Episode 96: 96: Blue Peter
- Author
- 5by5
- Published
- Fri 30 Nov 2012
- Episode Link
- https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/96
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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