video playback through emacs

I think I figured out your problem...

The Xorg in his post gave it away. You need to recompile emacs with direct framebuf support. Or wait for Wayland, Mir or whatever platform comes next promising to fix all these sorts of performance problems in X.
 

Being able to work 730am-4:30am will eliminate the traffic jam effects on you.

I tried that, but I find that the 2 hours of sleep per night (after the 30 minute commute each way) has worse effects on me than the one hour commute each way if I work a regular 9-5.

This is the NZ immigration dept trying to avoid a situation where a child born in NZ becomes stateless, clearly demonstrating that the new laws surrounding citizenship are in conflict with the International Convention on Rights of the Child. In reality it has nothing to do with the claim that people are dying on waiting lists for essential surgery.

Your employer stopping feeding your obesity problem is a morale problem now?

While you're being pedantic, you could say the same about Indonesian. Clearly they mean the North Sumatra dialect of Malay that is the official language of Indonesia, rather than one of the 700 or so other languages that are spoken in Indonesia.

Yes, they have like 22 native languages in India in total, not counting dialects, if I remember correctly.

They have hundreds of languages in India. 22 is the number of them that are given a special status as historically and culturally important languages in the India constitution. But the others are as much dialects as English is a dialect of German.

Maybe they should be learning one of the Official languages of India (the second largest asian country) that is also widely spoken in other asian countries.

That would be English, then? Or are you including official languages of the various states of India (rather than the nation as a whole), in which case Tamil, Bengali, Urdu and Punjabi would also qualify?

The seller needs to learn the language of the buyer

You might want to look at what Australia exports and where to. They are not just a nation of consumers, you know.

You also learn what the client or supplier is discussing amongst themselves when they think you can't understand them. Often very useful in a business context.

New Caledonia is just off the coast of Australia. And it is still maybe more widely spoken than English in parts of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

How much was the insurance policy on those properties worth?

It's news to me that Google is dropping iCal support from Calendar. The whole rationale for them dropping support for ActiveSync was that standards based iCalendar support was available and most devices support that now (ie noone uses Windows Phone, they are all using Android or iPhone). So does someone have a supporting reference for that, or is the Unknown Lamer just confused?

Heck, I've been wondering why Apple hasn't opened the Apple TV up to developers, given its already running iOS.

Perhaps because it is running the marketing version of iOS, not the developer version.

For most ant species, the death of a small number will bring the hordes to fight off the attack. The death of a large number will make them retreat and avoid that area for a while.

On my supposedly "archaic" x86 desktop, I download any Linux distro I feel like using and can use the exact same installer to setup a 5 year old desktop or next month's Haswell.

This has nothing to do with it being Intel vs ARM, it is that the complete definition of a PC compatible platform is standardized. Intel Atom based tablets may not necessarily follow that platform standard.