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Raw Materials - Minds on Fire

  • December 18, 2009 at 3:43 pm

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  • January 2, 2010 at 8:09 am

    #1098157

    I haven't belly-laughed at a comic strip for a long time. Thanks for this one!

    😀

  • January 2, 2010 at 8:54 am

    #1098160

    This one is pretty good, especially now.

  • January 6, 2010 at 7:11 am

    #1099545

    I like the strip, but I thought the final frame, though funny, could have been less cliche. As we've all seen, in movies when a computer gets stuck in an infinite loopback (or similar) condition, it tends to blow up, melt down, or fail catastrophically in some other fashion.

    As those of us in the real world know, runaway or loopback conditions aren't nearly so dramatic, though they can be as devastating.

    As I read the final frame, an alternate ending occured to me. Instead of the robot burning up, he could freeze, head cocked to the side and start saying continuously, "Stack Overflow, Reboot required."

    And the girl (whose name I can't remember) could say, "Yeah, the economy's like that too."

    Just a thought.

    Love the strip,

    Dave

  • January 6, 2010 at 8:23 am

    #1099620

    "Burnout" is the governing word here. You have to remember that Derek is a robot as well as a computer. The flames were kindled when small gears in and around his neck swivelled back and forth at such high speed that their lubricated bearings vaporized from the friction.

  • January 6, 2010 at 8:42 am

    #1099645

    Given the set A which is a set of all sets that do not contain themselves as proper subsets, is set A in set A?

    The infinite loop usually does not cause a burn out. It just causes unresponsiveness. Like when you call a government office.

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • January 6, 2010 at 10:26 am

    #1099755

    Nice one

    while i < 2

    Begin

    Print 'People Stop Buying things because people stopped buying things'

    i=1

    End

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
    I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

  • January 6, 2010 at 10:38 am

    #1099760

    Charles Kincaid (1/6/2010)

    Given the set A which is a set of all sets that do not contain themselves as proper subsets, is set A in set A?

    Believe it or not, there's a workaround to this problem!! Bertrand Russell, who dreamed up the paradox, tried to fix it by arranging sets in a heirarchy of "types". Later (by the time I studied math), this was simplified to a two-type heirarchy as follows:

    A class is a collection of things. A set is a class that's a member of some class. This resolves the Russell paradox because the collection of all sets which are not members of themselves is a class but not a set.

  • January 22, 2010 at 9:36 am

    #1107428

    Still funny... and this is like my fifth reading over the past few weeks 😛

  • October 25, 2011 at 1:26 am

    #1398977

    😛 Funny

  • October 26, 2011 at 10:57 am

    #1399790

    Still a funny comic.

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
    I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

  • October 26, 2011 at 11:07 am

    #1399801

    SQLRNNR (10/26/2011)

    Still a funny comic.

    True more than funny ;-).

  • October 26, 2011 at 11:49 am

    #1399825

    Still my favorite!

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