I think you'll find that a lot of that money you class as profit merely goes to cover the huge expense of developing the drugs in use, and the drugs that are developed but dropped at a later date.
There is no legal difference in how the majority and minoroties are treated.
The difference is that people care less about what a small minority say in a low profile venue because it does not matter as much. The observer article makes it clear that they are talking about a minority within a minority.
The article is written by someone who heads a computing department at an organisation that is oriented towards vocational training - until 1992 it was not even allowed to call itself a university. See their history:
The article a large element of "look at all the useful stuff we do here, not like the useless theory they do at places like Cambridge".
Sadly, both government and students (not just in the UK) increasingly want two things:
Vocational degrees as directly related to jobs as possible
Easy degrees: the government to makes the stats look better, students because its less work
There is nothing new about this. There are proportionately for more students far more money going into easy and "useful" subjects like media studies. De Montfort University offers a degree in lingerie design as well as "humanities" degress in dance, journalism and arts management.
There is less and less interest in hard and non-vocational subjects like maths, English, physics, classics, etc.
It is easier to keep secure - so stuff like this does not happen.
Windows is OK in a corporate environment where IT will look after it for you, it is not suited to home and small business use.
Windows is good for gaming, and if you need a particular app that is not available for Linux, but for people who needs to get ordinary tasks done, Linux is a far better fit.
British slashdotters will have heard of the classic example: GEC, which changed its name to Marconi.
The management decided that they did not want to be running a boring business (making everything from lifts to generators), however profitable it was. So they, during the dotcom boom, they decided to refocus on telecoms equipment.
So they spent the multi billion pound cash pile they had on buying telecoms equipment manufacturers.
This was not enough, so they sold off all those boring businesses and spent that on more acquisitions.
They then borrowed heavilly to make even more acquisitions.
Come the bust, lenders wanted their money back. Needless to pay, all those expensive acquisitions were not making enough money to pay them with. Creditors eventually agreed to swap the debt for something like 99% of the equity.
A little fragment of the company is still around, calling itself Telent. All that is left of what was once one of the biggest companies in Britain.
I may be wrong in attributing it to hubris, it could be just stupidity, but given the nature of the businesses sold an bought it certainly looks like the main motive was not being boring.
One of the comments says it needs to be done at the plugin level, but I know (at least on Linux) that it is possible to launch apps with various wrappers that do things with their sound output (e.g. to record it), which might provide a workaround.
Of course it is a shortcoming in the plugins as well.
So why do you think analysts do fairly long term forecasts? Most investors in growth companies are looking at the long term, otherwise they would not pay hefty premiums for growth.
Pulse does a lot more stuff, moving audio from one machine to another etc.
However, does muting by application have any use other than muting flash? Anything else will let you use the volume control in the app itself surely?
I deal with flash by using Noscript which has a option to block plugins untill you click on a placeholder. Very little flash actually gets played that way.
No, Linux is not necessarilly the best solution for everything and everyone.
However, it is the best solution for a lot of people (including me). It saves me more time with the things that work well, than it costs me with the things that work badly.
It may also prove to be the best solution for a lot of people who have not tried it yet. There are many, many people whose work can be done perfectly well with apps avaiable for Linux. A lot of them do not know it.
I also prefer Linux for home and small business use because it is easier adminsister most of time.
For some people it may only become a good solution, if and when certain apps become available. I am aware that prepress is an area of weakness, I am not surprised that audio is. If that is what you do, yes, realistically Windows or Mac may work better for you.
1) Dells gets paid for placing the bloatware: it keeps the price down and boosts their margins. 2) Lots of people ARE gibbering idiots. 3) Many people have low expectations of PCs 4) They are quite likely to blame software problems on MS anyway. 5) Corporate buyers will do a clean re-install anyway. 6) Home users will probably have the machine just as bloated with malware in a week anyway. The is the reason for 3 above.
Simple: if you experience something it is rational to conclude it exists. What is wrong with that. I see the sun, I think it exists. I "see" (for want of a better word) God, I think God exists.
4) Yes but there are people who want to wipe out religions.
5) This is supposed to be rational argument. I am not a dictator, rational or other wise. The point is that a lot of things that relions are blamed for rae not religious - e.g. a lot of "religious" wars have nationalist or ethnic roots.
They think that if they buy a Mac they will not be able to read Word documents - most people are not capable of distinguishing between hardware, OS and applications.
They have never HEARD of Linux.
They want something that they can buy in a big chain they are faimilar with. There might be a Mac, there will certainly be no pre-installed Linux.
There is no point having choices if you do not know it.
In addition, they have no way of assessing the alternatives.
I think your sig proved its point rather well in the responses. How intolerant can you get.
To answer the question it:
1) Partly an American thing, because Christain funadamentalism (mostly and American thing) and atheist fundamentalism breed off each other. 2) Partly a slashdot thing. Teenagers living in their parents basement tend to assume that anything they do not understand must be wrong. 3) A generalisation of 2). People do not know the reasons for a particular belief, so they assume it must be irrational. The tooth fairy comparisions prove that. 4) The need for scapegoats. If we could just wipe out X life would be fine. Pol Pot (among others) tried that (wiping out religions, money and anyone who looked like trouble). 5) An ignorance of history and society caused by 3) and making 4) seem plausible.
If we used other scripting languages from the start, we would not have had to wait for XMLHTTPRequest. I cannot think of another scripting language that does not have some ability to make network requests.
Well is a small business with four desktops counts then yes. One decent PC running Linux + four old ones turned into X windosx thin clients.
If a slightly bigger (about thirty desktops), yes, using Windows and Citirx. It was a complete disaster. I suspect the first wave of this stuff (before hardware was fast enough) gave the hold idea a bad name.
Well, there is no way MS would sue anyone where I live at the moment.
When they threatened to crack down on big businesses, the result was enough threats to switch to Linux to make them stfu. The funny thing is that IBM seems to be being successful in getting people to pay for Notes.
As for small businesses, they just pirate everything they use.
What are the consequences of making a false claim like this? AS far as I can see, none. The RIM case is, if anything, an encouragement to patent trolls, not a deterrent.
There is a reason for requiring that the "inventor" sign under penalty of perjury: it is precisely to provide a detterent. If it is not enforced, there is not reason not to "have a try" at patenting other people's ideas.
The same applies to lots of other laws that have similar provisions (DMCA, to pick an example familiar to slashdot) for similar reasons. Fail to punish and you make the signed statements worthless.
You say liears should uffer consequences. It is clear given that 1) there are huge numbers of patents filed, 2) many are dubious, and 3) noone gets prosectued for their false claims that there are no consequences.
Hundreds or thousands have been molested by people they met in shopping malls, schools and streets. Lets ban roads! Do not allow unaccompanied minors into malls! Only allow them into school accompanies by a parent! Think of the children!
Why not keep kids safe by locking them up until they are 18? Some parents seem to be getting pretty close to that already.
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Actually more of it goes into marketing patented drugs than into research.
Not with the software on the French USB stick - its Windows and MacOS only.
Of course a Linux PC would almost certainly have those apps already and could access the data.
Thats your problem. If a career is not profitable find another one. Its a free market, you are free to find something else to sell.
In the case of software you probably just need to find a better business model (people to make money out of giving software away).
It is that logic that leads governments to subsidise un-competitive industries and companies.
Provided you want only PHP + MySQL based CMSs.
The difference is that people care less about what a small minority say in a low profile venue because it does not matter as much. The observer article makes it clear that they are talking about a minority within a minority.
I prefer books. Not only will I talk about books, but the first thing I will do on visiting someone for the firt time is look at their book shelves.
A lot of my friends have overlapping taste in books - and I have often discovered this after making friends. Presumeably the same applies to music.
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/aboutdmu/history/index.jsp
The article a large element of "look at all the useful stuff we do here, not like the useless theory they do at places like Cambridge".
Sadly, both government and students (not just in the UK) increasingly want two things:
There is nothing new about this. There are proportionately for more students far more money going into easy and "useful" subjects like media studies. De Montfort University offers a degree in lingerie design as well as "humanities" degress in dance, journalism and arts management.
There is less and less interest in hard and non-vocational subjects like maths, English, physics, classics, etc.
Why?
It is not perfect. Neither is Windows.
It is easier to keep secure - so stuff like this does not happen.
Windows is OK in a corporate environment where IT will look after it for you, it is not suited to home and small business use.
Windows is good for gaming, and if you need a particular app that is not available for Linux, but for people who needs to get ordinary tasks done, Linux is a far better fit.
Much the same: in certain situations you may have to pay for support or extra services.
Of course, with OSes the alternative is that you pay for the OS AND pay for support.
British slashdotters will have heard of the classic example: GEC, which changed its name to Marconi.
The management decided that they did not want to be running a boring business (making everything from lifts to generators), however profitable it was. So they, during the dotcom boom, they decided to refocus on telecoms equipment.
So they spent the multi billion pound cash pile they had on buying telecoms equipment manufacturers.
This was not enough, so they sold off all those boring businesses and spent that on more acquisitions.
They then borrowed heavilly to make even more acquisitions.
Come the bust, lenders wanted their money back. Needless to pay, all those expensive acquisitions were not making enough money to pay them with. Creditors eventually agreed to swap the debt for something like 99% of the equity.
A little fragment of the company is still around, calling itself Telent. All that is left of what was once one of the biggest companies in Britain.
I may be wrong in attributing it to hubris, it could be just stupidity, but given the nature of the businesses sold an bought it certainly looks like the main motive was not being boring.
Yes, MS innovates by copying MacOS freeware.
Then Firefox should have a volume control. There is a FF enhancement request about it:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33320 8
But noone is working on it.
One of the comments says it needs to be done at the plugin level, but I know (at least on Linux) that it is possible to launch apps with various wrappers that do things with their sound output (e.g. to record it), which might provide a workaround.
Of course it is a shortcoming in the plugins as well.
So why do you think analysts do fairly long term forecasts? Most investors in growth companies are looking at the long term, otherwise they would not pay hefty premiums for growth.
Pulse does a lot more stuff, moving audio from one machine to another etc.
However, does muting by application have any use other than muting flash? Anything else will let you use the volume control in the app itself surely?
I deal with flash by using Noscript which has a option to block plugins untill you click on a placeholder. Very little flash actually gets played that way.
No, Linux is not necessarilly the best solution for everything and everyone.
However, it is the best solution for a lot of people (including me). It saves me more time with the things that work well, than it costs me with the things that work badly.
It may also prove to be the best solution for a lot of people who have not tried it yet. There are many, many people whose work can be done perfectly well with apps avaiable for Linux. A lot of them do not know it.
I also prefer Linux for home and small business use because it is easier adminsister most of time.
For some people it may only become a good solution, if and when certain apps become available. I am aware that prepress is an area of weakness, I am not surprised that audio is. If that is what you do, yes, realistically Windows or Mac may work better for you.
1) Dells gets paid for placing the bloatware: it keeps the price down and boosts their margins.
2) Lots of people ARE gibbering idiots.
3) Many people have low expectations of PCs
4) They are quite likely to blame software problems on MS anyway.
5) Corporate buyers will do a clean re-install anyway.
6) Home users will probably have the machine just as bloated with malware in a week anyway. The is the reason for 3 above.
Simple: if you experience something it is rational to conclude it exists. What is wrong with that. I see the sun, I think it exists. I "see" (for want of a better word) God, I think God exists.
4) Yes but there are people who want to wipe out religions.
5) This is supposed to be rational argument. I am not a dictator, rational or other wise. The point is that a lot of things that relions are blamed for rae not religious - e.g. a lot of "religious" wars have nationalist or ethnic roots.
They do not know about the options.
They think that if they buy a Mac they will not be able to read Word documents - most people are not capable of distinguishing between hardware, OS and applications.
They have never HEARD of Linux.
They want something that they can buy in a big chain they are faimilar with. There might be a Mac, there will certainly be no pre-installed Linux.
There is no point having choices if you do not know it.
In addition, they have no way of assessing the alternatives.
I think your sig proved its point rather well in the responses. How intolerant can you get.
To answer the question it:
1) Partly an American thing, because Christain funadamentalism (mostly and American thing) and atheist fundamentalism breed off each other.
2) Partly a slashdot thing. Teenagers living in their parents basement tend to assume that anything they do not understand must be wrong.
3) A generalisation of 2). People do not know the reasons for a particular belief, so they assume it must be irrational. The tooth fairy comparisions prove that.
4) The need for scapegoats. If we could just wipe out X life would be fine. Pol Pot (among others) tried that (wiping out religions, money and anyone who looked like trouble).
5) An ignorance of history and society caused by 3) and making 4) seem plausible.
If we used other scripting languages from the start, we would not have had to wait for XMLHTTPRequest. I cannot think of another scripting language that does not have some ability to make network requests.
Is there ANY operating system that "just works"?
Well is a small business with four desktops counts then yes. One decent PC running Linux + four old ones turned into X windosx thin clients.
If a slightly bigger (about thirty desktops), yes, using Windows and Citirx. It was a complete disaster. I suspect the first wave of this stuff (before hardware was fast enough) gave the hold idea a bad name.
I also use thin clients at home.
Well, there is no way MS would sue anyone where I live at the moment.
When they threatened to crack down on big businesses, the result was enough threats to switch to Linux to make them stfu. The funny thing is that IBM seems to be being successful in getting people to pay for Notes.
As for small businesses, they just pirate everything they use.
What are the consequences of making a false claim like this? AS far as I can see, none. The RIM case is, if anything, an encouragement to patent trolls, not a deterrent.
There is a reason for requiring that the "inventor" sign under penalty of perjury: it is precisely to provide a detterent. If it is not enforced, there is not reason not to "have a try" at patenting other people's ideas.
The same applies to lots of other laws that have similar provisions (DMCA, to pick an example familiar to slashdot) for similar reasons. Fail to punish and you make the signed statements worthless.
You say liears should uffer consequences. It is clear given that 1) there are huge numbers of patents filed, 2) many are dubious, and 3) noone gets prosectued for their false claims that there are no consequences.
Hundreds or thousands have been molested by people they met in shopping malls, schools and streets. Lets ban roads! Do not allow unaccompanied minors into malls! Only allow them into school accompanies by a parent! Think of the children!
Why not keep kids safe by locking them up until they are 18? Some parents seem to be getting pretty close to that already.