Well, I guess that this and this says a lot about the EU stance on these issues. Democracy may not be needed here (and no - the EU structure is certainly not democratic) - only people like Mario Monti, who certainly can't be accused for just following the big business (look at the GE-Honeywell merger and several other cases).
Here in Denmark it is impossible for stores to sell DVD players that have not been modded first. Simply because we have a big import of Region I movies that people borrow from each other, and they get pissed when they can't play them on their brand new DVD player. So the stores gave up, and now they are either selling cheap chinese players, or modding the big boys (Sony, Panasonic) with 2 years warranty from the store of course. The same will happen to this. Everyone here knows someone who knows enough about hardware to tell what is really going on, so noone will buy the explanation that it is the websites fault. Result: A lot of chinese mobos will be sold without the DRM stuff (we have a lot of stores where you can buy custom-made PCs with no OS installed). You might not be able to run the latest windows version, but here Win98 is the popular one, Win2000 is still for the experts and everyone wants to be able to play mp3s without having Microsoft watch them, so who cares... As for legislation: Microsoft is still under heavy investigation by the EU commission, and as long as that is going on I'm sure MS will not dare to lobby a law that will make this kind of stuff mandatory.
Actually it was the Ariane IV versus Ariane V. A part of the control system was reused, and couldn't handle the new specs on the V version. The worst part was that they managed to build the bug into the backup system as well, so it tripped only a few ms after the main system gave up:-/
Here in Denmark you are considered stupid if you buy a DVD player that hasn't been "fixed" before the sale. Almost all stores sell region-free DVD players at no extra cost and selling a region-coded player to an innocent customer (such as my granddad) is generally concidered deception of the consumer:-)
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Last time i checked the C67 series power consumption was not exactly in the portable player category - 420 mA typical supply current for a C6711. The fixed-point equivalent (same instruction set - but no float support) C6211 only uses 270 mA typical - Floating point costs current. The same ratio is true for almost any DSP family. This is why portable device manufacturers still use fixed-point DSPs to a great extend - people tend to like longer battery lifetime (why do you think that TIs low power flagship C55x is only available in a fixed-point version ?). Price is not the only parameter here.
Apparently no. I must say that I'm not an expert on how power lines behave indoor, but I would suspect that there is not much buzz unless you either can hear the transformer or is outdoor with a high air humidity.
My company has actually taken quite the opposite approach. We are doing bleeding-edge signal processing, and we almost solely hire fresh M.Sc.EEs for development positions because they tend to be more knowledgable about the latest technologies than their more "experienced" counterparts. Then we let the the experienced guys do much the testing since they know what to look for, so it takes less time to find the bugs.
At the university I attended the department of telecommunications (!) did a very simple experiment in this field: They found 20 people who (according to themselves) were very plagued by electrical sensitivity - in particular high-voltage power lines. They were then put - one bye one - into a grounded magnetically shielded room where the only source of electrical or magnetic fields was a high-voltage power line running below the ceiling. Then the power (1 kV 50 Hz) was turned randomly on and off, and the participants were then to give a sign through a window when they "felt" the power coming on - after all they were supposed to be sensitive to this. However the study found no correllation between the power going on and off and the signs that the subjects gave. Not even for one single subject. The study concluded that the only problem for these people was a too lively imagination.
Actually the EU is still investigating MS for anti-competitive behavir. The EU commission has a history of presenting companies with substantial fines in these cases (They recently fined two danish airlines $36 mill. and $12 mill for fixing prices on the Copenhagen-Stockholm route which "only" has one million passengers per year). The EU law states that companies can be fined as much as 10% of their annual turnover when acting anti-competitive - not a small amount in the case of Microsoft.
Sun already has provided Swing, which makes cross platform GUI much easier than before. So there is no need to wait for Microsoft to do the same;-)
As far as I remember the no. 1 reason for MS bashing Java is the "least common denominator" argument. However it looks like MS will run into the same kind of problems that Sun solved three years ago.
No - the war has not begun yet, but given the momentum that java has right now in the not very important area of enterprise computing, MS will be in for a hard time.
SSE requires some extra effort on the OS on context-switch, since the SSE registeres are not normally saved/restored (they are only available on SSE-enabled CPUs). So SSE has been unusable on K7 up until now since you might have your programs screwed up by a context switch.
Sharing ideas this way will have a very low signal-to-noise ratio. Just think of the many "Why don't we just... OK - REALLY bad idea " sentences creative persons DON'T write on paper. Getting those transferred to other persons immediately will probably not help a creative process.
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Well, I guess that this and this says a lot about the EU stance on these issues. Democracy may not be needed here (and no - the EU structure is certainly not democratic) - only people like Mario Monti, who certainly can't be accused for just following the big business (look at the GE-Honeywell merger and several other cases).
Here in Denmark it is impossible for stores to sell DVD players that have not been modded first. Simply because we have a big import of Region I movies that people borrow from each other, and they get pissed when they can't play them on their brand new DVD player. So the stores gave up, and now they are either selling cheap chinese players, or modding the big boys (Sony, Panasonic) with 2 years warranty from the store of course. The same will happen to this. Everyone here knows someone who knows enough about hardware to tell what is really going on, so noone will buy the explanation that it is the websites fault. Result: A lot of chinese mobos will be sold without the DRM stuff (we have a lot of stores where you can buy custom-made PCs with no OS installed). You might not be able to run the latest windows version, but here Win98 is the popular one, Win2000 is still for the experts and everyone wants to be able to play mp3s without having Microsoft watch them, so who cares ... As for legislation: Microsoft is still under heavy investigation by the EU commission, and as long as that is going on I'm sure MS will not dare to lobby a law that will make this kind of stuff mandatory.
Actually it was the Ariane IV versus Ariane V. A part of the control system was reused, and couldn't handle the new specs on the V version. The worst part was that they managed to build the bug into the backup system as well, so it tripped only a few ms after the main system gave up :-/
Here in Denmark you are considered stupid if you buy a DVD player that hasn't been "fixed" before the sale. Almost all stores sell region-free DVD players at no extra cost and selling a region-coded player to an innocent customer (such as my granddad) is generally concidered deception of the consumer :-)
Last time i checked the C67 series power consumption was not exactly in the portable player category - 420 mA typical supply current for a C6711. The fixed-point equivalent (same instruction set - but no float support) C6211 only uses 270 mA typical - Floating point costs current. The same ratio is true for almost any DSP family. This is why portable device manufacturers still use fixed-point DSPs to a great extend - people tend to like longer battery lifetime (why do you think that TIs low power flagship C55x is only available in a fixed-point version ?). Price is not the only parameter here.
Apparently no. I must say that I'm not an expert on how power lines behave indoor, but I would suspect that there is not much buzz unless you either can hear the transformer or is outdoor with a high air humidity.
My company has actually taken quite the opposite approach. We are doing bleeding-edge signal processing, and we almost solely hire fresh M.Sc.EEs for development positions because they tend to be more knowledgable about the latest technologies than their more "experienced" counterparts. Then we let the the experienced guys do much the testing since they know what to look for, so it takes less time to find the bugs.
At the university I attended the department of telecommunications (!) did a very simple experiment in this field: They found 20 people who (according to themselves) were very plagued by electrical sensitivity - in particular high-voltage power lines. They were then put - one bye one - into a grounded magnetically shielded room where the only source of electrical or magnetic fields was a high-voltage power line running below the ceiling. Then the power (1 kV 50 Hz) was turned randomly on and off, and the participants were then to give a sign through a window when they "felt" the power coming on - after all they were supposed to be sensitive to this. However the study found no correllation between the power going on and off and the signs that the subjects gave. Not even for one single subject. The study concluded that the only problem for these people was a too lively imagination.
Actually the EU is still investigating MS for anti-competitive behavir. The EU commission has a history of presenting companies with substantial fines in these cases (They recently fined two danish airlines $36 mill. and $12 mill for fixing prices on the Copenhagen-Stockholm route which "only" has one million passengers per year). The EU law states that companies can be fined as much as 10% of their annual turnover when acting anti-competitive - not a small amount in the case of Microsoft.
Sun already has provided Swing, which makes cross platform GUI much easier than before. So there is no need to wait for Microsoft to do the same ;-)
As far as I remember the no. 1 reason for MS bashing Java is the "least common denominator" argument. However it looks like MS will run into the same kind of problems that Sun solved three years ago.
No - the war has not begun yet, but given the momentum that java has right now in the not very important area of enterprise computing, MS will be in for a hard time.
SSE requires some extra effort on the OS on context-switch, since the SSE registeres are not normally saved/restored (they are only available on SSE-enabled CPUs). So SSE has been unusable on K7 up until now since you might have your programs screwed up by a context switch.
Sharing ideas this way will have a very low signal-to-noise ratio. Just think of the many "Why don't we just ... OK - REALLY bad idea " sentences creative persons DON'T write on paper. Getting those transferred to other persons immediately will probably not help a creative process.