Just to clarify the difference in running clients here and WHY we run Windows clients in VMs instead of the official OS-specific clients, let me give an example of my experience:
My main system is a dual quad-core Mac Pro with 16gb of RAM and a GF 8800.
Running the official OSX client gives me around 15 to 25 fps, depending on where I am (in/out of station).
Running the Windows client on Windows XP SP3 inside of a Parallels guest on OSX gives me 45 to 65fps.
That's right. I get easily double and possibly triple the FPS running the native Windows version nested inside the OS in a guest on OSX with all the surrounding apps active than I do running the official client wrapped in Cedega.
And on top of it, the Windows version running in this manner actually works. I can leave the window/focus without it crashing almost every time. Instead of encountering random crashes every few minutes or hours or days, I have encountered one crash. Ever. Even the "log off" button works.
Their calculations are meaningless, because they don't take into account Linux or OSX users using the windows client inside a virtual machine. Not because we want to, but because the official client is always somewhere between working like shit and not working at all.
For instance, the OSX client has not been able to LOG OFF for a few months now. That's right. You can't log off and log in to another account like you can on every other OS. If you try - the best that will happen is nothing and the worst is it will launch another instance of the client each time you click "LOG OFF". Instead, you have to quit. Wait for it to shut down. Then start it back up again. Then log into the other account.
Not a massive problem, but shows the general attitude toward clients other than the Windows client. They claim the new OSX client is going to be great (finally will support Premium content which Windows users have had for something like 18 months) -- but we'll believe it when they see it.
I think it is clear to most people that they were just trying to gain some quick attention a year ago when they put out the whole "we're on every platform!" press releases.
If they had put actual effort and resources into the clients, people would use them and the linux and OSX client base would be growing quite rapidly. Instead, they put out half-assed crap and then use the fact that nobody wants to suffer with that total crap as an excuse to cut support entirely.
CCP is a pretty cool little shop and I'm a fan, but the way they've treated the non Windows clients has been a complete joke.
CCP is a Microsoft house. Sure, individuals use other things within, but they're Microsoft from their high performance computing partners right down to the OS their EVE servers run and the Microsoft SQL servers they run.
That's all fine and so is claiming that it they can't justify spending money on the Linux client. At least they gave it a try. However, they also admit that they can only tell if an actual official client is connecting. If you run through something like WINE (or Cider on OSX), they don't bother to tell. And since their official versions for both linux and OSX are complete ass, people often only run their accounts via Windows clients in virtual machines.
So their claim that "the growth for the linux client just wasn't there" is wholly inaccurate as they're not taking into account the number of people who WOULD use the official linux client if it wasn't a piece of shit and was actually playable.
I was initially rubbed wrong by the style of his advertising via Slashdot stories, but he did grow to be a significant fixture in this community. Like most people, there are those whose impressions of him and fondness for him slide off from center in both directions. Regardless, this headline evoked a great deal of sadness as it has clearly for so many others.
I can only join the community in giving my best wishes and condolences to his family, friends and his colleagues. Yet another in a line of wonderful people we have witnessed the death of in our many years here at Slashdot.
I fear the passing of notables in this field will only accelerate as those who were my age when the tech world began to bloom reach their senior years now. I am not looking forward to more similar headlines down the road.
As a long time fan of The Doctor, I dislike some of the over-wraught sentimentality, but I the somewhat darker, desolate, lonlier tones of the doctor recently to be welcome.
[quote]is canada important in entertainment[/qoute]
Wow. How naive. You do know that most of our most popular entertainers come from Canada, right? I know I'm leaving off an insanely huge number of people, too.
Fay Wray, Dan Aykroyd, James Doohan (Scotty), David Foley, Biff Naked, Kevin McDonald, Howie Mandel, Pam Anderson, John Candy, Jim Carrey, Tommy Chong, Hayden Christenson, Hume Cronyn, Celine Dion (blech), Michael J. Fox, Ryan Gosling, Lorne Greene, Phil Hartman, Avril Lavigne (blech), Evangeline Lilly, Art Linkletter, Dean McDermott, Joni Mitchell, Lee Montgomery, Alanis Morissette, Mike Myers, Leslie Nielsen, Ryan Reynolds, Caroline Rhea, Seth Rogen, Paul Shaffer, Martin Short, Donald Sutherland, Alan Thicke, Alex Trebek, Neil Young, Rick Moranis, Jason Priestley, Christopher Plummer, Mathew Perry, Dave Thompas, Scott Thompson, Robert Goulet, The Tragically Hip, Kim Cattrall, Margot Kidder, Catherine O'Hara, Shannon Teen, Jennifer Tilly, Rush, Shania Twain, Meg Tilly, Kurt Browning, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Our Lady Peace, Rage Against The Machine, Ben Johnson, James Naismith (INVENTOR OF BASKETBALL), Paul Anka, Artificial Joy Club, Cowboy Junkies, Crash Test Dummies (once... there was this girl... whoooo... blah blah), KD Lang, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette, Anne Murray, Barenaked Ladies
In addition to basketball, they also invented some stuff. Like the Alkaline battery, the dump truck, cream soda, Trivial Pursuit, the "walkie-talkie", the lithium battery, IMAX, the hydrofoil, the rechargeable battery...
No kidding. If you hadn't already watched Doctor Who before it aired in the US or Canada (via bit torrent from fantastic people like MadMartha at Demonoid) then you probably aren't much of a fan. I download episodes as soon as they air in the UK rather than waiting an entire year to watch the crappy Sci-Fi TV standard-def, commercial-filled, cable TV broadcasts.
Plus, you can get all the content you do NOT get in America via torrent. Like the Confidentials and Xmas stuff.
All these statistics prove (assuming they're even true) is that 99.8% of people don't know about the DRM or the ramifications of it. It's like saying that because 90% of people are ignorant of the fourth amendment to the constitution, nobody needs to be covered by it.
Educate those 99.8% of people as to the ramifications of various types of DRM as well as the history of DRM abuses by corporations and that ignorance will give way to an educated frustration, outrage and boycott.
Now, allowing multiple simultaneous installations and REVOKING/RECOVERING installation tickets when you remove an installation and install somewhere else is fine, as far as I'm concerned. I'd prefer there be no type of DRM whatsoever since I'm a paying and honest customer. What I can not accept are the original Spore limitations, which were "you can install three times. EVER. Combined. Period". There was no refunding of installations if you uninstalled from one machine.
Are you sure there's no law being violated? Take the internet aspect away. Isn't a grown adult flirting with and stalking a little girl essentially criminal as it is? I'm pretty sure it is. Stalking and harassment is stalking and harassment (and in this case bordering on sheer torture) regardless of venue.
And really, whatever happened to a community making someone take responsibility for their actions? Where is the mob with pitchforks running them out of town and shaming them? It seems like their neighbors and towns folk just look the other way. Ridiculous.
You are an idiot and will understand when you grow up.
I don't see why the internet needs to come into play with any sort of ruling here. What does this have to do with free speech? A grown adult engaged in elicite conversation to manipulate and take advantage of a little kid, driving them to suicide. That it took place on the internet is largely irrelevant. If a grown man was flirting with a twelve year old girl and manipulated her into killing herself, don't you think they'd hang him in an instant?
Why does any "new" law need to be created or any current freedoms infringed upon to punish this disgusting bitch and her fucking disgusting family? This wasn't a case of someone just saying "you are a stinky poo poo head" on the internet. This is a case of at least two grown adults and the rest of the family stalking and harassing and exploiting and manipulating a little girl (as if little girls aren't already in constant emotional turmoil as it is by their nature - or most teens for that matter).
Frankly, the woman and her family need to spend the rest of their lives in a very brutal maximum security prison. I just don't see why free speech laws need to be violated to achieve that.
The idea of the mouse dying out is entirely idiotic.
What am I going to do, reach my hand all the way out two feet in front of my face to drag a window across my dual 30" screens from one side to the other? Keep my arms constantly extended out in front of my face so I can touch the monitors?
Monitors are expensive enough as they are right now. Without adding touch screen ability to them. Not to mention that the typical home LCD can't exactly handle lots of finger oils and smudges regularly.
And yes, I'm totally going to write code or navigate the web with a Wii motion controller. Or an iPhone. Or by furrowing my brow on my face.
This guy is no Alvin Toffler. He needs to relenquish futurism to someone better suited.
Gender quotas are the way to improve our position as the 25th ranked nation in science. Not educational quotas. Gender. Yes, that's it. Way to go congress.
This won't last long. On wikipedia, a very notable personality or topic can be removed with little justification other than "not notable" while every single minor pokemon character gets a full ten page writeup.
Mark the human genome for deletion due to lack of notability!
I don't see what the problem is. If it's okay to advertise mcdonald's on a child's report card, stuff his school full of taco bell, pizza hut, subway as well as pepsi and coke machines and pump "educational" television feeds with customized advertising to them in the class room, then what's wrong with a banner ad or something on a *.edu?
It's 2008. I think the idea that educational institutions are anything but commercial meat-grinders has expired.
To be fair, the poor don't really pay a ton of taxes. Most certainly not in relation to the amount they also receive in return from government services.
Oregon has no sales tax, but they have one of the three or four highest income tax levels in the country. State income tax is something like 9.5%. Then in the Portland area, you have to pay a *county* tax of about 1%. Then there's incredibly property taxes.
Yet, somehow, other states with NO income tax and low PROPERTY tax still manage. Just based on sales tax. Where I'm living now, they have about 4.62% flat income tax and then 8.5% sales tax... on everything (including food).
Coming from a state without sales tax, I would say that sales tax is probably one of the most fair solutions out there. Let's get rick of income tax, make the government live on sales tax and then everyone pays accordingly, regardless of your income level.
Oh, yeah. We've seen how money from lotteries and all the massive taxation that ends up covering schools, social programs, the military and public services has done so well with each additional dollar they've sucked out of us.
They money wouldn't be used to improve the internet in any way whatsoever. It would be used by politicians to address pork projects and pet projects to gain favor from the same joe-sixpack and soccer-mom crowd that they promise everything else to and pay with our taxes.
There's more than enough taxes taken already to do everything government is *obligated* to do as well as covering most programs that people piggishly demand several times over . . . if they were held to account for the programs they lead and receive funding for.
Why couldn't he just give breeders a bunch of tax-welfare-rebates like Bush did this year and put all of the health, education and blank expenses onto the national debt, like Bush has done with the war and everything else that caused him to raise the national debt by several trillion dollars during his two terms, without raising taxes proportionately?
I mean, really, as long as someone else is paying the bill (supposedly later generations), then why not just eliminate taxes altogether and give everyone everything and bomb the hell out of everyone that doesn't salute our flag and watch NASCAR? The sky's the limit with blank checks.
Don't forget that only something like 100 million of those people are taxpayers. Or at least, part of the work force. Many probably pay little or no taxes out of that 100 million. So it's really more like $30k/person. And let's not even bother getting into the ugly state of things based on what percentage pays what portion of that.
What the hell does your income have to do with a use tax? If you make more money than another guy and you buy a shovel, do you somehow derive more use out of that shovel than the other guy?
Oh well, we're never going to have any revolutions or anything over this, so who cares. American Idol, the NFL and Oprah are still on TV and you can still buy ding-dongs in bulk, so all the important stuff in this country is covered.
Yeah. Bring back the days when I couldn't order pizza, groceries, clothing, vide ogames, movies, taxi cabs, airline tickets, movie tickets, concert tickets, books, music and hardware online. All this blatant capitalism and wanton convenience completely sucks.
Yeah, it's a tough call. Democrats who want to burden me beyond what is already hefty taxation or republicans who want to limit every ounce of privacy, personal choice and freedom I have -- unless it involves the pope, firearms or beating your children "as all good parents do".
And of course, if tax cuts really were for the rich, then I'd sure like to know where mine are. It seems that for yet another year, I got to subsidize a bunch of debt-ridden breeders so they could get their $300-$1200 welfare-rebate.
If I were still living back home in Oregon, this wouldn't even matter since there isn't any sales tax. However, now that I'm elsewhere, this will have a big effect should it ever happen.
Since about 2000, I have spent an average of at least $20k/yr through online purchases. If I were to be taxed on this, I would simply stop buying things. Or at the very most, wait until I visit back home and buy them in person so that nobody gets any taxes from it.
Retailers and everyone along the chain will have lost a chunk of income and the state won't receive a dime more in taxes (from me, at least). Way to really spur that economy.
The article is rather vague and answers absolutely no questions, so I don't know how they acquired measurements, under what conditions and what variables were measured. I doubt the effect of pollution on reduction of "scent molecules" is as likely (or at least as destructive) as reducing the output of these molecules by the plants in the first place or the direct damaging of the plants themselves.
And relating vanishing bees to it is just a random guess. Last I heard, the news reports were stating that bees weren't vanishing after all. Then they were. Then they weren't again.
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Just to clarify the difference in running clients here and WHY we run Windows clients in VMs instead of the official OS-specific clients, let me give an example of my experience:
My main system is a dual quad-core Mac Pro with 16gb of RAM and a GF 8800.
Running the official OSX client gives me around 15 to 25 fps, depending on where I am (in/out of station).
Running the Windows client on Windows XP SP3 inside of a Parallels guest on OSX gives me 45 to 65fps.
That's right. I get easily double and possibly triple the FPS running the native Windows version nested inside the OS in a guest on OSX with all the surrounding apps active than I do running the official client wrapped in Cedega.
And on top of it, the Windows version running in this manner actually works. I can leave the window/focus without it crashing almost every time. Instead of encountering random crashes every few minutes or hours or days, I have encountered one crash. Ever. Even the "log off" button works.
Their calculations are meaningless, because they don't take into account Linux or OSX users using the windows client inside a virtual machine. Not because we want to, but because the official client is always somewhere between working like shit and not working at all.
For instance, the OSX client has not been able to LOG OFF for a few months now. That's right. You can't log off and log in to another account like you can on every other OS. If you try - the best that will happen is nothing and the worst is it will launch another instance of the client each time you click "LOG OFF". Instead, you have to quit. Wait for it to shut down. Then start it back up again. Then log into the other account.
Not a massive problem, but shows the general attitude toward clients other than the Windows client. They claim the new OSX client is going to be great (finally will support Premium content which Windows users have had for something like 18 months) -- but we'll believe it when they see it.
I think it is clear to most people that they were just trying to gain some quick attention a year ago when they put out the whole "we're on every platform!" press releases.
If they had put actual effort and resources into the clients, people would use them and the linux and OSX client base would be growing quite rapidly. Instead, they put out half-assed crap and then use the fact that nobody wants to suffer with that total crap as an excuse to cut support entirely.
CCP is a pretty cool little shop and I'm a fan, but the way they've treated the non Windows clients has been a complete joke.
CCP is a Microsoft house. Sure, individuals use other things within, but they're Microsoft from their high performance computing partners right down to the OS their EVE servers run and the Microsoft SQL servers they run.
That's all fine and so is claiming that it they can't justify spending money on the Linux client. At least they gave it a try. However, they also admit that they can only tell if an actual official client is connecting. If you run through something like WINE (or Cider on OSX), they don't bother to tell. And since their official versions for both linux and OSX are complete ass, people often only run their accounts via Windows clients in virtual machines.
So their claim that "the growth for the linux client just wasn't there" is wholly inaccurate as they're not taking into account the number of people who WOULD use the official linux client if it wasn't a piece of shit and was actually playable.
I was initially rubbed wrong by the style of his advertising via Slashdot stories, but he did grow to be a significant fixture in this community. Like most people, there are those whose impressions of him and fondness for him slide off from center in both directions. Regardless, this headline evoked a great deal of sadness as it has clearly for so many others.
I can only join the community in giving my best wishes and condolences to his family, friends and his colleagues. Yet another in a line of wonderful people we have witnessed the death of in our many years here at Slashdot.
I fear the passing of notables in this field will only accelerate as those who were my age when the tech world began to bloom reach their senior years now. I am not looking forward to more similar headlines down the road.
As a long time fan of The Doctor, I dislike some of the over-wraught sentimentality, but I the somewhat darker, desolate, lonlier tones of the doctor recently to be welcome.
[quote]is canada important in entertainment[/qoute]
Wow. How naive. You do know that most of our most popular entertainers come from Canada, right? I know I'm leaving off an insanely huge number of people, too.
Fay Wray, Dan Aykroyd, James Doohan (Scotty), David Foley, Biff Naked, Kevin McDonald, Howie Mandel, Pam Anderson, John Candy, Jim Carrey, Tommy Chong, Hayden Christenson, Hume Cronyn, Celine Dion (blech), Michael J. Fox, Ryan Gosling, Lorne Greene, Phil Hartman, Avril Lavigne (blech), Evangeline Lilly, Art Linkletter, Dean McDermott, Joni Mitchell, Lee Montgomery, Alanis Morissette, Mike Myers, Leslie Nielsen, Ryan Reynolds, Caroline Rhea, Seth Rogen, Paul Shaffer, Martin Short, Donald Sutherland, Alan Thicke, Alex Trebek, Neil Young, Rick Moranis, Jason Priestley, Christopher Plummer, Mathew Perry, Dave Thompas, Scott Thompson, Robert Goulet, The Tragically Hip, Kim Cattrall, Margot Kidder, Catherine O'Hara, Shannon Teen, Jennifer Tilly, Rush, Shania Twain, Meg Tilly, Kurt Browning, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Our Lady Peace, Rage Against The Machine, Ben Johnson, James Naismith (INVENTOR OF BASKETBALL), Paul Anka, Artificial Joy Club, Cowboy Junkies, Crash Test Dummies (once... there was this girl... whoooo... blah blah), KD Lang, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette, Anne Murray, Barenaked Ladies
In addition to basketball, they also invented some stuff. Like the Alkaline battery, the dump truck, cream soda, Trivial Pursuit, the "walkie-talkie", the lithium battery, IMAX, the hydrofoil, the rechargeable battery...
No kidding. If you hadn't already watched Doctor Who before it aired in the US or Canada (via bit torrent from fantastic people like MadMartha at Demonoid) then you probably aren't much of a fan. I download episodes as soon as they air in the UK rather than waiting an entire year to watch the crappy Sci-Fi TV standard-def, commercial-filled, cable TV broadcasts.
Plus, you can get all the content you do NOT get in America via torrent. Like the Confidentials and Xmas stuff.
All these statistics prove (assuming they're even true) is that 99.8% of people don't know about the DRM or the ramifications of it. It's like saying that because 90% of people are ignorant of the fourth amendment to the constitution, nobody needs to be covered by it.
Educate those 99.8% of people as to the ramifications of various types of DRM as well as the history of DRM abuses by corporations and that ignorance will give way to an educated frustration, outrage and boycott.
Now, allowing multiple simultaneous installations and REVOKING/RECOVERING installation tickets when you remove an installation and install somewhere else is fine, as far as I'm concerned. I'd prefer there be no type of DRM whatsoever since I'm a paying and honest customer. What I can not accept are the original Spore limitations, which were "you can install three times. EVER. Combined. Period". There was no refunding of installations if you uninstalled from one machine.
Are you sure there's no law being violated? Take the internet aspect away. Isn't a grown adult flirting with and stalking a little girl essentially criminal as it is? I'm pretty sure it is. Stalking and harassment is stalking and harassment (and in this case bordering on sheer torture) regardless of venue.
And really, whatever happened to a community making someone take responsibility for their actions? Where is the mob with pitchforks running them out of town and shaming them? It seems like their neighbors and towns folk just look the other way. Ridiculous.
You are an idiot and will understand when you grow up.
I don't see why the internet needs to come into play with any sort of ruling here. What does this have to do with free speech? A grown adult engaged in elicite conversation to manipulate and take advantage of a little kid, driving them to suicide. That it took place on the internet is largely irrelevant. If a grown man was flirting with a twelve year old girl and manipulated her into killing herself, don't you think they'd hang him in an instant?
Why does any "new" law need to be created or any current freedoms infringed upon to punish this disgusting bitch and her fucking disgusting family? This wasn't a case of someone just saying "you are a stinky poo poo head" on the internet. This is a case of at least two grown adults and the rest of the family stalking and harassing and exploiting and manipulating a little girl (as if little girls aren't already in constant emotional turmoil as it is by their nature - or most teens for that matter).
Frankly, the woman and her family need to spend the rest of their lives in a very brutal maximum security prison. I just don't see why free speech laws need to be violated to achieve that.
The idea of the mouse dying out is entirely idiotic.
What am I going to do, reach my hand all the way out two feet in front of my face to drag a window across my dual 30" screens from one side to the other? Keep my arms constantly extended out in front of my face so I can touch the monitors?
Monitors are expensive enough as they are right now. Without adding touch screen ability to them. Not to mention that the typical home LCD can't exactly handle lots of finger oils and smudges regularly.
And yes, I'm totally going to write code or navigate the web with a Wii motion controller. Or an iPhone. Or by furrowing my brow on my face.
This guy is no Alvin Toffler. He needs to relenquish futurism to someone better suited.
Gender quotas are the way to improve our position as the 25th ranked nation in science. Not educational quotas. Gender. Yes, that's it. Way to go congress.
This won't last long. On wikipedia, a very notable personality or topic can be removed with little justification other than "not notable" while every single minor pokemon character gets a full ten page writeup.
Mark the human genome for deletion due to lack of notability!
I don't see what the problem is. If it's okay to advertise mcdonald's on a child's report card, stuff his school full of taco bell, pizza hut, subway as well as pepsi and coke machines and pump "educational" television feeds with customized advertising to them in the class room, then what's wrong with a banner ad or something on a *.edu?
It's 2008. I think the idea that educational institutions are anything but commercial meat-grinders has expired.
To be fair, the poor don't really pay a ton of taxes. Most certainly not in relation to the amount they also receive in return from government services.
Oregon has no sales tax, but they have one of the three or four highest income tax levels in the country. State income tax is something like 9.5%. Then in the Portland area, you have to pay a *county* tax of about 1%. Then there's incredibly property taxes.
Yet, somehow, other states with NO income tax and low PROPERTY tax still manage. Just based on sales tax. Where I'm living now, they have about 4.62% flat income tax and then 8.5% sales tax... on everything (including food).
Coming from a state without sales tax, I would say that sales tax is probably one of the most fair solutions out there. Let's get rick of income tax, make the government live on sales tax and then everyone pays accordingly, regardless of your income level.
Oh, yeah. We've seen how money from lotteries and all the massive taxation that ends up covering schools, social programs, the military and public services has done so well with each additional dollar they've sucked out of us.
They money wouldn't be used to improve the internet in any way whatsoever. It would be used by politicians to address pork projects and pet projects to gain favor from the same joe-sixpack and soccer-mom crowd that they promise everything else to and pay with our taxes.
There's more than enough taxes taken already to do everything government is *obligated* to do as well as covering most programs that people piggishly demand several times over . . . if they were held to account for the programs they lead and receive funding for.
So you're saying that the $9.00 I pay for a domain name is actually less than $3, but with a greater than 200% tax tacked on?
Why couldn't he just give breeders a bunch of tax-welfare-rebates like Bush did this year and put all of the health, education and blank expenses onto the national debt, like Bush has done with the war and everything else that caused him to raise the national debt by several trillion dollars during his two terms, without raising taxes proportionately?
I mean, really, as long as someone else is paying the bill (supposedly later generations), then why not just eliminate taxes altogether and give everyone everything and bomb the hell out of everyone that doesn't salute our flag and watch NASCAR? The sky's the limit with blank checks.
Don't forget that only something like 100 million of those people are taxpayers. Or at least, part of the work force. Many probably pay little or no taxes out of that 100 million. So it's really more like $30k/person. And let's not even bother getting into the ugly state of things based on what percentage pays what portion of that.
Wait, what...?
What the hell does your income have to do with a use tax? If you make more money than another guy and you buy a shovel, do you somehow derive more use out of that shovel than the other guy?
Oh well, we're never going to have any revolutions or anything over this, so who cares. American Idol, the NFL and Oprah are still on TV and you can still buy ding-dongs in bulk, so all the important stuff in this country is covered.
Yeah. Bring back the days when I couldn't order pizza, groceries, clothing, vide ogames, movies, taxi cabs, airline tickets, movie tickets, concert tickets, books, music and hardware online. All this blatant capitalism and wanton convenience completely sucks.
Yeah, it's a tough call. Democrats who want to burden me beyond what is already hefty taxation or republicans who want to limit every ounce of privacy, personal choice and freedom I have -- unless it involves the pope, firearms or beating your children "as all good parents do".
And of course, if tax cuts really were for the rich, then I'd sure like to know where mine are. It seems that for yet another year, I got to subsidize a bunch of debt-ridden breeders so they could get their $300-$1200 welfare-rebate.
If I were still living back home in Oregon, this wouldn't even matter since there isn't any sales tax. However, now that I'm elsewhere, this will have a big effect should it ever happen.
Since about 2000, I have spent an average of at least $20k/yr through online purchases. If I were to be taxed on this, I would simply stop buying things. Or at the very most, wait until I visit back home and buy them in person so that nobody gets any taxes from it.
Retailers and everyone along the chain will have lost a chunk of income and the state won't receive a dime more in taxes (from me, at least). Way to really spur that economy.
The article is rather vague and answers absolutely no questions, so I don't know how they acquired measurements, under what conditions and what variables were measured. I doubt the effect of pollution on reduction of "scent molecules" is as likely (or at least as destructive) as reducing the output of these molecules by the plants in the first place or the direct damaging of the plants themselves.
And relating vanishing bees to it is just a random guess. Last I heard, the news reports were stating that bees weren't vanishing after all. Then they were. Then they weren't again.