And what is the problem with this, it is not like nicotine is a bio-accumulating substance.
What's your point? It's a toxic chemical, sprayed on your food. That's, like, bad and stuff, right? That's what all the pro-organic people tell me... despite the fact that pesticides are used in fairly large volume in organic farming, they just use different varieties that are, like, "all natural" and stuff.
Did you even understand what you replied to? Non-bio-accumulating substances breakdown into other substances, many of which are not dangerous, either to humans or the environment. And what is left on food crops can be washed away, hell even so called fresh fruits and veggies from the grocery store should be washed. Before I eat what I picked from my garden I soak it in water with Castile soap and/or an organic fruit and vegetable wash before cooking or eating it.
*Nicotine, OTOH, is used *heavily* in the organic food industry, as it's considered an "organic" pesticide. And because it's not as effective as common, "non-organic" pesticides... they have to use more! Woo!
Bt or Bacillus thuringiensis is also natural and used in organic farming. And since it is effective genetic engineering businesses are inserting genes to make it into crops. Monsanto makes it's "Roundup Ready" seeds so they can be drowned in the herbicide Roundup.
As for herbicide and pesticide usage, I garden and I use none of either. To start my garden beds, I built wide and raised beds, I mixed organic compost and organic top soil. Yearly I collect and compost "yard waste", grass clippings and leaves, dead plants from gardens, and animal "waste". When I had a dog I added the dog manure to the compost. I then and now add used cat litter, made from biodegradable corn and wheat, to my compost. Healthy soil doesn't need as many chemical inputs as other soils do, so artificial inorganic fertilizers aren't needed. Healthy companion plants negate the use of pesticides. Then applying a couple of inches of mulch on top of beds reduces weeds, and what little weeds that do pop up should be uprooted as soon as they come up.
Actually one of the most common "weeds" in the US is dandelion and guess what? Scandinavians brought dandelions over from northern Europe as food. The entire plant is used. Dandelion leaves are used in salad, the roots can be cooked, and the flowers are used to make dandelion wine.
More labor may be needed but it's better for the ecology, and if so called conventional farming paid all of it's own costs the costs of organic versus organic may be about the same now, with rising conventional costs.
Do you buy and use pasteurized or raw milk? I haven't made any in years but I'm looking for where I can buy raw milk to start making cheese again.
I get to exert my own geekery by selection of cocktails of bugs to ferment and mature my products.
I've got some ginger beer brewing, fermenting, in a closet as a soft drink. But I'd also like to make alcoholic ginger, and hot pepper, beer. I just hope I can harvest enough ginger from my garden, I know I don't have enough peppers and will have to buy some to make hot pepper beer.
Know what's ironic? Dandelions are not native to the US. Scandinavians brought it as food, the leaves are used as greens for salad, the roots can be cooked, and the flowers are used to make dandelion wine.
what's unreasonable or ilogical about looking for somebody's own pocket?
What's logical about looking after one's own pocket when one will not live long? Its not as if one can take the money with them into any more than the grave.
you don't bury bodies. You burn them just like they did in 1348
One problem with this is mercury. The mercury in tooth fillings have to be removed. That is one of the things crematoriums do before cremation. But on a scale of, forget hundreds of millions, tens of millions that will not happen. And for one of the same reasons you list, not enough labor.
The article is about proposed regulation stuck in committee to stop it. So apparently it's news for you at least.
Yes it is news. Opponents of the massive use of antibiotics as used on factory farms such as me have been at it more than 10, even 20, years. But TFA says the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act was introduced in 2009.
We're going to get our asses kicked by Android in the mobile market, so we're going to use our vast resources to try to destroy yet another superior product.
Except Microsoft leads Android. Microsoft is third in the market with RIM in first and Apple in second. Androids are fourth, behind MS, though growing. Both Androids and iPhones are growing where RIM and Windows Mobile are declining.
Certainly there are opportunities to develop new ideas for cellular phones and these merit patent protection.
Bullshit!!! Almost all patents should be revoked. Patents may of had helped at one tyme but all they do now is hold back progress, whether by the new kid on the block who does not have a patent portfolio to counter sue with, or by established players.
That's what it must do now, not only for itself, not only for Android phone vendors, but above all for the application developer community its platform depends on.
That's what Google could try to do, negotiate licensing deals, but they'd better not. Instead Google should, one, make MS prove Google is violating MS patents. And if so two, fight to have those patents revoked.
It's better than the "IQ" test if it predicts behavior.
It's better than the "drug" testing because not every drug user is a drug addict.
It's highly focused on what actually matters.
Like other tests, these tests are hogwash. The only, and I mean ONLY, way to know how a person will act or react is by observing them it specific situations. That foolish person always taking risks and being cocky may very well start weeping when the bullets are whizzing overhead. And that meek or cowardly seeming person may be the hero when those bullets are flying.
If you are rational you won't go online saying and doing stupid things in a way in which it's linked to your workplace persona.
If you are rational you won't go online and say stupid things, things that can get you in trouble, period. Wasn't HP caught spying on board members? Nor will they spend a lot of tyme doing things online at work they shouldn't be doing. Emailing or chatting with the spouse during lunch is one thing but spending even five minutes perusing pornography websites while you're on the clock is something else. As is spending lunch doing so in an open area. Nor is it good to be on Slashdot while working unless it's work related.
How many years of updates does each come with? Microsoft promises "mainstream support" for each version of Windows until at least two years after the release of the next minor version, but FreelanceWizard says CrossOver updates are sold separately.
FreelanceWizard is wrong. Here's Codeweavers' upgrade policy. CrossOver Standard upgrades are available for 6 months, CrossOver Professional for 12 months, and CrossOver Games comes with 12 months of upgrade too. Mind you it's not as long as Microsoft's but each upgrade does not have to be paid for.
But I doubt many Windows apps exist for which there is not an equivalent OSX or Linux app.
There are plenty of games that aren't ported to Mac OS X
True but many people who play games have a dedicated game console, like Xbox, Playstation, or Nintendo. Even Windows users have them.
Oh and about that "at least two years after the release of the next minor version", in December 1998 I bought a new PC with NT4. I ran Windows Update last in January 2000, just over 2 years later, but when I did it said updates were no longer available. So I called MS support and I was told I would have to order and pay for a CD with the latest update. And that was before Windows 2000 was released. Luckily when I told another slashdotter this he posted the link to download the updates for manual installation, so that's what I did. I spend hours downloading all the updates I could, I didn't have broadband then.
Not only games...Autocad, ProEngineer, Photoshop, Cubase, Altium, AvrStudio, AlteraQuartus...etc..
There are alternatives to some of these. "BRL-CAD is a powerful constructive solid geometry solid modeling system". Architosh: "the leading Internet magazine dedicated to Mac CAD and 3D professionals and students worldwide." Pro/ENGINEER runs on Solaris and Red Hat Linux. There's a version of Photoshop for OSX and Photoshop CS 2 runs in CrossOver. For those who do not need all that Photoshop has they can use GIMP, Cinepaint, or Krita. Cubase runs on OSX. For Linux there's the AGNULA Project and other alternatives.
I'm in a rush now so I won't go through the rest of your list but I bet there are alternatives for them as well.
What options does Linux have for the above case where we need to fine tune network and computer policies on thousands of PCs?
If the hardware is the same then it's easy to set up one PC the way all the others are going to be then cloning the disk. The same used to be doable for Windows as well, Norton Ghost cloned disks, but now that MS has gotten strict with activation and spyware I don't know if people can do it now. A quick google for linux remote administration tools show that remote admin can be done.
Not a sarcastic question as I am not very Linux savvy.
Neither am I, that's why I find Google helpful. I'm about to install Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid, on my MacBook Pro and I've been using Google to map out a strategy to make it a smooth process. Sure, as some say Ubuntu is easy to install however I will be dualbooting and will use the same user files and datastores in both OSes. I'll need to calibrate my monitors, I'll have two of them. I also want to use KDE in Ubuntu and switch between Gnome and KDE.
If the hardware doesn't meet Windows 7's requirements, which are the same as those of Windows Vista, then it likely doesn't meet the requirements of any major-label PC game made since 2005 either.
Okay, so saying the hardware doesn't need to be upgraded, Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade still costs more than $100 whereas CrossOver Professional is $60.
Unfortunately not all Windows software runs without problems in CrossOver, such as Photoshop CS 3 and CS 4. MS Office 2007 works but Office 2010 does not. Neither does newer versions of Quickbooks and Quicken, well Quicken 2010 Premier does work. So if a Windows only app is really needed then having Windows is a good idea. But I doubt many Windows apps exist for which there is not an equivalent OSX or Linux app. That is other than specialized software, written in-house more than likely.
It's awful how many web apps require Internet Explorer on Windows. MLXChange and Paychex come to mind. Combine this with Quickbooks and a huge library of custom apps and you have a situation where Windows absolutely owns the small business market.
There are a number of web apps that work with other browsers too. For every app that needs IE I bet an app that does the same can be found that runs in Firefox or Safari. Combined with Quickbooks for Mac, MYOB FirstEdge, and AccountEdge 2010 for Mac financial software is also available for Macs. Not only that but Macs can also run Linux and Windows apps.
Notable holes in Apple's hardware lineup include a 10" MacBook and anything between a Mac mini and Mac Pro.
There's the iMac, But I have a problem with Apple not offering a customizable and expandable Mac between iMacs and Mac Pros.
I'm typing this on a 17" MacBook Pro but would love to have a bigger one. Before I got it I saw a 21" Windows laptop and thought I wanted a 21' MacBook Pro. Then when the iPad was announced I was hoping for a tablet like the ModBook Pro. One that was 21" would have been a killer.
I've had issues getting the wifi to work on Macbook 5.1, 5.3, 6.1 and iMacs
I've got a MacBook Pro 3,1 and am about to install Lucid on it. The only thing I see that may not work is Apple Remote Control though there are remarks for Keyboard functions (Brightness,volume,...).
Now before I install Lucid on my internal drive I'll go ahead and install it on an external drive and test drive it. I still use Leopard but will install Snow Leopard on an external drive first too.
Windows, due to it ubiquity (90% of desktops), has a lot of software that simply isn't available on other OSes.
Not true and I haven't found a need for Windows.
i.e. Windows has more flexibility in what you can run.
With Windows Windows software can be run along with some Linux software. With Linux Linux software can be run along with some Windows software. With Macs Mac software can be run along with some Linux and some Windows software.
Fact is is Macs can run more software than either Linux or Windows.
How much does it cost to buy something like CrossOver vs. just having your PC builder buy Windows Home Premium (OEM version) and install it alongside Ubuntu?
CrossOver Standard costs $40 and CrossOver Professional $60. If you have an older PC them you have to pay more for Windows, not less. Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade, if you're running XP or Vista, costs more than $100. And unless the hardware already meets Windows 7's requirements it will have to upgraded as well.
Of course Ubuntu can be installed alongside Windows, but then when switching between OSes you have to shutdown and reboot. Unless a VM is used, but then more hardware is needed to get the same performance.
In some cases using CrossOver to run Windows apps will be better than dualbooting. And in others it will be better to dualboot.
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And what is the problem with this, it is not like nicotine is a bio-accumulating substance.
What's your point? It's a toxic chemical, sprayed on your food. That's, like, bad and stuff, right? That's what all the pro-organic people tell me... despite the fact that pesticides are used in fairly large volume in organic farming, they just use different varieties that are, like, "all natural" and stuff.
Did you even understand what you replied to? Non-bio-accumulating substances breakdown into other substances, many of which are not dangerous, either to humans or the environment. And what is left on food crops can be washed away, hell even so called fresh fruits and veggies from the grocery store should be washed. Before I eat what I picked from my garden I soak it in water with Castile soap and/or an organic fruit and vegetable wash before cooking or eating it.
Falcon
*Nicotine, OTOH, is used *heavily* in the organic food industry, as it's considered an "organic" pesticide. And because it's not as effective as common, "non-organic" pesticides... they have to use more! Woo!
Bt or Bacillus thuringiensis is also natural and used in organic farming. And since it is effective genetic engineering businesses are inserting genes to make it into crops. Monsanto makes it's "Roundup Ready" seeds so they can be drowned in the herbicide Roundup.
As for herbicide and pesticide usage, I garden and I use none of either. To start my garden beds, I built wide and raised beds, I mixed organic compost and organic top soil. Yearly I collect and compost "yard waste", grass clippings and leaves, dead plants from gardens, and animal "waste". When I had a dog I added the dog manure to the compost. I then and now add used cat litter, made from biodegradable corn and wheat, to my compost. Healthy soil doesn't need as many chemical inputs as other soils do, so artificial inorganic fertilizers aren't needed. Healthy companion plants negate the use of pesticides. Then applying a couple of inches of mulch on top of beds reduces weeds, and what little weeds that do pop up should be uprooted as soon as they come up.
Actually one of the most common "weeds" in the US is dandelion and guess what? Scandinavians brought dandelions over from northern Europe as food. The entire plant is used. Dandelion leaves are used in salad, the roots can be cooked, and the flowers are used to make dandelion wine.
More labor may be needed but it's better for the ecology, and if so called conventional farming paid all of it's own costs the costs of organic versus organic may be about the same now, with rising conventional costs.
Falcon
Do you buy and use pasteurized or raw milk? I haven't made any in years but I'm looking for where I can buy raw milk to start making cheese again.
I get to exert my own geekery by selection of cocktails of bugs to ferment and mature my products.
I've got some ginger beer brewing, fermenting, in a closet as a soft drink. But I'd also like to make alcoholic ginger, and hot pepper, beer. I just hope I can harvest enough ginger from my garden, I know I don't have enough peppers and will have to buy some to make hot pepper beer.
Falcon
Know what's ironic? Dandelions are not native to the US. Scandinavians brought it as food, the leaves are used as greens for salad, the roots can be cooked, and the flowers are used to make dandelion wine.
Yet today most people treat them as a weed.
Falcon
what's unreasonable or ilogical about looking for somebody's own pocket?
What's logical about looking after one's own pocket when one will not live long? Its not as if one can take the money with them into any more than the grave.
Falcon
not a bacteriological one. Antibiotics will do absolutely nothng against a viral disease.
But antimicrobials do work against viruses, and they are overused as well.
Falcon
you don't bury bodies. You burn them just like they did in 1348
One problem with this is mercury. The mercury in tooth fillings have to be removed. That is one of the things crematoriums do before cremation. But on a scale of, forget hundreds of millions, tens of millions that will not happen. And for one of the same reasons you list, not enough labor.
Falcon
The article is about proposed regulation stuck in committee to stop it. So apparently it's news for you at least.
Yes it is news. Opponents of the massive use of antibiotics as used on factory farms such as me have been at it more than 10, even 20, years. But TFA says the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act was introduced in 2009.
Falcon
We're going to get our asses kicked by Android in the mobile market, so we're going to use our vast resources to try to destroy yet another superior product.
Except Microsoft leads Android. Microsoft is third in the market with RIM in first and Apple in second. Androids are fourth, behind MS, though growing. Both Androids and iPhones are growing where RIM and Windows Mobile are declining.
Falcon
What exactly has MS invented? Invented not copied or stole?
Perhaps Altair BASIC? BASIC already existed, all Bill and Paul did was write a BASIC interpreter for the Altair and following microcomputers.
Falcon
Certainly there are opportunities to develop new ideas for cellular phones and these merit patent protection.
Bullshit!!! Almost all patents should be revoked. Patents may of had helped at one tyme but all they do now is hold back progress, whether by the new kid on the block who does not have a patent portfolio to counter sue with, or by established players.
Falcon
That's what it must do now, not only for itself, not only for Android phone vendors, but above all for the application developer community its platform depends on.
That's what Google could try to do, negotiate licensing deals, but they'd better not. Instead Google should, one, make MS prove Google is violating MS patents. And if so two, fight to have those patents revoked.
Falcon
These sorts of tests should be called idiot detection testing.
Yea, anyone who uses them is an idiot.
Falcon
Unless they provide a full & accurate report as to what information was collected on you(and how it was used), it shouldn't even be happening.
Like we need another reason for big government. NOT!!!
I don't like the idea of employers using such services as this, but if one does then it's one I do not want to work for.
Should there be a Law?
Falcon
You really haven't been paying attention for the last forty years if you think that bad practices will be competed out of the market. I mean, really?
Unfortunately today businesses get government to bail them out. Bad actors are bailed out and every one else picks up the tab.
Falcon
It's better than the "IQ" test if it predicts behavior.
It's better than the "drug" testing because not every drug user is a drug addict.
It's highly focused on what actually matters.
Like other tests, these tests are hogwash. The only, and I mean ONLY, way to know how a person will act or react is by observing them it specific situations. That foolish person always taking risks and being cocky may very well start weeping when the bullets are whizzing overhead. And that meek or cowardly seeming person may be the hero when those bullets are flying.
If you are rational you won't go online saying and doing stupid things in a way in which it's linked to your workplace persona.
If you are rational you won't go online and say stupid things, things that can get you in trouble, period. Wasn't HP caught spying on board members? Nor will they spend a lot of tyme doing things online at work they shouldn't be doing. Emailing or chatting with the spouse during lunch is one thing but spending even five minutes perusing pornography websites while you're on the clock is something else. As is spending lunch doing so in an open area. Nor is it good to be on Slashdot while working unless it's work related.
Falcon
How many years of updates does each come with? Microsoft promises "mainstream support" for each version of Windows until at least two years after the release of the next minor version, but FreelanceWizard says CrossOver updates are sold separately.
FreelanceWizard is wrong. Here's Codeweavers' upgrade policy. CrossOver Standard upgrades are available for 6 months, CrossOver Professional for 12 months, and CrossOver Games comes with 12 months of upgrade too. Mind you it's not as long as Microsoft's but each upgrade does not have to be paid for.
But I doubt many Windows apps exist for which there is not an equivalent OSX or Linux app.
There are plenty of games that aren't ported to Mac OS X
True but many people who play games have a dedicated game console, like Xbox, Playstation, or Nintendo. Even Windows users have them.
Oh and about that "at least two years after the release of the next minor version", in December 1998 I bought a new PC with NT4. I ran Windows Update last in January 2000, just over 2 years later, but when I did it said updates were no longer available. So I called MS support and I was told I would have to order and pay for a CD with the latest update. And that was before Windows 2000 was released. Luckily when I told another slashdotter this he posted the link to download the updates for manual installation, so that's what I did. I spend hours downloading all the updates I could, I didn't have broadband then.
Falcon
Not only games...Autocad, ProEngineer, Photoshop, Cubase, Altium, AvrStudio, AlteraQuartus...etc..
There are alternatives to some of these. "BRL-CAD is a powerful constructive solid geometry solid modeling system". Architosh: "the leading Internet magazine dedicated to Mac CAD and 3D professionals and students worldwide." Pro/ENGINEER runs on Solaris and Red Hat Linux. There's a version of Photoshop for OSX and Photoshop CS 2 runs in CrossOver. For those who do not need all that Photoshop has they can use GIMP, Cinepaint, or Krita. Cubase runs on OSX. For Linux there's the AGNULA Project and other alternatives.
I'm in a rush now so I won't go through the rest of your list but I bet there are alternatives for them as well.
Falcon
What options does Linux have for the above case where we need to fine tune network and computer policies on thousands of PCs?
If the hardware is the same then it's easy to set up one PC the way all the others are going to be then cloning the disk. The same used to be doable for Windows as well, Norton Ghost cloned disks, but now that MS has gotten strict with activation and spyware I don't know if people can do it now. A quick google for linux remote administration tools show that remote admin can be done.
Not a sarcastic question as I am not very Linux savvy.
Neither am I, that's why I find Google helpful. I'm about to install Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid, on my MacBook Pro and I've been using Google to map out a strategy to make it a smooth process. Sure, as some say Ubuntu is easy to install however I will be dualbooting and will use the same user files and datastores in both OSes. I'll need to calibrate my monitors, I'll have two of them. I also want to use KDE in Ubuntu and switch between Gnome and KDE.
Falcon
If the hardware doesn't meet Windows 7's requirements, which are the same as those of Windows Vista, then it likely doesn't meet the requirements of any major-label PC game made since 2005 either.
Okay, so saying the hardware doesn't need to be upgraded, Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade still costs more than $100 whereas CrossOver Professional is $60.
Unfortunately not all Windows software runs without problems in CrossOver, such as Photoshop CS 3 and CS 4. MS Office 2007 works but Office 2010 does not. Neither does newer versions of Quickbooks and Quicken, well Quicken 2010 Premier does work. So if a Windows only app is really needed then having Windows is a good idea. But I doubt many Windows apps exist for which there is not an equivalent OSX or Linux app. That is other than specialized software, written in-house more than likely.
Falcon
It's awful how many web apps require Internet Explorer on Windows. MLXChange and Paychex come to mind. Combine this with Quickbooks and a huge library of custom apps and you have a situation where Windows absolutely owns the small business market.
There are a number of web apps that work with other browsers too. For every app that needs IE I bet an app that does the same can be found that runs in Firefox or Safari. Combined with Quickbooks for Mac, MYOB FirstEdge, and AccountEdge 2010 for Mac financial software is also available for Macs. Not only that but Macs can also run Linux and Windows apps.
Falcon
Notable holes in Apple's hardware lineup include a 10" MacBook and anything between a Mac mini and Mac Pro.
There's the iMac, But I have a problem with Apple not offering a customizable and expandable Mac between iMacs and Mac Pros.
I'm typing this on a 17" MacBook Pro but would love to have a bigger one. Before I got it I saw a 21" Windows laptop and thought I wanted a 21' MacBook Pro. Then when the iPad was announced I was hoping for a tablet like the ModBook Pro. One that was 21" would have been a killer.
Falcon
I've had issues getting the wifi to work on Macbook 5.1, 5.3, 6.1 and iMacs
I've got a MacBook Pro 3,1 and am about to install Lucid on it. The only thing I see that may not work is Apple Remote Control though there are remarks for Keyboard functions (Brightness,volume,...).
Now before I install Lucid on my internal drive I'll go ahead and install it on an external drive and test drive it. I still use Leopard but will install Snow Leopard on an external drive first too.
Falcon
Windows, due to it ubiquity (90% of desktops), has a lot of software that simply isn't available on other OSes.
Not true and I haven't found a need for Windows.
i.e. Windows has more flexibility in what you can run.
With Windows Windows software can be run along with some Linux software. With Linux Linux software can be run along with some Windows software. With Macs Mac software can be run along with some Linux and some Windows software.
Fact is is Macs can run more software than either Linux or Windows.
Falcon
How much does it cost to buy something like CrossOver vs. just having your PC builder buy Windows Home Premium (OEM version) and install it alongside Ubuntu?
CrossOver Standard costs $40 and CrossOver Professional $60. If you have an older PC them you have to pay more for Windows, not less. Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade, if you're running XP or Vista, costs more than $100. And unless the hardware already meets Windows 7's requirements it will have to upgraded as well.
Of course Ubuntu can be installed alongside Windows, but then when switching between OSes you have to shutdown and reboot. Unless a VM is used, but then more hardware is needed to get the same performance.
In some cases using CrossOver to run Windows apps will be better than dualbooting. And in others it will be better to dualboot.
Falcon