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First I will say that I'm not an expert in these questions, so my thoughts might be off, but that's probably the reason we are discussing it.

The closest to perfect solution in my mind would include all the details to make the medicine in the patent itself (I'm not sure how detailed patents has to be today). This would make it easy for other companies to create a competition once the patent expires and essentially would create a free market.

In the scenarios when it happens that there is only a single player in the market for one or another reason, things get a little trickier. I guess one of the solutions could be a commitment by government to buy/prescribe certain amount of medicine. The price of a unit should be predetermined in such cases to avoid exploitation.

Overall the actual knowledge of how to make a medicine and having a market for it, should make such situation pretty rare when only a single player is left in the market.

What you're saying makes perfect sense on paper, but unfortunately reality is as always slightly more complex.

Such simple thinking is full of the holes for exploitation and there will always be someone who will exploit them. Medicine is especially sensitive, because medicine can be priceless in value for the human who needs it, but that same human might not be able to pay that much. You can introduce government help, but if such exploitation is allowed, it would simply end up in a waste of tax money.

One thing is to allow companies who invest into products creation to receive the profit from it by using monopoly and charging as much as they like, and completely another is buying the company and starting to charge many times higher for the medicine that was available for years.

This might not be a popular view, but I can see no reason to think that such an exploitation should be tolerated. I simply cannot see how such things benefit humans as a society. I might be missing here something and if I do, please let me know.

That might help, but I think that first there should be no rules that prevent apps which are not malicious and doesn't hurt end user from being in the app stores. What the world would have been like, if you wouldn't have had the ability to use IE6 to download Firefox?

So far, thankfully I've never had a person in front of me, who would have decided to recline their seat. Although I'm mainly travelling with Ryanair, so I'm not even sure if that is possible on their planes. But for me, 1.94m tall, even a thought that someone would try to take away some of my space on plane is simply infuriating.

I have experienced this in buses and trains, on trains especially. There this can be tolerable, because there is a much more space (at least where I've experienced reclining), and people mostly have been very understanding and kind of afraid that someone from the back will start to shout on them.

In any case, it as well quite a sad thing, that whether there is enough space to be able to recline or isn't, we have a situation were we are unable to sort this out between ourselves.

>Not everyone agrees what is correct behavior and what isn't, so what would be acceptable to one person would not be acceptable to another.

That!

If there would be one set of rules that everyone would agree, then this idea could work. It works in ants, because there is no ambiguous ideas of what is right and what is wrong.

You could think that law suppose to be that set of rules that suppose to tell you what is right and what is wrong. But is not that simple, law doesn't ask you whether you agree with it, you just must comply with it. So if you disagree that listening to pirated mp3 is a unlawful, you might as well do it without feeling guilt. And even when law is already forced upon you, disputes still arise and disagreements has to be solved in court, simply because you cannot cover every possible situation in the rules.

I've used knockout.js for a few years now on multiple projects. As knockout grows, I started to dream of a library that would provide me with a two-way data binding. But not only between data object and DOM, but between data objects itself, like ko.computed does.

This seems like a nice solution, although like other commentators mentioned, the lag seems to be quite unbearable. So it might be just something towards right path and hopefully it will be maintained and updated to work more smoothly, but wont grow into full framework.

Well 40% is enough volume for properly hearing what comes out of the headphones speakers. But I'm talking about using headphones with their own volume adjustment or external speakers. If you try to watch a movie on most laptops using their native speakers, you will definitely not going to hear a dialogue at 40%. You will want to make it play louder, but once you try to adjust it you'll be interrupted by this notification. I understand that people might need to realize that loud volume can damage their hearing, but I'm advocating that arbitrary checking of the system volume is not a proper way to do it.

I would agree that it would be nice to have an option to check if sound is not muted, but not to actually check the volume.

One of the worst user experiences I have experienced in the recent years is those notifications telling me that my volume is too loud. But such assumption most of the time is totally wrong as it is hardware dependent. Especially when you use additional speakers or headphones with their own volume regulators. On windows 8.1, every time you make your volume higher than 40%, you will be interrupted with notification about high volume causing hearing loss, similar tactics is used in android.

So in my opinion checking system volume to determine whether the sound is too low or too high is completely wrong approach.

from my own personal experience I can tell that most of the time I prefer stackoverflow instead of man pages simply because I need to achieve one task and stackoverflow contains answer of how to do it, man pages can teach me how to do all sorts of a tasks, then I have to choose the right one from those that I have learned.

On top of that, to be able to use man page, I need to know command in the first place, while google will digest my broke english question and point me to the right stackoverflow answer most of the time.

I see what you mean and I agree that from her point of view this might look like I don't care about her. At least not enough to bend my principles. But on the other hand, I have mentioned this on the day I've met her first time, obviously she didn't think much of it back then.

I'm happy, not proud. I'm happy, because I'm not alone who's thinking this way. Believe it or not, there isn't a lot of people that agrees with me.

That's exactly her argument. She has dreamed of it since she was a little girl and she just could not accept the fact that maybe, just maybe, the dream was false.

Tell me about it. Recently I've been trying so many different ways to come to talk about it and so far every one conversation ended up with her being in tears and not being able (probably not willing) to understand what I'm saying. She just sees me as a sales person trying to sell her some scam.

Now I'm betting on time, from time to time just constantly reminding her of whole rings scheme and why we shouldn't be bothered with that and should stick with a simple/traditional wedding rings.

So what caused the problem, wasn't that front end and 3rd party was checking if email is valid, but the fact that there is no standard way of checking it.

I'm not saying that checking email address with regex is good way of doing it, but there is countless examples of people doing it and it would help a lot if everyone would use one standardized regex for that.

What about web workers? I believe the whole idea behind them was to allow to run heavy tasks in the background threads. Havent used them personally, but quick search indicates that they are available on node.js via npm [0]. Unless the whole concept is misunderstood by me and they would still be able to block your servers response to http requests.

[0] - https://www.npmjs.com/package/webworker-threads

Personally I see them as a bullying classmate that you must face everyday and you never entirely sure how it will end. Russia likes to be seen as aggressor and not many likes that.

This has always baffled me, especially when phones doing their phone mission worse and worse over time. What I would really like is that all non-system applications would be pushed to hold pattern, similar as if application is not visible, except it would be applied to background services as well, so that all resources would be available to calling application. Maybe that would solve the lag I experience with every android phone when someone calls me and I try to pickup.

Totally agree to your point.

I personally don't have much of experience with different layout systems used in other fields, yet what I got from working with ActionScript3 (flex) layout methods few years ago and then recent experience with current android layout system, just brings back the appreciation of CSS.

It might not be perfect, easily becomes complicated, but it works and allows great flexibility.

Design is complicated and very much like taste - subjective. Of course there are guidelines of what goes together and what not. Overall it is nice to see transition between the different stages of the product.

As per product itself, I assume it is very much alike tomahawk, is that right? It would be nice to have well designed tomahawk type of product which would work fast and be easy to use, so keep up.

Want to notice that I've tried to download application, but windows "SmartScreen" tells me that app is from Unknown Publisher and strongly encourages NOT to install. I assume this will prevent most windows users from installing this application.

and what if you find things like small talk the most boring thing in your life which simply steals your energy in such big chunks that you can last only couple short conversations, while there is nothing more powering in your life than having a great debate, and it doesn't really matter much whether it is with your friends or strangers.

I have always found people classifications slightly weird thing, not because there is something fundamentally wrong with it, but because of how majority of the people perceives them. We tend to simplify things in our heads, and most of us start to treat these classifications as a final explanation to things (using as a labels), without remembering that when it comes to classifying people (especially their character), classification at its best is nothing more than a guideline and should be treated cautiously.

Well at least this is how I see the world and people around me.

These days lMR(IMR) batteries (so called safe chemistry) are probably most commonly used by "vape" community.

The benefit is that they do not explode and proven to be safe choice when you need high drain batteries. Granted, you need a good charger for them, to make sure you're not overcharging them, but this should be on your safety list anyway.

You see I do understand that they try and I do applaud that. yet on my windows 8 machine I still haven't received IE11, even though I just recently did got a notice that IE has been updated, it is still IE10. To make matters worse even if I visit their website to download IE11 manually [1] they're telling me that I already have IE11.

So that experience alone tells me that not everything is done right yet. And even if everything would work, they have to keep doing things right for some time to regain trust.

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/ie-11-w...

I understood that. Yet you're here and you're familiar with IE6 situation. You know that while it might have looked like developers only ones who got hurt by that situation, actually everyone, including regular web users were hurt. As many hours were spent just to provide support for IE rather than creating something more useful. In other cases support for IE was dropped, which hurt users IE right away. I provided developers view, so that you could see how regular web user choice makes an impact to the whole industry.

In today world using any version of IE as a main browser is a bad idea. Why? Because browsers evolve very quickly and IE doesn't. It might look at first that IE is running quite nicely and even fast. But soon you start to notice all of the glitches. Especially if you're web developer. As long as there is no auto update, IE is always a threat for web developers as IE6 can happen again..

Am I not questioning that argument in my comment?

> This is definitely true

It is a strong argument and I know to many examples where this is just simply not the case.

I myself have been eating all my life big portions of food couple times a day, mainly with meat and potatoes, sometimes with some salad though a lot of times without any. I'm not a big fan of sweets, but I do eat bread and some other stuff containing carbs, simply because it is almost impossible to avoid it these days.

At the same time I'm developer spending most of my time in front of computer and I do not go to gym. It has been like this for the last decade, though in the last 5 years I have spent much more time in front of computer and much less doing anything else. Yet my eating habits hasn't changed, neither did my weight. Since I was 16 and my wight was always 90-95 kg, I'm >1.9m height. I believe that this case just proves that calories in vs calories out doesn't always apply. Otherwise by now I should be obese whereas nothing even remotely close has happened.

didn't notice until read this comment. watched it again and well it does look like a little person.

Yeah, at least this way you have control over which properties are methods.

Also, if you really prefer angular.js style of tracking dependencies, this plugin makes the trick http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2013/05/20/knockout-es5-a-pl...

I don't know, maybe it is only my experience, but I have tried Ubuntu quite a few times over the last years, on three different machines, and every single time I experienced problems, especially GPU related, speed is always an issue as well. Just try to search for something in Ubuntu and it just doesn't feel responsive. I'm in no way saying that windows is a better platform, but if you have enough RAM, it is a fast OS.

In my opinion this is wrong comparison. Simply because there is no physical obstacles that prevents you from doing what you have to do at your work, while in traffic there is plenty, hence the reason you're in traffic.

Such comparison alone distorts the view and paves the way to start to think that your minds lazy thoughts ("virtual obstacles") is actually something real, something you can't control.

In my personal experience, the moment you stop thinking about how hard it is to concentrate on a task and you start doing it, is the very moment when all those lazy thoughts disappears and you're back on empty "autobahn".

Whenever there is article about internet prices I always see a lot of mistakes in calculations, question is just why? I am Lithuanian, living in London for the last 4 years. When I left Lithuania at 2010, you could have got 100mbps internet with unlimited traffic starting from £25 per month. Now you can get plan for same 100mbps internet for barely £12.5. Plus no contract, no traffic controlling, so you can keep your torrents 7/24. In the mean time in UK, I just last Summer finally got the upgrade to super old-school ~6mbps internet, now speeds reach 60mbps for a price ~£40 per month, and there is a regulation of traffic, so any weekend or evening internet can slow down for torrents.

In a nutshell at 2014 this what you get in UK vs Lithuania:

BT - UK: 60mbps > £40 > regulated traffic > plus contract 12/24 month.

Meganet - LT: 100mbps > £12 > non-regulated traffic > no contract.