I'm calling the poster here out as being full of shit. As someone who's done neuroscience research, the idea that "Humans have no idea how the human, or any other brain, works" is bollocks. We have a reasonably good idea on the large scale, and in certain areas (such as the visual cortex), that understanding is quite far along. There are frontiers to our knowledge, but human understanding of brains is well on its way. Poster needs to pick up some neuroscience textbooks and get clued.
As a particular recommendation, I'd suggest Kolb and Whishaw's "Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology"; it's an excellent textbook.
And yet we still cannot cure or even treat depression with high efficacy. The fact is we don't have the full picture, and until we do, we know very little about how the brain works as a whole.
Because most phones are NAND locked. Removing the application would require NAND unlocked (write access) and for those who have NAND unlocked they can remove the applications (although not through the Application Manager).
I am gay and I think that for the company to be able to stand by their values and morals, one of which is declared as equality, the management of the company should reflect that not only in their professional lives, but their personal ones as well. It's the same idea that a CEO being caught in an extramarital affair reflects on a company and how he/she lives, operates, and performs in honest transactions (extramarital meaning that he/she took and oath to not be involved with another person). It's not to say that Eich should not have the right to believe in inequality, it's simply that his decisions reflect his, "state of mind."
While I understand that Mozilla holds freedom of speech dearly, I don't believe that you need to pick between one or the other. Just because Mozilla believes in freedom of speech and equality doesn't mean Eich can use freedom of speech as a platform to undermine equality -- that would be hypocritical and hopefully everyone can see that.
I wonder, who gets to decide? Does this mean that all game avatars will be wearing grey coveralls like THX1138?
.And how do you resolve the "it's misogynist to have women avatars in combat" and "it's misogynist *not* to have women avatars in combat" groups?
The problem arrives in that games portray women as objects of sexual appeal more frequently than simply just being a normal character. And what about butch or androgynous women or the equivalents for gay men in games? Gaymers are a big player base now days (being one, I know since we often tend to congregate accidentally) and yet the only option remains the macho DUDE that wants a piece of the slutty CHICK -- Duke Nukem anyone?
Lipitor has had an ANDA filed for a generic version by Watson, yes. However, the law allows Pfizer to grant a 180 day exclusivity contract to a manufacturer of their choice (in this case Watson) for the ANDA. To those affected by this drug going generic: IT HAS NOT GONE TRULY GENERIC YET! Wait until the 180 day exclusivity contract expires (in 179 days) and the true "invisible hand" will take effect in the market.
In the meantime, you're most likely going to need to get the BRAND NAME Lipitor for it to be covered to the fullest extent by your pharmacy benefit manager ("insurance company")! These PBMs get rebates (NOT kickbacks) to lower the cost of the brand-name drug, so it's financially advantageous to the member to not cover the generic yet. Here's why:
Lipitor (brand) 90ct bottle = $550 retail, minus $330 in rebates = $220 total cost of drug.
atorvastatin by Watson (generic) 90ct bottle = $530 retail, minus $0 in rebates (Watson doesn't offer any) = $550 total cost of drug.
(These amounts are fictional, however they represent true real-world scenarios.)
Disclaimer: I work for one of the US' largest Pharmacy Benefit Managers in the Clinical Review department. We had a meeting today regarding all of our Medicare Part-D patients and how they're affected by this specific drug going generic. No suits were involved and the members are receiving the best possible drug savings until the exclusivity contract expires. Once it expires the new generics will be placed on the tier-1 ("generic") copay structure.
It does seem a bit skewed towards Apple with the exclusion of the Samsung Galaxy.
As for the iPhone 2G, the graph clearly does not indicate that it has current support updates. This is NOT a timeline, it is a bar graph, so read it appropriately. The support was terminated shortly after the second year, which was early 2010. It is now late 2011 - so support updates for it have been missing for over a year and a half.
I recommend not going to Walgreens or CVS - go to an independent pharmacy, you'll get better care there anyways and cheaper prices. Then, don't get Proventil or Proair, get Ventolin! Ventolin is the cheapest and Glaskosmith-Kline has $15 rebate checks they give to pharmacies sometimes (and no, I don't work for ANY Pharmas). You also may want to check their website because they have programs you can enroll in to get your meds for cheap/free, plus they may even have some coupons you can use there.
This is actually extremely old news. A treaty was signed over a decade ago to ban various uses of CFCs in phases. The OTC epinephrine inhalers were pulled off of the market by the manufacturer some time ago due to a different reason (which I forget), then they decided to not restart production on it because CFC inhalers would be banned as of 1/1/2010.
Anyone that has asthma will tell you that things dramatically changed for them in 2010 when their old albuterol (fast-acting, for emergencies) inhalers were reformulated to not include CFCs (dubbed HFA, aka Hydrofluoroalkane) . Most HFA-using patients state that they cannot "feel" the aerosol or that it doesn't work nearly as well as the CFC-based ones.*
Point being, CFC inhalers haven't been around for a couple of years and we knew they were going away over a decade ago!
Watching the section of the video you're referring to, he specifically answers that the reason they are third is because Google does a VERY good job at finding the ACTUAL product, versus (yet another) product comparison website. He states that if you were to use those other product comparison sites to find the same product, you will find they rank the product results (what website the product is ACTUALLY sold at) in their own method. Basically, Google does the best job, but doesn't make it the first link.
Say what you will, but I think we all know by now that Google tends to have the best search algorithms out there, mostly because they hire the best-of-the-best and because that is what the company was founded on.
Actually, they overcharge because of the formula that the insurance companies use to determine the "contract price." If the price is higher - that they bill the insurance - the amount they receive in reimbursement will be closer to what they deserve.
Since I work in pharmacy and have also worked for a few pharmacy benefit managers, I will provide an example of how they bill:
U&C (Usual and customary): $100
Ingredient cost: $50
Gross amount due: $50
Based on the numbers submitted, the insurance will now reimburse the provider $58. Had the provider billed for less, they would receive (a lot) less in reimbursement. There are upper limits to all drugs/procedures/devices/etc, but larger issues come into play, like what "network" the provider is in (it's not just "in" or "out" of network for the provider - they get reimbursed LESS the smaller the company is). Walgreens, for example, recently just refused to continue taking pharmacy insurance provided by Express Scripts because Express scripts refused to pay Walgreens the amount that was DEMANDED. Walgreens ALREADY gets paid at LEAST 10% more than any other pharmacy. (Express Scripts provides (at least) 20% of the nations pharmacy benefits.)
The point being, the insurance companies have it backwards, but larger companies should not be able to abuse their power to leverage higher reimbursement rates. If something costs $100, then it costs $100 no matter where you go - the reimbursement should remain the same. (Yes, I know you can buy in bulk when you're a larger company, but that tends to squash small to mid-size businesses.)
If you think that hearing aids are expensive, consider the cost of cochlear implants. Cochlear implants cost tens of thousands of dollars, the surgery costs nearly $100k, and the external device (like a hearing aid, but a little larger) costs over $10k. That's just for one ear and the hearing quality is like 1/10th of a person with cochlear hair! Plus they only last for about 20 years (including the internal device) depending on the model and some other circumstances.
$8k for a hearing aid is a steal.
No. It does not. Also, you can still install the Tricorder app by finding the APK on the web, checking 'Unknown Sources' (Settings->Applications), then issuing: 'adb install tricorder.apk' while your phone is connected to a PC that has the ADB drivers installed. Otherwise you can download the APK to your phone and use Astro Filemanager to install it.
Actually, now days with modern HIV medications when the virus is caught within a few years of infection and the patient takes medications continuously, the life-span of an HIV-infected individual is no different than an HIV- individual.
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I'm calling the poster here out as being full of shit. As someone who's done neuroscience research, the idea that "Humans have no idea how the human, or any other brain, works" is bollocks. We have a reasonably good idea on the large scale, and in certain areas (such as the visual cortex), that understanding is quite far along. There are frontiers to our knowledge, but human understanding of brains is well on its way. Poster needs to pick up some neuroscience textbooks and get clued.
As a particular recommendation, I'd suggest Kolb and Whishaw's "Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology"; it's an excellent textbook.
And yet we still cannot cure or even treat depression with high efficacy. The fact is we don't have the full picture, and until we do, we know very little about how the brain works as a whole.
Because most phones are NAND locked. Removing the application would require NAND unlocked (write access) and for those who have NAND unlocked they can remove the applications (although not through the Application Manager).
He's right though -- I had no idea what you were talking about until I read that the first important half of your sentence was in the subject.
I am gay and I think that for the company to be able to stand by their values and morals, one of which is declared as equality, the management of the company should reflect that not only in their professional lives, but their personal ones as well. It's the same idea that a CEO being caught in an extramarital affair reflects on a company and how he/she lives, operates, and performs in honest transactions (extramarital meaning that he/she took and oath to not be involved with another person). It's not to say that Eich should not have the right to believe in inequality, it's simply that his decisions reflect his, "state of mind."
While I understand that Mozilla holds freedom of speech dearly, I don't believe that you need to pick between one or the other. Just because Mozilla believes in freedom of speech and equality doesn't mean Eich can use freedom of speech as a platform to undermine equality -- that would be hypocritical and hopefully everyone can see that.
Unfortunately this does not appear to be a case of April fools. Somehow I wish it were.
I wonder, who gets to decide? Does this mean that all game avatars will be wearing grey coveralls like THX1138?
The problem arrives in that games portray women as objects of sexual appeal more frequently than simply just being a normal character. And what about butch or androgynous women or the equivalents for gay men in games? Gaymers are a big player base now days (being one, I know since we often tend to congregate accidentally) and yet the only option remains the macho DUDE that wants a piece of the slutty CHICK -- Duke Nukem anyone?
Silly Fanboi... parent was pointing out the hypocrisy.
Develop out the algorithm in Minecraft using ProjectRed (Integration module, specifically) and then you can easily count the gates! :-)
Food and DRUG Administration. Enough said.
Lipitor has had an ANDA filed for a generic version by Watson, yes. However, the law allows Pfizer to grant a 180 day exclusivity contract to a manufacturer of their choice (in this case Watson) for the ANDA. To those affected by this drug going generic: IT HAS NOT GONE TRULY GENERIC YET! Wait until the 180 day exclusivity contract expires (in 179 days) and the true "invisible hand" will take effect in the market.
In the meantime, you're most likely going to need to get the BRAND NAME Lipitor for it to be covered to the fullest extent by your pharmacy benefit manager ("insurance company")! These PBMs get rebates (NOT kickbacks) to lower the cost of the brand-name drug, so it's financially advantageous to the member to not cover the generic yet. Here's why:
Lipitor (brand) 90ct bottle = $550 retail, minus $330 in rebates = $220 total cost of drug.
atorvastatin by Watson (generic) 90ct bottle = $530 retail, minus $0 in rebates (Watson doesn't offer any) = $550 total cost of drug.
(These amounts are fictional, however they represent true real-world scenarios.)
Disclaimer: I work for one of the US' largest Pharmacy Benefit Managers in the Clinical Review department. We had a meeting today regarding all of our Medicare Part-D patients and how they're affected by this specific drug going generic. No suits were involved and the members are receiving the best possible drug savings until the exclusivity contract expires. Once it expires the new generics will be placed on the tier-1 ("generic") copay structure.
$1.20 is better than $1.25 since it is a lower price and considering the RedBox doesn't take cash, it doesn't matter much where you round it to.
It does seem a bit skewed towards Apple with the exclusion of the Samsung Galaxy.
As for the iPhone 2G, the graph clearly does not indicate that it has current support updates. This is NOT a timeline, it is a bar graph, so read it appropriately. The support was terminated shortly after the second year, which was early 2010. It is now late 2011 - so support updates for it have been missing for over a year and a half.
I recommend not going to Walgreens or CVS - go to an independent pharmacy, you'll get better care there anyways and cheaper prices. Then, don't get Proventil or Proair, get Ventolin! Ventolin is the cheapest and Glaskosmith-Kline has $15 rebate checks they give to pharmacies sometimes (and no, I don't work for ANY Pharmas). You also may want to check their website because they have programs you can enroll in to get your meds for cheap/free, plus they may even have some coupons you can use there.
This is actually extremely old news. A treaty was signed over a decade ago to ban various uses of CFCs in phases. The OTC epinephrine inhalers were pulled off of the market by the manufacturer some time ago due to a different reason (which I forget), then they decided to not restart production on it because CFC inhalers would be banned as of 1/1/2010.
Anyone that has asthma will tell you that things dramatically changed for them in 2010 when their old albuterol (fast-acting, for emergencies) inhalers were reformulated to not include CFCs (dubbed HFA, aka Hydrofluoroalkane) . Most HFA-using patients state that they cannot "feel" the aerosol or that it doesn't work nearly as well as the CFC-based ones.*
Point being, CFC inhalers haven't been around for a couple of years and we knew they were going away over a decade ago!
(*From my professional experience.)
He failed to explain why Google results always came 3rd on product comparisons though.
The entire interview can be watched here .
Watching the section of the video you're referring to, he specifically answers that the reason they are third is because Google does a VERY good job at finding the ACTUAL product, versus (yet another) product comparison website. He states that if you were to use those other product comparison sites to find the same product, you will find they rank the product results (what website the product is ACTUALLY sold at) in their own method. Basically, Google does the best job, but doesn't make it the first link.
Say what you will, but I think we all know by now that Google tends to have the best search algorithms out there, mostly because they hire the best-of-the-best and because that is what the company was founded on.
If Stargate Command comes to your door recruiting, best bet is to politely turn them down.
(This comment is in regards to the first episode of Stargate Universe, in the event that you're curious.)
That's what most people said about XP when Vista was on the horizon.
... Slider phones! ZOMG, a hardware keyboard on a PHONE?!
Haven't we known this since 802.11 came out? Pringles can, anyone?
Actually, they overcharge because of the formula that the insurance companies use to determine the "contract price." If the price is higher - that they bill the insurance - the amount they receive in reimbursement will be closer to what they deserve.
Since I work in pharmacy and have also worked for a few pharmacy benefit managers, I will provide an example of how they bill:
U&C (Usual and customary): $100
Ingredient cost: $50
Gross amount due: $50
Based on the numbers submitted, the insurance will now reimburse the provider $58. Had the provider billed for less, they would receive (a lot) less in reimbursement. There are upper limits to all drugs/procedures/devices/etc, but larger issues come into play, like what "network" the provider is in (it's not just "in" or "out" of network for the provider - they get reimbursed LESS the smaller the company is). Walgreens, for example, recently just refused to continue taking pharmacy insurance provided by Express Scripts because Express scripts refused to pay Walgreens the amount that was DEMANDED. Walgreens ALREADY gets paid at LEAST 10% more than any other pharmacy. (Express Scripts provides (at least) 20% of the nations pharmacy benefits.)
The point being, the insurance companies have it backwards, but larger companies should not be able to abuse their power to leverage higher reimbursement rates. If something costs $100, then it costs $100 no matter where you go - the reimbursement should remain the same. (Yes, I know you can buy in bulk when you're a larger company, but that tends to squash small to mid-size businesses.)
If you think that hearing aids are expensive, consider the cost of cochlear implants. Cochlear implants cost tens of thousands of dollars, the surgery costs nearly $100k, and the external device (like a hearing aid, but a little larger) costs over $10k. That's just for one ear and the hearing quality is like 1/10th of a person with cochlear hair! Plus they only last for about 20 years (including the internal device) depending on the model and some other circumstances. $8k for a hearing aid is a steal.
No. It does not. Also, you can still install the Tricorder app by finding the APK on the web, checking 'Unknown Sources' (Settings->Applications), then issuing: 'adb install tricorder.apk' while your phone is connected to a PC that has the ADB drivers installed. Otherwise you can download the APK to your phone and use Astro Filemanager to install it.
You must be new here.
Does this discovery have any affect on HIV research?
Actually, now days with modern HIV medications when the virus is caught within a few years of infection and the patient takes medications continuously, the life-span of an HIV-infected individual is no different than an HIV- individual.