And could you explain to me how I've abused my battery? Is using the laptop the same as abuse? When I say "idle", I was describing the state of the system, not what I was doing with the laptop. Imagine I'm reading Slashdot or some document, as opposed to, say, a code-compile-debug development cycle.
I killed one battery by leaving the PowerBook in the car in the summer, and an iBook battery by forgetting it overnight in the winter...
I have kept this laptop in excellent environmental conditions. Always at room temperature (aside from heat generated by the components, of course).
A great way to kill your batteries is to let them sit when they're discharged. LiIon needs to be charged as much as possible.
When I am using my laptop in the presence of external power, it is running on external power, plain and simple. I only run it off the battery when I am on the road or just need to use it for a couple of minutes and I see no need to whip out the external power supply. So yes, I know that you should keep Li-ion charged as much as possible and use the battery as little as possible.
So what remains a mystery to me--despite an insult from a previous poster and an assumption on your part that I abuse my hardware--is why my battery is in such bad shape?
Let me say that these batteries suck ass. I don't know if anyone else has had similar experiences with their 15" TiPB (please comment here if you have) where battery life seems to drop like a stone even when the laptop is asleep. It used to last nearly three hours, and that was even under heavy load. Now adays, not even a year after my purchase, just sitting idle will kill my battery in roughly one and a half hours. When I contacted Apple, I really just got snubbed. They claimed that the PMU wasn't "calibrated" right and I needed to drain the battery to zero, reset the firmware, then charge back up to 100%. No change (and that even sounds like a bad idea with lithium ion batterries). Anyone have any luck getting replacements in light of horrible performance?
Transgaming is selling a product based on Wine, a totally free software project. TransGaming has added to that codebase, but without contributing most of those additions back to the Wine codebase.
About 30 second son Google shows otherwise. You can hear it from the horse's mouth: http://www.transgaming.com/sources.php. Enjoy your CVS access to the WineX codebase, under fairly non-suck license. Transgaming contributes their improvements to Wine back to the community except for the parts they are legally bound to keep proprietary.
I am not happy about this new trend of "anti-piracy" mechanisms. It really does suck, but at least let's rail them for what they're doing wrong and not for what they are doing right.
I am going to cancel my subscription over this. If you have a subscription and feel the same way, cancel yours. Our money talks and if their business practices go sour, it will walk.
Are you implying that Microsoft provided this? If so, that is not correct. The product you're thinking of that brought TCP/IP to to Windows 3.x is Trumpet Winsock.
Now we have XHTML and CSS. Neither of these are easy to learn.
We also have C, Perl, Fortran, Lisp, and so on and so on and so on... and they are all difficult to use. You actually have to sit down, open a book, read, learn, and think. Can somebody tell me why XHTML should be anything different?
First of all, XHTML is easily recognizable to anyone who knows HTML. I don't know where you get off saying it's harder than HTML. As for CSS, it's a hell of a lot easier than messing with tens if not hundreds of nested font tags and other legacy presentational markup crap.
Second, why do development tools and languages have to be simple and easy to use by the masses? So the tools can be a little less popular? Is that even bad? I for one would be quite happy if more people out there who are too dumb to figure out how to use relatively simple tools like XHTML correctly weren't producing material for the web. Even then, there is now lots of software out there that produce valid, semantic XHTML (modern incarnations of Dreamweaver, for example, are capable of this). So where is the problem?
We as developers should definitely be interested in making end-user products easy and functional. But when it comes to the languages and tools, fuck that. Let's make them good for developers, not our grandparents.
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Using (or abusing) religion in certain ways manner way adds significant shock value to entertainment. People (in the US at least) are generally taken back by what they perceive as evil religious symbols or inverted ones from the mainstream. A prime example of this is Doom. I think most people feel more freaked out when they walk down a hallway and see certain symbols on the walls. Anime does this a lot too. Evangelion, for example, draws from mythology that is very recognizable to most Christians and it can be very disturbing for some.
Whether any of this is good or bad is not my concern, but I will say that it is getting very annoying. Religious nerves have been plucked far too much by a lot of entertainment and usually it's use just signals a great lack of creativity. If you really want to unsettle or disturb your playing or viewing audience, try to come up with something new.
George Orwell described a bleak, decayed society in Nineteen Eighty-Four where science was banned and all technological progress was halted, unless it directly pertained to the military. I think what we see happening even now is corporations are working harder than ever see put an end to technological progress. Any progress in technology creates change. Any change is a threat to corporations. Any threat is a risk to them losing their immense wealth and power, and therefore, influence. Those at the top of this hierarchial society cannot retain their standing in the face of technological or any kind of intellectual advancement.
The only place all of this can possibly lead is to the society described by Orwel. The money and power are centralized to a very elite few while everyone else lives in a world where nothing is created to better their lives. Then the common people will no longer be a threat. This type of bullshit legislation will come again and again and again until what I have just described is achieved. The only alternative is for us, the "proles", to eliminate organizations like the RIAA.
Of course, this just something of a rant of my random thoughts on the matter. But I don't think I am the only one who sees where all of this could lead.
Really, please try to chill out. First of all, people asking "why is this important" are trolls. Considering that there is plenty of material to read on the matter (release notes, change logs, recent vulnerability alerts), it should be obvious to the inquisitive reader why a kernel release is important. It's a stupid question to ask insofar as you expect other posters to simply regurgitate what is easily accessible from the story content.
You appear to be one of those types who heard or read an uninformed opinion somewhere that Java is slow, but you don't understand why so you are throwing some jargon together to make what might appear to be an insightful statement to moderators.
What do you mean by "engine"? And what exactly do you think is "bloated"? Do you even know what optimization is?
I guess if you're talking about the runtime environment, the "engine", as you call it, is actually pretty lean. Java can run on cellular phones and PDAs quite well and is far from what you could call bloated. Granted, Java has extensive libraries for building applications, but so do most languages. You never load or use the entire library, just the pieces you need. Pretty common, really.
I cannot even respond to your comment about optimization. It really doesn't mean anything. Are you implying Sun doesn't use optimizing compilers to create the binaries they distribute? Are you saying the code is badly written for certain architectures? Are you saying that it runs bytecode is an inefficient fashion? Please, clarify. One issue I can see related to this comment is the fact that every Java program used to require its own isolated virtual machine. With Java 1.5, however, memory can be shared and this problem will soon go away.
Now, I am confused by what a "simple script" is to you. Java is not a scripting language in the sense of most programmer's understanding. Scripted languages are usually interpreted at runtime, and have both weakly typed variables and values. There are other attributes, but I am in a hurry here. Java class files consist of optimized bytecode produced by a compiler. You could argue that the bytecode itself is a sort of script, but that's a bit of a stretch. The same argument could be used to say that any binary is a "script".
And define "simple"! What exactly was the code doing that managed to bring that kind of iron to a stand-still? Sure, simple scripts can break a machine, but they usually aren't too useful (such as fork bombs.)
I suppose there's no meaningful way to respond to your comment. You make a few assertions but do nothing to back them up, leaving confusion to what the statements themselves mean.
I'm there. Look for a couple riding bikes. I like the other guy's idea: the suggestion about alternating between love and hate. I'm sure the SS won't know what to think about that one.;-)
Just recently (2003-03-17) the 2.2 kernel was updated to 2.2.25... and 2.0.40-rc6 is still testing.
True and that makes OSS even better... but admittedly, that's only for the kernel. Linux itself is vastly important, but there's dozens of other packages that make it useful whose older releases are not maintained with the same dedication.
Many people will argue Microsoft has every right to stop patching old operating systems. After all, we don't see security patches for older open source software, right?
While that's true, there's a big difference between using open source software versus Microsoft products when upgrading. Now all of these sites that use Windows NT will be forced to shell out money to get a supported version of Windows (there many not be too many, but they're out there). Hundreds if not thousands of dollars will have to be spent to get the latest server operating system from Microsoft for each instance of NT4.
This tactic is a subtle and effective way to syphon more money from unsuspecting Windows shops. Of course, if you're on NT4, it'd probably be easiest to migrate to an open source server solution...
I have been using Mozilla since before M12 (well, I guess I was trying to use it). Considering that it is almost a ground-up rewrite and what the project actually entails (Mozilla has become an application platform), it has done exceptionally well. I believe it is even larger than the Linux kernel now, right? 4-5 years of development has yielded some remarkable results. Microsoft has been pushing Internet Explorer on us since around Netscape 3 (well before I even graduated from highschool in 1998) and they still haven't gotten it right! <rant>So what does that tell you: a company with billions of dollars coming out of its ears produces a very broken browser in a longer period of time that it takes a free project to produce a very solid, standards compliant (mostly) browser?<rant>
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And could you explain to me how I've abused my battery? Is using the laptop the same as abuse? When I say "idle", I was describing the state of the system, not what I was doing with the laptop. Imagine I'm reading Slashdot or some document, as opposed to, say, a code-compile-debug development cycle.
I have kept this laptop in excellent environmental conditions. Always at room temperature (aside from heat generated by the components, of course).
When I am using my laptop in the presence of external power, it is running on external power, plain and simple. I only run it off the battery when I am on the road or just need to use it for a couple of minutes and I see no need to whip out the external power supply. So yes, I know that you should keep Li-ion charged as much as possible and use the battery as little as possible.
So what remains a mystery to me--despite an insult from a previous poster and an assumption on your part that I abuse my hardware--is why my battery is in such bad shape?
Let me say that these batteries suck ass. I don't know if anyone else has had similar experiences with their 15" TiPB (please comment here if you have) where battery life seems to drop like a stone even when the laptop is asleep. It used to last nearly three hours, and that was even under heavy load. Now adays, not even a year after my purchase, just sitting idle will kill my battery in roughly one and a half hours. When I contacted Apple, I really just got snubbed. They claimed that the PMU wasn't "calibrated" right and I needed to drain the battery to zero, reset the firmware, then charge back up to 100%. No change (and that even sounds like a bad idea with lithium ion batterries). Anyone have any luck getting replacements in light of horrible performance?
About 30 second son Google shows otherwise. You can hear it from the horse's mouth: http://www.transgaming.com/sources.php. Enjoy your CVS access to the WineX codebase, under fairly non-suck license. Transgaming contributes their improvements to Wine back to the community except for the parts they are legally bound to keep proprietary.
I am not happy about this new trend of "anti-piracy" mechanisms. It really does suck, but at least let's rail them for what they're doing wrong and not for what they are doing right.
I am going to cancel my subscription over this. If you have a subscription and feel the same way, cancel yours. Our money talks and if their business practices go sour, it will walk.
Wait a minute, weren't we sending that thing back to France? A "Statue of Liberty" has no place in this country!
Uhm, no, not really. Not at all.
Thanks for the corrections from the two peer posts! :-)
Are you implying that Microsoft provided this? If so, that is not correct. The product you're thinking of that brought TCP/IP to to Windows 3.x is Trumpet Winsock.
We also have C, Perl, Fortran, Lisp, and so on and so on and so on... and they are all difficult to use. You actually have to sit down, open a book, read, learn, and think. Can somebody tell me why XHTML should be anything different?
First of all, XHTML is easily recognizable to anyone who knows HTML. I don't know where you get off saying it's harder than HTML. As for CSS, it's a hell of a lot easier than messing with tens if not hundreds of nested font tags and other legacy presentational markup crap.
Second, why do development tools and languages have to be simple and easy to use by the masses? So the tools can be a little less popular? Is that even bad? I for one would be quite happy if more people out there who are too dumb to figure out how to use relatively simple tools like XHTML correctly weren't producing material for the web. Even then, there is now lots of software out there that produce valid, semantic XHTML (modern incarnations of Dreamweaver, for example, are capable of this). So where is the problem?
We as developers should definitely be interested in making end-user products easy and functional. But when it comes to the languages and tools, fuck that. Let's make them good for developers, not our grandparents.
I wonder what the cDc's take is on all of this...
Using (or abusing) religion in certain ways manner way adds significant shock value to entertainment. People (in the US at least) are generally taken back by what they perceive as evil religious symbols or inverted ones from the mainstream. A prime example of this is Doom. I think most people feel more freaked out when they walk down a hallway and see certain symbols on the walls. Anime does this a lot too. Evangelion, for example, draws from mythology that is very recognizable to most Christians and it can be very disturbing for some.
Whether any of this is good or bad is not my concern, but I will say that it is getting very annoying. Religious nerves have been plucked far too much by a lot of entertainment and usually it's use just signals a great lack of creativity. If you really want to unsettle or disturb your playing or viewing audience, try to come up with something new.
Hold it there, cheap in no way means insecure.
George Orwell described a bleak, decayed society in Nineteen Eighty-Four where science was banned and all technological progress was halted, unless it directly pertained to the military. I think what we see happening even now is corporations are working harder than ever see put an end to technological progress. Any progress in technology creates change. Any change is a threat to corporations. Any threat is a risk to them losing their immense wealth and power, and therefore, influence. Those at the top of this hierarchial society cannot retain their standing in the face of technological or any kind of intellectual advancement.
The only place all of this can possibly lead is to the society described by Orwel. The money and power are centralized to a very elite few while everyone else lives in a world where nothing is created to better their lives. Then the common people will no longer be a threat. This type of bullshit legislation will come again and again and again until what I have just described is achieved. The only alternative is for us, the "proles", to eliminate organizations like the RIAA.
Of course, this just something of a rant of my random thoughts on the matter. But I don't think I am the only one who sees where all of this could lead.
In case those who moderated this post negatively missed the point: this post is a joke. Get it?
Correct reflected on my weblog entry.
Why don't they just install a racing chip and be done with it?
Really, please try to chill out. First of all, people asking "why is this important" are trolls. Considering that there is plenty of material to read on the matter (release notes, change logs, recent vulnerability alerts), it should be obvious to the inquisitive reader why a kernel release is important. It's a stupid question to ask insofar as you expect other posters to simply regurgitate what is easily accessible from the story content.
I would like to congratulate the space people who made this amazing discover with a tie!
You appear to be one of those types who heard
or read an uninformed opinion somewhere that Java
is slow, but you don't understand why so you are
throwing some jargon together to make what might
appear to be an insightful statement to
moderators.
What do you mean by "engine"? And what exactly
do you think is "bloated"? Do you even know what
optimization is?
I guess if you're talking about the runtime
environment, the "engine", as you call it, is
actually pretty lean. Java can run on cellular
phones and PDAs quite well and is far from what
you could call bloated. Granted, Java has
extensive libraries for building applications, but
so do most languages. You never load or use the
entire library, just the pieces you need. Pretty
common, really.
I cannot even respond to your comment about
optimization. It really doesn't mean anything.
Are you implying Sun doesn't use optimizing
compilers to create the binaries they distribute?
Are you saying the code is badly written for
certain architectures? Are you saying that it
runs bytecode is an inefficient fashion? Please,
clarify. One issue I can see related to this
comment is the fact that every Java program used
to require its own isolated virtual machine. With
Java 1.5, however, memory can be shared and this
problem will soon go away.
Now, I am confused by what a "simple script" is
to you. Java is not a scripting language in the
sense of most programmer's understanding.
Scripted languages are usually interpreted at
runtime, and have both weakly typed variables and
values. There are other attributes, but I am in a
hurry here. Java class files consist of optimized
bytecode produced by a compiler. You could argue
that the bytecode itself is a sort of script, but
that's a bit of a stretch. The same argument
could be used to say that any binary is a
"script".
And define "simple"! What exactly was the code
doing that managed to bring that kind of iron to a
stand-still? Sure, simple scripts can break a
machine, but they usually aren't too useful (such as fork bombs.)
I suppose there's no meaningful way to respond
to your comment. You make a few assertions but do
nothing to back them up, leaving confusion to what
the statements themselves mean.
** Stares in utter disbelief at SCO...
I... I don't... I don't know what to say. Isn't behavior like this formally described as "insane"?
I'm there. Look for a couple riding bikes. I like the other guy's idea: the suggestion about alternating between love and hate. I'm sure the SS won't know what to think about that one. ;-)
Just recently (2003-03-17) the 2.2 kernel was updated to 2.2.25... and 2.0.40-rc6 is still testing.
True and that makes OSS even better... but admittedly, that's only for the kernel. Linux itself is vastly important, but there's dozens of other packages that make it useful whose older releases are not maintained with the same dedication.
Many people will argue Microsoft has every right to stop patching old operating systems. After all, we don't see security patches for older open source software, right?
While that's true, there's a big difference between using open source software versus Microsoft products when upgrading. Now all of these sites that use Windows NT will be forced to shell out money to get a supported version of Windows (there many not be too many, but they're out there). Hundreds if not thousands of dollars will have to be spent to get the latest server operating system from Microsoft for each instance of NT4.
This tactic is a subtle and effective way to syphon more money from unsuspecting Windows shops. Of course, if you're on NT4, it'd probably be easiest to migrate to an open source server solution...
Furthermore, it will become illegal to break cryptos
So does that go for the government as well? Maybe file traders need to come up with a protocol involving PKC for future applications.
Let me guess, you weren't here before 1.0?
I have been using Mozilla since before M12 (well, I guess I was trying to use it). Considering that it is almost a ground-up rewrite and what the project actually entails (Mozilla has become an application platform), it has done exceptionally well. I believe it is even larger than the Linux kernel now, right? 4-5 years of development has yielded some remarkable results. Microsoft has been pushing Internet Explorer on us since around Netscape 3 (well before I even graduated from highschool in 1998) and they still haven't gotten it right! <rant>So what does that tell you: a company with billions of dollars coming out of its ears produces a very broken browser in a longer period of time that it takes a free project to produce a very solid, standards compliant (mostly) browser?<rant>