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So, without thinking I fire up google and type the search:

"user friendly the comic strip" email attachment

and then clicked on search. The first hit is the cartoon I wanted, so I click on it. When I pull up the page, I realize that the text words "email attachment" don't appear anywhere on the screen other than the graphic text in the comic itself, so google shouldn't have found the page - at least according to how I thought google worked. So I pulled up the source to see if there was a meta tag there which would explain this. Nope.

The only thing I can think of is that google either OCR's the pictures (seems scary, and that font which Illiad uses doesn't look very OCR-able). The other thing I thought about is that perhaps google also matches text found within <A> tags which link to that page or something.

I've shot a message off to google to ask about this but I haven't heard back yet. I'll be interested to find out how the *@(#*$ they did this.

I think that I saw an ad somewhere which said "How the @(#$* did they do that?" was the highest praise one web designer could give to another. If that's true, they've definately earned my praise in this case. Regardless, some wizard at google got their search engine to do exactly what I wanted with whatever technology they used. Technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic. And google is definately magic.

and since when is "Open source" an OS?

The "open source operating system" is the OS that runs on a network whose machines run GNU/Linux, BSD, AtheOS, FreeDOS, and other operating systems whose kernel, shell, and included applications are OSI Certified open source software.

ObDRM: None of the OSI Certified operating systems place the kernel or GUI under a digital-rights-denial system (unlike retail Windows XP). Windows XP does have one advantage, however: in the cartoon world, it can turn a laptop into a jetpack. (Read More...)

(Hate subject clipping):
Is this an Acme Forced-Feedback Enemy-Denial Smackdown Ergonomic Game Chair?

In case you don't know what I am talking about, read these links.

(Hate subject clipping):
Is this an Acme Forced-Feedback Enemy-Denial Smackdown Ergonomic Game Chair?

In case you don't know what I am talking about, read these links.

(Hate subject clipping):
Is this an Acme Forced-Feedback Enemy-Denial Smackdown Ergonomic Game Chair?

In case you don't know what I am talking about, read these links.

That signature is from a User Friendly strip. The characters were actually Stef and Greg. See the original comic strip.

That signature is from a User Friendly strip. The characters were actually Stef and Greg. See the original comic strip.

The ads don't bother me. I would subscribe if I got access to the rejected-story bin though. That would be worth my $20.

Just noticed User Friendly is doing an ad free subscription for 3.95 per month also.

Sure that happened. Uh huh, why do i get the feeling you got it from here.

Even if it didn't happen it wasn't original, when was the last time you met an intelligent tech at best buy?

Geeks and reality:

This poem expresses my feelings about spam perfectly.

Geek Girl Chronicles

God, root, what is difference?

So, "sue ID root" is the same as blaming God? O_0

Soko

So, this is a RANTS (Redundant Array of NT Servers) system, then?

This reminds me of the userfriendly cartoon here

Tiago

Nonononononono.......

This is the proper thing to do to a spammer.

Much as everyone would rather be doing this, however.

Nonononononono.......

This is the proper thing to do to a spammer.

Much as everyone would rather be doing this, however.

Remember, with Open Source, you can re-write the code on anything. Imagine the possibilities.

Soko

You mean likethis User Friendly?

Too messy.

I prefer this one.

Hi Erwin

Although personally I prefer This technique

Hi Erwin

Although personally I prefer This technique

Hi Pitr

Userfriendly was implemented by Illiad?

See this cartoon.

Three years later...

User Friendly is making a decent profit from ads because they get a zillion hits a day.

By the way, I find it hillarious that someone is selling commics in adobe e-book format. An 8 year old could write a program to decode them.

The Red Hat Logo pops up and says 'You've got Linux!'

All the RHCEs are now AOLCEs

Check out User Friendly's Cartoon for the Sunday the 20th.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020120

last time they tried to use degenerative braking they didn't get back their spacecraft as promised. So they switched back to the old scheme.

relevant UserFriendly cartoon

Any UF-ites able to explain why using the "cartoon search" for "gates" didn't turn this up, so that I had to look for it the hard way?

As has been said numerous times, Intel got hurt by failing to go with the DDR standard, the benchmark still proves the Duron to be a bit better but considering they are running at the exact same clock speed, you would almost expect the Duron to outperform. Then again, Intel is doing little more than taking PIII cores and calling them Celerons. Smart move to cut manufacturing and R&D costs, but it kind of reminds me of this old cartoon.

Personally, I prefer AMD to Intel. Their K2 and Athlons have helped stave off a monopoly and they drive costs low. Works for me.

Should I just go ahead and semi-permanently chmod 000 my libflashplayer.so? (The only thing I use it for on a regular basis are those lovely little Seattle Labs blurbs that get posted on User Friendly (which, ironically, are ads for WinDoze security products)....

User Friendly had a strip like this a while ago...

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990207

Compare to UserFriendly, Dec. 29.

Since we don't have any idea how complex the simplest self-replicating molecule is, speculating on the odds of its forming is a bit pointless, don't you think?

However, if we're talking about something that actively seeks out food to convert to more of itself, either a larger ``it'' or more ``its,'' the smallest known (Mycoplasma genitalium) consists of 470 genes (another poster placed this at 400) with a 580,000 base-pair genome, of which about 300 are absolutely essential. Informed speculation has gone as low as 100 genes (which would imply around 130,000 base-pairs), going beyond this requires a hive- or colony-like structure and some means of collating enough genes to start a new group collective organism.

By contrast, each of your cells harbours DNA to the tune of around 3 billion bases. If a strand of this DNA were unwound, it would be several meters long. If your proteins also uncurled you'd look like the dust puppy from UserFriendy. At the other end of the scale, one of the smallest known (parasitic) organisms is the Q-beta virus, at 3 genes totalling about 4500 base-pairs. This is a long, long way from standalone.

This brings to mind the Tierra program (sorry, couldn't find a good link). It was a system that simulated evolution in a simple way.

If you use some of Pitr's experimental Super Triple Espresso, you oughta be able to light up Chicago.

As another user pointed out earlier the battery life of 2.8 ~ 3.5 hours is surprisingly unimpressive.

Aside from that I've decided it might be nice to have a little wireless web pad for when i just wanna cruise through the web sites I check out every day. (slashdot, UserFriendly, dilbert, Get Fuzzy, and Dozings.com.) As a replacement for a laptop or pda it wouldn't cut the mustard, but if I had the money something like this (but with more battery life) might be a nice little addition to my bag of electronic gizmos.

Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Bertoline [apk.net] - My daily comic

Of course not...

Everyone knows that Java and Microsoft don't blend....

Or else, that I was only a hairsbreadth away from being able to do the same kind of things. (-:

With apologies to Sluggy Freelance

Sluggy, like most web comics, if you jump into it at a late date, makes no sense...you have to go to the beginning.
Even then, well, it grows on you. And who does not like "Bun-bun"...a switchblade toting mini-lop...heh.

Link whoring biatch that I can be: PVP, GPF, Sherman's Lagoon a long time favorite of mine, Dilbert of course, and one that was pointed out to me recently: Non-Sequitur and, of course, Userfriendly.

What is the common thread amongst all those sites I'd recommend? Intelligence, humor, referrences to other events (this usually escapes some of the younger crowd/moderators/slashdroids, no offense) and some funny characters, situations and all.

If you look at the comics on the links /. gave, well...I random sampled and was not impressed.

That's my opinion,

Cheers,

Moose.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20011201

And what about this ? At least to represent the commercial side of language design...

You obviously don't read them much.
Today's is a riot btw!
link

has already covered this topic fairly well here

"sir, we're a monopoly, we get to set the price"

This is extremely off-topic, but isn't the point of a comic strip supposed to be that the strip is funny, or has some form of humorous value to it? Does anybody find UF funny? Rehashed, boring, tired old Microsoft jokes, linux pandering, etc.

I won't even bother saying anything about the art, as anything that can be said about it already has been.

"sir, we're a monopoly, we get to set the price"

Not to mention that education is the last Mac stronghold. I just wonder what'll happen in five years when the 'free stuff' runs out. Will MS continue to provide low cost solutions? Didn't think so.

Drug dealers always like to give out free samples

I think this approach is more viable and about as accurate..

That, and plenty of cat-5, should make my dream home a reality.
Total cost - $3 mill or so.

User Friendly :)

It came from Userfriendly. I could make a link directly to the comic, but I think I will just destroy you day's productivity by pointing to the site and suggesting you find it...

See this User Friendly cartoon.