The bees are just gone. Not frozen in a cluster (as so often happens with T-Mites/cold snaps). Not piled in front of the hive (common when the colony takes a heavy loss). Not laying on the bottom board in layers (mites & a host of others). Just a handfull of workers, a queen and various brood. Some blame nutrition, others disease, still more chemicals, a few blame aliens (just try probing a honeybee).
No solutions yet. We don't understand it well enough to solve.
How does ANYONE think those things were bombs? If they honestly did, should we let those people call 911 again?
Hey, Boston Bob - you see that thing that looks like a cartoon charcter giving us the finger? I dunno. Looks like a bomb to me. Careful Bob, remember the last time, when you called the bomb squad over the alarm clock? It had batteries and wires, and it didn't light up. How was I supposed to know it was an alarm clock? It was *your* alarm Clock, Boston Bob. It didn't light up because you let the batteries run out. It was the alarm company's fault for not making it clear that it wasn't a bomb. I'm calling this one in and shutting things down. Can't be too careful.
Yeah, and Exchange 2000 used XML & Javascript for a massive chunk of its functionality. Then again, 5.5 OWA had done a bunch of javascript (but XML, not so much).
I'd bet most of the people would injure themselves clicking the "shock" button. "It appears you are trying to torture me. Would you like..zzzZZZZZ.zzzz".
We need to tell Dora how to install MythTv. You tell Dora, mnt, get, install, bootstrap, reconfigure, crash, recompile, get depedencies, start, fail, reconfigure, reformat, get, update, patch, recompile, buy a tivo. Say it with me!
each of those has only has a 15% chance of making your dick hard (unless you are a woman, in which case it always works). Side effects include nausea, dry mouth, heaves, ebola, and a high probability of catching the flu.
People who don't have something think people who do should give it to them.
We see this with plasma TVs quite a bit, as well as cars, wallets and emminent domain.
If the medicine is developed with government grants then yes, it ought to be available to all citizens of the country that developed it. Whether or not it's available to other countries is a matter for larger debate, where I tend to think the answer is yes - asking some 3rd world country to solve its health problems by inventing the drugs it needs probably doesn't work. If a university researches a drug with corporate money, well, they got in bed with a partner for research money and shouldn't be surprised if the partner wants their piece of the pie. Perhaps what they should call for is for Universities to not accept funding from corporations to do research for them.
For what it's worth, here in the USA I was recently a patient (thanks to pneumonia). The patient records were accessed completely electronically. When I transferred to another section (in another building) the doctors immediately pulled up the records. My X-rays came out on film and digital record and were available within about 5 minutes. With the X-rays, no problem passing them around - they just pulled them up and viewed them. I have the originals on file if needed. The nurses carried tablet PCs and used them to enter most of the data. I'm not saying it's perfect (after all, our health care system is screwed up in a lot of ways) but record access appeared to work quite well. The nurses there said the first four months with it were very rocky - after that things have gotten better.
So, let's look at the variations that we know of that are food controlled: Workers, fed royal jelly for the first three days or so will be the baseline. After three days they are fed pollen/nectar mixture (sometimes called bee bread). This results in a generic worker with undeveloped ovaries. This worker will not take a mating flight and thus will only lay drones in the absence of a true queen.
Queens, on the other hand, are fed continuously for the ten days that it takes them to develop. Raised in a long, vertical cell (including emergency queens) they develop a longer abdomen and a slightly larger thorax. More importantly they develop extremely quickly. Hatching a full week earlier than their worker sisters the queens perform two behaviors that unique - they take mating flights, and they pip (before mating). Once a queen begins laying the desire consumes her - she'll starve, unable to remember how to feed herself. Laying workers, on the other hand continue to feed themselves.
The behavior seems to be present in both, only the laying instincts do not develop clearly in the workers - they'll lay anywhere, and many times. The difference is primarily in quantity - the nurse bees feed queenlings constantly. It seems that this is the trigger for the additional behavior. Bee dances are at least partially coded (if it is in fact the dance and not a vibration or something else that communicates, given that the hive is dark and the dance often occurs far up the comb). Bees do learn though - they orient to a hive and will return to that location (and get lost if the hive is moved).
African bees are not wasp like - the core problem is that they react to the alarm phermone in greater quantities. The venom is identical. It's just that with africanized you are stung six or seven times to start with, and they keep coming. I've seen no indication that africanized forage inefficiently, in fact in SA they are worked as better producers. They do swarm in ways that are not condusive to living in cold weather, and even abandon brood, something I've never seen honeybees do. The major species of honey bee (melifera) is pretty much it. There are variations in "types" of honeybee (italian, carniolan, russian, etc) but these vary in build up, flying temperature and temperment, not general behavioral mechanics.
Africans breed at different times. They are smaller and their drones are faster. Their genese are dominant. First generation africanized bees exhibit all the good qualities (superior work force) and few of the poor ones. It's when they raise their own new queen that all hell breaks loose. Also when the colony is small they may behave normally, at critical mass it becomes unpleasant.
No, I believe instinct is largely hard wired (by definition, sort of, but not entirely - bees that have moving objects in front of their hives are less likely to zip out and confront you if you walk by, so some of that behavior can be desensitized). What I am curious about is whether or not the bee larva (normally fed pollen/nectar by the nurse bees after the first three days) could still subsist on the same material wasps feed the wasp larva. Probably not. It would be interesting though. My point was that bees and wasps, while highly different, still share a large number of traits (beyond the eyes, legs, wings, stings level).
Wasps still consume sweet liquids (primarily produced by the brood), wasps still consume (some) pollen. Bees still consume pollen as well but it is fed primarily to the larva, bees primarily live on nectar (not honey). Bee larva consume pollen but I'm curious how they would fare if they were fed masticated insects. The primary difference is in the behavioral wiring. Wasps retain the predator code of conduct, bees not so much.
given a source of power didn't want to legislate to control it. Give a source of income they desire their portion of it. The irony is that some of these aren't considered corrupt.
>I do not believe that writing and code are all that similar
I disagree, as someone who loves to both code and write. Writing really is very much like programming, but it is for an interpreter.
> with writing there are no rules
There are basic constructs to writing beyond grammar, and basic writing rules that generally control how how interpreters of a given class, (say, western english speakers of average education) will be affected. Poetry, in this case, is like badly written code - it may do beautiful things, or crash and burn horribly. It depends on the interpreter, time of day, phase of the mooon, etc. What works for one interpreter fails miserably for another.
>not like someone can change two lines and make a more stable code.
In fact, it's often possible to change two WORDS and make more coherent, or more effective "code". Turn of phrase is so heavily dependent on word choice, and an incoherent paragraph can be made lucid with minor edits. Sometimes.
I like the CC as well, just think that writing and programming really are similar.
If it's like the ones at the last event I went to, once a particular ticket is scanned, the system won't accept that particular code again. So the company could send the same message over and over if a user requested a resend (within a period) without fear of someone reusing the code. Now, delay, no helping that. Re-admission was combined with ticket scan and hand stamp.
If you have one high level player & multiple accounts, it's trivial to power level more high level players. In fact, it's possible to join Club Calamari (level 50, so named for the "squid" archtypes that open then) in day's worth of grind. Multiple players only slow this slightly, due to the way COH scales XP (and a second scrapper killing can speed up the process vastly).
I don't know about the other MMOs, might not be as easy there.
the company had stated why they pulled out, and stated that it was because they disagreed with the policy of tracking students everwhere, but truth is, they probably don't. That's what this company does. They probably pulled out because of bad publicity and wanting to avoid being named a defendant in a lawsuit. Great, the students aren't being tracked. Problem is, that leaves the door open for the situation to be repeated. Without the clear determent of a court ruling against this, or an open statement against this by the school/company, I can't help but wonder if this is a hollow victory.
I doubt even an egotistical, power hungry maniac, I mean visionary CEO, can help here, because TiVo's vision has become everyone's vision. I bought TiVo back when it first came out, and it was like they were on to something.
They were. That was a good thing until everyone else got onto the bandwagon. Now TiVo's just one of many PVRs you can get.
In particular, loosing the cable network deal was a killer. Comcast keeps offering to basically give their boxes away and they come with PVRs now.
The difference here is that Comcast can afford to lose the PVR game. They need the boxes distributed anyway for cable (I know, not required, but for digital it is). Tivo, on the other hand, is trying to go the opposite way - comcast had boxes on hand, said "Hey, let's add PVR to them. I mean, they're out there anyway." Tivo doesn't have the advantage of having an established offering - they come to the table with only PVR functionality, and a box you don't have to have. Now they're adding apps. That's good. But it's a life support measuer only. How long until Comcast/DTV comes up with sandboxed apps? They'll do the smart thing - let TiVo tread the waters, make the mistakes, and learn from it, but unless TiVo has something unique to offer, it's a loosing battle.
This works in some ways, falls flat in others. Consider the case where it works: Chuck got a bad hotdog at the local StopNRob. He gets into a fight with the clerk, the cops come, Chuck gets slapped with a fine and a restraining order that says he's not to come within a hundred yards of StopNRob.
This works. Chuck probably doesn't have any real reason to go back, once he cools off. The food was bad, the gas was expensive, and the clerk is ugly. If he DOES go back, it's probably not for anything really bad, and a fine is a good penalty.
The scenario where it does not work is more difficult. Chuck and his wife get into a fight, and he beats her like she's a star in a LifeTime movie. She files charges and takes out a restraining order, and it says he is not to come within a hundred yards of their house, or her.
This does not work, in most scenarios. How do we know he's not within 100 yards of her, if she's not wearing a device too? Fine - we know if he goes to the house. But in the time it takes someone to notice, call the cops, and the cops to respond, he could very well have killed her (and if he goes back to that house, you can bet it isn't to chat).
I could see this being a good thing in criminals who would have been under house arrest - they could be allowed to leave, go to work, get a job. This is good, because without a job, people can lose everything. With nothing to lose, there's no incentive to reform.
Welcome to what happens when IT grows instead of being designed. The same sort of issue is what causes a large retailer to use a 4 port linksys hub as the central point of their network, what causes a major company to use an employee's backup machine as the webserver (leading to an outage when someone accidentally kicks a cable while listening to music), or what makes an email server out of a abandoned machine in a hallway (with power cords going to one office, network to another).
It's because it grows. "We needed another email server, and..." "We didn't have a web site, and..." (I have no idea about the hub. I can say it was doing very well for the demand placed upon it.)
I've seen this far too much, usually when someone didn't plan, and someone else acted.
(No, not "suck and die") but attract non star trek fans. I know many trek lovers at work. All of them hate Enterprise. Then there's the dedicated non SF crowd, like my wife, who actually likes Enterprise. She likes the characters more. Likes the lower tech "high tech." And she's not alone. The other Enterprise watchers I know didn't really like Trek before Enterprise.
Enterprise's downfall? It isn't really working as a gateway drug. I don't know people who have moved off of enterprise onto harder SF. (Unlike firefly, which began soft and smooth, but I know people who live their social lives in the social equivalent of an abandoned building, straining shows like Andromeda through bread to get a SF high). Enterprise hasn't built a following of people who would watch another show from the same series. Contrast TNG, which made so many addicts that they were willing to watch a show about a space station that boldly sat in one place year after year.
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I think so, but really it's just another step in an arms race. How long until we see court orders to collect this sort of information? Or forbidding the use of log destruction/filtering tools?
Heretic had up/down. So did ROT (wolfenstein clss code), as I recall. Of course, Marathon still rocks - I even bought a mac copy to be able to play it with Aleph One.
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No solutions yet. We don't understand it well enough to solve.
How does ANYONE think those things were bombs? If they honestly did, should we let those people call 911 again?
Hey, Boston Bob - you see that thing that looks like a cartoon charcter giving us the finger?
I dunno. Looks like a bomb to me.
Careful Bob, remember the last time, when you called the bomb squad over the alarm clock?
It had batteries and wires, and it didn't light up. How was I supposed to know it was an alarm clock?
It was *your* alarm Clock, Boston Bob. It didn't light up because you let the batteries run out.
It was the alarm company's fault for not making it clear that it wasn't a bomb. I'm calling this one in and shutting things down. Can't be too careful.
"OWA". Exchange 2000 OWA.
Yeah, and Exchange 2000 used XML & Javascript for a massive chunk of its functionality. Then again, 5.5 OWA had done a bunch of javascript (but XML, not so much).
I'd bet most of the people would injure themselves clicking the "shock" button.
"It appears you are trying to torture me. Would you like..zzzZZZZZ.zzzz".
We need to tell Dora how to install MythTv. You tell Dora, mnt, get, install, bootstrap, reconfigure, crash, recompile, get depedencies, start, fail, reconfigure, reformat, get, update, patch, recompile, buy a tivo. Say it with me!
each of those has only has a 15% chance of making your dick hard (unless you are a woman, in which case it always works). Side effects include nausea, dry mouth, heaves, ebola, and a high probability of catching the flu.
If the medicine is developed with government grants then yes, it ought to be available to all citizens of the country that developed it. Whether or not it's available to other countries is a matter for larger debate, where I tend to think the answer is yes - asking some 3rd world country to solve its health problems by inventing the drugs it needs probably doesn't work. If a university researches a drug with corporate money, well, they got in bed with a partner for research money and shouldn't be surprised if the partner wants their piece of the pie. Perhaps what they should call for is for Universities to not accept funding from corporations to do research for them.
>We have this already. It doesn't work.
For what it's worth, here in the USA I was recently a patient (thanks to pneumonia). The patient records were accessed completely electronically. When I transferred to another section (in another building) the doctors immediately pulled up the records. My X-rays came out on film and digital record and were available within about 5 minutes. With the X-rays, no problem passing them around - they just pulled them up and viewed them. I have the originals on file if needed. The nurses carried tablet PCs and used them to enter most of the data. I'm not saying it's perfect (after all, our health care system is screwed up in a lot of ways) but record access appeared to work quite well. The nurses there said the first four months with it were very rocky - after that things have gotten better.
So, let's look at the variations that we know of that are food controlled:
Workers, fed royal jelly for the first three days or so will be the baseline. After three days they are fed pollen/nectar mixture (sometimes called bee bread). This results in a generic worker with undeveloped ovaries. This worker will not take a mating flight and thus will only lay drones in the absence of a true queen.
Queens, on the other hand, are fed continuously for the ten days that it takes them to develop. Raised in a long, vertical cell (including emergency queens) they develop a longer abdomen and a slightly larger thorax. More importantly they develop extremely quickly. Hatching a full week earlier than their worker sisters the queens perform two behaviors that unique - they take mating flights, and they pip (before mating). Once a queen begins laying the desire consumes her - she'll starve, unable to remember how to feed herself. Laying workers, on the other hand continue to feed themselves.
The behavior seems to be present in both, only the laying instincts do not develop clearly in the workers - they'll lay anywhere, and many times. The difference is primarily in quantity - the nurse bees feed queenlings constantly. It seems that this is the trigger for the additional behavior. Bee dances are at least partially coded (if it is in fact the dance and not a vibration or something else that communicates, given that the hive is dark and the dance often occurs far up the comb). Bees do learn though - they orient to a hive and will return to that location (and get lost if the hive is moved).
African bees are not wasp like - the core problem is that they react to the alarm phermone in greater quantities. The venom is identical. It's just that with africanized you are stung six or seven times to start with, and they keep coming. I've seen no indication that africanized forage inefficiently, in fact in SA they are worked as better producers. They do swarm in ways that are not condusive to living in cold weather, and even abandon brood, something I've never seen honeybees do. The major species of honey bee (melifera) is pretty much it. There are variations in "types" of honeybee (italian, carniolan, russian, etc) but these vary in build up, flying temperature and temperment, not general behavioral mechanics.
Africans breed at different times. They are smaller and their drones are faster. Their genese are dominant. First generation africanized bees exhibit all the good qualities (superior work force) and few of the poor ones. It's when they raise their own new queen that all hell breaks loose. Also when the colony is small they may behave normally, at critical mass it becomes unpleasant.
No, I believe instinct is largely hard wired (by definition, sort of, but not entirely - bees that have moving objects in front of their hives are less likely to zip out and confront you if you walk by, so some of that behavior can be desensitized). What I am curious about is whether or not the bee larva (normally fed pollen/nectar by the nurse bees after the first three days) could still subsist on the same material wasps feed the wasp larva. Probably not. It would be interesting though. My point was that bees and wasps, while highly different, still share a large number of traits (beyond the eyes, legs, wings, stings level).
Wasps still consume sweet liquids (primarily produced by the brood), wasps still consume (some) pollen. Bees still consume pollen as well but it is fed primarily to the larva, bees primarily live on nectar (not honey). Bee larva consume pollen but I'm curious how they would fare if they were fed masticated insects. The primary difference is in the behavioral wiring. Wasps retain the predator code of conduct, bees not so much.
given a source of power didn't want to legislate to control it. Give a source of income they desire their portion of it. The irony is that some of these aren't considered corrupt.
there will be stars, and some sort of treking, but not wars (unless you want George Lucas involved).
I believe you reap what you sow. You sew what you rip. (and if you suck at sewing, you rip what you sew)..
>I do not believe that writing and code are all that similar
I disagree, as someone who loves to both code and write.
Writing really is very much like programming, but it is for an interpreter.
> with writing there are no rules
There are basic constructs to writing beyond grammar, and basic writing rules that generally control how how interpreters of a given class, (say, western english speakers of average education) will be affected. Poetry, in this case, is like badly written code - it may do beautiful things, or crash and burn horribly. It depends on the interpreter, time of day, phase of the mooon, etc. What works for one interpreter fails miserably for another.
>not like someone can change two lines and make a more stable code.
In fact, it's often possible to change two WORDS and make more coherent, or more effective "code". Turn of phrase is so heavily dependent on word choice, and an incoherent paragraph can be made lucid with minor edits. Sometimes.
I like the CC as well, just think that writing and programming really are similar.
If it's like the ones at the last event I went to, once a particular ticket is scanned, the system won't accept that particular code again. So the company could send the same message over and over if a user requested a resend (within a period) without fear of someone reusing the code. Now, delay, no helping that. Re-admission was combined with ticket scan and hand stamp.
If you have one high level player & multiple accounts, it's trivial to power level more high level players. In fact, it's possible to join Club Calamari (level 50, so named for the "squid" archtypes that open then) in day's worth of grind. Multiple players only slow this slightly, due to the way COH scales XP (and a second scrapper killing can speed up the process vastly). I don't know about the other MMOs, might not be as easy there.
the company had stated why they pulled out, and stated that it was because they disagreed with the policy of tracking students everwhere, but truth is, they probably don't. That's what this company does. They probably pulled out because of bad publicity and wanting to avoid being named a defendant in a lawsuit. Great, the students aren't being tracked. Problem is, that leaves the door open for the situation to be repeated. Without the clear determent of a court ruling against this, or an open statement against this by the school/company, I can't help but wonder if this is a hollow victory.
I doubt even an egotistical, power hungry maniac, I mean visionary CEO, can help here, because TiVo's vision has become everyone's vision. I bought TiVo back when it first came out, and it was like they were on to something.
They were.
That was a good thing until everyone else got onto the bandwagon. Now TiVo's just one of many PVRs you can get.
In particular, loosing the cable network deal was a killer. Comcast keeps offering to basically give their boxes away and they come with PVRs now.
The difference here is that Comcast can afford to lose the PVR game. They need the boxes distributed anyway for cable (I know, not required, but for digital it is). Tivo, on the other hand, is trying to go the opposite way - comcast had boxes on hand, said "Hey, let's add PVR to them. I mean, they're out there anyway." Tivo doesn't have the advantage of having an established offering - they come to the table with only PVR functionality, and a box you don't have to have. Now they're adding apps. That's good. But it's a life support measuer only. How long until Comcast/DTV comes up with sandboxed apps? They'll do the smart thing - let TiVo tread the waters, make the mistakes, and learn from it, but unless TiVo has something unique to offer, it's a loosing battle.
This works in some ways, falls flat in others.
Consider the case where it works:
Chuck got a bad hotdog at the local StopNRob. He gets into a fight with the clerk, the cops come, Chuck gets slapped with a fine and a restraining order that says he's not to come within a hundred yards of StopNRob.
This works. Chuck probably doesn't have any real reason to go back, once he cools off. The food was bad, the gas was expensive, and the clerk is ugly. If he DOES go back, it's probably not for anything really bad, and a fine is a good penalty.
The scenario where it does not work is more difficult.
Chuck and his wife get into a fight, and he beats her like she's a star in a LifeTime movie. She files charges and takes out a restraining order, and it says he is not to come within a hundred yards of their house, or her.
This does not work, in most scenarios.
How do we know he's not within 100 yards of her, if she's not wearing a device too?
Fine - we know if he goes to the house. But in the time it takes someone to notice, call the cops, and the cops to respond, he could very well have killed her (and if he goes back to that house, you can bet it isn't to chat).
I could see this being a good thing in criminals who would have been under house arrest - they could be allowed to leave, go to work, get a job. This is good, because without a job, people can lose everything. With nothing to lose, there's no incentive to reform.
Welcome to what happens when IT grows instead of being designed. The same sort of issue is what causes a large retailer to use a 4 port linksys hub as the central point of their network, what causes a major company to use an employee's backup machine as the webserver (leading to an outage when someone accidentally kicks a cable while listening to music), or what makes an email server out of a abandoned machine in a hallway (with power cords going to one office, network to another).
..."
It's because it grows.
"We needed another email server, and..."
"We didn't have a web site, and
(I have no idea about the hub. I can say it was doing very well for the demand placed upon it.)
I've seen this far too much, usually when someone didn't plan, and someone else acted.
(No, not "suck and die") but attract non star trek fans. I know many trek lovers at work. All of them hate Enterprise. Then there's the dedicated non SF crowd, like my wife, who actually likes Enterprise. She likes the characters more. Likes the lower tech "high tech." And she's not alone. The other Enterprise watchers I know didn't really like Trek before Enterprise. Enterprise's downfall? It isn't really working as a gateway drug. I don't know people who have moved off of enterprise onto harder SF. (Unlike firefly, which began soft and smooth, but I know people who live their social lives in the social equivalent of an abandoned building, straining shows like Andromeda through bread to get a SF high). Enterprise hasn't built a following of people who would watch another show from the same series. Contrast TNG, which made so many addicts that they were willing to watch a show about a space station that boldly sat in one place year after year.
I think so, but really it's just another step in an arms race. How long until we see court orders to collect this sort of information? Or forbidding the use of log destruction/filtering tools?
Heretic had up/down. So did ROT (wolfenstein clss code), as I recall. Of course, Marathon still rocks - I even bought a mac copy to be able to play it with Aleph One.