Aliens Land Here

4: They'll swing into action and accidentally wipe their hard drive


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We talk about Hyperlapse, delve into what it means to be a computer user, and take wild guesses as to the nature of the giant building involved in Apple’s September 9th announcement.  Also,  a card trick.

Follow Up: 

  • Fire phone does use cameras for tilt gestures

  • Only 35K sales so far

  • Tivo HD & Tivo Romeo

  • Console Sales are up

  • Forza 5

  • Mario Kart 8

  • Pixel Junk Shooter

Hyperlapse:

  • Instagram’s Hyperlapse

  • Microsoft’s Hyperlapse

  • Accelerometer vs gyroscope

Computer Literacy:

  • Article : Kids can’t use computers… And this is why it should worry you

  • Mark’s early computer: Commodore PET

  • Richard’s family's early computers: Apple 2e, Apple 2GS, Macintosh 128

  • The asteroids game Richard modified with Resedit, Maelstrom

  • Applesoft BASIC programming reference manual. (It looks so much easier now that I’ve been programming for more than 20 years...)

  • qBasic

  • FutureBASIC

  • Gorillas

  • Nibbles

  • Computer Usage vs Administration vs Engineering

  • What a person should know to be considered a computer user

  • A car analogy, because every debate has to have a car analogy

  • What skills administration and engineering can teach us

  • Does Sandboxing and jailing make life better?

  • Who is responsible for maintenance

  • Legislating technology

  • Negative perception of people who work with technology

  • I have MASTERED life

  • Robot Turtle

  • Sokoban

  • Apple “Say” command

  • Carmack twitter account hacked

  • Logo

  • PEEK & POKE

Apple: 

  • Building for Apple’s announcement

Post Show: 

  • Penn & Teller - Fool Us

  • The specific trick discussed

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Aliens Land HereBy Richard Kalling, Mark El-Wakil

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