1193: Externalities

2013-04-02T01:34:12Z

152.3.43.204:

{{comic
| number = 1193
| date = April 1, 2013
| title = Externalities
| image = externalities.png
| titletext = Mouse over words and things to see where they come from.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic isn't a static image - even the title text changes depending on which part of the image you're hovering over. The blank regions in the above image are dynamically generated from various sources.

*The university that is being recruited changes depending on which university is winning the hash finding competition in the fifth panel.
*The company doing the recruiting is the first NASDAQ-100 company mentioned on a varying Wikipedia page (so far: Technology, Research, Sith, Jean Luc Picard, Aer Lingus, Human sexual activity, Auction, Sinking of the Titanic, Guards with the most complicated knives, Bizarro, Map, 24-hour analog dial, Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Centrifugal Force, McDuck, Maryland Route 147). It has also shown <nowiki>[[]]</nowiki> as the source.
**It has started using hints instead of titles, with another article linked somewhere else in the first panel. This article sometimes matches the hint.
*The text in the second panel may vary: See [[1193: Externalities#Second Panel|this section]].
*The text in the third panel may vary: See [[1193: Externalities#Third Panel|this section]].
*The text in the fourth panel may vary: See [[1193: Externalities#Fourth Panel|this section]].
*The text in the fifth panel changes, depending on which university is currently in third place in a hash finding competition. Clicking on the panel takes you to [http://almamater.xkcd.com/ a webpage] where people can enter their school's domain name and hash data, and ranks schools on how close their students can come to matching a Skein 1024 1024 hash value.
*The text in the top half of the sixth panel may vary. See [[1193: Externalities#Sixth Panel|this section]]. The second half of the panel is always the same. 
*The last panel varies with the amount donated to the Wikimedia Foundation via [https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:FundraiserLandingPage&country=HK&uselang=en&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=fr-redir&utm_campaign=xkcd_april1 this link]. For past images, see [[1193: Externalities#Seventh Panel|this section]].

===First Panel===
{{incomplete}}
Megan's reply seems to correspond to the company.
{| class="wikitable sortable plainlinks table-padding"
|-
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:Hey, [university] students!
:Have you applied to Google yet?
:Megan: The recruiter hasn't emailed me back in over three minutes.
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Have you applied to Google yet?
:Megan: The recruiter hasn't emailed me back in over an hour!
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Have you thought of a career at [company]?
:Megan: I'm not that good at math.
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Have you thought of a career at [company]?
:Megan: What do they even do?
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Have you thought of a career at [company]?
:Megan: I don't like monopolies.
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Have you thought of a career at [company]?
:Megan: Only in my darkest moments.
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Be part of the Apple experience!
:Megan: I'm not really a fan of turtlenecks.
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Come work at Microsoft!
:Megan: I only came to this tech talk for the xbox giveaway.
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Y U No Work Yahoo?
:Megan: I like working from home!
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Become a partner at Starbucks!
:Megan: But green's not my colour.
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Come work in the Amazon!
:Megan: I don't have to actually move to South America, do I?
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Have you thought of a career at [company]?
:Megan: Not after that presentation.
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Thought about working for Intel?
:Megan: I'm not that great at division.
|-
|
:Hey, [university] students!
:Dude, you should work at Dell!
:Megan: That catchphrase is so old.
|-
|
:Ahoy, carnegie melonites!
:Have you thought of a career at [company]?
:Megan: Not after that presentation.
|}

===Second Panel===
The text in the second panel is based on the company in the first panel:
{| class="wikitable sortable plainlinks table-padding"
|-
|
:When the Singularity happens, it will happen here.
:Ponytail: [Company] has outgrown us.
:Men: It is time.
|-
|
:Think of ways to make things smaller and smaller!
:Ponytail: I'm worried mine is too big.
:Men: Yeahhh
|-
|
:Think of ways to make things smaller and smaller!
:Ponytail: But will it blend?
:Men: Yeahhh
|-
|
:You'll be part of a dynamic research team envisioning the future.
:Ponytail: It probably looks cool.
:Men: Yeahhh
|-
|
:You'll be creating the future of commerce platforms!
:Ponytail: More recommendations.
:Men: Yep.
|-
|
:You'll be an insignificant cog in our giant machine
:Ponytail: We should improve Notepad
:Men: Nah
|-
|
:We can't tell you what you'll be working on.
:Ponytail: [Confidential]
:Men: [Redacted]
|-
|
:You'll be an insignificant cog in our giant machine
:Ponytail: Needs more Bob.
:Men: Nah
|-
|
:You'll help set the future of the company
:Ponytail: Wait. You hired a college grad as the CFO?
:Men: Yeahhh
|-
|
:At Qualcomm, we know you're born mobile.
:Ponytail: Born mobile!
:Men: Texting!
|-
|
:Short or tall, we've got a grande job for you!
:Ponytail: How many job openings are there?
:Men: Ele-venti or so.
|-
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:You'll help direct the future of nutrition
:Ponytail: Microwaveable toast
:Men: Delicious
|}

===Third Panel===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainlinks table-padding"
|-
|We're a convenient four hour drive from New York City (15,000 hours by roomba)
|-
|Only a short commuter flight away!
|-
|Travel to us by roomba, we're *that* close!
|-
|We're so close you can get to us by roomba.
|-
|Free roomba rides every morning while you have coffee.
|-
|Your roomba comes in black & slate, or white & silver
|-
|Just a short roomba ride up the coast, try not to fall off.
|-
|We know what everyday life is like for your generation:
|}

===Fourth Panel===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainlinks table-padding"
|-
|Our recruiting team is on the lookup for promising young [university] graduates.
|-
|We hired a new recruiting startup to help us hire [university] students.
|-
|We borrowed the botanical gardens' net to catch promising recruits.
|-
|We prefer to recruit from [university] students, of course.
|-
|Our recruiters are on the hunt for unaware [university] graduates.
|}

===Fifth Panel===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainlinks table-padding"
|-
| Name
| Email
| Education
|-
|Oliver Smoot
|pgp encrypted
|have you ever really looked at the fourier
|-
|Wheeeee
|ford.com
|stealing lunches from startups
|-
|leeroy jenkins
|me@car
|I can cut up melons
|-
|pittsburgh
|me@car
|I can cut up melons
|-
|SEGMENTATION FAULT
|save trees
|Contra dancing.
|-
|I'm applying
|cam.gov
|on going problems with birds
|-
|certainly
|elephant
|An excellent year in the Sahara
|-
|Stanford
|ford.com
|Stealing lunches from startups
|-
|Yes Please
|@twitter
|Are you Stanford?
|-
|Applying
|For a job
|I would like to work at you
|-
|Me olaf
|You Helga
|Hunting wooly mammoths
|-
|Oh!
|IO
|O HAI O
|-
|FOLLOWBACK
|TOTALLY.EDU.US
|CONVENIENT US DOMAIN REDIRECTS
|-
|Mancher
|Outlook
|Made a collage out of macaroni
|-
|Yes Please
|ford.com
|Are you Stanford?
|}

The text at the top occasionally changes format, too.

* Possibly Stanford grads, if their form-filling startup works out.

===Sixth Panel===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainlinks table-padding"
|-
|At [company], you'll work at a scale you won't find anywhere else
|-
|Explore the depths of expensive and undocumented tools!
|-
|At Apple, we believe in pushing the boundary of perfection.
|-
|At Microsoft, you just need to relax and embrace the machine 
|-
|Yahoo management aren't just suits. We code too!
|-
|At QUALCOMM Incorporated, you'll have the opportinity to work on cutting-edge projects.
|-
|At Amazon, you'll be shaving the most cutting-edge of yaks.
|-
|You get to bid first on any auction, and use other experimental tools!
|-
|At QUALCOMM, Device driver code quality is job #1
|}

===Seventh Panel===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainlinks table-padding"
|-
|[[File:externality-dog1.png]]
|-
|[[File:externality-dog2.png]]
|-
|[[File:externality-dog3.png]]
|-
|[[File:externality-dog4.png]]
|-
|[[File:externality-dog5.png]]
|-
|[[File:externality-dog6.png]]
|-
|[[File:externality-dog7.png]]
|-
|[[File:externality-dog8.png]]
|-
|[[File:externality-dog9.png]]
|-
|[[File:externality-dog10.png]]
|}

==Title Text==
{{incomplete}}
The title text documents the different sources of data in the comic. The different title texts are:

:Mouse over words and things to see where they come from. - for most of the comic.
:Mouse over text for bottom panel:
:The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the wikmedia foundation via this link. Currently at $15012.49 (note: at 11:38am Eastern)
:…Currently at $26639.77 19:56 EDT
:…Currently at $26806.99 20:13 EDT
:…Currently at $27576.54 20:48 EDT
:Google Inc. is the first NASDAQ-100 company mentioned on the wikipedia page <nowiki>[[Aer_Lingus]]</nowiki> (note: links to [[Wikipedia:Aer Lingus|Aer Lingus]])
:This will be changed if a NASDAQ-100 company is mentioned earlier in the Wikipedia article on <nowiki>[[page]]</nowiki>
:This will be changed if a NASDAQ-100 company is mentioned earlier in the Wikipedia article on <nowiki>{{hint: }}</nowiki>

==Transcript==
:[The comic is dynamically generated from multiple sources.]

:[First panel [[1193: Externalities#First Panel|transcript varies.]]]

:[Second panel [[1193: Externalities#Second Panel|transcript varies.]]]

:[Third panel [[1193: Externalities#Third Panel|transcript varies.]]]
:[Ponytail riding on a roomba.]

:[Fourth panel [[1193: Externalities#Fourth Panel|transcript varies.]]]
:[A group of people waiting outside a door. One of them is holding a large net.]

:Or [university] graduates, provided any of them manage to fill out the application correctly.
:Name: [random]
:Email: [Third place university]

:[Sixth panel [[1193: Externalities#Sixth Panel|transcript varies.]]]
:Cueball: What does "make dog" do?
:Off-panel: Experimental dog generator. Don't click on it; the default size isn't set, so-
:'''*click*'''

:''KZZZT''
:BIP
:Off-screen: Uh-oh.

:[Last panel's [[1193: Externalities#Seventh Panel|transcript varies.]]]

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Talk:1118: Microsoft

2012-10-08T22:59:03Z

152.3.43.204:

Let the discussion begin! (replace this stub with actual content?) [[User:Odysseus654|Odysseus654]] ([[User talk:Odysseus654|talk]]) 04:29, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Well in the case of Microsoft they already dominated the market and so threatened to gain monopoly power. In the case of Apple (disclosure: I use a Mac) the market share is insignificant, really. As for Facebook and Google, the oversight is puzzling to say the least.[[Special:Contributions/172.190.2.141|172.190.2.141]] 05:16, 8 October 2012 (UTC)ExternalMonologue

:¬I Ummmmmmm... Why does my IP address show?? Other peoples' addresses don't show. How do I prevent this from happening?[[Special:Contributions/172.190.2.141|172.190.2.141]] 05:19, 8 October 2012 (UTC)ExternalMonologue

::Click the "log in / sign up" icon in the upper right and login or create an account for youself. Then you will no longer be known by your IP address[[User:Odysseus654|Odysseus654]] ([[User talk:Odysseus654|talk]]) 06:27, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

:I think the reason Microsoft was noticed and Facebook/Google didn't was that Netscape complained. It didn't helped him, of course. Which may also be reason why nothing is happening with Facebook/Google: seriously, WHAT do you think can the court do? And about Apple: yes, they could forbid Apple to control the list of application, but ... RIAA/MPAA will then complain. They WANT to end the era of "you own the device, therefore you can install whatever you want on it", because THEY want that control. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 08:24, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
One could add that the European Union did the same thing (see [[Wikipedia:European Union Microsoft competition case]]), first because of Windows Media Player (imagine any operating system coming without media player), but later also because of Internet Explorer. (It was already laughable back then, even before Apple completely dominated the mobile and tablet market.) Thanks to that we now have [[Wikipedia:BrowserChoice.eu]], and we are a free people. --[[Special:Contributions/84.75.58.16|84.75.58.16]] 08:49, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Note that Microsoft [http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/27/microsoft-browser-choice-fine-eu/ has been in the news recently] because they (accidentally?) broke the agreements they made (or were forced into) when the last browser rulings came down [[User:Odysseus654|Odysseus654]] ([[User talk:Odysseus654|talk]]) 22:43, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

What about Fa€ebook, App£e, and Goog£e?

explain xkcd - User contributions [en]

1193: Externalities

Talk:1118: Microsoft