This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Johnny Hernandez, Hi Tech Oki, and Jim Hart. Also a special thanks to lifetime supporter, Chap. We see you, Chap. We raise you a chap. On this episode of DTNS, Dropbox says no more unlimited cloud storage. Some people are very upset about that. Apple VR patent timelines are curious, and Charlotte Henry is here to tell us why CNN Max is better than CNN Plus. Where is it? This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, August 24, 2023, from Studio Revolver, Sarah Lane. From Columbus, Ohio, I'm Rob Dundley. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. And joining us today is Charlotte Henry of the edition news letter and frequent guest on the show. Charlotte, so glad to have you back. I'm so pleased to be back, and I'm always blown away when you introduce the show as being in the 10th year, because I'm like, oh yeah, it's Tom and Sarah's new show. And it's like, no, I've been doing this bad boy for a decade. We've been smirking for a decade. Weirdly enough, I sometimes feel the same way. I'm proud of you guys. I love it. I love it. It's what we need. Yeah. Well, we'd love to have you. You're going to make the show better. And speaking of shows, let's get right into it, starting with the Quickets. Due to the artificial intelligence boom, NVIDIA has more than doubled its current quarter revenue of $13.51 billion over the same period last year of $6.7 billion. Wow, that is absolutely crushing market estimates. Gaming products rose 22% with the release of the RTX 4060 GPU avatar cloud engine and the increase of games using DLSS. But NVIDIA's AI and data center segment skyrocketed up 171% on the year. That includes its H100 GPUs and the HGX box that combines eight of those into one single computer. NVIDIA is showing no signs of slowing down, feeling pretty good about its next quarter projecting another rise to $16 billion in revenue. In a surprise move, Apple sent a letter to California State Senator Susan Calimenta's Eggman in support of SB 244, a right to repair bill being considered in California. The bill is similar to the one that went into effect in Minnesota in May and requires manufacturers to offer a means to diagnose, maintain, and repair products. And the letter Apple expresses its support on the grounds of offering consumers the ability to repair their devices safely without risking privacy or data issues. Boy, a lot of people very excited about this Apple news today. Not the first company to do it, but certainly it's a big company to do it. It's been moving in that direction, but it's interesting, it's embracing it in other places. Indeed. Speaking of big companies, Meta released code generation tool called CodeLama, built on its Llama2 large language model, which will generate new code and debug human written work. CodeLama uses the same license as Llama2, which makes it free for research and commercial use by small to medium sized companies. So, you know, a Microsoft, not no, but you know, maybe Sarah and Rob and Charlotte's company. Sure. CodeLama comes in three sizes, the smallest, a smallest of which can run on a single GPU. So, pretty small. It appears that hardware maker MSI inadvertently leaked details on Intel's yet to be announced 14th generation desktop processors in a now taken down video on MSI's website. The video said the 14th gen processors will be 3% faster than the 13th gen with a 17% rise for multi-thread workloads. It also showed info indicating the Core i7 14700K would increase performance cores from 8 to 12. The video said the 14th gen chips will work on existing Z690 and Z790 motherboard, Intel is expected to officially announce the 14th gen processors during innovation 2023 next month. Walmart is adding drone deliveries to two Texas area superstores later this year. Wing, which is the alphabet-owned drone firm, says the two offerings will cover a combined 60,000 homes in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Customers within a six mile radius of a Walmart in Frisco, Texas and a second location nearby will be able to have small items delivered by Wing drones starting in a couple of weeks. Those are the quick hits. Alright, so you might not have ever gotten that data limit email from Dropbox saying that your Dropbox account is about to hit its limit. And that might have been because the online data storage company has always had an unlimited option, which you pay for, and then you never have to deal with these sorts of things until now. Dropbox announced on Thursday that a small amount of users were using so much data that the company had potential, or they had potential, to degrade the company's cloud service for other Dropbox clients. Dropbox has a highest tier all the space you need storage plan that will now be capped at around five terabytes per user for new customers. That's per month. Now for many people, not an issue. Oh my gosh, like how are we using all this stuff? Some users say, oh, actually it is, because I'm backing up all sorts of things on Dropbox. The plan was designed for businesses. However, some clients were using that fire hose for things like cryptocurrency mining, sharing storage, even reselling that storage. So here's what's going on now. Dropbox has 8 million paying users, some of whom need a lot of storage. Back in May, Google removed its as much storage as you need product branding for its highest tier workspace plan, very similar to what Dropbox currently offers. And Google at the time sent some people to Dropbox as a result. Customers have posted on forums about being told that they've exceeded storage limits, need to pay for additional capacity. Some discussed moving to Dropbox after receiving such warnings. But Dropbox says a new surge of this activity in the wake of other services making similar policy changes change their tune, right, Rob? Yeah, so Dropbox's new plan knows that every new terabyte will cost $8 per month compared to the previous as much space as you need to plan at $24 per month. Current users with less than 35 terabytes, which is almost everyone on that plan will be able to keep their current storage at the same price for five years. Those exceeding 35 terabytes will be contacted to discuss a range of options. If I were a 35, if I was a person at 35 terabytes, I would be really, really upset about this because I was paying for unlimited and unlimited used to actually being unlimited. Guess it doesn't mean that anymore. Exactly. Yeah, I think that's a really good point. It's like, if you're in the 30, you're moving 35 TBs per month type thing, then okay, maybe it's not unlimited, but you're not expecting to be capped. And the company being like, you know what, hold on a second, there's a few of you who are really going a little rogue on this whole situation. And because of that, everyone else now has to pay more. I mean, it's sort of a company thing. What do you think, Charlotte? I mean, I'm sitting here thinking how I could possibly use 35 terabytes of data and probably most of the answers we shouldn't say on this show. I can totally imagine why there's a backlash to this because on the face of it, you are no longer getting the thing you thought you were paying for. I'd be fascinated to know how many users this actually affects my guess is it's a very, very small number. A very small number. Well, I guess also most normals don't need anywhere near five terabytes. I think I have two terabytes of storage and I'm not really a normal user by any stretch of imagination. I'm creating media, I'm storing stuff on Dropbox, and I don't think I'm anywhere near my two terabyte limit. I'm just struggling to see how many people this is affecting and whether it's a really legitimate complaint. It's a small amount of people and I don't know exactly, you know, the crypto stuff I understand that that's probably a situation. I don't know that much about that. What I can tell you is that I know somebody who went from somebody, it's not me, okay? It's not me. I can go from Google to Dropbox because of the unlimited thing that Google capped somewhat recently just a couple of months ago. This is somebody who's running a Plex server. This is a Plex server that is dealing with many terabytes of data per month. This is not necessarily anything illegal. It just happens to be a lot of data that's being moved around. I sent this person the story this morning saying, is this an issue? And they were like, oh no. There's a couple of things to pick up on though, right? So Rob said that you can't still get as much data as you want. You just have to pay for it. That's what we were doing before. That's what we were doing before. That's how I look at it because I can see legitimate reasons and legitimate ways of how you could use that much data if you were going into it with the thought that I have unlimited data. So I get that people are going to have to pay for it now. But as I said, I'm not near that, but I can easily get the five terabytes for some of the things that I do. So I would fill some kind of way about no longer having that unlimited option as an option. I'm looking forward to the startup that offers a new unlimited plan because someone's on their way. I recently moved on my Verizon mobile plan from something that was supposedly unlimited to less unlimited, but it actually made more sense for me price-wise. So yeah, I'm with you Rob. Sometimes these things don't, okay, tell me what my new option is. But yes, I think what's going on here, a lot of crypto mining, a lot of behind the scenes stuff, and Dropbox has gone the way of Google saying we're not going to pay for this anymore because some of you are just using that many terabytes. So let's talk about everybody's favorite things, Apple patents. Apple recently granted a few new patents. Curiously, even though Apple only announced its Vision Pro Augmented Reality headset this year for release in 2024, the company has been working on a product of this kind since well before the first iPhone, a newly published patent for virtual reality headset was granted to Apple and the application date is May 7th, 2007. That's before the first iPhone, the original iPhone, the one that was just called the iPhone. So could Apple's VR concept really have been in the works for 16 years? Oh my gosh. I mean, let's talk about this, but wait. First, there's more. A second patent of note was for a digital stone. Hard to know exactly what a digital stone is supposed to be in the minds of Apple, but it is described in the patent as a small portable physical object for use in an extended reality system. The system may include a device that allows a user or wearer to interact with the virtual representations of content such as stored data and other applications overlaid on the user's physical environment. Okay. So basically that sounds like something to make virtual objects physical while wearing the headset and then move them around in the real world, but we don't really know. So is it a hard drive? Is that where data is coming from? Is it a pet rock, Charlotte? What do you think a digital stone is?  The pattern doesn't exactly make it clear as patterns I want to do sometimes. Obviously, this was Apple thinking back, you know, back in the day before we really know what AR, the Metaverse, the phrase didn't exist at that time. I think it's a kind of interesting example of Apple being quite a forward thinking and innovative company. You know, the fact that as Rob said, this VR headset, whatever that was at the time, was before even the iPhone existed. Obviously, Apple had seen other kind of smart and smartphone devices at that time and was maybe looking ahead. I'd be fascinated to know as well what competitor companies were looking at and doing in this space. I'm sure it wasn't only Apple, but we all take more interest in Apple patterns than lots of other companies. So now I don't think it's a pet rock. I'm sort of imagining a device when we go back to that digital stone that kind of laid out the kind of boundaries of a digital virtual reality area. Maybe it was something like that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know, Rob. I mean, I could see almost the way that I would, you know, consider like a Yubiqui or something like here is a representation of something that is physical and I have, but then wearing the VR headset, it can represent something else. But I need it in order for the rest of it to work. What do you think? I don't know. I'm kind of thinking of like you're playing virtual chess and you just want to have the tactile feel of moving your chess piece. So there's something, something you can pick up in the real world. But as you're looking at it through your virtual headset, it looks like the thing that you're interacting with in the virtual world and you're literally able to physically move that thing back and forth. That's kind of what thought, you know, popped into my head. But honestly, we really don't have any clue as to what this is going to be. But I'm sure people are going to speculate over the coming weeks until something actually comes out. I also, as you two are talking about this, I'm also thinking what a fuss Apple made when it announced the Vision Pro of that there was nothing you held on to compared to lots of other VR products. So it's kind of interesting that this, there's a pattern for something that clearly is physical and can be held or moved in some way because that was a really big deal in the Vision Pro, wasn't it, that you didn't have to touch and hold something. As a quest user of, you know, every quest that has been offered up until now, I mean, I'm used to using my controllers.  You can do sort of pinch and touch with the hands. I don't think it's ever worked very well, at least not for me. But, but yeah, that whole idea of like, okay, so you don't have a controller, but there is maybe a place, a rock, as, as it's described in, in the, yes, as stone to, you know, unlock all sorts of things. I, I don't know, I, I, I'm not in the market for Vision Pro because it's a, because you saw the price. Yeah, and the price. And you know, it's not even happening until next year. But I am, I'm, I'm excited to see if something comes from this at the same time. Apple had a patent for a VR headset in 2007. So, you know, you can imagine the company being like, listen, let's just get the patent. The hardware needs to catch way up. But let's do this. And 16 years later, we'll have a working model. Yeah. And that's not such a weird thing for patents. Like, that is often how these things work. Indeed.  Thanks to everybody who became patrons and increased their pledges recently because of your support. We can bring Molly Wood on the show one Friday every other month. Molly is the best. We would like to see Molly Moore to reach our goal of having Molly on one Friday every month. We need a bit more help. If you haven't already, consider supporting the show by visiting patreon.com slash DTNS. All right. So CNN announced today it's going to launch a 24 seven all all live all the time streaming news service called CNN max on September 27. CNN's press release adds that it'll be part of an open beta for news experimentation that will take input from the max community. CNN max will be available across all of max subscription tiers. Listeners might remember that Warner Brothers discovery killed CNN plus 16 months ago, less than a month after it launched. CNN plus was an online only subscription streaming service that focused on CNN person and personality driven shows. CNN max will not be a streaming version of the CNN channel, but we'll feature some of the tentpole shows from the network like Anderson Cooper 360, the lead with Jake Tapper and poor and the situation room with Wolf Blitzer. So Charlotte, what is it this time? What is CNN max this time? How's it different than CNN plus? Well, obviously max is bigger than CNN plus isn't it Rob? You know, you can tell it's bigger and better because of the name. I think this is a much more compelling offering actually, isn't it? Because I think what people want is access to news and information. And that was like CNN plus was a bit of a weird mismatch of like Anderson Cooper talking about his family and then somewhat like it was a bit weird when people think of CNN, they think of hard news, right? Mostly and some documentaries. And it was kind of a bit of a weird mismatch and it didn't really make sense. The fact that they cut it off, I think was not very good. If you read Sarah Fisher's story in Axios who broke this before CNN actually announced it, that was she points out it was very bad for morale. The dropping of CNN plus so quickly and obviously it cost people their jobs and so on and so forth. But it is trying to compete with the streaming offers from others. MSNBC, obviously now, well, NBC now Fox News does streaming stuff as well, doesn't it? So he's obviously trying to compete with those clear rivals. I was kind of thinking how different this is also to what streaming news is like in the UK. So like the BBC, you just go to the BBC iPod and you can watch the BBC News channel. It's just there for free. Sky News actually puts loads of has a stream of its news as well. It's embedded in the app. It's embedded on its website. Pretty easy to access for free. So it seems more complicated than the US. I guess that's because of cable bundles and stuff. And obviously one of the things Warner Brothers discovered the people that now run CNN are keen to have is younger viewers watching CNN because we know that young people just do not watch cable news, do they? They're too busy watching DTNS. But what that means is that they're not buying cable bundles. So you've got to get some value and money out of them some way. So there's obviously going to be advertising on CNN, Max, they might look at some kind of abtec solutions to do better targeted adding as time goes on. I think that idea of an open beta is really interesting as well. They're not pretending that this is the final finished product and what's perfect for their viewers straight off the bat. They're not pretending that anymore. We should say it's a section within the Max app now. I think you make a really good point, Charlotte, that CNN Max is at least front facing saying, you know what? Give us some feedback. Let us know how we're doing. We're all just about news for you, even though CNN Plus was supposedly more of that, but it was more, I think, I never actually watched it. A lot of people didn't because it came and went within a month, but it was more of the sort of like the CNN personalities and more of that less breaking news and more of the CNN stuff that most people some people at least would care about. When we're in the situation where we have so many ways to get streaming content, whether it be part of a cable package or all a cart kind of thing, I wonder how much CNN Max is going to thrive. I don't think it's a terrible idea. In fact, as somebody who pays for YouTube TV, because I don't even watch it. I don't even watch anything that's sort of like cable network-esque things, but maybe there's an earthquake. I might go to CNN or some other news channel type thing to have something like that at my disposal that's less sort of lifestyle stuff and more news. Exactly. I don't exactly know what it's going to look like. Rob, what are your thoughts on this? I actually think that CNN Max may have a shot, unlike CNN Plus did, because the problem with Plus was that the demographic that you're going after, they're not buying CNN. If they were going to do that, they would have just watched cable. So to have another service that wasn't the same content that you even got on the thing that they already weren't watching was just, I think, a bridge too far. I think with this though, the fact that it's coming with something that literally millions of people already have, folks will get to kind of play around with it and see, oh, okay. I actually kind of like that. I like that thing that wasn't regular Anderson Cooper that was a little bit something different. I think it's just it's given people the opportunity to kind of test it out before they go and feel like they have to buy yet another service. Yeah. And we should say there's going to be four hours of every day of original programming. I think it's basically because there's contractual agreements. You can't just start the, you know, the CNN in America, international feed onto a streaming service. So there is going to be four hours that is different from your normal CNN. So I think that could be quite compelling for certain viewers as well. And also, we do have to talk about that cord kill element. If people are just not buying cable bundles, but are paying for max say, this is a way to get them to watch CNN where they might not have just watched it for. And that's really what it comes down to a tech solution to getting people to watch an old format of media. Yeah, that's that is a good way to look at it. I'm sure CNN is hoping that many people will say, we want this. I really need it to be described. Well, another thing that people want is concrete. You might say, how much do they want concrete? Actually, quite a bit. People make about 4.4 billion tons of concrete every year.  Concrete is very important. It involves though, needing 8 billion tons of sand. And that's caused some concrete shortages in recent years. You know what else humans generate a lot of though? Coffee. People love coffee. And that creates coffee grounds and the coffee grounds mostly become trash. However, a team of researchers from Australia's RMIT University School of Engineering have discovered coffee grounds when used properly can be used as a silica substitute in the concrete production process, offering significantly stronger chemical bonds that sand alone, which is part of what makes that sort of the basis of concrete, gives coffee grounds a purpose beyond landfills. The process is a little involved. Pyrolyzing the materials at 350 to 500 degrees Celsius, then substituting them for sand in 5, 10, 15 and 20 percentages. That's by volume for standard concrete mixtures. So to the outsider, you might say, I don't really know what's going on. Anybody who knows concrete knows that that is actually a stronger concrete, which is something that will be more soluble. The study was published in the September issue of Journal of Cleaner Production. That's more about concrete than I've ever learned in my life. So thank you. You're welcome. Yeah. Well, it wasn't me. I think that folks at RMIT University School of Engineering, but yeah. I don't know, Charlotte, Rob, if y'all are coffee drinkers, I'm not a huge one. Sarah. I throw out coffee grounds pretty often, and I've never really thought about how to repurpose them in a way that would make our cities safer. Sarah, I'm in England. I drink tea. Come on. I drink coffee once in 1982. Oh, Sarah. Really? I think I was nine. I'm the coffee person that cares about this the most. Got it. That's there is contributing to the future of concrete. That's what we've learned. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The next time you see a cement truck, you say to them, have you heard about the coffee grounds? Heard it on DTNS. All right, Rob, let's talk about cobalt in our mailbag today. So Andrew had thoughts on yesterday's story about cobalt translation using AI, and he writes, as a Java developer, I never would have wanted to take on modernizing cobalt alone, but I could see a tool like this making it more manageable. But I think the current cobalt developers will get the most out of it as they'll already understand their systems and be able to learn Java as the translation happens. It actually points to a good learning path for developers as new languages come out and their older system can be translated to keep up with new tech. It also underscores the need to keep good software engineering practices like automated testing so that everyone can trust a new system will work like the old one. IBM mentioned this as well as the first step listed to modernizing cobalt, as it is refractoring it to a high enough quality to be translatable. Andrew, this is so great. And yeah, what a good point for anybody who is unfamiliar with cobalt. And we talked about it on yesterday's show. I mean, this is legacy code that goes back to 1959. I'm familiar with it. I don't know if I've ever said this on this show, but my very, very first real job with benefits out of college was working for a consulting firm where I basically was looking at cobalt and Fortran for Y2K errors, basically going debugging for dates. You know, this is, I think this is like in 96 before Y2K. Wow. So you were doing that four years before, at least someone on the four side to be like, you might have a problem. There was a lot, there's a lot of mainframe stuff that was written with like, oh, this, this works until 99. And, you know, they just didn't think about having to have 2000 in it. And, you know, the thought that that was going to break earth if we didn't get all this stuff. I'm having real millennium bulk flashbacks. I'm just pleased that Rob saved the planet really. Yeah. Thank you, Rob. Appreciate that. 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I'm Rob from Mantik and I'm joined by Matt also from Mantik and we are going to show you in this series of videos how to play Firefight 2nd Edition. We're going to run through what the game is, kind of things like movement, shooting, assault, all the basics that you need to know in order to play the game but first of all Matt what is Firefight 2nd Edition? Firefight 2nd Edition is a game set in our Warpath universe so if you're not familiar with that that's our sci-fi setting for a lot of our games like Star Saga Dead Zone which a new edition came out just before Christmas and Warpath which is a big scale game. We have had a Game of Firefight before this is a whole new edition it's a squad-based game typically on a table 4x4 or 6x4 for bigger games probably takes 90 minutes maybe an hour for smaller games and you're going to be up against an opponent we've got a variety of missions it could just be a kill mission it could be capture some intel it could be capture some objectives and a number of factions from our Warpath universe such as we've got here you've got the the cunning rats or the... I like the user word cunning not their duplicitous well either I've just been polite and so you've got the vermin over there and I'm going to be using the enforcers today who are the kind of the human super soldiers yeah so we've actually got seven factions at launch so we've got obviously the enforcers and the vermin that we've got here we've got the asterians so they sort of like use a lot of mechs and a lot of robots sort of androids I guess like similar to elves I'd say in a little bit maybe kind of they're an ancient race that's been around in the galaxy for a long time you've got the forge fathers who are like the stoic sort of space dwarfs they're kind of very heavily armoured obviously squat as they would be and they have like a lot of mining lasers things like that you've got the marauders they're the greenskins kind of a collection of goblins orcs kind of hawks which are a bit like trolls you've got the gcps they're the human troops so there you kind of standard ones they're deployed on the planets by corporations so you imagine a galaxy where the corporations own entire planets or maybe entire solar systems and that's what the gcps are they are sort of sent out to these planets to try and defend them from attackers or even the local population who may not like being taken over by a corporation and then you've got the plague so the plague is like a virus that infects people turns them into blood thirsty beasts i think that's all seven probably i've forgotten one i think what's interesting with the warpath universe is that you can look at the the human side of it as actually the bad guys yeah because it is all about corporate greed um and taking over planets maybe without asking um so actually there is a from that perspective it's it's a little bit different yeah so we've got a game kind of set up here so how many points what's the kind of standard point size and how many models is that roughly i guess we've said um in in the book to give people some guidance that anywhere from about 500 points for a small game up to around about 1200 1250 you can fit on a four by four table yeah we've got 850 points here um if you've got big horde armies you might want to give yourself a bit bit more space once you're looking at 1500 points or more you probably want a six by four okay and so yeah we've gone for about 850 points each here at the moment obviously you've got more you're a bit more of a horde army than than the enforcers are um so i've got less less squads less models okay so i guess a good place to start before we get into the rules is we can have a look at a profile for one of the units so you know what stats you're looking for and that should we look at one of your enforcer operatives because they're like your core troop i guess in fact before we start what different troops are you we've got obviously troops and then what else can you have in your army so we've broken down the different types of units into troops specialists command and support okay um and the the type of unit is used in your force list building yeah um so you can have uh you get one free command um and after that you uh you can buy troops um and any combinations of troops and specialists and command can unlock unlock other things like your support units etc um so it's important to get the combination right and the balance right um but there are some restrictions on what you can do you can't just take all the tanks okay etc oh i'm i'm fortunate i do want to play um so yeah so everything the way the game works your models are grouped into squads yeah um and squads will cost a certain number of points um and then you'll be able to buy options for them or extra models etc so if we have a look at um a unit profile um this gives you all the statistics for a for a particular unit um and it also breaks down uh what weapons they've got what dice they roll what they need to hit uh wound etc and the options that they get as well um so the what we call the stat line on the profile you should see at the top will look probably quite familiar especially if you're a dead zone player um first thing we'd look at is the uh type yeah so in this case for my enforcer operatives it's troops which is what we've just talked about uh the next one in sp now that stands for speed um and on speed if you've got uh two numbers um and in this case my enforcer operatives have got six slash 12 yeah and that means when they make a normal advanced move on the table they can move up to the first number yeah six so they can move up to six inches if they want to move um in a kind of a sprint or a charge if they're going to an assault which we'll look at later they can move the second number okay so it's 12 and it's not necessarily always double right it could be different because you might have a fast or slow or or some other impediment um or bonus for for moving so actually so my crawlers for example they're 615 so it means they're six for a normal one but 15 when they're obviously charging in they can go really scurrying fast yes correct uh next along the line is sh now that's shoot so that value underneath the in my my case i've got four plus so that means when i'm rolling dice to shoot i need four or better in order to score a hit yeah for each for each dice similar to the next one along which is as which is for assault so when we're in hand turn combat um my guys have got here got five plus so they need a five or better to score a hit next one along a armor now this is slightly different to it is in dead zone so in here this is the number you require if i'm being shot at yeah uh you would require for example six plus to cause damage to me okay so i'm rolling against that yes that's a similar concept to kings of war the fantasy game which would be defense yeah okay hp is the number of hit points or health points that uh each uh each model has right so that's how much damage they can take so my enforcer operatives have got one hit point each so any two so two damage on my squad i would lose two models okay uh ne is nerve again familiar concept if you're a kings of kings war player uh that's the value there is what you need to pass a nerve test which might be if uh i as a result of a psychic attack or a specific order or maybe um if you've lost enough models you might be broken and therefore you have to take a nerve test they start to panic basically you need to rally them around absolutely he is your height um so that's used for determining line of sight and cover throughout the game depending on what terrain you're in another height of other models so is that a bit more abstract than say dead zone where it is like literally the height of the model or things like that is it a bit more like kings of war in that sense yes it's very much like the kings of war height system yeah so if you're used to that so it's a bit more abstract in that that uh in that way so you'll be drawing uh you'll be drawing uh lines and fire lines um and then depending on um how many models and height will be in or out of cover or in or out of site base is is literally just that is so each of the models in your unit what base size they're on yep so you know exactly what uh what size you should be using now us is unit strength again exactly the same as kings of war so you can see a theme here we've taken lots of concepts from other games that should be familiar to tomantic players so us unit strength that's used in usually in determining uh control of objectives okay if you've got a higher unit strength than your opponent you know a contested objective you'll win it so it's not just based on the number of models it is based on on unit yeah okay yes and then lastly on the line you've got your points value so that's how much it costs you to add that unit to your your army yeah okay so below your your stat line if the unit has got any keywords uh they'll be listed there so for example my guys have got advanced training anti-grab and controlled fire yeah um so those will have a special effect in the game i'll be able to maybe an exceptions to rules or given bonuses for doing certain things and then under that uh we list the the various weapons now if I look my enforcers I can see that I've got one leader and it lists out the this out their weapons and then four normal enforcers listing their weapons as well and it's usually split into your range weapons and then your assault weapons okay so you you've got that and then afterwards I've got number of options I can take for my for my operatives so I can take up to three additional ones and it gives me the points values and then I've got a number of options either on the leader or for heavy weapons or for upgrading to a medic yeah okay um and some of those options often have restrictions on you maybe only take one heavy weapon for example or up to one medic um sometimes it costs points values for that sometimes that's free okay so how many obviously you've got another stat there it tells you the number of dice you're rolling is it and the range for the weapons does it tell you that uh yeah so for example my genling 45 laser rifle has r 18 and that means it can shoot up to 18 inches okay um and it also has dice 2d that means I'm rolling two dice now in this game we're using d8 so eight sided dice yeah um so if my guy was uh shooting with the two dice um I'd also I'd roll those two dice and I'd look up that sh that shoot value yeah and it says I need four or more to hit okay with those two dice so if you've got a unit of say five enforcer operatives each dose has got the laser rifle that's two dice each you're rolling 10 dice 10 dice yes okay and let's say it is d8 so dead zone players will be familiar with that yeah uh if you come in from firefight first edition that's quite a big change but it does give us more granularity to make them all a bit different and kind of give them yeah because you're a wider range in the stats yeah yeah um an assault weaponry is is is similar and if any of those um if any of those themselves have keywords uh those will be applied there so it might be that you've got um uh specific keywords on your assault weaponry which makes it you know cuts through armor or something like that or gives you some remotes right cool so I think we've covered the basics there of what the game is so in our next video we'll have a look at well we'll start moving around and getting stuck in I guess so yeah in the next video join us for movement


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Sometimes you need a bit of the oldies to remember why you love the thing you do Hey guys, so we're back Supernatural is back and so am I with the latest review of the latest episode of Supernatural Now this was a filler episode admittedly because it starts off with we're gonna do it. Well, we've got bupkiss Well, there's this That aside this was actually at first I thought I was gonna kind of just be a gimmick episode But it was actually a very cool episode for two reasons one was the parallel storyline with Bobby and Rufus Working on a case years before basically actually if I'm correct season four timeline and then Sam and Dean Basically following in their footsteps with the sim with the same creature Years later and then trying to figure out what they did and then trying to improve on that now the creature that Thereafter was a soul eater it very much reminded me of the episode of the the Genji from The end of season two and then there was the creature I think he was in the first season might have been the first season of the second season There was that creature that was living off of the souls of young children and they were in hospital and dying and whatnot I remember those so that's what a lot of this episode reminding me of those two first seasons and I really actually enjoyed this episode at first it was a kind of a little bit slow There was a lot of gimmick jokes immediately Rufus was hilarious He had two well two moments in this episode the first being well what business the FBI here for who the none The kind is the none of your damn business and now I probably flubbed it, but that was really fine That was funny a part of the end where Rufus is faced with a threat and he's literally about this far away From the threat and he has a shotgun and he fires and he clearly misses He clearly misses from this much of a distance, but as for the episode itself I really did enjoy the parallel storyline It actually had to make me really focus and there's been a lot of going on the last little while So this actually was a very deep episode despite the fact that it was kind of mirroring what was going on and then The editing for going into the nest now the thing that they said about the soul leaders that it exists in a plane that Is beyond time and space so this is probably the closest supernaturals ever going to get to interstellar level Ideologies here, but either way. I actually really liked it when they went into the nest That was the only way that one person had to be in reality Well, the other had to be in the other dimension timeline whatever to help defeat the creature and it really reminded me of the camera work lighting and Sort of atmosphere the use insidious insidious is a fantastic horror film because it uses a very minor Very low-budget techniques to put yourself into the demon or the dark zone and that's exactly what Supernatural did and I liked it. It actually went a little bit taboo and more so in a much more sophisticated way a lot more Mystery especially of all the other souls they didn't explain who they were you kind of assume that they were victims of the soul eater But they weren't really explained had this weird kind of clasp on their mouth While the episode kind of runs by the numbers. I did enjoy it I actually found that this episode really didn't forward this story at all. It didn't honestly, but and I didn't mind that I actually thought the episode was very entertaining and it's a very cool episode especially the ending I won't give away the ending, but there was something that happened at the end that was Deep for Supernatural and then it was running off with a joke, which was a very good joke But either way, I thought this episode was very entertaining It was a lot better than I thought it was going to be you know Considering I was a bit upset that it wasn't the episode that they kept on talking about in the previews Especially with the ads like something in a something in a cabin. That's in the next episode So in the end I'm gonna give this episode a five out of seven. I actually enjoyed it. I thought it was good I'm very surprised very great return. I'm happy to see the show back And I can't wait to talk about it more with you guys and if you didn't notice this is my latest cup to my collection Yes, it's a playoff of that terrible terrible thing, but I thought it was too awesome to pass up So anyway guys, I'll see you next week with my next review. Oh, yeah another thing too There was the nicest cleanest looking Pontiac Sunfire I've ever seen Bobby and Rufus were Leaving me once I'm leaving the motel and there was this Pontiac Sunfire in the parking lot It just stuck out like a sore thumb. I don't know why it just stuck out


The training division, Texas A&M, you see it right there. We'll just leave it up for a second. And, Billy, you say you did about 65 courses. Are they available just to Texas before the criteria for getting in a course? The area schools that we conduct, mainly on the weekends, are pretty much open enrollment to anybody. We don't have any limitations whatsoever of any kind on any of our classes, unless they book full, then we have problems like that. Sam, let me raise a point as we're moving into the on-rope rescue.  Boy, I'm a rock climber. And I've seen situations where you'll come on the scene to do a rescue. And two or three guys think that they know how to do rescue, and they've flung ropes over the side, and they're swinging around on it. And pretty soon you've got three or four people out there you have to rescue. Just being a recreational rock climber does not make you a rope rescue professional, does it? That's right, Rich. Actually, a recreational or recreational rock climbing is a whole different discipline from rope rescue. The techniques and the equipment are, for the most part, completely different. And individuals who are not experienced in rescue techniques should not be attempting to rescue other climbers. So I think you see that. I mean, the natural response, if there's climbers around, is to go do something. Certainly, we see that in all aspects of rescue, trench rescue, building collapse, swift water. We always arrive on the scene with someone attempting to do something. That's a natural state of things. Okay, let's take another call. Another Texas call. You know, Billy, I think you've got yourself an audience out here. Clarksville, Texas, Robert Long. Go ahead, sir, you're on the air. My question is, I'm an agriculture rescue.  I'm the training officer here. Our equipment is just the jaws of life, the ram, and the cutters. On that type of equipment, could we rescue people under agriculture without having to call in extra equipment? Sometimes the equipment just you can. What I just really suggest to you is getting with your implement dealers and have him go through some of the different types of equipment because some of the equipment that you have is not gonna be able to cut through some of the hardened case metals. In that case, probably some of the best tools you'll ever use out there is probably just basic hand tools, wrenches, ratchets, so forth like that, which you're easily obtained.  It's a good idea to maybe check around and see if you can use some of the things that are at hand right there. Sure. Have your equipment resources well planned out. Use whatever is available. A lot of times the people there on the farm have their own equipment there. Once again, getting back to this farm implement dealer, putting him on call, having him respond because they do it on a regular basis, go out and make service calls on the equipment. Mr. Long, what else can we help you with? How large is your squad, sir? We have 30 volunteers and six paid men. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Have you had occasion to run some calls like this, sir? At this time, we haven't had any problem with that. We've had some problem with the tractors catching on fire. No, let me ask really a question about that because, again, you may be towing pesticides. Sure. You may be towing in silage. You may be towing anything that has the potential for a rapidly spreading fire. You also may be in a field where you can start a heck of a brush fire and be entrapped in the process of that, too. So there are larger hazards here that we're talking about, aren't there? Absolutely. You always have to be aware that most of the time when harvest time is, most of the stuff is dry and the potential for fire hazard is very great. So having adequate fire protection there is very, very important. Okay, we had a call from a caller and I'm gonna dip deep down and if any of y'all wanna help me out on this, you're a paramedic. A caller asked about crush syndrome. As I understand, there's two aspects to it, one of which is that over a period of time after you've crushed tissues, they release certain toxins and at a certain point, releasing the patient releases those and you become immediately and very seriously septic.  Those are the two things I can think of and help me out with this. You're better at this than I am. Well, I haven't had much experience with dealing with the crush syndrome. Some of the things to consider though, when an extremity or the full body is crushed to one of the things we've got anaerobic metabolism going on. With the buildup of lactic acid in the body and once we release that to whatever it is, that large object on there, then we have an infusion of lactic acid back into the system that could create some dysrhythmias. Metabolic shock, actually about what it is. The other is the compartment syndrome where you have a collapse of your blood pressure. That could be in just one extremity or whatever, but we do have that when the vessels break open, you leak out into the system, the pressure drops and we've got a serious problem to deal with there. Yeah, the bottom line caller and again, thank you for the question, is that you're dealing in essence with a very serious advanced life support situation in most of these cases. So you probably are gonna wanna plan to have ALS if you don't have it in your community to get the helicopter started, get life flight or whatever it is on the way. By the time you get the patient out, you're gonna need advanced life support even though it may seem to be a minor situation from the start. That's probably a good rule of thumb. What do you think, Tim? Absolutely, we would like to have ALS on the scene immediately, cardiac monitoring and infusion, taking a look at any changes in the monitor that we might have. An IV started before we remove, if possible. If it's in the best interest of the patient to move rapid transport, we would like to have all that in position before we move those objects off of our victims. Yeah, good point. So consider ALS as part of your planning immediately. Also, I think in agriculture incidents for the same kind of reasons. And in rock incidents where you have, say an injury where the rope has been wrapped around a limb for a period of time, you've got all kinds of complications there. Wouldn't you think too, Sam? Sure, and crush injuries are also potential because of falling rocks in earth and so forth. So there's serious medical components to all of these.  Yeah, thank you, Rick. Sure. I'm glad to be on the show. Glad to see all you together here. I have a question for you as well as Captain Turner in regards to rope rescue. It's a three-part question in that, could you elaborate more on what an incident commander should do before the specialty team arrives on the scene? And then once the specialty team, in this case, a rope rescue team arrives on the scene, what the incident commander should do as far as integrating them into the rescue situation. And then if you can elaborate any further on, like helicopter operations in a rope rescue incident. Sam, go ahead. Well, the first thing you need to consider is control of the scene. You've got to look at what your problems are. You're bound to have problems unless you're in a very isolated area with bystanders. You want to make certain that those bystanders are away from the scene. Normally, or often, you're going to be dealing with a situation where you've got a lot of people looking over the edge of a cliff or hillside down at a victim, and so you have the potential for added debris and injury to the victim. Once you've controlled the scene and have a good handle on what the problem is, when the rescue team arrives, you want to apprise them of what you have and then pretty much turn it over to them and get them to put you to work doing things that you can do with the expertise that you have. In essence, then, with the on-scene commander, once the rescue team goes to work, they actually be more important, providing additional resources as opposed to telling, okay, do this, do that, or whatever. Exactly. Yeah, but that's it. I guess, Keith, and are you involved in a team right now, Keith? Ah, yes, we're from the county. Tell us how you run it. We just formulated an advanced technical rescue team with Harper's Ferry being so near, Sugarloaf Mountain in this area. We've had some overland rescues and we're just starting to get started, basically, and we're just trying to expand our role within Frederick County and so on. And what we're really interested in is helicopter operations to evac the patient out of basically a wilderness type of rescue. Let me call on Sam again for a minute. Can you elaborate a little more on the role of the helicopter in incidents like this? Well, in terms of helicopter operation, normally the helicopter crew is trained and has the equipment necessary to do their part of the operation. So really the key here is to direct them in and then provide communication so that they understand what the extent of your problem is, where your victim is, and what has been accomplished to this point. Keith, are you still with us? Yes, sir. Let me ask you one other question because you have an interesting combination in Frederick County, which is just a little south of the Emmitsburg campus. That is, you've got a large river, the Monocacy River. How do you coordinate your river rescue and your high angle rescue? Is that a single team or how do you handle that? Well, at this time, we don't perform any swift water rescue yet we're still seeking some training and using the ropes and possibly doing like a high line or in some instances where it dictates. But basically right now there's companies that basically have boats and they just do their water rescues with boats and so on, but we haven't really integrated with them yet. But the county is divided up so there are people who do one and people who do the other. Absolutely. Good point. Also, I understand you also use in some cases the resources of Montgomery County to the south and your neighbors to the North Adams and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. So it's a nice working relationship, isn't it? Absolutely. We've been very fortunate with the mutual aid packs in this area to call upon Montgomery County's said team and like you said, Shippensburg has a team in Pennsylvania and Baltimore County also has one in this area. Okay, Keith, thank you very much for calling in. We appreciate that.  What is the one key thing if you were to leave somebody with one idea about serious technical rescue from your standpoint? What would it be? Sam, let's start with you. It would definitely be get training from qualified instructors, understand the capabilities of the equipment that you have and practice, practice, practice. Billy? Know your limitations. Know how to protect yourself, know how to take care of yourself so that you don't become a victim. And Tim? I'd say the same thing that a matter of fact, all of our presenters have said today, training, we need to get competent instructors to train us for what we're going out to do, understand the hazards, the type of operations we're getting ourselves into and then just be real smart heads up about going out and doing these rescues. Okay, thanks a lot. Thank you. Appreciate the panel. We appreciate all your calls. Time's up though, we've got to move on here. We've got some information that the emergency response teams, firefighters and police officers may be interested in. There is a video now available showing how to respond to accidents involving horse trailers and horses, something we don't consider but we may have to deal with. It's called equine trailer rescue. It's produced by video knowledge incorporated of New Jersey. It teaches basic horse handling skills as well as specific restraining methods and extrication techniques. 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The news feeds and update segments will be transmitted daily from one to 4 p.m. eastern daylight time for the duration of the flooding and just briefly right now there are seven states with declared disasters. Over 25 disaster application centers in place. Here is a telephone number for you. 1-800-469-9029. 1-800-469-9029 to register as a disaster victim if you're affected. 1-800-462-7585 for the hearing impaired. If you have information or if you need donations or want to give donations actually, mainly money, people there need money. They don't need left shoes or single gloves or things like that, they need money. And that number to get information about where to donate is 1-800-634-7089. There's over 800 FEMA employees out there in the Midwest now working plus personnel from 26 other federal agencies plus the American Red Cross. The folks out there need all the help they can get and they certainly have our prayers and support. This was our 100th show. We thank you for your support. 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If you think you know who's going to win this year's Birchmont, well, you're wrong. There are plenty of talented golfers left on both the men's and the women's field. It is anyone's game. A little chilly in the morning session, but Matt Scarperud was red hot. He hold on on number four yesterday, today on the third, the short wedge, misses by inches, spins it back. He would tap in for the bird and beat Austin Renny three and two. He'll take on the defending champ as Andrew Israelson made quick work of Nathan Haley, beating him five and four. Last year's runner-up, Jim Foss, looking for his first title. Cosy's one up nicely on the third. He beats Jack Evans four and three to advance the next round. Colin Euker from long distance on the par five tenth gets it on in two. And then the eagle putt, never a doubt, good all the way on the par five. But he would have stiff competition from Danny Menten, the birdie on 16. He went on the next hole two and one. Finally, a little extra golf. It's Toby Paul Miskno on the 21st hole, sinks the birdie putt. He defeats Jordan Smith. He'll advance to the quarterfinals to take on Danny Menten. Eight golfers left in the field. Quarterfinals are tomorrow. Only eight women left in the field. Here's your favorite, the 2016 champ, Emily Israelson. The birdie on the sixth. She beats Mary Harris six and five. Moving on to Haley Tullette playing the low bump and run on the par five tenth. Rolls it just past the hole she would tap in for her birdie. She'd beat Taylor Offerdahl six and five. Different Haley, but another birdie Haley Abel rolls in on the sixth. The closest quarterfinal matchup she took on Annie Nelson.  Finally, the departing lumberjack, Abby Kelm, from about 20 feet away on the ninth hole, sinks the birdie putt. She'd move to three up and take the match over and a Tullette four and two. Kelm will take on Emily Israelson tomorrow. That'll be a good matchup. And Annie Nelson meets Haley Tullette for a trip to the finals. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.