The internet is a very real part of human existence at the moment. And while it has enriched human civilization by making all of human knowledge available to everyone, it has also led to the development of internet addiction. People become addicted to the internet for a variety of reasons and we investigate the major causes of this insane dependence.
If you Google the words “advertising on the internet”, you are likely to be bombarded with a multi-thousand search result all of which apparently points at how popular advertising online is. However, anyone with real experience of advertising on the internet is likely to tell you that the idea isn’t as good as all those websites articles claim it to be and a majority of business owners are in fact turning away from internet advertising for good. We investigate what is prompting people to avoid advertising on the internet.
Arguing on the internet is as futile as accumulating a million in Farm Cash on Farmville. It serves no purpose in real life as an online argument provides no solutions to real life problems. So why do people spend so much time and energy in arguing with complete strangers over the internet? Let’s find out.
One of the most annoying occurrences on the internet is when people start acting tough. Most commonplace on forums, the behavior is seen through comment wars where people, often complete strangers, begin threatening others with dire consequences or begins making tall claims that appear too noble to be real. One of life’s great mysteries is why people act tough on the internet and we try to explain this unexplainable behavior.
Virtually every store in the world has at least one or two items that are marked with a price ending in .99. The .99 ending phenomenon has revolutionized pricing and sales around the world though customers don’t always know why products are priced as such and how does it benefit retailers.
Just a few short years ago, failure in internet services was not all that uncommon. Sites were not capable of handling a sudden influx of traffic and servers crashed more frequently. However, thanks to more fault-tolerant servers, internet services have become way steadier and way more crash-proof these days. However, it is still vital to learn the causes behind the failure of internet services so that such problems do not become commonplace once again in the future.
When the birth of Prince George, the son of Prince William and Kate Middleton was announced a few days ago, landmarks around the world flashed blue lights to announce that the new royal baby was indeed a boy. The signals marked a cultural practice where boys are supposed to like all things blue and girls supposedly like all things pink. We investigate the reasons behind the common cultural phenomenon.
In the modern world, technology has definitely become speedier than it had been a mere few decades ago- our computers are faster, we can connect to networks almost instantly and we don’t have to wait for several minutes to have a telephone operator connect your call to a chosen destination. However, most of us still find ourselves waiting for many minutes while our computers boot up. We try to find out what makes computers take so long to boot up.
Computers are built using maths. Every program that is written for them generally uses a lot of math and math is the language that we use to communicate with computers. It thus becomes very perplexing that computer programs like calculator and Excel and powerful search engines too suck at maths. In fact, calculators have been known to screw up basic computations like 12.52 MINUS 12.51 (Windows 3.11 calculator actually returns the result as 0.00 instead of 0.01). We try to explain why computers suck at maths.
Anyone who owns a USB 3.0 compatible device knows how annoying it is to find that your computer offers a mix of USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports which means that you can only use one or two of your USB ports at a time. For folks that own only USB 3.0 devices, the issue can be very infuriating indeed. However, manufacturers have a good reason for offering a mix of USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports even in the latest devices.