How? Without third parties, you won't have any BTC to spend.

But the important part of these is that they cut PayPal out of the loop. I imagine that a lot of BTC adopters got burned by some policy ruling by PayPal.

Yes. All three of these devices were pre-HDMI and used S-Video output.

The Apex would scale 576i at 50 Hz to 480i at 60 Hz. The others just threw up their hands and gave up.

From roughly 1987 to 2006, it was rare to connect a PC to a TV-sized monitor. PCs were for desks, and "consumer electronics" devices were for the living room, and conventional wisdom was that never the twain shall meet. SDTVs of that era that couldn't display the VGA or DVI signals coming from a computer, unlike now where most TVs have VGA and HDMI inputs respectively, and one had to buy an obscure scan converter (or a desktop PC video card with a built-in scan converter) to convert the signals.

Perhaps you should try installing LUnix on your Commodore computer instead of *BSD.

MinGW is just GCC with the C library of Microsoft Visual C++ 6. If someone were to install Cygwin, on the other hand, that might stand a better chance of being called GNU/Windows. (In fact, Cygwin stands for Cygnus GNU/Windows.) And you're not the only person to present this sort of reduction to absurdity argument. So I set out to define a "GNU/$kernel" userland for myself as GNU Coreutils plus two other major GNU components, such as Bash, Emacs, GCC, or shared glibc. GNU/Linux counts, Cygwin counts, and MSYS counts.

Would "X11/Linux" be a better term to distinguish Fedora, Debian, and the like from Android and uses of Linux on router appliances?

Technology-wise: In rate-distortion terms, Theora is comparable to H.263-family codecs such as DivX (a popular implementation of MPEG-4 ASP). VP8 is comparable to the baseline profile of H.264. This means the picture can be more detailed at the same bitrate.

License-wise: WebM is distributed under the revised BSD license. As a free alternative to a patented format, it's in a similar position to Ogg Vorbis, for which RMS approved of use of the revised BSD license.

A 2160p picture with 4:2:0 chroma already contains as much chroma detail as a 1080p picture with 4:4:4 chroma.

Don't rely on YouTube. Upload the videos to a web site on your own domain, and use the HTML5 player. Also send counter-notices pursuant to 17 USC 512(g).

Not all DVD players can do that. I own a copy of Wobbl and Bob, which is "region: all" and encoded in 576i/50. I've owned three "consumer" DVD players: an Apex, a PlayStation 2 slim (NTSC U/C), and a Magnavox, all region 1. Of the three, only the Apex would play it. The PS2 froze on a black screen with an error message "TV system doesn't match", and the Magnavox displayed a similar message with different wording.

Is that because cable providers charge more per year for high-definition service?

The edges of objects in a photograph are fairly close to straight lines, especially once you zoom in. So when you double the width and height, edge detail doubles and texture detail quadruples. You might be thinking of the latter.

I thought The Hobbit was shot in high-motion. Besides, a lot of more expensive TVs have an option for motion interpolation to turn 24 fps source into (artifacty) 120 fps.

Movies have already started to skip DVD. Ishtar, for example, is on Blu-ray but not DVD. You'll notice the difference between Blu-ray and no movie at all unless perhaps you're deafblind.

I opened it in Chromium on Xubuntu 14.04, and it still doesn't fucking work. I reserve my swearing for the most egregious cases of malice or incompetence, and this is one of them. I come in with a browser that's recompiled Chrome and they turn me away because I don't have Chrome.

Now as for your other points, some of them appear weak. I want to help make your argument against WhatsApp stronger and even more F-bomb worthy.

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Of course you can. All you have to do is buy WhatsApp Enabler for $45.
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Then put your office's WPA key into your phone.

What device would you be carrying with which you expect to use a web application over Wi-Fi? Or do "normal" people still carry laptops?

Which sucks for people who need to reach a family member who has chosen to use WhatsApp exclusively. Slashdot's comment search also sucks, or I'd dig up the citation.