I am aware why the hives travel. Just because something is efficient, does not make it smart.
"The bees respond quite well to this travel, always enjoying a hearty food supply." Actually NO, if you know your bee's, you would have known that this causes stress, and even with more food, they die off at higher numbers than with stationary hives.
"Generally apiarists are quite aware of the health of their hives, which is why these suddenly empty hives are such a shock."
O.K. So how does this prevent quick spread of new disease and parasites?
I find it difficult believe that roving hives are still allowed. Sure it saves a bit of cash, but the potential effect it has on the spread of disease and parasites(that afflict bee's) should not be overlooked.
Again, we sell of future potential for short term gain.
Of course he is in no rush to drop the price. If I were in his position I would be tempted to wait until I was forced. I know of no corporation that is in a rush to drop prices. Even Walmart drops prices to beat up the competition, not because they really care if you have an extra dollar at the end of the year. (and soon many won't have the dollar as they shut down more and more of the US economy, but that is another topic for another day)
LED's are not really a hands down winner. They are very nice, and as you pointed out, they do some things very well(CF's do other things better).
When it comes to efficency, there continues to be advances in both the LED and the CF camps, but if you look at lumens per watt, they are not far apart.(some LED's created in Labs not withstanding)
The modern CFL's typically have a very fast startup... though it is true that many do not achieve full brightness for a while (most people would not notice this).
The real reason that you would not want it in a frequent start/stop situation is that it has a limited number of start cycles.
First off, nice tone... you really must feel threatened to not argue the points, insult me and set up a straw man so you can attack.(i did not say people did not use windows) And ok, I'm a zealot... you got me. An OpenVMS zelot...oh, there are SO many of those you must be good at spotting us by now. (I'm now finished with the defensive reaction... maybe we can keep this from getting personal again?)
Now, they said that Linux was not ready for the enteprise because it did not do things(mostly outlook) the same way as they were currently doing it in windows. I did not list any specific tasks as they are irrelevant. People do use OpenVMS, Solaris, AIX, Linux and MS Windows in the Enteprise, and by not drastically changing the way they operate MOST could not switch to another without loosing something they currently have.
The mirroring? It was meant to show the arguement was without basis, or at least one that anyone else could use. I do not need/. to affirm my intelligence... I am quite comfortable with my I.Q. (if a persons self esteem depended on/. posts, they would usually be in bad shape...lol)
OK, his arguments hold no water. After all, I can make the reverse statement truthfully. So what? Here is his statement modified for my situation.
"For the last ten years, I would go off and on back to this thought: I wanted to move to Apple or Microsoft, and to use Windows or Mac's as servers, but every time, the reality was that they just were not ready to replace our OpenVMS boxes... Over the last six years, I've tried periodically to get Windows or OS-X running our enteprise systems, thinking, logically, that things must have improved. But every time, something sometimes something VERY VERY MAJOR prevented me from running our systems on them."
Of course our situation is way worse than this bloggers situation. Windows boxes run NO software from our OpenVMS boxes(no equiv to wine)... meawhile Linux runs a lot of software that runs on Windows. The windows OS has no support for major enteprise features we have had for decades such as tight clustering etc.
This article is a RED HERING! I'm sure even AMIGA fans could write a similar piece.
Well I don't see an upside for Linux. The article says
MS gets rid of vouchers without creating another Linux customer. MS wins MS deprives Redhat of Revenue. MS wins MS will get some Windows boxes installed at the same time. MS wins
I imagine it is theoretically possible... but to my understanding highly improbable. The Bios would have to be reverse engineered, modified and reburned to add the code to execute the rootkit(even if it resided elsewhere). Since it seems that every motherboard has a different Bios image... this would be a lot of work.
The review was for tools for the Windows PC, not the MAC or Linux. Sorry this was not more evident.
The parent is (without knowlege) implying that the Mac is not vunerable to being rooted. And some fanbois are modding this funny?
This might be funny, IF IT WERE TRUE!
Not only are MAC rootkits possible, they exist.
Do a google search before you post and it will prevent mistakes like this.
(Yes I know, I run a risk of hardcore fans modding me down)
A/Coward - What, you somehow think that you are immune to Rootkits???
I would not bet my life on that. Even though I consider the default security in my choice of GNU/Linux distro to be tighter than OS-X, I still use Knoppix (a CD based GNU/LINUX OS) for internet banking. It is the only TRUE assurance of safety from being rooted.
For those without the background. The parent is funny because the role of Jesus was as a teacher, even being called "Good teacher" and "teacher" by peers (I believe they called them Pharasies).
Preface: I am a person who believes that our greedy consuption of resources without taking into account the fact there WILL be consequences is wrong. So don't mix me up with those "I have the right to drive my hummer, I'm an American" idiots. I do NOT agree with the posters conclusions, but he is basing it on REAL experiences.
To all you naysayers out there. I was one of the MANY people that was taught about global cooling in school in the 70's, I was taught it as Science, and it was taught as a fact. So go ahead, claim this is a myth and should be discounted, or the parent is not worthy of his mod points, I was there and I know it IS truth.
What? you say that this was not the common scientific thought? I'm not so sure, I did not see the outcry in the scientific community about it. Trust me, if they do disagree with something being taught in school they go balistic (see creation science, or do they have a double standard?).
P.S. Do I seem bitter about the crap I was taught in school. Maybe. Once the subjects strayed outside pure maths, the info was really sketchy. The stuff we were taught as Evolutionary fact was pure B.S. Most of it had been proven false decades before, but don't let that stop the science teacher... We wouldn't want him to have to upgrade his skills, or change his message from "this IS what happened" to "this is our best ideas on what happened". (And it is funny, as much as the textbook publishers like to churn text books and profit, it seems to take FOREVER to get this stuff out of them)
Whenever AMD or Intel moves to a new process, they do not expect much from the first cores(they are happy if they get as many cores from a wafer as they did before-which if my sources are correct, Intel didn't do, and AMD has). A lot of people forget that when Intel moved to 65nm, the new chips were slower in many ways, and the clock speeds were lower than the top end 90nm P4's. By industry standards these AMD 65nm chips are a SUCCESS.
My only beef with the 65nm Athlons is that I cannot buy one at newegg, or order one from DELL. In my world, if I cannot order a PC with one, or buy it at newegg, IT IS A PAPER LAUNCH!
It is amazing(troubling) the number of studies that leave out the reason for not drinking. To read the article and not see any mention of controls on reason for abstaining raises BIG question marks in my mind.
This would not just apply to alcohol. If there was a study on Caffine, I would want the abstainers not to have chosen to refrain. Why? if the caffine leaves them feeling bad enough to quit they are already tangebly different than the average person.
Ok, so I have only programmed in windows since 3.1. But I can tell you that this "SSL problem" is small potatoes. If I had to count the amount of time we spend upgrading systems because of MS changes in the development environment, OS and database... Well, the time would be in YEARS!
I'm sorry, your SSL problems do seem rather trivial. Heck, our poor VB programmers had it much rougher than this just changing to VB.net... That was a ROYAL PITA.
Yes, it is true that MS spends a lot of time on backward compatibility. But, they spend just as much time to ENSURE INCOMPATIBILITY with competitors. But your right, just because the rest of us usually think of standards as a specification that a Standards Body approves of, shouldn't keep you from your view that MS is a standard unto itself. And just because MS has almost never written software that adheres to the MANY recognized standards in the industry, doesn't mean they have failed on that front! (Oh wait, yes it does.)
Your tag says "No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill"
While a big fan of the man, he was an Intolerant Idealist! He had this ideal (a free autonomous/free England) and had little tolerance for anyone who had a different view (Hitler). He could have cut a sideroom deal, maybe coming out semi autonomous, but he WOULD NOT! He "squandered" many, many lives pursueing his dream!
Summary: Sometimes intolerant idealism is right... I think Mr. Churchill proved the point.
I think it is great that you have your own reasons for switching, but you are not what I regularly see.
I must admit I do not understand all your problems with hardware and software. I use a computer at least 10 hours a day, I have 4 at home right now, plus my one at work(which also runs my terminal emulator for the Alpha boxes we use). ANYWAY... One of them is even a crap DELL, and another one a crappy IBM Netvista, and I reboot around once a month. Do they ever crash... no! And I work my PC's hard, never shutting anything down, running virtual machines, having 20 or more sites open in Opera etc.
I never had this much stability on my apple in the old days... Yes, I know the OS is better now.
You are expecting too little and too much. Your low expectations allowed you to have HUGE problems ever since the beginning and have never sorted them out, just accepted them. But feeling that a hard drive failure is a problem worth listing is setting your sights WAY too high. Hardware from ALL vendors fail, especially HD's... yes, even from Apple. (Apple seems to have more hardware problems than most as of late.) You have no Idea how many hard drives some of us slashdotters have had (Apple or others).
I'm sorry you bought an Alpha FX!32 machine after 1998, it had been out at least 2 years by the time you bought, and was dying.(though I love the Alpha) Someone led you down the garden path there, or you just didn't do your research, but you are right about one thing, the machines were solid (but so were the Sparks we had).
Speaking of doing research, you believe moving to Apple will solve your hardware problems, but you are aware that the old Apple quality control really is now a myth, right? They used to take heat for little things like cracks in the CUBE etc, but now they are pushing new products out so quickly that those cracks seem like childs play. (while the virus on the IPODS is not really that bad, it is just evidence that way too many shortcuts are not being taken in the design and Q.C. departments) This is the price of having leading edge hardware instead of trailing edge.
NOTE... This is not a pro MS post. I loath the actions of both MS and Apple. They both show the same contempt for the customer. So while I encourage you to switch if you want, you should have realistic hardware expectations...the grass is not that much greener on the other side.
It is about time! When I was at Java One, I talked with the marketing guy in the booth. I told him exactly what I wanted (this phone) and he cut me down, and frankly stated that I wasn't representative of any group (they had done the homework) and I was nuts.
Thanks for whomever finally beat these guys with a clue stick. I want one of these!
Everyone I know that switched did it because of a coolness factor, OS eye candy or case design. Not one single one mentioned "It just works", "I am tired of anti-Virus programs and updates", etc. Those become the mantra's after they switched (most loudly stated when someone mentions that they cannot play windows game "X", lol).
As I mentioned elsewhere, I am installing Mandriva Linux 2007 on my (grade 9)nephiews PC this weekend because the eye candy blew him away. Not because it just works (but everything "just worked" on my install).
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I am aware why the hives travel. Just because something is efficient, does not make it smart.
"The bees respond quite well to this travel, always enjoying a hearty food supply."
Actually NO, if you know your bee's, you would have known that this causes stress, and even with more food, they die off at higher numbers than with stationary hives.
"Generally apiarists are quite aware of the health of their hives, which is why these suddenly empty hives are such a shock."
O.K. So how does this prevent quick spread of new disease and parasites?
Yep, I agree. I think they have a lot of good reasons that could FORCE them to drop the price. They are not in any RUSH...
I find it difficult believe that roving hives are still allowed. Sure it saves a bit of cash, but the potential effect it has on the spread of disease and parasites(that afflict bee's) should not be overlooked.
Again, we sell of future potential for short term gain.
Of course he is in no rush to drop the price. If I were in his position I would be tempted to wait until I was forced. I know of no corporation that is in a rush to drop prices.
Even Walmart drops prices to beat up the competition, not because they really care if you have an extra dollar at the end of the year. (and soon many won't have the dollar as they shut down more and more of the US economy, but that is another topic for another day)
LED's are not really a hands down winner. They are very nice, and as you pointed out, they do some things very well(CF's do other things better). When it comes to efficency, there continues to be advances in both the LED and the CF camps, but if you look at lumens per watt, they are not far apart.(some LED's created in Labs not withstanding)
The modern CFL's typically have a very fast startup... though it is true that many do not achieve full brightness for a while (most people would not notice this).
The real reason that you would not want it in a frequent start/stop situation is that it has a limited number of start cycles.
First off, nice tone... you really must feel threatened to not argue the points, insult me and set up a straw man so you can attack.(i did not say people did not use windows)
/. to affirm my intelligence... I am quite comfortable with my I.Q. (if a persons self esteem depended on /. posts, they would usually be in bad shape...lol)
And ok, I'm a zealot... you got me. An OpenVMS zelot...oh, there are SO many of those you must be good at spotting us by now.
(I'm now finished with the defensive reaction... maybe we can keep this from getting personal again?)
Now, they said that Linux was not ready for the enteprise because it did not do things(mostly outlook) the same way as they were currently doing it in windows.
I did not list any specific tasks as they are irrelevant. People do use OpenVMS, Solaris, AIX, Linux and MS Windows in the Enteprise, and by not drastically changing the way they operate MOST could not switch to another without loosing something they currently have.
The mirroring? It was meant to show the arguement was without basis, or at least one that anyone else could use. I do not need
OK, his arguments hold no water. After all, I can make the reverse statement truthfully. So what? Here is his statement modified for my situation.
"For the last ten years, I would go off and on back to this thought: I wanted to move to Apple or Microsoft, and to use Windows or Mac's as servers, but every time, the reality was that they just were not ready to replace our OpenVMS boxes... Over the last six years, I've tried periodically to get Windows or OS-X running our enteprise systems, thinking, logically, that things must have improved. But every time, something sometimes something VERY VERY MAJOR prevented me from running our systems on them."
Of course our situation is way worse than this bloggers situation. Windows boxes run NO software from our OpenVMS boxes(no equiv to wine)... meawhile Linux runs a lot of software that runs on Windows.
The windows OS has no support for major enteprise features we have had for decades such as tight clustering etc.
This article is a RED HERING! I'm sure even AMIGA fans could write a similar piece.
Well I don't see an upside for Linux. The article says
MS gets rid of vouchers without creating another Linux customer. MS wins
MS deprives Redhat of Revenue. MS wins
MS will get some Windows boxes installed at the same time. MS wins
Yes, I am aware of that post.
I imagine it is theoretically possible... but to my understanding highly improbable.
The Bios would have to be reverse engineered, modified and reburned to add the code to execute the rootkit(even if it resided elsewhere). Since it seems that every motherboard has a different Bios image... this would be a lot of work.
The review was for tools for the Windows PC, not the MAC or Linux. Sorry this was not more evident. The parent is (without knowlege) implying that the Mac is not vunerable to being rooted. And some fanbois are modding this funny? This might be funny, IF IT WERE TRUE! Not only are MAC rootkits possible, they exist. Do a google search before you post and it will prevent mistakes like this. (Yes I know, I run a risk of hardcore fans modding me down)
A/Coward - What, you somehow think that you are immune to Rootkits???
I would not bet my life on that. Even though I consider the default security in my choice of GNU/Linux distro to be tighter than OS-X, I still use Knoppix (a CD based GNU/LINUX OS) for internet banking. It is the only TRUE assurance of safety from being rooted.
For those without the background. The parent is funny because the role of Jesus was as a teacher, even being called "Good teacher" and "teacher" by peers (I believe they called them Pharasies).
Preface: I am a person who believes that our greedy consuption of resources without taking into account the fact there WILL be consequences is wrong. So don't mix me up with those "I have the right to drive my hummer, I'm an American" idiots. I do NOT agree with the posters conclusions, but he is basing it on REAL experiences.
To all you naysayers out there. I was one of the MANY people that was taught about global cooling in school in the 70's, I was taught it as Science, and it was taught as a fact. So go ahead, claim this is a myth and should be discounted, or the parent is not worthy of his mod points, I was there and I know it IS truth.
What? you say that this was not the common scientific thought? I'm not so sure, I did not see the outcry in the scientific community about it. Trust me, if they do disagree with something being taught in school they go balistic (see creation science, or do they have a double standard?).
P.S. Do I seem bitter about the crap I was taught in school. Maybe. Once the subjects strayed outside pure maths, the info was really sketchy. The stuff we were taught as Evolutionary fact was pure B.S. Most of it had been proven false decades before, but don't let that stop the science teacher... We wouldn't want him to have to upgrade his skills, or change his message from "this IS what happened" to "this is our best ideas on what happened". (And it is funny, as much as the textbook publishers like to churn text books and profit, it seems to take FOREVER to get this stuff out of them)
ALL the test sites seem to be preoccupied with overclocking and overvolting.
I cannot help but think there are enough of us interested in undervolting potential that someone should write a blurb about that.
Whenever AMD or Intel moves to a new process, they do not expect much from the first cores(they are happy if they get as many cores from a wafer as they did before-which if my sources are correct, Intel didn't do, and AMD has).
A lot of people forget that when Intel moved to 65nm, the new chips were slower in many ways, and the clock speeds were lower than the top end 90nm P4's.
By industry standards these AMD 65nm chips are a SUCCESS.
My only beef with the 65nm Athlons is that I cannot buy one at newegg, or order one from DELL. In my world, if I cannot order a PC with one, or buy it at newegg, IT IS A PAPER LAUNCH!
It is amazing(troubling) the number of studies that leave out the reason for not drinking. To read the article and not see any mention of controls on reason for abstaining raises BIG question marks in my mind.
This would not just apply to alcohol. If there was a study on Caffine, I would want the abstainers not to have chosen to refrain. Why? if the caffine leaves them feeling bad enough to quit they are already tangebly different than the average person.
Ok, so I have only programmed in windows since 3.1. But I can tell you that this "SSL problem" is small potatoes. If I had to count the amount of time we spend upgrading systems because of MS changes in the development environment, OS and database... Well, the time would be in YEARS!
I'm sorry, your SSL problems do seem rather trivial. Heck, our poor VB programmers had it much rougher than this just changing to VB.net... That was a ROYAL PITA.
Yes, it is true that MS spends a lot of time on backward compatibility. But, they spend just as much time to ENSURE INCOMPATIBILITY with competitors.
But your right, just because the rest of us usually think of standards as a specification that a Standards Body approves of, shouldn't keep you from your view that MS is a standard unto itself. And just because MS has almost never written software that adheres to the MANY recognized standards in the industry, doesn't mean they have failed on that front! (Oh wait, yes it does.)
No,
Bruce clearly said that ALL complex code uses someones patent that it is not licenced for. He said NOTHING about using one from MS.
Plus, MS has an obligation to inform infringers of violations if they exist.
Does anyone know who they really speak for? Do they have an agenda?
Then GPL 3.0 will get a new clause, and GPL 2.0 will wither away, because MS and Novell will have forced the issue.
Your tag says
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill"
While a big fan of the man, he was an Intolerant Idealist! He had this ideal (a free autonomous/free England) and had little tolerance for anyone who had a different view (Hitler). He could have cut a sideroom deal, maybe coming out semi autonomous, but he WOULD NOT! He "squandered" many, many lives pursueing his dream!
Summary: Sometimes intolerant idealism is right... I think Mr. Churchill proved the point.
I think it is great that you have your own reasons for switching, but you are not what I regularly see.
I must admit I do not understand all your problems with hardware and software. I use a computer at least 10 hours a day, I have 4 at home right now, plus my one at work(which also runs my terminal emulator for the Alpha boxes we use). ANYWAY... One of them is even a crap DELL, and another one a crappy IBM Netvista, and I reboot around once a month. Do they ever crash... no!
And I work my PC's hard, never shutting anything down, running virtual machines, having 20 or more sites open in Opera etc.
I never had this much stability on my apple in the old days... Yes, I know the OS is better now.
You are expecting too little and too much. Your low expectations allowed you to have HUGE problems ever since the beginning and have never sorted them out, just accepted them. But feeling that a hard drive failure is a problem worth listing is setting your sights WAY too high. Hardware from ALL vendors fail, especially HD's... yes, even from Apple. (Apple seems to have more hardware problems than most as of late.) You have no Idea how many hard drives some of us slashdotters have had (Apple or others).
I'm sorry you bought an Alpha FX!32 machine after 1998, it had been out at least 2 years by the time you bought, and was dying.(though I love the Alpha) Someone led you down the garden path there, or you just didn't do your research, but you are right about one thing, the machines were solid (but so were the Sparks we had).
Speaking of doing research, you believe moving to Apple will solve your hardware problems, but you are aware that the old Apple quality control really is now a myth, right? They used to take heat for little things like cracks in the CUBE etc, but now they are pushing new products out so quickly that those cracks seem like childs play. (while the virus on the IPODS is not really that bad, it is just evidence that way too many shortcuts are not being taken in the design and Q.C. departments)
This is the price of having leading edge hardware instead of trailing edge.
NOTE... This is not a pro MS post. I loath the actions of both MS and Apple. They both show the same contempt for the customer. So while I encourage you to switch if you want, you should have realistic hardware expectations...the grass is not that much greener on the other side.
It is about time!
When I was at Java One, I talked with the marketing guy in the booth. I told him exactly what I wanted (this phone) and he cut me down, and frankly stated that I wasn't representative of any group (they had done the homework) and I was nuts.
Thanks for whomever finally beat these guys with a clue stick. I want one of these!
Everyone I know that switched did it because of a coolness factor, OS eye candy or case design. Not one single one mentioned "It just works", "I am tired of anti-Virus programs and updates", etc. Those become the mantra's after they switched (most loudly stated when someone mentions that they cannot play windows game "X", lol).
As I mentioned elsewhere, I am installing Mandriva Linux 2007 on my (grade 9)nephiews PC this weekend because the eye candy blew him away. Not because it just works (but everything "just worked" on my install).