These films are the 21st century equivalent of the minstral show. An oppressed class of society is poked fun of by the in crowd. The oppressed are reduced to a simplified accecntuated stereotype. In this case the fried chicken and watermelons is replaced by Doritos and Mountain Dew. Blackface is replaced by a pair of nerd glasses.
...it hit a depressing nadir in 2005, when just 20 new drugs won approval from the Food and Drug
In 2004 according to the CDER there were 36 NDAs. Of course looking at the CDER calendar of approvals it looks like acutally there were 74 approvals for last year. Call me skeptical; but this article seems the like a poorly researched regurgitaged press release. Probably written by whoever is backing Prof. Poko's research.
In astronomy class they said the sun wouldn't burn out for a few billion years. It looks like teacher was wrong. First of all.NET was the Java alternative. Sun has been inept at managing Java..NET should never have been a serious alternative to Java. With.NET Microsoft looked at Java's shortcommings; and did a great job of answering those issues. All Sun needed to do was answer back in kind in the next release of Java. Yet here we are years later; and its only just now catching up.
Why should we expect this press release to amount to anything from Sun? They've been promising to turn it around in the next version now for 10 years; but they keep getting farther behind. 10 years ago I told my Sun sun rep their boxes were too expensive to buy and upgrade compared to Linux. It's ten years later and I could have the same talk with my rep today. The only thing left in my racks with the sun logo are some monster 64 cpu machines running (big suprise) a massive Oracle database.
I've got an i-Pod Mini, but its been sitting in its charger since I got my I got my Walkman Phone. Apple has a great gadget today with the i-Pod, and I wish them success; but as an investor I'd be very skeptical about their ability to keep things going much longer. The standalone player is a transitional technology. I don't want to carry a phone, a camera, a pda, and a mp3 player. The Rokr has proven to me that Apple doesn't get this. In their typical "Steve knows best" arrogance they are going to lose the I-Pod market in the next 18 months as Sony-Ericson and Motorolla come out with ever more impressive integrated gadgets.
This academic vanity is the worst form of wasted endowment dollars I've seen to date. Why do universities and others insist on spending MILLIONS of dollars each when there are perfectly good courseware products available from companies such as Blackboard and WebCT. Open source makes sense when each company can make a small investment, (e.g. linux kernel development), and enjoy a common benifit (free OS); or spend a larger sum and save licensing fees (e.g. IBM's investment in linux vs buying MS licenses). This kind of investment makes no sense. I saw the same thing at GWU; while I was there they spent god knows how much money on this Prometheus crap, which they homebrewed; only to sell it off when the couldn't make any money on it; and then switch to Blackboard. Seriously WTF. Why not just spend less on a cheaper market solution; and cut my tutition. These damn imperial academic computing departmetns who think they should be able to spend my tutition $$ on their pet projects instead of giving me decent on campus wi-fi.
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These films are the 21st century equivalent of the minstral show. An oppressed class of society is poked fun of by the in crowd. The oppressed are reduced to a simplified accecntuated stereotype. In this case the fried chicken and watermelons is replaced by Doritos and Mountain Dew. Blackface is replaced by a pair of nerd glasses.
In 2004 according to the CDER there were 36 NDAs. Of course looking at the CDER calendar of approvals it looks like acutally there were 74 approvals for last year. Call me skeptical; but this article seems the like a poorly researched regurgitaged press release. Probably written by whoever is backing Prof. Poko's research.
In astronomy class they said the sun wouldn't burn out for a few billion years. It looks like teacher was wrong. First of all .NET was the Java alternative. Sun has been inept at managing Java. .NET should never have been a serious alternative to Java. With .NET Microsoft looked at Java's shortcommings; and did a great job of answering those issues. All Sun needed to do was answer back in kind in the next release of Java. Yet here we are years later; and its only just now catching up.
Why should we expect this press release to amount to anything from Sun? They've been promising to turn it around in the next version now for 10 years; but they keep getting farther behind. 10 years ago I told my Sun sun rep their boxes were too expensive to buy and upgrade compared to Linux. It's ten years later and I could have the same talk with my rep today. The only thing left in my racks with the sun logo are some monster 64 cpu machines running (big suprise) a massive Oracle database.
I've got an i-Pod Mini, but its been sitting in its charger since I got my I got my Walkman Phone. Apple has a great gadget today with the i-Pod, and I wish them success; but as an investor I'd be very skeptical about their ability to keep things going much longer. The standalone player is a transitional technology. I don't want to carry a phone, a camera, a pda, and a mp3 player. The Rokr has proven to me that Apple doesn't get this. In their typical "Steve knows best" arrogance they are going to lose the I-Pod market in the next 18 months as Sony-Ericson and Motorolla come out with ever more impressive integrated gadgets.
This academic vanity is the worst form of wasted endowment dollars I've seen to date. Why do universities and others insist on spending MILLIONS of dollars each when there are perfectly good courseware products available from companies such as Blackboard and WebCT. Open source makes sense when each company can make a small investment, (e.g. linux kernel development), and enjoy a common benifit (free OS); or spend a larger sum and save licensing fees (e.g. IBM's investment in linux vs buying MS licenses). This kind of investment makes no sense. I saw the same thing at GWU; while I was there they spent god knows how much money on this Prometheus crap, which they homebrewed; only to sell it off when the couldn't make any money on it; and then switch to Blackboard. Seriously WTF. Why not just spend less on a cheaper market solution; and cut my tutition. These damn imperial academic computing departmetns who think they should be able to spend my tutition $$ on their pet projects instead of giving me decent on campus wi-fi.