I got sued by Penthouse, because they found out that my kids had been illegally making copies of the centerfolds. My problem isn't so much with the publisher as it is with this company called Xerox that allowed them to do this in the first place. I really can't believe it. And I just, obviously, in the last week, started studying about copiers. I've never really looked into it before, but that it could even be allowed to do in the first place. It's just mind-boggling.
For Christ's sake, people, it's not the job of the government to make sure that nothing illegal could possibly be done with some piece of equipment you own. Either educate yourself about it or secure it. I'm completely sick of righteous ignorance.
I know you're being sarcastic, but Sun deserves the flak it gets from the OSS community. Scott McNealy has spoken out against OSS on numerous occasions, which is weird for a company that supports OSS in several different ways.
Maybe it means *gasp* that he actually has a brain and critical thinking skills, and intelligently discusses the pros/cons of OSS as opposed to drinking the kool-aid and spouting propaganda?
Not hurricanes, but North Atlantic storms can still be pretty intense
Ever seen one with 165 MPH sustained winds, gusts over 200 MPH, and a 20-ft storm surge? New Orleans has sustained many storms of the intensity of a North Sea gale. This storm was very different.
If they're putting these images out on a public website, how can they be upset when people view the images? It doesn't matter if they're found in a search engine or if someone browses to the site, they're out in the open.
Displaying something publically doesn't waive copyright. It doesn't work that way.
Okay, so the smaller generic drug makers get an easier time under the dissolved patent system, so what? Both companies will still go on profitting well enough to continue existing for a very long time,
No they don't. The company who spent the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars never recoups its costs because the generic manufacturer drives the price down to the point where they have no chance. I don't think you full realize the ration of drug discovery to production costs. Your coke analogy doesn't work, the maker of Coke spent an afternoon and the modern equivelant of $2 in "research."
One possible outcome of dissolving patents is that the smaller generic drug makers will finally be able to invest money themselves into researching new drugs.
The money from generic drug revenue is, in general, simply not enough to fund R&D for drugs.
I'm not saying the current system is good. But if you abolish patents, R&D into drug discovery basically vanishes. There is no company willing to risk that kind of money when there is virtually no profit. The money generic manufacturers make is not even close to sufficient to drive R&D considering the failure rate for drugs. I can guarantee you that no research would be performed for conditions that didn't affect 5-10% of the population, because there would be no chance of recouping costs. So if you suffer from severe rheumatoid arthritis? Too damned bad.
Part of the reason drugs cost $200,000,000 to develop is the incredible overhead and bloat of the regulatory environment.
I've worked in the medical device market. There are thick layers of bullshit at all levels of product development. The companies (at least, the medical device companies) like it, because it presents a big barrier to entry for upstarts. End result is that a device with 1/10 the electronic complexity of a Sony Walkman ends up costing $800 to the end user.
Cutting deep into the bullshit layers of the FDA would help cut costs immensely.
There. 'make drugs cheaper to develop.'
(don't really care if the parent poster reads this or not,
You don't get to fiat regulatory crap away, because we live in the real world and not a fantasy land. And even if you did save 90% of the costs, the same basic economic factors would stand with regard to drug discovery vs. production. And I don't care if you read this either, because you still don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Oh, come on. There's at least a couple people on Slashdot who try to get informed before they post. The trolls need to have some suckers giving them the benefit of the doubt to make it all work.
I've found, from experience, that it's much easier to troll the people who don't read the articles. The ones who do know you're trolling.;)
Besides, reading the article 1)doesn't mean they understand it (to paraphrase "A Fish Called Wanda"), and 2) doesn't mean they have anything additional to add that involves actual insight.
Depends when they file, doesn't it? If the poster is correct and he cashed it before they filed, then it seems to me it should be OK. Otherwise, the creditors could go after any entity that the airline had ever given money to in its history.
A little IR, NMR, GC/MS, and some experiments to verify the stereochemistry, and you've reverse-engineered the drug for far less than what it cost to originally research. A little extra investment and they can probably develop a better synthesis too.
Yeah, any sophomore chemistry student can "reverse engineer" a drug. I imagine it never occured to them how generics are made?
The naivete of these people absolutely astounds me. Matched only by the certainty that they actually know what they're talking about.
YES businesses would need to change, but that does not mean that there would be no more drugs, or software, or whatever your version of "the sky would fall" is.
As a chemist and someone who is more than passingly familiar with the pharmaceutical industry, I can tell you you're flat wrong. For a drug that costs $200,000,000.00 to develop and costs $0.50/dose to make, please tell me how drugs get developed in a completely patent-free environment.
Any responses that fall under "make drugs cheaper to develop" will be thoroughly ignored.
Gee, the proposed law seems to me to work very much like the do not call list of telemarketing. I.E. Do not call unless you've been asked. That works better than voluntary do not spam lists don't you think
Except it's not. DNC is opt-out, ie you get phone spam unless you join the list. And we sure as hell don't want email to have a centralized list, because that's basically going to be the uber spam list.
The difference is that foreign phone spammers would incur pretty significant charges to phone spam, whereas the same is not true for spam.
Nobody will buy these games just to upgrade the rosters now, since you can download this information online. If EA wants to keep selling titles (monopoly or no monopoly, they still cost millions to produce each year) they better offer something good with each new upgrade.
And for the playstation version? PC sales mean little to EA sports.
Why should you have to relearn? Appending to your skillset regularly is what separates the 30k/year programmers from the 150k/year ones. Then you don't have to wear the same old ratty clothes!
The problem is that the newest fad language doesn't equate to a marketable skill. I would say the $30K/yr programmer is the kid who can't understand why no one will pay him for his knowledge of an infinite number of scripting languages.
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For Christ's sake, people, it's not the job of the government to make sure that nothing illegal could possibly be done with some piece of equipment you own. Either educate yourself about it or secure it. I'm completely sick of righteous ignorance.
Yeah, that doesn't sould like much fun. This is something Apple should rectify in 10.5, I imagine Vault would be more commonly used.
Guess my professors were older than yours, we developed for the IBM 390. That line of IBMs predates unix. ;)
I know you're being sarcastic, but Sun deserves the flak it gets from the OSS community. Scott McNealy has spoken out against OSS on numerous occasions, which is weird for a company that supports OSS in several different ways.
Maybe it means *gasp* that he actually has a brain and critical thinking skills, and intelligently discusses the pros/cons of OSS as opposed to drinking the kool-aid and spouting propaganda?
Ever seen one with 165 MPH sustained winds, gusts over 200 MPH, and a 20-ft storm surge? New Orleans has sustained many storms of the intensity of a North Sea gale. This storm was very different.
Not unless they have a 126th percentile.
...is the kids who were home schooled typically lack social skills.
Only after people quit making that lame-assed joke.
Displaying something publically doesn't waive copyright. It doesn't work that way.
Because if you keep her happy, she keeps you hapy, see?
See, once one moves out of the parents' basement, one don't have to go to a theater for the best chance of a little alone time in the dark.
In fact, when you're married, you'll find you always have a date waiting for you at home! Ready to complain that you didn't take out the trash!
Their rendition for MS is "Paint it Blue."
If there were a message board for scientists and IT people who actually have jobs and might know what the hell they're talking about, I'd be there.
Yeah, it's slightly off. It's become "News for Dorks," the difference being that dorks are nerd wanna-bes. Which is sad.
No they don't. The company who spent the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars never recoups its costs because the generic manufacturer drives the price down to the point where they have no chance. I don't think you full realize the ration of drug discovery to production costs. Your coke analogy doesn't work, the maker of Coke spent an afternoon and the modern equivelant of $2 in "research."
One possible outcome of dissolving patents is that the smaller generic drug makers will finally be able to invest money themselves into researching new drugs.
The money from generic drug revenue is, in general, simply not enough to fund R&D for drugs.
I'm not saying the current system is good. But if you abolish patents, R&D into drug discovery basically vanishes. There is no company willing to risk that kind of money when there is virtually no profit. The money generic manufacturers make is not even close to sufficient to drive R&D considering the failure rate for drugs. I can guarantee you that no research would be performed for conditions that didn't affect 5-10% of the population, because there would be no chance of recouping costs. So if you suffer from severe rheumatoid arthritis? Too damned bad.
You don't get to fiat regulatory crap away, because we live in the real world and not a fantasy land. And even if you did save 90% of the costs, the same basic economic factors would stand with regard to drug discovery vs. production. And I don't care if you read this either, because you still don't know what the hell you're talking about.
I've found, from experience, that it's much easier to troll the people who don't read the articles. The ones who do know you're trolling. ;)
Besides, reading the article 1)doesn't mean they understand it (to paraphrase "A Fish Called Wanda"), and 2) doesn't mean they have anything additional to add that involves actual insight.
Depends when they file, doesn't it? If the poster is correct and he cashed it before they filed, then it seems to me it should be OK. Otherwise, the creditors could go after any entity that the airline had ever given money to in its history.
We're not going to have to start locking up the glue and white-out, are we? Hey! Stop sniffing that!
Yeah, any sophomore chemistry student can "reverse engineer" a drug. I imagine it never occured to them how generics are made?
The naivete of these people absolutely astounds me. Matched only by the certainty that they actually know what they're talking about.
That's a fine distinction. That's like saying I don't hate the KKK, I just hate the racists in it.
As a chemist and someone who is more than passingly familiar with the pharmaceutical industry, I can tell you you're flat wrong. For a drug that costs $200,000,000.00 to develop and costs $0.50/dose to make, please tell me how drugs get developed in a completely patent-free environment.
Any responses that fall under "make drugs cheaper to develop" will be thoroughly ignored.
Except it's not. DNC is opt-out, ie you get phone spam unless you join the list. And we sure as hell don't want email to have a centralized list, because that's basically going to be the uber spam list.
The difference is that foreign phone spammers would incur pretty significant charges to phone spam, whereas the same is not true for spam.
And for the playstation version? PC sales mean little to EA sports.
The problem is that the newest fad language doesn't equate to a marketable skill. I would say the $30K/yr programmer is the kid who can't understand why no one will pay him for his knowledge of an infinite number of scripting languages.