16: The Soap Opera Effect

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin repent after two episodes on programming languages by discussing TV technology…after about 45 minutes of (so-called) follow-up on Apple's potential use of ARM CPUs in Macs, gaming performance in Mac OS X, and yes, a bit more about programming.

Links for this episode:

• Introduction to Perl 6 Regular Expressions - GitHub
  
• Introduction to Perl 6 Grammars - GitHub
  
• Plasma displays - Wikipedia
  
• Liquid crystal displays - Wikipedia
  
• LED-backlit LCDs - Wikipedia
  
• Speculation about Apple using ARM CPUs in Macs - SemiAccurate
  
• Two-Factor Security for Web Apps - AlterEgo
  
• Vague rumors of a new OpenGL stack in Lion buried in a video card review - Ars Technica
  
• Intel's new 3D transistor - Ars Technica
  

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