The data doesn't all have to be processed to be useful. Collecting it enables them to dig in deeper when they find Someone Unusual - probably automated at first, and then with human review if you're Really Interesting.
The rest of the data just sits in storage because they're not sure which bits will become interesting at the time of collection.
I used to do this, but it fails miserably on sites that require you to change your password, or when they redesign and redirect you to their "secure" domain to log in, or where they have multiple domains that share an account. I found I was spending too much time fighting edge cases, so I caved in and went for LastPass (which I consider adequate since it encrypts on my end). No regrets.
Effectively you can no longer use it to fund development. If you have to already have unit #1 produced, it's just a way to fund production. Ergo, it's a store oriented toward pre-sales.
But demanding everyone be putting code into production is wrong.
I think it teaches an important lesson. Just writing code is one thing; writing it knowing that it's going to ship and things will go wrong if your code has bugs is an entirely different level of stress. I wish more people could experience that before asking if I could add "just this one" extra feature. Sure it's ten lines, but I have to go over those ten lines a dozen times before I'm sure they're ready, and even then they may blow up.
Low end ones are amplifiers. Midrange are equalizers with a lot of very narrow bands. High end does frequency remapping including into harmonics and beat patterns.
Even the midrange is somewhat hard to do - doing a constant fft in that size and power envelope isn't trivial.
Yes, causation/correlation, but JAMA is a quality journal. If you RTFA, they didn't miss this:
"Results: Median urinary BPA concentration was 2.8 ng/mL (interquartile range, 1.5-5.6). Of the participants, 1047 (34.1% [SE, 1.5%]) were overweight and 590 (17.8% [SE, 1.3%]) were obese. Controlling for race/ethnicity, age, caregiver education, poverty to income ratio, sex, serum cotinine level, caloric intake, television watching, and urinary creatinine level,..."
That doesn't mean BPA is causative, but they DID control many obvious factors.
Like I said: one of the key things that makes them expensive is cramming enough DSP performance in to process the sound into something you can understand.
BPA may not affect your intake : weight ratio, but it may have a significant effect on your appetite.
It was eye opening for me when I went on a medication that gave me completely insatiable food cravings. I would literally eat until I was uncomfortable for hours afterward, even when consciously knowing that it would make me feel awful and put on weight. Willpower is overrated - when your brain gets the chemical signal that you're starving and need to eat more you will.
I don't know if BPA specifically does that, but it was plainly apparent from my experience with prescription meds that it's plausible.
They like making you dependent on audiologists to set the things up. In turn, their products get sold at MSRP instead of deeply discounted online with DIY setup. That said, I understand the tuning process isn't trivial, and you wouldn't necessarily do a good job unless you're very dedicated to learning about it.
A lot of the hardware cost is due to making them tiny, power efficient enough to run a long time off of rather small batteries and still having enough DSP performance to really process the audio into something you can understand. That's a tough mix, but you're right - if you're willing to carry an outboard processor in your pocket and put up with poor battery life, you can probably cobble together something that works much cheaper. You would need earbuds with outward facing mics - almost like a bluetooth headset, except you want high sample rate bidirectional audio, which is a combination curiously lacking in the bluetooth spec.
Just some thoughts from someone who doesn't actually have hearing aids, but who's heard a little about 'em.
It's not so much that they're trying to keep the drugs from people with real pain. They're worried that GOD FORBID someone use the stuff recreationally. It's hard to sort out the two groups since there's no good objective test for pain. Thus, they just ratchet down on all opiate use. So sorry to inconvenience those of you with real pain.
I personally think that it's a dumb approach. Junkies will be junkies; you may as well give them a cheap, clean supply, and the opportunities to clean up when they're ready. It costs less and results in less net harm. But the USA was founded by puritans, so this is what we get.
"viruses that was spread manually"... There have been a few manual viruses, notably Good Times, and The Honor System Virus, but I'm pretty sure Brain was automatic.
It's sad that we've gotten to the point where anything short of an outright worm is considered "manual".
One advantage is you can schedule the testing so that the accidents occur off peak hours. Another is that the outages are then under your control - which is mostly a psychological preference, but the fact is the customer is much happier hearing "Sorry for the inconvenience, we're working on it" than "It's the power company's fault, we're not sure when they're going to have it fixed, and we can't do anything until they do".
I look at it as less than $900/year to have a significant percentage of human knowledge on a searchable device in my pocket. I know they're gouging me - a competitive market would provide the same service for cheaper - but even at these jacked up prices I consider it to be worthwhile without having to justify it as a business expense.
IMO it's not just subsidies. It's also that every network in the US is using incompatible standards. Verizon and Sprint are CDMA; AT&T and T-Mobile are GSM. But if you want anything more than 2G you then get into a mess of UTMS vs LTE vs HSPA[+] vs WiMax vs CDMA2000 vs who knows what else. Even then if you have the right interface you need it to be on the correct frequency.
Making a phone that works on all the standards would be prohibitive. Deciphering all the standards to get a compatible handset is completely beyond your average consumer. The solution is for the carriers to just stock compatible phones and sell them to you.
It looks like everyone is moving toward LTE for now, so perhaps it will improve, but I'm not holding my breath.
TNT is oxygen deficient, so it tends to release CO, but no CO2. Even with a worst-case high explosive a couple 500 pound bombs aren't going to release more than a couple hundred pounds of CO2. Lawyers, on the other hand, release quite a lot.
That's because signing the receipt is not for authentication. Read the receipt: you're signing a contract to pay the bank back for the stuff you're buying.
...keep in mind that the entire cast and crew *volunteered* on the project (some for years). If you were to factor that cost in...
I look at it the other way around: it's amazing what people are willing and able to accomplish for nothing when they're not whoring for Hollywood. Will they find it satisfying enough to keep doing it?
Conventional wisdom says this should never happen. The free software movement suggests that we might see a parallel free production line set up soon.
Or just get a MP3 player that has actual hardware buttons; again just solder yourself in instead of trying to figure out a control API.
Alternatively, use an Android netbook, phone, or tablet. Cheap, easy to customize the firmware to your needs, USB ports so you can control it either by emulating a keyboard or using a serial dongle (you may have to hack the media player software), no Apple tax. 9h battery life is tough, but if you can get a DC port of some sort on the aircraft then you can use a DC-DC converter to run it as much as you need.
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The data doesn't all have to be processed to be useful. Collecting it enables them to dig in deeper when they find Someone Unusual - probably automated at first, and then with human review if you're Really Interesting.
The rest of the data just sits in storage because they're not sure which bits will become interesting at the time of collection.
adds to the richness of the Origin Smart experience
... We are talking about a utility company, right? I expect this kind of puffery for consumer products and services, but this is absurd.
"Open hardware" "limited edition" ... I'm pretty sure someone doesn't understand how this works. :)
I used to do this, but it fails miserably on sites that require you to change your password, or when they redesign and redirect you to their "secure" domain to log in, or where they have multiple domains that share an account. I found I was spending too much time fighting edge cases, so I caved in and went for LastPass (which I consider adequate since it encrypts on my end). No regrets.
Effectively you can no longer use it to fund development. If you have to already have unit #1 produced, it's just a way to fund production. Ergo, it's a store oriented toward pre-sales.
But demanding everyone be putting code into production is wrong.
I think it teaches an important lesson. Just writing code is one thing; writing it knowing that it's going to ship and things will go wrong if your code has bugs is an entirely different level of stress. I wish more people could experience that before asking if I could add "just this one" extra feature. Sure it's ten lines, but I have to go over those ten lines a dozen times before I'm sure they're ready, and even then they may blow up.
Low end ones are amplifiers. Midrange are equalizers with a lot of very narrow bands. High end does frequency remapping including into harmonics and beat patterns.
Even the midrange is somewhat hard to do - doing a constant fft in that size and power envelope isn't trivial.
Yes, causation/correlation, but JAMA is a quality journal. If you RTFA, they didn't miss this:
"Results: Median urinary BPA concentration was 2.8 ng/mL (interquartile range, 1.5-5.6). Of the participants, 1047 (34.1% [SE, 1.5%]) were overweight and 590 (17.8% [SE, 1.3%]) were obese. Controlling for race/ethnicity, age, caregiver education, poverty to income ratio, sex, serum cotinine level, caloric intake, television watching, and urinary creatinine level, ..."
That doesn't mean BPA is causative, but they DID control many obvious factors.
Like I said: one of the key things that makes them expensive is cramming enough DSP performance in to process the sound into something you can understand.
BPA may not affect your intake : weight ratio, but it may have a significant effect on your appetite.
It was eye opening for me when I went on a medication that gave me completely insatiable food cravings. I would literally eat until I was uncomfortable for hours afterward, even when consciously knowing that it would make me feel awful and put on weight. Willpower is overrated - when your brain gets the chemical signal that you're starving and need to eat more you will.
I don't know if BPA specifically does that, but it was plainly apparent from my experience with prescription meds that it's plausible.
They like making you dependent on audiologists to set the things up. In turn, their products get sold at MSRP instead of deeply discounted online with DIY setup. That said, I understand the tuning process isn't trivial, and you wouldn't necessarily do a good job unless you're very dedicated to learning about it.
A lot of the hardware cost is due to making them tiny, power efficient enough to run a long time off of rather small batteries and still having enough DSP performance to really process the audio into something you can understand. That's a tough mix, but you're right - if you're willing to carry an outboard processor in your pocket and put up with poor battery life, you can probably cobble together something that works much cheaper. You would need earbuds with outward facing mics - almost like a bluetooth headset, except you want high sample rate bidirectional audio, which is a combination curiously lacking in the bluetooth spec.
Just some thoughts from someone who doesn't actually have hearing aids, but who's heard a little about 'em.
Well, I have to agree with you there. It's a really messed up set of priorities.
It's not so much that they're trying to keep the drugs from people with real pain. They're worried that GOD FORBID someone use the stuff recreationally. It's hard to sort out the two groups since there's no good objective test for pain. Thus, they just ratchet down on all opiate use. So sorry to inconvenience those of you with real pain.
I personally think that it's a dumb approach. Junkies will be junkies; you may as well give them a cheap, clean supply, and the opportunities to clean up when they're ready. It costs less and results in less net harm. But the USA was founded by puritans, so this is what we get.
"viruses that was spread manually" ... There have been a few manual viruses, notably Good Times, and The Honor System Virus, but I'm pretty sure Brain was automatic.
It's sad that we've gotten to the point where anything short of an outright worm is considered "manual".
https://eff.org/ - Doesn't need an explanation really.
https://archive.org/ - The librarians of the internet
One advantage is you can schedule the testing so that the accidents occur off peak hours. Another is that the outages are then under your control - which is mostly a psychological preference, but the fact is the customer is much happier hearing "Sorry for the inconvenience, we're working on it" than "It's the power company's fault, we're not sure when they're going to have it fixed, and we can't do anything until they do".
I look at it as less than $900/year to have a significant percentage of human knowledge on a searchable device in my pocket. I know they're gouging me - a competitive market would provide the same service for cheaper - but even at these jacked up prices I consider it to be worthwhile without having to justify it as a business expense.
IMO it's not just subsidies. It's also that every network in the US is using incompatible standards. Verizon and Sprint are CDMA; AT&T and T-Mobile are GSM. But if you want anything more than 2G you then get into a mess of UTMS vs LTE vs HSPA[+] vs WiMax vs CDMA2000 vs who knows what else. Even then if you have the right interface you need it to be on the correct frequency.
Making a phone that works on all the standards would be prohibitive. Deciphering all the standards to get a compatible handset is completely beyond your average consumer. The solution is for the carriers to just stock compatible phones and sell them to you.
It looks like everyone is moving toward LTE for now, so perhaps it will improve, but I'm not holding my breath.
TNT is oxygen deficient, so it tends to release CO, but no CO2. Even with a worst-case high explosive a couple 500 pound bombs aren't going to release more than a couple hundred pounds of CO2. Lawyers, on the other hand, release quite a lot.
my card is almost never checked
That's because signing the receipt is not for authentication. Read the receipt: you're signing a contract to pay the bank back for the stuff you're buying.
...keep in mind that the entire cast and crew *volunteered* on the project (some for years). If you were to factor that cost in...
I look at it the other way around: it's amazing what people are willing and able to accomplish for nothing when they're not whoring for Hollywood. Will they find it satisfying enough to keep doing it?
Conventional wisdom says this should never happen. The free software movement suggests that we might see a parallel free production line set up soon.
This is about mobile apps. They don't even HAVE Flash or other VMs on the iPhone. You either use HTML or write a native app.
If it was an original phrase that had never been used before...
You're thinking of patents and prior art. Trademarks don't work that way - they belong to whoever registers them in specific categories.
You can control a smartphone over Bluetooth. Search for "a2dp receiver". First hit on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/STEREO-BLUETOOTH-HEADSET-HEADPHONE-A2DP-MOBILE-WIRELESS-CORDLESS-/350596896980?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item51a13418d4 They're cheap and readily available, and they have hardware buttons for pause/play/next/prev. Anyone who knows which end of the soldering iron to hold can tap into the buttons.
Or just get a MP3 player that has actual hardware buttons; again just solder yourself in instead of trying to figure out a control API.
Alternatively, use an Android netbook, phone, or tablet. Cheap, easy to customize the firmware to your needs, USB ports so you can control it either by emulating a keyboard or using a serial dongle (you may have to hack the media player software), no Apple tax. 9h battery life is tough, but if you can get a DC port of some sort on the aircraft then you can use a DC-DC converter to run it as much as you need.
I feel like I've fallen into a Monty Python skit.
Vendor A: "I assure you our product inferior to the competition's!"
Vendor B: "Don't believe his lies! His product is every bit as good as ours!"
Something is seriously wrong in the market if we're getting arguments like this.