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This is a very slow site. Is there a mirror for this?
fyi: The new product would speed up such sites, using it's cloud technology built-in, or as a plugin.
please explain what is fyi?
For Your Information, a pre-internet acronym.
The name of the company that Murphy Brown worked for.
This is awesome. The funny just doesn't stop.
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Yeah it never actually loaded for me :(
I fucking hate these videos. Why they don't even provide summary in the web page?
Be patient. With the new revolutionary product by Knuth, the summary will be generated automatically.
Anyone have a quick summary of what this is even about?
It's a product announcement by Knuth, for a successor to TeX.

Telling any more would spoil the fun-- and if the sentence above doesn't sound like big fun to you, well, then don't even bother with the link, you're not in the target audience.

Really, it's a video, not everyone wants to watch a video.

Can I assume it's a joke product rather than a real product?

Yes, it's a joke product. It's 34 minutes, and rather funny, but not likely something you'd take time out of your day to watch in it's entirety.
Different strokes, I guess. I take 34 minutes out of my day to watch a Knuth video every chance I get.
I can't wait to use ǐTéx (ring-a-ding)!
I love that he uses transparencies on an overhead projector. That's true old-school.
Since the HTTP mirrors warp and cicada put up are getting hammered I've made a Torrent of Don-Knuth.mp4:

http://v.nix.is/~leech/Don-Knuth.mp4.torrent

It's using the OpenBitTorrent tracker. Please seed it.

I can't seem to contact the tracker. Does it work for other people?
The best thing is somewhere someone is probably working on actually implementing this, like so many XKCD cartoons.
Society has a little bit of iTex in all its products.