Does anyone have any experience using ear plugs designed to only lower high decibel noises, versus standard foam plugs? I now see many different models on the market that claim you can hear low level sounds and voices at near normal levels, while sounds greater than 80-90 decibels are blocked...

My girlfriend and I are both complete beginners to shooting, and we're going to head down to Bellevue, WA to try Wade's Indoor Range. So far I haven't read anything about doubling up on ear protection being safe/unsafe? Like using both in ear foam plugs and over the ear muff protection. It...

Just curious to know what this watch is. Worn by Mack, host of Discovery channel's Futureweapons.

Just curious if anyone has used them with two-way radios and can comment on the audio quality. I was thinking about getting some for situations with lots of wind or background noise.

On my Windows XP laptop, it will sometimes bring up a popup error that causes it to restart in 60 seconds. This happens when I try to awake from the laptop's sleep mode, or when I run several programs at once. Does any have any idea if there is a fix? The pop up message is:

Hi all, I saw a day game last week and got curious as to what sunglasses Ichiro is currently wearing. I watched the game online and the picture was too blurry/pixelated to tell the exact frame style. I know in the past he has worn Oakley X Metal Juliets and X Metal Penny. I asked this...

for anyone who has used Westone IEM's, you probably know the plug is square and quite large. It actually prevents me from using it with some devices that are cramped for space near the audio output socket. I was wondering if anyone knew if it was safe to file or sand down th square plug so it...

So I have been using my Zune with my Westone UM1's for a while now, and get quite annoyed at how loud it is. My volume level is always set to "1". Surprisingly there is no background noise/hiss. Since there's no hiss, it tricks me when the Zune goes back to the default volume of "7" after being...

The other day I picked up a bottle of Havana Club Anejo Reserva from the local liquor store. When I opened it, I found that it has an odd plastic device wedged into the neck of the bottle. From what I am able to tell, it prevents liquid from coming out when trying to pour in a normal fashion...

Yesterday night went to go see Casino Royale, came out to find my rear passenger window smashed, glovebox ripped out, and 4G 20GB iPod missing. It was stored there all day so they never saw me put it in there, learned my lesson though. Not too upset over the loss of the iPod, only the fact...

I've always found myself liking rum more than any other spirit so I started buying some variety to try them out and see what I like. Before all of these my only experience was Bacardi and Lamb's. So far I have bought (in this order): Appleton Estate VX Flor de Cana 5 Year Black Label...

One day online I had an American pointing out that I spell center wrong when I spell it "centre". He was flaming me to learn how to type properly. Do Americans know that in Canada it is proper to spell centre this way? Other words with Canadian/British spellings: Neighbour etc

So When I open a specific program it looks like this: A lot of the window of the program is missing because it gets cut off at the edges. I cannot use my mouse to expand the window, and there is no maximize option when I right click the tab in my taskbar. Is there anything I can do to...

I have about 150 individual .zip files I need to extract into the same folder. I was wondering if there was a really easy way to do them all at once. For zip files I currently use Windows extractor or Winrar.

I currently own a Lynksys WRT54GS wireless router running the latest firmware. Before today, I had the wireless security set to WPA2 Personal TKIP+AES, with a 15 character randomized access key. I recently bought a Sony PSP and was trying to get it to work properly with the network. I think I...

I work in a call centre and we're given mediocre headsets to use. I figure I could pick up a better one used on ebay for a low cost. I've been looking at a lot of different Plantronics headsets and notice most of them come in two versions: voice tube or noise cancelling mic. All I know is...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...+weeps&pl=true This is Jake Shimabukuro doing a cover of George Harrison's My Guitar Gently Weeps on a ukelele. About 3 minutes into the video he just totally starts shredding that thing!

something messed up in my settings (possibly my gf's doing ), and now when i right click on a link and select Open in New Window, it opens in a tiny window that I have to resize. Is there some setting i can get into to change this? thanks

I was wondering how important the basecurve of the contact lense is. I noticed that different models of lenses only come in certain basecurves. I use Acuvue 2's right now, and they come in 8.3 and 8.7. However, I was thinking of trying Bausch and Lomb Purevision (BC 8.6), to see if they are...

Right now I'm trying to d/l a torrent and get that error cannot connect to tracker. Apparently the tracker it connects to shut down. Comments for the file list a new set of trackers to connect to and say to use those instead. Unfortunately I have no idea how to change the trackers the torrent is...

sitting at work right now really bored... Using a Windows 2000 PC with a basic MS mouse with scroll wheel that works as a third button. Is there a way to set it to work as "back" in web browsers like I have it set at home? (at home I use WinXP and set it through my logitech control panel)...

I am using WinXP Pro SP2 on my laptop with a wireless logitech mouse that has the standard two buttons, plus a click wheel that can be used as a third button. In IE, the third button currently functions as a toggle for scrolling up or down with mouse movement. I believe it is currently...

http://cgi.ebay.ca/NEW-Sony-MDR-V6-M...QQcmdZViewItem I found this auction on eBay, for a slightly used Sony V6. Interesting thing is it says it is part of a limited run that has a padded hard leather case lined with red satin, and individual numbering. Apparently they were released to...

So today in the mail, at long last, after having 7506's for like 2-3 years, I got Beyerdynamic DT 250 velour pads. A big thanks goes out to Rix2357! I had so much trouble trying to order these pads in Canada, and Rix was a big help ordering them from Beyer USA for me and shipping them...

I went browsing the Rio site and noticed they only have the small capacity HD players now. What happened? 2 years ago I was about to buy one when I was on a trip to Oregon. Only thing that stopped me was that in a brick and mortar store, it was vastly overpriced, equal to the 4G Ipod 20gb at...