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Exploring "Why" questions about Technology
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Why is Adele’s Hello song & album, 25, released in 2015 nominated for the 2017 Grammys?
The Grammys don't use the calendar year for eligibility, instead they use October 1-September 30. Since *25* was released in November of 2015, it's part of the 2016 eligibility year (which ran from Oc
Why do public schools (and many offices) exclusively use Internet Explorer?
Certain settings in Internet Explorer can be controlled through a Windows Domain environment with something called Group Policy. For instance, you can use Group Policy to enforce the Homepage of IE, w
Why don’t phone manufacters make a phone that doesnt need a case?
[They do](_URL_0_), but most of the market doesn't really seem to want "rugged" phones as a prime feature. In particular, some prefer having the case system because it lets them personalise their phon
Why does my computer need a 15 pin VGA port to connect to another screen, while my DVD player only needs the two contacts of an RCA cable?
VGA doesn't contain any audio so for the purposes of this question we can ignore the red and white cables which are used for stereo sound. The VGA plug allows for separate red, blue and green signals
Why does entering *67 before your phone number block caller ID? What is the practical purpose of this?
The practical purpose is to provide privacy for the calling party by blocking the display of their number on the recipients phone.
Why Does Shutting Your Computer Off Every Once In A While, Make It Perform Better?
1. **Updates.** A lot of software updates are installed when you turn a computer off then back on, rather than when it goes to sleep. This is because it's very hard to update something while it's runn
Why’s there still a “share” button for internet porn videos despite there being zero demand for it?
Three possibilities: 1) Someone out there actually uses the porn sharing function, so websites continue to use it. 2) Its a default option in the web video program that porn sites use, and removing it
why do my torrent downloads always slow down at the end?
Kind of like if you're looking through some legos for a number of different parts, you usually come across one that you need so your search goes quickly until there's one last part you need. It might
Why is it so much harder to read a phone when someone else is holding it, as opposed to when you are holding it yourself?
We can't hold our body completely still. When you're holding the phone yourself, it moves together with your body - your movement is synchronized with the phone's movement. When someone else holds the
Why my computer was so brilliantly fast when I first purchased it is now intolerably slow after only a few months of use.
So reinstalling Windows will really improve things? Is there a way to re-install while losing no data or settings?