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Once I got used to the controls, I preffered the controller to keyboard and mouse. The controller vibrates, gives you feedback, gives you analog controls to control your movement.
I don't know why people thing mouse/keyboard is gods gift to gaming. The mousepad slides or the mouse moves off the edge, your finger accidentally hits the wrong key, and your game is over.
The fact that every level wasnt a completely new "universe" didn't bother me. The enemy AI was the best I'd seen up to that point, and I was having a blast chasing down squealing covenant grunts.
Of course, then theres the multiplayer game, which is the best multiplayer experience I've had.
The PC version of Halo is pure shit, I won't deny that. A bad porting job and nothing really new added. But the XBox version was great. It was well done and hit its target dead-on.
BTW, PC gamer vs console gamer is a moronic and tired topic for a flamewar. If you don't like it, save your cash for Half Life 2.
No, its a warm fuzzy term that lets social workers feel better about themselves. "No, his development is just delayed" which implies that eventually they will "catch up".
It's even used for degenerative diseases where they know the condition will only worsen.
PC language is all about making the speaker feel better about themselves, it has nothing to do with the audience. Like my "african american" sample.
You could have the midnset of the grand wizard of the KKK but so long as you use terms like "african american" instead of "black", or "asian" instead of "oriental", you can happily convince yourself that you arent racist or ignorant.
Mentally retarded is still used by doctors, but social workers and other PC professions consider it offensive and now use developmentally delayed.
PC language is funny. As a kid, I was a patient at the Ontario Crippled Childrens Center. Until the PC lobby decided that the word Crippled was offensive, and it became the Hugh MacMillan Medical Center. But all the patients there were crippled, it's a center for prosthetics, orthotics, mental handicaps, etc.
I like the racial PC stuff. Negro was once the proper term, it's spanish for black. Then people decided it was offensive. Then Black or Colored was the term, then it was decided it was offensive. Now its "African American".
Back in canada, I had a friend born in Canada, with parents with a Jamaican background. He insisted that he be called African American, no matter how many times I would point out that he'd never even been to Africa or America.
I'm sure "African American" will soon be deemed offensive, all it takes is for some people to use the term negatively. Then the PC folks will invent something else.
It's all just words to me, what matters is the context.
"You're looking for Fred? He's the black guy over there." is considered offensive by PC folk.
"African Americans are all drug addicts and thieves and rapists, and are stupider than caucaisians!" is perfectly OK by PC doctrine.
it is, Comcasts latest advertising blitz is all about the video email, and from what I've heard, it's drawing them in.
You have to give all those gandmas an excuse to pay 40 bucks a month, and the idea of getting daily videos of their grandkids throwing cheerios on the floor is working.
Of course, in reality, noone calls, visits, or bothers to email grandma. She's in that nursing home for a reason, after all.
That would be a young queen whos born into an established hive, and gets the boot from the previous queen.
The situation of a single queen bee starting a new hive is fairly rare, usually when a young queen leaves, half the workers leave with her. This happens when a hive is overpopulated, otherwise there would be no young queen.
That's what they call a swarm, and they all go looking for a new place to settle down. Now and then you might see a giant mass of bees on a post or tree limb, thats a swarm waiting for some foragers to come back and say "doods I found this awesome hollow log!"
Usually the bees will ball around the queen for the winter, they'll vibrate to create a little heat do to friction. It's not really hibernation either, it's more of a suspended animation. They basically stop all body functions.
I've had beehives survive canadian ice storms, with the entire hive encased in six inches of solid ice all the way around. Suffocation apparently isn't a problem for them either.
Bees wont fly when it's cold. They'll hang around the hive all pissed off waiting for someone to sting.
It's like the discovery channel's series of "OMFG the world will end because of X" documentaries. I was watching one about supervolcanoes, and how Yellowstone could be an enormous caldera just waiting to blow.
The whole show was doom and gloom and OMFG volcanic winter and stuff. One scientist was on screen for about 30 seconds, just long enough to say "well, we've never seen one erupt, we have no idea what would happen."
This wasn't featured prominently in the show, because it wasn't exciting and entertaining.
People think everything they see on TV is true, especially if its a documentary on the History or discovery channels.
Note to history channel... We really don't know what happened during the dark ages, thats why they're called the dark ages!
Oh my god a scientists said so so it must be true!
An expert in the field of apiculture? No. She knows fossils, not bees. She's a PhD palentologist. Oh wait, no she's not, she's a graduate student. We're talking about a graduate students thesis.
One that's based on the fact that amber-fossilized bees aesthetically look like modern bees, and are "probably" (the articles word) the ancestors of modern bees, so therefore they must have identical biological needs.
I've spent more years tending beehives than she did studying dinosaur bones. They really don't have "strict survival requirements" as she says in TFA. I've opened hives that should have been dead, but aren't.
The only things I know of that'll kill a hive is a disease called foulbrood, and a condition called a "laying worker", where the queen dies, and before a new queen is reared, one of the worker bees fills in and starts laying eggs. Since eggs are being layed, the workers wont worry about rearing a new queen. Since the worker is unfertilized, the eggs will all hatch male (drones), and thats no good. The only solution is to watch very closely for a bee thats going into cells backwards, and pinch it.
But I digress.
Also, we aren't talking about a winter that lasted a few thousand years, we're talking about a decade tops.
Some graduate student spouts some theory and you shout down anyone who dares criticize it. No wonder we're so overwhelmed with junk science these days.
No, the dance theory has to do with how a forager bee tells the rest of the workers precicely where the food is that he found. The legend goes that he first spins one way X times to denote the direction, then the other way X times to denote the distance.
Plenty of people are sceptical of this, and alternate theories include the one that the other bees just follow the forager by his scent - like a line of ants in the sky.
I have seen bees spin around and do this dance while they flap their wings. Every time I'd smoke them they'd all start doing it (to fan the smoke from the hive). That's how smoke "pacifies" bees, they go into "holy shit forget that guy whos tryin to take our honey, this place is on fire!" mode.
They don't need to forage. They stockpile vast amounts of honey just in case there's no food next year. On the order of 100s of times more than they need to survive a winter. A large hive untouched could probably survive 30 or 40 years with no new food source.
They've also been known to fly 20 miles from the hive to find a food source. It doesn't take much. If it's flowering, the bees will find it. Most of the bees got their nectar, where I was, from dandelions and other weeds, which don't have very strict climactic conditions to grow.
I'm not shocked in the least to find that they survived and dinosaurs didnt.
As a former hobbyist apiculturalist (ie; I had my own bee hive as a kid), I can comment a little here.
A beehive can survive for an extended period of time of bad weather. They survive pretty rough canadian winters, for one. A bee can be frozen solid and thaw out and still be alive.
Cool weather pisses bees off. That is, they get nasty and stingy when it starts to chill. This is to protect the hive from invaders. If an invader comes into the hive as it cools off, they'll ball around it, and sting it to death. I once opened a hive in the spring and found the remains of a raccoon who decided it would be a neat home.
The drones get kicked out about this time. They exist only to breed, and it's not worth the hives time to feed them over the winter. A couple weeks of extended cold, and you'll find a few dozen dead drones scattered about in front of the hive. They literally freeze to death on the doorstep like the little match girl.
As it gets colder, the workers "ball up" around the queen, insulating her and the caretakers closest to her. This is usually in the center of the lowest portion of the hive, because thats usually the warmest spot. They all then go into a sort of hibernation so they need little food or energy.
They make 100s of times more honey than they need, which is good for us. Harvesting all that honey doesn't hurt the hive during a normal season.
I don't know how many years this volcanic winter was supposed to have lasted, but I could easily see a big hive with a lot of honey surviving a decade of less-than-optimal weather.
They don't need to forage, like I said, they store a lot of food. Barring some asshole like me coming to steal all their honey, they could last decades. It just needs to get warm enough for the queen to carry on laying eggs and for the other activities of the hive to take place for about 2 months a year. "Warm enough" is only a few degrees above freezing.
This would be especially true if the hive is underground, which isn't completely uncommon in the wild for honeybees to take over an abandoned gopher hole.
In short, its really fucking hard to kill a beehive. They're designed to withstand a black bear smashing them apart and gobble down a bunch of honeycomb. I'd put my money on bees outliving a bunch of gigantic reptiles any day.
I'd think a bigger mystery is why crocodiles and sharks have survived virtually unchanged. What's a croc got that T-Rex didnt?
It's only fair. Bloggers saw no journalism in CBS, and called them on it.
This whole piece is "no no seriously we're still the source for news! No really, dont check facts online, just listen to what we say. George Bush is a big liar! See I have these documents that were written in MS Word in 1972...."
Heh, I still cant believe they just wrote those in Word. I mean, if Rather had the brains to dig an old typewriter out of one of the back lots, noone would have caught on, and the media's plan to swing the election might have worked.
Frankly, Rather, Whoopi Goldberg, Moore, and all those other morons did more damage to Kerry than good.
I can't remember who said it, but one of the media moguls said something about the media being able to directly influence 30% of the voters, or something along those lines.
2004 was the year the media tried to overthrow a sitting president. You have NY Times coming out and endorsing Bush, you have the CBS "journalism", Michael Moore and the Hollywood loony crowd getting all sorts of air time.
And the public saw threw it. I think a lot of people voted Bush in spite of it. Kerry was stupid to align himself with these folks. After Whoopi Goldberg had her moment of sheer stupidity at the Kerry fundraiser, that guy actually comes out and says something to the effect of her being the "voice of the american people".
She isn't. Hollywood isn't. And allying themselves with that crowd of dopes cost Kerry the election.
The Kerry campaign constantly hammered Bush for being a liar, but if you look at the campaign, all the lies and half-truths were from Kerry boosters. The document scandal, the missing explosives, saying that orders to torture prisoners in Abu Gharib came all the way down from the top.
CBS is pissed because bloggers took them down, saw through their lies. People don't just watch the news and nod and accept it as fact. They go online. They discuss, they read others opinions.
The media's power is diminishing. The people saw through them this time. They didn't have the effect they wanted. So they're throwing a tantrum about it.
To be fair, AMD did have some major stability and compatibility problems in the past.
So any number of cliche's apply. Once bitten, twice shy. You don't get a second chance to make a first impression. Noone ever got fired for buying intel. Etc.
It'll take time, and AMD has to keep QC as it's top priority. IT Managers generally don't give a rats ass if it gets 3 more FPS in quake 9.
The first and last Asus board I ever bought was the P4S8X. I've read a lot of wonderful things about their other boards, but, once bitten twice shy.
That board was a complete piece of shit.
It was supposed to be the greatest enthusiasts board. Unofficial DDR400 support, 8X AGP, unparalleled overclocking abilities. It had a great big sticker proclaiming DDR400 (back before that was standard), but I couldn't even get it stable with DDR333. They eventually released a bios "fix", which basically underclocked everything. Overclocking? Hah. Noone got anywhere with that stinker.
My DDR333 now worked fine, and the system didn't bluescreen every 20 minutes. But benchmarks showed it was running at below DDR266 performance levels. It was actually better to roll back to the older BIOS, and run my ram at 266.
It was based on the SiS648, and Asus continually blamed the chipset for all its faults. I switched to a Gigabyte GA-8SG800 board, which is based on the exact same chipset, and it was a phenomenal performer and never gave me one hiccup - with the exact same components that were in the Asus systems.
The real kicker? The Gigabyte board was less than half the price. Granted it didn't have as many bells and whistles (integrated this, that, and the other), but it was - and still is - a rock solid and fast system. I thought I was paying more for the Asus name and a legacy of quality. How stupid was I? After all, I believed Tom's Hardware and other paid marketters of the internet when they said this board was the best in its class - based upon cherry picked samples, no doubt. I later realized the images in the reviews did not match the board I bought. The ones being reviewed had big ass active heatsinks on the north and south bridges, a slightly different layout, etc..
It was also one of the first 8X AGP boards on the market, and had tons of incompatibilities there, too. Asusforums (now abcxzone.com or something) was completely flooded with people like me trying to find out how to make their expensive new motherboards work with their expensive new Radeon 9700 pros.
I talked to several vendors at a trade show who told me they had nothing but returns and pissed off customers with that board, and they all pulled it from their shelves.
There was definately some design problems with the board. They came out with a new revision of it (P4S8X-X) that worked fine.
Those of us who bought their barely-functional beta version were basically screwed. No recalls or replacements for us. You see, the P4S8X-X is a "different" board, it's got an extra X in the title, not a "rev 2". Very savvy way to avoid a deluge of defective product returns. "Oh you can return it an we send you same board back" was what the man on the phone told me with his very broken english.
A visual examination seems to show that they added a bunch more capacitors around the CPU and memory. That sort of validated my working theory that the boards problems were all due to shitty power management, which I based on the wildly fluctuating power readings in MBM or Asus' probe utility, and the fact that notching up the voltage seemed to help a little bit - as in, 2 or 3 hours before it locks up rather than 20 minutes.
And Asus' own tech support was virtually nonexistant. If you're looking for customer relations, you're in the wrong place.
Everything Asus makes now could be super fantastic amazing, but that experience left a real sour taste in my mouth.
Anyhow Asus pissed me off, and I can attest to the fact that they released at least one complete pile of shit upon the "enthusiast" market. That's my rant.
AMD needs to make their own mobos and chipsets like Intel does.
Manager types like to see the same logo on everything, and frankly in my experience, all-intel systems have been the most stable, as in not being prone to crazy hardware incompatibilities.
Look at the XBox, PS2 or GameCube. No AGP or PCI-E ports, no need to upgrade every 6 months.
Ever notice that EB Games has aisles and aisles of PS2, XBox and GCN titles, but only about 4 different PC titles stuck on a little shelf off in the corner?
As for the PC market, I don't think so. Games have to push the "cutting edge", and the video card you buy today is obsolete six months later.
My Radeon 9800 is virtually unsupported at this point, with all the driver fixes and enhancements aimed at their latest chipset.
I'd sure hate to have to pitch the entire motherboard every time a new game comes out.
Ah the vote count is irrelevant. It's virtually all noise with no signal.
And it's all because of the multiple choice ballot. People go in there and pick red or blue. So when someone with no real clue goes in, he does eenie-meenie-miney-moe, and chalks up another in the Kerry or Bush column. Pure noise. All the "get out the vote" drives just serve to amplify the noise. People who think they have to vote "the lesser of two evils" just amplify the noise. Not liking Bush is not the same as supporting Kerry. Polls seemed to show that most of Americans didn't like either of them.
So now I'm supposed to believe 52% of Americans want Bush as president? I don't. I believe he won, but his mandate isn't that strong. The fact that most ballots present you with two choices makes the result pure noise.
With a write-in ballot, like the country used to use, we would see some numbers that accurately reflect the american voters. When someone clueless goes in and doesn't take it seriously, he writes in "Pee Wee Herman", and we can easily identify it as noise, and ignore it.
Then we'd see some meaningful stats as the result of the election. We'd probably see GWB at 20%, Kerry at maybe 15%, and all of these third partie guys at 10% or lower. Bush still goes to the White House, but there's no "52% of America is behind him" falsities behind it. Those numbers are completely made up, but I'm sure thats how an election would look. That's how they look in every other democracy that doesn't buy into this two-party crap.
What I'm getting at is, it's not a two party system, but you combine the multiple choice ballot with rules to make it nigh-impossible for anyone else to get on the ballot, mix it up with the current debate formats - which are openly set up to exclude any third parties, and you have a recipe for meaningless bullshit joke of an election.
So who cares if the machines work or not. Flipping a fucking coin would just as adequately represent the will of the american people. Bush/Kerry/Clinton whatever. Many, if not most, are sick of the same old party lines and stump speeches.
That's basically it's component that acts as the local master browser, you can operate without it. Read up on browser elections and all that crap in the SAMBA docs if you care more.
I don't care if it's a daemon or what, I just want to be able to peruse smb shares without a hassle. Setting up lisa on anything but the most simple networks is a hassle.
I open up a VPN to my office, and I want to browse the shares on the machines in the office. Lisa's whole "ping every machine evar" approach doesn't work, unless I'm supposed to have it constantly pinging an entire subnet that isn't currently connected?
I'll settle for being able to type \\server\share\customer_notes.txt and having the file just pop up on the screen, ready for editing and saving. If I need a password, it prompts me for one.
The fact that theres a network at all is transparent under windows. Right now under linux I have to do all this horseshit despite the fancy shmancy GUI: "mkdir/mnt/tmp" "mount -t cifs//server/share//mnt/tmp -o Username=Administrator;Password=hithere" "nano/mnt/tmpshare/customer_notes.txt" "umount/mnt/tmp"
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Once I got used to the controls, I preffered the controller to keyboard and mouse. The controller vibrates, gives you feedback, gives you analog controls to control your movement.
I don't know why people thing mouse/keyboard is gods gift to gaming. The mousepad slides or the mouse moves off the edge, your finger accidentally hits the wrong key, and your game is over.
The fact that every level wasnt a completely new "universe" didn't bother me. The enemy AI was the best I'd seen up to that point, and I was having a blast chasing down squealing covenant grunts.
Of course, then theres the multiplayer game, which is the best multiplayer experience I've had.
The PC version of Halo is pure shit, I won't deny that. A bad porting job and nothing really new added. But the XBox version was great. It was well done and hit its target dead-on.
BTW, PC gamer vs console gamer is a moronic and tired topic for a flamewar. If you don't like it, save your cash for Half Life 2.
No, its a warm fuzzy term that lets social workers feel better about themselves. "No, his development is just delayed" which implies that eventually they will "catch up".
It's even used for degenerative diseases where they know the condition will only worsen.
PC language is all about making the speaker feel better about themselves, it has nothing to do with the audience. Like my "african american" sample.
You could have the midnset of the grand wizard of the KKK but so long as you use terms like "african american" instead of "black", or "asian" instead of "oriental", you can happily convince yourself that you arent racist or ignorant.
Who really cares how AOL runs their business?
Except maybe the 1000 or so people they'll no doubt layoff with this "corporate restructuring" crap.
No, I did not RTFA because I really don't care.
Mentally retarded is still used by doctors, but social workers and other PC professions consider it offensive and now use developmentally delayed.
PC language is funny. As a kid, I was a patient at the Ontario Crippled Childrens Center. Until the PC lobby decided that the word Crippled was offensive, and it became the Hugh MacMillan Medical Center. But all the patients there were crippled, it's a center for prosthetics, orthotics, mental handicaps, etc.
I like the racial PC stuff. Negro was once the proper term, it's spanish for black. Then people decided it was offensive. Then Black or Colored was the term, then it was decided it was offensive. Now its "African American".
Back in canada, I had a friend born in Canada, with parents with a Jamaican background. He insisted that he be called African American, no matter how many times I would point out that he'd never even been to Africa or America.
I'm sure "African American" will soon be deemed offensive, all it takes is for some people to use the term negatively. Then the PC folks will invent something else.
It's all just words to me, what matters is the context.
"You're looking for Fred? He's the black guy over there." is considered offensive by PC folk.
"African Americans are all drug addicts and thieves and rapists, and are stupider than caucaisians!" is perfectly OK by PC doctrine.
I can't hear anything over the crickets.
(Why is "hey did you guyz know you can put video files on teh intarweb!" front page news on slashdot?)
it is, Comcasts latest advertising blitz is all about the video email, and from what I've heard, it's drawing them in.
You have to give all those gandmas an excuse to pay 40 bucks a month, and the idea of getting daily videos of their grandkids throwing cheerios on the floor is working.
Of course, in reality, noone calls, visits, or bothers to email grandma. She's in that nursing home for a reason, after all.
To advertise your blog on slashdot?
I wonder if 'Winner' is the right word to describe the victor
This is coming from the dingus behind slashcode.
That would be a young queen whos born into an established hive, and gets the boot from the previous queen.
The situation of a single queen bee starting a new hive is fairly rare, usually when a young queen leaves, half the workers leave with her. This happens when a hive is overpopulated, otherwise there would be no young queen.
That's what they call a swarm, and they all go looking for a new place to settle down. Now and then you might see a giant mass of bees on a post or tree limb, thats a swarm waiting for some foragers to come back and say "doods I found this awesome hollow log!"
Usually the bees will ball around the queen for the winter, they'll vibrate to create a little heat do to friction. It's not really hibernation either, it's more of a suspended animation. They basically stop all body functions.
I've had beehives survive canadian ice storms, with the entire hive encased in six inches of solid ice all the way around. Suffocation apparently isn't a problem for them either.
Bees wont fly when it's cold. They'll hang around the hive all pissed off waiting for someone to sting.
It's like the discovery channel's series of "OMFG the world will end because of X" documentaries. I was watching one about supervolcanoes, and how Yellowstone could be an enormous caldera just waiting to blow.
The whole show was doom and gloom and OMFG volcanic winter and stuff. One scientist was on screen for about 30 seconds, just long enough to say "well, we've never seen one erupt, we have no idea what would happen."
This wasn't featured prominently in the show, because it wasn't exciting and entertaining.
People think everything they see on TV is true, especially if its a documentary on the History or discovery channels.
Note to history channel... We really don't know what happened during the dark ages, thats why they're called the dark ages!
Oh my god a scientists said so so it must be true!
An expert in the field of apiculture? No. She knows fossils, not bees. She's a PhD palentologist. Oh wait, no she's not, she's a graduate student. We're talking about a graduate students thesis.
One that's based on the fact that amber-fossilized bees aesthetically look like modern bees, and are "probably" (the articles word) the ancestors of modern bees, so therefore they must have identical biological needs.
I've spent more years tending beehives than she did studying dinosaur bones. They really don't have "strict survival requirements" as she says in TFA. I've opened hives that should have been dead, but aren't.
The only things I know of that'll kill a hive is a disease called foulbrood, and a condition called a "laying worker", where the queen dies, and before a new queen is reared, one of the worker bees fills in and starts laying eggs. Since eggs are being layed, the workers wont worry about rearing a new queen. Since the worker is unfertilized, the eggs will all hatch male (drones), and thats no good. The only solution is to watch very closely for a bee thats going into cells backwards, and pinch it.
But I digress.
Also, we aren't talking about a winter that lasted a few thousand years, we're talking about a decade tops.
Some graduate student spouts some theory and you shout down anyone who dares criticize it. No wonder we're so overwhelmed with junk science these days.
Now I just going to sneak up on this lil rippa, and jam me thumb up his butthole!
Oi crikey! That's really pissing him off!
No, the dance theory has to do with how a forager bee tells the rest of the workers precicely where the food is that he found. The legend goes that he first spins one way X times to denote the direction, then the other way X times to denote the distance.
Plenty of people are sceptical of this, and alternate theories include the one that the other bees just follow the forager by his scent - like a line of ants in the sky.
I have seen bees spin around and do this dance while they flap their wings. Every time I'd smoke them they'd all start doing it (to fan the smoke from the hive). That's how smoke "pacifies" bees, they go into "holy shit forget that guy whos tryin to take our honey, this place is on fire!" mode.
as I said in my other post, I've kept bees.
They don't need to forage. They stockpile vast amounts of honey just in case there's no food next year. On the order of 100s of times more than they need to survive a winter. A large hive untouched could probably survive 30 or 40 years with no new food source.
They've also been known to fly 20 miles from the hive to find a food source. It doesn't take much. If it's flowering, the bees will find it. Most of the bees got their nectar, where I was, from dandelions and other weeds, which don't have very strict climactic conditions to grow.
I'm not shocked in the least to find that they survived and dinosaurs didnt.
As a former hobbyist apiculturalist (ie; I had my own bee hive as a kid), I can comment a little here.
A beehive can survive for an extended period of time of bad weather. They survive pretty rough canadian winters, for one. A bee can be frozen solid and thaw out and still be alive.
Cool weather pisses bees off. That is, they get nasty and stingy when it starts to chill. This is to protect the hive from invaders. If an invader comes into the hive as it cools off, they'll ball around it, and sting it to death. I once opened a hive in the spring and found the remains of a raccoon who decided it would be a neat home.
The drones get kicked out about this time. They exist only to breed, and it's not worth the hives time to feed them over the winter. A couple weeks of extended cold, and you'll find a few dozen dead drones scattered about in front of the hive. They literally freeze to death on the doorstep like the little match girl.
As it gets colder, the workers "ball up" around the queen, insulating her and the caretakers closest to her. This is usually in the center of the lowest portion of the hive, because thats usually the warmest spot. They all then go into a sort of hibernation so they need little food or energy.
They make 100s of times more honey than they need, which is good for us. Harvesting all that honey doesn't hurt the hive during a normal season.
I don't know how many years this volcanic winter was supposed to have lasted, but I could easily see a big hive with a lot of honey surviving a decade of less-than-optimal weather.
They don't need to forage, like I said, they store a lot of food. Barring some asshole like me coming to steal all their honey, they could last decades. It just needs to get warm enough for the queen to carry on laying eggs and for the other activities of the hive to take place for about 2 months a year. "Warm enough" is only a few degrees above freezing.
This would be especially true if the hive is underground, which isn't completely uncommon in the wild for honeybees to take over an abandoned gopher hole.
In short, its really fucking hard to kill a beehive. They're designed to withstand a black bear smashing them apart and gobble down a bunch of honeycomb. I'd put my money on bees outliving a bunch of gigantic reptiles any day.
I'd think a bigger mystery is why crocodiles and sharks have survived virtually unchanged. What's a croc got that T-Rex didnt?
It's only fair. Bloggers saw no journalism in CBS, and called them on it.
This whole piece is "no no seriously we're still the source for news! No really, dont check facts online, just listen to what we say. George Bush is a big liar! See I have these documents that were written in MS Word in 1972...."
Heh, I still cant believe they just wrote those in Word. I mean, if Rather had the brains to dig an old typewriter out of one of the back lots, noone would have caught on, and the media's plan to swing the election might have worked.
Frankly, Rather, Whoopi Goldberg, Moore, and all those other morons did more damage to Kerry than good.
I can't remember who said it, but one of the media moguls said something about the media being able to directly influence 30% of the voters, or something along those lines.
2004 was the year the media tried to overthrow a sitting president. You have NY Times coming out and endorsing Bush, you have the CBS "journalism", Michael Moore and the Hollywood loony crowd getting all sorts of air time.
And the public saw threw it. I think a lot of people voted Bush in spite of it. Kerry was stupid to align himself with these folks. After Whoopi Goldberg had her moment of sheer stupidity at the Kerry fundraiser, that guy actually comes out and says something to the effect of her being the "voice of the american people".
She isn't. Hollywood isn't. And allying themselves with that crowd of dopes cost Kerry the election.
The Kerry campaign constantly hammered Bush for being a liar, but if you look at the campaign, all the lies and half-truths were from Kerry boosters. The document scandal, the missing explosives, saying that orders to torture prisoners in Abu Gharib came all the way down from the top.
CBS is pissed because bloggers took them down, saw through their lies. People don't just watch the news and nod and accept it as fact. They go online. They discuss, they read others opinions.
The media's power is diminishing. The people saw through them this time. They didn't have the effect they wanted. So they're throwing a tantrum about it.
To be fair, AMD did have some major stability and compatibility problems in the past.
So any number of cliche's apply. Once bitten, twice shy. You don't get a second chance to make a first impression. Noone ever got fired for buying intel. Etc.
It'll take time, and AMD has to keep QC as it's top priority. IT Managers generally don't give a rats ass if it gets 3 more FPS in quake 9.
What's wrong with Asus boards btw?
The first and last Asus board I ever bought was the P4S8X. I've read a lot of wonderful things about their other boards, but, once bitten twice shy.
That board was a complete piece of shit.
It was supposed to be the greatest enthusiasts board. Unofficial DDR400 support, 8X AGP, unparalleled overclocking abilities. It had a great big sticker proclaiming DDR400 (back before that was standard), but I couldn't even get it stable with DDR333. They eventually released a bios "fix", which basically underclocked everything. Overclocking? Hah. Noone got anywhere with that stinker.
My DDR333 now worked fine, and the system didn't bluescreen every 20 minutes. But benchmarks showed it was running at below DDR266 performance levels. It was actually better to roll back to the older BIOS, and run my ram at 266.
It was based on the SiS648, and Asus continually blamed the chipset for all its faults. I switched to a Gigabyte GA-8SG800 board, which is based on the exact same chipset, and it was a phenomenal performer and never gave me one hiccup - with the exact same components that were in the Asus systems.
The real kicker? The Gigabyte board was less than half the price. Granted it didn't have as many bells and whistles (integrated this, that, and the other), but it was - and still is - a rock solid and fast system. I thought I was paying more for the Asus name and a legacy of quality. How stupid was I? After all, I believed Tom's Hardware and other paid marketters of the internet when they said this board was the best in its class - based upon cherry picked samples, no doubt. I later realized the images in the reviews did not match the board I bought. The ones being reviewed had big ass active heatsinks on the north and south bridges, a slightly different layout, etc..
It was also one of the first 8X AGP boards on the market, and had tons of incompatibilities there, too. Asusforums (now abcxzone.com or something) was completely flooded with people like me trying to find out how to make their expensive new motherboards work with their expensive new Radeon 9700 pros.
I talked to several vendors at a trade show who told me they had nothing but returns and pissed off customers with that board, and they all pulled it from their shelves.
There was definately some design problems with the board. They came out with a new revision of it (P4S8X-X) that worked fine.
Those of us who bought their barely-functional beta version were basically screwed. No recalls or replacements for us. You see, the P4S8X-X is a "different" board, it's got an extra X in the title, not a "rev 2". Very savvy way to avoid a deluge of defective product returns. "Oh you can return it an we send you same board back" was what the man on the phone told me with his very broken english.
A visual examination seems to show that they added a bunch more capacitors around the CPU and memory. That sort of validated my working theory that the boards problems were all due to shitty power management, which I based on the wildly fluctuating power readings in MBM or Asus' probe utility, and the fact that notching up the voltage seemed to help a little bit - as in, 2 or 3 hours before it locks up rather than 20 minutes.
And Asus' own tech support was virtually nonexistant. If you're looking for customer relations, you're in the wrong place.
Everything Asus makes now could be super fantastic amazing, but that experience left a real sour taste in my mouth.
Anyhow Asus pissed me off, and I can attest to the fact that they released at least one complete pile of shit upon the "enthusiast" market. That's my rant.
AMD needs to make their own mobos and chipsets like Intel does.
Manager types like to see the same logo on everything, and frankly in my experience, all-intel systems have been the most stable, as in not being prone to crazy hardware incompatibilities.
Sure, it already has.
Look at the XBox, PS2 or GameCube. No AGP or PCI-E ports, no need to upgrade every 6 months.
Ever notice that EB Games has aisles and aisles of PS2, XBox and GCN titles, but only about 4 different PC titles stuck on a little shelf off in the corner?
As for the PC market, I don't think so. Games have to push the "cutting edge", and the video card you buy today is obsolete six months later.
My Radeon 9800 is virtually unsupported at this point, with all the driver fixes and enhancements aimed at their latest chipset.
I'd sure hate to have to pitch the entire motherboard every time a new game comes out.
It looks like the Radeon Xpress 200 could be the missing link that helps AMD crack Intel's dominance of the consumer and corporate desktop markets.
First off, AMD already has cracked Intel's dominace in the consumer and corporate markets.
Secondly, it's no "missing link", it's just another chipset. Like nForce. Only from ATI.
I guess everything posted to slashdot has to be about taking down the big bad (microsoft, intel, whoever else is the bad guy ATM).
Ah the vote count is irrelevant. It's virtually all noise with no signal.
And it's all because of the multiple choice ballot. People go in there and pick red or blue. So when someone with no real clue goes in, he does eenie-meenie-miney-moe, and chalks up another in the Kerry or Bush column. Pure noise. All the "get out the vote" drives just serve to amplify the noise. People who think they have to vote "the lesser of two evils" just amplify the noise. Not liking Bush is not the same as supporting Kerry. Polls seemed to show that most of Americans didn't like either of them.
So now I'm supposed to believe 52% of Americans want Bush as president? I don't. I believe he won, but his mandate isn't that strong. The fact that most ballots present you with two choices makes the result pure noise.
With a write-in ballot, like the country used to use, we would see some numbers that accurately reflect the american voters. When someone clueless goes in and doesn't take it seriously, he writes in "Pee Wee Herman", and we can easily identify it as noise, and ignore it.
Then we'd see some meaningful stats as the result of the election. We'd probably see GWB at 20%, Kerry at maybe 15%, and all of these third partie guys at 10% or lower. Bush still goes to the White House, but there's no "52% of America is behind him" falsities behind it. Those numbers are completely made up, but I'm sure thats how an election would look. That's how they look in every other democracy that doesn't buy into this two-party crap.
What I'm getting at is, it's not a two party system, but you combine the multiple choice ballot with rules to make it nigh-impossible for anyone else to get on the ballot, mix it up with the current debate formats - which are openly set up to exclude any third parties, and you have a recipe for meaningless bullshit joke of an election.
So who cares if the machines work or not. Flipping a fucking coin would just as adequately represent the will of the american people. Bush/Kerry/Clinton whatever. Many, if not most, are sick of the same old party lines and stump speeches.
There's no treaty. It's all part of a giant conspiracy to oppress the robots.
You anti-robot bastard. How would you feel if you knew your daughter was dating a robot?
Actually, would a CPU controlled vibrator count as a robot? That's besides the point.
Small minded bigots like you are the reason so many robots wind up on welfare or addicted to drugs, and have to turn to crime to make a decent living.
All they want to do is protect you from the terrible secret of space, and you just hold them down.
That's basically it's component that acts as the local master browser, you can operate without it. Read up on browser elections and all that crap in the SAMBA docs if you care more.
/mnt/tmp" "mount -t cifs //server/share/ /mnt/tmp -o Username=Administrator;Password=hithere" "nano /mnt/tmpshare/customer_notes.txt" "umount /mnt/tmp"
I don't care if it's a daemon or what, I just want to be able to peruse smb shares without a hassle. Setting up lisa on anything but the most simple networks is a hassle.
I open up a VPN to my office, and I want to browse the shares on the machines in the office. Lisa's whole "ping every machine evar" approach doesn't work, unless I'm supposed to have it constantly pinging an entire subnet that isn't currently connected?
I'll settle for being able to type \\server\share\customer_notes.txt and having the file just pop up on the screen, ready for editing and saving. If I need a password, it prompts me for one.
The fact that theres a network at all is transparent under windows. Right now under linux I have to do all this horseshit despite the fancy shmancy GUI: "mkdir