They still haven’t fixed the flaw where missing traffic data looks like good traffic. Makes it totally useless for route planning.
Háha, good öne.
But what he politely doesn’t mention is that Google maps has gone downhill. It’s now cluttered with ads and it’s also become hard to close out of.
Is it a coincidence that “causality” and “casualty” are almost exactly the same word?
To be fair, I also mostly think of David Bowie as the guy from Labyrinth.
I was sort of expecting this one to be interactive-- It’d be clearer if you could move the foreground Samsungs out of the way.
Football belongs in the one on the left. Originally it belonged where it is above, but they, um … moved the goalposts on him.
Which kind of football?
murkin football, of course. I’m sure that’s what kind is meant in the strip, since it also has soccer.
Yeah- these are the current football goalposts
https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/american-football-field-goal-post-picture-id540869020?s=612x612
And these are the ones you see in a Ronald Reagan movie:
The old-style NFL goalposts were last used in Super Bowl I, according to Wikipedia. (They were also at the goal line, too, which caused people to run into the posts on occasion, instead of being back at the negative-10.)
It was the moving the goalposts that changed the topology of the field, at least the way the xkcd strip interprets it. And they did that not because people ran into them, but because kickers got so much better. The change from the old H-shaped ones to the newer Y-shaped was to reduce collisions, although they still happened at a lower rate. Moving to the back of the endzone reduced that further, but wasn’t the main reason for the move.
It always amuses me when people insist “soccer” is the American term. AFAIK, it’s a British term for that style of football.
I didn’t claim soccer was an American term. But when both soccer and football are used in parallel (i.e. refering to different sports) by an American, it’s an easy deduction that “football” means American football.