Seriously, $60m isn't anywhere near enough to bring this to market. Most studies in pharma show that $1000m is far closer to the real figure these days, with some pushing that towards $1700m.
One billion dollars to bring a product to market? Smells like BS to justify insane prices and legislation to stop generics being made. I see nothing much in the linked article to suggest the money is being used meaningfully, only commercially (which could be hookers and blow for the execs, or sales gigs for doctors to push their pills, etc...)
Serious question: Where does the money go? What specifically makes the trials expensive?
Its odd someone gets all the way from the middle east, thru Europe, all the way to Detroit with JUST the sort of device these things are meant to detect at JUST the time their deployment is starting to ramp up.
Odd? It's not odd, it's good business! Stocks in both ASEI and OSI have had a nice rise since Christmas.
During that time, recover the explosives and PREP THE BOMB BEFORE HAND IN THE PUBLIC BATHROOM. You've already cleared security.
Some smaller airports don't have public bathrooms after you've cleared security. I imagine the ones that do will close them after the first attempt at the above scenario.
Not entirely accurate. I can think of several small ( < 100 people) Western businesses that considered it and decided no, we want to look after our staff and keep our "IP" and processes under control. It's a decision that each business has to make, and I think it depends whether you're beholden to your shareholders or your conscience.
Or just block Slashdot? These days I just scan the topics... press release, ad, ad, press release, article, interesting question, press release... there aren't many I bother to read any more.
I hope you never get cancer. If you finally go to the doctor when you fell like you on death's door, it will be too late. If caught early enough, most cancers are easily treatable.
And yet, if you go early enough, good luck convincing a doctor to run those tests for your non-specific tiredness and pains.
Interesting analysis. I've observed just such a scenario, and the difficultly lies in product issues (yes, the product behaves this way... until the next upgrade) and the layer between the apps guys and the app (the support guys). In an ideal world I'd agree with you, but we're operating in a business world, so I'll modify my statement to say, don't mess with the network after-hours if it's not your apps being affected.
3) If possible test network changes on the production equipment at 2am so that impact on users will be less step
You're a network guy, right? How well do you know the applications that use your network? How sure are you that the application behind, or in front of the change you're making don't need a restart after losing connectivity? Maybe your late night tests are causing all sorts of problems and expense when the apps guys come in to find the system inexplicably down, having visible outages, and have to start raising support requests against vendors to find a solution to their non-reproducible high severity defect in production? Don't do that.
Not all changes are a one-way trip. Having a rollback plan is also important. Should something very unexpected happen, be prepared to roll back any and all changes to undo what has just been done.
Couldn't agree more, except to say, don't assume you'll be rolling back from a known state. I've seen roll-back plans that assume they're undoing the changes just put in, not reverting to the state before the changes. Yes, there's a difference between the two! Eg, if your install fails, maybe you can't un-install. Yes, this might mean additional resources and the overhead of FS and DB snapshots, and complete copies of config files, but better that than the alternative.
Providing links to users who are actively looking for them is not "inducing" anything. Facilitating, perhaps, but inducement means that ISOHunt caused a course of action. Does the mere presence of ISOHunt encourage users in this behaviour? No, because there are so many alternatives. Back in the day there weren't many places one could go, and the presense of Napster or Grokster arguably inspired people to infringe... but these days? Please, it's one of a bazillion places to find links to torrents of ISO images. They should fight this ruling.
There may be other legislation making the possession or purchase of RC materials an offence, but the above only applies to specific areas of the Northern Territory subject to the emergency intervention, not the vast majority of the Australian population.
So they're basically saying that Aborigines can't have them? That's hardly fair.
RC-rated material includes child sex abuse content
Think of the children, but not like that you pervert, so OK
bestiality
Think of the animals, but not like that you pervert, so OK
sexual violence including rape
Only sexual violence? Is it worse than all the other kinds, or are the other kinds good for us? Should polite society pretend that violence is all guns and fistfights?
and the detailed instruction of crime or drug use
This is were it goes from protecting people from freaks with questionable sexual issues (why is always about the sex?!) to restricting access to information. Too far, Australia. Too far.
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Get three or four of these guys on a plane and that's lot of bomb material sailing right past the latest billion dollars boondoggle.
Sure, but stock prices of the scanner manufacturers are through the roof!
Seriously, $60m isn't anywhere near enough to bring this to market. Most studies in pharma show that $1000m is far closer to the real figure these days, with some pushing that towards $1700m.
One billion dollars to bring a product to market? Smells like BS to justify insane prices and legislation to stop generics being made. I see nothing much in the linked article to suggest the money is being used meaningfully, only commercially (which could be hookers and blow for the execs, or sales gigs for doctors to push their pills, etc...)
Serious question: Where does the money go? What specifically makes the trials expensive?
She still doesn't look any more realistic than a blowup doll:
http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/01/09/ces2010-roxxxy-truecompanion-worlds-first-sex-robot-preview-nsfw/
They're obviously going for the niche pre-op tranny market. That's ballsy.
...they rebelled.
Might want to play "All Along the Watchtower" to your sexbot -- if it starts dancing, you'd better watch out.
If it's an 8, I'll happily deal with the consequences...
Its odd someone gets all the way from the middle east, thru Europe, all the way to Detroit with JUST the sort of device these things are meant to detect at JUST the time their deployment is starting to ramp up.
Odd? It's not odd, it's good business! Stocks in both ASEI and OSI have had a nice rise since Christmas.
Taxing ads of Google, Yahoo! AOL ... came out from the "ZELNIK" report ordered by our dear president's wife....
Fixed that for you. Zelnik fonded Carla Bruni's record label. Conflict of interest much?
During that time, recover the explosives and PREP THE BOMB BEFORE HAND IN THE PUBLIC BATHROOM. You've already cleared security.
Some smaller airports don't have public bathrooms after you've cleared security. I imagine the ones that do will close them after the first attempt at the above scenario.
Not entirely accurate. I can think of several small ( < 100 people) Western businesses that considered it and decided no, we want to look after our staff and keep our "IP" and processes under control. It's a decision that each business has to make, and I think it depends whether you're beholden to your shareholders or your conscience.
Or just block Slashdot? These days I just scan the topics... press release, ad, ad, press release, article, interesting question, press release... there aren't many I bother to read any more.
Do you have a day job too?
I hope you never get cancer. If you finally go to the doctor when you fell like you on death's door, it will be too late. If caught early enough, most cancers are easily treatable.
And yet, if you go early enough, good luck convincing a doctor to run those tests for your non-specific tiredness and pains.
Or simplifying advertising and targeting results?
Torrent sites exist for the sole purpose of aiding and abetting the violation of copyright.
No. http://www.torrentbox.com/torrents-browse.php?cat=51
Interesting analysis. I've observed just such a scenario, and the difficultly lies in product issues (yes, the product behaves this way... until the next upgrade) and the layer between the apps guys and the app (the support guys). In an ideal world I'd agree with you, but we're operating in a business world, so I'll modify my statement to say, don't mess with the network after-hours if it's not your apps being affected.
3) If possible test network changes on the production equipment at 2am so that impact on users will be less step
You're a network guy, right? How well do you know the applications that use your network? How sure are you that the application behind, or in front of the change you're making don't need a restart after losing connectivity? Maybe your late night tests are causing all sorts of problems and expense when the apps guys come in to find the system inexplicably down, having visible outages, and have to start raising support requests against vendors to find a solution to their non-reproducible high severity defect in production? Don't do that.
Not all changes are a one-way trip. Having a rollback plan is also important. Should something very unexpected happen, be prepared to roll back any and all changes to undo what has just been done.
Couldn't agree more, except to say, don't assume you'll be rolling back from a known state. I've seen roll-back plans that assume they're undoing the changes just put in, not reverting to the state before the changes. Yes, there's a difference between the two! Eg, if your install fails, maybe you can't un-install. Yes, this might mean additional resources and the overhead of FS and DB snapshots, and complete copies of config files, but better that than the alternative.
Providing links to users who are actively looking for them is not "inducing" anything. Facilitating, perhaps, but inducement means that ISOHunt caused a course of action. Does the mere presence of ISOHunt encourage users in this behaviour? No, because there are so many alternatives. Back in the day there weren't many places one could go, and the presense of Napster or Grokster arguably inspired people to infringe... but these days? Please, it's one of a bazillion places to find links to torrents of ISO images. They should fight this ruling.
That's a good question. The WDK is readily available, so why have so few open source drivers been ported to Windows? Why no ZFS yet?
BTW, on your laptop, you can boot with System Rescue CD (sysresccd) and resize your NTFS Windows partition and file-system just fine.
Really? I thought it was nonsense cause by proliferation of The Far Side cartoons.
They don't lie, they just doesn't count the time customizing the color and clothes of their characters which is probably 20 hours a week.*
+1 Insightful. Creative interpretation leads to omission of fact... which is not lying, if you're a girl.
My car is a she. My computer is a she. My chair is a she. My bed is even a she.
I think you need to get laid.
This sort of thing should probably be done by academia or government then. Progress for the greater good doesn't have to be commercially driven.
There may be other legislation making the possession or purchase of RC materials an offence, but the above only applies to specific areas of the Northern Territory subject to the emergency intervention, not the vast majority of the Australian population.
So they're basically saying that Aborigines can't have them? That's hardly fair.
RC-rated material includes child sex abuse content
Think of the children, but not like that you pervert, so OK
bestiality
Think of the animals, but not like that you pervert, so OK
sexual violence including rape
Only sexual violence? Is it worse than all the other kinds, or are the other kinds good for us? Should polite society pretend that violence is all guns and fistfights?
and the detailed instruction of crime or drug use
This is were it goes from protecting people from freaks with questionable sexual issues (why is always about the sex?!) to restricting access to information. Too far, Australia. Too far.
If anyone finds a way to make the ads ignorable, TV will just go away.
You mean like it didn't on the internet? Oh Noes! AdBlockPlus will put Rupert Murdoch out of business and the interwebs will stop!