Re: ALSA sound recording frustration
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:40:45PM -0500, Napoleon wrote:
> lee wrote:
>> It's likely that voltage and water pressure exist even when you don't
>> measure them, but without measuring them (or otherwise observing their
>> effects), you don't know that they do. Not oberserving something
>> doesn't mean that it still exists.
>>
>
> It also does not mean it does not exist.
Indeed --- it only means that you don't know weather it still exists
or not.
>>> The question is immaterial. Whether you know or not is not related
>>> to the presence (or absence) of voltage.
>>
>> But measuring/observing is?
>>
>>
>
> Measuring/observing has nothing to do as to whether something exists in
> the macro world - only in quantum physics (which we are not discussing
> here).
>
> Right now I don't have a thermometer, so I can't measure the outside
> temperature. However, I am confident it exists!
Well, I was just outside, and there was a temperature. That doesn't
mean that it's still there, but I can see the thermometer from here :)
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