That's exactly my point. Intel got their power/performance on par with ARM, and the customer-facing experience is seamless, so if they have a compelling phone, people will buy it anyhow.

That said, I'd point out how successful the Centrino branding was. Consumers did care that they got a Centrino laptop. They didn't know what Centrino was, or what it implied, but they knew they wanted it. Something similar with "ultrabook" is being attempted now. You don't need consumers to care about the technical stuff to sell them on something. If Intel can do a successful marketing campaign about how phones with Intel chips are somehow better (not for technical reasons, but because it's "the thing to have")...

I see Intel phones selling on Orange in the UK right now... Intel doesn't need Samsung to switch right this instant if they can get compelling phones on the market that people buy anyhow...

This market can swing quickly. Look at how fast HTC fell by the wayside.

Don't count on Apple being tied to ARM. They've changed architectures pretty seamlessly on the desktop twice now (68k -> PPC, PPC -> x86), and the walled-garden nature of the app store makes this a pretty trivial change for them. They just announce that iOS 7, say, requires apps to be recompiled, developers recompile stuff, everybody moves on.

How small scale? Intel is at 22nm, TSMC is at 28nm, Global Foundries (which is mostly outside the US) is 32nm.

Not in front of an audience of several thousand or more.

Look at Reagan and Obama.

Does it matter? The paper would be ignored by any command or administration, were they actually loyal to their nation, in any meaningful way.

However, even if the agreement and the story about Kissinger were false, you can expect the US to behave this way, regardless of fabrication.

Misery is looking at video of people writing things on blackboards. At least move up to the format where there's a clear view of the slides and an inset for the talking head.

"Flame" isn't on the list of malware detected by the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool. Why not?

Public and often part of /.'s split persona, we are vilified one day and extolled the next.
HR largely stays out of the hiring process. They provide a web page for applicants and managers to meet. The management of the group doing the hiring gets to pick who they want for the job. HR is only involved in background checks, drug tests, and legal paperwork.
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