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The  off the shelf  components conimpsirg the IBM XT, Microsofts dumb luck, and a government and its society where just about everything is fueled by greedy commerce is why we continue to experience crappy IT systems. Yes, they are all crappy. It's 2010 and we still have the same machine we had in 1981. A CPU, a couple of drives, an SVGA monitor, a communications port, some RAM, and a mouse and keyboard. Aren't we supposed to be living George Jetson style by now? No, not while there is a tangible loot to be taken by the powers that be. Ever since the PC monopoly phenomena thingy occured there have been no real groundbreaking advances in U.S. technology. Just prior to 1981 we were being flooded with new human toys everyday: lasers, digital media, nuclear power, microwave ovens, plastics, organ transplants, and the list goes on. Since 1981 there has basically been .nothing. Except for some rewritten monopoly laws and a government who burned their own economic flag that they had just waved so proudly in their last two wars. Progress has been sacrificed in the name of cash. An entire species has become like crack addicts dependent on a little piece of shit box that is little more than a typewriter with schitzophrenia. Let's hope our forced marriage to the ugly bride does not last forever, or forever may come sooner than we think.Piss on you too.
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| number    = 1031
 
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| date      = March 19, 2012
 
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| title    = s/keyboard/leopard/
 
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| image    = s_keyboard_leopard.png
 
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| titletext = Problem Exists Between Leopard And Chair
 
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Clicking on the image took you to this [http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Leopard link]
 
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==Explanation==
 
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In this comic, Randall's browser looks like Google Chrome and he has installed at least four extensions on it. Extensions are small programs that install into your internet browser and change the webpages as you view them. Some make pages easier to read, some remove ads and so on and so forth. For the joke in this one, an extension accidentally replaces the word "keyboard" with "leopard" in a regex or {{w|regular expression}}. In computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means to "match" (specify and recognize) strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. The command to (s)ubstitute/replace a string is "s", e.g. "s/old/new/" replaces any occurrence of "old" with "new". Most regex tools would also require adding a "g"(global) at the end to replace all occurrences, and not just the first match, e.g. "s/old/new/g". Abbreviations for "regular expression" include "regex" and "regexp". The concept of regular expressions was first popularized by utilities provided by {{w|Unix}} distributions such as "{{w|sed}}" or "{{w|awk}}".
 
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The title text is a reference to the common IT phrase "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair" or {{w|PEBKAC}}, which means that the problem caused is caused by the user, not by any failure of the computer.
 
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==Transcript==
 
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:[Two browser windows:
 
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:The first is a wikipedia article on computer leopards. Visible text:
 
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:"[...]which range from pocket sized leopards to large desktop leopards, the leopard remains the most common user input device. In addition to text entry, specialized leopards are used for computer gaming. While many computer interfaces rely on mice or touchscreens, UNIX-style command-line interfaces require users to interact with a leopard." There is a picture of the venerable, highly durable IBM Model M Leopard.
 
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:The second is a messageboard discussing leopard issues. Listed topics include:
 
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:"Weird, my leopard just switched to Chinese"
 
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:"I work with one leopard on my desk and another in the leopard tray"
 
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:"Ever cleaned a leopard? They're ''filthy''"
 
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:"The iPhone virtual leopard is the fastest IMO."
 
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:"I rarely email from my phone - I'm so slow when I'm not on a leopard"
 
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:"My leopard died when I spilled tea on it :("]
 
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:The Internet got 100 times better when, thanks to an extension with a typo'd regex, my browser started replacing the word "keyboard" with "leopard".
 
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==Trivia==
 
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* When first posted, the title was typo'd to "s/keyboard/leopard" which would have failed had it actually been typed as a substitution regex.
 
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{{comic discussion}}
 
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[[Category:Wikipedia]]
 

Revision as of 05:20, 25 November 2012

The off the shelf components conimpsirg the IBM XT, Microsofts dumb luck, and a government and its society where just about everything is fueled by greedy commerce is why we continue to experience crappy IT systems. Yes, they are all crappy. It's 2010 and we still have the same machine we had in 1981. A CPU, a couple of drives, an SVGA monitor, a communications port, some RAM, and a mouse and keyboard. Aren't we supposed to be living George Jetson style by now? No, not while there is a tangible loot to be taken by the powers that be. Ever since the PC monopoly phenomena thingy occured there have been no real groundbreaking advances in U.S. technology. Just prior to 1981 we were being flooded with new human toys everyday: lasers, digital media, nuclear power, microwave ovens, plastics, organ transplants, and the list goes on. Since 1981 there has basically been .nothing. Except for some rewritten monopoly laws and a government who burned their own economic flag that they had just waved so proudly in their last two wars. Progress has been sacrificed in the name of cash. An entire species has become like crack addicts dependent on a little piece of shit box that is little more than a typewriter with schitzophrenia. Let's hope our forced marriage to the ugly bride does not last forever, or forever may come sooner than we think.Piss on you too.

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