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WCDT Strips 4026-4030 (17th to 21st June 2019)
Case:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 16 Jun 2019, 22:25 ---
--- Quote from: Mordhaus on 16 Jun 2019, 21:32 ---Ok, I get that the comic always does it's best to 'humanize' the ai's, but are you seriously trying to tell me that an AI can't access google (or whatever takes it's place in this universe) and find a video on how to install a cartridge?
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Watching a video doesn't magically confer the ability to do it right.
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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz40vwcTGFo
BenRG:
Yeah, today's strip really reinforced for me the impression that this whole organisation is a kind of 'rain catcher', intended to convince AIs that they can help better others lives (staff) or that someone wants to help them better their lives (clients) without actually rocking the boat by achieving anything. The purpose isn't malign really; it's just the result of the bureaucracy's obsession with maintaining the status quo as much as possible and dealing with complaints as efficiently as possible without actually changing anything.
I'm pretty sure that Roko will shortly find that the printer hasn't even been installed on the network and she needs to locate and install the drivers too!
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Case on 16 Jun 2019, 22:12 ---there's an surprising amount of non-functional printers. Accompanied by an unsurprising amount of people adamant about how easily they'd be able to fix this 1980s tech (*), if only they could be bothered to get their planet-sized brains interested in the task, of course ...
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Ten or more years ago I had a thing going for a time when I would repair a couple of models of HP printer by taking out a particular control card and baking it in my oven at home at 180°C for 14 minutes. Easy when you know how...
cesium133:
--- Quote from: Case on 16 Jun 2019, 22:12 ---
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 16 Jun 2019, 19:46 ---I've worked with a lot of people like Beepatrice and they are some of the nicest people on the planet.
And the very sad thing is that I have worked with so many people like Beepatrice.
And I have wanted to strangle each and every single one of them.
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It's quite astonishing: Even in a theoretical physics department - i.e. a working environment staffed (almost) exclusively from those nerds too nerdy not to pay them for it - there's an surprising amount of non-functional printers. Accompanied by an unsurprising amount of people adamant about how easily they'd be able to fix this 1980s tech (*), if only they could be bothered to get their planet-sized brains interested in the task (**)(***), of course ... :wink:
#therealTBBT
(*) It takes a very strong ego to admit to technical ineptitude if part of your identity is based on looking down on people with advanced degrees in experimental physics or engineering ...
(**) Senior denizens are familiar with the most elegant way of fixing a printer: Holler for the grad-student, of course!
(***) Actually, most of the offending printers aren't unfunctional so much as very badly configured - or rather: The networks meant to access the printers are. (****)
(****) An obvious consequence of several decades of senior planet-sized brains solving problems by means of 'Hollering for the grad-student' - most of whom will leave the department for a better paying job without leaving a legible documentation of the solutions they implemented ...
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Honestly, the printers in experimental physics don't work much better. When I was at Wisconsin, we had a printer that would detect a paper jam after every page printed. The workaround was to pull out the paper tray, reinsert it, and press the button to tell the printer to continue. This got very inconvenient on long documents.
BenRG:
BEEPATRICE: "'PC Load Letter'? What the glitch does that mean?!?"
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