the article is missing a lot of details.. lithium polymer? standard Lithium Ion? or the current best battery the LifePo4 that already has insane battery cycle life as well as extreme tolerance to being charged poorly so you don't need a special high cost charger.
Read the article.....
Ahh, this is not even a battery but a wire loop in acrylic.. Nothing to see here kids but hype.
"covers the hearing aid for three years of whatever you might happen to do to it."
No it doesnt. Loss is not covered and stepping on it is not covered. One of my best friends has a set through the VA and they give you ONE replacement in those three years. You really need to read the actual print on the paperwork and ignore completely what the people at the VA tell you. because what comes out of their mouths is not what is on the paper, and the paper is what matters.
Hearing aid manufacturers say that diagnosing and treating hearing loss is too complex for consumers to do using consumer devices, without the aid of a professional.
Yep of course it is! we must protect our very lucrative profit centers selling $40.00 devices for $4500
I have disassembled old broken hearing aids, they are not that complex. they intentionally lock people out of the dsp so you cant adjust it yourself.
With a statically compiled binary there is nothing to install. a single file that when launched does everything it needs and has everything it needs, eliminating the dependency hell that linux still suffers badly from.
Honestly I still don't see any real reason for these.
I have been able to run standard apps in user land forever, this is NOT something new. you can easily compile and run an app in the restricted user directory as an X11 app and it cant go digging through the rest of the system.
the hostile app can trash the user directly or try and fake them into giving it escalated privileges but absolutely anything that can display something on the screen or have read/write to the users directory can do that.
My house will show higher radiation than the homes in Japan as mine is brick and stone. All of this is simply art with an attempt to deliver alarmist reactions to information that is not calibrated nor has a reference.
No. Perfect the self driving Semi Truck and get robotic trucks out there to replace truck drivers. you can drive at the speed limit for 24 hours and get there faster than the current drivers that speed and overall drive like turds making things unsafe. plus you can get the trucks to drive in trains saving fuel in a huge way. Imagine 30 truck trains on I-80 across the country.
Not in the past 2 years... nope.. you see I buy it maxed out so I dont have to waste time tinkering. I prefer working over messing with it saving a nickle here and a dime there by spreading out upgrades.
Next year It's time for the 3 year old SSD drives to get chucked out and new ones installed. So there will be a single day downtime when the box is opened for about 10 minutes and then everything freshly reinstalled.
5 year old servers are the same. 8 core 2.9ghz Xeon processors from 2010 with 64gb ram and some cheap SATA SSD drives stuffed in to the SAS cage gives me far FAR more processing power than we need.
Nothing sold by intel as brand new right now is not worth buying over dumping a few hundred into "outdated" hardware that already does more than we need it to do.
My audio DAW workstation that is basically a glorified PC with 16 cores and 64gig of ram and SAS drives along with it's audio hardware is $25,000 on it's own. and the desk it is on cost me $4500
And yes I spend a lot of time at it. $1500 desk/case is chump change.
Bought a HD Homerun that supported Cablecard. Installed that in the basement and use the Nexus Players in the bedrooms and the Living room to watch TV. The MythTV server in the basement records and the shows appear in the PLEX list. Works fantastic.
Plus My way the recordings are not encrypted and kept locked away from me, so when I fly out to a customer's job I simply load what I want on my laptop and I have them in HD glory. I'm too cheap to pay for Plex Pass so I cant stream to my phone across the internet.
"Well: - The hardware is expensive as fuck - The hardware breaks frequently - The standards are still in flux - There's almost no benefit to the merchant unless the merchant takes a lot of fraudulent cards - Contactless is going to cost more, if it doesn't already (Apple and Google aren't charities) --"
100% of this is bullshit. Unless you are basing your information from 10 years ago. The readers are cheap. $215 on avarage. The hardware DOES NOT BREAK frequently in fact the mag stripe readers have more of a problem as they get gunked up. The standard is solid as a freaking rock as it has been in use for well over a decade in europe, and there is a large benefit to the retailer as they get a discount on processing fees when they adopt it.
You were correct 10 years ago.. but today, every single word you said is 100% wrong. Even SQUARE supports the chip cards with a $49.00 reader.
I have a set of 5 year old IBM servers that run dual Xeon 2.9ghz processors with 4 cores each and there is ZERO reason to replace them. In fact I just picked up a pair of identical barely used units for parts for under $190 each off of ebay and replaced the SAS drives with cheap SATA SSD drives on the backup unit for testing to dramatically increase disk access speeds. (Yes my SAS raid controller happily manages SATA SSD drives)
I could spend another $10K to replace the two or simply spend $2000 and keep them going for another 5 years just fine. the 10,000Base T network interface is faster than we will need, and the SAN works just fine.
Intel has not made a processor worth upgrading to for over 5 years and the current gen stuff is less than 20% better than the older so there is no reason at all to even toy with upgrading. My new lenovo laptop is actually SLOWER than the old one it replaced, the 6th gen intel i7 processors are complete crap.
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Yep and tons of companies are switching to alternatives. Microsoft is losing it's grip fast.
the article is missing a lot of details.. lithium polymer? standard Lithium Ion? or the current best battery the LifePo4 that already has insane battery cycle life as well as extreme tolerance to being charged poorly so you don't need a special high cost charger.
Read the article.....
Ahh, this is not even a battery but a wire loop in acrylic.. Nothing to see here kids but hype.
WE need a national registry of plastic bags! have licenses issues where all plastic bags should carry the license number of the person that owns it!
Thank Mitt Romney for his destruction of our healthcare and allowing the insurance companies to write our "affordable health care" law.
"covers the hearing aid for three years of whatever you might happen to do to it."
No it doesnt. Loss is not covered and stepping on it is not covered. One of my best friends has a set through the VA and they give you ONE replacement in those three years. You really need to read the actual print on the paperwork and ignore completely what the people at the VA tell you. because what comes out of their mouths is not what is on the paper, and the paper is what matters.
Hearing aid manufacturers say that diagnosing and treating hearing loss is too complex for consumers to do using consumer devices, without the aid of a professional.
Yep of course it is! we must protect our very lucrative profit centers selling $40.00 devices for $4500
I have disassembled old broken hearing aids, they are not that complex. they intentionally lock people out of the dsp so you cant adjust it yourself.
With a statically compiled binary there is nothing to install. a single file that when launched does everything it needs and has everything it needs, eliminating the dependency hell that linux still suffers badly from.
Honestly I still don't see any real reason for these.
I have been able to run standard apps in user land forever, this is NOT something new. you can easily compile and run an app in the restricted user directory as an X11 app and it cant go digging through the rest of the system.
the hostile app can trash the user directly or try and fake them into giving it escalated privileges but absolutely anything that can display something on the screen or have read/write to the users directory can do that.
Honestly this sounds like Snaps in general are horribly insecure on their own.
My house will show higher radiation than the homes in Japan as mine is brick and stone. All of this is simply art with an attempt to deliver alarmist reactions to information that is not calibrated nor has a reference.
No. Perfect the self driving Semi Truck and get robotic trucks out there to replace truck drivers. you can drive at the speed limit for 24 hours and get there faster than the current drivers that speed and overall drive like turds making things unsafe. plus you can get the trucks to drive in trains saving fuel in a huge way. Imagine 30 truck trains on I-80 across the country.
This is where it needs to happen.
Not in the past 2 years... nope.. you see I buy it maxed out so I dont have to waste time tinkering. I prefer working over messing with it saving a nickle here and a dime there by spreading out upgrades.
Next year It's time for the 3 year old SSD drives to get chucked out and new ones installed. So there will be a single day downtime when the box is opened for about 10 minutes and then everything freshly reinstalled.
5 year old servers are the same. 8 core 2.9ghz Xeon processors from 2010 with 64gb ram and some cheap SATA SSD drives stuffed in to the SAS cage gives me far FAR more processing power than we need.
Nothing sold by intel as brand new right now is not worth buying over dumping a few hundred into "outdated" hardware that already does more than we need it to do.
My audio DAW workstation that is basically a glorified PC with 16 cores and 64gig of ram and SAS drives along with it's audio hardware is $25,000 on it's own. and the desk it is on cost me $4500
And yes I spend a lot of time at it. $1500 desk/case is chump change.
All my stuff points at the wall and still not fire....
I will scold my computers that they are not doing what they are supposed to be doing... Damn lazy things not setting fire to the house.
FCC rule requires a "reasonable" number of cablecards to be free.
Why are you paying for a cablecard fee? Cablecards are free unless you ask for 3 or more of them.
your cable company must really suck compared to Comcast as the first two are free with them.
They absolutely can carry momentum... never seen them sway in the wind before?
Bought a HD Homerun that supported Cablecard. Installed that in the basement and use the Nexus Players in the bedrooms and the Living room to watch TV. The MythTV server in the basement records and the shows appear in the PLEX list. Works fantastic.
Plus My way the recordings are not encrypted and kept locked away from me, so when I fly out to a customer's job I simply load what I want on my laptop and I have them in HD glory. I'm too cheap to pay for Plex Pass so I cant stream to my phone across the internet.
"Well:
- The hardware is expensive as fuck
- The hardware breaks frequently
- The standards are still in flux
- There's almost no benefit to the merchant unless the merchant takes a lot of fraudulent cards
- Contactless is going to cost more, if it doesn't already (Apple and Google aren't charities)
--"
100% of this is bullshit. Unless you are basing your information from 10 years ago.
The readers are cheap. $215 on avarage. The hardware DOES NOT BREAK frequently in fact the mag stripe readers have more of a problem as they get gunked up. The standard is solid as a freaking rock as it has been in use for well over a decade in europe, and there is a large benefit to the retailer as they get a discount on processing fees when they adopt it.
You were correct 10 years ago.. but today, every single word you said is 100% wrong. Even SQUARE supports the chip cards with a $49.00 reader.
dude most of the people around you can commit the same crime he did. they are just not motivated to or are afraid of getting caught.
People in general are horrible evil animals. keep that in mind.
yes there is.
"Yes I will sell tesla to you ford... for 51% of the current ford stock.... yes Controlling interest in Ford motor Co."
That will make them go away as it will scare the shit out of the board and executives.
It's cheap. and there is a buttload of dirt cheap used and low price games out there for it.
Honestly it's why the Playstation 2 sold really well for 2 years after the 3 came out.
Exposure to politicians and their desires to push their own ideals on others is a public health crisis.
WE should outlaw politicians at once!
Not only PC's but Servers as well.
I have a set of 5 year old IBM servers that run dual Xeon 2.9ghz processors with 4 cores each and there is ZERO reason to replace them. In fact I just picked up a pair of identical barely used units for parts for under $190 each off of ebay and replaced the SAS drives with cheap SATA SSD drives on the backup unit for testing to dramatically increase disk access speeds. (Yes my SAS raid controller happily manages SATA SSD drives)
I could spend another $10K to replace the two or simply spend $2000 and keep them going for another 5 years just fine. the 10,000Base T network interface is faster than we will need, and the SAN works just fine.
Intel has not made a processor worth upgrading to for over 5 years and the current gen stuff is less than 20% better than the older so there is no reason at all to even toy with upgrading. My new lenovo laptop is actually SLOWER than the old one it replaced, the 6th gen intel i7 processors are complete crap.