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| :: By the way, the current transcript is wrong. The items listed under "No header" headers belong to the "named" headers on the parallel side. There is no dichotomy like that. If you insist on reflecting the visual layout of the comic in the transcript, I suggest something like this (uncapitalised, unsorted, and unformatted, because it is just a quick illustration): | | :: By the way, the current transcript is wrong. The items listed under "No header" headers belong to the "named" headers on the parallel side. There is no dichotomy like that. If you insist on reflecting the visual layout of the comic in the transcript, I suggest something like this (uncapitalised, unsorted, and unformatted, because it is just a quick illustration): |
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− | ::i am so sorry but for some ungodly reason your table breaks the sidebar on the modern skin completely. i've wrapped it in a nowiki tag so it won't actually show up formatted, but i can't do much else since i don't know how to use html tables. [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]{{citation needed}} 05:26, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
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− | :::Looking at it, it's ''horribly'' broken table-tagging (mix of HTML tags and non-table wikimarkup for bullets and 'enforced' newlines.
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− | :::It doesn't break anything for me, so my browser (which also isn't trying to run your custom personal CSS, which might be what reacts badly in your case) is "failing nicely". And I believe it looks very like the original poster intended, probably how they saw it.
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− | :::(For reference, though, where you see a <nowiki><td>-tag, you'd ideally want a closing</td> before the open-<th>. Ditto a close-</th> at the end of the <th> and before the next <td>. Then wrap off each <td> with a </td> ''and'' </tr> before the next opening <tr> (or the final </table>). Or just use actual wikitable markup with {| || |} stuff and let the back-end sort out the HTML tag-enclosure. ...the (unclosed) <hr> and <br>s are 'fine', though I'd have put <hr/> and <br/> out of habit (and because of best/better practice) if it was me using them.</nowiki>) <= Probably easier to fix than explain, but I only bothered to 'explain'!
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− | :::It'd be interesting to see ''how'' it breaks the skin that you use. But I really think it's more a problem with your skin (refactoring some table formatting how it needn't, or not adding a 'catch all' to close off a special case of something you specially tweaked), even if the above could in fact be 'fixed' or just made not quite so peculiar. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.94.68|172.71.94.68]] 11:22, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
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− | ::::it still happened after i signed out, so it's probably not my CSS. also, by "breaks completely" i mean the sidebar moves all the way down to below the page content. [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]{{citation needed}} 17:21, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
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− | :::::No sign of that at my end (using both Chrome and Firefox), it's pretty much the same for historic edits. And, as long as the brower accepts an implicit table-data/table-header close when seeing the next (they ''can't'' directly nest, so no confusion possible), an implicit table-row close when seeing another (ditto) and both close when the tag outside ends (implicit, as before, or explicit on seeing the table end), there's no reason why any modern browser can't fall back on the accepted DTD. Better to be written correctly, of course! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.111|172.70.85.111]] 18:04, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
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| :Done '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 21:07, 25 April 2014 (UTC) | | :Done '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 21:07, 25 April 2014 (UTC) |
| :: Thank you! In fact, I just noticed that rows didn't reflect one filesystem level! They should be moved one level up. I will fix that (and capitalise and sort the labels.) {{unsigned ip|141.101.89.212}} | | :: Thank you! In fact, I just noticed that rows didn't reflect one filesystem level! They should be moved one level up. I will fix that (and capitalise and sort the labels.) {{unsigned ip|141.101.89.212}} |
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| :: (UPDATE: the outer circle says "47GB", ie it's from a storage volume 500x larger than that original Zipdisk, although it is itself not that large a space any more and may well be a USB thumbdrive, microSD card, or the internal storage on a smartphone/tablet/ultraportable laptop with a 64 or 128GB SSD as its primary "disc" drive... or an old rediscovered pocket hard disc or dusty old desktop PC. Even so, the square root of 500 is approx 22.4 ... and it just doesn't look 22x bigger to my eyes, so I'm going to go with "nonlinear, unless the parts hidden off-frame extend a lot further below and to the side than you'd otherwise expect") [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.150|141.101.98.150]] 13:26, 29 September 2014 (UTC) | | :: (UPDATE: the outer circle says "47GB", ie it's from a storage volume 500x larger than that original Zipdisk, although it is itself not that large a space any more and may well be a USB thumbdrive, microSD card, or the internal storage on a smartphone/tablet/ultraportable laptop with a 64 or 128GB SSD as its primary "disc" drive... or an old rediscovered pocket hard disc or dusty old desktop PC. Even so, the square root of 500 is approx 22.4 ... and it just doesn't look 22x bigger to my eyes, so I'm going to go with "nonlinear, unless the parts hidden off-frame extend a lot further below and to the side than you'd otherwise expect") [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.150|141.101.98.150]] 13:26, 29 September 2014 (UTC) |
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| [[User:WardXmodem|WardXmodem]] ([[User talk:WardXmodem|talk]]) 23:38, 27 October 2014 (UTC) | | [[User:WardXmodem|WardXmodem]] ([[User talk:WardXmodem|talk]]) 23:38, 27 October 2014 (UTC) |
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− | lovenote.txt might be a reference to [http://xkcd.com/340/ 340] --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.223|108.162.231.223]] 09:00, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
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− | The "My Documents" folder no longer exists in Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10 -- it's been renamed to "Documents". Noting the time period when the items within the "My Documents" folder (e.g., KaZaA, Fight Club, AIM, etc.) were popular, Windows XP fits this description the best because it was widely used within the same time period these items were popular AND has the "My Documents" folder. Therefore, simply writing "Microsoft Windows" is both vague and inaccurate; due to the relative disorganization of other directories, it is likely that Cueball took the path of least resistance and used the folder already created for him (My Documents from Windows XP) rather than make his own "My Documents" in Windows Vista or newer (when there's already a Documents folder available). In addition, note the size of the My Documents folder: It's measured in megabytes, not gigabytes, due to the compact software used back then (definitely not Vista). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.97|108.162.216.97]] 00:16, 31 March 2015 (UTC) << Actually 98.23.195.75; explainxkcd got it wrong + I have a dynamic address
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− | :Do not include the 9x versions of Windows along with Windows XP unless Cueball's computer can travel forward in time. Kazaa was invented in 2001. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.107|108.162.216.107]] 04:52, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
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− | <blockquote>misc.txt: A miscellaneous text file of unknown and unknowable content. It appears unreasonably large for a txt file, so it may be a large encrypted volume with an intentionally misleading name. It is the only non-video file in the topmost layer - the implication is that Cueball encrypts all his current documents. Alternatively, it may represent a folder containing zillions of individual text files.</blockquote>
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− | * There is no indication that the file is "unreasonably large". It's not clear how the visual size of the "files" correlates to file size in the comic.
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− | * There is nothing to suggest that it is an encrypted volume.
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− | * We don't know if it's the only non-video file in the top layer. The lower layers clearly show that we're only seeing a narrow slice of large concentric rings; there could be many more files offscreen.
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− | * There's nothing to imply that Cueball encrypts his documents.
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− | * There's nothing that suggests this .txt file is a misleadingly-named directory.
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− | I'm pretty sure it's just a miscellaneous text file. [[User:Hawthorn|Hawthorn]] ([[User talk:Hawthorn|talk]]) 15:54, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
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− | : +1 if you do the edit I support it ;) --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 18:50, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
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