Wow, and it has a much worse encoding speed. x264 is a slow AVC encoder, and the reference HEVC HM10 encoder is horrendous and probably an order or two magnitude slower than third party implementations. Hard to justify VP9 for commercial content producers (it will cost more to deliver lower quality content).

4K only becomes interesting if you want to have a bigger screen. I think sitting close to an enormous screen is more immersive than other fads like 3D and more interesting from that perspective than higher frame rates. Then again, I don't want an enormous TV in my living room that ends up being the first thing people use.

YouTube isn't meant for downloading, so suck it up; you're in a very small minority. DASH is awesome because we finally have an industry standard way of delivering adaptive streams. Well, it has some complications in being a little bit too generic but but a lot of the industry is going the same way now.

I think you might be wrong. I've opened my case to find a letter telling me that it had been opened and searched en route.

Are they going to integrate Emacs in to their web services?
M-x doctor
or
M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead

Or maybe they're porting their web services to elisp.

Blimey! For the last four months, our electricity usage has been in the range of 104-134 kWh, with gas ramping up from 134 to 282 kWh due to turning on the central heating occasionally. At £0.128 / kWH for the electricity, I'm glad I don't have your bill.

Everything's wrong with it! I was complaining to somebody just today about how shit Skype can be, whilst we were on a conference call and the person who was running it had dialled in via Skype. Laptops like to have the mic near the keyboard, and this person was talking notes and updating some documents at the same time as splitting our ear drums. Get a f*****g headset people, and everybody else: learn how to mute if you're not talking.

Perhaps I read too much in to your "until recently" and too far between the lines. Anyway, it's good to remember the old days, but I'm sure another 20 years culture will have changed even further and more rapidly!

Don't stereotype all of us south of the border in the same way. Hallowe'en seems pretty irrelevant where I live in west London. Having lived in the US and Canada from the age of 19 to 35, coming home I was astounded at how big Guy Fawkes Night is, with my re-introduction being a massive mid-week gathering on Clapham Common for fireworks and then a late on the beers. Maybe there is some interest in Hallowe'en in middle class child-rich suburbia, but it's nothing compared with N. America or the traditional British/English events. Quite frankly I'm looking forward to the anarchy, pyromania and chaos of the annual blood-thirsty torching of Guy Fawkes. Hallowe'en OTOH just seems childish, as seemingly do the adults that partake in it. Thank f*** there's nobody at the office today in a stupid costume: I didn't have to be rude.

Is that why healthcare in the US is twice the price per person as in Canada, and most of the difference is in the admin cost per person?

George Bush was right during his re-election campaign when he wanted small businesses to be able to get together for healthcare: there are economies of scale that can benefit healthcare. The NHS is the largest bulk purchaser of drugs in the world, and it gets a correspondingly cheaper price on drugs. Meanwhile the pharmaceutical companies make 25% of their profits in the US.

Private healthcare pays. Not for the patient though.

As a Londoner myself, I think I'm allowed to take the piss out of Americans who habitually bring up that stereotype, even though it's blatantly not true. As somebody who's lived in a few places around the world, my chief complaints about the weather are that it doesn't get hot enough in summer and the winters are pretty mild and boring too! It doesn't stop the locals whinging like a bunch of babies.

He must have thought it wouldn't be a problem in London, what with all the pea soupers and drizzle.

How about Tempora? You should suggest that one to them.

He went to Saipan where he tried to sell software and data to US agents pretending to be business men. Isn't Saipan US territory? Perhaps you should try RTFA before sounding of like a dickhead.

I'm running Lion. The performance is terrible.