231: What on Earth Would Ordinary People Want With Computers?

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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Smart Phone, Society & Culture, Ios, Apple, Amazon, Smartphone, Tesla, Tech Pod, Tech, Phone, Technology, Space, Android, Google, Microsoft, Science, Videogame, Video Game, Games, Electric Car, Techpod

4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

The time has come for our deep dive into Pirates of Silicon Valley, the 1999 made-for-TNT movie that chronicles the parallel rises of Apple and Microsoft. Join us for a bunch of chatter about the historic business deals and betrayals, the portrayals of Gates, Jobs, Ballmer, Wozniak and others, what the actual people depicted thought about the movie, how Shakespeare informed the production, the delightful '90s blue screen effects, and plenty more. (And check the show notes if you haven't seen the movie yet!)

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0:00.0	Brad, do you know what your SVID is set at?
0:02.6	Are you saying this in this ominous touch?
0:04.2	Look, man.
0:04.7	You sound like it's 10 p.m.
0:06.7	Do you know where your svid is?
0:08.8	Rowdy motherboards are overvolting processors in your neighborhood.
0:13.6	You saw, we talked about this on the PC World podcast a lot over the last few weeks.
0:18.2	And there was a Gamer's Nexus video this week.
0:21.1	There's been a bunch of other stuff that's come out.
0:23.1	But this morning, videocards.com with a Z.
0:28.4	No space also.
0:29.7	The canonically correct pronunciation spelling.
0:32.1	Posted a story that Assouc has released some motherboards for its Z970, 790,
0:37.6	motherboards of the 13th and 14th gen motherboards,
0:40.5	has a new setting called Intel Baseline Profile,
0:46.3	which purportedly doesn't overclock anything.
0:49.8	You might think that a setting such as that would exist out of the box on a motherboard.
0:54.6	And they might make it easy to just say, hey, you know what, run this thing at stock.
0:58.3	Look, I've spent a fair amount of time with the last few weeks, benchmarking Janky 13th and 14th
1:03.2	generation processors.
1:04.6	Mm-hmm.
1:05.1	And I'm going to go ahead and tell you, this is a welcome change.
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