Not very accurate. Maybe too BT or BT reseller centric?

I put in my address:
ADSL available at ~7.5Mbps
Cable services not available
FTTC services available
BT 21CN services available
Wireless services not available

I actually have ADSL syncing at 18.2Mbs down and 1.3Mbs up, via Be Unlimited (I think they use their own hardware in the Exchange).

The INS.

Oh wait!

Ironic considering Americans call everything a city.

There, fixed it for you.

I live in London and I find Australia expensive. My wife is from Melbourne and claims she can't afford to move home.

I bought a book from Amazon.co.uk when I was living in Melbourne a few years ago. $45 to buy locally, $33 of which half was the postage to have it flown literally halfway around the world.

You could replace "MEP" with "MP" in your diatribe and you'd have the same point but different context. So what?

As with any politician in Europe, you fire them by voting elsewhere, etc.

Visit both countries and try English in both of them. You'll soon learn that this is a cultural thing.

Urrrrr what's your point? My 15" MBP from five years ago also does all that. Awesome little machine still going strong. That's not the attraction of an iPad though.

Mahatma Gandhi did quite well without guns.

This is the year of HEVC/H.265, which is expected to give birate improvements for the same quality of up to 50% compared with AVC/H.264. Expect to see content in this format later in the year.

Ultimately though you're right: without 4K content there'll be little demand. Upscaling 1080p will only go so far.

And still a tired old monolithic app. I switched to Chrome eight months ago, and although it uses a lot of memory it does give me the ability to properly manage its memory and CPU usage: it's so much easier to identify pages to kill when they're running in their own process space. Not only does this allow me to selectively reduce the app's memory footprint, but I can conserve battery life on my laptop by easily culling busy pages.

I would guess that some people find closures confusing or hard. They're pretty cool, but you do have to be careful with scope.

"8 fluid ounces of coffee" really rolls off the tongue though. Oh wait: that doesn't happen either. Sounds like you're just making a fuss for the sake of it.

I've wasted way too much time faffing around with alternative map apps and so far they've all been shite. I just want something that works out of the box thanks. I don't get the fuss about Open Street Maps either.

You don't travel much, do you? Especially to places where there is poor signal, no service (could be leaving a footie match when 60,000 other people overwhelming the cell network), or data costs a bomb (I'm in Morocco as I write this and TMobile wants to charge me £40 for 10MB!)

It gives you a chance to re-iterate in the other person's language what you meant. Or you could just consider it useful for good will and generally smoothing your relationships. You can't go wrong improving your language skills.

Having lead off-shore Chinese developments teams since 2006, I wish I'd invested time in learning the language. The smattering of German I learnt at the Goethe Institut a few years ago really helps me with my German colleagues, even if it's an opportunity for them to laugh at me over a beer. It does give me a better sense of what is being discussed if they're talking to each other in German though.

Anyway, the story is about somebody in the US mid-West. That's a brutal time difference for working with Chinese colleagues. I did it for a number of years from Toronto (12-13 hours time difference). I'm much happier doing it from London now: I'd rather start work at 06:30 than have to come back to work at 21:30 after being out for dinner and not know when I'm going to escape so I can go to bed.