The problem with this kind of statement implies that the pharma industry is not using their funds correctly. R&D spend typically are very large but finite. There is an end to the spend. Marketing dollars are required to keep an establish product in the market place. This spend can be very large too but it is spread across the life of the product.
So if a pharma develops a new drug they may have to spend $300-400 Million just to get it to market. Now that drug is in the market, how do doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, HMOs, and patients find out about the drug? This is where marketing comes in. If the drug has a life of 10 years, they may spend $1 billion on marketing but that is psent over the 10 years.
So the stement that the pharma industry psends more on marketing than R&D for a given drug may be true. That does not tke into count all the dollars spent on R&D for drugs that never make it to market.
"Drug companies spend more on marketing than they do on research and development"
Where on earth did you get this information? Have you studied the annual reports of all of the pharma companies? Making gross generalities like this without attribution is a waste of time.
You got a bunch of this wrong. 1) Novell sold its licensing for UNIX to the Santa Cruz Orgnization (OldSCO). Novell was to get 90+% of OldSCO's UNIX licensing revenues. 2) Caldera purchased the Unix licensing from OldSCO. 3) OldSCO became Tarantella 4) Caldera renamed itself SCO (NewSCO) 5) NewSCO started all these silly lawsuits over things they thought they owned but really didn't
I have just created a World Wide orgnziation called World-wide Institute on Media and People (WIMP for short). We give ESRB an "A+" Why? Just Because! and the NIMF, they get an "F" and a "U" from the WIMP.
The FCC has a right to allocate bandwidth associated with satellites. Where in their enabling legislation are the words that give them the right to tell cable or satellite providers how they should sell the content that comes from a satellite to the customers?
The FCC is charged with managing the over the air bandwidth etc. What does the FCC have to do swith Cable or Satellite (and other pay for use) transmissions? I can see with the FTC might be involved but this is outside the FCC's enabling legislation.
Nearly every internal compustion engine (with the exception of aviation engines(not high enough octane)) can be converted cheaply to run on methane. This has been proven over and over (WWII Germany ran most of their war machine on methane because the allies largely cut off their supply of oil from North Africa).
Methane is a re-newable resource (look outside: trees, grasses, etc.) You can re-plant methane sources and they are "pretty to look at while their growing" (grin).
This sounds awful. If it were true, it would be. It is not true.
First, the bulk of CO2 emissions comes from out-gassing in the oceans near the edges of the tectonic plates.
Second, there is a Global chemical interaction called the carbonic acid cycle that allows for local fluctuations in CO2 levels but ultimately maintains a balance because it is an interlocking set of chemical processes that must move toward equilibium.
"The second amendment is more important because it establishes gun ownership as a right."
Actually, the 2nd amendment does nothing of the sort. It says that Congress cannot make any law abridges the right to keep and bear arms.
Then where does the right to keep and bear arms emminate? The Decalaration of Independence. The use of the word liberty as an unalienable right is very specific. It's meaning is about "ownership of self" in the sense of property ownership. The concept of being able to defend one's property and via liberty oneself goes back even further. Give a look to the Magna Carta.
"A company, let's say a full company, of what, 10,000 troops?"
I am not sure what kind of a company you are refering to but a rifle company doesn't have any where near that number of troops. Granted I don't have the detail for the Army but a US Marine Rifle Company is supposed to be 6 officers and 176 Enlisted for a total of 182 men
If you have a diamond, I cannot. If I have it, you cannot. The diamond is therefore property.
Kowledge can be shared. You can know that E=mc^2 and I can know that E=mc^2 and we both benefit. If you know something and share that knowledge with me, your knowledge does not diminish. You don't know it any less. But we both can know something and each benefit.
Read Alvin Toffler's book: "The Third Wave" for some outstanding explainations of how Knowledge and Information are fundamentally different and how using old notions about how property owrks with knowledge and infomation are flat out wrong and bad for us all
Kary Mullins did not invent PCR, he discovered it. He did not have to sell his discovery. No one put a gun to his head. He made a coice and now has to live with that choice.
Since software is ultimately nothing but math and math cannot be invented only discoved (2+2 always equaled 4, E always equaled mc^2, calculus was all around us, is merely had to be discovered and expressed), then how can software be patented? It merely had to be discovered and expressed (copyright or left counld apply to a particular expression).
This hoarding of knowledge could ultimately be our undoing. An example: The fact that parts of the human genome are "locked" up in patents, prevents mankind the benfit of of that knowledge.
The classic part of economies are "make something" or "do something". Now we have folks that don't make anything and don't do anything, they merely demand payment for knowledge, so that someone else can make or do something.
This is a very scary trend that shows no sign of stopping.
People need to remember: "Knowledge is power, but only if shared". Hoarding it hurts us all in the long run.
I said you can buy it from Wal-Mart which absolutlely true. I did not say you can walk into your local Wal-Mart store and pick one up. Although, they are available in the Wal-Mart superstore that is near where I live.
Linux can't kill Windows. Just like Ford can't kill GM. That has never been the point. Your article seems to have missed the point. There have been a very few "sea change" events in computing. Some of them are:
1) The PC (Macs, too) brought computer out of the "glass house".
2) TCP/IP standardized computer to computer communications. No more closed protocols
3) Dell forced PC manufacturers to compete on price using commodity components. No more can someone say my PC is better than yours cause I use the cool custom thing inside it.
4) Linux has emerged as a way of providing enterprise class OS and applications on nearly every piece of hardware (from those commodity PCs on up). No longer can iron vendors use the "My *NIX is better than yours" to sell hardware. In fact, for most "iron" vendors their efforts in maintaining the custom version of *NIX cost them money. The customers want interoperability. Linux (and the many BSD variants) are providing that interoperability. Vendors only have to deal with writing "device drivers" for their specific hardware things.
Windows was never meant for anything other than the x86 space (for a while it was on Alpha) and for a while Itanium. Linux runs on all those and much more. So while Linux might not kill Windows, Linux will be everywhere Windows is not and many places where Windows is today.
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The problem with this kind of statement implies that the pharma industry is not using their funds correctly. R&D spend typically are very large but finite. There is an end to the spend. Marketing dollars are required to keep an establish product in the market place. This spend can be very large too but it is spread across the life of the product.
So if a pharma develops a new drug they may have to spend $300-400 Million just to get it to market. Now that drug is in the market, how do doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, HMOs, and patients find out about the drug? This is where marketing comes in. If the drug has a life of 10 years, they may spend $1 billion on marketing but that is psent over the 10 years.
So the stement that the pharma industry psends more on marketing than R&D for a given drug may be true. That does not tke into count all the dollars spent on R&D for drugs that never make it to market.
"Drug companies spend more on marketing than they do on research and development"
Where on earth did you get this information? Have you studied the annual reports of all of the pharma companies? Making gross generalities like this without attribution is a waste of time.
You got a bunch of this wrong.
1) Novell sold its licensing for UNIX to the Santa Cruz Orgnization (OldSCO). Novell was to get 90+% of OldSCO's UNIX licensing revenues.
2) Caldera purchased the Unix licensing from OldSCO.
3) OldSCO became Tarantella
4) Caldera renamed itself SCO (NewSCO)
5) NewSCO started all these silly lawsuits over things they thought they owned but really didn't
I have just created a World Wide orgnziation called World-wide Institute on Media and People (WIMP for short). We give ESRB an "A+" Why? Just Because! and the NIMF, they get an "F" and a "U" from the WIMP.
The FCC has a right to allocate bandwidth associated with satellites. Where in their enabling legislation are the words that give them the right to tell cable or satellite providers how they should sell the content that comes from a satellite to the customers?
The FCC is charged with managing the over the air bandwidth etc. What does the FCC have to do swith Cable or Satellite (and other pay for use) transmissions? I can see with the FTC might be involved but this is outside the FCC's enabling legislation.
Nearly every internal compustion engine (with the exception of aviation engines(not high enough octane)) can be converted cheaply to run on methane. This has been proven over and over (WWII Germany ran most of their war machine on methane because the allies largely cut off their supply of oil from North Africa).
Methane is a re-newable resource (look outside: trees, grasses, etc.) You can re-plant methane sources and they are "pretty to look at while their growing" (grin).
I don't need a 584 page book to tell me how to harden linux. Just run bastille: http://www.bastille-linux.org/
I call B.S. I just tried this and it works fine.
This sounds awful. If it were true, it would be. It is not true.
First, the bulk of CO2 emissions comes from out-gassing in the oceans near the edges of the tectonic plates.
Second, there is a Global chemical interaction called the carbonic acid cycle that allows for local fluctuations in CO2 levels but ultimately maintains a balance because it is an interlocking set of chemical processes that must move toward equilibium.
If people read what actually is happening is that the lead developer is now Founder and Chief Architect of JasperSoft.
That is very different that someone buying the code and hiring the lead developer.
"The second amendment is more important because it establishes gun ownership as a right."
Actually, the 2nd amendment does nothing of the sort. It says that Congress cannot make any law abridges the right to keep and bear arms.
Then where does the right to keep and bear arms emminate? The Decalaration of Independence. The use of the word liberty as an unalienable right is very specific. It's meaning is about "ownership of self" in the sense of property ownership. The concept of being able to defend one's property and via liberty oneself goes back even further. Give a look to the Magna Carta.
I am not sure what kind of a company you are refering to but a rifle company doesn't have any where near that number of troops. Granted I don't have the detail for the Army but a US Marine Rifle Company is supposed to be 6 officers and 176 Enlisted for a total of 182 men
The problem is this:
If you have a diamond, I cannot. If I have it, you cannot. The diamond is therefore property.
Kowledge can be shared. You can know that E=mc^2 and I can know that E=mc^2 and we both benefit. If you know something and share that knowledge with me, your knowledge does not diminish. You don't know it any less. But we both can know something and each benefit.
Read Alvin Toffler's book: "The Third Wave" for some outstanding explainations of how Knowledge and Information are fundamentally different and how using old notions about how property owrks with knowledge and infomation are flat out wrong and bad for us all
should have read "... adding and ..." not "... and and ...".
Mea Culpa.
I guess we disagree. Ultimately software really is and and subtracting 1 to / from 0 (albeit bunches of times and really fast) but that is all it is.
Kary Mullins did not invent PCR, he discovered it. He did not have to sell his discovery. No one put a gun to his head. He made a coice and now has to live with that choice.
Since software is ultimately nothing but math and math cannot be invented only discoved (2+2 always equaled 4, E always equaled mc^2, calculus was all around us, is merely had to be discovered and expressed), then how can software be patented? It merely had to be discovered and expressed (copyright or left counld apply to a particular expression).
This hoarding of knowledge could ultimately be our undoing. An example: The fact that parts of the human genome are "locked" up in patents, prevents mankind the benfit of of that knowledge.
The classic part of economies are "make something" or "do something". Now we have folks that don't make anything and don't do anything, they merely demand payment for knowledge, so that someone else can make or do something.
This is a very scary trend that shows no sign of stopping.
People need to remember: "Knowledge is power, but only if shared". Hoarding it hurts us all in the long run.
I your opinion Linspire is crap. For a computer newbie, like my dad, Linspire has all he wants and then some.
That was not what I said. I was challenging the statement that you cannot get a box pre-loaded with Linux.
I also mentioned both Dell and HP, too.
So, That was not my point. People said that you cannot get a pre-loaded Linux box. That is false. I gave the example of Wal-Mart and Dell and HP.
I did not say anything about marketing.
Again, I call BS
Most people by home PCs from Dell via the online store or via the 800 number. Dell is the number retailer of computer systesm in North America.
Check your facts.
And this matters how?
I said you can buy it from Wal-Mart which absolutlely true. I did not say you can walk into your local Wal-Mart store and pick one up. Although, they are available in the Wal-Mart superstore that is near where I live.
I call BS.
You can buy Boxes from Wal-Mart with Linux pre-configured to do all of this.
Both Laptop and Desktop
You can by a pre-configured Linux that works right out of the box from Wal-Mart! Both Desktop and Laptop.
You need to check your facts.
BTW, you can order nearly every Dell box with linux pre-installed, too. Many HP boxes can come that way, too.
Linux can't kill Windows. Just like Ford can't kill GM. That has
never been the point. Your article seems to have missed the point.
There have been a very few "sea change" events in computing. Some of
them are:
1) The PC (Macs, too) brought computer out of the "glass house".
2) TCP/IP standardized computer to computer communications. No more
closed protocols
3) Dell forced PC manufacturers to compete on price using commodity
components. No more can someone say my PC is better than yours cause I
use the cool custom thing inside it.
4) Linux has emerged as a way of providing enterprise class OS and
applications on nearly every piece of hardware (from those commodity
PCs on up). No longer can iron vendors use the "My *NIX is better
than yours" to sell hardware. In fact, for most "iron" vendors their
efforts in maintaining the custom version of *NIX cost them money. The
customers want interoperability. Linux (and the many BSD variants) are
providing that interoperability. Vendors only have to deal with
writing "device drivers" for their specific hardware things.
Windows was never meant for anything other than the x86 space (for a
while it was on Alpha) and for a while Itanium. Linux runs on all
those and much more. So while Linux might not kill Windows, Linux will
be everywhere Windows is not and many places where Windows is today.