Main priority of any company is profit. It's up to your government to make sure they don't hurt (too many) people in the process.
If, for example, Smith-And-Wesson are making people-killing devices, it's government's job to regulate who can buy such. Or Ford doesn't create over-polluting trucks. Or Boeing's plane doesn't fall from the sky. And so on.
>> Health care is fast becoming something exclusively for the rich.
Some health care IS exclusivity for the rich. That's one of reasons people want to be rich in a first place. Again, it's up to your government to determine limits of such exclusivity.
>> Do you give to charity?
No. Does it make me evil? Of cause not, but you seems to think so.
>> The Indian government obviously made a decision that they considered the lives of their populace more important than Bayer's profits.
Oh, how cute of them. Since Bayer's profits are going to US, it's easy choice, isn't it? Will you excuse me if I value profits of my $company (not US-based, don't worry) more that lives of entire Africa?
>> Research and licensing are sunk costs
Did you already offered your services to Bayer as genius economist? If they refused, that's probably because your explanation makes no sense. How is your business doing?
>> Are Patents the best way of promoting progress?
No, but this is irrelevant question. Companies use patents to recoup huge certification costs. Don't like this process - fight to lower qualification barriers first.
>> Is recouping a company's costs more important than saving lives?
Yes. Welcome to real world, not all lives are equally valuable.
Don't like it - why not start your own pharma company and we'll see how that will work?
>> so I'm not sure how much they would have recouped on this in India anyway?
You're so smart! Call Bayer's CEO immediately and give your valuable advise. Hint for you: annual salary is irrelevant here. What's relevant is annual salary _of target population_. If annual salary here (doesn't matter where) is ~$3000/month, does it mean that BMW should close the shop?
Yea, but wast majority of "research" money is not spent on advertizing, but on testing/certification.
Thanks to US/EU regulations, testing on humans (you want your medical procedure/drugs tested, don't you?) is prohibitively expensive.
Academics do a research, but don't do enough tests to qualify drugs for mass usage. That cost must be recouped somehow. Generic drugs don't have this cost - it's already paid by original manufacturer.
So, how original manufacturer, (evil Big Pharma) should recoup those costs? Until today it's going through limited exclusivity period - patents. How long should it be - that's debatable.
>> In summary, filters are fine, but they should always be opt-in.
If opt-out work as intended, I don't see an issue here. My cellphone company have all their SMS-commercials enabled by default. When I've got fed up, I called and requested this crap removed. No problem since.
>> what goes on the blacklist
Some providers here block _everything_ except handful list of sites. They also have customers. Until this black/white list is not government-mandated, nobody-can-resume - no problem.
If your government censoring critics this way - time to put keyboard aside and take a gun; time for lawful, non-violent protest is over. Sorry, life sucks and unfair.
Oh, I DO understand and CAN control technology more than you thing. Amusingly, my day job is engineering at some $big_name network hardware company.
What is disturbing in fact that I don't have time to be "home IT" person, I do not know. What's wrong in paying for a service? Should I also fix my car?
My home router can't do context filtering, otherwise ISP service would be unnecessary. I don't need to learn "poking around in my router's menus", I can re-write its firmware if needed, but don't want to.
Now, since _I_ control whether or not filtering is applied I'm not "pushing it to the state". And, btw - ISP is private enterprise, so state is not involved here anyway. I choose to enable it, I chose filtering categories and so on.
>> Do you want your children to grow up witnessing their role-model refusing to learn or adapt to change?
Wwwwhat? What does it have to do with "adapt" or "change". I find porn inappropriate for 7yo kids. I my son will accidentally click on wrong link while poking with family iPad I prefer questionable stuff blocked. 7yo, remember? As he grows up, and start asking "why this is blocked", it is a sign to remove filtering.
How do you remove Safari on iPad again? Ah, I see.
Did you actually read when I say "when my kid _can_ bypass it by its own (or learn it somewhere), I will remove all filtering". Idea is to block accidental access - if child is mature enough to actually _search_ for porn (or circumvent access) - it's time to remove filtering talk about birth control measures.
Every tool have its use. Even "evil" DRM - see iPhone success.
As match as I love free and open internet - I prefer porn blocked at home.
Now, since my kids are accessing net from variety of devices (iPad, laptop) - locally installed software is not suitable. And I don't have time to mess with it anyway.
I'm fully aware that 1) it won't block everything 2) it will block some legitimate site 3) it can be bypassed.
My response to those concerns is simple: 1) I would like to block accidental access, not deliberate search. I my kid is actively _searching_ for nude ass - good luck. 2) until wikipedia and local news sites are up, that's OK; for the rest I would like to here specific complain 3) when my kid _can_ bypass it by its own (or learn it somewhere), I will remove all filtering.
Parenting is not only physical presence. It is also locking things and punishing for breaking the lock.
Once upon a time, great Russian poet, Pushkin said: "If you can not to write - don't write". The point is, that urge to write should be internal, it doesn't come from need for money; or at least shouldn't come.
Pushkin definitely did not wrote for money - as wealthy aristocrat he had all the money he ever needed. And he wrote match, match more than all kind of "authors" screaming for protectionist racket in US.
Even in software industry, "Collaborative editing" known as FOSS didn't destroyed Microsoft/Oracle/Adobe/Autodesk and so on. How Ubisoft/EA/etc is doing - fine last time I checked.
But - million monkeys won't produce Hamlet, and billion idiots won't replace Michael Bay. And couple of pals with Blender won't replace Pixar.
Wast majority of Israeli people would like Iranian nuclear program to be wiped out. Using any means necessary.
Except of few lunatics (who will shout "peace" even if you shoot them), people would like to see this "research program" to end in flames. The discussion mostly revolves around "should we do it ourselves or convince US".
... and given that this crap is written in English, one can guess that it's not targeted towards Iranian - they speak Persian (as somebody pointed out already).
Obviously only Fiat and Skoda produces "real cars", all others are oh-so-overpriced.
And look - BMW have "closed" design! You can't just buy no-name made-in-somewhere-in-china engine and put it there. Obviously they will go broke any moment soon. Sounds familiar?
So, cut this anti-Apple bullshit. They chose to target high-end market segments, in phones, computers and tablets. It doesn't make iPhone or MacBook less "real" or "not part of ...".
>> crypto-fascist
Well, I heard a lot of stuff with "...-fascist": like "neo-fascist", "right-fascist" and so on, but "crypto"? What the hell this even supposed to mean?
>> what Rapidshare and dozens of other sites DO every day
Pray tell us, what is this oh-so-horrible thing they do? But - don't worry, Rapidshare is in Germany, and I'm not in US, so - sucks to be American these days, ah?
This kind of thing simply doesn't exists. You can't have "all other parts equal", there's always trade off somewhere.
Sometimes it's power consumption, sometime it durability or just cost.
Not everyone want best, some people prefer cheap.
>> I like the idea behind Free to Play. You get the whole game for free and then ...
Sounds like fraud to me. Usually such games are pretty useless, unless you start buying those items/levels/coins/whatever. I will prefer stuff with fixed cost to all kinds of "subscriptions".
>> I have to admit, I am not an Android developer
If so, why pretend like you know the subject?
>> but I have worked as a Windows and a Web developer, both of which have large hardware and software compatibility issues
Web have hardware compatibility issues? I see. If your pages looks different because of screen resolution, I suggest you to look for another career path.
As for "Windows developer" talking about how Android is great - I can see why post is full of technical nonsense.
>> same way Android phones were outselling iPhones
You know that Nokia's S40 systems outselling iPhone,Android and Windows Phone _COMBINED_? Does it mean that we must start developing for Nokia 3220?
Ignorance is a bless, isn't it?
>>> If your application has to "adjust" to all the different devices out there, you are likely "doing it wrong"
I guess you never wrote anything more complicated than "hello world".
>>> you likely need a different/better game engine that handles that for you.
Ah, right, so your app will look crappy on _ALL_ devices. Yea, way to go.
>>> then just use the Android Marketplace filters that allow you to disallow devices/device capabilities
so, with initially smaller (than iPhone) market with rampant piracy and I'm supposed to limit myself even more?!
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Main priority of any company is profit. It's up to your government to make sure they don't hurt (too many) people in the process.
If, for example, Smith-And-Wesson are making people-killing devices, it's government's job to regulate who can buy such. Or Ford doesn't create over-polluting trucks. Or Boeing's plane doesn't fall from the sky. And so on.
>> Health care is fast becoming something exclusively for the rich.
Some health care IS exclusivity for the rich. That's one of reasons people want to be rich in a first place. Again, it's up to your government to determine limits of such exclusivity.
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>> Do you give to charity?
No. Does it make me evil? Of cause not, but you seems to think so.
>> The Indian government obviously made a decision that they considered the lives of their populace more important than Bayer's profits.
Oh, how cute of them. Since Bayer's profits are going to US, it's easy choice, isn't it? Will you excuse me if I value profits of my $company (not US-based, don't worry) more that lives of entire Africa?
>> Research and licensing are sunk costs
Did you already offered your services to Bayer as genius economist? If they refused, that's probably because your explanation makes no sense. How is your business doing?
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>> I can see a future where everybody produce their own medicine
Please share stuff you're smoking. Did you produced it by yourself?
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Please tell me you don't have life insurance.
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>> Are Patents the best way of promoting progress?
No, but this is irrelevant question. Companies use patents to recoup huge certification costs. Don't like this process - fight to lower qualification barriers first.
>> Is recouping a company's costs more important than saving lives?
Yes. Welcome to real world, not all lives are equally valuable.
Don't like it - why not start your own pharma company and we'll see how that will work?
>> so I'm not sure how much they would have recouped on this in India anyway?
You're so smart! Call Bayer's CEO immediately and give your valuable advise. Hint for you: annual salary is irrelevant here. What's relevant is annual salary _of target population_. If annual salary here (doesn't matter where) is ~$3000/month, does it mean that BMW should close the shop?
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Yea, but wast majority of "research" money is not spent on advertizing, but on testing/certification.
Thanks to US/EU regulations, testing on humans (you want your medical procedure/drugs tested, don't you?) is prohibitively expensive.
Academics do a research, but don't do enough tests to qualify drugs for mass usage. That cost must be recouped somehow. Generic drugs don't have this cost - it's already paid by original manufacturer.
So, how original manufacturer, (evil Big Pharma) should recoup those costs? Until today it's going through limited exclusivity period - patents. How long should it be - that's debatable.
Re: Re: I actually prefer blocked porn
>> In summary, filters are fine, but they should always be opt-in.
If opt-out work as intended, I don't see an issue here. My cellphone company have all their SMS-commercials enabled by default. When I've got fed up, I called and requested this crap removed. No problem since.
>> what goes on the blacklist
Some providers here block _everything_ except handful list of sites. They also have customers. Until this black/white list is not government-mandated, nobody-can-resume - no problem.
If your government censoring critics this way - time to put keyboard aside and take a gun; time for lawful, non-violent protest is over. Sorry, life sucks and unfair.
Re:
Oh, I DO understand and CAN control technology more than you thing. Amusingly, my day job is engineering at some $big_name network hardware company.
What is disturbing in fact that I don't have time to be "home IT" person, I do not know. What's wrong in paying for a service? Should I also fix my car?
My home router can't do context filtering, otherwise ISP service would be unnecessary. I don't need to learn "poking around in my router's menus", I can re-write its firmware if needed, but don't want to.
Now, since _I_ control whether or not filtering is applied I'm not "pushing it to the state". And, btw - ISP is private enterprise, so state is not involved here anyway. I choose to enable it, I chose filtering categories and so on.
>> Do you want your children to grow up witnessing their role-model refusing to learn or adapt to change?
Wwwwhat? What does it have to do with "adapt" or "change". I find porn inappropriate for 7yo kids. I my son will accidentally click on wrong link while poking with family iPad I prefer questionable stuff blocked. 7yo, remember? As he grows up, and start asking "why this is blocked", it is a sign to remove filtering.
Re: Re: I actually prefer blocked porn
How do you remove Safari on iPad again? Ah, I see.
Did you actually read when I say "when my kid _can_ bypass it by its own (or learn it somewhere), I will remove all filtering". Idea is to block accidental access - if child is mature enough to actually _search_ for porn (or circumvent access) - it's time to remove filtering talk about birth control measures.
Every tool have its use. Even "evil" DRM - see iPhone success.
I actually prefer blocked porn
As match as I love free and open internet - I prefer porn blocked at home.
Now, since my kids are accessing net from variety of devices (iPad, laptop) - locally installed software is not suitable. And I don't have time to mess with it anyway.
I'm fully aware that 1) it won't block everything 2) it will block some legitimate site 3) it can be bypassed.
My response to those concerns is simple: 1) I would like to block accidental access, not deliberate search. I my kid is actively _searching_ for nude ass - good luck. 2) until wikipedia and local news sites are up, that's OK; for the rest I would like to here specific complain 3) when my kid _can_ bypass it by its own (or learn it somewhere), I will remove all filtering.
Parenting is not only physical presence. It is also locking things and punishing for breaking the lock.
P.S.
Kids in question are about 7.
If you can not to write - don't write
Once upon a time, great Russian poet, Pushkin said: "If you can not to write - don't write". The point is, that urge to write should be internal, it doesn't come from need for money; or at least shouldn't come.
Pushkin definitely did not wrote for money - as wealthy aristocrat he had all the money he ever needed. And he wrote match, match more than all kind of "authors" screaming for protectionist racket in US.
Collaborative what?
Even in software industry, "Collaborative editing" known as FOSS didn't destroyed Microsoft/Oracle/Adobe/Autodesk and so on. How Ubisoft/EA/etc is doing - fine last time I checked.
But - million monkeys won't produce Hamlet, and billion idiots won't replace Michael Bay. And couple of pals with Blender won't replace Pixar.
Peace?!
Wast majority of Israeli people would like Iranian nuclear program to be wiped out. Using any means necessary.
Except of few lunatics (who will shout "peace" even if you shoot them), people would like to see this "research program" to end in flames. The discussion mostly revolves around "should we do it ourselves or convince US".
... and given that this crap is written in English, one can guess that it's not targeted towards Iranian - they speak Persian (as somebody pointed out already).
Yea, and BMW won't be part of "car revolution"
Obviously only Fiat and Skoda produces "real cars", all others are oh-so-overpriced.
And look - BMW have "closed" design! You can't just buy no-name made-in-somewhere-in-china engine and put it there. Obviously they will go broke any moment soon. Sounds familiar?
So, cut this anti-Apple bullshit. They chose to target high-end market segments, in phones, computers and tablets. It doesn't make iPhone or MacBook less "real" or "not part of ...".
Re: You've become sheerly fear-monger, Mike.
>> crypto-fascist
Well, I heard a lot of stuff with "...-fascist": like "neo-fascist", "right-fascist" and so on, but "crypto"? What the hell this even supposed to mean?
>> what Rapidshare and dozens of other sites DO every day
Pray tell us, what is this oh-so-horrible thing they do? But - don't worry, Rapidshare is in Germany, and I'm not in US, so - sucks to be American these days, ah?
Re: More Nina?
who the hell is Nina? Is this author of this sita-sings-whatever?
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This kind of thing simply doesn't exists. You can't have "all other parts equal", there's always trade off somewhere.
Sometimes it's power consumption, sometime it durability or just cost.
Not everyone want best, some people prefer cheap.
Re: Re: give better refunds
>> I like the idea behind Free to Play. You get the whole game for free and then ...
Sounds like fraud to me. Usually such games are pretty useless, unless you start buying those items/levels/coins/whatever. I will prefer stuff with fixed cost to all kinds of "subscriptions".
Re: Re: Actually, that exec is right
>> I have to admit, I am not an Android developer
If so, why pretend like you know the subject?
>> but I have worked as a Windows and a Web developer, both of which have large hardware and software compatibility issues
Web have hardware compatibility issues? I see. If your pages looks different because of screen resolution, I suggest you to look for another career path.
As for "Windows developer" talking about how Android is great - I can see why post is full of technical nonsense.
>> same way Android phones were outselling iPhones
You know that Nokia's S40 systems outselling iPhone,Android and Windows Phone _COMBINED_? Does it mean that we must start developing for Nokia 3220?
Ignorance is a bless, isn't it?
Re: "You're doing it wrong"
>>> If your application has to "adjust" to all the different devices out there, you are likely "doing it wrong"
I guess you never wrote anything more complicated than "hello world".
>>> you likely need a different/better game engine that handles that for you.
Ah, right, so your app will look crappy on _ALL_ devices. Yea, way to go.
>>> then just use the Android Marketplace filters that allow you to disallow devices/device capabilities
so, with initially smaller (than iPhone) market with rampant piracy and I'm supposed to limit myself even more?!