your jobs are lost at a much higher level because American management nowadays hires foreign contractors, but this is invisible to you. Thus, you can't complain about what you can't see.
What makes you think it's invisible? Or that people don't complain about it? Outsourcing happens, everyone has stories about it. Many of the outsourced jobs are coming back onshore because the work wasn't getting done or because the offshore labor is no longer as cheap as it was.
If the product injures someone, the manufacturer gets sued. Doesn't matter if the owner or a repair person opened it up and modified it, even if the manufacturer is only 1% at fault, they have the deep pockets so they pay.
The ancient cure was covered here on/. about six months ago; it's a poison so of course it kills bacteria (among other things).
Regarding the genetic research, it is indeed a major area of diagnosis and treatment. At this point it's mostly diagnosis - if you can identify the resistance genes a bacteria has you can select the appropriate antibiotic much sooner.
If anyone bothered to read the linked article they would see that this is exactly what it happening. Strictly speaking, the police stopped using scanners. But the Boston Transportation Department is still using them and (apparently) contracted with Xerox to manage a database, which the police seem to have access to. I suppose one could argue that use of data collected by scanners still constitutes use of the scanner.
"When I was a kid I got no respect. My old man took me to the zoo. He told me to go over to the leopard and play connect the dots. " - Rodney Dangerfield
I think it is more about developers that have become user unfocused. The "We know what they want more then they do" mentality. That never works well.
It works quite well *if* you have a very good designer/innovator. Steve Jobs was arguably the best ever at building a product people didn't know they wanted until they saw his version of it.
The problem is that very few people are good at design, and most are really, really bad. When that happens we have to wait until market forces play out and the design fails.
I don't specifically recall using Alta Vista, but I do remember how terrible all of the search engines were before Google came along. They didn't return the most relevant results, they returned the web sites that paid them to be placed higher; Google was the first one to actually do what the user wanted from a search engine - return relevant results.
If laws exist the have got to be applied consistently
This guy pleaded guilty, admitted that what he did was wrong, and faced the consequences. It was apparently his first offense so the punishment was essentially a slap on the wrist and warning to not do it again.
Compare that to someone who ignores repeated requests to stop distributing, claims there was nothing wrong with what he did, shows no remorse, etc. That person will likely face a much stiffer punishment. Nothing inconsistent about that.
Pennsylvania had a big squabble over the money from Marcellus Shale leases. The legislature wanted to keep most if it as a reserve and spread it over many years, but the governor (Rendell) wanted to piss it all away while he was in office. Thankfully, the legislature mostly won.
The Permanent Fund was originally conceived by Gov. Miller (R) and brought to fruition by Gov. Hammond (R). At the time the state legislature (dominated by Democrats) wanted to keep the money in the general fund where they could decide how it would be spent, but the residents of Alaska preferred the idea of distributing the money.
Imagine, for example, a non-profit entity that would assemble and maintain the IT infrastructure and databases needed to support the entire end to end process, and make it available free of charge,
Sure. Free as in beer. Just imagine it and the billions of dollars and specialized training it takes to develop a new drug just magically appear for free.
The article mentions it in passing, but the biggest contributor to the problem is over fishing of the large predators that should be present on the reefs - sharks, groupers, etc. That upsets the entire ecosystem.
"That's opened up a tremendous opportunity for women and other people that have been left out of the conversation"
Bad grammar aside, I'm surprised someone thinks there's a diversity problem on TV. It overcompensated back in the 70's and never returned.
The reason TV watching is on the decline is because the programming sucks and there are too many commercials. Playing a laugh track between every spoken line does not make stupid dialog funny.
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You want unlimited? Pay for unlimited. It's the customer's choice.
Where in TFA does it say anything about lobbying? All they did was spend some marketing dollars pushing the consumption of eggs.
I wonder what sort of lesson this can give us beyond the one about pile of money thrown on it.
Yup, all it takes is time and money. Ask your boss how many years and how many billions of dollars he's willing to spend.
If a person did this...
Did what? Public relations? Advertise?
The Egg Board is an advocate for the consumption of eggs. What's the problem?
This article seems more like a slashvertisement for Hampton Creek
So should rich countries pay up?
No. The real solution is to lower the birthrate and eventually reduce the world population. Shifting money around wouldn't solve anything.
Ah yes, "salubrious pus". A massive infection is always the best treatment for an injury; unless it kills you.
your jobs are lost at a much higher level because American management nowadays hires foreign contractors, but this is invisible to you. Thus, you can't complain about what you can't see.
What makes you think it's invisible? Or that people don't complain about it? Outsourcing happens, everyone has stories about it. Many of the outsourced jobs are coming back onshore because the work wasn't getting done or because the offshore labor is no longer as cheap as it was.
If the product injures someone, the manufacturer gets sued. Doesn't matter if the owner or a repair person opened it up and modified it, even if the manufacturer is only 1% at fault, they have the deep pockets so they pay.
The ancient cure was covered here on /. about six months ago; it's a poison so of course it kills bacteria (among other things).
Regarding the genetic research, it is indeed a major area of diagnosis and treatment. At this point it's mostly diagnosis - if you can identify the resistance genes a bacteria has you can select the appropriate antibiotic much sooner.
If anyone bothered to read the linked article they would see that this is exactly what it happening. Strictly speaking, the police stopped using scanners. But the Boston Transportation Department is still using them and (apparently) contracted with Xerox to manage a database, which the police seem to have access to. I suppose one could argue that use of data collected by scanners still constitutes use of the scanner.
"When I was a kid I got no respect. My old man took me to the zoo. He told me to go over to the leopard and play connect the dots. " - Rodney Dangerfield
Every sentence is a paragraph. Most aren't even complete sentences. It's like a random collection of thoughts. Taken from other sources. Or something.
There. Fixed it for ya :^)
I think it is more about developers that have become user unfocused. The "We know what they want more then they do" mentality. That never works well.
It works quite well *if* you have a very good designer/innovator. Steve Jobs was arguably the best ever at building a product people didn't know they wanted until they saw his version of it.
The problem is that very few people are good at design, and most are really, really bad. When that happens we have to wait until market forces play out and the design fails.
I don't specifically recall using Alta Vista, but I do remember how terrible all of the search engines were before Google came along. They didn't return the most relevant results, they returned the web sites that paid them to be placed higher; Google was the first one to actually do what the user wanted from a search engine - return relevant results.
If laws exist the have got to be applied consistently
This guy pleaded guilty, admitted that what he did was wrong, and faced the consequences. It was apparently his first offense so the punishment was essentially a slap on the wrist and warning to not do it again.
Compare that to someone who ignores repeated requests to stop distributing, claims there was nothing wrong with what he did, shows no remorse, etc. That person will likely face a much stiffer punishment. Nothing inconsistent about that.
Linux is a piece of shit out of the box but you can sculpt it
I thought people sculpted clay and polished turds. I learned something today.
The word "ecosystem" doesn't mean what you seem to think.
Pennsylvania had a big squabble over the money from Marcellus Shale leases. The legislature wanted to keep most if it as a reserve and spread it over many years, but the governor (Rendell) wanted to piss it all away while he was in office. Thankfully, the legislature mostly won.
Counting in the costs of failures as well as successes, major pharmas estimate that it takes about $1.5 billion dollars to bring a new drug to market
Agreed. Times have changed from the old days when Steve Jobs would tell the fanbois what to buy and they would trip over themselves to obey..
The Permanent Fund was originally conceived by Gov. Miller (R) and brought to fruition by Gov. Hammond (R). At the time the state legislature (dominated by Democrats) wanted to keep the money in the general fund where they could decide how it would be spent, but the residents of Alaska preferred the idea of distributing the money.
Imagine, for example, a non-profit entity that would assemble and maintain the IT infrastructure and databases needed to support the entire end to end process, and make it available free of charge,
Sure. Free as in beer. Just imagine it and the billions of dollars and specialized training it takes to develop a new drug just magically appear for free.
The article mentions it in passing, but the biggest contributor to the problem is over fishing of the large predators that should be present on the reefs - sharks, groupers, etc. That upsets the entire ecosystem.
"That's opened up a tremendous opportunity for women and other people that have been left out of the conversation"
Bad grammar aside, I'm surprised someone thinks there's a diversity problem on TV. It overcompensated back in the 70's and never returned.
The reason TV watching is on the decline is because the programming sucks and there are too many commercials. Playing a laugh track between every spoken line does not make stupid dialog funny.