Sorry friend - you lost your Libertarian cred here.
What they are talking about are the market relevant forces: Insurance companies will pay for prevention if and only if it is cheaper than paying for the treatment/cure. Since 9 times in 10 the vaccine will be paid for by an insurance company (as opposed to the consumer), Merck is charging what the market will bear.
You also seem to forget that drug companies have to research dozens of drugs before they ever get one to market - that $11bn gross looks impressive until you factor in what they paid to get there, and what they'll have to pay before their next big marketable drug.
As archivist I am a full supporter of open standards but don't really care whether my software is opensource or closed... as long as I can still look at my archives in 10-20-50 years.
And how useful is that standard to you if no one can afford to pay for the license required to implement the software to read your archives?
I was actually impressed with his earlier article, until his true colors as a nuclear shill started to show. He made excellent points about the successes of the safety systems and layers of protection, but then pissed all his credibility away by saying:
At Chernobyl, this actually happened inside the containment vessel and the resulting explosion ruptured the vessel, leading to a serious release of core radioactives – though this has had basically zero effect on the world in general nor even much impact on the area around Chernobyl.
*faceplam*
I'm pretty pro-nuke/anti-hysteria, but this is just irresponsible. If you want the straight-up story, go to the IAEA page or see the analysis by Ars.
When your frequency goes up, so does the number of current spikes due to the high frequency transients. You didn't think a square wave was actually square, did you?
I don't think this is a software issue - if you search around, you'll find a lot of issues with the WiFi on the 3G where it just stops working (same thing happened to me, long before 4.0). I think it was a hardware problem in that design.
Well, I don't know if there are enough pixels there to make that distinction, but this page makes it pretty clear that Internet Explorer is a registered trademark:
(3) Computer programs, in the form of firmware or software, that enable used wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telecommunications network, when circumvention is initiated by the owner of the copy of the computer program solely in order to connect to a wireless telecommunications network and access to the network is authorized by the operator of the network.
Hell, I could probably get more bandwidth at a cheaper price in Canada or Australia.
Uh, no. Canada has a worse population density than the US, and we pay for it. I'm paying $50/mo for 14/3 cable internet. Add 13% sales tax to that. Oh, and don't get me started on cell phone service.
I forget what's inside the egg, but if you are carrying it when you meet the thief, he will steal it. Then later in the game, when you find the thief's lair, you will find the egg opened.
Right, the mechanical brake linkage regularly failed at the same time as the brake sensor failed to no pedal and the accelerator sensor failed to full pedal.
You don't do much safety analysis, do you?
Let's see, assume a bad pointer goes in an corrupts the lookup table which identifies what input corresponds to which function. Now your pedals have reversed function. All the logging in the world isn't going to change the fact that the box is now looking at the wrong pin for its input.
Yes, there are certainly things that can be done to mitigate this risk, and some of them may have been implemented. However, the unfortunate truth is that there is no recognized/legislated functional safety standard for the development of automobile software in the US. Some international companies are trying to apply IEC61508 (developed for industrial automation), but compliance is strictly voluntary.
They may be right, but they don't provide sufficient data in TFA to say either way, in fact Toyota has come right out and said that their logger is a debugging tool, and to me that says it is not safety relevant software, and therefore not subject to additional quality controls.
I watched the movies without having read the books for some time. I found that I didn't notice most of the changes (except for some of the more abrupt cuts). My comments on your nit-picks:
please explain the utter change to Aragon's and Faramir.
Fran and Philippa are on record as saying that Tolkein's Faramir was not believable. Having just re-read the series, I still think this is the most harmful change that they made.
the expanded role of Arwen
Political correctness, merchandising.
the presence of the Elves at Helms Deep
My theory on this is cost savings - they had a bunch of Elven props & animations from the beginning of the movie, and they wanted to use them instead of creating new ones.
why did Sauron have two fingers cut off instead of one?
Unless Sauron wore the ring on his pinky or thumb, this makes sense.
Its an Encyclopedia - an Encyclopedia does not have any standing in the academic community in the first place (beyond 6th grade, anyway). No one, ever, should consider Wikipedia to be an authoritative source - it isn't intended to be one. It is just a repository of common knowledge.
Correct, but the confusion is over the term "upload". No, you cannot take a video on your PC and put it on Joost. However, Joost will be using your upstream bandwidth to send Joost licensed videos to other subscribers.
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Your concern might be less of a troll if you knew that the standard metric measure for fuel economy isn't km/l, but rather l / 100km.
FTFY. Ever wonder where these new banks in the US with funny names came from?
TD = Toronto Dominion RBC = Royal Bank of Canada
HSBC is British, but you get the idea... The US financial system is not a safe place for your money.
Yes, but the cheapest iPod Touch is a 32Gb model, while the cheapest iPads are 16Gb.
What they are talking about are the market relevant forces: Insurance companies will pay for prevention if and only if it is cheaper than paying for the treatment/cure. Since 9 times in 10 the vaccine will be paid for by an insurance company (as opposed to the consumer), Merck is charging what the market will bear.
You also seem to forget that drug companies have to research dozens of drugs before they ever get one to market - that $11bn gross looks impressive until you factor in what they paid to get there, and what they'll have to pay before their next big marketable drug.
As archivist I am a full supporter of open standards but don't really care whether my software is opensource or closed... as long as I can still look at my archives in 10-20-50 years.
And how useful is that standard to you if no one can afford to pay for the license required to implement the software to read your archives?
*chinkchink. pause. chink. pause. chinkchink. *
Actually, everything works except G+ and Buzz. It just has to be turned on by your administrator. (I use latitude all the time with my apps account)
Requesting an invite - address ^^^
I'll take one - thx.
*faceplam*
I'm pretty pro-nuke/anti-hysteria, but this is just irresponsible. If you want the straight-up story, go to the IAEA page or see the analysis by Ars.
Sorry friend, I can and do say a lot of good things about Timmy's, but it is definitely not stronger than Starbucks.
P = VI = I**2 R
When your frequency goes up, so does the number of current spikes due to the high frequency transients. You didn't think a square wave was actually square, did you?
I don't think this is a software issue - if you search around, you'll find a lot of issues with the WiFi on the 3G where it just stops working (same thing happened to me, long before 4.0). I think it was a hardware problem in that design.
http://www.microsoft.com/About/Legal/EN/US/IntellectualProperty/Trademarks/EN-US.aspx
And this is why the jailbreaking provision is not relevant. Unlocking is a different exercise, and it is addressed in the very next point of the same ruling:
Hell, I could probably get more bandwidth at a cheaper price in Canada or Australia.
Uh, no. Canada has a worse population density than the US, and we pay for it. I'm paying $50/mo for 14/3 cable internet. Add 13% sales tax to that. Oh, and don't get me started on cell phone service.
I forget what's inside the egg, but if you are carrying it when you meet the thief, he will steal it. Then later in the game, when you find the thief's lair, you will find the egg opened.
Right, the mechanical brake linkage regularly failed at the same time as the brake sensor failed to no pedal and the accelerator sensor failed to full pedal.
You don't do much safety analysis, do you?
Let's see, assume a bad pointer goes in an corrupts the lookup table which identifies what input corresponds to which function. Now your pedals have reversed function. All the logging in the world isn't going to change the fact that the box is now looking at the wrong pin for its input.
Yes, there are certainly things that can be done to mitigate this risk, and some of them may have been implemented. However, the unfortunate truth is that there is no recognized/legislated functional safety standard for the development of automobile software in the US. Some international companies are trying to apply IEC61508 (developed for industrial automation), but compliance is strictly voluntary.
They may be right, but they don't provide sufficient data in TFA to say either way, in fact Toyota has come right out and said that their logger is a debugging tool, and to me that says it is not safety relevant software, and therefore not subject to additional quality controls.
I remember upgrading systems from DOS 3.3 to 4.0 to support larger than 32Mb hard drives. Now get off of my lawn!
One candidate has a lawyer/media executive as technical adviser, the other has a MIT computer scientist. Guess which is which
Nope. iPhone is currently a GSM phone - a fundamentally different and incompatible technology.
Mod Parent: +1 - more interesting that the lame review
Its an Encyclopedia - an Encyclopedia does not have any standing in the academic community in the first place (beyond 6th grade, anyway). No one, ever, should consider Wikipedia to be an authoritative source - it isn't intended to be one. It is just a repository of common knowledge.
Correct, but the confusion is over the term "upload". No, you cannot take a video on your PC and put it on Joost. However, Joost will be using your upstream bandwidth to send Joost licensed videos to other subscribers.