Its just busy work. The computer uses the time to check for extraneous packets running to your address.

Technically a Pi is a single chip computer but they’re called an SBC because they replaced stuff like a Motorola 68HC11.

You’ll have no end of problems and won’t know whether it’s a hardware or software problem.

It was basically a bribe because she’d already lost her marbles by then, so she couldn’t do any actual lobbying.

Same hardware.

It seems to be principally due to lower latency (less time looking for stuff in RAM or HD) and improved power management.

It was on Volkswagen Transporter pick ups in the 1960s, in response to German taxes on imported US chicken.

Actually, full sized pick ups are not liable to light truck tariffs, but they have no market outside of the US.

Butter - cream churned at cellar/fridge temperature.

Icecream - cream churned around zero degrees celsius.

Except data usually refers to a single set of data, so it is both plural and singular.

Its a private university you know, they can enrol anyone they like, they don’t “owe” anyone anything.

The left wing vote is split, so the Republicans can win just by getting the largest number of votes with first-past-the-post.

Why are people using word processors at all ? They’re only used to print letters on paper.

Sony was the first to put up their prices.

Yes, that’s what its always done.

There isn’t any way you can make a Y/3 much cheaper, its an inherently expensive design, being essentially a cut down Model X. The fact that they lack the resources to make a new platform seems telling.

“You need a pen licence because that’s what you use at work”.

Um no. Secretaries, lawyers and journalists used typewriters and engineers used propelling pencils. Builders had these odd rectangular shaped pencils that could write on anything. Fitters and boilermakers used chalk.

Only schoolchildren used biros.

There are 10 Commandments.

No - there’s 14.

And most of them also have sub-commandments, just to confuse it further.

So presumably NASA is anti-science ?

Because they have redetermined that Pluto is a planet.

Yeah but its such a hassle to find, so…

Edison ivented the light bulb in the US. No, it was Tungsram in Hungary. Edison did employ him as a result though. Bell invented the telephone. No, it was Edison labs. Bell stiole the patent from an Italian guy when he was working in the patent office. Philco invented the TV set. Nothing to do with it, it was Edison-Marconi. The CRT controller was invented in the Soviet Union hence the Philco invention story.

Stomach ulcers are caused by stress. Nope.

Alcoholism runs in families. Nope.

Heart disease runs in families. Nope.