The downside here is that they cannot sell the chips with minor defects that necessitate crippling in with these artificially crippled chips, since they are offering the ability to unlock the full performance. That means they must be selling the chips with minor defects at an ever lower tier, along with more artificially crippled chips that they are not allowing unlocking for, or they are throwing away the chips with only minor defects.
Happens all the time, actually, they usually just don't offer a way to unlock it. They make a run of all the chips of a given architecture, then put them through tests. The ones that pass clean are set to highest offered speed or full cache, while the not quite so good ones are brought down a notch. Also happens for GPUs, hard drive platters, and even resistor tolerances.
Sometimes people figure out tricks to unlock everything (with the caveat that the company sold it to you that way for a reason), but who knew Intel would sell their own tool hacker tool?
Indeed. That is true. That said, when demand for one of those lower performance chips is high enough the companies will sometimes sell chips without the defects. They often artificially cripple the chip when doing so, but on rare occasion they sell the better chips non-crippled as though they were the cheaper chips hopping nobody will complain. (That said, if you had a non-crippled better chip in your test system, that could be a problem, since you would get better performance than you could actually count on.
This is the first time I have heard of selling artificially crippled CPU's in their own tier, where none have defects, allowing them to be unlocked via software.
It depends on what you are calling 4G. Sprint considers it's new wimax-based networks as 4G.
Just about everybody else considers 4G to be LTE (or technically LTE Advanced, since plain LTE is only 3.9G), which is expected to be used by providers that used to be part of of 3GPP (GMS/EDGE/WCDMA/UMTS/HSxPA), as well as the 3GPP2 (CDMA/CDMA2000) providers.
This could potentially finally bring the ability to swap phones between providers to the US, since they would all be using the same technology for their latest networks. Of course, I'm not sure how the CDMA providers will transition to LTE, since having a SIM that is needed only for LTE service, but not for the legacy CDMA2000 service would be awkward. I'm guessing the CDMA providers will transition by having a hardwired SIM for LTE, at least until they start offering LTE only phones, when they might finally start offering replaceable SIM cards.
Kubuntu is probably THE distro that is responsible for the bad name KDE4 got...
That sounds odd considering that Kubuntu's KDE install is pretty much the same as if you installed KDE from unaltered source on any distribution. All of KDE4's default settings are at least somewhat questionable. Somebody said that if you take a clean KDE4 install, open up Dolphin, and check the options, pretty much all are set to the oposite of what you would want.
I did so, and agreed that the vast majority of the default Boolean settings were the reverse of what I would want.
That sort of crap is what gave KDE4 a bad name. The fact that Mandriva has a better experience by customizing KDE4 does not mean that KDE4 does not have serious issues. Perhaps it should adopt some of Mandriva's changes for the default configuration.
The other thing to keep in mind is that for better or worse, Photoshop is the more familiar tool, so companies can rely the artists being familiar with it, not to mention it is a more polished tool. GIMP may have the technical capability to perform most Photoshop tasks, but it can be more of a pain to use.
Considering that the GIMP does not give productivity benefits over Photoshop, does not have an excellent reputation for quality (unlike say Apache), and the cost of a Photoshop license is rather small in business terms, it should be no surprise that Photoshop was picked, even without paying attention to the GIMP's name.
That is true enough. At least for small numbers. That said, to have devices that strip HDCP, for uses like using an old incompatible monitor, you would want custom silicon as that would be the only way to have a reasonable cost per device.
The hexadecimal digit extraction formula for PI (that allows you to skip calculating the previous hex digits) is already known. It can calulcuate the N'th hexadecimaldigit of Pi without calculating most of the previous digits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93Plouffe_formula
That would be true except that the extremely high speed signaling that HDMI uses is likely too fast for a cheap FPGA to handle. (Cheap FPGA generally have slow transistors.) An expensive one might be able to cut it though.
It was possible before for many movies thanks to some flaws in the implementation of AACS.
But it is true that if HDCP is broken this leaves a digital hole (similar to the analogue hole) wide open regardless of the copy protection on the disc itself.
Breaking the AACS and BD+ though would make thing easier (like faster than playback speed rips).
I believe the interface is designed to be highly customizable, so I could have my seed make the interface look different.
But it intends to have some other significant advantages as well, such as making it far easier to make and organize groups of friends, so that you can easily reveal certain information only to some groups of friends. Basically you have multiple profiles. Look closely at the tabs at the top of the images. Each of those can function like a separate profile. Each of those can have separate friends. You could have a family tab which has only your family members as friends, (and which only they can see). That makes it very easy to post something only visible to your family.
You could have a social games tab that where wall posts from your FarmVille style games show up, making it very easy to avoid spamming those posts out to people who are not interested.
The plan is to permit you to connect it with your Facebook account, so all of profile can be automatically pulled from Facebook, and shown on your diaspora seed. Similarly, you will be able to have all your tweets pulled in and shown as part of your wall, and when you change your status, you could have that sent out as a tweet automatically.
Engineering can be an exact science. It can also be an inexact science. for example, you are designing a relatively simple structure, such as a desk. How much load will you design to desk to support? Ideally somebody would tell you that, but there are many cases where that does not happen. You probably have a per item budget, but should you use it all? Possibly not. If you can design a product that comes in under bellow the budgeted cost, but still looks good, and can function in the desired use-cases that is a good thing.
What components do you use? The permissible material types are almost always predetermined by the company, but even those have often have a three-way trade-off between looks, strength, and cost. Ideally the engineer should be outlining the basic possibilities, and have the company choose which trade-off to make, but since in complex projects there are hundreds of such decisions, the engineers usually need to make at least some of these calls.
Are you sure that is not a bug in your OS kernel? I supose it also depends on how many pages is a bunch. If you are talking around 20 open tabs, and Firefox is thrashing on an 8GB system, I'd bet it is a bug in the kernel causing too much swapping to disk.
But if you meant several hundred open tabs, I could see performance issues occurring even though you have 8 GB of ram.
True. Finland has some cultural and style of governance differences from the US that I suspect have helped quite a bit in getting good broadband prices. The parts of the us with similar population layouts could probably get the good broadband deals Finland gets if the culture and style of government were consciously changed to be more like Finland in at least certain respects.
You make an important point: US citizenship does give you the right to enter[1], and a presumed but not absolute right to leave.
That said, the country you are trying to leave to enter the US may prevent you from leaving their country, and generally it is not possible to enter the US without leaving the country you are currently in.
[1] Also the right to reside and work[2] in the US. [2] Assuming you can find work that other laws don't forbid you from performing.
Population density is a poor measure. What really matters is what percentage of the total population lives in areas with different local population densities.
If Finland were set up where 99.9% of people lived in a handful of cities (with those cities as far apart as possible) with population densities along the line of 70,951/sq mi (27,394.3/km^2) (the density of Manhattan) it would be a very different place than it is now. Similarly, if everybody in Finland were equally spread out, the country would be a very different place. Yet both those theoretical constructions have the same population Density as real Finland.
The pre-included gratuity (in the US at least) is generally only found in places where employees depend on tips to have reasonable wages and specifically in cases where a tip is likely to be forgotten or to end up unusually small if not included in the bill.
For example, large groups at restaurants often fail to leave an appropriate tip, since either the person hit with the bill feels like they cannot afford to spend more, or the bill is being split by the group and some of the payers forget to include their portion of the tip.
In some other countries (Germany comes to mind), the standard is for a service charge line to be added to the bill, equivalent to the cultural tip level for standard service. It is standard practice to leave more in the case of exceptionally good service, but receiving more than an extra percent or two is uncommon, excepting by visitors from foreign countries who are unfamiliar with the system. In many such countries (but I'm not sure about specifics) it is legal to refuse to pay the service charge, or pay a reduced charge, but this is generally only done with exceptionally poor service.
$189,423 is enough to qualify as a professional programmer, but is still very much indie professional development. It is also hardly enough to be hiring more than one or two employees full time.
I will agree that if he is contracting out large portions of the work, like UI design and graphics, then the claim of a one-man company
Also a one man "company" is very possible even in the UK. They are known as sole proprietorship. I'm not sure about UK law, but perhaps sole proprietorship are full liability there. If so he likely does have PLC (or even a small corporation), which does require a secretary who must be distinct from a sole director.
Indeed. Take a company who has rolled out a gigabit internal backbone. The number of 100Mbit sockets provided surely exceeds ten, meaning that despite having a 100 megabit socket, you cannot, during maximum utilization, get sustained 100 connection to a computer located many switches away. But I've yet see to anybody file a helpdesk ticket complaining that they cannot get a sustained 100Mbit connection to the server. They don't expect to allways get 100Mbit out of their 100Mbit jack.
The ASUS has no TV tuner, and most models have no optical drive. Those that do have an optical drive only have DVD-R not blu-ray.
If there is a similar box with a tuner and blu-ray drive, that ships for around $300 including the cost of the romote, I would be very interested in hearing about it.
You seem to be making an argument against just synthesizers. Fair enough. However, it is entirely possible to construct robots to play each instrument.
That would result in the sound of each instrument being correct. However the basic attempts to do so will create a perfect performance. Besides inaccurate reproduction of sounds the music being too perfect (the tempo has no jitter, and every note starts exactly on the beat.)
But synthesizer artists have studied how to make the playback less rigid, and perfect, making that aspect of synthesized music more realistic. Much of that could be combined with robotic musicians. The result would be fairly decent music. It would still lack some of the aspects that humans give by playing off each other, but it would also lack many of the distracting errors found on recordings by low quality orchestras. The result would be music that is inexpensive per recording (since only one person needs to be paid), and of good, but not great quality.
The author has already agreed to changes in the second printing, but the first printing was already made. Instead of forcing the publisher to burn those books, the Pentagon is offering to pay for them, since the original edition containing objectionable content was the fault of the Army Reserve in the first place.
If you had read the story, the Army Reserve approved the book (without checking with the Pentagon), but the Pentagon later found out that it contained sensitive information. The author agreed to remove said information after hearing the pentagon's concerns.
Both the author and Pentagon have agreed on text for the second edition, but as for the first print, the only reasonable thing to do is for the the Pentagon (or better yet the Army Reserve) to purchase the books from the publisher at publishing cost, and destroy them at its own expense.
It could have used national security reasons to steal the book, but that would be unfair to the publisher, while buying them is not.
Well that is fine. It should be easy enough to make a specialty HTPC-system in a set top form factor.
Take a notebook CPU for its low power utilization. You can use a realatively weak CPU, since it won't need to do much computation. Use a rather low end GPU, but that is capable of hardware acceleration. You don't need anything too powerful, since you won't be running games or anything on it, and you want to keep costs low.
Use a sound-card capable of souround sound output, so people don't need a surround receiver. Include a CD tuner, and a blu-ray drive.
Use a small SSD for the system software, and a large mechanical hard disk for the rest. Have an RF-remote reciver, and Ethernet and 802.11n card.
For the software, have a media center program, providing access to online content, including NetFlix streaming. Have DVR support and integrated blu-ray/dvd playback.
Price it around $300. The result would be a single inexpensive system that acts as your DVD player, blu-ray player, surround decoder, internet content set-top box, and DVR.
Having everything integrated gives you some nice advantages. You don't need to worry about changing modes on all of your devices. You can easily have a single remote to control everything, since all you have is the TV and this one device, and all the remote needs to be able to do with the TV is turn it on and off.
Such a device would have all the benefits of an HTPC without being branded as a PC, but merely as a TV peripheral.
The keeping up on research is a large part of the reason for pharmacists. Pharmacists are experts in drugs. They are expected to be more familiar with drugs than even doctors. The doctor's job is primarily to make a diagnosis, and find possible courses of treatment, including medication. Ideally they should be consulting with a pharmacist in determining the best medication to try, but practically that does not happen, mostly because many conditions have one drug that generally works best, so that is the first one tried, and then a second one. If anfter several tries none have work, but the doctor is confident in his diagnosis, would a pharmacist likely be consulted by the doctor.
Do remember that the job of the pharmacist has evolved over time from previous jobs. It started out as a medicine maker, combining ingredients right there to produce the medication. These days most medications are pre-manufactured, although there are some remnants, like some particularly short-lived medications that the pharmacist creates on the spot by combining two or more substances purchased from a pharmaceutical manufacturer. These days though the pharmacist mostly dispenses medications prescribed by the doctor, and provides advice on OTC medication selection, and the taking of any medication.
And then there's the full disclosure you're supposed to make. You try to recreate the damn thing, and it DOES NOT BLOODY WORK. Obviously, I'm not "skilled in the art" enough...
The disclosure is supposed to be a working embodiment of your claims. In a sane system that should be grounds for dismissing all claims in their entirety, with no opportunity for refiling/amendment. The claims would be treated like those in an expired patent, in the even that there exists a working embodiment of them.
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The downside here is that they cannot sell the chips with minor defects that necessitate crippling in with these artificially crippled chips, since they are offering the ability to unlock the full performance. That means they must be selling the chips with minor defects at an ever lower tier, along with more artificially crippled chips that they are not allowing unlocking for, or they are throwing away the chips with only minor defects.
Happens all the time, actually, they usually just don't offer a way to unlock it. They make a run of all the chips of a given architecture, then put them through tests. The ones that pass clean are set to highest offered speed or full cache, while the not quite so good ones are brought down a notch. Also happens for GPUs, hard drive platters, and even resistor tolerances.
Sometimes people figure out tricks to unlock everything (with the caveat that the company sold it to you that way for a reason), but who knew Intel would sell their own tool hacker tool?
Indeed. That is true. That said, when demand for one of those lower performance chips is high enough the companies will sometimes sell chips without the defects. They often artificially cripple the chip when doing so, but on rare occasion they sell the better chips non-crippled as though they were the cheaper chips hopping nobody will complain. (That said, if you had a non-crippled better chip in your test system, that could be a problem, since you would get better performance than you could actually count on.
This is the first time I have heard of selling artificially crippled CPU's in their own tier, where none have defects, allowing them to be unlocked via software.
It depends on what you are calling 4G. Sprint considers it's new wimax-based networks as 4G.
Just about everybody else considers 4G to be LTE (or technically LTE Advanced, since plain LTE is only 3.9G), which is expected to be used by providers that used to be part of of 3GPP (GMS/EDGE/WCDMA/UMTS/HSxPA), as well as the 3GPP2 (CDMA/CDMA2000) providers.
This could potentially finally bring the ability to swap phones between providers to the US, since they would all be using the same technology for their latest networks. Of course, I'm not sure how the CDMA providers will transition to LTE, since having a SIM that is needed only for LTE service, but not for the legacy CDMA2000 service would be awkward. I'm guessing the CDMA providers will transition by having a hardwired SIM for LTE, at least until they start offering LTE only phones, when they might finally start offering replaceable SIM cards.
Kubuntu is probably THE distro that is responsible for the bad name KDE4 got...
That sounds odd considering that Kubuntu's KDE install is pretty much the same as if you installed KDE from unaltered source on any distribution. All of KDE4's default settings are at least somewhat questionable. Somebody said that if you take a clean KDE4 install, open up Dolphin, and check the options, pretty much all are set to the oposite of what you would want.
I did so, and agreed that the vast majority of the default Boolean settings were the reverse of what I would want.
That sort of crap is what gave KDE4 a bad name. The fact that Mandriva has a better experience by customizing KDE4 does not mean that KDE4 does not have serious issues. Perhaps it should adopt some of Mandriva's changes for the default configuration.
The other thing to keep in mind is that for better or worse, Photoshop is the more familiar tool, so companies can rely the artists being familiar with it, not to mention it is a more polished tool. GIMP may have the technical capability to perform most Photoshop tasks, but it can be more of a pain to use.
Considering that the GIMP does not give productivity benefits over Photoshop, does not have an excellent reputation for quality (unlike say Apache), and the cost of a Photoshop license is rather small in business terms, it should be no surprise that Photoshop was picked, even without paying attention to the GIMP's name.
That is true enough. At least for small numbers. That said, to have devices that strip HDCP, for uses like using an old incompatible monitor, you would want custom silicon as that would be the only way to have a reasonable cost per device.
The hexadecimal digit extraction formula for PI (that allows you to skip calculating the previous hex digits) is already known. It can calulcuate the N'th hexadecimaldigit of Pi without calculating most of the previous digits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93Plouffe_formula
A slower generalized version that can extract the n'th digit of Pi in any base (including decimal) has also been found: http://web.archive.org/web/19990116223856/www.lacim.uqam.ca/plouffe/Simon/articlepi.html
That would be true except that the extremely high speed signaling that HDMI uses is likely too fast for a cheap FPGA to handle. (Cheap FPGA generally have slow transistors.) An expensive one might be able to cut it though.
It was possible before for many movies thanks to some flaws in the implementation of AACS.
But it is true that if HDCP is broken this leaves a digital hole (similar to the analogue hole) wide open regardless of the copy protection on the disc itself.
Breaking the AACS and BD+ though would make thing easier (like faster than playback speed rips).
I believe the interface is designed to be highly customizable, so I could have my seed make the interface look different.
But it intends to have some other significant advantages as well, such as making it far easier to make and organize groups of friends, so that you can easily reveal certain information only to some groups of friends. Basically you have multiple profiles. Look closely at the tabs at the top of the images. Each of those can function like a separate profile. Each of those can have separate friends. You could have a family tab which has only your family members as friends, (and which only they can see). That makes it very easy to post something only visible to your family.
You could have a social games tab that where wall posts from your FarmVille style games show up, making it very easy to avoid spamming those posts out to people who are not interested.
The plan is to permit you to connect it with your Facebook account, so all of profile can be automatically pulled from Facebook, and shown on your diaspora seed. Similarly, you will be able to have all your tweets pulled in and shown as part of your wall, and when you change your status, you could have that sent out as a tweet automatically.
Engineering can be an exact science. It can also be an inexact science. for example, you are designing a relatively simple structure, such as a desk. How much load will you design to desk to support? Ideally somebody would tell you that, but there are many cases where that does not happen. You probably have a per item budget, but should you use it all? Possibly not. If you can design a product that comes in under bellow the budgeted cost, but still looks good, and can function in the desired use-cases that is a good thing.
What components do you use? The permissible material types are almost always predetermined by the company, but even those have often have a three-way trade-off between looks, strength, and cost. Ideally the engineer should be outlining the basic possibilities, and have the company choose which trade-off to make, but since in complex projects there are hundreds of such decisions, the engineers usually need to make at least some of these calls.
Are you sure that is not a bug in your OS kernel? I supose it also depends on how many pages is a bunch. If you are talking around 20 open tabs, and Firefox is thrashing on an 8GB system, I'd bet it is a bug in the kernel causing too much swapping to disk.
But if you meant several hundred open tabs, I could see performance issues occurring even though you have 8 GB of ram.
True. Finland has some cultural and style of governance differences from the US that I suspect have helped quite a bit in getting good broadband prices. The parts of the us with similar population layouts could probably get the good broadband deals Finland gets if the culture and style of government were consciously changed to be more like Finland in at least certain respects.
You make an important point:
US citizenship does give you the right to enter[1], and a presumed but not absolute right to leave.
That said, the country you are trying to leave to enter the US may prevent you from leaving their country, and generally it is not possible to enter the US without leaving the country you are currently in.
[1] Also the right to reside and work[2] in the US.
[2] Assuming you can find work that other laws don't forbid you from performing.
Population density is a poor measure. What really matters is what percentage of the total population lives in areas with different local population densities.
If Finland were set up where 99.9% of people lived in a handful of cities (with those cities as far apart as possible) with population densities along the line of 70,951/sq mi (27,394.3/km^2) (the density of Manhattan) it would be a very different place than it is now. Similarly, if everybody in Finland were equally spread out, the country would be a very different place. Yet both those theoretical constructions have the same population Density as real Finland.
The pre-included gratuity (in the US at least) is generally only found in places where employees depend on tips to have reasonable wages and specifically in cases where a tip is likely to be forgotten or to end up unusually small if not included in the bill.
For example, large groups at restaurants often fail to leave an appropriate tip, since either the person hit with the bill feels like they cannot afford to spend more, or the bill is being split by the group and some of the payers forget to include their portion of the tip.
In some other countries (Germany comes to mind), the standard is for a service charge line to be added to the bill, equivalent to the cultural tip level for standard service. It is standard practice to leave more in the case of exceptionally good service, but receiving more than an extra percent or two is uncommon, excepting by visitors from foreign countries who are unfamiliar with the system. In many such countries (but I'm not sure about specifics) it is legal to refuse to pay the service charge, or pay a reduced charge, but this is generally only done with exceptionally poor service.
$189,423 is enough to qualify as a professional programmer, but is still very much indie professional development. It is also hardly enough to be hiring more than one or two employees full time.
I will agree that if he is contracting out large portions of the work, like UI design and graphics, then the claim of a one-man company
Also a one man "company" is very possible even in the UK. They are known as sole proprietorship. I'm not sure about UK law, but perhaps sole proprietorship are full liability there. If so he likely does have PLC (or even a small corporation), which does require a secretary who must be distinct from a sole director.
Indeed. Take a company who has rolled out a gigabit internal backbone. The number of 100Mbit sockets provided surely exceeds ten, meaning that despite having a 100 megabit socket, you cannot, during maximum utilization, get sustained 100 connection to a computer located many switches away. But I've yet see to anybody file a helpdesk ticket complaining that they cannot get a sustained 100Mbit connection to the server. They don't expect to allways get 100Mbit out of their 100Mbit jack.
The ASUS has no TV tuner, and most models have no optical drive. Those that do have an optical drive only have DVD-R not blu-ray.
If there is a similar box with a tuner and blu-ray drive, that ships for around $300 including the cost of the romote, I would be very interested in hearing about it.
You seem to be making an argument against just synthesizers. Fair enough. However, it is entirely possible to construct robots to play each instrument.
That would result in the sound of each instrument being correct. However the basic attempts to do so will create a perfect performance. Besides inaccurate reproduction of sounds the music being too perfect (the tempo has no jitter, and every note starts exactly on the beat.)
But synthesizer artists have studied how to make the playback less rigid, and perfect, making that aspect of synthesized music more realistic. Much of that could be combined with robotic musicians. The result would be fairly decent music. It would still lack some of the aspects that humans give by playing off each other, but it would also lack many of the distracting errors found on recordings by low quality orchestras. The result would be music that is inexpensive per recording (since only one person needs to be paid), and of good, but not great quality.
The author has already agreed to changes in the second printing, but the first printing was already made. Instead of forcing the publisher to burn those books, the Pentagon is offering to pay for them, since the original edition containing objectionable content was the fault of the Army Reserve in the first place.
If you had read the story, the Army Reserve approved the book (without checking with the Pentagon), but the Pentagon later found out that it contained sensitive information. The author agreed to remove said information after hearing the pentagon's concerns.
Both the author and Pentagon have agreed on text for the second edition, but as for the first print, the only reasonable thing to do is for the the Pentagon (or better yet the Army Reserve) to purchase the books from the publisher at publishing cost, and destroy them at its own expense.
It could have used national security reasons to steal the book, but that would be unfair to the publisher, while buying them is not.
Well that is fine. It should be easy enough to make a specialty HTPC-system in a set top form factor.
Take a notebook CPU for its low power utilization. You can use a realatively weak CPU, since it won't need to do much computation. Use a rather low end GPU, but that is capable of hardware acceleration. You don't need anything too powerful, since you won't be running games or anything on it, and you want to keep costs low.
Use a sound-card capable of souround sound output, so people don't need a surround receiver. Include a CD tuner, and a blu-ray drive.
Use a small SSD for the system software, and a large mechanical hard disk for the rest. Have an RF-remote reciver, and Ethernet and 802.11n card.
For the software, have a media center program, providing access to online content, including NetFlix streaming. Have DVR support and integrated blu-ray/dvd playback.
Price it around $300. The result would be a single inexpensive system that acts as your DVD player, blu-ray player, surround decoder, internet content set-top box, and DVR.
Having everything integrated gives you some nice advantages. You don't need to worry about changing modes on all of your devices. You can easily have a single remote to control everything, since all you have is the TV and this one device, and all the remote needs to be able to do with the TV is turn it on and off.
Such a device would have all the benefits of an HTPC without being branded as a PC, but merely as a TV peripheral.
The keeping up on research is a large part of the reason for pharmacists. Pharmacists are experts in drugs. They are expected to be more familiar with drugs than even doctors. The doctor's job is primarily to make a diagnosis, and find possible courses of treatment, including medication. Ideally they should be consulting with a pharmacist in determining the best medication to try, but practically that does not happen, mostly because many conditions have one drug that generally works best, so that is the first one tried, and then a second one. If anfter several tries none have work, but the doctor is confident in his diagnosis, would a pharmacist likely be consulted by the doctor.
Do remember that the job of the pharmacist has evolved over time from previous jobs. It started out as a medicine maker, combining ingredients right there to produce the medication. These days most medications are pre-manufactured, although there are some remnants, like some particularly short-lived medications that the pharmacist creates on the spot by combining two or more substances purchased from a pharmaceutical manufacturer. These days though the pharmacist mostly dispenses medications prescribed by the doctor, and provides advice on OTC medication selection, and the taking of any medication.
And then there's the full disclosure you're supposed to make. You try to recreate the damn thing, and it DOES NOT BLOODY WORK. Obviously, I'm not "skilled in the art" enough...
The disclosure is supposed to be a working embodiment of your claims. In a sane system that should be grounds for dismissing all claims in their entirety, with no opportunity for refiling/amendment. The claims would be treated like those in an expired patent, in the even that there exists a working embodiment of them.