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FWIW, Steam reports 3.57% of users running OS X in April [1].

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Not currently.

However roaming charges within the European Union are currently regulated to a maximum of €0.20 ($0.23) per MB. So a 120MB plan would be €24 ($27.32). That being said, if it isn't delayed by a future proposal, all roaming charges within the EU will be abolished on December 15th, 2015. True international roaming will still be ridiculously expensive, no doubt.

EDIT: My numbers don't include VAT (which is 20% in the UK) - so it's actually currently more expensive in the EU than in the example given in the post.

The gearbox computer for my Volkswagen was recently recalled under warranty. The dealership was shipped a new blank gearbox computer by Volkswagen which then had to flashed with the lastest software version, retrieved from VW Germany via the dealer's satellite uplink (I assume over ODB-II).

Today, there are two main browser plugins required for watching DRM Video on the web. These plugins are not decoders, they are merely platforms on which the decoders themselves can run, alongside any other code that the site may supply. The problem with this approach, as I see it, is that these platforms create an inherent security risk for the user alongside the current issues regarding free software and ethics. The use of Flash/Silverlight also slows the adoption of other, more open, web standards.

By switching to EME, you're switching out the Flash & Silverlight platforms for a set of closed binary blobs which take an encrypted stream from the browser and produce unencrypted video/audio for the browser to display instead of executing arbitrary code. Now, I'll admit I'm not terribly well versed on the issue, but to me that seems to increase user security, promotes the use of other open web standards over Flash/Silverlight and keeps the media companies happy. The only people losing out in this situation are those that find DRM conceptually abhorrent.

The media companies would have no issues whatsoever with continuing to use outdated, insecure and otherwise broken technologies to ensure that their content is delivered with some form of DRM. Those technologies already exist, and already ensure the media companies have a future of distribution over the web.

Creating some form of standard around the use of DRM is the lesser of two evils when compared to the use of a multitude of proprietary decoders.

While I won't argue that Fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) is better than Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) it is, at the very least, much cheaper.

The cost per consumer for "last mile" connections can be an order of magnitude more than those used in the core network because of the economies of scale at play. [1]

Most of the UK is currently being set up with FTTC, representing a dramatic increase in the country's average broadband speed over the past few years. [2] [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/03/fiber-its-not-all... [2] http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2013/03/14/average-uk-broadband-sp...

Australis displays at least 17 tabs before expanding into the tab-scroll view when full screen, which is more than I'd typically have open at a time anyway.

http://i.imgur.com/8JIwdgh.jpg

Tab-scoll, to me, makes a lot of sense as it prevents any confusion over the content of the tabs, especially when those tabs lack favicons: in Chrome, you simply get a blank page icon when the scroll bar overflows.

The only downside to Australis for me so far has been the removal of the "thin" address bars/small icon sets, there is no longer an option within Firefox to enable them, as far as I know.

I'll probably keep it up for a few weeks, so feel free to share it around.

For those who are wanting a higher quality preview of the map, I've setup a Minecraft Dynmap for it over at: http://ordnancesurvey.geit.co.uk/

Also, For anyone actually wanting to give this a go in game without having to download the world file, there's also a public server running it on 5.9.102.172 with the tppos command enabled.