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Sosumi is an alert sound introduced by Apple sound designer Jim Reekes in Apple Inc.'s Macintosh System 7 operating system in 1991. The name is derived from the phrase "so, sue me!" because of a long running court battle with Apple Corps, the similarly named music company, regarding the use of music in Apple Inc.'s computer products.
The Roblox Studio interface as of August 2024. Roblox Studio is the platforms game engine [26] and game development software. [27] [28] The engine and all games made on Roblox predominantly uses Luau, [29] a dialect of the Lua 5.1 programming language. [30] Since November 2021, the programming language has been open sourced under the MIT License.
The alert sound is a steady, continuous note. In seaside towns, alert may also be used to warn of a tsunami. Sirens that rotate will have a rising-and-falling tone as the direction of the horn changes. The attack tone is the rising and falling sound of an air raid or nuclear attack, frequently heard in war movies. It was once reserved for ...
[5] [6] De la Tour's siren could produce sound under water, [7] suggesting a link with the sirens of Greek mythology; hence the name he gave to the instrument. [8] Instead of disks, most modern mechanical sirens use two concentric cylinders, which have slots parallel to their length. The inner cylinder rotates while the outer one remains ...
The system used a small box located under the vehicle's dashboard that implemented a small, white plastic record disc that used a magnetic cartridge to play spoken commands through the vehicle's audio system's speakers, similar to that of some Texas Instruments talking toys of the time period. Datsun's original name for the feature was "Talking ...
Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) is a protocol used for framing and classification of broadcasting emergency warning messages. It was developed by the United States National Weather Service for use on its NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) network, and was later adopted by the Federal Communications Commission for the Emergency Alert System, then subsequently by Environment Canada for use on its ...
In 2010, ALERT FM successfully participated in a pilot project for Federal Emergency Management Agency to validate Radio Data System emergency notification for inclusion in the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System program. The study was conducted by Northrop Grumman and included RDS technology from ALERT FM, Alertus Technologies and Metis ...
The FCC issued several fines relating to EAS tone usage in August 2019, including ABC being fined $395,000 for using wireless emergency alert tones multiple times during a Jimmy Kimmel Live sketch, AMC Networks being fined $104,000 for using the tones in The Walking Dead episode "Omega", Discovery Inc. being fined $68,000 for including footage ...