John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit the world of console controllers, addressing the flood of listener feedback by expanding the discussion to include aftermarket and third-party controllers, and attempting to address the objections of PlayStation fans. A few comments about CES and how to deliver a truly Apple-like keynote presentation round out the episode.
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5by5 | Hypercritical #50: Maximum Deflection in All Directions
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5by5 | Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss iPad use by three-year-olds, why non-gamers might consider the "Xbox" name a proxy for all of console gaming, the Wii generational hardware conundrum, and finally, an extremely long and obsessively detailed walk through the history of console game controllers, culminating in a rant about something that almost all other gamers love unconditionally.
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5by5 | Hypercritical #2: Backup Vortex
5by5 - Hypercritical #2: Backup Vortex
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5by5 | Hypercritical #7: ThunderCats
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk a bit more about connectors before moving on to the big Apple news: new MacBook Pros with Thunderbolt i/o and the first developer preview release of Mac OS X Lion.
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5by5 | Hypercritical #6: Frivolous Things
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin reveal the many prosaic reasons for not owning an iPhone, then veer off on several non-tech tangents and never fully recover: RSI, travel phobia, a personal history of computer ownership, and more.
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5by5 | Hypercritical #17: Intruding Gooseneck
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk some more about TV technology, elaborate on why, exactly, PHP is a bad programming language, lament the "decontenting" of Apple hardware and the proprietary hard drives in the new iMacs, and ponder the place of SSDs in the lives of computer users who are not independently wealthy.
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5by5 | Hypercritical #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.
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5by5 | Hypercritical #15: The Bridges of Siracusa County
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin continue their discussion of high-level programming languages, now focusing on why all popular languages suck in some way, then transition into a hard look at Perl, the black sheep of the dynamic language landscape.
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5by5 | Hypercritical #14: A Dark Age of Objective-C
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit Apple’s GUI history, complain about TiVo some more, then explore the possibility of another Copland-like crisis looming in Apple’s future. What will replace Objective-C and Cocoa? What can?
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5by5 | Hypercritical #39: Quasimodo Backpack
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about Siri in theory and in practice, and how iCloud is different than MobileMe, with its own set of problems. Plus more complaints about the Star Wars blu-rays, a clarification of the TiVo Premiere Elite’s specs, and the long-overdue completion of our tour of the Windows 8 UI. This episode is sponsored by Sourcebits, Handelabra Studio, and Shopify.
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