Ironically, Costco sells hearing aids already. The problem is, the person customizing the software for you may or may not be truly skilled. These things make Unix look easy (I should know, haha)
So my mini BTE ears (Rexton Cobalts) are about the size of a pinto bean, feature wireless bluetooth audio, house a battery that lasts for a week at 14 hours per day, is made to withstand being in a moist environment 14 hours per day for about 5 years, has a speaker that can generate crystal clear audio from about 400Hz to about 5kHz, amplified about 90dB (yeah, I am basically stone deaf), and the speaker is about the size of the tip of a pen. It has enough DSP power to dwarf a laptop from 10 years ago.
Really, someone's surprised that these things cost a lot? Yes, the markup is unbelievable, but these are not your grandfather's hearing aids.
Try again. You will have to search high and low to find ANY insurance company that will pay for hearing aids. Unlike people who need glasses, people who have hearing problems are very commonly discriminated against with little repercussion.
WHY? In case you haven't heard, Solaris is free. Support is the only thing that costs money, and even without support you get patch clusters for free.
I cannot understand why universities would run Solaris on Sun hardware in the first place, unless there is a specific need (e.g. some piece of software that is better supported under Solaris).
Big business, on the other hand, is still better off with good Sun hardware running Solaris. When you have thousands of servers, you start to appreciate subtle advantages like TRUE serial consoles, as opposed to Dell's bullshit DRAC cards
Anyone who thinks Y2K was a hoax needs to get a fucking clue.
I worked as a consultant from early 1998 until mid-2000 at a major financial institution helping fix all the shit that was broken. YES it was real. YES things would have blown up had we not fixed them. YES a distaster on some unknown scale was averted.
Interesting. What are grad students doing for stipends these days then? I was accepted to PhD programs at multiple UC schools, and my first 2 years would have been funded my teaching at any of these schools. After that most people survive on research stipends. Have things changed?
Lemme give you a hint: NO schools hand out PhD's like toilet paper, excluding internet scams.
I have a 6-year Chemistry degree from a CSU and received a FAR better education than 95% of the undergrads at UCLA and UCI. This is primarily because PhD's teach even the 100-level courses at CSU, rather than some random graduate student who may be 1-2 pages ahead of the class. It also has a lot to do with the fact that any research work you do at a UC will consist mostly of "washing dishes" for graduate students. I published 3 papers before I ever got my B.S. degree.
So maybe people shouldn't be so quick to judge students by the name of their Uni...
Maybe Perl is diminishing in the land of web developers, but Perl is alive and well in the System Administrator realm.
Coupled with DBI, MySQL, and mod_perl, it still represents an unbelievably good solution for most CGI applications. want it to be more like PHP syntax, use Embperl.
Maybe instead they should have allocated more money for USPTO auditors so we can put a stop to people gaining patents for shit like shoelaces by calling them:
"cords made of woven fibers, providing tension across multiple eyelets to prevent footcoverings from falling free of the body"
Unbelievably interesting book. the premise being that the current generation of coders is among the first who were not *required* to learn Assembly Language, thus do not truly understand what is going on under the hood. Because of this, they are unable to create "great" code in high-level languages because they simply don't understand the inherent costs of various routines.
One of the secondary premises focuses on the fact that, while hardware power is advancing at Moore's Law pace, software is requiring more power at nearly the same rate, many times for no reason other than the developer(s) not knowing how to write truly efficient code.
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Steam also keeps the game updated. I find it to be a great value-add versus the "old way"
shame on me....and i've been running linux since 93 *grin*
although i *did* mean X with linux in the sense that unix was already around when MS started windoze stuff, but unix was not a viable alternative OS for the common consumer... hence my coupling of X and linux (figuratively)
but yes... X has nothing to do (directly) with Linux.:) thanks for clearing that up!
if linux would have been around in the days of MS-DOS mass-usage, X would have progressed at the same time as windows *gag* 3.1 and earlier, and maybe the standard desktop would now be X instead of windoze. this logic seems to coincide with the logic of the author defending the QWERTY:)
but seriously, it seems to be a valid point. once the masses embrace a product such as windows.....no matter how inefficient or awkward it is.....it becomes increasingly difficult to overcome that standard.
at least now we really now for sure that we have absolutely ZERO privacy online. have fun people!! long live e-commerce and credit card numbers flying all 'round!! viva big brother!!
have i mentioned lately that our prying gov't is lame?
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perhaps the real deterrent is the overwhelming odor of dogshit upon entry?
great, now I have to figure out which of my coworkers wrote this about me =)
Ironically, Costco sells hearing aids already. The problem is, the person customizing the software for you may or may not be truly skilled. These things make Unix look easy (I should know, haha)
So my mini BTE ears (Rexton Cobalts) are about the size of a pinto bean, feature wireless bluetooth audio, house a battery that lasts for a week at 14 hours per day, is made to withstand being in a moist environment 14 hours per day for about 5 years, has a speaker that can generate crystal clear audio from about 400Hz to about 5kHz, amplified about 90dB (yeah, I am basically stone deaf), and the speaker is about the size of the tip of a pen. It has enough DSP power to dwarf a laptop from 10 years ago.
Really, someone's surprised that these things cost a lot? Yes, the markup is unbelievable, but these are not your grandfather's hearing aids.
Try again. You will have to search high and low to find ANY insurance company that will pay for hearing aids. Unlike people who need glasses, people who have hearing problems are very commonly discriminated against with little repercussion.
WHY? In case you haven't heard, Solaris is free. Support is the only thing that costs money, and even without support you get patch clusters for free.
I cannot understand why universities would run Solaris on Sun hardware in the first place, unless there is a specific need (e.g. some piece of software that is better supported under Solaris).
Big business, on the other hand, is still better off with good Sun hardware running Solaris. When you have thousands of servers, you start to appreciate subtle advantages like TRUE serial consoles, as opposed to Dell's bullshit DRAC cards
One other thing to consider:
leasing is a straight-forward writeoff for tax purposes while buying will involve amortizing the cost over multiple tax years.
A few Sharp laptops run the new Transmeta Efficeon chips. 10 hour battery life on one of them!
what a crying fuckin shame...
Anyone who thinks Y2K was a hoax needs to get a fucking clue.
I worked as a consultant from early 1998 until mid-2000 at a major financial institution helping fix all the shit that was broken. YES it was real. YES things would have blown up had we not fixed them. YES a distaster on some unknown scale was averted.
I'd like to see you prove it wasn't Heisenberg's cat =)
Interesting. What are grad students doing for stipends these days then? I was accepted to PhD programs at multiple UC schools, and my first 2 years would have been funded my teaching at any of these schools. After that most people survive on research stipends. Have things changed?
Lemme give you a hint: NO schools hand out PhD's like toilet paper, excluding internet scams.
I have a 6-year Chemistry degree from a CSU and received a FAR better education than 95% of the undergrads at UCLA and UCI. This is primarily because PhD's teach even the 100-level courses at CSU, rather than some random graduate student who may be 1-2 pages ahead of the class. It also has a lot to do with the fact that any research work you do at a UC will consist mostly of "washing dishes" for graduate students. I published 3 papers before I ever got my B.S. degree.
So maybe people shouldn't be so quick to judge students by the name of their Uni...
considering it takes more effort to lie, and effort must be paid for with calories...
I wanna call my diet "Lie Your ASS Off". literally. =)
what are you calling the crown jewels?
Maybe Perl is diminishing in the land of web developers, but Perl is alive and well in the System Administrator realm.
Coupled with DBI, MySQL, and mod_perl, it still represents an unbelievably good solution for most CGI applications. want it to be more like PHP syntax, use Embperl.
I would actually consider Perl to be one of the best starting languages actually (unless you plan on going on to be a professional coder).
I learned Perl before any other language and found that the Llama book was a perfect introduction to programming techniques and Perl alike.
was there really a market for another beginner's book in Perl?
Learning Perl (O'Reilly) did an absolutely exquisite job at introducing people to programming and Perl simultaneously.
Maybe instead they should have allocated more money for USPTO auditors so we can put a stop to people gaining patents for shit like shoelaces by calling them:
"cords made of woven fibers, providing tension across multiple eyelets to prevent footcoverings from falling free of the body"
seriously, this is bananas. what next?
"Write Great Code: Understanding the Machine"
Unbelievably interesting book. the premise being that the current generation of coders is among the first who were not *required* to learn Assembly Language, thus do not truly understand what is going on under the hood. Because of this, they are unable to create "great" code in high-level languages because they simply don't understand the inherent costs of various routines.
One of the secondary premises focuses on the fact that, while hardware power is advancing at Moore's Law pace, software is requiring more power at nearly the same rate, many times for no reason other than the developer(s) not knowing how to write truly efficient code.
Steam also keeps the game updated. I find it to be a great value-add versus the "old way"
ewps... my bad! hehehe
:) thanks for clearing that up!
shame on me....and i've been running linux since 93 *grin*
although i *did* mean X with linux in the sense that unix was already around when MS started windoze stuff, but unix was not a viable alternative OS for the common consumer... hence my coupling of X and linux (figuratively)
but yes... X has nothing to do (directly) with Linux.
jeez, lighten up man. there is obviously a demand for tech humor... if you dont like it, dont read it!
while they are still expanding theiur color line, why not make a nice char-colored imac with nifty "simulated" melted cases ;)
if linux would have been around in the days of MS-DOS mass-usage, X would have progressed at the same time as windows *gag* 3.1 and earlier, and maybe the standard desktop would now be X instead of windoze. this logic seems to coincide with the logic of the author defending the QWERTY :)
but seriously, it seems to be a valid point. once the masses embrace a product such as windows.....no matter how inefficient or awkward it is.....it becomes increasingly difficult to overcome that standard.
cheers to *NIX
at least now we really now for sure that we have absolutely ZERO privacy online. have fun people!! long live e-commerce and credit card numbers flying all 'round!! viva big brother!!
have i mentioned lately that our prying gov't is lame?
anyone who has taken a course in logic can see that this is perfectly valid logic.
GNU adopts other software.
Calling linux "GNU/Linux" gives credit to the
adopted software.
Linux adopted GNU software.
THEREFORE
Calling Linux "Linux" gives credit to GNU.
heh