grahamm

The whole update world is messed up IMHO. My phone shows me multiple pending updates each day. What I notice is some apps updates are pushed out religiously every couple of days. I suspect most are legit but some I am not sure about, in fact I even think it's so my phone reminds me that I have app or game "X" installed. When I look at the reason for the update all it says is "Bug fixes" or "Information not provided by user". I feel it's more about reminding you that app is there than actually fixing issues and delivering new features.

Very useful app. I have posted it in the KBW rail user group Facebook page for others to enjoy (and weep at).

And it went bankrupt at the cost of fixing some fundamental problems that contributed to at least two nasty rail accidents. The government decided it didn't want to continue to be responsible for the maintenance. Would rather feed subsidies to a company that would take the heat for issues.

And before the FDA is over cautious the pharma is cautious. If they pushed a drug through that didn't work or caused serious side effects there would be legal implications that would wipe out some or all financial gains from the drug. Back to having no incentive.

The problem is anti-biotics are no longer being developed. They could be developed but it is not finicially worth a large pharma to do so.

Consider this, development takes years (>10) and costs billions due to failed attempts (over 9 in 10 fail), testing, etc. They then go to market and no government will buy them because the price is high to recoup the billions spent developing over ten drugs which only one made to market. In the end the governments force the companies to sell them at a loss should there be an epidemic. Then to cap it all some company in another part of the world where IP is not honoured rips off the drug and floods the most needed places with a cheap knock off.

Where is the incentive for a pharma to go through this.

As soon as I saw that kernel boot screen in the article it was like seeing an old friend. I look back on my years at SCO(C) very fondly. Seeing what happened when Caldera (SCOX) got involved deeply saddens me. I always wonder what would have happened if the SCO OS development had turned from SVR UNIX to Linux how different things may have been.