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  2. What's the best ambient sound machine (like for sleeping)

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    What's the best ambient sound machine (like for sleeping) ... Remember Me?

  3. Why do fax machines still make that dial up noise?

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    When they use the old-fashioned fax protocol, then they still use that protocol’s analog representation of digital signals, which is the dial-up noise that you hear. The initial tones that you hear are the fax machines negotiating their transmit and receive speeds with each other. Many “fax” machines these days are combo scanner/fax ...

  4. What is this room in the White House? - Straight Dope

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    Factual Questions. Here. Obviously a dining room, but not THE dining room – I’ve seen pictures of THE White House dining room and that ain’t it. Almost certainly not the POTUS’ private dining room in his quarters, because no civilian is going to get anywhere near there. Best I can figure, it’s like a canteen for the White House Press ...

  5. Coffee making a buzzing sound - Straight Dope

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    Mangetout December 2, 2010, 8:56am #4. I suspect: Your cup has a crack or imperfection in the glaze and the heat of the coffee is causing the air within the porous material of the ceramic to expand and be blown out of the crack, making a noise as it goes.

  6. Why are wide-mouth bottles hard to make sound from?

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    It’s fairly easy to blow over the top of an empty open pop bottle or similarly shaped container in order to produce a tone. Maybe that’s the bottle’s fundamental. But try to do it with a Gatorade bottle and it’s almost impossible. And by extension, it’s completely impossible to make a tone while blowing over the top of an open bowl. All I can surmise is that the relatively closed top ...

  7. What are the itty-bitty bits you love in certain songs?

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    U. M.” The moment when the rock music suddenly stops and you get this massive noise wall that pegs your meter, you can subtract 16db at any point and you won’t change the sonic picture. The massive noise wall, then starts ping-ponging like mad. Soft Machine “Slightly All The Time” the shift from the fast 11/8 riff to the half tempo 9/4 ...

  8. Disconnected line tone on answering machine to discourage...

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    As telemarketers have figured out my cell phone number and I’m getting automated calls, I was wondering if this plan would work. At the start of my answering machine message, play the three-tone sound that signifies a disconnected phone line. Would that trigger a note with the automated dialer that the line no longer works and to stop calling that number, or since it’s computerized and can ...

  9. What's white on the outside and brown on the inside?

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    A Native American whose behavior is too white is sometimes called an apple- red on the outside and white on the inside, get it? A black person who behaves like a white person is sometimes referred to as an oreo- black on the outside and white on the inside. I’ve tried hard to think of something which is white on the outside and brown on the inside, unsuccessfully. Other than myself, I mean ...

  10. What's going on when speaker phase errors happen in sound system...

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    Note that the program uses white(ish) noise and frequency sweeps when it runs. One of the several things it does is figure time delay for each speaker to the listener’s position. At a particular frequency, polarity reversal and a different time delay are indistinguishable – but the time delay would have to be different for each frequency ...

  11. Where did the 16 million Democratic votes go? - Straight Dope

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    Total in 2020 was 155 million, only 136 million thus far in 2024. Seems like an odd drop off, especially when many predicted record number of voters. 2020, the Democrat was a white male. This time, it was a black woman. That’s where a lot of those votes went.