In the play, a radio host ( inspired by Larry King ) impatiently listens to a caller who contends that the movie 2001, based on the writings of Arnold Toynbee, speaks of the plan to reconstitute life on Jupiter.

* A " yell for SysOp " page ( The original chat, before multi-line systems ) caller side menu item that sounded an audible alarm to the SysOp.

Generally, a leader, known as a caller, will teach each individual dance just before the music for that dance begins.

This led to the addition of the number sign (#, sometimes called ' octothorpe ,' ' pound ' or ' diamond ' in this context-' hash ' or ' gate ' in the UK ) and asterisk or " star " (*) keys as well as a group of keys for menu selection: A, B, C and D. In the end, the lettered keys were dropped from most phones, and it was many years before these keys became widely used for vertical service codes such as * 67 in the United States of America and Canada to suppress caller ID.

Real voices create the speech in fragments that are spliced together ( concatenated ) and smoothed before being played to the caller.

Caller ID ( caller identification, CID ), also called calling line identification ( CLID ), calling number delivery ( CND ), calling number identification ( CNID ) or calling line identification presentation ( CLIP ), is a telephone service, available in analog and digital phone systems and most voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP ) applications, that transmits a caller's number to the called party's telephone equipment during the ringing signal, or when the call is being set up but before the call is answered.

Previous to this implementation, after dialling the long distance number, the caller would be intercepted by the operator to request their number before the call proceeded.

Responder must wait for caller to bid or pass before passing herself.

On a two-cassette answerphone, there is an outgoing cassette, usually a special endless loop tape on earlier machines ( before the rise of microcassettes ), which after a certain number of rings plays a pre-recorded message to the caller who rang the number.

The caller must correctly answer a qualifying question before being added to the team.

Novices are usually among the participants, so a " dance caller " teaches the steps before music begins for each dance.

Some systems have " store and forward " technology which records " city and state " the caller is requesting and then plays the city and state speech to the operator before they come online and then say " Residential or business listing?

About five minutes is certainly safe, especially since he can keep talking to each caller for a few minutes before the next call ceases to seem roughly simultaneous.

However, before Neff could hang up the telephone, the caller spoke again, nearly hysterical and screaming, " It's me, Grant ...

However, until the 1990s, some areas in the United States required the use of a " 1 " before dialing a 7-digit number within the same area code if the call was beyond the local area, indicating that the caller wished to make what was referred to as a " toll call.

The caller tells Stu that he has tested two previous individuals who have done wrong deeds in a similar manner ( one was a pedophile, the other was a company insider who cashed out his stock options before the share price collapsed ), giving each a chance to reveal the truth to those they wronged, but in both cases, neither agreed and were killed.

The man disappears into the crowd before Stu realizes he was the caller on the other end of the phone.

The caller may choose to do other things before it returns control back to the operating system, which typically schedules other tasks or puts the machine to sleep.

Automation systems are also more interactive than ever before with digital audio workstation ( DAW ) with console automation and can even record from a telephone hybrid to play back an edited conversation with a telephone caller.

When Don became program director of WJFK-FM for a short time, he ordered reverb be added to the entire station, and years before that, when the duo first appeared on WJFK in October 1991, a caller asked, " Where's the reverb?

The phone system requires the caller to dial a " 1 " before the area code and number, to indicate to the phone system that the call will require a connection to another area, as trunk prefix.

Traditionally, calling from one area code to another, specifically for long distance calls, requires the caller to dial the trunk digit " 1 " before the code and number.

It is possible to make a long distance call within the same area code ; in this case the caller has to dial a " 1 " before the local 7-digit number.

On February 26, 2004, Stern was cancelled on six stations owned by Clear Channel Communications after a caller used the word " nigger " when asking Rick Salomon if he ever had sex with a black person the day before.

At some point the segment became speedweaver, where Jason gives a short one or two sentence response before quickly moving onto the next caller.

Sets are generally arranged so they run the length of the hall, with the top or head of the set being the end closest to the band and caller.

The re-used segments, including re-used puzzlers, are not being acknowledged as old material and sometimes new caller material is mixed in alongside the recycled calls.

As a result of Guam's being added to the North American Numbering Plan ( NANP ) in 1997, calls made to the U. S., Canada, or other participating countries from Guam ( or to Guam from other NANP locations ) only require the caller to dial a 1 followed by the area code.

Toll free ( e. g. " 800 " numbers in the United States ) are not necessarily local calls ; despite being free to the caller, any charge due for the distance of the connection is charged to the called party.

Unless the caller gives consent to pass on information, confidentiality will be broken only in rare circumstances, such as when Samaritans receives bomb or terrorism warnings, to call an ambulance because a caller appears to be incapable of making rational decisions for him or herself, or when the caller is threatening volunteers or deliberately preventing the service being delivered to other callers.

The crossbar switch has the property of being able to connect N inputs to N outputs in any one-to-one combination, so it can connect any caller to any non-busy receiver, a property given the technical term " nonblocking ".

Typically this includes facts such as when the call occurred, the phone number called, the calling organization, the goods or services being marketed, whether the caller has any exemption status.

The game is played with a two-member team: the first member being selected by Feldman from the audience, and the second from a radio audience caller.

Then the caller would dare the mother to do something, such as eating an entire jar of mayonnaise, and the mother would refuse until being called a name.

* status tones such as STD notification tones ( to inform the caller that the telephone call is being trunk dialled at a greater cost to the calling party ), minute minder beeps ( to inform the caller of the relative duration of the telephone call on calls that are charged on a time basis ), and others

The recipient of the call retains the right to accept or refuse the call but either way the caller is never notified of the mobile phone number being contacted.

The individual being supported will support the caller in the future.

Then the caller is " in " the mix, hearing his or her own real-time sounds being broadcast right along with our mix in headphone stereo.

The caller is told they're being instructed on how to entertain an idiot for a minute.

The operator would use patch cords to connect the caller to the person being called.

The caller demands that Stu confess his infidelity to both Kelly and Pam to avoid being killed.

Police Captain Ed Ramey ( Forest Whitaker ), already suspecting Stu of being the killer, corners the streets with police roadblocks and starts trying to negotiate with him to leave the booth, but Stu rejects, telling the caller that there is no way they can incriminate him ; the caller proves him wrong, pointing to a handgun that was planted in the roof of the phone booth.