I know a little girl who has cancer. At times she's been immunocompromised due to chemotherapy. Folks who eschew vaccine probably become carriers more often, and increase the danger that she'll catch something her immune system can't handle.
It's not just your health that you effect when you choose not to be vaccinated.
It's not about ease of development! It's use. It's that they don't feel the customer should have to add some library to iTunes. There's no real technical reason for the customer to do so, it's just that Apple is trying to lock the USB format used to talk to iPods to work only with their hardware.
Palm knows that the more that users have to add to their desktop to make it work, the less attractive their product will be to those users. It should just plug in and work if an Apple product would.
As long as USB-IF acted to coordinate compatibility between manufacturers, they were legally OK. The moment that they acted to actually enforce incompatibility, on behalf of Apple, they stepped into really deep trouble. Because USB-IF really is a clear monopoly and a trust. And they created really good evidence of being a harmful monopoly by acting to enforce incompatibility. Palm will make this point to the Federal government. Then, USB-IF will have to get Apple to play nice, to save themselves.
Apple may also be seen as a monopoly - I think Palm has a good chance of making that point in court, going by the market share, and the size of the secondary market of various iPod-specific devices.
USB-IF can't persist in this if they don't want to have an anti-trust suit. First, they are a clear monopoly and indeed, a trust too. As long as they enforced their rules to help devices work together, they were OK within the law. The moment they participated in an action intended to lock out interoperability, they painted a really good case of being a harmful monopoly. Surely Palm will make this point to the Federal government.
Take a look at the market share around iTunes, and I think there's a good chance of Apple being treated as a monopoly by the government too.
You're welcome to think what you want, but the fact is that if you have to break a standard to be compatible, no law prevents you from doing so and ethics say you should. If a contract is used to keep you from being compatible, you can probably both overturn the contract and win damages.
USB-IF can't really force companies to use any particular ID if some of the vendors are using the fact of the ID to lock out compatibility. They are really ripe for anti-trust if they persist in trying to do so.
Palm is doing what is necessary to provide compatibility. If Apple and USB Interoperability Forum have worked to make the system deliberately incompatible, Palm has the legal right to circumvent that, and to sue Apple and USB-IF if they continue the cat-and-mouse game.
Probably this will eventually get to court, and Apple will be forced to extend itunes interoperability to other manufacturers.
Apple does quite a lot to force incompatibility and to limit the options of their users to what Apple dictates. In their connectors, in their software, in the app store. They're going to end up with an anti-trust suit if they persist.
Well, I travel to a lot of other countries. And all of them have socialized medicine. Pretty much everywhere that claims to be civilized but us. And although their system's aren't perfect, they're pretty good. Meanwhile, I can't get health care for my family as a small businessman. Even Kaiser rejected us. So, my wife has to work for the state university to get it. So, it's government health care anyway, just without me being qualified to receive it without her help.
The private medical system is so screwed up that it needs government supervision. The computer industry, fortunately, doesn't generally have people's lives depending on it.
By the way, I have some friends who are thalidomide babies. They are all about a year older than me. One is a doctor himself. His mom used the drug while out of the US. Check out what happened to those poor folks and you won't be clamoring for drug deregulation.
I don't see how that's going to be in the bill when and if it's passed. Obama made it abundantly clear his choice was to "move on", and the Democrats don't quite have the numbers they need to push that through, or the desire. Perhaps it's just a negotiating ploy to get something else out of the right.
If artillery has problems getting through carbon nanotubes, oxyaluminum nitride, and spinel, how long until the artillery itself is made of those materials?
Well, I would guess that the product of this process is some amount of vapor and liquid, which go to one place, and solids, which go to further recycling or a landfill. Once you have the vapor and liquid, you get to separate out some amount of funny chemicals. Every process you go through to do this makes the material cleaner, and more expensive.
This is an offshoot of the garbage-to-energy plants that have been built in the 70's and 80's. The problem with incineration was that mercury, dioxin, etc., came out. They have been able to reduce this substantially over the years but there are still concerns. The big challenge with plastic-to-fuel plants may well be the same: what comes out when you burn the fuel?
Macroeconomics 101 would explain the propagating loss to the market caused by the loss of labor and consumption by the person whose arm is broken, if they don't get good care. And then there's the broken-arm, I mean window, fallacy, which explains why the expense of the broken arm is not a boon to the market.
Did you watch Doctor's Diaries on NOVA? It doesn't paint a picture of them as happy folks. However many do quit, those are doctors we can't afford.
It's funny, but the doctor who treated my wife in Canada, under their socialized medicine system, was the most relaxed, mellow doctor we've met.
I work in Norway often, I'm heading there next week, but I haven't gotten to use their socialized medicine yet. Folks there seem happy with it.
I think a public option would also have to subsidize medical education. I hear that AMA has acted to reduce access to medical education in the U.S., but I've not studied the subject. That would have to go.
I think you're missing something. The problem of people who aren't offered health coverage at all, even though they aren't really even ill, and people who, upon getting sick, lose their health coverage.
This is not at all a "would I have to give up ice cream" sort of situation.
There is a story that the Baskin-Robbins ice cream company, which ran a "Free Ice Cream On Your Birthday" promotion, gave the birth date data to the government for enforcing the draft during the Vietnam war.
Data about kids is valuable because they become adults. Parents have to keep their future interests in mind until they can take them on for themselves.
Doctors don't only drop out of medicare. They drop out of the various negotiated-price private health insurance schemes, and for the same reasons. Note the rise of concierge health-care for rich folks. It doesn't solve the problem for you and I.
OK. 1, 2, those are the ones that came up immediately, no doubt there are studies if you look for them hard enough. It seems that coroners don't usually rule that perfectly healthy children were simply pushed too hard and died of it.
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I've had a terrible time trying to get my Estes D12 to restart. It fired fine the first time, but now it doesn't do anything. :-)
It's not just your health that you effect when you choose not to be vaccinated.
Palm knows that the more that users have to add to their desktop to make it work, the less attractive their product will be to those users. It should just plug in and work if an Apple product would.
Apple may also be seen as a monopoly - I think Palm has a good chance of making that point in court, going by the market share, and the size of the secondary market of various iPod-specific devices.
Take a look at the market share around iTunes, and I think there's a good chance of Apple being treated as a monopoly by the government too.
USB-IF can't really force companies to use any particular ID if some of the vendors are using the fact of the ID to lock out compatibility. They are really ripe for anti-trust if they persist in trying to do so.
Probably this will eventually get to court, and Apple will be forced to extend itunes interoperability to other manufacturers.
Apple does quite a lot to force incompatibility and to limit the options of their users to what Apple dictates. In their connectors, in their software, in the app store. They're going to end up with an anti-trust suit if they persist.
The private medical system is so screwed up that it needs government supervision. The computer industry, fortunately, doesn't generally have people's lives depending on it.
By the way, I have some friends who are thalidomide babies. They are all about a year older than me. One is a doctor himself. His mom used the drug while out of the US. Check out what happened to those poor folks and you won't be clamoring for drug deregulation.
Were you aware that there are other countries? :-)
All of the folks arguing about health care don't make the connection that Hawking has lived so long in a country with socialized medicine.
He's 67. It might not be ALS that kills him.
I don't see how that's going to be in the bill when and if it's passed. Obama made it abundantly clear his choice was to "move on", and the Democrats don't quite have the numbers they need to push that through, or the desire. Perhaps it's just a negotiating ploy to get something else out of the right.
I've heard of an anti-tank round with a molten metal core. I assume it's some pyrotechnical process that melts it upon firing.
If artillery has problems getting through carbon nanotubes, oxyaluminum nitride, and spinel, how long until the artillery itself is made of those materials?
This the the Mac Plus with the formula for Transparent Aluminum on it!
Well, I would guess that the product of this process is some amount of vapor and liquid, which go to one place, and solids, which go to further recycling or a landfill. Once you have the vapor and liquid, you get to separate out some amount of funny chemicals. Every process you go through to do this makes the material cleaner, and more expensive.
This is an offshoot of the garbage-to-energy plants that have been built in the 70's and 80's. The problem with incineration was that mercury, dioxin, etc., came out. They have been able to reduce this substantially over the years but there are still concerns. The big challenge with plastic-to-fuel plants may well be the same: what comes out when you burn the fuel?
Well, I think we mostly understand the economic value of basic education, for example.
Macroeconomics 101 would explain the propagating loss to the market caused by the loss of labor and consumption by the person whose arm is broken, if they don't get good care. And then there's the broken-arm, I mean window, fallacy, which explains why the expense of the broken arm is not a boon to the market.
It's funny, but the doctor who treated my wife in Canada, under their socialized medicine system, was the most relaxed, mellow doctor we've met.
I work in Norway often, I'm heading there next week, but I haven't gotten to use their socialized medicine yet. Folks there seem happy with it.
I think a public option would also have to subsidize medical education. I hear that AMA has acted to reduce access to medical education in the U.S., but I've not studied the subject. That would have to go.
I own two of them. But I entirely control them. It really comes down to a matter of control.
This is not at all a "would I have to give up ice cream" sort of situation.
Data about kids is valuable because they become adults. Parents have to keep their future interests in mind until they can take them on for themselves.
Doctors don't only drop out of medicare. They drop out of the various negotiated-price private health insurance schemes, and for the same reasons. Note the rise of concierge health-care for rich folks. It doesn't solve the problem for you and I.
Actually, I'm not drawing the analogy. I am concerned that others will use the data in an inappropriate fashion.
OK. 1, 2, those are the ones that came up immediately, no doubt there are studies if you look for them hard enough. It seems that coroners don't usually rule that perfectly healthy children were simply pushed too hard and died of it.