No. The ITU doesn't hold any legal standing to set advertising standards in the US, except by direct contract with member companies. It is possible the ITU could sue for breach of contract, but no one has standing for a false advertising claim.
Interestingly enough, if you took college level math, this was probably only one semester over your head. And not actually a particularly complicated topic, for example, if you took 3 semesters total of calculus (including high school level calculus), what's being described here is in fact much easier to understand.
No, what you probably heard about was that they are dropping the ATI branding of the graphics cards. The cards themselves are alive and well, just AMD branded.
Instead prices will head up because the cloud providers now have more lock-in.
Not if I load-balance my work to multiple providers and dynamically send it to the highest bidder.
Lock-in will only happen if you allow yourself to be locked in by being stupid, or if one provider dominates the entire cloud market (unlikely here - it's a commodity and it's pretty much geographically neutral).
All in one: yes, software being turned into a commodity is quite bad for Microsoft's business model and quite good for producers of open-source software.
That's again a pretty bad misunderstanding of how enterprise software works. So when you get unhappy with your current provider you'll just 'send it' to the, I presume you meant lowest, bidder? Along with your data for the last couple of years, and a massive, hugely expensive, conversion project every time you do so? You think those providers are going to do the work to settle on a common backing data design, just to enable you to force them to compete? The problem, again, is that you've focused on hardware provisioning as the cost in enterprise software, and that's completely wrong. Hardware typically accounts for less than 10% of the cost. So yes, you can potentially halve that 10%, and maybe save yourself 5% if you get a bunch of different clouds to compete to RUN your software. But the other 90% doesn't budge, or even gets worse.
This seems like a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of enterprise licensing costs. Costs are calculated per cpu or per seat because that's a convenient proxy for the size of the system, not because of any actual deployment expenses associated with the number of cpus or seats. If you think your licensing price is going to magically head downward because of cloud computing, you are in for a nasty shock. Instead prices will head up because the cloud providers now have more lock-in. In any case, the licensing cost goes to development and profit. Which of development and profit do you think the enterprise software provider wants to give up when they move to a cloud model?
Yeah, the place I work at spends a lot of time and money understanding what our customers need, and we have a focus on software customization to boot so if it isn't exactly what they need (and each customer has slightly differing needs) they can get to what they want with relative ease.
Of course, we've also had over 50 implementations of large scale enterprise software and 0 failures, so we don't have our fair cut of the 500 billion worth of failure money.
I wouldn't care if the man was born in Kenya to be honest, there are lots of other problems to have with this administration, but I haven't seen anything on the news proving he was born in the US yet.
Which is not to say that its a reasonable belief that he was born out of the US, its just an issue of falsificationism. At this point you cant really prove it one way or the other.
So... if you just can't prove it one way or the other, we should all just accept that none of our presidents were provably citizens, and that Obama is not different. Or, we could establish a standard of proof. Unfortunately, anyone who actually establishes a standard of proof that McCain could meet, finds that Obama meets it also.
Why don't you just cut and paste the URL to one of the segments from the reliable news media? Do you somehow believe birthers are going to have a greater level of trust for Mythbusters? I can tell you, a show that focuses on using science to discredit myth is not going to have a lot of popularity with the birther crowd, who are more in the 6000 year old earth camp.
In all seriousness, the president's job IS mostly to inspire. It's not like there's a lot he can actually DO. He can't force congress to do anything, and even if he had 100% control over the members of his own party, the current seat count makes it impossible for him to force anything to get done.
Frankly, I don't have a lot of respect for people who read magazines. Pulp crap frankly, unless you're talking about something like Science, which is better categorized as a journal.
If they could debunk that successfully it would be fantastic. People have been trying for a couple of years now, and still over 25% of this country is convinced he wasn't legally elected.
The obvious answer is that Obama knows what the military knows: they have a secret technology for accomplishing this, and will reveal it as part of the episode. This probably means the technology in question was recently stolen by Chinese spies, so the value of keeping it secret has expired.
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No. The ITU doesn't hold any legal standing to set advertising standards in the US, except by direct contract with member companies. It is possible the ITU could sue for breach of contract, but no one has standing for a false advertising claim.
Interestingly enough, if you took college level math, this was probably only one semester over your head. And not actually a particularly complicated topic, for example, if you took 3 semesters total of calculus (including high school level calculus), what's being described here is in fact much easier to understand.
No, what you probably heard about was that they are dropping the ATI branding of the graphics cards. The cards themselves are alive and well, just AMD branded.
From the article:
Long cycles, faraway profits
Wrong kind of engineers
Painful place to build things
Go poll how people get to Google HQ, and see if any federal projects are involved, and then think yet harder again.
Yeah, the voting process isn't corrupt at all. Hardly any of our elections are stolen. </sarcasm>
There are lots of legal ways to shaft people. Those are two.
Roads leading to Google HQ in mountain view. Google would not exist without them.
Not if I load-balance my work to multiple providers and dynamically send it to the highest bidder.
Lock-in will only happen if you allow yourself to be locked in by being stupid, or if one provider dominates the entire cloud market (unlikely here - it's a commodity and it's pretty much geographically neutral).
All in one: yes, software being turned into a commodity is quite bad for Microsoft's business model and quite good for producers of open-source software.
That's again a pretty bad misunderstanding of how enterprise software works. So when you get unhappy with your current provider you'll just 'send it' to the, I presume you meant lowest, bidder? Along with your data for the last couple of years, and a massive, hugely expensive, conversion project every time you do so? You think those providers are going to do the work to settle on a common backing data design, just to enable you to force them to compete? The problem, again, is that you've focused on hardware provisioning as the cost in enterprise software, and that's completely wrong. Hardware typically accounts for less than 10% of the cost. So yes, you can potentially halve that 10%, and maybe save yourself 5% if you get a bunch of different clouds to compete to RUN your software. But the other 90% doesn't budge, or even gets worse.
This seems like a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of enterprise licensing costs. Costs are calculated per cpu or per seat because that's a convenient proxy for the size of the system, not because of any actual deployment expenses associated with the number of cpus or seats. If you think your licensing price is going to magically head downward because of cloud computing, you are in for a nasty shock. Instead prices will head up because the cloud providers now have more lock-in. In any case, the licensing cost goes to development and profit. Which of development and profit do you think the enterprise software provider wants to give up when they move to a cloud model?
Yeah, the place I work at spends a lot of time and money understanding what our customers need, and we have a focus on software customization to boot so if it isn't exactly what they need (and each customer has slightly differing needs) they can get to what they want with relative ease.
Of course, we've also had over 50 implementations of large scale enterprise software and 0 failures, so we don't have our fair cut of the 500 billion worth of failure money.
Exactly what I wondered. The gp post seems like a great candidate for the daily.
Great, now the joke posts will number more than all the grains of sand on a beach.
The claim seems to be precisely that you must be born IN the US to two citizens to be president, crazily speaking.
But yeah ... you've put your finger on it ... the birthers are packed full of crazy.
And depressingly ... they are more than a quarter of the population.
Precisely.
Heh heh. That is funny on multiple levels.
Here are 3, including one which specifically cites a 27% estimate for the overall population. Thanks for playing.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0709/58_of_GOP_not_suredont_beleive_Obama_born_in_US.html
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/poll_31_percent_of_republicans.html
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/poll-27-of-americans-are-birthers----including-41-of-republicans.php
Obviously, the military aspect is something he can do, and yet, somehow I imagine none of the things you've suggested would make the GP happy.
I wouldn't care if the man was born in Kenya to be honest, there are lots of other problems to have with this administration, but I haven't seen anything on the news proving he was born in the US yet.
Which is not to say that its a reasonable belief that he was born out of the US, its just an issue of falsificationism. At this point you cant really prove it one way or the other.
So ... if you just can't prove it one way or the other, we should all just accept that none of our presidents were provably citizens, and that Obama is not different. Or, we could establish a standard of proof. Unfortunately, anyone who actually establishes a standard of proof that McCain could meet, finds that Obama meets it also.
Why don't you just cut and paste the URL to one of the segments from the reliable news media? Do you somehow believe birthers are going to have a greater level of trust for Mythbusters? I can tell you, a show that focuses on using science to discredit myth is not going to have a lot of popularity with the birther crowd, who are more in the 6000 year old earth camp.
In all seriousness, the president's job IS mostly to inspire. It's not like there's a lot he can actually DO. He can't force congress to do anything, and even if he had 100% control over the members of his own party, the current seat count makes it impossible for him to force anything to get done.
Frankly, I don't have a lot of respect for people who read magazines. Pulp crap frankly, unless you're talking about something like Science, which is better categorized as a journal.
If they could debunk that successfully it would be fantastic. People have been trying for a couple of years now, and still over 25% of this country is convinced he wasn't legally elected.
The obvious answer is that Obama knows what the military knows: they have a secret technology for accomplishing this, and will reveal it as part of the episode. This probably means the technology in question was recently stolen by Chinese spies, so the value of keeping it secret has expired.