computer/technology quiz

mrjack said:
My guess would have to be Overclockerz or OverClockers Zone.
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Overclockerz is correct. That question entered me in a drawing in which i won 1Gb of OCZ Ram, which I ended up selling here to a member.
 
I "repost" my earlier alternative question. It has to do with electronics that's for sure.

How does a guitar pickup work?
 
mrjack said:
I "repost" my earlier alternative question. It has to do with electronics that's for sure.

How does a guitar pickup work?
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There are magnetic coils within the pickup which pick up the vibrating of the metal string and interprets it as an electrical signal, which is then sent to the amplifier and played as sound.
 
Correct, but here's how I would have put it:

The magnetic coils in the pickup generate a magnetic field around the strings, which will create an electric signal when the strings are strummed.
 
Ok, here's a question related to logic gates:

If you have a 3 state NAND gate with the states A=0 B=1 C=0 passed through an inverter, what is the final state (X)?
 
4W4K3 said:
Hmm, I've not done this in a while. a 3 input nand...

X=1?
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No, the NAND itself equals 1, but the state has been passed through an inverter, which inverts the state, making X equal 0.
 
SAAER45 said:
If a computer falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
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I have not yet figured out why people think that doesn't make a sound...of course it does
 
Bobo said:
I have not yet figured out why people think that doesn't make a sound...of course it does
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How can you be so sure? If there is no ear to receive sound, then sound does not exist...
 
SAAER45 said:
How can you be so sure? If there is no ear to receive sound, then sound does not exist...
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How can you say that? The sound waves are still there, and they are absorbed by the trees and ground, instead of the ear.
 
Bobo said:
How can you say that? The sound waves are still there, and they are absorbed by the trees and ground, instead of the ear.
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Without an ear to interpret sound, then those 'sound waves' are simply vibrations...
 
SAAER45 said:
No they don't, all 'sound' is just vibrations... It is just the instruments in our bodies that convert them into audible frequency.
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But the vibrations still exist. It doesn't matter if they are being converted, they are there.
 
The vibrations are essentially sounds, it doesn't matter if someone is there to hear it or not.

And I believe it's Clutch who again gets to give us a question.
 
the point being made by the "does it make a sound" is that there needs to be a transmitter and a receiver of sorts in order for that to be interpreted as a sound.

Yes the air is vibrated producing what would be called sound waves but those waves need to find something to intereact with to then create a sound...the interpreting mechanism being the ear and the brain. Up until that point they are simply vibrations in the air.

Its not an easy concept to grasp but just remeber there needs to be something to interpret a signal at the end....... this is gonna end in tears :D
 
Let's get back to topic, shall we? I guess Clutch gets to ask another question since there was no right answer posted to his previous.
 
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