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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by SOME UNREAD EMAILS. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag before you've sorted through these.}} | ||
[[Cueball]] has an unspecified communication application on his phone. As the chart displays, the longer he has the app, the more unread messages he has on it (likely due to a combination of more people trying to contact him over it and him checking it less diligently). Eventually, he gives up reading every message, and he notices apathetically when it reaches 10,000 notifications. The joke comes in the caption, which states that all communication services have this problem and implies that this problem is the key problem with {{w|email}}. | [[Cueball]] has an unspecified communication application on his phone. As the chart displays, the longer he has the app, the more unread messages he has on it (likely due to a combination of more people trying to contact him over it and him checking it less diligently). Eventually, he gives up reading every message, and he notices apathetically when it reaches 10,000 notifications. The joke comes in the caption, which states that all communication services have this problem and implies that this problem is the key problem with {{w|email}}. | ||
− | The caption, "''Another'' way every system | + | The caption, "''Another'' way every system becomes email" (emphasis added) is a reference to {{w|Jamie_Zawinski#Principles|Zawinski's law of of software envelopment}}: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." |
− | In the title text, Randall uses this reasoning to explain why he'll never install a smart {{w|smoke detector}}. A smart detector would send a notification to his phone when the smoke level is high enough to trigger it | + | In the title text, Randall uses this reasoning to explain why he'll never install a smart {{w|smoke detector}}. A smart detector would send a notification to his phone when the smoke level is high enough to trigger it; following the same trend, Randall believes he will eventually stop reading the alerts from the smoke detector. Ignoring a smoke detector is dangerous.{{Template:Citation needed}} |
− | + | ==Transcript== | |
+ | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
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+ | [A graph with the x-axis and y-axis labeled] | ||
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+ | Percentage of received messages in the service that are marked unread | ||
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+ | Time ---> | ||
− | + | [Three Cueballs standing at different points on the graph. The first two are shown directly above the line at the beginning and middle areas, and the third is shown below it near the end of the graph. All three are holding phones.] | |
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+ | [The first Cueball looks at his phone, which displays two notifications on an app] | ||
− | + | Oh hey, two new messages! | |
− | + | [The next Cueball again looks at his phone, this time with 45 notifications on the app] | |
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− | + | Ugh, gotta take some time to go through these. | |
− | + | [The last Cueball's phone app shows 10129 notifications] | |
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− | + | Wow, it hit five digits. | |
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− | + | [Caption below the panel] | |
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− | + | Another way every system eventually becomes email | |
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[[Category:Programming]] | [[Category:Programming]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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