If I had a nickel for every time the Russians announced some ambitious program I could run my own space program. Let's see if any money actually gets allocated.
The world is full of high school and college athletes that want to play professional sports, so why do teams pay millions of dollars to some people and nothing to others?
It's not enough to have a competent lawyer. You want a lawyer that's better than the other guy's lawyer, and it usually makes sense to hire the best you can afford.
Germany also has a pretty vibrant high-tech manufacturing sector, which requires people with all sorts of different skill sets. Part of the reason there isn't much demand in the US is we don't do much manufacturing any more, at least not on a per-capita basis.
RTS? I dunno. Certainly RTS games don't take a lot of horsepower. But players eschew the mouse for as much as possible because it's not as fast as the keyboard. Fat fingering an RTS would really be very painful.
hell, becoming more niche would be a good thing to this PC gamer
Hell yes. The latest Mass Effect has sticky walls and maps every damn player action to the space bar. If I wanted everything mapped to one button I'd get a console. Game makers, if you're going to charge more than $20, please don't cripple the game so it plays on consoles.
But they won't. The pharmaceutical industry isn't very profitable, as a whole, and if it becomes even less profitable investors will take their money elsewhere.
And the clinical trials are the expensive part. Drug targets are a dime a dozen in the overall scheme of things. The hard part is getting your drug from the lab to market.
Sure, the human lifespan is limited. But cancer doesn't always wait until you've reached advanced years to strike. Cure a five year old of lymphoma and you could reasonably have added 75 years to that person's life.
You replaced a car that gets only twenty miles to the gallon with a car optimized to save gas, and it still takes you almost seven years to recover the difference in price over a $20k car that gets only twenty miles to the gallon. If you'd replace the Aerio with a 30 mpg econobox you would have come out far ahead even assuming gas jumps up to $5 and stays there. And you represent the absolute best case for a Volt, with your commute distance and the fact you live in a warm state.
Don't kid yourself. Daffy would still be in power if the Europeans (with American support) hadn't pushed him out. His response to protests and then later outright civil war was working very well.
How many more miles on a charge would it get if you just ripped out the gasoline engine?
Not very many, as you can see with the Leaf. The reason battery powered cars are niche vehicles is the energy density of hydrocarbon fuels is so much higher than that of batteries. From a back-of-the-envelop perspective, plugin hybrids make a lot of sense. The problem is the added complexity raises the price such that you'd have been better off just buying the extra fuel.
I live less than five miles from work, and most of my errands are within that distance. A couple times a year I drive a few hundred miles to visit family, so if I bought a Leaf I'd have to rent on those occasions. So I'm the ideal Volt customer - all electric normally but I do need the range.
Of course at $40k the numbers will never work, and the Volt is so complicated I question its reliability. But if they could get the price down I'd sure consider it.
The volt isn't even a fully serial hybrid, since the engine feeds power directly through the transmission when required. It's more like a parallel-serial hybrid hybrid. I don't imagine something this complicated is actually very reliable over time.
I'd be surprised if the people they arrested here were small fish. If they were just interested in headlines for arresting fifteen year old script kiddies they could have netted hundreds. Anonymous is like any other criminal organization - the cops can get the ringleaders if they're patient.
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If I had a nickel for every time the Russians announced some ambitious program I could run my own space program. Let's see if any money actually gets allocated.
Yeah, and just like every decent road trip movie, at some point all the characters spend a night in jail.
The world is full of high school and college athletes that want to play professional sports, so why do teams pay millions of dollars to some people and nothing to others?
It's not enough to have a competent lawyer. You want a lawyer that's better than the other guy's lawyer, and it usually makes sense to hire the best you can afford.
Germany also has a pretty vibrant high-tech manufacturing sector, which requires people with all sorts of different skill sets. Part of the reason there isn't much demand in the US is we don't do much manufacturing any more, at least not on a per-capita basis.
Law is a terrible profession to go into right now. Only graduates from the top 15 or so schools are getting jobs that require a legal education.
I wasn't implying otherwise. But uncripling the interface should be part of the port, particularly if the publisher is charging fifty or sixty bucks.
RTS? I dunno. Certainly RTS games don't take a lot of horsepower. But players eschew the mouse for as much as possible because it's not as fast as the keyboard. Fat fingering an RTS would really be very painful.
hell, becoming more niche would be a good thing to this PC gamer
Hell yes. The latest Mass Effect has sticky walls and maps every damn player action to the space bar. If I wanted everything mapped to one button I'd get a console. Game makers, if you're going to charge more than $20, please don't cripple the game so it plays on consoles.
What Bayer is probably worried about is grey-market imports from India to the markets that support their costs.
I have to believe the samples are accounted for at the full retail price of the drug and not production cost.
3) Yes, they can settle for less profit.
But they won't. The pharmaceutical industry isn't very profitable, as a whole, and if it becomes even less profitable investors will take their money elsewhere.
And the clinical trials are the expensive part. Drug targets are a dime a dozen in the overall scheme of things. The hard part is getting your drug from the lab to market.
When my ISP rolls this out I'll be able to hit my bandwidth cap in just a few milliseconds.
I guess they're all short, art movies.
Sure, the human lifespan is limited. But cancer doesn't always wait until you've reached advanced years to strike. Cure a five year old of lymphoma and you could reasonably have added 75 years to that person's life.
You replaced a car that gets only twenty miles to the gallon with a car optimized to save gas, and it still takes you almost seven years to recover the difference in price over a $20k car that gets only twenty miles to the gallon. If you'd replace the Aerio with a 30 mpg econobox you would have come out far ahead even assuming gas jumps up to $5 and stays there. And you represent the absolute best case for a Volt, with your commute distance and the fact you live in a warm state.
for bonus points, install Antivirus2013 and friends, just to make the malware infection seem obvious
And it has the added effect of delaying any action by the cops for at least a week while they try to boot it up.
Don't kid yourself. Daffy would still be in power if the Europeans (with American support) hadn't pushed him out. His response to protests and then later outright civil war was working very well.
Nissan did the same thing with the Leaf. I suspect it has something to do with the poor performance of battery packs in cold weather.
How many more miles on a charge would it get if you just ripped out the gasoline engine?
Not very many, as you can see with the Leaf. The reason battery powered cars are niche vehicles is the energy density of hydrocarbon fuels is so much higher than that of batteries. From a back-of-the-envelop perspective, plugin hybrids make a lot of sense. The problem is the added complexity raises the price such that you'd have been better off just buying the extra fuel.
I live less than five miles from work, and most of my errands are within that distance. A couple times a year I drive a few hundred miles to visit family, so if I bought a Leaf I'd have to rent on those occasions. So I'm the ideal Volt customer - all electric normally but I do need the range.
Of course at $40k the numbers will never work, and the Volt is so complicated I question its reliability. But if they could get the price down I'd sure consider it.
The volt isn't even a fully serial hybrid, since the engine feeds power directly through the transmission when required. It's more like a parallel-serial hybrid hybrid. I don't imagine something this complicated is actually very reliable over time.
Alternatively, the government could supply fat dudes with hot women. Now that is a government program I could support.
I'd be surprised if the people they arrested here were small fish. If they were just interested in headlines for arresting fifteen year old script kiddies they could have netted hundreds. Anonymous is like any other criminal organization - the cops can get the ringleaders if they're patient.