The UK has a higher crime rate than the US (85.6 crimes per 1000 people versus 80.1). It has double the burglaries per capita of the US, it has more car thefts per capita, and it has far more kidnappings.

AT&T's commercials assert that it covers 97% of Americans

Yeah, 97% of American homes. But if you leave your house, no signal.

Android runs on tablets too... they weren't counting any of them either.

Nielsen just did a study that says 57% of blackberry owners plan to switch to Android or iPhone.

C# is exactly like Java to program in, unless you need to do anything complicate like generate bytecode at runtime.

Except for where it's not. Like C# supporting closures, and not making the distinction between primitives and objects... etc. Actually, C# has very little in common with Java.

Someone animating the next Pixar movie is going to be using a render farm... and they don't use expensive 12-core machines for that.. it's far cheaper to use thousands of cheap linux boxes.

My main problem is that in the last season, the Doctor seems to orate everyone to death. He's like the president from Independence Day, big speeches about nothing. In particular I'm thinking of the speech at stonehenge (which was absolutely ridiculous), as well as the speech to the weeping angels.

You're thinking of it like there's dedicated h264 hardware in, say, the iPhone. There isn't. There's hardware that accelerates decoding of h264... that same exact hardware can be used to decode VP8.

Think of it like how your desktop uses SSE3 to speed up h264 decoding... SSE3 doesn't contain an h264 decoder.

It's a broadcast, cable and sattelite video standard, a Blu-Ray standard. It is deeply entrenched in industrial and security video.

Except that in the US at least, the only one of those things that use it is BluRay. Broadcast, Cable, and Satellite still use mpeg2. Even many Blu-Ray's use mpeg2.

Except this entire article is about how you can't trust the bars on the iPhone 4.

IE9 now passes all of css3info's test suite for CSS3 and HTML5. (That doesn't mean it has 100% support for HTML5/CSS3, just the css3info test suite).

If you cross your ears, you can hear a sailboat!

And making iPhone apps.

I have yet to find a flash swf that actually supports scroll wheels.

Google street view.

Yeah, thought it looked good.. until I scrolled and the video got screwed up... it froze and it seemed that the only place it updated was behind the controls. Chrome dev on osx.