How does that picture you just sent your buddy get from your phone to his computer, exactly? Surprisingly enough, not through pixie dust and unicorn dreams! Here’s how it really works. More »
Arts – Business – Wireless – Twitter – Telecommunications
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@FermentedDischarge: Wow. You sure know how to treat people with respect.
kingcrim84
@zegota: ahh nice
oneshot719
Hey y’all, honestly, who here is named Vijay…
replace the i with an A… now isn’t that a great name…
Mars478
Thanks – this is very informative.
ezrashapiro
@kingcrim84:Who the f*** writes crap like this? And he has a gold star, this is just kick in the face with a steel-toe shoe.
FermentedDischarge
@nfs: Haha that would just be lame…and would require a little more energy then pushing a few buttons. Gah!
theanyday
Or, for the new iPhone:
1. Your phone’s radio sends out a signal
2. Your stupid, fat thumb intercepts it because you’re holding it wrong!
~End
zegota
ah yes, the virtues of Backhaul
[en.wikipedia.org]
Bilsko
All this, pretty complicated transmission, in line with 100 if not thousands more transmissions all occurring at roughly the same time, and you’re telling me the best we can do for energy is burning dino poop?
hexidethoth
Nitpicking is standard for any infographic that is posted on Giz, so I’ll just pretend to know what I’m talking about so we can get it out of the way now, and get on with the real commenting, like how intricate and convoluted the process is. I like that we pretend to be “green” by sharing pictures and such electronically, but what kind of energy resources does it take to run all those machines?
Now, where was I? Oh yeah, nitpicking.
*ahem*
“This infographic is way too simplistic, blah blah blah. There are so many other things that go into this, blah blah blah. The person who made this infographic missed the parts where the message is blah’d, and then it gets unblah’d, and then finally, it is reblah’d. Technical jargon, yackety yack, hocus pokus, hummuna hummuna.”
There. Don’t say I never did nothin’ for ya.
ThePaul
Nintendo Tim
Seems like Jeff could walk down the street and show the pic to Vijay, since they are a few block away.
nfs
I’ll stick with thinking it is pixie dust and unicorn dreams, thank you very much.
Star Vixen
Alert the media! Cellphones don’t actually transmit data directly to one’s computer wirelessly! Such a travesty!
Waffles And Syrup
All that just to see his lolcat
Lazarus511
Crap, I thought it was through unicorn dust and pixie dreams.
Well, now I know……and knowing’s half the battle; and thanks to Giz, the other half is lasers:
[gizmodo.com]
kingcrim84
That’s a really long process. o.o
Cody Reynolds
@dtptampa: Ha! You’re good.
ripfire-Brought_to_you_by_CarlsJr
*Gasp* You mean all this time it’s not magic?!
ripfire-Brought_to_you_by_CarlsJr
Too complicated.
I prefer to think of my data moving magically to one computer and then magically moving from that computer back to mine. All involving unicorns of course.
dtptampa