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Ups and downs

An xkcd, passed along on Facebook by Jack Hamilton:

I struggle to determine if this is actually self-referential, but then my head hurts.

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2 Responses to “Ups and downs”

  1. Ned Deily Says:
    April 10, 2013 at 11:04 am | Reply

    “How many updates could the downloader load,
    if the downloader were up-da-ted?”

  2. John Roth Says:
    April 11, 2013 at 7:58 am | Reply

    The mouseover is: “ALERT: Some pending mandatory software updates require version 21.1.2 of the Oracle/Sun Java(tm) JDK(tm) Update Manager Runtime Environment Meta-Updater, which is not available for your platform.”

    That’s the gotcha.

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