Episode 73: 73: 22 Degrees
Hypercritical
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5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2012
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the Microsoft Surface. It's a tablet! It's an ultrabook! It runs Office, Windows, and your existing x86 applications…unless it's the ARM version. And why is Microsoft making hardware, anyway? It's all very intriguing.
Links for this episode:
- Jobs: If you see a stylus or a task manager, 'they blew it' - Engadget
- John's Tumblr blog, also titled Hypercritical
- Microsoft Surface tablets may not match iPad battery life - Computerworld
- Microsoft VP creates perfume that smells of money - CNet
- Microsoft's Surface event video - YouTube
- Capacitive touchscreens - Wikipedia
- Surface by Microsoft
- Six Flags Great America
- Microsoft Technology Centers in Cologne
- Surface vs. iPad: Microsoft's Getting Rusty At Stealing from Apple
- PowerBook G3 - Wikipedia
- Limited-slip differential - Wikipedia
- John's Surface-like hardware musings from 2010 - Macworld
- Windows for Pen Computing - Wikipedia
- Inkwell (Macintosh) - Wikipedia
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| 0:00.0 | Obsession by Calvin Klein. |
| 0:02.0 | Bm, boom, chair surface. |
| 0:07.0 | This is hypercritical. |
| 0:09.0 | Weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies |
| 0:14.3 | and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that cannot be destroyed. |
| 0:20.7 | By my co-host John Syracusea. I'm Dan Benjamin. Today is June 22nd 2012. This is |
| 0:28.6 | episode. Number 73. We have two sponsors. We would like to say thank you to them get harvest dot com also |
| 0:37.3 | known as just harvest and square space dot com and we will tell you more about them as |
| 0:41.6 | the show continues. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm trying to jam everything into a carry-on, so I don't have to check any luggage. |
| 0:47.0 | Well, that's what you gotta do, you gotta do that. |
| 0:49.0 | Oh, I'm bringing like a laptop and a hard drive and all sorts of crap that I have to. |
| 0:54.0 | That could be a show topic in itself. How does John Sircuse a pack? |
| 0:58.8 | How do I fly? Reluctantly and with great trepidation. great anxiety yeah and this you're you are doing |
| 1:07.3 | more traveling in the space of like a month than you've done in the last five years combined. |
| 1:14.4 | No, it's always like this in the summer. I always go, well, last summer, |
| 1:18.0 | WBC is what screws it up because I always go to my in-laws in the summer and then I drive down to Long Island which I have less of a problem with like leave whatever you want you know |
| 1:26.7 | pack your car plenty of room no falling to your death, you know, it's... |
| 1:37.0 | You don't get sucked out, you get blown out. |
| 1:41.0 | He's gone from suck to blow. All right, so here we are, Showtime. |
| 1:47.0 | How are you feeling? |
| 1:49.0 | I mean, you're pumped, you're ready to go. |
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