Hypercritical

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A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. Hosted by John Siracusa & Dan Benjamin.

28/12/2012

Episode 100: 100: Metacritical

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin end the Hypercritical podcast with a discussion of the show itself, followed by a final Q&A where Dan asks the questions and John attempts to provide sensible answers. Many thanks to all the listeners and the folks in the 5by5 chat room. The journey was the reward. Links for this episode: "I modded my GameCube pad into a Wii Classic Controller", by gummowned - Reddit Address Resolution Protocol - Wikipedia Basic guide to mod a GameCube controller with a Wii Classic Controller PCB - Gummo Hypercritcal (Song A Day #1450) - YouTube Jonathan Mann Song a Day: The Album Wii RetroPad Adapter 2 - Sparrow's Domain "If you liked our Bad At High School episode, …" - @theincomparable Hypercritical - Ars Technica Jerry Maguire - Wikiquote More Hypercritical Length Analysis - Super Jeffective

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21/12/2012

Episode 99: 99: New Siracusa County Bros. U

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on iTunes 11 and Apple's continuing failure to grok online services, then discuss the Wii U, starting with the painful setup process and continuing on to New Super Mario Bros. U, Nintendo Land, and, inevitably, the Wii U GamePad controller. Links for this episode: Order of authors on publications - Academia Stack Exchange Does your brain really have the power to see the world upside-down? Dropbox: The Linchpin - Daring Fireball Dropbox: The Linchpin - Michael Tsai How Nintendo DRM trapped $400 of downloaded games on my failing Wii - Ars Technica The long, frustrating road to recovering my Wii downloads - Ars Technica The incredibly true story of how I bricked my Wii U - The PA Report Wii U GamePad battery compartment - iFixIt New Super Mario Bros. U - Amazon.com Wii U - Nintendo Nintendo Land - Amazon.com Sponsored by Hover (use code DANSENTME for 10% off), Shutterstock (use code DANSENTME12 for 30% off), and Sourcebits.

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14/12/2012

Episode 98: 98: Hardware Machismo

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on taping out silicon chips, Apple's seemingly bottomless silicon ambitions, and the pitfalls of labeling people, then discuss Twitterrific 5, the new Google maps app on iOS, iTunes 11, Tim Cook's national news tour, and Apple's upcoming "Made in the USA" Mac. Links for this episode: How to use rlwrap to get a command history in sql*plus - Lutz Hartmann How To Tell People They Sound Racist - YouTube Innovation is a Fight - Rands In Repose Rands - Wikipedia How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race - TEDxHampshireCollege A comment on The new age of Capital Intensity - Asymco.com NBC's Rock Center interview with Tim Cook - Part 1 NBC's Rock Center interview with Tim Cook - Part 2 Google Maps for iPhone shows Apple how to do mapping right - Ars Technica iTunes 11 review: Simple is as simple does - Ars Technica iTunes through the ages - Ars Technica Apple CEO Tim Cook to Brian Williams: “Don’t bet against us.” - Ars Technica Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks - Businessweek OpenStreetMap Twitterrific 5 Jeff Foster Kitsune: Efficient, General-purpose Dynamic Software Updating for C (PDF) Muir Island - Wikipedia Kremlinology - Wikipedia Hypercritical T-Shirt Poll For Apple, change could be a good sign - Jason Snell Text of Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement address (2005) Apple CEO Steve Jobs at D8: The Full, Uncut Interview - AllThingsD Apple's "Made in USA" computer likely to be Mac Pro - Philip Elmer-DeWitt The Pipeline #23: John Siracusa The Setup / John Siracusa

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05/12/2012

Episode 97: 97: Idle Doodles

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on silicon chip making and misogyny in geek culture, then dive into Hypercritical's first—and likely only—listener Q&A show. All questions entertained! Some questions answered! Links for this episode: No Movie for Old Men On Dickwolves, Ethics, and Why I'm Not Attending PAX East - arthur-ign The Pratfall of Penny Arcade - A Timeline Five Geek Social Fallacies - Michael Suileabhain-Wilson Raymond Chandler's Private Dick - The Atlantic International maritime signal flags - Wikipedia Blue Peter Frequently Asked Questions - BBC John Scalzi - Wikipedia The Way Games Work - Wii U GamePad - YouTube Bare Bones Software: BBEdit 10.5 BBEdit 10.5 Release Notes Quicken Mac 2007 - Intuit Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be - John Scalzi The AnandTech Podcast Bono - Wikipedia Larry Elmore: The Complete Elmore Artbook - Kickstarter Perceptual adaptation - Wikipedia Larry Elmore, Fantasy Artist Jonathan Coulton - Wikipedia Dan Moren's Boston Globe article (mostly behind a paywall, unfortunately) Macworld: The Best Mac Ever The Flop House Roderick on the Line Fresh Air This American Life Sponsored by Shutterstock (use code DANSENTME12 for 30% off), Squarespace (use code DANSENTME12 for 10% off), Hover (use code DANSENTME for 10% off), and Prop 'n Go (use the code DANSENTME for 17% off).

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30/11/2012

Episode 96: 96: Blue Peter

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 Sponsored by Shutterstock (use code DANSENTME11 for 30% off), Koku, and Sourcebits.

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23/11/2012

Episode 95: 95: Black Friday

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the upcoming end of this show, more on Intel vs. ARM, Apple's CPU/GPU needs, and the newly revealed internals of the Wii U console and GamePad. Links for this episode: Advanced Vector Extensions - Wikipedia 5by5 Specials #10: State of the Union for 2012 Intel to fab ARM chips for Apple? It’s possible… - Ars Technica Intel's Tick Tock strategy (image) Silicon - Wikipedia Silicone - Wikipedia Intel set to expand its Hillsboro research fab, D1X - OregonLive.com Haswell’s GPU prowess is due to Crystalwell - SemiAccurate Crystalwell is very wide memory for Haswell GT3 - SemiAccurate Nintendo Wii U Teardown - iFixit Rayman developer: Wii U GamePad latency is 1/60th of a second - Ars Technica Hands-On with Wii U (GamePad lag video) - Digital Foundry Iwata Asks : Wii U: The Console : Hardware as Stagehand Wii U GamePad battery compartment - iFixIt Skylanders CrashPlan's Black Friday sale State of the Union Address for 2012 - 5by5 Blog Sponsored by Mailgun (use code 5BY5 for 10% off), Shopify, Hover (use the code DANSENTME for 10% off), and Shutterstock (use code DANSENTME11 for 30% off).

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16/11/2012

Episode 94: 94: Shrink, Shrink, Shrink!

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit the topic of voting technology, then discuss the possibility of Apple using ARM processors instead of Intel processors in its Macs: RISC vs. CISC, process nodes, the x86 burden, and…sewing machines. Links for this episode: Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel for Mac - Businessweek RISC vs. CISC: the Post-RISC Era (1999) - Ars Technica Reduced instruction set computing - Wikipedia Complex instruction set computing - Wikipedia RISC vs. CISC in the mobile era (2008) - Ars Technica x86 instruction listings - Wikipedia Secret Life of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 1 - YouTube Secret Life of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 2 - YouTube How a Sewing Machine Works (animation) - swiss-miss.com Micro-operation - Wikipedia x87 - Wikipedia SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) - Wikipedia SSE2 - Wikipedia SSE3 - Wikipedia SSE4 - Wikipedia x86-64 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lithography - Wikipedia 22 nanometer - Wikipedia Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia Apple A6 - Wikipedia Understanding Moore’s Law - Ars Technica Ivy Bridge: 1.4B Transistors - AnandTech Intel 8086 - Wikipedia Haswell (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia TSMC - Wikipedia Picking up the pieces: John Siracusa mourns the Power PC (2005) - Ars Technica Intel's Haswell CPU Microarchitecture - Real World Tech eVoting after Nedap and Digital Pen (video) - events.ccc.de eVoting after Nedap and Digital Pen - events.ccc.de Luddite - Wikipedia Why You Can't Vote Online Yet - On The Media Sponsored by Hover (use code DANSENTME for 10% off), Squarespace (use code DANSENTME11 for 10% off), Lynda, and Mutual Mobile

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09/11/2012

Episode 93: 93: A Magic Elf in My Computer

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about Forstall's departure from Apple, Surface storage, and Fusion Drive, then discuss US voting technology, Google voice search, and how Apple's design problems are more than skin deep. Links for this episode: Why Executives Are Never Fired - Michael Camilleri Gardening leave - Wikipedia Available disk space on Microsoft Surface - Microsoft.com SDXC - Wikipedia Apple fusion drive on late 2010 MacBook Pro - Tomasz Korwel Fusion drive on a pre-10.8.2 version of OS X - Alexandre Torres Achieving fusion—with a service training doc, Ars tears open Apple’s Fusion Drive - Ars Technica End-to-end auditable voting systems - Wikipedia David Bismark: E-voting without fraud - TED.com Google Voice Search vs. Siri - Daring Fireball Google Voice Search vs. Siri: Who’s the Best... - Gizmodo.com Apple’s design problems aren’t skeuomorphic - counternotions Frogger! The Frogger Musical - Paul and Storm Konami Code - Wikipedia BYOD Fusion Do It Yourself Apple Fusion Drive on Your Mac - YouTube AppleCD Audio Player Sponsored by Hover (use code DANSENTME for 10% off), Squarespace (use code DANSENTME11 for 10% off), MailChimp, and Symbolicons (use code DANLOVESICONS for 15% off).

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04/12/2012

Jason Braganza

Catch this awesome show quick. An era winds down...

A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. Hosted by John Siracusa & Dan Benjamin.