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Hypercritical

Episode 17: 17: Intruding Gooseneck

Hypercritical

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News, Apple, Ars Technica, Siracusa, Mac, Tech, Sci-fi, Geek, Tech News

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2011

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk some more about TV technology, elaborate on why, exactly, PHP is a bad programming language, lament the "decontenting" of Apple hardware and the proprietary hard drives in the new iMacs, and ponder the place of SSDs in the lives of computer users who are not independently wealthy.

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0:00.0

This is a

0:04.0

a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple

0:11.0

and related technologies and businesses we know no bounds.

0:14.0

What can be complained about by my co-host John Syracuse, I'm Dan Benjamin.

0:18.6

We'd like to thank Freshbooks.com and also Omni Group.com for making this show possible.

0:26.1

Tell you more about them as we go on.

0:27.7

Hi John.

0:28.7

Hey, Diane.

0:29.7

You're telling me you're a little bit under the, perhaps a little under the weather your throat was not

0:34.6

feeling great but you're you sound okay.

0:37.2

I think I still sound a little bit crockier than usual.

0:40.3

And who you know just when you thought it wasn't possible to sound crockier, here you are.

0:45.0

Yes, for the people who were listening for the first time, I usually sound crocky, but not quite this crock.

0:50.0

More Kermit than croak, and so you've gone fully from frog to toad.

0:55.0

Sure, that's where you want to go with that.

0:57.0

That's where I'm going.

0:59.0

I'm going to jot that down as a potential title.

1:01.0

All right.

1:03.0

You can't have a title within the first two seconds.

1:05.0

Although maybe we can't...

1:07.0

There's no rules.

1:08.0

Today's show we don't really have a main topic.

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