Episode 96: 96: Blue Peter
Hypercritical
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5.0 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2012
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin reveal John's Wii U in transit, then talk more about Apple, Intel, ARM, and silicon chip fabrication, and finally, the Fake Geek Girl meme, misogyny, and problems with Geek Culture in general.
Links for this episode:
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, by Charles Petzold
- From NAND to Tetris: The Elements of Computing Systems - nand2tetris.org
- Cabel's tweet about The Wii U GamePad
- If Samsung doesn't supply Apple's processors, who will? - Fortune
- Native Client: Technical Overview - Google
- Native Client: A Sandbox for Portable, Untrusted x86 Native Code (PDF)
- Ring (computer security) - Wikipedia
- Broadwell (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia
- Land grid array - Wikipedia
- Indium gallium zinc oxide - Wikipedia
- Blue Peter - Wikipedia
- Multiply–accumulate operation - Wikipedia
- Transactional memory going mainstream with Intel Haswell - Ars Technica
- Intel's Haswell CPU Microarchitecture - RealWorldTech
- Haswell has on-die voltage regulator - fudzilla.com
- Idiot Nerd Girl - Know Your Meme
- Fake Geek Girl Meme - The Mary Sue
- The Incomparable #28: Bad at High School
- RBC: Intel in talks with Apple to build iPhone processors - Fortune
- Hypercritical - Ars Technica
- Wyld Stallyns #1 : Be Excellent To Each Other - YouTube
- Moore's law - Wikipedia
- OS X 10.8.3 beta supports Radeon HD 7900-series chipsets - MacNN
- Wild Speculation: Why a $2B AMD purchase would be a puzzle piece fit for Apple - 9to5Mac
- Intel kills off the desktop, PCs go with it - SemiAccurate
- Nerds: Stop hating women, please - New Statesman
- On the “Fake” Geek Girl - The Mary Sue
- Dear Fake Geek Girls: Please Go Away - Forbes
- Forget the Sixaxis - the Wii U’s GamePad has nine-axis control - VentureBeat
- Apple may tap TSMC to move A-series mobile chips to 28nm process - Ars Technica
- Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be - John Scalzi
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | As a wise man once said Dan, don't give it to hate that leads to the dark side. |
| 0:05.0 | This is hypercritical, a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related |
| 0:13.4 | technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. |
| 0:18.3 | By my friend and your host, John Syracusea, I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:22.4 | Today is Friday, November 30th, 2012. This is episode |
| 0:26.2 | number 96. And there are only a hundred. Only a few left to go. I know. |
| 0:34.0 | Like to say thanks very much to our three sponsors, |
| 0:37.0 | Koku, over at Koku app.com, shutterstock.com and source bits. and we will tell you more about those as the program continues. |
| 0:46.1 | I also like to say thanks very much to MindNode. |
| 0:49.2 | They are our bandwidth sponsor for the whole month of November. |
| 0:53.8 | They're an intuitive mind mapping app for Mac and iOS. |
| 0:56.8 | Whether you're brainstorming for your next project, |
| 0:58.3 | organizing your life or planning your vacation, |
| 1:00.7 | mine node lets you collect, and expand your ideas. |
| 1:04.0 | They have iCloud sharing, they got it all. |
| 1:06.0 | Check them out at my node.com. |
| 1:09.0 | Hi, Joan. |
| 1:11.0 | Hello Dan. How is everything going? |
| 1:14.0 | It's just fine. I didn't see one line and I was worried. |
| 1:17.0 | No. There you are. |
| 1:18.0 | There I am. |
| 1:20.0 | You were hiding. |
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