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− | Background apps (apps in the recently used list) on both iOS and Android are in one of several paused states and do not usually consume much battery power; they only take up some memory. Closing them means that if you want to use the app again later, it will need to reload fully which likely uses up "very slightly" more battery. ''Wired'' had a [https://www.wired.com/2016/03/closing-apps-save-battery-makes-things-worse/ detailed article] on this topic a couple years ago. However, a much better reason to close the apps | + | Background apps (apps in the recently used list) on both iOS and Android are in one of several paused states and do not usually consume much battery power; they only take up some memory. Closing them means that if you want to use the app again later, it will need to reload fully which likely uses up "very slightly" more battery. ''Wired'' had a [https://www.wired.com/2016/03/closing-apps-save-battery-makes-things-worse/ detailed article] on this topic a couple years ago. However, a much better reason to close the apps are to free up RAM/Memory to make the programs run faster or even prevent them from crashing. Often it is not battery lifetime that are the problem for people but performance. ([[Randall]] on the other hand has often made references to his issue with low batteries, in for instance [[1373: Screenshot]], [[1802: Phone]] and [[1872: Backup Batteries]].) |
− | + | A person goes to the trouble of renting a banner plane just to dispense this trivial advice. Then a second person goes to the same amount of trouble just to make a judgmental statement against the first person, seemingly unaware that they themselves are chartering the same plane for an equally (if not more) inane reason. The first person rents the plane once again just to apologize to the second person and explain their actions. | |
− | + | In the punchline, the second person rents the plane yet again to respond to the first person's response, being no less smug or hypocritical than before. Meanwhile, four more people have chartered four different planes: | |
− | * One to urge the first two people to have their conversation somewhere private | + | * One to urge the first two people to have their conversation somewhere private (typical comment in on-line forums) |
− | * Another to comment on how surprisingly cheap the banners are to rent | + | * Another to comment on how surprisingly cheap the banners are to rent |
* A third just to show off their own banner | * A third just to show off their own banner | ||
− | * A fourth displaying | + | * A fourth displaying the HTML "{{w|Marquee element|Marquee}}" tag, a non-standard tag that many web organizations advise against using, which is used to cause a message to scroll across the web page, much as the plane is flying across the sky. |
The fairly obvious parallel here is to using various Internet forums for "unsolicited tech advice to strangers," smug responses, comments on others' advice, off-topic rejoinders, and all the other things that go on there constantly. It seems ludicrous to rent airplane banners for such trivial purposes, but there are non-trivial resources involved in the global distribution of electronic communication, as well, and their use for purposes such as this seems ludicrous once Randall makes one think about it, and underlines that none of what is written on the banner may have anything to do with Randall's own opinions. | The fairly obvious parallel here is to using various Internet forums for "unsolicited tech advice to strangers," smug responses, comments on others' advice, off-topic rejoinders, and all the other things that go on there constantly. It seems ludicrous to rent airplane banners for such trivial purposes, but there are non-trivial resources involved in the global distribution of electronic communication, as well, and their use for purposes such as this seems ludicrous once Randall makes one think about it, and underlines that none of what is written on the banner may have anything to do with Randall's own opinions. | ||
− | The title text is spoken by a plane banner company owner, who uses the insidious tactic of flying around with a banner of an unmatched HTML | + | The title text is spoken by a plane banner company owner, who uses the insidious tactic of flying around with a banner of an unmatched HTML, just to compel obsessive people into renting banner space to make it syntactically correct. This may be a reference to [[1144: Tags]]. |
− | The theme of the | + | The theme of the mis/use of airplanes and banners has previously been explored in [[1355: Airplane Message]]. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Banner 4: Haha, I got one, too! | :Banner 4: Haha, I got one, too! | ||
:Banner 5: <Marquee> | :Banner 5: <Marquee> | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Social networking]] | [[Category:Social networking]] | ||
[[Category:Animals]] <!--birds--> | [[Category:Animals]] <!--birds--> | ||
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