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Reminds me of this recent Ctrl+Alt+Del comic:
https://cad-comic.com/comic/ro...
(For the visually impaired readers: comic shows an exciting roller coaster that turns out to be half finished)

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/2...

Maybe not, there's something odd about how Professor Willow is always willing to take your unwanted Pokemon, but you'll never get them back from him.

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20160715

So wait, you fucked up, and now you want us to pay for it?

No, see, here's what happened: School decides they want product X which works with product Y. Product X sucks; product Y is not defective. School has legitimate claim about product X not delivering; product Y is your fault, and you don't go back to the supplier and make them eat the cost.

The school may have a claim against Pearson, since they delivered shoddy, half-ass work. The school has no claims against Apple, since Apple supplied a device not designed to do what the school wanted, and the school intended to extend it with Pearson's product.

There's a real lesson about bad project management and buyer's remorse here; and, looking back, they're ignoring old and proven lessons about not trying to fix education with unrelated technology. The only technology that belongs in education is education: education methods are a technology, and they are the technology for education.

Until you have an education methodology that shows good, scientific basis and utilizes your fancy toys, you're just throwing toys into education. For example: Japan uses a mathematics curriculum teaching students to use complementary number computation techniques, driven by the exemplary platform of a machine called a Soroban; a Soroban would be a ridiculous toy to bring into the classroom if you were not teaching using these computation techniques and trying to leverage the visual and mechanical aspect of learning by soroban (I've done some self-teaching without the soroban, and learned the same techniques; there are, however, scientific reasons to bring a soroban to the table). If they're just doing workbook activities BUT ON AN IPADZ!!!! and not doing anything known to improve education when an iPad is involved, the iPad is a fucking toy not appropriate in education.

It's worth noting there's a school of educational research suggesting that introducing young children to high technology is actively bad, and that high technology should be taught outright after age 10-12 rather than used as a platform to deliver old teaching methods. Small children need most to learn socialization; they need to interact with other children, and not isolate themselves to curriculum. I have my own educational theory which extends this: small children need most to learn techniques of utilizing the brain effectively, set in an environment of free socialization, so as to develop their social behaviors while also giving them tools to rapidly and effectively learn curriculum. In all of these advanced schools of thought, and in mine, you see that pattern: humans need to learn human behavior first, then learn high technology as a tool; wrapping books in fancy electronics won't suddenly make education better.

This is like the 90s when everyone's answer to everything related to computer security was "ENCRYPTION!" Now everyone's answer to every education problem is "COMPUTERS!"

http://cdn2.cad-comic.com/comi...

It's not online for people to play with? I wanted to see if searching for "penis" will result in screen captures of Spore.

This chair is Windows 7. It's comfortable. It's familiar. You've been sitting in it for years.
Now we'll install Windows 8 on the chair. We can still tell it's a chair. It's not the chair we know but it's still a chair.
It just --- unghh... takes some getting-- *WHIMPER* used to. You just need to-- huh... break it in a little bit, ungh. Eventually it will become comfortable and familiar--- gah!
Ahhh. The blood is body temperature, so it's almost like a heated seat. Mmmm... comfy.

CAD - The Upgrade

Maybe because you only get 1 shot?

Correction.
Its called the "Pulsing blue Dickpunch of sadness", in case you didnt know

Is Jones_supa really #4 from Ctrl-Alt-Del?

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20131115

Even linked to kotaku ^_^

Ctrl-Alt-Del has named it the "Pulsing Blue Dick-punch of Sadness". I think that's way too good a name not to be generally adopted for the condition.

... Pulsing Blue Dickpunch of Sadness

Borderline NSFW

CAD's already been there

Even bill gates does not approve of Ctrl+Alt+Del

So, what is wrong with it. X windows and some Linux systems use ctl-alt-backspace.. All MS needs to do is invent something similar for the Android, aside from the poweroff key.

Even bill gates does not approve of Ctrl+Alt+Del

In reality, it will be more like depicted in CTRL-ALT-DEL.

http://v.cdn.cad-comic.com/comics/cad-20130626-6a124.png

Jason Statham.

Source of the Jason-Statham-as-Doctor joke: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20100702

This is also the subject of today's Ctrl+Alt+Del comic.

While that may be, I'm not sure I want to be there if they're going to be anything like Tim imagines.

Specifically this comic: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20121123 It really did just go there in ways I wasn't expecting. Made me quirked a bit, but overall enjoyed this new direction.

Who cares? Let's just post big lists of web comics so we can all click and read and woohooooo!

Beyond the obvious (XKCD, Penny Arcade, Dilbert, The Oatmeal) there are at least these:

http://amultiverse.com/
http://www.virtualshackles.com/
http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss.latest
http://chainsawsuit.com/
http://dresdencodak.com/archives/
http://www.happletea.com/
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2347

To make matters worse, their last gamble on a designer-led Maxis game, Spore, didn't turn out to be very profitable.

To be fair if they had taken the more obvious lessons from that failure Madden 10 would have been a very unique departure from the previous games.

I'll see your xkcd and raise you a ctrl-alt-del

BZZZT! Sorry, that's a string raise. You'll have to take that comic back.

I'll see your xkcd and raise you a ctrl-alt-del

You said "raise you"... as if to say you were providing something more ... but... you linked to Ctrl-Alt-Del... error... error... ERROR... DOES NOT COMPUTE... DOES NOT COMPUTE... DOES NOT COMPUTE...

I'll see your xkcd and raise you a ctrl-alt-del

Yeah

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20120305

Oblig. CAD

the solution was hats.

and this:
http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20120305

Here are some blacked-out webcomics:

• Questionable Content
• Ctrl+Alt+Del
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
• The Oatmeal (this one will be hard to take a screenshot of, as it's an animation)
• Dinosaur Comics
• Something Positive
• Nedroid

Incidentally, half of these I hadn't even heard of before today; I only know of them now because they chose to protest SOPA! Also, Penny Arcade isn't blacked out but has an anti-SOPA banner, and XKCD hasn't updated yet.

As long as they don't put in DRM that acts like this.

Uh, isn't Doctor Who fairly sexualized already (especially the 10th Doctor)? I mean, they have lesbian characters, guys from the 51st century who will have sex with anything, Amy Pond wanted the Doctor to "sort" her. Or is this simply an American vs British thing?

I figure an American version of Doctor Who would be more like this

You might not want to use popular media such as television, movies or video games, for accurate representation of physics.

Getting shot with a handgun bullet won't cause you to flip head-over-heels, nor your head to explode.

Mass plays an important role here.

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20030204

And still no one is taking advantage of the ease of exploitation.

I feel this comic sums it up quite well.

Obligatory comic strip

Ctrl-Alt-Del's review is a graphical representation of Ars Technica's review.

Mac OS (7/8/9) had a much smaller market share than Mac OS X has today

Back in the time when people wrote viruses for fun, I don't even recall a single Mac classic virus payload to steal information like the ones we have today.

Obviously those people would be a rather more lucrative pool of victims, yet they remain almost entirely unexploited.

lighten up.

I know CAD is not usually a /. source, deferring to the more prestigious journals such as xkcd or Dilbert, but:

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20110209/

I thing these guys nailed it...

I am not the best at linking things but here it goes:

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/

Panel three?!?!

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20101220/

I see you're not aware of Ctrl-Alt-Del webcomic who have a store here

Oblig Ctrl+Alt+Del

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20101025

I hate to say this, because Nintendo is awesome even if I am getting mildly annoyed at all their gimmicky stuff that is popular with the kiddies. (must be a sign of getting old)

I think Sony would be better off adopting Android than Nintendo.

Hear me out of course:

Sony tries to appeal to adults more than Nintendo does, even though Nintendo captures both and Sony is sort of floundering at the moment. I just see the whole Android interface working better for Sony, especially after using both a DSi and a PSP. Sony already makes phones through their formerly Ericson division, with Android phones available. Sony is better equipped to make a PSP/Phone hybrid than Nintendo is.

On that note I have said on more than one occasion Nintendo is stupid for not
1. Making their own phone/console hybrid
or
2. Licensing out their GBA/DS tech to phone manufactures.

Seriously, I could see HTC turning out an awesome DS Slider phone complete with a cartridge port, standard Micro SD slot, android OS merged with DSi functions. (controls and touchscreen always showing, speaker in the middle of the ABXY buttons, mic next to +, top screen slides out)

Of course Nintendo wont do that for piracy/hacking reasons, not like they aren't happening on the native platform as is, but dilution is an issue.

Sony on the other hand has nothing to lose. The PSP-3000 already has most of the requirements to meet the phone challenge, you can already make Skype calls directly on that thing, no extras needed. Make it a little more portable - it is rather large to be a mobile phone, distribute games on Pro-Duo cards (which I hate BTW), so they can work with ALL PSPS models instead of pulling a download only setup. Obviously we don't want a UMD drive on this

Of course for that to work, Sony would have to wear pants.

I always prefered this definition of Noob vs. Newb.

http://cdn.cad-comic.com/comics/3223892223c1814zzq2za94454048.jpg

Ctrl+Alt+Del sums it up nicely.

Nothing on Ctrl Alt Del could ever be considered a summary...

Ctrl+Alt+Del sums it up nicely.

Dangerous perhaps, but if there's a chance we can get Fantastic 4 like powers when it happens then I'm in... well, unless I could turn into the Thing and that would just suck http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20050304/#n629.