When the issue is loss of hearing at a specific frequency (common for industrial damage, where a gear running at a specific frequency was heard all day long, and caused loss at that one useful frequency, and the aid re-maps around that hole, rather than running as a pure amp. But for the 80+ year old crowd, they have 2-5 years left, so amping it up improves their quality of life for most of it. Yes, it'll eventually cause full loss, but so does death.
You get diagnosed by a professional, then find the cheap aid that fixes that problem. But you should still see the pro for the diagnosis and recommended aid type.
It depends on the hearing issues. Sufferers of APD need the digital ones. You use those, and drop out the frequencies outside the human voice, in order to boost voice above the ambient noise. Analog don't work for that, and make the problem worse, as APD is about brain processing being confused by the extraneous input, so a full-spectrum analog amp just makes the problem worse, when the digital equalizer ones can actually help.
The best device is greatly dependent on the hearing issue, and the hearing professionals are needed to diagnose the correct medical condition being addressed.
At one time all the math said, flying was impossible.
At one time the math was wrong, as well as the engineering assumptions. The same reasons "bees can't fly". The math was done wrong (it ignored the wing upstroke, which was incorrectly assumed to generate upforce or otherwise be ignorable, while in practice, the upstroke of a bee's wings generates downforce).
Some things work in practice when the math says they shouldn't. But the correct math shows the answer correctly. Human error can affect math, especially for complicated things.
Like housekeeping at a hotel, night janitor, and security guard? Nope, those are increasing, not decreasing. Burger flipping is falling, but that has been happening for decades. There will always be jobs that are hard to automate out.
Your point boils down to: "I play old games that don't require new hardware, and I can buy old hardware that runs those old games for cheap, so who would ever buy a console?"
My point boils down to: "Almost everyone plays games that don't require new hardware, and anyone can buy bargain hardware that runs those games for cheap, so who would ever buy a console?"
When you lie about what others say, it does look worse. Stop being a lying liar.
What is stopping you from taking your ideas to market?
Capital. I have about 10 billion dollar ideas. I'd have to quit, sell my house, and bet everything on any one of them to be able to get any of them to a status where someone could see what I see and invest. With UBI, I'd be able to quit and work on the ideas full time without having to sell the house to live on, and if they all failed, I'd be able to get back into the work force while keeping my house, and try again later, if I chose.
You forgot to add that in practice, there's more social mobility in India, with a formal caste system, than the US which prides itself on the "dream" of social mobility.
UBI is "universal basic income". It's paid to everyone and isn't means-tested. So the welder gets $50k from his job and $30k from UBI, and $80k is more than $30k.
The places that have tried UBI have found unemployment drops. Reality doesn't match your opinion, especially when your opinion is based on incorrect facts.
It's a trap and even worse can be a weapon used against people in need. Husband lose his job and you were a single income family? Kick him out and we'll give you money! Stay with him and we'll make sure you burn together. What the fuck sort of message is that?
It's a message that you don't know how welfare works. They would get *more* money with the husband living at home, than away, if he's unemployed. The failure is that if he makes minimum wage at two part time jobs (neither willing to go full time, as they'd have to pay benefits), he doesn't make enough for them to live on, but makes enough to disqualify the family from many of the programs. So you kick out the working husband, not the unemployed one. The working husband lives separately and sends back some money, and you get more than living all together.
Nope. Not how it works. UBI replaces all welfare (social security, WIC, unemployment and such). That you assert otherwise because that fits your personal hatred of unions and activists doesn't change reality.
Also, if the government gives me $30,000/year but I have to work at some boring, back breaking job 40 hours/week to make $32,000/year then why the hell shouldn't I just sit home and play video games?
If you are getting $30k a year for doing nothing, why wouldn't you work another 20 hours a week for $20k more? Oh, you are too lazy for that? Then just stay home and shut up.
UBI is nothing like disability. Disability penalizes work. Disability requires checkups, "work" and tests. Disability can be a full time job. UBI pays no matter what you do. So, if you are disabled, do work you can. I know disabled people working from home for cash, so they can make extra without losing disability. Collecting the tax on them so they can work above the board would more than pay for the UBI they would get. People like to be busy. UBI is called "universal" because it has no constraints or restrictions. Welfare/SSI in the US is already the worst-case UBI you talk of.
I take it you're in the UK or Europe? PlayTV? They didn't "take it away", they're simply just not offering a tuner. for the PS4.
They didn't take it away, they just don't offer it? What a pedantic prick. A feature that was there was taken away. Sure, nobody broke into my house and took it away, but TV feature was removed between PS3 and PS4 generations. PS4 still does USB, so you can plug it in, Sony just stopped supporting it (for the PS3 as well, mostly, but completely for the PS4).
And your wording implies that the UK is not in Europe. And Play TV works just about everywhere on the planet outside the USA. Works in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and such. Sure, the local guide may not be working everywhere, but it isn't overly locked down by location the way the Xbox One tuner is. DVB-T is a US-based international standard supported outside the UK (and just about everywhere in the world outside the USA and its subsidiaries).
So I just loaded the USB drivers on my PC and use my PC as a DVR, with the Play TV tuner. More options, and on my PC it's a dual-tuner (restricted to a 1.5 tuner on the PS3, where you can't do two recordings, but can record and watch), but the spinners in the PS3 couldn't keep up with the bandwidth, but my PC has an SSD, so can full dual-tune.
I can buy a laptop for $300 that will run WoL, LoL, Titanfall, and other "top" games. Sure, the Crysis measure falls flat in the budget PCs, but the games people play work fine on cheap PCs.
I'm also not sure how "not imprisoning people at all" is a legitimate strategy for fixing the obvious problems in Black communities. Eliminating convictions for drug offenses may be a start, but just last weekend where I live there were two people killed in a confrontation in a park (victims and perpetrators both black) and within 2 days there was a surge of reprisal shootings and at least one murder linked to the original event. Something is broken in Black communities and not putting violent offenders in prison isn't going to fix it.
Sounds like the argument about guns. Places without them generally don't need them. Places with them, more people want them. It's hard to go from one to the other (many people think it impossible), but being on the other side is obviously better. That you don't see a path, doesn't mean it can't be true.
There have been lots of studies into children. What you tell them becomes true. Call them stupid, and their IQ drops. Call them smart and their IQ goes up.
Call them lazy violent Nigger, and they become one? Seems to be in line with the large body of published research. So is that "thug" culture or American culture that's doing that? People think of Black people as being on welfare, but still the majority of people on welfare are white. The culture is to blame Blacks for things they didn't even do. Repeat 20 years, and you made a criminal. Congratulations, you made the evil you predicted. Then you blamed them for making themselves into what you made.
Wii is the better kids console. More fun with the controllers, and more kid-oriented games. They didn't have anything for the hardcore gamer. So they were never going to be anything but a second console for a gaming family.
What are they? I haven't stumbled across any. Playstation has some 4-player Co-op multiplayer (like Ratchet and Clank, and some from the Lego series), but I haven't found anything close for the Xbox. Doesn't help that reviewers don't even look for that feature anymore.
Kinect is better on the One, and One added a DVR capability that was in the PS3 and dropped for PS4. The One also integrates better with PCs for multimedia, and adds a Blu-ray drive. The jump was not nearly as big as from PS2 to PS3, but there are some differences that have some people upgrading.
That seems a bit ridiculous now, especially as consoles evolve into more general-purpose home entertainment platforms.
I used my PS3 as a DVR, but Sony dropped that abiliy with the PS4. Sony is moving the opposite direction of a HTPC, after a step in that direction. But this generation Xbox added that feature (though more limited in support than PlayTV was for the PS3).
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When the issue is loss of hearing at a specific frequency (common for industrial damage, where a gear running at a specific frequency was heard all day long, and caused loss at that one useful frequency, and the aid re-maps around that hole, rather than running as a pure amp. But for the 80+ year old crowd, they have 2-5 years left, so amping it up improves their quality of life for most of it. Yes, it'll eventually cause full loss, but so does death.
You get diagnosed by a professional, then find the cheap aid that fixes that problem. But you should still see the pro for the diagnosis and recommended aid type.
It depends on the hearing issues. Sufferers of APD need the digital ones. You use those, and drop out the frequencies outside the human voice, in order to boost voice above the ambient noise. Analog don't work for that, and make the problem worse, as APD is about brain processing being confused by the extraneous input, so a full-spectrum analog amp just makes the problem worse, when the digital equalizer ones can actually help.
The best device is greatly dependent on the hearing issue, and the hearing professionals are needed to diagnose the correct medical condition being addressed.
At one time all the math said, flying was impossible.
At one time the math was wrong, as well as the engineering assumptions. The same reasons "bees can't fly". The math was done wrong (it ignored the wing upstroke, which was incorrectly assumed to generate upforce or otherwise be ignorable, while in practice, the upstroke of a bee's wings generates downforce).
Some things work in practice when the math says they shouldn't. But the correct math shows the answer correctly. Human error can affect math, especially for complicated things.
The USA, last in everything, and proud of it.
Like housekeeping at a hotel, night janitor, and security guard? Nope, those are increasing, not decreasing. Burger flipping is falling, but that has been happening for decades. There will always be jobs that are hard to automate out.
Your point boils down to: "I play old games that don't require new hardware, and I can buy old hardware that runs those old games for cheap, so who would ever buy a console?"
My point boils down to: "Almost everyone plays games that don't require new hardware, and anyone can buy bargain hardware that runs those games for cheap, so who would ever buy a console?"
When you lie about what others say, it does look worse. Stop being a lying liar.
Greece has a welfare state without UBI. So they are a great example of why we should do it, so we don't end up like them.
What is stopping you from taking your ideas to market?
Capital. I have about 10 billion dollar ideas. I'd have to quit, sell my house, and bet everything on any one of them to be able to get any of them to a status where someone could see what I see and invest. With UBI, I'd be able to quit and work on the ideas full time without having to sell the house to live on, and if they all failed, I'd be able to get back into the work force while keeping my house, and try again later, if I chose.
You forgot to add that in practice, there's more social mobility in India, with a formal caste system, than the US which prides itself on the "dream" of social mobility.
UBI is "universal basic income". It's paid to everyone and isn't means-tested. So the welder gets $50k from his job and $30k from UBI, and $80k is more than $30k.
The places that have tried UBI have found unemployment drops. Reality doesn't match your opinion, especially when your opinion is based on incorrect facts.
It's a trap and even worse can be a weapon used against people in need. Husband lose his job and you were a single income family? Kick him out and we'll give you money! Stay with him and we'll make sure you burn together. What the fuck sort of message is that?
It's a message that you don't know how welfare works. They would get *more* money with the husband living at home, than away, if he's unemployed. The failure is that if he makes minimum wage at two part time jobs (neither willing to go full time, as they'd have to pay benefits), he doesn't make enough for them to live on, but makes enough to disqualify the family from many of the programs. So you kick out the working husband, not the unemployed one. The working husband lives separately and sends back some money, and you get more than living all together.
Nope. Not how it works. UBI replaces all welfare (social security, WIC, unemployment and such). That you assert otherwise because that fits your personal hatred of unions and activists doesn't change reality.
Also, if the government gives me $30,000/year but I have to work at some boring, back breaking job 40 hours/week to make $32,000/year then why the hell shouldn't I just sit home and play video games?
If you are getting $30k a year for doing nothing, why wouldn't you work another 20 hours a week for $20k more? Oh, you are too lazy for that? Then just stay home and shut up.
UBI is nothing like disability. Disability penalizes work. Disability requires checkups, "work" and tests. Disability can be a full time job. UBI pays no matter what you do. So, if you are disabled, do work you can. I know disabled people working from home for cash, so they can make extra without losing disability. Collecting the tax on them so they can work above the board would more than pay for the UBI they would get. People like to be busy. UBI is called "universal" because it has no constraints or restrictions. Welfare/SSI in the US is already the worst-case UBI you talk of.
Nobody wants more of that.
I take it you're in the UK or Europe? PlayTV? They didn't "take it away", they're simply just not offering a tuner. for the PS4.
They didn't take it away, they just don't offer it? What a pedantic prick. A feature that was there was taken away. Sure, nobody broke into my house and took it away, but TV feature was removed between PS3 and PS4 generations. PS4 still does USB, so you can plug it in, Sony just stopped supporting it (for the PS3 as well, mostly, but completely for the PS4).
And your wording implies that the UK is not in Europe. And Play TV works just about everywhere on the planet outside the USA. Works in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and such. Sure, the local guide may not be working everywhere, but it isn't overly locked down by location the way the Xbox One tuner is. DVB-T is a US-based international standard supported outside the UK (and just about everywhere in the world outside the USA and its subsidiaries).
So I just loaded the USB drivers on my PC and use my PC as a DVR, with the Play TV tuner. More options, and on my PC it's a dual-tuner (restricted to a 1.5 tuner on the PS3, where you can't do two recordings, but can record and watch), but the spinners in the PS3 couldn't keep up with the bandwidth, but my PC has an SSD, so can full dual-tune.
I can buy a laptop for $300 that will run WoL, LoL, Titanfall, and other "top" games. Sure, the Crysis measure falls flat in the budget PCs, but the games people play work fine on cheap PCs.
I'm also not sure how "not imprisoning people at all" is a legitimate strategy for fixing the obvious problems in Black communities. Eliminating convictions for drug offenses may be a start, but just last weekend where I live there were two people killed in a confrontation in a park (victims and perpetrators both black) and within 2 days there was a surge of reprisal shootings and at least one murder linked to the original event. Something is broken in Black communities and not putting violent offenders in prison isn't going to fix it.
Sounds like the argument about guns. Places without them generally don't need them. Places with them, more people want them. It's hard to go from one to the other (many people think it impossible), but being on the other side is obviously better. That you don't see a path, doesn't mean it can't be true.
There have been lots of studies into children. What you tell them becomes true. Call them stupid, and their IQ drops. Call them smart and their IQ goes up.
Call them lazy violent Nigger, and they become one? Seems to be in line with the large body of published research. So is that "thug" culture or American culture that's doing that? People think of Black people as being on welfare, but still the majority of people on welfare are white. The culture is to blame Blacks for things they didn't even do. Repeat 20 years, and you made a criminal. Congratulations, you made the evil you predicted. Then you blamed them for making themselves into what you made.
Who said anyone "disagreed" with the guy illegally selling campaign propaganda?
Democrats like to tell themselves that,
Sounds a lot like a direct contradiction, with a mix of personal insult in there.
We don't have a (classic) liberal political party right now. It's the core problem in US politics IMO.
The Libertarian Party claims that mantle, but is far from it.
Wii is the better kids console. More fun with the controllers, and more kid-oriented games. They didn't have anything for the hardcore gamer. So they were never going to be anything but a second console for a gaming family.
What are they? I haven't stumbled across any. Playstation has some 4-player Co-op multiplayer (like Ratchet and Clank, and some from the Lego series), but I haven't found anything close for the Xbox. Doesn't help that reviewers don't even look for that feature anymore.
Read the numbers in the table, not the chart, and tell me how long it took the PS2 to sell 20M, and then how long it took the PS4 for the same.
Kinect is better on the One, and One added a DVR capability that was in the PS3 and dropped for PS4. The One also integrates better with PCs for multimedia, and adds a Blu-ray drive. The jump was not nearly as big as from PS2 to PS3, but there are some differences that have some people upgrading.
That seems a bit ridiculous now, especially as consoles evolve into more general-purpose home entertainment platforms.
I used my PS3 as a DVR, but Sony dropped that abiliy with the PS4. Sony is moving the opposite direction of a HTPC, after a step in that direction. But this generation Xbox added that feature (though more limited in support than PlayTV was for the PS3).