Comb generally doesn't mix the two. Larvae and honey are usually stored in separate locations. That being said, I have no idea how "pulling the string" would be able to differentiate. I imagine, however, that a strainer of some sort could keep most of the unpleasantness away. That being said, "as a fellow beekeeper," I, too, am with MancunianMaskMan: I just don't see how this could reasonably be expected to work, especially in cooler locales, where they'd be wintering in a room-temperature environment.
A hive that doesn't winter well is a sickly hive; something's wrong. A hive that's kept warm all winter, I'd actually have huge concerns about: the bees' metabolism would kick into gear: they'd both need more food, and (likely) need to clean the hive. The first would be... interesting to implement, the second would almost certainly be impossible with temperatures near or below freezing. (Bees really don't like to be out in temps below the mid 50's.)
Bees don't leave due to inattentive keepers; they leave only when something is incredibly stressful in their environment -- not enough to forage from (though that's almost inconceivable in most locales, including cities), or -- far more likely -- persistent pestering by skunks, raccoons, etc. They seem to have no problem trying to get some honey for themselves in the middle of the night. There are two ways bees leave a hive: swarming, which is really just when the hive is large enough to branch out, and absconding, which is Bad News, and almost always due to environmental factors.
But neither am I sure it's a good one. Farmers already do plenty of work -- tacking on beekeeping makes it that much harder. Beekeeping of 20 years ago was an inherently easier job than it is now; even if you discount CCD, there are mite incursions as well as "foul brood" issues that didn't exist then that are the bane of beekeepers now. I suppose it's a slippery slope -- what if your idea *did* "fix" everything that was wrong? That'd be great. But it would also be an honest-to-God pain; beekeeping no longer consists of putting bees in a hive and hoping they don't swarm too often. Each hive is a significant hit on both time and money; they now have to be carefully monitored and managed. And learning this stuff doesn't come magically, either: there are additional hits for time (and money) spent on training, e.g., college short courses, agricultural extension agents, etc.
In a perfect world, I agree: your suggestion would be the right way to go. But I don't think you're taking into account the potential downsides and ramifications of your idea.
Keeping migratory hives from, well, migrating, would incur a huge financial hit on beekeepers. Additionally, if they aren't migrating, they aren't polinating. Given the current batch of CCD, it's not like in-state hives (natural or man-owned) could compensate, so you'd also see a significant impact on cash crops.
It was one of those dystopian short stories that seem to crop up in high school. Our protagonist was, himself, in high school, and had just gotten, to his parents' consternation, a free trip to the amusement park... run by the Bureau of Population Control, or somesuch. He's elated, but somewhere lets slip that one-in-seven leave the park in a body bag. He goes on various rides, and, occasionally, folks in seats/carts/whatever next to him meet their untimely demise, by way of crashes, electric zaps, and so forth. Eventually, so does the protagonist.
Odd story, it was. And this sounds freakishly close. "Weird minds think alike."
I've always *loved* Google Labs! It's where I first bumped into "suggest," and a whole bunch of other really cool features that have eventually been rolled into the final product.
I'm very, very sad. Used to be a Red Hat Labs that suffered the same fate; I guess that sort of paradigm just doesn't have enough energy for the long run.
If you're interested in the/. history and culture, for what it's worth, feel free to shoot me an e-mail. I rarely bark, and never bite. Rob, also, is very, VERY approachable -- but that being said, while I receive "mail", he gets "MAIL". In other words, his repl(ies|y), while friendly, are generally short, and usually don't follow threads very well. (I say this from the whopping half-dozen "conversations" we've had in the past dozen-odd years, so I'm probably not the world's most authoritative source in Communications With Taco.)
But, as I've been here since juuuuust after Chips and Dips days, I've probably posted a thousand-odd times, overall. There's a reason my UID is 3395 or somesuch -- and the reason is because I slacked off getting registered when account creation was established.:-)
As for visiting, well, the answer's obvious: I like the skiing.
Yeradork. Welcome to The House that Rob (and Hemos, etc.) built.
Indeed, if you weren't such a n00b, you'd know that the site used to be a fair bit more personal than it is now. And I daresay, most of us liked it that way.
Rob, we all know you're a big ol' mushball, but we also enjoy the humanity you bring to Slashdot. I truly miss the personal touches you used to give on a regular basis -- but this story makes up for it a fair bit.
My first "timestamped" memory is of Apollo 8 circuiting the moon. I only wish I'd had the time to catch a shuttle launch; I remember, when the first one launched, Asimov wrote a story, "The Last Shuttle". Didn't think it'd come so soon.
As someone who works for a-company-which-shall-remain-nameless-but-makes-a-self-balancing-two-wheeled-product, in a word, "Yes." That being said, the argument here is most closely aligned with the argument re: vaccines. Vaccines demonstrably save tens of thousands of lives, stateside alone, every year. And yet, one article by a (now-)discredited quack has thrown the whole program into a political and social quagmire. Why? Because people do *not* think as Spock did: "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." This is, perhaps, most clearly shown by the gun lobbyists: guns kills thousands, every year. Home invasions in which guns could have prevented a victim's death are VASTLY fewer. While my sympathies lie with the thousands who die needlessly, this is not an easy question to answer based on body count alone.
I loved Byte -- I truly did. Indeed, it was part of the reason that I moved to the publishing powerhouse of Peterborough, NH. Yeah, the town is one of those don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it towns, but it housed IDG's suite (A+, AmigaWorld, and others), 73 Magazine (the Ham/CB radio rag), several vertical market magazines (one of which, Sensors Magazine, still exists, and is edited by my ex-GF), and, yes, Byte.
I used to hang out with one of the founders, Carl Helmers. Nice enough guy, but a classic Asperger's person: don't even start a conversation if you have any plans, ever. He'll talk your ear off, and there's essentially never a graceful way to put in the words, "Oh, my! Midnight! Look at that!"
The magazine, itself, was such a suite of talent. Hardware columns, first peeks, and a boatload of knowledge. About the only thing I *didn't* like was Pournelle's column; while I even sometimes agreed, he was so pretentious and paternalistic that it drove me bonkers. Made me wonder how it was that he could co-create SF I actually enjoyed. (Though I never did enjoy his solo stuff.)
When Byte shut its doors, there was a lot of shock and disappointment. It had been doing well; there was talk that it was competing with some of McGraw-Hill's other holdings, and that they might have chosen to consolidate. Whatever the reason, I don't think its storied past holds much of a future as Yet Another Consumer Electronics Magazine.
I got Windows 1.0 bundled with a 2 MB Intel AboveBoard RAM expansion card. And, yes, that was my impression. For one, calling it a GUI would be a grevious mistake: instead, it was more like a graphical text-based interface. In a nutshell, very little worked well, and there was absolutely no driving reason (Reversi aside) to consider leaving good ol' DesqView -- or even DOS. DesqView, which had no real pretentions to GUI, did a vastly nicer job of task handling. In truth, looking back, I think it's nothing more than dumb luck (and maybe Reversi?) that got Windows on top. And believe you me: CGA did *nothing* for the "GUIness" of Windows 1.0.
Nor, for that matter, did the fact that nobody had mice at the time. Except, of course, for those self-satisfied Mac users.
Thank GOD for the Amiga in '87. Finally, a real OS, with both GUI and command line components. Oh, yeah: and real color.
And it's actually fairly common in the insect world. Worker bees, for example, lay unfertilized eggs (which, as always, give birth to "drones," or male bees, the same as when the queen lays unfertilized eggs). But for bees, this is almost certainly a throwback to millions of years ago, before the current roles were set in stone -- as drones are incapable of fertilizing non-queens, and workers wouldn't be laying if there were any queens in residence. The modern day outcome is A Bad Day, though in years gone by, it was probably quite the neat survival mechanism. Ants and others also have similar stories. Reptiles? Reptiles do do weird stuff -- e.g., some frogs can change gender, perhaps even at will -- but parthenogenesis is a new one on me. Fun time to be a he herpetologist, and not just because of Harry Potter!
Richard Heinzmann. He's the guy. He has two brothers, also both engineers. Richard and one brother continue to work at DEKA; the third brother works at Segway. And I ain't sayin' which brother it is I work with.
Ummmm... no. I'd love to give my sources, but I can't, as I'd even more dearly love to keep my job.
I will ask you to consider this, though: Dean Kamen invented his incredibly small insulin pump. After which he got quite wealthy, and started DEKA. Do you think ANY of the ideas that come out of DEKA -- like, say, the Luke Arm project -- have the original engineer's stamp on it? That would be "No." There are a LOT of engineers at DEKA; Dean plays largely an advisory/supervisory role, with funding and PR for projects he feels are worthy.
Look for any dated prior to the PT's release (September, 2001).
P.S. With all due respect, unless you're directly involved with $COMPANY that releases $PRODUCT, why do you assume that you know which engineers worked on it?
Just an FYI, the XT and X2 lines have been out for years; *IF* that's what he was riding -- and there truly is no other "off-road" Segway -- then it is what it is... but it ain't new.
The Personal Transporter's *actual* inventor is this engineer I've bumped into -- I work with his brother. DK was "merely" the person who put money and PR behind it. Dean gets a lot of credit -- but really, *his* biggest invention was the insulin pump.
I mean, sure, this is the final phase of beating a dead horse. But dear LORD, this took for ever. Finally -- finally! -- SCO and AdTI are both "yesterday's news."
Someone returning after self-imposed ostracization to the LKML, and offering up an as-yet-untried (by third party) -- much less accepted -- scheduler rates higher than a new release of Asterisk?
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Comb generally doesn't mix the two. Larvae and honey are usually stored in separate locations. That being said, I have no idea how "pulling the string" would be able to differentiate. I imagine, however, that a strainer of some sort could keep most of the unpleasantness away. That being said, "as a fellow beekeeper," I, too, am with MancunianMaskMan: I just don't see how this could reasonably be expected to work, especially in cooler locales, where they'd be wintering in a room-temperature environment.
A hive that doesn't winter well is a sickly hive; something's wrong. A hive that's kept warm all winter, I'd actually have huge concerns about: the bees' metabolism would kick into gear: they'd both need more food, and (likely) need to clean the hive. The first would be... interesting to implement, the second would almost certainly be impossible with temperatures near or below freezing. (Bees really don't like to be out in temps below the mid 50's.)
Bees don't leave due to inattentive keepers; they leave only when something is incredibly stressful in their environment -- not enough to forage from (though that's almost inconceivable in most locales, including cities), or -- far more likely -- persistent pestering by skunks, raccoons, etc. They seem to have no problem trying to get some honey for themselves in the middle of the night. There are two ways bees leave a hive: swarming, which is really just when the hive is large enough to branch out, and absconding, which is Bad News, and almost always due to environmental factors.
And, yes, I was a beekeeper. ;-)
But neither am I sure it's a good one. Farmers already do plenty of work -- tacking on beekeeping makes it that much harder. Beekeeping of 20 years ago was an inherently easier job than it is now; even if you discount CCD, there are mite incursions as well as "foul brood" issues that didn't exist then that are the bane of beekeepers now. I suppose it's a slippery slope -- what if your idea *did* "fix" everything that was wrong? That'd be great. But it would also be an honest-to-God pain; beekeeping no longer consists of putting bees in a hive and hoping they don't swarm too often. Each hive is a significant hit on both time and money; they now have to be carefully monitored and managed. And learning this stuff doesn't come magically, either: there are additional hits for time (and money) spent on training, e.g., college short courses, agricultural extension agents, etc.
In a perfect world, I agree: your suggestion would be the right way to go. But I don't think you're taking into account the potential downsides and ramifications of your idea.
Keeping migratory hives from, well, migrating, would incur a huge financial hit on beekeepers. Additionally, if they aren't migrating, they aren't polinating. Given the current batch of CCD, it's not like in-state hives (natural or man-owned) could compensate, so you'd also see a significant impact on cash crops.
What's your suggestion for them?
(And, yes, I've kept bees.)
So... you get cheap channels, cheap, and pay for expensive ones.
Am I missing something? How, exactly, does this count as "bait and switch"?
It was one of those dystopian short stories that seem to crop up in high school. Our protagonist was, himself, in high school, and had just gotten, to his parents' consternation, a free trip to the amusement park... run by the Bureau of Population Control, or somesuch. He's elated, but somewhere lets slip that one-in-seven leave the park in a body bag. He goes on various rides, and, occasionally, folks in seats/carts/whatever next to him meet their untimely demise, by way of crashes, electric zaps, and so forth. Eventually, so does the protagonist.
Odd story, it was. And this sounds freakishly close. "Weird minds think alike."
See? The end of the epoch *is* the end of life! Screw the Aztecs...
I've always *loved* Google Labs! It's where I first bumped into "suggest," and a whole bunch of other really cool features that have eventually been rolled into the final product.
I'm very, very sad. Used to be a Red Hat Labs that suffered the same fate; I guess that sort of paradigm just doesn't have enough energy for the long run.
*sigh*
Hey, Arthur -- if you've still got any to hand out, feel free to send one my way: ken@jots.org.
Thanks much!
-Ken
If you're interested in the /. history and culture, for what it's worth, feel free to shoot me an e-mail. I rarely bark, and never bite. Rob, also, is very, VERY approachable -- but that being said, while I receive "mail", he gets "MAIL". In other words, his repl(ies|y), while friendly, are generally short, and usually don't follow threads very well. (I say this from the whopping half-dozen "conversations" we've had in the past dozen-odd years, so I'm probably not the world's most authoritative source in Communications With Taco.)
But, as I've been here since juuuuust after Chips and Dips days, I've probably posted a thousand-odd times, overall. There's a reason my UID is 3395 or somesuch -- and the reason is because I slacked off getting registered when account creation was established. :-)
As for visiting, well, the answer's obvious: I like the skiing.
Yeradork. Welcome to The House that Rob (and Hemos, etc.) built.
Indeed, if you weren't such a n00b, you'd know that the site used to be a fair bit more personal than it is now. And I daresay, most of us liked it that way.
Now go home.
Rob, we all know you're a big ol' mushball, but we also enjoy the humanity you bring to Slashdot. I truly miss the personal touches you used to give on a regular basis -- but this story makes up for it a fair bit.
My first "timestamped" memory is of Apollo 8 circuiting the moon. I only wish I'd had the time to catch a shuttle launch; I remember, when the first one launched, Asimov wrote a story, "The Last Shuttle". Didn't think it'd come so soon.
See subject.
As someone who works for a-company-which-shall-remain-nameless-but-makes-a-self-balancing-two-wheeled-product, in a word, "Yes." That being said, the argument here is most closely aligned with the argument re: vaccines. Vaccines demonstrably save tens of thousands of lives, stateside alone, every year. And yet, one article by a (now-)discredited quack has thrown the whole program into a political and social quagmire. Why? Because people do *not* think as Spock did: "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." This is, perhaps, most clearly shown by the gun lobbyists: guns kills thousands, every year. Home invasions in which guns could have prevented a victim's death are VASTLY fewer. While my sympathies lie with the thousands who die needlessly, this is not an easy question to answer based on body count alone.
I loved Byte -- I truly did. Indeed, it was part of the reason that I moved to the publishing powerhouse of Peterborough, NH. Yeah, the town is one of those don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it towns, but it housed IDG's suite (A+, AmigaWorld, and others), 73 Magazine (the Ham/CB radio rag), several vertical market magazines (one of which, Sensors Magazine, still exists, and is edited by my ex-GF), and, yes, Byte.
I used to hang out with one of the founders, Carl Helmers. Nice enough guy, but a classic Asperger's person: don't even start a conversation if you have any plans, ever. He'll talk your ear off, and there's essentially never a graceful way to put in the words, "Oh, my! Midnight! Look at that!"
The magazine, itself, was such a suite of talent. Hardware columns, first peeks, and a boatload of knowledge. About the only thing I *didn't* like was Pournelle's column; while I even sometimes agreed, he was so pretentious and paternalistic that it drove me bonkers. Made me wonder how it was that he could co-create SF I actually enjoyed. (Though I never did enjoy his solo stuff.)
When Byte shut its doors, there was a lot of shock and disappointment. It had been doing well; there was talk that it was competing with some of McGraw-Hill's other holdings, and that they might have chosen to consolidate. Whatever the reason, I don't think its storied past holds much of a future as Yet Another Consumer Electronics Magazine.
But golly, I'd love to be wrong.
I got Windows 1.0 bundled with a 2 MB Intel AboveBoard RAM expansion card. And, yes, that was my impression. For one, calling it a GUI would be a grevious mistake: instead, it was more like a graphical text-based interface. In a nutshell, very little worked well, and there was absolutely no driving reason (Reversi aside) to consider leaving good ol' DesqView -- or even DOS. DesqView, which had no real pretentions to GUI, did a vastly nicer job of task handling. In truth, looking back, I think it's nothing more than dumb luck (and maybe Reversi?) that got Windows on top. And believe you me: CGA did *nothing* for the "GUIness" of Windows 1.0.
Nor, for that matter, did the fact that nobody had mice at the time. Except, of course, for those self-satisfied Mac users.
Thank GOD for the Amiga in '87. Finally, a real OS, with both GUI and command line components. Oh, yeah: and real color.
And it's actually fairly common in the insect world. Worker bees, for example, lay unfertilized eggs (which, as always, give birth to "drones," or male bees, the same as when the queen lays unfertilized eggs). But for bees, this is almost certainly a throwback to millions of years ago, before the current roles were set in stone -- as drones are incapable of fertilizing non-queens, and workers wouldn't be laying if there were any queens in residence. The modern day outcome is A Bad Day, though in years gone by, it was probably quite the neat survival mechanism. Ants and others also have similar stories. Reptiles? Reptiles do do weird stuff -- e.g., some frogs can change gender, perhaps even at will -- but parthenogenesis is a new one on me. Fun time to be a he herpetologist, and not just because of Harry Potter!
Richard Heinzmann. He's the guy. He has two brothers, also both engineers. Richard and one brother continue to work at DEKA; the third brother works at Segway. And I ain't sayin' which brother it is I work with.
Happy?
Ummmm... no. I'd love to give my sources, but I can't, as I'd even more dearly love to keep my job.
I will ask you to consider this, though: Dean Kamen invented his incredibly small insulin pump. After which he got quite wealthy, and started DEKA. Do you think ANY of the ideas that come out of DEKA -- like, say, the Luke Arm project -- have the original engineer's stamp on it? That would be "No." There are a LOT of engineers at DEKA; Dean plays largely an advisory/supervisory role, with funding and PR for projects he feels are worthy.
Tell you what: forget me; go look up the patent applications; while I imagine Dean's on the application (founders of mid-sized companies usually are), I bet there are a bunch of other names, too. Here:
http://www.google.com/patents?tbs=bks:1&tbo=1&q=heinzmann+OR+morell+DEKA&btnG=Search+Patents
Look for any dated prior to the PT's release (September, 2001).
P.S. With all due respect, unless you're directly involved with $COMPANY that releases $PRODUCT, why do you assume that you know which engineers worked on it?
Just an FYI, the XT and X2 lines have been out for years; *IF* that's what he was riding -- and there truly is no other "off-road" Segway -- then it is what it is... but it ain't new.
The Personal Transporter's *actual* inventor is this engineer I've bumped into -- I work with his brother. DK was "merely" the person who put money and PR behind it. Dean gets a lot of credit -- but really, *his* biggest invention was the insulin pump.
GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE.
I mean, sure, this is the final phase of beating a dead horse. But dear LORD, this took for ever. Finally -- finally! -- SCO and AdTI are both "yesterday's news."
Someone returning after self-imposed ostracization to the LKML, and offering up an as-yet-untried (by third party) -- much less accepted -- scheduler rates higher than a new release of Asterisk?
*Must* be a slow news day.