95 dB can cause hearing damage if over a long enough period (IIRC, 4 hours or somesuch)
There is some sort of curve (db over time) approaching 120 dB which will cause instant hearing damage. (and pain)
157 dB (which would mean sticking your ear directly on the end of the toy, I expect) would probably drop you to the ground writhing in pain.
I was really laughing at the 157dB *OVER* the level that would cause hearing damage.
That would make the noise roughly 32 times as loud as a saturn rocket. You could probably explode large cement structures with it. And if it could do that, I'd already have 10 of them.
I can't believe how misguided Compaq is. Dell has been consistently growing (and growing) by going direct (and avoiding the hassles of things like large inventory, etc). Even Jesse Berst has commented that direct sales is something that Compaq needs to embrace.
Do they think that the Internet is going away or something?
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My understanding is this:
95 dB can cause hearing damage if over a long enough period (IIRC, 4 hours or somesuch)
There is some sort of curve (db over time) approaching 120 dB which will cause instant hearing damage. (and pain)
157 dB (which would mean sticking your ear directly on the end of the toy, I expect) would probably drop you to the ground writhing in pain.
I was really laughing at the 157dB *OVER* the level that would cause hearing damage.
That would make the noise roughly 32 times as loud as a saturn rocket. You could probably explode large cement structures with it. And if it could do that, I'd already have 10 of them.
Actually, SunOS refers to the parts of Solaris that are not graphical. This would include all of the standard UNIX utils, etc., not just the kernel.
SunOS + XWindows = Solaris
I can't believe how misguided Compaq is. Dell has been consistently growing (and growing) by going direct (and avoiding the hassles of things like large inventory, etc). Even Jesse Berst has commented that direct sales is something that Compaq needs to embrace.
Do they think that the Internet is going away or something?