Or, instead of what you are purporting to observe, it is more likely that there are few if any real penalties for driving while talking on a cell phone, and thus, as in the early days of seat belt laws, and driving while drunk laws - where it was more of a caution and nobody except minorities got busted for it - behavior has not yet changed.
As I recall, and I'm so old I used to tune my floppy drives with an oscilliscope and solder my own S-100 boards, it took almost ten years before strict seat belt license enforcement and penalties cause most drivers to change their behavior.
Ask not what they say the survey says, but instead what exactly is the survey measuring. Here endeth the lesson.
A lot of game manufacturers claim it's piracy when most of those "pirates" are actually just reloading their game that they originally purchased in the first place, but had to get a heck to work around the DRM that shouldn't have been there.
And modders.
Exception: China - most game s/w there is pirated. Period.
It's not like if the app wrongly says you have no problem with aspirin or gives a wrong value for an insulin dosage or time for your shot that you'll die.... or is it?
What if they outsource the Editors of this publication to India or Canada?
Will those viruses that edit the DNA replace all the words like "color" and "soccer" with "colour" and "football"?
I'll just get out my laser scalpel and hack away at it...
Also, does this mean we can get a glow in the dark version of the text just by adding a His-tag green glowy gene like we do in the labs to make cancer surgery easy by docking phosphorescent ligands to rewrite the cancer DNA to glow, allowing us to make sure we got all the cancer just by turning off the lights briefly?
Actually, the patent claims cover an isolated chemical reagent comprised of nucleic acids having a sequence that corresponds to a sequence found in the gene, not the gene itself. The claim only covers molecules that have been either isolated or made. Perhaps you have heard of PCR. The product of PCR generally does not occur in that form in nature. It is a manufactured nucleic acid. It is not a naturally occurring gene. The claim does not cover any gene as it naturally occurs in a person.
"generally does not occur in that form in nature"
which is lawyer talk for Does Occur That Way In Nature but you don't want to admit it happens.
Look, siRNA, miRNA, mRNA etc all "modify" genes so they produce things that don't "generally" occur. They ADAPT to changes. It's how our genes encode shuffle and modify based on environmental conditions.
Just because the dice don't always roll snake eyes doesn't mean dice can't roll snake eyes. They do.
And, if you have a gene in the dice that incorporates snake DNA mods, they'll look pretty cool.
They actually make money selling it, so that people can advertise to you.
A qualified lead is worth up to $200 a name, depending on who they are. Medical doctors and engineers names, email addresses, and phone numbers go for major bucks.
And it all lines the CEO's pocketses. Yes, precious.
Mid career. Man, facing some of the same stuff myself, cause most people in my family live to 100 and are active until the end.
However...
Yes, good idea.
No, not a guarantee.
A PhD would help, but it is the NETWORKING from your classmates and those above and below you in the field that will get you the job. It does stop the annoying five interviews process though, so you end up usually only doing two instead.
I'm on my (counts on fingers) 10th career at this point. They blur together after a while. Time to get another doctorate.
I'd recommend either Canada (in BC) where they have cheap power and plentiful water and will not be impacted by global warming rising heat for the next 40 years, other than most of the glaciers melting.
Or Brazil. They have a diverse energy economy and should do well long term.
Australia is going to get even hotter and have even more destructive wildfires in the coming decades, sadly.
I don't care what you call it, but stop stealing the code and objects I wrote as Freeware with license or GPL and privatizing what isn't yours for your own private profit.
That includes the menu driven object oriented systems and common objects I wrote decades before you tried to "patent" what wasn't yours in the first place.
But anyone with actual counter-terrorism and combat demolitions experience knows that TSA screening is a farce and not just a waste of time but an anti-competitive non-productive nuisance.
People also thought the world was flat. Some still do, sadly. Some people think Jesus rode dinosaurs.
Shader gurus do function calls to do any calculus, so it's pretty much a waste of time after say Calculus I.
Heck, almost anyone coding is mostly just calling something somebody else wrote. Reinventing the wheel (e.g. a new calculus function) is almost always a massive waste of time, when most of your cycles are spent on other things that are far more important.
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Sweet. Glad to hear you got into the mobile alpha group too!
Or, instead of what you are purporting to observe, it is more likely that there are few if any real penalties for driving while talking on a cell phone, and thus, as in the early days of seat belt laws, and driving while drunk laws - where it was more of a caution and nobody except minorities got busted for it - behavior has not yet changed.
As I recall, and I'm so old I used to tune my floppy drives with an oscilliscope and solder my own S-100 boards, it took almost ten years before strict seat belt license enforcement and penalties cause most drivers to change their behavior.
Ask not what they say the survey says, but instead what exactly is the survey measuring. Here endeth the lesson.
Source - lots of people I know personally.
Heck, have you even tried to d/l the Sims 3 using their new engine? Blew up multiple times.
A lot of game manufacturers claim it's piracy when most of those "pirates" are actually just reloading their game that they originally purchased in the first place, but had to get a heck to work around the DRM that shouldn't have been there.
And modders.
Exception: China - most game s/w there is pirated. Period.
I would do so if it was available in a mobile version of slashdot optimized for both the iPhone5 and iPad4.
But no animated GIFs, unless they are "click to launch animation on new page".
Also, where is the successor to JPEG? Mumbledy PEG?
Perhaps you had difficulty reading.
There is a big difference between an app "communicating" between doctors and someone coding on the table because the communication failed.
Totally love some of the references being available. But diagnostic tools ... diagnose.
Exactly.
It's not like if the app wrongly says you have no problem with aspirin or gives a wrong value for an insulin dosage or time for your shot that you'll die. ... or is it?
It's not like an unregulated marketplace, with limited liability, will mind if a few patients die due to a coding error.
After they privatize the profit, stuff it in their kids trust funds and retirement funds, and walk away while people die.
Socializing the risk and lifetimes of pain and misery on the rest of us. ... oh. ... wait ... It is.
Yes, I am glad to see you.
And, no, I'm not thinking about work right now.
Why do you ask?
That's the most fun way you can think of to get someone's DNA?
No. But it is the one I'll talk about.
If this carries on, corporate espionage will involve buying drinks for executives and getting a few cells they leave on their wine glass.
Hmmm.
Ha! fooled you! I use light as a wave!
Try to catch me!
Actually, the original Library of Congress was just a few books in a couple of bookshelves.
It changes in size each year.
What if they outsource the Editors of this publication to India or Canada?
Will those viruses that edit the DNA replace all the words like "color" and "soccer" with "colour" and "football"?
I'll just get out my laser scalpel and hack away at it ...
Also, does this mean we can get a glow in the dark version of the text just by adding a His-tag green glowy gene like we do in the labs to make cancer surgery easy by docking phosphorescent ligands to rewrite the cancer DNA to glow, allowing us to make sure we got all the cancer just by turning off the lights briefly?
Actually, the patent claims cover an isolated chemical reagent comprised of nucleic acids having a sequence that corresponds to a sequence found in the gene, not the gene itself. The claim only covers molecules that have been either isolated or made. Perhaps you have heard of PCR. The product of PCR generally does not occur in that form in nature. It is a manufactured nucleic acid. It is not a naturally occurring gene. The claim does not cover any gene as it naturally occurs in a person.
"generally does not occur in that form in nature"
which is lawyer talk for Does Occur That Way In Nature but you don't want to admit it happens.
Look, siRNA, miRNA, mRNA etc all "modify" genes so they produce things that don't "generally" occur. They ADAPT to changes. It's how our genes encode shuffle and modify based on environmental conditions.
Just because the dice don't always roll snake eyes doesn't mean dice can't roll snake eyes. They do.
And, if you have a gene in the dice that incorporates snake DNA mods, they'll look pretty cool.
I'm going to patent water!
Too late, I already patented Hydrogen and Oxygen.
You owe me royalties.
Oh, and stop breathing.
Seriously, it's like saying we're slaves and the property of corporations.
Which still aren't people.
Canada and the EU plus ANZA ftw.
They actually make money selling it, so that people can advertise to you.
A qualified lead is worth up to $200 a name, depending on who they are. Medical doctors and engineers names, email addresses, and phone numbers go for major bucks.
And it all lines the CEO's pocketses. Yes, precious.
Mid career. Man, facing some of the same stuff myself, cause most people in my family live to 100 and are active until the end.
However ...
Yes, good idea.
No, not a guarantee.
A PhD would help, but it is the NETWORKING from your classmates and those above and below you in the field that will get you the job. It does stop the annoying five interviews process though, so you end up usually only doing two instead.
I'm on my (counts on fingers) 10th career at this point. They blur together after a while. Time to get another doctorate.
I'd recommend either Canada (in BC) where they have cheap power and plentiful water and will not be impacted by global warming rising heat for the next 40 years, other than most of the glaciers melting.
Or Brazil. They have a diverse energy economy and should do well long term.
Australia is going to get even hotter and have even more destructive wildfires in the coming decades, sadly.
I don't care what you call it, but stop stealing the code and objects I wrote as Freeware with license or GPL and privatizing what isn't yours for your own private profit.
That includes the menu driven object oriented systems and common objects I wrote decades before you tried to "patent" what wasn't yours in the first place.
People may think they're doing a good job.
But anyone with actual counter-terrorism and combat demolitions experience knows that TSA screening is a farce and not just a waste of time but an anti-competitive non-productive nuisance.
People also thought the world was flat. Some still do, sadly. Some people think Jesus rode dinosaurs.
True
No matter how much you pay lawyers to pretend it's true, boilerplate legalese can't remove your implicit copyright to your own works.
But the copyright and patent systems in the US are so messed up that most people think it's ok.
Shader gurus do function calls to do any calculus, so it's pretty much a waste of time after say Calculus I.
Heck, almost anyone coding is mostly just calling something somebody else wrote. Reinventing the wheel (e.g. a new calculus function) is almost always a massive waste of time, when most of your cycles are spent on other things that are far more important.