Having switched to the Mac at work a few years ago, I suspect your boss will disappointment. I absolutely love the Mac hardware and OS X compared with Windows, but Office is buggy and crippled compared with the Windows version. It works better than OpenOffice did last I tried it though.

Maybe try the DLNA server in DivX 10, if you can run on OS X or WIndows.. DivX know a little bit about MKV.

Compared to Windows 3.1, Win 95 was also great.

NT4 was awesome, so long as you didn't install poor quality device drivers that would cause a BSOD. It was way better than any of the consumer Win95,98,ME versions out at the same time. Win2K was also awesome.

My MBP is just about to turn six (and it's had almost as many batteries, but that's a different story). Mavericks breathes new life in to it because of memory compression. The 6GB RAM I've got in it just ain't enough anymore, but it doesn't hit the swap file as much as it did before.

Bullshit. I hate driving in N. America: the head-lights are dim, but what really annoys me is how many people have them poorly adjusted. The worst culprits seem to be pick-ups with their lights askew causing in particular a lot of dazzling from mirrors which I rarely get in Europe. Many European countries allow brighter lights, but they also require them to be be shielded in a specific way. For instance, the annual MOT test that all vehicles over three years old in the UK must pass explicitly checks light alignment to ensure that other drivers aren't dazzled.

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.