[Ghoser777]

I guess this will teach adults for going against teens...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13274669/

Being in education, I'm kind of interested in whether I can hear it or not. Can anyone find an audio clip of this ring tone?

[euchomai]

That is crazy, I'm in education too, someone needs to post a link to that ringtone.

[kernokerno]

there's a digg article with an mp3 file

http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages...0_RINGTONE.mp3

[euchomai]

http://blog.orgday.org/2006/05/25/teen-buzz/

[Dakar]

That's awesome.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

They should install the mics that blast those sounds in food courts and outside the 7-11.

[zmcgill]

I think we need a poll.

[SpaceMonkey]

I don't understand the point. Wouldn't putting your cell phone on vibrate be easier?

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by kernokerno

there's a digg article with an mp3 file

http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages...0_RINGTONE.mp3

I'm 35 and going into education. I can certainly hear that! VERY annoying.

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

I don't understand the point. Wouldn't putting your cell phone on vibrate be easier?

In a quiet classroom the vibrating noise would be louder than that ringtone.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

So it seems this sound is as useless as tits on a nun according to the high number of people over 18 that can hear this.

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

So it seems this sound is as useless as tits on a nun according to the high number of people over 18 that can hear this.

The article about it that I read in the NY Times included a story about a 28 year old teacher hearing it, which amazed all of her students. Heh.

[zmcgill]

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

So it seems this sound is as useless as tits on a nun according to the high number of people over 18 that can hear this.

Hearing it from a cell phone in your own pocket and hearing it from across a crowded classroom might be two different things though.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Gossamer

Hearing it from a cell phone in your own pocket and hearing it from across a crowded classroom might be two different things though.

Just to test I set my eMac at 50% volume and played it. I still heard it in the other room. The dish washer is running in an adjacent room and all of the windows of the house are open letting in quite a bit of white noise. I had my wife play and pause it randomly and I could tell when it started and stopped.

It's annoying. Period.

EDIT: Forgot to add: My wife (33) could hear it clearly as well. And she was in a rock band in college that played every week without hearing protection. She doesn't have to worry too much about it though. She teaches kindergarten.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally Posted by Gossamer

Hearing it from a cell phone in your own pocket and hearing it from across a crowded classroom might be two different things though.

Well if it is in your pocket it might as well be on vibrate as my vibrate mode is 100% silent unless it is sitting on a hard surface.

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Well if it is in your pocket it might as well be on vibrate as my vibrate mode is 100% silent unless it is sitting on a hard surface.

Ditto. Girls usually keep their phones in bags though.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

Ditto. Girls usually keep their phones in bags though.

Well fine. I don't get the point then. This is so your phone can ring and no adults can hear it right?

So what are you going to do when it starts screeching, everyone else in the class is wondering where it comes from and then you are expected to answer it in class and speak in a language that is also to loud for adults to hear?

It is a stupid trend and doesn't even seem to work judging by the results here.

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Well fine. I don't get the point then. This is so your phone can ring and no adults can hear it right?

So what are you going to do when it starts screeching, everyone else in the class is wondering where it comes from and then you are expected to answer it in class and speak in a language that is also to loud for adults to hear?

It is a stupid trend and doesn't even seem to work judging by the results here.

It's mostly for text messaging, I think. Although I agree that a sharp teacher is going to spot students in the act of texting, regardless of the ringtone.

Anyway, the obvious solution for schools is strip searching. Or to get those airport dogs that were trained to sniff out DVDs and re-train them to sniff out cell phones.

[Dakar]

It said it was text messaging there, reading comprehension.

[hart]

ok, I'm 46 and I can hear it, although I wouldn't think it was phone if I hadn't been alerted to it. Not only is it annoying it makes my sinuses hurt.

Why can't schools have a no phones visible/on the desk rule and call it a day? Why all the hysteria about phones? Here in NYC especially. Put the damn phones away, don't use them during school, if one is visible it will be confiscated. Period. The issue is largely no different from passing good old fashioned notes with a few wrinkles added and being all ludite about it won't get school administrations anywhere. But when my 11 year old daughter is walking around Brooklyn going to or coming from school alone I want her to have a phone.

[zmcgill]

I say we spring for some 'faraday cage' insulation.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally Posted by Dakar

It said it was text messaging there, reading comprehension.

"Some students are downloading a ring tone"

"The ring tone is a spin-off of technology"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13274669/

Most phones don't even let you chose a custom MESSAGE ALERT for text messages.

http://www.textually.org/ringtonia/a.../05/012473.htm
and are now receiving calls and text messages in class - without teachers having the faintest idea of what is going on.

So sorry you were saying? Just because they incorrectly call it a ring tone and say it is used for text messaging doesn't mean I don't have reading comprehension.

Even IF it was just an Message alert tone are you supposed to invisibly pull out your phone and check a text message?

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Most phones don't even let you chose a custom MESSAGE ALERT for text messages.

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

So sorry you were saying? Just because they incorrectly call it a ring tone and say it is used for text messaging doesn't mean I don't have reading comprehension.

You're right, you just can't put 2 and 2 together.

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Even IF it was just an Message alert tone are you supposed to invisibly pull out your phone and check a text message?

You never looked at stuff by holding it under the desk in high school?

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally Posted by Dakar

You're right, you just can't put 2 and 2 together.

That was the best you can come up with? You're still standing by the fact that this "Ring tone" is actually just for text messaging?

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

That was the best you can come up with? You're still standing by the fact that this "Ring tone" is actually just for text messaging?

I never said just.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally Posted by Dakar

I never said just.

Funny thing neither did I and you threw a bitch fit.

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Funny thing neither did I and you threw a bitch fit.

So what are you going to do when it starts screeching, everyone else in the class is wondering where it comes from and then you are expected to answer it in class and speak in a language that is also to loud for adults to hear?

No, you were being too ridiculous to even mention text messaging at all.

[abe]

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

So it seems this sound is as useless as tits on a nun according to the high number of people over 18 that can hear this.

Could it be that American business is selling American 'youts' a product which promises to help them get over on the old folks but actually under delivers on that promise?

I am shocked!

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally Posted by Dakar

No, you were being too ridiculous to even mention text messaging at all.

Fine whatever. When I mentioned the RINGtone was to be used as a RINGtone I guess I meant that excluded any text messaging and I clearly said that. Happy? Move on.

Many of my friends are teachers and the schools all have strict rules that you cannot have a cellphone in class, not even off in your bag. If they fine one it gets taken away permanently.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally Posted by abe

Could it be that American business is selling American 'youts' a product which promises to help them get over on the old folks but actually under delivers on that promise?

I am shocked!

Ya those wacky business's and the "youts" they target.

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Fine whatever.

Victory!

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

When I mentioned the RINGtone was to be used as a RINGtone I guess I meant that excluded any text messaging and I clearly said that. Happy? Move on.

What's the technical term for a ringtone used for your text messaging sound?

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Many of my friends are teachers and the schools all have strict rules that you cannot have a cellphone in class, not even off in your bag. If they fine one it gets taken away permanently.

It's a good thing students never try skirt the rules.

[zmcgill]

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Ya those wacky business's and the "youts" they target.

Ya those wacky business's (possessive form)...
And last I checked this 'tone' is free for download, so anyone that can set an mp3 as a ringtone (razor can, i'm sure there are others) and those phones that let you record a message and use it as a ringtone would all be able to do it for free, so it has nothing to do with 'business's' and 'youts.'

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally Posted by Gossamer

Ya those wacky business's (possessive form)...
And last I checked this 'tone' is free for download, so anyone that can set an mp3 as a ringtone (razor can, i'm sure there are others) and those phones that let you record a message and use it as a ringtone would all be able to do it for free, so it has nothing to do with 'business's' and 'youts.'

Ah ah ah, you don't mean ringtone but a text message alert tone. Be careful

[zmcgill]

Oops, my bad.

[kmkkid]

What is it supposed to sound like? I'm 24 and all I hear is a really high pitched sound that makes me feel like my ears are going to bleed.

[zmcgill]

Originally Posted by kmkkid

What is it supposed to sound like? I'm 24 and all I hear is a really high pitched sound that makes me feel like my ears are going to bleed.

Yep, that's about it.

[macroy]

ok.... is it me?

The NYTimes one made me almost puke.... But I heard nothing from the orgday.org site.

Is orgday just broke? or am I officially a geezer?

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Well if it is in your pocket it might as well be on vibrate as my vibrate mode is 100% silent unless it is sitting on a hard surface.

I can hear most phones vibrate. Actually, I usually tell my friends that their phone is vibrating and they stare at me incredulously because they didn't even notice it. At least the nerdier ones who wear them on their belt I mean.

[abe]

Originally Posted by Gossamer

Ya those wacky business's (possessive form)...
And last I checked this 'tone' is free for download, so anyone that can set an mp3 as a ringtone (razor can, i'm sure there are others) and those phones that let you record a message and use it as a ringtone would all be able to do it for free, so it has nothing to do with 'business's' and 'youts.'

Oh, then we can remove the dirty, grubby profit motive from the equation. Phew! What a relief!

Then that means we're left to conclude that the little darlings are flocking to this supposedly stealthy new ringtone because they welcome the chance to maintain vital communications with other high level decision makers like themselves without disturbing the meditative atmosphere and academic decorum of the classroom.

[Wiskedjak]

Originally Posted by Railroader

I can hear most phones vibrate. Actually, I usually tell my friends that their phone is vibrating and they stare at me incredulously because they didn't even notice it. At least the nerdier ones who wear them on their belt I mean.

I'm the same way. Drives me nuts when I'm in a meeting and somebody's phone is vibrating away and they either aren't aware of it or think nobody can hear it. One of my coworkers leaves his phone on vibrate but leaves it on his desk; bloody vibrator on the desk is louder than the actual ringer.

[abe]

Originally Posted by Railroader

I can hear most phones vibrate. Actually, I usually tell my friends that their phone is vibrating and they stare at me incredulously because they didn't even notice it. At least the nerdier ones who wear them on their belt I mean.

You are da man...da man who never cranked up the headphones and fell asleep!

[abe]

Originally Posted by Wiskedjak

I'm the same way. Drives me nuts when I'm in a meeting and somebody's phone is vibrating away and they either aren't aware of it or think nobody can hear it. One of my coworkers leaves his phone on vibrate but leaves it on his desk; bloody vibrator on the desk is louder than the actual ringer.

Once I was in class and the teacher stopped her lecture because someone's watch alarm was going off and she was distracted. She asked the person to turn it off but they didn't. For a few seconds the whole class went into 'detective mode' trying to use their 'Super Hearing' to locate the source of this annoyance. Everyone looked around and cocked their heads until finally all eyes and ears were on me.

Couldn't hear a thing. But I made a point to turn my Timex Ironman alarm off and leave it turned off from then on.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by abe

You are da man...da man who never cranked up the headphones and fell asleep!

Oh no. I've been to my fair share of front row concerts. I also worked in factories for over 10 years.

Plus, keep this between you and me please, I like to crank the volume and sing to the music during my commutes by myself.

[Millennium]

Thanks; I'd been looking for a sound file of that.

I can hear it clearly. It'll be interesting to see if my wife can.

[Mastrap]

No problem hearing it here either.