Talk:2116: .NORM Normal File Format
Oh man, I don’t know whether to laugh or passive aggressively link people this comic. Netherin5 (talk) 16:55, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
- Mumbles about special places in hell for people that deserve links of this comic 162.158.90.90 08:11, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
- link it to them? send it in a weird data format, including notification bar of a phone, etc.--Lupo (talk) 08:34, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
- I think this needs to be here. Netherin5 (talk) 12:52, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
- I will take a photo of the comic on my screen with my phone, send that to my PC, print it out onto paper, take a photo of that (on a wooden table), embed THAT photo into an Excel sheet comment, take a photo of THAT and embed into a Word Document, and send to my customers. They would find nothing untoward about this, based on how they send me error reports...162.158.89.61 14:54, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
- I think this needs to be here. Netherin5 (talk) 12:52, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
- link it to them? send it in a weird data format, including notification bar of a phone, etc.--Lupo (talk) 08:34, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
At the moment I'm seeing " https://twitter.com/openelex/status/853977391747801088 " as the title text 108.162.216.82 17:36, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
- That’s because the comic is a link, and clicking on it will take you there. The title text is correct, though. Netherin5 (talk) 17:40, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
Reminds me of Web 0.1 at TheDailyWTF.162.158.79.113 19:01, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
Why the bloody hell is everyone censoring me???108.162.245.202 21:47, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
- From the revision history, the only things that look like they could be interpreted as being censored are the "JEWISH SHILL" thing from the (no longer present) "incomplete" tag, which is hate speech, and the "SOON THE TRUTH WILL BE REVEALED" thing that briefly replaced all of the actual content, which is vandalism. Both are considered unacceptable. See also xkcd #1357 162.158.214.22 03:53, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I'm on my phone but can someone please work this link into the explanation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_art thanks
- Done. 108.162.246.173 01:20, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
The "share" functionality on mobile systems may serve as a rather catch-all protocol. On PC not many apps have this in mind. 172.68.141.148 02:43, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
Could someone do a short explanation of what absentee precincts are? A (quick) google search could not answer that question to me, and I think for many who do not deal with the topic whichever absentee precincts refer to will have the same question... --Lupo (talk) 08:07, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I love .NORM files, they compress so well: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1683:_Digital_Data 162.158.78.178 17:42, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
Is this really all that common? Am I the only one who came to explainxkcd because I only half got the joke? Sure, a photo of a screen with data is useless and stupid, but why make a comic about it? This has never happened to me. Jqavins (talk) 13:54, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
- It is really all that common. So common, in fact, that the original XKCD comic links to this. That is on a government scale. Yes, it’s annoying. Netherin5 (talk) 14:13, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
One possible legitimate use of this is when you don't trust the recipient from taking your hard work and not giving you credit for it. For an example when one of my previous employers laid me off because of 'financial reasons', there was a possibility that he might continue to send me projects as an independent contractor because he was under staffed. If he had sent me any projects, I was seriously considering sending him a screenshot of the Excel documents showing the work I completed for him to review and only after I get paid, I would submit the work to the web server because I did not trust him taking my work and uploading it himself without paying me for it.162.158.122.162 21:18, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
