Episode 69: 69: Sport of Kings
Hypercritical
5by5
5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2012
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk a bit more about patents and copyright, revisit the sources of lag in human/computer interactions, revise the probabilities of retina-display Macs, MacBook Pros without ethernet ports, any Mac Pros ever again, and the various ways to deal with a possible taller iPhone screen.
Links for this episode:
- Apple scrapped troubled 15-inch MacBook Air for 2010, rebuilding for 2012 - 9to5Mac
- Miserere (Allegri) - Wikipedia
- Allegri: Miserere - YouTube
- Teen's Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostic Wins $75,000 Intel Prize - Reason.com
- Apple working to adopt 802.11ac 5G Gigabit WiFi this year - AppleInsider
- Venus Equilateral - Wikipedia
- Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture -TED.com
- The Reform of Intellectual Property - Dean Baker
- How to Lower the Price of Prescription Drugs - Dean Baker
- Can You Patent A Steak? - Planet Money
- How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads - Wired.com
- Everything Is a Remix
- Scooby Snacks - Wikipedia
- The Big Apple: “Skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it’s been” (hockey adage)
- Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package - Ken Shirriff
- Surviving Without Subsidies - NYTimes.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:11.0 | Nothing so perfect that can't be complained about. But my co-host John |
| 0:15.3 | Syracusea, I am Dan Benjamin. Today is Friday, May 25th, 2012, it's episode |
| 0:21.3 | number 69. We would like to say thanks very much to our sponsors today |
| 0:26.0 | Squarespace.com Shopify.com and Warpy Parker.com. |
| 0:33.0 | I'll tell you about them more as the program continues. |
| 0:35.4 | We also want to thank very much our good friend, |
| 0:38.6 | Jerry Raphael, he's the guy behind a lot of the artwork and really all of the |
| 0:42.4 | artwork and the logo that you see at 5 by 5. TV. |
| 0:45.6 | He has a great set of vector icons out there that you can go and buy and download and use. |
| 0:52.0 | They live at symbolicons.com and he has made the bandwidth for this |
| 0:55.5 | episode possible so thanks very much symbolic cons.com. How are you doing |
| 1:00.4 | John Syracuse on this lovely Friday morning afternoon? |
| 1:05.0 | Doing fun, thinking about Scooby Snacks. |
| 1:07.0 | Scooby Snacks. |
| 1:10.0 | Will those introduce before or after Scrappy do? |
| 1:14.0 | Oh, I think before. |
| 1:17.0 | They didn't give him any superpowers though, but didn't |
| 1:20.0 | Scrappy have Scrappy snacks that gave him some kind of... |
| 1:23.0 | No, maybe. I'm trying to block that out. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, it was horrible. |
| 1:26.0 | Someone just suggested Scoopi snacks in the chat room. |
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