69: Sport of Kings

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk a bit more about patents and copyright, revisit the sources of lag in human/computer interactions, revise the probabilities of retina-display Macs, MacBook Pros without ethernet ports, any Mac Pros ever again, and the various ways to deal with a possible taller iPhone screen.

Links for this episode:

• Apple scrapped troubled 15-inch MacBook Air for 2010, rebuilding for 2012 - 9to5Mac
  
• Miserere (Allegri) - Wikipedia
  
• Allegri: Miserere - YouTube
  
• Teen's Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostic Wins $75,000 Intel Prize - Reason.com
  
• Apple working to adopt 802.11ac 5G Gigabit WiFi this year - AppleInsider
  
• Venus Equilateral - Wikipedia
  
• Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture -TED.com
  
• The Reform of Intellectual Property - Dean Baker
  
• How to Lower the Price of Prescription Drugs - Dean Baker
  
• Can You Patent A Steak? - Planet Money
  
• How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads - Wired.com
  
• Everything Is a Remix
  
• Scooby Snacks - Wikipedia
  
• The Big Apple: “Skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it’s been” (hockey adage)
  
• Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package - Ken Shirriff
  
• Surviving Without Subsidies - NYTimes.com
  

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