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Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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why is the youtube app on ipad so terrible?

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Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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why the does the screen size spaz out every time you click on a youtube link

sometimes the top left portion of a video plays in a small window in the bottom right of a black screen
sometimes instead of a black screen, it's my subscriptions or some other poo poo i don't care about

i don't remember when it has last worked right and just played the video on some normal size screen

also if the video i click has an unskippable ad, i just go back to browsing the web

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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also for some reason the ipad app is unable to keep streaming in hd. it will work fine for a couple of minutes, then stall, then start playing the sega mega cd quality video, then work its way up to hd again and repeat

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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Shifty Pony posted:

e: as an aside remember how much the TV industry flipped out about ad auto-skip in DVRs? they killed off replaytv over it. seems pretty quaint now.

finnish content producers, tv stations and ISPs just reached an agreement on how "net DVRs" are supposed to work. a couple of the rules were: you're allowed to fast forward the show, but not the ad breaks. the recordings expire after two years and are deleted automatically.

in the year 2014
in a country where netflix has been a thing for two years
in a universe where bittorrent continues to exist

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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Cocoa Crispies posted:

you can in theory disable those obnoxious annotations video publishers smear everywhere but it doesn't work because google hasn't mastered "cookies"

same way the hot bullshit "welcome to the new version of maps that you've been using for a year, take a tour just like the tour you've taken three times already"math at google maps does because they don't have a profile field that says "has already been using new maps" or "has seen the new maps tour" because

GOOGLE SUCKS AT WEB APPLICATIONS

the annotations check box remains checked on the configuration page. the youtube video player just ignores it for some reason for two weeks on several devices until it suddenly starts workin correctly again.

also i was overjoyed to learn that they removed the distance measurement tool from the new maps.

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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the advertisers need to learn that they have to mention the product or the brand in the first 5 seconds before people :f5: the skip button

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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Rufus Ping posted:

how do i fix this? hjalp

have you tried humiliating google publicly on reddit? that usually works

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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the youtube just suddenly asked me if i still want to keep using my profile or perhaps some other profile instead?

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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like holy poo poo, i caved in on the loving nagging about using a google+ profile, and you still keep nagging?

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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yesterday i noticed that they had removed time lapse mode from the camera in android. thoogle

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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Smythe posted:

Hey guys. I just logged on to my drive to upload some files I'm planning to use at work next Monday and I got greeted with something really great: Drive is getting even better. I know, it sounds insane - Drive is already so far and away the best cloud storage and productivity suite that it seems kind of unfair to leave the competitors so far in the dust, but gosh darnit if I don't appreciate everything those GENIUS Googlers cook up in their wacky labs. Anyways, here's a neat little intro video that does a really swell job at explaining some of the wonderful new features you can find on Drive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWvKAYKlnnM

Check it out at https://g.co/getdrive

okay, so what features did they remove?

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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Shifty Pony posted:

Piecontrols actually are quite useful but per app poo poo needs to die.

what will be the next stupid design trend? we had skeuomorphism now we have flat rectangles...

windows 3.1 buttons

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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admit it, this is the new hotness

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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i think it's v. cute seeing 100+ year old photos of local store fronts that have a phone number listed, and it's somethign like "142"

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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rofling on the floor lmboing my rear end off

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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i will start using google+ for sure now

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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...not!

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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in six months google will announce "only 0.72% of our users user a pseudonym instead of their real name" and they will conclude that "everyone actually wants to use their real name" instead of "nobody actually uses google+". also i have been posting "heil hilter 14/88" to every youtube video i have watched for the last 2 years under my real name, who the gently caress cares if i start using a pseudonym at this point.

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial#Troubleshooting

If your code isn't working:
  • Post questions to Stack Overflow. Guidelines on how to post great questions are available on the Support page.

..bbecause google own support is a black hole

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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Shifty Pony posted:

known but completely ignored for four years, only acted on when it hits mainstream news.

sounds about right.

pretty much

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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google does a good thing: Google Will No Longer Call Freemium Games “Free”

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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Cold on a Cob posted:

they are only doing it because the eu is making them, call me when they do this in america (they won't, without a court order)

of course, but they're still doing it.

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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Avenging Dentist posted:

old but my fave part of this is that the reasoning for why this was ok was that flash and friends were already doing it and so chrome would be ok doing it too, since the system timer would already be set to 1ms: https://www.belshe.com/2010/06/04/chrome-cranking-up-the-clock/


which sounds reasonable for a second but then you realize that the system timer affects thread scheduling across the entire os, so if your argument is "other things are already doing it" then there's no loving reason for you to ALSO do it

also "we didn't actually check, but we had this hunch"

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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pay-to-win garbage really grinds my gears

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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also pay-to-not-grind

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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which is sort of ironic, i guess

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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google seems to have made the ipad youtube app less poo poo, it doesn't seem to randomly resize the video anymore when you click on a youtube link in safari

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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prefect posted:

i guess i don't think of those as goalposts because there's a bar connecting the top of them. probably just my american cultural bias at work :shrug:

mods, ban this xenophobic gently caress

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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well now that we've done lolling at facebook, let me lol again at google finally allowing people not to use their real names

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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i guess i could go and change my name to something else, but that would probably require me to open google+ in the browser, so...

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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picasa?

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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pseudorandom name posted:

what never lived cannot die

uncurable mlady posted:

but in strange aeons, even death may ipo again

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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JewKiller 3000 posted:

"asian tentacle piss porn"

top-tier fetish, imo

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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Damiya posted:

Scroogled again!!

lol

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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prefect posted:

i almost understood that. thanks :tipshat:

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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Synpa

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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why is the hangouts addon to chrome so bad?

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

much less crash-y

rotor posted:

hangouts always worked great for me v:shobon:v

it hasn't been unstable, it just has a lovely ui.

oh, or is that that thing where you have to reopen the chat window from time to time caused by it crashing and silently restarting?

also the default chat window size is ridiculously small. it could just save the window position if anyone at google ever used the thing themselves.

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Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

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PleasureKevin posted:

but not keep people employed? man I don't understand money I guess

they bought minecraft for $2.5 billion

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