Over the years, the government has taken steps to address the problem, including regulating low-frequency noise like water pumps, and reducing maximum decibels.
Eventually, though, they're all reduced to a snoozeful thrum by a process that works like noise-canceling headphones -- every speech, stance or position has its nullifying opposite.
Arnheim didn't like the noise-isolating earphones he received from Etymotic Research in February, which is one reason the Silicon Valley 100 didn't help sell a lot of the product.
"It's like having the smallest noise-canceling headphone in the world, " says Able Planet Chairman and CEO Kevin Semcken.
The second is noise sensitive emergencies, like a break-in or mass shooting.
Like many 100, 000-mile-a-year sky travelers, I like to wear noise cancelling headsets when I fly.
They added that using a worm-like motion helped reduce the noise such machines produce, making them suitable "for reconnaissance purposes".
The latter is caused by HTC's penchant for applying noise-reducing blur -- essentially melting neighboring areas of like color into one so as to reduce graininess.
Noise can be considered a non-newsworthy topic to some (like gossip) but newsworthy to others.
It turns out that the noise on big-time Facebook walls almost entirely drowns out trends like those, but posting volume does spike when wall owners make it into the news.
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Again, you have to deal with signal issues in high-RF noise environments, deal with materials issues acting as RF shields (like in many computer rooms or anything with lots of metal in it), and you have to balance the convenience with the somewhat-increased security risk.
That's why it's slightly perturbing to hear The Verge's suggestion from "sources familiar with the matter" that the Lumia 920 will ship with a paltry 8-megapixel version of PureView, which doesn't sound like it could deliver the same noise reduction or lossless zoom or other powers.
Now, let me tell you what change looks like -- because those fighting change are still out there, still making a lot of noise -- (laughter) -- about what this reform means.
And, thanks to noise-suppression technology, it won't generate the sonic boom that prevents the big bird from landing in cities like Tokyo.
While there's some visual noise to the video, the room was quite dimly lit, and these fixed-mode types of cameras -- like in a phone -- often give a "best effort", which the Zoom did admirably.
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