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
  

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
  

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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
  

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
  

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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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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
  

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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
  

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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
  

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest information about Apple's Fusion Drive and the first big executive reshuffling at Apple in the post-Steve Jobs era: Forstall and Browett are out; Ive, Cue, Federighi, and Mansfield are in.

Links for this episode:

• AnandTech - The Windows RT Review
  
• Tweet from Tanner Silva about the cost of a Retina MacBook Pro screen replacement
  
• Tweet from Stephen Hackett about glass-covered MacBook Pro screens
  
• Tweet from Thomas Brand about screens glued to laptop lids
  
• Tweet from jackslash about the Apple logo on the front of the iMac
  
• Mac notebooks: About the "Ignoring accidental trackpad input" option - Apple.com
  
• Fusion drive on older Macs? YES! - Patrick Stein
  
• More on BYO Fusion drive - Patrick Stein
  
• Fusion Drive - loose ends - Patrick Stein
  
• Core Storage in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
  
• Apple Announces Changes to Increase Collaboration Across Hardware, Software & Services - Apple.com
  
• Apple CEO Tim Cook: Steve “taught me that the joy is in the journey” - Ars Technica
  
• Op-ed: Apple Store may be shifting from customer experience to profit machine | Ars Technica
  
• Behind Silicon Valley's Un-Retirement of Apple's Bob Mansfield - AllThingsD
  
• Skeuomorphism in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
  
• Skeuomorphic applications in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
  
• Jonathan Ive interview: simplicity isn't simple - Telegraph
  
• File system API unification in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Ars Technica
  
• Daring Fireball: Forstall Out; Ive Up
  
• Neven Mrgan's post on App.net about Jony Ive's car
  
• Bertrand Serlet to Leave Apple - Apple.com
  
• Avadis Tevanian - Wikipedia
  
• Craig Federighi - Wikipedia
  
• Bertrand Serlet - Wikipedia
  
• Daring Fireball: The Good, the Bad, and the Avie
  
• Apple Technical Note 2034 (PDF)
  
• The Incomparable #114: When You Wish Upon a "Star Wars"
  
• From inside Apple, the Scott Forstall fallout - Om Malik
  
• Hypercritical #45: Star Wars is Not a Blog Post
  
• Fusion Drive quick look: Our predictions confirmed! - Ars Technica
  
• Browett seen as bad for Apple thanks to Dixons’ poor reputation - Ars Technica
  

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the new hardware announced at the October 23rd Apple event: the latest Retina MacBook Pro, whether the new iMac is too skinny or too fat, the little information we currently know about Fusion Drive, and, of course, the new iPads, both mini and Retina.

Links for this episode:

• Intel Z68 Chipset & Smart Response Technology (SSD Caching) Review - AnandTech
  
• Hypercritical #17: Intruding Gooseneck
  
• AnandTech - Seagate's Momentus XT Reviewed, Finally a Good Hybrid HDD
  
• Macminicolo Blog (Impressions of the 2012 Mac mini (updated))
  
• Does this aluminum back make me look fat?
  
• Hands-on with the thumb-able iPad mini and the ultrathin iMac - Ars Technica
  
• Apple Fusion Drive—wait, what? How does this work? - Ars Technica
  
• A short history of btrfs - LWN.net
  
• Hypercritical #57: Computational Skeuomorphism
  
• B-Trees, Shadowing, and Clones (PDF) - Ohad Rodeh
  
• Mac mini (Late 2012) and iMac (Late 2012): About Fusion Drive - Apple.com
  
• Apple's white iPad mini sells out in 20 minutes - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
  
• Strange Game - The Magazine
  
• AnandTech - Understanding Apple's Fusion Drive
  
• Apple Special Event October 2012
  

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