Having used Ubuntu 12.04 for a while, I don't really find it too bad. Specifically, the lack of scroll bars is fine because when the cursor is moved to an area where the scroll bar would have been, a real scroll bar pops up. The area trigger for when the scroll bar pops up is actually wider thant the width of the actual scroll bar.
I agree. I thought I wanted a small smartphone when I got my HTC Aria. Then it broke and I got an LG Phoenix. When my contract came up, I thought I'd try out the Samsung Galaxy S II. Boy did I realize what I was missing the whole time: I actually prefer having a larger screen! I should have gotten a Galaxy S back then to start with. Despite it being a larger phone, it still fits in my pocket.
That article is about all drugs, not just prescription drugs (although prescription drugs make up much more revenue than anything generic like aspirin or halothane). Where are your numbers?
Global pharmaceutical sales are expected to grow by 5% to 7% in 2011 to around $880 billion, compared with a rise of 4% to 5% this year, thanks to robust growth in emerging markets, especially China, as well as new innovative treatments, according to IMS Health. The headwinds pushing back against that growth include budget pressures in the developed world and patent expirations.
The 17 so-called "pharmerging countries," which include such nations as Brazil, Russia, India, Venezuela, Poland and the Ukraine, are forecast to see their pharmaceutical spending grow at a 15% to 17% rate in 2011, to between $170 billion and $180 billion overall. Especially impressive is the rise in what is now the world's third-largest pharmaceutical market: China. Spending there is predicted to grow by 25% to 27% to more than $50 billion next year.
1) The global prescription drug revenue is not even $1 trillion. Where are you getting this "multi-trillion dollar industry"?
2) Drugs cost money to develop, show efficacy in clinical trials, etc. Most drugs going through the pipeline are duds. For the ones that do work we have patents. And once those 20 years are up, those drugs become generic and cheaper. The generics work, and most people should be opting for them. If they aren't they're just being sheltered from the true cost of the name-brand drugs. Or do you think drugs like atorvastatin just came out of nowhere?
3) Really? You're comparing drug cartels to the pharmaceutical industry? When was the last time Pfizer beheaded someone? How many people have the Sinaloa cartel beheaded last month?
It was $70 at Target. That was almost 20 years ago. Now games have better graphics, better replayability, on-line multiplayer, etc. and they sell new from $40-$60. That's not bad given the progression since then. I'd ask you to get off my lawn now, but it's been paved over with concrete.
Google is making money giving stuff away, anyone else?
I gave some examples. Now your current reply contradicts what you said earlier. Google is a service. And by what you just said, they don't make money giving stuff away. They make money selling targeted ads. For Google, the user is the product, just as it is with Facebook.
Or turn off auto-run in Windows. I once found a USB drive on the ground. Turns out it was some grad student's drive. I tried to return it but got no response from the email I found on his resume.
The problem is that only a small minority of diseases actually have a cure, and these cures usually against bacterial/fungal agents and are dependent upon a working immune system.
If you get a viral disease, the only remedy is to wait it out or go on maintenance therapy. For example: cold virus - wait it out flu - wait it out varicella - wait it out HIV - maintenance therapy
If you have cancer, you're almost certainly never going to be "cured" unless you have something small and benign like a basal cell carcinoma. Breast cancer? If you take out the lesion with negative nodes, you're still not necessarily cured - you just have a better chance of disease-free survival.
Well, it's more like a wealth shift. There's always at least two sides to a transaction (exception being destruction of currency which can be a one side transaction). The other side got the $6.3 billion, and hopefully ran away with it and never looked back.
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But first, please stop using "God particle", which is not jargon. It is just stupid.
Or you can just put Cyanogenmod on it and do whatever the hell you want with it afterwards (with the added feature of removing carrier specific crap).
Having used Ubuntu 12.04 for a while, I don't really find it too bad. Specifically, the lack of scroll bars is fine because when the cursor is moved to an area where the scroll bar would have been, a real scroll bar pops up. The area trigger for when the scroll bar pops up is actually wider thant the width of the actual scroll bar.
I agree. I thought I wanted a small smartphone when I got my HTC Aria. Then it broke and I got an LG Phoenix. When my contract came up, I thought I'd try out the Samsung Galaxy S II. Boy did I realize what I was missing the whole time: I actually prefer having a larger screen! I should have gotten a Galaxy S back then to start with. Despite it being a larger phone, it still fits in my pocket.
That article is about all drugs, not just prescription drugs (although prescription drugs make up much more revenue than anything generic like aspirin or halothane). Where are your numbers?
Here you go
Global pharmaceutical sales are expected to grow by 5% to 7% in 2011 to around $880 billion, compared with a rise of 4% to 5% this year, thanks to robust growth in emerging markets, especially China, as well as new innovative treatments, according to IMS Health. The headwinds pushing back against that growth include budget pressures in the developed world and patent expirations.
The 17 so-called "pharmerging countries," which include such nations as Brazil, Russia, India, Venezuela, Poland and the Ukraine, are forecast to see their pharmaceutical spending grow at a 15% to 17% rate in 2011, to between $170 billion and $180 billion overall. Especially impressive is the rise in what is now the world's third-largest pharmaceutical market: China. Spending there is predicted to grow by 25% to 27% to more than $50 billion next year.
What a load of crap.
1) The global prescription drug revenue is not even $1 trillion. Where are you getting this "multi-trillion dollar industry"?
2) Drugs cost money to develop, show efficacy in clinical trials, etc. Most drugs going through the pipeline are duds. For the ones that do work we have patents. And once those 20 years are up, those drugs become generic and cheaper. The generics work, and most people should be opting for them. If they aren't they're just being sheltered from the true cost of the name-brand drugs. Or do you think drugs like atorvastatin just came out of nowhere?
3) Really? You're comparing drug cartels to the pharmaceutical industry? When was the last time Pfizer beheaded someone? How many people have the Sinaloa cartel beheaded last month?
It was $70 at Target. That was almost 20 years ago. Now games have better graphics, better replayability, on-line multiplayer, etc. and they sell new from $40-$60. That's not bad given the progression since then. I'd ask you to get off my lawn now, but it's been paved over with concrete.
Here's what you wrote:
Google is making money giving stuff away, anyone else?
I gave some examples. Now your current reply contradicts what you said earlier. Google is a service. And by what you just said, they don't make money giving stuff away. They make money selling targeted ads. For Google, the user is the product, just as it is with Facebook.
Many companies make money by making free stuff. Here are a few: Red Hat, Canonical, Facebook, Zynga, Mozilla, etc.
Or turn off auto-run in Windows. I once found a USB drive on the ground. Turns out it was some grad student's drive. I tried to return it but got no response from the email I found on his resume.
Korean uses a phonetic system now.
That'd be like saying letters are no longer required because we'll all be using words and sentences from now on.
That's what the Chinese did!
The problem is that only a small minority of diseases actually have a cure, and these cures usually against bacterial/fungal agents and are dependent upon a working immune system.
If you get a viral disease, the only remedy is to wait it out or go on maintenance therapy. For example:
cold virus - wait it out
flu - wait it out
varicella - wait it out
HIV - maintenance therapy
If you have cancer, you're almost certainly never going to be "cured" unless you have something small and benign like a basal cell carcinoma. Breast cancer? If you take out the lesion with negative nodes, you're still not necessarily cured - you just have a better chance of disease-free survival.
Please tell me what mythical disease this is that causes pain but can be cured with a pill?
If you look at public hiring vs. private hiring, it's actually not doing too bad:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6tijg8WBl30/T2VQ7JzycYI/AAAAAAAAMd0/It-UpJrEni0/s1600/YoYChangePayrollFeb2012.jpg
Although it's still worse than other recessions.
Yo mama's so loose down there she's 32cm, which is like, over 12 inches.
I guess so. It didn't work out so well for New Orleans, but it works pretty well so far for Amsterdarm.
Well, it's more like a wealth shift. There's always at least two sides to a transaction (exception being destruction of currency which can be a one side transaction). The other side got the $6.3 billion, and hopefully ran away with it and never looked back.
Itanium emulation! You can't exploit hardware that no one runs!
I'd rather get a cheap router that I can put OpenWRT on, and there are plenty of them (eg WRT54gl, etc.).
You're thinking of Eric Clapton.
Yet Intel's Itanium profits are greater than all of AMD's. Wish AMD would do better financially.
This is not a universal Turing machine, since those things are impossible in this universe. Not even humans are universal Turing machines.
We have Esperanto. Not too many people speak it.