Maybe what is needed is to force to every country that wants to fix this: a tax law to have a minimum mandatory tax rate (50% of corporate rate?) on all companies that must be paid regardless of how low they can make their taxes via loopholes. Base it off of a simple calculation of their expected national profit based on a ratio of their global profit to their national revenues / global revenues to prevent profit transferring to other countries? Would certainly discourage profit transferring.
Very wrong, most modern hearing aids are not custom made anymore, and for the ITC or CIC ones that are still, the molding and process is not that expensive...
The really expensive aids the OP is talking about are BTE models anyways.
Better yet, the baby boomers are getting to the point where many, many of them will need hearing aids soon... current estimates are that 1/10th of the world population has a hearing loss, but that goes up over the age of 65.
Hearing aids are just as expensive in Canada. I'm in British Columbia, and shelled out $6500 for a pair a couple years back. Not covered by insurance at all, there is plenty of different shops, and I did shop around for a best price (quotes ranged up to 8 grand for this pair).
My thought exactly. Build a machine like the one in person of interest with access to everything, but that no one has access to. Only looks for cases of predetermined violent crime, and informs the necessary authorities...
ZPM's don't produce heat unless powering a heat source. Thought that'd be obvious from the way they can be handled with bare hands.
No reason to believe it/they would be powering anything right now.
Double check your facts. One thing that has been dropping in cost is Cochlear implants, both the surgery, the internal component, and the external processor/microphone.
Last time i checked, it was under 50k.
Do a flight to India, and get it done for 10k.
Most folks with Cochlear implants do as well as someone with a severe loss and a good pair of hearing aids.
Bi-lateral is definitely better than one of course.
Most Canadian provinces - maybe all, i'm not sure - will pay for at least one (surgery/internal device and programming etc). Some will pay for two. You have to qualify, and you do have to pay for the processor (external part).
For this whole thread - price bubble?
Yeah, maybe. I bought my last pair of Phonak Naida IX for $6500, including a 1000 cash rebate from MSRP of 7500 at the time (price has dropped on them now over 2 years. Were they worth it? Yes. Sure, I skipped a vacation that year so i could afford the hearing aids, but still worth it. In 3 or 4 years, once these have worn out, do I expect to spend another 7k or so for the next set? Yup, and unless I get a better paying job, I'll probably skip another vacation.
If anything, I'm spending more on hearing aids now than my parents did 20 years ago as a kid - buying them myself, I want to buy to top end ones, and I don't have as many problems with them as I did when I was a kid - they've vastly improved many of the issues that hearing aids used to include. I tried out 4 or 5 kinds for a couple weeks each before settling on the Naida IX - even though it was the most expensive! I would never wear those $14 hearing aids - feedback, uncomfortable, least of all they are ugly, etc... I might buy one just for kicks though if I'm ever in China!
hard to call it 'old' software, when backtrack 4 was released in November 2010. I'm sure most of the tools remain the same, with some updates/changes, so the book would be relevant for much of backtrack 5 too.
What about the hard of hearing and deaf who wear hearing aids? Last thing I want is hearing these annoying sounds.
Could program them not to pick up these particular range of sounds, I guess.
Another reason not to have a law adding more noise to a noisy world. Benefit for the blind, but a hazard for the Deaf. Sure would be nice to have quiet cities! PS. There is a lot more hard of hearing and Deaf than there are blind.
Sounds to me kind of like the equivalent of the extremely annoying backup warning on trucks. Sometimes useful, yes, but more often, just annoying as heck. Most truck drivers honk as a warning as they start to back up anyways.
Driving license tests should start to be aware of the quiet electric vehicles, and train people to be more careful around their environment, especially when driving at low speeds in an area with bikes and pedestrians, such as a parking lot.
Deer? you're worried about deer? They don't move even if a freight train is bearing down on them!
Does buying wholesale mean that the product comes with manufacturer approval to resell?
If not, could this mean a lot of manufacturers could sue anyone who purchases at, Costco for example, and resells?
Sounds like me... exactly the same.
3 years ago I was gaming at least 3-4 hours a day, mostly AOE3 and LOTRO.
Now? I'm getting married next year, volunteering on a national NPO, traveling for vacation at least 4 weeks a year, and having much more fun in general than when I was cooped up running raids and rush strategies.
There are go between devices making hearing aids bluetooth compatible (not currently feasible to make them directly BlueTooth compatible because of the power requirements of bluetooth).
My own hearing aids have the ability to connect to my BlackBerry via Bluetooth (or headphone jack). http://www.phonak.com/com/b2c/en/products/hearing_instruments/naida/overview.html
Still, being profoundly hard of hearing, it only helps a little. I still have serious difficulty with hearing on the phone, or understanding web videos - captioning is what I need, and its certainly not standard anywhere outside of network television and Hollywood.
If that were such a downside, how come AWACs planes don't get shot down? 3 of those have crashed, none have been shot down. I could see these replacing the AWACs if they were large enough to pack a lot of technical equipment in.
Rather difficult to completely waterproof a gadget that requires microphones to use, like phone's do. Just ask an hearing aid company...
Might be really good if the range can be made to be significant like 10 meters+. Particularly for devices that are ideally left on your body (being hard of hearing, I can say that there would be a huge benefit in being able to provide a steady source of power to a device such as a Cochlear implant that currently requires significant battery power).
RWC is crap. As soon as you shift in your seat,you bump the reflector slightly, and you've lost it. Lose a couple minutes of the movie trying to get the reflector back...
Let alone people who want to go to the bathroom. Even worse if the theatre is packed, and you have to sit on the side, the angling is atrocious.
What is coming in the future would be better - all digital projectors have the ability to have included captioning tracks and DVS tracks. This can result in wireless solutions such as glasses with captioning on the bottom.
I'm hard of hearing, and a hearing loop is not good enough for me. Even with the loop, I still miss at least half of the dialogue in standard movie, more in animated or face paced, loud action flicks.
I need the captions, or at least dialogue subtitling.
Deaf people get nothing from hearing loops, they require captions, including ambient noise.
Also, the captioning standards need to be improved. It ticks me off when many, many movies take shortcuts by not captioning music, or changing what was actually said, even though the meaning is still the same.
Hmm, I'm doubtful this particular research would apply to your type of hearing loss.
I have a profound hearing loss myself as an after effect of having meningitis as a toddler. I'm fairly certain that my hearing loss is direct nerve damage, so I'm very interested in research about regrowing/repairing damaged nerves.
She should have seen all the Stargate episodes by now... only thing left is reruns until (assuming) SG Universe comes out.
All available on DVD now (except maybe Atlantis S5?)
So the timing for you aint bad!
There is plenty of potential for games based on GPS.
Personally, my dream game has been along a little different tack. Given that most of the world's land mass is mapped out and available in fairly high definition bird eye view/satellite imagery, especially populated ones, I'd like to see games based on real-life imagery like this. IE. A Need For Speed where you can drive in any major city in the world - just have an AI system that determines what parts of a city from multiple photograph are drivable.
An even more futuristic possibility is a similar game that draws its maps from live satellite and camera feeds. Rush hour in NYC? its rush hour in the game too... wouldn't that make for a very interesting Grand Theft Auto?
So perhaps sometime soon we'll see a Xbox game similar to the one showcased in "The Island" where Jordan Two Delta kicked Lincoln Six Echo's ass in a hand to hand combat virtual game?
I would love to see that!
Right, so when Vala decides she doesn't flip over the tortoise because she too is a tortoise, would that have generated a negative result in the polygraph she took if that question was actually asked? She wasn't lying if that's what she thinks the answer would actually be...
As for replicators (human form), SG-1 could easily distinguish them from real humans as they acted too much like machines... besides the fact that if you shot them, it didn't have any effect!
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Maybe what is needed is to force to every country that wants to fix this: a tax law to have a minimum mandatory tax rate (50% of corporate rate?) on all companies that must be paid regardless of how low they can make their taxes via loopholes. Base it off of a simple calculation of their expected national profit based on a ratio of their global profit to their national revenues / global revenues to prevent profit transferring to other countries? Would certainly discourage profit transferring.
Very wrong, most modern hearing aids are not custom made anymore, and for the ITC or CIC ones that are still, the molding and process is not that expensive... The really expensive aids the OP is talking about are BTE models anyways.
Better yet, the baby boomers are getting to the point where many, many of them will need hearing aids soon... current estimates are that 1/10th of the world population has a hearing loss, but that goes up over the age of 65.
Give Phonak a try if you haven't yet... works well for me.
Hearing aids are just as expensive in Canada. I'm in British Columbia, and shelled out $6500 for a pair a couple years back. Not covered by insurance at all, there is plenty of different shops, and I did shop around for a best price (quotes ranged up to 8 grand for this pair).
My thought exactly. Build a machine like the one in person of interest with access to everything, but that no one has access to. Only looks for cases of predetermined violent crime, and informs the necessary authorities...
ZPM's don't produce heat unless powering a heat source. Thought that'd be obvious from the way they can be handled with bare hands.
No reason to believe it/they would be powering anything right now.
How is this anywhere near the size of a SmartCar? The smallest Fortwo I've seen is probably twice the size of this thing.
Double check your facts. One thing that has been dropping in cost is Cochlear implants, both the surgery, the internal component, and the external processor/microphone. Last time i checked, it was under 50k. Do a flight to India, and get it done for 10k. Most folks with Cochlear implants do as well as someone with a severe loss and a good pair of hearing aids. Bi-lateral is definitely better than one of course. Most Canadian provinces - maybe all, i'm not sure - will pay for at least one (surgery/internal device and programming etc). Some will pay for two. You have to qualify, and you do have to pay for the processor (external part). For this whole thread - price bubble? Yeah, maybe. I bought my last pair of Phonak Naida IX for $6500, including a 1000 cash rebate from MSRP of 7500 at the time (price has dropped on them now over 2 years. Were they worth it? Yes. Sure, I skipped a vacation that year so i could afford the hearing aids, but still worth it. In 3 or 4 years, once these have worn out, do I expect to spend another 7k or so for the next set? Yup, and unless I get a better paying job, I'll probably skip another vacation. If anything, I'm spending more on hearing aids now than my parents did 20 years ago as a kid - buying them myself, I want to buy to top end ones, and I don't have as many problems with them as I did when I was a kid - they've vastly improved many of the issues that hearing aids used to include. I tried out 4 or 5 kinds for a couple weeks each before settling on the Naida IX - even though it was the most expensive! I would never wear those $14 hearing aids - feedback, uncomfortable, least of all they are ugly, etc... I might buy one just for kicks though if I'm ever in China!
hard to call it 'old' software, when backtrack 4 was released in November 2010. I'm sure most of the tools remain the same, with some updates/changes, so the book would be relevant for much of backtrack 5 too.
I used to use Libra - seems like it's gone defunct now, but was great for what you are looking for. Anyone know the story on why it's gone now?
Sounds to me kind of like the equivalent of the extremely annoying backup warning on trucks. Sometimes useful, yes, but more often, just annoying as heck. Most truck drivers honk as a warning as they start to back up anyways.
Driving license tests should start to be aware of the quiet electric vehicles, and train people to be more careful around their environment, especially when driving at low speeds in an area with bikes and pedestrians, such as a parking lot.
Deer? you're worried about deer? They don't move even if a freight train is bearing down on them!
Does buying wholesale mean that the product comes with manufacturer approval to resell? If not, could this mean a lot of manufacturers could sue anyone who purchases at, Costco for example, and resells?
Sounds like me... exactly the same. 3 years ago I was gaming at least 3-4 hours a day, mostly AOE3 and LOTRO. Now? I'm getting married next year, volunteering on a national NPO, traveling for vacation at least 4 weeks a year, and having much more fun in general than when I was cooped up running raids and rush strategies.
There are go between devices making hearing aids bluetooth compatible (not currently feasible to make them directly BlueTooth compatible because of the power requirements of bluetooth). My own hearing aids have the ability to connect to my BlackBerry via Bluetooth (or headphone jack). http://www.phonak.com/com/b2c/en/products/hearing_instruments/naida/overview.html Still, being profoundly hard of hearing, it only helps a little. I still have serious difficulty with hearing on the phone, or understanding web videos - captioning is what I need, and its certainly not standard anywhere outside of network television and Hollywood.
If that were such a downside, how come AWACs planes don't get shot down? 3 of those have crashed, none have been shot down. I could see these replacing the AWACs if they were large enough to pack a lot of technical equipment in.
Rather difficult to completely waterproof a gadget that requires microphones to use, like phone's do. Just ask an hearing aid company... Might be really good if the range can be made to be significant like 10 meters+. Particularly for devices that are ideally left on your body (being hard of hearing, I can say that there would be a huge benefit in being able to provide a steady source of power to a device such as a Cochlear implant that currently requires significant battery power).
RWC is crap. As soon as you shift in your seat,you bump the reflector slightly, and you've lost it. Lose a couple minutes of the movie trying to get the reflector back... Let alone people who want to go to the bathroom. Even worse if the theatre is packed, and you have to sit on the side, the angling is atrocious. What is coming in the future would be better - all digital projectors have the ability to have included captioning tracks and DVS tracks. This can result in wireless solutions such as glasses with captioning on the bottom.
I'm hard of hearing, and a hearing loop is not good enough for me. Even with the loop, I still miss at least half of the dialogue in standard movie, more in animated or face paced, loud action flicks. I need the captions, or at least dialogue subtitling. Deaf people get nothing from hearing loops, they require captions, including ambient noise. Also, the captioning standards need to be improved. It ticks me off when many, many movies take shortcuts by not captioning music, or changing what was actually said, even though the meaning is still the same.
Hmm, I'm doubtful this particular research would apply to your type of hearing loss. I have a profound hearing loss myself as an after effect of having meningitis as a toddler. I'm fairly certain that my hearing loss is direct nerve damage, so I'm very interested in research about regrowing/repairing damaged nerves.
She should have seen all the Stargate episodes by now... only thing left is reruns until (assuming) SG Universe comes out. All available on DVD now (except maybe Atlantis S5?) So the timing for you aint bad!
I've seen Space Quest mentioned here, but no King's Quest. That series rocked, and I'd love to replay it in a 3d RPG format.
There is plenty of potential for games based on GPS. Personally, my dream game has been along a little different tack. Given that most of the world's land mass is mapped out and available in fairly high definition bird eye view/satellite imagery, especially populated ones, I'd like to see games based on real-life imagery like this. IE. A Need For Speed where you can drive in any major city in the world - just have an AI system that determines what parts of a city from multiple photograph are drivable. An even more futuristic possibility is a similar game that draws its maps from live satellite and camera feeds. Rush hour in NYC? its rush hour in the game too... wouldn't that make for a very interesting Grand Theft Auto?
So perhaps sometime soon we'll see a Xbox game similar to the one showcased in "The Island" where Jordan Two Delta kicked Lincoln Six Echo's ass in a hand to hand combat virtual game? I would love to see that!
Right, so when Vala decides she doesn't flip over the tortoise because she too is a tortoise, would that have generated a negative result in the polygraph she took if that question was actually asked? She wasn't lying if that's what she thinks the answer would actually be... As for replicators (human form), SG-1 could easily distinguish them from real humans as they acted too much like machines... besides the fact that if you shot them, it didn't have any effect!