tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post3547300055678510359..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 815: Coefficient of SuckCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-53672457948023260262010-11-12T06:49:02.812-08:002010-11-12T06:49:02.812-08:00@Anonymous Uh, he never put in an upper bound... w...@Anonymous Uh, he never put in an upper bound... why on earth do you assume that the x-axis on that graph goes past 1? There is no way to know what the scale is, although friction obviously only goes to 1. If you graduated middle school you should know that graphs can have different scales >.<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-6756979904101025032010-11-07T15:27:24.139-08:002010-11-07T15:27:24.139-08:00@R.
You're on Wrongplanet?@R. <br /><br />You're on Wrongplanet?LostInSpacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-56454332898591932452010-11-07T15:24:25.651-08:002010-11-07T15:24:25.651-08:00Greek Gods knew a lot about that sort of Friction....Greek Gods knew a lot about that sort of Friction. If you know what I mean [Which is that no, of course not, Randall does not know about this Friction and that is far too much credit]<br /><br />Captcha: Kahystst, the dark god of Friction. Not quite, <a href="http://www.asikkalanpuuseppa.fi/kehystys.htm" rel="nofollow">but pretty close</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-84168063028314557312010-11-07T14:50:21.985-08:002010-11-07T14:50:21.985-08:00maybe Randall has invented such a thing as Bonus F...maybe Randall has invented such a thing as Bonus Friction. something which has more friction than the most possible friction. superfriction. the friction of the gods.rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-36960955255890245402010-11-07T14:49:09.027-08:002010-11-07T14:49:09.027-08:00Why does the X-axis carry on like that? It has to ...Why does the X-axis carry on like that? It has to stop at 1. That's as friction-y as it can get.<br />At a coefficient of 1, spinning around to maintain productivity or whatever bullshit you're meant to do on a fucking chair is still possible, as this chair clearly still has wheels. Wheels that let you move and spin and shit. So the graph should represent a monotonic function.<br /><br />Also that bullshit about ``OTHER people'' is also bullshit. Negative productivity? Given any number of people, do you ever think they can be negatively productive? When they spin around, do they all press ctrl-Z and then save their work, erasing the redo history? No. If you're spinning on your chair (alone), the OTHERs are still doing their work. Suddenly adding ``OTHER'' people into the equation (why does he shout OTHER? Is the notion of talking to OTHER people so absurd?) just screws up the graph. You'd have to add another axis for number of people or something. Ordinarily, Randall would probably be anal enough to do that, but he nobly sacrifices his precious scientific method in the name of humour, and boy, does it pay off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-19696640243298634932010-11-07T14:07:14.418-08:002010-11-07T14:07:14.418-08:00yes. unfortunately, mensa is real.
I don't mi...yes. unfortunately, mensa is real.<br /><br />I don't mind people who consider themselves more intelligent than the masses, so long as they don't view it as something which sets them apart and makes them special. plenty of people realize that being intelligent just makes you more keenly aware that the world basically sucks.rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-8965591022106526042010-11-07T13:50:27.368-08:002010-11-07T13:50:27.368-08:00Wait, I thought Mensa was a joke -- is Mensa real?...Wait, I thought Mensa was a joke -- is Mensa real??? Because I am seriously starting to hate anyone who considers themselves "more intelligent", and may start having to refer to myself as "pretty average" just to be unassociated with "more intelligent" people or "different" people or however people like to claim that they are special and omfgyouhavetorespectmebecauseImspecial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-54345671264384405012010-11-07T13:43:28.337-08:002010-11-07T13:43:28.337-08:00Having an easily rotatable chair has some effect o...Having an easily rotatable chair has some effect on productivity, I suppose. However, it's only a very small part of the overall comfort of a chair which will still only slightly impact productivity.<br /><br />The productivity/friction relationship won't follow the pattern Randall shows though. Productivity should remain consistently high up to a point (no gradual decline to the left). Once friction is high enough, rotating the chair stops being easy. There should be a sharp decline in productivity at this point to a new constant level (the same level as a chair that doesn't rotate at all). <br /><br />At this point, even for a nominally rotating (but high friction) chair, it will be easier to get up out of the chair and reorient it by hand. Or, if one is too lazy to get all the way out of the chair, one can lift one's ass off of it and reorient the chair while hovering over it. The most difficult part of this process is the hovering. If one were imbued with the innate ability to hover over the chair at all times, their would be hardly any difference between a non-rotating chair and an easily rotating chair.Sepianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-12704561400400885372010-11-07T11:08:26.667-08:002010-11-07T11:08:26.667-08:00"I heard about this organization awhile ago a..."I heard about this organization awhile ago and the IQ thread reminded me of it. Mensa is for people whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population. That's the one and only requirement for membership. They offer about 200 Special Interest Groups and provide social interaction with other intelligent people as well as other benefits. They have 100,000 members in over 40 countries. I think some aspies here may be interested. I wouldn't be surprised if an aspie created Mensa and I think there are probably lots of aspies who are members. "R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-21554995711829207402010-11-07T11:05:02.965-08:002010-11-07T11:05:02.965-08:00or something out of dune
"That's not sup...or something out of dune<br /><br />"That's not supposed to be human talk, it's mensan talk. Mensan people talk like that."<br /><br />as in, the society of rich or insufferable people who mostly only join to show how utterly clever they are because they can pass iq tests?<br />by ford i hate youR.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-59517772394997049522010-11-07T11:02:59.871-08:002010-11-07T11:02:59.871-08:00You'd think a society of people who are suppos...You'd think a society of people who are supposed to be smart would come up with a better demonym than "mensans". It makes them sound like a class of people in Brave New World.<br /><br />"And this is the mensan growing tank. Please try not to make loud noises, it frightens them."Ann Apolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08566528013026340201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-92126914402496165202010-11-07T10:58:05.531-08:002010-11-07T10:58:05.531-08:00I <3 this threadI <3 this threadhugglefishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-59114766039915454022010-11-07T10:14:19.546-08:002010-11-07T10:14:19.546-08:00""The comic will be a little late tonigh...""The comic will be a little late tonight due to my problems"? (...) that was a hilarious example of his not grasping how people talk"<br /><br />That's not supposed to be human talk, it's mensan talk. Mensan people talk like that.Eikinklosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06224032606695416367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-33215503770371436022010-11-07T09:55:28.943-08:002010-11-07T09:55:28.943-08:00"It's like a nerdy joke that exaggerates ..."It's like a nerdy joke that exaggerates or caricatures a scientific law to set up a punch line - there are the nerds who understand that outside the lab you can be flexible for a laugh and then there are the nerds who die virgins because if they saw that, instead of laughing they put on their angsty pants and complain that they got it wrong."<br /><br />Which would be completely fine if it wasn't for the fact that Randall bitches about any inaccuracy-for-fun that anyone else makes about anything that he is marginally interested in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-7438477371216570482010-11-07T08:26:41.734-08:002010-11-07T08:26:41.734-08:00Randall's problems have never stopped him from...Randall's problems have never stopped him from making a comic before...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-69048656931767344142010-11-07T07:45:07.131-08:002010-11-07T07:45:07.131-08:00Does anyone have a screenshot of that XKCD post wh...Does anyone have a screenshot of that XKCD post where Randall told us "The comic will be a little late tonight due to my problems"? Because that was a hilarious example of his not grasping how people talk, but Google seems to have cleared it from the cache for some reason.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-19285709631691436752010-11-07T05:54:02.292-08:002010-11-07T05:54:02.292-08:00"It's like a nerdy joke that exaggerates ..."It's like a nerdy joke that exaggerates or caricatures a scientific law to set up a punch line - there are the nerds who understand that outside the lab <b>RANDALL</b> can be flexible for a laugh and then there are the nerds who die virgins because if they saw that, instead of laughing they put on their angsty pants and complain that they got it wrong."<br /><br />there is no joke here. it's just randall making graphs out of things he thinks his readers can relate to. nothing insightful or witty, just "oh man it's 5 to midnight shit, not enough time for google gotta graph something..."R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-29323568295634849352010-11-07T05:03:27.220-08:002010-11-07T05:03:27.220-08:00Rob you fascist don't you know that only Ameri...Rob you fascist don't you know that only Americans will get your "-Ed." joke and that by posting them in this review you're RUINING THE REVIEW FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD???* <br /><br />*America doesn't count because it sucks and I hate it and no one outside of America cares about it anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-91566506880967567832010-11-07T03:39:47.329-08:002010-11-07T03:39:47.329-08:00Who is this Ed? He seems to be making unhelpful st...Who is this Ed? He seems to be making unhelpful statements more and more often as of late. It's quite distracting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-61803663224546332582010-11-07T01:42:01.891-08:002010-11-07T01:42:01.891-08:00Ech, sorry.I meant to say something about how this...Ech, sorry.I meant to say something about how this looks like a rejected submission to GraphJam (on the lolcats website), but . . . idk what happened there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-43658081831684394552010-11-07T01:40:11.232-08:002010-11-07T01:40:11.232-08:00llAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-14112182922962497852010-11-06T20:47:52.030-07:002010-11-06T20:47:52.030-07:00@Anon8:37 - I appreciate the sentiment. To be hone...@Anon8:37 - I appreciate the sentiment. To be honest though I think my 30 seconds is at, like, five minutes by now, so I'm on thin ice anyways.AKA Tha Schusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05818056339262802919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-67829849601315108822010-11-06T20:39:11.602-07:002010-11-06T20:39:11.602-07:00(though I only do them for shufti's posts, bec...(though I only do them for shufti's posts, because it amuses me)rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-54475919811615501512010-11-06T20:37:31.772-07:002010-11-06T20:37:31.772-07:00Alright, all of these "-Ed"s are really ...Alright, all of these "-Ed"s are really killing the guest posts. Please stop. Just comment after to post in summary or something. Not that we don't appreciate the notes, but the guests should probably have their thirty seconds of fame without the running commentary for everyone's benefit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-33085166883539389012010-11-06T19:09:36.079-07:002010-11-06T19:09:36.079-07:00The solution is to break standard convention becau...The solution is to break standard convention because rule of funny.<br /><br />It's like a nerdy joke that exaggerates or caricatures a scientific law to set up a punch line - there are the nerds who understand that outside the lab you can be flexible for a laugh and then there are the nerds who die virgins because if they saw that, instead of laughing they put on their angsty pants and complain that they got it wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com