It just didn't seem as loud back then because we didn't have the Internet, which makes it easy for noisemakers to get attention.
"Suddenly, things you wouldn't say out loud in conversation are OK to say because you're sitting behind a computer screen, " says Kimberly Kaye, 26, an arts writer in New York.
Certainly something can be said for being the first and for having such a large install base, but any device that is that loud can't be that enjoyable to watch movies on.
It doesn't really get all that loud.
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Ms. Resler says loud events won't be allowed to go later than 8 p.m.
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But politicians don't necessarily decide to say out loud everything that passes through their head.
You will recognize some of the songs and the room will shake so loud you can't hear yourself talk.
I've seen it from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift and we'd have lunch there on the change of the shifts and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio Bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to.
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But I think there is such a concern about even talking about it out loud that they don't discuss it.
For the first time in my training, the voice telling me, "You can't do this" was simply too loud to ignore.
That's not to say there aren't a few laugh-out-loud sight gags and a couple of good one-liners stolen by mama Kathy Bates.
"It's not even loud, and doesn't cause any damage, " he added.
But don't just fill your sock drawer with the loud argyles and souped-up stripes.
Rudy Giuliani's decision to drop out wasn't a huge surprise--the New York City mayor is battling prostate cancer and his wife just hired a fancy divorce lawyer--but it was a personal drama of operatic proportions, a thunderclap so loud that mere politics couldn't account for it.
"I just don't know that we can do sitcoms that are loud enough and noisiest enough, " Ostroff says.
Apple, however, said it applauded the court "for finding Samsung's behaviour wilful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn't right".
That's not the sirens' fault -- a mind-numbingly loud "whoop whoop" really doesn't have the bandwidth to reveal that kind of information to the human ear -- but now that SMS-capable phones are ubiquitous, it's time to smarten things up just a tad.
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When Gore fired back that he's been endorsed by many prominent blacks, including most of the Congressional Black Caucus, Bradley drew loud boos by responding that those leaders didn't know Gore's voting record as well as he did.
"I didn't know if it was lightning or what, but it was loud, " Mr. Gordon said.
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"It was so loud that the dog was shaking and we didn't know what it was, " she said in an email shared with the AP.
"Our message is loud and clear to our suppliers that we don't tolerate such behavior and we are not backing down from it, " said Rajan Kamalanathan, Wal-Mart's head of ethical sourcing.
There's just a few people who are loud enough to think that a lot of people don't like him.
Maybe, he thought out loud, we need a piece of technology that doesn't exist to solve the problem of choosing a health plan.
But they're a lot more fun than the light shows, loud music and fan giveaways (with the notable exception of the T-shirt cannons) that pass for entertainment at sports arenas these days.
The MediaPad 10 features Dolby 5.1 for "theatre-quality audio" and while it should be obvious that a 10-inch tablet can't compete with your local cinema's setup, it does produce impressively loud sound.
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While I can't do much tweaking, the phone's audio element is at least loud and balanced enough to get an above-average listening experience, which means it'll work well enough on my upcoming flights.
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At trade shows in 1993, MicroStrategy cranked up its sound system so loud that better-known exhibitors, with more salesmen, couldn't make their pitches.
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