https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=188.114.102.176&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T13:57:21ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1757:_November_2016&diff=1304391757: November 20162016-11-09T13:23:04Z<p>188.114.102.176: /* Table */ some launch tears</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1757<br />
| date = November 9, 2016<br />
| title = November 2016<br />
| image = november_2016.png<br />
| titletext = Once you've done this, make a note of how old they were. Then, when their age reaches double that, show them this chart again.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Need individual explanations.}}<br />
This is yet another comic designed to [[Feel old|make you feel old]]. It lists ages between 16 and 41, and a major event that happened a little over half their life ago. So, for an age of 16 (people born in 2000), it lists the release of GTA IV, which happened in 2008. Thus, GTA IV has been around for the majority of their life.<br />
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The titletext points out that the same chart can be used for the same person much later in their life.<br />
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===Table===<br />
{| class = "wikitable"<br />
! Age<br />
! Birthyear<br />
! Release date<br />
! Thing<br />
! Explanation<br />
|-<br />
| 16<br />
| 2000<br />
| 2008<br />
| Grand Theft Auto IV<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 17<br />
| 1999<br />
|<br />
| Rickrolling<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 18<br />
| 1998<br />
|<br />
| Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Colon Movie Film for Theaters<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 19<br />
| 1997<br />
| 2006<br />
| The Nintendo Wii<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 20<br />
| 1996<br />
|<br />
| Twitter<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 21<br />
| 1995<br />
|<br />
| The Xbox 360, xkcd<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 22<br />
| 1994<br />
|<br />
| Chuck Norris Facts<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 23<br />
| 1993<br />
|<br />
| Opportunity's Mars Exploration<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 24<br />
| 1992<br />
|<br />
| Facebook<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 25<br />
| 1991<br />
|<br />
| Gmail, Pirates of the Caribbean<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 26<br />
| 1990<br />
|<br />
| In da Club<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 27<br />
| 1989<br />
|<br />
| Firefly<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 28<br />
| 1988<br />
|<br />
| The War in Afghanistan<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 29<br />
| 1987<br />
| 2001<br />
| The iPod<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 30<br />
| 1986<br />
|<br />
| Shrek, Wikipedia<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 31<br />
| 1985<br />
|<br />
| Those X-Men movies<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 32<br />
| 1984<br />
|<br />
| The Sims<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 33<br />
| 1983<br />
|<br />
| Autotuned hit songs<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 34<br />
| 1982<br />
|<br />
| The Star Wars Prequels<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 35<br />
| 1981<br />
|<br />
| The Matrix<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 36<br />
| 1980<br />
| 1998 (outside Japan)<br />
| Pok&eacute;mon Red & Blue<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 37<br />
| 1979<br />
|<br />
| Netflix, Harry Potter, Google<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 38<br />
| 1978<br />
|<br />
| Deep Blue's Victory<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 39<br />
| 1977<br />
|<br />
| Tupac's Death<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 40<br />
| 1976<br />
|<br />
| The last Calvin and Hobbes strip<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 41<br />
| 1977<br />
|<br />
| Toy Story<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| >41<br />
| Before 1977<br />
| n/a<br />
| [Don't worry, they've got this covered]<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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The November 2016<br />
Guide to making people<br />
feel old<br />
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[In rectangle]<br />
If they're [age], you say:<br />
"Did you know <u> [thing] </u> has been around for the majority of your life?"<br />
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{| class = "wikitable"<br />
! <u>Age</u><br />
! <u>Thing</u><br />
|-<br />
| 16<br />
| Grand Theft Auto IV<br />
|-<br />
| 17<br />
| Rickrolling<br />
|-<br />
| 18<br />
| <i>Aqua Teen Hunger Force <br> Colon Movie Film for Theaters</i><br />
|-<br />
| 19<br />
| The Nintendo Wii<br />
|-<br />
| 20<br />
| Twitter<br />
|-<br />
| 21<br />
| The Xbox 360, xkcd<br />
|-<br />
| 22<br />
| Chuck Norris Facts<br />
|-<br />
| 23<br />
| Opportunity's Mars Exploration<br />
|-<br />
| 24<br />
| Facebook<br />
|-<br />
| 25<br />
| Gmail, <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i><br />
|-<br />
| 26<br />
| In da Club<br />
|-<br />
| 27<br />
| <i>Firefly</i><br />
|-<br />
| 28<br />
| The War in Afghanistan<br />
|-<br />
| 29<br />
| The iPod<br />
|-<br />
| 30<br />
| <i>Shrek</i>, Wikipedia<br />
|-<br />
| 31<br />
| Those X-Men movies<br />
|-<br />
| 32<br />
| <i>The Sims</i><br />
|-<br />
| 33<br />
| Autotuned hit songs<br />
|-<br />
| 34<br />
| The <i>Star Wars</i> Prequels<br />
|-<br />
| 35<br />
| <i>The Matrix</i><br />
|-<br />
| 36<br />
| <i>Pok&eacute;mon Red & Blue</i><br />
|-<br />
| 37<br />
| Netflix, <i>Harry Potter</i>, Google<br />
|-<br />
| 38<br />
| Deep Blue's Victory<br />
|-<br />
| 39<br />
| Tupac's Death<br />
|-<br />
| 40<br />
| The last <i>Calvin and Hobbes</i> strip<br />
|-<br />
| 41<br />
| <i>Toy Story</i><br />
|-<br />
| >41<br />
| [Don't worry, they've got this covered]<br />
|}<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics to make one feel old]]</div>188.114.102.176https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1669:_Planespotting&diff=118327Talk:1669: Planespotting2016-04-19T18:43:46Z<p>188.114.102.176: </p>
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<div>Hybrid could also refer to hybrid airship dynastats which are a combination between a blimp and a lifting body airplane. HAV in England and Lockheed Martin have both flown prototypes in the last few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles_HAV-3<br />
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How would one even pronounce "Mk. IVII"? IV is 4, VII is 7. I could see an argument for treating it as a really bizarre way to say 6. Or, if we treat it as two distinct digits (as opposed to a two-digit number), it could be either "1-7" or "4-2".<br />
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: "Usage in ancient Rome varied greatly and remained inconsistent in medieval and modern times." But AFAIK each numeral only stood for a fixed amount, never for a "digit" (in the sense that its value could specify ones or tens depending on its position). So six ((5 - 1) + 1 + 1) is a plausible interpretation, though definitely not standard; but 17 or 42 would be treating Roman numerals as if they were Arabic. [[User:Huttarl|Huttarl]] ([[User talk:Huttarl|talk]]) 16:03, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: You're correct; in Roman numerals, there is not a concept of "this is an I, in the hundreds place, so it's really a 100". If you mean 100, that's always C. Hence the phrasing "two distinct digits (as opposed to a two-digit number). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.11|108.162.221.11]] 14:16, 19 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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I think that's actually MI, or 1001.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.222|162.158.214.222]] 16:12, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: That was my first thought on reading it, too. Doesn't an underline and overline on a Roman numeral increase it by a factor of 10,000, or am I mis-recalling grade school? ---> 19:38 UTC, 18 April 2016<br />
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:: I read it as having too much space between strokes for it to be "MI" rather than "IVII", but poor penmanship is as likely as deliberate nonsense. In proper Roman Empire-era Roman numerals, the overline denotes "multiply by 1,000", but in English an overline/underline combo just means we're being fancy. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.11|108.162.221.11]] 14:16, 19 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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I assume there are other parts of this that are similarly nonsensical to people who know what Cueball thinks he's talking about. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.32|108.162.221.32]] 14:43, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
:When I first read the comic before the explanation I was assuming Cueball was roughly, and poorly, describing a Bombardier DHC-8. It is also known as a Q400 and is a twin-engine turboprop. The silhouette looks vaguely like it.[[User:R0hrshach|R0hrshach]] ([[User talk:R0hrshach|talk]]) 15:56, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Wholeheartedly agreed on it being a DHC-8 version, which could be a Q400. The engine nacelles appear to extend behind the wing (unlike an ATR42/72 or Do328), and the T-tail eliminates a lot of other regional prop possibilities. It also ties in with Cueball calling it a "Q404". [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.170|108.162.237.170]] 17:07, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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De Havilland Canada (which developed the Dash-8) did belong to Boeing between 1988 and 1992, during which time the aircraft was commonly referred to as the "Boeing Dash-8". The Q400 variant was developed after DHC was sold to Bombadier, however. So it is possible that a DHC-8 could, in fact, have been made by Boeing, just not the Q400 variant. <br />
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There are ''so many'' things wrong about this comic. [[User:.42|.42]] ([[User talk:.42|talk]]) 14:53, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Maybe I'm totally off base, but this reminds me of something called "Vaynespotting". In League of Legends, there's a character named Shauna Vayne. She has an extremely high skill-ceiling and skill-floor. Vaynespotting is a minigame where other players receive imaginary points for calling out a bad Vayne player when that player makes aggressive maneuvers, but doesn't have the skill to pull it off. [[User:Thefance|Thefance]] ([[User talk:Thefance|talk]]) 15:38, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Is that black hat or white hat? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.65|108.162.221.65]] 15:10, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
:Probably White Hat, but it is impossible to say. Have corrected explanation [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 16:11, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Fixed the title text explanation regarding the hydroelectric plant. The water going over the dam still falls down (reservoir -> dam -> out of the plane?), but lifting the water in the plane would take more energy than the plant would produce.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.170|108.162.237.170]] 17:02, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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To me this comic looks like a clear reference to the "user agent" property of a browser notorious for being long, nonsensical and bearing little relationship to the version and the type of browser the client actually uses. E.g. In my Chromium this value is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/49.0.2623.108 Chrome/49.0.2623.108 Safari/537.36. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.72|141.101.80.72]] 17:46, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The user agent string is not SUPPOSED to say what browser you HAVE, but what your browser is capable of doing. For start, Mozilla/ means that it's graphics browser, just like Netscape 4. Gecko means that authors of engine did read the HTML specifications (as authors of Gecko did), as opposed to authors of older versions of Internet Explorer (older than 7). It's because user agent string is only thing server knows about browser and therefore uses it to choose what version of page (and bug workarounds) it's supposed to use. And because some servers never update their definitions, every new browser needs to ADD his own strings to strings of some already existing browser instead of replacing them. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 14:16, 19 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Dual Wielding could easily refer to the fact the plane has two engines or possibly four if it is dual wielding engine sets. I feel the current explanation of that line item is a little lacking. ([[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.60|173.245.56.60]] 17:52, 18 April 2016 (UTC))<br />
:Then please update the explanation :-) [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 17:58, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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I originally read that as "Dual Weld", as in 'using a dual welder', which made no sense since it would be absolutely irrelevant (a dual welder can mean either a welding machine that operates on 120/240V or one that operates in both gas/gasless mode.) [[User:Ralfoide|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide|talk]]) 16:40, 19 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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I understood the Mig-380 part as a mix, an Airbus-380 but made by Mig. I'm not sure if I explained myself properly...[[User:NeoRaist|NeoRaist]] ([[User talk:NeoRaist|talk]]) 18:15, 18 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Some reference on "planetspotting" by Kepler? [[Special:Contributions/188.114.102.176|188.114.102.176]] 18:43, 19 April 2016 (UTC)</div>188.114.102.176