Or, if you are like me and never listened to loud music or anything, I'm 33 and can hear these things fine.
Last year some co-ops at work were playing with one of those ringtones that apparently only young people can hear. It was driving me insane.
Flyback transformers in TVs do the same.
I've not signed into my slashdot account in years, but I had to, just to reply to you.
Obama's AMA was amzing? Seriously? That was the lamest most pandering AMA I've ever seen. He answered all of like 10 questions. Skipped any that actually talked about difficult policy, and instead talked about the white house beer.
My daughters go to a public school in rural Ohio. This last year we stopped packing their lunches and found it was cheaper to just let them buy at school. We were spending about $40 every 2 weeks on stuff for them to pack (lunch meat, cheeses, vegetables, etc) and it was the same price for them to just buy at school.
They also get a free breakfast at school. I believe this is because our district has x number of people below the poverty line or something like that.
Regardless, I've had both breakfast and lunch with them, and am very satisfied with the meals they are having. The breakfasts are generally high carb and fat, such as french toast, but with a side of fruit. But this is what kids their age need for breakfast. They are growing, and need the fat and calories.
Lunches are quite healthy, generally with side salads or other fresh vegetables.
I've read about some of the regulations that Trump is rolling back, and I don't disagree with it. Eg, one of the articles I read cited that in the south they wanted to serve grits with breakfast, but the whole grain grits had black specks in it that turned a lot of the kids off and they wouldn't eat it.
I know at my kids school, they offer whole grain breads with their meals, but its not super grainy type breads. At home we eat hearty 8 grain type breads, but at school its just slightly browner colored white bread. I really see no difference between that and regular boring bleached white bread. Does it really matter?
What matters is getting calories into hungry kids.
I did some research.
Apparently Plasmas don't use motion compensation due to the 600hz refresh.
I will try it in game mode though to see if that helps.
I recently bought a 60" LG Plasma TV.
I get headaches when watching it.
I can also hear a high pitched sound coming out of it when its on. A bit of googling told me this is the transformer it uses to power the plasma with.
I'm a bit concerned the two are related.
Kind of mad I just spent $900 on a TV that gives me headaches.
Some smartphones that are coming off of 2 year contract have mini-HDMI ports on them. I just sold a DroidX that did.
If so, install the XBMC apk, and use it as a home theatre PC!
You can use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and have the perfect home theatre experience.
You can blame HTC and Verizon for that and not Android.
My wife has the same phone. MISERABLE battery life.
Last weekend I rooted it and tossed Cyanogenmod7 on it, which is about as vanilla a rom as you can get.
Her battery life has improved drastically. From dying around noon every day, to having 70% battery life left at dinner time.
Its because Verizon just loves to load your phone up with useless crap. Same reason Windows used to come preinstalled with MSN, AOL, etc.
For the last 2 years I've been using a WD-Live.
It connects to my home network, then I run a program called "PlayOn" on my PC. This shows up as a upnp server on the WD Live, and lets me watch Hulu, CBS, netflix, Amazon VOD, MTV, and a crap ton of other networks for free. I think playon costs like $20 a year.
The WD-Live will also play
Worse is O'Reilly auto parts. They want your name, address and phone number.
They told me it was for "warranty information". I was buying a quart of oil.
I walked out and went and bought it at Walmart instead.
This reminds me a lot of that Corey Docterow novel about the kid who was blamed for being a terrorist in San Francisco.
Used TOR and xboxs to make an ad-hoc network. Was actually a bit of an interesting read, although a bit worded for younger people.
I can tell you exactly what I would have told someone if they told me my computer use bothered them. And it wouldn't have been nice.
I know I surfed through a lot of boring lectures. Probably shouldn't have done it, but it was mostly either filler classes, or classes I cared nothing about. Do wish I would have paid a bit more attention on the class on regexs.
My microsoft natural keyboard (hey, I have carpal tunnel) had the "n" key quit working. I took it apart and cleaned it out, but it stayed dead.
Called them last week, and after getting the run around for about half an hour (Took forever to find where to find the warranty info online, then had to punch in S/N, then got an 800 number to call, which directed me to another 800 number) I finally talked to someone. They replaced it free of charge, and I didn't even have to send the broken one back in.
I guess this story would make more sense if I said it was my dad who ran the other side of the business (labor / running the equipment). So when they divorced, the business was dissolved.
My mom ran a very profitable business for about 20 years, from before I was born until I was 16 or so.
When I was 16 my parents got a divorce, long story short, my dad was to blame.
She had a hell of a time finding a new job, because the only job she'd ever had since highschool was as the office manager for her own business. At times they'd had up to 10 employees, she did all the payroll, bid on jobs, everything on the office with the help of one secretary, etc etc.
No one wants to hire someone when they can't verify their employment. She finally found a job (which was was laid off from 2 years ago) as a phone answerer / secretary for a small business. Took her forever to even find that.
I've played around with Quake Live now and then.
Its crazy buggy and the java in it slows my computer to a crawl. I have a fairly modern machine, and Quake 3 was making it bog down. Seriously?
Not only that, but I wanted to play with a friend of mine who lives about 100 miles away. Neither of us could figure out how to start a game that was just private for the two of us.
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.
