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Daily comics. —[[User:While False|While False]] ([[User:While False/explain xkcd museum|'''museum''']] | [[User talk:While False|talk]] | [[special:Contributions/While_False|contributions]] | [[special:Log/While_False|logs]] | [[Special:UserRights/While_False|rights]] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:While_False&printable=yes printable version] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:While_False&action=info page information] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere/User:While_False what links there] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&days=30&from=&target=User%3AWhile_False related changes] | a late contribution | current time: {{CURRENTTIME}}) 19:05, 27 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
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This came out about a year after JWST was launched, and it's stationed at a Lagrange point of the Sun and Earth. It might be related to the anniversary, although it would make more sense if it came out in a month, on the anniversary of the telescope reaching L2. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 20:49, 27 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
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Missed opportunity to reference [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grange,_Texas La Grange, Texas], the basis of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grange_(song) song] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZ_Top ZZ Top]. [[User:RandalSchwartz|RandalSchwartz]] ([[User talk:RandalSchwartz|talk]]) 21:13, 27 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
: Well I hear it's fine, if you got the time [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.5|108.162.249.5]] 13:55, 28 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
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Not ''probable'' but maybe a reference to the recent "Ohio" meme?[[Special:Contributions/172.71.82.41|172.71.82.41]] 22:14, 27 December 2022 (UTC)Bumpf<br />
: Probably not on purpose but it definitely fits in with the rest of the “Ohio” memes 22:38 27 December 2022 (ETC) Comi123<br />
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;Can I use a subscript notation in the transcript?<br />
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Any clues where to find the code? Comic seems to have the numeral portions of "L1" to "L6" as subscripts. Is that a standard notation for Lagrange points, if so should we also use it in the main article? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.66.102|172.68.66.102]] 06:14, 28 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
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:Sure. Use HTML &lt;sub> tags. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.39|172.71.154.39]] 07:41, 28 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
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Why Cleveland? Well, Yakov Smirnoff said, "In every country, they make fun of city. In U.S. you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland." [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.168|172.71.26.168]] 12:14, 28 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
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The center of the Earth is also a Lagrange point (I think I'll call it L<sub>0</sub>). So Lagrange, OH is only 4,000 miles off, which should be close enough for many astronomers. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.135.100|172.70.135.100]] 16:12, 28 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
:Well, LaGrange, OH is in a stable orbit around L<sub>0</sub>, so would this also be a Halo orbit? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.77.5|141.101.77.5]] 09:26, 29 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
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And I thought La Grange was in Texas I should not listen to three wise men with beards, even at this time of year. Wikipedia tells m there are over 25 across the US. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.223|172.71.242.223]] 10:38, 29 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
:Two men with beards, one man named Beard. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.46.77|172.70.46.77]] 11:35, 29 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
::Thus three men, each with a beard. (Actually the phrase "three wise men with beards" isn't explicit about how many beards they have between them.)<br />
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Normally cartoons come out MWF, but this came out on a Tuesday. Any known (or hypothesized) reason. Should the unusual timing get a mention. No comic in the normal Wed slot. [[User:MAP|MAP]] ([[User talk:MAP|talk]]) 02:36, 30 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
:In the light of there being "no Wednesday", in the obvious manner, we can make the presumption that this was supposed to be the Wednesday but (for some reason; ...other tween-holiday commitents? ...had the usual "what actual day ''is'' this of the season? ...distracted by family gatherings?) was released super-early. As in even Tuesday in more advanced timezones. Either that, or he was visiting a GMT+6 (or greater) place and posted it merely 'early Wednesday', but I don't think he would be visiting China (GMT+8) - for any number of reasons. Aus/NZ/etc? (Forgive me, just musing. Still no reason to think so.) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.137|172.69.79.137]] 23:32, 30 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
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There are [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange#France several places called Lagrange in France (with correct spelling)], there are also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_Bay Lagrange Bay] on Western Australia and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange,_Virginia Lagrange, Virginia] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange,_Maine Lagrange, Maine]. There are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_(disambiguation)#United_States many places with names spelled as LaGrange or La Grange in the U.S.A.]. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 19:35, 31 December 2022 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1518:_Typical_Morning_Routine&diff=1190421518: Typical Morning Routine2016-04-29T21:46:16Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ added info about forced air</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1518<br />
| date = April 29, 2015<br />
| title = Typical Morning Routine<br />
| image = typical_morning_routine.png<br />
| titletext = Hang on, I've heard this problem. We need to pour water into the duct until the phone floats up and ... wait, phones sink in water. Mercury. We need a vat of mercury to pour down the vent. That will definitely make this situation better and not worse.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
Waking up to an alarm can be annoying, especially when it is your partner's alarm, and they are slow to wake up and even then have difficulty figuring out how to turn the alarm off. This comic takes this situation to a ridiculous extreme, from whence the comic derives its humor, especially when paired with the title describing this situation as a "Typical Morning Routine". Of course the typical could refer only to the part of the "routine" until the phone is dropped into an air vent.<br />
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In this comic, [[Hairy]] with morning hair is shown using his phone as his alarm clock. Another unseen person is sharing the bed with Hairy and growing more irate as Hairy's alarm continues beeping.<br />
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Even simple actions like turning off a {{w|smartphone}} alarm can be easily fumbled by a just-awakened groggy person. In this case, Hairy accidentally exited the alarm app without stopping the alarm. In some OSes, simply exiting the app doesn't close it, requiring you to use the app switcher to close it.<br />
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After giving up on shutting down the alarm the usual way, Hairy, in annoyance, decides to remove the battery, which will disable the phone's entire operation. However, while trying to remove the battery in the dark, he accidentally drops his device down a floor {{w|air vent}} (most likely part of {{w|forced air}} {{w|central heating}} common in North America) next to the bed. While the vent is covered by a grille, it is apparently coarse enough (or perhaps missing a few pieces, creating a large hole) to allow the phone to pass through if it falls at a particular location and angle. Also, the vent apparently does not descend very far before bending, allowing the phone to survive the fall intact.<br />
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As of when this comic was posted, [[Randall]] uses both iOS and Android according to [[1508: Operating Systems]] - although there is no reason to be certain that the character in this comic is using the same operating systems as Randall. However, the fact that Hairy tries to remove the battery strongly suggests it cannot be an iOS device, given that all iOS devices have non-removable batteries.<br />
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If he were a little handy, Hairy might be able to open the vent and retrieve the phone - or perhaps not, if the phone slid further into the ventwork or Hairy lacked the necessary tools. Instead of trying to physically recover the phone, Hairy attempts to remotely {{w|Brick (electronics)|brick}} the phone from his laptop, permanently disabling all its functions (including the alarm app).<br />
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This attempt fails because Hairy had accidentally put the device into {{w|airplane mode}} before dropping his phone, thereby cutting off all {{w|wireless}} communications with the device and preventing any attempt at remote control. Airplane mode also has the unfortunate (in this situation) side effect of increasing the phone's battery life (though playing loud sounds incessantly should still limit it to a day or so, notwithstanding the pessimistic assessment of Hairy's companion).<br />
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Rather than finding a solution to the problem with the phone, Hairy proposes that they just move out instead.<br />
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Relevant for the title text: There is a semi-common logic puzzle involving a ping-pong ball falling down a pipe with a kink in it. In this puzzle, the solution is to pour water into the pipe until the ping-pong ball floats up.<br />
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In the title text, one of the two characters remembers this problem and attempts to apply it to this situation. Since phones do not float in water, a modified version is proposed using {{w|Mercury (element)|mercury}} instead. The phone would certainly float on mercury, as it is a very dense liquid (the only metal that is liquid at room temperature).<br />
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The extremely toxic nature of mercury makes pouring it into the air supply a very dangerous idea. Also the required amount of mercury would be extremely expensive. The weight of the mercury would also be substantial (1 gallon = 113 lb), and would likely break something in the air duct system. Both mercury and water could also push the phone further into the duct system instead of bringing it back. The end of the title text, declaring that the mercury idea would ''definitely make this situation better and not worse'' could be either a sarcastic commentary on these problems or a desperate attempt to bolster confidence that this extreme solution will work when everything else has failed.<br />
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Given that Hairy was willing to sacrifice the phone anyway (by attempting to brick it), he would probably be better off pouring water down the vent - it wouldn't bring the phone within reach, but it would disable and thereby silence it (unless the phone is completely waterproof, which most phones aren't, especially those where the battery can be removed).<br />
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Of course, Hairy probably wouldn't have gotten into this mess if he had not just been awakened brutally by a very loud alarm, making it difficult to think clearly (or, alternatively, if he just had a standard alarm clock that he could have unplugged or even a mechanical one that he could, say, hit with a hammer until it broke; or just flip the off switch).<br />
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This comic follows a similar storyline to [[349: Success]] and [[530: I'm An Idiot]], as [[Cueball]], like Hairy here, encounters an issue and attempts progressively more absurd solutions to the issue. Hairy, himself, has also tried to go out of such a tangent before in [[761: DFS]].<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[The panel is completely black, with white text. Small lines indicate from where the two voices are coming, and also from where the alarm goes off. A small broken square surrounds the first word spoken.]<br />
:Alarm: '''Bleep Bleep'''<br />
:Voice (right): Urgh<br />
:Voice (left): Your alarm is going off<br />
:Voice (right): Huh?<br />
:Voice (left): Make it stop.<br />
:Voice (right) Urrgh<br />
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:[The panel is completely black, with white text. Small lines indicate from where the two voices are coming. Several small lines surrounds the last "sound" which is not spoken. The alarm noise is continued from the previous panel and continues over the top of the frame directly into the next panel.]<br />
:Alarm: '''Bleep Bleep Bleep B'''<br />
:Voice (left): Hit snooze.<br />
:Voice (right): I'm ''trying''. I closed the alarm app and I can't... I'll just pop out the battery.<br />
:Voice (right): Whoops!<br />
:Clang<br />
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:[The lights have turned on so it is now a white panel with black text. The voice to the right came from Hairy with morning hair. He is leaning over the side of the bed, looking down the air vent through which he has dropped the phone. The other person to the left is not shown. The alarm noise (now coming from the air vent as visualized by the lines coming out of the vent) still continues from the previous panel and continues over the top of the frame directly into the next panel.]<br />
:Alarm: '''eep Bleep Bleep Ble'''<br />
:Off-Screen voice: Make it stop!<br />
:Hairy: It... fell down the vent.<br />
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:[Hairy is sitting in his bed with a laptop. The person to the left is still off-screen. The alarm noise still continues from the previous panel and continues over the top of the frame out of the comic the the right.]<br />
:Alarm: '''ep Bleep Bleep Bleep Ble'''<br />
:Off-Screen voice: Can you brick it remotely?<br />
:Hairy: Trying... I think I fumbled it into airplane mode?<br />
:Off-Screen voice: The battery could last for weeks.<br />
:Hairy: You know, maybe we should just move.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Sarcasm]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1341:_Types_of_Editors&diff=1096811341: Types of Editors2016-01-21T19:44:33Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ add Houyhnhnm</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1341<br />
| date = March 12, 2014<br />
| title = Types of Editors<br />
| image = types_of_editors.png<br />
| titletext = m-x machineofdeath-mode<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|WYSIWYG}}, pronounced, "wizz-ee-wig" IPA /ˈwɪziˌwɪg/, is an acronym that stands for "What you see is what you get". In regards to computers, it refers to text editors in which the user can see exactly what will be published as they are typing it. The comic compares various types of editors, each one a play-on-words on WYSIWYG.<br />
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*A WYSIWYG editor displays the edited document in its final form. This could be a printed paper, a WEB page, a PDF document, and more. This is a real term used for text editors.<br />
*A WYSINWYG editor is the opposite; there is a distinct difference between what the editor displays, and what will be printed. Hence, what you see is ''not'' what you get. They are also known as source editors, such as a {{w|wiki markup}} editor or {{w|TeX|T<sub>E</sub>X}}. In the comic an HTML source editor is shown, where you enter raw HTML code and then presented with the rendered appearance of the final page. The <nowiki><em></nowiki>-tag marks text that has stress emphasis.<br />
*The WYSITUTWYG ("... is totally unrelated to ...") editor apparently takes your input and proceeds to ignore it entirely, instead displaying totally unrelated words. Possibly a commentary on the Autocorrect function. Randall seems to have made this term up. The phrase "The HORSE is a noble animal" seems to refer to the {{w|Stereotypes of animals#Horses|stereotypes}} commonly associated with horses, or possibily to {{w|Houyhnhnm}} in {{w|Gulliver's Travels}}, an extreme version of that stereotypes.<br />
*WYSIHYD ("... is how you die") shows an "editor" which is not really an editor at all, but rather a pun on the multiple meanings of the word "get": If you ''see'' "eaten by wolves", you will ''get''... eaten by wolves. As in physically attacked and devoured by wolves.<br />
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The title text is a fictitious command, {{w|meta key|meta}}-x machineofdeath-mode, to the highly extensible {{w|Emacs}} text editor. Emacs operates in various "modes", which are customizations for specific purposes. Placing Emacs into "Machine of Death" mode would turn it into a WYSIHYD editor. (For another fictitious emacs command see [[378: Real Programmers]]). <br />
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This is most likely also a reference to "{{w|Machine of Death}}". This book from 2010 is a collection of short stories edited by amongst other {{w|Ryan North}} (of {{w|Dinosaur Comics}}) mentioned here since the idea was based on one of [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=675 his comics]. Since [[Randall Munroe]] wrote one of the stories the reference is very likely. All the stories are based around a device, the "Machine of Death", that can predict, with 100% accuracy though generally with extreme ambiguity, how people die from a drop of their blood. In many of the stories very unusual deaths are predicted, often in a very literal way, but not so you know when or where you will die. From the [http://machineofdeath.net/ official home page] the entire book can be downloaded for free as a [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4648190/MachineofDeath_FINAL_SPREADS.pdf PDF file]. (Randall's story begins on page 421 - or page 218 of the two sided PDF file. It is simply called "?"). In [[1525: Emojic 8 Ball]] the default question is ''How will I die?'' and can then be answered by an ''Emojic 8 Ball'', which would make it a type of Machine of Death.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[There are four panels, each with different headings and explanations of the headings above the panels.]<br />
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:[The first three panels shows two titled text boxes, one above the other, with text inside. This text is formated with both small and capital letters as opposed to all capital letters in the rest of the comic.]<br />
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:[Heading panel 1:]<br />
:'''WYSIWYG''' <br />
:What you see is <br />
:what you get<br />
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:[Panel 1.]<br />
:What you see:<br />
:''Hi''<br />
:What you get:<br />
:''Hi''<br />
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:[Heading panel 2:]<br />
:'''WYSINWYG''' <br />
:What you see is <br />
:not what you get<br />
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:[Panel 2.]<br />
:What you see:<br />
:<nowiki><em>Hi</em></nowiki><br />
:What you get:<br />
:''Hi''<br />
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:[Heading panel 3:]<br />
:'''WYSITUTWYG''' <br />
:What you see is totally <br />
:unrelated to what you get<br />
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:[Panel 3.]<br />
:What you see:<br />
:<nowiki><em>Hi</em></nowiki><br />
:What you get:<br />
:The HORSE is a noble animal.<br />
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:[The fourth panel shows two titled text areas, the top is a black rectangle with white text in a very large font, and the bottom text area is not outlined with a border.]<br />
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:[Heading panel 4:]<br />
:'''WYSIHYD''' <br />
:What you see is <br />
:how you die<br />
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:[Panel 4.]<br />
:What you see:<br />
:'''EATEN BY WOLVES'''<br />
:What you get:<br />
::Eaten by wolves<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*"The horse is a noble animal" is the name of a giant rocking-horse sculpture in {{w|Yorkshire}}.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Emacs]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1173:_Steroids&diff=1063191173: Steroids2015-12-03T17:48:43Z<p>Arifsaha: add other opinion</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1173<br />
| date = February 13, 2013<br />
| title = Steroids<br />
| image = steroids.png<br />
| titletext = A human is a system for converting dust billions of years ago into dust billions of years from now via a roundabout process which involves checking email a lot.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This comic is about steroid usage to enhance one's performance; it is likely inspired by {{w|Lance Armstrong}}'s then-recent confession to blood doping in a televised interview with {{w|Oprah Winfrey}} (although Armstrong's confessions did not itself include {{w|anabolic steroid}} use; "steroids" is a common catch-all phrase often misused to reference other forms of doping).<br />
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The comic states that humans are essentially made up of chemicals, and they need other chemicals to survive — for example, food, water and air are made up of chemicals. Humans also have a propensity for competition to find out which person is the fastest and strongest.<br />
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This comic is making the point of the opinion that the criterion about which chemicals (steroids) humans may or may not take in to be considered the strongest or fastest is an artificial criterion. This is demonstrated by [[Megan]] explaining the whole concept to a non-humanoid intelligence; when framed the way Megan frames it, the explanation sounds rather trivial and silly. A better explanation would be to say that some chemicals make humans faster and stronger but also damage the human body, so these chemical are banned so the competitors won't destroy themselves.<br />
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This comic is one of many instances where Randall attempts to trivialize sports.<br />
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The title text changes the perspective again by suggesting that humanity itself is trivial in the grand scheme of things and that really all we are is a "transition" state between old dust and new dust, with a bunch of emailing in between.<br />
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The comic was published on {{w|Ash Wednesday}} (Western liturgical start of Lent). The dust to dust reference calls to mind the charge, "Remember man that thou art dust and unto dust you shall return," which is traditionally spoken by priests as they place ashes on the foreheads of observers on Ash Wednesday, in addition to the idea that all atoms in the universe other than Hydrogen, Helium, and some Lithium, were created after the big-bang via {{w|Stellar nucleosynthesis}}, with further production and dispersal via {{w|Supernova nucleosynthesis}}. Thus the reference by {{w|Joni Mitchell}} in the song {{w|Woodstock (song)}}: "We are stardust..."; and echoed by {{w|Carl Sagan}}: "We are star stuff."<br />
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==Controversy==<br />
The opinion brought up in this comic is not the only valid one. Another reasonable opinion is that procedures that may negatively affect the health and well being of the athlete should be limited or even forbidden, otherwise in the near future we may arrive in the situation where people that can be top competitors in sports are the ones that heavily modified by drugs, surgeries, or genetic manipulations, to the degree that they cannot live normally as human anymore, either in quality, quantity, or both. Under this point of view, the current limitations they put in most sports, while somewhat arbitrary, can be less arbitrary than other possible limitations.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Megan is talking to an energy based intelligence.]<br />
:Something: ''Explain to me this "steroid scandal."''<br />
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:Megan: Well, uh... We humans are sacks of chemicals which stay alive by finding other chemicals and putting them inside us.<br />
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:Megan: We hold contests to see which humans are fastest and strongest.<br />
:Megan: But some humans eat chemicals that make them ''too'' fast and strong.<br />
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:Megan: And they '''win contests'''!<br />
:Something: ''That does sound bad.''<br />
:Megan: It's ''awful!''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Biology]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1173:_Steroids&diff=1063181173: Steroids2015-12-03T17:29:44Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ clarification, it is an opinion not a fact</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1173<br />
| date = February 13, 2013<br />
| title = Steroids<br />
| image = steroids.png<br />
| titletext = A human is a system for converting dust billions of years ago into dust billions of years from now via a roundabout process which involves checking email a lot.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This comic is about steroid usage to enhance one's performance; it is likely inspired by {{w|Lance Armstrong}}'s then-recent confession to blood doping in a televised interview with {{w|Oprah Winfrey}} (although Armstrong's confessions did not itself include {{w|anabolic steroid}} use; "steroids" is a common catch-all phrase often misused to reference other forms of doping).<br />
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The comic states that humans are essentially made up of chemicals, and they need other chemicals to survive — for example, food, water and air are made up of chemicals. Humans also have a propensity for competition to find out which person is the fastest and strongest.<br />
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This comic is making the point of the opinion that the criterion about which chemicals (steroids) humans may or may not take in to be considered the strongest or fastest is an artificial criterion. This is demonstrated by [[Megan]] explaining the whole concept to a non-humanoid intelligence; when framed the way Megan frames it, the explanation sounds rather trivial and silly. A better explanation would be to say that some chemicals make humans faster and stronger but also damage the human body, so these chemical are banned so the competitors won't destroy themselves.<br />
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This comic is one of many instances where Randall attempts to trivialize sports.<br />
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The title text changes the perspective again by suggesting that humanity itself is trivial in the grand scheme of things and that really all we are is a "transition" state between old dust and new dust, with a bunch of emailing in between.<br />
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The comic was published on {{w|Ash Wednesday}} (Western liturgical start of Lent). The dust to dust reference calls to mind the charge, "Remember man that thou art dust and unto dust you shall return," which is traditionally spoken by priests as they place ashes on the foreheads of observers on Ash Wednesday, in addition to the idea that all atoms in the universe other than Hydrogen, Helium, and some Lithium, were created after the big-bang via {{w|Stellar nucleosynthesis}}, with further production and dispersal via {{w|Supernova nucleosynthesis}}. Thus the reference by {{w|Joni Mitchell}} in the song {{w|Woodstock (song)}}: "We are stardust..."; and echoed by {{w|Carl Sagan}}: "We are star stuff."<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Megan is talking to an energy based intelligence.]<br />
:Something: ''Explain to me this "steroid scandal."''<br />
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:Megan: Well, uh... We humans are sacks of chemicals which stay alive by finding other chemicals and putting them inside us.<br />
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:Megan: We hold contests to see which humans are fastest and strongest.<br />
:Megan: But some humans eat chemicals that make them ''too'' fast and strong.<br />
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:Megan: And they '''win contests'''!<br />
:Something: ''That does sound bad.''<br />
:Megan: It's ''awful!''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Biology]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1065:_Shoes&diff=80436Talk:1065: Shoes2014-12-08T16:32:57Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>Can we choose to wear another pair of bigger shoes over the magic shoes? '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:39, 8 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
: Probably when you use the power of magic shoes, the magic shoes will "outrun" the bigger shoes, either manage to slip out of it or destroy it outright.<br /><br />
:That said, I agree with you, the magic shoes will be felt close to no shoes at all, and therefore daily you will wear other shoes over it. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 16:32, 8 December 2014 (UTC)<br />
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There should be four toe-holes, not five. The fourth and last toes are almost always in the same toe-hole, as the shoes become very uncomfortable otherwise. The (four-toed) shoes, however, are very nice for relaxation, general purposes, and the outdoors.<br />
:Technically, since these are stick figures, they shouldn't have any toes. Anonymous. 07:24, 12 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
::Technically, I don't even see any feet. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]] 06:24, 23 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
:After playing Mirror's Edge, the idea of using shoes with a separate space for the big toe grew on me. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.65|108.162.254.65]] 03:20, 2 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I would like to note that shoes made out of bread were actually sold [http://www.dadadastudio.eu/Shop/prod/19/30/ here]. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.39|141.101.104.39]] 21:31, 5 October 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Not sure enough of this to edit, but is it possible there is a whole loaf / sliced bread ~ whole shoe / toe shoe analogy going on here? [[User:Plm-qaz snr|Plm-qaz snr]] ([[User talk:Plm-qaz snr|talk]]) 08:32, 14 October 2014 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1057:_Klout&diff=80321Talk:1057: Klout2014-12-05T23:53:32Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>Klout is looong dead now. I suppose this means it's niche and hipster, and it's fine to use it now. '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:53, 8 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
:its not dead... just not really as trendy anymore.--[[User:Calvsie|Calvsie]] ([[User talk:Calvsie|talk]]) 21:01, 12 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Any possible meaning in the fact that "clout" can mean a blow from a hand? I think it might be related, considering the site is called Klout and Randall requests being clouted, in a manner of speaking... {{unsigned ip|173.245.54.209}}<br />
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Replace "Klout" with "Google+" for modern relevance. [[User:Keavon|Keavon]] ([[User talk:Keavon|talk]]) 00:02, 10 November 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Interacting with Google+ should not have anywhere close to Klout in "douchebagness", if any. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 23:53, 5 December 2014 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1057:_Klout&diff=80320Talk:1057: Klout2014-12-05T23:53:15Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>Klout is looong dead now. I suppose this means it's niche and hipster, and it's fine to use it now. '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:53, 8 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
:its not dead... just not really as trendy anymore.--[[User:Calvsie|Calvsie]] ([[User talk:Calvsie|talk]]) 21:01, 12 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Any possible meaning in the fact that "clout" can mean a blow from a hand? I think it might be related, considering the site is called Klout and Randall requests being clouted, in a manner of speaking... {{unsigned ip|173.245.54.209}}<br />
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Replace "Klout" with "Google+" for modern relevance. [[User:Keavon|Keavon]] ([[User talk:Keavon|talk]]) 00:02, 10 November 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Interacting with Google+ should not have anywhere close to Klout in "douchebagness", if any.</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1036:_Reviews&diff=80184Talk:1036: Reviews2014-12-03T19:25:10Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>Even better is when reviewers start talking about other products that they've used in the past, and you're suddenly investigating and comparing capacity, weight and compartment placement between 20-odd messenger bags. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 10:03, 23 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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I'm surprised they didn't find any bobcats. Black Hat should have expanded his enterprise beyond eBay by now. Anonymous 17:57, 5 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I do this too, but I mainly look for trends in the bad reviews (DOA, Stopped working after a few months, etc), rather then one bad review spoiling a large number of positive ones. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.66|173.245.55.66]] 16:55, 5 June 2014 (UTC)<br />
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The title text seems to refer to some horror movie. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 19:25, 3 December 2014 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1022:_So_It_Has_Come_To_This&diff=801731022: So It Has Come To This2014-12-03T16:17:13Z<p>Arifsaha: Undo revision 74993 by Lcarsos (talk) - reference to other comic is normal, I change the wording.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1022<br />
| date = February 27, 2012<br />
| title = So It Has Come To This<br />
| image = so_it_has_come_to_this.png<br />
| titletext = 'Come to what?' 'You. Me. This moment.'<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The line "it has come to this" is usually seen on the verge of the climactic confrontation between the villain and his arch rival, or when one character has to unleash their utmost ability etc. Despite its dramatic tone, however, the statement is a content-free tautology, true in all possible scenarios. Accordingly, [[Cueball]] is saying it about cat food, a relatively trivial problem.<br />
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The title text is a similarly dramatic tautology, which you can use if someone questions the first.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:Megan: We ran out of cat food.<br />
:Cueball: ''So''<br />
:Cueball: ''It has come to this.''<br />
:Protip: If you're not sure what to say, try "So it has come to this"--it creates instant dramatic tension and is a valid observation in literally any situation.<br />
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==Related==<br />
The phrase "So it has come to this" is also said in: [[225: Open Source]].<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Protip]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:958:_Hotels&diff=79609Talk:958: Hotels2014-11-21T19:51:44Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>I hardly ever visit the same place twice, so I'd have to give hotels bad reviews ahead of time so that I get lower prices when I get there. Hell, why doesn't Black Hat do that? That way, he can avoid paying full price on his first visit to the hotel, which is what he wants, isn't it? The dishonesty of writing a bad review before he visits shouldn't be a deterrent to a person like him, so why not? '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|purple|David}}<font color=green size=3px>y</font></u><font color=indigo size=4px>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 08:39, 9 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
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How did cue ball find out he liked it. Although it is only one person, knowing him directly gives him extra influence. I would say it is about the amount of influence of a review.--[[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.36|173.245.54.36]] 02:02, 15 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
: Cueball seems to be friendly enough with Black Hat, so quite likely Black Hat simply mentioned that to Cueball before. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 19:51, 21 November 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Is the title text a reference to a scene in a horror movie? [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 19:51, 21 November 2014 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=935:_Missed_Connections&diff=78402935: Missed Connections2014-11-06T17:33:19Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ adding several links</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 935<br />
| date = August 8, 2011<br />
| title = Missed Connections<br />
| image = missed_connections.png<br />
| titletext = The Street View van isn't going to find out anything Google won't already know from reading my email.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Missed Connections}} is a page on {{w|Craigslist}} in which people who saw each other briefly and want to reconnect attempt to find each other again. In the case of missed connections, one person describes themselves "Me" and describes the other person "You" in order that the second person would recognize themself and try to reconnect.<br />
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The first one appears to be a goofy joke, although there have been many {{w|Wienermobile #Mishaps and other incidents|Wienermobile incidents}} in the past. Given the timing of this comic, one can't help but wonder if it might also be a pun referencing the then recent resignation of Rep. {{w|Anthony Weiner}} over tweeting pictures of his, well, wiener with his mobile device.<br />
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Oddly enough, the second entry could possibly be a reference to [http://fairlyoddparents.wikia.com/wiki/Wishing_Well this] episode of {{w|The Fairly OddParents}}.<br />
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The third one is a reference to networking. UDP stands for {{w|User Datagram Protocol}}. UDP packets don't use handshaking to verify they have contacted the correct host, so they can get lost or confused. The Cisco router location is just a reference to a block of IP addresses. {{w|Cisco}} is a company that makes networking equipment. This is a play on a missed connection for someone who was lost and asked for directions.<br />
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The fourth one is a reference to [http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/fox-blasts-obamas-hip-hop-bbq-for-failing-to-create-jobs/243183/ two] [http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/transcript/should-controversial-rapper-common-have-been-invited-white-house events] in 2011 in which President {{w|Barack Obama}} invited rappers--among other people--to the White House. After each event, right-wing commentators blasted the event as a party unbecoming of the dignity of the White House. {{w|Nancy Pelosi}} is the Democratic Leader of the {{w|US House of Representatives}}. The acronym (D-CA) is a common notation for politicians which notates party (D for Democrat) and state (CA for California). Pelosi would have also been invited to these events, and the missed connections listing is a reference to what the commentators imagined the event would have been like.<br />
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The fifth is a straightforward joke. One of the two people getting married was so distracted by his phone he has no clue where his wife (or husband) is now, or even who they are.<br />
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The sixth is a reference to how the {{w|Google Street View}} car was not only recording photos of the street in 360 degrees, it was also collecting data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. The comic takes this to the next level, that the Google Street View van also scans what we have in our pockets and does a retinal scan. In this case, the social security number referenced is [http://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html the most used SSN of all time.] The retinal scan takes this even further, indicating that Google's cameras are collecting fine enough images to identify people by {{w|Retinal scan}}.<br />
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The last suggests that {{w|Babe Ruth}}, the American baseball slugger of 1914-1935, is actually a {{w|Time Lord}}. Time Lord is a reference to the popular sci-fi series {{w|Doctor Who}} in which The Doctor, who is a Time Lord, uses a {{w|TARDIS}}, which is a time travel machine. Possibly because he was a baseball player "ahead of his time".<br />
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The title text is a reference to privacy concerns surrounding Google Street View, to which Google responded by claiming that the street view camera wouldn't capture anything that someone walking by wouldn't be able to see.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[The page is set up like the missed connections area of Craigslist, with a list of messages from an individual to a person they weren't able to communicate with at the time.]<br />
:Personals > Missed Connections<br />
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:You: Clinging to hood of your stolen wienermobile, trying to reach into engine to unstick throttle<br />
:Me: Screaming, diving out of the way<br />
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:You: Vaguely human silhouette<br />
:Me: At bottom of wishing well with harpoon gun<br />
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:You: Confused UDP packet<br />
:Me: Cisco router in 45.170/16 block<br />
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:You: Baddest fuckin' Juggalo at Violent J's party<br />
:Me: Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca)<br />
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:You: Getting married to me<br />
:Me: Also getting married, but distracted by my phone<br />
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:You: Cute boy on corner of 4th & Main, 5'11, 169lbs, social security number 078-05-1120, pockets contained $2.09 in change, keys, and a condom. Retinal scan attached<br />
:Me: Driving street view van<br />
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:You: George Herman "Babe" Ruth<br />
:Me: Fellow Time Lord. Saw your Tardis on third moon of<br />
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{{comic discussion}} <br />
[[Category:Comics with color]]<br />
[[Category:Doctor Who]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:910:_Permanence&diff=78065Talk:910: Permanence2014-10-30T20:14:03Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>I would marry a girl called epidural. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 01:40, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Server or not, I know myself the feeling of wanting a super-duper high-school-level name. At least I have a system of naming my computers, gaming devices, and (future?) servers.[[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 17:49, 13 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I usually use some kind of encoded date (related to when the computer was acquired or setup) in the name, probably prefixed by something signify the model or vendor of the computer. Permanency of relevance is guaranteed and it is easier than try to think what the name will means years from now. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 20:13, 30 October 2014 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:910:_Permanence&diff=78064Talk:910: Permanence2014-10-30T20:13:03Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>I would marry a girl called epidural. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 01:40, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Server or not, I know myself the feeling of wanting a super-duper high-school-level name. At least I have a system of naming my computers, gaming devices, and (future?) servers.[[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 17:49, 13 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I usually simply using some kind of encoded date (related to when the computer was acquired or setup) in the name, probably prefixed by something signify the model or vendor of the computer. Permanency of relevance is guaranteed and it is easier than try to think what the name will means years from now. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 20:13, 30 October 2014 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:900:_Religions&diff=77979Talk:900: Religions2014-10-28T20:49:09Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>Where's the experimental evidence that there is actually a god? '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 02:01, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:Consider who is proposing such an experiment. QED. [[Special:Contributions/184.66.160.91|184.66.160.91]] 03:10, 26 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:The Bible, duh! <!-- n.b.: irony --> [[User:Alpha|Alpha]] ([[User talk:Alpha|talk]]) 00:22, 1 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:I'm sure you can find not one but several definitions of god with experimental evidence. Of course, this says more about how vague definitions of god are that about the god. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 00:06, 25 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
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::Agreed. There are no proof that no god exist, only some proof that certain definition of god cannot be true. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 20:49, 28 October 2014 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:854:_Learning_to_Cook&diff=76919Talk:854: Learning to Cook2014-10-08T20:05:43Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>It only looks like I got takeout at Pizza Hut. I made this pizza! Legit! I made the box too! '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:09, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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The current explanation is "a person who cannot cook and can't quite find the time to learn", but I interpreted this as someone who thinks they want to cook more, but ends up buying pre-made food often enough to cause the ingredients to go bad. Such as buying a loaf of bread, deli meat and toppings, making a sandwich (or sudoing someone else), but then eating at restaurants until discovering the bread has gone bad... I may be biased, though, since this is what usually happens to me. [[User:Tryc|Tryc]] ([[User talk:Tryc|talk]]) 17:49, 22 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I did this same thing. I bought pots and pans and everything I could use. Tried making noodles and cheese and it did NOT work! ~JFreund<br />
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In most case cooking definitely need some level of passion, as there are some learning - involving trial and error - required to be able to cook good tasting food. Almost all cooking recipes have some ambiguity or omitted details about the cooking process which need to be found to produce good result. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 20:05, 8 October 2014 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=854:_Learning_to_Cook&diff=76917854: Learning to Cook2014-10-08T19:58:05Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 854<br />
| date = January 31, 2011<br />
| title = Learning to Cook<br />
| image = learning to cook.png<br />
| titletext = And yet I never stop thinking, 'sure, these ingredients cost more than a restaurant meal, but think how many meals I'll get out of them! Especially since each one will have leftovers!'<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This comic shows the plight of [[Randall]] who occasionally motivates himself to cook. After buying ingredients and cooking them, the food always ended up either tasted "kinda good" or not good, therefore - although he puts the leftovers in the fridge - hours later he orders pizza instead of eating the leftovers.<br />
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A few days later he first throws away the leftovers, and some weeks later also the unused ingredients. After some months he is motivated again to cook more and the loop repeats. This discontinued effort may be part of the reason his cooking does not improve much overtime.<br />
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The title text describes that buying ingredients for a single meal might be more expensive than eating at a restaurant, but it would be compensated if there are enough leftovers to eat again from it or cook several meals. Of course, this idea is vitiated if he gives up cooking after a single try and throws away all remaining food.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[A flowchart.]<br />
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:I should cook more! -> Buy ingredients -> Put some in a pan -> Cook -> Does it taste good? -> (arrows marked "Kinda" and "No" both lead to) Put leftovers in fridge -> (hours pass) -> Order pizza -> (days pass) -> Throw away leftovers -> (weeks pass) -> Throw away remaining ingredients as they go bad -> (months pass) -> (arrow leads back to beginning)<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Flowcharts]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:852:_Local_g&diff=76916Talk:852: Local g2014-10-08T19:33:59Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>What a coincidence that he just happened to p*** off the one group of athletes that was capable of reaching and meting out retribution on him. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:12, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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This explanation is lacking. It does not talk about the joke itself. It is talking about the variation in gravity being significant in interpreting world records. [[Special:Contributions/184.66.160.91|184.66.160.91]] 05:14, 8 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Hi 184.66.160.91, don't criticise but help to explain. Nevertheless I will start to work on this right now.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:16, 8 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
::Criticising is helping. [[Special:Contributions/184.66.160.91|184.66.160.91]] 06:18, 17 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::While constructive criticism is helpful, '''anyone can edit'''. If you see problems in the article, click "Edit" and make the improvements yourself. That's what Dgbrt meant by "help to explain". (And yes, I do realize this conversation is a few months old.) [[User:NealCruco|NealCruco]] ([[User talk:NealCruco|talk]]) 22:43, 22 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::No, no it's not. Criticizing without offering even a partial solution, is just adding noise to the signal. I don't even believe that stating things without an alternative in mind is criticizing. It's just trolling. [[User:Cflare|Cflare]] ([[User talk:Cflare|talk]]) 15:10, 13 August 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Well,it doesn't just affect pole vaulters, it affect all sports, like running, less graity makes you run faster. Or maybe slower? ~Jfreund<br />
:The added traction is definitely offset by the increase in force required to maintain height off the ground. So maybe you'd start faster, but you'd definitely end slower. This is why records are a questionable metric. Not only do small things like this completely affect the results, but shifts in these things over time. As well as increases in biotechnology, training, and genetic offerings. It's weird how this has nothing to do with survival on the grand scale, yet we see humans adapt over time like this. Either we are generically becoming better on every metric, or willpower has an effect on offspring. It's possible that athletes find athletes and have kids. I don't know; it is a mystery. [[User:Cflare|Cflare]] ([[User talk:Cflare|talk]]) 15:14, 13 August 2014 (UTC)<br />
::I believe being a winner in sport - especially men - will increase his change for mating and (therefore) procreation. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 19:33, 8 October 2014 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=838:_Incident&diff=76092838: Incident2014-09-19T16:25:28Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ better explanation on relation to Christmas Eve</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 838<br />
| date = December 24, 2010<br />
| title = Incident<br />
| image = incident.png<br />
| titletext = He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he's copied on /var/spool/mail/root, so be good for goodness' sake.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This comic was posted on {{w|Christmas Eve}} in the {{w|United States}}. While {{w|Christmas}} is principally a {{w|Christian}} holiday celebrating the birth of {{w|Jesus}} on December 25, there are many tradition around the holiday, among them {{w|Christmas Eve#Gift_giving|a tradition}} in {{w|United States}} that in {{w|Christmas Eve}} {{w|Santa Claus}} will make his round delivering gifts to good children.<br />
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[[Rob]] sits behind a Linux computer and tried to change his user account from his normal access to the access of a super user by using the command "{{w|sudo|sudo su}}". Sudo is a famous phrase in xkcd lore, made famous by comic [[149: Sandwich]]. When Rob is unable to use "sudo" because his account is not authorized, the system says that the incident "will be reported" (usually to the system administrator, so he can see if someone is making repeated attempts at cracking the password).<br />
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In the comic, however, Sudo and the system report the incidents to {{w|Santa Claus}}, who in Christmas lore makes a list of who is naughty and who is nice. If you are nice, you get presents, if you are naughty, you get a lump of coal. When sudo reports to Santa that Rob's account is not authorized, he puts Rob on the naughty list.<br />
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In the title text, which is a parody of the famous Christmas song, "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", <code>/var/spool/mail/root</code> is the root (superuser) mailbox on a Linux system.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Rob is sitting at a computer. The computer's prompt is shown.]<br />
robm@homebox~$ sudo su<br />
Password:<br />
robm is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.<br />
robm@homebox~$ █<br />
:[Megan approaches.]<br />
:Rob: Hey — who does sudo report these "incidents" ''to''?<br />
:Megan: You know, I've never checked.<br />
:[Santa Claus is sitting at a desk supported by candy canes, with a red monitor. On the wall are two lists labeled 'naughty' and 'nice'. He is adding a name to the 'naughty' list.]<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Rob]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Comics with color]]<br />
[[Category:Linux]]<br />
[[Category:Christmas]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:832:_Tic-Tac-Toe&diff=75759Talk:832: Tic-Tac-Toe2014-09-12T15:58:33Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>This is all wrong. The second move for X, unless O blocked it already, or started off in the centre should be the lower right corner. That way, O will use the centre to block, and then X goes in a third corner, thus sealing the game.[[Special:Contributions/76.29.225.28|76.29.225.28]] 04:59, 23 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Can you tell which situation you mean? If X starts at 7 and O does not go to 5, then X forces a win with the described tactic. There might be other ways to win, but I don't think that matters. --[[User:Chtz|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz|talk]]) 09:11, 23 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
::Playing as X, you start in the upper left corner. O plays in any square other than the lower right corner (They ''might'' be able to block if they play the centre, depending on whether they anticipate this move). Then, when O blocks the centre, you play the upper right or lower left corner, depending on where O has played before, thus making it impossible to block because they only get one move. The only time this ''ever'' fails is when O knows what X is doing after the ''first'' move.[[Special:Contributions/76.29.225.28|76.29.225.28]] 19:57, 23 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::If it goes X7, O5, X3, then O must play anywhere but in a corner next (result is symmetric) X has to block and O can hold a draw. Just see the ''Map for O'' part. --[[User:Chtz|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz|talk]]) 21:40, 23 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
::::I don't know the numbers for the squares. There are only nine of them. Could we just refer to them by their positions relative to the rest of the board?[[Special:Contributions/76.29.225.28|76.29.225.28]] 21:44, 23 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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There is an error in the drawing when starting with (numpad coordinates) X7, O9, X1, O4, X3: Both O5 and O6 have the same picture. --[[User:Chtz|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz|talk]]) 09:11, 23 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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'''Tic-Tac-Toe''' is just a stupid simple game, Randall jokes about '''that'''. As the title text says "...waiting for your opponent to make a mistake". And the picture is just a part of this joke.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:04, 23 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I just don't want to analyze both maps, but I had a college assignment that made me look into Tic Tac Toe strategy, and I think that the explanation should start with "Each map shows every possible combination of moves which will result in that side not losing.". [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.206|108.162.212.206]] 23:40, 14 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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The quote from War Games is "The only way to win is not to play", and it refers to the game Global Thermonuclear War, not Tic-Tac-Toe (although that was played earlier in the movie). I don't think the title text was based on this quote, but is only coincidentally similar. {{unsigned ip|108.162.249.215}}<br />
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: With all due respect, I think the probability that the title text does not reference the movie War Games is so low as to be effectively zero. BTW the whole premise of the resolution of the movie (spoiler alert) is that by playing Tic-Tac-Toe the AI learns the futility of unwinnable 'games'. It then applies this learning to the very real scenarios of global thermonuclear war and, realising the futility, stops. [[User:Plm-qaz snr|Plm-qaz snr]] ([[User talk:Plm-qaz snr|talk]]) 08:20, 16 August 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:: I think both of you are right in some way, so I fix the text that it do refer to the movie {{w|WarGames}} but to the AI's opinion on the nuclear warfare "game" after learn the concept of unwinnable through Tic-Tac-Toe. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 15:58, 12 September 2014 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=832:_Tic-Tac-Toe&diff=75758832: Tic-Tac-Toe2014-09-12T15:53:16Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ fix the wargames reference</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 832<br />
| date = December 10, 2010<br />
| title = Tic-Tac-Toe<br />
| image = Tic_tac_toe.png<br />
| titletext = The only winning move is to play, perfectly, waiting for your opponent to make a mistake.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
Each map shows every possible combination of moves which will result in that side winning or tying. It assumes that X moves first, which is why the map for O has more possible move combinations and, therefore, more subdivisions. <br />
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The title text is most likely a reference to the 1983 movie ''{{w|WarGames}}''. In that movie, by playing Tic-Tac-Toe the AI realize that some game cannot be win when all the players play flawlessly, and subsequently concludes that the only way to win at nuclear warfare "game" is not to play.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[The comic comprises two large square maps, each divided into nine sections, some of which are further subdivided in the same way. The subdivisions continue down for up to five levels, and the lower map has more tiny diagrams than the upper. The smallest divisions at every scale are completed tic-tac-toe games.]<br />
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:Complete map of optimal Tic-Tac-Toe moves<br />
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:Your move is given by the position of the largest red symbol on the grid. When your opponent picks a move, zoom in on the region of the grid where they went. Repeat.<br />
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:Map for X:<br />
:[The first square map.]<br />
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:Map for O:<br />
:[The second square map.]<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics with color]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1362:_Morse_Code&diff=755031362: Morse Code2014-09-08T19:42:44Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ more explanation and links for that last message</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1362<br />
| date = April 30, 2014<br />
| title = Morse Code<br />
| image = morse_code.png<br />
| titletext = Oh, because Facebook has worked out SO WELL for everyone.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
[[Cueball]] recounts the last message sent in {{w|morse code}} by the French maritime radio station {{W|Le Conquet radio}} upon retiring its 500 kHz channel.<br />
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The poetic, and potentially angsty-sounding nature of the message reminds him of the on-line journal website {{W|LiveJournal}}, which was popular until the late 00s (it was launched in 1999), and stereotypically used by angst-ridden teenagers to post song lyrics, poems, or cryptic messages to express their emotions and possibly fish for attention. Since Cueball never uses his LiveJournal account any more, he wonders if he can find the password again. He might be considering posting the final Morse Code message as his own last and final message on his LiveJournal. <br />
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The popularity of the site died down considerably with the arrival of social networking sites like {{W|MySpace}}, {{W|Facebook}}, {{W|Google Plus}} and the advent of microblogging platforms like {{W|Twitter}} and {{W|Tumblr}}. LiveJournal has also lost a lot of users since a Russian company bought them out; Russian dissidents used LiveJournal to present their opinions, and the Russian government used to retaliate by creating "denial of service" attacks which make LiveJournal unusable for all its users, sometimes for days. Nowadays (May 2014) LiveJournal is still quite popular among Russian-speaking people, including dissenters, but its administration was forced to show {{w|HTTP 451}} error in some cases (e. g., when a user with a Russian IP is trying to read {{w|Alexei Navalny}} blog) with new laws. Thus when [[Megan]] is upset with his desire to let LiveJournal die out like the Morse Code, Cueball describes it as "a nice place to go for some peace and quiet".<br />
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The title text is Megan's (or [[Randall|Randall's]]) sarcastic remark indicating that Facebook is no less filled with angst-ridden thoughts than LiveJournal was, nor is it free from problems or controversies around other issues such as security or privacy.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Cueball and Megan are lying in a grassy, lonely plain.]<br />
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:Cueball: When the French navy retired morse code in 1997, they broadcast a final message: "Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence."<br />
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:Cueball: I wonder if I can find my Livejournal login. <br />
:Megan: Hey, I ''like'' Livejournal. <br />
:Cueball: It's a nice place to go for some peace and quiet, I suppose.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
[[Randall]] is no stranger to LiveJournal. xkcd started on LiveJournal [http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/] before xkcd.com was created and is even still alive today [http://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/344879.html].<br />
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The Morse code for the final message "this is our final cry on 500 khz before eternal silence" is:<br />
- .... .. ... .. ... --- ..- .-. ..-. .. -. .- .-.. -.-. .-. -.-- --- -. ..... ----- ----- -.- .... --.. -... . ..-. --- .-. . . - . .-. -. .- .-.. ... .. .-.. . -. -.-. .<br />
A period is a very short tone while the hyphen represents a slightly longer one. Between each character there is a small pause. This message was typically sent within less than half a minute.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-53668116.html An obituary for Morse code]<br />
* <span class="plainlinks">[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_kHz_%28maritime_et_a%C3%A9ronautique%29?uselang=en#Nuit_du_31.C2.A0janvier.C2.A01997_au_1er.C2.A0f.C3.A9vrier.C2.A01997.2C Transcript of communications of the french station that night]</span><br />
* [http://www.onlineconversion.com/morse_code.htm Convert text to morse code and vice versa]<br />
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[[Category:Social networking]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1361:_Google_Announcement&diff=754861361: Google Announcement2014-09-08T18:21:28Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Trivia */ add more command</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1361<br />
| date = April 28, 2014<br />
| title = Google Announcement<br />
| image = google_announcement.png<br />
| titletext = The less popular 8.8.4.4 is slated for discontinuation.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
Recently {{w|Vic Gundotra}} left {{w|Google}}. Because he was the head of {{w|Google+}}, this has caused many people, including [http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/24/google-is-walking-dead/ TechCrunch], to theorize that Google+ is going to be shut down, despite the continuing comments from Google that it will remain active and updated. <br />
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Google has a history of closing popular services {{w|List of Google products#Discontinued products and services|listed}}.<br />
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The comic extrapolates this to an announcement that Google would be closing '''all''' its popular services, up to and including its e-mail service, Gmail, and even the core business of the company, its Internet search engine, to wholly concentrate on a relatively obscure part of its product lineup. According to Google, its Public {{w|Name server|DNS servers}} (Domain Name System servers), better known by their IPv4 addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, are supposed to be a faster alternative to using one's ISP's DNS servers (because of caching effects due to a large user base), as well as less susceptible to censorship. When Turkey started blocking access to Twitter and YouTube in March of 2014, Turkish ISPs first did this on the DNS level by manipulating the results from their own name servers. The most popular workaround was using Google's DNS server instead, so much so that its address was written as [http://gawker.com/turkish-graffiti-spreads-the-ip-addresses-of-googles-d-1548946312 graffiti on the side of a building].<br />
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The joke may also be related to the fact that 8.8.8.8 is an IP address heavily used by network administrators to perform connectivity tests (''ping'') because it is easy to remember and fast to type. Google would want to concentrate on this feature to build a business model using that fact.<br />
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The reason behind this decision may be that Google considers a DNS server, a fairly low-level component of the Internet's service stack, to be the optimal place to collect information on its users, an accusation leveled at Google ever since it introduced the service.<br />
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The title text refers to the impression held by some that Google will shut down services that prove less popular than desired at short notice, even though they may in fact have a significant user base. A recent example of that is the closure of the RSS aggregation service, Google Reader, in July 2013. While the same DNS service is provided under both addresses, the more memorable 8.8.8.8 is likely to receive far more requests than 8.8.4.4.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Cueball is standing at a podium marked Google.]<br />
:Cueball: The rumors are true. Google will be shutting down Plus—<br />
:Cueball: Along with Hangouts, Photos, Voice, Docs, Drive, Maps, Gmail, Chrome, Android, and Search—<br />
:Cueball: To focus on our core project:<br />
:Cueball: The 8.8.8.8 DNS Server.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
Google quickly responded with an acknowledgement of XKCD. The TXT record for the DNS name of IP address 8.8.8.8 was set to "http://xkcd.com/1361/", as can be seen via these various commands (for {{w|Microsoft Windows}} usually only <tt>nslookup</tt> will work)<br />
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host -t txt google-public-dns-a.google.com.<br />
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dig +short TXT google-public-dns-a.google.com.<br />
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nslookup -q=txt google-public-dns-a.google.com.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Internet]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1237:_QR_Code&diff=43999Talk:1237: QR Code2013-07-17T16:08:21Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>It might be a pun on '''Quick Response''' Code --[[Special:Contributions/109.91.114.82|109.91.114.82]] 10:25, 12 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
: It's not a pun, it's a widely used abbreviation [[User:Hippyjim|Hippyjim]] ([[User talk:Hippyjim|talk]]) 11:25, 12 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:: I meant that needing to scan it in 12 seconds might be a pun on "Quick Response". --[[Special:Contributions/93.232.203.46|93.232.203.46]] 14:11, 12 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
The only real way would be to screenshot, print, and scan... possible in about 30 seconds. Anyone want to run a time trial?--[[Special:Contributions/69.140.11.243|69.140.11.243]] 11:05, 12 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
: No it's possible. With the right Emacs command and a Delorean [[User:Hippyjim|Hippyjim]] ([[User talk:Hippyjim|talk]]) 11:25, 12 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:What about simply using other phone or camera to make a photo and display it on its display for the camera of this phone? BTW, why are the phones so stupid they can't display two applications at once? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 11:30, 12 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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You can take a screenshot of your screen (at least in Android) and then read the image with your qr-reading-program. Then it'll display the decoded QR-code, and you'll type it in the app. [[Special:Contributions/189.125.162.182|189.125.162.182]] 14:00, 12 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:The title text says that additionally the checksum of the camera is checked. So no trick with screenshots would be possible. However I don't see a problem with second camera which displays the photo (as suggested above). --[[User:Chtz|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz|talk]]) 14:05, 12 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
::Can somebody explain how the checksum works, i.e. what the checksum against, why screenshot won't works? [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 16:08, 17 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I think that most phones and computers are kind of shoddily programmed, like the developers never take enough time to think of conveniences or solve problems. For example, I should be able to scan QRCs that are on my own screen. [[Special:Contributions/24.98.10.180|24.98.10.180]] 17:29, 12 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:That's a great idea! Shouldn't a browser be able to interpret them and just make it clickable, like a link? Seems straightforward. --[[User:DanB|DanB]] ([[User talk:DanB|talk]]) 12:32, 13 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
::It's not that easy, an image is just an image. We would need a tag like <barcode-image>, maybe available at HTML 6.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 13:36, 13 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
::Putting a QR Code on a webpage wouldn't make sense in the first place, unless it is intended to be read by smart phones. But I don't think it would be very hard to implement. Just pass every image on a webpage to a QR decoder (which of course also detects if something is a valid QR code). --[[User:Chtz|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz|talk]]) 14:16, 13 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:I see a potential security flaw if a program can arbitrarily screenshot the system it's running on (in this case to find the QR code, which would be indeed an initially bad design flaw in the installation process). Or course PC programs ''can'' screen-grab the screen that they're running on, I know because I've done this myself (for legitimate reasons) so maybe my objections on the grounds of security are moot. [[Special:Contributions/178.98.50.23|178.98.50.23]] 05:32, 16 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
::I can't see a severe problem with that (nothing more dangerous than using arbitrary programs on a smart phone in the first place). Especially, I can't see any problem at all, with a browser scanning the content, which itself is rendering. --[[User:Chtz|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz|talk]]) 09:38, 16 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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What about using mirrors? That'd be doable. [[Special:Contributions/88.200.105.99|88.200.105.99]] 12:53, 13 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I've actually needed to do this once. I was browsing the web on my phone and it only displayed a QR code to download an app I needed. I wondered what the least number of mirrors required would be to achieve this. Assuming it doesn't read inverse images, it would be necessary to flip it on both axes. [[User:Keavon|Keavon]] ([[User talk:Keavon|talk]]) 05:36, 14 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
: QR codes are invariant upon rotation, but not upon reflection. So yes, you'd need at least two mirrors (or any even number of them). [[Special:Contributions/88.24.184.87|88.24.184.87]] 17:09, 15 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
::And you'd need to make a photo without changing the content of your screen. I think the solution with making a photo with a second device is still the easiest (assuming, you have one at hand) --[[User:Chtz|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz|talk]]) 09:38, 16 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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It's not hard. All you need is to move your phone faster than light for a short distance, and tadaa, you have scanned it. [[Special:Contributions/84.197.94.196|84.197.94.196]] 19:06, 15 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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== Link at Transcript ==<br />
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I think the link should be shown at "Explanation". I can't see it at the original comic, so "Transcript" is the wrong section.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 17:11, 12 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:OK, understood. I just did not try to read that QR code. But the link is still not correct at "Transcript", you have to do some actions to figure out and so it still belongs to "Explanation".--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:13, 12 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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== Real-life use for something like this ==<br />
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Before I saw the title text, I thought the scenario involved scanning one device's display on another device to set up a key exchange between applications on the two devices, sort of like a [http://bu.mp/ Bump]. --[[User:Tepples|Tepples]] ([[User talk:Tepples|talk]]) 00:35, 13 July 2013 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1211:_Birds_and_Dinosaurs&diff=372671211: Birds and Dinosaurs2013-05-13T16:42:02Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ give the more permanent link to May 13th Dinosaur Comics</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1211<br />
| date = May 13, 2013<br />
| title = Birds and Dinosaurs<br />
| image = birds and dinosaurs.png<br />
| titletext = Sure, T. rex is closer in height to Stegosaurus than a sparrow. But that doesn't tell you much; 'Dinosaur Comics' author Ryan North is closer in height to certain dinosaurs than to the average human.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Bird}}s are commonly considered to be a separate {{w|class (biology)|class}} of {{w|tetrapods}}. However, this classification is false according to {{w|phylogenetic taxonomy}}. Taking into account that birds developed around {{w|Late Jurassic|150 million years ago}} out of small {{w|theropod}} dinosaurs, birds are indeed the last representatives of the {{w|Archosauria|dinosaur clade}}. (This premise appeared also in comic [[867]].)<br />
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This relation between birds and dinosaurs is depicted in the comic in a {{w|cladogram}} which shows that ''{{w|Tyrannosaurus rex}}'' is closer related to the common {{w|sparrow}} than to ''{{w|Stegosaurus}}''. Not only do the former share a phylogenetic branch, but ''T. rex'' also lived around 80 million years ''after'' ''Stegosaurus''. (In popular culture, the concurrence of both species is a widespread error.) ''T. rex'' is also much more alike to modern birds than to other dinosaurs in terms of physiognomy.<br />
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The comic draws the conclusion that if birds must in fact be considered modern dinosaurs, the hunting practice of birds of prey (specifically, the {{w|Peregrine Falcon}}) is consequently a dinosaur fight. For an inveterate dinosaur aficionado like [[Randall]], this fact must make the modern world much more attractive.<br />
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The line "This is a good world." could also possibly refer to a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znxFrgql5dc famous scene] from the {{w|Serenity (Firefly episode)|pilot episode}} of the television series ''{{w|Firefly}}'' featuring two plastic dinosaurs in a somewhat philosophic dialogue. Randall is known to be a {{w|Browncoat}}, i.e., a fan of the series.<br />
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The title text is a sidesweep to the webcomic [http://www.qwantz.com Dinosaur Comics] drawn by Ryan North, who stands 6" 6' (198 cm) tall. The title text of the [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2420 May 13th Dinosaur Comics] also refers to Randall and XKCD.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:By any reasonable definition, ''T. rex'' is more closely related to sparrows than to ''Stegosaurus''.<br />
:[Diagram showing that ''Stegosaurus'' came earlier than ''T. rex'', along with it showing that ''T. rex'' came closer in time to sparrows. Evaluation criteria "separation by time", "phylogenetic distance" and "physical similarity" are highlighted in red.]<br />
:Birds aren't ''descended'' from dinosaurs, they ''are'' dinosaurs.<br />
:Which means that the fastest animal alive today is a small carnivorous dinosaur, ''Falco peregrinus''.<br />
:[A picture of two birds is shown.]<br />
:It preys mainly on other dinosaurs, which it strikes and kills in midair with its claws.<br />
:[In red:] This is a good world.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Charts]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1200:_Authorization&diff=36508Talk:1200: Authorization2013-05-06T17:06:32Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>This is the reason that I set sudo to not prompt for a password. I just make sure my computer locks itself aggressively. [[Special:Contributions/130.18.105.246|130.18.105.246]] 06:59, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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The admin account should still be guarded EXACTLY for the ability to install drivers. The driver you don't want to have installed is keylogger stealing your passwords. I mean, you don't have your bank password remembered in browser, do you? Still, auto-logout or auto-lock is important feature. You should also set-up and use separate account for high-risk activities (like opening emails from unknown persons promising naked celebrities ... ok, you actually shouldn't be opening such emails at all, but if you are really curious ...). -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 09:06, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:Even if you can log into your bank account, you could not transfer money without authorizing transactions. [[User:BKA|BKA]] ([[User talk:BKA|talk]]) 11:23, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
::My bank account website logs me out if I'm inactive for 10 minutes. It doesn't even leave the page up, it switches to a login screen. [[Special:Contributions/24.77.229.71|24.77.229.71]] 14:35, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
:I wonder how useful a keylogger would be if you never typed a username or e-mail to go with the password. Every important account I have has that remembered, and I just type the password. It sounds like it would be zero context. [[Special:Contributions/76.106.251.87|76.106.251.87]] 15:09, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
::Except usernames tend to be reasonably easy to figure. E-mails certainly are what with folks tending to broadcast their e-mail addresses to everyone. So passwords, although also often not overly difficult to crack (http://xkcd.com/936/), remain the part not generally known. Not worrying about a keylogger picking up a password, even "out of context" would be a mistake. [[Special:Contributions/67.51.59.66|67.51.59.66]] 17:11, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::Also, modern keyloggers (despite still being called keyloggers) also capture screen and mouse movement. They are perfectly able to record a password entered by clicking on keyboard on screen and many other ideas tried to complicate keylogging. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 22:48, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Actually, for many years popular operating systems such as MS Windows did *not* have separate security for system administration, which made it very popular for the propagation of viruses and other malware. And once it was introduced, it wasn't enforced for many years. Only relatively recently this is happening, and still viruses, trojan horses and botnets thrive, because it is slightly inconvenient for the user to act safe(r). [[Special:Contributions/213.84.74.36|213.84.74.36]] 13:13, 19 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Not agree with Randall on this one. Laptop stealing is very physical, there are way to keep people from physically able to use our active login session, such as make sure the laptop is physically secured when possible, make sure the screen locked out when we are away (we can automate that using bluetooth detection), etc. Root password protect another kind of attack, generally more clandestine one, such as trojan and rootkit installations, which can be more dangerous as we may not be aware it is there. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 17:06, 6 May 2013 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1205:_Is_It_Worth_the_Time%3F&diff=35576Talk:1205: Is It Worth the Time?2013-04-29T16:09:28Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>The title text is just silly.[[Special:Contributions/220.255.1.25|220.255.1.25]] 08:52, 29 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Is it worth all of the time we've spent on 1190, developing wikis, and wget scripts to pull the pictures efficiently, etc.? [[User:Bdemirci|Bdemirci]] ([[User talk:Bdemirci|talk]]) 08:58, 29 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I would just like to ask if there is an interactive version of this comit out there. I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to create...<br />
--[[User:Charlesisbozo|Charlesisbozo]] ([[User talk:Charlesisbozo|talk]]) 09:14, 29 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
: Well, it would be really simple indeed. For now, you can try [http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%285+years%29+*+%285+%2F+week%29+*+%282+minutes%29 Wolfram|Alpha] --[[User:Mormegil|Mormegil]] ([[User talk:Mormegil|talk]]) 10:49, 29 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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The graph ignores the fact that it is much more satisfying to shave off time from task, especially by automating it. Also note that it IS possible to shave off 6 hours from task you do daily and one day from task you do weekly. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 10:39, 29 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
: The table also ignores all monetary costs associated with the work: e.g. buying a new tool --[[Special:Contributions/66.46.212.10|66.46.212.10]] 15:45, 29 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I was thinking the same, but then realised it's NOT practical if you assume a 6 hour working day and 5 day working week. [[Special:Contributions/41.134.254.53|41.134.254.53]] 12:33, 29 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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If Momo taught us 1 thing, than it is that you can not save time ;-). --[[User:DaB.|DaB.]] ([[User talk:DaB.|talk]]) 13:56, 29 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Why is it "not possible" to shave a day off of a task that you perform weekly? [[User:MrBigDog2U|MrBigDog2U]] ([[User talk:MrBigDog2U|talk]]) 14:29, 29 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
: It definitely possible, but Randall feel it's just not worth the time to put it there. :-) [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 16:09, 29 April 2013 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1179:_ISO_8601&diff=292891179: ISO 86012013-02-28T18:13:46Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ add on DD-MM-YY</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1179<br />
| date = February 27, 2013<br />
| title = ISO 8601<br />
| image = iso_8601.png<br />
| titletext = ISO 8601 was published on 06/05/88 and most recently amended on 12/01/04.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Public service announcement}}: Two commonly used date formats are {{w|Date format by country|dd.mm.yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy}} (the symbols separating the values, as well as the year being 2 or 4 digits notwithstanding). These differences are often causes for debate. However, the comic explains that the {{w|International Organization for Standardization}} (ISO) has standardized dates in the yyyy-mm-dd format, in its {{w|ISO 8601}} standard.<br />
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The comic then lists many formats as "discouraged". This list starts with commonly used formats, which include the two above as well as other commonly used ones, such as dd/mm/yy. However the list then starts listing formats ranging from uncommon to absurd, such as writing the date partly in Roman numerals and painting the date in m/d/yy format with white paint onto a hissing black cat.<br />
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The ISO standard was published (to use yet another date format) on 5 June 1988 and amended on 1 December 2004, two dates given in the title text in mm/dd/yy format. Since the day values are less than 13, the format used demonstrates its ambiguity; it could be interpreted as other dates given in dd/mm/yy format (the last in several other formats as well). Anyway, the dates are not written in ISO 8601 format, contradicting the advice in this comic, adding a level of metahumor.<br />
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The other mentioned formats are:<br />
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{| class=wikitable<br />
! Date !! Explanation<br />
|-<br />
| 02/27/2013<br />
| MM/DD/YYYY, used mostly in the US.<br />
|-<br />
| 02/27/13<br />
| MM/DD/YY<br />
|-<br />
| 27/02/2013<br />
| DD/MM/YYYY, used e.g. in South America, Canada ({{w|Date_and_time_notation_in_Canada|officially uses ISO 8601}}) and Europe.<br />
|-<br />
| 27/02/13<br />
| DD/MM/YY<br />
|-<br />
| 20130227<br />
| YYYYMMDD, also allowed in ISO 8601<br />
|-<br />
| 2013.02.27<br />
| YYYY.MM.DD<br />
|-<br />
| 27.02.13<br />
| DD.MM.YY, used e.g. in Germany<br />
|-<br />
| 27-02-13<br />
| DD-MM-YY, used in Denmark, Netherlands, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, etc.<br />
|-<br />
| 27.2.13<br />
| D.M.YY<br />
|-<br />
| 2013. II. 27.<br />
| YYYY. MM. DD., with month as {{w|Roman numerals}}, used in Hungary.<br />
|-<br />
| <sup>27</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub>-13<br />
| <sup>D</sup>⁄<sub>M</sub>-YY<br />
|-<br />
| 2013.158904109<br />
| Year and decimal fraction of year – 58/365, February 27 being the 58th day of the year. This representation marks the end of that day.<br />
|-<br />
| MMXIII-II-XXVII<br />
| Year-month-day in Roman numerals<br />
|-<br />
| MMXIII [and] LVII [over] CCCLXV<br />
| Year and ''57''/365. This representation marks the start of the day, which is 57 days after the year started.<br />
|-<br />
| 1330300800<br />
| {{w|Unix time|UNIX Timestamp}}, but for '''2012'''-02-27.<br />
|-<br />
| ((3+3)×(111+1)-1)×3/3-1/3<sup>3</sup><br />
| Year/month/day with the parts written as arithmetic expressions, using just the digits 1 and 3. (The slashes are not to be interpreted as fraction lines.)<br />
|-<br />
| 27 [''on''] 02 [''on''] 2013<br />
| An obfuscated date format not used ordinarily. This can be considered a compromise between the different formats: since we cannot agree on which position in the date the day, month and year parts shall be, we just write them all in the same place; we don't even need separators, which we cannot agree on either. On the other hand, reading it gets somewhat tricky...<br />
|-<br />
| 10/11011/1101<br />
| Month/day/year in {{w|Binary number|binary}}.<br />
|-<br />
| 02/27/20/13<br />
| A slash is absurdly placed in the middle of "2013".<br />
|-<br />
| 0 [2,5] 1 [3] 2 [1,6,7] 3 [4] 7 [8]<br />
| The large digits are to be placed at the positions listed above and below: 0 is used at positions 2 and 5, 1 is used on position 3, etc.; the result being 20130227<br />
|-<br />
| ''A cat, with the numerals'' 2-27-13 ''painted on it, going'' HISSSS<br />
| In Western cultures, black cats and the number 13 are associated with bad luck. The cat might also just be angry that someone painted an (unstandardized) date on it.<br />
|}<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:Public Service Announcement:<br />
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:Our different ways of writing dates as numbers can lead to online confusion. That's why in 1988 ISO set a global standard numeric date format. This is '''''the''''' correct way to write numeric dates:<br />
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:2013-02-27<br />
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:The following formats are therefore discouraged:<br />
*02/27/2013<br />
*02/27/13<br />
*27/02/2013<br />
*27/02/13<br />
*20130227<br />
*2013.02.27<br />
*27.02.13<br />
*27-02-13<br />
*27.2.13<br />
*2013. II. 27.<br />
*<sup>27</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub>-13<br />
*2013.158904109<br />
*MMXIII-II-XXVII<br />
*MMXIII [and] LVII [over] CCCLXV<br />
*1330300800<br />
*((3+3)×(111+1)-1)×3/3-1/3<sup>3</sup><br />
*27 [''written on top of''] 02 [''written on top of''] 2013<br />
*10/11011/1101<br />
*02/27/20/13<br />
*0 [2,5] 1 [3] 2 [1,6,7] 3 [4] 7 [8]<br />
*''A cat, with the numerals'' 2-27-13 ''painted on it, going'' HISSSS<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Math]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1170:_Bridge&diff=27488Talk:1170: Bridge2013-02-08T17:16:57Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>I am ''definitely'' going to do this to someone!<br />
~tartilc<br />
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Ahhh it's been a while since the last classic. This one is instant.<br />
-Adam<br />
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Note that the Cueball's argument doesn't really defeat the idea behind the phrase. Jumping off the bridge JUST because your friends did is still bad idea. What you should do is analyse situation. In best case, FIND the logical reason why your friends jumped, although it's true that spending too much time analysing can be dangerous. Also, look WHERE are your friends jumping too and if they landed alive. In many catastrophic scenarios, panic can kill more people that the catastrophe. That said, statistically speaking, if all your friends jumped off the bridge, there probably IS reason why they did it and you WILL probably do the same - not because they jumped, but for the same reason they jumped. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 09:01, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
:But cueball didn't go for reasonably check why they jumped before making the decision. From what I understood, his argument, even if not the best idea, is to trust the friends judgement and jump too. Jump first, ask questions later. [[Special:Contributions/189.123.129.34|189.123.129.34]] 18:11, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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In Hong Kong, Moms use "jump off the building" instead of bridge. (Too many skyscrapers, tall apartments right here, only really rich people live in houses). Ok, next time I will argue with her with this when I am going to do something stupid LOL [[Special:Contributions/123.202.19.132|123.202.19.132]] 09:08, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I probably one of the people who will not jump right away, at least think and looking around first. Yes it need some time and may cost me, but that's me. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 21:37, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Cueball's argument assumes that each of his friends made independent decisions to jump off a bridge. However, if his other friends were reasoning in a similar fashion to Cueball, they may have come to the conclusion that the bridge was on fire after only a single person jumped. This herd behaviour is exactly what the adage is to remind one of. --[[Special:Contributions/128.135.70.143|128.135.70.143]] 21:56, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I always was of the opinion that if '''all''' my friends DID jump off a bridge, I would probably jump off too, because I'd be far too depressed at the thought of all my friends being dead. Can you imagine living with that trauma? And who exactly is going to console you through it? All the likely candidates are dead! - [[User:KeithTyler|KeithTyler]] ([[User talk:KeithTyler|talk]]) 21:58, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, did a comic similar to this one in 1999: [http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1999-11-21/ Young Dilbert] --[[Special:Contributions/24.145.230.202|24.145.230.202]] 01:10, 7 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I think the point is that if you choose your friends wisely you can trust their logic. If they ALL jumped, ther must be a reason, unless you hang out with morons.<br />
-Adam<br />
:Or they have been all influenced by some gas or radiation, so cannot reason logically. :-) [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 17:16, 8 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I can't help but notice: We've all heard this, right? So basically, a lot of persons repeat saying that after having heard another say it. Should it make them question their logic? Not really. Saying this adage is kind of a fine example where doing something just because so many others did it, is rather stupid.<br />
-thelvin<br />
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I wonder what Cueball and his friends were going to do? On the face of it, it didn't appear to be anything all that dangerous. His mother, if she was using this argument out of reflex, probably just got her comeuppance for applying it in an inappropriate context. Poor mom. She probably already has too much on her hands, working for a living and raising a very intelligent kid, and now she has the extra chore of checking her metaphors carefully before use. This should push her right to that old favorite, "Because!"[[Special:Contributions/24.79.11.46|24.79.11.46]] 20:42, 7 February 2013 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1170:_Bridge&diff=27351Talk:1170: Bridge2013-02-06T23:46:44Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>I am ''definitely'' going to do this to someone!<br />
~tartilc<br />
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Ahhh it's been a while since the last classic. This one is instant.<br />
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Note that the Cueball's argument doesn't really defeat the idea behind the phrase. Jumping off the bridge JUST because your friends did is still bad idea. What you should do is analyse situation. In best case, FIND the logical reason why your friends jumped, although it's true that spending too much time analysing can be dangerous. Also, look WHERE are your friends jumping too and if they landed alive. In many catastrophic scenarios, panic can kill more people that the catastrophe. That said, statistically speaking, if all your friends jumped off the bridge, there probably IS reason why they did it and you WILL probably do the same - not because they jumped, but for the same reason they jumped. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 09:01, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
:But cueball didn't go for reasonably check why they jumped before making the decision. From what I understood, his argument, even if not the best idea, is to trust the friends judgement and jump too. Jump first, ask questions later. [[Special:Contributions/189.123.129.34|189.123.129.34]] 18:11, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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In Hong Kong, Moms use "jump off the building" instead of bridge. (Too many skyscrapers, tall apartments right here, only really rich people live in houses). Ok, next time I will argue with her with this when I am going to do something stupid LOL [[Special:Contributions/123.202.19.132|123.202.19.132]] 09:08, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I probably one of the people who will not jump right away, at least think and looking around first. Yes it need some time and may cost me, but that's me. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 21:37, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Cueball's argument assumes that each of his friends made independent decisions to jump off a bridge. However, if his other friends were reasoning in a similar fashion to Cueball, they may have come to the conclusion that the bridge was on fire after only a single person jumped. This herd behaviour is exactly what the adage is to remind one of. --[[Special:Contributions/128.135.70.143|128.135.70.143]] 21:56, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I always was of the opinion that if '''all''' my friends DID jump off a bridge, I would probably jump off too, because I'd be far too depressed at the thought of all my friends being dead. Can you imagine living with that trauma? And who exactly is going to console you through it? All the likely candidates are dead! - [[User:KeithTyler|KeithTyler]] ([[User talk:KeithTyler|talk]]) 21:58, 6 February 2013 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1170:_Bridge&diff=27343Talk:1170: Bridge2013-02-06T21:37:19Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>I am ''definitely'' going to do this to someone!<br />
~tartilc<br />
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Ahhh it's been a while since the last classic. This one is instant.<br />
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Note that the Cueball's argument doesn't really defeat the idea behind the phrase. Jumping off the bridge JUST because your friends did is still bad idea. What you should do is analyse situation. In best case, FIND the logical reason why your friends jumped, although it's true that spending too much time analysing can be dangerous. Also, look WHERE are your friends jumping too and if they landed alive. In many catastrophic scenarios, panic can kill more people that the catastrophe. That said, statistically speaking, if all your friends jumped off the bridge, there probably IS reason why they did it and you WILL probably do the same - not because they jumped, but for the same reason they jumped. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 09:01, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
But cueball didn't go for reasonably check why they jumped before making the decision. From what I understood, his argument, even if not the best idea, is to trust the friends judgement and jump too. Jump first, ask questions later. [[Special:Contributions/189.123.129.34|189.123.129.34]] 18:11, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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In Hong Kong, Moms use "jump off the building" instead of bridge. (Too many skyscrapers, tall apartments right here, only really rich people live in houses). Ok, next time I will argue with her with this when I am going to do something stupid LOL [[Special:Contributions/123.202.19.132|123.202.19.132]] 09:08, 6 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
Im doing this<br />
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I probably one of the people who will not jump right away, at least think and looking around first. Yes it need some time and may cost me, but that's me. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 21:37, 6 February 2013 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1168:_tar&diff=26850Talk:1168: tar2013-02-01T19:32:36Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>I thought the title text would be "tar --help"<br />
[[Special:Contributions/123.202.19.132|123.202.19.132]] 06:59, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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The comic is about the difficulty of the tar program options.<br />
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Even if his life depended on it and after years of usage, Bob/Randall could not come up with the right parameters without looking them up. So a situation is shown, where Bob's life depends on coming up with the right parameters:<br />
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* It shows an atomic warhead<br />
* It has a user interface, which requests any valid tar command<br />
* If it is not entered on the first try within 10s, the bomb is not disarmed and potentially explodes on the spot<br />
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Randall has come up with a situation, where the unix guy Bob can be the hero by knowing tar parameters. This is a pipe dream of a geek; nobody cares IRL, if you know tar parameters on the first try.<br />
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It is hilarious, that<br />
* the bomb says in full detail the rules including that you should not cheat and it probably has no means to check whether you cheated. This is no game, but feels like one. In war and love every means is allowed - even cheating; it would also be self-defense for disarming the bomb; Bob and his colleagues are not even considering to cheat.<br />
* the user has root access to the bomb, shown by the bomb as ~#, the tilde is the home directory, the # signifies super-user rights; even if the available programs prevent the bomb from being shutdown or disabled by a nonintended way, normally no root access is given for users of linux devices during normal usage; and disarming the bomb with official rules is normal usage of a bomb; a root prompt should not be necessary, if the bomb software is designed and configured well; possibly the unix prompt is a simulation for entering an answer<br />
* Bob shurely needs more than 10s to come. So the bomb will have announced that questions, which require unix knowledge will follow - or has already asked other Unix questions; perhaps after 10s without entering anything a new question comes up<br />
* this bomb can be disarmed with "common knowledge"<br />
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Small notes:<br />
* The screen looks to be really grayscale (esp. the inverted "TEN") - not just because of the comic; it has at least 3 colors (black, white, tar gray); it could be that the "TEN" is updated dynamically and is thus inverted<br />
* The comic is quite black: The screen and the bomb; Randall seldomly uses solid black areas; the bomb is a gloomy topic so it is black like "tar" (pun)<br />
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Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/178.26.121.97|178.26.121.97]] 07:24, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I think there is a visual double pun in this strip: the bomb disarmed by a tar command is a reference to the [[wikipedia:Tar (computing)#Tarbomb|tarbombs]], but it also looks like the [[wikipedia:File:Tsar Bomba Revised.jpg|Tsar Bomb(a)]]. --[[User:Koveras|Koveras]] ([[User talk:Koveras|talk]]) 08:24, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
: I don’t think it looks like Tsar Bomba. If anything, it is much more similar to [[wikipedia:Fat Man|Fat Man]]. --[[User:Mormegil|Mormegil]] ([[User talk:Mormegil|talk]]) 08:38, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, but "Fat Man" doesn't sound like "tarbomb". --[[User:Koveras|Koveras]] ([[User talk:Koveras|talk]]) 10:48, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I think another joke is in the fact that you don't know which Unix is running on the bomb so you don't actually know which parameter layout is supported. tar --help for example may or may not be valid since -- is a GNU extension.<br />
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tar -bvzx for a tar.bzip2 .... wait... no... argh... I've always just trusted my fingers.. --[[Special:Contributions/59.167.191.93|59.167.191.93]] 10:14, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
: Will '''tar -?''' be valid everywhere?. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 19:32, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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tar -lvvb archive.tar.bz<br />
File not found. Sorry, you're dead.<br />
~#<br />
[[Special:Contributions/74.82.68.68|74.82.68.68]] 12:35, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Googling tar commands would definitely take more than 10 seconds, especially considering that Rob did not take his computer. (A smartphone is an option, but...) <br />
Then again, why would "ten" be written in letters instead of numerals? [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 13:28, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I think the current explantion is missing an important point: the tar commands are not that much difficult. What makes tar complicated is that there are many different implementations. The linux guy knows only gnu tar, but some unices have much different implementations and different commands. "tar --help" is certainly not available on an old hpux, for example. '''That''' make is difficult to type a valid tar command – even more if you don't know the implementation.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/212.222.53.78|212.222.53.78]] 10:26, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
: Will '''tar -?''' be valid everywhere?. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 19:32, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I'm a Windows user, so bear with me. Couldn't he type something like "man tar" to get the proper usage of the "tar" command on this particular system? It's a "man" command, so it shouldn't count as a try towards typing a "tar" command. Of course, maybe the bomb would explode if he entered anything else. [[Special:Contributions/70.31.159.230|70.31.159.230]] 13:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:Yeah, all standard Unix installations should have man installed. But many mini installations don't, so these days Google is the standard backup.[[User:CityZen|CityZen]] ([[User talk:CityZen|talk]]) 14:58, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Randall's joke is spot on, as usual. I've been using UNIX for nearly 30 years. Windows User's solution is elegant. Before Google there was the <code>man</code> command. In all seriousness, productivity on a UNIX box can be greatly enhanced simply by keeping good notes. I keep patterns of all sorts of UNIX commands handy so I don't have to look them up. As Wikipedia implies, <code>tar -tf</code> (I prefer <code>-t<b>v</b>f</code>) should be memorized because one quickly learns that one should ''always'' inspect tarballs before unpacking them. ''– [[User:Tbc|tbc]] ([[User talk:Tbc|talk]]) 14:11, 1 February 2013 (UTC)''<br />
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One of the reasons that tar is so useful is that it can often do exactly what you want when other, more obvious commands cannot. For instance, recursively copying a directory from one place to another (using "cp") can be tricky when symbolic links are involved, and thus people memorize incantations like "tar cf - . | (cd dest; tar xf -)". As well, it's a standard tool that's guaranteed to be found on every Unix installation (unlike zip/unzip).[[User:CityZen|CityZen]] ([[User talk:CityZen|talk]]) 14:58, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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tar --help. Problem solved. '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 15:21, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
: Maybe '''tar -?''' is better?. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 19:32, 1 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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What about "tar xf foo.tar"? I always assume options without dash work everywhere because options they are the original scheme. Of course, foot.tar might be absent, but in my view, the command itself remains valid.<br />
As to the time limit: I imagine a countdown starts when the first key is hit - that leaves little time for "man tar". [[Special:Contributions/46.142.35.251|46.142.35.251]] 16:49, 1 February 2013 (UTC) madd</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1161:_Hand_Sanitizer&diff=256441161: Hand Sanitizer2013-01-17T18:40:31Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1161<br />
| date = January 16, 2013<br />
| title = Hand Sanitizer<br />
| image = hand sanitizer.png<br />
| titletext = Hipster CDC Reports Flu Epidemic Peaked Years Ago<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The number of germs that would be left after using the hand sanitizer is 200 million times 0.01%. 0.01% is equivalent to .0001 decimal, so the simple equation is 200000000 x .0001. That equals 20 thousand germs, which is still a surprisingly large number of germs.<br />
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Note that in some simple / business calculators entering the calculation as "200000000 × 0.01 %" is '''incorrect''' and may produce number such as 2 million. Pressing "=" after may also be incorrect and may produce 400`000`000`000`000. This is because the "%" key in those calculators does not denote that preceding number is a {{w|percentage}}, but instead signify an operation related to percentage, for example some calculator the "%" key will replace the preceding number with that number as {{w|percentage}} multiplied with the number before that ([http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/01/10/7047497.aspx How does the calculator percent key work? - The Old New Thing]).<br />
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Side note - Recently scientists have shown that it only takes 20 virus particles to infect someone [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2257098/Larry-projectile-vomiting-robot-helping-British-team-learn-stop-spread-norovirus.html] (with analyzed virus: not all germs are equally effective).<br />
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"Hipster CDC" is a combination of the acronym for the {{w|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention}}, an organization dedicated to studying infectious diseases and limiting their spread, with the label {{w|Hipster (contemporary subculture)|hipster}}. Hipsters form a cultural group associated with a distaste for popular culture; they stereotypically talk about how bands, authors, etc... were better before they went "mainstream" and proclaim that they liked a certain thing "before it was cool".<br />
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In this case, the period when the flu epidemic was "better" is probably 1918, when a {{w|1918 flu epidemic|world-wide flu epidemic}} killed tens of millions..<br />
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The humor (if a worldwide disaster can be said to be humorous) is in the dual use of the word "epidemic". The current mainstream news media is making a big thing of an up-surge in flu cases this season, sometimes calling it an "epidemic". The comic points out that, in reality, the worldwide flu epidemic is an on-going, multi-year thing, and the current seasonal up-surge is tiny and uninteresting in comparison to previous surges.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:Poster: An invisible sneeze droplet can contain ''200 million'' germs!<br />
:Product label: Our hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of germs!<br />
:Cueball (typing on calculator): 200 000 000 × 0.01% = <br />
:Cueball: Ew.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Biology]]<br />
[[Category:Math]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1161:_Hand_Sanitizer&diff=256431161: Hand Sanitizer2013-01-17T18:38:35Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ forgot to remove old text</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1161<br />
| date = January 16, 2013<br />
| title = Hand Sanitizer<br />
| image = hand sanitizer.png<br />
| titletext = Hipster CDC Reports Flu Epidemic Peaked Years Ago<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The number of germs that would be left after using the hand sanitizer is 200 million times 0.01%. 0.01% is equivalent to .0001 decimal, so the simple equation is 200000000 x .0001. That equals 20 thousand germs, which is still a surprisingly large number of germs.<br />
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Note that in some simple / business calculators entering the calculation as "200000000 × 0.01 %" is *incorrect* and may produce number such as 2 million. Pressing "=" after may also be incorrect and may produce 400`000`000`000`000. This is because the "%" key in those calculators does not denote that preceding number is a {{w|percentage}}, but instead signify an operation related to percentage, for example some calculator the "%" key will replace the preceding number with that number as {{w|percentage}} multiplied with the number before that ([http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/01/10/7047497.aspx How does the calculator percent key work? - The Old New Thing]).<br />
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Side note - Recently scientists have shown that it only takes 20 virus particles to infect someone [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2257098/Larry-projectile-vomiting-robot-helping-British-team-learn-stop-spread-norovirus.html] (with analyzed virus: not all germs are equally effective).<br />
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"Hipster CDC" is a combination of the acronym for the {{w|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention}}, an organization dedicated to studying infectious diseases and limiting their spread, with the label {{w|Hipster (contemporary subculture)|hipster}}. Hipsters form a cultural group associated with a distaste for popular culture; they stereotypically talk about how bands, authors, etc... were better before they went "mainstream" and proclaim that they liked a certain thing "before it was cool".<br />
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In this case, the period when the flu epidemic was "better" is probably 1918, when a {{w|1918 flu epidemic|world-wide flu epidemic}} killed tens of millions..<br />
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The humor (if a worldwide disaster can be said to be humorous) is in the dual use of the word "epidemic". The current mainstream news media is making a big thing of an up-surge in flu cases this season, sometimes calling it an "epidemic". The comic points out that, in reality, the worldwide flu epidemic is an on-going, multi-year thing, and the current seasonal up-surge is tiny and uninteresting in comparison to previous surges.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:Poster: An invisible sneeze droplet can contain ''200 million'' germs!<br />
:Product label: Our hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of germs!<br />
:Cueball (typing on calculator): 200 000 000 × 0.01% = <br />
:Cueball: Ew.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Biology]]<br />
[[Category:Math]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1161:_Hand_Sanitizer&diff=256421161: Hand Sanitizer2013-01-17T18:38:04Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ more explanation on the wrong calculation</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1161<br />
| date = January 16, 2013<br />
| title = Hand Sanitizer<br />
| image = hand sanitizer.png<br />
| titletext = Hipster CDC Reports Flu Epidemic Peaked Years Ago<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The number of germs that would be left after using the hand sanitizer is 200 million times 0.01%. 0.01% is equivalent to .0001 decimal, so the simple equation is 200000000 x .0001. That equals 20 thousand germs, which is still a surprisingly large number of germs.<br />
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Note that in some simple / business calculators entering the calculation as "200000000 × 0.01 %" is *incorrect* and may produce number such as 2 million. Pressing "=" after may also be incorrect and may produce 400`000`000`000`000. This is because the "%" key in those calculators does not denote that preceding number is a {{w|percentage}}, but instead signify an operation related to percentage, for example some calculator the "%" key will replace the preceding number with that number as {{w|percentage}} multiplied with the number before that ([http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/01/10/7047497.aspx How does the calculator percent key work? - The Old New Thing]).<br />
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This incorrect merging of decimals and percentages in a single calculation seems to be a common error among those who rely on calculators rather than mental arithmetic. [my personal observations, so yes, citations needed]... )<br />
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Side note - Recently scientists have shown that it only takes 20 virus particles to infect someone [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2257098/Larry-projectile-vomiting-robot-helping-British-team-learn-stop-spread-norovirus.html] (with analyzed virus: not all germs are equally effective).<br />
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"Hipster CDC" is a combination of the acronym for the {{w|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention}}, an organization dedicated to studying infectious diseases and limiting their spread, with the label {{w|Hipster (contemporary subculture)|hipster}}. Hipsters form a cultural group associated with a distaste for popular culture; they stereotypically talk about how bands, authors, etc... were better before they went "mainstream" and proclaim that they liked a certain thing "before it was cool".<br />
<br />
In this case, the period when the flu epidemic was "better" is probably 1918, when a {{w|1918 flu epidemic|world-wide flu epidemic}} killed tens of millions..<br />
<br />
The humor (if a worldwide disaster can be said to be humorous) is in the dual use of the word "epidemic". The current mainstream news media is making a big thing of an up-surge in flu cases this season, sometimes calling it an "epidemic". The comic points out that, in reality, the worldwide flu epidemic is an on-going, multi-year thing, and the current seasonal up-surge is tiny and uninteresting in comparison to previous surges.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:Poster: An invisible sneeze droplet can contain ''200 million'' germs!<br />
:Product label: Our hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of germs!<br />
:Cueball (typing on calculator): 200 000 000 × 0.01% = <br />
:Cueball: Ew.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Biology]]<br />
[[Category:Math]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1161:_Hand_Sanitizer&diff=25640Talk:1161: Hand Sanitizer2013-01-17T17:38:46Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>Does anyone think the "peak" referred to in the title text could be the 1918 flu pandemic? Or even the bird flu outbreak?[[User:Chexwarrior|Chexwarrior]] ([[User talk:Chexwarrior|talk]]) 10:31, 16 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
:I'm thinking the "hipster" comment is a reference to how hipsters always think stuff was better (or it peaked) in the past so it must be on the downslide.--[[User:Joehammer79|Joehammer79]] ([[User talk:Joehammer79|talk]]) 14:47, 16 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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That 99.99% number on the hand sanitizer is probably made up anyway. Any actual scientific measure of effectivity would need to take into account different resistance of different types of germs. So, question is, is the sanitizer more or less effective? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 10:35, 16 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:I actually had in the back of my mind that the 99.99% figure wasn't a "dead germ count," but the number of strains of germs the sanitizer has the ability to kill. i.e. there are some strains which it doesn't kill. &mdash;[[Special:Contributions/98.122.166.235|98.122.166.235]] 12:59, 16 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:: Actually 99.99% isn't made up, its actually derived from how accurate the lab tests are. Most antibacterials, even plain 15% alcohol, will kill ALL infectious bacteria and viruses but you cannot confirm this because there are errors inherent in the tests such as contamination from the environment or more often that the samples have to grow (in the case of bacteria) or infect (in the case of viruses) to give a measurable result since you cannot tell by normal observation which are dead and which are live. With the tiny numbers that may survive the likelihood of infection or growth is low, resulting in errors with even the strongest chemical agents. --[[Special:Contributions/31.205.24.175|31.205.24.175]] 18:56, 16 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::: 15% alcohol is hardly effective (please state source), most effective is 70%, which means anything lower doesn't kill all bacteria. Alcohol is also only partially effective against viruses. It needs other agents to boost its effectivity. [[Special:Contributions/178.197.254.3|178.197.254.3]] 09:27, 17 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Shouldn't 200 million times .01% actually be equivalent to 200 million times .0001, which equals 20 000 germs? [[Special:Contributions/134.169.169.121|134.169.169.121]] 13:16, 16 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
:: The error depends on the calculator, I think. In my calculator 200000000 ✕ 0.01% = 20000 - [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 17:38, 17 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Yes, it should. I wonder if he will change it when he notices? [[Special:Contributions/24.93.151.187|24.93.151.187]] 13:37, 16 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Yes, 2 000 000 * .01% = 20 000 is correct<br />
:: ... Except that the calculation should be 0.01% of 200`000`000 - [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 17:38, 17 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Quite aside from the arithmetic, right now the US has two epidemics: influenza and norovirus, which is often known by the misnomer of "stomach flu." According to infectious disease experts, while alcohol is likely pretty effective against bacteria and SOME viruses including influenza, alcohol is probably NOT very effective against norovirus. The best way to stop the spread of norovirus: frequent hand washing with soap and water.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/24.91.233.200|24.91.233.200]] 13:47, 16 January 2013 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1160:_Drop_Those_Pounds&diff=255821160: Drop Those Pounds2013-01-16T19:30:28Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ just put the alternative meaning of "dropping 30 pounds"</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1160<br />
| date = January 14, 2013<br />
| title = Drop Those Pounds<br />
| image = drop those pounds.png<br />
| titletext = If the flyers don't work, we'll switch to the LEAST subtle method of informing a town of the existence of a trebuchet club.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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The comic presents a flyer with text typical of a ubiquitous advertisement for a "Weight Loss Program". However, the image at the bottom of the flyer and the title text make it clear that the flyer is actually an advertisement for a trebuchet club. This unexpected meaning is meant to highlight the ambiguity of the flyer's content.<br />
A {{w|trebuchet}} is gravity powered siege engine, which was originally used to attack fortifications. It works by dropping a raised counter weight to rotate a throwing arm, launching a projectile on a ballistic path. <br />
The phrase "We'll help you hit your target by dropping 30 pounds FAST" is where the ambiguity is produced. In the context of a weight loss ad, the "target" would be a rhetorical device referring to the weight which one wishes to achieve. In the context of a trebuchet club, the target is a literal location which one is trying to hit with a projectile. Likewise, a weight loss ad may indicate that a client could quickly lose 30 pounds. However, in this context, the 30 pounds being dropped is either the counter-weight - which is dropped to provide a trebuchet with its power, implying a rather small trebuchet - or the projectile itself being dropped at the target - it will be slower than the counter-weight but definitely still much faster than any weight loss program.<br />
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The only hint that the flyer advertises a trebuchet club is in the drawing at the bottom of the flyer, which appears to show two individuals launching pondering a ballistic path towards a castle tower (though no trebuchet is shown). The subtitle indicates that this flyer "may have been too subtle", while the title text suggests that, if the flyer is indeed too subtle a form of advertisement, they have less subtle options of announcing their club's existence -- such as using their trebuchet to attack the town.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Poster with drawing of Megan and Cueball in bottom left corner, castle in bottom right corner and a curved line between them. On the poster is some large text.]<br />
:Struggling with those 2013 resolutions?<br />
:We'll help you hit hit your target<br />
:By dropping thirty pounds '''fast'''<br />
:[Small print.]<br />
:Web: http:// [Illegible] .com<br />
:Call: [Illegible.]<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category: Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category: Comics featuring Megan]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1160:_Drop_Those_Pounds&diff=25402Talk:1160: Drop Those Pounds2013-01-14T18:20:53Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>"Dropping Thirty Pounds Fast"? Is that a reference to the projectile weight being approx 30lb and "dropping" it on someone's walls? [[User:DreamingDaemon|DD]] ([[User talk:DreamingDaemon|talk]]) 10:03, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
:I was thinking more along the lines of thirty pounds of blood and dismembered flesh. '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 10:46, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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A trebuchet works by dropping a large weight connected to the swing arm, thereby propelling the projectile in a parabola (hopefully) towards the target. Thus, by dropping 30 lbs fast, you may literally hit your target. {{unsigned|62.109.36.140}}<br />
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:Anyhow the explanation is a little off. The "subtlety" referred to is not that people tend to ignore weight loss flyers. It is that the flyer ''looks'' like a flyer for a weight loss programme, while it is actually trying to recruit people for something entirely different. Most people would not get this and sign up thinking that they would lose body weight, while they would be signing up for the trebuchet club. The only hint is the drawing, really. I agree with the above comment that the "dropping 30lbs" probably refers to the projectile. [[Special:Contributions/62.25.36.19|62.25.36.19]] 10:52, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::Actually - I didn't mean that the 30lbs was the projectile but rather the counterweight propelling the projectile. [[Special:Contributions/62.109.36.140|62.109.36.140]] 12:53, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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My vote is that 30lbs stands for the projectile. [[Special:Contributions/70.31.159.230|70.31.159.230]] 15:55, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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30lbs for the projectile is most consistent with the alt-text, which implies that they will be hurling projectiles at the town. A 30lbs counterweight would only be able to fling a projectile an order of magnitude smaller. Also, for medieval trebuchets the "average mass of the projectiles was probably around 50–100 kg" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet#Counterweight_trebuchet Wikipedia article]) --[[User:Forlackofabettername|Forlackofabettername]] ([[User talk:Forlackofabettername|talk]]) 16:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:A trebuchet club would likely be building smaller models than the original medieval ones, so my vote is the 30lbs is referring to the counterweight, not the projectile. In a trebuchet, the counterweight drops fast, whereas the projectile doesn't initially drop at all, but it rather launches upwards and sideways; it'll be some time before it starts dropping, and even then not very quickly as the vertical speed takes some time to switch from up to zero, and then finally down, eventually building up speed to something that might be considered "FAST". But the "FAST" is mostly in the horizontal direction rather than seen as a "drop". In the meantime, that counterweight had already dropped more directly a long time ago. --boB<br />
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::Even the projectiles will take more to drop, it still quite "FAST" compare any weight loss program, so I think it can still refer to the projectile. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 18:17, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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A what-if wonder: considering a {{w|trebuchet}} is a {{w|weapon}}, will it be legal to own and place a {{w|trebuchet}} in your own {{w|backyard}}? [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 18:20, 14 January 2013 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1160:_Drop_Those_Pounds&diff=25401Talk:1160: Drop Those Pounds2013-01-14T18:20:28Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>"Dropping Thirty Pounds Fast"? Is that a reference to the projectile weight being approx 30lb and "dropping" it on someone's walls? [[User:DreamingDaemon|DD]] ([[User talk:DreamingDaemon|talk]]) 10:03, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
:I was thinking more along the lines of thirty pounds of blood and dismembered flesh. '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 10:46, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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A trebuchet works by dropping a large weight connected to the swing arm, thereby propelling the projectile in a parabola (hopefully) towards the target. Thus, by dropping 30 lbs fast, you may literally hit your target. {{unsigned|62.109.36.140}}<br />
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:Anyhow the explanation is a little off. The "subtlety" referred to is not that people tend to ignore weight loss flyers. It is that the flyer ''looks'' like a flyer for a weight loss programme, while it is actually trying to recruit people for something entirely different. Most people would not get this and sign up thinking that they would lose body weight, while they would be signing up for the trebuchet club. The only hint is the drawing, really. I agree with the above comment that the "dropping 30lbs" probably refers to the projectile. [[Special:Contributions/62.25.36.19|62.25.36.19]] 10:52, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::Actually - I didn't mean that the 30lbs was the projectile but rather the counterweight propelling the projectile. [[Special:Contributions/62.109.36.140|62.109.36.140]] 12:53, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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My vote is that 30lbs stands for the projectile. [[Special:Contributions/70.31.159.230|70.31.159.230]] 15:55, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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30lbs for the projectile is most consistent with the alt-text, which implies that they will be hurling projectiles at the town. A 30lbs counterweight would only be able to fling a projectile an order of magnitude smaller. Also, for medieval trebuchets the "average mass of the projectiles was probably around 50–100 kg" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet#Counterweight_trebuchet Wikipedia article]) --[[User:Forlackofabettername|Forlackofabettername]] ([[User talk:Forlackofabettername|talk]]) 16:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:A trebuchet club would likely be building smaller models than the original medieval ones, so my vote is the 30lbs is referring to the counterweight, not the projectile. In a trebuchet, the counterweight drops fast, whereas the projectile doesn't initially drop at all, but it rather launches upwards and sideways; it'll be some time before it starts dropping, and even then not very quickly as the vertical speed takes some time to switch from up to zero, and then finally down, eventually building up speed to something that might be considered "FAST". But the "FAST" is mostly in the horizontal direction rather than seen as a "drop". In the meantime, that counterweight had already dropped more directly a long time ago. --boB<br />
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::Even the projectiles will take more to drop, it still quite "FAST" compare any weight loss program, so I think it can still refer to the projectile. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 18:17, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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A what-if wonder: considering a {{w|trebuchet}} is a {{w|weapon}}, will it be legal to own and place a {{w|trebuchet}} in your own {{w|backyard}}?</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1160:_Drop_Those_Pounds&diff=25400Talk:1160: Drop Those Pounds2013-01-14T18:17:34Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>"Dropping Thirty Pounds Fast"? Is that a reference to the projectile weight being approx 30lb and "dropping" it on someone's walls? [[User:DreamingDaemon|DD]] ([[User talk:DreamingDaemon|talk]]) 10:03, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
:I was thinking more along the lines of thirty pounds of blood and dismembered flesh. '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 10:46, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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A trebuchet works by dropping a large weight connected to the swing arm, thereby propelling the projectile in a parabola (hopefully) towards the target. Thus, by dropping 30 lbs fast, you may literally hit your target. {{unsigned|62.109.36.140}}<br />
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:Anyhow the explanation is a little off. The "subtlety" referred to is not that people tend to ignore weight loss flyers. It is that the flyer ''looks'' like a flyer for a weight loss programme, while it is actually trying to recruit people for something entirely different. Most people would not get this and sign up thinking that they would lose body weight, while they would be signing up for the trebuchet club. The only hint is the drawing, really. I agree with the above comment that the "dropping 30lbs" probably refers to the projectile. [[Special:Contributions/62.25.36.19|62.25.36.19]] 10:52, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::Actually - I didn't mean that the 30lbs was the projectile but rather the counterweight propelling the projectile. [[Special:Contributions/62.109.36.140|62.109.36.140]] 12:53, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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My vote is that 30lbs stands for the projectile. [[Special:Contributions/70.31.159.230|70.31.159.230]] 15:55, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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30lbs for the projectile is most consistent with the alt-text, which implies that they will be hurling projectiles at the town. A 30lbs counterweight would only be able to fling a projectile an order of magnitude smaller. Also, for medieval trebuchets the "average mass of the projectiles was probably around 50–100 kg" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet#Counterweight_trebuchet Wikipedia article]) --[[User:Forlackofabettername|Forlackofabettername]] ([[User talk:Forlackofabettername|talk]]) 16:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:A trebuchet club would likely be building smaller models than the original medieval ones, so my vote is the 30lbs is referring to the counterweight, not the projectile. In a trebuchet, the counterweight drops fast, whereas the projectile doesn't initially drop at all, but it rather launches upwards and sideways; it'll be some time before it starts dropping, and even then not very quickly as the vertical speed takes some time to switch from up to zero, and then finally down, eventually building up speed to something that might be considered "FAST". But the "FAST" is mostly in the horizontal direction rather than seen as a "drop". In the meantime, that counterweight had already dropped more directly a long time ago. --boB<br />
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::Even the projectiles will take more to drop, it still quite "FAST" compare any weight loss program, so I think it can still refer to the projectile. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 18:17, 14 January 2013 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1141:_Two_Years&diff=22255Talk:1141: Two Years2012-12-07T16:48:38Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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<div>There are no words to convey how awesome you guys are. Thank you. <br />
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Also, great Portal reference. <br />
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[[Special:Contributions/81.32.87.159|81.32.87.159]] 07:30, 30 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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Like. [[User:Castriff|Jimmy C]] ([[User talk:Castriff|talk]]) 12:29, 30 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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Flip cancer. Lost my mother-in-law to it and now my dad is undergoing chemo for stage IV lung cancer.<br />
:Seconded. This strip hits close to home, even years after the fact. And given that of my parents and grandparents only one grandmother was not yet diagnosed with any type of cancer, both frequentist and Bayesian statisticians probably agree I should be cautious myself. [[Special:Contributions/46.142.57.253|46.142.57.253]] 20:01, 30 November 2012 (UTC) madd<br />
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Did anyone else think the second to last panel was a couple who were sitting close to ground zero of a nuclear bomb? It took several glances to finally see a tree instead of a mushroom cloud. [[User:Sayno2quat|Sayno2quat]] ([[User talk:Sayno2quat|talk]]) 15:35, 30 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:When I first saw that panel from my peripheral vision, I also thought it was a mushroom cloud.[[User:CityZen|CityZen]] ([[User talk:CityZen|talk]]) 17:46, 30 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:Now that you mention it - on my monitor, before scrolling, I only swa the upper half of what looked indeed like a mushroom cloud. [[Special:Contributions/46.142.57.253|46.142.57.253]] 19:45, 30 November 2012 (UTC) madd<br />
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: Agreed; the mushroom cloud was my first impression, too. And I hazard the guess that it was intentional: it's an apt metaphor of how your world seems to explode... -- [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 14:02, 1 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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The language of referring to Randall's girlfriend as "wife" before they were married is awkward.[[User:CityZen|CityZen]] ([[User talk:CityZen|talk]]) 17:47, 30 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:Ok, "partner" is slightly less awkward, but I think using "Cueball/Megan" instead of "Randall/Randall's partner" would be most consistent.[[User:CityZen|CityZen]] ([[User talk:CityZen|talk]]) 21:17, 30 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:: +1 on '''s/Randall/Cueball/g''' (and '''s/(girlfriend|partner|wife)/Megan/gi''') with an explanation that the comic very likely depicts real-world events in Randall's and (real-world) Megan's life. Though it might be tributary to make the inferential leap, I think would be entirely "unscientific" to do so (which is so ''un''Randall...) It also reinforces the notion that this happens to many, many more couples: Randall and Megan are not unique in what they are experiencing, though Randall does an excellent job of illustrating just what they're going through. (And yes, I could just go and change it myself, but wanted to discuss beforehand.) -- [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 14:02, 1 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:::Wikis lack democracy. Somebody puts their foot down, and that's that. In any case, I think if someone is going to insist that these characters can only represent Randall and his wife Megan, it's odd and slightly disrespectful to never use her proper name.[[User:CityZen|CityZen]] ([[User talk:CityZen|talk]]) 01:29, 2 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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::::Crying out about social injustice is the adult version of screaming "Ouch!" when a parent grabs a child's arm to get their attention. Democracy is not do-what-you-want-to. Democracy is having a discussion and then acting upon the results of that discussion. There have been [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Randall_in_Comics|many]] [[Talk:1117:_My_Sky|discussions]] about having Randall in comics. The result was that whenever Randall decides to place himself in a comic, that we should honor that. So, instead of using a generic character he put himself and his wife into the comic. So, we honor that. We do not know the name of his wife, Randall is a very private person, we respect his privacy and only go by the information he gives out, and we don't make wild speculations, this is why we don't refer to her by (any) name; it's the most respectful thing we can do.<br />
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::::To prevent vigilante edit warring I've locked the page. Now, if you think that the site should not recognize when Randall specifically puts himself in comics, then there is a reason to bring this discussion back to the table. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 05:45, 2 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:::::So why is this comic different from [[881]], [[931]], [[933]], and [[996]]? There was consistency until [[1141]]. Consistency is what's wanted in a Wiki.[[User:CityZen|CityZen]] ([[User talk:CityZen|talk]]) 05:39, 3 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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::::::I believe those other comic is rather general, where this particular one has enough set of facts that specific to Randall's case. That said, I agree with you that consistency is good, having the character called Cueball and Megan and explicitly said that those represent Randall and his wife probably better. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 16:48, 7 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:::::As [[User:CityZen|CityZen]] said above, consistency is good. It is not that we don't want to recognize Randall in the comic, but we probably want to recognize it in the way where we said that in this comic Cueball and Megan represent Randall and his wife. I imagine it is possible that a reader see other comic and start questioning why the characters were called Cueball and Megan in the other comic but called Randall and his wife in this comic. I believe it will be easier to simply consistently label the character Cueball and Megan, then explicitly and clearly said and explain that in this particular comic, Cueball and Megan represent Randall and his wife. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 16:48, 7 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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Panel 3 is possible reference/inspiration for comic [[1024: Error Code]]--[[User:Shine|Shine]] ([[User talk:Shine|talk]]) 18:56, 30 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:Given what we know from Randall's past two years, I would rather infer that comic 1024 was inspired by one of these activities as seen in panels 3 and 8. [[Special:Contributions/46.142.57.253|46.142.57.253]] 19:43, 30 November 2012 (UTC) madd<br />
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::I was leaning towards the trip in panel 3 inspiring comic 1024 rather than referencing it as well. [[User:Shine|Shine]] ([[User talk:Shine|talk]]) 20:50, 30 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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Sooo... Because the clipboard-holding character in the first panel is a woman, we assume she's a nurse instead of a doctor?<br />
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:Seriously the clipboard-holding character is much more likely to be a doctor than a nurse if they are communicating actual results of medical tests.--[[Special:Contributions/71.251.30.68|71.251.30.68]] 03:58, 6 December 2012 (UTC)Anonymous<br />
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Hey I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask questions, but I don't really get why the waiter says eww at the end? Thanks in advance! Love this site! {{unsigned|169.229.101.43|12:29, 6 December 2012 (UTC)}}<br />
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The waiter says "eww" at the end because, instead of celebrating a wedding anniversary (or similar) which is what he is expecting, the couple are celebrating a "biopsy-versary". It's the contrast between the mental image of what happens in a biopsy with the emotions of what is normally expected when celebrating an anniversary (eg wedding anniversary as opposed to cutting-a-hole-in-you anniversary).[[Special:Contributions/203.1.252.5|203.1.252.5]] 03:38, 7 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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It's the equivalent of "yuck" and similar expressions of moderate gross-out. [[Special:Contributions/109.154.103.101|109.154.103.101]] 09:34, 7 December 2012 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1140:_Calendar_of_Meaningful_Dates&diff=203071140: Calendar of Meaningful Dates2012-11-28T18:22:11Z<p>Arifsaha: /* Explanation */ add Valentine's Day</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1140<br />
| date = November 28, 2011<br />
| title = Calendar of Meaningful Dates<br />
| image = calendar of meaningful dates.png<br />
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| titletext = In months other than September, the 11th is mentioned substantially less often than any other date. It's been that way since long before 9/11 and I have no idea why.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The calendar used in the comic is the standard {{w|Gregorian calendar}} used by most of western civilization. The comic looks at the frequencies of certain dates appearing in English writings indexed in the {{w|Google Ngram Viewer}}.<br />
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Some dates are more (or less) frequently mentioned because they have a special significance. For example:<br />
* January 1 is {{w|New Year's Day|New Year's Day}}<br />
* February 14 is {{w|Valentine's Day}}<br />
* February 29 only exists during {{w|Leap year|leap years}}<br />
* April 1 is {{w|April Fools' Day|April Fools' Day}}<br />
* April 15 is {{w|Tax Day|US Individual Income Tax return filing day}}<br />
* May 1 is {{w|International Workers' Day|International Workers' Day}}, or {{w|May Day|May Day}}<br />
* July 4 is {{w|Independence Day (United States)|US Independence Day}}<br />
* September 11 is the date of the {{w|September 11 attacks|2001 terrorist attacks}}<br />
* December 25 is {{w|Christmas|Christmas}}<br />
* December 31 is {{w|New Year's Eve|New Year's Eve}}<br />
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In addition, the first of each month is generally more mentioned than others, perhaps because such dates are markers of a new month and may be used as landmark dates or deadlines. Similarly, the final day of each month is commonly a deadline day. Other dates, such as the 11th of each month (as noted in the title text) or June 4, for example, have correlations which don't appear to be for any immediately obvious reason.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:'''Calendar of Meaningful Dates'''<br />
:Each date's size represents how often it is referred to by name (e.g. "October 17th") in English-language books since 2000<br />
:(Source: Google ngrams corpus)<br />
:[A regular Gregorian calendar laid out in a grid, with some numbers larger than others.]<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Charts]]</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Arifsaha&diff=18853User talk:Arifsaha2012-11-20T20:30:37Z<p>Arifsaha: /* If you wouldn't mind passing a Turing Test */</p>
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<div>==If you wouldn't mind passing a Turing Test==<br />
Hi. Welcome to explain xkcd. I noticed that creating your user page was your first contribution to the wiki, and that it included links to external websites. Usually I would take this to be outright spam and delete the page and block the user. But your page doesn't quite conform to the usual spam pattern as it doesn't seem to link to a random website, but appears to be related to something you might actually do.<br />
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Regardless, I've marked your page as spam, and if you do not pass this Turing test in 24 hours (2012-11-21 18:00 UTC) (by either responding here in a meaningful way, or assisting in bettering the content of the wiki) I will be deleting your user page and placing a 1 week ban on this account. Further spam-like activity will be met with more strict bans following a 3 strikes policy (the 1 week ban will count as the first strike).<br />
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I do hope you are a human, and intend to stick around and help in bettering the explain xkcd wiki. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 18:55, 20 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:I thought it is polite to first introduce oneself before saying anything else? And since introducing myself is what [http://www.arifsaha.com/ my web site] for, it really make sense simply to point to it than copy all the content here, right? :-)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1098:_Star_Ratings&diff=18852Talk:1098: Star Ratings2012-11-20T20:25:22Z<p>Arifsaha: </p>
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*An alternate explanation is that internet users only vote in 1s and 5s, and that the cutoff represents the point where there are too many 1s.<br />
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*The people most likely to vote are those with strong opinions, which would often be polerized to one or five stars. These people would be the most likely to vote because their connection to the product would make them more willing to spend the time to share their experiance.<br />
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*In my opinion, this comic is about overrating. The comic says anything between full fout stars is crap. One possible explanation could be that people dislike to admit that their decision for a particular product was a bad one, so they grant three stars. Or look at certain brands, where every defect is by definition unimportant so they do not impact the review too harshly. [[Special:Contributions/46.142.51.138|46.142.51.138]] 15:05, 22 August 2012 (UTC)madd<br />
**It was pointed out to me (by a district manager in the organization concerned) that on those surveys you are asked to take by retail outlets, anything less than a 5 is considered a zero by Corporate. They're apparently not interested in honest evaluations; either it was SUPEREXCELLENTGREAT!! or it's worthless. [[User:Shalom S.|Shalom S.]] ([[User talk:Shalom S.|talk]]) 19:24, 23 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
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*It seems likely that any product with a 1-start rating only has one (or a small number of) reviews as well. Usually a product has ''some'' redeeming value that someone will find useful.<br />
**Usually the developer or at least a friend will provide a positive rating and review, though the issue of self rating isn't specifically addressed by this comic. Still, if 3 users give it a 1-star review, but the developer has access to at least 2 accounts that can give a 5-star rating, you still result in 13/25 rating, or two-and-a-half stars, which is why that star rating would be "crap".--[[User:DanB|DanB]] ([[User talk:DanB|talk]]) 16:31, 22 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
*** Agreed. If there's only one review, it most likely comes from the supplier / author / producer, and in that case it's going to be a five star rating. From that perspective, the only way to get a bad _average_ review is if there are many bad reviews. As an example, consider a product with five reviews: 5, 2, 2, 1, 3. The average is 2.6, and depending on the implementation this might be shown as "two and half stars" or "three stars". If you take out the 5, you get an average of 2. Consider the case of two reviews, 5 and 1. The 5 is from the author and the 1 is from a real user. Average is 3. Considering the other cases (5 and 2, 5 and 3, 5 and 4) the averges are 3.5, 4, 4.5. As you can see, anything below 3.5 is crap (the 1 and 2 from real users) and 4 and 4.5 are indeed ok (3 and 4 from the real user). As the number of "real" reviews increases, the average will tend towards the actual average perception from users (law of large numbers), and there is ''no way'' to get a 5 on average because of the fact that when dealing with subjective evaluation, ''someone'' is going to think the product is crap, therefore a five star rating is the product of a single review from the author. [[User:Mem|mem]] ([[User talk:Mem|talk]]) 20:56, 22 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
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*I think there might be a little too much analysis for this, given the title text. When shopping online, especially for random items like computer parts, media, and whatnot, people tend to peruse through items fairly quickly and/or fairly critically. A 5 star rating seems a little too perfect for the real world, hence the notion that there's only one review; a cynic might say that its from the author himself or some astroturfer (and they're probably right). <br style="margin-bottom:6pt;" />The rest of the rating scale, however, is an observation of buyer behavior. Getting ''only'' four out of five stars is considered the lowest a potential buyer will risk before buying/downloading/ordering whatever it is. Everything else is very unceremoniously considered "crap," with the reasoning that there's some sort of defect or angry reviewer. Any further inquiry isn't necessary since there's a lot of other alternative products or manufacturers on the market. Hence, "crap, move on to the next item" mentality." <br style="margin-bottom:6pt;" />The title text alludes to this with its strange gravestones. I take it as symbolizing all the products and sellers and manufacturers and establishments that got below that 4-star threshold, doomed to death by obscurity as buyers simply skip over the item in question, having called quickly decided it was "crap." Whether they actually are that bad is beyond that line of thinking. Whether it might be someone just hating on it and everyone else being scared off is similarly beyond it. As mentioned above, Corporate considers anything that isn't great to be worthless; it's because online consumers tend to think the exact same thing. <br style="margin-bottom:6pt;" />And I guess to top it off, the mention about going to Yelp to give it a one-star review due to his unease and then feeling compulsed not to would basically be some sort supernatural power from the cemetery making sure that 1.) the cemetery's rating doesn't go down, and 2.) the author doesn't make that whole rating cemetery thing even more meta. <br style="margin-bottom:6pt;" /> [[Special:Contributions/68.123.154.215|68.123.154.215]] 05:41, 27 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
** Wow do I wish I could have used paragraphs there. [[Special:Contributions/68.123.154.215|68.123.154.215]] 05:41, 27 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
*** You need to use &lt;br /&gt;. I tried to put some above. Hope that is what you meant. Generally agree with what you said, though. [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 20:25, 20 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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*The alt text sounds vaguely like a chain letter or urban legend. Does anyone recognize it as referring to any one in particular? --[[User:Aw|Aw]] ([[User talk:Aw|talk]]) 23:57, 27 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
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*I think this comic illustrates a more general rating bias. Consider hotel star ratings - almost every one boasts four or five. Sometimes you can see three. I was recently shocked to see a hotel displaying two stars next to its name! (No, I haven't stayed there, I was just driving by.) One-star hotel, anyone? -- [[Special:Contributions/89.174.214.74|89.174.214.74]] 14:50, 20 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
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test of the 4 tilde demanded here... [[Special:Contributions/84.154.135.194|84.154.135.194]] 22:10, 29 August 2012 (UTC)</div>Arifsahahttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Arifsaha&diff=18838User:Arifsaha2012-11-20T17:46:59Z<p>Arifsaha: create personal page</p>
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= [http://resumeo.arifsaha.com/ S P Arif Sahari Wibowo's Online Resume] =</div>Arifsaha