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Exploring "Why" questions about Technology
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Why does turning the wifi router on and off again solve most problems with the connectivity?
The same reason it works for a lot of technology. When you power on your router it loads its base firmware and your configuration from nonvolatile memory into volatile memory. This load represents the
Why do TV shows do the fake lines on the screens to make it look like a home recorder, when today they look the same quality?
To convey to the audience that the scene is taken with a recorder, in universe. They do a lot of shorthand like that. The "shink" sound of a knife being picked up.
Why do some programs “not respond” but look perfectly fine?
The window rendering on your monitor is only part of the program. If one of the background functions fails, like fetching the next song from a server, the program can hang up while it waits for the op
Why is BIOS updating so dangerous to the computer?
The BIOS is responsible for the very lowest level of setup on your PC before the operating system is started. The processor knows how to talk to a BIOS, and the BIOS's main job is to find and load the
Why is it that over the past decade or so, processor clock speeds havent gotten substantially faster, like 10ghz or anything. Still see mostly, 2ghz to 3.5ghz. We jam in more cores, but speeds seem…
For years the processing power for computers have been following Moores law where processing speed doubles about every 18 months and processing power is proportional to the amount of transistors in a
Why is it considered grammatically incorrect to use ‘ain’t’?
I ain't saying that you're wrong, but I ain't saying you're right either. It's not grammatically incorrect to use ain't, it's just informal. In any formal writing, "am not" is much preferred.
Why when recording a song in a studio do they use a screen in front of the mic?
It's called a pop filter, and it is used to break up "plosives" which are your Bs and Ps. When these sounds are produced they release a blast of air, and the microphone picks these up as bass rumbles
Why is it when I’m working on a programming problem, or something with numbers, when I get up and do something else away from the computer for awhile, it comes to much easier when I get back?
I'm certainly no voice on the matter, but I'd venture to say in those cases that tunnel vision is the issue. Taking a breather if you're tunneling is usually the best way to stop tunneling and get bac
Why do I have to worry about how much data I’m using on my phone but not on my desktop? And why can’t I get the same deal for my phone?
Your phone's data is coming from an expensive cellular network. Your desktop or laptop is using your inexpensive home network, probably DSL or cable. You can't get the same deal for both because they
Why can be build custom PCs but not custom phones?
Phone makers work so hard to make them ultra compact, that there is no spare room for extra components or even for removable plugs.