GPU is often used to refer to the graphics card as a whole

The internet is just a bunch of interconnected computers.

You act as a tiny, trivial ISP when you install a WiFi access point. This is sort of like that, but more complicated.

Yeah, in theory most anyone with the know-how, money, legal ability and technical ability can be an ISP. You purchase a bunch of pretty fancy equipment, then you need to find some provider to connect to (the internet is just a bunch of ISPs linking to each other), then provide service to your clients somehow.

That's of course easier said than done. First you need to find an existing place with internet access that will sell to you. Then you need the hardware. Then you need to reach your customers somehow.

The possible roadblocks are that an ISP might not want to cooperate with you, the legal requirements for something like digging streets and laying fiber may be hard to comply with, and equipment is expensive.

The internet is just a series of comnected networks. Your local ISP is just providing a connection from your home to a higher level regional network. If you had the time and money you could contact the higher level network company and negotiate a connection to them yourself without needing an ISP company.

So thats what this guy did. He negotiated a connection to a regional provider and installed the equipment and lines for the connection. Most people don't do it because it takes a lot of money and regulatory approvals for the lines. Its normally less expensive for each person to pay an ISP because then the costs are shared among all the customers.

"The internet" is just a bunch of computers connected across the world. The content of the internet is provided by the computers which are owned by millions of different people and organizations, but the infrastructure which connects them together is owned by businesses that operate and maintain them.

Someone who starts their own ISP isn't "creating internet" like growing corn or something, they are just running the communications lines necessary to connect their customers to a larger communications backbone relatively nearby. The companies which own and operate the big, high volume communications lines don't want to bother trying to deal with individuals so only collections of users under the umbrella of an ISP are worth providing access.

Ha! Didn't know this and in fact I was asking this myself for quite some time. Thanks.

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Yes--back when I was in high school in the late 80s, one of my teachers also taught a SAT prep class, and at the time they were teaching a strategy where if you had no idea and just had to guess, then avoid ACEs and doubles. A was too easy, E too hard, C too obvious, and test creators don't like answer streaks. I would assume test creation methodology has changed for the SAT in 30 years, but it still may be helpful for any human-created multiple choice tests out there.

There are tons of examples of this strange changing of language. For example today "OK" is used for acknowledgment or agreement but most people don't know its origin. It is actually an abbreviation of "oll korrect", a deliberate misspelling for the purposes of humor in the 1800's of the phrase "all correct".

I can only imagine how bewildering these idiosyncrasies must be for someone trying to learn the language.

These are incorrect.

The GPU and CPU are similar. A “graphics card” has all of these things. A GPU in an SoC would have similar limitations to a CPU.

But consumers don’t buy GPUs, companies like MSI do and integrate them into a graphics card. They do buy CPUs.

The moment you buy stock on an exchange, your exchange is looking for sell orders of other entities. You're just buying from random people like on a simple market.

If there's nobody to sell on that certain price, price will move up and you'll have to buy more expensive. This will raise the price.

>for example how "literally" has been changing to mean "figuratively" somewhat recently.

That always irritates me as a non-english person. Always thought it's just dumb people who don't know how to talk properly

Certainly not the Aztecs, but possibly not the Egyptians either.

The Djoser Step Pyramid in Egypt was constructed by Imhotep (Djoser's royal architect) c.2630 BC.

However, as early as 2700-2600 BC, an ancient city featuring up to 20 pyramids was constructed at Caral in the Supe Valley on the west coast of Peru. The early settlement is widely believed to be the first city in the Americas, although the difficulties in dating ancient monuments has made it impossible to say for certain whether its pyramids pre-date Djoser's pyramid.

Yea and apparently you didn't do a very good job of that part womp womp 🙃

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In this case, "axiom" is a bit misleading. It's an assumption, but not an axiom.

Relativity arose out of the observation that the speed of light was the same for all observers, which had become clear by the time relativity was developed. What relativity does is goes back and says "okay, what assumptions about physics are wrong in order for that to be possible?"

It turns out the wrong assumption was the idea that all observers, regardless of position or movement, agree on lengths in space and time.

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When you start saying things like "I know it's only been two weeks but we're moving in together!"

Most military night vision goggles have a green filter on them so you can use a green light and not have your goggles shut down. Particularly helpful in the cockpit if you're flying with goggles on and need to look at a map or something inside

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The easiest way to remember this is that BC stand for Before Christ and AD stand for After Christ. In reality it does not but it is the easiest to remember. So if you say the Egyptians were present 1500 years before Christ and the Aztecs were present 1500 years after Christ that means that the Egyptians were here at least 3000 years before the Aztecs. In reality we do not know when the Egyptians came to be as they were already an advanced civilization when they made the earliest artifacts we have from them from about 5000 BC. And there are signs that they were conducting archeological digs back then and reusing what was even then ancient works.

I've never suggested otherwise. You claimed there were many grammar rules which produce grammatically correct sentences when broken. I'm asking which rules those are.

It doesn't; that's the point I'm making. You can form a sentence which parses into grammatical English but which doesn't communicate any useful information. Grammar is not the only thing that determines whether something is good English or not.

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It’s probably someone very similar to you when you bought it, or whoever you bought it from.