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mb_* is great if it's available, but it's often not available. That said, I understand that in PHP 5.4 it is supposed to be enabled by default, finally.

That said, mb_* is not particularly fast.

Oh, yeah, it doesn't even appear unless JS is enabled, does it?

No, it's not all about admin choices.

Take SimpleDesk. There's pages of options that I doubt most people will ever touch in there. Sure, it's nice to offer the choice, but in reality most of the time the choice doesn't benefit you and makes it harder to find the options you actually want or need.

Plus the fact that the more options you put in, the more there is to break, the more there is to slow things down, the more there is to put people off making new stuff, and just for fun, the more there is to deal with people change things and don't know how they've done it.


Classic example: in SMF, you can actually disable the ability for users to mark a topic or board read. You can also disable the ability to actually have sticky topics. Yet I never knew of any users who ever actually disabled these options, and as such it only added unnecessary complexity for most users and benefitted a tiny proportion who might turn them off.

Userbox on the right has even been done in Curve with modest CSS changes as SleePy proved to me once.At the same time, that introduces another problem. Partly there is the notion of the paralysis of choice: that we have so much choice that we can't make a *good* choice. Too many options is confusing, and I'd rather cut back on some of the options rather than create more. Most people don't even alter the options generally anyway.

Plus, the more complex you make the default, the more functionality you give it, the more there is to break, and the more there is to be broken by other themes that don't support all the options given in the core. It's an interesting direction, but it is not to be taken lightly.

Yes, that's fair enough - just we need to be a little bit careful about not having too much *stuff* in the ACP. I mean, for example, I need to overhaul post moderation entirely - the same basic settings have three different interfaces to them right now, and that sort of thing has to go.

You'd only really have to increase the padding inside the userbox itself, to keep the content away from the left edge of the userbox area, wouldn't you?

Then you have a non standard theme doing it. The standard SMF menu is strictly CSS only and *only* works if you remain on it, rather than anything else.Although I'm a Windows user and that same behaviour is commonplace for Windows, I prefer not having to click, it somehow makes it a more natural action for me - that instead of having to hit an arbitrary point so I can begin my navigation of the menu I can start above it and sweep down in a single move.

The whole episode left me feeling as though "this isn't finished." So we know who she is, but we don't really know who she is. Being Amy's daughter was called even back in season 5, on the strength of the river/pond connection, but dismissed because of the apparent time gap (they're 21st Century, she's 51st Century). But really, 'risen higher than ever before and fallen so much further'... that hasn't happened yet.See, that's too obvious. The Doctor himself says that he's not a good man. "Good men don't need rules." / "Today's not the day to find out why I have so many."

I can't help thinking it's Rory that she ultimately goes to Stormcage for.That's what we're meant to think. I don't think it's that obvious, and I can't help but think the Doctor shot there was the Ganger version, but no doubt we'll get an explanation. Fortunately I think it'll be more clever than the RTD style "poof and it is all sorted out" that we saw in seasons 1 and 3 and to a lesser degree season 4.The Doctor must show up again in her timeline, because their first meeting, where he arrives on her doorstep knowing everything about her hasn't been shown, neither has their last meeting at the towers of Darillium when he gives her his screwdriver.

As far as her fate in Forest, one thing about that never sat right with me: as I see it there is no reason whatsoever why she could not be saved. Her body is gone at the end of the process, and her essence is in the Library computer. Like the other 4022 that were saved - so there's no reason why she can't be resurrected other than "because."It is if you want to know who she really is.

From her timeline, the Pandorica, then the crash of the Byzantium, then the Library happens - and somewhere in the middle of that are the events of AGMGTW. She's aware that he will find out who she is on that day, but its temporal placement would seem to be prior to the Pandorica.

So in the events there, she's helping fight against the military, in a sense, but by the time of the Byzantium, she's their prisoner and working for them, and by the time of the Library, she has been pardoned.Moffat does. And that insignia looks very much like that of the Time Lord Omega.It isn't shaping up to be much different in S4 thus far.Yeah, RTD wrote a lot of Torchwood.Hahah, well, I love the fact that Moffat drops in more clues than RTD did about where things are going and I love the fact that they can be pieced together, there's a feeling of knowing something that others might not have seen - and trying to figure out where it's all going, it's why people watch detective shows, just on a lesser scale.