Episode 68: 68: Patent Hands
Hypercritical
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2012
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin, inevitably, revisit the topic of patents, attempting to address a wide array of listener feedback. For the hearty listeners that make it through the patent talk, there's a bonus discussion of the new MacBook Pro rumors, and a brief consideration of cutscenes and trailers in video games.
Links for this episode:
- Thomas Pogge - Reimagining pharmaceutical innovation - YouTube
- Against Intellectual Monopoly (PDF)
- Against Intellectual Monopoly - Amazon.com
- Book Review: “Patent Failure” - Ars Technica
- Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk - Amazon.com:
- Lag: The Bane Of Touch Screens - Noel Llopis
- Programming Responsiveness - Mick West
- Measuring Responsiveness in Video Games - Mick West
- Making It Scientifically - Robert K. Merton
- Nathan Myhrvold and collective genius in science - Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker
- Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research - Michael A. Heller and Rebecca S. Eisenberg
- Financing Drug Research: What Are the Issues? - Dean Baker
- The Truth about Drug Companies - Marcia Angell, MD
- Red pill blue pill - John McCoy
- Context-Free Patent Art
- Patent Hands - Flickr
- Pirate Party - Wikipedia
- Thomas Jefferson on Patents and Freedom of Ideas - Moving to Freedom
- Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen? - Super User
- Super Mario World ending
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical, a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:09.7 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about by my co-host John Syracuse. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Dan Benjamin. Today is Friday, it's May 18th, 2012. This is episode |
| 0:22.2 | number 68. I want to say thanks to our two sponsors for making this |
| 0:27.1 | show possible. |
| 0:28.9 | hover.com and rackspace.com and we will tell you more about them as the show continues. |
| 0:34.8 | We also want to say thanks very much to my friend Joy Raffaille |
| 0:38.1 | he's the guy that does all the amazing artwork and logo and icons and stuff that you see |
| 0:41.7 | at 5 by 5. Well he also has a great vector-based icon set |
| 0:47.2 | over at symbolicons.com |
| 0:49.6 | and he is sponsoring the bandwidth for these shows. |
| 0:51.6 | So thanks very much to symbolic cons |
| 0:53.4 | com for making that possible. |
| 0:57.0 | John Syracusea |
| 1:02.0 | Dan Benjamin. How are you? I'm just Andy. Did you see the |
| 1:06.2 | Avengers movie? I did. What did you think of I haven't gotten to see it yet? |
| 1:09.9 | That was good. I mean I didn't think I was going to be blown away because I'm just not that into superhero movies |
| 1:17.3 | but it was a good superhero movie I thought yeah it had a lot of the same flaws that most |
| 1:21.4 | superhero movies have. |
| 1:23.0 | In fact, I'm going to do a podcast about it tonight. |
| 1:24.8 | Oh, you're going to be on that. |
| 1:25.8 | So yeah, let's talk about this. |
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