The place to ask your "Stupid Questions" thread!!

[AirPower]

Why are aircooled heads silver when black (color) cools the best?

Is it true that type 1 motors can run any direction (clockwize aswell as anti-clock)?

There's my 2

[Pine]

What is the definition of an iPod? Is it always an Apple product, or is any small MP3 player an iPod (kinda like the old Walkmans of the 80's - although Walkman was an official Sony product name)

Can an (average) iPod charge and play at the same time? (My cheap no-name brand MP3 player can't)

[Chris]

Because you can have any color aluminium cast as long as its it's silver.

An iPod is an iPod,mp3 is the common name for .....uhm.....mp3 players.

[ChrisG]

Can an (average) iPod charge and play at the same time? (My cheap no-name brand MP3 player can't)

Yes it can if you have a wall charger

I think Ipod stands for Internet Pod

[Pine]

I think the name 'iPod' is incorrectly used by anyone and everyone that has a small portable MP3 player..

[bugspray]

Thats what us in marketing call generic branding. When the market leaders name is adapted to all associated products. All portable mp3 players are generally called an iPod. Like dishwashing liquid is most comonly known as sunlight. Or bugspray (hehe thats me) as doom... iPods depending on model can be charged while playing. The shuffle cant tho.

[bugspray]

And yup. I stands for internet. Apple began with the i, with the iMac pc. It became a hit, then they decide to brand all their products with the i. And other manufacturers followed suit.

[Pine]

So Apple makes iSuzu bakkies as well??

[Tony Z]

and iWisa pap?

[Sambabus]

If two wrongs dont make a right,why do three rights make a left?

[1972]

here a few i need answers for

1)why is the world round and not flat?
2)Do you find it a bit unnerving doctors call what they do practice?
3)If a funeral procession is at night, do you drive with your lights off?
4)If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
5)If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
6)When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?
7)When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?
Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
9)Why is an alarm clock going "off" when it actually turns on?
10)If you mated a bull dog and a shitsu, would it be called a bullshit?
11)If an ambulance is on its way to save someone, and it runs someone over, does it stop to help them?
12)Why is it called a "drive through" if you have to stop?
13)Why does mineral water that has "trickled through mountains for centuries" go out of date next year?
14)Why are Softballs hard?
15)Do the minutes on the movie boxes include the previews, credits, and special features, or just the movie itself?
16)Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but people don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?
17)Why is an electrical outlet called an outlet when you plug things into it? Shouldn't it be called an inlet.
18)Why do we scrub Down and wash Up?
19)Why does Goofy stand upright while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!
20)Can blind people see their dreams?
21)Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road?
22)Why do they call it "getting your dog fixed" if afterwards it doesn't work anymore?
23)Why do they call it taking a dump? Shouldn't it be leaving a dump?
24)Where in the nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty is an egg?
25)Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?
26)Why do banks leave the door wide open but the pens chained to the counter?
27)If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
28)Why does Donald Duck wear a towel when he comes out of the shower, when he doesn't usually wear any pants?
30)How come you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?
31)If an orange is orange, why isn't a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?
32)If a cat always lands on its feet, and buttered bread always lands butter side down, what would happen if you tied buttered bread on top of a cat?
33)If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why's it still #2?
34)What colour would a smurf turn if you choked it?
35)Where's the egg in an egg roll?
36)Why aren't blue berries blue?
37)Where is the lead in a lead pencil?
38)Why is Greenland called green when it is covered in ice?

[ChrisG]

What is meant by SO55 etc, is it like a camper model or something? Do all busses have an "SO" number?

[Pine]

Why is a late-model 1600 European Beetle called an 1302 or 1303 - why not 1602 or 1603?

[vader]

And yup. I stands for internet. Apple began with the i, with the iMac pc. It became a hit, then they decide to brand all their products with the i. And other manufacturers followed suit.

Not quite true....

History and design
The iPod Classic 5G (right) and 6G (left) showing the improved album view

The iPod line came from Apple's "digital hub" category,[5] when the company began creating software for the growing market of personal digital devices. Digital cameras, camcorders and organizers had well-established mainstream markets, but the company found existing digital music players "big and clunky or small and useless" with user interfaces that were "unbelievably awful,"[5] so Apple decided to develop its own. As ordered by CEO Steve Jobs, Apple's hardware engineering chief Jon Rubinstein assembled a team of engineers to design the iPod line, including hardware engineers Tony Fadell and Michael Dhuey,[6] and design engineer Jonathan Ive.[5] The product was developed in less than one year and unveiled on 23 October 2001. Jobs announced it as a Mac-compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive that put "1,000 songs in your pocket."[7]

Apple did not develop the iPod software entirely in-house, instead using PortalPlayer's reference platform based on 2 ARM cores. The platform had rudimentary software running on a commercial microkernel embedded operating system. PortalPlayer had previously been working on an IBM-branded MP3 player with Bluetooth headphones.[5] Apple contracted another company, Pixo, to help design and implement the user interface under the direct supervision of Steve Jobs.[5] As development progressed, Apple continued to refine the software's look and feel. Starting with the iPod Mini, the Chicago font was replaced with Espy Sans. Later iPods switched fonts again to Podium Sans—a font similar to Apple's corporate font, Myriad. iPods with color displays then adopted some Mac OS X themes like Aqua progress bars, and brushed metal meant to evoke a combination lock. In 2007, Apple modified the iPod interface again with the introduction of the sixth-generation iPod Classic and third-generation iPod Nano by changing the font to Helvetica and, in most cases, splitting the screen in half by displaying the menus on the left and album artwork, photos, or videos on the right (whichever was appropriate for the selected item).

In September 2007, during the course of a lawsuit with patent holding company Burst.com, Apple drew attention to a patent for a similar device that was developed in 1979. Kane Kramer patented the idea of a "plastic music box" in 1979, which he called the IXI.[8] He was unable to secure funding to renew the US$ 120,000 worldwide patent, so it lapsed and Kramer never profited from his idea.[8] Kramer is now in talks with the company to discuss how he will be reimbursed.[8]

From Wikipedia....

[1972]

ok i will ask 1 Q at a time

12)Why is it called a "drive through" if you have to stop?