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Funeral Being Held Today For IE6
An anonymous reader writes "More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser, survived by its descendants Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, is being eulogized at a tongue-in-cheek 'funeral' hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado."
... and nothing changed ...
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If I were to attend the funeral it would only be to ensure that it is truly dead! I would carry a stake, an axe and an EMP-gun in case the beast tries to rise again.
I'm inclined to show up, very drunk, and make a scene. Certainly calling the deceased "my abuser". Probably inexplicably accusing the mourners of being "hypocrites" and/or "phonies". Possibly culminating in me falling into the grave and freaking out.
-Peter
couldn't we instead pillory and behead it, tie it to a stake and alight it on a burning pyre, and then stomp on its corpse?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
A live code base and a retired code base have the same number of lines.
Google: Bring out yer dead.
[IE8 puts IE6 on the cart]
IE8: Here's one.
Google: That'll be ninepence.
IE6: I'm not dead.
Google: What?
IE8: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
IE6: I'm not dead.
Google: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
IE8: Yes he is.
IE6: I'm not.
Google: He isn't.
IE8: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
IE6: I'm getting better.
IE8: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Google: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
IE6: I don't want to go on the cart.
IE8: Oh, don't be such a baby.
Google: I can't take him.
IE6: I feel fine.
IE8: Oh, do me a favor.
Google: I can't.
IE8: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
Google: I promised I'd be at the Torvalds'. They've lost nine today.
IE8: Well, when's your next round?
Google: Thursday.
IE6: I think I'll go watching some YouTube videos.
IE8: You're not fooling anyone, you know. [turns to Google]Isn't there anything you could do?
IE6: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[Google glances up and down the street furtively, then silences IE6 with his a whack of his club]
IE8: Ah, thank you very much.
Google: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
IE8: Right.
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Actually, the impression I get from web developers is that IE6 is a witch. Maybe we should build a bridge out of it?
Tell me where the grave site is, and I'll go put my dancing shoes on!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Posting this from a computer running a browser that now wants my braaaaaaaaaaaaaaains
and she is really a he but she'll never admit to that....
[Firefox goes by]
IE8: Who's that?
Google: Must be a king.
IE8: Why's that?
Google: Cuz he hasn't got ads all over him.
Nuke it from orbit just to be sure.
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
Says a person reading /.
Considering my girlfriends work still uses IE 5, suggesting IE 6 is dead is wishful thinking.
Dec 21, 2012 they are planning for almost two years too many.
Just to make sure it's really dead.
I say we nuke the entire Microsoft campus from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
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"I'm at home, drinking a cup of coffee, reading a news article in the morning. Not dressed up, at a fake funeral for a piece of computer software {AKA HUMOR} that isn't dead anyway. Take your sarcastic comments and dull sense of humor {ALERT, ALERT: IRONY DETECTOR AT CRITICAL THRESHOLD! DERP DERP DERP!} and shove them up your pretentious {IRONY DETECTOR HAS EXPERIENCED CORE MELTDOWN} ass."
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it