Everyone has their own way of remembering Steve Jobs. XKCD’s tribute is kind of perfect.
On the XKCD site, if you hover over it it says, “There’s always the hope that if you sit and watch for long enough, the beachball will vanish and the thing it interrupted will return.” The title is Eternal Flame. Lovely. [XKCD]
Jackson Bison
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 9:01 AMYeah, I don’t get it…
Love XKCD, but don’t get this one…
Roland
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 9:07 AMOften that spinning thing comes across when something freezes or crashes but the OS is trying something. I don’t know exactly but sometimes is just stays there and doesn’t leave. (resulting in Alt-Command-Escape which is force quit)
Jackson Bison
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 9:14 AMAh, cool – Mac OS thing…
Kinda like if it was Bill Gates, this would be a blue screen of death (excuse the obviously harsh pun)… ;)
Never owned a Mac, but now I get it – thanks!
Matt
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 11:25 AMNo, a blue screen of death results in a restart.
This is similar to a program failing on windows, and sitting there waiting for windows to try and resolve the program instead of alt+ctrl+delete and ending the process.
Jackson Bison
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 11:49 AMKinda = sorta = similar but not the same.
/FYI
MrTaco
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 1:44 PMNot always. I’ve had plenty of blue screens where I just hit Esc and returned to whatever I was doing.
Michael
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 12:25 PMSpinning Beachball on Mac = Rotating Hourglass on Windows.
CrowdedTrousers
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 11:59 AMThe hourglass in Windows’ is rougly equivalent the Mac’s ‘spinning beach-ball’.
As an unabashed XCKD-fanboy, to me this poignant and reverent homage-in-a-panel is just further proof that XKCD towers above the average web-funnies.
Abstruse Goose also made a good fist of it, but doesn’t match the elegance of the XKCD tribute.
Daniel
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 3:35 PMThere is an even better one at http://theoatmeal.com/
Dave Lord
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 8:44 PMHa HA
I opened this page and saw the spinning beach ball.
I sat and waited….
And waited….
I thought something would happen. It was only when I moved my mouse, but the ball stayed put that I understood the joke.
Silviya
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 2:09 AMSo , technically this is a hate comic strip – it is done to pinpoint a major flaw of macOS – how it CAN NOT handle a mistake and just “hangs in there witha stupid moving icon”
The same as that famous picture of Bil Gates with a gun and a message “press any key”… but more hateful..
I find it distasteful. Randal should have thought more about his tribute.