an antitrust lawsuit accusing the drug company of forcing patients to switch to the newer version of the widely used medicine to hinder competition from generic manufacturers.
Were the drug company sending hit squads round to take out the doctors that were prescribing generics? Did they launch a tactical air strike on the generics factories? Hijack the lorries carrying the generics?
I'm sorry but, so far as I can tell, manufacturers are free to manufacture the generic, doctors are free to prescribe it and patients are free to take it. I don't see why Actavis should be forced to produce a drug they no longer want to produce and I don't see what this can possibly achieve because once the drug leaves patent protection the generics manufactures will be able to manufacture it regardless and, before then, patients will have to buy the pricier brand-name drug anyway.
I don't think the patent had actually expired yet on the older medicine. It was just getting close to expiring. Drug companies have figured out the 'new' way to keep you off of generics is to 'improve' the formula so that your doctor wants to keep you on the new one. I'm on Tribenzor, which is literally just a mix of three regular and cheap blood pressure medicines, but it's 'not generic' so I have to pay a much more expensive rate.
So yeah, this is just scum sucker scam way of maximizing profits at the cost of the patient and his insurance.
Did I miss where the USA added a new territory or state recently? I'm sorry, while the US does like to keep airbases in other countries, we don't invade them and force the area the airbase or navel base is in to join our country as a full territory..
The best sign that Russia is BSing about this expansion is that it only took them a week to get a 'referendum' through their proxies, while it usually takes years or decades for it to happen civilly.
They were over-reaching and taking too much power. They proved that they were corrupt and were not doing much other than infringing on American (and our Allies)'s rights.
They need to be pruned back and learn that we do no live in a fascist state.
Really, some of those leaders who lied under oath should be facing prison time.
They settled so fast out of court is was not even slightly funny.
Marvel essentially tried to sue City of Heroes out of existence because of its character creator. Then their lawyers decided to get cute and made their own characters with Marvel's IP. (I think it was Hulk, Captain America and a couple others).
The City of Heroes creators proved this and Marvel suddenly settled out of court in a sealed contract.
Because buying an electronic edition for twice the cost of a used 'good as new' copy of a book is _incredibly_ dumb. Baen was actually charging the exact same amount for an electronic copy of David Weber's new book as the hard cover.
For some reason, all the prices on new ebooks have jumped to $10 to $18 or so, at the minimum. So pretty much all of the prices are highway robbery.
Like that talking to someone in the car is just as bad as talking on the cell phone, something I find unlikely.
Bad drivers will be bad.
Now texting, that takes your eyes off the road (and idiots that stop in the middle of the road to make a left turn across double-yellow lines too close to an intersection) is bad.
... right at my computer and before I see it if there is any (to a.0001%) chance that your ad might send malicious software (including tracking cookies/flash objects) to my computer or if they are so intrusive that I can't read/watch what I'm there to do.
If you don't want to police your ads, that's not my fault. You are the ones abusing people.
Time to dump Yahoo, I only still use it for the spam filter which it has been good at but if it expects me to look at ads I will stop using it.
I ran into a nasty 'ad-captcha' that was at least 10 seconds long before it would give the option to 'solve' the captcha. All the time an inane, loud commercial played for something I would never buy.
> "If none of the consoles can play used games I could see the price of games coming down. AAA titles may come out at $45 or $50 instead of $60."
:lol: Right. Because when publishers eliminate the only legitimate source of price competition for their titles, they will become benevolent toward their customers and cut the price out of... good-naturedness? Rather than, you know, jacking up the rates for Halo XVIII through the roof, because they know that customers would sell a kidney to play Master Chef again?
What I see happening is that very few people actually buy new games and most only buy the 'gold edition' or one or two year old version of games.
After all, I already do this with Steam and on my PS2 for digital only games.
IBM is a 'service company' these days. That means they basically run call centers. So IBM having a lot of people in India is not surprising nor even an amazing fact.
Eventually the market will be overwhelmed (if not already) by the number of Android phones. At some point the developers will stop and realize there's a whole lot of people in the other ecosystem.
Now hopefully they actually write an app that uses Android properly instead of some stupid iOS port - I've seen so many that are hard to use on Android because of this.
The big thing is that Android is going on cheaper phones - we just got a plain phone here at work with a keyboard for texting, it came with Android and it was a whopping $150 to buy outright. It's no wonder the shipments/sales have taken off.
Not everyone needs a $600 smartphone, and it's an oversight on Apple's part.
I saw a Tracfone for $60ish dollars at the grocery store running Android 2.1 (I think). Three of the four phones they offer were Android.
Really? Artificial wombs, FFS? Look around you, Dr. Fertility. The natural wombs are pumping out product at a terrifyingly prodigious rate with no help from you. Maybe you can work on some other organ that we maybe need to stay alive or something?
And that doesn't say anything to people that want to be parents but for some reason they can not physically carry a baby to term. I applaud this as a step to help those that live under that anguish.
I have no idea if Apple's $1 figure is fair. It's probably a lowball figure to negoti based on device cost is NOT fair. After all, the only difference between a 64GB iPhone and a 32GB iPhone is the amount of RAM, yet Apple would have to pay Motorola more for a license from the more expensive phone! That is ridiculous.
That would be percentage of the *build* cost of a device, not necessarily what they sell it for. And that's a lot less money and probably is fairly reasonable.
This is actually much more than 2x standard broadcasts in terms of resolution as far as the US market is concerned. In the US almost everything "HD" is 720 @ 60fps (or sometimes even 30!). This is 8k, which is 16x the resolution of 1080, and twice the frame rate.
Yes, but most 'real' High Definition that people watch on movies and cable/satellite is 1080i/p. Considering people haven't even starting buying QuadHD (2160p) TVs yet, ones that go up to 4320p are a bit out there.
Although with the prices of 32" 1080p TVs dropping so radically, I do expect QuadHD TVs to start to appear to keep up the base price.
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an antitrust lawsuit accusing the drug company of forcing patients to switch to the newer version of the widely used medicine to hinder competition from generic manufacturers.
Were the drug company sending hit squads round to take out the doctors that were prescribing generics? Did they launch a tactical air strike on the generics factories? Hijack the lorries carrying the generics?
I'm sorry but, so far as I can tell, manufacturers are free to manufacture the generic, doctors are free to prescribe it and patients are free to take it. I don't see why Actavis should be forced to produce a drug they no longer want to produce and I don't see what this can possibly achieve because once the drug leaves patent protection the generics manufactures will be able to manufacture it regardless and, before then, patients will have to buy the pricier brand-name drug anyway.
I don't think the patent had actually expired yet on the older medicine. It was just getting close to expiring. Drug companies have figured out the 'new' way to keep you off of generics is to 'improve' the formula so that your doctor wants to keep you on the new one. I'm on Tribenzor, which is literally just a mix of three regular and cheap blood pressure medicines, but it's 'not generic' so I have to pay a much more expensive rate.
So yeah, this is just scum sucker scam way of maximizing profits at the cost of the patient and his insurance.
We somehow need a ton of 5.62 rifles and 7.62 rifles, bayonets, a blowdart, a grenade launcher and a Hellfire High Intensity (something?).
And considering the SLC Metro area isn't _that_ rough and tumble, I'm wondering who they are planning to go to war against?
But this was just for iOS7? Or is it for Android devices too?
I'm pretty sure I saw that in Captain America: Winter Soldier last night. Now they just need to get it flying! :)
Not that anyone has been warning about DRM linked to servers being a failure. I wonder how much they are going to be sued for?
Did I miss where the USA added a new territory or state recently? I'm sorry, while the US does like to keep airbases in other countries, we don't invade them and force the area the airbase or navel base is in to join our country as a full territory..
The best sign that Russia is BSing about this expansion is that it only took them a week to get a 'referendum' through their proxies, while it usually takes years or decades for it to happen civilly.
They were over-reaching and taking too much power. They proved that they were corrupt and were not doing much other than infringing on American (and our Allies)'s rights.
They need to be pruned back and learn that we do no live in a fascist state.
Really, some of those leaders who lied under oath should be facing prison time.
Because they should be being asked this. And wondering about this. And even at times saying 'no, this is too far'.
They settled so fast out of court is was not even slightly funny.
Marvel essentially tried to sue City of Heroes out of existence because of its character creator. Then their lawyers decided to get cute and made their own characters with Marvel's IP. (I think it was Hulk, Captain America and a couple others).
The City of Heroes creators proved this and Marvel suddenly settled out of court in a sealed contract.
People don't understand people most of the time.
And we 'understand' a lot harder concepts than computers do.
Because buying an electronic edition for twice the cost of a used 'good as new' copy of a book is _incredibly_ dumb. Baen was actually charging the exact same amount for an electronic copy of David Weber's new book as the hard cover.
For some reason, all the prices on new ebooks have jumped to $10 to $18 or so, at the minimum. So pretty much all of the prices are highway robbery.
Like that talking to someone in the car is just as bad as talking on the cell phone, something I find unlikely.
Bad drivers will be bad.
Now texting, that takes your eyes off the road (and idiots that stop in the middle of the road to make a left turn across double-yellow lines too close to an intersection) is bad.
Oh, look. They want to pay him and his attorneys a lot of money! Great 'retirement' option!
Idiots.
... right at my computer and before I see it if there is any (to a .0001%) chance that your ad might send malicious software (including tracking cookies/flash objects) to my computer or if they are so intrusive that I can't read/watch what I'm there to do.
If you don't want to police your ads, that's not my fault. You are the ones abusing people.
We are just not standing for that abuse.
So go away.
Time to dump Yahoo, I only still use it for the spam filter which it has been good at but if it expects me to look at ads I will stop using it.
I ran into a nasty 'ad-captcha' that was at least 10 seconds long before it would give the option to 'solve' the captcha. All the time an inane, loud commercial played for something I would never buy.
Yeah, great job annoying people even _more_.
> "If none of the consoles can play used games I could see the price of games coming down. AAA titles may come out at $45 or $50 instead of $60."
What I see happening is that very few people actually buy new games and most only buy the 'gold edition' or one or two year old version of games.
After all, I already do this with Steam and on my PS2 for digital only games.
... Their plan involves authenticating just once, to a single device, and then using that to unlock all of your other accounts. ...
That certainly makes it much, much easier for google to track you as you go around the web.
Wasn't this going to use a ring you wear on your finger? I thought I saw that in another article today from Google.
IBM is a 'service company' these days. That means they basically run call centers. So IBM having a lot of people in India is not surprising nor even an amazing fact.
Eventually the market will be overwhelmed (if not already) by the number of Android phones. At some point the developers will stop and realize there's a whole lot of people in the other ecosystem.
Now hopefully they actually write an app that uses Android properly instead of some stupid iOS port - I've seen so many that are hard to use on Android because of this.
The big thing is that Android is going on cheaper phones - we just got a plain phone here at work with a keyboard for texting, it came with Android and it was a whopping $150 to buy outright. It's no wonder the shipments/sales have taken off.
Not everyone needs a $600 smartphone, and it's an oversight on Apple's part.
I saw a Tracfone for $60ish dollars at the grocery store running Android 2.1 (I think). Three of the four phones they offer were Android.
Really? Artificial wombs, FFS? Look around you, Dr. Fertility. The natural wombs are pumping out product at a terrifyingly prodigious rate with no help from you. Maybe you can work on some other organ that we maybe need to stay alive or something?
And that doesn't say anything to people that want to be parents but for some reason they can not physically carry a baby to term. I applaud this as a step to help those that live under that anguish.
I have no idea if Apple's $1 figure is fair. It's probably a lowball figure to negoti based on device cost is NOT fair. After all, the only difference between a 64GB iPhone and a 32GB iPhone is the amount of RAM, yet Apple would have to pay Motorola more for a license from the more expensive phone! That is ridiculous.
That would be percentage of the *build* cost of a device, not necessarily what they sell it for. And that's a lot less money and probably is fairly reasonable.
Your heart possibly being owned by a corporation. Or your willy wang and the police busting down your door for unauthorised jerking methods.
You mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo!_The_Genetic_Opera ?
It sounds like they just found a lot of 'missing mass' here? How does it jibe for balancing things without using 'dark matter/energy'?
This is actually much more than 2x standard broadcasts in terms of resolution as far as the US market is concerned. In the US almost everything "HD" is 720 @ 60fps (or sometimes even 30!). This is 8k, which is 16x the resolution of 1080, and twice the frame rate.
Yes, but most 'real' High Definition that people watch on movies and cable/satellite is 1080i/p. Considering people haven't even starting buying QuadHD (2160p) TVs yet, ones that go up to 4320p are a bit out there.
Although with the prices of 32" 1080p TVs dropping so radically, I do expect QuadHD TVs to start to appear to keep up the base price.
"... and another fraudster selling nonexistent Yorkshire Terriers.'"
Bullshit. Yorkshire Terriers most certainly exist.
But *he* wasn't selling real ones.