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Title ll of net neutrality. How could ISP's benefit from having control of internet speed on certain websites and apps? | They would get the power to censor as they see fit and they would get the opportunity to add extra fees - an example would be to limit data speeds to the point where streaming becomes impossible, and then they'd charge you extra to raise the limit so you can watch Netflix, or have Netflix pay them extra not to do that ... |
Why do we get the feeling that someone is watching us? | Couple of things. First our brain isn't 1 thing. It is multitude of processes that works together. Sometimes brain gets confused resulting in your having "supernatural" experiences. One of the minor being feeling of being watched. If your brain can't rationalize your senses, you get those feelings.I'm not exactly the m... |
Why and how does physical pain manifest when one is sleep deprived? | The pain in this case is motivating the organism to find a quiet, closed space to sleep. When sleep deprived, global bodily inflammation rates are higher due to overburdening of the stress system and the protective immune responses. The brain, cardiovascular and the immune system are some the main biological processes ... |
what actually goes on in clown school. All I know is it's hard to get into, but what is the benefit, and what do the clowns learn? | Circus clowns perform a variety of functions, including comedy, filler between major acts, incorporating and communicating with the audience, slapstick routines, stunts, improv, prop comedy, etc. It's like a mixture of improv school and circus school.I wonder if in Clown School when the teacher catches you just quietly... |
Why can children sleep through being lifted out of a car and carried inside, whereas I would wake up immediately if someone lifted me out of bed? | Maybe because the person picking you up isn't 10 times your size so it wont go with the same ease? |
The science behind a tandoori oven | the structure is basically a chimney. the heat from the coals creates an upward draft which adds more air and basically makes the coal burn even hotter. the heat is concentrated in the small space and insulated by the vermiculite so it doesn't escape sideways but only upwards. |
What will result from the 'Farm Bill' Obama signed? | I don't claim to be an expert on the issue. The below is taken directly from an article in the current issue of The Economist. After a delay of two years the Senate passed the farm bill, a strange piece of legislation which costs nearly a trillion dollars. It mixes benefits that mostly go to the poor with agricultural ... |
Why does the Madeleine's case had and still has so much attention from the media and Scotland Yard? | I assume you are talking about Madeleine McCann? It still gets coverage because for one, it's still an open case. New suspects were entered into the case after Madeleine was reported to have been seen abroad over the last few years. There is no conclusive evidence that she's dead. Also, it was a very interesting case. ... |
How come I can't downvote comments in some subreddits? | In a subreddit, the admins can change what it looks like. Some subreddits want to promote a positive environment by getting rid of the down arrow. However, this doesn't mean the ability to use it is gone. If you do some fancy computer stuff you can still use it. .Uncheck the check mark in "Use Subreddit Style" on the u... |
How does a Nuclear Submarine operate for decades using nuclear material that is the size of a human fist according to the Captain of a Nuclear Submarine? | That's the amazing thing about nuclear power; energy density. You can extract tremendous energy from a very small amount of material because you are literally converting mass to energy. Unlike most forms of power generation that just rearrange atoms, nuclear power rips them apart and uses the resulting energy to do wor... |
What is a memristor? | A memristor is a piece of an electrical circuit that remembers how much current has passed through it, and in which direction . In the future, we might be able to use memristors to make switches and memory for computers that are better than the kinds of switches and memory that we have at the moment . There are teams o... |
does temperature effect how long a smell lingers? If so what causes it to linger in the cold/heat longer than the opposite? | Yes. Temperature has an effect on the existence and motion of smells, the warmer the temperature, the more "active" smell molecules are . This means that smelly things are smellier when they are warmer. As for lingering, that is impacted more by the conditions than by the temperature. Although the warmer gas will becom... |
Why do apples turn brown so quickly where the inside is exposed? | When an apple is cut , oxygen is introduced into the injured plant tissue. When oxygen is present in cells, polyphenol oxidase enzymes in the chloroplasts rapidly oxidize phenolic compounds naturally present in the apple tissues to o-quinones, colorless precursors to brown-colored secondary products. Lemon juice helps ... |
Is kissing a natural or learned behavior? | Of 168 studied cultures around the world, less than half practice kissing in a romantic-sexual way. It is definitely not a natural universal behavior. There are numerous cultures that find it utterly disgusting. _URL_0_ |
Can black holes close off and stop being what we know of as black holes? | They can in fact! It's due to a cool thing called Hawking Radiation which black holes emit. It's the only thing they give off, meaning they aren't totally black. Right so what happens at a super sub atomic level, like really fucking tiny there are two little things of which I forgot the name. Lets call them thing one a... |
Why do Republicans only require 1,237 delegates for a nomination while Democrats require 2,383? | Because there are 2,475 delegates at the GOP convention and 4,766 at the Democratic convention. The number of delegates really isn't important -- what's important is the percentage of the total delegates they get, because both parties require a majority of the delegates to become a nominee.Each party makes its own set ... |
What exactly does "dying of natural causes" mean? | Its just a saying really. "Old Age" is not the killer, Pneumonia or heart failure is usually what does the guy in. However, as we get older our bodies get less and less able to fight off things like that. Our hearts get weaker, our bodies get less efficient and so on. So really "dying of old age" is a polite way of say... |
What did old movies mean when they said "[this movie] has been formatted to fit this screen." | Movie screens where always wider than the normal home television. They have to alter the film in order to correctly fit your television screen. "Full Screen" versions of movies have black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. What many people don't realize is that the black bars aren't covering anything because the... |
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 are two different delivery systems. I don't know what a good analogy is -- maybe restaurant prices vs room service price... |
Why do eyes have color? | Our skin, hair, and eye colour are determined by melanin levels. Melanin is pigment that is also responsible for tanning. For example, lighter-skinned people have less melanin than darker-skinned people. People with Albinism, however, have no melanin/pigment. Freckles are an example of concentrated melanin in one's ski... |
With Snowden revealing all of this compromising information why does it seem as if nothing really is being done about it? And if something was, who would be to blame? | Because no matter how much we hate the NSA spying on us, it doesn't affect our lives in any meaningful way. I have food on my table, a roof over my head and a pay check Until most or all these things are taken from me, my life isn't affected", 'Because Americans are to comfortable and lazy to stand up and fuckin start ... |
How come you never see any jacked golf players? | No, the opposite. Hitting the ball far comes from flexibility and technique. Basically the longer your back swing, the faster your head speed, and assuming you contact the ball square, that will result in wicked length. If you're all jacked with muscle, you can't rotate enough to get the needed speed. |
Why does buying stuff (non-essential) make us happy? | It depends on what kind of stuff you're buying, but essentially, it's because products are advertised as lifestyle components rather than things. E.G. You're not buying a Mercedes Benz, you're prestigious and the envy of others. You're not buying Prada sunglasses, you're chic and classy. You're not buying TOMS shoes, y... |
Why do predictive text/autocorrect seem hell-bent on using typos you made one time a month ago? | If it doesn't catch the typo, or if you make the same typo multiple times, it will add a new word to your phones dictionary . Most phones will let you access the dictionary of new words that have been added, so you can go in, find the typo, and delete it, so it won't auto correct to the typo anymore. |
Do fat people keep eating because they are still hungry, or do they eat past their natural hunger-level? | As a physician's perspective, it is because they are still hungry. When you continue eating past your natural hunger level, stomach adapts to the change by increasing its size, thus capable of eating more food, = more calories. this cycle goes on until the eating capacity is so big that they get easily hungry. |
People say prostitution is "recession-proof." How is this true? | I was living in Las Vegas, working in a casino during the 2007 crash and subsequent recession years. Prostitution is not recession proof. I worked the night shift and saw plenty of hookers getting desperate for business over that three year period. Dropping prices, dropping standards, and worst of all, dropping safety ... |
Why is it that a high-calore meal doesn't keep me satisfied any longer than a low-calorie meal? | Generally what you eat has little impact on the amount of sugars in your blood, otherwise you would be in hyperglycemic state after every meal. Hunger and satiety are just feelings that are connected to certain hormones in your body, when you eat you are starting to produce leptin, high enough level of leptin in your b... |
why are cell phone bills so expensive? What are we actually paying for? | You're paying what the market will bear. That's basically the answer. Sometimes people complain about the markup on cell service , but this kind of thinking forgets the service provider has very, very large capital expenses above and beyond the marginal expense of transmitting one of your texts, and the complainer obvi... |
Why are treats so effective with dogs? Aren't they made of the same ingredients as regular food? | You can use anything as a treat, even his regular food. It's not the food that's important to your dog, it's that it's a reward. I knew of a dog trainer who use cheese squares, to train this giant Russian whatever the fuck/tiny horse of a dog. He'd get 100 bits out of one slice. |
If almost every country on Earth is in debt, who are we all borrowing from? | This is a great question. In fact, it's been asked many times. Check out some of the answers that exist so far, and if you still have questions, feel free to ask: _URL_3_ _URL_2_ _URL_0_ _URL_1_ |
What is a limit in calculus? | I am not sure what you mean by "exactly", but there are many ways to thing of a limit, some are more mathematically rigorous than others, some are more general than others. If you think of the graph of nice function or / ) then take out one point leaving a hole then the y-value of that hole is a limit of the function a... |
How does salt water from the sea turn into fresh water like in rivers and so on? | When seawater evaporates, the salt does not evaporate with it. Hence, the rain is freshwater.Salt is not air soluble, water is. When water evaporates, it becomes humidity in air. When air is warm, the molecules are spaced farther apart, leaving space for water molecules to float amongst the air. This leaves the salt in... |
what determines hangover severity? | Easy answer is hydration level. You could have drank more water before or after. Food intake before drinking comes in. Sugar content of your drinks.Some of the other ingredients in alcoholic beverages contribute. Whiskey is 40% alcohol, the other 60% is? You want an easier hangover, drink vodka, vodka is just alcohol a... |
Why is it called music 'theory?' Is there actually anything theoretical about it? | Theory != guess. Think of theory in it's scientific terms, where it means something more akin to "describing how/why things work they way they do"', "Music theory is the study of the structure of music. For example, if you listen to pop songs from the past 5 years, you'll notice that a lot of them sound similar. This i... |
Why can I see IR light on my phone camera, but not with my eyes? | The phone camera's sensor can detect IR light, but your eyes cannot. The phone sensor reports everything it picks up as visible light though, so your display shifts the IR into the range visible to humans for display. |
From a very young age, I've only been able to see out of one eye. What is depth perception? | Depth perception is a much more complex and interesting concept than I expected, so thanks for asking. It's essentially the idea of seeing the world in 3-D and understanding how far away things are. There are two different types of visual cues for depth. Monocular, which means you can recognize them with one eye, and b... |
I've read over and over again that adults cats only meow at humans, so why do my cats meow at eachother when they are playing? | The Internet is wrong about this cat fact. Cats meow and make other vocalizations at each other when humans are not present. The Internet is also wrong that wild cat species do not meow and wild wolves do not bark. Kittens and pups of these species do make these noises often, but not so often as adults. In the process ... |
Why do banks get to charge 20% for credit cards and I only get 0.01% for a savings account? | how exactly is that unfair? it is *their* services that *they* are providing for *their* price. they are allowed to do it because they are a business and are allowed to make profit and charge their customers for their servicesInterest rates on loans are in large part a measure of the risk involved -- part of the point ... |
How was it decided that Leap Year was necessary? | The earth circles the sun in 365 days and six hours. The extra time could be calculated by using star positions relative to the earth, or by tracking the earth's position over time. Because the extra six hours was annoying, it was stashed until enough six hour units were stored to add another day.While others are answe... |
How do firefighters discover the cause of the fire? | Through having fought a lot of fires themselves, often. Dogs and sniffer machines that can detect an accelerant are frequently used. Fire char from where it began helps them locate the starting point. Also, police type interviews of witnesses and looking at the history of a building all are things they look for as well... |
Why is the perspective in Russian animation so different from Westernized animation? | This style is paper cut out animation. The characters are cut out of paper and laid flat on sheets for each frame of animation. Generally, Disney or HB painted the characters on clear celluloid laid flat over a glass or card background. _URL_0_ |
Why do so many people lack the discipline to follow through with things like new years resolutions? | Usually resolutions are very vague, or general. "I'm going to lose 50 lbs this year!" isn't as concrete as "I'm going to walk a mile every day". Those who make the latter resolutions probably stick with them more often.If it's something you actually care about, then it's not something you typically wait a whole year to... |
Why is brown bread considered healthier than white bread? Is it healthier? | White bread is heavily processed, and isn't very good for you. Brown bread varies, some are essentially dyed white bread but the kind with all the seeds in it are very good for you. |
why aren't anti vaccine parents held liable when they cause outbreaks of preventable desieses? | One of the first obstacles to overcome would be proving that the outbreak wouldn't have happened at all had it not been for the negligence of these parents. Because the infection could have started with or spread through vaccinated kids, its impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Furthermore, holding people lia... |
how does Apple get away with their proprietary charging plugs and ornery connections? | Apple introduced Thunderbolt connectors on its computers because, like Firewire before it, Thunderbolt promises to enable some incredibly fast transfer rates between the computer and external hard drives. Thunderbolt also incorporates the Displayport standard, so one connector can move around data at a seriously high s... |
Why do many men enjoy watching porn where the male actors have gigantic penises? (NSFW) | Because I can relate to them. It helps if they are handsome and athletic too. Most porns are to my liking because of this.Well, without going into too much weirdness, there's a few practical reasons that this works: a larger organ means more motion is possible, which films well. It also allows for more versatility. Als... |
How are photons their own antiparticle? (Without they annihilating other photons or self-annihilating) | A photon is has no charge which is why you could consider a photon its own antiparticle. They can annihilate each other and create an electron-positron-pair, or even more massive particle pairs if energetic enough . Usually photons just go past each other and do not collide as their electromagnetic fields simply overla... |
If we need UV-blocking sunglasses/sunblock to protect ourselves from the sun, why wouldn't leaving a clear bottle of water in the sun sterilize the water? | It does. The SODIS method is a way to use clear 2-liter bottles and sunlight to make water safe to drink, very useful in third world countriesour skin cells are damaged by UV. mold on the other hand thrives on light in the presence of water. as do alot of other algae. blue and green algae spores are EVERYWHEREBecause w... |
Why won't the US fight a War on Mental Illness a la drugs/poverty when such an effort is sorely needed? | We did in the 70s and the program was gutted over time. Probably to make room in the budget for the war on drugsBecause a "War on" anything always results in catastrophe. |
Why do companies 'throw away' good food as opposed to give it away for free? | If people knew they could get food for free simply by waiting, not a lot of people would pay for food.My brother used to be the night manager at a pizza place. At the end of the shift, there were always a few mistake pizzas left over, and if none of the employees wanted them, he'd give them away. However, word got arou... |
What is a Social Security Number? | It's a unique ID number assigned to every person when they are born, it's the number by which the government keeps track of you as an individual since things like names are not very unique at all . |
Finnish Education System Success? | * Homogeneous society. This is actually pretty important. Having students from many different backgrounds makes it tricky to teach effectively. By homogeneous, I mean white, middle class , and Lutheran. * Extremely-well trained teachers. Teachers in Finland are cream of the crop. It's almost unheard of for someone to b... |
What's the difference between dopamine and serotonin? Is there a difference? | Short answer, yes, they are different but they have many similar functions. While both are neurotransmitters , dopamine is more involved in movements and thinking, while serotonin is more involved in emotions. |
Why are gems valuable? | They're pretty, rare, and associated with wealth and status. Some gems have unique properties which have industrial uses, such as diamond's hardness, or ruby's staying-the-same-shapeness, but mostly it's just "ooh, shiny"The worth of an item is due to supply and demand, for gemstones they are quite rare but a lot of pe... |
What is a second mortgage and how does it work? | A second mortgage is basically a home equity loan. If you have a mortgage on your house, the home equity is the difference between the value of your house and what remains to be paid in the mortgage. For example, if you have a $100,000 house and you still owe $60,000 on it, the home equity is $40,000. That's the part t... |
Is it feasible to put a severely damaged/cut limb into a bucket to reserve blood instead of using a tourniquet to cut off blood flow? | No. Your heart never really pulls a suction on your circulatory system. Even the return path for low oxygen, high carbon dioxide blood is under a positive pressure relative to the atmosphere. Blood would go into the bucket from the arteries, but the veins wouldn't be sucking it back up. |
What makes old people smell like old people? | Their cells are busy dying. Also, they do not bathe as often as you or I might, since it has become a much more difficult and risky proposition, since getting in and out of a tub or shower might literally mean the difference between life or death. A fall at their age can be fatal. Laundry is also a chore, so their clot... |
What do the values of the Dow, Nasdaq, and S & P actually mean? | The Dow, Nasdaq, and S & P all represent an aggregate of publicly traded companies. If you were to take the total amount of shares a company has, and multiply it by their share price, that is the current value of that company. Therefore, if you take a bunch of companies and aggregate their stock price, you can determin... |
Why can states allow minimum wages that are below the federal minimum wage level? | States with lower minimum wages like Arkansas $6.16, Georgia $5.15, Minnesota $5.15, and Wyoming $5.15 only apply to businesses that are not subject to the regulation of the FLSA. Generally, a business comes under the regulations of the FLSA if it has $500,000 or more in annual sales, or if the employees work in "inter... |
What are Ayn Rand's books/beliefs about and why do people seem to either love or despise her? | Going to try to write this answer without being biased. The people that love her respect how outspoken she is about her capitalist beliefs, and how well she portrays it in her books. She is on the extreme end of Libertarianism, and there are better comments in other threads that explain what that is. The people that ha... |
Why do humans take so long to mature from infants into adults unlike other animals? | The human pregnancy is hugely flawed, we give birth after 9 months because that's the biggest the fetus can grow in order to be given birth to. Animals don't have this problem and so they give birth to young that can walk, feed themselves ect pretty much right from the moment they're born. So the human fetus is underde... |
Why do you watch TV and suddenly realize you have your mouth open. | When creating a movie or tv show the job of the director is to create a highly captivating end result, which if you are watching the show it probably is. One of my teachers called this the exit sign effect because when you are in a movie theatre you start watching and the exit signs are there and maybe bothering you, b... |
Where did the terms 'ho' and 'pimp' come from? | [\'Pimp\ is a late 16th century word, possibly deriving from the french word \'pimpant\' . Around 1785 in London, the word was first seen in text in the [Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue] and meant "A male procurer, or cock bawd". In the 1970's, media attention coupled with a growing african-american subculture made ter... |
- Nobel Prize Economics 2012 (The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) | We've had this thread a dozen times in the past week. Please search. My old post: > Roth, Shapley, David Gale, and a few other people figured out how to obtain efficient allocations of goods and services in markets where you aren't allowed to use prices. Examples of these are matching students to schools, matching spou... |
Why do people get gold fronts/grills? | there is a culture of flashiness and bravado in alot of poor urban areas. you could say that its a way of "proving" your identity as a gangsta, baller, what-have-you, because gansta and baller attitudes are what is accepted in these cultures. It displays wealth and status, like eperman said, and serves as an intimidati... |
What is the difference between the US Senate and House of Representatives? | A Congressman in the House represents the interests of individual districts where you live. A Senator in the Senate represents the interests of the state at large. The reason we have two chambers is because the Framers were concerned with balancing out the power between the states. If we only had the House, then the la... |
Why do doctors/etc. squirt out the contents of a syringe before administering it in movies/television? | Actually I do this daily. You need this when you are making a measured injection of some sort of medicine like insulin. Its not so much the air in the veins which could possibly be trouble, but instead to make sure the bubbles isnt messing up your measurement. I have a dog who needs exactly 4 ml of insulin a shot. Bubb... |
Would a simultaneous double punch (both fists) deliver the same mechanical force as a single punch by the same person on average? | I'm no physicist but I would think the single punch would have more power, depending on how it was executed. A lot of the power behind a punch comes with being able to rotate your core at the same time as rapidly extending your arm. A double punch would negate this as all you would have is the force behind rapidly exte... |
Why were the "fappening" photos so effectively removed from the internet when other, more offensive and harmful, images remain? | All the rich and famous peoples lawyers just threatened websites with expensive legal action, they arent gone, they just arent explicitly displayed anywhereWhat makes you think they were effectively removed from the internet?They were removed from websites that cared, like Imgur. If you just went to Google and searched... |
Why is it that I enjoy listening to a song I like on the radio more than I like on my phone/personal music player? | There's an element of good luck to it, or serendipity. You feel like the universe is doing you a little favor. Also, if a song is on the radio, or a movie you like happens to be on TV, you know on some level that you're part of a larger audience. It becomes a sort of rudimentary version of a communal experience, which ... |
Why is it easier to wash dishes with hot water? | The hot temperature combined with soap helps to dislodge grease which may have congealed onto silverware and plates. Grease becomes less viscous as it is heated and thus easier to wash off.Hot water helps with washing for the same reason that slightly cool frigerators delay spoiling. I'm not sure I'm remembering this e... |
Why does the return trip feel faster than the trip to the destination? | Well son, I don't think that is always the case but . Remember when we went for ice cream and you were so excited you couldn't wait to get there. It seemed like it was gonna take forever, right? Then on the way home you were just relaxing and not thinking so much about ice cream any more, then suddenly you're home. It'... |
Why does cabin pressure change during a flight, and not stay the same? | To keep the air inside the cabin at sea level pressure would require planes to be much stronger . Letting some of the air out reduces the strength needed to prevent leaks, and it's still enough air to keep the people alive inside.You can essentially have 2 options. 1)have the cabin pressure set at an altitude, which is... |
Why does a rocking motion facilitate sleep? | I imagine that it has something to do with the development of an unborn child in the mother's womb. In what way is it comfortable to sleep? - in darkness, in warmth and with rocking motions, three attributes of the inside of the uterus. You spent the first nine months of your life sleeping inside of there. It's only lo... |
Why can't I build a custom cellphone when I can build a superior laptop or computer for cheaper than most name-brand equipment? | The "you can" comments are missing a major component set that makes phones VERY different from your standard computer. RF and antenna matching gets really fuckey if you don't know how to tune it properly, which requires patience and relatively costly equipment. If you are an RF engineer who has access to this . Barring... |
Why does it take so much time for the death penalty to actually kill said person? | Because it's a little permanent. The proper steps have to be taken to ensure that the person you kill has actually done what he's been convicted for. It's already a barbaric practice, don't need to add even more innocent deaths to it.* the state wants to be really, really sure before issuing an irreversible penalty* th... |
What makes something romantic? | Romance is easily subjective, so it's dependent upon the receiver of the romance to find it romantic. A woman may find flowers from her significant other romantic, but she may REALLY find it romantic when he does the dishes. I don't think it can be easily defined by one act or style of gift. It's really all about the p... |
Why are the majority of people right handed? | No one is quite sure. The science of handedness is still in its infancy. What is known is that it probably has something to do with *brain lateralization*. Brain lateralization is where certain parts of our brain specialize in certain tasks, such as the left side of the brain dealing with verbal processing and the righ... |
Can you explain the identity relation in philosophy? | Lets say you have two objects, Object A and Object B. The two objects can be anything you want. Now, depending on what Object A and Object B are, there are "relations" that describe how the two objects are connected to each other conceptually. For example, if A = Fire Truck, B = Ambulance, then one relation that could ... |
Why is there a separate security code on credit cards? If the three extra digits make it that much more secure, why not just make the number three digits longer? | In the olden days, credit cards were often not scanned with the mag strip, because the equipment was still too expensive for smaller retailers. What they did instead was use a carbon paper and a roller machine to take an imprint of the front of the credit card with the numbers. This was commonly part of the receipt, an... |
Why does the prime minister of some countries appear to have more power than the president? | Broadly speaking, there are three main systems of government around the world. There are Presidential systems where there is a president who is head of state and head of government . There are Parliamentary systems where the head of state and head of government are separate. The head of government is a Prime Minister o... |
The concept of spin as it pertains to particle physics. | Think about the *state* something is in. For example, a car can be traveling at 10 meter/second. It is in this *state* of traveling at such velocity. Now, some states are continuous in nature, i.e. the car might as well be traveling at 9.98, 9.99, 10.01 meter/second and so on. On the other hand, some states are discret... |
Why can paper only be folded 7 times, no matter the size of paper? | Contrary to popular belief, this isn't true. The thing is, though, that the number of sheets on top of each other and therefore the total thickness that has to be folded increases exponentially . This means that you need a really, really big sheet of paper to begin with if you want to fold it more than 7 times, because... |
Old school graphics explanation. I need clarification please. | You have a grid of 320*200 pixels. That's 64000 pixels. Each pixel is either on or off, so you need 1 bit per pixel, for a total of 8000 bytes You also divide the screen into 8*8 color cells. Each color cell has 64 pixels, so there are a total of 1000 color cells. Each color cell has a foreground and background color. ... |
Why do some trucks have a sign on the back that says "Work vehicle. Do not follow." What is the point? | Construction areas can be confusing, especially at night. People have a habit of following dump trucks off the pavement into the work area because the truck is well lit, visible, and moves like he knows where he needs to be. Source: I drive gravel trucks for a road crew in the summers', "They sometimes stop in the midd... |
Where did "trick or treat" come from? | Simple questions like this that don't warrant much explanation do not belong in ELI5, so this post has been removed. Try [google] or /r/answers. |
What is Daisy's Destruction? | It is very real. It is very horrible from my understanding. I'm watching the 60 minutes video about it right now. You can Google it. The creator and perpetrator is Peter Scully. |
Why do peoples faces turn red when nervous or embarrassed? | Generally when you're nervous or embarrassed, you probably feel like you're in a high-pressure situation. The body responds by releasing adrenaline and increasing blood flow which causes your face to redden and your heart to pound.It is a "Fight or Flight" instinct reaction that is programmed down deep in your DNA. Bei... |
Why does one's hair become white as one ages and why does it happen to individual hairs at different stages? | As we get older, our follicles stop producing pigment. It occurs in different people at different times, in different locations, for different reasons. The primary factor is aging, and the scientific consensus is that all humans will only grow grey or white hairs if they live long enough. Actually, the absence of hair ... |
"Jimmy Legs" (Restless Leg Syndrome) | In all honestly, we don't know what causes restless leg syndrome. There are certain things that can make it worse, but the initial cause hasn't been found yet. There may be a genetic component. Continue to experiment with different therapies to find one that helps, or at least figure out if there is anything that exace... |
What is the point of a "D" grade in colleges? | Some majors will accept D grades for non-essential classes, like if you're studying journalism and you get a D in organic chemistry. You need no functional knowledge of organic chemistry to do your job as a journalist, so the major may be forgiving if you do poorly in that particular class. |
Why cars don't have built in breathalyzers to prevent drunk driving. | Because it'd be weirdly invasive to try and force people to buy cars with what amounts to a monitoring system and it wouldn't be effective; you can't police everybody full time and make sure nobody tampers with it to deactivate it or give false readings. |
Why is there such thing as activation fees? Where does it originate from? | Originally, it was because there was a cost to set up a product or service. It wasn't all instant or quick and easy to do like it is now - getting a phone set up or programmed took time and certain knowledge, or involved a lot more physical work to properly install and program a SIM card or the like. For other things, ... |
What is happening at the cellular level when a body part "goes numb" from being too cold? | The blood supply to the nerves and nerve endings/receptors that mediate sensation is diminished, they get less oxygen and loose function. The nerve cells needs to constantly replenish its energy supplies through active uptake of nutrients, this relies on molecular pumps in the celle membrane that work poorly in low tem... |
Why does a federal court mediate this Tom Brady deflategate case if its a disagreement of league rules and bylaws. | Because the players union is suing the league. Courts are the ones who get involved when lawsuits are filedWhile it is a dispute within the organization, the conflict is that of a contract. When Brady got his contract, it stated that he would follow the rules of the NFL. Brady not following those rules would be like a ... |
What are contraceptives and how do they work. | There are many different sorts of contraceptives from condoms to hormonal birth control to intrauterine devices. Condoms and similar devices work my preventing the passage of semen. Hormonal birth control, such as the pill or patch, work by disrupting ovulation. Intrauterine devices work by either disrupting semen or d... |
How can a "lazy" dog finish 7th in a 1/2 marathon, competing against humans? Aren't bipedals much better at traversing longer distances? | If I'm not mistaken dogs can be pretty good at covering long distances so long as it's not too hot. Humans main advantage to their stamina is being able to keep cool by sweating. That may not be the only reason but it may help you understand the logic behind the dog competing in a marathon during the winter", 'Humans a... |
Why do Americans celebrate Thanksgiving? | Thanksgiving celebrations were an old European tradition even back in the 1620's . A Thaksgiving was a celebration made to recognize particularly good luck - the end of a war, an especially good harvest, etc. They were generally characterized by a day of prayer or religious services followed by a community meal. The pi... |
How come a Wi-Fi repeater uses the same channel as the router? | Personally I would never use a wireless extender because they are not very reliable. What I would use is a wired extender. One that connects to the first router via ethernet cable and works as a second wifi connection point. This is known as bridging. In this case you can change the bandwidth and even SSID and it will ... |
What happens to wax in a candle after it burns away? | When you burn wax it turns into carbon dioxide and water. Most of the mass is carbon that ends up in carbon dioxide. Neither water vapor nor carbon dioxide will bother you much if you breathe them in.The wax is the fuel itself so it gets burned up. Candle wax is a mix of paraffins of different lengths. When wax burns t... |
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