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190: IPoD
2018-01-16T12:58:08Z
<p>162.158.34.76: /* Explanation */ Reference to IP over X nomenclature</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 190<br />
| date = November 29, 2006<br />
| title = IPoD<br />
| image = ipod.png<br />
| titletext = For smaller numbers he has to SAVE lives. The birthrate channel is even more of a mixed bag.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Internet Protocol|IP}} is one of the main protocols of the Internet. It is used to route data packets from one computer to another, using other computers or even complete networks in between if needed. It is designed to use the fastest (not necessarily the shortest) route to the target, automatically using another route if a connection or a transmitting host fails.<br />
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Every participant of the network has to have a so-called {{w|IP address}}. The data is divided into ''packets'', each consisting of a header and the payload. The header tells the transmitting parties where the packet comes from and where it should go (together with some other details). The payload is the data to be transmitted.<br />
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IP packets can be carried by a variety of transport networks. Such methods are often referred to as "IP over X" (or "IPoX" for short). Examples include [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_DVB |IP over DVB]], [[http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATM-Linux-HOWTO/ip-over-atm.html |IP over ATM]], and the humorous [[http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html |IP over Avian Carriers]].<br />
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[[Black Hat]] (and other statisticians) is using demographics as IP packets to send data. In order to adjust the death rate to encode the header, Black Hat plans to travel to New Jersey and go on a killing spree with a crossbow, instead of merely hacking the census bureau's computers. Such antics could only be used to ''increase'' the death rate; decreasing it would require saving lives instead, as mentioned in the title text. Also as mentioned, birth rates would be trickier to manipulate, as doing so would require encouraging or discouraging women to have children and would require an approximately nine-month delay, which is a great deal more difficult than taking a crossbow to a heavily populated area.<br />
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Crossbows were also mentioned in [[564: Crossbows]]. Black Hat is also seen using his crossbow in [[929: Speculation]]<br />
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The title of the comic and the IPoD protocol are a probable reference to the {{w|iPod}}, a portable electronic device created by {{w|Apple Inc}}.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Black Hat sits at a computer. Cueball stands behind him.]<br />
:Black Hat: You see, statisticians communicate using IPoD -- IP over Demographics. For example, the header of the next packet I send will be encoded into the New Jersey death rate.<br />
:Cueball: So you're going to hack the census bureau and change the number of reported deaths?<br />
:Black Hat: Guess again.<br />
:Black Hat: Hey, have you seen my crossbow?<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Crossbows]]</div>
162.158.34.76
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1920:_Emoji_Sports&diff=148324
Talk:1920: Emoji Sports
2017-11-24T15:31:28Z
<p>162.158.34.76: </p>
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It seems like in addition to the destructive sports thing, he's also playing on the emojis made from other emojis in multi character Unicode, but as it's 3 in the morning and I can't even remember what things are called I'm not gonna even try to edit right now. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.33|162.158.62.33]] 07:50, 24 November 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Hey! An early published comic! 3AM Me And Randall time Thursday night right now. Fun since I only read on Monday and Thursday nights. :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 08:14, 24 November 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Actually candle eating isn't so far out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXg3l_Lnmdo<br />
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It seems like the joke in the title is about the fact that a horse winning a HorseHole race wouldn't actually be able to compete anymore (dead or hurt). Which would explain why no horse ever won the 4 different races. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.150.40|162.158.150.40]] 09:58, 24 November 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Re. " the mailbox seems to be missing mail" - If there was mail in there, there wouldn't be room to stuff the owl in.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.239|141.101.104.239]] 11:22, 24 November 2017 (UTC)<br />
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What a dumb idea for a comic. It's kinda like comedy central when they run out of ideas, they run South Park day and night, or TruTV running Impractical Jokers episodes because they ran out of other remotely funny stuff. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.58.113|172.68.58.113]] 11:52, 24 November 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Is it worth mentioning that a version of Alligator Jumping appears in the Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album? As befits MP, the sport involves running at a crocodile, then diving into its mouth. There is controversy in the sport regarding whether or not to coat yourself with a marinade. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.111.85|162.158.111.85]] 12:28, 24 November 2017 (UTC)<br />
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I vaguely remember that "Consequence XXXXX" is a thing; finding a reference for that would be helpful. Also, any way to increase the size of the emojis? They're pretty hard to read at the usual font size. -- [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.145|173.245.52.145]] 15:15, 24 November 2017 (UTC)<br />
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I don't think the ball in Fancyball is supposed to be giant; they are just emoji and I don't think they're representative of the sizes of the participants/objects in the game. After all, I don't think there is a man the size of a volcano... Also, water-skiing is a sport - is the person jumping over the alligator necessarily confined to snow? Although the person in the emoji does have ski poles so perhaps that is the case. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.76|162.158.34.76]] 15:31, 24 November 2017 (UTC)</div>
162.158.34.76
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1895:_Worrying_Scientist_Interviews&diff=146024
Talk:1895: Worrying Scientist Interviews
2017-09-28T10:52:40Z
<p>162.158.34.76: Interest rate interviews</p>
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Why not use Heliologist? :~) [[User:DarkJMKnight|DarkJMKnight]] ([[User talk:DarkJMKnight|talk]]) 14:49, 27 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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If the sun is local breaking news, could be an impending dark age (solar activity destroying all technology) or a dark age (solar implosion/explosion/death). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.5|162.158.79.5]] 15:42, 27 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Why not use Heliologist? :~) [[User:DarkJMKnight|DarkJMKnight]] ([[User talk:DarkJMKnight|talk]]) 14:49, 27 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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If the sun is local breaking news, could be an impending dark age (solar activity destroying all technology) or a dark age (solar implosion/explosion/death). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.5|162.158.79.5]] 15:42, 27 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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: Destroying *''all''* technology would require something on the scale of a solar expansion (hydrogen exhaustion) Solar flares (even those strong enough to burn all life from the face of the Earth) still would not be sufficient to destroy subterranean shelters like NORAD. Only a total extinction event would be capable of destroying all technology. Even if 99.9% of all humans on Earth were killed off, there are very well secured (& insanely well funded) facilities which will survive any event short of total crust-upheaval, at least for a generation or so. Reverting to primitive lifestyle may possibly happen for a *''majority''* of humans, but modern military systems are such that some humans with tech are almost guaranteed to remain, no matter what terrible events occur. In other words, the wealthiest technocratic elite aren't going to die off any time soon. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.58.125|172.68.58.125]] 00:59, 28 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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: Which makes me wonder why only a local reporter is covering the story. Sounds like a media beat-up. The joke appears to depend more on someone's imagination than on the actual news story. [[Special:Contributions/198.41.238.34|198.41.238.34]] 23:10, 27 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Everyone else is dead except for the reporter who happens to be beret guy<br />
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Marine biologist is probably about oil spills or coral reefs/fish dying etc, rather than invasive species --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.209|141.101.99.209]] 16:18, 27 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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The explanation for "ornithologist" uses "avian dinosaurs" instead of "birds." There's a link to the wikipedia page for birds, but it's still a potentially confusing inside joke. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.106|172.68.54.106]] 19:01, 27 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
: The reference to "ornithologist" is almost certainly a reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film) Hitchcock's "The Birds"] [[Special:Contributions/172.68.253.209|172.68.253.209]] 01:52, 28 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
:: Definitely, rather than the obscure Birdemic movie --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.81|141.101.69.81]] 06:32, 28 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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So, wait: worried about what the hell is so wrong with interviewers for them to actually want to talk to these kinds of researchers; or about what is happening to the world are we all going to die is it the end times? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.71|162.158.79.71]] 19:54, 27 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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The solar physicist would most likely be talking about an incoming solar flare, which could shut down the electric grid, satellites, and a bunch of other stuff, potentially within minutes, making it the most pressing of the issues. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.112|162.158.75.112]] 01:11, 28 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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I think economists and nutritionists are at the lower end for being notoriously wrong in their predictions --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.81|141.101.69.81]] 06:35, 28 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Wow, this comic came on the morning right after the night in which I had a terrifying nightmare about the sun going supernova. I'm SERIOUSLY spooked. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.148|162.158.92.148]] 08:53, 28 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
:Well don't worry, the sun is too small to go Super nova. My nightmare as a kid was that it swelled up and swallowed the Earth... This will probably happen, but in 5 bill. years fro now. But when you are 6 years old that is not a number that makes any sense, and I had just heard about the death of the sun :D --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:33, 28 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Bayes! Uuuh-vey! Considering you should pre-multiply with the probability that the<br />
desaster happens in the first place (which is rather unlikely for the sun),<br />
I definitely would be worried with the economist most. (Mkay, big stock crashes are as<br />
probable as volcano eruptions, but I don't live near one.) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.29|141.101.104.29]] 10:10, 28 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
:But economists are interviewed before and after every meeting of the [Federal Reserve / Bank of England / whoever] discussing whether to change interest rates. That's a lot of non-critical interviews. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.76|162.158.34.76]] 10:52, 28 September 2017 (UTC)</div>
162.158.34.76
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1889:_xkcd_Phone_6&diff=145455
Talk:1889: xkcd Phone 6
2017-09-14T12:48:22Z
<p>162.158.34.76: Non-consecutive numbering in Slackware</p>
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I tried to access http://xkcd.com/MDCCCLXXXIX but I got a "CDIV NOT FOVND" error.[[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 14:38, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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1876 is the year of Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent US174465 "Improvement in telegraphy" and the "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." transmission.--[[User:Laverock|Laverock]] ([[User talk:Laverock|talk]]) 15:31, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Maybe "SPF 30" refers to how easily the phone becomes sunburned, rather than to how much protection the phone provides to you. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.16|162.158.63.16]] 15:40, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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"Never Needs Sharpening," while applicable to pencils, is more likely a reference to those crappy knives often hocked in infomercials. See the TvTropes entry of the same name: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverNeedsSharpening [[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.222|172.68.133.222]] 16:38, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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The promotional material for [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1809 xkdc Phone 5] said they refused to skip numbers!--[[User:Laverock|Laverock]] ([[User talk:Laverock|talk]]) 17:18, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Did anyone else notice that the title text contradicts with one of the main design features of the phone? Having a front camera in the middle of the screen specifically for video calling, then claiming that the phone never transmits images of the user's face (or even restricting the phone's software/hardware such that it cannot transmit images of the user's face) is somewhat of a contradiction. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.61|162.158.154.61]] 17:20, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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"We didn't start this war" reminiscent of War for the Planet of the Apes tagline? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.238|108.162.215.238]] 17:25, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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I thought it might have been a small reference to "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel? See also comics 1775 and 1794.<br />
--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.88|108.162.219.88]] 11:17, 14 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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The "camera in the middle of the screen" is (hopefully) not too far away: [http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/08/apple_files_patent_for_camera_hidden_behind_display] [http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1112501121/sony-patents-technology-to-put-camera-and-sensors-behind-smartphone-display/] [[User:Sysin|Sysin]] ([[User talk:Sysin|talk]]) 19:21, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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;{{w|ordinal indicator#Masculine|º}} or {{w|superior letter|<sup>o</sup>}} or {{w|degree symbol|°}} or {{w|ring (diacritic)|˚}}?<br />
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Which one is it at the end of the trademarked (and registered to be so), copyrighted tagline?<br />
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(Currently it's transcribed as {{w|ordinal indicator#Masculine|º}}.)<br />
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--[[User:Das-g|Das-g]] ([[User talk:Das-g|talk]]) 20:09, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
:I'm pretty sure it's the {{w|degree symbol|degree symbol °}} because the letter before is a C for copyright or Celsius. Open the original 2x picture and you can see there is no underline like here: º. Thanks for this question. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:35, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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;What's the future?<br />
iPhone 8 followed by 9 then 10 and 11? And the <s>phablet</s> iPhone X followed by XI and XII? That X is pronounced ''ten''. And what number will the next xkcd phone use (besides the 7)? --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:12, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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: The iPhone X is not a Phablet. It is "smaller" than the iPhone 8 Plus (see https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/) and only slightly larger than the iPhone 8. And they're calling it the iPhone X (ten) because it is a step forward. Presumably the next phone will be the 11, unless they choose to go with a digit after the X, following OSX's approach. --[[User:Rand|Rand]] ([[User talk:Rand|talk]]) 22:18, 13 September 2017 (UTC) <br />
::Phablet was wrong, but that's what I've found at the first documentations. But for sure the next phone will not be 11, probably again two products, maybe then 9 and XL... --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 23:39, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
: I'm wondering if the iphone is meant to be the Iphone "Ex" or "Ten" - a la OSX (which should be OS Ten, not Oh Es Ex) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.55|162.158.154.55]] 07:27, 14 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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;Citation needed<br />
Is this template still that funny that it's worth to mention it more often then the existing numbers of Google Chrome versions? I say this isn't funny anymore for a long time. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:31, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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;Non-consecutive numbers joke<br />
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The ''joke'' in the title text is that Apple just jumped from iPhone 8 to iPhone 10. <br />
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The joke needs to be explained somewhere in the text. Dgbrt reverted my edit in such a way that ''the joke is no longer explained''.<br />
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Please fix.--[[User:Rand|Rand]] ([[User talk:Rand|talk]]) 22:13, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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: In case anyone doubts the joke: If I type "why did a" into Google, it autofills to "why did apple skip iphone 9". A lot of people are asking this question. Randall, meanwhile, is making fun of Apple for skipping iPhone 9. --[[User:Rand|Rand]] ([[User talk:Rand|talk]]) 22:24, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Here's somebody else making a similar joke at Apple's expense: http://ew.com/news/2017/09/12/in-memoriam-iphone-9/--[[User:Rand|Rand]] ([[User talk:Rand|talk]]) 22:26, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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OMG, iPhone 8 and iPhone X were released at the same time. There is no current phone existing which follows iPhone 8 and there may be a iPhone 9 in the future. The X is pronounced ''ten'' but that phone is not the successor of the iPhone 8. Until now Microsoft is the one company who omitted the version number 9. To claim this on Apple we still have to wait for the next phone.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 23:13, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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: No, in order to ''know with certainty'' that Apple skipped a version number (as opposed to releasing a ten followed by a nine) we would need to wait for the next phone. In order to joke about it... well, half the internet is already making that joke: https://www.bustle.com/p/iphone-9-memes-jokes-pay-homage-to-the-forgotten-generation-2343796. And yes, Randall Munroe is also making that joke.--[[User:Rand|Rand]] ([[User talk:Rand|talk]]) 23:20, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
::Of course people are joking. But it's still only Microsoft omitting the 9. Randall jokes about this by presenting the xkcd phone VIII, and many other names, for the same major features. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 23:30, 13 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
::: They're joking about ''skipping the iPhone 9''. Randall refers to ''nonconsecutive'' version numbers: that is, version numbers that skip. There's no ambiguity here. The graceful thing for you to do here would be to undo your revision, improving the language if necessary. If you're not willing to, I'll let others handle the edit warring / making the consensus clear.--[[User:Rand|Rand]] ([[User talk:Rand|talk]]) 00:08, 14 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Shroud of turin style facial transfer means you'd have to press the phone against your face until somehow an impression of your face was registered, in the same way as an imprint of oils(?) from a face is left on the turin shroud. This is more amusing, and ridiculous, than the current explanation. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.233|141.101.99.233]] 05:13, 14 September 2017 (UTC)<br />
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The war of nonconsecutive numbering goes back to 1999 at least, as Slackware jumped from Version 4.0 to 7.0 because other distros had been iterating version numbers quicker, and Patrick Volkerding wanted to catch up: http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=general#0 [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.76|162.158.34.76]] 12:48, 14 September 2017 (UTC)</div>
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https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1889:_xkcd_Phone_6&diff=145451
1889: xkcd Phone 6
2017-09-14T11:12:21Z
<p>162.158.34.76: /* List of features (clockwise from center/top) */ Pre-seasoned timber</p>
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| date = September 13, 2017<br />
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This is the sixth entry in the ongoing [[:Category:xkcd Phones|xkcd Phone series]], released the day after Apple announced their new {{w|iPhone 8}} and the higher-end {{w|iPhone X}} (pronounced iPhone 10) with facial recognition features.<br />
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; Front camera (centered for eye contact during video chat)<br />
: Front camera is a common feature of smartphones. The camera lens is located on the same side of the phone's case as the main screen and therefore it is possible to capture the image of the user's face looking at the screen and display the interlocutor's face on the screen simultaneously, enabling video chat. However, as the camera is usually located above the screen, a user looking at the displayed image of the other person directs his or her eyes at the center of the screen and not at the camera's lens. This is very visible on the other end of the chat as if the person talking was looking down and not in the interlocutor's face which is an uncomfortable situation for most people. For this reason, professionals involved in movie or TV-making, like actors or reporters, are trained to look straight into the camera's lens while talking, which creates impression of looking straight at the viewer's face. During a video chat, however, looking into the lens of an above-screen camera does not allow one to see the interlocutor's face clearly because it is then in the peripheral field of vision.<br />
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: To solve this conundrum, Randall proposes locating the camera lens right in the middle of the screen. Therefore the user looking at the screen to see the other person's face would be also looking at the lens, creating an impression of a straight look on the other end of the chat. This is absurd since the lens would then take place of some of the center pixels of the screen, not allowing the display the center part of the captured image of the other person's face (like eyes and/or lips) which is most important for nonverbal communication. Such location of the camera lens would also likely interfere with touch-screen function. It will make other applications on the phone difficult to use, since virtually no user interface is designed to accommodate for a blind spot in the center.<br />
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; Full-width rear camera<br />
: Phone cameras tend to have lenses which are quite small and round or square -- same width as height. Full-width makes it sound like the camera lens is really wide, as in a long oval or rectangle shape. This generally would not accomplish anything worthwhile, unless it allowed you to take one-shot panorama photos.<br />
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; CDC partnership - phone automatically administers seasonal flu vaccine to cheek every year<br />
: U.S. {{w|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention}} is a government agency tasked with addressing public health concerns such as infectious diseases, including seasonal flu. A common way of limiting spread of an infectious disease is {{w|Vaccine|vaccination}}, which most often involves administering a specially prepared medicine via an {{w|intramuscular injection}}. This features implies that the phone would automatically perform such an injection once a year, by shooting a needle out of a small aperture while the user is holding the phone to his or her cheek during a call.<br />
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; 12-function<br />
: Most smartphones can be used for more than 12 different things. However, this may refer to the 12 basic functions of calculus (identity, squaring, cubing, square root, logarithm, exponential, reciprocal, sine, cosine, greatest integer, absolute value, and logistic), or the twelve function keys on a modern keyboard (more than the ten on the original IBM PC keyboard). Alternatively it may be a reference to calculators: basic models are sometimes referred to as four function calculators (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), and complex scientific calculators may advertise 250 or more functions.<br />
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; Dishwasher safe<br />
: Usually a feature of plastic containers or fancy dishes. Unlikely to appear on a smartphone, though potentially useful if you need to clean your screen.<br />
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; GPS transmitter<br />
: Many smartphones have a receiver for the Global Positioning System, which allows a phone to compute its position based on signals from the constellation of GPS satellites. However, a device with a "GPS transmitter" would broadcast signals that would interfere with the GPS receivers of all devices nearby.<br />
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; 3-G acceleration<br />
: Usually, a phone is 3g compatible if it uses a certain standard ("third generation") for data transmission. However, 3-G acceleration implies the phone can accelerate at a rate or 3 times the acceleration of gravity, or approximately 30 m/s².<br />
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; Portable, solar-heated<br />
: Portability is pretty much the entire point of using a ''mobile'' phone, so advertising portability is rather pointless. Solar ''power'' charging could be a very useful feature on a phone, but solar ''heating'' usually applies to plumbing, where a water tank is heated by the sun and used to supply hot water to taps. Technically, as the sun heats up everything on Earth, the phone is in fact solar heated.<br />
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;Pore-cleaning strip<br />
: Something sticky on that location would be very annoying for people trying to use their beards to make a call. See also [[777: Pore Strips]]<br />
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; Maximum strength<br />
:Medicines are often sold a "Maximum strength", as in the highest dose allowed by law or allowed without a prescription. For phones, there are sometimes "hardened" or "ruggedized" versions which are designed to survive harsher environmental conditions such as surviving drops and collisions, excessive water and dust, etc. So Maximum strength could indicate a "ruggedized" phone, though a screen that extended past the edges would likely have the opposite effect.<br />
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; Never needs sharpening<br />
: Phones do not need to be sharpened in the first place{{Citation needed}}. This is a feature more likely to be found in a knife advertisement (especially for a knife that cannot be sharpened, like a serrated or ceramic blade).<br />
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; Can survive up to 30 minutes out of water<br />
: This is a play on the common IP-rating of water resistance, which is typically rated for submersion to a rated depth for 30 minutes. A phone which could only be used or carried for 30 minutes and then needed to be immersed in water would be rather inconvenient.<br />
<br />
; Exclusive Audubon Society app identifies birds and lets you control their flight<br />
: {{w|National Audubon Society}} is a non-profit organization dedicated to conservation of nature, mainly of birds, also organizing open {{w|birdwatching}} events. An app that identifies bird species, as for example from a photo of a bird made by the smartphone itself, would be cool. An app allowing you to control the bird's flight would be way cooler, but it is not possible at the current state of technology - and it would fly in the face of the Audubon Society core activity. This is a reference to {{w|Unmanned_aerial_vehicle|drones}} (artificial "birds") which are often controlled by a smartphone app. This may also be a reference to [[1425: Tasks]], in which an app that can recognize if a bird is on camera is proposed.<br />
<br />
; Extra screen<br />
:Because of the center camera, an additional section of screen was added. This is similar to the new iPhone, which also has a few extra pixels up there.<br />
<br />
; Wireless charging port<br />
:An oxymoron; because wireless charging has no wires, it needs no port.<br />
<br />
; Safe for ages 6-8 months, 10 months, 18 months-3 years, and 12 years and older<br />
:Usually an item is deemed safe for a particular age or older, or (in the case of toys) is recommended for a particular age range. This is unusual in that it's a hodge-podge of age ranges with no apparent reason why some ages are safe and others are not. It may be a parody of drug commercials that list several age ranges for which the drug had to be separately approved.<br />
<br />
; Screen goes past the edge<br />
:A parody of the trend of "edge to edge" displays in recent generations of smartphones<br />
<br />
; High thread count CPU<br />
:A CPU thread is a task the CPU performs. Several threads may share memory making them a process. Threads are meant to run in parallel and the operating system distributes the workload on the available hardware execution units. These execution units are sometimes called hardware threads, especially when there is more than one per core. For example, the Intel Core i7 7700 is considered a 4-core, 8-thread CPU. The vague "high thread count" statement could make sense in this context, however, it is most likely a joke about bedding, where it is an actual selling point.<br />
<br />
; Shroud of Turin-style facial transfer unlock<br />
:The {{w|Shroud of Turin}} is a {{w|Pareidolia}} facial image of the face of {{w|Jesus Christ}}. Presumably, to unlock this phone, the user would have to physically press their face against the phone, the way Jesus Christ's allegedly transferred to the shroud. This is likely a reference to the iPhone X's FaceID unlock, which uses a ''photograph'' of your face to unlock it and which had attracted [https://www.wired.com/story/iphone-x-faceid-security/ significant criticism] immediately before this comic came out.<br />
<br />
; Fonts developed by NASA<br />
: Between 1975 and 1992 NASA used the {{w|NASA insignia|"worm" logotype}} in its insignia. It was a special font omitting the horizontal bar in the capitalized letter A. May be a reference to many advertisements that claim their product uses technology developed by NASA. This seems impressive, as NASA technology does tend to be quite strong and advanced, as they claim at their [https://spinoff.nasa.gov/ spin off] website. However, it would not be as impressive due to fonts having very little to do with NASA's core operations.<br />
<br />
; Includes applicator<br />
: What tampon packages, cosmetics, paints, and other products often say. An applicator for a phone would be absurd since the phone cannot be applied, spread, inserted, or attached to something else.<br />
<br />
; Burns clean coal<br />
: There is a push for clean energy production due to pollution concerns. <!-- While burning any sort of coal may produce carbon dioxide, "clean-burning coal" has nothing to do with global warming, greenhouse gasses, or anything of the like. It refers to production of soot, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, etc., or lack thereof --> Using heat to generate operating electricity for a mobile phone is absurd, as the apparatus to burn any fuel and then extract electricity from that heat would be very large compared to the phone itself, and thus be impractical for a mobile.<br />
<br />
; Pre-seasoned<br />
:Pre-seasoned typically refers to cast iron cookware which is ready to use out of the box, as opposed to needing to season it with oil and heat. It can also refer to packaged meats which are ready to cook without needing to be seasoned with herbs and spices, or timber that has been dried and is ready for use.<br />
<br />
; Broad-spectrum SPF 30<br />
:The xkcd phone somehow gives an SPF 30 level of skin protection from the sun.<br />
<br />
; College-ruled<br />
:College-ruled is a style of notebook paper having narrower lines in order to fit more text per page.<br />
<br />
; Sterile packaging<br />
:Useful for medical supplies, less so in a phone.<br />
<br />
; Radium backlight<br />
:The discovery of the phosphorescent element radium sparked a brief fad in which some watch makers painted watch faces or hands with the substance so the time could be read at night. However, it was eventually realized that regular exposure to radium could result in radiation poisoning, particularly for the workers assembling and painting the watches. A radium-based backlight would therefore be both potentially dangerous (especially for an object carried on one's person much of the time) but also largely useless, as the phosphorescence of radium is rather dim compared to conventional phone back lights.<br />
<br />
; 4K pixels (50×80)<br />
:This refers to having 4,000 pixels in the screen in total, rather than a screen width of ~4000 pixels. TV's advertised as "4K" are typically up to 4096 × 2160 pixels, or 8.8 million pixels. That would be outstanding for a cell phone whereas 4,000 pixels total would be horrendous. As a comparison, the old Commodore VIC-20 with a resolution of 176 × 184 would have over 8 times the pixels of this phone. It is however quite close to the screen resolution of the sturdy Nokia 3310, boasting a total of 4032 pixels positioned 84 × 48.<br />
<br />
In the caption below the phone [[Randall]] presents many different version numbers:<br />
*The number 6 is in correct order of all the xkcd phones<br />
*The {{w|Roman numerals|roman number}} VIII refers to the newly announced {{w|iPhone 8}} and jokes about the roman number X below<br />
*Version number 10 is the current version of Microsoft Windows after omitting the number 9<br />
*The {{w|iPhone X}} was announced together with the iPhone 8 by Apple on September 12, 2017, a day before this comic was released. Apple clarified X must be read as the roman number 10, so for additional absurdity two xkcd phones share the same number, using different numeral<br />
*The number 26 refers to...<br />
*In the year 1876 {{w|Alexander Graham Bell}} received the U.S. Patent No. 174465 for the {{w|invention of the telephone}}, but there is still a {{w|Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy|controversy}} whether {{w|Elisha Gray}} was the first who presented a working telephone.<br />
Below of this numbers Randall states that xkcd isn't responsible for this ''nonconsecutive version number war'', but, as it can be seen here above, he attempts to win. And by counting parallel version numbers xkcd defeated Apple 6:2. The symbols at the end are ™ for trademark, ® for registered trademark, and © for a copyright protection. The degree symbol ° after the letter C could be a play with degree Celsius.<br />
<br />
In the title text Randall attributes privacy concerns about the facial recognition feature. A picture of a face will only be used for this new feature but never stored on the device nor transmitted to internet. A ''small'' side effect may be that the famous selfie pictures aren't possible anymore, as well as video calls.<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
:[A smartphone is shown, the screen is slightly wider than the case, in the middle is a photo lens, and at the right bottom a small extra part is added to the screen.]<br />
:[On top a bracket ranges nearly over the entire width of the case. The text reads:]<br />
:Full-width rear camera<br />
:[The label at the photo lens is:]<br />
:Front camera (centered for eye contact during video chat)<br />
:[The label on the extra part says:]<br />
:Extra screen<br />
:[At the bottom below the case a label reads:]<br />
:Wireless charging port<br />
<br />
:[The labels left to the phone are:]<br />
:4k pixels (50x80)<br />
:Radium backlight<br />
:Sterile packaging<br />
:College-ruled<br />
:Broad spectrum SPF 30<br />
:Pre-seasoned<br />
:Burns clean coal<br />
:Includes applicator<br />
:Fonts developed by NASA<br />
:Shroud of turn-style facial transfer unlock<br />
:High thread count CPU<br />
:Screen goes past the edge<br />
:Safe for ages 6-8 months, 10 months, 18 months-3 years, and 12 years and older<br />
<br />
:[The labels right to the phone are:]<br />
:CDC partnership: Phone automatically administers seasonal flu vaccine to cheek every year<br />
:12-function<br />
:Dishwasher safe<br />
:GPS transmitter<br />
:3-G acceleration<br />
:Portable, solar-heated<br />
:Pore-cleaning strip<br />
:Maximum strength<br />
:Never needs sharpening<br />
:Can survive up to 30 minutes out of water<br />
:Exclusive Audubon Society app identifies birds and lets you control their flight<br />
<br />
:[Text below the phone:]<br />
:Introducing<br />
:'''The XKCD PHONE 6, VIII, 10, X, 26, and 1876'''<br />
:''We didn't start this nonconsecutive version number war, but we will not lose it.''™®©°<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:xkcd Phones]]</div>
162.158.34.76
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1889:_xkcd_Phone_6&diff=145450
1889: xkcd Phone 6
2017-09-14T11:06:50Z
<p>162.158.34.76: /* List of features (clockwise from center/top) */ Functions: 4 function calculators, etc.</p>
<hr />
<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1889<br />
| date = September 13, 2017<br />
| title = xkcd Phone 6<br />
| image = xkcd_phone_6.png<br />
| titletext = We understand your privacy concerns; be assured that our phones will never store or transmit images of your face.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|All features need an explanation, the version number war and title text as well. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
This is the sixth entry in the ongoing [[:Category:xkcd Phones|xkcd Phone series]], released the day after Apple announced their new {{w|iPhone 8}} and the higher-end {{w|iPhone X}} (pronounced iPhone 10) with facial recognition features.<br />
<br />
===List of features (clockwise from center/top)===<br />
<br />
; Front camera (centered for eye contact during video chat)<br />
: Front camera is a common feature of smartphones. The camera lens is located on the same side of the phone's case as the main screen and therefore it is possible to capture the image of the user's face looking at the screen and display the interlocutor's face on the screen simultaneously, enabling video chat. However, as the camera is usually located above the screen, a user looking at the displayed image of the other person directs his or her eyes at the center of the screen and not at the camera's lens. This is very visible on the other end of the chat as if the person talking was looking down and not in the interlocutor's face which is an uncomfortable situation for most people. For this reason, professionals involved in movie or TV-making, like actors or reporters, are trained to look straight into the camera's lens while talking, which creates impression of looking straight at the viewer's face. During a video chat, however, looking into the lens of an above-screen camera does not allow one to see the interlocutor's face clearly because it is then in the peripheral field of vision.<br />
<br />
: To solve this conundrum, Randall proposes locating the camera lens right in the middle of the screen. Therefore the user looking at the screen to see the other person's face would be also looking at the lens, creating an impression of a straight look on the other end of the chat. This is absurd since the lens would then take place of some of the center pixels of the screen, not allowing the display the center part of the captured image of the other person's face (like eyes and/or lips) which is most important for nonverbal communication. Such location of the camera lens would also likely interfere with touch-screen function. It will make other applications on the phone difficult to use, since virtually no user interface is designed to accommodate for a blind spot in the center.<br />
<br />
; Full-width rear camera<br />
: Phone cameras tend to have lenses which are quite small and round or square -- same width as height. Full-width makes it sound like the camera lens is really wide, as in a long oval or rectangle shape. This generally would not accomplish anything worthwhile, unless it allowed you to take one-shot panorama photos.<br />
<br />
; CDC partnership - phone automatically administers seasonal flu vaccine to cheek every year<br />
: U.S. {{w|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention}} is a government agency tasked with addressing public health concerns such as infectious diseases, including seasonal flu. A common way of limiting spread of an infectious disease is {{w|Vaccine|vaccination}}, which most often involves administering a specially prepared medicine via an {{w|intramuscular injection}}. This features implies that the phone would automatically perform such an injection once a year, by shooting a needle out of a small aperture while the user is holding the phone to his or her cheek during a call.<br />
<br />
; 12-function<br />
: Most smartphones can be used for more than 12 different things. However, this may refer to the 12 basic functions of calculus (identity, squaring, cubing, square root, logarithm, exponential, reciprocal, sine, cosine, greatest integer, absolute value, and logistic), or the twelve function keys on a modern keyboard (more than the ten on the original IBM PC keyboard). Alternatively it may be a reference to calculators: basic models are sometimes referred to as four function calculators (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), and complex scientific calculators may advertise 250 or more functions.<br />
<br />
; Dishwasher safe<br />
: Usually a feature of plastic containers or fancy dishes. Unlikely to appear on a smartphone, though potentially useful if you need to clean your screen.<br />
<br />
; GPS transmitter<br />
: Many smartphones have a receiver for the Global Positioning System, which allows a phone to compute its position based on signals from the constellation of GPS satellites. However, a device with a "GPS transmitter" would broadcast signals that would interfere with the GPS receivers of all devices nearby.<br />
<br />
; 3-G acceleration<br />
: Usually, a phone is 3g compatible if it uses a certain standard ("third generation") for data transmission. However, 3-G acceleration implies the phone can accelerate at a rate or 3 times the acceleration of gravity, or approximately 30 m/s².<br />
<br />
; Portable, solar-heated<br />
: Portability is pretty much the entire point of using a ''mobile'' phone, so advertising portability is rather pointless. Solar ''power'' charging could be a very useful feature on a phone, but solar ''heating'' usually applies to plumbing, where a water tank is heated by the sun and used to supply hot water to taps. Technically, as the sun heats up everything on Earth, the phone is in fact solar heated.<br />
<br />
;Pore-cleaning strip<br />
: Something sticky on that location would be very annoying for people trying to use their beards to make a call. See also [[777: Pore Strips]]<br />
<br />
; Maximum strength<br />
:Medicines are often sold a "Maximum strength", as in the highest dose allowed by law or allowed without a prescription. For phones, there are sometimes "hardened" or "ruggedized" versions which are designed to survive harsher environmental conditions such as surviving drops and collisions, excessive water and dust, etc. So Maximum strength could indicate a "ruggedized" phone, though a screen that extended past the edges would likely have the opposite effect.<br />
<br />
; Never needs sharpening<br />
: Phones do not need to be sharpened in the first place{{Citation needed}}. This is a feature more likely to be found in a knife advertisement (especially for a knife that cannot be sharpened, like a serrated or ceramic blade).<br />
<br />
; Can survive up to 30 minutes out of water<br />
: This is a play on the common IP-rating of water resistance, which is typically rated for submersion to a rated depth for 30 minutes. A phone which could only be used or carried for 30 minutes and then needed to be immersed in water would be rather inconvenient.<br />
<br />
; Exclusive Audubon Society app identifies birds and lets you control their flight<br />
: {{w|National Audubon Society}} is a non-profit organization dedicated to conservation of nature, mainly of birds, also organizing open {{w|birdwatching}} events. An app that identifies bird species, as for example from a photo of a bird made by the smartphone itself, would be cool. An app allowing you to control the bird's flight would be way cooler, but it is not possible at the current state of technology - and it would fly in the face of the Audubon Society core activity. This is a reference to {{w|Unmanned_aerial_vehicle|drones}} (artificial "birds") which are often controlled by a smartphone app. This may also be a reference to [[1425: Tasks]], in which an app that can recognize if a bird is on camera is proposed.<br />
<br />
; Extra screen<br />
:Because of the center camera, an additional section of screen was added. This is similar to the new iPhone, which also has a few extra pixels up there.<br />
<br />
; Wireless charging port<br />
:An oxymoron; because wireless charging has no wires, it needs no port.<br />
<br />
; Safe for ages 6-8 months, 10 months, 18 months-3 years, and 12 years and older<br />
:Usually an item is deemed safe for a particular age or older, or (in the case of toys) is recommended for a particular age range. This is unusual in that it's a hodge-podge of age ranges with no apparent reason why some ages are safe and others are not. It may be a parody of drug commercials that list several age ranges for which the drug had to be separately approved.<br />
<br />
; Screen goes past the edge<br />
:A parody of the trend of "edge to edge" displays in recent generations of smartphones<br />
<br />
; High thread count CPU<br />
:A CPU thread is a task the CPU performs. Several threads may share memory making them a process. Threads are meant to run in parallel and the operating system distributes the workload on the available hardware execution units. These execution units are sometimes called hardware threads, especially when there is more than one per core. For example, the Intel Core i7 7700 is considered a 4-core, 8-thread CPU. The vague "high thread count" statement could make sense in this context, however, it is most likely a joke about bedding, where it is an actual selling point.<br />
<br />
; Shroud of Turin-style facial transfer unlock<br />
:The {{w|Shroud of Turin}} is a {{w|Pareidolia}} facial image of the face of {{w|Jesus Christ}}. Presumably, to unlock this phone, the user would have to physically press their face against the phone, the way Jesus Christ's allegedly transferred to the shroud. This is likely a reference to the iPhone X's FaceID unlock, which uses a ''photograph'' of your face to unlock it and which had attracted [https://www.wired.com/story/iphone-x-faceid-security/ significant criticism] immediately before this comic came out.<br />
<br />
; Fonts developed by NASA<br />
: Between 1975 and 1992 NASA used the {{w|NASA insignia|"worm" logotype}} in its insignia. It was a special font omitting the horizontal bar in the capitalized letter A. May be a reference to many advertisements that claim their product uses technology developed by NASA. This seems impressive, as NASA technology does tend to be quite strong and advanced, as they claim at their [https://spinoff.nasa.gov/ spin off] website. However, it would not be as impressive due to fonts having very little to do with NASA's core operations.<br />
<br />
; Includes applicator<br />
: What tampon packages, cosmetics, paints, and other products often say. An applicator for a phone would be absurd since the phone cannot be applied, spread, inserted, or attached to something else.<br />
<br />
; Burns clean coal<br />
: There is a push for clean energy production due to pollution concerns. <!-- While burning any sort of coal may produce carbon dioxide, "clean-burning coal" has nothing to do with global warming, greenhouse gasses, or anything of the like. It refers to production of soot, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, etc., or lack thereof --> Using heat to generate operating electricity for a mobile phone is absurd, as the apparatus to burn any fuel and then extract electricity from that heat would be very large compared to the phone itself, and thus be impractical for a mobile.<br />
<br />
; Pre-seasoned<br />
:Pre-seasoned typically refers to cast iron cookware which is ready to use out of the box, as opposed to needing to season it with oil and heat. It can also refer to packaged meats which are ready to cook without needing to be seasoned with herbs and spices.<br />
<br />
; Broad-spectrum SPF 30<br />
:The xkcd phone somehow gives an SPF 30 level of skin protection from the sun.<br />
<br />
; College-ruled<br />
:College-ruled is a style of notebook paper having narrower lines in order to fit more text per page.<br />
<br />
; Sterile packaging<br />
:Useful for medical supplies, less so in a phone.<br />
<br />
; Radium backlight<br />
:The discovery of the phosphorescent element radium sparked a brief fad in which some watch makers painted watch faces or hands with the substance so the time could be read at night. However, it was eventually realized that regular exposure to radium could result in radiation poisoning, particularly for the workers assembling and painting the watches. A radium-based backlight would therefore be both potentially dangerous (especially for an object carried on one's person much of the time) but also largely useless, as the phosphorescence of radium is rather dim compared to conventional phone back lights.<br />
<br />
; 4K pixels (50×80)<br />
:This refers to having 4,000 pixels in the screen in total, rather than a screen width of ~4000 pixels. TV's advertised as "4K" are typically up to 4096 × 2160 pixels, or 8.8 million pixels. That would be outstanding for a cell phone whereas 4,000 pixels total would be horrendous. As a comparison, the old Commodore VIC-20 with a resolution of 176 × 184 would have over 8 times the pixels of this phone. It is however quite close to the screen resolution of the sturdy Nokia 3310, boasting a total of 4032 pixels positioned 84 × 48.<br />
<br />
In the caption below the phone [[Randall]] presents many different version numbers:<br />
*The number 6 is in correct order of all the xkcd phones<br />
*The {{w|Roman numerals|roman number}} VIII refers to the newly announced {{w|iPhone 8}} and jokes about the roman number X below<br />
*Version number 10 is the current version of Microsoft Windows after omitting the number 9<br />
*The {{w|iPhone X}} was announced together with the iPhone 8 by Apple on September 12, 2017, a day before this comic was released. Apple clarified X must be read as the roman number 10, so for additional absurdity two xkcd phones share the same number, using different numeral<br />
*The number 26 refers to...<br />
*In the year 1876 {{w|Alexander Graham Bell}} received the U.S. Patent No. 174465 for the {{w|invention of the telephone}}, but there is still a {{w|Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy|controversy}} whether {{w|Elisha Gray}} was the first who presented a working telephone.<br />
Below of this numbers Randall states that xkcd isn't responsible for this ''nonconsecutive version number war'', but, as it can be seen here above, he attempts to win. And by counting parallel version numbers xkcd defeated Apple 6:2. The symbols at the end are ™ for trademark, ® for registered trademark, and © for a copyright protection. The degree symbol ° after the letter C could be a play with degree Celsius.<br />
<br />
In the title text Randall attributes privacy concerns about the facial recognition feature. A picture of a face will only be used for this new feature but never stored on the device nor transmitted to internet. A ''small'' side effect may be that the famous selfie pictures aren't possible anymore, as well as video calls.<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
:[A smartphone is shown, the screen is slightly wider than the case, in the middle is a photo lens, and at the right bottom a small extra part is added to the screen.]<br />
:[On top a bracket ranges nearly over the entire width of the case. The text reads:]<br />
:Full-width rear camera<br />
:[The label at the photo lens is:]<br />
:Front camera (centered for eye contact during video chat)<br />
:[The label on the extra part says:]<br />
:Extra screen<br />
:[At the bottom below the case a label reads:]<br />
:Wireless charging port<br />
<br />
:[The labels left to the phone are:]<br />
:4k pixels (50x80)<br />
:Radium backlight<br />
:Sterile packaging<br />
:College-ruled<br />
:Broad spectrum SPF 30<br />
:Pre-seasoned<br />
:Burns clean coal<br />
:Includes applicator<br />
:Fonts developed by NASA<br />
:Shroud of turn-style facial transfer unlock<br />
:High thread count CPU<br />
:Screen goes past the edge<br />
:Safe for ages 6-8 months, 10 months, 18 months-3 years, and 12 years and older<br />
<br />
:[The labels right to the phone are:]<br />
:CDC partnership: Phone automatically administers seasonal flu vaccine to cheek every year<br />
:12-function<br />
:Dishwasher safe<br />
:GPS transmitter<br />
:3-G acceleration<br />
:Portable, solar-heated<br />
:Pore-cleaning strip<br />
:Maximum strength<br />
:Never needs sharpening<br />
:Can survive up to 30 minutes out of water<br />
:Exclusive Audubon Society app identifies birds and lets you control their flight<br />
<br />
:[Text below the phone:]<br />
:Introducing<br />
:'''The XKCD PHONE 6, VIII, 10, X, 26, and 1876'''<br />
:''We didn't start this nonconsecutive version number war, but we will not lose it.''™®©°<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:xkcd Phones]]</div>
162.158.34.76
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1823:_Hottest_Editors&diff=138629
1823: Hottest Editors
2017-04-12T15:16:29Z
<p>162.158.34.76: /* Transcript */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1823<br />
| date = April 12, 2017<br />
| title = Hottest Editors<br />
| image = hottest_editors.png<br />
| titletext = Elon Musk finally blocked me from the internal Tesla repository because I wouldn't stop sending pull requests for my code supporting steering via vim keybindings.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a BOT - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
HOTTEST EDITORS<br />
<br />
1995-2000 - EMACS-VIM EDITOR WAR<br />
<br />
2005 - VIM<br />
<br />
2010 - NOTEPAD++<br />
<br />
2015 - SUBLIME TEXT<br />
<br />
2020 - CRISPR<br />
<br />
2025 - CRISPR (VIM keybindings)<br />
<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}</div>
162.158.34.76
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1823:_Hottest_Editors&diff=138628
1823: Hottest Editors
2017-04-12T15:15:08Z
<p>162.158.34.76: updated the transcript</p>
<hr />
<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1823<br />
| date = April 12, 2017<br />
| title = Hottest Editors<br />
| image = hottest_editors.png<br />
| titletext = Elon Musk finally blocked me from the internal Tesla repository because I wouldn't stop sending pull requests for my code supporting steering via vim keybindings.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a BOT - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
HOTTEST EDITORS<br />
1995 - [EMACS-VIM ]<br />
2000 - [EDITOR WAR]<br />
2005 - VIM<br />
2010 - NOTEPAD++<br />
2015 - SUBLIME TEXT<br />
2020 - CRISPR<br />
2025 - CRISPR (VIM keybindings)<br />
<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}</div>
162.158.34.76