My understanding is that they are not able to be mass produced. The components maybe, but the fittings are fitted to the ear canal. To go back to your laptop analogy, it would be like computer manufacturers building each keyboard to fit your fingers exactly. I would think this would increase the cost of your laptop. I'm in the same boat as you though and will probably be complaining about their cost within the next few years. Best of luck...
er... actually i think it has little/nothing to do with it. in the end
people are lazy, have lives outside of techdom (imagine someone only
wanting to use the computer to read email and surf the web..yes, these
people do exist), and linux (while it has gotten much better) is still
an OS for people that surf this site. i run windows at home. i run
windows at work. i have no incentive to run linux at home other than a
greater sense of security and the ability to go out for drinks a few more
nights because i didn't drop an absurd amount of cash on some piece of
software. i dabbled in dual booting machines and VMware server but i
usually seem to give up after a while because i run into something in
linux that, my god, just works in windows, and it really isn't worth my
time surfing discussion boards looking for someone that ran into a similar
problem and edited some file (that i have to read the specs on to edit
(yes, i know, i'm lazy)) hoping that it will work for me.
what was most telling for me was talking to two of my friends that
both worked for ximiam (and quit novell once their stock options were
cashable..) and telling them i had just installed opensuse and everything
worked right off the bat. the sound of amazement in their voices struck
me as odd. it was the first linux disto i'd ever installed and just
figured it would work because that's what i was used to. when i added
my second monitor and things got flakey i uninstalled the os and went
back to windows because...it just worked.
don't get me wrong, i don't like big corporations that abuse their
power any more than the next person but i have a life outside of tech
and would rather play with my kids than spend what precious little time
i have left in the day learning something new...especially when i can
just pop in a disk and live with something, albeit flawed, that just
works (for me).
i do hope for the day when linux "just works". open standards and
true interoperability will be nice... free, as in beer, is also nice
when you have 4 kids to put through college.
all of your "In pre-response to:" items hinge on the person with the jammer not shutting it off when an emergency requires the use of a cellphone....and if the jammer is in the pocket of the person dying then....oh well. i just don't see a person with a jammer in their pocket not shutting it off as they wet their pants trying to dial 9-11 when some asshole pulls out a gun. i see the person with the jammer as no less of an asshole as the person doing 75 in the passing lane because "they are going fast enough" but i'm pretty sure i've been one of those jerks on snowy night in new england with an SUV 6 inches from my rear bumper because they've got 4-wheel drive.
I mean, if the NSA was worth half a shit in a tin can they'd have been able to stop people like McVeigh, Kaczynski, or the doofuses* that thought it would be a good idea to hijack a few planes.
ahh, don't you mean the FBI? These two were American terrorists. The NSA wasn't spying on US citizens at the time. That's the job of the FBI.
i'm sure numbers average more than one syllable per character...but he's probably only reciting one digit at a time. if so, numbers break down 50/50 as far as 1 vs. 2 syllable digits in japanese. in english it's very one-syllable sided. at least when only reciting digits 0 - 9.
collectives [def] -- Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision.http://www.answers.com/collectives
I though i read this a while ago on/. but maybe not. It's a DARPA project that uses wireless technology in anti-tank mines to "fix" themselves once breached. http://www.darpa.mil/ATO/programs/SHM/htmldemo.htm l
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My understanding is that they are not able to be mass produced. The components maybe, but the fittings are fitted to the ear canal. To go back to your laptop analogy, it would be like computer manufacturers building each keyboard to fit your fingers exactly. I would think this would increase the cost of your laptop. I'm in the same boat as you though and will probably be complaining about their cost within the next few years. Best of luck...
er... actually i think it has little/nothing to do with it. in the end people are lazy, have lives outside of techdom (imagine someone only wanting to use the computer to read email and surf the web..yes, these people do exist), and linux (while it has gotten much better) is still an OS for people that surf this site. i run windows at home. i run windows at work. i have no incentive to run linux at home other than a greater sense of security and the ability to go out for drinks a few more nights because i didn't drop an absurd amount of cash on some piece of software. i dabbled in dual booting machines and VMware server but i usually seem to give up after a while because i run into something in linux that, my god, just works in windows, and it really isn't worth my time surfing discussion boards looking for someone that ran into a similar problem and edited some file (that i have to read the specs on to edit (yes, i know, i'm lazy)) hoping that it will work for me. what was most telling for me was talking to two of my friends that both worked for ximiam (and quit novell once their stock options were cashable..) and telling them i had just installed opensuse and everything worked right off the bat. the sound of amazement in their voices struck me as odd. it was the first linux disto i'd ever installed and just figured it would work because that's what i was used to. when i added my second monitor and things got flakey i uninstalled the os and went back to windows because...it just worked. don't get me wrong, i don't like big corporations that abuse their power any more than the next person but i have a life outside of tech and would rather play with my kids than spend what precious little time i have left in the day learning something new...especially when i can just pop in a disk and live with something, albeit flawed, that just works (for me). i do hope for the day when linux "just works". open standards and true interoperability will be nice... free, as in beer, is also nice when you have 4 kids to put through college.
all of your "In pre-response to:" items hinge on the person with the jammer not shutting it off when an emergency requires the use of a cellphone....and if the jammer is in the pocket of the person dying then....oh well. i just don't see a person with a jammer in their pocket not shutting it off as they wet their pants trying to dial 9-11 when some asshole pulls out a gun. i see the person with the jammer as no less of an asshole as the person doing 75 in the passing lane because "they are going fast enough" but i'm pretty sure i've been one of those jerks on snowy night in new england with an SUV 6 inches from my rear bumper because they've got 4-wheel drive.
I mean, if the NSA was worth half a shit in a tin can they'd have been able to stop people like McVeigh, Kaczynski, or the doofuses* that thought it would be a good idea to hijack a few planes.
ahh, don't you mean the FBI? These two were American terrorists. The NSA wasn't spying on US citizens at the time. That's the job of the FBI.
i'm sure numbers average more than one syllable per character...but he's probably only reciting one digit at a time. if so, numbers break down 50/50 as far as 1 vs. 2 syllable digits in japanese. in english it's very one-syllable sided. at least when only reciting digits 0 - 9.
-ade -- Suffix that can be used to form collectives. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ade
collectives [def] -- Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision. http://www.answers.com/collectives
of course, it's just a guess....
I though i read this a while ago on /. but maybe not. It's a DARPA project that uses wireless technology in anti-tank mines to "fix" themselves once breached. http://www.darpa.mil/ATO/programs/SHM/htmldemo.htm l
Maybe they should put them in the instruments... They could find out how many items they left inside after stitching you back up.