Why am I the first one to reply to this awesome thread?
Edit: Seriously, guys. This is ridiculous.
Why am I the first one to reply to this awesome thread?
Edit: Seriously, guys. This is ridiculous.
Last edited by oddler; 06-28-2010 at 08:55 PM. Reason: You all suck. :colbert:
Because you have everyone else on ignore
I think the bots and lurkers read this, they read everything. But it all depends on your target audience.![]()
Can I be the target audience?![]()
The answer is yes. Why wouldn't it be?
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
If a tree falls down in a forest and no one is there to hear it, it makes a sound. This is because hearing it is not what causes the sound, but the vibration that's caused when it hits the ground.
And if you want to have audio proof of that, you can put a video recorder next to where the tree falls and record the sound. Nobody has heard the recorder yet (and thus nobody has heard the tree at the time it fell), so to find out if the tree made a sound then you get the recorder play it back.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
But by that logic any form of vibration or physical movement is called 'sound'. Me stretching my arm into the air would be a "sound" since it's just the start of a very very low frequency vibration. A tree falling in a forrest makes a vibration, but is a vibration a sound if it is not heard.
Kefka's coming, look intimidating!
Have a nice day!!
I answered that question with my post. =]
If you move your arm fast enough past your ear, you'll hear a sound. So it's right in that stretching your arm into the air would cause (not "be", if we're being pedantic) a sound, just a very small one that most people wouldn't hear. In fact, some sounds aren't heard by people at all. But yes, a sound all the same. That's why there are dog whistles. We can't hear them, but the vibrations exist, and it turns out dogs can hear them. It would be silly to dismiss something as soundless just because we don't hear it.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
But how do I know which tree is gonna fall, Daniel? It could be decades until a tree falls near a recorder I've put in the forest, by which time it has surely been ruined by rain and moose trampling, unless I put out like 500 recorders in forests everywhere! I can't afford that many recorders, Daniel! And it would take so much time to listen through them!!!
Set it up with a mechanism.![]()
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
If no one else is going to post, then I'm going to doublepost. So, there.