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3 November 2008 - 5:00am — Christopher Wright
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Help Desk, by Christopher B. Wright
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ALICE: Heads up, big brother. We've got a new product we're going to be pushing through and I want tech support ready to hype it for all it's worth.

ALEX: What are we mindlessly pushing on our customers now?

ALICE: Don't be cheeky. Due to the extreme popularity of the marketing phrase "cloud computing," we're going to be pushing a new operating system that is optimized for "The Cloud."

ALEX: So you're re-branding the thin client.

ALICE: No, the thin client is a client/server technology. This technology is based on "The Cloud."

ALEX: Which is server based.

ALICE: In part.

ALEX: And accessed through a client.

ALICE: Yes, but since it utilizes apps from "The Cloud" we won't need a very large hardware or software footprint on the client machines and --

ALEX: So you're re-branding the thin client.

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3 November 2008 - 3:00pm — Anonymous (not verified)

the comment button is missing from some parts of your site, I looked from two places and couldn't post in OSW

That's intentional...

3 November 2008 - 7:56pm — Christopher Wright

The ability to post comments in a comic is locked after one week of publication. It cuts down on comment spam.

That seems a bit short.

4 November 2008 - 2:31am — Miral2 (not verified)

That seems a bit short. What about the people who only come across the comic later on, or who read comics in batches (eg. monthly) rather than daily/weekly?

Usually flagging anything that has an URL (or more than one URL) for moderation is sufficient to kill most kinds of comment spam, without imposing time limits.

It might be a bit short...

4 November 2008 - 5:09am — Christopher Wright

... but for a while the bulk of my comment spam was backposted by about a week and a half. The majority of the legit comments on this site are made within 2-3 days of the comic.

Still, I might extend the backposting cutoff by a week or two.

Not a bug...

4 November 2008 - 6:40am — David Nale

"The ability to post comments in a comic is locked after one week of publication. It cuts down on comment spam."

Ah! Thus it is not a BUG, but a FEATURE!

(Ubersoft couldn't have said it better!)

http://nale.org.uk

Hey, very interesting

9 November 2008 - 5:50am — Gummiboot (not verified)

Hey, very interesting post.

My written English is not so good so I write in German:

"Lieber den Spatz in der Hand, als die Taube auf dem Dach."

Yours sincerely
Gummi