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thedailywtf.com — What's the sound of one hand clapping? If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Can Word edit the unknown?

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  • VladislavIII, on 03/16/2008, -4/+109That's deep.
  • ennTOXX, on 03/16/2008, -17/+6HAHA! I love that. I came across this yesterday & the first thing that came to my mind was "WERD". Nice digg... :||
    • virtualball, on 03/16/2008, -2/+7"WEIRD" would've worked and so might've "WORD!"


      Therefore, you lose. :)
  • Member148, on 03/16/2008, -9/+3I also like the link at the end; "How does you soul look?". I would say; just like me except lighter. lol.
  • sfury, on 03/16/2008, -8/+112but vi can edit the Unknown

    yes vi can!
    • sexybobo, on 03/16/2008, -27/+5vi sucks windows notepad FTW
      • Slade605, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Only real men vi on the battlefield for their OS.
      • sexybobo, on 03/16/2008, -4/+2Come on no one found that funny?
        • mikev, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1the amount of diggs speaks for itself
    • slashbot, on 03/16/2008, -7/+4Queue vi vs. emacs war.
    • joegibes, on 03/16/2008, -7/+2Wii would like to play?
    • virtualball, on 03/16/2008, -1/+2You sir, you are a delight.
    • jgtg32a, on 03/16/2008, -2/+11Emacs > all
      Emacs support butterflies
      http://xkcd.com/378/
      • sfury, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2i know

        but i use vim :)
        • strictnein, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2nano
          Some of us like usability.
        • sirhomer, on 03/17/2008, -1/+2nano is really for people who don't know how to use vim, it's feature set is about par to that of Notepad

          Usability is very subjective, it's would be painful to use nano as an programming environment since it lacks syntax highlighting, regular expressions, autocompletion, tab completion, easy access to compilers, etc.
    • Culyt, on 03/16/2008, -1/+0Well vi can edit directories, at least on FreeBSD under Linux you just get a list of files.
  • slashbot, on 03/16/2008, -3/+139To edit the unknown is to know the unknown.

    Word is right. You cannot know the unknown.
    • icebrk, on 03/16/2008, -1/+12The unknowns we know we don't know or the even worse unknowns that we don't know we don't know?
      • Dr0x, on 03/16/2008, -4/+3wat?
        • ZigVicious, on 03/16/2008, -0/+20It's a Donald Rumsfeld quote.
          There are known knowns, that is, things we know we know.
          There are known unknowns, that is, things we know we don't know.
          But, there are also unknown unknows, that is, things we don't know we don't know.
          • theaceoffire, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2Hang on... don't we know there are things we don't know we don't know?
            Wouldn't that suggest that there are unknown unknown unknowns?
          • colto, on 03/16/2008, -0/+4*head asplode*
          • dasdef, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1wow this sequence of comments is amazing
          • strictnein, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2I've always struggled with why people think it's a ridiculous thing to say. What he said was true. There are things you know (that you'd like to nail the chick at the bar), the things you know don't know (her phone number), and the things you don't know that you don't know (that she's actually a man).
          • phatvolvo, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1hmm, I don't know.
      • HolemCross, on 03/16/2008, -1/+2Its an incomplete statement. Begin with some like "Is it" and the sentence works.
        • sgtbutterscotch, on 03/16/2008, -1/+2It still doesn't make sense. There's no verb so you can't tell what icebrk is trying to say.
          • whahaa, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1if he added 'is it', like holemcross suggested, then 'is' would be the verb.
      • tannergdog, on 03/17/2008, -1/+1Old Rummi has it all figured out..

        "As we know,
        There are known knowns.
        There are things we know we know.
        We also know
        There are known unknowns.
        That is to say
        We know there are some things
        We do not know.
        But there are also unknown unknowns,
        The ones we don't know
        We don't know."
    • Harbinger67, on 03/16/2008, -0/+4Does the wind not edit the rock across which is blows? Does the rain not edit the soil upon which it falls? To edit, one must simply be, not know.
      • grimlenn, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2But is the unknown something which is? Does being known imply bieng at all? In our world, does one not have to be known in order to be anything at all?
    • KingGorilla, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1Unknown has become known and to fix it it must be erased from our knowledge so that it can be unknown once again
    • ClevelandBrown, on 03/16/2008, -1/+0I know that you know what I know that you know.
  • imagefrozen, on 03/16/2008, -20/+1lol very nice. dugg.
    'Word Cannot Edit The Unknown.'
    • LamentMoon, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4Oh, THAT'S what it said. Sorry, couldn't read it myself.
  • epimortum, on 03/16/2008, -12/+2I looked in to say, I love the dailywtf they've got some really sweet entries.

    WARNING: NOT for the average digg user.
    • Matt2k, on 03/16/2008, -3/+16Thank god for that warning! Someone who is not the target demographic of The Daily WTF might have read it!!
      • epimortum, on 03/16/2008, -0/+0Simply stating a fact that the content of that site, while funny to some will be lost on most.
        Essentially, don't get your hopes up for every posting to be as that one is.
        No harm, malice, or other ungood intended.

        Addendum:
        If they shoe fits wear it!
    • mrsteveman1, on 03/16/2008, -1/+1So the BDSM page with the 3 rabbits popped up for you too eh?
  • adith, on 03/16/2008, -1/+31I did a double-take when I saw that the weather.com screenshot had my zip code, wondering if the website had somehow found out where I lived. But then I read the caption again, which included "16 microfarads" and thought no average person would think of that... must be some science guy from MIT -- which is located in that zip code.
  • mal1964, on 03/16/2008, -3/+2I saw digg colors!
  • leno1976, on 03/16/2008, -11/+0what is the sound of one hand clappin?if you fall in the forest do the trees here it?eternal mysteries.........
    • usingpond, on 03/16/2008, -0/+6Wow you could not be more stupid
    • HonoredMule, on 03/16/2008, -0/+7One hand clapping produces exactly the same sound as any other contradiction.
      Trees don't 'here' anything (or hear anything, either).
      Only you can detect that hollow whooshing sound, as it's rather tightly localized.
      • theaceoffire, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2One hand clapping sounds like "Cla".
        The other hand finishes it (the "ap").
        Thanks Terry Pratchett!
    • leno1976, on 03/16/2008, -3/+2wow I guess sarcasm flies over some geniuses head you absolute moron
    • mrsteveman1, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1You aren't supposed to do the one handed clap thing in pubic.....
  • Mrdudeperson, on 03/16/2008, -8/+26Thats the kinda deep thinking that happens when you put a Microsoft product on a Mac.
    • zzz@tkz, on 03/16/2008, -2/+2Microsoft Exchange is coming to the iPhone, heh.
    • m1ss1ontomars, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1No, that's what happens when you use an outdated Microsoft product on a Mac. That's Word v.X.
  • Shintounotenshi, on 03/16/2008, -6/+2Mu.
    • FallenHero, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Apparently nobody here is actually Buddhist or else they'd get it.
  • Dealjobber, on 03/16/2008, -5/+1Mo
  • buhbyebot, on 03/16/2008, -10/+2shopped.
    • spikespikespike, on 03/16/2008, -0/+0i can tell by the very suspicious pixels
  • drizzlelicious, on 03/16/2008, -0/+77Slow day on Digg
  • dtaylor379, on 03/16/2008, -6/+0What about unintended consequences? If I delete a file I did not read -- did I really delete it? If I picked my nose, but no one knows -- did I really pick it? hmmm...
    • CatalystGhost, on 03/16/2008, -1/+24Or, my favourite, if a tree falls in a forest, and it kills you, can I laugh?
    • m1ss1ontomars, on 03/16/2008, -1/+1No, you didn't delete it. You just removed the record.
  • pundip, on 03/16/2008, -7/+0mirror: http://deepthought42.homeunix.com/diggmirror/main. ...
  • pundip, on 03/16/2008, -12/+0mirror : http://deepthought42.homeunix.com/diggmirror/main. ...
  • h4mx0r, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3A temporal paradox detected?
    • MacEnvy, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Quick! Recalibrate the deflector shield to divert the tachyon stream!
      • expert01, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Reverse the polarity!
      • frazw, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Rotate shield frequencies
      • FluffyArmada, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1We're going to have to manually configure the deflector disk!
  • smoothmann, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1haha, the php errors are great
  • gak001, on 03/16/2008, -0/+16Could we get a microfarad to centigrade or Fahrenheit conversion table?
    • Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 03/16/2008, -7/+3A farad is a unit of measure for electric capacitance, there is no conversion.
    • mrsteveman1, on 03/16/2008, -0/+5Step 1: Measure microfarads
      Step 2: Make ***** up
  • Dr0x, on 03/16/2008, -8/+2Hmmm well philosophical buzz-kill incoming: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, there will be no sound. Sound only exists when it can be perceived.
    • Slade605, on 03/16/2008, -2/+9Well riddle me this, if a man has sex in the forest, and no one is around to see it, can he still tell his friends he's not a virgin?
      • Dr0x, on 03/16/2008, -0/+4No because if there was no one around to see it then there was no person to have sex with. What has happened to logic?
        • cornflakepirate, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1What if the person he had sex with had his/her eyes closed?
    • HonoredMule, on 03/16/2008, -2/+10So if I ignore the rest of science too, can I fly through solid objects by wearing a blindfold?
      • Sliver85, on 03/16/2008, -2/+3No, Dr0x is right, sound is only sound if it is perceived. Otherwise it is just vibrating matter in waves.

        "Sound is the vibration of matter, as perceived by the sense of hearing." from Wikipedia
        • Dr0x, on 03/16/2008, -3/+1Actually no, there is pretty much an agreement in the scientific and philosophical community that there would be no sound. Those vibrations will never make a sound unless someone is able to hear it. Sound is the result of the human ears' recognition of different vibrations. Before they reach the ear and are transformed into sound, they are nothing more then vibrations. Also your definition from wikipedia proves my point, Its not a sound until its perceived by the sense of hearing,
        • Dr0x, on 03/16/2008, -1/+4On that note I fail at life for misreading your comment. My bad Silver, ignore my last comment.
        • frazw, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Eh reread that Sliver. You (or rather wikipedia) are saying that hearing is perceived, sound is material.
          Sound caused by the bulk vibration of matter. I say bulk to avoid confusion with temperature.
          Hearing is how we as humans perceive a sound. If you argue that sound is only a sound if perceived then my tape recorder is very perceptive for an artificial object. What am I recording if not sound? Vibration? Well guys vibration is sound.
          These arguments are stupid, puerile and purely semantic. Missing the entire point of the philosophical argument in the first place.
          If you want a definitive answer. If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
          The answer is YES because I can leave a tape recorder to record the sound even if no one is there.
      • Dr0x, on 03/16/2008, -2/+1Like I already stated what I said previously is a matter of science. You are just making up situations without thinking through what you are saying. Of course you could never fly through objects because you have a sense of touch. Your defense of what you call science is pretty contradictory of the actual field of science.
        • HonoredMule, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2I didn't want my statement to be overly long/convoluted, but thanks for making my point for me. Now you say I can't fly through objects only because I have tactile perception. I posit that I cannot fly through objects because matter cannot occupy the same space twice, REGARDLESS of what my senses (or anyone else's) perceive.

          Similarly, sound, which is merely vibration (wikipedia article notwithstanding) exists whether it resonates against a person's eardrums or not. If perception were sound's defining factor, how do you qualify vibrations as perceived or not? Does recording by a mechanical machine count? What about flower petals responding physically?

          It would be an extreme arrogance to form literal definitions around an abstract perspective.
  • smacksaw, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3No wonder Maplestory is such a hacker's paradise. Honestly, Nexon have no idea what they are doing.
  • Zippo, on 03/16/2008, -3/+4Word.
  • dtaylor379, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1We know we don't know, we just don't know what we don't know -- you know?
  • loquax, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1But word can (in the words of Don Rumsfeld) edit the "known unknowns."
  • lazerpewpew, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1it makes more sense than divide by zero.
    • robcornelius, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1back in the day Word Perfect used to regularly put "unable to divide by zero" errors on the screen. Sad but true
      • sk2134, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1IM gunna go out on a limb and guess thats what lazerpewpew was referring to
  • Janizzary, on 03/16/2008, -0/+4I'm gonna ask the Dalai Lama about this one. He knows stuff...
  • nobody7, on 03/16/2008, -5/+1Can someone explain this? It makes no sense to me... is it a mac thing?
  • dailyapplecrisp, on 03/16/2008, -4/+2this was on reddit like 2 days ago. Why is it popular just now on digg.
  • talonstriker, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Well, I did think that the weather on march 6th was shockingly cold...
  • aserer511, on 03/16/2008, -7/+3haha, I like!
    just a tangent, but follow me here. Mac fans think apple can outdo windows, right?
    SO WHY IS OFFICE FOR MAC SO POPULAR? if apple is so talented, surely iworks is better, no?
    • clak, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1I saw some stats not too long ago and it said that 16% of Office for Mac users had switched to iWork. Some people have to use Office because they use it at work, but iWork documents support Microsoft file formats, so more people are starting to use it. Does that answer your troll?
    • thefurball, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2It's so popular because people need it for compatibility with the workplace and for familiarity, although there are obviously some differences.
    • m1ss1ontomars, on 03/16/2008, -1/+2I'm not a troll and I don't like to feed them, but I have to say that iWork sucks some serious crap. It's just not compatible enough or familiar enough for me.

      Apple as a whole may be either talented or untalented; that's irrelevant. What's relevant here is that whoever came up with iWork is an idiot.
    • Kypt, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Sadly in today's business world it's useless to resist MS's grasp. Sure you can use OSX and use whatever you want and people will most likely let you use what you want AS LONG AS it is 100% compatible with what the rest of the company uses. They don't want to have to files you send to a format they can use and viceversa. They aslo don't want funky formatting issues on documents etc, and since MS has never opened their format, these things will always be an issue, thus its just a lot easier to use office than something you may like better.

      On the other hand, Office is not that bad
    • expert01, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1I'm not gonna lie, Microsoft makes a damn good office product. They combine ease of use for less advanced users, and powerful functionality for power users.
    • sk2134, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1I agree with aserer511 ! But on a seprate but related note; ppl are so serious these days on the interblags. wtf guys, why cant we all just be friends?
  • yclian, on 03/16/2008, -1/+0LOL. I can have a good sleep now.

    - yc
  • peznex, on 03/16/2008, -0/+10The tree does not make a sound if nobody is around to hear it. It makes a noise. Noise is calculated and a sound is heard. My physics teacher explained this.
  • JackHererUK, on 03/16/2008, -0/+5The best word error i ever had was when trying to perform a mail merge with a web based app that uses an activex control to wire the database up to word. I selected the option in the web app to perform the merge and up popped a word error dialog that said "There is no error". Clear evidence that we are all living in The Matrix...
  • dsunshine1, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1dugg for peggle reference
  • dantheman733, on 03/16/2008, -3/+0Another good one: http://images.x7web.com/files/0biww23svcrz0x3thwsk ...
    • nationalist, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1who says there can't be a non-MS installer?
    • unrealmp3, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Even better to have a genuine Windows under.. Ubuntu & Wine+IE6 ?
  • m1ss1ontomars, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1The real WTF here is that he's still using Word v.X, apparently with Tiger or Panther.
  • CCmachined, on 03/16/2008, -3/+3WORD = FTL
    MAC = ...
    seriously, what is this guy smoking?
  • sherbertbones, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1I have a philosophical query for Word to chomp on...what doth LIFE?
  • gwydon, on 03/17/2008, -2/+2OpenOffice Writer, on the other hand...
  • emilydickenson, on 03/17/2008, -1/+0i bet openWord can, though.
  • unrealmp3, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2Do You Need A Capital Letter For Every Single Word ?
  • ncgmac, on 03/20/2008, -0/+0They forgot Do the needful.
  • tuxpuppy, on 03/21/2008, -0/+0now let us search for another image to chew on for 6 days
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