He says that calibrating the battery a second time results in a shorter battery life. Well, Apple modified a Knowledge Base document some days ago saying that the battery should be recalibrated every couple of months. It's called "PowerBook G4 and iBook: How to Calibrate a New Battery for Best Performance", search for it at support.apple.com.
I can say that the battery is pretty weird, mine went from 3 hours and something in the first weeks to 2h30 now, and yes, I have the same Energy Saver Settings. Only thing that changed is that I now have 640MB RAM, which should only improve it... It's pretty lame, I certainly felt bad when I saw a friend's Pentium 4 1.8GHZ laptop still showing 2 hours left of battery at 70%.
Frankly software should be free. We don't charge for understanding algebra, chemical processes have been known for years, and I don't recall paying royalties for understanding the history of WWII.
It is only in the 20th century that we have regarded ideas as any kind of property. If you don't believe me that the open exchange of ideas speeds progress, look at how in a little under 200 years Chemistry CAN now turn lead into gold. (Granted, if you simply shoot protons into lead atoms you will end up with a radioactive isotope of gold, but I digress.)
Wouldn't this line of reasoning then lead to that everything that now has a marginal cost of 0, like music and books (in their digital form) should be free? One thing is to argue that you should have the right to see the code for all the software (which I don't agree with), other is to argue that all software should be "free" (I'm really not sure if this is free as in beer or free as in the FSF definition of free, I suppose it's the later) which is even more far fetched. It is however a moot point because it will never happen, there might be lots of free (in whatever free) software but for all software to be free would require a major change in our socio-economical structure.
I believe that this reasoning that every idea should be instantly free is dangerous and probably comes from people that never studied economy or haven't really tought about the far fetched consequences of this line of tought. I don't claim I know them, but it's certainly not so black and white as open exchange of ideas for everyone. We don't live in a beautiful world where the majority of people work for the good of the whole but for their own benefit and that's one of the basic premises our economic model is based on. That's what gives us affordable cars, cell phones and *gasp* computers!
That being said I think Open Source and open standards are wonderful.
"It's all about motivations. Why did we even start Chimera in the first place? Because we wanted to make something that sucked less. Safari aside, it stands on its own as a solid product with a good UI that is pretty damn bug-free for an 0.6 release. It's easy to get sidetracked on the "woe is me, we lost again" tangent (especially if you've been at Netscape for 5+ years), but it's time to get back to why we're doing this at all: because it's fun. It's fun making a product that more than seven people use. I wish that was 7 million, but I guess we have to set our expectations appropriately. Chimera's not going anywhere, regardless of whatever I post on this blog. Will this get picked up on MacSlash? Unlikely. I guess the damage has already been done.
I'd like to correct many of the emails that commented that I was the only developer working on Chimera. I'm not by any stretch of the imagination. While our unofficial "team" is smaller than Safari's, we certainly have a lot of coverage from the open-source community."
"Troy Dreier, writing for PC Magazine's First Looks section in the February 4 issue, calls the dual 1.25 GHz Power Mac G4 "one fast machine." In a benchmark in Adobe Photoshop, the magazine finds that cross-platform comparisons with a new 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 PC with Hyper-Threading, the G4 outpaces the PC in every test but one, the Gaussian Blur, in which the match was a draw. He reports the G4 is faster at Sharpen Edges, Unsharp Mask, Despeckle, Convert to RGB, and Resize (presumably thanks to the Velocity Engine, and Photoshop's dual processing support and G4 optimization)."
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I can say that the battery is pretty weird, mine went from 3 hours and something in the first weeks to 2h30 now, and yes, I have the same Energy Saver Settings. Only thing that changed is that I now have 640MB RAM, which should only improve it...
It's pretty lame, I certainly felt bad when I saw a friend's Pentium 4 1.8GHZ laptop still showing 2 hours left of battery at 70%.
It is only in the 20th century that we have regarded ideas as any kind of property. If you don't believe me that the open exchange of ideas speeds progress, look at how in a little under 200 years Chemistry CAN now turn lead into gold. (Granted, if you simply shoot protons into lead atoms you will end up with a radioactive isotope of gold, but I digress.)
Wouldn't this line of reasoning then lead to that everything that now has a marginal cost of 0, like music and books (in their digital form) should be free? One thing is to argue that you should have the right to see the code for all the software (which I don't agree with), other is to argue that all software should be "free" (I'm really not sure if this is free as in beer or free as in the FSF definition of free, I suppose it's the later) which is even more far fetched.
It is however a moot point because it will never happen, there might be lots of free (in whatever free) software but for all software to be free would require a major change in our socio-economical structure.
I believe that this reasoning that every idea should be instantly free is dangerous and probably comes from people that never studied economy or haven't really tought about the far fetched consequences of this line of tought. I don't claim I know them, but it's certainly not so black and white as open exchange of ideas for everyone. We don't live in a beautiful world where the majority of people work for the good of the whole but for their own benefit and that's one of the basic premises our economic model is based on. That's what gives us affordable cars, cell phones and *gasp* computers!
That being said I think Open Source and open standards are wonderful.
"It's all about motivations. Why did we even start Chimera in the first place? Because we wanted to make something that sucked less. Safari aside, it stands on its own as a solid product with a good UI that is pretty damn bug-free for an 0.6 release. It's easy to get sidetracked on the "woe is me, we lost again" tangent (especially if you've been at Netscape for 5+ years), but it's time to get back to why we're doing this at all: because it's fun. It's fun making a product that more than seven people use. I wish that was 7 million, but I guess we have to set our expectations appropriately. Chimera's not going anywhere, regardless of whatever I post on this blog. Will this get picked up on MacSlash? Unlikely. I guess the damage has already been done.
I'd like to correct many of the emails that commented that I was the only developer working on Chimera. I'm not by any stretch of the imagination. While our unofficial "team" is smaller than Safari's, we certainly have a lot of coverage from the open-source community."
Check it at http://mozpink .blogspot.com/2003_01_01_mozpink_archive.html#8770 4137
Quoting:
"Troy Dreier, writing for PC Magazine's First Looks section in the February 4 issue, calls the dual 1.25 GHz Power Mac G4 "one fast machine."
In a benchmark in Adobe Photoshop, the magazine finds that cross-platform comparisons with a new 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 PC with Hyper-Threading, the G4 outpaces the PC in every test but one, the Gaussian Blur, in which the match was a draw.
He reports the G4 is faster at Sharpen Edges, Unsharp Mask, Despeckle, Convert to RGB, and Resize (presumably thanks to the Velocity Engine, and Photoshop's dual processing support and G4 optimization)."
Check it out at http://www.powerpage.org/story.lasso?newsID=10439