Hearing recovers just fine, given time. The ear is much better at healing than had been thought at one time
It is? I thought it was the other way round, that hearing damage has been found to be accumulative, and irreversible.
What does NOT heal with time is the brain's ability to process sound
Actually, the human brain is plastic, in the sense that it can adapt to new things very readily, so that even a stroke victim's brain will relay its circuits to work round damaged areas, and so recovery in hearing is more likely to be attributed to the brain compensating for hearing problems.
there's good evidence that a single exposure to overly loud distorted sound causes some level of permanent hearing damage, which is accumulative.
the more distorted the sound, the more the damage.
A full orchestra playing at full steam can be incredibly loud, but far less likely to damage hearing than a rock band using distortion effects into overloaded speakers.
The entire Internet is just lonely voices screaming in the void.
I have likened twitter to people standing on their roofs shouting sentences in the hope that someone passing by hears them, because very quickly what you might have said is lost in the stream of drivel - some people follow hundreds of others and the chances of any one comment being noticed and is tiny.
The Internet has allowed everyone to have a voice, and they feel the need to use it despite usually having nothing worthwhile to say, and noone actually listening anyway.
Teletext was an enormously successful service in the UK, any TV above the most very basic had it. the User interface simply consisted of choosing in a page number on the remote control. Pages were delivered over a data stream hidden in the non-visible parts of the picture, being sent in a cycle with some being sent more frequently such as index pages. Some TVs even incorporated extra memory so as to cache many pages to allow instant page navigation rather than wait sometimes 10+ seconds for one to arrive!
It was used by many companies to carry up to date adverts, with special discounts on holidays being particularly successful, with many travel agents listing their deals and also using them in their retail outlets.
Once the internet began to take off, it began to die. the company tried to transition to internet marketing but was too late: http://www.teletext.co.uk/ is now a spent force.
I did actually once see a TV detector van in Cambridge and there was some electronic equipment inside it, I could see someone looking at a screen when it drove past.
The equipment would be a lot smaller these days, I'm told it's handheld, and the operator could triangulate the position of the TV to within a few feet.
However, one problem is that they were really CRT detectors, as much as TV detectors, and I can imagine they are utterly useless for most flat panel.
My experience of giving up TV for a while is that TV Licensing Ltd rely on automated nasty letters, and sometimes an "inspector" who will try and catch the person watching TV, or try to fool the householder into admitting guilt!
unfortunately my wife dumped her day job and started her own business as an interior designer, so I am currently subsidising her business start-up since it's no more than a hobby which barely pays for itself. However, she can fit the work into the gaps between child care and house work. Hopefully when the economy recovers and work picks up, I can dump my day job and start my own business where I can pick and choose my customers and be subsidised by her!
I used to happily fly to the USA at least twice a year, for work (employer has offices there) and vacation (I have relatives there). I even thought of emigrating there, I could probably get a visa without too much trouble as a senior working in IT and a fair amount of personal assets.
With all the hassles of flying to the USA, I now try and avoid it, managing to reduce my trips by one or two a year. Total cost to the US economy is about US$3000 per trip. There must be many others doing likewise. Cost to the US economy overall is probably millions of dollars, a direct loss to the travel industry (airline, hotel, car hire, restaurants, entertainment etc). Add in the burden to the economy to support all the spurious security measures and it adds insult to injury.
various OSs now randomize the mac to prevent leaking mac addresses, not that it actually protects you at home, only maybe on a large campus with loads of other people to share the blame.
for many organisations, the bigger issue is preventing rogue route advertisements; similarly to stopping rogue DHCP servers; it allows people to conduct a MITM.
Cisco switches can mitigate this: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Campus/CampIPv6.html
this is actually a PITA. suppose you want to force all outbound traffic via a proxy cache for security purposes and bandwidth management... with iptables-v4 it was trivial. not so with ipv6.
nearly two years ago LG were showing off their GW990, an Atom/Moorestown device. The demos looked very impressive and it looked like it might be a winner. I don't recall the reason for it never making it to market every having been made public. My guess is that it was too power hungry to the point of being unacceptable.
Most corporates like windows for the ability to lock computers down with group polices, force application installation and upgrades/patches, and generally keep the computer as a tool not toy. They buy computers in bulk from Dell or HP so they can get on-site service. It's not possible for people to install their favourite twitter app, and often their internet access is locked down with whitelists and blacklists
This of course upsets recent school leavers who are used to lots of freedom to goof around, and not be treated like battery-farmed animals. They want their shiny macbooks and tablets, so they gave their plan an acronym to make it seem legitimate - BYOD - and claimed that bringing your own device saves time and money (the reality being that a computer for most staff is less than a week's wages), so that they could smuggle OSX and iOS devices into the workplace.
This creates lots of headaches.
* Is that person's computer patched to prevent viruses and trojans?
* What data do they keep on it?
* What if they leave, how you can force deletion of data off a device which you don't own?
* Can you force staff member to install specific apps and delete them when they leave?
* When they take their device home, who else uses it, and potentially accesses corporate data?
* If someone accesses dodgy/illegal material on the internet, how can you force the device to be inspected to get proof of guilt or innocent, or even police corporate policy on such material?
Some say that it doesn't matter if the BYOD computer is only accessing web services, so is really just a thin client. Others might argue that it's more about power and control, forcing traditional bully-boy IT departments to relinquish their overly tight controls. Some say that users should stop wanting to goof around on their computers at work. Others would say "get the fsck off slashdot and back to work, bitch".
Dear Verizon,
From 1st January I will be charging you for $2 for reading the bills you send me and making the payments on time, this is a convenience fee to you as it means you will not have to chase me for late payment.
I am also charging you a fee of $10 for writing this letter to inform you of the change. If you wish to call me and discuss it, I will charge $50 per hour for the discussion, or $30 for reading any letters you send and replying to them.
Slashdot Mirror
Hearing recovers just fine, given time. The ear is much better at healing than had been thought at one time
It is? I thought it was the other way round, that hearing damage has been found to be accumulative, and irreversible.
What does NOT heal with time is the brain's ability to process sound
Actually, the human brain is plastic, in the sense that it can adapt to new things very readily, so that even a stroke victim's brain will relay its circuits to work round damaged areas, and so recovery in hearing is more likely to be attributed to the brain compensating for hearing problems.
there's good evidence that a single exposure to overly loud distorted sound causes some level of permanent hearing damage, which is accumulative.
the more distorted the sound, the more the damage.
A full orchestra playing at full steam can be incredibly loud, but far less likely to damage hearing than a rock band using distortion effects into overloaded speakers.
The entire Internet is just lonely voices screaming in the void.
I have likened twitter to people standing on their roofs shouting sentences in the hope that someone passing by hears them, because very quickly what you might have said is lost in the stream of drivel - some people follow hundreds of others and the chances of any one comment being noticed and is tiny.
The Internet has allowed everyone to have a voice, and they feel the need to use it despite usually having nothing worthwhile to say, and noone actually listening anyway.
ah yes, memories. the more I think about it, the more I realise what a great service teletext, cfax (?) and oracle were in their day.
Teletext was an enormously successful service in the UK, any TV above the most very basic had it. the User interface simply consisted of choosing in a page number on the remote control. Pages were delivered over a data stream hidden in the non-visible parts of the picture, being sent in a cycle with some being sent more frequently such as index pages. Some TVs even incorporated extra memory so as to cache many pages to allow instant page navigation rather than wait sometimes 10+ seconds for one to arrive!
It was used by many companies to carry up to date adverts, with special discounts on holidays being particularly successful, with many travel agents listing their deals and also using them in their retail outlets.
Once the internet began to take off, it began to die. the company tried to transition to internet marketing but was too late: http://www.teletext.co.uk/ is now a spent force.
I did actually once see a TV detector van in Cambridge and there was some electronic equipment inside it, I could see someone looking at a screen when it drove past.
The equipment would be a lot smaller these days, I'm told it's handheld, and the operator could triangulate the position of the TV to within a few feet.
However, one problem is that they were really CRT detectors, as much as TV detectors, and I can imagine they are utterly useless for most flat panel.
My experience of giving up TV for a while is that TV Licensing Ltd rely on automated nasty letters, and sometimes an "inspector" who will try and catch the person watching TV, or try to fool the householder into admitting guilt!
it depends on the specific Arm processor, there's a vast number of variants, from those designed to go into kitchen appliances to those for "smartbooks". here's a comparison of arm vs atom:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1204_armfeb&num=1
we will soon have secure boot on PCs which will ensure they can only ever boot windows.
not quite, but Philips had the pronto controller, and it was even available as a PalmOs app.
unfortunately my wife dumped her day job and started her own business as an interior designer, so I am currently subsidising her business start-up since it's no more than a hobby which barely pays for itself. However, she can fit the work into the gaps between child care and house work. Hopefully when the economy recovers and work picks up, I can dump my day job and start my own business where I can pick and choose my customers and be subsidised by her!
don't be fooled into thinking you can turn a hobby into a career and continue to enjoy it...
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/12/14/the-overjustification-effect/
Bill Gates,
is that you?
those who can, do.
those who can't, teach.
those who shouldn't, become project managers.
yeah, I saw the nude xrays posted to twicpic
:-P
I used to happily fly to the USA at least twice a year, for work (employer has offices there) and vacation (I have relatives there). I even thought of emigrating there, I could probably get a visa without too much trouble as a senior working in IT and a fair amount of personal assets.
With all the hassles of flying to the USA, I now try and avoid it, managing to reduce my trips by one or two a year. Total cost to the US economy is about US$3000 per trip. There must be many others doing likewise. Cost to the US economy overall is probably millions of dollars, a direct loss to the travel industry (airline, hotel, car hire, restaurants, entertainment etc). Add in the burden to the economy to support all the spurious security measures and it adds insult to injury.
various OSs now randomize the mac to prevent leaking mac addresses, not that it actually protects you at home, only maybe on a large campus with loads of other people to share the blame.
for many organisations, the bigger issue is preventing rogue route advertisements; similarly to stopping rogue DHCP servers; it allows people to conduct a MITM.
Cisco switches can mitigate this: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Campus/CampIPv6.html
this is actually a PITA. suppose you want to force all outbound traffic via a proxy cache for security purposes and bandwidth management... with iptables-v4 it was trivial. not so with ipv6.
dhcp6 is evil. just enable route advertisements, the way it's meant to be.
http://www.litech.org/radvd/
nearly two years ago LG were showing off their GW990, an Atom/Moorestown device. The demos looked very impressive and it looked like it might be a winner. I don't recall the reason for it never making it to market every having been made public. My guess is that it was too power hungry to the point of being unacceptable.
This of course upsets recent school leavers who are used to lots of freedom to goof around, and not be treated like battery-farmed animals. They want their shiny macbooks and tablets, so they gave their plan an acronym to make it seem legitimate - BYOD - and claimed that bringing your own device saves time and money (the reality being that a computer for most staff is less than a week's wages), so that they could smuggle OSX and iOS devices into the workplace.
This creates lots of headaches.
Some say that it doesn't matter if the BYOD computer is only accessing web services, so is really just a thin client. Others might argue that it's more about power and control, forcing traditional bully-boy IT departments to relinquish their overly tight controls. Some say that users should stop wanting to goof around on their computers at work. Others would say "get the fsck off slashdot and back to work, bitch".
I think twitter on the ipad/iphone has proved this already, much as usenet proved it for a previous generation.
I'm gibbon up on these jokes!
Dear Verizon,
From 1st January I will be charging you for $2 for reading the bills you send me and making the payments on time, this is a convenience fee to you as it means you will not have to chase me for late payment.
I am also charging you a fee of $10 for writing this letter to inform you of the change. If you wish to call me and discuss it, I will charge $50 per hour for the discussion, or $30 for reading any letters you send and replying to them.
love
a customer
thanks for that, I've been contemplating the Note for a while.
or if you're an artist then consider the HTC flyer, for its pen input. It's not the fastest on the block but quite decent.