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Exploring "Why" questions about Technology
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Why are video games still sold as CDs while USB drives can be so much smaller, more durable and hold so much more.
A disc costs considerably less to make than a USB drive. Digital media will usurp discs, not USB drives.
Why aren’t washer/dryers (one machine, two uses) more mainstream?
1. In most places, space (at least the kind necessary to have separate machines) is cheap so there isn't an economic driving force 2. 2 in 1 machines are more complicated which drives up cost and lowe
Why do lightbulbs go out, but not the lights that illuminate screens on TVs and phones?
it is, DLP tvs for example used a honest bulb (though very bright and powerful), and it had a life of a few years. LCD screens use edge lighting, most are LEDs these days (all cell phones), but they u
Why can Netflix stream at 2.0 MB/s, but Steam can’t get above 500 KB/s?
I think you are confusing megabytes (MB) and megabits (Mb). Does your ISP offer you 4 MB/s or 4 Mb/s? Megabits are far more commonly used when ISPs tell you your speed.
Why did serial connections (like USB) win out over parallel connections?
In the olden days, transistors / chips / electronics was expensive and wires & cables / connectors were cheap. These days, that equation is skewed the other way (and there's big pressure to make t
why is it totally ok and expected to haggle some items (like cars and apparently mattresses), while others have a fixed price? Why can’t we haggle the price of chips or an iPhone?
Amount of inventory and volume of sales. High amount of inventory or sales means little or no haggle. Lower inventory or low sales volume creates better opportunity for haggling.
why do magazine and news websites use the click through, slide show format for images? I can’t be the only person who hates them. Are there any benefits to presenting articles this way?
Every time you click next it refreshes the page thus the ads causing more revenue.
Why do I have to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to log log into my Window’s computer?
Ctrl-Alt-Del is called a trusted keyboard sequence. No other program can hijack or use that sequence. So, when Windows asks you to use that keyboard sequence, you know for sure that Windows is the onl
Why does it take so long to download something but such a short amount of time to delete it?
When you download something every individual byte of information has to travel down the line to your computer. So it has to sent that amount of information. For example maybe say 40 Gigabytes all down
Why is it that sometimes when you look at an analog clock, it seems to freeze briefly before continuing?
When you move your eyes you should see a blur as they turn in their sockets. However, you don't. Why?