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Sure it would work. But is it a sound? What does it take to make it a sound? if the speaker cone vibrates without anyone touching them, is that a sound? If you disconnect the speakers and touch the cable end with your tounge, feeling the vibrating electrical potential, does your tounge then feel a sound?
If a sound requires a mechanical vibration (but any mechanical vibration satisfies), how do you then label the sensation created by the sound? Your brain, your conciousness, does not vibrate. The mechanical vibration is converted to something else (electrical signals) long before they reach your conciousness. So your conciousness cannot hear a sound. What can it "hear"?
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Member 7989122 wrote: So your conciousness cannot hear a sound. What can it "hear"?
One hand clapping, and a tree falling in the forest.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If it's playing "Space Oddity" on loop, why did all of the broadcasts and the earlier simulation video feature "Life on Mars"?
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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If you whack the astronaut up the side of the head with a baseball bat, but there is no baseball, Is that equivalent to watching cricket?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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... to go online?[^]
Should be a compulsory test that.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We know you have failed it!
(otherwise you wouldn't be here)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Oi Griff! No!!! That is a transparent attempt to get views by briefly mentioning a well-known day of the week.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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At the far right bottom of the post, next to the flag and bookmark is a piece of chain, or a link if you prefer.
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Oh, right. The old 'a symbol is better than a phrase' idea. Hmm. Lets go back to hieroglyphs eh?
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It's for the non English readers.
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And work in IT? Are there any?
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We obviously need a sarcasm icon.
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Its called /sarcasm
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: It's for the non English readers. ... but limited to those cultures / languages that use any sort of "chain-like" idiom to represent a reference to a document.
In Norwegian, you never use "kjetting", chain, as a link idiom. We use "link", in the sense of a radio link, through open air with no physical connection - a term never used for anything physical. Frequently when we encounter icons of English-language origin, we have to go through the different English words that can describe the icon, hoping that one of them matches some relvant concept - such as a chain, a link, ... aha! "Link" is a known English term in the web domain! Then that must be it! (In this example, we happen to use the same term ("link") in English and Norwegian. Often, you end up at a completely different Norwegian word.)
Icons easily end up as just a graphical pattern that carries no inherent meaning. Like this parent who were bemoaning that kids of today know nothing about computing history - they see this floppy-disk icon, but have never seen a real-world floppy. So this mother pointing to the floppy icon to her teenage son: "I bet you have no idea what that is", and the boy protests: "Of course I do! That's a save button!"
Icons are sensitive to cultural variations, and to ages.
"Word icons" are similar: Lots of Europeans wouldn't know that GUI "radio buttons" have anything to do with a radio. Even though European radios might have physical preset buttons, we are not accustomed to mechanics where the active button changes its face color. I have been with kids seeing that "American style" radio buttons for the first time, exclaiming: "Gee! That is just like on the PC! Great!"
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Interesting, what do you call a link in a chain then?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: How dare you, you hypocrite!!
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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So, yeah. How did that whole "Jesus is my vaccine" thing work out back in 1918? Oh yeah, 50 to 100 million dead. Seems like it didn't work back then.
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Because they didn't understand God correctly back then! That was pre-Vatican II!
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well there's all sorts out there...
even "qualified" programmers that still insist array index zero doesn't exist.
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More of a guideline really...
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