The only way FedEX and UPS would take on First Class Delivery would be if the price was 100X the current rate AND delivery was made to local "HUBS" where people had to go to get their mail. This would typically mean one HUB per major city, and there wouldn't be a HUB in any city smaller than about 100K people.
USPS has been killed by Congress. 1. 75 Year Prefunded Pension Obligations is the biggest challenge. 2. Congress dictates routes and service hours and even the number and location of post offices. 3. Congress sets stamp prices and refuses to allow an increase to support the deficit created by the first two.
These requirements were rammed through a Lame Duck Session of a Fillibuster proof Republican dominated congress with a sitting Republican President. The intent of these rules was to force the USPS into bankruptcy so they could peal off more of the Post office business that is money making and shift it to their friends at UPS and FedEX. This is Crony capitalism at it's worst. The USPS is a critical aspect of first world living.
You do not understand the Google/Oracle case. Google took the Java API and reimplemented it with completely new code. Had Google taken Oracle code and added pieces to it they would have created a derivative work and violated copyright.
From my reading, RTS has written code, released it under the GPL and incorporated it into Linux. They have then improved that code (with or without outside changes) and are releasing a modified Linux kernel and claiming a piece of that derivative work is proprietary. They are then claiming all they are doing is using the Linux API.
The fact is, if they are releasing a modified Linux kernel and refusing to provide the source under GPL they've violated the copyright on the Kernel (and probably every single person that holds copyright on the kernel). The kernel and anything using the GPL functions inside (and the non-GPL functions as well were it not for the explicit release of those by Linus in the copying file) is a derivative work of the original and covered by the GPL. This has nothing at all to do with the Oracle/Google case, that was a straight up clean-room reimplementation where this would be a straight up derivative work copyright violation.
If RTS is truly releasing a Linux Kernel and claiming parts of it are proprietary they are in for one heck of a Legal liability that is likely to put the company out of business.
They own a controlling interest. Seagate is still and will remain a separate legal entity with it's own board, CEO and legal department. When Samsung bought a controlling interest in stock all Seagate's legal records didn't automatically get transfered to Samsung headquarters. Even if Seagate were a wholly owned subdivision of Samsung they are still under no obligation to review the corporate files if Seagate isn't even a part of the trial. Corporations don't run around looking for obscure cases in their subsidiaries records if that subsidiary isn't part of the suit.
Jurors are under a legal obligation to disclose all information requested. The entire court system is based on trust and assumption of truthfulness. If you can't assume people are honest when under oath than the system is broken from the start and there is NO hope of a fair verdict. Beyond that Samsung running around investigating every Juror would most definitely be seen as Jury Tampering, which is a much more serious offense that carries penalties that are at the decade level of incarceration.
Samsung was obligated to assume that the prospective Jurors would submit truthful answers and any lack of truth is only the responsibility of the Juror not the parties to the suit. Mr. Hogan is gong to be very lucky if he doesn't end up at least with a contempt citation, and is at serous risk of being responsible for ALL the legal fees and court costs of the first trial. If nothing else let this be a lesson to all the prospective Jurors out there, don't fucking lie in court (even if by omission) as it's a good way to ruin your life.
What I know is that he was calling, texting and emailing the person he was having and affair with. Those communications were unusual and triggered an FBI investigation of who, what when and where to ensure that national security wasn't jeopardized. (He was likely investigated as a result of the revelation that Deep Throat was second in command of the CIA for years, it now appears to be standard operating procedure that everyone in the CIA including the head of the department is monitored for unusual behavior).
Anyway, the FBI investigation turned up the affair. And extra-marital affair results in immediate termination of top level security clearance. You can't have a head of the CIA without security clearance. You also need to keep in mind that with the investigation complete and the FBI having solid evidence of an affair they would have been forced to move on that data including telling the president and likely starting a legal case against him and revoking his clearance. Not only that but a juicy detail like that wouldn't have stayed secret for a day let alone the rest of his career.
He had no choice but to resign once the FBI revealed what it had evidence of. That you buy into the stupid conspiracy theory BS is stupid. That Congressmen like Jason Chafitz went on Fox and basically said this is a cover up without knowing the back story just screams the same bias and politics that cost the Republicans the election to begin with.
He resigned because his contacts (phone/text/email) with the afairee were unusual enough that they triggered some super secret monitoring the FBI does for unusual communications. That triggered a full blown investigation whereby the FBI discovered and confirmed the affair.
He really didn't have a choice to resign given the circumstances, extra-marital affairs cost you your security clearance and he can't be head of the CIA without security clearance. Once the FBI investigation confirmed the affair he was done.
You are obviously under the impression that there is a difference between Republicans and Democrats.
When you are a bit older or less brainwashed by news sources you'll realize there is little to no real difference between the parties. They both throw around a couple social legislation ideas that are only slightly different (mostly to try to divide the electorate) but otherwise on nearly every other aspect of government they are identical. And by running around claiming either party is the devil you've fallen into their trap of dividing the electorate so that they can control the electorate. It also makes you a fool.
Two layers of un-reinforced masonry supporting the roof. We call those death traps in earthquake country and what you people on the east coast don't realize is that the you can have earthquakes too, they just aren't as common, but they can still happen.
You know what un-reinforced masonry does when the ground starts shaking or the wind blows to hard or a wave of water hits it? It's not pretty, people inside don't usually survive having several thousand pounds of stone fall on them.
Their agreement with Russia does not allow them to arm the Carrier in any conceivable way including placing armed planes on the ship. Their agreement allows them to use the carrier for one thing, testing and training. Maybe they'll violate the Russian sale agreement, I really don't think they will.
Well you're a bigot. (and I'm an atheist as well).
They believe Jesus Christ is the son of God. What else defines Christianity? Best be careful what rules you lay out because you're going to quickly find only a few sects follow those rules. But I'm willing to bet that whatever rules you define are the ones you were exposed to as a child.
May I also point out that at least the Mormons have a reason to be good that's better than the other sects. See in most of the other Christian sects if you are good and go to heaven what's your reward? You get to serve god, that's right you get to be gods butler/waitress. Your highest reward is to be the help.
Sure the Mormons think that your reward for the test of earthly life is to graduate to full godhead, they also think that everyone is a direct descendent of god and that this earthly life is a test to validate your spirit for compassion and love so that you are worthy to receive that graduation in power.
As an atheist I can say it all a bunch of horseshit, I was raised Mormon, I know all about the bullshitness of Mormon beliefs that were concocted over time to get Joseph Smith money, power and pussy. But I also know all about the bullshitness of all the other sects as well and that they exist for many of the same motives. But I really don't know what you can define Christianity as if you are claiming that people that believe Jesus is the resurrected son of god aren't Christian. Because that's pretty much the definition of it and any other concocted definition is nothing more than a bunch of rules that say those other guys are full of shit but these guys over here, they believe the right things (that are also unbelievable). It's bigotry, pure and simple. Make up a bunch of rules that say one way is right and all the others are godless heathens.
I'm not in favor of discrimination personally (particularly as an atheist) but all I can say is that's the way it should be. If these organizations want to be discriminatory let them, and let it be known that they are. Pretty soon they won't be a place that anyone wants to go who isn't just like them and in time it will eventually be a label that will mean bad things.
Discriminatory behavior will eventually destroy the organization if they can't find enough scholarly people just like them. Even if they can find enough people like them eventually the lack of diversity of views will do them in academically. We shouldn't be protecting institutions from their own bad behavior. This view in part of the country that you need to go to some historic religious school is silly. We have plenty of institutions of learning in this country and there are plenty of unaffiliated state schools that could use all these good teachers that can't abide the stupid religious rules.
Yes, because those people are likely the ones that said "We are not buying another machine for log data" or said "we can't afford segregated network segments and secure communication to protect the signing servers". In my experience you can usually trace failures like this back to an unwilligness to spend money, not necessarily blatant incompetence.
It's just as likely that the management prevented proper security as it is that the IT staff were morons.
The cold war was a very very serious affair. The US military combined with all the armies of Western Europe would not have beat the Soviet forces in a conventional fight.
The entire NATO battle plan for defending western Europe basically involved the plan to nuke the soviet front-line while it was still in eastern Europe before it could move into the allied western countries. Because the US KNEW it couldn't win in a conventional fight it basically made it well known that were the Soviets to move to invade Western Europe the war would immediately become nuclear. It's because of this that Stalin's plans and preliminary mobilization to invade Europe resulted in his subordinates overdosing him on warfarin while he was vacationing before the plan was put into effect.
The Cold war was very much real and very much a war that the US could have easily lost. Had it went hot and nuclear everyone would have lost but even had it stayed conventional there is a very good chance the Soviets could have won. Make no mistake at some point in the very near future both the chinese and Russians will provide the opportunity for wars that the US could lose and that's only if we keep our financial situation stable.
Cops carry around conventional photography labs? The camera was FILM based, if you are too young to remember them they used chemical reactions to capture latent images and require an extensive chemical processing in a light free environment before the image can be viewed.
I'll clarify the following as well, not only did the rent-a-cops detain and assualt the kid when he tried to leave even if the mall had posted signs that said no photo's under Canadian law the only thing they could do was ask him to leave which is what they assaulted him for trying to do. Also it was the real cops which cut the backpack off, handcuffed and arrested him for "disturbing the peace" which is apparently what you get charged with in Canada when you try to leave private property after refusing an illegal request.
The security guards actually detained him for trying to leave according TFA. They told him to delete the pictures, he said he couldn't and tried to leave the mall. The security guards assaulted him for trying to leave and then the cops showed up and helped continue the assault.
The best part is that the cops got him handcuffed, couldn't figure out how to get the backpack off so they cut it off rather than take the handcuffs off long enough to remove the backpack or search it while he's wearing it. So not only did they assault him they destroyed his property.
The cops arrested him then the DA dropped the charges but according to the article he has little recourse as Canadian laws protect almost everyone involved.
He lied in court papers, he prepared and filed fraudulent documents as part of evidentiary filings and then covered up their creation. Filing false statements to any court is a crime, and it's a very serious crime in federal court.
He can say whatever he wants in private or public, but he can't lie in court. Lieing to the courts has ALWAYS been illegal. Filing false documents in court has ALWAYS been illegal. The justice system can't work if people are allowed to lie and fake documents in court without punishment.
He's going to be lucky if he doesn't get 40 years in PMITA Federal prison.
They aren't a manufacturer anymore. All the factories were closed and production moved to contract manufacturers in China in 2010-11.Most of the designers were fired last year. They are a shell of a company with MS handling most of the software side and a skeleton crew putting together the product order from the ODEM's in China.
Well that post can only be described as blatantly misstating the truth. Investment flowed to natural gas because fracking proved so successful. The gas they started pulling out of the shale formations was HUGE, almost 9 times expected volumes. It helped at the time that prices of gas were at record highs but they would have drilled the shales even if it hadn't been because for the companies involved proven resources are borrowable and sellable assets even if the current price is shit.
What a bold prediction, you understand of course that Intel has buried every single competing architecture from the past? Intel has a process advantage, even if they have to spend 10% of their die on decoding/rearranging they still have a significant transistor lead by remaining a process ahead AND still use lower power. Not only that but because x86 is nothing more than an abstraction layer at this point the internal architecture of their chips is free to move with the winds of computing in the best direction for the balance of power use, processing capacity and weight. They've had almost 2 decades to improve this abstraction layer to the point of perfection.
People like you forget how long it takes to design and build a microprocessor. From design to hard silicon is almost 5 years. So the designs Intel releases this year were planned out in 2007. Given the ARM didn't start to make an impact (on Markets Intel considers themselves part of) until 2006-7 we are JUST starting to see an Intel design philosophy that emphasizes power as a critical function. Haswell is probably the first chip that Intel hasn't tried to tack power efficiency on add-on at tape out. I fully expect Intel to demonstrate that x86 under their lead has the ability to compete directly with ARM on their best footing, power consumption.
So watch and learn young padawan. Intel has the best process engineers in the business and if things in the foundry business keep going like they are (TSMC and Global Foundaries have both been very very late moving forward on process while Intel hasn't missed a stride) they are going to be two steps ahead on process in the next year or two and that would be an advantage not even the best ARM design could beat even if Intel bungles their design. I fully expect that if Intel wants it they could take the whole ARM chip market. The only reason they haven't up till now is it would destroy their margins. So we will watch them balance their designs to retain the high margin products and forgo the cheap. This could ultimately be their undoing but once power efficiency becomes a priority of their designs which begin with Haswell, Intel will be in a position to take the ARM chip market any time they want.
So you believe that 10 times out of 10 every time you are shortchanged at a cash register it's deliberate an intentional and not because the dumb ass can't count?
That saying is generally true when involving individuals, because in general most people are honest and reputable in their dealings but people do stupid shit all the time by accident. If the saying wasn't correct then you should assume the guy at the register is a thief, that the guy that rear ended you was attempting to kill you and that when you slipped and fell on the icy sidewalk that your neighbor was out there with a hose the night before in the hope you would walk by.
If you are "proud" of a phone or for that matter anything you purchased then you are a dumb ass. Maybe when you get a little older you will realize that being proud of some physical object you purchased on the open market is a sign of douchebaggery. Real adults are "proud" of their children and accomplishments both personal (helping someone in need) and professional (achieving a difficult business goal), not some trinket.
Mod Parent up. They share the same kernel. Thats like saying Fedora isn't Linux because it using the Redhat user space instead of the the Debian User space. They both have the Linux kernel, they are both Linux though variants of Linux user spaces. Windows8 and windows Phone 8 both have the same kernel with varying degrees of user space tools and glue bits.
It frankly doesn't make sense to say they aren't the same when they share a Kernel.
It wouldn't be surprising if there was a comment on anything OTHER than Microsoft. One of the key aspects of a paid shill account is that everything they post is only about the thing they are being paid to post. See all those Linux and Apple fanboi's actually post on other topics occasionally while still maintaining their rabid posting on their chosen fanboi topic.
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The only way FedEX and UPS would take on First Class Delivery would be if the price was 100X the current rate AND delivery was made to local "HUBS" where people had to go to get their mail. This would typically mean one HUB per major city, and there wouldn't be a HUB in any city smaller than about 100K people.
USPS has been killed by Congress.
1. 75 Year Prefunded Pension Obligations is the biggest challenge.
2. Congress dictates routes and service hours and even the number and location of post offices.
3. Congress sets stamp prices and refuses to allow an increase to support the deficit created by the first two.
These requirements were rammed through a Lame Duck Session of a Fillibuster proof Republican dominated congress with a sitting Republican President. The intent of these rules was to force the USPS into bankruptcy so they could peal off more of the Post office business that is money making and shift it to their friends at UPS and FedEX. This is Crony capitalism at it's worst. The USPS is a critical aspect of first world living.
You do not understand the Google/Oracle case. Google took the Java API and reimplemented it with completely new code. Had Google taken Oracle code and added pieces to it they would have created a derivative work and violated copyright.
From my reading, RTS has written code, released it under the GPL and incorporated it into Linux. They have then improved that code (with or without outside changes) and are releasing a modified Linux kernel and claiming a piece of that derivative work is proprietary. They are then claiming all they are doing is using the Linux API.
The fact is, if they are releasing a modified Linux kernel and refusing to provide the source under GPL they've violated the copyright on the Kernel (and probably every single person that holds copyright on the kernel). The kernel and anything using the GPL functions inside (and the non-GPL functions as well were it not for the explicit release of those by Linus in the copying file) is a derivative work of the original and covered by the GPL. This has nothing at all to do with the Oracle/Google case, that was a straight up clean-room reimplementation where this would be a straight up derivative work copyright violation.
If RTS is truly releasing a Linux Kernel and claiming parts of it are proprietary they are in for one heck of a Legal liability that is likely to put the company out of business.
They own a controlling interest. Seagate is still and will remain a separate legal entity with it's own board, CEO and legal department. When Samsung bought a controlling interest in stock all Seagate's legal records didn't automatically get transfered to Samsung headquarters. Even if Seagate were a wholly owned subdivision of Samsung they are still under no obligation to review the corporate files if Seagate isn't even a part of the trial. Corporations don't run around looking for obscure cases in their subsidiaries records if that subsidiary isn't part of the suit.
Jurors are under a legal obligation to disclose all information requested. The entire court system is based on trust and assumption of truthfulness. If you can't assume people are honest when under oath than the system is broken from the start and there is NO hope of a fair verdict. Beyond that Samsung running around investigating every Juror would most definitely be seen as Jury Tampering, which is a much more serious offense that carries penalties that are at the decade level of incarceration.
Samsung was obligated to assume that the prospective Jurors would submit truthful answers and any lack of truth is only the responsibility of the Juror not the parties to the suit. Mr. Hogan is gong to be very lucky if he doesn't end up at least with a contempt citation, and is at serous risk of being responsible for ALL the legal fees and court costs of the first trial. If nothing else let this be a lesson to all the prospective Jurors out there, don't fucking lie in court (even if by omission) as it's a good way to ruin your life.
What I know is that he was calling, texting and emailing the person he was having and affair with. Those communications were unusual and triggered an FBI investigation of who, what when and where to ensure that national security wasn't jeopardized. (He was likely investigated as a result of the revelation that Deep Throat was second in command of the CIA for years, it now appears to be standard operating procedure that everyone in the CIA including the head of the department is monitored for unusual behavior).
Anyway, the FBI investigation turned up the affair. And extra-marital affair results in immediate termination of top level security clearance. You can't have a head of the CIA without security clearance. You also need to keep in mind that with the investigation complete and the FBI having solid evidence of an affair they would have been forced to move on that data including telling the president and likely starting a legal case against him and revoking his clearance. Not only that but a juicy detail like that wouldn't have stayed secret for a day let alone the rest of his career.
He had no choice but to resign once the FBI revealed what it had evidence of. That you buy into the stupid conspiracy theory BS is stupid. That Congressmen like Jason Chafitz went on Fox and basically said this is a cover up without knowing the back story just screams the same bias and politics that cost the Republicans the election to begin with.
He resigned because his contacts (phone/text/email) with the afairee were unusual enough that they triggered some super secret monitoring the FBI does for unusual communications. That triggered a full blown investigation whereby the FBI discovered and confirmed the affair.
He really didn't have a choice to resign given the circumstances, extra-marital affairs cost you your security clearance and he can't be head of the CIA without security clearance. Once the FBI investigation confirmed the affair he was done.
You are obviously under the impression that there is a difference between Republicans and Democrats.
When you are a bit older or less brainwashed by news sources you'll realize there is little to no real difference between the parties. They both throw around a couple social legislation ideas that are only slightly different (mostly to try to divide the electorate) but otherwise on nearly every other aspect of government they are identical. And by running around claiming either party is the devil you've fallen into their trap of dividing the electorate so that they can control the electorate. It also makes you a fool.
Two layers of un-reinforced masonry supporting the roof. We call those death traps in earthquake country and what you people on the east coast don't realize is that the you can have earthquakes too, they just aren't as common, but they can still happen.
You know what un-reinforced masonry does when the ground starts shaking or the wind blows to hard or a wave of water hits it? It's not pretty, people inside don't usually survive having several thousand pounds of stone fall on them.
Their agreement with Russia does not allow them to arm the Carrier in any conceivable way including placing armed planes on the ship. Their agreement allows them to use the carrier for one thing, testing and training. Maybe they'll violate the Russian sale agreement, I really don't think they will.
Well you're a bigot. (and I'm an atheist as well).
They believe Jesus Christ is the son of God. What else defines Christianity? Best be careful what rules you lay out because you're going to quickly find only a few sects follow those rules. But I'm willing to bet that whatever rules you define are the ones you were exposed to as a child.
May I also point out that at least the Mormons have a reason to be good that's better than the other sects. See in most of the other Christian sects if you are good and go to heaven what's your reward? You get to serve god, that's right you get to be gods butler/waitress. Your highest reward is to be the help.
Sure the Mormons think that your reward for the test of earthly life is to graduate to full godhead, they also think that everyone is a direct descendent of god and that this earthly life is a test to validate your spirit for compassion and love so that you are worthy to receive that graduation in power.
As an atheist I can say it all a bunch of horseshit, I was raised Mormon, I know all about the bullshitness of Mormon beliefs that were concocted over time to get Joseph Smith money, power and pussy. But I also know all about the bullshitness of all the other sects as well and that they exist for many of the same motives. But I really don't know what you can define Christianity as if you are claiming that people that believe Jesus is the resurrected son of god aren't Christian. Because that's pretty much the definition of it and any other concocted definition is nothing more than a bunch of rules that say those other guys are full of shit but these guys over here, they believe the right things (that are also unbelievable). It's bigotry, pure and simple. Make up a bunch of rules that say one way is right and all the others are godless heathens.
I'm not in favor of discrimination personally (particularly as an atheist) but all I can say is that's the way it should be. If these organizations want to be discriminatory let them, and let it be known that they are. Pretty soon they won't be a place that anyone wants to go who isn't just like them and in time it will eventually be a label that will mean bad things.
Discriminatory behavior will eventually destroy the organization if they can't find enough scholarly people just like them. Even if they can find enough people like them eventually the lack of diversity of views will do them in academically. We shouldn't be protecting institutions from their own bad behavior. This view in part of the country that you need to go to some historic religious school is silly. We have plenty of institutions of learning in this country and there are plenty of unaffiliated state schools that could use all these good teachers that can't abide the stupid religious rules.
Yes, because those people are likely the ones that said "We are not buying another machine for log data" or said "we can't afford segregated network segments and secure communication to protect the signing servers". In my experience you can usually trace failures like this back to an unwilligness to spend money, not necessarily blatant incompetence.
It's just as likely that the management prevented proper security as it is that the IT staff were morons.
The cold war was a very very serious affair. The US military combined with all the armies of Western Europe would not have beat the Soviet forces in a conventional fight.
The entire NATO battle plan for defending western Europe basically involved the plan to nuke the soviet front-line while it was still in eastern Europe before it could move into the allied western countries. Because the US KNEW it couldn't win in a conventional fight it basically made it well known that were the Soviets to move to invade Western Europe the war would immediately become nuclear. It's because of this that Stalin's plans and preliminary mobilization to invade Europe resulted in his subordinates overdosing him on warfarin while he was vacationing before the plan was put into effect.
The Cold war was very much real and very much a war that the US could have easily lost. Had it went hot and nuclear everyone would have lost but even had it stayed conventional there is a very good chance the Soviets could have won. Make no mistake at some point in the very near future both the chinese and Russians will provide the opportunity for wars that the US could lose and that's only if we keep our financial situation stable.
Cops carry around conventional photography labs? The camera was FILM based, if you are too young to remember them they used chemical reactions to capture latent images and require an extensive chemical processing in a light free environment before the image can be viewed.
Maybe? Apparently you are new here.
I'll clarify the following as well, not only did the rent-a-cops detain and assualt the kid when he tried to leave even if the mall had posted signs that said no photo's under Canadian law the only thing they could do was ask him to leave which is what they assaulted him for trying to do. Also it was the real cops which cut the backpack off, handcuffed and arrested him for "disturbing the peace" which is apparently what you get charged with in Canada when you try to leave private property after refusing an illegal request.
The security guards actually detained him for trying to leave according TFA. They told him to delete the pictures, he said he couldn't and tried to leave the mall. The security guards assaulted him for trying to leave and then the cops showed up and helped continue the assault.
The best part is that the cops got him handcuffed, couldn't figure out how to get the backpack off so they cut it off rather than take the handcuffs off long enough to remove the backpack or search it while he's wearing it. So not only did they assault him they destroyed his property.
The cops arrested him then the DA dropped the charges but according to the article he has little recourse as Canadian laws protect almost everyone involved.
He lied in court papers, he prepared and filed fraudulent documents as part of evidentiary filings and then covered up their creation. Filing false statements to any court is a crime, and it's a very serious crime in federal court.
He can say whatever he wants in private or public, but he can't lie in court. Lieing to the courts has ALWAYS been illegal. Filing false documents in court has ALWAYS been illegal. The justice system can't work if people are allowed to lie and fake documents in court without punishment.
He's going to be lucky if he doesn't get 40 years in PMITA Federal prison.
The senator exception was struck when senators were switched to selection by popular state vote rather than appointment by the state legislature.
They aren't a manufacturer anymore. All the factories were closed and production moved to contract manufacturers in China in 2010-11.Most of the designers were fired last year. They are a shell of a company with MS handling most of the software side and a skeleton crew putting together the product order from the ODEM's in China.
Well that post can only be described as blatantly misstating the truth. Investment flowed to natural gas because fracking proved so successful. The gas they started pulling out of the shale formations was HUGE, almost 9 times expected volumes. It helped at the time that prices of gas were at record highs but they would have drilled the shales even if it hadn't been because for the companies involved proven resources are borrowable and sellable assets even if the current price is shit.
What a bold prediction, you understand of course that Intel has buried every single competing architecture from the past? Intel has a process advantage, even if they have to spend 10% of their die on decoding/rearranging they still have a significant transistor lead by remaining a process ahead AND still use lower power. Not only that but because x86 is nothing more than an abstraction layer at this point the internal architecture of their chips is free to move with the winds of computing in the best direction for the balance of power use, processing capacity and weight. They've had almost 2 decades to improve this abstraction layer to the point of perfection.
People like you forget how long it takes to design and build a microprocessor. From design to hard silicon is almost 5 years. So the designs Intel releases this year were planned out in 2007. Given the ARM didn't start to make an impact (on Markets Intel considers themselves part of) until 2006-7 we are JUST starting to see an Intel design philosophy that emphasizes power as a critical function. Haswell is probably the first chip that Intel hasn't tried to tack power efficiency on add-on at tape out. I fully expect Intel to demonstrate that x86 under their lead has the ability to compete directly with ARM on their best footing, power consumption.
So watch and learn young padawan. Intel has the best process engineers in the business and if things in the foundry business keep going like they are (TSMC and Global Foundaries have both been very very late moving forward on process while Intel hasn't missed a stride) they are going to be two steps ahead on process in the next year or two and that would be an advantage not even the best ARM design could beat even if Intel bungles their design. I fully expect that if Intel wants it they could take the whole ARM chip market. The only reason they haven't up till now is it would destroy their margins. So we will watch them balance their designs to retain the high margin products and forgo the cheap. This could ultimately be their undoing but once power efficiency becomes a priority of their designs which begin with Haswell, Intel will be in a position to take the ARM chip market any time they want.
Don't ever discount the power of the foundry.
So you believe that 10 times out of 10 every time you are shortchanged at a cash register it's deliberate an intentional and not because the dumb ass can't count?
That saying is generally true when involving individuals, because in general most people are honest and reputable in their dealings but people do stupid shit all the time by accident. If the saying wasn't correct then you should assume the guy at the register is a thief, that the guy that rear ended you was attempting to kill you and that when you slipped and fell on the icy sidewalk that your neighbor was out there with a hose the night before in the hope you would walk by.
If you are "proud" of a phone or for that matter anything you purchased then you are a dumb ass. Maybe when you get a little older you will realize that being proud of some physical object you purchased on the open market is a sign of douchebaggery. Real adults are "proud" of their children and accomplishments both personal (helping someone in need) and professional (achieving a difficult business goal), not some trinket.
Given the number of sales of Chromebooks they aren't really fragmenting anything.
Mod Parent up. They share the same kernel. Thats like saying Fedora isn't Linux because it using the Redhat user space instead of the the Debian User space. They both have the Linux kernel, they are both Linux though variants of Linux user spaces. Windows8 and windows Phone 8 both have the same kernel with varying degrees of user space tools and glue bits.
It frankly doesn't make sense to say they aren't the same when they share a Kernel.
It wouldn't be surprising if there was a comment on anything OTHER than Microsoft. One of the key aspects of a paid shill account is that everything they post is only about the thing they are being paid to post. See all those Linux and Apple fanboi's actually post on other topics occasionally while still maintaining their rabid posting on their chosen fanboi topic.