I think more likely the reason is a hopeless business situation Siemens has maneuvered itself into. They used to have a partnership with French company Areva, then they wanted to ditch them in favour of Russian Rosatom. Areva sued and won, banning Siemens from competing internationally with their former partner and paying them EU 682 million in compensation. Together with basically the complete loss of the domestic market, Siemens had no options left. Source (German language).
Well, at least in the automotive field that's a standard technique. The article doesn't describe anything particularly new. That might be the problem of the article rather than the problem of the research, though.
Actually to some extent clock-gating is on the way out already: newer manufacturing technologies mean you get increased leakage - i.e. even when you don't switch the gates you draw a high percentage of the current anyway. So instead (or more likely in addition) of controlling the clock you go one step further and power-off parts of the chip. Power-gating is not as easy to handle as clock-gating, however.
Yes their original goal was "merely" to get over the 5% hurdle. German state and federal elections are run with a proportional voting system, but there is a 5% cut-off. So if you have less than 5% of the votes you will not get any seats, even if your proportion of the votes would amount to one or two. (Leaving out some details here, but that's the gist of it.) So getting over that hurdle is a big deal for a new party.
What's truly fucked up here is that they felt that they couldn't fire him simply because of his "pattern of misconduct". They appear to have felt that they needed more proof or something.
I interpret that to mean "there wasn't actually a pattern of misconduct, we went on a fishing expedition hoping to find one".
If it actually was that important to them to find out whether he was working or not, they could have simply installed a visible camera at the entrance of his workplace.
Besides being way over the top surveillance, the GPS device would only tell them where his car was. So what happens if someone drops him off at work, or if he cycles to work on occasion, or if he is using his wife's car sometimes?
Social networks are not a good tool for anonymous speech. If you are not clever enough to see why, you are not clever enough to generate speech worth reading:)
Well, while facebook has officially a real name policy, too - they are not particularly bothered by people violating it. In other words: we have proof that enforcing a real name policy is not required in order to have a functioning social network. On the other hand: Google still has to prove that they can build one while enforcing that policy.
Well, I don't see much value in stating great goals without any concrete ideas of how to achieve them, unless you are really the first person to actually think of the goal itself. Saying it would be great to have a processor consuming only a few mW is not very helpful. Yes of course it would be great, people have been working on reducing power consumption for a long time.
Actually having an idea how to reach that goal - now that's something interesting to hear about.
Also you seem to have misunderstood the article, this device neither integrates a solar cell, nor does it have anything to do with optical computing.
I don't think that's your fault, the summary is bad. Also I don't think it should be "C3", they are referring to C#. That mistake is in the article though, the summary just repeats it.
Yeah, but they don't really do much in order to enforce that. And they are right about that - someone making an account for his dog may be pointless, but it's harmless, too.
When will people understand that liquidity is a GOOD thing? How would you like to be in the situation 100 years ago where you want to sell your stock but no one is around to buy it?
Those are not the only two options. We didn't have millisecond buy/sell operations 30 years ago, the market was still working so there is no reason to assume that restricting trade speeds would cause us problems.
Conversely excessive trade speed is a genuine problem. The taxation plan suggested is a reasonable way to address this.
I'm a bit surprised by this. Almost all fax machines I encounter are cumbersome and difficult to use. Which side up does the paper go? Document in first or input the phone number first? Which combinations of buttons do you have to press to get an outside line? The menus are often poorly organized, there is no decent feedback whether the thing accepted the fax, you need to stand next to it and wait (and it's pretty slow) to get your originals back etc. Typically they produce some sort of transmission report at the end - listing all possible error messages and only then telling you which code applies to you. (Great fun - 20 error messages followed by status "OK".) Lots of really cute quirks like: "You took the paper out? Great in that case I'll reset the phone number you just typed in."
Admittedly fax machines should be easy - it should be trivial to design a simple interface for one. Somehow the manufacturers of the things never get round to it. Maybe they assume that fax machines won't be around much longer anymore and so they don't bother?
It shocks me that anyone suggests participating in American electoral politics as a way of making a dent in anything.
It is a way of making a dent, but a system which is badly broken can't be fixed in a single election. Just voting isn't enough for that either - you really need to get into the parties and reform them, or build alternatives to them. Which would take decades.
Note though: there is no alternative to doing that. Even if you had a revolution suddenly - at best you'd get a better election system and maybe all lobbyists thrown in jail, but you'd still need to build working democratic structures, you'd still need to find halfway decent representatives.
So you might as well start now: vote in the primaries, vote in local elections, stand for political positions or support decent people who do.
Actually for embedded work there is still a lot of C coding going on, and it's not all that easy to find qualified people in that area. Of course - if you do embedded work you also need to have decent understanding of hardware, just coding is not sufficient.
iPads in meetings... Well they are hand held computers - that's not very nice when you have to hold them for a long time in the same position. Putting them flat on the table is not very comfortable to read either. Someone should make a tablet with a nice fold-out stand - that cover Apple is producing is ugly and not very practical. It should be integrated into the device and give you a much steeper angle.
That's BS. Ethnically Chinese like living in a democracy together with the native people of Taiwan. Ethnically Chinese did enjoy freedom of speech in Hong Kong while outperforming China by a wide margin.
Many countries in the West had to live under dictatorial governments in the past. The Chinese have every right to reject their dictatorial government, too.
Those Chinese who don't like their fellow citizens to be free should abandon China and move to Libya. Oh wait - try Syria. Or... well maybe they can just go to hell.
Uhm.. he built a car himself out of junk parts. It took years and needed lots of maintenance but it could fly and swim. He sold the invention to a huge multi-national. Now he bought a new Toyota.
It's all about getting older and letting go. Where once the eternal junkyard was a theoretical concept, now you wonder whether you should trade in or do one more road trip across the country.
That's a brilliant idea. It would also limit cannibalizing the sales of their high-end devices since HP is not making any new devices. Someone should suggest it to Samsung - they just might be a little bit annoyed with Apple right now.
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I think more likely the reason is a hopeless business situation Siemens has maneuvered itself into. They used to have a partnership with French company Areva, then they wanted to ditch them in favour of Russian Rosatom. Areva sued and won, banning Siemens from competing internationally with their former partner and paying them EU 682 million in compensation. Together with basically the complete loss of the domestic market, Siemens had no options left. Source (German language).
Well, at least in the automotive field that's a standard technique. The article doesn't describe anything particularly new. That might be the problem of the article rather than the problem of the research, though.
Actually to some extent clock-gating is on the way out already: newer manufacturing technologies mean you get increased leakage - i.e. even when you don't switch the gates you draw a high percentage of the current anyway. So instead (or more likely in addition) of controlling the clock you go one step further and power-off parts of the chip. Power-gating is not as easy to handle as clock-gating, however.
Yes their original goal was "merely" to get over the 5% hurdle. German state and federal elections are run with a proportional voting system, but there is a 5% cut-off. So if you have less than 5% of the votes you will not get any seats, even if your proportion of the votes would amount to one or two. (Leaving out some details here, but that's the gist of it.) So getting over that hurdle is a big deal for a new party.
The GP's comparison is over the top, but that link you posted is a ridiculous whitewash. Here some less happy pictures: link link link
What's truly fucked up here is that they felt that they couldn't fire him simply because of his "pattern of misconduct". They appear to have felt that they needed more proof or something.
I interpret that to mean "there wasn't actually a pattern of misconduct, we went on a fishing expedition hoping to find one".
If it actually was that important to them to find out whether he was working or not, they could have simply installed a visible camera at the entrance of his workplace.
Besides being way over the top surveillance, the GPS device would only tell them where his car was. So what happens if someone drops him off at work, or if he cycles to work on occasion, or if he is using his wife's car sometimes?
Social networks are not a good tool for anonymous speech. If you are not clever enough to see why, you are not clever enough to generate speech worth reading :)
Well, while facebook has officially a real name policy, too - they are not particularly bothered by people violating it. In other words: we have proof that enforcing a real name policy is not required in order to have a functioning social network. On the other hand: Google still has to prove that they can build one while enforcing that policy.
Well, I don't see much value in stating great goals without any concrete ideas of how to achieve them, unless you are really the first person to actually think of the goal itself. Saying it would be great to have a processor consuming only a few mW is not very helpful. Yes of course it would be great, people have been working on reducing power consumption for a long time.
Actually having an idea how to reach that goal - now that's something interesting to hear about.
Also you seem to have misunderstood the article, this device neither integrates a solar cell, nor does it have anything to do with optical computing.
I don't think that's your fault, the summary is bad. Also I don't think it should be "C3", they are referring to C#. That mistake is in the article though, the summary just repeats it.
The name doesn't matter as long as it's impossible to sign up for the service. I requested an invite months ago, but still don't have an account.
Facebook only allows one account per person.
Yeah, but they don't really do much in order to enforce that. And they are right about that - someone making an account for his dog may be pointless, but it's harmless, too.
Build a better mousetrap and Slashdotters will tell you that mousetraps have already been invented...
When will people understand that liquidity is a GOOD thing? How would you like to be in the situation 100 years ago where you want to sell your stock but no one is around to buy it?
Those are not the only two options. We didn't have millisecond buy/sell operations 30 years ago, the market was still working so there is no reason to assume that restricting trade speeds would cause us problems. Conversely excessive trade speed is a genuine problem. The taxation plan suggested is a reasonable way to address this.
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I'm a bit surprised by this. Almost all fax machines I encounter are cumbersome and difficult to use. Which side up does the paper go? Document in first or input the phone number first? Which combinations of buttons do you have to press to get an outside line? The menus are often poorly organized, there is no decent feedback whether the thing accepted the fax, you need to stand next to it and wait (and it's pretty slow) to get your originals back etc. Typically they produce some sort of transmission report at the end - listing all possible error messages and only then telling you which code applies to you. (Great fun - 20 error messages followed by status "OK".) Lots of really cute quirks like: "You took the paper out? Great in that case I'll reset the phone number you just typed in."
Admittedly fax machines should be easy - it should be trivial to design a simple interface for one. Somehow the manufacturers of the things never get round to it. Maybe they assume that fax machines won't be around much longer anymore and so they don't bother?
It shocks me that anyone suggests participating in American electoral politics as a way of making a dent in anything.
It is a way of making a dent, but a system which is badly broken can't be fixed in a single election. Just voting isn't enough for that either - you really need to get into the parties and reform them, or build alternatives to them. Which would take decades.
Note though: there is no alternative to doing that. Even if you had a revolution suddenly - at best you'd get a better election system and maybe all lobbyists thrown in jail, but you'd still need to build working democratic structures, you'd still need to find halfway decent representatives.
So you might as well start now: vote in the primaries, vote in local elections, stand for political positions or support decent people who do.
Actually: anyone interested in a C/C++ embedded job in Munich, Germany? Contact me: r8cye2f4g6@snkmail.com.
Actually for embedded work there is still a lot of C coding going on, and it's not all that easy to find qualified people in that area. Of course - if you do embedded work you also need to have decent understanding of hardware, just coding is not sufficient.
iPads in meetings ... Well they are hand held computers - that's not very nice when you have to hold them for a long time in the same position. Putting them flat on the table is not very comfortable to read either. Someone should make a tablet with a nice fold-out stand - that cover Apple is producing is ugly and not very practical. It should be integrated into the device and give you a much steeper angle.
That's BS. Ethnically Chinese like living in a democracy together with the native people of Taiwan. Ethnically Chinese did enjoy freedom of speech in Hong Kong while outperforming China by a wide margin.
Many countries in the West had to live under dictatorial governments in the past. The Chinese have every right to reject their dictatorial government, too.
Those Chinese who don't like their fellow citizens to be free should abandon China and move to Libya. Oh wait - try Syria. Or ... well maybe they can just go to hell.
Car analogy please?
Uhm .. he built a car himself out of junk parts. It took years and needed lots of maintenance but it could fly and swim. He sold the invention to a huge multi-national. Now he bought a new Toyota.
It's all about getting older and letting go. Where once the eternal junkyard was a theoretical concept, now you wonder whether you should trade in or do one more road trip across the country.
that case is still pending in Germany and probably will be hugely influenced by this outcome
That's possible I suppose, but it shouldn't. The case in Germany is solely about the shape of the device, not about the software.
Also, I don't have any Facebook friends.
The very same technology could come in useful to avoid your Facebook enemies.
That's a brilliant idea. It would also limit cannibalizing the sales of their high-end devices since HP is not making any new devices. Someone should suggest it to Samsung - they just might be a little bit annoyed with Apple right now.
A phone book doesn't tie your phone number and address to your social networking account.