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CART would really be helpful, even if it had delay or something, still better than nothing. I went to a sign-language play that was voice-interpreted for the hearing once, but unfortunately it was a bit hard for me since I don't get 100% of the sign language or the voice recording.

Sorry, am I late to the party? Happy belated birthday then!

I did take French in high school and my hearing was never really an obstacle to learning it. I dropped it senior year because of a scheduling conflict though. I don't think learning other Romance/Germanic languages is as difficult as learning Chinese or a language from a different background...

If you're using a modern browser you shouldn't get infected just going to a site. In any case The Daily WTF has been around for about 5 years now and there's posts from fairly high-esteem people like Jeff Atwood. Just because I don't want to be a complete downer, here's another one of my...

A lot of that stuff is necessary though. Audiologists/CI surgery has had an overall positive effect on my life.

This is my favorite article: What Is Truth? - The Daily WTF You might need to know a bit of programming to understand it though.

I think this is more of a problem with people "slipping through the cracks" of the education system. Actually I would support putting more money into primary education if it would help fix this. That system has its share of hangups that make this easier said than done though.

I don't really see a problem with the "high cost" complaint. Practically every person has some kind of physical disability (could even be something like higher risk of a disease due to genetic factors) that imposes a higher cost on society compared to if they didn't have it. It's perfectly...

When I was in China in 2008, I ran into a beggar on the street who showed me a card like this. I was skeptical of him because: 1. He was actually fairly well-dressed. 2. The card was newly typed and laminated, and 3. Someone else behind him said something and he turned towards them in...

I do like turning off my CI when I need to focus on work since it really helps to block out external distractions. I also like doing that when I just need to relax or something. When my CI is off, usually my brain is pretty active so it's not silence in that respect. I'm trying to get better...

I hope you don't mind my asking, but what's your reason/motivation for doing this? It seems to be a pretty drastic change in lifestyle. But I do wish you good luck in what decision you want to make.

Well, it's also possible there might be a similiar experience with people who don't know about lipreading? This might or might not apply to you though since I don't know what methods you use to communicate.

There have been a couple of cases where people have compromised themselves in some way because they didn't expect me to be able to hear them. One vivid example would be my behind-the-wheel drivers' ed teacher. Some background: we had finished 2 classes and were almost done with the 3rd and...

Happy birthday!

With a concentration in thread derailing? jk :P

I have to second using Microsoft Security Essentials - most reviewers find that to be the best of the free ones. But actually I've never caught a virus on my computer, though as a computer science major I'm probably more savvy than average. The even better solution is to run Linux and never...

Actually even the book was quite exaggerated:P But that's true of pretty much every secondhand relation of a "fantastic" true story, isn't it?

They actually didn't make millions of dollars - the movie is quite exaggerated. Read the book instead :P I guess it somewhat makes up for Montgomery Blair getting first place at EVERY programming competition, never letting anyone else have glory!!

lol, I probably won't be doing that, hahaha

I was curious to know what others' fields were and if there's any patterns. Some people have told me that the majority of deaf males at MIT went into computer science - that would include me, one other guy who graduated last semester, and people from previous years. I got into computer science...