i and b were deprecated in HTML4 in favor of em and strong, respectively.

HTML5's sections did nothing to cure div-itis. Now we're going to be afflicted with article-itis and section-itis as well.

HTML5 won out over XHTML2 because of better overall backwards compatibility, however HTML5 is full of incompatible details such as the dilution of h1.

CSS has nothing to do with this. Every element is supposed to impart a well-defined context to its content, regardless of presentation. That's what I meant by semantics. An h1 styled with 8pt text is still more important than a p styled with 72pt text. The "semantic web" was rooted in putting XML in everything, and died as hatred of XML rose.

As for the car analogy, I'm complaining about the badly designed new parts, reuse of obsolete parts, and generally poor build quality. The HTML5 spec doesn't express as firm a grasp of its content and concepts as previous versions. Never mind that it's been nine years in the making.

First, i and b will only ever be used as presentational elements, no matter how they get redefined... those zombies should still be in their graves. There's still no grouping element for dt and dd. Sectioning as defined in HTML5 is a mine field of malformed logic and self contradiction. They should have just made a h element that inherits its level based on context (similar to how li's inherit their bullet style from list depth), rather than "strongly suggesting" that h1 be used for every headline, which is not a backwards-compatible change to that element. Allowing unquoted attributes and arbitrarily deciding that some elements don't need to be closed is just fucking asinine.

Within an hour Hixie will appear to ask for bug reports be filed (which by now is just passive agression), or lay out some convoluted, ill-founded, self-referential logic (which won't hold a drop of water) to counter these points.

But TBL eventually succumbed to the utter madness that is HTML5 (produced by the WHATWG morons who have all forgotten what semantic means), just like he succumbed to EME. It's past time for the W3C to be taken over by a more respectable standards organization, such as IEEE.

If I were Gabe, I would use HalfLife 3 as the hook to jumpstart the Steam Machine install base, much like Sony used the PS3 as the BluRay hook. That was Sony's lone storage format win in a couple decades, even if they didn't win the last round of console wars.

I briefly looked at the beta home page. Briefly, because it felt very much like the Gawker redesign from a couple years ago that made those sites (I only really read Jalopnik) a jumbled, discordant, unnavigable mess. FWIW, Jalopnik is the only bookmark I've ever deleted from my bookmarks bar... that's how incensed I was about it.

Two main things:

• Don't try to mash the newest three stories into a single picture collage. Every item on the homepage needs to have the blurb, period. Pictures are usually noise for most /. stories, and most of this audience will not tolerate it: you are not aimed at the average user.
• If a story is going to have a picture masthead, put it between the headline and the blurb. Above the headline, the pictures lose most if not all context.

If Nick Denton had anything to do with this redesign, even casually or tangentially, please let us know so we can riot. That idiot has no idea what he's doing.

The recently released Arduino Yún runs a modified version of OpenWRT dubbed Linino.

I'd say up until about 5 years ago.

You mean those notification bubbles that always stay on screen until the very moment you move the mouse with the intent of clicking on it?

This describes several of the reasons why I will not buy an SSD any time in the near future. Sketchy reliability, indeterminate longevity, inexplicable data loss. Mirroring a turd just means you have multiple turds. I have a few 10+ year old DeskStar drives that I still use and have never given me problems.

Expect? Yes. Will happen? Of course not. Criminality and cover-up are not mutually exclusive.

That was precisely the plan all along. The only surprising piece of this is that the this purchase is about a year earlier than expected. The remaining parts of Nokia, including the patent portfolio, will be snapped up by Redmond soon enough (read: after the stock value deflates more).

Everyone only heard every other word of that rant. Before every "developers!" there should be a "Fuck".

What did Outlook ever do to you, anyway?

Nothing to me, as I've managed to completely avoid using it. That is, until I began implementing parts of the iCalendar and vCard RFCs. Outlook's support for these standards is per capita worse than HTML support in any version of IE. In a month I had managed to implement better recurrence rule support than Outlook ever had.

Exactly, none of this will matter much. Studios know when they have shit on their hands; if it stinks enough, they don't allow press screenings. Or they shift the release date to a low traffic month like January.

"If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about." Does that sound familiar, Mr. Alexander?

Obviously, you are very worried.