I consider the retained settings a good thing: if I want to copy the now-unused settings to a new user or use them for a different browser, and the settings are reasonably easy to find, I can move or import the settings and feel more-or-less at home. If I want to reinstall IE (maybe I made an oopsie, or maybe it wasn't the cause of some nagging hideous error I hoped to fix by nuking a browser), then I install as I first did and *poof* at home with the ol' settings again.
Settings are kind of harmless—the real problem, if any, is the program and libraries themselves.
These guys don't have the best interest of anyone other than themselves in mind, and will probably sell this off to the highest bidder in a matter of months.
On the bright side, at least we'll get to see GoDaddy commercials where Danica Patrick makes seductive innuendo about ISO 8601.
"Want to put your +11:00 in my 2011-10-17T17:21:00, baby?" *continues with random double entendres and IndyCar lingo*
I like that Facebook lets you create a frobnym for your own grostnit or yinfun (even if you're just a dorsat), but forcing you to put their kruften in your veeblefetzer is just cruel.
Yes, but all people are rendered as instances of Kim Kardashian to save time. She funds a few more processors if it uses her instead of stick figures.
It also replaces billboards with ads for her latest perfume, Ass ("It's What I Use(TM)") and runs at half frame rate with a two-hour delay on the US West Coast (because it costs more to send the frames to Oregon for some reason).
And then you can go to the marketplace and buy armor and weapons and potions and spells...
Heh, so you're saying they should go Minecraft and release an Adventure Update? I guess the WoW character and realm fields are a step in that direction...
Indeed, they're not even using the HTML 5 Doctype, it's XHTML: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Sadly, it's not quite that simple. That doctype tag thinger is what the HTML5 spec calls an "obsolete permitted DOCTYPE string" for HTML5 documents. Obviously, I object to that; I want to use, say, XHTML 1.0 and not any worse usurper "standard", and the former is not "obsolete" except by plan.
and I don't see any HTML5 markup in the page (for instance, they use
instead of the semantically correct HTML5 <header>).
I don't think that not using new "HTML5" tags makes a doc non-HTML5, but they say div* is best used "when no other element is suitable" so your complaint seems about right.
What they mean is they dropped Flash video, they're clearly highly confused about what HTML5 actually is.
Hakuna matata; HTML5 seems confused about what HTML5 actually is sometimes. I probably used HTML5 by accident when I prayed to the gods for its slow, painful death.
They're probably too busy colluding with the "content" guys. A "DISNEY HAS TAKEN ABC AWAY FROM YOU" show of manufactured outrage a year can keep the antitrust doctor away, after all, and gives them some time together to research (under the name of their hired survey company and the guise of asking their opinion of a hypothetical competitor's offering, perhaps) how much they can jack up the fees without starting a Tahrir-on-Madison.
That, or they just like the bigger cuts (in dollars, if not percentages) they get from the ol' bundle-and-burden. Why give more TLC when you can get more ARPU?
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Don't worry, his cloud-based content distribution network manages all the dupes!
Now we just have to do all of that in a Minecraft map so the CPU collapses under its own virtual weight!
That and dragon *chomp* make me giggle more than I have any right to. I'll likely pass on getting Skyrim, but with some remorse.
With my settings (and when logged out of Slashdot) the post time does, in fact, show up as 11:11.
I'm wondering if he remembered to post at 11.1-bar seconds of that minute for good measure. (Also I posted this when there were already 11 comments.)
That's not true. I don't browse Gizmodo.
Now he just needs to set up this racket racket with Racket before Slashdot posts a Hadoop dupe.
The Cora-Ann?
Bling bliiing!
I consider the retained settings a good thing: if I want to copy the now-unused settings to a new user or use them for a different browser, and the settings are reasonably easy to find, I can move or import the settings and feel more-or-less at home. If I want to reinstall IE (maybe I made an oopsie, or maybe it wasn't the cause of some nagging hideous error I hoped to fix by nuking a browser), then I install as I first did and *poof* at home with the ol' settings again.
Settings are kind of harmless—the real problem, if any, is the program and libraries themselves.
On the bright side, at least we'll get to see GoDaddy commercials where Danica Patrick makes seductive innuendo about ISO 8601.
"Want to put your +11:00 in my 2011-10-17T17:21:00, baby?" *continues with random double entendres and IndyCar lingo*
Ta Ta Away From Keyboard At The Very Large Array.
Yup, that ought to motivate the local Congressman to fund the project!
I like that Facebook lets you create a frobnym for your own grostnit or yinfun (even if you're just a dorsat), but forcing you to put their kruften in your veeblefetzer is just cruel.
No, they misspelled Ron Raiden. Everyone knows he's part-Jewish and part-Japanese-shoot-'em-up.
Yes, but all people are rendered as instances of Kim Kardashian to save time. She funds a few more processors if it uses her instead of stick figures.
It also replaces billboards with ads for her latest perfume, Ass ("It's What I Use(TM)") and runs at half frame rate with a two-hour delay on the US West Coast (because it costs more to send the frames to Oregon for some reason).
Ick. I can just imagine it...
"But Master Hastings, Legend Sir, our--"
*sighs* "Legendary..."
"customers are pissed about the whole pric--"
"Fuck the customers, we've got Facebook wall time to get! Facebook! The place with the farms and the poking! We can be rich like Zuck! Rich!"
"But customers, like, pay us for stuff, Legenda--"
"FOR FAAAAAAAARMVIIIIIIIILE!!!!!!" *puts on lacrosse helmet and mounts horse*
"...ry Sir."
*rides east toward a highway* "Hyah!"
"Uh...Master Hastings?" *picks up lacrosse stick* "...the lance?"
Heh, so you're saying they should go Minecraft and release an Adventure Update? I guess the WoW character and realm fields are a step in that direction...
Nah. That'll be the iPod's job. iPod mini, iPod nano, iPod necro...the pattern's easy to see.
They could just be Schrödinger's corporation: simultaneously responsible, and not.
Which "users", the common folk or the brand-name advertisers?
...in a container signed by Charli Dvoracek!
Sadly, it's not quite that simple. That doctype tag thinger is what the HTML5 spec calls an "obsolete permitted DOCTYPE string" for HTML5 documents. Obviously, I object to that; I want to use, say, XHTML 1.0 and not any worse usurper "standard", and the former is not "obsolete" except by plan.
I don't think that not using new "HTML5" tags makes a doc non-HTML5, but they say div* is best used "when no other element is suitable" so your complaint seems about right.
Hakuna matata; HTML5 seems confused about what HTML5 actually is sometimes. I probably used HTML5 by accident when I prayed to the gods for its slow, painful death.
*It took me a few minutes to check that div was even part of HTML5. Damn its badly written Elements section.
They're probably too busy colluding with the "content" guys. A "DISNEY HAS TAKEN ABC AWAY FROM YOU" show of manufactured outrage a year can keep the antitrust doctor away, after all, and gives them some time together to research (under the name of their hired survey company and the guise of asking their opinion of a hypothetical competitor's offering, perhaps) how much they can jack up the fees without starting a Tahrir-on-Madison.
That, or they just like the bigger cuts (in dollars, if not percentages) they get from the ol' bundle-and-burden. Why give more TLC when you can get more ARPU?
...before it goes back into the Disney Vault!
That said, Thomas the Tank sounds far more badass.
"What, you want me to send them some honeybees? I got some honeybees, right here with my tactical nukes, bitch!" *blasts Sir Topham Hatt*