In India, until March of this year, antibiotics were an off-the-shelf drug.

http://bsac.org.uk/news/major-...

You can't blame the doctors there for this one.

But as usual, things are probably a mixture of things. In India, antibiotics were easy to get, and waste at the plants was an issue. In North America, over-prescription and people not taking the full course of drugs when they ARE required is an issue. In all places, prophylactic use in animals is definitely an issue.

Put all those things together, and here we are. But it's nice to see this guy cop to his industry's (and his own, by implication) complicity in this problem. They're making drugs to help people, and the part that HE can control is how safely they manufacture the drugs. The agriculture and medical industries will have to be dealt with separately (and probably through legislation).

Actually, it's even worse than that. India JUST banned the sale of antibiotics off the shelf this March. Until recently, you could just walk in and grab them. http://bsac.org.uk/news/major-...

There are way too many things wrong with that, but among them is that a lot of unused antibiotics probably wound up in the trash.

The link to buy the car just pushed you to a dealership contact form, it was mostly an ad wrapped up and disguised as an Amazon listing.

You can get an ASUS X205 with Windows 8.1 preinstalled for about $200 shipped if you shop around, $179 if you're willing to walk in to a Microsoft Store.
 
That said it's not three times smaller, it's three times less volume. It's only 2cm on a side smaller, not much bigger than a Raspberry Pi B+, which let's be honest, isn't game-changing at this point. 2012 was a long time ago.

Yeah retail salespersons are kind of dinosaurs at this point. You can't technically buy a car on Amazon but you can buy a road legal (in some states) scooter there. Inertia is the only reason you can't order a new Toyota Camry or Prius on Amazon and have it shipped to your house. You can do it with used cars on Ebay at least.
 
I'm not sure jobs or tax revenue are a good reason to impede forward progress though.

I'm not a vet student, but I did spend a night helping one study the sinuses of a large animal (they split in to large animal (farm) and small animal (pet) specialties) and some of the learning materials are a little difficult to wrap your brain around, in particular how the sinuses (voids in the skull) exist inside the skull, how they connect (or don't) and simply where they are. The brain has enough trouble understanding negative spaces, even more trouble trying to conceptualize the winding, twisting 3D negative spaces you can't ever directly view without cutting apart a skull to do so. Even then doing so only gives you half the picture, and in negative space.
 
There are some videos online showing the sinuses in "positive 3D space" but it's still only a reference (Everyone is different) so I would imagine having a 3D positive space model of a tumor you've never seen and can't see without cutting open someone's head would be incredibly helpful, especially since you can't just buy off the shelf reference material for human tumors like you can bovine sinuses.

Not only does Apple support MOST of its devices for about 4 years, the first iPad's abnormally short update lifetime is still longer than Google's official support lifetime of 18 months.

And on top of that, they even pushed out iOS 6 security updates when that SSL bug popped up. That was a security patch for an OS and device that was basically EOL.

If you toss your phone after two years, that's your problem. My iPhone 4 was working great when I gave it to my Mom in September after getting my iPhone 6. Maybe she'll only get a year or two out of it, but six years is about as long as anyone ever owns a computing device these days.

I buy Apple phones specifically because I KNOW I'll get 4 years out of them. Don't pin any of this crap on Apple, because it's just not true.

One of the major online retailers last week had a 5TB USB 3.0 external drive for $129 how much data do you have??? My file server is setup with about 8 TB of space which is plenty it turns out.

18 year graph, yes temperatures have risen over the last 18 years.

What you were trying to cite was the was this. If you look at that graph you'll see that the earth has been on a cooling trend line (the straight lines), every year since 1965. Obviously the graph is rising, and obviously all of the cooling trend-lines are completely fictional. That's exactly how denialist websites try to quote that warming has "stopped", when it obviously hasn't. The genuine long term warming trend always breaks the fictional short-term trend lines after a few years.

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Solar is already on par with electricity prices (which are mainly driven by the pool-table flat price of coal) and solar is expected to be half the price of electricity in 15 years. And that's in the first year. That means you get back 100% return on your investment in the first year. The next 25 years are just gravy (assuming no hail storms and your batteries never wear out). If you live in a hot state nearly free electricity during the hottest part of the day means you'll have a very predictable and very low electric cost for 10 months out of the year (12 if you have gas heat).
 
What I'm saying is, solar is already cost-effective, but in 10 years even with dirt-cheap oil, solar will still be cheaper, and there's no global fluctuation in locally produced and consumed solar energy.
 
Energy independence = less need for global intervention in war-torn oil producing states.

100% true.

Something that helps a lot (in all industries, including academia) is stripping names and gender/race identifying characteristics from resumes and papers. When those documents are assessed in a context absent the nature of the writer, they're considered more equally. They've done experiments where the same paper has been submitted with male, female and neutral names, and the female names see more critical judgement and a higher rate of rejection. This is for exactly the same paper, remember.

The problem isn't overt racism, it's subtle, institutional discrimination that most of us suffer from. Even female researchers and professors are guilty of discriminating against other women.

The CEO of Intel can't affect those industries, except, perhaps, indirectly and through example.

All of those are good questions. Those are all places where we should be striving to see a better mix of genders and races. You tell ME why those industries aren't trying to change. Could it be the institutional sexism that's so pervasive in our culture, starting when children are young, allotting toys on a gendered basis? Is it because we don't discourage construction workers in many of our cities from catcalling really offensive things, making women wonder why they'd ever want to work on a site like that? Is it because when women DO go into the armed forces, they're raped or sexually assaulted at distressingly high rates? Is it because we tell men that caring for children is women's work, and simultaneously tell them it's a horrible thing to be feminine?

By the time someone is looking for a job, it's probably too late. The people that want to be in construction have already made their choice, male or female.

I would imagine ESPN is charging Dish at LEAST $20/mo per subscriber, and Dish is willing to eat that as a cost of being first out of the gate for internet ESPN cord cutter subscribers. The rest is free, really.

Uh, no. The A7 and A8. The ones that Apple developed themselves. The ones that Qualcomm dismissed as a gimmick while desperately trying to get out the door themselves and only just achieving this year.

I've tried the ONE other that's on the market. On the face of it, it's a poor system, and much slower. The swipe action requires a lot more precision and a specific orientation. I've unlocked my iPhone upside down.

It seems like it's a triviality, but because of it, I can have a 15-ish digit passcode and unlock my phone and buy things from the appstore rather quickly. I feel like I'm in the dark ages every time I use my (3rd-Gen) iPad. It's a small change, but it's one that I quickly wanted on almost everything I owned. I'm not made of money, though, so replacing my iPad will have to wait.

Right, but for the same price as the Dell monitor, you can buy the iMac. It's like you get a computer for free.

The heat dissipation design is really clever. I had a PowerMac G5, and the bloody thing (while gorgeous--one of the loveliest industrial designs in the last 20 years) was insanely loud. I've worked with a few sound engineers in my time (I'm in the games industry) and they hate how loud the computers are.

I think you're misreading my statement. It used to be that buying Gen 1 of any Apple product was a recipe for disaster. You always waited for the next revision because the first one would have an irritating problem. Now, I feel like Gen 1 of Apple's hardware is a lot less worrisome from that perspective.

But to speak to your point, while Apple does frequent updates, they support old hardware for a long time. My iPhone got OS updates for four years--they're the only ones in the industry that do that. My 5 year old iMac is still getting OS updates. They're not really designed to be replaced quickly, it's just that their new designs are awfully good. I switched to Macs a few years ago specifically to AVOID the upgrade treadmill, and it's worked rather well.

And, to tie it back to the original thesis of this article, I feel like there's been a dip in the quality of the software that makes the longevity of the hardware a little less pertinent. Sure, I've got Yosemite running on my iMac, but the OS is mystifyingly crash-prone. It doesn't matter if my Mac is new or old, problems like that will drive you insane.