Control Structure #63: Certain Fundamentals

Andrew and Steve talk about British knights, Apple acolytes, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, FPGAs, SSDs, memristors, listener feedback, and more, as the storms roll in. Special thanks to LoadingReadyRun and Musopen.

Links

• Crapshots Ep143 – The Crossroads – YouTube
• Nexus Special #30: E3 2014 › The Nexus
• The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers, New Study Says – Forbes
• The Intel 80386 and 80486 | Indiegogo
• BBC News – Raspberry Pi pioneer honoured in Birthday list
• Crate of Penguins — Losing Apple
• FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Reacts to John Oliver Viral Video | Re/code
• Hands-on with Canonical’s Orange Box and a peek into cloud nirvana | Ars Technica
• MemShrink’s 3rd birthday | Nicholas Nethercote
• An even slimmer pdf.js | Nicholas Nethercote
• stop playing mp3 in new tab | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support
• Internet Explorer Developer Channel is available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1
• 3% of users browse with IE9 and 14% of users have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former? | Fiona TG
• Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips | Enterprise | WIRED
• Microsoft fights U.S. search warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server – The Washington Post
• Safer email – Transparency Report – Google
• TrueCrypt
• Extreme Horizon experiment: iPhone on Spinning Car Wheel – Evil Window Dog blog
• The Unicode Blog: Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0
• The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte – The Tech Report – Page 1
• With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer – Businessweek
• The Swift Programming Language: The Basics
• International Backup Awareness Day
• AWS console breach leads to demise of service with “proven” backup plan | Ars Technica

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Sonata in D Major, D. 850 – Download free
• Sonata in E Flat Major, D. 568 – Download free
• The Hebrides – Fingal’s Cave, Op. 26 – Download free

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #236: CS #63 — You Took My Brain Out!

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