7 Billion people, $7 Billion dollars to identify everyone with HIV (* plus administration costs). Sure, it won't immediately cure eliminate HIV overnight but it would be a start.
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More likely their intention is to keep it free, but with additional "conditions" such as Google search being the only way to find information. Mandated use of Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar, Contacts. Heavily integrated Google Plus social features like chat, blog, and photo sharing.
Google won't need to charge for Android because there will not be a way to avoid a Google tentacles if you use their OS. Google is trying to burn down the ecosystems of it's competitors with free products and make money by being the gatekeeper of your every activity with a smartphone.
It may seem trivial, but what I also liked about it was the boot screen menu. It was quite radically advanced, it felt futuristic. Remember this was back when Microsoft was even more frighteningly good at what they do than Apple is today. And when I saw the 3D menu, with all the futuristic sounds and whatnot -- you knew this system was for real. But the Xbox360 seemed a bit like a step backward, it was more refined, but didn't have that badass feel to it. And then Microsoft kind of fizzled away in the years since.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only
crime is getting caught.
— Hunter S. ThompsonIt's the difference between someone who INVENTS a medication, and someone who collects 5% fee any time you PURCHASE the medicine. Sure, the pharmacists might go on and on about how they are helping people, but really it's the chemists that are doing the hard work that ultimately are the ones improving your life.
You should be thanking Mozilla for building an Audio Data API capable of features like this, and not wait for Apple and Google to get their heads out of their asses.
I was a little disappointed after hacking Google's Translate API to get TTS working. Downloading an MP3 from a remote server just felt like an awful cludge solution. And there were http delays, cut off audio clips, and trying to queue up and play multiple <audio> clips never worked right because of delays between each clip.
People aren't going to wonder whether or not the CS
program at your university is a joke
It's enough to drive you crazy. These people are doing office work as if computers don't even exist.
So called "smart phones" aren't capable of solving this problem. For whatever reason, we lack the software capability of using our technology to really make these mundane tasks of sharing information easier.
Dropbox would need to expand in some big ways to provide a secure "all-cloud" filesystem that enterprises could use to replace their own data centers with.