If you knew anything about how the technology works, you would know that closed captioning at theaters is a matter of installing a LED projector at the back of the theater and providing the viewers with a plexiglass reflector that they stick into their cup holder. It is not a question of retrofitting every seat. The tech is dirt cheap.
And even as cheap as it is, in the greater metro Seattle area, there are only 4 theaters that have it. And not 4 theater complexes. Literally 4 theaters. For example, the 11-screen complex in Pacific Place has a single theater equipped with it. And most the time, the complex choses not to present movies with captions in that particular theater, and pretty much never does so on weekends. If the theaters equipped more movies with the captioning devices, I would go to the movies more often. But the fact is that the market power of deaf and hard of hearing people isn't big enough to warrant it.
Mandating companies to take reasonable measures to accommodate the needs of disabled patrons when the market can't is part of belonging to a civilized society.
And every aid I've worn in the last 20 years has a separate earmold, since I need BTE aids. In addition, modern aids are going back to a form of BTE called receiver-in-the-ear, which doesn't have an earmold at all. These are getting much more popular for minor to moderate losses, because earmolds are intrusive and cause the plugged-up feeling.
In any case, my original point still stands, which is that hearing aids can, and are, mass-manufactured. Even for ITE aids, the majority of their components can be mass-manufactured, with the guts of the aid added to the custom earmold at the last minute. If the custom earmold added significantly to the price, which is what the original poster was implying, then you would see a huge price difference for a BTE vs. an ITE aid that was otherwise the same model, and in fact, an identical model is usually identically priced, no matter what style/form-factor it is.
Note that not every country with universal health care covers hearing aids. I am originally from Canada, and their medicare didn't cover hearing aids at the time. I'm not sure if it does today, but I think that it still does not. I believe that it does cover cochlear implants, which is another thing that is not covered by most insurance plans in the US.
There are very few health insurance plans in the US that pay for hearing aids. I have always had to pay out of pocket for my hearing aids and I have always had decent insurance plans. They've just never covered hearing aids.
Lack of competition and low volume are the two biggest factors.
I don't know much about Walmart's brand; it's certainly not one of the big players. Depending on the original poster's hearing loss, their aids may or may not be suitable for him. They would not be suitable for me because of the frequencies and severity of my hearing loss.
No. The earmold is purchased separately from the hearing aid and attached via a plastic tube. You can buy earmolds for well under $100, and there is actually a market outside of hearing aids for them, such as high-end stereo headphones and monitor headphones worn by musicians. The earmold is attached to the aid with a $1.00 plastic tube, which you usually change every 3 months or so. The aid is programmed by plugging it into a computer (the interface is usually via the battery door). The aid itself can easily be mass-manufactured, since once size does fit all.
I'm sorry if this doesn't fit with some peoples' narrow-minded world view, but I'm tired of gay bashing being the last acceptable form of discrimination in the US. End rant.
Actually, atheist bashing is still a perfectly acceptable form of discrimination in the US.
For most cross-platform stuff, boost will do what you need. boost::thread will handle all of your threading needs.
boost::filesystem for manipulating pathnames; boost::datetime for date and time operations; boost::format for typesafe printf style I/O.
It also has boost::asio for sockets and boost::interprocess for IPC. I know nothing about them, but to judge from the quality of the rest of the boost library, they are probably very good.
For database, use Sqlite. It's a solid relational database stored in a single file, and you can even access the database from the command line for ad-hoc queries/debugging/whatever.
Group coverage plans (i.e: the kind you get from your employer) aren't allowed to exclude pre-existing conditions if you already had coverage
Isn't this because of laws, i.e., "governmental intervention". Which you claim is eroding our freedom. It's a bit hypocritical for you to be holding this up as a good thing only one paragraph away from deriding the government.
It was a 5-4 decision. Both of the justices that President Bush appointed (Justices Roberts and Alito) voted with the minority and against habeas corpus.
In addition, it is likely that 3 of the 5 justices that voted with the majority will be retiring in the next 4 years, so the next President will be responsible for replacing them.
If you like this week's decision, then you should strongly consider not voting for John McCain in the next election, because he is on record as saying that Justices Roberts and Alito are the kind of candidates that he would submit as replacements.
Sorry, I was under the impression that hard links were kind of half-implemented in Tiger so I have not really used them there. Also there are reports of enhanced hardlink support in Leopard (supports directories now) that reinforced that notion...
As far as I know, HFS+ is posix-compliant, so it has to support hard links.
It's my understanding that Time Machine actually works by creating an encrypted loopback volume on the target drive, and then building a hard-link farm in that volume, a la Dirvish. And, that includes hardlinks for directories, as you mentioned. However, I doubt that hardlinked directories outside of the Time Machine volume will be allowed because they are generally very bad things because of the danger of creating a cyclic directory tree.
On Linux, GNU ln requires superuser privs to hardlink to a directory, and even then it will still be disallowed by many filesystems, such as ext3.
Are you SURE you are using hardlinks? On what OS and filesystem? If you're on a mac and using Tiger (HFS+) you are not using hardlinks!
What are you talking about?
$ uname -a Darwin medusa 8.10.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 $ cd/tmp $ echo 'hey there' > link1 $ ln link1 link2 $ ls -li link* 3516841 -rw-r--r-- 2 dave wheel 10 Oct 23 15:16 link1 3516841 -rw-r--r-- 2 dave wheel 10 Oct 23 15:16 link2 $ echo buddy >> link2 $ ls -li link* 3516841 -rw-r--r-- 2 dave wheel 16 Oct 23 15:16 link1 3516841 -rw-r--r-- 2 dave wheel 16 Oct 23 15:16 link2 $ cat link2 hey there buddy $ cat link1 hey there buddy $
That sure looks like hard links to me, unless you have some other definition of hard links that I am unaware of. Yes, this is a HFS+ filesystem; I did not re-install Tiger when I got my Macbook, and Tiger is installed with HFS+
It reminds me of a case here in Seattle recently. A man went nuts and was chasing his girlfriend's truck in his own car. He rammed the truck, forced it across the center line, where it hit another woman's car.
This woman did have uninsured motorist coverage, but her insurance company denied her medical claims because the man deliberately caused the crash, therefore it wasn't technically an "accident", and thus was not covered by the woman's policy. Insurance companies are weasels and will do anything they can do to get out of paying, including tortured parsing of language.
The company eventually paid up, but only after the woman's situation was exposed by the local media, and the state insurance commissioner started to threaten the company.
So it appears that you decided that the responsibility for fighting your spam should be moved onto the backs of everybody else on the Internet? Spam almost always comes from a forged sender. By doing this, you're just sending tons of spam to the forgery victims. Please do us and you a favor and google "challenge response harmful", and then turn off your C/R system.
Your credentials are not sent in the clear. The login form's action url is https://www.paypal.com/ so when you click submit on the form, the stuff you send is encrypted.
Have you ever considered the possibility that Virtual PC runs Windows VMs slowly because the CPU is being emulated?
I'm guessing that when he said "to be expected, although they probably aren't doing a very good job of binary translation" that he did indeed consider it. His larger point, which you appear to have completely missed, was that Vmware has features - aside from speed - that mean that virtual pc has a long way to go to catch up. Snapshots and clones spring to mind right away.
I incurred tremendous hearing loss in my right ear when I was 3-4 years old
That sounds like me - I also lost hearing in my right ear due to early childhood disease. Up until I was 25, I figured that my right ear was pretty much useless because I could never use it to talk on the phone, and did not hear people if they were on my right side.
Then I had a car accident and lost all of my hearing in my left ear. That left me with just my crappy right ear. As it turns out, a hearing aid allows me to function reasonably well with my up-to-then "deaf" ear.
Not that you want to go ahead and lose your hearing in your left ear, but it may not be quite the world-ending event that you worry about.
Some of the new Phonak aids are supposed to be coming with built-in Bluetooth. I am strongly considering Phonaks for my next hearing aid for that reason alone.
I have never tried Siemens. My first aid was a Widex (non-digital), but quite frankly it was crap for me. I switched to an Ensoniq after about a year, and then switched to a Resound a few years after that because the Ensoniq's telecoil wasn't strong enough for me. My Resound is getting pretty old though (almost 10 years), so it's definitely time to look at upgrading.
Nearly any epson scanner will work very well with Sane. I seem to recall reading somewhere that Epson provides the Sane project with any information they need to make a driver. I recently bought a Perfection 2480 Photo and it worked almost as soon as I plugged it in. All I had to do was extract the firmware from the install CD.
I've been using the Safetype for 3 years now, and I have no reservations about recommending it to anybody. For me, it's the only keyboard that I can use all day without pain. Even now, after 3 years of basically not using any other keyboard, if I find myself typing at a normal keyboard where I have to pronate my wrists, I can feel the pain coming on in an hour. Never with the safetype.
FWIW, I type Dvorak on my safetype, but I used Dvorak for about 3 years before I got the safetype, and before the onset of my RSI problems. I still use dvorak because I am faster on it.
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If you knew anything about how the technology works, you would know that closed captioning at theaters is a matter of installing a LED projector at the back of the theater and providing the viewers with a plexiglass reflector that they stick into their cup holder. It is not a question of retrofitting every seat. The tech is dirt cheap.
And even as cheap as it is, in the greater metro Seattle area, there are only 4 theaters that have it. And not 4 theater complexes. Literally 4 theaters. For example, the 11-screen complex in Pacific Place has a single theater equipped with it. And most the time, the complex choses not to present movies with captions in that particular theater, and pretty much never does so on weekends. If the theaters equipped more movies with the captioning devices, I would go to the movies more often. But the fact is that the market power of deaf and hard of hearing people isn't big enough to warrant it.
Mandating companies to take reasonable measures to accommodate the needs of disabled patrons when the market can't is part of belonging to a civilized society.
And every aid I've worn in the last 20 years has a separate earmold, since I need BTE aids. In addition, modern aids are going back to a form of BTE called receiver-in-the-ear, which doesn't have an earmold at all. These are getting much more popular for minor to moderate losses, because earmolds are intrusive and cause the plugged-up feeling.
In any case, my original point still stands, which is that hearing aids can, and are, mass-manufactured. Even for ITE aids, the majority of their components can be mass-manufactured, with the guts of the aid added to the custom earmold at the last minute. If the custom earmold added significantly to the price, which is what the original poster was implying, then you would see a huge price difference for a BTE vs. an ITE aid that was otherwise the same model, and in fact, an identical model is usually identically priced, no matter what style/form-factor it is.
Note that not every country with universal health care covers hearing aids. I am originally from Canada, and their medicare didn't cover hearing aids at the time. I'm not sure if it does today, but I think that it still does not. I believe that it does cover cochlear implants, which is another thing that is not covered by most insurance plans in the US.
As to why the medically prescribed ones cost so much. That is simple. Insurance pays for them for most people.
No, it does not. Very few insurance plans in the US cover hearing aids, or even cover hearing tests.
There are very few health insurance plans in the US that pay for hearing aids. I have always had to pay out of pocket for my hearing aids and I have always had decent insurance plans. They've just never covered hearing aids.
Lack of competition and low volume are the two biggest factors.
I don't know much about Walmart's brand; it's certainly not one of the big players. Depending on the original poster's hearing loss, their aids may or may not be suitable for him. They would not be suitable for me because of the frequencies and severity of my hearing loss.
No. The earmold is purchased separately from the hearing aid and attached via a plastic tube. You can buy earmolds for well under $100, and there is actually a market outside of hearing aids for them, such as high-end stereo headphones and monitor headphones worn by musicians. The earmold is attached to the aid with a $1.00 plastic tube, which you usually change every 3 months or so. The aid is programmed by plugging it into a computer (the interface is usually via the battery door). The aid itself can easily be mass-manufactured, since once size does fit all.
Actually, atheist bashing is still a perfectly acceptable form of discrimination in the US.
For most cross-platform stuff, boost will do what you need. boost::thread will handle all of your threading needs.
boost::filesystem for manipulating pathnames; boost::datetime for date and time operations; boost::format for typesafe printf style I/O.
It also has boost::asio for sockets and boost::interprocess for IPC. I know nothing about them, but to judge from the quality of the rest of the boost library, they are probably very good.
For database, use Sqlite. It's a solid relational database stored in a single file, and you can even access the database from the command line for ad-hoc queries/debugging/whatever.
There are many "tipping points" called tax brackets. If it can knock you down into a lower tax bracket you can come out ahead.
You have absolutely no idea how the US tax code works.
Group coverage plans (i.e: the kind you get from your employer) aren't allowed to exclude pre-existing conditions if you already had coverage
Isn't this because of laws, i.e., "governmental intervention". Which you claim is eroding our freedom. It's a bit hypocritical for you to be holding this up as a good thing only one paragraph away from deriding the government.
This pretty much ruined Ted's shot of being reelected
They're so cute when they're in their young, naive stage. Too bad they grow up so fast.
It was a 5-4 decision. Both of the justices that President Bush appointed (Justices Roberts and Alito) voted with the minority and against habeas corpus.
In addition, it is likely that 3 of the 5 justices that voted with the majority will be retiring in the next 4 years, so the next President will be responsible for replacing them.
If you like this week's decision, then you should strongly consider not voting for John McCain in the next election, because he is on record as saying that Justices Roberts and Alito are the kind of candidates that he would submit as replacements.
As far as I know, HFS+ is posix-compliant, so it has to support hard links.
It's my understanding that Time Machine actually works by creating an encrypted loopback volume on the target drive, and then building a hard-link farm in that volume, a la Dirvish. And, that includes hardlinks for directories, as you mentioned. However, I doubt that hardlinked directories outside of the Time Machine volume will be allowed because they are generally very bad things because of the danger of creating a cyclic directory tree.
On Linux, GNU ln requires superuser privs to hardlink to a directory, and even then it will still be disallowed by many filesystems, such as ext3.
I agree. I also think seatbelts are a terrible idea, because it just encourages drivers to crash their cars.
What are you talking about?
$ uname -a
Darwin medusa 8.10.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
$ cd
$ echo 'hey there' > link1
$ ln link1 link2
$ ls -li link*
3516841 -rw-r--r-- 2 dave wheel 10 Oct 23 15:16 link1
3516841 -rw-r--r-- 2 dave wheel 10 Oct 23 15:16 link2
$ echo buddy >> link2
$ ls -li link*
3516841 -rw-r--r-- 2 dave wheel 16 Oct 23 15:16 link1
3516841 -rw-r--r-- 2 dave wheel 16 Oct 23 15:16 link2
$ cat link2
hey there
buddy
$ cat link1
hey there
buddy
$
That sure looks like hard links to me, unless you have some other definition of hard links that I am unaware of. Yes, this is a HFS+ filesystem; I did not re-install Tiger when I got my Macbook, and Tiger is installed with HFS+
It reminds me of a case here in Seattle recently. A man went nuts and was chasing his girlfriend's truck in his own car. He rammed the truck, forced it across the center line, where it hit another woman's car.
This woman did have uninsured motorist coverage, but her insurance company denied her medical claims because the man deliberately caused the crash, therefore it wasn't technically an "accident", and thus was not covered by the woman's policy. Insurance companies are weasels and will do anything they can do to get out of paying, including tortured parsing of language.
The company eventually paid up, but only after the woman's situation was exposed by the local media, and the state insurance commissioner started to threaten the company.
So it appears that you decided that the responsibility for fighting your spam should be moved onto the backs of everybody else on the Internet? Spam almost always comes from a forged sender. By doing this, you're just sending tons of spam to the forgery victims. Please do us and you a favor and google "challenge response harmful", and then turn off your C/R system.
Your credentials are not sent in the clear. The login form's action url is https://www.paypal.com/ so when you click submit on the form, the stuff you send is encrypted.
A reasonably up-to-date version of Rails (1.1.0) is directly installable in Debian testing and unstable; just use "apt-get install rails".
If you're using Debian stable or prefer to use Rubygems to get the most up-to-date stuff, add this to your sources.list:
deb http://www.sgtpepper.net/hyspro/deb unstable/
deb-src http://www.sgtpepper.net/hyspro/deb unstable/
Then "apt-get install rubygems".
Then "gem install rails".
Then set GEM_HOME to "/var/lib/gems/1.8" and add "/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin" to your path.
Then do "rails my_new_project" and have fun.
Have you ever considered the possibility that Virtual PC runs Windows VMs slowly because the CPU is being emulated?
I'm guessing that when he said "to be expected, although they probably aren't doing a very good job of binary translation" that he did indeed consider it. His larger point, which you appear to have completely missed, was that Vmware has features - aside from speed - that mean that virtual pc has a long way to go to catch up. Snapshots and clones spring to mind right away.
I incurred tremendous hearing loss in my right ear when I was 3-4 years old
That sounds like me - I also lost hearing in my right ear due to early childhood disease. Up until I was 25, I figured that my right ear was pretty much useless because I could never use it to talk on the phone, and did not hear people if they were on my right side.
Then I had a car accident and lost all of my hearing in my left ear. That left me with just my crappy right ear. As it turns out, a hearing aid allows me to function reasonably well with my up-to-then "deaf" ear.
Not that you want to go ahead and lose your hearing in your left ear, but it may not be quite the world-ending event that you worry about.
Some of the new Phonak aids are supposed to be coming with built-in Bluetooth. I am strongly considering Phonaks for my next hearing aid for that reason alone.
I have never tried Siemens. My first aid was a Widex (non-digital), but quite frankly it was crap for me. I switched to an Ensoniq after about a year, and then switched to a Resound a few years after that because the Ensoniq's telecoil wasn't strong enough for me. My Resound is getting pretty old though (almost 10 years), so it's definitely time to look at upgrading.
Nearly any epson scanner will work very well with Sane. I seem to recall reading somewhere that Epson provides the Sane project with any information they need to make a driver. I recently bought a Perfection 2480 Photo and it worked almost as soon as I plugged it in. All I had to do was extract the firmware from the install CD.
Unfortunately, both my hard drives are NTFS, and Ubuntu doesn't know how to partition them.
Exactly. Whereas, if you already have Linux on your drives and now want to install Windows, it has no trouble partitioning your drives. Oh, wait...
I've been using the Safetype for 3 years now, and I have no reservations about recommending it to anybody. For me, it's the only keyboard that I can use all day without pain. Even now, after 3 years of basically not using any other keyboard, if I find myself typing at a normal keyboard where I have to pronate my wrists, I can feel the pain coming on in an hour. Never with the safetype.
FWIW, I type Dvorak on my safetype, but I used Dvorak for about 3 years before I got the safetype, and before the onset of my RSI problems. I still use dvorak because I am faster on it.