It sounds to me like the old employees could have been able to wield those cutting-edge skills without needing to pass them on to the outsourcing company replacing them. Oh well.
Too bad they chose not to, thus making them part of the problem.
Professional programs aside, it is extremely likely mass disruption is coming to the post secondary education system in the next 10 years.
Sure.
As soon as ABET accredits a collection of MOOC courses as equivalent to a degree, over the objections of ABET's primary customers, the universities who pay them for their accreditation services.
If ABET cuts off its own legs, there will be disruption.
But actually that is not the boiling point equation, which is much more complicated because of different substance properties, but the major factors are still T and P.
I am aware of that. As is every halfway decent cook who has made pasta at higher altitudes than sea level, and added salt to raise the boiling point of the water back to 212F/100C so it cooks correctly, since unadulterated water boils at a lower temperate in Denver than it does at sea level.
And since the baseline on the boiling point equation is water, and we are talking water, and the typical adulterant we use is salt, and we are talking about a brine...
This is pretty stupidly obvious to anyone who has ever had an AP Chemistry or AP Physics class in high school, and dicked around with boiling points using a vacuum chamber to boil things at standard temperature but lower pressure as part of a class experiments.
When you take a gap year, you free up the scholarship you got, so that someone more deserving, because they are willing to apply themselves, gets it instead.
Then, when you are ready to go to college, you can apply for the scholarship and not get it, because they've given preference to new high school graduates over non-traditional students (which you now are).
Then you can take out student loans to pay for your stupidity^W^Wcollege, just like everyone who didn't qualify for a scholarship in the first place.
Unless, you know, you're the son or daughter of millionaires willing to foot the bill.
The traditional University is a dying educational model. It no longer delivers value for the tens of thousands of dollars required in tuition and living expenses. My recommendation: save that money and attend distance learning and massive online courseware from the comfort and inexpense of your home.
Yes, because someone who has a bunch of MOOC certificates and no college credits or degrees is the person who goes to the top of my "Must Hire" pile of 2,000 resumes. The only people who come close to that level of obvious competence are the people who learned "Flash" programming getting an associates degree at DeVry University because they like video games and knew they were going to write the next best seller.
Those were GE designs built by an inferior Japanese contractor, from an old design, which TEPCO then chose to locate the generators downhill instead of uphill from the reactor buildings, and never updated their storm walls, as they were ordered to 7-9 times (exact number is uncertain: at least 7 times, however).
There's no damn reason you need a driver for what is (essentially) a frame buffer that relocates itself to paper. The only reason for a driver is to lock you into using a particular printer.
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Some of the cheap ones have all the features of the expensive ones, and do it as well or better than the expensive ones. They just haven't paid the big bucks for the certifications.
Such as which ones? How does one program their frequency response profile to match the gap in my hearing?
Exactly this problem.
The answer is: You don't program it. While most cell phone baseband chips would not have any problem with the SDR being used to receive radio stations, you will be hard put to find a cell phone that uses them this way, because, despite the parts being there, there's no way to get them programmed up to the correct specification being exposed as part of the product definition.
Make things louder? Yes. Match the correct frequency response profile? Possible in hardware; impossible in software.
Having said that, I still have a strong impression that hearing aids are very much over-priced. And I know that the testing equipment, (audiometers in particular), are also very over-priced. The whole industry is ripe for some major disruption, and I suspect the encroachment of cheap consumer devices is only the thin edge of the wedge.
While I know people who would almost literally kill for a hearing aid that actually fit their ear, didn't cause traction soreness, but didn't fall out...
Yes, they tend to be overpriced. All of it.
The hearing aids themselves are considered prosthetic devices, even if you just stuff them in your ear, and there's huge regulatory compliance issues surrounding that. Even though they tend not to be covered by insurance for purchase, there's a lot of insurance that goes into the things because of that: liability insurance on the part of the manufacturer (what if you have a degenerative source of hearing loss, and, through no fault of theirs, your hearing continues to deteriorate, and you sue?).
There's also liability costs for the testing devices, for the same reason (What if it's not calibrated?), and then there's malpractice costs.
Most medical things end up paying an insurance company 5+ times or more for the same event; the audiologist gets off with only 3/4 payments (if they have their own office, there's liability insurance for ice on the sidewalk...).
We're not very tolerant of medical things going wrong, and we tend to be pretty litigious when they do. I think that before anything useful happens in terms of price reductions, we're going to have to get them umbrella'ed, just like other prosthetics (yes, eyeglasses and dentures tend to be separate, too!), and then we'll have to do something that will trigger tort reform, like single payer.
Just stuffing an amplifier in your ear is problematic.
Conductive hearing loss can (and should be) medically or surgically corrected, where possible, rather than just amplifying the input noises.
Sensorineural hearing loss are cause by problems in the cochlea and inner ear. This type of hearing loss can result in "band pass" loss, and in the most profound cases, is treatable with implants, if there is still functional cochlear structure. You don't want to treat it with amplification, since you don't want to amplify the bands in which there is no loss, since you'll cause damage there. Tinnitus generally falls into this bucket as well (your *really* do not want to amplify within the bands where you have that!).
Mixed hearing loss is a combination of the first two; it's typically cause by overpressure, such as being near a load explosion or other structurally damaging event that results in both conductive and sensorineural deficits.
A CAPD (Central Auditory Processing Disorder) hearing loss means that the mechanical system are generally intact, but that the information processing doesn't happen within the brain. IT's like having an audio processing system, and yanking the DSP out of it.
Personally, if I had partial damage, I'm going to spend the money on the expensive hearing aides. If I have some function, there's no reason to cook it by amplifying the frequencies that are actually getting through, rather than those which are not.
And even if you amplify only the frequencies that are getting mechanically dropped -- assuming it's conductive loss from damage, scar tissue, etc. -- you should be careful of harmonics, since those frequencies can additively lead to a problem as well.
Put it another way.... say you needed an artificial arm...would you probably wouldn't run down to the nearest street fair and buy a "Toysmith 6135 Galaxy Grabber Robot Claw", merely because it was a cheaper commercially available alternative.
You have to be educated to a certain level, and then you have to be so poor that you volunteer for this type of crap. And then it works, 100% of the time.
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It sounds to me like the old employees could have been able to wield those cutting-edge skills without needing to pass them on to the outsourcing company replacing them. Oh well.
Too bad they chose not to, thus making them part of the problem.
Perhaps if you made the RIGHT decisions, you would be less fucked.
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Professional programs aside, it is extremely likely mass disruption is coming to the post secondary education system in the next 10 years.
Sure.
As soon as ABET accredits a collection of MOOC courses as equivalent to a degree, over the objections of ABET's primary customers, the universities who pay them for their accreditation services.
If ABET cuts off its own legs, there will be disruption.
But actually that is not the boiling point equation, which is much more complicated because of different substance properties, but the major factors are still T and P.
I am aware of that. As is every halfway decent cook who has made pasta at higher altitudes than sea level, and added salt to raise the boiling point of the water back to 212F/100C so it cooks correctly, since unadulterated water boils at a lower temperate in Denver than it does at sea level.
And since the baseline on the boiling point equation is water, and we are talking water, and the typical adulterant we use is salt, and we are talking about a brine...
This is pretty stupidly obvious to anyone who has ever had an AP Chemistry or AP Physics class in high school, and dicked around with boiling points using a vacuum chamber to boil things at standard temperature but lower pressure as part of a class experiments.
Gap year can be a marvelous tool.
When you take a gap year, you free up the scholarship you got, so that someone more deserving, because they are willing to apply themselves, gets it instead.
Then, when you are ready to go to college, you can apply for the scholarship and not get it, because they've given preference to new high school graduates over non-traditional students (which you now are).
Then you can take out student loans to pay for your stupidity^W^Wcollege, just like everyone who didn't qualify for a scholarship in the first place.
Unless, you know, you're the son or daughter of millionaires willing to foot the bill.
The traditional University is a dying educational model. It no longer delivers value for the tens of thousands of dollars required in tuition and living expenses. My recommendation: save that money and attend distance learning and massive online courseware from the comfort and inexpense of your home.
Yes, because someone who has a bunch of MOOC certificates and no college credits or degrees is the person who goes to the top of my "Must Hire" pile of 2,000 resumes. The only people who come close to that level of obvious competence are the people who learned "Flash" programming getting an associates degree at DeVry University because they like video games and knew they were going to write the next best seller.
This is not intuitively obvious to people who memorized PV = nRT in grade school *HOW*?!?
Who was this exactly a mystery *from*?
"...it lacks basic features like extensions"
Unlike Chrome, which supports NPAPI?
How is the US going to force Mexico to pay for it?
By covering the wall in solar cells.
"You could launch a bunch of cells into space and transmit the power back to earth for less money than that."
"It make NO damn sense."
That's right, space-based solar power is a fantasy. It makes no sense, never did, never will.
This is precisely why the ISS and almost every satellite is powered by natural gas. The rest have "D" batteries.
All it takes is one major incident, Loss of (Electricity,Coolant,Skilled People), to render a size-able portion of the UK unfit for human habitation.
So, basically, unfit for human habitation, like Lutton, Stoke-on-Trent, and Grimsby, then.
Those were GE designs built by an inferior Japanese contractor, from an old design, which TEPCO then chose to locate the generators downhill instead of uphill from the reactor buildings, and never updated their storm walls, as they were ordered to 7-9 times (exact number is uncertain: at least 7 times, however).
That certain seems like a GE problem to me. NOT.
Contract it to GE or Mitsubishi instead.
They've built these things before, and a hell of a lot more cheaply than that.
Try getting printer manufacturers together.
There's no damn reason you need a driver for what is (essentially) a frame buffer that relocates itself to paper. The only reason for a driver is to lock you into using a particular printer.
You do realize you actually need demand to outstrip supply to get inflation, right?
Is this why CDs from shitty pop artists cost $16.95 each?
I was unaware that demand for shitty music was that high...
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But do the turtles run Linux?
"You live in the blue state, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You live in the red state, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." -- Morpheus
Some of the cheap ones have all the features of the expensive ones, and do it as well or better than the expensive ones. They just haven't paid the big bucks for the certifications.
Such as which ones? How does one program their frequency response profile to match the gap in my hearing?
Exactly this problem.
The answer is: You don't program it. While most cell phone baseband chips would not have any problem with the SDR being used to receive radio stations, you will be hard put to find a cell phone that uses them this way, because, despite the parts being there, there's no way to get them programmed up to the correct specification being exposed as part of the product definition.
Make things louder? Yes. Match the correct frequency response profile? Possible in hardware; impossible in software.
Having said that, I still have a strong impression that hearing aids are very much over-priced. And I know that the testing equipment, (audiometers in particular), are also very over-priced. The whole industry is ripe for some major disruption, and I suspect the encroachment of cheap consumer devices is only the thin edge of the wedge.
While I know people who would almost literally kill for a hearing aid that actually fit their ear, didn't cause traction soreness, but didn't fall out...
Yes, they tend to be overpriced. All of it.
The hearing aids themselves are considered prosthetic devices, even if you just stuff them in your ear, and there's huge regulatory compliance issues surrounding that. Even though they tend not to be covered by insurance for purchase, there's a lot of insurance that goes into the things because of that: liability insurance on the part of the manufacturer (what if you have a degenerative source of hearing loss, and, through no fault of theirs, your hearing continues to deteriorate, and you sue?).
There's also liability costs for the testing devices, for the same reason (What if it's not calibrated?), and then there's malpractice costs.
Most medical things end up paying an insurance company 5+ times or more for the same event; the audiologist gets off with only 3/4 payments (if they have their own office, there's liability insurance for ice on the sidewalk...).
We're not very tolerant of medical things going wrong, and we tend to be pretty litigious when they do. I think that before anything useful happens in terms of price reductions, we're going to have to get them umbrella'ed, just like other prosthetics (yes, eyeglasses and dentures tend to be separate, too!), and then we'll have to do something that will trigger tort reform, like single payer.
I'm not holding my breathe...
I believe this is because diagnosis is important.
Just stuffing an amplifier in your ear is problematic.
Conductive hearing loss can (and should be) medically or surgically corrected, where possible, rather than just amplifying the input noises.
Sensorineural hearing loss are cause by problems in the cochlea and inner ear. This type of hearing loss can result in "band pass" loss, and in the most profound cases, is treatable with implants, if there is still functional cochlear structure. You don't want to treat it with amplification, since you don't want to amplify the bands in which there is no loss, since you'll cause damage there. Tinnitus generally falls into this bucket as well (your *really* do not want to amplify within the bands where you have that!).
Mixed hearing loss is a combination of the first two; it's typically cause by overpressure, such as being near a load explosion or other structurally damaging event that results in both conductive and sensorineural deficits.
A CAPD (Central Auditory Processing Disorder) hearing loss means that the mechanical system are generally intact, but that the information processing doesn't happen within the brain. IT's like having an audio processing system, and yanking the DSP out of it.
Personally, if I had partial damage, I'm going to spend the money on the expensive hearing aides. If I have some function, there's no reason to cook it by amplifying the frequencies that are actually getting through, rather than those which are not.
And even if you amplify only the frequencies that are getting mechanically dropped -- assuming it's conductive loss from damage, scar tissue, etc. -- you should be careful of harmonics, since those frequencies can additively lead to a problem as well.
Put it another way.... say you needed an artificial arm ...would you probably wouldn't run down to the nearest street fair and buy a "Toysmith 6135 Galaxy Grabber Robot Claw", merely because it was a cheaper commercially available alternative.
It only works on gradual students.
You have to be educated to a certain level, and then you have to be so poor that you volunteer for this type of crap. And then it works, 100% of the time.
How coincidental.
Most of us want to disconnect the MPAA.