I have a set of ~$10 ear muffs that cut most of the noise but let me hear the voice frequencies just fine. I keep them at work for when I have to spend a lot of time around the air compressor. Anything over about
25dB reduction is good. For the utmost protection that I know of, get a pair of 29dB ear muffs and use earplugs, too. It gets bloody awful quiet in there ... you can hear your pulse and breathing over anything coming from the outside.Bill
Stop revealing the secrets! They (as opposed to "them") will really realize that it IS all just smoke and mirrors.
And programmers run on caffeine and Baywatch re-runs (Knightrider on holidays ... Mmmmmm Hasselhoff). It's also bad form to let them out of the box too. Don't make direct eye contact with them .. not that they'd actually do anything about it, but still ...
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