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by betterth 15y ago
The FDA is not an ethics organization that evaluates drugs based on the total effect of public health. That simply isn't contained in the bevy of Bills that together form the Code that FDA mandate is derived from. I understand how frustrati
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by betterth 15y ago
Anti-griefing is important on any semi-serious server that is publically available or doesn't use a strict white list. Believe me, people will find your server. They find servers that aren't listed, and these servers are publically listed.
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by betterth 15y ago
The majority of the money goes into Phase III clinical trials. Don't bash the FDA - they're the most evidence based, scientifically minded regulatory body in our government. Preclinical and Phase I - II trials aren't too expensive, in the o
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by betterth 15y ago
Did you read his post about the patent cliff? The majority of blockbuster drugs are about to go off of patent protection. This is where the majority (if not all) of the profit in the industry comes from, as well as a huge chunk of the rests
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by betterth 15y ago
Good to hear! Glad to hear that you're working on it! I've hosted with four different providers, and I've run a server myself, so I promise my criticism comes from someone who has spent countless hours and countless dollars on the task of r
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by betterth 15y ago
I've run servers for friends and I only see one huge problem: 90% of my friends wouldn't pay for a Minecraft server. They play, but it's just not how my servers ran. I paid for it, and a few others who understood what I did and what it cost
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by betterth 15y ago
Downvote and don't reply all y'all want. Using activations as a metric is bad. "India is dominating America because they have far more human activations (births) than America!" There's a good analogy as to why 'activations' do not tell a co
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by betterth 15y ago
Still not a fair comparison. I guess the only truly fair comparison would be a Total Cost of Ownership, but those can be difficult to accurately determine. Specifically how much you might lose for uninsured breakage, etc.
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by betterth 15y ago
Exactly. Someone got assigned to "blog duty" at the TSA, of which TSA management has no idea what a blog is, or why it is important, but there is a regulation somewhere, or a rule, that says the TSA must maintain a blog. So someone maintain
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by betterth 15y ago
But that's not $380 that has anything to do with Apple or Android. That's like saying your new LG TV is $400 dollars cheaper than your last Samsung TV, because you -also- switched your Comcast plan to pay less monthly. That's not a fair com
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by betterth 15y ago
Android will continue to dominate? You mean, it will continue to win most activations so long as it lets any budget device count? Because what other metric is Android winning? Apple captures the lionshare of the entire industry's profits. H
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by betterth 15y ago
Doesn't matter. Google signed off on it, Google supports it. Don't try to let Google dodge the bullet. When presented with a portfolio of patents, Google behaved not like it has spent years telling everyone they should behave, but instead e
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by betterth 15y ago
Yes, we should remain subservient to an abusive, quickly antiquating industry and it's politically subversive methods. Or, we can accept that while piracy is wrong, it's not the boogeyman that these luddites have made it out to be, and it's
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by betterth 15y ago
>and Federal Reserve that has as much to do with "Federal" as "Federal Express" This is a patent falsehood. Federal Express (now FedEx) is a private shipping company. The Federal Reserve System is a "private" bank created by an Act of C
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by betterth 15y ago
Yes, it is anti-capitalistic. But that presumes that America is a 100% capitalist state, which we are not and have never been. America practices what's known as a mixed-model economy, combining social and capital elements. http://en.wikipe
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by betterth 15y ago
Trine was a fun little fantasy arcade scroller. Side to side action. A platformer. Torchlight is a dungeon crawler in the vein of diablo. Lots of equipment dropping, items to get, etc, as opposed to the more platformer-style of Trine. Very,
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by betterth 15y ago
Exactly. Apple is responsible for it's supply line. Youporn is responsible for whatever third parties they utilize to bring a service to market.
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by betterth 15y ago
"It's going to be interesting to see whether Google does the same swerve down the line and not just stick to using patents in defence." Google is already swerving. They're interested in utilizing the Moto patent portfolio to implement 2.25%
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by betterth 15y ago
"The community we're currently discussing this in, on the other hand, has been a lot more conscientious in cultivating the type of garden it would like to see. And I think we can all say the result is a lot more pleasant than a less tended
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by betterth 15y ago
How is this smart? Either you get money directly, or your left trying to monetize -accomplishment- data? Are we expecting the ad-market targeting newbie programmers to explode or something?
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by betterth 15y ago
"Something tells me you don't know a single thing about the console industry." It takes a fanboy to swallow a FIVE HUNDRED MILLION loss without batting an eyelash. Something tells me you don't know a single thing about business or investing
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by betterth 15y ago
Why is SPYW default? Why does Google anti-competitively fill it's search with preferred results for it's own services? More than likely, you won't notice the change in what you're working on. You're presuming you'll find something inexcusab
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by betterth 15y ago
RAM is used by an operating system and managed. You may use 11/16 GB at once, but someone could browse the internet with the same tabs at 3 or 4 GB and be fine. Hell, they could at 2GB and be fine. The operating system plays a huge role in
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by betterth 15y ago
How many people are going to want a WiiU when their iPad and iTV do similar things... they best price the WiiU extremely competitively! But how can they release a quality touchscreen controller without it costing bank? Controllers WITHOUT a
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by betterth 15y ago
Why are you of the belief that Nintendo needs to bow out of the hardware business? Because 2011 was incredibly rough on Nintendo -- they lost $500 million last year. Even Nintendo says that Apple and Facebook (iOS and Facebook gam
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by betterth 15y ago
My Chrome install on Windows has the same thing. I push ctrl+shift+c to load the developer tools, and click on console and it's a very similar tool to what he was using.
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by betterth 15y ago
Yes, Google bought Motorola to protect itself from patent war. ...Which is why Google is now attempting to shut down a competitors product lines using patents. Wait, what? I stand by my post. This is straight up bullshit, just like the rest
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by betterth 15y ago
"Do no evil (unless your competitors have done evil first - then it's fair game)." Can't wait to hear the rationalization on why it's okay for Google to propagate the mobile IP war and not it's competitors...
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by betterth 15y ago
While generally speaking, yes, you are totally correct, you have to remember one thing: the FDA has provisions for terminally ill patients to utilize unapproved medicines in highly restricted scenarios. http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/Trea
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by betterth 15y ago
You've just missed two critical points: 1) The point of iPad learning isn't words on paper, it's finding new ways to engage students using platforms that naturally excite them. By claiming what we need is "cheap words on cheap paper", you'r

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