get that feature yet This time maybe that's a good thing. I don't know Yeah, I love it. I'm not part of the anti autoplay crowd as long as it doesn't activate sound So for me, I'm it's okay I have a problem when I because I open way too many tabs So it's partly a personal problem the autoplay will often cause issues and cause tabs to crash and now that sort of thing Chrome that's true. I I am Super OCD and I close my tabs as soon as I don't need them So I don't I just not scripted now. So forget about it Computer world reports that a UK company called intelligent environment is promising to bring emoji only passcodes to banks They claim emojis as a pin will prevent hackers from identifying common and easily obtainable numerical passcodes like a date of birth or a wedding anniversary There are 44 available emojis which equals to three million four hundred and ninety eight thousand three hundred and eight Unique combinations of non-repeating emojis. No banks have signed on to the system yet. It's it's not To it's not silly though This is a really clever way to get some attention for your company because Anybody can do this. It's you know, emojis are unicode and and you're right You're absolutely right Patrick like if you were to make emojis kind of a standard way to doing pins then You got three million four hundred ninety eight thousand three hundred eight However, that means you can't use that pin at a lot of terminals where all you have is a numerical keypad So there's a long way to go and the banks reaction from this computer world article Anyway seem to be very non-plussed as if they were not terribly sure in in fact Even the spokesperson from intelligent environments said, oh, it'll be around, you know We'll see it within 12 months or so So I don't know what you're what you're saying makes a lot of sense Tom But I really want to use cake monkey poo as my passcode for my bank No, you're right like the idea that if this was actually implemented not just somebody saying hey, we're gonna do it I'd be way on board with that because it it's easier to remember, you know elephant monkey alien face Fish flag if that's your thing Then it is to remember, you know six one seven six or whatever So, yeah, I'm and and there's more combinations and all that. Um, oh, it's not just cake monkey and poo You're right. There's 44 of them. So yeah, there are possibilities TechCrunch reports adobe's creative cloud a new milestone update was announced They even though they constantly roll out updates once a year They roll out all the big updates Kind of to get attention make it easier for you to plan for for these kinds of updates big addition is adobe stock now That's not the stuff you buy on the New York Stock Exchange It's a new stock photo and video service created after the acquisition of Fotolia Photoshop and Lightroom also got a D haze filter a lot of people excited about that Photoshop now has support for art boards as well as an HTML 5 based design space that shows only the tools optimized for app Design so app developers might like that as well Is the adobe stock part of your creative cloud a subscription that's that's really big You still have to pay for Individual over the license for the photos. Okay, I don't know if they have a certain amount that are free because you're a subscriber That's possible. But yeah, they they intend to see this as a revenue generator. I'm sure TechCrunch reports that box is now integrated in Microsoft Office Online Box has already been available in office 365 and box competitor draw box Integrated into office online in April so many boxes. Yeah, this is Mike Microsoft's playing it right They're saying look we want you to start in one drive because that's gonna be easier for us easier for you But hey, you start in Dropbox. We don't mean to not use office because of that and here's the big thing You know what? I'm starting to look at this and realizing wow It might be easier for me to use office online than Google Drive Because I can access these various storage options and Google Drive I have to move everything to Google Drive if I want to use the Google Docs system And you know, I don't know if you've ever used office online I'm not quite clear who can and can't use it because whenever I go to To one drive I can edit the documents that are there in office without a specific subscription and that piece of web app is Amazing they've you know, I don't think Microsoft gets enough praises for their ability to create amazing web apps right now Those office web apps are honestly mind-blowing. Well, I shouldn't say mind-blowing They're excellent in the way that the best office the best web apps you've seen on the web are and it really provides a very Viable alternative even for a lightweight Document editing like we all use in the tech world with Google Drive. It's much more powerful Yeah, there were various versions of office 365 and office online in the past So I think there's some confusion out there But yeah, anybody can go to office dot live comm use office online for free and you get access to word One-note PowerPoint Excel So go to one drive if where you host your files and try to click on the files from there And you'll probably be able to use, you know, I don't even know who can't because I don't have a subscription And I can't know you don't need a subscription. There's limits on how many files you can have there's limits on storage space And so office 365 is for if you want to be able to access through your desktop Versions of the applications because obviously the online version of word doesn't have all the features But yeah, I think you're right I like it Microsoft doesn't get enough credit that office online is essentially Google Drive right now, but with Microsoft Yeah The Verge reports razors open-source virtual reality platform now supports Android as well as position tracking That's a bigger one even position tracking was a noted absence from the initial release back in January hardware support within OS VR will eventually be added to allow Android phones to take the place of a dedicated display in total OS VR now up to 144 supporters probably their biggest ones are unity and unreal engines and Yes, I was not gonna comment on this so go ahead You just have nothing to say no, it's it's there isn't that much to say It's it's like great job open-source virtual reality platform I hope you continue to gain momentum, but yeah, there's not much to say about it at this point, but I'm happy about this Time now for some news from you daily tech news show dot reddit.com if you don't know about it You haven't been listening to the show Because I talk about it every time, but you should go there lots of great stories submitted by the folks in the audience Voted up voted down by the folks in the audience now It's not representative necessarily of every single person in the audience But we certainly pay attention to it because there's no close to 5,000 people in there Let us know what they think and of course Captain Kipper submitted the last pass blog post that attackers had penetrated the password managers network and Accessed account email addresses password reminders server per user salts and authentication has it's hashes So no plain text account passwords and with last pass it gets confusing so pay attention The passwords that they gathered may still be difficult to crack as last pass uses a hundred thousand rounds of server side PBK df2 shaw 256 in addition to client side rounds and to be clear The database of the stored passwords that you store in last pass for other accounts. The whole reason you use last pass was not accessed Only the master password Files and those were encrypted. They were very strongly encrypted But in reaction last pass is put in place email verification Suggesting turning on multi-factor authentication if you haven't already and encouraging all accounts to change their master password just to be extra safe The criticisms of them so far been like well, they took three days to email people Some people say that's faster than most companies would other people say well my I didn't know that I was vulnerable for three days And then of course there's the general theory that hey is Darren kitchen said last Friday You've got to not store really sensitive stuff in these central locations or you could risk losing everything And so we're all of their users passwords Accessed or just a portion of their user base sounds like all of them were they were all Extremely heavily encrypted and that's you know, that's one of the things that we usually see is they still the user names and passwords and the passwords Were weakly encrypted these are very strong if you have an easy to guess password It's still possible that they could crack it if they really want to and it's possible because they got the salts that once they crack one And they got the authentication hashes they might be able to crack more But everything that last pass is done as far as saying we're gonna make you a re reauthenticate if you don't have multi-factor authentication We're gonna suggest you change your master password just to be safe should make this theft Useless if you take those precautions at least for now and if you don't have Two-factor authentication, then what are you doing? Yeah, turn it on? Yeah, good idea Star Fury Zeta posted the article from Mashable that Google Maps can now warn you if a destination will be closed By the time you get there of course the hours of operation have to be correct and Google's traffic estimator has to be accurate But still it's a nice touch for maps. Yeah It's cool. It's it's you know, it's so clever Of course, they tell you how long it's going to take for you to get somewhere if you know Taking traffic into account and send your reminder with taking that into account as well That makes complete sense just an additional small service is cool The real Frank L sent us the New York Times report that the FBI is investigating whether employees of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team hacked into the internal network of the Houston Astros baseball team to steal data on players Investigators have uncovered evidence the Cardinals officials may have obtained internal discussions about trades proprietary statistics and scouting reports Astros GM Jeff Lunow left the Cardinals in December 2011 the FBI believes the attackers used a list of passwords that Mr. Lunow had used while working for the Cardinals and Continued to use while working for the Astros and that's how they were able to access the Astros network So no high-level hacking just a little social engineering and yeah It's very disappointing for me as a Cardinals fan that this may have happened This is you know, just like the EA conference. I tune out as soon as I hear it has anything to do with sports And that's what happened here But there's a really interesting story that you missed then Patrick About yeah, and the lesson of don't use the same passwords in multiple places So let me try this let me try this real Frank L The New York Times report that the FBI is investigating whether employees of one company hacked into the internal networks of another company to steal data Sensitive data was obtained Apparently because the employee had left the first company gone to the second company But use the same passwords he used as the first company and they were able to access the data That is unconscionable You should have changed the password you use I'm outraged excellent job Tom I feel like we now need to do like two versions of every story like that involves any kind of sports. All right That's a look at the headlines E3 man, okay, Sony came out said hey the last Guardian everybody got super excited Then they said file fantasy 7 remake a lot of other people got really excited Shamu 3 was pretty exciting Well Shenmue 3 that was just weird I don't think I have a problem with the idea of going to Kickstarter and it's really a matter of Just why not do it if you can they they have but the real problem with Shenmue 3 You know they get on a huge stage with a huge Hardware manufacturer who's also a publisher and say hey guys we want to make a game give us money on Kickstarter It did feel weird that being said why not you know they they they could do it It's being fun funded at an incredible rate. Did you watch the video of the Kickstarter video for Shenmue 3? No, I didn't watch that video.  It doesn't give any confidence in anything Ever still, you know, they're making their meeting their goals Whatever Shenmue is a very highly anticipated desired game by the fans and But keep in mind even though it has close to 2.7 million dollars in funding now That's still less than 40,000 Contributors so it's not like the game is gonna get funded just with that amount of money or you know sell enough just with those guys That are super and gals that are super enthusiastic the Shenmue one if my sources are correct Needed if you adjust for inflation 67 million dollars, so that's a lot of people have been saying well you could just you know if you're gonna Fund it anyway with this money. Why do you even need the whatever? They're not gonna fund it with just the Kickstarter money. They need a lot more money than this to create the game anyway Shenmue Assign, how do you feel about the fact that it's 2.6 million to make a German version but 2.7 million to make a French version? The Germans win again. No All the time what wait a minute I don't I don't you know, I don't care about the fact I don't get outraged about the Kickstarter thing Nowadays people know what they're getting into initially. It was a different story people were sort of getting deceived They thought they were gonna get something that wasn't what they were ultimately getting and they didn't know what kick Kickstarter was now If if anyone says well, I thought I was buying the game No, every they're being disingenuous everyone knows especially in this community what Kickstarter is what you're buying into what you're getting and If you don't I think it's on your you know on you as a user as a Kickstarter User to to be a little bit better informed times have changed So I don't have a problem with it. Everyone's being honest, but lest we Somehow give you the impression that the Sony announcement was mostly about Shenmue 3. It wasn't What was the Sony announcement mostly about um, it's well Honestly, I loved that announcement. I thought it was the press conference was good But it was mostly about fan service. It was fan service fan service fan service they opened with the last Guardian which is a spiritual sequel to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus which are games that had a huge following But not if they weren't a huge commercial success So this was really trying to please those people specifically and anyone who hasn't who hadn't heard about that game was probably a little uncertain about what was happening there the Final Fantasy 7 remake was so well received because There's again a very hardcore following of that game specifically that wanted it and last year They announced Final Fantasy 7 on PlayStation 4 but as a port as a Regular old graphics port and people were very disappointed by this. So the remake was well received for that reason I don't think they're huge titles for the general well-being of the PlayStation so it was huge amounts of fan service and What I sort of Realized discussing with people on Twitter and talking about this with other people Is that Sony? Really doesn't have a great lineup for this year ultimately the only big hitter they have is No man's sky that space exploration game Which we we don't really know what the gameplay loop is going to be like We also know release date we they said the release date would come soon But not when the actual game would come they've said it It is this year holiday season if it isn't they don't have anything which is you know frustrating for the Microsoft Fans who are well, let's finish on Sony very quickly though They everything Sony has is usually Next year early next year They have a few Exclusive on portions of content for this year They did make a big statement about Call of Duty being now the new home of Call of Duty is PlayStation And that's a big game obviously and they said that all the map packs all of them would be coming first on PlayStation And it might be a couple of weeks, you know a month early But still it's important if you're gonna choose between two essentially identical consoles And you're a Call of Duty fan and you're gonna want the one that gets the the map packs first Same for Hitman Batman. There are a couple of exclusives there The one thing that I was really surprised about was that they basically did not mention Morpheus they it was a throwaway sentence about that game rigs that they didn't even demo at the show It's basically a mech mech a giant robot fighting game Which makes sense because in a robot you would move your head independently of your body So it would make sense for a VR game, but apart from that they were showing, you know a lot of things for 2016 but not a lot for 2015 and I was saying Microsoft fans must have been a little bit frustrated because ultimately Microsoft had a slightly stronger lineup and bigger announcements that you mentioned last episode for this year And still even though that that situation is completely true I think that the preference of the players went to Sony ultimately all E3 Sorry, go ahead Tom. I keep talking. No. No, I I didn't see that I did and that so that's a very that's a very subjective assessment that that the The winner was named Sony. I I was listening to the IGN broadcast today I was listening to Jeff Keely's broadcast yesterday And he had a lot of people on and they generally seem to prefer Microsoft there now You're talking about the sentiment of the people that you were seeing online talking about it I'm talking about commentators and so that may be the difference there And I I don't think Sony did a bad job because of all the fan service, you know Just but among Final Fantasy 7 and The Last Guardian alone you had people just screaming that they were Feeling great about it. And you know, that's interesting that on the Jeff Keely show on YouTube They went to look at Twitter and the Twitter people were exploding about those very two things Which is what you're talking about Whereas that the more sober people who cover this space said yeah, but they didn't let you there's any what you're saying They didn't announce anything that's coming later this year And so I think that may come back to be a problem for Sony later in the year However, they're already ahead They may feel that it's worth it to give them a little bit of space so they can ramp up and have an amazing 2016 Well, I think it's never a good idea to give too much space to you know your competition and in this case They might have but I think it was a missed opportunity for for Microsoft because they did have cool things You know the compatibility with 360 games is cool But it's not great and currently the big question is whether or not Microsoft would manage to reverse the dynamic of that generation of consoles with Sony having a lead in sales and an installed base that is significant and in order to achieve that I think they couldn't have done that they can't just do as well as Sony does and it's kind of what is My impression with this maybe Microsoft in the mind of some people did a little bit better But not significantly because Sony might not have a lot of things for this year But for Q1 2016, which is not you know that far away from the holiday season. They have a few bigger titles and some Exclusives as well. I think I may have accidentally just read more Sony fans the Microsoft fans because you know No, I'm now I'm talking about the way I'm viewing the trend of the not okay So you personally think Sony did a better job just because they had the better stuff. Is that what you're saying? No, what I'm saying is they basically did an equally good job But in order to reverse the dynamic Microsoft needed to do more than a better job And they would have needed to do something to jolt their the people towards their side Something like you know a slim version of the console or maybe a VR Compatibility with Oculus for example, you know on the Xbox one that would have given them an immediate win and the Compatibility with 360 game is cool, but it's not good enough to reverse the trend the dynamic So Tomb Raider is cool again. It's not cool enough and same for Halo Halo 4 which anyone who is interested in Halo 4 is Probably already going to have purchased an Xbox one So I don't think that we're gonna see a reversal of the existing Balance of power between Microsoft and Sony this year, which might mean I think I might be thinking that Microsoft because they didn't explode at this E3 Might have lost this generation and you know keep in mind losing this generation just means that they're saying less than Sony But they're still selling but loads But I don't think they're gonna catch up to Sony back by this point I don't think that this is the last thing I want to say about Sony versus Microsoft because we got to talk about Nintendo too I don't think that Microsoft has lost the generation yet I think I think it would be a mistake to say that just because Microsoft didn't leap in front of Sony at this conference That that it's all over the game is is a is a much too long term for that I think you're absolutely right though that Microsoft didn't do enough to definitively leap in front of Sony But Microsoft has been catching up on its own and they did the fundamentals well and sometimes that's all you need It may not be as dramatic it may not be as obvious But sometimes when you just do the little things well if the other team doesn't do something great You know and and and super excellent that you can take advantage of right away You can catch them up and and that I think is Microsoft's strategy They're hoping that we'll continue this forward progress. We've been making we will catch them by the holiday season and then 2016 will tell the tale and I think we'll see big announcements from both these companies at next year's E3 Well, I agree on that But I think that they're not gonna catch up by this holiday season Unfortunately because I love Microsoft and I want more reasons to buy an Xbox one I'm not being part partisan here and I think that 2016 Sony showed a stronger lineup Microsoft has a strong stronger lineup for 2015 but for 2016 Sony had a stronger lineup Which is why I think they're gonna keep but we'll see I you know I guess we'll we'll see what happens and Sony also has Morpheus on the PlayStation side Microsoft unfortunately doesn't have anything on the virtual reality. Well, or they have everything I mean the the the other way to look at it is Microsoft said valve great. We'll work with that Oculus great We'll work with that a hollow lens. Yeah, we're gonna put that out And you could look at it as Microsoft having more options because they're more of being more of an open platform They're not an open platform in this case not really because that's a mistake that a lot of people are doing they're assuming that Microsoft announced compatibility for Xbox one for these VR platforms. They didn't they announced compatibility for Windows 10 which is coming to Xbox one later this year. I think you're gonna see compatibility there. That is the one Ace trump in the trump card in the sleeve. Let's not get political If they announced, you know by at the end of the year Compatibility on Xbox one then I think it's the one way that they could actively, you know That's what I said initially if they have Oculus compatibility It's a huge win for Oculus and a huge win for Microsoft and that might reverse thing. It could happen I for sure. All right, you are not a big fan of Sony or Microsoft in particular.  I know that And I know that you were not pleased by what you saw today. So yeah, just to correct the statement I'm a big fan of Sony Microsoft and Nintendo. I'm a fan of everyone But yeah, Nintendo's Nintendo's e3 Nintendo Direct which wasn't really a press conference. It was a pre-recorded video. I think on that On that one. I think we'll agree that the reactions pretty much everywhere was were at least very underwhelmed Nintendo did a lot of small announcement. Nothing was really Exciting they hinted at the NX system as they said they wouldn't talk about it this year They hinted and said we'll talk about this in 2016 But everyone seemed underwhelmed and to the point that what they were showing was so Well underwhelming that I'm I'm thinking they should not have Done that video at e3. They would have been better off not doing the video at all because I honestly think their brand and their goodwill was Tarnished a little bit by this thing. It feels like they have a Small stable of games that they're gonna release Until the end of the year and that's gonna be you know mainly star Fox which Did not look super good because the Wii U is showing its limits and for these these types of games You need probably a little bit more horsepower for the artistic style they're going with and No, no mention of the legend of Zelda Wii U that will come probably in 2016, but that's the current consoles last who raw and it feels like Nintendo is now on the development side 90% on the NX so this current generation of consoles that we still have to live with for probably 18 months are losing steam very rapidly and and It showed in there in their presentation But amiibo's Right some people you know there is a segment of the population that's super the Muppets were kind of cute initially, but I think it was I've been saying that those Nintendo Directs were Awkward at first and then became kind of awkwardly cute I think this one was the one too many where it went back to being just awkward and weird all right bottom line Was there anything good at this year's E3 there were many good things There wasn't VR which was surprising yeah, everyone thought this was all this E3 will be dominated by VR not the case and Not the case and I think that pushes back the development of VR from you know Early to mid 2016 to at least end of 2016 because games are gonna be a very important component of that, but No, there were huge lots of cool things. I mean the games that were presented are a huge Potential for for fun and for gamers the games that were introduced at the other conferences were super Exciting there were Bethesda's conference by the way was great for their first conference at E3 It was a huge success in every respect and I did a very quick on scientific Survey of people's level of excitement for the different Conferences Sony went in first with 44% Microsoft second 25% there might be you know Preferences there, but EA and Ubisoft had 4 and 6% Bethesda had 20% so they really I think they might have stolen the show as Developer or publisher and not a manufacturer a few games were very cool You know doomed dishonored all of those full out for of course the Tomb Raider I'm a huge fan of Gears of War 4. It's gonna be coming in 2016 But it looked cool enough mass effect for it 2016 as well end of year But still unravel was exciting But the one game that I think I'm I was the most surprised about was a horizon Horizon Zero Dawn That game was came out of nowhere That's the mechadino one, right? Yeah, and and when you have here the pitch, you know It's post-apocalyptic world with mechanized dinosaurs, you know robot dinosaurs that you're hunting It sounds like the stupidest thing ever, but the intro to that game. Well the stupidest and coolest I I agree, but the intro to that game made it look and feel Genuine and you know the way that heroine Interacted with the robots in a kind of almost Avatar kind of way, you know, she killed the little one and she said oh, I'm sorry little one I couldn't let you call your friends, you know apologizing to the machine that she considered an animal of some kind It was strange and interesting So there is a lot to be excited about it's just that the dynamic is not changing with that E3 And we thought it was going to there. We're gonna be big shake-ups. I don't think we're gonna see them Yeah, I agree with you there. I'm excited about Super Mario maker September 11th 2015 They're they're having it in Best Buy is in the US and Canada between June 17th and June 20th as well I think that's the coolest thing that I saw Nintendo announce PlayStation view came to Los Angeles. So I got a chance to try it yesterday. It's really well done Needs more channels and needs a little easier way to find what's on demand There's a little confusion about like not having the rights to show some things, but the interface Is very slick compared to sling TV. I'm also excited about no man's sky whenever that actually comes and Tomb Raider I Was fixated, you know, I'm sitting there taking notes looking at live blogs Tomb Raider came up and I was just Stopped everything I was doing and just watched. I thought that was amazing Tomb Raider is an excellent version of Uncharted It's it's it looks like a fantastic game Which is ironic because Uncharted was an improvement over the Tomb Raider formula and Uncharted 4 I'm trying to look pretty good maidens as well Street Fighter 5. I'm a huge Street Fighter fan But the one thing maybe okay, just to to finish up we're being long, but the one thing I really enjoyed was the Change in female representation in the game in the in the show both on stage and in games I think there's there was a realization Last year and maybe even the year before that there was an unbalanced there in the way we approached that Which isn't really an issue the way we represent females in games and it shows because the developers Realized that oh wait a second. We really are not doing a good job at this And probably we should pay a little bit more attention and it showed in the games this year So in the games and again on stage we even had a woman on the Nintendo video, which is unheard of But yeah, I think that that's a positive thing and I think people are realizing after the the entire Controversy that that sparked that you can have bad-ass female characters in games and it's not a big deal You're still gonna have good games. So that was that made me happy I think it is sad that we still have to point it out But you're right that it's progress and I think the underlying problem is that you know We just don't have an open enough system so that we don't have to pay attention to that and it would just naturally occur Well, it's it's changing. I think this is one. This is when it's changing. So our pick of the day comes from fronds In insert weather conditions here, Austria. I don't know what your weather conditions are fronds By the way, not a requirement to give us your conditions when you write to us It's a lot of people seem to I Says to play your existing PC games in full stereoscopic 3d. 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I wonder though Oh, by the way, there's a one conference left, which is the PC gaming conference later today So hopefully we we might still have exciting surprises there, but I'm wondering if they provide the puke bag with the thing because Not not there's an open-source design for a puke bag though As an extension so send your pics to feedback at daily tech news show calm You can find my pics at daily tech news show comm slash pics Alan found it interesting that Microsoft ads backward compatibility Xbox one He said Sony got a little backlash for no backwards compatibility in the ps4 But they did start out with some backwards compatibility in the ps3 Before they phased it out to me this makes it seems like backwards compatibility is only a move to make when you're behind in the market Kind of goes to your point Patrick Mm-hmm a little bit and then Tim says I apologize if you and Veronica Oh, sorry. We actually already covered this. He was writing in about last pass. We covered that in the The subreddit finally we got an email wanting to let us know about Something called the Columbus area board gaming society and I apologize that I cut off the person's name who sent this to us Thank you for sending it to us I try to keep up with board gaming news. I wanted to note that in 2013 board game publisher cryptozoic rescued the project The doom that came to Atlantic City He's referring to Allison and Todd talking about the FTC taking consumer protection Action against Eric Chevalier for his Kickstarter campaign that failed Cryptozoic did this without receiving any money from the original campaign And our our emailer felt they deserved a shout out for a gesture of goodwill towards the board gaming community So then did you know about cryptozoic jumping in like that and and helping out to rescue essentially a game that that people had tried to To fund but didn't get fun and then got in trouble with the FTC I didn't realize but you know the the the card game and and board game community seems really tight-knit and Like these kinds of things would happen. It doesn't surprise me all that much Um, and by the way, the the the person's name is uh, Jonathan Anglin. Thank you Jonathan Anglin Uh for sending that along and thank you Uh for digging that And thank you for being on the show. That's it for daily tech news show Patrick Bezier You can follow him on twitter twitter.com slash not Patrick. Uh, go get his english language podcast at french spin dot com Uh, and obviously you guys are going to be talking about this on pixels. I'm sure Yes, absolutely. Um So first I was on allison chariden's no sila cast this weekend and we discussed the wwdc Which I was complaining jokingly. I couldn't discuss on this show last week And so she invited me and we had a nice chat about that. So thank you allison and if you want to listen to that It's available. Um, and of course pixels. Yes We're going to be covering the entirety of e3 with the ones called johnson With whom actually we covered the conferences live Yesterday the the main conferences Including the one in the middle of the night and it was a lot of fun And I'm sure we're going to have a huge amount of fun on on the joint pixels boob show episode which will be Recorded tomorrow and it will be in your feeds Shortly after so tomorrow you should have it in your feeds on the pixels show go to french spin dot com to find out more about that A deep deep. 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Did we learn whether you do emojis break some people's uh podcatcher So it's probably better to not to save that powder for when it's desperately needed What it's just a resource puke bag Can you 3d print a puke bag off of Thingiverse you could take You could take uh paul gannon's title and just substitute so like cake monkey tears devil And then it would be the emoji password cake monkey alien face Yeah, that's a great title. What are you saying?  It's like you're being censored poo So you were suggesting alternatives, I believe is that not correct.  Do we want those people that would be driven away by cake monkey? well You know, it is a tech podcast. We're we're not I mean, we're not poo averse, but we're also not We're not fighting for the right Yeah Right for your right to say No, it's to put it. It's yeah, that's to put it to put it Djibouti What about fantasy seven?  We didn't mention it, but I'm off for a couple of episodes now, right? Yes, we're being filled in for like quality folks Excellent. Well, I I hope they're not too Quality you don't you know, you let me come back I'll put it this way. One of them is Veronica Belmont and one of them is mollywood. Oh, so I'm fine That's we had to go that far One of them's already a contributor and one of them has a full-time job at marketplace. Oh, okay. Well, I thank you There's also that aspect that speeds volume about the quality of my contributions We had to go all the way back to the original cast of buzz out loud to replace you That's what we're trying to say. Yeah, that's true. Thank you. Yeah, that's a much better way of looking at it I'll take that one. All right Thank you very much guys. All right. Thanks, man I love you very much and I love you that I can see as well very much Miss you and love you. Bye. Bye Even three weeks. All right. Yeah, we're gonna miss you. Seriously. Have a good time off. Thanks.   I why you not eat lunch already? It's up to people. It's just been that forever Just you need a pill that's called lunch that you can just swallow I was I used to dream about that as a kid me too It would see the looney tunes cartoon They had an episode where That's funny gets shrunken down and he comes across a bunch of dehydrated foods that like are really small and you add water and they get really big 12 20 times I remember splinter of the mind's eye that that very first star wars novel Had Luke Skywalker eating a food cube. I don't think it was called a food cube, but it was essentially a food Like like a nor chicken bouillon Just gave him all his nutrients in one little cube and I was like, oh, I want that Then you realize that there's so many other things that go on when you eat that your body needs I don't realize nothing. You can't make me Okay, you're right No, you're right. That's that's the problem with um There's liquid diet soylent Soylent they keep trying to balance it to have more fiber or whatever You know about soylent, right? It's made of people Well, I don't think it's made it that may be the problem is the current soylent isn't made of people yet It's like a powder hiding their face Well, no, there's that soylent green it's made of people Oh, no, there was out that hole. I'm not sure if it's still a fat. I don't know. It is a fad Where people especially in the tech industry works just long hours. They need to get their meals in quickly and so they've resorted to these like Not high protein, but like these complete nutrient shakes that you can buy And that you drink instead of eating like lunch. It's almost like if you Yeah, well the first one was I'm sure the other ones have different names. It's the same Same thing, but it's uh, it's kind of like the uh, slim fast diet Except you don't really eat a balanced meal at the end. You just keep drinking it So you can put in more hours To work at your startup Make the VC happy. I'm dangerously close to that moment But really I'm ending up in five minutes at the Warner Brothers commissary.  Oh, you're right. I totally am That's probably all that's going to be left 30 to be honest is like is this a piece of bread? I will eat it if you're walking up to the commissary and you hear Do-do-do-do-do-do then you'll know I am actually excited when I have a little bit more mula disposable mula to go to the Warner Brothers Gift shop because I anticipate many cool things are there That's yeah, that's why that's there designed to separate you from your money Yeah Grandpa tag You know what once you have a kid you start thinking like you were like that before don't pretend it's don't blame your daughter Just play the fact that you were born a miser I think Jen mark would say like roger the only one here. That's gonna be a millionaire. It's like why is because you Don't spend any money I mean well the part of it was like I was like well, you know all the stuff like I would have normally bought I used to get in for reviews So it's like I played with it. It's like, uh, okay. I don't really need to buy it and so I think that kind of Was one of the big things I'm sure game game Game reviewers are kind of the same way you get so many games Um as review copies that you're like, no, I don't really need to buy Yeah, why would you question? Yes Can someone do the video part for me today where you upload it to archive? Because that will make the difference between the eating and the not eating Yes So grateful for you. Yeah, roger. I'll do it. Yep Yeah Can I guarantee like it'll be done like within an hour or anything? But yeah, I don't sometimes it takes an hour For the process to unfold on slow days. So yeah, I still need to pump out these notes Revelations Cool I'm just well, I'm gonna go think big thoughts about a web series and by the way Thank you to every single person who wrote in or tweeted or gave us information yesterday about about 360 degree video because Even if I don't think I can assign it now I can talk about how they all should be thinking about it That's great. And that is super helpful. So and I'll be going into detail more about it in other classes But I just felt like I was like, oh, thank you chat around. Thank you DTNS listeners.  I'm going to your bloodstream. I'm almost done here. Yes And watch trailers. Okay. Bye. Bye The trailers are good for your digestion. Don't you think? Uh Yes, you know, I will say maybe it's trailer fatigue, but like the more trailers I see the less I'm like, yeah, I mean like movies games or whatever. It's okay. Yeah, uh, maybe I'll tell you one thing I've noticed for sure not so much that for me, but uh, I go to the movies now and I've already seen half the trailers And it becomes yeah, and I get that reaction and like, oh right. I've already seen this one So, you know, I used to be the fun part of watching the trailers before the movie is like Oh, I haven't you know, I haven't heard about this movie get to see a little bit about it But now that you can watch them Like immediately on your laptop and I do I kind of remember when there were cartoons and there were only two trailers before a movie You could see actually remember seeing freaking bugs bunny playing before a movie I watched uh, Ferdinand the uh, the shy the bashful bull or whatever. Oh, yeah, yeah Right before um, I had the books Ferdinand had books This is if I was just the one story Well, maybe there was only one book. Maybe I shouldn't be using the plural, but I had a book that told ferdinand store all right That is it I am out of the post So typing But uh, did we do a emw this month? I don't remember not yet Because I want to talk about Rachel Oh, you do. All right I don't know planning a topic ahead of time on east meets west. It's Kind of innovative, but we can we can give it a shot. Let's see how it works Uh, I don't know. It's just because jen's on it and like her friends are on and I read all about it I just like what? I just think it's a very interesting Well, that's it for us. Uh, stay tuned for your late local news. We'll see you next time


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In this video, we are going to present the solution to question number 5 from the practice midterm exam number 2 for math 2270. We're given a 3 by 3 matrix A right here, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 3, 4, negative 3, 8. And we have the sequence of row operations that converts A into the identity. So we know this is a non-singular matrix. We're supposed to factor A as a product of elementary matrices. And so we notice here as we go from A to this matrix to the next one, to the next one, to the next one, to the next one, to the identity. Each step along the way, there is a single row operation that's performed. And so what I want to first do is recognize what those operations are. To go from A to the first matrix there, though, I've performed an interchange operation. Okay, so you interchange rows one and two. I'm gonna keep track of my pivots right here. So we just went from, we interchange rows one and two. To construct the elementary factorization of A, I'm gonna get a matrix going left to right. It's gonna be the same row operations we have to do the inverse. Now the inverse of the interchange matrix is its own, it's its itself. So the interchange matrix, it'll look like the identity, but we swapped the, we swapped the order of rows one and two right here. So you're gonna get one, or 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1. This is an interchange matrix right there to coincide with the operation and play right there. So next, as we go from this matrix to that matrix right there, notice that we're getting rid of the four right there. We took row three, excuse me, and then we subtracted from it four times row one. That's how we went from here to here. So what we did here is we have a minus four, zero, and then a minus 12 right there. We don't actually have to do the details of that. That's what the operation plays here. So the next matrix in the factorization is gonna be a replacement matrix for which we're gonna get, it's a unit lower triangular matrix here. So we get ones on the diagonal, zero's above. And so in the three one position, we're gonna get a positive four. So the thing is we have to take the inverse operation. So if we took minus four row one, we're gonna get a plus four in the matrix right here. So that's, that's how this elementary factorization works. As you, you go in the same order left to right, but you have to do inverse operations. All right, so then look into the next matrix right here. We see that the first column's done. So my pivot position now would come to this one right here. I wanna give her that negative three that's below it. So I would take row three plus three times row two. That's another replacement matrix that we're gonna put here. And again, it's gonna be lower triangular, unit lower triangular. And you're gonna get zeros below the diagonal except in the three two position, in which case I'm gonna get a negative three. I have to do the opposite of the number I see right here. Then we get this matrix right here, great. Your pivot position's gonna be right here. So how do you go to the next matrix? Well, notice the pivot went from a two to a one. So that suggests to me that scaling happened. We took the second, the third row and we divide everything by two, right? So the next matrix in this factorization will be a scaling matrix. So it's gonna, it's gonna be a diagonal matrix. So everything off the diagonal will be zero. Everything on the diagonal will be one except for the row that we changed. We changed row three, so we divided three by two. So we have to put the inverse operation. So we're actually gonna times it by two. So you get one, one, two along the diagonals, okay? So the next thing here is that looking at this pivot, what's the next thing to do? Notice they got rid of the three right here, went from three to zero. So there must have been a replacement operation that happened there. So this would be row one minus three times row three. So our replacement elementary matrix, it'll be unit triangular. But this time it's gonna be upper triangular because we're taking, we're adding to a lower number matrix row there, excuse me. And this is gonna be in the one three spot. So in the one three spot, we're gonna put a positive three because we have a negative three right there. And then we have one more operation to do. Notice that our pivot position as we go from this matrix to the identity, we gotta get rid of this two right here. So how is that accomplished? That's accomplished by taking row two minus two times row three. I'm gonna scoots this over a little bit. So we got this last matrix. This is a replacement matrix, so it's gonna be unit upper triangular. We're gonna get zeros everywhere except for the two three position, the two three position. So we have a negative two coefficient, so we're gonna put a positive two right there. And I'm gonna zoom out a little bit so you can see all of it here. And so now there are six row operations to get from A to the identity, and therefore our factorization will have six elementary matrices, which we had the interchange, replacement, replacement, scaling, replacement, replacement. And in each of these situations, we take this inverse operation. The inverse of interchange is itself, so you don't have to worry about that. For replacements, you have to switch to sign. So we got a positive four, negative three, positive three, positive two. And then for scaling, you just have to take the reciprocal. We times by one-half, so in my factorization, I get a two.


This video is called Right Triangle Trig 5. It's the last video for your notes tonight. There's two more problems left. Again, it's practicing looking at your triangle, picking the correct trig function, setting it up correctly, and hopefully being able to use your calculator to solve and get the right answer. So here in this case, it looks like we're going to go from the perspective of the 32, which means the 30 is my opposite and the x is my hypotenuse. And Sokotoa would tell us that this is a sign. Because sign is opposite over hypotenuse. So to set up your problem, you're going to have the sign of 32 degrees equals the opposite, which is 30 over x, which is my hypotenuse. So this would get me partial credit on a test by setting this up correctly. And then you will earn the rest of your credit by solving it. Again, don't let the fact that the x is in the denominator make you nervous. Just simply do the process that you're used to. To get this x alone or to get rid of the fraction, you take whatever's in the denominator, multiply both sides. So on the right-hand side, the x's cancel, and you're left with the 30. On the left-hand side, you have x times the sign of 32. So to get the x alone, we've got to move that sign of 32. Since it's multiplying the x, we'll do the inverse and divide. So we have 30 divided by the sign of 32, which gives us 56.6. If your calculator doesn't give you that, you'll still need some work on punching things in. It's very important that you can do that, so make sure you get some help. And then lastly, problem 21. It looks like we're going to go from the perspective of 17, where 57 would be my adjacent and x would be not my opposite. Excuse me, but it would be my hypotenuse. If you look at Sokotoa, you can see cosine is adjacent over hypotenuse, so it's important you pick the correct trig function, in this case, it's cosine. So our setup will be the cosine of 17 equals the adjacent, which is 57, over the opposite, which is x. So now, again, to solve this, since you take whatever's in the denominator, multiply it by both sides. The x's cancel on the right, you're left with 57. On the left, you have x times the cosine of 17. So to get the x alone, since the cosine of 17, sorry about that, since the cosine of 17 is multiplying the x, we'll do the inverse and divide. The cosine of 17's on the left cancel, and when you do 57, divide by the cosine of 17 in your calculator, you get 59.6. All right, so hopefully, you're getting comfortable with looking at a right triangle, going from the perspective of an angle to solve for a side length x. You can pick the correct trig function, set it up correctly, and hopefully, use your calculator to help you arrive at the right answer. Good luck.


Greetings learning tons. I'm checking in with a quick update in regard to physique Friday Before I begin to talk about the issue at hand I would just like to encourage you to do two things first and foremost admire this ultimately aesthetic Polish art 100% organic cotton made in Europe feels great mate Absolutely glorious if anything I haven't used that term in a long while now So I thought this would be a good opportunity. I can use it every once in a while I've spent all of my narcissism points. I spent it on My last podcast episode if you haven't listened to it Yeah, you can also check that out all links are as usual in the description box below But anyway, I've spent all of my narcissism points. So I won't do any more flexing or posing for a while I spent enough of them in that episode Either way I asked you A few days ago what you thought of physique Friday. Should we have it every week or should we have it once a month? No, first and foremost physique Friday isn't my term. I didn't coin it. It's just something I took and migrated to Gab because I think it's a nice fun tradition But here's my perspective at least having it once a month It enables us to have all good guys coming together at one time instead of Some guys posting on a certain Friday some other guys posting the next Friday, and you know, you you miss each other sort of It's easier if everyone does it at the same time because posting physique every Friday can be a bit much and as Olympio shout out to my Portuguese friend Said that he doesn't want to focus too much on taking a picture He wants to focus on the training at hand which I completely understand if you do it every week and You know once a week you need to focus on getting a good picture It can be a bit too much and the focus will be on checking in every Friday Instead of the focus being on taking an epic picture Writing something thoughtful to accompany it, etc. So More focus on the progression more focus on the epicness of it all than to just take a picture for the sake of it So I think it's better to do it just once a month. Then of course you can post Physique how often you would like but for me at least I will keep it to the last Friday of each month I will post physique and I will of course interact with anyone who posts physique to gab as well Always really nice for me to see. I'm really happy that we started this fine tradition. It's really white pilling for me to see so what I Meditate upon now what I visualize is once a month everyone all good guys check in with Very epic picture indeed, you know, you get some more time You get time to go out in nature Take a nice picture and make it a bit more worthwhile because it can be hard to do Every week but every month definitely doable then also for a lot of guys You know, you can see a bigger difference from month to month when you post Progress pictures then for week to week so it can be good in in that sense as well so main point I will keep my physique Friday to Every month last Friday of the month I will post physique and interact and you can do exactly as how you want it But in my view at least it's better to keep all the good physique posts to just once a month Becomes more of a special occasion and you get plenty of time to yeah, take a nice picture And you don't need to focus on just taking a picture for the sake of it during every week So that being said, thank you for checking in to this fine video following on telegram gab Of course all the links in the description box below and I will check back with another video in a few days I'm having a bit lower intensity now Not a vacation of course because there's always a lot of things to do But I'll try to keep a bit lower intensity now, but more videos at least will be incoming So that being said next physique post for me will be last Friday of this month So thank you for watching xxO


Today we sit right off one of the most sought-after roads in Waterfall Mid-Rand. Behind me stands a distinguished country mansion that really does require a distinguished pet as well. This home boasts five bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms and is on the market for 36.9 million rand. Today we're going to tour this home and I'm going to show you why it should be your next home. My name is Chad Rivera, this is the Private Property Home Shopper Show. Welcome home. Come on. Going through your double doors and stepping foot into this home, you immediately get hit by a real sense of scale.  They create an archway allowing you to walk into the rest of the home. On my left-hand side you have doors that open up onto your grand dining room and on my right-hand side you get one-half of your double-level library. It gives you a sense of grandeur that a country home like this really does use so well. You've got wall sconces, chandeliers and in fact above this walkway on the first level you've got six chandeliers that really light this house up. I also think a country home really does need fireplaces and this home checks that box with two. One providing this waiting area with some warmth and the second providing the kitchen with warmth and it's a see-through fireplace that I'll show you earlier. But this is your waiting area. You can sit down here and enjoy a game of chess, some board games. You're flanked with two double doors that open up onto your outdoor area but you could also easily make this your lounge or even dining room area if you'd like to place in a massive dining room table. This room also leads off to the whole bottom area of the house. We're going to start off on the west wing where the grand dining room area is. That's also where your kitchen area is and let's take a look at that. First stop has to be your kitchen. The one theme of this home that I do like is the continued use of these face brick arches. A lot of them you get to walk through to pass from one room to the other but they've used it here to encapsulate this fireplace and it is beautiful. It really does suit the country theme of this home. But it's a sleek theme and you see that here in the kitchen, stunning white centre island and it comes with some nice amenities. You've got this pull-out plug point area. You've got this here, your chef's sink and I love the down lighting. The light's really lighting up this area making it a focal point of the kitchen. On your right hand side, you've got a lot of open counter storage and this free-standing gas stove and oven. Just above it, your extractor fan and then over counter storage. So if you're big into cooking, trust me, this home has got enough space for you. Across to the other side, that counter space continues with all open space of here flanked by cupboards as well as drawers and a central cupboard. Just above it, what I love is this illuminated cupboard space. You can really show off your gloss where beautiful champagne glosses or even some wine bottles. Carrying on, we've got more counter space both on the left and the right flanking a door that leads over to your pantry as well as the continuation of your kitchen. So if you are serving a lot of guests, you don't have to clutter this area up. It can all be done through this door so out of sight. You've got space for a double fridge as well as a double sink and under counter storage for your dishwasher. The remainder of your under counter appliances are going to be in your laundry area that I'll point out a little bit later. But plenty of space there and that's where you're going to be doing all your cooking and cleaning. And then even more counter space continues into this area here, which is your breakfast. You've got two separate doors that open up onto your garden. Plenty of natural light and then plantation shutters.  Now we're going to head down this hallway to the grand dining room area and see what else is hidden in this West Wing. Now I'm going to quickly pass the grand dining room area to talk about what else is in this West Wing. First off is your guest toilet. Walking through the double doors to your guest bathroom, you'll find a very, very large mirror as well as basin off to the right. And then behind a door for privacy is your toilet. Beautifully thought out as well as placed very near to your grand dining room area, I think it's quite a clever addition. So none of your guests need to walk through your bedrooms.  Now this home comes with four garages, two of them in the West Wing, two of them in the East Wing. And I'll point out that door as well when we get to it. But right now it's grand dining room time. Walking into your grand dining room area, you get to see chessboard style flooring as well as this stunning Victorian era wall set with the embossed frames on it that runs all the way around this beautiful room. We've got two sets of doors that open outwards onto a small garden area with its very own railing. Now those doors are quite unique in that they are glass doors with aluminum inserts, but they also have their very own windows in it. So the top side you can open up is just a window if you don't want to open the doors. So I quite like that. And front and center has to be this gorgeous chandelier. Each of those individual pieces of glass that you see is its very own rows with lights hidden in between and that hangs above this eight-seater square dining room table. The room is spacious, so it allows you to do what you want with it, but I really do think it suits the name grand dining room area. Now we're going to walk all the way across to the East End and take a look at what that wing of the house has in store for us. Now through this beautiful set of pocket doors inlaid with some frosted glass, you find yourself in one half of your library area. Now there's a stunning wrought iron spiral staircase that takes you all the way up to the second half, bookshelves lining all the walls, but we'll get to that. In this downstairs area, it is perfect for a reading room. These plush leather couches and this wall of windows letting in a lot of natural light, which you need to enjoy a good book. On my left-hand side, we've got this classic walnut bookshelf with that ladder that I think we've seen in so many different movies, so it helps you reach those higher shelves. However, there's so much more of this downstairs area to explore, so let's take this exit and see what else we've got here. Coming out of the library, you get to take your first clear look at the two facebrick archways, this being the first, the second one being right there by the kitchen.  Nah, if it's time to take a look at the west wing of the house. And down this hallway in order of furthest to you, to closest, let me talk about what we're looking at. That door all the way down there is your double garage. It's the east wing's double garage. Just off that double garage is a workspace. If you're a woodworker, if you just want a space to do some handyman activities, you've got a perfect dedicated space right there. And up next, what we're gonna look at is through this set of double doors and that is your gym area. Stepping foot in your gym area, you're welcomed by wide open space with warm wood flooring. On one wall, you've got two windows as well as a door that opens up onto your east wing courtyard with a koi pond and plenty of sunlight. The other wall, however, has a mirror from floor to ceiling wall to wall, allowing you to practice whatever you need in this gym area. You've got plug points, TV screens, and super high ceilings as well as two fans and down lighting. It really is one of the most wall equipped and spacious gyms we've seen so far. Up next is this right here, the guest bedroom and the only bedroom located downstairs. This bedroom has a couple of really nice features. Not only is it spacious and easy to design however you'd like it to, but it has two massive doors that open outwards onto the courtyard I mentioned earlier with a huge koi pond and three separate fountains as well as space outside for you to put tables, chairs, and even some hanging chairs if you'd like to enjoy the sunlight or sunbeds if you'd like to catch a tan. It is a very sought after guest suite. It also leads right out onto its own bathroom. Coming through the second door of this bedroom, you immediately are looking into this bathroom. It is Jack and Jill shared with the office space, but with the way the doors align, it could easily be an ensuite bathroom. This beautiful bathroom is bathed in sunlight with a freestanding wash basin as well as line foot freestanding bathtub, plantation shutters, floating toilet, and then walk-in shower off in the corner. Coming down the hallway, you take one right turn and you find yourself in your office space. Beautifully wall equipped with a fan, air conditioning, as well as its very own fireplace. It's easily an office space. Many of us working men and women would dream to have one wall covered in plantation shutters and looking out onto your garden and the other wall with two doors opening out onto your patio. It easily blends in your work and play. Plenty of space here for not only tables, but another spot for you to sit down and host meetings, shelving, under counter storage. Every single box is ticked, but my favorite box has to be this year. These two doors leading onto your patio. And it is quite a spacious patio at that. Above me, there's the private balcony for the master suite and then inside this patio, as you can see, two tables, one with an eight-seater and another one that's a six-seater, bright area that is built in and this leads all the way across to this door right over here, which is your bar area. It's such an impressive feature thought out by the owner. But one of my favorite features here has to be between these raw stone pillars is a glass structure that's been built in and it shields this area from the elements. You can open, close it, it lets in all that natural light, lets you look out, but gives you that comfort and convenience and I think it is a very, very clever addition. But right now we're gonna take a walk through these glass doors, take a look at the garden, the pool area and of course the pool house. And while we're outside and you get to take in the beautiful greenery of the grounds and this incredibly massive pool, let me give you a couple of facts about this house. The house has got 1,450 square meters under roof while the whole stand is 8,000 square meters. It comes with a solar-powered borehole which means you're completely off of council water as well as inverters, which means you don't need to worry about any electricity shortages. You also have a sprinkler system that is controlled by the estate with water that comes in from the river. So when we talk about cost saving, this house has to be number one and the biggest cost you're gonna save is buying into waterfall means there are no transfer duties and on a house such as this, that really does come in as the biggest bonus. You've also got a very, very beautiful pool area flanked with glass doors as well as glass windows looking onto this incredible house that you can utilize as you see fit. But now it is back inside the house to my favorite room, which is the bar area. And here I am easily in my favorite room of any house and that is the bar area. As you can see, easy access both to your patio as well as to your kitchen, but this bar area is really well equipped. We've got face brick all the way around on all four walls but then we've got plantation shutters and two arch windows looking out onto the greenery that is your garden. This inbuilt walnut bar provides center stage for where you'll be entertaining your guests but there's a lot of utility in this as well. We've got under counter storage, plug points for your fridge and then above counter storage with some cabinetry for your glassware, plug points for your TV as well as DSTV and then we've got these built-in wine shelves for you to display your favorite collections with some stunning down lighting. We've also got an air con so none of the rooms in this house become too stuffy. There is also central air conditioning so you don't need to worry about it in the bedrooms. Now, however, it is time to finally explore those bedrooms. So come with me as we head upstairs. Upon arriving at the top of the staircase, there's a couple of features here that we get to appreciate that are mentioned right at the beginning of the video. First and foremost are these stunning chandeliers that are placed throughout this home really bring a sense of warmth and definitely grandeur to this country home. And number two has to be the Juliet balconies on the left and right hand side. Both of them, the first one flanks your library, the second one flanks your pajama lounge and we're gonna start off on the east wing. So follow me and let's take a look at what the upstairs library area looks like. The second half of the upstairs library continues that comfort and grandeur that we saw down below. Nearly every single wall is covered in bookshelves with books from floor to ceiling. There's places for you to sit down and read and relax as well as windows both on the east side as well as the south side that let in natural light. But what I like the most about this area isn't the wraparound balcony feel or even that Juliet balcony but you really get to appreciate this wrought iron spiral staircase that leads down from your reading area up to this upstairs area. Absolutely beautiful and coming in here you come through these two doors that open upwards with that inset frosting. Now however it is time to look at the bedrooms. We've got one to my right and one right in front of me. Let's start here, we're gonna head off there and then all the way across to the master suite. The first bedroom we come to as soon as you walk in we've left the tiles behind for this beautiful wood flooring. On my left hand side is all your cupboard space and what I do like is we've got some frosted glass here breaking up the monotony of normal cupboards and on my right hand side we've got this almost office slash study nook in built chair over there with this separating pillar that I think is quite nice. But talking about really nice design my favorite feature has to be this over here. Two separate windows designed exclusively for this room. They look absolutely beautiful and I think it's something we've never seen before. Actually we have never seen this before on the show. I really like it. It is such a cool personal addition. The room comes with aircon as well as a fan. It is very spacious as you can see. Has its own Juliet balcony looking down onto that koi pond when we spoke about the courtyard down below next to the gym and your guest bedroom. And then you've also got all this tree space that you get to enjoy being here in Waterfall. But last but not least, the room does come with its very own en suite bathroom. Are we looking at that next? Stepping into your en suite bathroom you'll see your freestanding wash basin with under counter storage. A high backed bathtub takes almost center stage but you also do have a walk-in shower and a floating toilet as well as last but not least and come in and clutch I'm sure every winter day a heated towel rack. Your next bedroom is more spacious. However, it does have its very own theme to it. You've got again those frosted glass art windows but you've also got two Juliet balconies that look out onto your back garden. You get to appreciate all that greenery and landscaping from the best vantage point in the house. I've also been told that you get some of the nicest sunset since this home is north facing. This home comes equipped with both a fan as well as air conditioning and closet space in a walk-in closet area with covers on both the right and left hand side. And let's not forget, it also does have its very own en suite bathroom. Again equipped with a freestanding bathtub walk-in shower single vanity with under counter storage that heated towel rack and toilet tucked away neatly. The whole bedroom and bathroom are bathed beautifully in tons of sunlight. On the west wing of the house, you've got this instead of an under bedroom and this is your pajama lounge. In terms of architecture, it's got not one, not two, but four separate Juliet balconies beautifully equipped with a fan as well as air conditioning and all the space not only for an L-shaped couch but for different assortments or arrangements of furniture so you can make your own bubble of comfort upstairs. I mean, this is where we're gonna be sitting and relaxing with family enjoying movies. But no movie is ever complete without snacks and that's where this I think is such a beautiful addition. You've got counter space as well as under counter storage space, a chef's sink, and then plug points for a variety of different appliances that you might want. Also love that we see a second one of those arches we were talking about downstairs with the exposed brick, all of it's sealed off so you don't need to worry about any dirt or any kind of flaking. But right next to this pajama lounge is the master suite, the room we've all been waiting for and we headed there next, so come with me. And yeah, we are finally the room what we've all been waiting for, the master suite. A exceptionally spacious room that comes with a couple of key features we've never seen before. But let me list off the main one. Got the stunning wood flooring, air conditioning, fan overhead, but this time your very own fireplace with a hint of that brick carrying on the design theme of this home. A four poster bed fits very comfortably and we've got two Juliet balconies right in front of me looking down onto the greenery and architecture of the house. And trust me, it right now is five minutes past five and the sunset is absolutely incredible.  But something we've never seen before is this type of balcony. It is a private balcony dedicated just to the master suite. And as you can see, we're outdoors with an incredible view of the pool as well as the pool house, the grounds and all the way across Waterfall City. But we're quite safely enclosed in this ceiling and the archways here. You get a lot of that natural light, but not too much exposure to the elements. I think in terms of all the balconies, we've seen balconies like this will probably be used most often because it's not too cold out here even though we are in the heart of winter. And again, you protect it from the rain. We've got a set of staircases just in the corner of this balcony that head up to some storage. And then of course, we've got that really cool frosty gloss chandelier hanging front and center. Now, however, if we go back inside, we get to talk about your walking closet and your ensuite bathroom, both of them which are very, very comfortable to say the least. This walking closet really does live up to its name. Every single wall covered in closet space. I love that we've got one separate wall dedicated to a mirror. So you can take a look at yourself, get in dressed. And then we've also got these glass shelves with a mirror backing, allowing you to display some of your favorite accessories. Letting in some natural light is not one, but two skylights. And this walking closet comes with something special. Yes, it's very own Juliet balcony, but that balcony is on the other side of your very own walk in office space. So if you don't want to venture all the way downstairs to work in your office, you can do it right here. I think it is quite a cool inclusion. And then this would probably be the perfect time to mention that the whole house is covered in underfloor heating. Now it's time to take a look at that master suite. You know, the bathroom is something special when you need to walk through a set of double doors to get into it. We've got a walk in shower with its very own skylight and this stunning jacuzzi bath behind me square shaped, flanked with one of those Juliet balconies, plenty of natural light in here because of the frosted glass windows providing that privacy. And then two walls have got mirrors on them. So you'll have no trouble making sure you're dressed and set up for even the most elegance of nights. Then we've got double vanities, under counter storage and behind a private door, we've got your toilet as well as the day. And I think that does sum up one of the nicest bathrooms in a country home we've ever had on the show. Now, Eva, it's time to head downstairs so we can talk about how you will become this home's next owner. Come with me. Here we are back downstairs and we have seen so many spectacular features of this house from fully equipped kitchens to double fireplaces, spiral staircases and your very own private library. Now, if you'd like to purchase this home, what I'd like you to do is contact Vicky Lee and Winnie from Live Realty. You'll find a link to the listing where you can book your very own private viewing or we even put forward an offer. Remember you can find your new home on privateproperty.co.za and while you're online, please like, share and subscribe to us on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram while we showcase some of South Africa's most unique, interesting and exclusive homes. For myself, Chad Raveiros, the team at the Private Property Home Shopper Show, thank you so much and we'll see you next Friday as we tour something else spectacular. Goodbye.


A table saw, rip fence jig that you may want to build for your workshop. This multi-purpose auxiliary fence is based on the design by Bob Van Dyke, as appears in Fine Woodworking Magazine No. 231. This table saw jig consists of a base unit that straddles your fence. You then attach a various number of accessory fences to your base unit, such as sacrificial fences and tall fences to help secure your tenon cutting. The tall melamine fence can be useful in cutting panels for cabinet doors. Here I'm demonstrating using the jig to cut tenons. This is a fun and rewarding build. Hola woodworkers, Paul Carlson here, a small workshop guy. I recently got an email from Fine Woodworking Magazine with a link to a build of an accessory jig for a table saw rip fence. Coincidentally, I had just recently watched a William Ng build of a similar jig. And I decided that adding this to my workshop would be a good idea. Trying to cut tenons on a long workpiece without a tall fence is a very bad idea. I highly recommend that you watch Bob Van Dyke's video as well, and I'll have a link to that in my description down below. I have made very minimal changes to his design. Depending on the size of your table saw fence, you're going to need maybe about 24 inches of Baltic birch or Russian birch, or probably regular plywood would work. Three quarter inch plywood would be recommended for stability. I had first cut the plywood to be equal to the length of my fence, and then I cut a six inch wide strip and then a six and a half inch wide strip. Then for the straddle piece, which is going to be double layered, I measured the size of my fence, and then I wanted to add a little extra, maybe one sixteenth, so that it would be wider than my fence, and also I needed to add a little extra like a half an inch on each side to go into dados on the upright pieces. While I was cutting, I decided to go ahead and cut some extra sacrificial fences as well, and made those the same size as the front, which is six and a half inches. Then I grabbed some melamine and cut an eight and a half inch for my tall fence, and here you can see the base unit that I've cut, and these tall fence and the sacrificial fences that I've cut, and then I like to label things so I don't get them all confused later. Here I'm going to glue up the two straddle pieces that go between the front and back, and so nothing magical about that. The following day when the glue had dried, I checked to make sure that I had cut it somewhat wider than my fence so that I had some material to go into the dados on the front and back. The best way to make sure that all of your attachment holes align properly is to drill them all at once, so that's what I'm doing. Glue in some t-nuts into the backside of your front base. Make sure those are flush with the front by embedding them a little bit with a Forstner bit. Use a Forstner bit on the front of your tall fence as well. Came back to the next day, decided that my apron was pretty well filled up with sawdust and stuff, so emptied everything out, dumped it out. Don't know any other way to do that, and then here I am putting everything away. I do carry quite a bit in my apron for convenience purposes. Next, it's off to cutting the dados for the front and back of the uprights. What I did first was some test cuts to get my height right, and then I did the real cuts with multiple passes. Then I'm using my router plane to clean up the bottom of those dados. You want to sneak up on your perfect cut. Here you can see I haven't done enough yet, so I take some more off.  Now, with my front fence and my cross piece being done, I set those up on the fence so that I can set it up and make sure it's square at 90 degrees, and then put my back fence up against it. Again, holding it, making sure that it's exactly square at 90 degrees, then I mark where the top of my dado will go on the back fence. Most content creators won't admit something like this, but this is actually my second attempt at a complete build of this jig. The first one went into the trash pile because for whatever reason, I couldn't get it to be precisely square or 90 degrees. Being satisfied with my dados and their sizes and everything, I went ahead and glued up my base unit. Again, checking everything as often as I can to make sure it's 90 degrees so I can make any adjustments before the glue sets. Then clean up a little bit of the glue, get the back side attached. You'll notice on the back side there's a couple of holes. Those are going to be where some clamps are used to attach the fence or securely to the table saw fence. Again, paranoid over 90 degrees, so check, check, check. Next comes putting a strip on the top of the 8.5 inch melamine that's going to be used for sliding along an additional little jig to push tenons over the saw blade.  Turns out that when I attached the clamps to the back fence I had just a little bit of the screws sticking out so I ground those off with a couple of different methods. Alright, checking for squareness again. Everything seems to be really good this time. So now we're going to do some test fitting. So here I'm test fitting the tall fence with the sliding bar on it and let me admit another mistake. The hex bolts that I bought were actually a quarter of an inch too long and when I would put them in the bottom two attachment holes that would cause a problem, push the bottom of my fence out and so it seemed like it was no longer 90 degrees. It took me a while to figure that out. In fact, it took me a long time and it drove me nuts. Next you need to adjust the toggle clamps so that they have a longer stem. So I just bought some cane rubber items and then super glued those in. Here you can see I'm saving on the glue and the spray by not opening the caps but that's just for demonstration purposes. Then attach those and make sure that they would go through and reach the fence and that's one of the nice features of this jig is that it attaches securely to the fence by the use of these toggle clamp. My next step was to test my sacrificial fences and make sure all they hold the line and that those went on properly and that were exactly at 90 degrees. Next comes the push device. Maybe you want to pause the video and take a close look at that. It's really just the use of some tongue and groove units and the idea is to get it against that fence and to slide over that railing. So again go back and pause the video and take a look at that design and then I attach a clamp to the toggle clamp to the front of that and again checking for my 90 degrees because I think at this point I'm all done. I cannot provide you with the plans for this because they belong to Fine Woodworking magazine and Bob Van Dyke but go to Fine Woodworking online edition magazine number 231 download the article into a PDF and the plans are part of that article. I probably don't need these quick release clamps on my push piece here but I find that they stabilize everything so I'm going to tend to use those in addition to my toggle clamp. So this really, really works well to hold large pieces upright and keep them secure and keep your fingers out of the way and make sure things move smoothly across the blade.  I actually just leave the tall fence attached to this and then through a hole that I did with my drill press I hang it up on my wall out of the way. Be sure to check out the link I have down below in my description to Bob Van Dyke's build. He's got a lot of really good explanations about this project. If you like this build give me a thumbs up and a comment. You can even leave a negative comment. No problem. I'll just delete it quickly. Have a safe day in your workshop.