96: Blue Peter

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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