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Exploring "Why" questions about Technology
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Why do clouds have flat bottoms?
Thats called cloud base. It's at the height where the air temperature and the dewpoint are the same ( means the air is saturated with water vapor and the vapor starts to condensate into water droplets
Why do new games sold digitally on steam cost as much as physical disks for consoles?
Not sure but... steam library usually doesnt scratch, can be re-downloaded to a new hdd on a new pc, game is usually full of more goodies/customizable than a console disk blah blah. Also disks are obs
Why are Computer Malware so obvious to detect for the victim?
Some malware is obviously visible, like changing your browser's homepage to some ad-riddled horror show. Many casual computer users won't know what to do, so they'll just let it slide, and use the blo
Why do laptops and other rechargeable devices shut off when there is still 5-15% battery still left.
I work in IT, and the laptops I've dealt with here at work will go to sleep automatically at 5%. I am not a lawyer, as the saying goes, but I've always assumed that it's a built-in feature so that you
Why do movie studios care if I pay for Netflix and use a VPN to change my location? They are getting paid either way.
The problem is that when Sony released a movie in Australia, it formed a contract with a studio in Australia to do that. So that studio owns the right to distribute that movie in Australia. If you use
Why does my ISP offer high download speeds but such low upload speeds?
Your instincts are correct -- it's demand. Almost all residential Internet customers download far, far more than they upload. So, they could make it equal.
Why are some websites browser specific, if their underlying code is based on a standardization, supported by most browsers (Google Earth on FF)?
There are some specific tags that only specific browsers understand, there was a fair amount of Internet Explorer specific HTML and CSS years ago that wasn't part of the standard but IE implemented it
Why auto makers dropped the frameless doors?
Because they really didn't work too well. It was too hard to build a seal between the car frame and the glass, that worked well when closing the door, while allowing the window to slide up and down. B
Why does different USB cables, connected to the same power source, charge my phone faster or slower?
The resistance of the cable affects how fast electricity flows through it. Longer cables, and cables with thinner wires have higher resistance. [Here's an article that goes really in depth on the subj
Why does my car have a spare tire, but not a spare battery?
Your spare battery would go dead as well. You can't have a spare car battery sitting in a car for years without it dying while a spare tire will last a long time without compromise