Concerning the knee/ankle problems, one thing to look into would be Orthotics (sp?) which are contoured inserts for your shoes. I had these made by a Chiropractor and they've been great for both my lower back and my knees.
Unfortunate that I was getting those problems when I was still in high school. (recently too)
Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When you're a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering "how come the kids don't call?" By your eighties, you've had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama.
Any questions?
Ya. Quoth who?
I'm too lazy too google it.
I blame that on being a teenager. Which from the above means I don't want to.
Everyone uses a computer, but programming can be a bit of a distraction when you have 30 of your friends asking what your doing on Friday night on what ever IM program you have open.
Don't you mean that for those of us with friends (especially talkative girls. Ok I'm kidding), "what ever IM program" is extremely distracting when you're trying to program? That would be why my programming projects take 5 hours on a Sunday night...
The researchers believe that eventually this material could be 100% efficient, meaning it could be capable of converting all of the electricity to light, without the heat loss associated with traditional bulbs.
Is there such a thing as 100% efficiency in any physical system in existence? Not that I know of. Sure they could get really close to 100% and that would be nice, but it wouldn't be 100%.
I've yet to hear of a reasonably sized and priced hearing aid that works just as excellently as does the natural ear. Granted, I don't know fully the differences between natural and aid-assisted hearing, as I was born with a need for the later.
If you're not implying that you think hearing aids are available that are perfect, ignore me.
I've been hearing impaired since birth. (senior in hs now)
I've recently been trying out new hearing aids as the time has come to replace the old ones (every 4 years, roughly). My previous four sets of aids have all been analog, which are "basically" just a microphone->speaker setup. My next set will be digital aids.
Digital aids are programmable... (by my Audiologist only, that's inconvenient too). Perhaps the most touted feature of the digital aids is that they can block bg sounds, and adjust the volume as they wish. Trust me, it was a nightmare listening to music or even being at church. Volume changed seemingly randomly and ruined the clarity, and everything that makes music soothing. Thankfully, I can use a program setting that doesn't do any of this. (but multiple programs are on the hearing aid, so I can use the bg blocking if I need it)
To my understanding, this is more complex than simply limiting the volume output automatically.. but it's definitely something you don't want if you actually have/get hearing aids.
And I'm actually one of that teen generation... I certainly have noticed how frugal my spending is compared to my friends, and how much I judge values before buying. I'm not even in a hurry to get out of high school. Thus I color me wierd.
Besides, I've gotta use those gift certificates for Borders, and the library already gives plenty of free books...
I still think of the cd as a freer media for getting music... I can own the cd, rip to whatever format I want, and no one is going to bother me...
On the other hand, I still haven't looked hard at the online DL services (the legal ones, mind you), but I get the distinct impression that they're all going to restrict me somehow. Naivity says I'm going to want to have the music files i have now for the rest of my life.
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More like they USED to be able to put a man on the moon...
But at the same time people (non "professional" blog people) often want their MyfriendBooksterFacespaceXanga to be found by their friends.
But Anonymity has its needs... so we're just looking for a balance.
True what they're for... But as my chiropractor explained it, fixing that problem fixes other problems. A win-win situation for me :)
Concerning the knee/ankle problems, one thing to look into would be Orthotics (sp?) which are contoured inserts for your shoes. I had these made by a Chiropractor and they've been great for both my lower back and my knees.
Unfortunate that I was getting those problems when I was still in high school. (recently too)
... I mean Boston Molassacure
So whose complaints do we listen to?
Polar Grizzly or scientists?
Ya. Quoth who?
I'm too lazy too google it.
I blame that on being a teenager. Which from the above means I don't want to.
KTHXBBQ.
The better solution is to use rechargeable AA or AAAs...
That's what I've done for months now... Saves a LOT of money too.
(And when they die, ideally after 1000 uses each, battery recycling is available around here)
Don't you mean that for those of us with friends (especially talkative girls. Ok I'm kidding), "what ever IM program" is extremely distracting when you're trying to program? That would be why my programming projects take 5 hours on a Sunday night...
Gee... I dunno... Some us of have a hard time hearing?
It seems to be a commonly expected thing that you know the words to various songs. It's extraordinarily hard to do that by ear with a hearing loss.
Is there such a thing as 100% efficiency in any physical system in existence? Not that I know of. Sure they could get really close to 100% and that would be nice, but it wouldn't be 100%.
In anticipation of this exact comment, I typed that exact line (well started to) into 'Find as you type'...
And seriously, who DOES?
If post == comment, I disagree...
/. readers that RTFA :)
It's actually only 10% of
So I take it you can't overclock it? :D
Maybe he's related to Jack Thompson?
Probably not...
How do you think it was tested?
I've yet to hear of a reasonably sized and priced hearing aid that works just as excellently as does the natural ear. Granted, I don't know fully the differences between natural and aid-assisted hearing, as I was born with a need for the later. If you're not implying that you think hearing aids are available that are perfect, ignore me.
It IS very annoying.
I've been hearing impaired since birth. (senior in hs now)
I've recently been trying out new hearing aids as the time has come to replace the old ones (every 4 years, roughly). My previous four sets of aids have all been analog, which are "basically" just a microphone->speaker setup. My next set will be digital aids.
Digital aids are programmable... (by my Audiologist only, that's inconvenient too). Perhaps the most touted feature of the digital aids is that they can block bg sounds, and adjust the volume as they wish. Trust me, it was a nightmare listening to music or even being at church. Volume changed seemingly randomly and ruined the clarity, and everything that makes music soothing. Thankfully, I can use a program setting that doesn't do any of this. (but multiple programs are on the hearing aid, so I can use the bg blocking if I need it)
To my understanding, this is more complex than simply limiting the volume output automatically.. but it's definitely something you don't want if you actually have/get hearing aids.
FAs are for people with too much time on their hands.
Besides, I've gotta use those gift certificates for Borders, and the library already gives plenty of free books...
I still think of the cd as a freer media for getting music... I can own the cd, rip to whatever format I want, and no one is going to bother me... On the other hand, I still haven't looked hard at the online DL services (the legal ones, mind you), but I get the distinct impression that they're all going to restrict me somehow. Naivity says I'm going to want to have the music files i have now for the rest of my life.
*drool*
Not I. Nor am I a PSP Owner.
Exactly... except I can't remember if that was Asimov or Niven that wrote that (or another that I forgot...)
Haha... I just knew I'd come onto slashdot and find this. Certainly better than first post of a topic.