That sucks.
I don't use MTGO, so I'm not up-to-date on it, but especially with the time I spend talking about MTG, I've heard some things about it.
MTGO: Interface often slow, paying full price for digital cards sucks (especially those that duplicate your paper collection), no property rights on the the digital cards, and playing in-person is half the fun. And now no real-card redemption.:(
...The crash recovery feature in FF is one of the things I've loved about FF. Sure, M$ is behind the curve, but glad to see it in at all.
It was mentioned that some of this stuff in FF requires extensions; that may be a good thing:
It keeps the browser less bloated for those people who don't need the feature.
Granted, for technophobes, or people in security-freak offices, etc., it's good to have the stuff built in
*yawn*...we've had adblock plus for years over here in Firefox land.
My favorite FF addon, no question.
I don't click on the crap anyway, so they're hardly losing anything from me.
My time and bandwith is reason #1 why I run it, but as a side effect, it's gotta reduce the use of theirs a bit too, since ABP blocks the ad downloads at the source form what I understand.
I swear, I've noticed a decline in malware since I started using ABP...ABP must also be hitting some of the ads that drop crap on your computer.
"Gleemax": an in-joke about an alien-brain-in-a-jar that supposedly runs the Magic the Gathering R&D department
2004's "Unhinged" card set (a self-parody released by WotC) contained this, a card representing the Gleemax character:
http://magiccards.info/uh/en/121.html
A MTG reference, and an in-joke at that, was definitely a bad choice for the name.
...for one reason and one reason only:
WotC's official Magic the Gathering discussion forums, which I use, and used before Gleemax popped up.
That's the first thing, to me (and presumably many others), that Gleemax seemed like an unnecessary wrapper for the forum content that we wanted.
People who just wanna use those forums probably make up a pretty hefty percentage of the Gleemax registrations
The forum moderation quality went way down; often problems were addressed with form-letter replies that didn't go anywhere. This didn't bother me too much, but it was definitely there, and other users were more aggravated than I was.
My first thought upon reading this is that it was an indication of how hellbent Microsoft seems on getting Yahoo.
Second thought - that it would be a perfect type of story to post to/.
Yeah, I also screamed "irony" with the part with Microsoft complaining of Google's search-market dominance.
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I wonder what a search for Barack Saddam Hussein Obama Bin Laden will bring up?
http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=Barack+Saddam+Hussein+Obama+Bin+Laden&hl=en&btnG=Search Absolutely nothing!
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That sucks. I don't use MTGO, so I'm not up-to-date on it, but especially with the time I spend talking about MTG, I've heard some things about it. MTGO: Interface often slow, paying full price for digital cards sucks (especially those that duplicate your paper collection), no property rights on the the digital cards, and playing in-person is half the fun. And now no real-card redemption. :(
...The crash recovery feature in FF is one of the things I've loved about FF. Sure, M$ is behind the curve, but glad to see it in at all. It was mentioned that some of this stuff in FF requires extensions; that may be a good thing: It keeps the browser less bloated for those people who don't need the feature. Granted, for technophobes, or people in security-freak offices, etc., it's good to have the stuff built in
If you acquire a complete set on MTGO, you can redeem it for a RL complete set. But that's the only way, and for old sets, that option is gone.
*yawn*...we've had adblock plus for years over here in Firefox land. My favorite FF addon, no question. I don't click on the crap anyway, so they're hardly losing anything from me. My time and bandwith is reason #1 why I run it, but as a side effect, it's gotta reduce the use of theirs a bit too, since ABP blocks the ad downloads at the source form what I understand. I swear, I've noticed a decline in malware since I started using ABP...ABP must also be hitting some of the ads that drop crap on your computer.
"Gleemax": an in-joke about an alien-brain-in-a-jar that supposedly runs the Magic the Gathering R&D department 2004's "Unhinged" card set (a self-parody released by WotC) contained this, a card representing the Gleemax character: http://magiccards.info/uh/en/121.html A MTG reference, and an in-joke at that, was definitely a bad choice for the name.
...for one reason and one reason only: WotC's official Magic the Gathering discussion forums, which I use, and used before Gleemax popped up. That's the first thing, to me (and presumably many others), that Gleemax seemed like an unnecessary wrapper for the forum content that we wanted. People who just wanna use those forums probably make up a pretty hefty percentage of the Gleemax registrations The forum moderation quality went way down; often problems were addressed with form-letter replies that didn't go anywhere. This didn't bother me too much, but it was definitely there, and other users were more aggravated than I was.
My first thought upon reading this is that it was an indication of how hellbent Microsoft seems on getting Yahoo. Second thought - that it would be a perfect type of story to post to /.
Yeah, I also screamed "irony" with the part with Microsoft complaining of Google's search-market dominance.