Episode 96: 96: Blue Peter Hypercritical

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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